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Just returned from the 2D regular frame rate version, albeit in a luxury cinema.
There's plenty more for purists to fume about, but it's an entertaining film as far as I'm concerned. That said, I must say that not killing Smaug at the end of the film was a bit of a clanger; most of the audience in my screening were a little stunned at the non-ending ending. As with every other Jackson outing in Middle Earth, we clearly saw only the abbreviated version and must await the fully-realised special edition: Beorn was great, for instance, but present for only a fleeting blink of an eye relative to the extended waste of time in trying to drown the dragon in molten gold. I don't want to hammer those who haven't yet seen it you with a list of liberties taken with the original matter, but it's fair to say that it's the least true to the original stories so far. If that's likely to bother you, bothered you certainly will be; if you aren't familiar with or wedded to Tolkien's original vision, there's an awful lot to like.
Oh, an in case you didn't get enough of the goblin rollercoaster in the first part, there's a rerun here in river-borne barrels.
Did I mention a smoldering and as yet unrealised cross-racial romance? If I didn't, millions across the Internet are presently doing so.
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Mark Kermode said it was a lot like watching someone play different levels of a computer game, so I'm hoping Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold.
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Unfortunately there's no singing at all in this one!
Also, when they find Beorn's house early on, I thought it's taken the movies over 3 hours to get here, while in the old Spectrum game you can get there in a couple of minutes!
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The importance good living and a healthy diet.
Lack of preciousss vitamin made Gollum a loser
December 15th, 2013 in Other /
Think kindly of the dragon Smaug. Shed a tear for Gollum. And give an orc a hug.
If only they had tucked into the occasional quiche and salad or a touch of smoked salmon, or had a few sessions on a sunbed. How much kinder history would have been to them.
So suggests an offbeat study, released on Sunday, which concludes that the evil characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" lost their battle against men, elves and dwarves because they suffered from vitamin deficiency.
Shunning sunlight, surviving on a sketchy or unbalanced diet based on rotten meat or (in Gollum's case) the occasional blind fish, they lacked vitamin D, a key component for healthy bones and muscle strength.
The idea is proposed by Nicholas Hopkinson, a doctor at Imperial College London and his son Joseph, in the Christmas edition of the Medical Journal of Australia.
They scoured "The Hobbit" for references to characters' living conditions, habits and diet.
They used these clues to rate each character for levels of vitamin D, produced when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet light or derived from foods such as oily fish, egg yolks and cheese.
Bilbo Baggins, the hero of "The Hobbit," had a vitamin D-enriched life, they found.
True, Bilbo lived in a hole, but it had windows and he enjoyed sitting in the sun in his garden.
"The hobbit diet is clearly varied, as he is able to offer cake, tea, seed cake, ale, porter, red wine, raspberry jam, mince pies, cheese, pork pie, salad, cold chicken, pickles and apple tart to the dwarves who visit to engage him on the business of burglary," Imperial College said in a press release.
In contrast, the villains spend most of their time in darkness, and their diet is poor or single-sourced.
"Systematic textual analysis of 'The Hobbit' supports our initial hypothesis that the triumph of good over evil may be assisted to some extent by the poor diet and lack of sunlight experienced by the evil characters," the researchers conclude.
"Lack of preciousss vitamin made Gollum a loser." December 15th, 2013.
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Not sure I like it. Could be a bit sharper, more threatening. Images at link, see what you think of it.
The Woman Who Built the Lego Hogwarts Just Made a 200,000-Piece Rivendell
Alice Finch, best known as the woman who brought a more-or-less exact replica of Hogwarts to Emerald City Comicon in March, is back. This time, she teamed with fellow Lego architect David Frank and created an insane 10-foot-by-5-foot replica of Rivendell from J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings that uses approximately 200,000 bricks — including Gungan shields dressed up as elvish windows, pieces of Boba Fett's Slave I ship turned into the green siding of Arwen's tower, and multiple Darth Vader Lego men in the role of the Nazgûl (!!). It's brilliant.
"David built 12 baseplates, and I had 20 to do, so I had started earlier," Finch told WIRED of the project, which she embarked on at the beginning of this year. Frank, she said, didn't have to begin his share until July, "so for me, [it took] somewhere between 1,200 to 1,400 hours, give or take a few. If I had to guess, I'd say maybe 800 hours for David," Finch said. Just to clarify, that's somewhere between 83 and 91 full days of snapping together Legos.
