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Abstract: Operationally-significant wind speed variability is often observed within synthetic aperture radar-derived wind speed (SDWS) images of the sea surface. This paper is meant as a first step towards automated distinguishing of meteorological phenomena responsible for such variability. In doing so, the research presented in this paper tests feature extraction and pixel aggregation techniques focused on mesoscale variability of SDWS. A sample of twenty eight SDWS images possessing varying degrees of near-surface wind speed variability were selected to serve as case studies. Gaussian high- and low-pass, local entropy, and local standard deviation filters performed well for the feature extraction portion of the research while principle component analysis of the filtered data performed well for the pixel aggregation. The findings suggest recommendations for future research.
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i think they should nerf frost mages and arcane.
I thought Ask the Devs was great. I really enjoyed the system. People complaining ruin everything for everyone.
Agreed. He was respectful, but he was also incisive — he confronted erroneous claims or weak logic, which can't be done through hygienic, prepared statements.
I was in the beta, and found questionable behavior confined to a few vocal players — some of whom were in the alpha, meaning Blizzard could not have been unaware of those individuals' attitudes. Random poor sports were easy enough to spot and report. Apart from the gadflies who still carry on like Martin Luther about their wayward class, we testers kept it above board. No, the factor diminishing the beta forums was the disappearance of Ghostcrawler. We don't know why Street stopped posting. I would assume he'd be the first to agree with the adage about heat and the kitchen: a galactically popular game with thousands of active, passionate players will generate incredible demands and every imaginable criticism. But his absence has opened a wide gulf between Blizzard and its player base; Blue posters come across not as advocates or representatives but messengers. The challenges brought by Cataclysm could have been effectively met through daily, personalized developer communication in the forums, so it's ironic that Blizzard — for whatever reason — chose to abandon it. |
It's unfortunate that this whole thing is being ended because of people whining about what was being answered.
I for one enjoyed at least seeing some developer feedback on issues, even if they weren't always the ones I was curious about. |
If Blizzard thinks it needs replacing their must be more wrong than the ungrateful whinners who complained. (They always come out with any atttempt to communicate.) i can disagree with something because i'm a petulant child, OR BECAUSE MAYBE IT'S WRONG PERHAPS? blood dk and bear masteries. bear innervate/utility. hell, the latter wouldn't have been such a huge issue if they had said rebirth (and maybe sroar, situationally) and left it at that. the main problem with mentioning bear innervate is that it is completely and totally worthless, and anyone who doesn't realize that has no business working on class design. it was less about the statement itself, and more about what it implied. they obviously didn't listen to the players because right there in that huge block of bear questions they consolidated, they answered literally about half of them. you can't tell me they were listening when the thing they claimed they were listening to was right in front of them and they don't acknowledge it. they didn't pick good questions: the taunt missing was a good question? it was in its original form, about the pally aoe taunt missing. but someone butchered the translation. that happens sometimes. here's the thing, though: as soon as the person or people in charge of answering the questions saw that a question on a different-language forum was incredibly obvious and still got highly voted, they should have asked for a retranslation instead of shrugging their shoulders and including it. they should have, at the absolute very least, thrown it out on the basis of it being absolutely useless. Any chance we can find out what else the devs think isn't working right now? i'd actually like to see this, but i'm afraid of what might not be on it. |
Totally understandable, if they went with an explanation of why they felt it was working fine, I think people might be more open to the answers. Instead it was basically this line regurgitated:
If they said "Bear druids are meant to be more difficult", people might not like it but at least it shows their intention. If it came down to unbalance in a PVP setting, that would give credit to the idea to split abilities to have a PVE and PVP effect (they're starting down that path with warrior's Colossus Smash). But at least we'd have some understanding. Instead we got a bunch of rhetoric that things are panning out as Blizzard expected, but that doesn't jive with what players expect or want. I get that it's just a game, this isn't life-or-death, it doesn't even really matter in the real world. But people invest a LOT of time in their characters, building them up, learning the abilities, not to mention a $15/mo fee that can really add up over time. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask why the company that controls all this seems to be changing features to make things more difficult, tedious, and confusing. |
Most of this post is not directed at this poster, but I do want to address that one part. While the sentiments behind the overall post I generally agree with, we must keep in mind that this particular part was an unreasonable expectation from the start. GC's "job" per say is to make the game, and when not this game, the next one. Daily, personalized communication is just so far outside the realm of getting that done it is laughable, yet we as players tend to crave it, and even expect it. Now, could Blizzard add more people to the staff and make their roles more community interaction AND development? Some kind of 50-50 ratio with the concept that the sacrifie in time/dollars would ultimately make a better end product? Sure, but that isn't the model they have chosen, and I'm sure there are many who would say that the CBO isn't there to justify it. Another thing to note is that almost all the blue posters we see on this site are NOT WoW people. They are Blizzard people. If you pop up Starcraft2 forums for example and see a blue poster you'll find Bashiok, Neth, and all the familiar names there too. In other words, this isn't the only show in town for them. And while they want you to enjoy this product, it isn't their all encompassing focus and responsibility. As such, the amount of interaction a community of this size demands is untenable. If Blizzard has done a poor job of anything, it is in defining what an appropriate (in both amount and context) level of communication looks like for the WoW players so that expectations don't vary so dramatically. I can't help but conclude (based on how many variations we've had over the last 5 years or so) that the reason they haven't been able to tell us, is they never sat down and figured that out for themselves first. |
