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[RELEASE] Morrowind Rebirth 2.81Oct 11, 2014 Morrowind Rebirth 2.81 Full Version 9 comments
Without further ado, I present you 2.81! The town of Vos has been overhauled. A new layout, new traders, new NPCs and other goodies await! This patch...
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is an epic, open-ended single-player game where you create and play any kind of character you can imagine. Be the noble hero embarking on an epic quest, or an insidious thief rising to leadership of his guild. Be a malevolent sorcerer developing the ultimate spell of destruction, or a reverent healer searching for the cure to a plague. Your actions define your character, and your gameplay changes and evolves in response to your actions. Confront the assassins' guild, and they take out a contract on you. Impress them, and they try to recruit you instead. No two sagas are the same in the world of Morrowind.
Gameplay is further extended with the inclusion of The Elder Scrolls Construction Set (bundled with the game). This powerful tool is being used to create the entire game, and will also allow players to modify and add to Morrowind in any way they see fit. Change character or creature attributes and skills, introduce new weapons or dungeons into the game, or create entire new worlds to explore. Consequently mods for this game are everywhere, ranging in size from mere characters to fully themed packs! So should you ever want to expand on your gaming experience, be sure to scope out just a few of the amature modifications available and in existence!
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Greetings everyone. I hope you like the latest installment of Morrowind Rebirth! I want to ask a few questions to the community and I hope you can take your time to answer at least a few of them, it would mean a lot to me and to the progression of the mod.
1. What do you like about the mod and why?
2. What do you not like about this mod?
3. What would you like to see in the future?
4. What do you think about the game balance?
5. Is there anything else that I should be aware of?
Here's a preview of what's next. This is just some of the changes you'll notice in the upcoming 2.9 update.
Morrowind Fixes
* Removed ownership from Percius Mercius' chests so that you are no longer considered a "criminal" for chosing to accept your reward after finishing the quest "Kill Hard-Heart".
Morrowind Rebirth Fixes
* Ivramie Sarandas in Tel Naga didn't wear her armor, even though she had several pieces in her inventory.
* Reduced Scamps' running speed, cause they were way to fast for their animation to play properly.
* Revised a few lines of dialogue to reflect that summoned creatures no longer have a soul value.
* Moonmoth Legion, Guard Tower: Removed lock from the trapdoor.
* Removed trading services from "Agaran", who's in Ebonheart.
* Improved path grids in Ebonheart, Caldera and Khuul.
* Fixed some scrolls which had the wrong weight.
* Fixed several floaters in Caldera, again.
Morrowind Rebirth Changes
* Moon-and-Star enchantment changed from: fortify personality 5 points to 15 points and fortify speechcraft 5 points to 15 points.
* Face of Kagrenac enchantment changed from: fortify Personality 10 points to fortify Intelligence and enchant 15 points.
* Rebalanced damage output of most fire/frost/shock/poison spells (slightly lower damage).
* Dwemer barrels, drawers etc now have a slighly lower chance to hold rare loot.
* Medusa's Gaze (Paralysis) spell duration changed from 15 seconds to 6 seconds.
* Paralysis enchantment duration changed from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
* Paralysis spell duration changed from 5 to 3 seconds.
* Re-enabled invisibility for spellmaking.
* Removed and replaced a handle texture attached to two Telvanni doors, with one that doesn't appear streched.
* Velothi platforms now have textures that matches other velothi buildings.
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morrowind is the best realtime RPG ever! none of that 'take a turn' 'pick up big coins' or 'unacessable' items crap! everquest dosnt have the same feel of freedom & such that MW has... scum! :P
You think thats big in content? Try ever quest, just as much content if not more and its mulitplayer... do understand that its 7 cd's, a few downloadable expansions, and 4 years of constant development underneath it...
the folder is like freaking 6 gigs
I just buy the left copy of Morrowind, an' I must say it's preaty... fun, really!
Enough said, the most godly of (moddable) RPGs.
Morrowind rules and you must download the tamriel rebuilt mod for morrowind and the sea of destiny too these mods adds around 20 new islands in the game.. and new armor too
iam now waiting for the middle-earth mod i think i most wait a while for that mod.. :(
great game. best rpg avalabilie now. unless you only play games to add them to your "beaten" list. this is a game tio get lost in.
Here i have write my experience with my first Morrowind voyage. My english suck, but may help people interested in this game.
Two words: Single player :D
I am playing this game. The interface can be better, and the movements where somewhat slow, but I have good feelings about the whole stuff. Anyway I think 2D still work better for this types of games.
