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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (October 12, 2011) World Bantamweight Champion and consensus Top 5 Pound For Pound Fighter Nonito The Filipino Flash Donaire will host a Public Media Workout this Saturday afternoon, October 15 at 1pm at Brooklyns legendary Gleasons Gym (83 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201). Donaire will be joined by his Head Trainer Robert Garcia and will participate in a full training session for media and fans as he finalizes preparations for his Top Rank-promoted world title defense against Omar EL Huracan Narvaez on Saturday, October 22nd in The Theatre at Madison Square Garden, The Mecca of Boxing, in New York City. Fans in the Tri-State area are encouraged to attend this unique experience as Donaire trains for his first bout in New York City. The open workout will also be streamed LIVE through the Go Fight Live website, http://www.gfl.tv/Events/Newscast/Boxing/Gleasons_GymCam/764 Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Madison Square Garden, the Donaire-Narvaez world title tilt will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark, beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast.) Remaining tickets to Donaire vs. Narvaez, priced at $200, $100, $50 and $25, including applicable service charges, can be purchased at the Madison Square Garden box office, online at www.thegarden.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets (additional fee for Ticketmaster orders.) Donaire (26-1, 18 KOs), a native of General Santos City, Philippines, now living in the Bay Area of San Leandro, Calif., is a consensus top-five pound for pound fighter. He enters this fight riding a nine-year, 25-bout winning streak, which includes an IBF/IBO flyweight title knockout victory of defending champion Vic Darchinyan, and a fourth-round blasting of former WBA bantamweight champion Wladimir Sidorenko last December. However, Donaires most impressive victory occurred in his last fight, on February 19, when he knocked out defending WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel in the second round, ending Montiels 25-bout winning streak while also claiming his third world title in as many weight divisions. Ten of Donaires last 11 victories have come by way of knockout. Narvaez (35-0-2, 23 KOs), of Cordoba, Argentina, a two-time Olympian; will be making his U.S. debut. The undefeated southpaw captured his first world title the WBO flyweight championship in his 12th professional fight, knocking down interim champion Adonis Rivas in the seventh round en route to a dominant unanimous decision in 2002. Narvaez successfully defended his title 16 times during his seven-year reign before vacating it in early 2010 to campaign at a heavier weight class. He won the vacant WBO junior bantamweight title in May 2010, pitching a near shutout to win a unanimous decision over Everth Briceno. Narvaez, one of South Americas most popular fighters, has successfully defended his new title three times, all by unanimous decision, against opponents who had a combined record of 54-2 when he fought them. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. ET with the first bell at 7:30 p.m. ET.
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Coffee is robust but not bitter, brewed just right. You have several choices of course. Have the barista make your favorite coffee drink if you like.
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We all know we should try to keep our credit card debt at a minimum. If you do have credit card debt and have good credit, I suggest looking into the balance transfer offers you receive in the mail. Some of them are for 0% interest for up to 12 months. That means for 12 months at 0% interest (or however long your offer is for), when you make a payment, you are actually applying 100% of your payment to your principal. Without the interest, you get to pay down the amount you owe without having some of your payment going towards just the interest. Be sure to keep all other 0% or low interest offers you receive so you can review them for the best deal when you reach the expiration on your current offer. Mark the expiration date of your current offer on your calendar approximately four to six weeks prior to the actual expiration date. This allows you time to transfer your balance to the next best offer from the ones you have been collecting (as mentioned above). Make sure to send a brief note (keep a copy) to your current expiring offer, stating that you are transferring your balance and would like to close out your account (they will not close account over the phone). It takes three to five minutes to write a brief "Cancellation Letter." Some credit card companies will even extend their offer or increase the rate ever so slightly to keep your business. It is worth a quick phone call. Let them know that if they can meet or beat the current new offer, you would be more than willing to stay with them. I have been doing this for ten or more years with no problems. It is well worth the minimal amount of paperwork involved.
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I only buy "reduced" price, store-made bread and rolls from my local supermarket. For example, a six-pack of Kaiser rolls may be $1.49 originally. The reduced price a day or so later can be as low as 99 cents. This is a great savings if done on a weekly basis. Be sure to buy extra when you find a great sale, as it is a hit or miss deal sometimes. Most bakery products freeze well if you use a good resealable bag for extra protection. Ask your bakery if they offer these deals and where they display their "reduced" products. You might even want to ask if there is a certain day or time that they bring these reduced items out, so you can have first dibs.
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Likewise to me hubby is going to work, and we'll be at my mother's for the celebration.
Can't stay home alone with my 2y.o I'll Be Bored!
Can't stay home alone with my 2y.o I'll Be Bored!
Quoting Jessy613:just going to hang out with the kiddos and clean the house. my husband has to work so we won't be doing much. :) what about you?
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DH and I are going to grill some hamburgers and hot dogs, I might get some laundry done. Step-SIL and FIL and Step-MIL all live a few houses from us. We're just not going to do a egg hunt this year, with a new puppy I dont want to take a chance and he'll find the eggs lol.
on Apr. 19, 2014 at 5:31 PM
Absolutely nothing....staying at home with my 28 yr. old daughter!! We are in Texas, my 30 yr. old son lives in Seattle, WA & my mom & the rest of our family is in Minnesota!! When we can, we go for big family gatherings with my daughters boyfriend at his grandpas but he has to work 6am-6pm tomorrow so it will be just us 2 doing every day things....nothing special!!!!!!