Why not once a week or every other weeks, pick some of the more interesting threads, make some comments on those threads and then let it go in a locked and stickyed post? Sort of like a Biweekly Forum Recap For example.... Peruse the different forums for interesting or "hot topics". Then the Blizzard poster would create a feeback post with format that was something like: Thread Number 1, Hyperlink to the Thread Blizzard Response to the thread or thoughts on the topic ---- Thread Number 2, Hyperlink to the Thread Blizzard Response to the thread or thoughts on the topic ---- etc.... Touch on the topics you want to discuss every couple of weeks in your own thread, that is locked. People can then go back to the original threads and discuss the Blizzard Response to that thread...without expecting a Blizzard response in the original thread. You guys could still comment on whatever tickles your fancy, but I think something structured every couple of weeks would give the community the impression that Good Topics matter, bad topics don't and we'd all feel like there was a little more interaction from Blizzard that isn't so random. I know as a Hunter, we've made several posts on Hunter PvP gameplay and we haven't heard anything. I think in part, there is too many topics for Blizzard to comment on. Thus they won't comment on any. Having a controlled way of reading Blizzard's thoughts on Forum Feedback will provide an avenue for Players to feel like they are being heard in Anaheim and across the globe. ps...I can never seem to quote the Blizzard posts correctly =(
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Totally understandable, if they went with an explanation of why they felt it was working fine, I think people might be more open to the answers. Instead it was basically this line regurgitated:We like the way _________ is/are preforming. Someday we will go back and improve on _________ but that will not happen for some time. For now, __________ is/are working above our expectations. I agree with you. But I think there is a disconnect between what the developers are considering an "honest answer" and "showing what they're thinking" versus what the players feel is an "honest answer" and "showing what they're thinking." If they're going to be successful with a new format of Q&A I think the level of communication we should expect needs to be more fully defined. |
I think it works overall. I just think the best questions aren't always the most popular ones. You could keep this sort of thing going, but let the devs select which questions they want to answer. Then instead of the most popular question (read: complaint), you're more likely to see answers to questions of a more theoretical or philosophical nature.
Even though my tanking question was highly rated, it apparently wasn't high enough, but I get the feeling there's a developer who would enjoy answering why tanks don't feel like they have any control over their own survival. |
We've spent a lot of time discussing why it doesn't work, and while that's interesting to us, the bottom line is that once we've finished the role Q&A's with healers, we will be ending the Ask the Dev series. Where do you plan on going from here, moving forward? (or improvements you guys think could happen). |
It's kinda of funny to see how many people miss GC. Am I the only one who remembers how off topic, sarcastic and unhappy he got? How many times he posted a one liner in a topic that should have been deleted and left it up so people would think he was cool? How about the times that a constructive post would turn into garbage because GC decided to respond to one of the few trolls in it while ignoring the parts that were actually relevant to the topic?
He may have been better than the Ask a Dev but, his format was shut down for a reason as well. We didn't get much clear or accurate communication back then either. We just had a name to lay all the blame on. Grass is greener. |
This thread is the perfect example of why the ATD threads did not work. People will be unhappy with any response they garner from the Developers unless they directly answer 'your' question exactly how 'you' want it to be answered. What people don't realize is that sometimes there aren't any nice and neat answers. Sometimes they wont fix your problems. Sometimes they don't think there is a problem. Sometimes they will let you down. Trust me, I am Enhancement Shaman, and I am used to dealing with such circumstances.
That said, Blizzard could solve a lot of these problems by having the developer that actually plays our classes more active in our class specific forums. Its hard to explain the intricate problems of x class y spec to someone who has not ever played x class and y spec to any degree, least of all in a high end raiding environment. People need someone they can relate too, someone who has a perspective on your class problems and can accurately relate those issues to the team as a whole. Right now the questions fall from the sky like pigeon crap, and we hope they land on the head of a Developer just to catch their attention. |
And honestly? The blog format isn't working. See, this is what I'm talking about. People don't just want to hear the devs, and they don't just need to know the devs are listening. People want discussion, a back-and-forth of ideas, in order to better the game as a whole. Even if the devs don't agree or implement every single idea, at least we'd know "Well, the devs noticed my idea and <blah blah blah> is why they didn't like it," instead of wondering if our feedback even got noticed. Also: as Hothgor said above, assigning specific people to one class at a time would be absolutely a GODSEND. If the players know for a fact "Hey, at least one of the higher-ups play my spec and can see what I'm talking about directly" then it's easier for us to talk shop to the devs without getting extremely irate. Like, for example - GC has claimed numerous times to play a Warrior. A Prot Warrior even. That doesn't exactly MEAN anything, but the Warrior community can know for a fact that if THEY experience a bug, it's likely that GC himself is also aware, since he actually plays the class. In my situation, if there was some kind of Shaman community representative who plays Shaman at all, if not Enhancement, he would perfectly understand EXACTLY where we come from when we complain about our current AoE set up.