The team independently worked their own sections of the elven outpost — Finch and Frank live about an hour away from one another in the Seattle area — while occasionally meeting up "to make sure our color schemes and roof patterns were staying aligned, building styles looked related but not the same, landscapes matched, and waterways and paths looked natural," Finch told the Brothers Brick this week. They even had help from their respective sons; the pair told the Lego bloggers that Frank's two boys did most of the water designs, while Finch's sons, ages 5 and 10, contributed work on the trees, Nazgûl and dwarves.
Finch and Frank premiered their Rivendell earlier this year at the 2013 BrickCon in Seattle; if you missed it there, the pair will be exhibiting it at Portland's Bricks Cascade convention March 6-9 and at Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con March 28-30 (thanks to lessons learned from building Hogwarts, transport and reassembly are much easier this time around). Check out the finished product in the gallery above. Behold the vegetation and how the seasons change as you move from one end of the model to the other, and despair of your own Lego inadequacies.
Photos: Alice Finch/Flickr
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So suggests an offbeat study, released on Sunday, which concludes that the evil characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" lost their battle against men, elves and dwarves because they suffered from vitamin deficiency.
Assuming they all had a human metabolism.
Rather than one suited to their ecological niche.
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A pastiche Trot review.
The Desolation Of Smug : Film review by Sid Liddle
Where is the working class? That's the question any self-respecting Trotskyist is left to ponder after sitting through this three-hour long melange of petit-bourgeois fantasy and crypto-fascist twaddle.
Designed to appeal to the kind of feckless student who might equally well fall for the theory of state capitalism, or indeed the notion that North Korea is a workers' paradise, the implausible world "brought to life" on the big screen by union-busting film director Peter Jackson fails to convince the more discerning viewer on any level.
We are "transported" (rather like those British convicts who ended up in the Antipodean hell-hole where this was filmed) to a make-believe land where a gang of diminutive would-be entrepreneurs team up with a déclassé gentleman-thief and a cheap conjuror to rob some poor dragon of his pension.
They don't get very far in this film, the second of three installments (heaven help us) based on a children's story by arch-reactionary J.R.R.Toksvig, one of the notorious Cambridge "Ink Spots" and father of controversial gay television presenter Sandy.
The motley gang's second outing sees them pursued by gremlins (who, like all Jackson's villains, just happen to have working class accents), attacked by giant spiders, captured by woodland hairdressers and lightly toasted by the eponymous dragon.
"What have we done?" wails Bobbin at the end of the film, and Peter Jackson might well ask himself the same question. Despite the film's painfully long running-time there is little sign of the real working class. No-one has a job, except for Bart, the self-employed boatman who looks primed to save the day in part three.
Like the smug kulaks who infest the "Shire" in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, this film looks to the most backward elements of the small proprietor/entrepreneur class to solve the crisis of Middle Earth. The message could hardly be plainer. Jackson's film is a recruiting sergeant for the blackshirts.
Some might argue that I'm taking it all too seriously. After all, it's only a film. What real harm can it do? Well, if you doubt the potentially disorienting impact this nonsense can have, just take a look at the pictures below. Here we have an experienced cadre of the Socialist Resistance group (Liquidationist/Mandelite), pictured on the left at a recent public event, and pictured over on the right just days after seeing the movie:
Before And After Smaug v2
Not a pretty sight is it? Faced with this sort of thing, we know what Trotsky would do. He'd encourage the comrades to go and see Battleship Potemkin again instead, that's what!
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watched it last night with a some of my Lotro kin.I have always defended jackson for the changes he made to lotr but i cant defend all the ridiculous changes he has made to the desolation of smaug.
All the movie set in lake town was wrong and when it came to the fight in the forges, where it turned into indiana jones and the lonely mountain, i would have got up and left if i hadnt been with other. This movie is where jackson decided he is a better story teller then Tolkien. He is wrong.
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I just got back from watching this in 3d and have to say I found it quite mind numbingly boring.
I could catch myself almost groaning out loud every time we came to the start of another action sequence that looked reverse engineered from the videogame.
Also Smaug monologing ffs
That was just wrong.
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Watched this in 3D the other day. I enjoyed it as a one tends to enjoy these endurance epics. And there is an endurance aspect to this film. Right at the start you see Jackson leaving an Inn and crossing the frame in Hitchcock style. After that, everything bumbles along setting up an overblown and slightly overlong set piece. I've read LOTR but not the Hobbit so I don't know how faithful it is to the original story but this could have done with a sharper edit.
Also... I don't know whether it was a frame rate issue but the faster movements seemed juddery to me at the beginning.
