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The World's First 360-degree Infinity Pool
Plans are underway to build the world's first rooftop 360-degree infinity pool in London. UK-based pool manufacturer, Compass Pools, unveiled its design for infinity London, a 600,000-liter pool that would top a 55-story hotel, allowing visitors to float over 200 meters above the capital's skyline.
The planned pool would be made from cast acrylic rather than glass, transmitting light at a similar wavelength to water so the pool will look perfectly clear. The floor of the pool is also transparent, allowing visitors to see the swimmers and sky above. Swimmers will access the pool through a rotating spiral staircase based on the door of a submarine, rising from the pool floor when someone wants to get in or out.
Other technical features include a built-in anemometer to monitor the wind speed, which is linked to a computer-controlled building management system to ensure the pool stays at the right temperature and water doesn't get blown down to the streets below. It also has a transparent floor so visitors can see swimmers overhead, and an innovative heating system that captures hot gas produced through the building's air conditioning systems to warm the water for the pool.
The pool would also be equipped with colored lights designed to give the tower the appearance of a sparkling jewel at night, while the pool walls and floor is made of cast acryclic instead of traditional glass.
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"Mollie Stone's Markets …is thrilled to announce the March, 2011 opening of its ninth San Francisco Bay Area store at the site of the former Delano's Market, at 4201 18th St., San Francisco."
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I also agree. I've thought about this since our call from a few pragmatic and business angles. While I see the risks that Martin identified, I don't think people would invest in auditing and meeting conformance levels on individual pages just to spin it for better public opinion. Organizations are either committed to accessibility or they're forced to meet requirements due to regulatory or litigation reasons. Either way, that scope is defined by them, not W3C or a methodology. If organizations are committed to accessibility, we requiring a full website evaluation penalizes any phased efforts. Additionally, the concept of a "full website" is becoming less and less viable to companies in a component driven environment of content delivery. I do, however, want to request that we keep the URLs as a requirement in defining that scope (and not something smaller within a single page). Respectfully, Elle On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, RichardWarren <email@example.com>wrote: > Hi > I agree with Alistair. We are supposed to be developing a methodology to > help people deliver a reliable and trusted conformance claim (if > appropriate). It is not our job to rewrite WCAG. > > Richard > > *From:* Alistair Garrison <email@example.com> > *Sent:* Friday, January 27, 2012 4:03 PM > *To:* Martijn Houtepen <firstname.lastname@example.com> ; Eval TF<email@example.com> > *Subject:* Re: Concerns about not covering full website > > Hi Martijn, > > I too feel we are giving people who want to evaluate conformity to WCAG > 2.0 a guide on how to do a proper, representative evaluation... the > question I suppose is why must it be limited to only our definition of a > website? > > Can I just clarify something (it being late on a Friday) - are you saying > that in your opinion the evaluation methodology should primarily support > independent (e.g. third-party) evaluations of whole websites, like > something you might need to support some sort of conformance scheme / badge? > > I might be missing something, but I'd like to think that if I were a > website owner I'd be able to check the claimed conformance of my own page, > pages, sections, sub-domains or entire website using the W3C/WAI WCAG 2.0 > Evaluation methodology - and, without having to use a third-party. In fact, > I think I would raise questions / eyebrows if I couldn't... > > I suppose I would also like to think that if I verified my claimed > conformance myself using this Evaluation methodology people would actually > believe it - without the need to have it independently verified. We should > not forget, that there will be many folks out there who have a site but > cannot afford to get it independently verified... > > I'm certain that in this day-and-age a website owner would have more to > loose, than gain, by using 'smart wording' to inflate their claims. I would > even go so far as to suggest that the probability of a website owner making > a WCAG 2.0 Conformance claim for a small part of their site and then > implying its for the entire website (by saying or not saying) would be > small - especially as the whole point of the WCAG 2.0 Conformance claim is > to make this situation ever-so-plainly obvious... > > Even so, you appear to have questions about the actual worth of WCAG 2.0 > Conformance claims (something you might consider raising with the WCAG 2.0 > working group). Personally, I believe the WCAG 2.0 Conformance Claim > concept to be quite sound... and, I can't really understand why (as members > of a Task Force of the WCAG 2.0 WG) we wouldn't want to be encouraging > their use... > > The draft methodology is a draft, and as such not set in stone... I trust > we hopefully have the possibility to change it if the consensus view is > that the change (using a Conformance Claim to define our scope) is of > value... > > All the best... > > Alistair > > On 27 Jan 2012, at 14:55, Martijn Houtepen wrote: > > ** > > Hi Alistair, TF,**** > > **** > > I think this approach will be getting a little bit too flexible. As I > understand, all the work we have done until now is in order to evaluate > whole websites. We want "a standardized way to evaluate the conformance of > websites to WCAG 2.0." (quoted from the introduction of our draft > methodology), the whole draft document focuses on 'websites' instead of > web pages. I can understand from an owners point of view that he/she > sometimes will want to split up a whole website into several > subevaluations, but these subevaluations, in my opinion, will together > comprise the entire website, and not leave out some part for any reason.** > ** > > **** > > Some problems arise if we do follow this strategy:**** > > **** > > If we only check what the owner of a website wants us to check, this > creates the risk that an owner will only have the conforming parts of the > website evaluated. An owner of a inaccessible website can then, with a > little smart wording, proudly claim conformance (of f.e. a little > subsection). An experienced user can differentiate between strong and weak > claims, but a normal user can't. This in turn creates two potential > pitfalls: lots of 'empty' claims that in practice do not help users, f.e.: > "Our homepage conforms to WCAG **2.0"**, leaving out that none of the > underlying pages conform. Secondly the degradation of those claims that > are truly useful to an user "Page X claims to conform (using an 'empty' > claim) but I can't use it, so I probably also can't use page Y (that > conforms and has a useful claim). Confusion as to what an evaluated > conformance claim means, need to be avoided.**** > > **** > > Secondly, this will create the possibility to exclude key scenario's and > complete paths. Again from the introduction: "The Methodology defines > manual and semi-automated methods for selecting representative samples of > web pages from websites that include complete processes." I feel we are > giving people who want to evaluate conformity to WCAG a guide on how to do > a proper, representative evaluation of a website. If we only check pages > supplied by a website owner we can not always include key scenario's or > complete paths. I think we do not want a web store claiming conformance, > whilst it check-out procedure is inaccessible. Or YouTube claiming > conformance except for the pages that have video's. To form a statement > about conformance, I feel we have to be able to independently evaluate the > whole website including whatever it may contain. The resulting conformance > statement, if made, will then be of practical use for people with > disabilities, as they can trust a conformance claim to be of use for them. > **** > > **** > > Kind regards,**** > > **** > > Martijn Houtepen**** > > **** > > **** > ------------------------------ > > *Van:* Alistair Garrison [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > *Verzonden:* vrijdag 27 januari 2012 10:31 > *Aan:* Eval TF > *CC:* Eric Velleman; Detlev Fischer > *Onderwerp:* Re: Concerns about not covering full website**** > > **** > > Dear all, **** > > **** > > Due to its many perceived benefits, I have long been a passionate advocate > for using a website owner's WCAG 2.0 Conformance Claim as the scope of our > evaluation - writing several emails in the past months about this very > subject*. The following summarises my thoughts to date...