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- andee said...
Great post! It's a little late to implement in this house, but once we move I'm going to try something like it. I'm glad you are enjoying your van.
Thank you for the sweet comment about Meg. I am so enjoying her, but am sooooooo tired and ready to feel like me again.
- April 21, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Cori said...
That is great! I had never thought about the boots not standing before! I had never really thought of having a "box", like your teal one, for flip-flops. Good idea. I will have to see what I can do in our home! :)
With only one child, I'm still resisting the mini-van. We'll see... :{
Cori at ILoveLucyJean
- April 21, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- Shari said...
Genius!!! And to answer your question, yes I have read The Help.... loved it!!!
- April 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Colleen said...
looks great and i love that they can take them off right there and put them away. Genius!!!
- April 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Dana said...
I LOVE the box idea for the flip flops! We too use our garage for shoe storage and just bought new storage rack that is working great for us- it's taller than our old one so it holds more shoes!! and I am the new owner of 3 pairs of boots from the after winter clearances- my first boot purchases ever so I'll have to try your tricks for standing them up.
Now, off to find a cute flip flop box...
- April 21, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- michelle said...
Love the shoe tips, but mostly, just love 3 days of posts in a row!!!
- April 21, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- bonniecronquist said...
I do have the big mud room and it is a collect all for everything! Pretty much like your garage, just inside! Still trying to figure out how to make it better!!!
- April 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM
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- April 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Kelli said...
The minivan fits right in for sure (oh how I love my Odyssey!). I love the idea of the flip flops in a bin like they...hmmm. You did a great job and soon you'll have a whole new place to organize :)
- April 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- The Forrest Family said...
GREAT idea! Our shoes are left everywhere. Now that its warm outside I can see the problem getting even worse. This post makes me want to go home and organize...NOW! ha.
Looks GREAT! :)
- April 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- The Ramsay's said...
Love this post! I want a mudroom so badly or atleast a bigger laundry room. But sadly, no mudroom... and my laundry room is the smallest room in the house. It also happens to be the first room you walk into from the garage. This is a great solution to all my shoe/coat/bag problems... thanks for sharing:)
- April 21, 2011 at 11:31 AM
- Organized Mama said...
Where did you buy the shoe racks? I need some like that.
- April 21, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Josie said...
Ha! You ARE a total mini van Mom now!
And my guess is I'll be begging to join the club as soon as this baby comes out. (Which can not come soon enough, you should see my ankles, NOT getting better.)
- April 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- THE FAMILY OF OAK said...
I wish you posted 14 times a day. I LOVE reading your blog and your enthusiasm for life, organizing, babies, etc. makes me want to be a better person.
- April 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- Nikki said...
Oh how I love your posts. I'm loving how you have your healthy snacks ready to pick up and eat whenever you want. I see carrots, peas, grapes and strawberries. Got any other ideas for staying skinny and eating healthy :)
- April 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM
I have to say I just found your blog and can't stop reading it! I love all of the pictures of your kids and the many projects you do as a family. I can only hope to have such a wonderful and loving family of my own someday, just as you have. So inspiring!
- April 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM
- Jen said...
And now you have a red carpet to walk in the house on...
- April 21, 2011 at 6:07 PM
I was JUST talking about how badly I want a mudroom because we are not moving for at least 20 years (at least that's what we say). Now that our kitchen makeover is complete, I am trying to figure out how to make the tiniest corner in my laundry room into a practical space for our school bags (my husband and I are both teachers), our shoes (or should I say HIS shoes....he leaves them all over the house!), and our jackets/scarves/purses (okay...MY jackets/scarves/purses).
Speaking of husbands, is your husband as neat as you are? I try sooooo hard to maintain a state of order in my house, but then my one and a half year old and my husband destroy everything. It's so frustrating. Any tips?
Love your blog!
Your faithful reader,
Shannon in PA
- April 21, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Jessica said...
You have inspired me! Our shoe rack in our garage totally needs a makeover, and thanks to this post, I am motivated to do it. Thank you!!!
And not to sound cheesy, but I seriously adore your blog! Love reading your posts.
- April 21, 2011 at 10:17 PM
- Jelly said...
What's a mudroom? We don't have those in the UK & I'd love to know what they are:)
- April 22, 2011 at 12:17 AM
- Love Being A Nonny said...
I don't have a mudroom either but would LOVE one!
Happy Easter! Pray it is a great weekend!
- April 22, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- scrapinbabygal said...
This is amazing and such an inspiration to clear up my garage and make some room!! Thank you!! Love the Organizing blog as well!!
- April 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- Amy said...
We are planning to build a farmhouse in a year or two, so we've been looking at house plans. #1 on my list? A BIG mudroom. Seriously. Right off the garage, with washer/dryer, room for everyone to have a cubby with coats, backpacks, shoe baskets. It is my absolute must have. Love this post. :)
- April 23, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- In a green frock eating spinach from a bamboo bowl said...