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I am a huge fan of Tim's first two books, Love is the Killer App and The Likeability Factor, both of which showed us how to impact the people around us for the better. As a speaker and consultant, I recommend these books frequently, and will now recommend his new book as well. This book takes it a step further, and shows us how to impact our world by becoming "Saver Soldiers". As a member of the generation right in the middle of the "profit at all cost" mentality and the green movement/social responsibility movement, I can now clearly see that I can make a difference and still make a profit. Tim shows very practical business applications, as well as personal applications. I know that I will now think twice before printing an e-mail or a PDF to read later. The message of the book is that one person can make a difference, and after reading the book, I want to be that one person. I love the challenge: "If not you, then who?". Thanks for the challenge and enlightenment.

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Meeting and listening to Tim Sanders at an international conference made me want to read this book. When I did, two things stuck out. First is the concept of the Responsibility Revolution. Second is the concept of the Saver Soldier. As to the first, Sanders did his homework. His notion of the trend he's identified at the Responsibility Revolution is not a personal polemic based on a speaker/consultant's motivational message. He looked deep into corporate efforts, conducted independent surveys of consumers, and spent time with a number of CEOs who are balancing 'doing well' with 'doing good.' What his research suggests is that customers want to make a difference with their buying power, and they're 'we're' beginning to look at our suppliers and vendors more critically to see if they're doing the right thing for society and the planet. Those companies that pass consumer scrutiny will maintain their relevance. In other words 'doing good' is replacing 'being different.' In Tim's words, 'Good is the new Great.' As to the second, the concept of the Saver Soldier is both catchy and compelling. A Saver Soldier is essentially an individual who is rightly categorized as a servant leader 'to borrow Robert Greenleaf's term for it'. Responsible companies, he says, are full of people who actually care about each other as well as the greater community. Tim's book is chock full of stories that could easily fit into one of those 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' books, the difference being that not only are these Saver Soldiers changing lives, but making good business sense at the same time. Having worked with Toyota, a company he cites as one leading the revolution, I can attest to how correct he is -- the people there behave more like volunteers fighting for a cause than the stereotypical organizational man/woman. I won't give away the end story, but suffice it to say that it is one of the most gripping stories of life in a corporation you'll ever read. My bet is Sanders had a tough time deciding whether to use it first or last in the book. It grabs you. The book's a great read, the language is easily accessible, and it's the perfect book for the plane.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Bryan Hymel (EE'-mehl) accepted the $50,000 prize Monday at the Metropolitan Opera.
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MOON ALERT Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 2:15 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. After that the moon moves from Leo into Virgo.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
You encourage, especially in groups. You're the pied piper or the great general leading your charge into the fray. "Forward ho!" You have lots of energy and enthusiasm to convince other people to listen to you and your ideas.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
This is an excellent day to approach people in authority -- parents, bosses, teachers, VIPs and the police. They will be impressed with your pitch and your intellectual take on things. They will agree with what you say because you are so convincing. Grab this advantage.
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Any kind of study will appeal to you. You will also excel doing anything with media, publishing or higher education. You feel intellectually alive and will gravitate to discussions about politics, religion and philosophical matters.
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This is a productive day at work. You have lots of mental energy to give to whatever task is at hand. If you have to talk to co-workers, customers or people you're involved with, you will teach them or persuade them if necessary. You've got your patter down cool.
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Physicist/mathematician Albert Einstein (1879-1955) shared your birthday. You are warm and affectionate. You often study yourself in relation to others. You have a fine mind and sometimes conjecture other lifestyles or even different planes of living. You value your independence but are cautious about new avenues. You are accepting and tolerant in your personal life. This year will be a social year where all your relationships will improve.
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Food Flashes focuses on what's happening in the dining community, from restaurant openings and closings, to chef changes, to heart-healthy menus to kids' specials.