**** > > **** > > I totally support the pros stated by both Detlev and Eric, emphasising > that:**** > > **** > > "This approach is very flexible and would make it possible for evaluators > to verify a WCAG 2.0 claim conformance for more stable websites or fast > growing websites, or portions of websites, sections of a website or even > single pages in a website - using sampling methods for large websites as > per our discussions." **** > > **** > > In addition, I strongly believe that: **** > > **** > > 1) It makes evaluation more reproducible, and more efficient, as we know > exactly what forms the scope of our evaluation (i.e. what is defined in the > WCAG 2.0 Conformance claim at the time of evaluation, from which samples > can be taken as necessary);**** > > **** > > 2) Once an initial evaluation had been done (scope WCAG 2.0 Conformance > claim) we would only ever need to assess new additions to the WCAG 2.0 > conformance claim on an on-going basis - hopefully saving people time and > money;**** > > **** > > 3) It tells the public exactly what conforms in the website - a bit more > like the VPAT. If the WCAG 2.0 conformance claim states, for example, that > a website's shopping process (defined by urls) conforms to x and y, a user > should know it will be accessible to them; **** > > **** > > 4) If the website contains any complete processes which back-ends into > third party pages - we are in fact prevented from just saying "the whole > website" conforms. A WCAG 2.0 Conformance Claim, on the other hand, could > be made for this website, and evaluated, if we choose to use WCAG 2.0 > conformance claims as our scope.**** > > **** > > 5) It supports, even promotes and encourages, detailed WCAG 2.0 > conformance claims to be made by the people responsible for entire websites > / parts of websites.**** > > **** > > It would also mean that the majority of Section 3 could be re-defined > simply e.g. "The scope of the evaluation is defined as all urls for which a > WCAG 2.0 conformance claim is being made, at the time of the evaluation".* > *** > > **** > > * Referenced emails from Nov / Dec 2011**** > > **** > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-evaltf/2011Dec/0004.html*** > * > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-evaltf/2011Nov/0073.html*** > * > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-evaltf/2011Nov/0086.html*** > * > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-evaltf/2011Dec/0023.html*** > * > > **** > > All the best **** > > **** > > Alistair**** > > **** > > On 27 Jan 2012, at 01:01, Velleman, Eric wrote:**** > > > > **** > > Hi Detlev, all, > > Yes, it was an interesting discussion this afternoon about the scope of an > evaluation :-). > > This afternoon we discussed the possibility to use the WCAG2.0 Evaluation > Methodology not only for full website evaluation, but also for parts of > websites. In the current version the evaluation focuses on the full website > with a possibility to exclude parts from the scope. If we want to include > evaluating parts of a website (like only the WAI part of W3C or only the > BAD website) this should be added in the scope section. > > Today a different approach was proposed: We look at it the other way > around: the Conformance claim determines the scope. > > This approach is very flexible and makes it possible to claim conformance > for portions of websites, possibly even for technologies or collections of > pages or single pages. This makes the Methodology much more flexible for > website owners who are not always interested in evaluation of the full > website. This is a change to the requirements document but it will provide > support for requests by website owners and evaluators wishing to just look > at a specific part of a website. > > I would propose that we do a short discussion this week on this approach. > Do we leave the scope completely free for the site owner to decide? > > Kindest regards, > > Eric > > > > ________________________________________ > Van: Detlev Fischer [firstname.lastname@example.com] > Verzonden: donderdag 26 januari 2012 17:16 > Aan: EVAL TF > Onderwerp: Concerns about not covering full website > > Hi everyone, > > I think a lot of the heat in the disacussion we just had may be down to > a misunderstanding. > > Eric, no one says that the evaluation of an entire webiste is not a good > idea or should not be done. If a site owner wants it done, that's fine. > > If however, a site owner wants to look at a particular section (that can > be many pages), it should be possible to evaluate just that. It's also a > cost issue. Any conformance claim must make that limited scope perfectly > clear, preferably by binding the evaluation to a set of URLs. > > Increasingly, sites have many different sections, like user generated > content. No sane person would claim even A-Level conformance for a wiki > or bulletin board that allows unstructured text input. It would fail SC > 1.3.1 in minutes or hours. That's why it is more straightforward to be > able to include things even if they are important processes on a site. > > Working out a sampling approach still makes sense even if you look at > parts of a site - and also if you evaluate the whole site. > > Regards, > Detlev > > **** > > **** > ** > > > -- If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, The Little PrinceReceived on Friday, 27 January 2012 17:53:41 UTC
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Limnology and Oceanography e-Books
Smith, Stephen V. 2013. Parsing the Oceanic Calcium Carbonate Cycle: A Net Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Source, or a Sink?
Stephen V. Smith
Emeritus Professor of Oceanography
University of Hawaii
February 2013
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The analysis presented here has two foundation blocks, both literally and figuratively. Coral reefs are iconic examples of the first block: shallow-water calcareous sediment and (eventually) limestone. In his 1842 book From the Voyages of the Beagle, Charles Darwin described the origins of coral atolls as thick limestone deposits from continued reef growth on slowly sinking oceanic seamounts. Besides coral reefs, other shallow, benthic, calcifying communities such as extensive banks dominated by calcareous green algae, oyster reefs, the diverse biotic communities found in temperate-climate kelp beds, also contribute to shallow water calcareous sediment formation.
The second foundation block has been known since the Challenger Expedition of the 1870s: calcareous pelagic sediments that blanket much of the ocean seabed, establishing the clear importance of deep-ocean carbonate deposits. An important aspect of these pelagic sediments is that the percentage of calcium carbonate in these sediments decreases dramatically in water depths greater than 3000-4000 m.
Besides their prominence as major sedimentary deposits in the contemporary ocean, shallow and deep water limestone deposits are found throughout much of the geological record. The comparative roles of shallow versus deep water carbonate sediment and limestone production, dissolution, and accumulation with respect to air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide gas are the subjects of the analysis presented here.
Beyond the scientific foundations of the Beagle and Challenger Expeditions of the 19th Century, more recent scientific papers and reflections on S. V. Smith's own research over the past 40-plus years have drawn attention to some interesting peculiarities in the calcium carbonate reactions, on important differences in net calcium carbonate reactions between pelagic and benthic calcifying systems in the global ocean, and on the carbon dioxide fluxes associated with those systems at the present and recent past, into the near future, over the past interglacial-glacial cycle, and through the geological history of the past 570 million years.
Stephen V. Smith became interested in limestones and limestone formation as a boy collecting rocks and fossils in Central Texas during the 1950's. That interest largely set the direction of his professional career.
He received his BA degree from the University of Texas in 1964, taking Bob Folk's famous (or infamous) course in carbonate petrology along the way. His MS thesis from Northwestern University (dealing with the petrology of Mississippian limestone mounds in the southwestern Ozark Mountains, under the direction of Larry Sloss; 1966) sharpened his interest in modern carbonate environments and processes. His PhD thesis in Oceanography from the University of Hawaii under Keith Chave (1970) dealt with rates of CaCO3 production in the temperate waters of the Southern California Continental Borderland.