Where did you get those shoe racks?!! I've looked everywhere for flat ones like that (the tilted racks are rubbish for any shoes without a discernable heel...so trainers, converse, flats etc just slife off).
BTW love the idea of stuffing the boots - I can't stand floppies either, and bought a few of those boot stands...they cost too much and I just have too many boots though!
- April 24, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- DrRobison said...
Just looked at this post and had one thought... Kenny owns a shovel??? I just thought who needs a shovel when you have an Orlando!
- April 25, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- iheartorganizing said...
Oooh, your garage looks incredible! Love what you have done!
- April 26, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- M. said...
The shoes outside on a rack must be an American thing because my cousin does the same thing too. I'm too afraid to do that where I live in fear of them being stolen. LOL.
- April 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Handy Man, Crafty Woman said...
looks great! I wish we could do that here, but unfortunately the weather is SO bad here, and lots of dirt/rain/snow gets tracked into the garage, so the floor is filthy; no matter how often we clean it! We don't have a mud room either (boooo!). I need to figure out a new shoe rack, because the one we have now doesn't work too well.
Just found your blog recently, love it!
- April 30, 2011 at 10:07 PM
- garage equipment said...
Shoe organization are needed to keep the shoes on their proper place. Because it is not good to see the shoes are scattered everywhere. The shoes have to have their proper shelves and location in our house.
- March 10, 2012 at 3:51 AM
- shoe cupboard said...
Genius!!! And to answer your question, yes I have read The Help.... loved it!!!
- April 14, 2012 at 6:46 AM
- shoe cupboard said...
looks great and i love that they can take them off right there and put them away. Genius!!!
- April 20, 2012 at 2:38 PM
- Julie said...
Hi again,
Great post on organizing coats & shoes
Just a quick question regarding coats - I notice they are hanging quite high up. How do your children reach them & does it put them off hanging them up?
I love the pix of Ellie putting her shoes away:)
- October 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM
I have a burning question: Have you found bugs in your shoes? Or how do keep creepy crawlers from living in your shoes! Great idea but I'd be afraid of what I'd discover (or squish) once I put my feet in my shoes!
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keep in mind i have only attempted 10 man heroic...
save shield block for soul reaper due to the haste buff he gains?
have the second tank specc safeguard? can intervene and grant -damage to his target.
use stuff like pain sup or guardian spirit?
my guild is having a problem with tank deaths on h 25 lk. we have a warrior in full 277s solo tanking lk in P2. at at times we have loged as much as 110k damage on the tank in under 1.9 seconds. is a tank swap required? If so, assuming we are using 2 warriors, what should the rotation be? If not, what can we do to stop the tank deaths assuming the current tank is being liberal with his cds......
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keep in mind i have only attempted 10 man heroic...
save shield block for soul reaper due to the haste buff he gains?
have the second tank specc safeguard? can intervene and grant -damage to his target.
use stuff like pain sup or guardian spirit?
The main mechanic during the LK fight that requires 2 tanks is Soul Reaper:
Strikes the target for 50% weapon damage and afflicts the target with Soul Reaper. This effect deals 50,000 Shadow damage after 5 sec and increases the caster's haste by 100% for 5 sec. Instant. Used on the tank. 60,000 on 25-player and 10-player heroic, 70,000 on 25-player heroic.
So basically your tank takes a Soul Reaper hit and in 5 second its going to tick on him like a dot for up to 70k damage. Obviously the tank mitigates this a bit but it remains one hell of a hit. That followed up with a melee hit from the LK and its over. That is why either a CD must be used or another tank must taunt the LK until the Soul Reaper does it's damage and falls off.
After the Soul Reaper does it's damage the original tank can taunt the LK back or just let the other guy tank it until Soul Reaper is applied on him. Soul Reaper is applied to the tank every 30 seconds.
" tank takes a Soul Reaper hit and in 5 second its going to tick on him like a dot for up to 70k damage"
i belive the damage is in a single blow, after 5 seconds. not a dot effect. but i could be wrong. according to our logs, it appears to be a single hit.
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If you know this then why are you asking about tank deaths on Heroic 25 man LK? My suggestion is to look at the death logs on Recount and see what is killing your tank. We can only speculate.
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30- Shield wall
60- Trinkets, shield block, 4pc
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210- Trinkets, shield block, 4pc
240- Shield Wall
270- Last stand
Now you can see why warriors have been called the weakest of tank classes in ICC, while a Druid can handle all the CDs alone, and a DK needs only 1 iirc when we use the dk tank they are ideal. Even a Paladin has better cd's at their disposal.