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Freetail and Real collaborating on barrel-aged beer mini-fest
Very exciting news from two of the best breweries in the state. (July 2, 2010) San Antonio, TX – Freetail Brewing Co. is announcing that it will host a mini-beer festival on Saturday July 17 featuring rare, barrel aged beers from the local brewpub and Real Ale Brewing Co. from Blanco, TX. I've had several […] [Read More]
Blue Star celebrating American Craft Beer Week
Blue Star Brewing is observing this great American holiday with several giveaways this week. If, once you finish your pint glass you find a star, you'll win the following: Wednesday: Logo Pint Glass Thursday: T-Shirt Friday: Grand Prize, a growler filled with the beer of your choice to enjoy at home. For more of what's […] [Read More]
Culinaria serves plenty of Burgers, BBQ, Beer & Texas spirits
The rain threatened but never developed last night at the Burgers, BBQ, Beer and Texas Spirits event at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa. Area chefs and restaurants served sliders made from ground beef, sirloin, salmon and pork at the Culinaria event, formerly the New World Wine & Food Festival. The […] [Read More]
Saint Arnold announces Divine Reserve 10
Houston's Saint Arnold Brewing is announcing today that the next beer in their Divine Reserve series will be an English Barleywine. The recipe for the beer will be provided by the winner of the Big Batch Brew Bash, the annual Houston homebrew fest that claims to be the largest single-style festival in country. Brock Wagner, […] [Read More]
New World Wine & Food Festival has a new name – Culinaria
(Courtesy) The new logo for Culinaria. The New World Wine & Food Festival kicks off this week with a big announcement – it's unveiling a new name, Culinaria. "As we celebrate 11 years of sharing the very best in food and wine from around the world, it is the perfect time to also share our […] [Read More]
More new beer in San Antonio
I swung through Central Market yesterday and ran into Suzanne Carter who showed me a couple of the new brews they have on hand at the store. She said it was a big week for arrivals so far. Three big arrivals were the Stone's Imperial Russian Stout and Sublimely Self Righteous along with Dogfish Head's […] [Read More]
Beer tasting tonight – 4/22, Earth Day stuff
The Cove's monthly beer tasting is tonight starting at 7:30 p.m. and will set you back a whole $5. They are featuring four Saint Arnold beers with appetizers and music from King Pelican too. Not sure which beers, but Saint Arnold Pils is fresh out of the brewery so this might be your first chance […] [Read More]
Texans among Top 50 brewers
The Brewers Association released their list of the Top 50 craft (and overall) brewers in the nation in terms of beer sales volume. Spoetzel Brewery, "the little brewery in Shiner" came in fourth among craft brewers and ninth overall Rank Brewing Company City State 1 Boston Beer Co. Boston MA 2 Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. […] [Read More]
Alamo City Cerveza Fest Winners
Winners for this past weekend's Alamo City Cerveza Fest, hosted by the Bexar Brewers, have been released. The big winner was Maibock from J & J Brew Crew who were part of the Foam Rangers home brew club from Houston. Funkiest of Show went to Mark Schoppe of the Austin Zealots. The head brewer at […] [Read More]
Texans take home medals at World Beer Cup
The Brewer's Association's World Beer Cup was held this past weekend in Chicago and a couple of breweries from our fair state pulled in medals. In the Kellerbier/Zwickelbier category the Hell In Keller from Uncle Billy's Brew & Que in Austin took the Bronze in a group of 32 entries. [Read More]
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Comparative Politics
Katherine Bersch. Comparative Politics / Methodology. Thesis: When Democracies Deliver: Governance Reforms in Latin America (Weyland, Hunter, Jones, Brinks, Bussell). My dissertation, "When Democracies Deliver: Governance Reform in Latin America," assesses two competing approaches to reforming public administration. The results of eighteen months of field research in Argentina and Brazil suggest that the approach embraced by many Latin American policymakers and international organizations—namely, swift, wholesale reform pushed through during "windows of opportunity"—does not tend to produce effective and lasting improvements. By contrast, I find that incremental changes sequenced over time are more promising, because they allow for modifications and corrections along the way and do not depend on finding the right solution ex ante, a notoriously difficult task in the complex world of policymaking. In addition, I examine the influence of different governing patterns on Brazilian and Argentine policymakers' decisions to either embark on sweeping transformations or proceed more gradually. While Argentina's executive power is concentrated in single-party cabinets, facilitating large-scale change, Brazil's multi-party presidentialism frustrates "big bang" reform attempts. Yet, the absence of repeated overhauls provides opportunities for technical experts within the Brazilian government to gradually advance individually small but often cumulatively significant changes. Paradoxically, the dissertation argues, political-organizational contexts that hinder grand reform attempts may nonetheless facilitate greater long-term success. Education: PhD, University of Texas- Austin, Government (Expected Spring 2015); BA, University Notre Dame (2004). Publications: Comparative Politics (forthcoming); European Journal of Development Research (2014); Information Polity (2013) External Awards: National P.E.O. Scholar Award (2014-15); Dwight Eisenhower-Roberts Graduate Fellowship (2013-14); David Boren National Security Education Program (NSEP) Fellowship (2011-12); Fulbright IIE Fellowship (2007) Select Internal Awards: Named/Endowed Continuing Fellowship (University-wide competition; 2013-2014); Graduate School Continuing Fellowship (Fa 2012; Sp 2014); Macdonald Summer Research Fellowship (2012); Long Dissertation Fellowship (declined; 2011); John J. Kennedy Prize for best thesis on Latin America, University of Notre Dame (2004). Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Political Economy, Comparative Public Policy, Research Methods, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Conceptualization and Measurement. Email: katherine.bersch [at] utexas.edu. Web: www.berschkatherine.com.