He then studied processes of CaCO3 production in coral reefs and other calcifying environments in the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans, eventually expanding his interests to include organic, as well as inorganic, carbon production and oxidation during 30 years as a faculty member at the University of Hawaii and 8 years as an investigator at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (Mexico).


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Berlin Smart Grand Slam heads back to city centre
Berlin, Germany, March 11, 2014 – The Berlin Smart Grand Slam will return to the centre of the German capital in 2014.
In the past two years the tournament has been based on the edge of the city at the Forest Stage which is part of the Olympic Park, venue for the 1936 Olympic Games. This year the organisers IMG and the German Volleyball Federation have opted to move to a purpose-built 4,000 capacity venue on Washington Square, in front of the Central Station and close to the Chancellery and the Reichstag.
"Our sport is gaining in popularity and attracting the attention of many people," Germany's FIVB World Championships bronze medallist Kay Matysik said. "Playing in the heart of Berlin and in the middle of the government district will be a special experience for all us players."
This year is the seventh time that Berlin has hosted an FIVB Beach Volleyball tournament following the 2005 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and Grand Slams in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013.
The 2014 Berlin Smart Grand Slam is due to run from Tuesday, June 17 through to Sunday June 22, when both men's and women's finals will take place. As well as the centre court there will be a second court on Washington Square and a further two courts outside Berlin's North Station.
"Our big concern this year is to put sport back at the forefront of the city," Tournament Director Siegbert Brutschin said. "We have the best beach volleyball players in the world, the most beautiful city and a great venue. This will be a world-class event for both the players and spectators."


text: The Jewish Studies Program (JSP) offers both a major and a thriving certificate program. Partnering with Jewish agencies the JSP serves FAU's student population and the regional community of Boca Raton. The JSP at Florida Atlantic University is a center for Jewish Studies. The program offers a vibrant academic program to students and serves the larger regional community of South Florida (through events and cultural activities).


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Farmers throughout the North Island continue to hope for rain as the big dry bites hard, making conditions for some worse than the 2008 drought.
One of them is Peter Brown. Since the Herald last spoke to him two weeks ago, he has seen only a spattering of rain on his Ohinewai dairy farm.
Two weeks ago, Mr Brown said this year's drought was no worse than that of 2008, but after drying his herd of 199 cows seven weeks earlier than normal and with his stock condition not improving, he is starting to question that assessment.
"I was hoping we would have had significant rain by now, but it's causing more headaches by the day really," he said.
"It's biting into cow condition, which will affect next year's production, and if we don't get the grass we won't be able to put enough condition on our cows prior to calving and then that is going to impact on next year's production as well."
Mr Brown' stock are surviving on bailed silage trucked in from Waiouru and the maize silage he has produced on his 98ha farm, about 45 minutes' drive from Hamilton.
Despite temperatures cooling and the days becoming shorter, his farm, like dozens of others throughout the Waikato, needs at least 110mm of rain for the soil conditions to return to normal.
In 2008 those rains did not come until mid-April.
"Two weeks ago I believed we were in a better position but it's probably on a par at the moment and if you ask me in another two weeks and we still haven't had any rain I might say this actually supersedes that.
"But at this stage it would be on a par in terms of no adequate rainfall and the length of the dry spell, it has certainly gone on beyond the length of what we would call normal."
Mr Brown's thoughts have already turned to the next milking season and he is worried about his cows' condition and the fact that he has only seven weeks of feed supply left and costs for silage are rising.
Niwa agricultural climatologist Alan Porteous said more regions had been affected by this drought and the evapotranspiration deficit - which measures the missing soil moisture - from September to the end of February was slightly greater than during the 2007/08 drought.
Soil moisture deficits for more than 90 per cent of the North Island range from 70mm to 130mm, meaning this amount of rain is needed to bring soil moisture levels back to normal.
"This drought has affected more of Northland, more of the Bay of Plenty and it's more intense in places like Gisborne and parts of the East Coast of the North Island.
"Overall, it's probably worse than the 2007/08 drought in subjective language."
Little rain on the horizon
Dry conditions are expected to remain throughout much of the country until Sunday, when parts of the West Coast of the South Island are expected to get rain.
Weatherwatch head analyst Phillip Duncan said no quick fixes were in sight for the drought but the long dry spells of January and February were being broken by daily showers in many parts of the country. MetService forecaster Philippa Murdoch said a ridge of high pressure meandering slowly east meant more fine and dry weather this week.
Finance Minister Bill English said the latest Treasury advice estimated the drought could cost the economy as much as $2 billion.


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Interesting design problem with serialization and deserialization - Journal of Omnifarious
Feb. 2nd, 2011
02:36 pm - Interesting design problem with serialization and deserialization
I have been working on a serialization framework I'm happy with for Python. I want to be able to describe CAKE protocol messages clearly and succinctly. This will make it easier to tweak the messages without having to rip apart difficult to understand code. It will also make it easier to understand if I drop the project again and then come back to it years later, or if (by some miracle) someone else decides to help me with it.
Here is what I've come up with as the interface, along with one implementation fo that interface for a simple type:
class Serializer(object): """This is class is an abstract base class. Derived classes, when instantiated, create objects that can serialize other objects of a particular type to a sequence of bytes, or alternately deserialize a sequence of bytes into an object of a particular type.""" __slots__ = ('__weakref__',) def __init__(self): super(Serializer, self).__init__() def serialize(self, val): """x.serialize(value) -> b'serialized value' This is implemented in terms of serialize_iter by default. It is suggested that derived classes only implement serialize or serialize_iter and implement one in terms of the other.""" if self.__class__ is Serializer: raise NotImplentedError("This is an abstract class.") return b''.join(x for x in self.serialize_iter(val)) def serialize_iter(self, val): """x.serialize_iter(value) -> an iterator over the bytes sequences making p the seralized version of value.""" if self.__class__ is Serializer: raise NotImplentedError("This is an abstract class.") return iter((self.serialize(val),)) def deserialize(self, data, memo=None): """x.deserialize(data, [memo]) -> (value of the appropriate type, memoryview(remaining_data)) data must be of type 'bytes', or 'memoryview'. The memo must be a value extracted from a previous NotEnoughDataError. It is undefined what happens if you use memo and do not pass the same data (plus some possible extra data on the end) into deserialize that you originally passed in when you got the NotEnoughDataError you extracted the memo from. May raise a ParseError if there is a problem with the data. If the failure was because the parser ran out of data before parsing was finished, this is required to be a NotEnoughDataError.""" return self._deserialize(data if not isinstance(data, bytes) \ else memoryview(data), memo) def _deserialize(self, memview, memo=None): """x._deserialize(memoryview) -> (value of the appropriate type, memoryview(remaining_data)) Exactly like deserialize, except a memoryview object is required. deserialize is implemented in terms of _deserialize. Derived classes are expected to override _deserialize.""" raise NotImplentedError("This is an abstract class.")