You want to use intervene as a last ditch, transferring the dmg is better than one tank soaking it, but you want to absorb the damage. Pain Supression is the best external available, but will only be available once(I am assuming you use at least one disc priest) so use that first and if you have 2 discs use then as well. From there, IMO if the other tank is anywhere close to as geared they taunt and take 2 reapers, one with a shield wall the other with last stand plus trinkets. This map may not be 100% optimal just threw it together very quickly as an illustration of how to handle it.
Certainly SW wouldnt be off CD for 120 since you dont use it till 30 seconds in.
If you went with the reduced SW it could be up for 30 , 150, 270 however and then move LS to see if it can by used more than once since its on a 3 min CD.
I don't have a warrior so I went with what I found on wowhead, and it was showing the old shield wall glyph I guess, also I fail for not having last stand in earlier than 270 lol.
Corrected it would look like this
30- Shield wall
60- Last Stand
90- Trinkets, shield block, 4pc
150-Shield Wall
240- Trinkets, shield block, 4pc
270- Shield Wall
This is what one warrior could do alone, previously I had PS in assuming you have one disc priest, but I will leave these three left open for you to fill with using whatever cooldowns your guild has available.


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Okay, stupid question, but I have to ask, his he in frost presence while he's tanking? I in no way intend this question to come off as condesending or insulting in the least, it's just that sometimes the obvious gets overlooked. I assume he is, but hey, you never know.
Also, hit seems low at 208, he seems to miss a fair amount of his swings. At his gear level he should at least be hit capped. Expertise is a bit low too, but I'm a fan of strength, so others could give more input on this. I know stamina has become all the rage, but we still need to hit what we swing at to generate threat so three Rigid Kings Amber will put him over the cap.
I can't comment on talents, since I'm a frost tank and have never tried the other trees for tanking. I tend to stay with what I'm comfortable with and understand.


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American Thinker: Why the Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
November 26, 2008
Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
By Joe the Farmer
Does this Barack Obama birth certificate issue bug you because, although improbable, it's possible that he's not a natural born citizen, isn't eligible to be President under the Constitution, and this issue could be bigger than Watergate -- or any other "gate" in history?
Are you afraid that if you were even to raise the subject with your friends that they will think you wear a tinfoil hat, because Factcheck.org, the final arbiter of truth in the universe, said so?
Are you with the news media, and after spending so much money to get Barack Obama elected, you'd hate to ruin your investment?
Are you a talk radio host who thinks that if you say the burden of proof needed to demonstrate one is eligible to be Commander in Chief should be at least as high as, oh, say, the level to be eligible for Hawaiian homestead status (see 1.F. below), that you'd be forced to give equal time to someone who disagrees?
Are you a conservative, libertarian, or any conscientious constitutionalist from any ideological side of life, who's convinced something's not right, but you're afraid your reputation might be tarnished because, after all, this could be one big Saul-Alinsky-style set-up, and the joke would be on you?
Fear not! Joe the Farmer has prepared an outline showing that no matter how this issue is ultimately resolved, you have legitimate concerns, and that Barack Obama should, simply out of respect for the nation he was elected to lead, disclose the sealed vault copy of his birth certificate.
Given the circumstances, if Barack Obama respected this nation, he would prove it by the simplest and easiest of gestures - unless, of course, all this talk about change and hope was just a bunch of bull, and he's just "another politician." Here's the outline:
1. Under Hawaiian law, it is possible (both legally and illegally) for a person to have been born out of state, yet have a birth certificate on file in the Department of Health.
A. From Hawaii's official Department of Health, Vital Records webpage: "Amended certificates of birth may be prepared and filed with the Department of Health, as provided by law, for 1) a person born in Hawaii who already has a birth certificate filed with the Department of Health or 2) a person born in a foreign country" (applies to adopted children).
B. A parent may register an in-state birth in lieu of certification by a hospital of birth under HRS 338-5.
C. Hawaiian law expressly provides for registration of out-of-state births under HRS 338-17.8. A foreign birth presumably would have been recorded by the American consular of the country of birth, and presumably that would be reflected on the Hawaiian birth certificate.
D. Hawaiian law, however, expressly acknowledges that its system is subject to error. See, for example, HRS 338-17.
E. Hawaiian law expressly provides for verification in lieu of certified copy of a birth certificate under HRS 338-14.3.
F. Even the Hawaii Department of Home Lands does not accept a certified copy of a birth certificate as conclusive evidence for its homestead program. From its web site: "In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL."
2. Contrary to what you may have read, no document made available to the public, nor any statement by Hawaiian officials, evidences conclusively that Obama was born in Hawaii.
A. Associated Press reported about a statement of Hawaii Health Department Director Dr. Fukino, "State declares Obama birth certificate genuine."