Steven Brooke. Comparative Politics/ Middle East Politics/ International Relations. Thesis: Clients of Islam: The Politics of Islamist Social Service Provision in Egypt (Brownlee, Elkins, R. Moser, Tarek Masoud).My dissertation project considers the conditions under which non-state actors deliver social services, with a focus on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. I structure the dissertation around three interlocking questions: why does the Brotherhood provide services in certain areas and pass other areas over? What are the effects of this social service provision on patterns of sociopolitical mobilization? And what is the causal pathway through which social service provision influences a recipient's beliefs and behaviors? I investigate these questions with multiple methods, including ArcGIS mapping, a survey experiment of 3600 Egyptians, fieldwork and interviews at Islamic charities, and an array of Arabic language materials. A closer consideration of the electoral influence of Islamist social service provision, I argue, helps to explain both the Brotherhood's growing appeal under Hosni Mubarak and the group's impressive but ultimately unstable political tenure in the post-Mubarak period. Not only does this project add rich empirical detail to the much discussed but little understood phenomenon of Islamic groups' social service networks, it generates broader theoretical insights into opposition activism in authoritarian regimes, the relationship between of social service provision and political attitudes, and how Islamist groups mobilize supporters. Education: B.A., James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA), Majors in International Affairs and History; M.A. in Middle Eastern History, George Mason University (Fairfax, VA); M.A., Government, University of Texas- Austin; PhD, University of Texas- Austin, Government, Expected Summer 2015. Awards: University of Texas Continuing Fellowship, Summer 2014; University of Texas Named Continuing Fellowship, Academic Year 2013-2014; Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, Spring/Summer 2013; U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings-Randolph Dissertation Fellowship, Academic Year 2012-2013; David Boren National Security Education Program (NSEP) Fellowship, Academic Year 2012-2013 (declined); Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship- Arabic, 2011-2012 Academic Year; FLAS Fellowship- Arabic, 2010-2011 Academic Year; FLAS Fellowship- Arabic, Summer 2010; Critical Language Scholarship- Arabic, Summer 2010 (declined); FLAS Fellowship- Arabic, 2009-2010 Academic Year. Publications: Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Foreign Affairs, Middle East Report. Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics; Middle East Politics; Islamist Movements; Terrorism, Insurgency, and Civil War; Qualitative Research Methods. Email: sbrooke(at)gmail.com. Website: www.steventbrooke.com.
Danilo Antonio Contreras. Comparative Politics / International Relations. Thesis: Nation Before Pigmentation: Race and Electoral Politics in the Dominican Republic (Madrid). My dissertation examines the effect of race on electoral politics in the Dominican Republic. I challenge the assumption that high levels of racial stratification necessarily create strong racial group identities and that these identities are activated in elections. I argue that stratification may actually undermine the activation of racial cleavages in elections by discouraging identification with marginalized racial groups. I also contend that nation-building efforts may prevent the formation of strong racial identities and suppress the electoral activation of racial cleavages. I support my argument with a combination of qualitative data and quantitative data collected over a period of eight months of field research in the Dominican Republic. My dissertation helps to explain why ethnic voting and parties may be relatively rare in regions with high stratification but inchoate racial group identity. Academic Appointments: Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Political Science, Williams College (Currently). Education: Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin (expected spring, 2014); BA, Government, Spanish, Georgetown University (2005). Awards: Malcolm MacDonald Fellowship (Summer, 2013); IC2 Institute Fieldwork Grant (2011); US Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (summer, 2010); Tinker Foundation Travel Grant (summer, 2009); NSF EDGE-SBE Fellowship (2009-2010; 2007-2008). Publications: Article manuscript under review at Latin American Research Review. Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics; Race and Ethnic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean; Latin American Politics; US-Latin American Relations; Latino Politics; Dominico-Haitian Politics. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Web Profile: http://links.utexas.edu/cwlfwhg.