Edited by Matuk on 6/15/2011 4:53 PM PDT
The tanking answers were a joke. 3.9 patch question answered, smooth stuff. To reciprocate the latest lot of questions were even worse, got ganked by one group of players. Equilibrium I guess, everyone's doing an equally bad job with the Q and A. |
See, this is what I'm talking about. this right here that is all |
And honestly? The blog format isn't working. I have to agree with this. When GC still posted on the forums, he was very incorrect about certain shaman mechanics, for example when the original soulstone/brez/ankh changes were announced. It would really be reassuring ton know somebody on the team knows what's going on. |
Listen, This is the type of bridge selling that it not working and why I have lost faith in you Community reps for WoW and Lost faith in the developers who work upon WoW. Stop shoveling me this type of lying. Tell the Truth! The Q&A is to protect your rockstar Developers who can't handle bright sunlight and would rather stay hidden behind the protective shield of PR reps who filter what those developers get. I'll ask again why have I never seen J. Allan Brack speak out on the forums ever yet at the 3 Blizzcons I attended we've seen him sitting there with the title of Lead Producer, and answering questions. When he wasn't up there making jokes of those questions asked. *this is my frustrated response written with angry frustration* :( |
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Thread: Terry Goodkind's AMA
July 25th, 2012, 09:49 AM #1
Terry Goodkind's AMA
I've not read it all - but it should be interesting. The link is here.
I'm most interested in the self-publishing aspects:
THE FIRST CONFESSOR: The Legend of Magda Searus is now available in exclusive ebook format. It's a self-published full-length novel and we've stirred big waves with its release. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys may have, particularly related to the triumphs and controversies of self-publishing, including our interactions with book piracy, publishers, fans, expectations, industry conflicts, marketing, and the rest of it.
July 25th, 2012, 08:22 PM #2
Well, nuts (or bags as Goodkind would say), but all I read was some fans banging on about how awful Legend of the Seeker was.
July 25th, 2012, 10:00 PM #3
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Whoa. He praised the Game of Thrones HBO series.
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Any mention of the "jackals" who "shackle" our ... umm... intelligence community? Damn jackals.
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What everyone really wants is a full length novel about the Evil Chicken!
July 27th, 2012, 07:15 AM #6
"What inspired you to talk sh!t about a fellow author who happened to be DYING OF CANCER at the time?"
Nobody's asking the questions I want answered lol.
July 30th, 2012, 10:07 AM #7
July 30th, 2012, 10:24 AM #8
July 30th, 2012, 01:36 PM #9
When Robert Jordan was dying of his blood condition, Terry Goodkind made a rather bizarre point of mentioning in an interview that he'd just had a medical checkout and that his doctor had 'held his heart in his hands' and marvelled at how healthy it was (note: doctors won't touch your heart, which requires extensive surgery, unless they absolutely need to).
Robert Jordan, in what turned out to be his last-ever blog entry before his passing, was not amused.
July 30th, 2012, 01:45 PM #10
I recalled that story when I browsed the AMA the day after it completed and somebody did bring up the connections between SOT and WOT. Goodkind made an attempt to clear up the issue went so far as to offer an apology of sorts about the perception his comments could have made regarding Jordan.
I tried finding that back-and-forth again and either it is hidden or deleted.
Odd, because I remember specifically trying to find any comments people made about SOT copying WOT, and the like and was glad somebody did.
July 30th, 2012, 02:30 PM #11
August 5th, 2012, 10:26 PM #12
Yeah I fudged that up a bit, it wasn't cancer, sorry.
It read a bit of this AMA the other morning and Goodkind sounds surprisingly reasonable and even-keeled. Like he's gotten some good PR coaching or just grown and wisened up a little. In all fairness he certainly wasn't the obnoxious windbag I'm used to seeing. I didn't read the whole thing and I totally won't but that's the impression I got.
August 6th, 2012, 05:13 PM #13
Well I am one of those weirdos that actually liked about half of the SOT series. It could have been cut in about half and told the whole story in my opinion. So when I saw that he had put this one out I just had to buy it. I have read maybe half and it isn't too bad. I think it is going to be the case that he could have cut this in half and been an even better story, but so far it isn't too preachy. It is sort of a prequel to the SOT series and doesn't have any of the same characters in it. It is about exactly what the title says, how they made the first confessor. At least he isn't saying he isn't writing fantasy this time, and that the book isn't part of the SOT world.


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Lynsey de Paul | |
Lynsey de Paul in 1974 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Lynsey Monckton Rubin |
Born | Cricklewood, London, England | 11 June 1950
Genres | Pop |
Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actress |
Instruments | Vocals, piano |
Years active | 1971–present |
Website | lynseydepaul.com |
Lynsey de Paul | |
Lynsey de Paul in 1974 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Lynsey Monckton Rubin |
Born | Cricklewood, London, England | 11 June 1950
Genres | Pop |
Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actress |
Instruments | Vocals, piano |
Years active | 1971–present |
Website | lynseydepaul.com |
Lynsey de Paul (born 11 June 1950)[1] is an English singer-songwriter. Allmusic journalist Craig Harris stated that "one of the first successful female singer-songwriters in England, de Paul has had an illustrious career".[2]
Born Lynsey Monckton Rubin in Cricklewood, London to Meta and Herbert Rubin, a property developer. She grew up in a Jewish family in Cricklewood, North London,[3] and attended South Hampstead High School followed by Hornsey College of Art, now part of Middlesex University.