As for the the hidden door spotted by Bilbo.... Well it was kind of obvious being at the top of a gigantic dwarf carving on a mountain.
It was good to see some Elven Ninja action again. Where do they get all the arrows from?
But these are niggles. If we hadn't already been spoiled by the excellent achievement of the LOTR trilogy, we'd be looking at this as an astonishing and groundbreaking film so it seems churlish to complain when Jackson's turning out quality adaptations of the works. it'll be a long time before someone has the confidence to do a remake of these.
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Does Smaug monolgue in the book? It's been a while...
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Haven't seen this yet, but yesterday we did the epic LOTR Extended Edition Blu-ray marathon.
All eleven-and-a-half hours, straight through - OK, OK, we had a 30 minute break for Christmas University Challenge.
Well worth watching all in one hit like that, everything made sense! Soppy crying Hobbits grated after the first three hours or so but apart from that I loved it. I've seen them all individually but this worked so much better.
Recommended if you've got half a day to kill (and lots of alcohol and munch).
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Integration in Communities
Whether or not immigrants are successfully integrated can be seen most clearly at the community level. Yet what strategies can local-level actors use to integrate non-native newcomers? Integrating immigrants into the community is no longer a marginal issue, but must be strategically addressed across all areas of community life. These pages provide users with regularly updated information and tools addressing this topic.
Focus Areas
Integration Workshops for Communities
The art of developing a community-wide concept to promote integration demands that local-level actors design their processes in a manner that is focused and inclusive. The Bertelsmann Stiftung's nonprofit integration workshops offer a venue for local-level actors to come together and discover how this is done. Through the workshops, we want to provide concrete assistance allowing Germany's communities to develop effective integration strategies.more
Good Ideas in Integration – Cities of Migration
Cities of Migration ist ein internationales Netzwerk, das von der Maytree-Foundation in Kanada initiiert wurde und von der Bertelsmann Stiftung mitgetragen wird. Zwei weitere Stiftungen in Großbritannien und in Neuseeland sind an diesem Partnerprojekt beteiligt. Cities of Migration stellt positive Ansätze zur Integration von Migranten vor und unterstützt neue Ideen zur kommunalen Integrationspolitik. Neben der dreisprachigen Website in Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch, gehören ein regelmäßiger Newsletter sowie zweimonatliche "webinars" (webgestützte Seminare) zum Angebot. Nächstes Jahr wird am 3./4. Oktober 2010 eine internationale Konferenz von Cities of Migration in Den Haag stattfinden.
Current Facts and Figures on the Integration of Immigrants
In our "Wegweiser Kommune" (Community Roadmap) we have published integration-related data for every city or town in Germany with 5,000 inhabitants or more. www.wegweiser-kommune.de
What proportion of a community's residents are foreign-born? What is the situation concerning integration when it comes to jobs, culture, education and politics? Anyone interested in developing an integration policy requires data. Yet figures documenting this area of life are often incomplete, inconsistent and inaccessible. At the same time, community actors would be well served to collect standardized statistics so they can compare their findings with others. To help ensure this is the case, the Bertelsmann Stiftung has joined with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia's Ministry of Integration (MGFFI) and the GEBIT Institute in Münster to develop a basic data set on community-level integration (see downloads). We also engage in an exchange of experience on this topic with the cities and towns participating in the "innovation circle" sponsored by KGSt, Germany's largest local government association. An opinion paper assembled by KGSt is available online.
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1. Guidelines for preparation of national communications from non-Annex I
In accordance with Article 4, paragraph 1 and Article 12, paragraph 1, each Party shall
communicate to the Conference of the Parties, through the secretariat, the following elements
of information:
(a) A national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all
greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, to the extent its capacities
permit, using comparable methodologies to be promoted and agreed upon by the Conference of
the Parties.
(b) A general description of steps taken or envisaged by the Party to implement the
(c) Any other information the Party considers relevant to the achievement of the objective of
the Convention and suitable for inclusion in its communication, including, if feasible,
material relevant for calculations of global emission trends.
Guidelines for the preparation of initial national communications from non-Annex I Parties
were adopted at COP 2 in Geneva in 1996. COP 5 (Bonn, 1999) initiated a process of reviewing
the guidelines, with the aim of improving them and established a Consultative Group of
Experts on National Communications from non-Annex I Parties (CGE) in order to improve the
process of preparation of national communications by non-Annex I Parties. The CGE made major
contributions to the review of the guidelines. At COP 8 (New Delhi, 2002) Parties adopted
guidelines (
decision 17/CP.8).
