text: | WHAT A WEEK!April 6, 2012 - Michael PalmerI had a very exciting, fun, interesting, long and exhausting week. It all began last Friday with covering a softball game at Harrison then over to the baseball field for a picture. I was fortunate enough to get a couple good photos to start off the spring season on the right foot. Saturday track got underway for me with the Doan Ford track meet at Union Local. The meet was dedicated and renamed for Gloria Dawes, the 22-year-old Class of 2007 Union Local High School graduate, who was about to begin her senior year at Ohio University, and tragically had her life cut short this past Labor Day weekend when she was killed in an automobile accident on Interstate 77 near Cambridge. The meet has been named the Doan Ford McDonald's Gloria M. Dawes Memorial Track and Field Invitational. I had a hard time at the ceremony, being acquainted with her and her family and having a daughter of the same age, it was very emotional. The track meet itself of course was very cold - as usual. It is a long day but talking with parents, coaches and athletes helps pass the time. Palm Sunday was fun, we had an egg hunt for the nieces and grand kids at my Dad's house. Monday it was back to baseball and softball season and I was very happy to be back on the diamond shooting photos. I did get shut out Monday for any 'decent' action shots but Tuesday I shot Shadyside softball, cover and shot Shadyside baseball and then had the opportunity to shoot under the lights at Bridgeport. It was a good night, good games with just enough action that I was able to get an action shot at each field. Wednesday it was very interesting to talk with the county officials about child abuse and how it is on the rise state wide. The most shocking statistic is the severity of the abuse and neglect cases. It is unfortunate that our society continues to decline n this category where parents are targeting their own children. I went from there back to UL for the Autism Awareness Month balloon launch. The kids really enjoy this event and it is always a beautiful photo. Thursday was uneventful at work but when I got home, there was a fuse blown. Well actually it was a breaker kicked on a new circuit but when I re-energized it a junction box was shorting out and that rewire was added to my weekend list of Honey-Do's. Friday I found out that my cell pone that my daughter's boyfriend has on my account was destroyed by this nice young man. When the couple broke up in February after he came home from drinking with his "friends" and got violent and punched a wall and slapped his own mother, (can we say justified?) he still had the phone. I agreed to let him keep the line with the provision he paid for it every month. Obviously he still had some funds to go out drinking at the bar, but could not divert any money to pay for the phone. Where do these people get off thinking that the world owes them a living? I let him know that he had until the next billing period, 3 weeks away, to get the bill paid or the phone went off. I offered him the deal that if he turned the used phone back over to me I would erase the $300 plus dollars he owed me and we would call it even. More than fair, right? Not for this spoiled brat. When my daughter asked him for the phone back, he lied and said it had been confiscated by Verizon when he tried to change the line. This was a lie. I checked with every Verizon store in 100 miles and none had the phone. He finally confessed to destroying it in a fit of rage. So I call the insurance company that covers the phone and they say my deductible is $149. Shall we say WORTHLESS! A new iPhone 4S is only $199. Can I get another WORTHLESS for the boyfriend? Why? The contract is 2 years, with an early penalty for the line. So I get shanked for $500 by the lad. Took him in when he and the daughter were short on rent. Charged him nothing, admittedly he did give us like $20 on three different occasions, but virtually rent free with no charge for eating or anything else. Treated him like family and then … the knife in the back! THANK YOU! He has relocated to California, therefore I may have to stop by the sporting goods store on the way home and buy another punching bag. So now I must rewind the week and focus on the positives. I will thank God that my daughter is alive. I will thank God for the opportunity to spend Easter with my family and grandchildren. On that note, we are getting creative. We decided to have a night hunt with glow in the dark eggs powered by little glow bracelets. HAPPY EASTER! If you need to, stop over and have a chocolate egg with me while we punch the stuffing out of a punching bag! Article CommentsNo comments posted for this article. Post a Comment | |


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One of the biggest mistakes a politician or political party can make is thinking that by pleasing their enemies they will turn them into friends. It simply doesn't work.
Enemies are enemies and quite often by trying to cozy up to people who hate you and will never vote for you, the end result is you will alienate your core supporters.
Which brings me to the Conservative government's decision to follow through on their promised light bulb ban.
The one that nobody asked for.
As of Jan. 1, the 75- and 100-watt incandescent light bulbs are no more. What is left on store shelves is all that there is.
As of next Jan. 1, the same will happen to the 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs. Consumers will be left with the much more expensive halogen, LED or the most common replacement - the toxic compact fluorescent bulbs.
The promise to ban the bulbs was made in 2007 with the claim the government was moving to address climate change. The Conservatives had hoped to soften their image by pleasing green groups that were attacking them relentlessly.
It didn't work.
The green groups continue to attack the government relentlessly and will do so even if every single one of their demands is met. They simply want Harper out.
So politically, the Conservatives get no benefit from making this move.
The green activists who would normally applaud any move on climate change deride the light bulb ban as not doing anything for the environment.
And base Conservative voters are annoyed at the government telling them how to light their homes.
Pierre Trudeau famously said the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation, but Stephen Harper's Conservatives have decided to set the mood lighting in our boudoirs.
Not all Conservatives, though.
More than one MP has told me this is an issue that has driven plenty of phone calls and e-mails to their offices from Canadians upset at the light bulb ban.
Now, one Conservative backbencher is stepping up to do something about it.
Cheryl Gallant, the longtime MP for Renfrew-Nippising- Pembroke, has launched a campaign and petition drive to convince her own government to turn things around.
Contact politicians In mid-December, after hearing from yet another upset constituent, Gallant launched stopthelightbulbban.ca. The website aims to use social media to let more Canadians know about the ban and allows them to contact the politicians in charge of the file - Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq and Health Minister Rona Ambrose.
Hopefully these ministers will listen to Canadians across the country who reject the idea that a totally safe product, such as the incandescent light bulb, should be regulated out of existence for no good reason.
Not only are the replacements extremely costly, the most common replacement, the CFL bulbs, contain mercury and have elaborate requirements for clean-up and disposal.
The bulbs cannot be thrown in the trash and if one happens to break, you need to evacuate the room, let it air for 15 minutes and then clean it up without using a vacuum or broom, both of which will spread mercury through your house.
The Conservatives have gained nothing from the ban, but as they look to the 2015 election they could gain plenty by admitting they made a mistake and reversing course. That move would put them offside the green activist, but put them squarely on the side of average, hardworking, middle-class Canadians.