While attending Hornsey College of Art, and wanting to leave home,[4] she started to design album sleeves for artists which required her to listen to the tracks. From income earned from album sleeve design, she got her first flat, where she turned to songwriting.[citation needed] Three of her earliest songs were co-written with Don Gould and recorded by Jack Wild: "Takin' It Easy" and "Bring It On Back to Me" from the album Everything's Coming Up Roses, which was released by Wild in 1971.[5] Another song co-penned by her, this time with Edward Adamberry, called "E.O.I.O.", was recorded by Wild as a track on his 1972 album A Beautiful World, and also released as a single by The Beads.[6]
After these initial successes, de Paul was contracted to ATV-Kirshner music publishing, located above the Peter Robinson's store on Oxford Street, where she joined a group of professional songwriters that included Barry Blue and Ron Roker, resulting in revenues from songs recorded by other artists from 1971. Her breakthrough came early in 1972 as the co-writer (with Ron Roker) of The Fortunes' top 10 UK hit "Storm in a Teacup".[7] She was credited as 'L. Rubin' on the record. Around this time, she also had chart success in the Netherlands as the writer of "On the Ride", a Top 30 hit by the Continental Uptight Band.
A few months later de Paul gained notice as the performer of her own hit song "Sugar Me", which reached the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart,[8] as well as the top of the singles charts in the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium. "Sugar Me" was covered in the US by Nancy Sinatra and Claudine Longet, and more recent cover versions are still being released (see below). Noted[by whom?] for her keyboard skills, ability to write catchy songs and sultry looks, de Paul went on to be a regular chart and TV fixture over the next five years. Her follow up single to "Sugar Me" was "Getting a Drag" (UK No. 18).[8] After the failure of her third single "All Night", which was written with Roker, to reach the chart, de Paul returned to the UK Top 20 with "Won't Somebody Dance With Me",[8] and which was also a hit in Ireland and the Netherlands. The ballad earned her an Ivor Novello Award, making her the first woman to be thus awarded.[2] The BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Ed Stewart spoke the words "May I Have The Pleasure of This Dance" near the end of the record (he often played the record on his Junior Choice programme on Saturday mornings) although Tony Blackburn and Dave Lee Travis spoke these words when she appeared on BBC Television's Top of the Pops. De Paul recorded the female lyric to Mott The Hoople's album track version of "Roll Away the Stone", but she was replaced by female trio Thunderthighs on the hit single version of the song.[9] In 1973, when Mick Ralphs left Mott the Hoople, his replacement Luther Grosvenor was contractually obliged to change his name – de Paul suggested Ariel Bender.[10] After appointing Don Arden, her new manager at the end of 1973, de Paul released "Ooh I Do", which hit the charts in the UK,[8] Netherlands and Japan. The song's co-writer, Barry Blue, also recorded a version of the song as an album track.
A second Ivor Novello Award followed a year later for "No Honestly", which was also the theme tune to a hit ITV comedy of the same name, and provided her with another UK Top 10 hit.[8] The B-side to this single was de Paul's version of "Central Park Arrest", the song she had written for Thunderthighs which provided them with a top 30 UK hit single a few months earlier. The TV series No Honestly was followed by Yes Honestly, and although Georgie Fame wrote and performed the theme tune to the first series of Yes Honestly, an instrumental version of de Paul's "No Honestly" was chosen as the theme for the second series. De Paul continued to release a number of singles through the 1970s and early 1980s, including the UK hit "My Man and Me", which she performed an acoustic version of on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
A prolific songwriter, de Paul also continued to write songs for a wide range of recording artists. In a five-year period (1972–77), she wrote a total of fourteen UK Singles Chart hits,[2] most notably "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" which was a hit for co-writer Barry Blue, as well as Flash Cadillac and bond. De Paul's songs have reached the charts in many territories, including the US, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Canada and Australia. She has also performed producing and arranging duties on many of these recordings. In 1976, she was the recipient of the 'Woman of the Year Award For Music' from the Variety Club of Great Britain.[11] Management problems with Don Arden however, made this a difficult time for de Paul and her third album for Jet Records Before You Go Tonight was shelved as the two parted ways.[12]
"Rock Bottom", which she wrote with Mike Moran, was the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977. As she later explained, as well as being an honour, this was a way to circumvent the legal wrangles that were preventing her from signing to a new record label. Although it came second in the Eurovision Song Contest, it went on to become a Top 20 hit in many European countries including France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where it reached the top of their singles chart. De Paul and Moran went on to write a number of songs, such as "Let Your Body Go Downtown" (1977), a No. 38 UK hit for the Martyn Ford Orchestra;[13] and the follow-up "Going to a Disco", as well as "Without You", and "Now and Then", which appeared on the albums Tigers and Fireflies and Just a Little Time, respectively. De Paul also wrote and performed the theme music for the 1977 revival by London Weekend Television of the sitcom, The Rag Trade;[7] the same year she composed "Hi Summer", the title of another ITV variety show, performed by Carl Wayne. Later TV credits included the theme to the BBC's Hearts of Gold and "Olympian Way". In addition to songs composed by her serving as the themes of nine prime time UK television series, de Paul's songs have been featured in such films as The Big Sleep, Anita and Me, Side by Side, American Swing and Aces Go Places.[2]
After a three-year period in California in the late 1970s and early 1980s with her partner at the time, actor James Coburn, de Paul returned to England. During this period, she co-wrote with Terry Britten "A Little TLC", which was covered by Sam Hui and awarded an RTHK top 10 gold award in Hong Kong in 1986. Other versions of this song were recorded by Menudo, sung by their lead singer Ricky Martin, and also featured in the US children's television programme, Kidd Video. Whilst writing songs for Shirley Bassey, Heatwave and The Real Thing, de Paul also branched out into record production, acting in musicals and plays, interviewing and TV presentation, drawing cartoons and also self-defence.