2. Guidelines for preparation of biennial update reports (BURs) from non-Annex I
COP 17 adopted the guidelines for the preparation of biennial update reports from non-Annex I
Parties contained in annex III of decision
2/CP.17, and also decided the following:
(a) That non-Annex I Parties, consistent with their capabilities and the level of support
provided for reporting, should submit their first biennial update report by December 2014;
the least developed country Parties and small island developing States may submit biennial
update reports at their discretion;
(b) That in using the Guidelines, non-Annex I Parties should take into account their
development priorities, objectives, capacities and national circumstances;
(c) That the Guidelines should be used as a basis to provide guidance to an operating entity
of the financial mechanism for funding the preparation of biennial update reports from
non-Annex I Parties and, in the case of the first biennial update report, to the Global
Environment Facility;
(d) To urge non-Annex I Parties to submit their requests to the Global Environment Facility
for support, in a timely manner;
(e) That enhanced support for the preparation of biennial update reports should be ensured by
developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in Annex II to the Convention
by means of resources, in accordance with Article 4, paragraph 3, of the Convention, on the
basis of agreed full-cost funding;
(f) That non-Annex I Parties shall submit a biennial update report every two years, either as
a summary of parts of their national communication in the year in which the national
communication is submitted or as a stand-alone update report; the least developed country
Parties and small island developing States may submit biennial update reports at their
(g) That the first biennial update report submitted by non-Annex I Parties shall cover, at a
minimum, the inventory for the calendar year no more than four years prior to the date of the
submission, or more recent years if information is available, and that subsequent biennial
update reports shall cover a calendar year that does not precede the submission date by more
than four years;
(h) That these guidelines should be reviewed and revised as appropriate, in accordance
with decisions of the Conference of the Parties.
3. Modalities and guidelines for international consultation and analysis
COP17 also adopted the modalities and guidelines for international consultation and analysis
contained in
annex IV of decision 2/CP.17, and decided the following:
(a) That the first rounds of international consultation and analysis will be conducted for
developing country Parties, commencing within six months of the submission of the first round
of biennial update reports by developing country Parties;
(b) That the frequency of participation in subsequent rounds of international consultation
and analysis by developing country Parties, based on their respective capabilities and
national circumstances, and special flexibility for small island developing States and the
least developed country Parties, will be determined by the frequency of the submission of
biennial update reports;
(c) To revise the modalities and guidelines prescribed herein based on experiences gained in
the first round of international consultation and analysis, no later than 2017;
(d) That small island developing States and the least developed country Parties
may undergo international consultation and analysis as a group of Parties at their
4. GEF operational procedures for the expedited financing of preparation of NCs and
BURs from non-Annex I Parties
The GEF has prepared operational procedures for the expedited financing of
national communications from non-Annex I Parties to assist eligible countries to formulate
and submit proposals based on COP 8 guidelines. Under these operational procedures, up
to US$405,000 is made available to each non-Annex I Party for the preparation of its national
communication. The GEF also provides an additional US$15,000 per country for
stocktaking exercise and stakeholder consultations in preparation of the project proposals.
The GEF prepared policy guidelines for the financing of biennial update reports for Parties
not included in Annex I to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Guideline). As per these policy guidelines, non-Annex I Parties can, for the
preparation of their biennial update reports, access up to US$352,000 through a GEF Agency or
via direct access.
5. COP 19 adopted the composition, modalities and procedures of
the team of technical experts referred to in decision 2/CP.17, annex IV, paragraph
By decision
20/CP.19, the COP requested the following:
(a) Parties to nominate technical experts with the relevant qualifications to the UNFCCC
roster of experts;
(b) The secretariat to maintain and update the UNFCCC roster of experts;
(c) The Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not
included in Annex I to the Convention to develop and organize appropriate training programmes
for nominated technical experts taking into account annexes III and IV to decision
2/CP.17, based on the most up-to-date training materials of the Consultative Group of
Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention,
with a view to improving the technical analysis, taking into account the difficulties
encountered by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention in the preparation of their
biennial update reports.
Toolkit for non-Annex I Parties on establishing and maintaining institutional
arrangements for preparing national communications and biennial update reports
Toolkit (2581 kB)
The toolkit aims to assist non-Annex I Parties in establishing and maintaining the most
suitable national institutional arrangements to meet the enhanced reporting requirements for
their national communications and BURs, in terms of the quality of the content and the
frequency of submission.