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dc.description.abstract | The South African gold-mining workforce has an unusually high incidence of Mycobacterium kansasii disease, yet little is known about the possible sources of M. kansasii infection, genetic diversity and the basis for this organism's pathogenicity. The purpose of this study was to investigate these issues in a gold-mining environment. Five M. kansasii isolates and 10 other potentially pathogenic mycobacteria were cultured mainly from showerhead biofilms. PCR-restriction analysis (PRA) of the hsp65 gene on 191 clinical and on the 5 environmental M. kansasii isolates revealed 160 subtype I (157 clinical and 3 environmental), 8 subtype II (clinical) and 6 subtype IV (5 clinical and 1 environmental) strains. Twenty-two isolates (21 clinical and 1 environmental) did not show the typical M. kansasii PRA patterns. After confirmation by DNA sequencing as belonging to the M. kansasii species, the results suggested that these isolates were probably new subtypes of M. kansasii. In contrast to the clonal population structure found amongst the subtype I isolates from studies in other countries, DNA fingerprinting of 114 subtype I clinical and environmental isolates showed genetic diversity amongst the isolates. One of the 2 environmental isolates showed 100% identity with a clinical isolate, suggesting that water distribution systems are the possible sources of M. kansasii infection for the miners. An investigation into the genetic differences between clinical (subtype I) and environmental (III, IV and V) isolates, using Hybridisation Monitored Differential Analysis (HMDA), identified 45 open reading frames (ORFs) encoding predominantly membrane-associated proteins that include six potential virulence factors, two family members of transcription regulators for drug and xenobiotic metabolism, three family members of multidrug efflux systems, a number of proteins associated with lipid and carbohydrate metabolism and transport, and a number of hypothetical proteins with unknown function. Immunological analysis of M. kansasii isolates, using the Lymphocyte Transformation and Cytometric Bead Array assays, showed that M. kansasii modulates immune responses through suppression of lymphocyte blastogenesis and by altering the expression of Th1/Th2/Th17 cytokines by human lymphocytes in vivo for its own survival. This study demonstrated for the first time that water distribution systems in South Africa are possible sources of M. kansasii infection, and showed that subtype I strains of M. kansasii from the study region display genetic diversity and have unique or divergent genes not found in other subtypes. It also demonstrated that immunosuppression is one of the pathogenic mechanisms employed by M. kansasii. | en_US |
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The John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
The federal Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program was established in 1979 to provide a unique educational experience to students who have an interest in marine/ocean/Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.
The program, which is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program, matches highly qualified graduate students with hosts in the legislative branch, the executive branch, or appropriate associations/institutions located in the Washington, DC area for a one-year paid fellowship. The program is named after former NOAA administrator John A. Knauss.
I. Current Announcement
II. Information for Current Knauss Fellows
III. Learn More about the Knauss Fellowship
Announcement of Federal Funding Opportunity
Executive Summary
Federal Agency Name(s): Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce
Funding Opportunity Title: 2016 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship (Knauss Fellowship Program)
Announcement Type: Initial Announcement
Funding Opportunity Number: NOAA-OAR-SG-2016-2004335
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s):11.417, Sea Grant Support
Dates: The deadline for application to California Sea Grant is 5 pm Pacific Standard Time, February 13, 2015. Selected applications from the sponsoring state SGCP are to be received and validated by Grants.gov by the deadline of 5 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on March 31, 2015.
Funding Opportunity Description: This notice announces that applications may be submitted for the 2016 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship (Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship). Sea Grant anticipates funding not less than 30 selected applicants, of which those assigned to the Legislative branch may be limited to 10. Each award will be funded at a total of $56,500 in federal funding.
For more detailed information about host offerings, applications, selection and placement process in Washington DC, please visit the National Sea Grant Knauss website at: http://seagrant.noaa.gov/FundingFellowships/KnaussFellowship.aspx
The NSGO Knauss website has a "Creating an Application" page for helpful guidance on preparing your application. http://seagrant.noaa.gov/FundingFellowships/KnaussFellowship/ProspectiveFellows/CreatinganApplication.aspx
A listing of the type of fellowship positions available (from the 2014 Class) can be found at https://pier.seagrant.noaa.gov/Public/KnaussPositions.aspx
Tips for applicants (updated 12/15/2014)
Submission Information (updated 12/15/2014)
Please upload an electronic copy of all application items, with required signatures. The electronic version of your application must be submitted as PDFs using the California Sea Grant submission link:
If you have never used this website, you will need to register for an account. You can change the randomly-generated password once you log in successfully into the website.
Please make sure to include your last name in the file names for each section of the proposal (e.g., Smith_budget.pdf or Smith_cv.pdf).
IMPORTANT: To preserve confidentiality, letters of recommendations should be sent directly to our office. Letters can sent as attachments in emails to firstname.lastname@example.com, or faxed to our office at 858-534-2231
For electronic files larger than 6 MB, contact firstname.lastname@example.com
to make other arrangements.
Please read the Knauss funding announcement for instructions regarding these required elements.
Please note the suggested name for your files after each item; no spaces or / in the filenames.
It would be VERY helpful if you would follow this format.
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Curriculum Vitae (2 pages maximum) | 1_LastName_CV.pdf |
A personal education and career goal statement (1000 words or less) | 2_LastName_Goal.pdf |
Two letters of recommendation, including one from the student's major professor | 3_LastName_RecLtr1.pdf and 3_LastName_RecLtr2.pdf |
Copy of all official undergraduate and graduate student transcripts | 4_LastName_Transcript.pdf |
Listing of classes and/or plans for spring 2015, summer 2015 and fall 2015 (not to exceed one page) | 5_LastName_Plans.pdf |
Data sharing declaration (sample) | 6_LastName_Declaration.pdf |
Applications must be submitted by 5 pm, February 13, 2015, to the California Sea Grant Program. State Sea Grant programs may select and forward to the National Office up to six (6) finalists according to a selection criteria comparable to that used by the National Office in the national competition.
- February 13, 2015 - Application materials from each student are due to California Sea Grant (each program sets its own date around this general time).
- March, 2015 - Interviews by California Sea Grant staff to select up to six finalists.
- March 31, 2015 - Application materials from Sea Grant programs are due at the National Sea Grant Office by 2:00 pm PDT (5:00 pm EDT).
- June, 2015 - Sea Grant Programs notified of selection results.
- December XX-XX, 2015 - Placement Week (exact dates TBD); selected applicants are required to travel to Washington, DC, for interviews with potential hosts.
- February 1, 2016 - Start of the fellowship.
Jim Eckman, Director
For more information email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Please direct online submission questions to:
Roberto Chavez
(858) 534-4441
II. Information for Current Knauss Fellows
- Knauss FAQs 2012
- Knauss FAQs 2013
- Knauss FAQs 2014
- Knauss FAQs 2015
- Direct Deposit Form
- Knauss Fellow Tax Information
- Required Education Report
- Travel Reimbursement Form
- Travel FAQs
Domestic travel includes travel to all US possessions or trusts, such as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Trust Territories, Guam and Samoa.