class SmallInt(Serializer): """This class is for integers that are 8, 16, 32, or 64 bits long. They may be signed or unsigned. No other sizes are supported. >>> s = SmallInt(2, True) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: size is 2, must be 8, 16, 32 or 64 >>> s = SmallInt(8, True) >>> b = list(s.serialize_iter(5)) >>> b == [b'\\x05'] True >>> o = s.deserialize(b''.join(b)) >>> o = (o[0], o[1].tobytes()) >>> o == (5, b'') True >>> o = s.deserialize(b''.join(b) + b'z') >>> o = (o[0], o[1].tobytes()) >>> o == (5, b'z') True >>> s = SmallInt(8, True) >>> b = s.serialize(-5) >>> b == b'\\xfb' True >>> s = SmallInt(8, True) >>> s = s.serialize(128) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: 128 is out of range for an signed 8 bit integer >>> s = SmallInt(64, False) >>> b = s.serialize(2**64-1) >>> b == b'\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff' True >>> s = SmallInt(64, True) >>> b = s.serialize(-2**63) >>> b == b'\\x80\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00' True """ _formats = dict(( ((8, True), '>b'), ((8, False), '>B'), ((16, True), '>h'), ((16, False), '>H'), ((32, True), '>i'), ((32, False), '>I'), ((64, True), '>q'), ((64, False), '>Q') )) __slots__ = ('_size', '_signed', '_low', '_high', '_format') def __init__(self, size, signed): if size not in (8, 16, 32, 64): raise ValueError("size is %d, must be 8, 16, 32 or 64" % (size,)) self._size = size self._signed = bool(signed) self._format = self._formats[(size, signed)] def serialize(self, value): if not isinstance(value, (int, long)): raise TypeError("%r must be an int or long" % (value,)) value = int(value) try: ret = _struct.pack(self._format, value) except _struct.error: raise ValueError("%d is out of range for an %ssigned %d bit " "integer" % (value, ("un" if not self._signed else ""), self._size)) return ret def _deserialize(self, memview, memo=None): numbytes = self._size // 8 if len(memview) < numbytes: raise _NotEnoughDataError((self._size // 8) - len(memview)) else: data = memview[0:numbytes].tobytes() remaining = memview[numbytes:] try: result = _struct.unpack(self._format, data)[0] return result, remaining except _struct.error as err: raise ParseErrror(err)
There is also a
CompoundNumbered type for representing
tuples. This allows you to represent structured messages with multiple
fields. Here is example of how you might
represent CAKE new
session messages:
cake_newsess_v2 = _serial.CompoundNumbered( _serial.Count(), # Version _serial.Count(), # Type _serial.KeyName(), # Destination key _serial.KeyName(), # Source key _serial.SmallInt(64, False), # Session serial # _serial.CountDelimitedByteString(), # Encryption header _serial.CountDelimitedByteString(), # Signature. _serial.FixedLengthByteString(32) # Header HMAC )
There is a problem though. The signature and header HMAC are supposed to be encrypted, but the deserializer can't know the key to use until it's decrypted the encryption header. This means that later parts of the deserialization process need to know about things from previous parts.
I have a way for the deserialization process to save state. This is used so
that if deserialization throws a
NotEnoughDataError because not
enough data is available, the exception may have a
memo field.
memo field can then be passed in again to resume close to
where deserialization stopped. (Though now I'm sort of wondering if I
shouldn't do something generator based instead...)
But this mechanism does not allow state to be passed forward from a previous deserializer to a new one. And this applies the other way around too. When serializing there is stuff that's not really a part of the data being serialized (like the current HMAC or encryption state) that needs to be known by serializer in order to serialize properly.
I'm thinking of adding an optional
context parameter to the
serialization and deserialization functions that's just an empty dictionary
into which this sort of state can be stuffed. But this seems really messy.
Can anybody think of any better ways to do this that are fairly general?
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Branden Mathena aka Chi chi from Daisy of Love is talking about his time and dismissal from show. In this new interview with VH1, Chi chi remains positive when talking about his friendship with Sinister, his feelings towards Daisy and being called "creepy" by others.
How was the show for you?
It was fun. It was the best time of my life. I loved it.
Daisy was afraid that keeping you and Sinister on the show together was driving a stake through your friendship. Did you two reconcile?
Yeah, right away. We're best friends. We live together. We've been best friends for years. We've lived together for a while.
Nothing that he said ever took a toll on your friendship?
No, he never really upset me. I respect him for his opinion. I know he's my best friend, so we're just honest with each other. All you can do is be honest. You can't help the way you feel inside. When I watch the show – we watch it together every Sunday – it's like he's throwing me under the bus and making fun of me and stuff, and I'm like, "Wow, dude." 'Cause I would never say nothing bad about anybody so I'm just like, "Wow, that's just gonna make you look bad, idiot."
It's funny that you came off as one of the most sensitive guys on the show, yet unlike so many of the others, you didn't really cry after you were eliminated.
Yeah, I wasn't crying in the bathroom either, they edit that stuff. But yeah, I was just happy for Daisy, and I respect her decision. Like I said before: you can't help the way you feel inside, and if you're honest, people shouldn't judge you. I just want the best for her. I just want her to be happy.


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The web obesity problem is becoming an epidemic. Like the increasing trend in human obesity, websites have also increased about 25 percent from a year ago, with today's site averaging 2162 KB. In the past five years, websites have grown 208 percent. We're on information overload, with no plans to slim down.
Why Are Websites Getting Fatter?
By having a fatter website, the user experience is richer – higher quality images, more content, more personalization, more functionality, etc. are all contributing to the page growth. Additionally, continuous delivery and lean development methodologies mean more changes are coming faster. While these changes are useful, they come at the cost of performance. In fact, every added kilobyte makes a website slower. If nothing is done to these bloated websites, the problem will continue to escalate, eventually leading to frustrated users, increased site abandonment and decreased conversions.
In this slideshow, Instart Logic has identified five key factors that contribute to website obesity and dramatically affect latency.
Related Topics : SharePoint, Web Video and Voice Conferencing, UK, MySpace, Intranets
With an historic shift toward e-commerce, it's more important than ever that retailers have the right pieces in place to successfully capture online traffic and drive conversions. ... More >>
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Anyone have Model S charging information?
Anyone have Model S charging information?
Consider the Sun Country x-country network in Canada, 70A (free) all the way.
@nickjhowe - Your adaptor is BEAUTIFUL!! I didn't find a female 14-50 adaptor like this at Home Depot. Do you have to get these parts from an commercial electrical parts supplier or where?
I've been scouring ebay for a couple of weeks. It is easy to get them on commercial electrical sites, but they often want $100+ for the male, and another $100 for the female. If you are patient the come up on ebay and can be picked up for c. $20, as long as we don't all jump in at the same time!
The picture is the NEMA 14-30 plug; I've just got the 10-30 plug to make my other adapter. I coud have used stock dryer cords with molded plugs, but I preferred something a bit more robust.
Plus I picked up a NEMA 14-50p to 14-50r 30ft extension for $100 on Amazon. Tested it with the UMC and there's pretty much zero voltage drop. Now I should be able to charge at the two most common dryer outlets without any issues.