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How'd you like to have THIS thing walking around on you??? It's the world's longest insect! A friend of mine posted it on her blog, and I couldn't resist showing you all!
Just think of all the aphids that thing could eat! ;-)
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ew ew ew EW EW EWWWWW!!! GET IT OFF ME!!! YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY!!! Just looking at that pic freaks me out. Dude--it's on your FACE! |
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Well, that is just way too cool! I've always been a fan of bugs. I used to cringe with excitement at the images my mind created when my dad would tell Vietnam stories. The jungle bugs were so big that when a stick bug landed on his shoulder, he jumped way up. They weren't allowed to scream or they'd be found and in more danger, but he wanted to. One guy in his group woke up to a beetle drilling into his arm. He didn't scream but he jumped and flicked that guy off his arm. We always went back packing at the base of the Sierra Nevadas. One time, going up the trail, I saw the biggest beetle I'd ever seen, about two inches long and fat. I remembered the drilling-beetle story and instead of stopping to investigate I leapt over it like it was a coiled snake with rabies or something! I may have looked back at it while moving away at break-neck speed because I still see it quite clearly in my mind. I'd love to hold a stick bug. But, heck no, I would not want that thing on my face. Off, I say, get off! :) |
I've seen some in the same genus in Africa, when we lived next door, literally, to a forest/bird preserve. A foot long, easily, and they're just like a bundle of twigs. They'd fly/blow into our yard. You'd never notice them at all unless they're crawling up a white painted wall or something. |
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You must take time to explore a few resorts you have never been to, you could spend a whole day doing this.
I made this thread to the people who just go to disney and go on the rides and do not not know about the many other brillant things you can do.
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You must....Spend half a day in Disney Quest
You must take time to explore a few resorts you have never been to, you could spend a whole day doing this.
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2008 - Pop Century
2010 - Port Orleans Riverside
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Stop in the middle of Main Street and just take in the magic...don't always rush from one ride to the next
I love meeting the characters. Also, I love strolling around the World Showcase and seeing all the entertainment there. Some of the shows are really good (like British Invasion, Off Kilter, and Holy Grail, to name a few).
Many as a kid (1986-1998)Aug 1998- Port OrleansMarch 2003- Jr Band Trip (offsite)Aug 2003- Port OrleansJan 12-Aug 5, 2005- CP (CS)Jan 1-5, 2006- AS Sports (solo)May 24, 2006-Jan 5, 2007- CP (CS)Jan 31-Feb 3, 2007- offsite (solo)March 1-3, 2007- Dad+ Me (offsite)May 16-Aug 10, 2007- CP (CS) Aug 10-12, 2007- GF/P&PMay 21- Aug 15, 2008- CP (PC)Aug 15-18, 2008- AKL!!Mar 25-29, 2009 (offsite)Aug 10, 2009-Jan 2, 2010- CP (CS)Jan 3-May 14, 2010- CP (CS)Feb 12-16, 2012: DCL DreamOct 20-27, 2012: DCL Fantasy (Eastern)Sept 8-12, 2013: DCL Dream Jan 20-24, 2014: DCL Magic
CP #1: 1/12/05-8/5/05: MK merchandise and parades
CP #2: 5/24/06 to 1/5/07: character attendant!!
CP #3: 5/16/07-8/10/07: Epcot WS Custodial/seasonal CA
CP #4: 5/21/08-7/5/08: Casey's (QSFB); 7/6/08-8/15/08: character attendant
CP #5: 8/10/09-1/2/10: Toy Story Mania attractions
CP #6: 1/3/10-5/14/10: Great Movie Ride attractions
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"Rat, schmat, besides...they're tourists...what do they know?"
Take a back stage tour
See the Wilderness Lodge. I think it's Dinsey's best hotel.
See Finding Nemo the Musical. You'll regret it if you don't.
Listen to the Voices of Liberty
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"Rat, schmat, besides...they're tourists...what do they know?"
Take the time to enjoy the live entertainment at all of the parks.
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You must go to one of the miniature golf courses Disney World offers. My favorite is Winter/Summerland!!! It so fun to play in the snow (haha pretend to) in the middle of Florida!
Four Parks
One World
There is just one moon
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Fish House Imagines Waves and Billowing Gusts of Cool Sea Breezes
A tranquil and refreshing design for a gorgeous and carbon neutral seaside Singapore house suggests not just the undulating movement of swimming fish, but makes reference to other cooling notions. But it is not all just beauty and grace.
Under this elegant home by Guz Architects is an incredibly innovative and simple tech cooling concept that I don't think I've ever seen used before.
The green roof is an accessible roof deck open to the ocean breezes. Beneath it are the kitchen and the dining areas. The second billowing roof behind it shelters the master bedroom / bathroom beneath. This outdoor stairway from the master bedroom takes you up to the "green roof" hill roof. Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) as thin film solar power on the roof provides all the electricity for the entire house.
The undulating roof not only powers the house, but it celebrates everything about the ocean that the house dreams of (in stark contrast to the more prosaic buildings we see behind it on the mainland).
Cooled by through breezes, the simplest possible master bedroom is also the master bathroom. A single, large, open airy space. No air conditioning is used, for environmental friendliness. Instead, fans move air throughout, and…
… because the master bedroom/bathroom opens to a grass lawn in the back, the air is cooled before it wafts through the bedroom. But you knew about this kind of cooling technique, right?
What I'll bet you've never seen before is an astonishing use of cooling below ground. The Fish House uses this lovely swimming pool to cool the house.
An underground glass room juts out into the middle of the swimming pool, beneath this white deck.
A basement room under the water is entirely cooled by the swimming pool that surrounds it on three sides. To catch the news down here: a modest TV; because that doesn't waste electricity like a big flashy plasma TV.
This underwater retreat is not just for kicks though. The cooled space creates a "thermal sink" that radiates the swimming pool-cooled air up through the house.
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Photography by Patrick Bingham Hall
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Award-Winning Watercooled House for Singapore from Wallflower | talkinteriors.co.uk Says:
October 25th, 2010 at 4:21 pm[...] Wallflower Architecture + Design leading the way to the innovative and responsible use of water cooling to replace air conditioning in high end residential [...]