In response to a request by SBI 18 (Bonn, 2003), the secretariat
prepared a user manual to facilitate the use of the UNFCCC guidelines annexed to decision
The user manual, launched at COP 9 (Milan 2003), is designed for use by Parties and national
experts responsible for the preparation of the various sections of national communications,
and also by national climate change teams or committees that facilitate the coordination,
organization and management of various tasks and activities. It might also be useful for
multilateral and bilateral programmes that support the preparation of national communications
from non-Annex I Parties.
The user manual is available electronically in PDF-format in three UN
English (672 kB) ,
Español. It is also made available to Parties in hardcopy upon request.
The secretariat also prepared a Resource Guide for preparing the national communications of
non-Annex I Parties. The Modules of the Resource Guide are available at:
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After 10 years of incentive regulation, reliability has declined in Ontario. Regulators failed to enforce service-quality standards, and consumers are suffering as a result.
Ontario's Failed Experiment (Part 2)
Service quality suffers under PBR framework.
Benchmarking Report On the Quality of Electricity Supply (2005):
Price-cap regulation without any quality standards or incentive/penalty regimes for quality may provide unintended and misleading incentives to reduce quality levels. Incentive regulation for quality can ensure that cost cuts required by price-cap regimes are not achieved at the expense of quality….The increased attention to quality incentive regulation is rooted not only in the risk of deteriorating quality deriving from the pressure to reduce costs under price-cap, but also in the increasing demand for higher quality services on the part of consumers…. a growing number of European regulators have adopted some form of quality incentive regulation over the last few years. 6
The January, 2008 letter from the OEB also states, "Until ... the sector gains experience with any new or modified service quality indicators or requirements, it is in the Board's view premature to move to an incentive approach."
But the OEB is now in its 10th year of collecting reliability data; more than sufficient time to gain experience. Indicators such as SAIDI and SAIFI are standards that are used for monitoring and regulating service quality around the world. These indicators have been used by Ontario distributors' association for at least 15 years; for individual LDCs much longer.
The staff discussion paper offers a cursory analysis on reliability for 2004 through 2006. This analysis calculates sector, rural, and urban averages, as well as OEB peer-groups' averages. It's unclear whether these averages are simple arithmetic averages across reporting companies, or a weighted average calculated from actual customer-hours of interruption and total number of customer interruptions divided by number of customers served. 7
The discussion paper does examine the reliability performance of LDCs relative to various proposed benchmarks such as sector average or peer group average performance over the last three years. It finds that anywhere from 25 to 50 percent of Ontario distributors fail these benchmarks; furthermore, LDCs that fail typically have a reliability performance that is 50 to 100 percent worse than the selected average. What is clear from the data is that a very wide variation in reliability performance exists among LDCs, even within the OEB's peer groups. Yet, this finding fails to elicit any apparent concern on the OEB's part for the customers experiencing such degraded reliability. No explanation is offered for the fact that many customers of many LDCs are experiencing significantly lower reliability than customers of similar LDCs. What about performance over the whole period since the inception of incentive regulation (IR)?
The discussion paper sheds no light on whether LDCs are in compliance with the reliability guidelines established by the OEB in 2000. In fact, since its introduction of IR in 2000, the OEB has failed to confirm that LDCs operating under this regime are compliant with the mandated service-quality standards; this despite the fact the OEB repeatedly has stated that a reliable supply of power is necessary for just and reasonable rates. Indeed, the cursory analysis reported by staff would be unable to address current or past compliance.
The staff analysis is based on reliability data


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It is difficult to think of another player who has inexplicably divided opinion as much as the 31-year-old England international. Critically acclaimed by his peers, he remains largely unappreciated by a mainstream audience.
But how can a man who has lifted eight major trophies since arriving at Old Trafford in 2006 and has started every single Barclays Premier League match for his club in the last 12 months remain so undervalued?
Perhaps Carrick is still being wrongfully compared to his predecessor in United's number 16 shirt, Roy Keane. His reputation as a creative, rather than destructive, player has led to some unfair claims that he cannot blend both tasks. This, for me, is a dated assessment.
The role of the central midfielder has evolved in recent seasons with the deep-lying playmakers shining where the combative box-to-box men once ruled. Across the top flight, Liverpool's Steven Gerrard is arguably the last remaining bastion of the latter.
Sir Alex Ferguson, whose ability to embrace evolution has been central to his success throughout a 26-year reign as boss, has always championed Carrick's influence and importance, citing his 2006 recruit from Tottenham as the key to all of United's endeavours this season.