Probably never use any of them and the 50A extension is overkill but it is a cheap insurance policy. :-)
@nickjhowe - I want this insurance too. What's the difference among NEMA 14-50, NEMA 14-50p and NEMA 14-50r?
TM seems emphatic about not using extension cords. Is this simply a warning to scare people who might use inadequate extension cords?
@edavis008 - NEMA 14-50 describes the whole connector, and 14-50P is the plug while 14-50R is the receptacle.
There is technically no difference about having an extension cord and the wiring in your house -- ie plugging in on near your breaker box and running an extension cord will be the same as using the wiring in the house and plugging in nearer the car. The problem is that many people buy cheap extension cords, and they also aren't rated for continuous use -- most of the extension cords you buy for a regular 15A outlet aren't rated for anywhere close to 15A continuous.
If you use extension cords designed for RVs, and actually rated for 50A, you should be fine. Likewise if you are using a 6-50 adapter and using extension cords rated for 50A welders that would be fine as well.
A typical NEMA designation looks like L14-50r or 10-30p. In these examples the 10 or 14 refers to the type of connector, the L (or absence of L) indicates whether it is a locking-type connector, the 30 or 50 is the current rating and p or r identifies whether it is a plug or a receptacle.
14-50r is a fairly common 50A (40A continuous) outlet that is recommended for single inverter cars.
10-30r is a typical three pin dryer outlet that provides 24A continuous.
14-30r is a typical four pin dryer outletthat provides 24A continuous.
I think you are right about the 'scare' factor on cords.
There are many of you who know a lot about various kinds of connectors. Besides the 14-50 that comes with the Model S, what would be the next most likely plug we would find in the wild? 14-30? Then 10-30 is next?
Rather than make our own adaptor, What about this?
@Hills - that will work fine if what you need to plug it into is an L14-30, which isn't generally going to be in any house (the only place I have personally seen them is on generators and computer rooms for large UPSes).
I made 14-30 and 10-30 adapters, so I can plugin to dryer outlets at friend's houses if I need to. 6-50 would work for welders, if you have friends that weld. Beyond that, you aren't likely to get any use out of them unless you know a place with a specific outlet you want to be able to use.
Jat: Thanks. Ok, to plug into dryer outlet, I need non-locking kind of 14-30 and 10-30.
@Hills - correct. 10-30 is an older style receptacle. Newer ones (last 15 years) are more likely to be 14-30. To be on the safe side, if there is somewhere you are likely to go (my usual long distrance trip is to my mother in laws) ask them to send you a photo of their dryer outlet so you know in advance that you are OK.
Nickjhowe and Jat: Thank you.
I managed to find the 30 ft 50 Amp Nema 14-50 extension cord on Amazon, brand is Camco. I cannot find the adapters, which is probably why you made yours (looks beautiful). I am not motivated enough to learn to make my own. This is the closest I can find which looks like 10-30 on the male end. Can't find 14-30 adapter non locking kind. http://www.camco.net/Products/Item?prodID=10229
** If you don't know what you are doing, don't use these instructions **
@Hills - note that if you are going to make a 10-30 adapter, it is tricky. That is an ungrounded connector, and has the two hot phases and neutral. The 14-* series of connectors also has ground, and the Model S requires the two hot phases and ground and does not need neutral as it has no 120V loads. Neutral is bonded to ground at the main panel, and isn't supposed to be bonded anywhere else. So, you can route neutral from the 10-30 plug to ground on the 14-50 receptacle, but make sure you never ever use this for anything but charging the Model S as it is ungrounded.
@Hills - note that the Camco adapter is not NEMA 10-30, but instead a 120V plug (the 10-30 has an L-shape neutral pin, while the adapter above uses a rounded ground pin) that is a TT-30. You do not want this adapter, unless you happen to need to charge off a TT-30 receptacle.
Making an adapter should be a simple matter. The last time I was at my local Ace hardware store I saw 14-30 dryer cords right next to female 14-50 connectors. Both were around $10-12 each. I also found some adapters that are nicely molded and not very expensive on Amazon. I already got a nicely molded 10-30 to 14-50 adapter for around $20.
I also ordered a 10 gauge 100ft extension cord since I plan on driving up to Lake Tahoe. The place I'm staying at says they have 115v outlets but not next to the parking spaces. 10 gauge is suitable for 30A (24A continuous) though this would limit it to 12A. I figure with 10 gauge there will be a lot less loss compared to a 12 gauge extension cord. It's too bad that we can't up the current to 16A if we plug into a 20A 115v outlet since those are also rather common.
Would you share the link to the Amazon adapter you bought? I can't find it.
Here is the NEMA 14-50 50 Amp 30' extension cord I found,
@aaronw2 - someone did make an adapter from a NEMA 6-20 plug (20A@120V) to a NEMA 14-50 receptacle -- the mobile connector seems to be autoranging and will happily accept 120V even though the adapter is for 240V. You will still have to manually adjust the car to 16A though.
@Hills - that extension cord should be ok. When you first use it, check it every so often to make sure it doesn't get too hot to hold.


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SEATTLE – July 3 2013 – Blaze Bioscience, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company developing Tumor PaintTM technology, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, one of the nation's top cancer research and prevention centers and pioneer of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation, announced today a collaboration and option agreement to support the Hutchinson Center's Optides Discovery Program and advance drug candidates identified using the platform.
Optides, short for "optimized peptides," are tiny molecules derived from natural organisms such as scorpions, violets and sunflowers. Optides can be instructed to bind to particular kinds of cancer cells, disabling only those cells. They also can be attached to chemotherapy drugs, transforming them into precision therapies that spare healthy cells.
Under the terms of the agreement, Blaze will provide development and commercialization guidance, as well as access to Blaze technology, for optide drug candidates during the discovery phase at the Hutchinson Center. Blaze has the option to exclusively license commercial rights to optide drug candidates that achieve certain criteria. In addition to technology access and support, the Hutchinson Center has received an additional equity stake in Blaze and will receive further payments on each product candidate optioned by Blaze. Any optide candidates not optioned by Blaze will belong fully to the Hutchinson Center including any intellectual property developed or provided by Blaze in the discovery phase for that optide candidate.
Blaze's first development candidate, BLZ-100, is based on the first optide discovered by the Hutchinson Center. BLZ-100 is a variant of a peptide called chlorotoxin, which was originally derived from scorpion venom. This optide forms the backbone of the Tumor Paint technology previously licensed by Blaze.
"Collaborating on the Optides Program with the Hutchinson Center is a natural extension of our pipeline and utilizes our combined expertise," said Heather Franklin, co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Blaze. "Our Tumor Paint technology program has maintained its aggressive schedule to advance BLZ-100 from license to clinic in just two years. Helping the Hutchinson Center quickly advance additional optide product candidates with efficient technology transfer followed by rapid entry into the clinic benefit both the Hutchinson Center and Blaze, but more importantly, may ultimately benefit patients."