De Paul has orchestrated, played, and produced two classical records of compositions by Handel and Bach for Deutsche Grammophon and released "Air on a Heart String" backed with "Arrival of the Queen" with panflautist Horea Crishan.[11] De Paul has also composed and performed songs for children. This included work for the Channel Tunnel Group, which involved writing and producing an album of children's songs with an accompanying song colouring book for Eurotunnel's mascot, entitled Marcus The Mole, as well as film music for the children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman, where she had a starring role as an actress.[2] De Paul has also composed jingles for radio stations including Capital Radio. In 1983, she appeared at the Conservative Party conference, where she sang a song she had composed especially for the occasion: "Vote Tory, Tory, Tory/For election glory". In 1985, she was awarded the Rear of the Year title for which she thanked the organisers from the "heart of her bottom". She was also a judge on the television talent show New Faces and has hosted television shows such as Club Vegetarian, Shopper's Heaven, Eat Drink & Be Healthy, Women of Substance, The Vinyl Frontier and 15 episodes of Living Room Legends, which featured home videos.[2]
She returned to the public spotlight in a different role in 1992 when she released a self-defence video for women called Taking Control. Lord Mackenzie, former president of the Police Association, endorsed it by saying: "It is a very positive contribution to crime prevention and the protection of women and I will be recommending it". She also presented a documentary about women's self-defence, called Eve Fights Back, which won a Royal Television Society award.[2][3] In 2006, an updated DVD of her self-defence training programme Taking Control was released and featured on television (The Wright Stuff) and in the media. The programme showed the importance of self-defence for women, and she has approached schools and universities to include the DVD in the curriculum.
Her contribution to the music industry was recognised in 2005 when de Paul received a Gold Badge Award. This was followed by her becoming a director on the board of the Performing Rights Society (PRS) on 30 June 2006 where she has proved to be an active member. The PRS was renamed PRS for Music and in 2009 de Paul was re-elected for a second three-year term.[14]
In 2007, de Paul played Sheila Larsen in the first episode of Kingdom, the Stephen Fry drama series. On 10 April 2008, de Paul participated in a celebrity version of the Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me along with Tamara Beckwith, MC Harvey and Jonathan Ansell. De Paul, who is a vegetarian, came in last place. She was also featured on a celebrity version of Cash in the Attic in March 2009 where she became a temporary auctioneer.[7]
She wrote the foreword for the book Medium Rare by Billy Roberts, Liam Scott (Apex Publishing, ISBN 978-1-906358-49-5) published in April 2009. The book is about the spiritual medium Liam Scott. She has also written travel articles for the Daily Mail on Mauritius (February 2008) and Australia's east coast (April 2009).
In 2011, de Paul had her own programme on Sky, entitled Lynsey's Love Songs. According to a news item on her website, she chose the songs she liked and researched the songwriters and people who made the records. In February 2012, Vintage TV broadcast three episodes where de Paul interviewed the songwriters Gilbert O'Sullivan, Mike Batt and Howard Jones. Aled Jones interviewed Lynsey on his Good Morning Sunday programme on BBC Radio Two on 29 April 2012. He asked her about her life, career and religious beliefs as well as what inspires her.[7] Lynsey attended the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on 17 May 2012.[15] She was on the UK jury for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.[7] Some of her songs, including previously unreleased material, are available as MP3s via her own shop, which is linked to her official website.[11]
On 15 September 2012, de Paul, together with Noddy Holder, co-hosted the Marc Bolan 35th anniversary concert, a special charity event for the PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund held at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire featuring Marc Almond, Boy George, Tony Visconti, Steve Harley, Alvin Stardust, Linda Lewis, Sandie Shaw, Glen Matlock, Mike Lindup, Andy Ellison and the Marc Bolan tribute band, Danielz and T.Rextasy.[16] Two double CD anthologies of de Paul's songs from the 1970s including previously unreleased tracks, entitled Sugar and Beyond and Into My Music, were released in March 2013 on the Cherry Red/RPM record label.[17]
Although never married, at various times de Paul has been romantically linked with Ringo Starr, Roy Wood, James Coburn, Sean Connery, Bill Kenwright, Bernie Taupin, Chas Chandler and Dudley Moore.[3] Known for her sharp sense of humour, de Paul was labelled "Looney de Small" by Spike Milligan.[2] She is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.[11]
Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||||||||
1972 | "Sugar Me" | 5 | 16 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | 4 |
"Getting A Drag" | 18 | 48 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
1973 | "All Night" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
"Won't Somebody Dance With Me" | 14 | - | - | 21 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
1974 | "Ooh I Do" | 25 | - | - | 16 | - | - | - | 12 | - | - | - |
"No Honestly" | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