"In the modern game, you don't need tacklers the way you used to," Sir Alex said. "There's no call for it, it's about anticipation and reading the game. If you look at the central midfielders in the Premier League, Michael can match up to any of them in terms of quality."
Carlos Queiroz, Sir Alex's former assistant manager, was on the money with this observation in 2007: "Asking a team to win the league without a top-class defensive midfielder is like sending a climber up Everest without oxygen."


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Season 1 M Hayden, G Gooch, R Dravid, W Hammond, K Pietersen, G Sobers, R Marsh (wk), R Benaud (c), D Steyn, W Hall, N Adcock
Season 2 J Hobbs, B Richards, D Boon, H Taylor, C Lloyd (c), A Stewart (wk), T Goddard, A Davidson, H Tayfield, C Ambrose, H Griffith
Season 3 H Sutcliffe, M Hayden, I Chappell (c), G Pollock, A Faulkner, M Hussey, D Lindsay (wk), I Botham, A Kumble, M Marshall, D Lillee
Len Hutton - Jack Hobbs - Ted Dexter - David Gower - Walter Hammond - Frank Woolley - Ian Botham - Alan Knott - Hedley Verity - John Snow - Fred Trueman
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Grace and Hobbs, anyway.
I'll stick Hutton in at 3 and not bother about Sutcliffe.
Reality of the matter is, though, Grace won't win this vote, so when the middle order votes comes around I'll probably vote for him again.
Last edited by Prince EWS; 01-11-2012 at 04:05 AM.
Jack Hobbs and Len Hutton.
"If that Swann lad is the future of spin bowling in this country, then we're ****ed." - Nasser Hussain, 1997.
On the Sutcliffe v Hutton debate, there is definitely a statistical backing for the idea that Sutcliffe benefited from weaker attacks a little more of the two. When I standardised their averages Hutton's went from 56.67 to 53.94 (95%) while Sutcliffe's went from 60.73 to 56.11 (92%) but certainly neither played in the toughest era to be a batsman by any stretch of the imagination.
Longevity is why I put Hutton ahead though; he got the equivalent of almost 13 years worth of Tests in, while Sutcliffe didn't make 10. Unpopular reasoning for picking someone so I won't go into that again too much.
56.95 --> 55.79 (98%)
He played for bloody ages too; his scorebook average dropped 4 runs in his last 6 Tests, all played after his 47th birthday. He'd probably have a standardised average pushing 60 if his career was Sutcliffe sized or even Hutton sized.
01. Grace
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....would score more runs than a more conventional line-up? Such as;
01. Grace
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03. Hammond
04. Barrington
05. May
06. Compton
If you do think that your unconventional line-up would score more runs then why not select it? After all, the main objective is to win the Test match, is it not?
1. Hobbs
2. Sutcliffe
3. Hutton
4. Hammond
5. Grace
6. Compton
I'm torn over whether I'd back that lineup to score more runs than one with May or Barrington in for Sutcliffe and a reshuffle though, for instance. Batting the openers out of position gives the team a higher ceiling (ie. if they take to it then it'll better than the alternative) but also a low floor (you increase the chance of outright failure by doing something largely unproven).
Are there any other hurdles?
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In handling active/CD survival effects, we will split the abilities into the following 3 categories (I'll use my own terminology so I can short-hand later):
1.) Protection Buffs. These are abilities that reduce incoming damage by a percentage for a duration. These abilities stack though each effect (including the passive buffs present from long-term buffs and stances already included) diminish each individual effect's actual benefit. In other words if you have 40% reduction from one buff and 60% from another, you will not become damage immune. Each component is applied one after the next so if the buff effects were P1, P2, and P3, the final reduction would be 1-[(1-P1)(1-P2)(1-P3)]. Or as a direct example, 50% reduction from armor, 10% reduction from stance, and 40% reduction from Shield Wall would total as follows Ptotal = 1-[(1-0.50)(1-0.10)(1-0.40)] = 0.73 = 73% reduction total.
2.) Survival Mechanic Buffs. Each class has its own short CD, or high uptime buffs that they rely on to benefit their survival, as well as longer CD effects that can improve their passive survival tools. Particular examples are Shield Block for Warriors, and Holy Shield for Paladins. These buffs are made to be used frequently, but they are balanced around the fact that the tank must actually activate them. Doing so smartly and well-timed they will provide a greater benefit than if they are used blindly or foolishly. Several of these have been factored in above already, but I will address some additional items in this category.