"We are pleased to establish this collaboration with Blaze. It is structured to efficiently match the Hutchinson Center's superb discovery science with Blaze's industry expertise in drug selection and peptide drug development in efforts to speed the transfer of Hutchinson Center optides discoveries to the clinic," said Ulrich Mueller, vice president of Industry Relations and Clinical Research Support at the Hutchinson Center. "This will further the Hutchinson Center's overarching mission to eliminate cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death."
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The largest mental-health facilities in the United States are not hospitals -- they are jails: in L.A. County, in Chicago's Cook County, and on New York's Rikers Island. Locally on any given day, the Hennepin County Medical Center Psychiatric Inpatient facility holds fewer mentally ill individuals than we hold in the Hennepin County jail, and quite frankly, many of these folks do not belong in our jail.
Over 35,000 inmates each year are booked into the Hennepin County jail. The Sheriff's Office manages and operates the jail, and is responsible for the safe and secure custody of approximately 750 inmates each day as they await the resolution of their criminal charges by the court. We provide food and required medical care. We securely transport inmates to court appearances and to other facilities as determined by the courts. We estimate that as many as 25 percent to 30 percent of inmates suffer from mental illness.
The jail has medical and nursing staff who regularly check on inmates and provide prescribed medications and mental-health screenings. The Sheriff's Office created a mental-health unit to allow for appropriate identification and placement of inmates with mental illness. Sheriff's Office personnel receive extensive training on custody and safety issues for mentally ill inmates. The program has won a national award for its innovative and humane approach.
Even so, we know that a jail is not the right place to house the mentally ill for extended periods of time. In particular, I am concerned about criminal defendants with persistent and severe mental illness who have been determined by the court to be incompetent to stand trial, and those who have been civilly committed for up to six months at a time (because they are mentally ill and a danger to themselves or others). These inmates have been evaluated by licensed psychologists and have been ordered to the care and custody of the Minnesota State Department of Human Services (DHS). Yet, the Sheriff's Office often is unable to make transfers, because there is a shortage of space at a suitable treatment facility. As a result, many of the mentally ill inmates stay in our jail for weeks and even months awaiting transfer and placement.
As an example, "T," a 28-year-old male, was arrested by Richfield police and charged with felony possession of a firearm; he was booked into the jail in July. He suffers from grossly disturbed behavior and faulty perceptions, and he poses a substantial likelihood of causing physical harm. He was evaluated by a court-appointed forensic psychologist and was determined by the court in mid-August to be incompetent to stand trial. After further evaluation, the criminal charges against T were stayed in late October, and he was committed by order of the court to the custody of the Commissioner of Human Services for inpatient hospitalization for six months.
Sheriff's Office personnel transported him to the jail to await placement in a treatment facility, and contacted DHS over and over again for two weeks before he could be taken to the hospital in St. Peter.
From the early 1900s through the 1960s, we permanently institutionalized the mentally ill. Following national studies like "The Shame of the States," exposing neglect, abuse and mismanagement in mental hospitals across the country, and the advancement of medication and treatment alternatives, states adopted policies to "deinstitutionalize" the mentally ill in favor of community living and progressive treatment.
While the concept of "deinstitutionalization" overall has been an important advancement in providing improved care to the mentally ill, the dramatic reduction in the number of psychiatric beds has had dramatic side effects: increased homelessness, increased numbers of mentally ill in emergency rooms waiting for psychiatric beds, increased demands on sworn officers (who become the frontline mental-health workers), an increase in the number of mentally ill individuals in our jails and prisons, and an increase in acts of violence committed by mentally ill individuals who are not being treated. (The recent mass shootings in Arizona and Colorado, as well as at the Accent Signage Company in Minneapolis, all come to mind.)
The Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs Association studied violent-crime statistics and trends, comparing them with the number of psychiatric beds available, and found a correlation: "When individuals with severe mental illness receive appropriate and effective treatment, their risk of committing violent acts is no greater than that of the general population. When they do not receive treatment, multiple studies have found their risk of violent behavior, including homicides, to be significantly elevated."
Ironically, Minnesota is a health care leader across the country, but we have the lowest number of psychiatric beds per capita in the nation: 3.9 per 100,000. (Others range from 4.1 in Arizona to 29.2 in South Dakota and 39 in Mississippi.) The Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Hospital has just 116 beds to serve all of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne and Ramsey counties. When we call to transfer an inmate, we often are told there is no space available.
The jail cannot serve as an adequate substitute for the care and treatment provided in a hospital. The conditions in any jail would have harmful effects on the mentally ill. High-intensity interactions, lack of privacy and noise levels add to the stress and agitation of these folks, and they get worse instead of better: They despair, refuse to come out of cells, refuse medications, exhibit psychotic symptoms, harm themselves and/or violently act out. By virtue of a court's order we know they are a danger to themselves or others, and the risks they pose to themselves, to other inmates and to our staff only compounds with each successive day without proper medical care and treatment.
It is unacceptable that DHS regularly and routinely violates the orders of the Hennepin County District Court. As a nation, we decided long ago, and I agree, that our society shouldn't criminalize mental illness. So why are these mentally ill individuals housed in our jails? It is certainly no more civilized or humane than a hospital. It is long past time that we address the epidemic of untreated mental illness and invest in additional intensive psychiatric beds and community placements to best serve those clearly in need of our help.
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- Wash and peel fruit and then cut into slices. If working with bananas, apples or pears soak in acidic juice (pineapple or lemon) to keep from turning brown.
- Lay fruit on a parchment covered baking sheet, making sure that the pieces don't touch.
- Place tray in oven and set oven for 200 degrees just enough to have a warm dry environment for the fruit. It takes several hours for it to dry.
- Remove from oven when fruit is chewy, not crunchy or squishy.
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15 comments:
- Jennifer said...
Do you have to peel the apples and pears? Would it work OK if you left the peel on?
- March 13, 2009 at 5:38 AM
- Elizabeth said...
What a great idea for using up fruit and much more economical than buying dried fruit at the store! Can't wait to try this.
- March 13, 2009 at 7:10 AM
- Gayle said...
Yes, you can leave the skin on . It's just a preference thing for us.
- March 13, 2009 at 7:15 AM
- Snow White said...
that's awesome! I've been wanting to make dried fruit, but without a dehydrator, I didn't know if it was possible. thanks for the information.
- March 13, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- Snow White said...
two other questions...
How long do they keep? And, how do you store them?
- March 13, 2009 at 7:30 AM
- The Happy Housewife said...
Sounds pretty easy, and I don't have to buy a food dehydrator! Great tip.
- March 13, 2009 at 7:33 AM
- HeathahLee said...
I remember when I was little my Daddy would dry fruit...it was SO good! I need to try this!
- March 13, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- km said...
Yeah! I finally remembered to post a recipe. I had to include something with Ramen. Maybe you can raid your boy's stash.
- March 13, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Chris and Annalisa said...
You have to try the BLT pasta I cooked this week. Sooooo good!!!
- March 13, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- Emily said...
Thanks so much for sharing this! What an awesome way to use up fruit, save money, and eat healthy!! We will definitely be trying this soon. My daughter loves to eat fruit also loves fruit snacks, but this will be so much better for her.
- March 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- Beth said...