1975 | "My Man And Me" | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1977 | "Rock Bottom" (with Mike Moran) | 19 | 4 | 1 | - | 7 | - | 2 | 11 | 6 | 10 | - |
Awards and achievements | ||
Preceded by Brotherhood of Man with "Save Your Kisses for Me" | UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 (with Mike Moran) | Succeeded by Co-Co with "The Bad Old Days" |


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aka table tennis. i was playing with my bro and just came in after finishing x.x
so its been like over three years or something since i last played so i failed at first ; u ;
and my bro sometimes randomly spiked the ball really hard and fast and tried to kill me and i was like why would you do that klghsldkfjkl ; A ;
so basically throughout the whole game my mental age fell to like 7 or 8 cuz i kept screaming like a little kid and laughing and just pretty much acting like i was bipolar or something XD my bro even told me i was "emotional" ; w ;
its hard to play a game of ping pong when you keep failing and hitting the ball out by like an inch while ur older brother is just laughing, facepalming, using sarcasm, and making fun of you the whole time ; u ;
but it was fun. and kinda made me cry when i laughed too hard. my bro was kinda being a meanie and saying that i was amusing while i was just standing there waving my paddle around and raging ; w ; lol dont question my logic X'D
now im just tired and eating a popsicle and drinking some ice water. then ill do hw and try to calm down =w=;; hw is more calming than ping pong. plus i need a break
also, random fact: since its almost spring and not winter anymore, its been feeling hot like summer over here =u=; so yeah
anyways... off i go =w=
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Leaf Lettuce for zones 10-11
I'm totally lost when I comes to lettuce.
I've read enough to know that there are varieties with disease resistance bred into them, just like tomatoes.
But I have no idea what is what and where to order them from.
I'm going to try and grow lettuce in long planters, between the tomatoes this year.
Just leaf types for salads, etc.
Can someone suggest a variety that has done well for them, and where to buy seed?
Thanks guys, happy weekend!
Red Sails is yummy! I am also trying Lettuce Seed strips this year from Thompson & Morgan, it's a green leaf called "Salad Bowl". Corrie I am probably the last person to ask cause I have never had excellent results with lettuce, however the Red Sails did pretty good until it got too hot this spring. Hopefully growing lettuce in fall/winter will go better.
Hey you!
While I was sitting here watching it rain...
....and all my new tomato plants rotting!
I found this place on the internet, in Florida, that has lettuce seed for hydro/greenhouse growers.
Most of them are bred with a lot of disease resistance, they describe heat and cold tolerance, light levels, etc
Lettuce down here can be like tomatoes, even get some of the same diseases.
If I order from them, I don't need near that many seeds, I'll split them with you. ;-)
Here is a link that might be useful: Fancy Smancy Lettuce
last year I grew "summer glory blend" from park seed which is a variety designed to do well in the heat. I would say that 2 of the lettuce types did fairly well.
This year I am growing the leftover seeds from that pack as well as "Calmar" and "Green Ice" I will let you all know how they did in the spring.
Green Ice sounds great, and Calmar sounds exotic. LOL
Michelle, while it's raining (and to keep my mind off my rotting tomatoes!) I've been reading on lettuce in South Florida.
From what I've read, I'm getting the picture that we don't need lettuce that does well in the heat, not when we are growing in the winter down here.
Heat tolerant varieties also take more light and longer days.
I think we need to look for varities that take less light and shorter days. That might be a cool tolerant variety, or a early spring/late season type.
Corrie, send me your address (see my page for my aol email) and I will send you 1/2 of the Salad Bowl seeds. I don't need that many either. Let me know what you order and I will take a few seeds from one of them. First it's Florida Tomato History 101 on the Tom Forum, and now.."Intense studies Of Lettuce in Florida" LOL!!! being in Islamorada, you should drive up to Ricky's swap in Boca on the 19th. I would love to meetcha!
Corrie, I forgot to mention how I have my tomato seedlings in trays and in the protected Tomato condo. Helps keep them from floating. I have 3 stacked on their sides Milk Crates with my cups and small pots of tomato seedlings. There's holes all the way around and I have the openings on a sheltered side. Larger plants get moved to plant trays that I slide under my potting bench. I have filmy light clear plastic garbage bags cut to make a single sheet clothing pinned to the crates and the potting bench. I also have window screens in the front of the potting bench. When it's rainy, the garbage bag plastic, with wind slits cut into it, wraps the crates and 1/2 the bench. I also have 12 pack can cardboard laying on the top of the bench so deluges don't drown my babies. It also helps with scorching sun block. Just thought I'd share since we are getting all the rain coming up in the Gulf after you are finished with it down there in Islamorada...beautiful place by the way! You ever get up here? Let me know.
Is Boca north of Homestead? You mean there's something north of Homestead? LOL
Thank you, thank you for the offer. But I'm being particular (particular in this case means neurotic) LOL
I'm going to keep researching and try named brands of lettuce first. I'm thinking of trying 2-3 types that they recommend for down here. Grow them through out the whole season, and see how they do.