Reimbursement for travel expenses shall not be higher than the University of California approved travel rates. These travel rates are published at http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/policies/bfb/g28.html.
CASG requires a written request with justification at least fifty (50) days PRIOR to the trip in order to notify the National Sea Grant office. Your trip should be approved by your host prior to submitting the request to California Sea Grant. Once the host approves your travel, please e-mail the request with subject line "Knauss travel request" to Jim Eckman (email@example.com) and copy email@example.com in the email.
Travel Checklist: All foreign travel must be in compliance with the Fly America Act. US air carriers must be used on all portions of the route where service is provided. If a foreign carrier is used on any portion of a trip when no US carriers are available, a completed Fly America Act Waiver Checklist must be submitted.
Requests for prior approval should be written in the third person and include the following:
a) Traveler's name;
b) Dates traveled;
c) Reason for the trip;
d) Origin and destination of the travel;
e) Detailed itinerary of the travel, name of the air carrier, and flight number for each leg of
the trip (a PDF of a quote from an airline with details of the proposed trip and cost should accompany the letter); and
f) Detailed cost for lodging, meals, registration (e.g., Lodging 3 days @ $/day = $; Meals 3 days @ $ govt per diem rate or less)
III. Learn More about the Knauss Fellowship
Learn more about the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship through podcasts produced by Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Articles about previous Knauss Fellows
- Winners of 2014 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Announced
- 2013 Program Directory Listing for Knauss Fellows
- 2013 Knauss Fellowships Announced
- 2012 Knauss Fellowships Announced
The California Sea Grant College Program is a statewide, multiuniversity program of marine research, extension services, and education activities administered by the University of California. It is headquartered at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. The National Sea Grant College Program is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce. |


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A newly-married woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging in her husband's home in Kolathur.
The woman's parents claimed she was driven to take the extreme step as her husband and his parents had harassed her for dowry. A revenue divisional officer's inquiry is underway into the death.
Puzhal police said the deceased woman was Usha (27) of Kodungaiyur. She had married Murugan (32), a resident of VOC Street, New Lakshmipuram in Kolathur, on March 13.
Usha's parents had promised to give four sovereigns of gold jewellery to the bridegroom as part of her dowry. But they were able to give only two sovereigns.
Murugan and his parents are suspected to have tormented Usha about her parents' failure to give them the promised gold.
Puzhal police sent to the Government Kilpauk Hospital for a post-mortem examination and later handed it over to Usha's parents. Following a complaint lodged by Usha's father on Monday morning, Puzhal police handed over further investigations to the Ambattur RDO,
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COLUMBIA — Family, friends and city officials braved blowing winds, falling flurries and dropping temperatures to honor Columbia Police officer Molly Bowden and the work of Columbia's police officers on Thursday night.
At least 50 of Bowden's relatives and friends gathered to celebrate her 3½ years of service at her memorial near the intersection at Forum and Nifong boulevards, where she was shot in the line of duty in 2005.
Bowden was wounded on Jan. 10, 2005, after she pulled over motorist Richard Evans in a south Columbia neighborhood. She was hospitalized for one month in critical condition and died Feb. 10, 2005. She was 26.
The memorial Thursday not only commemorated her life but also honored current law enforcement officers. During the ceremony, the stretch of road along Nifong Boulevard, now named Officer Molly Bowden Memorial Boulevard, was shut down and traffic was rerouted.
Cars lined the stretch of road along Nifong Boulevard. One car, with a license plate displaying "207-Mom," stuck out. Bowden's badge number was 207.
"It means so much to remember, of course, Molly and other police officers," said Beverly Thomas, Bowden's mother. "They have to sacrifice every day to care for our city."
Pastor Michael Burt of Columbia's Grace Bible Church, who knew Bowden since high school, led the memorial. "This has been a model of how these disasters can still have a positive effect on the community," Burt said.
During the ceremony, Mayor Darwin Hindman thanked everyone for coming and recalled how the event changed the city.
"It is good to remember what it did in bringing the community together," Hindman said.
Chief Randy Boehm spoke briefly, thanking Bowden's parents for allowing the Police Department to continue to partake in the event, as they still consider Bowden's parents a part of the department's extended family.
David and Beverly Thomas thanked everyone for paying tribute to Bowden and for the continued love and support they have felt from the community over the past three years.
Around 9:50 p.m., a moment of silence marked the time Bowden was shot.
Boehm said the years since Bowden's death have helped the department heal. But he said he is certain there isn't a day that goes by that officers don't think of her.