Kai-Ping Huang. Comparative Politics / Methodology. Thesis: Electoral Reforms and the Transformation of Party System: Thailand in Comparative Perspective (Moser, Lin, Maclachlan, Shaw, Boone, Jones). My dissertation argues that different party structures, when interacting with electoral systems of approval voting (AV) and single-member district (SMD), lead to different levels of party system fragmentation. In a weak party structure, elite action is the key to explain the different outcomes: AV tends to inflate the number of parties as the rule poses an obstacle to intra-district party coordination. But this major obstacle is removed under SMD, which tends to result in lower fragmentation. By contrast, the role of voters becomes active in a strong party structure and, therefore, the effects of AV and SMD on party system fragmentation becomes similar as both tend to bring down the number of parties through voters' strategic behavior. This dissertation tests the theory on Thailand since the country has gone through three waves of electoral reform in which it provides a quasi-experimental setting conducive for inspecting the effects of the key factors on party system fragmentation when other confounding variables are controlled for. This dissertation applies multi-methods, including case study, single-country multi-level quantitative analysis, and a large N, cross-national quantitative analysis, to reach the conclusions. I conducted fieldwork in Thailand in 2012 to collect electoral data and documents related to the three electoral reforms. Education: PhD in Government, (expected December 2014), The University of Texas at Austin; M.A. and B.A. in International Relations, National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan, 2000, 1997. Awards: MacDonald Tuition Award (2012-13), Bruton Student Endowment Fellowships (2012), MacDonald Fellowship (2008-9), The University of Texas at Austin; Study Abroad Award (2012-14), Ministry of Education of Taiwan. Publications: Taiwan Journal of Democracy (2013), book chapter in The Election of 2011, White Lotus Press (forthcoming), two articles under review in peer-reviewed journals. Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics, Comparative Political and Formal Institutions, Comparative Political Parties and Party Systems, East and Southeast Asian Politics, Quantitative and Research Methods. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Riitta-Ilona Koivumaeki. Comparative Politics / International Relations. Thesis: Institutional Constraints on Economic Nationalism in Latin America (Weyland, Chapman, Elkins, Lin, McDonald). My dissertation examines the politics of economic nationalism in contemporary Latin America. Specifically, I evaluate the effectiveness of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) which were adopted in the region during the Washington Consensus to prevent nationalization of foreign property in the future. The first part of the dissertation analyzes whether the treaties have succeeded in deterring expropriation of multinational corporations. My quantitative analysis of state takeovers in the region in 1985-2012 shows that the treaties have proven to be surprisingly weak: unlike other components of the liberal world order, such as democratic institutions and dollarization, BITs have not constrained nationalistic executives from attacking foreign investors. The second part of the project explores the causal mechanisms behind the treaties' weakness. I argue that commodity booms allow governments to cover the costs of expropriating BIT-protected investment. I assess the argument with a paired comparison of the recent oil & gas reforms in Venezuela and Bolivia. The case studies are based on 130 in-depth interviews and other qualitative material I collected in the field in 2012-2013. Education: PhD in Government, (expected Summer 2015); M.A. in Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009; B.Soc.Sci., University of Tampere, Finland, 2007. Awards: Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin (Summer 2014), Macdonald Dissertation Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin (academic year 2012-2013), Tinker Summer Field Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin (Summer 2011, Summer 2010). Publications: Comparative Politics (forthcoming), Journal of Politics in Latin America (2010), book chapter in Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal and Juan Pablo Luna (eds.), The Resilience of the Latin American Right, Johns Hopkins University Press (2014), Debates IESA (with Pedro Luis Rodríguez Sosa, forthcoming). Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Latin American Politics, Comparative and International Political Economy, International Institutions, Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Website: https://sites.google.com/a/utexas.edu/rik/.
Jonathan J. Kinkel. Comparative Politics / Public Law. Thesis: High-End Demand: How Markets for Legal Services in Urban China Create Pressure for Judicial Autonomy (Brinks, Hurst, Perry, Elkins, Maclachlan, Boone). My research is situated within the fields of comparative politics and contemporary Chinese politics, with a substantive interest in comparative judicial behavior. My dissertation addresses the specific mechanisms linking economic development, judicial autonomy, and the rule of law. Using the subnational comparative method, I closely examine three urban court case studies (Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu) in authoritarian China, tracing locally specific variations in judicial autonomy to differences in the size of local markets for professional legal services. These three case studies all exhibit relatively high levels of economic development, resulting in a "most similar systems" comparison that controls not only for country-level variation, but also for many other social and institutional differences that exist between urban and rural localities in China. I find that when qualified, mid-career judges can easily quit their jobs and find lucrative