Lush Singapore Lawns Green the Meera House From Guz Architects | talkinteriors.co.uk Says:
March 14th, 2011 at 5:50 am[...] have covered the work of Singapore-based Guz Architects here before. (Fish House Imagines Waves and Billowing Gusts of Cool Sea Breezes)Their Fish House is an solar-and-green-roof beauty that overlooks and echoes the swells of ocean [...]
Cluny Casa de Arquitectos Guz – se llenará con la naturaleza « Arquitectura « Diseño Javi Cantero Says:
April 7th, 2011 at 4:55 pm[...] es otro tropicales hermosa casa en Singapur del Arquitectos Guz . Al igual que sus Fish House , Cluny Casa combina una moderna estructura de cristal limpio, con paneles solares que proporcionar [...]
Cluny House From Guz Architects – Filled With Nature | talkinteriors.co.uk Says:
April 8th, 2011 at 8:12 am[...] is yet another gorgeous tropical house in Singapore from Guz Architects. Like their Fish House, Cluny House combines a clean modern glass structure with solar panels providing it with green [...]
Gorgeous Tropical House from Guz | talkinteriors.co.uk Says:
December 21st, 2011 at 9:58 am[...] The pool below wraps around two sides and, unusually, is completely clad in clear glass to form a "box" of blue water that appears to counter the white box of the roof above it. But stairs set into it lead down to a deep pool, to utilize an interesting energy-saving idea that Guz first used in their wonderful Fish House. [...]
Another Sultry Tropical Museum Piece from Singapore's Guz Architects | Unique Design Ideas Says:
October 21st, 2012 at 12:15 am[...] of theirs we've covered include: Fish House Imagines Waves[2] and Cluny House From Guz Architects[3] and Lush Singapore Lawns Green the Meera [...]


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(My question is very similar to molly229's.)
We have a small pond - basically a small tub buried in the ground. It is about 4' in diameter, and about 30" deep. We are in zone 4a (SE Minnesota). I don't know the proper way to overwinter the plants we have. Here is what we have: Some type of water lily hardy to zone 4 - I've forgotten the name. Miniature cattails. Horsetail rush. Parrot feather Corkscrew rush Creeping Jenny Hornwort I would like to know the best way to keep these plants over the winter. I do have an outdoor-rated water tank heater. We have a garage, but it is unheated and gets down to about the same temp as the outdoor air in the winter. Our basement is finished, so it is room temperature in the winter, and because it is finished, we don't have a place to have tanks of water and/or mud. Thanks in advance. |
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All of the plants in your pond, with the exception of Parrot Feather, will overwinter in zone 5. You said your pond is 30" deep so make sure your water lily is as deep as you can get it. If it's in a very large pot, you could try cutting back the leaves and planting the tuber in an oilpan or dishpan to keep it deeper. Our temps here in Ontario Canada, get pretty cold and my lilies survive. All of the other plants, your hardy marginals, can be cut back and left where they are. Anyway for now, enjoy your pond as our summers are far too short but it's always nice to be prepared. You have planted excellent plants for your zone. |
- Posted by ohiopond4me (My Page) on Sun, Jul 27, 08 at 19:59
Ezaspie, I have corkscrew rush in a pot, on a ledge, should I cut it back and just put it to the bottom of the pond, when the time comes? |
Happt Birthday dln949! And you're killin'me with this question! I'm just starting to enjoy all my lush growth of summer, it's too soon to be thinking of winter! I'm near Morris, MN (west central). My pond is 5'x5'x28" deep. I trim my lilies back and sink leave them on the bottom. Most of the marginals can be left where they are, but I sink my potted ones just to be safe. Parrot feather is an annual here. I have goldfish/comets and I leave them in the pond. I cover 2/3's of the surface with foam board on strips of wood to cut the wind chill factor, throw in a 1000w tank heater and a small aquarium airstone and hope for the best. Two years ago I tried a 100w de-icer and we had a brutal winter and I lost my fish, but no plants. Be sure your pond is really clean before ice-up, no dead vegetation to rot. And stop feeding the fish when the water hits 50F. Feel free to ask if you have more questions! S |
- Posted by glad2garden 5b WMass (My Page) on Sun, Jul 27, 08 at 21:27
sheepco, I've had success with covering my rectangular pond with transparent corrugated acrylic panels. I've never had any ice form and all I use in the pond is a 100w thermo-pond heater. The clear panels allow solar gain and also prevent the cold winter wind from chilling the water. After a heavy snow I go out and broom the snow off the panels, so the sun can get in. |
Sheepco: Thanks for the birthday greeting. Do you think it is good to have a heater in the pond? The reason I ask is, I've been wondering if some of the plants - e.g., the minicattails, would actually expect and want to be in frozen water. Would keeping the water thawed harm them? (By the way, all my plants - except for the hornwort - are in pots.) Glad2Garden: Where would I find transparent corrugated acrylic panels (near the size I need, about 4' diameter)? Do you think a hardware store such as Lowe's or Home Depot would have that? |
Good idea glad2garden. I may try that. dln949, Those panels are used for sky lights in corrugated roofs so most of those kind of stores you mentioned should carry them. I have ice on the edges of my pond, the heater keeps it open in the middle, and keeps the water temp at 40F. My plants do ok so I don't know if they would prefer to be frozen. Most plants don't want their roots frozen solid, and I think in nature the snow, ice, and water insulate the mud or whatever they are growing in enough so the roots don't. S |
- Posted by catherinet z5 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 28, 08 at 8:02
dln, When I don't have enough room for all my plants (zone 5) in the bottom of one of my little ponds (use deicers with in winter), I bury them in the ground, and cover them with a bunch of leaves, and they do fine. |
- Posted by magdaloonie 6 - high desert (My Page) on Mon, Jul 28, 08 at 8:36
I did a similar thing as Glad2garden's with heavy plastic taped and stapled to a wood frame. The frame was home-made from scrap stuff and re-suable. Got down to 8 deg. with no ice on the water several nights. I ran a bubbler fountain underneath which may have also helped but no heater. I think keeping the wind off was as important and the solar gain. I wouldn't want a heavy snow on my plastic sheeting, though. We don't get much here. Seems the greenhouse acrylic would be better for snowier places. This year I have the lotus in a separate tub which I'll bury like Catherine does. Vanessa |
- Posted by glad2garden 5b (My Page) on Mon, Jul 28, 08 at 16:56
Here's a picture of the pond with the winter cover on it. This was before I learned to not even try to keep the water hyacinth growing past the first frost. They can't stand cold water. I bought the panels at Lowes. The cover has really helped me feel un-anxious about the cold, and I've never lost a fish over winter. |
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Does anyone else have a child who refuses to poop in the potty because it's "ucky"? About 1.5 months ago my 2 yo (26 months) decided to start using the potty on his own. That was great, but now he refuses to sit there and always tells me it's "ucky". The other day he pooped in his pull-ups and had a leak. He was gagging to the point that he almost threw up. Does anyone have any solutions? |