This is so great! I've often wondered how to dry fruit at home without the expense of one of those large fruit drying machines. Thanks!
- March 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM
- Gayle said...
They keep several weeks in an airtight container.
- March 13, 2009 at 12:55 PM
- Amanda from Faith, Food and Family said...
This is really good to know. I thought that you had to have a dehydrator. I will have to try this. Thanks so much!
God bless,
- March 13, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- grocery mama said...
how fun, I'm glad i found this!
- March 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Snow White said...
We made dried pineapple yesterday -- it was delicious. Thanks for sharing how easy this is!
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ALBANY — With procedural deadlines looming for the state to act on whether to allow natural gas hydrofracking, a key health review of the controversial drilling technique is going to take longer, state Health Department Commissioner Nirav Shah said Tuesday.
In a letter to Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens, Shah wrote his agency's review of an unreleased DEC health study on potential health impacts from hydrofracking will require additional time to complete "based on the complexity of the issues."
Martens said that might not necessarily delay a DEC decision on hydrofracking, a gas drilling technique that been reviewed for more than four years and has spawned a vocal opposition movement concerned over potential pollution of water and air. Groups that support fracking insist the technique is safe.
Environmental groups hailed Shah, who wrote that the review, which is being done with the help of three outside experts hired by DEC, could be done "within a few weeks."
Several groups warned DEC to expect legal challenges should the agency try to approve hydrofracking without meeting legal requirements.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces public opinion polls that find state residents almost evenly divided on whether the state should permit fracking, which relies on a high-pressure mix of chemicals, water and sand pumped deep underground to break gas-bearing rocks.
DEC faces two apparent deadlines this month to release an overall environmental review for hydrofracking, and issue regulations to control how wells would be drilled. In order for proposed regulations to be issued by Feb. 27, which would avoid a deadline under the State Administrative Procedures Act that if missed would require another round of public comments, the DEC would have to issue its overall environmental review, called an Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, by Wednesday.
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While regulations cannot be finalized until the SGEIS is complete, this "does not mean that the issuance of permits for high-volume hydraulic fracturing would be delayed," Martens said in a prepared statement.
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Should Shah find that DEC failed with its health study, "we would not proceed, as I have stated in the past," Martens wrote.
DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis could not provide comment when asked whether DEC had legal options at hand to extend the Feb. 27 deadline absent Shah's completed review; extending the deadline would preclude the DEC from having to reissue regulations and put them up for more public comment, which could push back a decision by months.
The DEC is currently reviewing more than 200,000 comments on the current regulations.
An official of the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter said Martens could wade into a legal minefield if he moves too quickly. "Moving forward with permitting after the SGEIS has been completed and before a new regulatory review has been finalized will be met with fierce opposition," said Roger Downs, the group's conservation director.
That was echoed by a lawyer from Earthjustice, another environmental group opposed to fracking. The state will be "extremely shaky legal ground should it choose that course," said Deborah Goldberg.
Shah said the Health Department's hired experts need more time to review recent and pending scientific studies on potential health impacts from hydrofracking, including:
• A report issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ordered by Congress, that examines impacts on drinking water.
• A health study in Pennsylvania that is examining areas where hydrofracking is now under way for possible connections to asthma and other respiratory diseases, accidents and injuries, as well as birth outcomes.
• A study just announced by University of Pennsylvania in cooperation with Columbia University, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina.
Shah said state officials will travel to Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., "for firsthand briefings on these studies and their progress. ... I have also extended the term of the DOH outside expert researchers to continue to assist my review."
Said Sandra Steingraber, who heads New Yorkers Against Fracking, "We are confident that such a review will show that the costs of fracking in terms of public health are unacceptable. Commissioner Shah has indicated how important it is to do this right, which means bringing the public and New York state health experts into this process."
Yoko Ono, who heads Artists Against Fracking, thanked Cuomo for "taking time to do a more complete health study. ... We love you, governor."
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Upcoming ANZ Player Gatherings
#21 Posted 22 March 2018 - 06:58 AM
#22 Posted 26 March 2018 - 12:33 PM
_Rune, on 22 March 2018 - 08:42 AM, said:
Just crash
Something like 80 tickets for a Brisbane event is pretty small considering we had hundreds turn up to an internet cafe a few years back in another Brisbane Event..
Hi All,
Just to be clear here, while we would love to accommodate everyone, we do have a designated space and if we go over that, then it's unlikely we'll be able to let others in. We chose this bar because it felt like it was the right venue for what we wanted to achieve, given we've yet to visit Brisbane. I promise you though, if we get a good number of people we will be back!
#23 Posted 13 April 2018 - 10:28 AM
Edited by Junnygjw123, 13 April 2018 - 10:28 AM.
#24 Posted 13 April 2018 - 01:40 PM
#25 Posted 13 April 2018 - 02:20 PM
Edited by TheBudgiesmuggler, 13 April 2018 - 02:22 PM.
#26 Posted 16 April 2018 - 01:48 PM
Was not disappointed by this guy above me ^^
Thanks all for coming, I enjoyed Christchurch and Brisbane. I hope to visit you all again soon.
If you have follow ups to the (
drunken) conversations we had, please do message me.
#27 Posted 16 April 2018 - 03:32 PM
TO Victor Kislyi> Gamers in CHRISTCHURCH on the night of 12 APRIL were promised as follows;(this is what they sent us)
Hey Commanders! We're looking forward to welcoming you at the Pegasus Arms Hotel this Thursday to talk all about 1.0! Representing our Wargaming team will be Alex de Giorgio (Regional Product Director), James Kozanecki (Player Experience Manager, ANZ) and Joey Garcia (aka 'Conan' Community Evangelist). We'd love to make sure that any and all questions you have about 1.0 can be answered for you, so to make sure we can get to everyone if you have anything you're particularly burning to ask submit it as a reply to this email! If we can't answer it for you on the night we can keep a record and get back to you here.
What we got. (about 80 stakeholder gamers turned up..mixture of grown men,fathers with children,some Mothers with Children,Older Teens )
1. When I arrived the first thing I saw was there was a large screen with quicky baby commenting.
BUT the broadband/wifi was NOT working.
Not even one tank game in 1.0 could be shown without the game freezing every 1 min.
2. No computer stations were set up for gamers to try playing new maps. Not hard to do. Players next to me with their kids mentioned this to me.
3. Little if no Merchadise was evident. WOT James Kozanecki (player experience??? manager??) kept promising the merchandise following this event. Friday 13 April went by. Pergasus arms pub was caught in the middle fielding calls BUT confirmed even though email came to us, None arrived. Now its NZT 1900hrs 16 APRIL (Monday)..promised again today...still no promised merchandise.
4. Lastly. THE BIG ONE. Your rolling out some of the greatest gaming changes ever to hit gamers in WOT. Now I expected a discussion about the maps, the graphics, the things in development, the fps issue, etc. Even one discussion, please???
Nothing was discussed formally. You could argue that this above email did not promise this format?. All we got was a 45s announcement by Alex of a welcome.