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dc.contributor.author | Michida, Shinichiro (author) | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Veronica L. (translator) | |
dc.date | 1992-01 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-24T17:34:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-24T17:34:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 1 Pac. Rim L. & Pol'y J. 199 (1992) | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1066-8632 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1773.1/997 | |
dc.description | Translated from Shinichir5 Michida, Keiyaku shakai: amerika to nihon no chigai a miru (Contract Societies) (Yfihikaku. 1987). This translated extract covers Chapter 1. pages 1-4 and Chapter 2. pages 43- 77. All yen amounts have been converted to US dollars at the rate of 360 yen to the dollar, which approximates the exchange rate at the time the cases discussed were decided. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Professor Shinichir5 Michida (1923-1988) was a former Dean of Kyoto Law School (1980-82), Chairman of Japan's Comparative Law Association and Japan's first representative to UNCITRAL (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law). Veronica Taylor, B.A., (Honors) 1986, LL.B., 1988 Monash, Australia: LL.M.. 1992 University of Washington" Lecturer. Law School, University of Melbourne. Abstract: This translation of an original Japanese language work by Michida Shinichir6 contrasts the differences between the understanding of contractual obligations in the United States and in Japan. The translation cites specific differences between each country's statutes and case law, as well as distinct cultural factors that are important when considering respective understandings of contract in these societies. Translator's Introductory Note: This translation is intended to give readers an introduction to Japanese contract law theory and its operation in that society. Professor Shinichiri Michida was writing for a general audience in Japan, not simply for those with legal training. One of his aims was to debunk the myth that the Japanese have no sense of contract-a theory that had been popularly accepted within Japan, as well as in the United States. The value of this extract for foreign lawyers is that it demonstrates the interplay of codes, statutes, cases and scholarly writing in a civil law system like Japan's. As this extract shows, the major role of legal scholars in civil law countries is to synthesize reported cases and statutes by interpreting the underlying policy of code or statute provisions. Instead of criticizing and attacking court decisions and their underlying policy motives, however, Japanese commentators commonly affirm decisions and explain their reasoning in applying legal theory. The scholar's role in a civil law system is to generate legal theory, rather than to force its adoption by practitioners. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Seattle: Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, University of Washington School of Law | en_US |
dc.subject | Translation | en_US |
dc.title | [01PacRimLPolyJ199] Contract Societies: Japan and the United States Contrasted | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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Dining With Tax Collectors: Reducing the Tax Gap Through Church-Government PartnershipsW. Edward AfieldAve Maria School of Law April 30, 2010 Rutgers Business Law Journal, Vol. 7, pp. 53-126, 2010 Abstract: This article explores an untapped resource in improving tax compliance: partnerships between the government and Judeo-Christian religious organizations. Currently, most of the techniques the IRS employs to improve tax compliance are based on a traditional theory of law enforcement in which compliance is achieved through a combination of increasing the probability of detection and/or increasing the potential penalty. Although the IRS has begun to adopt some initiatives based on awareness that factors apart from a simple economic calculus motivate tax compliance decisions, these programs are still in their infancy. The solutions that the IRS is considering are worthwhile, but they are mere stopgaps. In order to achieve a more lasting improvement in compliance rates, the IRS must considerably expand its efforts beyond the traditional theories of enforcement and adopt strategies that help establish tax compliance as an underlying social virtue. Scholars have recognized this need, but the current literature has paid little attention to how religious organizations can be used to help effect this change in taxpayer attitudes. Partnerships between the government and religious organizations have significant potential to effect a culture change by providing more effective forums for taxpayer education than those currently used and by serving as intermediaries between taxpayers and the government. These partnerships, if implemented correctly (as they have been in other areas of law enforcement), potentially could help create a long-term norm shift that would improve compliance, without significantly burdening the IRS' already underwhelming resources. Number of Pages in PDF File: 75 Keywords: tax, religion, social norms Date posted: October 8, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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Moreton-Robinson, Aileen M. (2001) Treaty talk: past, present and future. Melbourne Historical Journal, pp. 7-14.
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After his video on Guild Wars 2's lack of a Dedicated Healer and it's lack of a Subscription fee. Youtube user WoodenPotatoes has made yet another enlightening video, on the game's lack of Raids. |
Interesting points even if I think a lot of it is because the game don't have what we usually call "raid gear" as well. It is the raid gear that is what make people bother to gather 25 or 40 players for a dungeon. I think they made the right call. |
A very good video. I've never listened to him before, but he makes for a good narrator. But yeah...I'm ready for raids to wander out onto the tundra, somewhere, and die. |
Originally posted by VicDonnegan I agree, it's nice to see at least one game coming out won't be all about raiding. |
Can someone explain me the difference between dungeon and a raid? |
Well, your title is really wrong. There are raids in GW2. Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video: |
Originally posted by thedarkess A dungeon usually have 5 or 6 players, a raid is between 10 and 48. |
Originally posted by Loke666 if the only difference is the number of players then it is the same thing to me. |
Originally posted by thedarkess To explain the difference I'll use my experience playing Rift as an example. In Rift once you hit level 50 you can start doing Expert Dungeons for better gear. These are 5-man, fairly difficult, PvE content; that you run over and over again until you have a full set of gear from the Expert dungeons. This is a gating system, because you need the gear, to get the stats, to be able to do Raid content and not be completely useless. Now Raiding in the game is 20-man, more difficult, PvE content. It tends to introduce much harder mechanics, for each boss and because of that it tends to require more co-odination (usually one dude yelling on vent). Raids come in multiple Tiers (difficulties) and just like dungeons, you run them over and over again until you have a full set of gear for the next Tier of Raids. This is known as the gear treadmill ^_^ |
Originally posted by Loke666 initially in EQ raids were not strictly bound by numbers of players. guild wars and guild wars 2 have dungeon crawls, and if you think of dungeon/raid in WoW terms then they would be raids. they are not quick consumable, low difficulty content that you run in the morning before school. they take an hour or more to do, and they are hard. |
people Raid to get good gear for pvp. So say you want to be good at pvp but need the gear, you must raid your ass off to get the gear only to find out that your opponnents have done the same thing and have the same gear maybe better. Since gear in MMOs like WoW is important in PvP, everyone is doing it. In guild wars pvp is based on player ability and skill , and 25% is gear related (armor value is same but there are different bonuses that you can customize on). In traditional MMOs gear accounts for 75% since the other 25% is based on skill tree and pressing 1, 2 , 3 , 4 ,5 , 6 on your keyboard repeatedly. Raiding ruins the combat because if you dont raid you dont stand a chance in PvP. Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 has structured PvP which means everyone has access to everything and the limit if only the mind. -I am here to perform logic |
Originally posted by VicDonnegan The sooner the better, imo. Very stupid MMO design created by SOE that should have ended there. |