local employment as lawyers, local court leaders are more likely to attempt to retain these young, talented judges by strategically reforming promotion mechanisms for mid-ranking judicial cadres. Education: PhD in Government (expected Spring 2015); JD, University of Wisconsin Law School, 2005; BA, University of Michigan, 2002. Awards: Winner of the Law & Social Inquiry 2014 Graduate Student Paper Competition; Ward Fellowship, awarded by University of Texas-Austin College of Liberal Arts, Summer 2014; MacDonald Fellowship, awarded by University of Texas-Austin Government Department, Fall 2013; Boren Fellowship, 2011-2012, awarded by the National Security Education Program. Publications: Law & Social Inquiry (forthcoming in 2015), Journal of East Asian Studies (with William J. Hurst, 2011), book chapter in John Garrick (ed.), Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism, Routledge (with William J. Hurst and Alexandra Sowash, 2012). Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Comparative Judicial Politics, Law and Society, Comparative Political Economy, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law. Email: jjkinkel [at] utexas.edu Web Profile: https://sites.google.com/site/jjkinkel
Pete Mohanty. Comparative / Methodology / Political Theory. Thesis: Immigration Politics in a (Dis)Integrating Europe (Gregg, Givens, Jessee, Jacobsohn, Murer, Hooker). Thick values are those values that stem from the way of life of a particular community, while thin values reflect more basic claims to decency that do not depend on a particular tradition. This dissertation argues that analyzing the way in which individuals balance the competing claims of thick and thin values offers the key to understanding public opinion towards immigration in the European Union. I explain the conceptual link between thick values and right-leaning politics and between thin values and left-leaning politics, while differentiating this sense of left and right from alternative usages (particularly economic). I show empirically that in the majority of the EU, thick values cause opposition to immigration (and thin values openness to it). I demonstrate that thick values generally lead to support for the politics of the right, and thin values generally lead to support of the left, but that both the magnitude of the effect of these values and the type of relationship they have with economic ideology varies considerably country-to-country, which has important consequences in terms of party preferences. I provide evidence that thin values lead to increased support for the European Union and higher levels of support for fiscal union and foreign policy coordination. By contextualizing the findings in terms of ongoing European integration and the current economic crisis, the dissertation shows that attention to thick and thin values provides a robust framework for analyzing public opinion in the age of globalization. Previous Education: BA Swarthmore College (Honors Political Science Major, History Minor). MS Statistics University of Texas at Austin. Status: PhD expected Spring 2014. Awards: Center for European Studies Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (2011-2012), University Continuing Fellowship (2012-2013). Publications: Comparative Sociology, Politics & Gender, Oxford University Press (chapter). Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics, European Politics, Immigration Politics, Quantitative Methods (Least Squares, Maximum Likelihood, and Bayesian Monte Carlo estimation of regression and / or measurement models), Normative Political Theory (particularly modern and contemporary). Email: email@example.com.
Christian Sorace. Comparative Politics / Chinese Politics / Political Theory. Thesis: Beyond Repair: State-Society Relations in the Aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake. My research poses the question: how could the Chinese state accomplish the "miracle" of reconstructing Sichuan after the devastating 2008 earthquake in under three years, while failing to win the approval and support from the majority of local disaster residents, in fact, often producing the opposite effect of eroding people's trust in the state? To explain this apparent paradox, each case chapter examines how various disaster areas within Sichuan were used as experimental laboratories for different models of political economic development. These models were adopted on the basis of factors such as, geographical location, natural resources, degree of post-earthquake damage, pre-earthquake socio-economic levels, intensity of national-level and international attention, as well as local political and social hierarchies. Despite the "good intentions" of the central government, in each of my cases, detailed ethnography presents a different picture of a disaffected and economically precarious local population. My dissertation explains this gap between the state and society based on a collection of ethnographic counter-narratives, interpretive analysis of official state discourse, historical understanding of Chinese Communist Party dynamics, and theorization of how legitimacy is negotiated in a Leninist political order under conditions of "late capitalism." Education: BA Trinity College (Hartford, CT) Honors Major in Philosophy, Film Studies Minor; MA in the Social Sciences University of Chicago, emphasis on Political Science, PhD University of Texas at Austin expected 2014. Awards: University of Texas Graduate School Continuing Fellowship (2013-2014), Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellow (2012-2013), Ministry of Education Republic of Taiwan Mandarin Enrichment Scholarship (2010-2011), University of Texas Ward Fellowship (2010/2011), Joe R. Long Fellowship (2009). Publications: The China Quarterly, Critical Inquiry, New Political Science, Telos Journal, Article manuscript under review at New Left Review. Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, US-China Relations; Marxism and Post-Marxism. Email: email@example.com, Website: http://www.christiansorace.com/.