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- Posted by nadastimer (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 02 at 12:05
I think that usually that's the case with potty training kids. Everyone we know has talked about how difficult it was to get their child to sit on the potty and poop. The children just don't want to sit for that long or they just feel it is easier to go in their pants and have you change them. What was that I read awhile ago...that toddlers often get to a point where they don't understand why they have to change the system. It worked for how long to just go in their pants and have whoever change them and they don't understand why they can't do that anymore. I guess you could try finding those books about kids going to the potty or a movie and keep showing that to your son. Or you could always invite him in the bathroom while you're going or something and show him it's normal and that Mommy and Daddy do it? I know that may seem gross to some but figure they tell father's to show their son's that they stand up to pee to get them into doing it. But honestly it may just not be time for your son to start being fully potty trained. I've read a lot that they may be all excited about it for a few weeks and then regress back to not going at all for a while. Guess I'm VERY lucky, though. DS started pooping in the potty first and it's been about 4 months since I've had to clean a pull-up or diaper! Now if we could just get him to be much more consistant with peeing in the potty... ~Leslie~ |
If you are really meaning using a potty. I suggest that you get a seat that fits on the toilet. One of my earliest memories was having to poop in the potty. It was soooooo horrible to me that I would refuse to do anything. However, if I was allowed to use the toilet, where I couldn't see or smell it, I was OK. And yes, I remember gagging. And I did have "accidents" even though I was trained. Smells have always bothered me a great deal. Raising my babies was one long gag. And I refused to change my grandchilren if there was anyone else aroung. It was a family joke, that either you cleaned up yourself or you watched mama throw up. A child that age doesn't realize that sooner or later his bowels will move. He thinks that maybe it will never happen again if he just waits long enough. this is one smell that really bothers some people worse than others. |
I used these little cushiony seats that sit right on the big potty. I got one at Target. I also let DD pick it out so she'd feel some control over the situation. Books helped - I kept a selection in there for her. The flushable wipies also help make it a more palatable experience for all. During training, she was also more comfortable if the fan was on (she saw mommy use the fan and wanted to use it, also). The only problems we ran into was when we were out, 1) no cool insert for the seat and 2) no fan. We had #2 accidents off and on for about 6 months, and then boom, she was 100%. By the way, the old wives tail about leaving them in underwear and if they have an accident, they'll hate the feeling and start to use the potty? Didn't work with my kid. She just walked around with the mess there. Every kid is different, sigh. |
We had that problem with my son. We just went right back to diapers. Diapers are easier to change than it is to clean up messy pants and carpets and so on. We did the book thing and the video thing and the showing how it is done thing and the talking thing. After a few months we just tried underpants again and it worked. |
- Posted by AdellaBedella (My Page) on Thu, Jul 18, 02 at 10:07
Thanks everyone. DS is back to sitting on his potty again. He decided it on his own. He had a stomach virus Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I guess his pull-ups felt so bad that even he thought it was better sitting on the potty. We had a lot of accidents this week because of the virus, but DH and I got him on the potty when we could and rewarded him as usual. He is pretty proud of himself. I'll keep some of the other ideas in mind for later though. Thanks again, Adella. |
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AbstractIn European Portuguese, the common articulation of the lateral segment /l/ in implosive position has a secondary (vocalic) articulation on the velar region: malta - ma[?]ta. Other systems, namely Brazilian Portuguese, show vocalized productions: malta - ma[w]ta. These productions, that appear in many other linguistic varieties, may be interpreted as a step of a nucleation process, based on dyachronic changes as well as on phonetic and phonological data of many languages. The present paper presents the results of several phonetic analysis of standard European Portuguese informants. The data show strong relation between the implosive lateral segment and the precedent vowel, whose pure vocalic part reduces up to 33% of the sequence. These realizations do not only modify the articulation of /l/, but also the sonority of the segment, that increases as the segment adquires vocalic features. Based on the phonetic analysis, this work proposes that the velarization of /l/ is an intermediate step of a more general nucleation process, that corresponds to the increase in sonority of the segments at the right of the nucleus
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Jurikson Profar is one the top two prospects in baseball. Like the other top prospect, Dylan Bundy, Profar made a cameo appearance at the big league level in 2012. The Rangers used Profar sparingly, as they already have a terrific shortstop in place. Soon, Profar is sure to force the Rangers hand and insert himself into their lineup.
There just aren't that many teenaged, switch-hitting shortstops who make the big leagues at 19. Profar is on the fast track, a player Keith Law describes as one who improves even as the level of competition increases and shows no holes in his game.
The Rangers are on to something quite special – and they have the luxury of taking their time with this incredibly valuable asset. Profar ranked as Law's top prospect in baseball after his midseason update and sat atop Kevin Goldstein`s midseason list as well.
What if they did jump him to an everyday job in the big leagues in 2013? What if they traded him, perhaps in a fabled Giancarlo Stanton package? What kind of numbers would the 20-year old put up this year? Let's ask the projection systems what they think.
The toughest thing about creating realistic projections for Jurickson Profar is simply a lack of data. 1300 minor league plate appearances all below Triple-A and a minute 17 PA run at the big leagues means lots of guessing and regressing. Lots and lots of and lots of guessing.
In those minor league plate appearances, Profar has been nothing short of spectacular. A .395 wOBA in his first full season of pro ball in High-A at 18. A .364 wOBA in his first full season at double-A at 19. Double digit home runs and steals in both those seasons. Double digit walk rates as a minor leaguer. The future is bright indeed. ZiPS thinks his future is so bright, it could eclipse the production of Elvis Andrus already.
ZiPS – .263/.331/.414, .322 wOBA, .299 BABIP, 31 2B, 6 3B, 13 HR, 17 SB, 3.2 WAR.
Compare that to Andrus' projected line of .276/.346/.356 – a little bit more on base but nearly half the power. Which would you prefer?