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His big point, role dilution, has always been my main justfiication for my preference for 10 man raids over larger raids. WoW's first 10 man raid, Karazhan, was fantastic. It was well balanced and appropriately difficult. More importantly, everyone's performance mattered so much more. If anyone was slacking off, the rest of the raid knew it. In the former 40 man raids and the new 25 man raids, 3 people could afk half a boss fight and the others might not even notice. Once Zul'Aman was released, my attitude towards 10 man raids was confirmed. During that expansion, I was part of a guild who had numerous server firsts. Myself and most others in the guild had 5/5 tier 6 for every spec. We were way overgeared. Enter ZA timed runs. You absolutely had to use only 2 healers for the first 4 bosses if you wanted to complete it in time. It was the most intense healing experience in my life, FAR more difficult and engaging than anything I had ever done in 40 or 25 mans. And it felt extremely rewarding as a result. Everyone one of us knew exactly how well we performed, and we each appreciated each other more for it. Basically, I totally agree with this video's point to that end. I do not like how diluted your role can become in super large raids. I do however enjoy a distinction between smaller normal dungeons and larger raid content. 10 just feels like the magic number based upon my experiences. So I will lament the loss of groups greater than just 5. But who knows? Maybe 5 will feel right for GW2 without the trinity. |
Originally posted by thedarkess Hahaha good one m8. Its a winner |
A dungeon is a dungeon, a raid is a raid. The word 'dungeon' has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of people venturing within. Diablo 1 and 2 were essentially dungeon crawlers even though you probably spent the majority of your time playing alone. When people refer to raiding, they're talking about large-scale raids where groups, or several groups joined in an alliance, 'raid' (the literal definition simply meaning to steal) a 'dungeon.' So, no, there are no 'raids' by the typical MMO definition in GW2. But yes, there is in fact, 'raiding', where a group of people (albeit a small one) go into a dungeon for the loot at the end. That it's almost entirely aesthetic makes no difference to what it is and the ultimate goal. So, the people that don't want a game that's all about end-game raiding will be happy, because they don't have to do it. At all. The people that DO want end-game raiding, have nothing to bitch about it. It's there. It's just not technically 'end-game' because the entire game is supposed to be end-game. The arguments for one side or the other have never and will never make a lick of sense. "Forums aren't for intelligent discussion; they're for blow-hards with unwavering opinions." |
i'm stoked for GW2 but on the other hand i love large scale raiding. there's just something about killing a boss with crazy mechanics with a large group of people. fights where people get carried is a whole different story all together, but pushing progression content in harder games is what makes me wake up in the morning. you either down a boss with the large group or a couple fails are holding you back and you don't get the win. for me the more players makes for a bigger emotional high when the boss drops. this is just me though. Experience is the best teacher.. if you can afford the tuition. |
Originally posted by Daddydazzle That's what the events are for. Large groups, larger than most MMOs in fact, getting together to kick a giant boss' ass with crazy mechanics and a giant chest that appears for everyone to loot afterwards. It's really all there, the only difference is you're not entering an instance to do it, which is precisely what MMOers these days have been complaining about so often. Not saying you have, I'm just saying in general. "Forums aren't for intelligent discussion; they're for blow-hards with unwavering opinions." |
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Awesome! Glad to hear it. I already have a job. Just another reason to get it at launch. |
I usually start to get bored in a MMO where the "Raid or leave" starts.... I´m so glad GW2 won´t be the case :) |


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The fact remains: Snapchat itself doesn't make money. Facebook bid the $3b on it in order to eliminate the threat of a future competitor, not because it's a promising revenue source.
At some point during the hype cycle Snapchat may be valued at more than the $3B offered by Facebook. But that is valuation and doesn't mean there will be a willing buyer at that moment. Regardless, an exit at $3B would have been a huge win and the risk of trying to build a viable revenue generating business for this product is enormous.
I can't help to think that Snapchat is a trend that will fade away as the next cool thing grabs the attention of teens. What do you think?
It was obvious that something drastic needed to change at Yahoo. Love her or hate her, Marissa Mayer is bringing about that change.
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Fascinating thoughts on complexity, people, and chaos.
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Most of what is created is intended to do good. Still, many of our creations can be used for the not-good. This not-good use could come about intentionally or unintentionally. As socially responsible creators, innovators, entrepreneurs we have the opportunity to design our creations to maximize use that affects users — and the world — in positive ways, and prevents or redirects not-good use.
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Corporations, for the most part, aren't going to reinvent themselves by improving on the core competencies they've been honing for years. Instead, if they're going to change, they're going to do so from the outside in, allowing ideas from the edge of the company to penetrate to the core. Social media will be a part of that transformation.
The examples in this article are just the tip of the iceberg. The ability to extract actionable insight from giant data sets will be a huge competitive advantage and enable companies to innovate at remarkable rates and deliver increasingly exceptional customer experiences and value.
Elliot Jay Stocks on what responsive web design is — and is not.
Jim Ramsden:
Mobile was a useful term when it was new and niche. You could use it in a conversation to narrow things down. Now it's so broad it's fast becoming meaningless.
I've long argued the same for the term "social media". Catchall terms breed ambiguity and lead to misunderstanding and poor execution. As a discipline matures, the language used to articulate its concepts must mature as well. It is time. We need to define and use more extensive vocabularies for "mobile" and "social media". Stay tuned.
Greg Satell:
Creative geniuses tend to be less the ones with the quickest answers and more the ones who keep working till they get it right.
Christopher O'Malley:
What can make the game of IT so challenging is finding the right balance between strategic and tactical investments. CIOs must decide on the best mix of initiatives that hold both compelling long-term ROI potential, as well as, those that provide tactical service improvements for supporting existing demands. In the real world, budget pressures often have a way of pre-determining this balance to the tactical extreme.
While IT is hit particularly hard by this problem, it affects many functional areas of the enterprise. When tactics win over strategy you run the risk of blazing a path into the forest only to discover you are lost.
Dustin Curtis:
A question that inevitably comes up very early in the process of designing a new app is this: should the interface refer to the user as "your" or "my" when talking about the user's stuff, like in "my profile" or "your settings"? For a long time, this question ate at my soul. Which is right?
Interesting thoughts about the relationship the user has with the user interface.
As a rule, stay away from both "my" and "your" in navigational elements — this is often implied — and use "your" when the interface communicates with the user but only if needed for clarity.
Harold L. Sirkin, writing for Businessweek:
Many people — including a lot of senior executives I've talked to — think innovation is primarily a research and development function. But innovation should be understood to include the entire value chain: from R&D to engineering, manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, and even facility utilization and investment strategy.
An innovative product rarely leads to sustainable competitive advantage. By contrast, a culture of innovation is a sustainable competitive advantage.
Whitney Johnson, writing for Harvard Business Review:
Fewer resources produce proximity; proximity drives innovation. [...] Proximity can lead to friction, and friction can rub people raw. But it can also light a fire, one that warms and binds us into a family.