B. That October 31, 2008 statement says that Dr. Fukino "ha[s] personally seen and verified that the Hawai'i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures." That statement does not, however, verify that Obama was born in Hawaii, and as explained above, under Hawaiian policies and procedures it is quite possible that Hawaii may have a birth record of a person not born in Hawaii. Unlikely, but possible.
C. The document that the Obama campaign released to the public is a certified copy of Obama's birth record, which is not the best evidence since, even under Hawaiian law, the original vault copy is the better evidence. Presumably, the vault record would show whether his birth was registered by a hospital in Hawaii.
D. Without accusing anyone of any wrongdoing, we nevertheless know that some people have gone to great lengths, even in violation of laws, rules and procedures, to confer the many benefits of United States citizenship on themselves and their children. Given the structure of the Hawaiian law, the fact that a parent may register a birth, and the limited but inherent potential for human error within the system, it is possible that a parent of a child born out-of-state could have registered that birth to confer the benefits of U.S. citizenship, or simply to avoid bureaucratic hassles at that time or later in the child's life.
1. We don't know whether the standards of registration by the Department of Health were more or less stringent in 1961 (the year of Obama's birth) than they are today. However, especially with post-9/11 scrutiny, we do know that there have been instances of fraudulent registrations of foreign births as American births.
2. From a 2004 Department of Justice news release about multiple New Jersey vital statistics employees engaged in schemes to issue birth certificates to foreign-born individuals: "An individual who paid Anderson and her co-conspirators for the service of creating the false birth records could then go to Office of Vital Statistics to receive a birth certificate . . . As part of the investigation, federal agents executed a search warrant of the HCOVS on Feb. 18, 2004, which resulted in the seizure of hundreds of suspect Certificates of Live Birth which falsely indicated that the named individuals were born in Jersey City, when in fact, they were born outside the United States and were in the United States illegally . . . Bhutta purchased from Goswamy false birth certificates for himself and his three foreign-born children."
3. Even before 9/11, government officials acknowledged the "ease" of obtaining birth certificates fraudulently. From 1999 testimony by one Social Security Administration official: "Furthermore, the identity data contained in Social Security records are only as reliable as the evidence on which the data are based. The documents that a card applicant must present to establish age, identity, and citizenship, usually a birth certificate and immigration documents-are relatively easy to alter, counterfeit, or obtain fraudulently."
3. It has been reported that the Kenyan government has sealed Obama's records. If he were born in Kenya, as has been rumored even recently, the Kenyan government would certainly have many incentives to keep that undisclosed. Objectively, of course, those records may prove nothing. Obama's refusal to release records at many levels here in the United States, though, merely fuels speculation.
4. Obama has refused to disclose the vault copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate. This raises the question whether he himself has established that he is eligible to be President. To date, no state or federal election official, nor any government authority, has verified that he ever established conclusively that he meets the eligibility standard under the Constitution. If the burden of proof were on him, perhaps as it should be for the highest office of any individual in America, the more-than-dozen lawsuits challenging his eligibility would be unnecessary.
A. Had he disclosed his vault copy in the Berg v. Obama lawsuit (which was the first lawsuit filed on the question of his eligibility to be President), and it was established he was born in Hawaii, that would have constituted res judicata, and acted to stop other similar lawsuits being filed. Without res judicata (meaning, the matter is adjudged and settled conclusively) he or government officials will need to defend other lawsuits, and valuable court resources will be expended. Strategically from a legal standpoint, therefore, his refusal to disclose doesn't make sense. Weighing factors such as costs, resources and complexity of disclosing versus not disclosing, he must have reason of considerable downside in disclosing, or upside in not disclosing. There may be other reasons, but one could speculate that he hasn't disclosed because:
1. He was not born in Hawaii, and may not be eligible to be President;
2. He was born in Hawaii, but facts that may be derived from his vault copy birth certificate are inconsistent with the life story he has told (and sold);
3. He was born in Hawaii, and his refusal to provide the best evidence that he is a natural born citizen is a means by which to draw criticism of him in order to make him appear to be a "victim." This would energize his supporters. This would also make other charges about him seem suspect, including his concealment about ties to Bill Ayers and others of some infamy. Such a clever yet distasteful tactic would seem to be a Machiavelli- and Saul-Alinsky-style way to manipulate public opinion. But while this tactic may energize his supporters, it would convince those who believe him to be a manipulator that he's not only just that, but a real pro at it. This would indeed be the basest reason of all, and would have repercussions about his trustworthiness (both here and abroad), which Americans know, is a characteristic sorely lacking in its leaders.
B. His motion to dismiss the Berg case for lack of standing could be viewed as contemptuous of the Constitution. See, "Who Enforces the Constitution's Natural Born Citizen Clause?" Are we to expect yet another White House that hides behind lawyers, and expects Americans to swallow half-truths on a just-trust-me basis?