3.) Supported Survival Buffs. These special buffs work by improving the tank's survival in a different fashion than just increasing passive survival traits. These are the hardest to factor in a metric like this, but I will be working towards finding a smart way to do it. This category includes effects that increase the tanks incoming heals, or heal the tank directly.
I will first enumerate the buffs for each class (and please let me know if there is something I appear to have missed). In order to illustrate the values of these abilities, I want to sketch the nature of the buff, and sketch limits of sorts. Maximum benefit (i.e. maximum possible uptime) is important, though it is hard to measure actual use in general and as we move towards the most specific model the application will become extremely encounter specific.
Items marked with a "*" are already included above.
- Shield Block: Increases Block Chance and Block Value by 100% for 10 sec on a 1 min CD. Talents reduce the CD by 10/20 sec.
- Shield Wall: Reduces all incoming damage by 60% for 12 sec on a 5 min CD. Talents can reduce the CD by 30/60 sec, and the glyph makes the reduction 40% and reduces the CD by an additional 2 min.
- Last Stand: Increases total health by 30% for 20 sec on a 3 min CD. Glyph reduces the CD by 1 min.
- Glyph of Blocking: Increases Block Value by 10% for 10 sec after each Shield Slam. It will be assumed that in the grand average a Warrior Tank will Shield Slam more than once per 10 sec, so this will have a 100% uptime.
- Enraged Regeneration: Restores 30% of the Warrior's health over 10 sec, on a 3 min CD, and while active it blocks other enrage effects (+10% damage and/or bonus rage generation). Glyphing increases the total heal by another 10% of the Warrior's max health.
- *Holy Shield: Increases Block Chance by 30% for 10 seconds, or 8 blocks. On 8 second CD.
- Divine Protection: Reduces all incoming damage by 50% for 12 sec on a 3 min CD. Talents can reduce the CD by 30/60 sec.
- *Glyph of Divine Plea: So long as Divine Plea is active, the Paladin takes 3% less damage.
- Glyph of Hand of Salvation: When the Paladin uses Hand of Salvation on himself, he will take 20% less damage. (Hand of Salv reduces the targets total threat by 2% per second for 10 sec, on a 2 min CD).
- Lay on Hands: the Paladin heals the target for an amount equal to the Paladin's maximum total health, and restores 1950 mana. Talents can reduce the CD by 2/4 min, and will grant the target 10/20% damage reduction for 15 sec, while the glyph will reduce the CD by 5 min.
- Ardent Defender: Any attack that takes the Paladin below 35% health is reduced in damage. The damage portion that takes the Paladin's health below 35% is reduced by 7/13/20%. In addition, when the Paladin receives damage that would kill him, he instead is pushed up to 10/20/30% health (assuming 540 def tank), on a 2 min CD.
Death Knight
- Barkskin: Reduces all incoming damage by 20% for 12 sec on a 1 min CD.
- Survival Instincts: Increases the Bear's maximum health by 30% for 20 sec, on a 3 min CD. Glyph increases the health increase by an additional 15% of max.
- Frenzied Rejuvenation: The Bear converts 10 rage per sec for 10 sec, into health, on a 3 min CD. The exchange is 0.3% health per point of rage, or 3% per 10 rage. Glyphed this ability increases all incoming heals on the Bear by 20% for the duration.
Note 1: I've left out Magic-oriented CDs and effects for the time being, as they will be factored in with a later layer.
- Icebound Fortitude: Reduces all incoming damage by an amount based on your defense (we'll assume 540 def, or 40%) for 12 sec on a 2 min CD. Talents can increase the duration by 3/6 sec (Frost).
- Death Strike: In addition to dealing damage, heals the DK for 5% of his maximum health per disease on the target. Talented from Blood this becomes 7.5% max health per disease, and Unholy can talent for a third disease. This is only frequently used for Blood tanking, but is accessible to other tanks.
- Vampiric Blood (Blood): Increases the DK's health by 15% and increases all healing affects on the DK by 35% for 10 sec, on a 1 min CD. Glyphed the duration is increased by 5 sec.
- Rune Tap (Blood): Instantly heals the DK for 10% of his total health on a 1 min CD. Talenting reduces the CD by 10/20/30 sec, and increases the healing by 3/7/10% of max health. Glyphing increases the heal on the DK by 10% (so to 11/14/19/22% of max), and causes it to heal the DK's group for 10% of their max health.
- Mark of Blood (Blood): The target heals anyone it hits for 4% of their max health with every hit. Lasts for 20 sec or up to 20 hits, on a 3 min CD.