Or a high-functioning collaborative team.
Emily Maltby and Shira Ovide, writing for the Wall Street Journal. Reporting on findings from WSJ and Vistage International survey:
Just 3% of 835 business owners surveyed […] said Twitter had the most potential to help their companies.
LinkedIn […] topped the survey, with 41% of respondents singling it out as potentially beneficial to their company. Sixteen percent picked YouTube […] and 14% chose […] Facebook.
And summarizing the feelings of "many" small business owners:
Many owners […] tend to think the "value" of social media comes primarily from measurable factors, such as pageviews, click-throughs or direct sales.
Not surprising. It is easy to understand and optimize for things that are easily quantified. These are often important indicators of near-term health. But it is equally important to keep a sharp focus on your brand and evaluate how short term efforts may affect long term potential — not so easily measured.
Daniel Pink, writing for the Washington Post on why ambiverts make the best salespeople and leaders:
The conventional view that extroverts make the finest salespeople is so accepted that we've overlooked one teensy flaw: There's almost no evidence it's actually true.
Harry McCracken, writing for Time:
App.net's other big idea is that it relies on its users, rather than advertisers, to pay the bills.
App.net charges a monthly fee to its users. This makes it akin to a country club — if you can afford to pay you can play — and breaks the core principle of equal access to all that other social media platforms embrace.
Joseph Perello, writing for Ad Age:
If you want to be an expert in something useful and lasting, it should be in two areas: 1) finding undiscovered insights and 2) testing theories at a tiny cost, without sinking the ship. And once they're proven, start growing them with amazing speed, adapting and adjusting constantly along the way.
Joe's main premise is spot on: Expertise is a balance between accumulated insights and the ability to discover new insights and apply them in a fast changing environment to achieve specific objectives.
Tim Rayner:
Hacker culture is a gift culture. Gift cultures revolve about common pool resources that are created and maintained by communities. Participants engage socially with one another by pooling gifts into the commons. The greater and more valuable their gifts, the more prestige they amass in the eyes of their community, and the more social capital they earn that they can draw on down the track.
There is room for debate here. Still, the idea of social media as a gift culture — like hacker culture is a gift culture — is intriguing and offers a perspective that helps us to better understand, participate in, and draw value from social media.
The market isn't finding immediate promise with Facebook Graph Search. Surprising? Not to me.
Peter Kafka, writing for All Things D:
[the market] wanted to see more from Facebook, it thinks Google is just fine and it's not worried about LinkedIn. But it thinks Yelp could see real competition from Mark Zuckerberg and company.
Using search to discover friend recommendations just doesn't feel like a big deal.
Nate Elliot, in Jennifer Van Grove article for CNET:
"For them to call this big news feels like a bad joke ... They're taking an unacceptably bad part of the service and making it usable."
We tend to get our social cues from what our friends do in real life. What we learn becomes part of our awareness and influences our buying decisions. We typically know the restaurants where we live and look for recommendations when traveling. And then don't we want to get recommendations from locals? For electronics, do we look to our friends or professional review sites like engaget, gdgt, headfi?


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COLUMBIA — With a 3-0 sweep at South Carolina on Sunday afternoon the Tigers brought themselves within one win of securing the SEC championship.
Senior Molly Kreklow led the short match (25-13, 25-12, 25-16) with 33 assists and matched libero Sarah Meister with eight digs. Senior Lisa Henning and junior Whitney Little both had seven kills.
Junior Regan Peltier had two kills in the victory, including the match-finisher.
"It's nice to know that you finished the game and you put the cap on a game," she said.
Now 31-0, the team was coming off a sweep at No. 5 Florida but knew South Carolina wouldn't hand the match to them.
"We were all very focused," Peltier said. "We knew we still had a lot to prove."
That's the recurring theme for the team this year. But now that the Tigers are 31-0, what do they still have to prove?
At the beginning of the year, the team's goals included winning the SEC Championship and getting to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament, Peltier said.
"At the beginning of the season, we all had faith that the goals that we were setting were achievable," Peltier said.
Now the team wants to continue on that trajectory.
"We just want to prove that we're a force to be reckoned with," Peltier said.
The Florida sweep also gave the team a more solid confidence, freshman Emily Thater said in a post-match broadcast.
"We can give anybody a good game," she said.
The Tigers face Mississippi State at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Hearnes Center. The team is one game away from clinching the SEC Championship.


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Suppose that we have two different discreet signal vectors of $N^{th}$ dimension, namely $\textbf{x}[i]$ and $\textbf{y}[i]$, each one having a total of $M$ set of samples/vectors.
$\textbf{x}[m] = [x_{m,1} \,\,\,\,\, x_{m,2} \,\,\,\,\, x_{m,3} \,\,\,\,\, ... \,\,\,\,\, x_{m,N}]^T; \,\,\,\,\,\,\, 1 \leq m \leq M$
$\textbf{y}[m] = [y_{m,1} \,\,\,\,\, y_{m,2} \,\,\,\,\, y_{m,3} \,\,\,\,\, ... \,\,\,\,\, y_{m,N}]^T; \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, 1 \leq m \leq M$
And, I build up a covariance matrix in-between these signals.
$\{C\}_{ij} = E\{(x[i] - \bar{x}[i])^T(y[j] - \bar{y}[j])\}; \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, 1 \leq i,j \leq M \\ \mbox{Where, "E{}" is the "expected value" operator.}$
What is the proof that, for all arbitrary values of $\textbf{x}$ and $\textbf{y}$ vector sets, the covariance matrix $C$ is always semi-definite ($C \succeq0$) (i.e.; not negative definte; all of its eigenvalues are non-negative)?


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Some turkeys got a reprieve last week.
Shares of Research In Motion (ticker: RIMM) and Nokia NOK -1.9305019305019304% Nokia Corp. ADS U.S.: NYSE USD7.62 -0.15 -1.9305019305019304% /Date(1429304582262-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 88834320 AFTER HOURS USD7.63 0.01 0.13123359580052493% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1049088 P/E Ratio 6.625510825145639 Market Cap 28335855240.735 Dividend Yield 2.0878740157480316% Rev. per Employee 272860 More quote details and news » (NOK), which had been down 37% and 43% for the year, respectively, until last week, surged by 27% and 29% during the abbreviated four-day holiday session ending Friday.