As there is effectively no big league experience to draw on, this is all pie in the sky for Profar. Scouts and evaluators love his tools and the consensus is he realistically could step in and compete right now. Only five full-time shortstops bettered a .322 wOBA. It is nearly identical to the numbers put up by Erick Aybar, Starlin Castro, and Jimmy Rollins. All three of those players signed contracts over the last 12 months.
Starlin Castro signed a seven-year deal worth $60 million ahead of his first arbitration year this past August. Erick Aybar signed for four years and $35 mil in April, during his final year of arbitration. And Jimmy Rollins re-signed with the Phillies as a free agent last offseason, agreeing to a three-year deal worth $33 mil and an option for a fourth after his age 33 season.
In other words, Jurickson Profar would already be among the elite players at the most elite position, were he able to post the type of season ZiPS projects. As a reminder: Jurickson Profar turns 20 in one month.
CAIRO thinks Profar comparably to ZiPS in this case, expecting big things from the Rangers shortstop of the future.
CAIRO – .257/.326/.408, .324 wOBA, 29 2B, 5 3B, 11 HR, 13 SB.
Nearly the same numbers as ZiPS. So all the things said above plus a little bit more. All the things!
Don't think these projections are sunny enough? Think Profar should step in and be one of the best shortstops in baseball RIGHT NOW? Then have we got the projection system for you! Take it away, Bill.
Bill James – .264/.341/.425, .336 wOBA, .291 BABIP, 32 2B, 6 3B, 16 HR, 20 SB.
Yikes. That is, um, wow. And the fans think he'll be even better!
Let's not get carried away. Does anyone really believe Jurickson Profar will, in his first trip around the league, be a better player than Elvis Andrus in nearly every way? I do not. He'll be 20! Andrus was good during his age-20 season but not that good.
I have no idea what the Rangers should do with Jurickson Profar. If they think he can help their team more than Andrus, they need to move the current shortstop because teams will line up around the block for an established All Star shortstop with two years remaining on his current deal. Should Texas consider moving Profar to second base and dumping Ian Kinsler at first? I said no ten days ago and still believe it now.
Keep Profar a shortstop. Let him be play shorstop every day. Even these rosy projections lose some lustre when framed in a second base context. If Profar lights up Triple-A in such a way that Jon Daniels has no choice but to find him a spot – so be it. We should all be burdened with such conundrums.


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- Journal
Volume 26, Issue 1 , pp 59-71
- Cover Date
- 1995-01-01
- Print ISSN
- 0826-4805
- Online ISSN
- 1573-1790
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Additional Links
- Authors
- Joe Freedman (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Society for Advancing Educational Research, c/o 57 Allan Close, T4R 1A4, Red Deer, AB, Canada


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Island Records/UMe released the definitive career retrospective of one of the all-time greats of rock 'n' roll on June 8, 2010. Entitled Revolutions The Very Best Of Steve Winwood, it is a portrait of one of the most influential musicians in rock history, a singer-songwriter, peerless vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player.
With tracklistings personally selected by Steve Winwood from his five decade career, Revolutions The Very Best Of Steve Winwood is available in two high quality formats: a single CD for the casual fan and a four CD deluxe box set including a 52 page book for the connoisseur, with sleevenotes by writer Dylan Jones. Also included in the four CD deluxe box set and single disc is a re-recorded version of Spanish Dancer." |
The wind howls around the stone walls of the century's old country barn turned modern recording studio in a particularly idyllic patch of the rolling Cotswold hills in the English midlands. It's quite the place to make a life, which is exactly what Steve Winwood did, having owned the facility for decades. And as such, it was a terrific place to make Nine Lives, a wide-reaching and captivating album that further enhances one of the most distinctive and cherished legacies in pop music recorded in the picturesque, inspiring setting.
Nine Lives touches on and expands on all the many phases and turns of Winwood's lustrous career, bristling with his pure joy of music-making. The new songs range from the inspiring "Fly" to the burning "Dirty City" (featuring a guest appearance by long-time friend Eric Clapton, hot on the heels of their acclaimed Madison Square Garden concerts together) to the simmering Hungry Man. And they join a canon spanning more than forty years and including some of the most beloved songs of modern pop and rock: With his signature work with the Spencer Davis Group ("Gimme Some Lovin' ") to Traffic ("Dear Mr. Fantasy," "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"), Blind Faith ("Can't Find My Way Home") and thirty years of solo ventures ("Higher Love," "Roll With It"), Winwood continues creating an era-bridging soundtrack of distinctive artistry.
Nine Lives brings to the fore the many facets of Winwood's vision, his pioneering explorations of rock, R&B, African, Latin American and jazz styles, blended into concoctions as unique and recognizable as the musicians" great gifts on guitar and keyboards (particularly the Hammond B3 organ, with him providing all the album's bass parts via the organs pedals) and, of course, a voice instantly recognizable for its power and emotion. Created through a vital new writing partnership with lyricist Peter Godwin and on some songs guitarist Jose Neto and benefiting from the sparkling playing of his road-tested band, the album furthers the vibrant feeling of his last album, 2003s About Time, itself building on some of his greatest music of the past.
Don't, though, assume the title is a literal reference to the multiple stages of Winwoods career or approaches to music. Its actually more straightforward than that.
"Well," he laughs cheerfully, "Nine Lives is quite simply my ninth album, and there are nine songs on it. So it's really no more complicated than that. Each song has a life of its own. Its the opposite of a concept album - it's a book of short stories rather than a novel.
That said, he gleefully draws on all the musical lives he's led for this album, while looking for new ingredients and combinations.
"It's a bit like a celebrity chef adding unusual flavors that people don't usually expect," he says. "Its something I've always tried to do consciously, right from early Traffic days where we used elements of African music, English folk music, rock, jazz. I just try to balance it out, because to me theyre flavors that taken all together create the whole dish.
But it's very much a team process, from the writing to arranging, unfolding and growing between the group members in this fertile setting. Brazilian native Neto, who has played with Airto Moriera and Flora Purim, has been a key member of Winwoods band since the About Time sessions. Drummer Richard Bailey, born in Guyana, has a long list of credits including Jeff Beck and Bob Marley. Karl Vanden Bossche also returns to add a variety of global percussion. And London-based Paul Booth brings distinctive colors to the group with sax and flute. Road tested and finely attuned to each others vast skills and range, the ensemble was able to work in a way that Winwood says has been behind much of the most rewarding music hes made from the Traffic days on out.