C. This issue poses the potential for a constitutional crisis unlike anything this country has seen. Disclosure at this stage, however, could even result in criminal sanctions. See, "Obama Must Stand Up Now Or Step Down." Thus, he has motive not to disclose if he were ineligible.
The question not being asked by the holders of power, who dismiss this as a rightwing conspiracy, is what's the downside of disclosing? This is a legitimate issue of inquiry because Barack Obama has turned it into one. The growing number of people who demand an answer in conformance with the Constitution are doing their work; the people's watchdogs aren't.
The pen name Joe the Farmer pays tribute to Joe the Plumber, who had the audacity to ask a question.
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:10 am
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/me stifles yawn.
why would i even be bothered about this [even i was usofamerican]?
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 9:27 pm
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This was such a huge issue to a lot of people that also sent out emails that "In God We Trust" had been removed from the new coins and that Obama was only filmed with a gold curtain in the background and no US flag.
OMG, I am not sure if it is because he is a democrat or black... It just made me sick.
It would be an issue if we were bending the constitution and I am sure there are people that want to do away with the constitution so all freedoms can be removed at will but.... all the Conspiracy people I know don't even trust me.... that is no way to live.
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So much of the birth crap would have been avoided if damn president had been more forthcoming and released the long form birth certificate years ago. Made it look like he was hiding something all this time. Waste of time.
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 2:40 am
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r7 wrote:
/me stifles yawn.
why would i even be bothered about this [even i was usofamerican]?
/me with HUH? face
why We would even be bothered about this?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:08 pm
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It's a self-promoting sideshow fabricated by a 24-hour "news" media.
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:13 pm
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Its normal that we find a fault to a very powerful person. We may not realize it but we are actually finding fault to make us superior than that person.
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:22 pm
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Very funny these Americans! To be born somewhere is a fault? There are a lot of culprits!
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 11:27 pm
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Junichirô wrote:
Very funny these Americans! To be born somewhere is a fault? There are a lot of culprits!
I blame my parents. ;^)
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Funny how not a single one of the previous ones was ever chased after on such an issue. Oh, wait, that's right, they weren't black.
I wish bigots would quit looking for stupid reasons to tear him down, and try focusing on REAL issues.
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 4:41 pm
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I doesn't matter. After all he is still the President, what matters most is now and his acchievements in leading people. :)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 6:03 am
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doesnt really matter. If he's serving his country well, then great. That's all that matters.
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This issue is such a waste of time, there are much more pressing issues. A person is not allowed to run for president if they are not an american citizen, so what's the problem? I mean the real problem. Get over the fact that a black american democrat is now the president.
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Concerning PF's/Interceptors, I like MJwest's ideas as well.
As for Fighters overall, I think it is complicated enough with the stingers. I only added my own house rule fighters to my games because they are limited to Auxilaries.
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In reading the 5QM3c Special Drone rules, we're writing down the launch hex and target. In real world use, whether I'm fighting with them or against them I will want a drone counter on the map in the launch hex so I always know the shield it will hit at any point in time. In reality the time saving is in not moving the counter when called to do so. It doesn't seem like a bad system but may need a little tweaking.
Its not so much the clutter that slows things down its having to do something with or about the clutter.
If the decision is to go with 5QM3c (for Fighters Attack, Carriers Attack, BoM or whatever its called) I'd recommend printing two special drone counters for each fighter that carries drones. The first counter would be identified as a fighter drone with a different silhouette than a standard drone counter. This counter would have the launching fighters id# and would be placed in the launch hex. The 2nd counter would be printed with a targeting glyph or reticle and the same id# as the fighter drone counter. This 2nd counter is placed on the target ship card at launch. With the id#'s on the counters I can easily remove the guided drones if the launching fighter is destroyed.
The obvious complication in all of this is tracking 1st and 2nd impulse after launch.
And to make fighters a little more manageable I would prefer they have no weapons when crippled. This would improve grouping tasks and reduce analysis cycles considerably as battle progresses.
Maybe a drone bolt is good enough.
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Just my 2 cents. I stopped playing SFB because of how long it took to play. When fighters and fighter drones were added into the mix, it took FOREVER. Also, the clutter of drones and fighters just got to be too much.
I really, really like fighters and carriers though. <SIGH>. So, if they are added to FC, I am all for it as long as the rules have been KISS'ed to the MAX.
I'd KISS it by minimizing counters, rolls, record keeping, and decision-making as much as possible. This will declutter the board, reduce the amount of counter moves per turn (faster play), and reduce the amount of movement decisions per turn (faster play).