In the case of RIM and Nokia, both had been pretty much left for dead this year, but they've enjoyed new life since the Street decided to believe the duo has a chance at a comeback in 2013.
RIM, at a recent price of $11.66, is up 87% from its 52-week low of $6.22, while Nokia, at $3.56 for each of its American Depositary Receipts as of Friday's close, has more than doubled from its low of $1.63.
Can such magical rebounds continue into the new year?
Yes, they probably can.
There is nothing to say that either company will succeed in the brutally competitive world of mobile technology, where Apple aapl -1.1254656415946738% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD124.75 -1.42 -1.1254656415946738% /Date(1429304400087-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 49755091 AFTER HOURS USD124.6701 -0.0799 -0.06404809619238477% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2201955 P/E Ratio 16.700133868808567 Market Cap 726637318847.656 Dividend Yield 1.5070140280561122% Rev. per Employee 2153110 More quote details and news » (AAPL), Samsung Electronics (005930.Korea), and Google goog -1.8265267890595729% Google Inc. Cl C U.S.: Nasdaq USD524.05 -9.75 -1.8265267890595729% /Date(1429304400084-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2051808 AFTER HOURS USD523.901 -0.149 -0.028432401488407595% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 94147 P/E Ratio 25.859474076376863 Market Cap 359634633614.606 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1228170 More quote details and news » (GOOG) dominate by dint of vast resources, tremendous market share, and little of the baggage Nokia and RIM carry.
But stocks such as RIM and Nokia aren't weighed down by the burden of actual results. They aren't investments, per se, they are pure speculation that has at least a couple more months before reality hits. Therefore, their shares can continue to float upward until the yay-sayers are proven wrong.
Both stocks are pegged to the popularity of new devices that could slow the decay in their crumbling smartphone businesses.
In the case of RIM, it is scheduled to unveil on Jan. 30 a new operating system for its BlackBerry hand-held, called BB10, along with two new devices running the software.
Early reports indicate these machines will be nothing like the failed Storm touch-screen clunkers, but rather swift, streamlined hand-helds that come closer to the magic of Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy line of phones based on Google's Android software.
In Nokia's case, it's hoping to turn around a year-over-year plummet from third place to seventh place in global smartphone sales as of the third quarter. That effort hinges on sales of Microsoft's MSFT -1.2926944971537002% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD41.615 -0.545 -1.2926944971537002% /Date(1429304401427-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 41507620 AFTER HOURS USD41.56 -0.055 -0.13216388321518682% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 879988 P/E Ratio 16.646 Market Cap 341400533047.125 Dividend Yield 2.9796948215787578% Rev. per Employee 728656 More quote details and news » (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system. Nokia just started selling a handset called the Lumia 920, running the latest version of Windows Phone, in the last month or so.
THE FIRST THING ONE NOTICES after a brief review of the financial past of both companies, as well as the projections for the near future, is how far each company has fallen, but also how each could fare better with even a mild turnaround.
After a sales decline of 12% last year at Nokia, revenue will probably fall 22% this year, according to FactSet's consensus projection by analysts.
From an adjusted profit of 38 cents per ADR last year, Nokia may report a net loss of about that much this year.
Sales aren't expected to pick up until 2014, and just a paltry 2.5% at that. But with a smaller sales decline of 2.3% next year, Nokia could report a much smaller loss of just six cents per ADR.
Likewise, RIM's revenue is projected to drop by 40% in the fiscal year ending in February, worse than last year's 7.4%, while the company may swing from an adjusted profit of $4.20 to a loss of $1.29.
Still, even a mild turnaround next year could help profits dramatically for RIM: The Street sees a 2.2% rise in revenue next year, but net losses may dramatically improve to just 56 cents.
The second thing you notice is how tenuous those potential rebounds are, at least as the analysts describe them.
THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF RIM'S surge last week was two notes trumpeting a slightly better outlook. One was from Kris Thompson of Canada's National Bank Financial, who had already raised his rating on the stock to an Outperform from Market Perform about two months ago. Thompson's update, unleashed late Wednesday afternoon, said that things could be a bit better next fiscal year if BB10 helps drive sales of BlackBerry devices from perhaps 28.5 million this year to 35.5 million next year.
Wrote Thompson, "If we're even halfway correct with our $2.3 billion Ebitda forecast, and management can stabilize the business on a recurring basis, then we're off to the races with a current enterprise value of just over $3 billion."
But another analyst came away with a somewhat different view. Jefferies' Peter Misek, who had maintained an Underperform rating on RIM stock for a year now, on Tuesday upgraded the stock to a Hold.
Misek's mixed reasoning: Although BB10 has only a 20% to 30% chance of success in smartphones, in his view, the payoff in that event could be huge.
A success with BB10 could make RIM a $43 stock, Misek estimates.
THINGS WERE SIMILARLY wishful for Nokia.
On Thursday morning, Helsinki-based Ilkka Rauvola, who follows Nokia shares for Danske Bank Markets, raised his rating from Sell to Buy on Nokia.
His reasoning is that the chatter from the field suggests demand for Nokia's Lumia 920 is better than expected, with reports here and there of stores selling out of the first batch.
How much better? Hard to say, Rauvola told me. These are initial supplies that are limited in quantity, and it is impossible to say if Nokia is on a path to sell millions of Lumias initially, or merely hundreds of thousands.
(By way of comparison, Apple sold five million of its iPhone 5 in the first week they went on sale in October, so the bar is set high in the smartphone world.)
The point, Rauvola tells me, is that demand for the phones, regardless of actual volume, is "going in the right direction," versus an absolutely disastrous view of Nokia of late.
This isn't investing, it's gambling. When the music stops, sometime next spring, as first-quarter smartphone sales are reported, reality could set in for both companies.
I don't think either one stands much of a chance over the long haul; they've simply fallen too far behind Google and Apple and Samsung to ever matter much again, regardless of how good their devices are.
But until the music does stop, such open-ended speculation will likely continue and could probably be good for a trade, at least for a few months.