Allison White. Comparative Politics / International Relations. Thesis: Explaining Opposition Party Support in Russia: The Role of Electoral Geography and Parties of Power (Moser, Lin, Elkins, Madrid, Trubowitz). My dissertation explores the determinants of dominant party strength and opposition party weakness by focusing on the conditions that either foster electoral support for opposition parties or drive opposition party failure in the proportional-representation tier of Russian parliamentary elections across varying levels of political competitiveness and party systems types. While existing research on party system dynamics in dominant party regimes examines how greater electoral competition, manifest through opposition party success, can pose genuine challenges to the dominant party, my dissertation focuses on the opposite and notably unstudied trajectory: a relatively competitive system evolving toward a hegemonic party regime. In a series of multilevel models, I leverage an original and unique dataset that combines county and region-level data to shed light on how social and economic conditions influence voting patterns for various opposition parties. My dataset includes county-level election results from five parliamentary elections—1995, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011—and sociodemographic data as well as data on regional contextual characteristics such as gross regional product and resource dependence. My multi-method research also draws on in-depth interviews with Russian political party leaders, activists and observers that I conducted during fieldwork during the 2011 Russian parliamentary elections, uncovering nuanced party-system dynamics and subtle political context. Education: Ph.D. Candidate (The University of Texas at Austin, expected Spring 2014); MA, Social Sciences, emphasis on Political Science, (The University of Chicago, 2007); BA, Politics with Honors (Occidental College, 2005). Awards: American Association of University Women, American Fellowship (2013-2014), Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship (2013-2014), Malcolm MacDonald Dissertation Fellowship (2011), U.S. Department of State Title VIII Program for Research and Training in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Fellowship (2011), U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (2009-2010 and Summer 2009). Publications: Co-authored article manuscript under review at Comparative Political Studies. Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Parties and Elections, Comparative Democratization, Varieties of Authoritarianism, the Politics of Russia and Former Communist Countries, Introduction to International Relations, American Foreign Policy, International Conflict, and Introduction to American Government. Email: email@example.com, Web profile: http://links.utexas.edu/bliydgm.


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Hunter Education Coordinator John Pellegrini says that starting in mid-August, the department will host a series of seminars to help inexperienced hunters with the tools he or she needs to be successful.
There will be courses on archery, waterfowl, turkey and deer hunting as well as processing, storing and cooking game.
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Thanks again to Ed for filming this clip of us performing a new song called Sharpy at Power Lunches in December:
Thanks again to Ed for filming this clip of us performing a new song called Sharpy at Power Lunches in December:
Here is the latest in our annual series of sonic rituals to celebrate midwinter. This year's track was taken from the recording sessions for our forthcoming second album, but is exclusive to this release:
15 minutes of holy-doom-funk. Huge thanks for all your support for our noises this year. Have yourself a splendid time over the holidays and we'll see you in 2014!
Our final show of 2013 will be at Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston on Friday 20th December. Our friends Little Death Machine will also be performing for your pleasure, as will Dressmaker.
The noises begin at 7pm and continue until 2am courtesy of Stay Ugly & Munki DJs.
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Our new single, Bone Star, is out now. Two new songs, Bone Star and Grip (Vertigo #1) can be downloaded from http://theinfinitethree.bandcamp.com/album/bone-star
Bone Star itself will be available on iTunes from Monday, but Grip (Vertigo #1) is exclusive to our website and is unavailable elsewhere. We've also included high-res artwork and a printable pdf booklet.
This is the first fruit of our intense recording sessions from the Summer, and we're very pleased with the outcome! There is more to come, and of course the full length album is still due to be released early next year.
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We're in the middle of mixing the new album, which should be ready for your beautiful ears early in the new year. Here is a short video composed of our collective fragmented memory of the recording sessions which took place over the Summer.
You may be interested to know that we'll be performing some songs from our new album, along with various pieces of improvised, chaotic, repetitive noise at the following places and times:
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It would be splendid to see you at either or both of these gigs. Print out the flyer on the left and selotape it to your face. Your beautiful face.
Last Tuesday we convened at a studio space in North East London, set up some microphones, lit a candle for the ancestors and pummelled our way through several new songs. Repeating them endlessly until we no longer knew who we were or why we were there. The intense heat and humidity on Tuesday only added to the surreal sensation of collectively grappling with some immense mentally retarded beast.
Now we have the task of sifting through the mess we made to select our favourite takes of each song. More recording next week, with some preliminary mixing in the meantime. The album itself is still nameless, but some of the new song titles include Mother Iron, The Tongue, Bone Star, False Locusts… More news very soon.
The new music we've been working on is taking on a very different shape to the previous album and we're trembling, dribbling and twitching at the thought of showing it to you in all it's universal ugliness/beauty.
Those of you who have seen us play recently will have heard a few of the new songs already… I'll refrain from describing how excited I am about them and instead tell you that at a recent live show, Sam overheard a man in the audience mumble despairingly "when will this ever end?"
I seem to remember the man in question looked as if he had been crying, or like he'd been having emotionally exhausting sex with someone he cares about deeply, yet whose name he cannot remember.