1) Minimizing Counters:
I think drone/plasma waves and Fighter flights is the way to minimize counters. I'd prefer flights of 6, but can live with flights of 3. The drone/plasma waves would contain all the drones/plasma from a single flight. I'd also only allow a flight to control one wave at a time. That only adds 4 counters for a Kzinti CVS and potential 4 more counters for drone waves. I think that's a reasonable number of counters.
Yeah, we'll have less flexibility for tactics, but the counters for the CVS would be reduced greatly. A Kzinti CVS can have 12 fighters and 48 drones out. That's 60 counters. 3-ftr flights with drone waves reduces that to 8 counters. That's an 87% reduction in counters, counter movement, and movement decisions. I'll take less flexibility for that level of clutter reduction.
Also, Fighter Flights and Drone waves should be considered as single units for rule purposes. This would also allow 3 fighter flights to fire from a single hex instead of just a single flight (or 2 flights and 1 ship, 2 ships and 1 flight). Argue it as fighters being built for combat (networked together, formation targeting, highly-trained pilots, etc.) and shuttles are not; therefore non-fighter shuttles are are limited to 3 shuttles firing from 1 hex, but fighters are not. This would also entail one tractor getting an entire flight/wave. Chalk it up to how close they're formations are. A tractor capable of grabbing a ship could reasonably grab a flight/wave in very close formation. It would also avoid splitting up the flight/wave if one is tractored.
2) Minimize Rolls
Rolls slow the game down. I suggest having each fighter flight fire at the same target and make a single die roll. This could entail another weapons chart for fighter weapons that randomizes the number of hits. For example, assuming 6 fighters in a flight firing disruptors at range 8...
Roll #hits
1 5
2 4
3 3
4 2
5 miss
6 miss
Now, I'm just pulling #hits out of thin air, but the general idea would be more hits at closer ranges and better die rolls. It would all depend on the statistics of 6 fighters hitting (or missing) at each range bracket. Hits by all fighters could be rare enough that 5 hits is the max at a particular range (hence 1 resulting in 5 hits above). Disruptors have a 4 in 6 chance of hitting at range 8, multiply that over 2 fighters and you have 16 in 36 for both to hit, 16 in 36 for only one to hit, and 4 in 36 for both to miss. So 1-2.6 = 2 hits; 2.7-5.3 = 1 hit; 5.4 - 6 = miss. I'd round that to 1-2 = 2 hits; 3-5 = 1 hit; and 6 = miss. If MJ and Steve think this is a viable option, I can do the math for each weapon and range bracket. The rules could account for damaged/missing fighters by point out that you can't have more hits than the number of fighters you currently have.
3) Minimize Record Keeping
Big one for me on this one is the drone wave. Drone waves should be done similar to plasma. Each point of damage reduces drone wave damage by 3 (drone damage is 12 with 4 damage boxes). The reasoning could be that fighter drones give up some redundancy to keep the same warhead strength and damage causes them to be less accurate than ship drones.
For fighter's, I think tracking individual fighter damage isn't that big of a deal, but I suggest forgetting the crippling rules for fighters. With Fighter Flights, is it really worth the complications to keep the crippling rule? Would the entire flight slow down? Would the flight break up? etc. To me lose the crippling rule.
4) Minimize Decision-making: Nothing really to add here, all of the above adds into fewer decisions on movement, targets, weapon use, etc.
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Also on the seeking weapons moving at the end of the impulse. I like it. It reduces the number of times I have to move and decide where to move some counters. It'll add a problem of targets bypassing the seeking weapons, but allowing drones/plasma 1 HET per impulse if the target is out of the FA arc would resolve that (specify that the target must be in the FA arc after the HET though).
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With Fighter Flights, is it really worth the complications to keep the crippling rule? Would the entire flight slow down? Would the flight break up? etc. To me lose the crippling rule.
I was initially thinking that keep the cripple, but the whole flight slows down, or the good fighters can carry on and the cripple is considered dead (or disengaged).
But losing crippling altogether would probably work for me.
Rolls slow the game down. I suggest having each fighter flight fire at the same target and make a single die roll.
Rolling for (direct fire) weapons doesn't bother me too much, fighters don't have many. I would go with the whole flight fires at the same target though.
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Does crippling slow down fighters? (5Q1e) doesn't state that for Stingers.
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Sorry...channeled SFB there for a second.
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If the simple implementation of fighter rules allow me the ability to effectively control my fighters without the need of fighter-specific grouping rules then I consider that a big win.
Having crippled status simply shut all weapons down while leaving speeds unchanged is a good realism trade off. As the owner I do not have to track weapons state and can simply order the crippled fighters back to the CV as fighter speeds are called out. The opponent is then challenged with finishing them off or deal with the survivors.