"This is very much a working band," he says. "They don't just come in with a brief to play the song. A lot of the songs were created out of jams, and we were playing a lot of small shows last year, some clubs around England, and it was a great way to get to play and a lot of the songs came out of things we'd been playing together. The playing is a lot more integrated with the writing on this compared to About Time.'
The very first ingredient of Nine Lives reaches back to some of Winwoods first influences via an earthy country-blues guitar that kicks off the opening track, Im Not Drowning - at once vintage and fresh.
"It does hark back to my own beginnings with the Spencer Davis Group, where I was listening to a lot of blues - folk blues, country blues and urban blues, and this obviously was a big influence on me," he says.
But in keeping with his recipe, theres much more to this song. "I've gone on to try to combine elements of Latin and Brazilian music, which arent necessarily the best bedfellows. But I've endeavored to try to mix these elements. It was interesting, because Peter Godwin, who did the lyrics at first, said that he originally envisioned it as Robert Johnson in Chelsea in 2007 or something. But he only said that after Id done the music. So we both felt that was a good description of the song."
From there the album moves to "Raging Sea," a co-write with Godwin and Neto, with the latter's Brazilian roots even more coming to the fore, resulting from a jam in which the guitarist played a lilting 7/4 rhythm, ultimately given a tone that Winwood says someone described as hip-hop with a Brazilian vibe. The song both lyrically and musically portrays the kind of bridging that the musician hopes all his work represents.
"When it was all finished, we felt that the whole 'Set my sail to a star" image was what we wanted it to reflect - the vast distances that people easily go today, which may have been unheard of 50 or 60 years ago. I mean, we have several here in the band, people who have come from different directions, from east and west. We have something from Brazil which is put in the midlands of England and that affects this in a way that is completely contemporary to our day, but obviously didnt happen in the same way when I was a young musician. So we try to reflect that in the song."
The song "Fly" adds even more cross-cultural elements, its gorgeous melody and flow enhanced by a turn on Irish whistle played by Paul Booth, who also on this song and elsewhere on the album is heard on saxophone. "On Fly" we managed to bring Brazilian, African and Celtic elements together - and again it was played and recorded in the midlands of England. So that reflects on what everyone does and on the way everyone plays. Its a song that I think is central to the whole album."
And it also leads into a sizzling three-song sequence that gives Nine Lives its punch. "Dirty City" has a gritty, smoldering quality underscored by Clapton's solo, while "Hungry Man" draws inspiration from South African township sounds with its skittering guitar (played by guest Tim Canfield) and percussion and the organ-powered "Were All Looking brings a gospel feel alongside Afro-Cuban rhythms, with each again combining music and lyrics in portrayals of a seeking soul in the modern world.
The final three songs tie all the music streams together. "Secrets" offers a blend of frisky Caribbean rhythms and rock punctuations, soaring on interplay between Winwoods organ and Booth's flute, which also team on "Forget About Him," a heartfelt plea for humanity and compassion with Latin-R&B fire. And "Other Shore" is as key in its closing spot as "I'm Not Drowning" is as the opener, the two providing musical and thematic bookends to the set.
" 'Other Shore' is definitely part of the core of the album," he says. "It's the band all playing together. Jose and I wrote the music together and with the addition of Peter's ideas we created something greater than the sum of its parts. The song got an identity and a life of its own because of the writing collaboration and we instinctively all felt we got something that was very special. It seems to me very much that it sums up emotionally the album the meaning of the album both lyrically and musically."
Winwood was just a teenager when he rocketed into the international spotlight as the prodigious singer of the Spencer Davis Group (which also featured his brother Muff on bass). The blues and R&B-influenced rock of "Gimme Some Lovin'" and 'I'm a Man stood among the leading hits at the peak of the British Invasion, Winwood's singing drawing comparisons to that of his idol Ray Charles - despite his tender age. Looking for a wider artistic palette, in 1967 he headed to the countryside with friends Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason, forging the collective spirit into Traffic, producing some of the most inventive and durable works of the psychedelic-tinged late-60s.
In 1969 he and Clapton, having worked together briefly in the short-lived Powerhouse project, formed Blind Faith with Claptons Cream-mate, drummer Ginger Baker, and bass player Rick Grech, though the "supergroup" lasted just one acclaimed album and tour. Intending to mix English folk styles along with jazz and rock, Winwood started work on what was meant as his first solo album, but ultimately enlisted Capaldi and Wood in a reconvened Traffic for the landmark John Barleycorn Must Die album. An expanded Traffic lineup (including African percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah) went on to make two of the most arresting albums of the early '70s in The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and Shoot Out At the Fantasy Factory, expanding on the jazz and world music elements. A scaled-back line-up brought the Traffic era to a close with 1974's When the Eagle Flies. With 1977's Steve Winwood, a rich solo run launched, 1980's Arc of a Diver producing the hit "While You See a Chance" and then 1982's Talking Back to the Night, 1986's Back in the High Life and 1988s Roll With It giving era-defining songs in "Valerie," "Higher Love," "Back in the High Life" and "Roll With It."
Following 1990's Refugees of the Heart, Winwood and Capaldi reunited as Traffic for the 1994 Far From Home album and tour, the latter documented in the CD/DVD release The Last Great Traffic Jam. In 1997, Winwood teamed with producer Narada Michael Walden for Junction 7, and then About Time saw Winwood returning to the free-flowing spirit of some of his most enduring music. Along the way, Winwood has also collaborated with and accompanied musicians from around the globe, including Jimi Hendrix (Electric Ladyland), Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, James Brown, Muddy Waters, Toots & the Maytals, Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, salsa greats Tito Puente and the Fania All Stars, Japanese innovator Stomu Yamashta and African percussionist Remi Kabaka, just to name a handful of dozens.


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But Andy Taylor, the TV sheriff who left the keys to the jail cells within reach of the prisoners and didn't carry a gun, probably couldn't hack it in modern-day Cripple Creek. Stauffer is beginning to doubt his role in the whole business, too.
The chief's easygoing ways--he keeps his wife and two sons-in-law on the payroll and sometimes wears an International Harvester cap with his uniform--are increasingly difficult to reconcile with the old mining camp's newfound status as a gambling boomtown. The big-city district attorney down in Colorado Springs, complains Stauffer, is trying to get him fired, claiming that he and his officers show favoritism to locals when making arrests. And though townspeople may view Stauffer as a Nineties version of Sheriff Taylor, a series of public-relations gaffes have made him look more like bungling deputy Barney Fife.