We're pleased to say that some of our music can be streamed on Earbits Free Online Radio. Take a listen to Protein Song here. For more info on Earbits, visit them here.
Preparing, making and sending out the limited edition EPs. Fingers covered in silver ink… It's actually a very psychically rewarding process! ..You can get hold of a copy of the CD here: theinfinitethree.bandcamp.com/album/medium-term-strategy-special-edition …or you can download it for whatever you feel like paying. The proceeds from the limited edition will be put towards the cost of our next album which we're hoping to have ready for you by the end of Summer. Love and rage.


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Deny the motion.
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When IT people think about application performance monitoring, they're usually thinking about which metrics they should monitor. Some examples of resource metrics may include CPU utilization, disk queue length, and thread pool size. Examples of performance metrics may be application response time, responses per interval of time, and concurrent invocations of an application.
"Modeling" is probably not the first term that comes to mind when considering application performance monitoring. But, in fact, "modeling" is exactly what a "domain expert" does when he decides how application components are related with one another, and which metrics matter in gauging application performance.
The problem for IT organizations is to extract this type of "institutional knowledge" from a handful of experts to make it accessible and relevant to more people in IT Operations and Application Support. So whether you are talking about a complex approach like using UML diagrams, or something easier to grasp like calculating workload for your monitored elements, a model is simply an abstraction of best practices to make it easier to understand application performance.
Gartner underscores the importance of modeling in its analysis of the APM market. Its Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring discusses five functional dimensions, one of them being "runtime application architecture discovery, modeling, and display." This is the discovery of the hardware and software components of an application and the communication paths connecting these components together. Put even more simply, one of the key criteria for a good APM solution is to discover and create an accurate model.
Let's go through a brief example of why application modeling is so important for performance monitoring, and why Netuitive put so much effort on this in our recent Netuitive 6.0 release.
A typical Java application runs on an application server such as Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, or WebLogic. Because the application is distinct from the application server and JVM, it makes sense to model these as separate components.
The application has performance metrics such as response time and responses per time interval. The application server has JVM resource metrics such as CPU utilization and thread pool size.
Traditional "monolithic" models of performance combine metrics for an application and its application server into a single entity. But this monolithic approach makes it more difficult to model a scenario where multiple applications run on the same application server.
The monolithic approach is also not as intuitive if you want to quickly see if there is a problem with an application. It is straightforward to mark an application as "red" if its response time is increasing and to mark an application server as "red" if CPU utilization is high. But if resource and performance metrics are combined together, do you mark an application as red if CPU utilization is high? It isn't clear. High CPU utilization may not necessarily affect application performance, but you still want to know about it from a resource utilization perspective.
But a "monolithic" model is no longer appropriate for today's distributed enterprise applications. A modern Java application runs on multiple application servers in a clustered architecture. The cluster provides increased scalability and redundancy as more cluster nodes are added.
The most typical way to model an application cluster is as a cluster entity that contains multiple application servers.
This model focuses primarily on infrastructure, where one can determine if resources are evenly distributed among cluster nodes.
You can also adopt a more "application-centric" model by creating a cluster that contains only the applications.
This model provides more visibility into total application throughput and average response time. It focuses mainly on application performance throughout the entire cluster.
The bottom line is that a good model is essential for understanding and evaluating application performance. Today's distributed enterprise-class Java applications is more complex than ever, and depending on the "institutional knowledge" of a handful of application support experts is risky. Predictive IT analytics have now advanced to the point of eliminating this risk by condensing modeling best practices into templates that define which metrics matter, and by distilling the analysis of these metrics into composite health and workload indices.
To learn more about how this all works, check out our white paper on monitoring distributed Java applications.
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
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The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Focused on this fast-growing market's needs, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of IC solutions to advance "Ethernet Everywhere" in Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, introduced its IStaX™ software (VSC6815SDK), a robust protocol stack to simplify deployment and management of Industrial-IoT network applications such as Industrial Ethernet switching, surveillance, video distribution, LCD signage, intelligent sensors, and metering equipment. Leveraging technologies proven in the Carrier and Enterprise markets, IStaX is designed to work ac...
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"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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C-Labs LLC, a leading provider of remote and mobile access for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of John Traynor to the position of chief operating officer. Previously a strategic advisor to the firm, Mr. Traynor will now oversee sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Mr. Traynor is based out of the C-Labs office in Redmond, Washington. He reports to Chris Muench, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Traynor brings valuable business leadership and technology industry expertise to C-Labs. With over 30 years' experience in the high-tech sector, John Traynor has held numerous...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
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The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
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