I see fighters as tiny ships without EA. The fact that I do not have to deal with a plethora of drone types, flare, chaff, boosterpacks, EW etc. is a huge plus. If I want to play a small scenario with a few fighters then that's a good option to have. If I want to play a huge fleet battle with tons of everything then that's an option I can leave to others to undertake. As long as publication is not ridiculously overwhelmed with fighter platforms, the rest of the game system is unaffected to me.
As far as map clutter I understand the concern. Maybe flipping the map panels over to the larger hexes while using the 5/8ths inch counters would help spread things out.
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Speaking for myself, map clutter isn't so much that things are too close together, it's that I have to move and decide for all those things each sub-impulse and that slows down the game. One of the reasons I left SFB was that it took so long to get a turn done with all the units out on the map. I would like to see fighters in FC, but it needs to be simple and with as little clutter as possible or it'll end up being SFB part deux. We can't advocate for the same thing and expect a different outcome.
On a different note, I realized the other day, that the FC rule about 1 shuttle launch or land per impulse is shorting the Hydrans (and any future carrier) compared to SFB. SFB had 32 launch or land opportunities per turn, but FC only has 8.
Is it reasonable to allow multiple shuttle landings or launches per impulse in FC?
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Hydran ships can launch all of their Stingers in the same impulse plus land one shuttle or stinger in that impulse. See 5Q1b.
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Jim you're correct, but I wasn't referring to the launch tubes. The launch tubes allow the Hydrans to launch them all, but they can still only land 1 shuttle per impulse. This means they can (through the shuttle bay door) only land (or launch) a total of 8 shuttles in 1 turn.
In SFB, the per impulse rate is the same (land or launch 1 shuttle per impulse through the shuttle bay doors). However, SFB has 32 impulses in a turn. That means SFB Hydrans and other carriers could land up to 32 fighters in a turn while FC can only land 8. That's a big difference.
Since FC is based on SFB, is it not reasonable to allow the same number of landings (or launches) through the shuttle bay? Would it be reasonable for it to be 4 shuttles landing or launching through the shuttle bay per impulse?
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If your going to play with fighters you need to read the Playtest Rules that were in Captain Log 37. A copy is in the Playtest Section of the Commander Circle.
5QM1b allows carriers to launch 4 fighters per impulse. They can still only land 1 though.
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Read those rules and played them. This topic has been mostly how to improve them.
I did forget about the 4 fighter launch rule for all carriers. Thx for reminding me.
However, landing "may" still be an issue. An 8-fighter carrier requires 1 full turn to recover its fighters, but that only takes 1/4 turn in SFB. That's a huge difference. If that's a purposeful decision that's OK I guess.
If, however, it was an oversight of just bringing the SFB rule over without considering the reduced number of impulses in FC, maybe it should be readdressed.
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The one per impulse thing was an intentional decision. It was originally done to keep shuttle operations under control. There was some concern about it with Stingers, but considering the ridiculously high mortality rate, even ships with several Stingers would be able to service the survivors well enough.
Whether that maintains for other fighters remains to be seen. I do expect that there would need to be some serious justification to show a change is needed, if one actually is needed.
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Running fighters in some type of squadron and switching all thier weapons to direct fire would significantly speed play in both SFB and Fed Com. The Kziniti Fighter Carrier is what first attacted me to SFB and I have been a drone and fighter slinger ever since.
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What we can learn from retail-rate increases in restructured and non-restructured states.
effects of fuel-price shocks that drive up power prices (such as the 2005 hurricane-related disruption of natural-gas supply and coal-transportation-related spikes of coal prices).
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Since restructuring started in 1997, average retail rates in both restructured and non-restructured states have increased by approximately 31 percent. This is surprising for two reasons. First, based on the public outcry over the sharp recent increases in retail-access states, one would have expected higher overall rate increases in restructured states. As it turns out, the sharp recent increases are mostly an artifact of abruptly ending restructuring-related rate freezes. Second, the fact that rates in restructured states have increased approximately the same as rates in non-restructured states appears to be good news, considering the more pronounced increases in average fuel and labor costs. While it is correct that average rates in restructured states significantly are above the rates in non-restructured states, that was already the case in the mid-1990s, before these states were restructured—which helped cement support for restructuring efforts.
Although retail restructuring has failed to live up to its high expectations, the available facts do not support a conclusion that customers in restructured states would have been better off under traditional cost-of-service regulation, nor that customers would likely benefit from re-regulation. But our skepticism about the effectiveness of re-regulation options does not mean that the recent rate hikes should not be addressed, as our suggestions on mitigating rate hikes and reducing rate pressures going forward indicate. Rather, despite the superficial appeal of re-regulation in light of the sharp recent rate increases, we are concerned that such initiatives carry a substantial risk of being ineffective and more costly in the long-run.