5. Food and drink was in plentiful supply. Some people were fortunate to grab a large WOT engraved clear mug to drink from. Mainly grown men and definitely no kids got one. Surely the kids should get first chance if there is limited stock . My kids talked about for this for a whole month. You know the type of thing," ..what if we get lots of gold...what if we get this...cant wait..".
Overall, Victor, you had a great opportunity to impress 80 stakeholders with this marvelous 1.0 roll out and to SPOIL rotten your loyal players.
>Your employees have not followed through. I am disappointed as so are my kids.
Edited by fluffymouse, 16 April 2018 - 03:39 PM.
#28 Posted 16 April 2018 - 04:00 PM
#29 Posted 16 April 2018 - 05:17 PM
lol what did you expect.
On ANZ server release night in Sydney, there was no Q&As, no previewing the ANZ server, nothing of that sort.
It was just drinks, food, a tank and a helmet.
A. Guy on 02 June 2018 - 12:40 AM, said:
Destroyer of Tier 6 CW... says it all about you.
#30 Posted 16 April 2018 - 08:50 PM
Dear fluffymouse,
First of all, allow me to apologize to you that our player gathering was not to your liking. I would like to address the concerns you have brought up.
Yes, our mobile internet could not keep up with the stream. We were under the impression that there were no TVs at the venue, so we were trying make the most of what we had. While it worked fine at first, the stream didn't hold. Next time we definitely plan on predownloading videos ahead of time!
Indeed, there were no computers on the venue, we intended this to be a player gathering where not only will we interact with players but for the different players to be brought together and interact with each other. The event was about interaction between people, which is why we gave everyone name tags to write their IGNs on. By doing that we were hoping people would recognize other player names and strike up conversations. This is why we did not announce having nor brought any computers to the venue. We have tossed and turned on bringing PCs in the past, but felt that due to the social nature of the event that people wouldn't use them. If there's interest, it's something we'll look into for next time!
The merchandise got held up in Auckland due to severe weather conditions, this effected all of DHL's shipments for the day, not just ours. Please accept our sincerest apologies. The only things that arrived were half of the mugs/beer steins - unfortunately only two of the four packages arrived, and in accordance with Murphy's Law, the two boxes which were held up were the ones with bonus codes and the stress ball tanks. We worked really hard to come up with cool merch ideas and were excited to see how people reacted to them, so we're equally annoyed that we weren't able to hand out more on the night. However, we have told everyone there that they are expected to arrive soon. How soon is soon? That's unfortunately out of our hands, as there's a bit of a backlog of packages due to the mass volume delay. Regrettably there was some confusion on Friday about some boxes arriving on Friday, however we found out on Saturday (after we'd sent out the email on Friday) that the two boxes were not ours, so we tried to notify everyone about the mistake as soon as we heard. I'm sorry, I know that it is frustrating.
We will be sending everyone emails to notify them of the arrival of the goods so that you can pick them up at the venue at your leisure. The bar has been kind enough to allow us to distribute the remainders of the other boxes, which we really appreciate.
I will admit, I had fun in Christchurch and talked to a lot of people and discussed their concerns with the game and what they want to see in the future. Now, I truly regret that I was not able to talk to you. By the way you are disappointed this event, I know that you have a lot of questions and points to discuss with us. It may not be much, but we would like you to reach out to us since we missed the great opportunity to talk to you properly. Please do send us an email as you quoted us above. We have already received several of them from others. We will gladly answer them.
We are terribly sorry to have disappointed you and I would like to personally apologize for not being able to spend time with you. I only hope that you can reach out to us both so that you we can address your concerns and that you can help us improve our on ground events for everyone in the future.
#31 Posted 16 April 2018 - 09:12 PM
Well done Conana and others for the Brisbane meet. Had a great time even though I didn't stay long. I left with a code so I was happy - yay free stuff! Sure I would have liked a mug or an umbrella to put on my shelf but it's not like I would have used it. To be honest I play an online tank game so I don't have to be around actual people. TS is usually enough contact.
It was great to see Conana (albeit briefly) and for him to actually recognise me was pretty awesome too. Saw some of the (in)famous TE boys there which was good. Kudos to Saffee for coming all the way up to Brisbane.
I should have brought a few more of the second series gift boxes to give away. I have a couple more at home with expired codes -maybe the WG boys could do something with them?
#32 Posted 17 April 2018 - 05:44 AM
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#33 Posted 17 April 2018 - 06:20 AM
tis a pity they havent learnt yet what players that spend hours on this game actually would like or expect from these gatherings
shi t you could even have a age bracket box to tick so they could cater for what is coming rather than guessing
but of course i dont know anything i just play ther game
RIP MUM 02/08/2018 May your spirit carry me on till we meet again
#34 Posted 17 April 2018 - 07:34 AM
#35 Posted 17 April 2018 - 07:44 AM
Aussie_Kozzy, on 17 April 2018 - 07:34 AM, said:
We'll be back in Auckland at some point in the not too distant future, we just wanted to make sure we share the love around so it's important we go into towns we're yet to visit
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#36 Posted 17 April 2018 - 08:03 AM
MM_is_Broken, on 17 April 2018 - 08:20 AM, said:
tis a pity they havent learnt yet what players that spend hours on this game actually would like or expect from these gatherings
shi t you could even have a age bracket box to tick so they could cater for what is coming rather than guessing
but of course i dont know anything i just play ther game
Hey MM_is_Broken, as the instigator and main organiser of these gatherings I can safely say that I am all ears on how we can make these better. All of the venues we've been to so far are all ages friendly, assuming those under 18 bring a parent or guardian.
#37 Posted 17 April 2018 - 09:23 AM
Aussie_Kozzy, on 17 April 2018 - 11:34 AM, said:
We'll be back in Auckland at some point in the not too distant future, we just wanted to make sure we share the love around so it's important we go into towns we're yet to visit
Still waiting on the goodies from the last Auckland event!
But unlike some who have posted for me it was more about meeting other players and WG staff than the free gear.
#38 Posted 17 April 2018 - 09:26 AM
I can't believe I am going to say this but what about Palmerton North for the next north island visit?
It will capture a large area of the lower north island including
Taranaki Wanganui Hawkes Bay and is only 2 hours from Wellington
#39 Posted 17 April 2018 - 09:42 AM
My only suggestion would be pick a venue that is bigger and more accommodating.
I felt liked a packed in Sardine at the Brisbane event and was to difficult to really talk to anyone without yelling because of how confined the space was (even if you have the same number just double the size, area)
I figured not much talking about 1.0 would happen as with WOT events its mainly about socialising and having the players talk to each other about things.
Glad when i mentioned (possible improvements) to the game that alot of my concerns had already been raised at every other event and put towards the Dev's
Other than that a good night, got to put some faces to names of people I have played with and against.
Cheers for hosting it, can we make sure these happen more often than every 3-4 years.
#40 Posted 17 April 2018 - 09:47 AM
Centurion_IRL, on 17 April 2018 - 01:26 AM, said:
I can't believe I am going to say this but what about Palmerton North for the next north island visit?
It will capture a large area of the lower north island including
Taranaki Wanganui Hawkes Bay and is only 2 hours from Wellington
...but you'd have to go to Palmerston North.
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