When a married Cripple Creek police officer ran off with a female dispatcher (without first returning his badge and gun), Stauffer issued a warrant for the man's arrest. The warrant was canceled only after Stauffer received the gun in the mail. Stauffer also was forced to temporarily suspend his wife, a part-time officer, for revealing details of an ongoing investigation.
Similar scenarios have played out in Black Hawk and Central City, the other Colorado mountain towns where crime and gambling have come hand in hand. As the crush of casino crowds has forced law enforcement agencies to expand rapidly, police departments in the three communities have been plagued by questionable hiring practices, political infighting and personnel problems that at times have bordered on the bizarre.
In Central City, the former chief was forced to resign after his own officers squealed on him for taking a bicycle from a Christmas toy drive. Before he left, Elmo Gatlin hired an officer with his own troubled history: former Denver cop David Hayhurst, who made headlines five years ago when he abandoned his patrol cruiser while on duty and fled over the mountains to Utah to begin a new life.
Black Hawk, the smallest and now richest of the three mountain towns, is coping with big-league problems of its own. A special prosecutor was recently assigned to look into accusations that police chief Jerry Yocom buried a police report accusing an alderman's son of a crime. A report on the investigation is expected within the next few weeks.
And it's not the first time Yocom has faced scrutiny: In 1988 he was fired by the Littleton Police Department after being accused of rape. Although Yocom was never charged with a crime, Black Hawk officials apparently hired him without first checking with Littleton police. Two of the aldermen who confirmed Yocom's appointment say they were unaware of the allegations against him until recently.
Today, town councils in the three communities are working hard to ensure that their officers are qualified, capable and get the help they need. The police departments are devoting more time to training, and they are upgrading their equipment and facilities. But critics still depict those agencies as poorly trained and inadequately equipped to handle investigations--a recipe that could ultimately jeopardize criminal prosecutions. Meanwhile, Stauffer is feuding with El Paso County District Attorney John Suthers and Black Hawk police are squabbling with Gilpin County deputies.
Says Brian Terrett of the Jefferson-Gilpin District Attorney's office, "Policing above 10,000 feet is a whole other ball game."
As recently as four years ago, Cripple Creek, Central City and Black Hawk were dying. The three mining towns were highly dependent on the tourists--and cash--that flowed in from Memorial Day until the first early snows. Property taxes were high and good jobs were practically nonexistent. Roads and reservoirs were crumbling, as were the historic buildings lining the main streets. In desperation, the residents turned north to Deadwood, South Dakota, which boomed after approving limited-stakes gambling.
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In the eleven months between the approval of gaming and its inauguration, the three towns geared up for the onslaught of visitors and the problems expected to follow. For Cripple Creek and Central City, that meant beefing up the police departments. For Black Hawk, it meant establishing a police department.
Black Hawk, which has only 125 registered voters in its two-and-a-half-square-mile boundary, had been without its own law enforcement agency for about five years. Town residents managed for a while with a part-time marshal before deciding it made more sense to contract with the Gilpin County Sheriff's Department for police services.


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Abstract: | In this thesis we generalize the Hansen and Seo test in the R package tsDyn, which tests a linear cointegration model against a two-regime threshold cointegration model, to the case of three regimes in the alternative hypothesis. As the Lagrange Multiplier test statistic used in the Hansen and Seo test in tsDyn is different from the LM statistic described in Hansen and Seo (2002), we generalize both these LM statistics, and show that they are equal under certain conditions. The grid search algorithm, which is necessary when maximizing this LM statistic, is also extended to the case of three regimes, and it is rewritten such that if the cointegration value is given, it really maximizes the LM statistic under the constraints specified by the user. In our empirical studies we have examined thoroughly the bivariate time series consisting of the monthly NIBOR rates of the maturities tomorrow next and 12 months. When modeling this bivariate time series, we find strong evidence for a two-regime TVECM being superior to a linear VECM, and in our out-of-sample forecasting the two-regime SETAR model gives much better prediction of the cointegration relation than an AR model. When testing a two-regime SETAR model for the cointegration relation against a three-regime model, the two-regime model cannot be rejected at any reasonable significance level. In addition, we show how influential a few outliers may be by removing them from the time series and rerunning some of the statistical tests. Also, we have tested all the 66 possible pairs of Norwegian interest rates for cointegration, and we have tested the term spread of each pair for threshold effects, i.e., testing a linear model against a two-regime model, as well as testing a two-regime model against a three-regime model. We find a lot of cointegrated pairs, and we find evidence for a two-regime model in approximately 50 % of the cases, and evidence for a three-regime model in some cases in this univariate time series analysis. At last, we simulate a bivariate time series with a three-regime threshold cointegration model as data generation process, and estimate a three-regime threshold cointegration model from this simulated time series. Thus, we illustrate that the thresholds which our version of the Hansen and Seo test detects as optimal, are close to the original thresholds used in the simulation. As expected, a linear model for this bivariate time series is strongly rejected, and there is strong evidence for a three-regime threshold model for the cointegration relation being superior to both a linear model and a two-regime threshold model. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4370 |
Abstract: | This work concentrates on using the ICM algorithm for image restoration. The algorithm has been applied to fMRI recordings and mole pictures |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2071 |
Abstract: | All points on the surface of the Earth are moving. To define the velocity of a given point, we can place a GPS receiver there and measure the coordinates every day. After collecting enough data, we can generate a time series of three coordinates, North, East and Height directions. The most used technique to determine such displacements, is the linear model. The main objective of this thesis is to show how to estimate the velocity of a given point, using statistical methods to improve the results. The improvement of the site velocity achieved by exluding all signals that are not tec- tonic origine (seasonal variations, spacially correlated noise reduction ). Time series for all directions contain gaps(missing data), outliers, offsets and various data length. The data discontinuities are detected and corrected by a simple algorithm, based on binary search to detect the time of abruption. The outliers are eliminated by using robust estimation techniques. Simulation is used to fill the gaps. The data obtained from permanent GPS-stations in Norway and some other European countries are unevenly sampled. We therefore use the Lomb-Scargle method to perform spectral analysis. This allows us to detect annual and interannual variations. The methods of Principal Components (also known as Empirical Orthogonal Functions, or EOF) and Factor Analysis are used to correct for common fluctuations. We use data from 8 permanent GPS-stations (SATREF) in these investigations. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1963 |
