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The Tisdale House, now known as Great Lakes Manor, dates to the 1870's and was constructed by William Graham Tisdale as his family home. Mr. Tisdale, an important local builder, was instrumental in building a wooden bridge that connected the towns of Saugatuck and Douglas in 1874. He also built a mill for the Dutcher family and a tanning factory for the Gerber family, who would later invent the famous baby food here in Douglas. William Tisdale passed away in 1907.
William's daughter Electa Tisdale married William Campbell of the Campbell Road family, and they moved into the Tisdale house. They operated a Lake Kalamazoo ferry directly across the street from the house to take travelers to and from Saugatuck. In 1914, William's son George Tisdale retired as a GreatLake's ship captain and moved into the house. George took over the ferry business, operating two boats, one named "The West Shore" and the other named "Isobel".
In 1919, Mrs. George Tisdale, who's father, Lieutenant William White was a civil war veteran, hosted a dinner honoring him and other civil war veterans here at the house. The event was reported in the local newspaper, The Commercial Record, on October 8, 1919.
It is alleged that the famous author, James Fennimore Cooper, was a friend of the Tisdale family and that the creek running through the property was the creek James Fennimore Cooper described in his book, Oak Openings. The Tisdale family owned the home for approximately 100 years. The Manor was most recently operated as a Bed and Breakfast known as Deer Creek Inn & Cottages.
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It's hard out there for Captain Slow and his buddies at Top Gear. Every season, they try to dazzle us with insane new stunts and ridiculous road tests. The problem is that in recent years, their antics end up posted on YouTube or on Facebook or on auto websites months or weeks before the episode airs. We've done it; hell, we've even encouraged it, and we've helped fans meet the guys.
Here's what James May vented in the latest Top Gear Magazine, as quoted in The Daily Mail:
"These days, it's quite difficult to surprise you on the telly, because everything we do in any vaguely public place is immediately filmed, photographed or noted and then exposed on Twitbook and FaceTube."
May says that a team of producers, directors, camera operators, editors and other folks work to turn their misadventures into something that's "magic," but the footage that ends up going viral is grainy and lame. Not to mention full of spoilers, too.
But May did allude to a new challenge that could involve crowdsourcing at some point:
"So I see a future where we don't need to film and edit Top Gear. You will do it for us. We will arrange to drive some £500 cars to France (where the producers have come up with a series of challenges), and you will pool your footage to make an item."
I'd love to know more about what that could mean.
Anybody else think we're ruining Top Gear?
Hat tip to Vincent!


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World Title Match in Steel Cage: Daniel Bryan vs Mark Henry vs Big Show
Daniel Bryan headsfor the hills and tries to climb out as soon as the bell rings, but hegets dragged back down before Show and Henry go at it. Show takes Henry down with a shoulder tackle and then splashes him between the ropes and the cage. Bryan tries to go over the cage again, but Show grabs his ankle and slams him back into the ring. Show with a big chop in the corner, Bryan again tries to climb out but gets dragged back down and smashed with another chop. Bryan tries to fight back, but his offense is completely ineffective and Show goes for the big right hand, but Bryan moves and Show hits the cage. Bryan tries to go after him again, but Show manages to shrug him off until Bryan dropkicks his legs out from under him, then does the same to Henry. Bryan with hard kicks to both men and he heads for the door,but Henry grabs him and drags him back in, unloading with big right hands and grinding his face into the cage. Henry continues unloading on Bryan but turns around right into a superkick from Big Show. Show repeatedly runs Bryan into the cage, and Bryan tries to fight back, but Show viciously destroys him with forearms and a big slam. Mark Henry recovers and goes back after Big Show and lays him out with a big clothesline, then stands on Bryan's chest before ramming him into the cage. Bryan dodges a chargeand Henry crashes into the cage, then Big Show spears Henry and Bryan covers Henry for 2. Show with a series of clotheslines to Bryan and then rams him over and over into the cage before dropping him with a kneelift. Show goozles Bryan, but Bryan manages to kick his way out of the move and hits a tornado DDT on Big Show. Bryan cover for 2 but then goes right into the LeBell Lock on Show. Henry breaks it up before Show has a chance to tap out and then rams Bryan into the cage. Show knocks Henry out with the big right hand and covers, but Bryan breaks it up at 2 and then goes to climb out of the cage. Show goes up after him and holds him by the head to keep him from dropping down, Bryan tries to drop but Big show grabs him and starts pulling him back up with one hand, but Bryan fights him off and manages to drop to the floor to win the match.