1. Our discussion focuses only on average retail rates as the bellweather in many of the currently ongoing discussions about the success or failure of retail access. We are not specifically addressing the other hoped-for benefits of retail access, nor the extent to which restructuring of transmission access and wholesale generation markets affected market efficiency, plant availability, transmission utilization, infrastructure investment, and reliability.
2. Average rates are calculated as the ratio of total retail revenues in restructured and non-restructured states to total kWh retail sales as reported by the Energy Information Administration. We define "restructured states" as the 20 states plus D.C. that implemented retail access for some or all customers, including Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Virginia as well as Arizona, California, Montana, Nevada, and O regon (the five states that have already limited, suspended, or reversed some of their restructuring effort). For an overview of restructuring and resource procurement in these states, see Pfeifenberger, Schumacher and Wharton, "Keeping Up with Retail Access? Developments in U.S. Restructuring and Resource Procurement for Regulated Retail Service," The Electricity Journal, December 2004, pp. 50-64.
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An intervention designed to increase positive affect in a population newly diagnosed with HIV will be effective at improving affect and HIV-related outcomes such as mental and physical health, coping and coping resources.
HIV Infections
Behavioral: Skills-Building Intervention
Behavioral: Personal Interview Group
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|A Positive Affect Intervention for Those Recently Diagnosed With HIV
- Determine the efficacy of the Intervention for those Recently Informed of their Seropositive Status (IRISS) for increasing the frequency and intensity of positive affect in men and women newly diagnosed with HIV. [ Time Frame: During the intervention and at 5- 10- and 15-months after diagnosis. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Effects on outcomes and if increases in positive affect are responsible for improvements; effects of individual facets on affect and outcomes; and, evaluate extent to which personality, se status, race/ethn, & stress level, moderate effects on outcomes. [ Time Frame: At 15 months post diagnosis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Skills Building Group
Behavioral: Skills-Building Intervention
A 5-week intervention including 5 weekly sessions covering 8 varied coping skills with daily home practice. The skills are: 1) noting daily positive events; 2) capitalizing on positive events; 3) gratitude; 4) mindfulness; 5) positive reappraisal; 6) focusing on personal strengths; 7) setting and working toward attainable goals; and 8) small acts of kindness. Sessions are 1 hour long and include approximately 30 minutes per day.
Active Comparator: 2
Personal Interview Group
Behavioral: Personal Interview Group
There are 5 weekly sessions which will be approximately one hour long and will consist of personal interview. The interviews will include both quantitative and qualitative questions. Each session will have a separate theme including: Life 1) History; 2) Health History; 3) Personality; 4) Social Networking; and, 5) Meaning & Purpose.
Detailed Description:
The study is a randomized controlled trial of a 5-session positive affect skills intervention compared to an attention-matched control condition. Participants will be 200 men and women who have tested positive for HIV within the past 12 weeks. Both intervention and control sessions will be approximately one hour long and will be administered one-on-one by trained facilitators. Both groups will have daily home practice over the 5 weeks of the intervention. At the end of the assessment period, participants in the control condition will have the opportunity to attend a ½ day group session that provides a condensed version of the positive affect skills taught in the intervention condition. Participants will complete assessments at four points and CD4 and viral load assays will be run at 3 time points.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- have been informed they were HIV positive within the past 12 weeks
- speak English or Spanish
- be 18 years or older
- have the ability to provide informed consent to be a research participant.
Exclusion Criteria:
- inability to provide informed consent, as evidenced by cognitive impairment as assessed by trained interviewers and confirmed by a licensed clinical psychologist
- active psychosis as assessed by trained interviewers and confirmed by clinical psychologist
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00720733
|United States, California
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
|Principal Investigator:
|Judith T Moskowitz, PhD, MPH
|University of California, San Francisco
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00720733 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 21, 2008
|Last Updated:
|August 15, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Lentivirus Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Slow Virus Diseases
Virus Diseases
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Eric Clapton's "Brownie" Stratocaster is significant for two main reasons. One, it was his first Stratocaster, and as such represents his move away from the Gibson guitars of his 1960s stints with John Mayall, Cream and Blind Faith, et al., and toward a longtime close association with Stratocasters that continues today. Two, it's the guitar he played on his eponymous 1970 solo debut album and on what is widely considered his most famous album and highest musical achievement, Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, also from 1970.
Brownie, which was sold at auction in 1999 and currently resides at the Experience Music Project museum in Seattle, is a 1956 Stratocaster (serial number 12073) with a two-color sunburst finish and maple fingerboard. Clapton bought it secondhand for £150 on May 7, 1967, at Sound City in London, just before Cream recorded second album Disraeli Gears.
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Now, it would seem as if another upcoming film is about to receive the IMAX treatment.
According to a press release issued today, Antoine Fuqua's upcoming thriller The Equalizer will be receiving an IMAX release.
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