Abstract: | During the last decades, the incidence rate of cutaneous malignant melanoma, a type of skin cancer developing from melanocytic skin lesions, has risen to alarmingly high levels. As there is no effective treatment for advanced melanoma, recognizing the lesion at an early stage is crucial for successful treatment. A trained expert dermatologist has an accuracy of around 75 % when diagnosing melanoma, for a general physician the number is much lower. Dermoscopy (dermatoscopy, epiluminescence microscopy (ELM)) has a positive effect the accuracy rate, but only when used by trained personnel. The dermoscope is a device consisting of a magnifying glass and polarized light, making the upper layer of the skin translucent. The need for computer-aided diagnosis of skin lesions is obvious and urgent. With both digital compact cameras and pocket dermoscopes that meet the technical demands for precise capture of colors and patterns in the upper skin layers, the challenge is to develop fast, precise and robust algorithms for the diagnosis of skin lesions. Any unsupervised diagnosis of skin lesions would necessarily start with unsupervised segmentation of lesion and skin. This master's thesis proposes an algorithm for unsupervised skin-lesion segmentation and the necessary pre-processing. Starting with a digital dermoscopic image of a lesion surrounded by healthy skin, the pre-processing steps are noise filtering, illumination correction and removal of artifacts. A median filter is used for noise removal, because of its edge-preserving capabilities and computer efficiency. When the dermoscope is put in contact with the patient's skin, the angle between the skin and the magnifying glass impacts on the distribution of the light emitted from the diodes attached to the dermoscope. Scalar multiplication with an illumination correction matrix, individually adapted to each image, facilitates the analysis of the image, especially for skin lesions of light color. Artifacts such as scales printed on the glass of the dermoscope, hairs and felt-pen marks on the patient's skin are all obstacles for correct segmentation. This thesis proposes a new, robust and computer effective algorithm for hair removal, based on morphological operations of binary images. The segmentation algorithm is based on global thresholding and histogram analysis. Unlike most segmentation algorithms based on histogram analysis, the algorithm proposed in this thesis makes no assumptions on the characterization of the lesion mode. From the truecolor RGB image, the first principal component is used as grayscale image. The algorithm searches for the peak of the skin mode, and the skin mode's left bound. The pixel values belonging to the bins to the left of the bound, are regarded as samples from an underlying distribution and the expected value of this distribution is estimated. The value of the pixels in the bin located at equal distance from the expected value of the lesion mode, and the skin-mode peak is used as threshold value. After global thresholding, post-processing is applied to identify the lesion object. The only parameters in this algorithm are the number of bins in the histogram and the shape of the local minimum regarded as skin-mode bound. The dermoscopic images have been divided into two independent sets; training set and test set. The training set consists of 68 images, and the test set consists of 156 images. 80 of the images from the test set have been evaluated by expert dermatologists by visual inspection. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1707 |
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Breakfast Topic: Casting the WoW movie {WoW}
Jul 7th 2007 10:00AM Best murloc ever: Ben Stiller. He already has the pouchy lips, and if they staple his ears back under a skull cap he won't even need a lot of makeup.
The absolute worst class duo {WoW}
Jul 5th 2007 7:36PM @16
"16. Rouge and Mascara... by far the worst."
Breakfast topic: Legendary bad pulls {WoW}
Jul 5th 2007 9:45AM I feel for the player whose daughter pulled Razorgore. While it has yet to happen in an instance or raid, my habit of letting my 2 year old daughter sit on my lap and watch me play "monkeys" (Don't ask, she has this thing about monkeys, and apparently my Tauren warrior looks like one) has gotten me into quite a few tight spots. The Yeti cave in Hillsbrad was probably the best. She took advantage of my momentary distraction to hit the arrow keys and drop me off the ledge into the waiting arms of my new furry friends... guess what happened next... yep, corpse run time.
New gold seller tactic: Trying way too hard {WoW}
Jul 4th 2007 9:54AM "Gee, buying gold. I never thought of that before, but now I will visit your lovely web site. Thanks, Jmhmltcawf/random dead gnomes!"
Exclusive Interview: Wowhead and Affinity Media {WoW}
Jun 28th 2007 5:04PM What I find interesting is the amount of coverage this transaction is getting in the WoW community. Unfortunately, most of it is negative, but as the saying goes, there is no bad publicity.
What it boils down to is that the WowHead guys built a fantastic site on their own time, and managed to make a tidy profit from doing something they enjoyed. As long as the content stays at or above the level it is now, and the server speed stays consistent (in other words, WH doesn't turn into turtlebot), I don't really care what the ads say. Quite honestly, I never look at them anyway, and most of the people I've talked to ignore them as well.
As I've posted before, if I see talk of a design overhaul and the site loses the quality it has now, I'll be the first to jump ship. Until then, I'll keep using it when I need the extra info.
Wowhead sold for $1M? Update: Confirmed. {WoW}
Jun 23rd 2007 11:50AM Personally, I'll keep using wowhead right up until I see an announcement of "new website design coming soon". At that point, the mental giants in charge of thottbot and Al will probably screw up wowhead and make it take forever to load, as well.
Forum Post of the Day: Blizzard customer service smackdown {WoW}
Jun 19th 2007 9:18PM "I understand that making such a mistake can be distressing and I wish you the best with re-leveling it up to 375."
Quite possibly the best complaint/response thread I've ever read.
Caption This! [Updated] {WoW}
Jun 11th 2007 4:12PM Ok, Jimmy, here's your stick and blindfold. I told you we'd get you a pinata for your birthday.
Beware of supertwink {WoW}
Jun 9th 2007 8:15PM There is a certain range you have to be inside of in order to gain experience from a kill. There is also a certain range you have to be in range of in order to get faction points from a kill if the mob you are killing is one that gives those points. (Example: in Felwood, you can get reputation with Timbermaw Hold by killing Deadwood mobs.) However, these ranges don't match up. The reputation range is just a bit larger than the experience range, which means that you can stand just outside the range of xp and still get rep points.
Roving gangs that steal your stuff? {WoW}
Jun 3rd 2007 3:18PM Actually, the closest I've come in an MMORPG to the description the article gives is a game called "Shadowbane". In SB, your corpse can be looted by hostile players and anything in your bags will be taken. The long grinding hours are also accurate, as there are no quests to gain experience.
Just 2 of many reasons I no longer play Shadowbane.