Winner: Daniel Bryan
We go to a video package hyping John Cena vs the Rock, and we see a montage of interviews with fans who alternately talk about what a phony loser he is and what an awesome role model and leader he is. We see him posing a lot with soldiers and children and talking about how he doesn't pander for approval but still stands up for what he believes in ever though some people get bored with his act, and also that Wrestlemania means everything to him.
Beht Phoenix, Natalya Neidhart & the Bella Twins vs Kelly Kelly, Alicia Fox, Tamina & Eve Torres
Natalya and Tamina start off and Natalya takes her over with a side headlock, but Tamina shoots her off into the ropes and a shoulderblock results in nobody moving. Tamina takes her down with another one and tags in Eve for a standing moonsault that apparently now has a stupid name. Beth tags in and Eve takes her down with a running clothesline and goes for a rolling senton, but Beth gets the knees up and then punts Eve in the ribs. Beth with a series of elbows to the ribs and another cover for 2, then tags in one of the Bellas, we'll just call her Nikki. Nikki chokes her on the ropes and then boots her in the face and covers for 2. Nikki with a rear chinlock, but Eve snapmares out and tags out to Alicia Fox, who nails a series of dropkicks and the puts the boots to Nikki in the corner. Nikki chokes Alicia on the ropes and snaps her down to the mat by the arm before tying her up in a seated abdominal stretch. alicia fights her way out and tagsin Kelly,and she gets a big flying headscissors on Nikki anda handspring elbow into the corner followed by a bulldog for 2. All heck breaks loose as all the girls wind up fighting on the floor except for Kelly, who comes off the top rope with a crossbody the wipes out her opponents, as well as her partners while she's at it. She rolls Nikki back in and Beth tags herself in and hits the Glam Slam for the win.
Winners: Beth Phoneix, Natalya & the Bella Twins
Zack Ryder shows up backstage, and he's met by an enthusiastic John Laurinaitis, who has set Zack up with his own dressing room and everything. Eve shows up and tells Laurinaitis to get lost because he's going to get fired after tonight, then wheels Ryder into the locker room after Zack says "Woo woo woo, you know it!"
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text: A Blue View is a weekly perspective on the life aquatic, hosted by National Aquarium CEO John Racanelli. From the smallest plants and animals invisible to the human eye to entire ecosystems, every living thing depends on and is intricately linked by water. Tune in to 88.1 WYPR every Tuesday at 5:45 pm as John brings to the surface important issues and fascinating discoveries making waves in the world today. June 26, 2013: Rising Seas Click here to listen to John discuss the impact climate change is having on rising sea levels. On these hot summer days, our thoughts tend toward ice cream cones and tall glasses of ice water on a sweltering afternoon rather than the melting of ice sheets around the world. But just as the ice melting in your glass causes the water level to rise, so too does the melting of the world's ice shelves. Perhaps you've seen the incredible videos of massive chunks of ice breaking away from a glacier, causing crashing impressively into the sea. Until recently, it was thought that this was the primary cause of ice loss in Antarctica. But in fact, a study by NASA and university researchers indicates that warming oceans are also dissolving the ice from underneath the ice shelf at unprecedented rates, causing the greatest loss of Antarctic ice shelf mass. Scientists plan to use these data to help determine how ice shelves melt, improving projections of how the ice sheet might respond to a warming ocean and contribute to sea level rise. Ice loss is not just occurring at the poles: NASA researchers have discovered that glaciers outside of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica lost an average of 571 trillion pounds of mass each year during the six-year study period, causing sea levels to rise almost two-tenths of an inch during that time. This actually matches the sea level rise attributed to the combined ice loss of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets. Ice melting isn't the only contributor to sea level rise. Warming temperatures cause waters to warm and expand. In turn, warming waters take up more volume. This phenomenon is called thermal expansion. The combination of ice melting and thermal expansion