- Imp Blood Presence (Blood): The DK heals himself for 2/4% of his damage dealt.
- Will of the Necropolis (Blood): Damage that would take the DK below 35% health is reduced. The damage portion that reduces the DK's health below 35% is reduced by 5/10/15%. This effect cannot be trigger by a hit smaller than 5% of the DK's max health, and the proc has a 15 sec CD.
- Unbreakable Armor (Frost): increases the tank's armor by 25% and increases the DK's strength by 10% for 20 sec, on a 1 min CD. The Glyph increases the bonus armor granted by 20% (so the bonus is now +30% armor).
- *Frigid Dreadplate (Frost): Increases the DK's chance to be missed by 1/2/3%.
- *Imp Frost Presence (Frost): Increases the passive damage reduction of Frost Presence by 1/2% (to a total of 6/7%).
- Bone Shield (Unholy): Activates a shield around the DK with 3 charges. So long as one charge remains the DK will take 20% less damage from everything, and each time the DK takes damage a charge will be consumed (no more than one per 2 sec). Lasts 1 min or until charges are gone, on 1 min CD. Glyphed this shield has 1 extra charges.
Note 2: I've included itemized passive bonuses for non-uniform procs and some standard passive items for DK's since each tree will function differently as a tank.
Note 3: Self-heals have been included as they will become very important for particular class-specs, though hard to discuss in a general breakdown of survival. This will be a later layer as well.
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Shield Block for Warriors is not quite as easy. When it is active it will double block value (3.2 x actual sheet block value if you account for crit chance), and will make every hit that is not avoided a block (effective block chance becomes 100%-Avoid%). With standard Warrior tank talents, the ability will have a 40 sec CD with a 10 sec uptime, which, if used on CD is 25% uptime. That said, most warriors will not pop it on CD, they will use it strategically (often for threat). So, the maximum effect would be 25% uptime, but the actual effect will depend on use. I will treat this as an on-off condition, and examine the relative and average effects later on.
For the standard protection abilities, the classes break down as follows, and I will add in some granted effects that healers/raid can provide as well (I'll provide stats consistent with our exemplar tanks' talents and glyphs):
Considering these abilities, the 3 plate wearers have a maximum of 10% uptime while the bear has a maximum of 20% uptime. The Paladin will also have the Hand buff available at an 8.3% uptime. Again, like Shield Block these abilities are often saved for encounter specific peaks, but we will gauge that as the model develops.
- Warrior: Shield Wall = 40% dmg rdx, 12 sec duration, 2 min CD
- Paladin: Divine Protection = 50% dmg rdx, 12 sec duration, 2 min CD
- Paladin: Glyphed Hand of Salv = 20% dmg rdx, 10 sec duration, 2 min CD
- Death Knight: Icebound Fortitude = 40% dmg rdx, 12 sec duration, 2 min CD
- Bear Druid: Barkskin = 20% dmg rdx, 12 sec duration, 1 min CD
- Inspiration/Ancestral Fortitude: (crit heal from talented Priest/Shaman healer) = 10% physical dmg rdx, 10 sec duration
- Pain Suppression (Disc Priest) = 40% dmg rdx, 8 sec duration, 3 min CD
Situational damage reductions (specifically Will of the Necropolis and Ardent Defender) are hard to work into a general model of an average. They will become meaningful when they save the tank and reduce damage, but the conditions of triggering them are a little too tricky to generalize about. I will attempt to demonstrate some of their value, if I can, later on.
Similarly health maximum bumps can be hard to gauge smartly. I can express them in terms of average maximum health, but that's not a particularly meaningful number. I will find a way to illustrate these as an on-off scenario as well.
Tank self-healing can become a very serious value, but it needs to be handled with care and a great deal of marked assumptions and conditions. In general, tank self-healing can amount to functionally appear as less damage taken, but it needs to be factored in terms of over-healing and other player/human-related factors. I will create a specific special consideration for this aspect as it becomes particularly meaningful for Blood DKs, and somewhat less so for Bears and Warriors. Interestingly the one tank that can cast real heals while tanking, Paladins, also relies the least on their own healing to survive. In tank self-healing I will also discuss the effects of Imp Leader of the Pack and Judgment of Light, which I have excluded to this point as they can be available to all of the tanks.
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Centerpoint 1" Rings, Medium, 3/8" Dovetail
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From: Crosman > CenterPoint
* 1" rings * Medium profile * Fits 3/8" dovetail * 4 hex screws/ring secur...