That way I'll end up with specific named plants and know if I want to repeat them next year or try different ones, based on how they do.
I got this last batch of tomatoes right off the Bonnie truck. They unloaded them with what looked like bacterial speck already. All of the tomatoes had it.
Bonnie said to hang on to them and they would replace them next week.
Which makes me think "replace them with what?"
So I've dipped them twice already. Then, of course, it's started raining again! I'm just moving them in and out of the rain.
I had good luck with two lettuces: Forellenschluss & Merveille des Quatre Saisons (look kinda like small romaine type but have some speckles on the first & deep colored tops on the 2nd type), I got them from diane's flower seeds online. We just ate them this week & planted more!
I've had lots of good luck with lettuce during the cold (or I should say cool) season here. As the heat comes on they either bolt or get terribly attacked by pests. I grow lots of salad bowl and I even had some romaine start to head up last winter. Al my lettuce currently grows in Aquaponics systems. I have an aquarium aquaponics system set up indoors just for the purpose of being able to grow lettuce during the summer inside where it is cool enough. (Aquaponics is a cross between hydroponics and Aquaculture, by doing Aquaponics we also get meat (fish) out of our garden.)
Here is a link that might be useful: TCLynx
Plant your lettuce when it is nice and cool outside. Lets say, maybe 83 degrees and under. If you go to your local hardware and gardening store, like Home Depot, take a look at the lettuce there. It should tell you on the front of the package if it is disease resistant or not. On the back, it may tell you which diseases it is resistant to, or you can look up the name of the lettuce online. Pariss Island (yes, Pariss, two S's) lettuce and other romaines are probably the most nutritious. Work in organic matter to the soil a week before planting, but don't add too big of organic matter. Try old wood chippings from a tree, or maybe some old, rotting mulch, if you have any.
Thanks guys for all the great leads and names.
I've been making some calls and sending some emails
and putting my list together. Why can't they just give you 2-3 choices, then I could make up my mind. LOL
Bonnie is sending some down on the truck for me to try, and a couple of companies were good enough to send me some sample packs of seeds.
As soon as I have an idea of how they are doing, I'll let you know.
watermelon, I think you meant Parris. I did find that one too. Thank you
It's a long drive to Boca!
i'm in zone 9, but i can vouch for summer glory, too. tasty mix that 's slow to bolt... and, when it does, you can collect the seeds of the best varieties and plant them the next year.
Here is a link that might be useful: saving lettuce seeds
I've never tried lettuce here, so I can't contribute, but this thread reminds me of the year in SC when I dug up my lettuce before the first frost and put it into the wheelbarrow, and pushed it into the shed. It grew very well in there, insulated with the hay around the walls, and lit with the flourescent light fixture, and I ate lettuce all winter.
I've had great luck with arugula, which isn't technically lettuce, but is a lettuce-like green, just sharper. Grows like a weed when I sprinkle seeds on top of the mulch. But I do lettuce and arugula as baby greens and just plant a whole lot of them, close together, knowing I won't ever let them get big enough to crowd each other. In this heat, even in the "cool" season here, I don't manage to water enough to keep them tender when they get big, so I just plant a whole lot and pick 'em each night.
Susannah, I LOVE that idea!! I adore baby greens anyway, and generally, lettuce bolts on me or gets buggy before it matures. I have a raised window box that I think I will try this in. I take it you don't thin the plants other than when you pick for your salad? YUM!
I am trying lettuce again this year I had given up. Just when I thought it was cool enough to put some out here come
\the heat and bolting. Jan,Feb no matter. Even the heat tolerant varities were bolting on me. Other years that seemed warm too I had beautiful head varities. Go figure.
I live in Ft Pierce where zone 10 is the Island. Coconut Palms are growing and thriving 6 miles inland. They should not be there. We are due for a hard hard freeze up here.
There will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth when it comes.
Nope, I don't thin them when they're little. I ignore them when they're little. I've had arugula plants growing right together, where I clearly scattered the seeds and a couple seeds stuck together. I just pick as I go and if the plants look crowded, I pick one to the ground. And I save some seeds to later fill out the bed, such as it is, where the seeds I scattered earlier didn't grow.
I'm sure it would work in your window box but my limited experience with it would suggest, mulch it.
Honestly, I just looked at the seeds, and they looked like seeds that had evolved to scatter and reseed. So I figured, I'd scatter over mulch, which it seems would be a little like whatever sort of leaf litter and grass thatch a wild plant might encounter if it were to evolve seeds that germinate when scattered.
Turns out it works. Works with basil, broccoli and coriander too. With basil and coriander, I didn't get a plant per seed _ only a very few actually germinated from the many I scattered _ but a seed packet is cheaper than buying a single plant and once I buy the plants, and dig the holes, and water them in, I feel obligated to at least try to make sure they live.
With a $1 seed packet of basil from KMart, I was happy when I got four big, healthy basil plants and more coriander than I could use for doing nothing but scattering seeds over mulch.
With the broccoli, I babied the ones that came up, sprayed bugs off them, etc. But I also ate lots of broccoli from them. So for another $1, the method worked for me. And one actually reseeded ( I let it go to seed, thinking I'd collect them and then didn't get them in time.) It was the wrong time of year and the plant finally succumbed to the heat this summer. But that convinced me that's the way they want to be seeded.