means that sea level rise is not just a possibility…it is happening now, and the only question is how fast it's going to rise. Many scientists now believe that sea levels will rise by no less than one to two feet by 2100. And without dramatic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, the threat could be much more substantial. The East Coast in particular is at greater risk from sea level than other areas of the world, mainly due to ocean currents and differences in seawater temperature and ocean salinity, according to climate scientists. The U.S. Geological Survey found that sea levels from North Carolina to Boston climbed by about 2 to 4 millimeters a year between 1950 and 2009 as compared to a global average of one-half to 1 millimeter. These amounts may seem small and unimportant, but the repercussions from these rising levels are anything but. Imagine increased coastal flooding, shoreline erosion, loss of wetlands, and destroyed homes and businesses on the order of superstorm Sandy. Sea level rise does affect us all. We need to take steps to control warming, as sea surface temperature and sea level rise are inextricably linked. According to the EPA, sea surface temperatures have risen at an average rate of 13 one-hundredths of a degree per decade since 1901. As small as that may sound, over 112 years, that's an increase of one and a half degrees, which is already impacting not only sea level, but also coral reefs and other essential ocean habitats, migration and breeding patterns, the intensity of storms, and the spread of invasive species and marine diseases. Tags: climate-change, Conservation, epa, nasa, national-aquarium-experts, national-public-radio, npr, public-radio, wypr Categories: Animals, Behind-The-Scenes, Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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Dr. William Thornton
Dr. William Thornton was an amateur architect who is honored as the "first architect" because his design for the U.S. Capitol was accepted by President George Washington in 1793. He received $500 and a building lot in the city of Washington for his composition. He held no government position as a result of winning the architectural competition.
Thornton was born on May 20, 1759, in the British West Indies, and received a medical degree from the University of Aberdeen. He became an American citizen in 1787 and moved to Washington in 1794, when President Washington appointed him one of the city's commissioners. In 1802 President Jefferson appointed him head of the Patent Office, an office he held until his death in 1828.
During the first decade of work on the U.S. Capitol, three men were hired to oversee the construction:
Stephen Hallet was a professionally trained architect who placed second in the U.S. Capitol's design competition, yet was given a monetary prize equal to Thornton's award. Hallet is credited with revising the floor plans of the U.S. Capitol's two wings. He was placed in charge at the beginning of construction in 1793 and was dismissed by the commissioners in 1794 for insubordination.
Born in Paris in 1755, Hallet came to America around 1790 and worked for Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the engineer who designed the city of Washington. Before, during and after the U.S. Capitol design competition Hallet is known to have developed at least five designs. Little is known of Hallet's post-Washington career. He died in 1825 in New Rochelle, New York.
George Hadfield was hired by the commissioners in 1795 to be Hallet's successor. He began his employment by suggesting major alterations to the U.S. Capitol's design and was ultimately rebuffed. In 1798 he designed the first office buildings for cabinet departments, and when he refused to surrender the plans, the commissioners dismissed him.
Born of English parents in Italy in 1763, Hadfield studied architecture at the Royal Academy in London and served six years under James Wyatt, one of England's great neoclassical architects. Hadfield remained in Washington after leaving the U.S. Capitol, designing such notable landmarks as "Arlington" (the Custis-Lee Mansion) and City Hall. He died in 1826.
James Hoban was the architect of the President's House and oversaw construction of that building as well as the U.S. Capitol. Hoban supervised both Hallet and Hadfield, and when the latter was dismissed in 1798, he took over the day-to-day operations on U.S. Capitol Hill. He supervised the completion of the north wing and designed its interior finish.