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Attanayake, D.R., Hunter, G. J. A., Denholm-Price, J. C. W., Pfluegel, E. and Wigmore, Angela (2012) Intelligent assistive interfaces for editing mathematics. In: 1st Workshop on Future Intelligent Educational Environments (WOFIEE'12); 26-27 June 2012, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Workshop Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, no. 13) ISBN 9781614990796
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Jonathan Boutin allowed 3 goals on 27 shots in the loss.
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Ryan Munce was spectacular Sunday in a 39 save shutout of the Pensacola Ice Pilots earning *First Star* honors and securing a split for the Wolves in the two-game weekend road trip down I-10 to Pensacola. Mississippi won Sunday's match by a score of 1-0 after dropping a heartbreak OT loss to the Pilots Friday night 4-3. Mississippi's 1st goal Friday night was a tally banged home by Norfolk fav Brett Angel after a Stan Lascek wrap-around attempt.
Call up Ramo. It's time. Hell, it's past time.
Johan Holmqvist allowed 3 goals on 9 shots for the loss before giving way to Marc Denis who allowed 3 goals on 15 shots the rest of the way.
Look, I understand there was a business decision that had to be made at the start of this season that precluded Karri Ramo making this team over Marc Denis. However, this team is collapsing under the weight of putrid goaltending and the resulting lack in confidence and morale that comes from it. This team is playing joyless hockey. There is no swagger, and the reason is simple: this team has to work hard right now to generate scoring chances and score goals and nothing saps a team of its juice more quickly than pouring on the effort to generate 4 or 5 good scoring chances only to have the other team come down on a relatively harmless play and pop in a soft goal. That happened tonight, and it's been happening all season and now it's finally coming to a head.
12/10: Lightning-1 at Leafs-6 Holmqvist 4/22 (L) Denis 2/7
12/13: Flames-9 at Lightning-6 Holmqvist 4/6 Denis 4/25 (L)
12/18: Lightning-2 at Thrashers-6 Holmqvist 3/9 (L) Denis 3/15
That isn't in the span of a season, or even in the span of a month. That's in the span of 8 days, and you can spread some blame around to the defense and to turnovers by the forwards, but ultimately common sense says you have to look at your goaltending when you allow 6 or more goals in 3 of the last 4 games. It wouldn't be so bad if teams were simply abusing Holmer high glove side like has been prone to happen over the last couple of seasons. It wouldn't be so bad if teams were simply abusing Denis and his slow feet by making plays moving the puck east to west for one time shots. Those are goals that the defense can at least do something to try to prevent. No, what you saw tonight on the Recchi and Thorburn goals where pucks going through Holmer and Denis, and those are the kind of goals that are inexcusable on this level of hockey.
Now, rather than trading anything that's not nailed down there is a simple move that ought to be made immediately to try and staunch the bleeding. You see, there are folks like me (and I suspect at least one or two people in the organization too) who honestly believe the best goaltender in the organization is playing in Norfolk. Call up Karri Ramo. Call him up because he won't allow pucks to go through him. Call him up because his unflappable swagger might just be contagious. Call him up and see what happens when the team realizes they aren't entering every game spotting the other side (at least) one goal. Call him up because at this stage of the game you just don't have a choice.
October was the time for business decisions. Fine. It's December, the team is 3 games under .500 and tied for second to last in the conference. Now is the time for a hockey decision. Business be damned.
Call. Up. Ramo.
It's time.
Box score from NHL.com.
Johan Harju did not play in Lulea's 3-1 loss to Skelleftea.
Andreas Holmqvist had 2 assists, 1 on the power play, and 6 penalty minutes as Frolunda shut out Farjestads 4-0.
Sweden finished 0-3 in the Channel One Cup on the Euro Tour yesterday. Lightning prospect Johan Harju appeared in the tournament for the Swedes posting an assist and 6 penalty minutes largely in fourth line duty. Russia finished atop the tournament table at 3-0 led by former Lightning prospect Fedor Fedorov.
North American junior game results from Saturday and Sunday:
Losing sucks.
Johan Holmqvist allowed 3 goals on 32 shots for the loss.
First Period Tampa Bay 4:28, Paul Ranger 6 (Vincent Lecavalier) Washington 14:26, Tomas Fleischmann 5 (Michael Nylander, Alexander Semin)
Second Period Washington 0:08, Dave Steckel 2 (Brian Pothier) Tampa Bay 5:50, Vincent Lecavalier 22 (Vaclav Prospal)
Third Period Washington 5:06, Brian Pothier 3 (Matt Pettinger, Tomas Fleischmann)
Mathieu Darche was -1 in 16:28 with 2 penalty minutes, 3 shots, and 2 hits.
Mike Lundin continues to get minimal ice time, playing 11:39 tonight with a -1 rating a 1 blocked shot.
Blair Jones played 1 shift. 9 seconds. Someone do the math how much money he made on a per second basis tonight. Talk about easy money.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
Pretty sad when your goaltender only lets one in and you still lose.
Karri Ramo allowed just 1 goal on 27 shots but the punchless Ads were unable to give the young netminder a sliver of goal support. Ramo drops to 2-4-0 on the season.
Second Period PHI Powe, (2) , 10:08 (SH)
Friday night's highlights:
Eventually when you keep subtracting forwards, something like this happens.
Karri Ramo held Hershey to 1 goal through 40 minutes but the floodgates opened in the third. He allowed 3 goals on 25 shots in the game for the loss before being lifted for Jonathan Boutin who allowed 2 goals on 4 shots the rest of the way. Norfolk was outshot 29-20 in the game.
Second Period HER Joudrey, (3) (Potulny, McNeill), 8:50
Third Period HER Wilson, (6) (Barney), 3:47 HER Joudrey, (4) (Potulny, Lepisto), 5:07 NOR Stewart, (7) , 8:56 HER Barney, (3) (Wilson, Morgan), 10:14 HER Potulny, (9) (Lepisto, Wilson), 17:51 (PP)
Blair Jones was a key cog at forward for Norfolk so far this season playing over 20 minutes a night with a significant power play role. It will take time for the Admirals to adjust to his absence.
Ranking date: 2/17/2015