I was able to save seeds from the coriander, which are going to be scattered this weekend. In between the tomatoes. The oh-so-many-what-was-i-thinking tomatoes. :)


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PPG Industries ( PPG ) will leverage Accelatis' premier application performance monitoring software by installing its Ascension Suite 3.0 to monitor, manage and improve the company's Oracle EPM (Enterprise Performance Management)/Hyperion applications and environment.
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Washington praises Josh Hamilton
BALTIMORE -- While this might be a contract year for Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington won't allow that label to be bestowed upon his outfielder, especially after his historic Tuesday night performance.
"What's happening is he's healthy. He's doing what he's capable of doing," Washington said Wednesday morning on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM's "Ben & Skin Show". "To think that's why Hamilton is doing what he's doing (playing for a contract), that's not giving Hamilton credit for the ability God has given him."
Hamilton became just the 16th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a game, driving in eight runs and totaling an AL-record 18 total bases in the Rangers' 10-3 victory against the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night.
The 2010 MVP currently leads the the American League in all three Triple Crown categories with 14 home runs, 36 RBIs and a .406 batting average.
"If you can do this just because you're playing for a contract, you're really cheating the game and you're cheating the team you're playing for," Washington said. "I don't believe in that. You might be a little more focused. But if you can do that simply because you're trying to get a contract, there's something about that player you may not like.
"I don't think Hamilton is one of those guys. He has a passion for what he does. He just has tremendous ability. I don't think all of that is coming into play right now."
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Josh Hamilton became just the third player since 1900 to come to the plate at least five times in a game and get a hit in each at-bat, four of which were home runs. Overall, there have been 16 four-homer games in MLB history.
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Hamilton and the Rangers reopened contract discussions after the start of the season in April. Talks had broken off after his relapse with alcohol in early February.
Washington and the rest of the Rangers had fun watching history in the making Tuesday night, even giving an inside glimpse into one of the team's methods to keep everybody loose and having fun after home runs.
"They say, 'Is that all you got?'" Washington said. "So they asked him after the first one, 'Is that all you got?' They asked him after the second one, 'Is that all you got?' After the third one, 'Is that all you got?'
"After the fourth one it was, 'Jesus, what's going on with this guy?' "
Rangers captain Michael Young said it was the best individual performance by a hitter that he's ever seen in person.
"You don't expect someone to hit four homers. If someone is capable, it's Josh and maybe a handful of other guys. You don't expect that in the big leagues. That's fantastic," Young said.
Outfielder David Murphy was thankful to be a part of such a performance.
"It's the coolest thing I've ever seen on a baseball field by an individual," Murphy said. "Being on the opposing side last year, it's impressive to see Albert Pujols hit three home runs in a World Series or Adrian Beltre hitting three in a playoff game. But four is just so rare. I feel like an 8-year-old kid right now who just left the ballgame and saw the coolest thing ever."
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Charlie Methven says the first priority of his consortium, should they take over Oxford United, would be to clear the debt and invest in the playing squad.
Although it would appear Methven's group of Oxfordshire businessmen may not be front-runners to take over the U's, they yesterday made their intentions clear after submitting a formal offer for the club.
A rival consortium headed by Mark Ashton and Darryl Eales is understood to be in advanced talks with United owner Ian Lenagan.
Methven was philosophical about what may happen, but said his group – which was given a huge boost with the backing of wealthy businessman and United fan Stewart Donald – had a clear strategy.
"Ultimately, what will be will be," he said.
"But our bid comes from people whose commitment to the club is unquestionable.
"The final decision is entirely up to Ian Lenagan, but he has always said that he will do what's best for Oxford United and its supporters.
"We believe that if we were successful, our plan would ensure that happens."
Central to any takeover would be the U's owning their ground, but investment into the playing side is also crucial.
Methven added: "We do not believe Oxford United should be saddled with any debt.
"It is a business turning over £3.5m a year, so the first thing would be to make sure it is debt free.
"We would inject a significant amount into the playing side of the club in order to deliver a squad that we believe could justify expectations of achieving.
"It could be that we invest £3m of equity into the playing side over the next two years.
"We would obviously discuss with the manager what needs to be done, but with the club losing £1m a year, those figures would mean that around £500,000 could be added to the playing budget for each season."
As revealed in yesterday's Oxford Mail, there is potential to move the club to a new site at Water Eaton.
This is the preferred outcome for Methven, but he would not rule out staying at the Kassam Stadium.
"What is clear is that Oxford United must own their own stadium," he said.
"There are two options for this.
"One is to acquire the Kassam Stadium, and it would be no disaster if this happened.
"However, we believe that Water Eaton presents a huge opportunity."
The support of Donald, whose Bridle Insurance company were United's shirt sponsors from 2010-13, provided Methven's consortium with a huge lift.
"The backing of the Donald family is immense," Methven commented.
"They are massive Oxford United fans who have given us their commitment.
"They have the finances and have agreed to help us."
Since first going public with their interest last week, Methven confirmed that no further discussions had taken place with Lenagan, who is still refusing to break his silence.
"I don't take this as a negative because any discussions would need a firm, factual basis.
"But we now have this."
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