Born in 1758, Hoban studied architecture at the Dublin Society School. He emigrated from Ireland to Philadelphia in 1785, and moved two years later to South Carolina, where he is credited with the re-ordering of the former statehouse in Charleston as a county courthouse (1790-1791, restored 1999). In 1792 he won the competition for the President's House and began his long association with the public buildings in Washington. He died in 1831.


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A Rater with Security Clearence
A version of this article appears in the Special Issue 2005 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
January 01, 2005
Lee O'Neal traces his development as a HERS rater back to the time when his company, NSpects Ltd., inspected a home in a Virginia subdivision.This home had utility bills that were $200–$300 less than its neighbors, and this piqued O'Neal's curiosity."We inspected his home four different times during the construction process," says O'Neal. "We found insulation problems, HVAC problems, and windows and doors that were not installed properly and therefore did not seal properly.All total we found 142 construction defects, which where corrected during construction." On top of the low utility bills, the homeowner was the envy of the neighborhood because his house was comfortable year round."I used to live in a two-story home with my office upstairs," O'Neal says."I just got used to being boiled at my desk in the winter and freezing in other parts of the house in the summer. Like everyone else at the time, I thought you couldn't do anything about it but complain." O&...
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ALA Support Staff Survey on Voluntary Certification
An Online Survey on Certification of Library Support Staff is available until December 17, 2004.
The survey is an outcome of the 3rd Congress on Professional Education: Focus on Support Staff (COPE3), which was held in May of 2003. The
COPE3 Implementation Recommendations asked that the American Library Association (ALA) Library Support Staff Interests Round Table (LSSIRT)
study the issue of national certification for support staff. In response, LSSIRT created a Certification Task Force with a charge to
"study the issue of national certification for support staff, prepare and administer a national poll for expectations, compile statistics from
research, and keep the LSSIRT Steering Committee informed of Task Force progress."
From the results of this Certification Survey, LSSIRT would like to determine the level of interest, and the perceived benefit, of a voluntary certification program. Your participation will help the American Library Association make a decision on how to proceed. The survey is brief and should not take more than five minutes to complete.
This is designed to be filled out BY SUPPORT STAFF as to whether or not
they want a national certification.
commentary: Rochelle would like to ask all you support staffers out there to please consider filling out the survey, even (or particularly) if you are not involved with ALA. ALA has not been particularly accessible to support staffers, and it's important for ALA to get input from the many of you out there in the trenches.
There are no national standards for library directors and deans of library schools; no national standards for librarians. Why for support staff?
That's good to know!
Re:not all support staff are the same
Can you let my employer know? Maybe then I could get a pay raise to go with that promotion...
You are spot on.
If they really wanted to improve the library profession, support staff, and the image of librarians ALA would research and potentially require certification/national standards for LIBRARY DIRECTORS and MANAGERS.
Um, that could maybe solve some of the issues support staff encounter.
Re:not all support staff are the same
If you'll notice in my description I said 2-4 years of college for Librarians. Congratulations, you've just been promoted.
(I thought I replied to this once, if a goofup is in progress, my bad.)
I'm going to pass the survey along.
For the record I believe its important to hear all sides and to certainly get feedback from staff. I also believe that in the end its the Directors who make the decisions and who, in this case, should be deciding what they expect from their support staff.
not all support staff are the same
"Support Staff need a high school diploma and the oversight of the two positions above."
I might be a little sensitive or something, but that's really a slap in the face for those of us "support staff" who actually DO have formal, library school training. We are WAY more diverse than that. I sure as hell don't want that to be the "national standard" for ALL support staff. It can be the standard for clerks, but certainly not for LTs.
I took (and paid for) a two year Library Tech diploma and had the institution been giving out honours that year, I would've done so with honours. It wasn't an easy course--we started out with 20 people and 9 graduated. I have training in all areas of library services. I run a school library and do everything but teach the kids (I'm not allowed because of provincial regs--one has to be a teacher to teach. I do instruct, though). In fact, in my schoolboard, library support staff with _just_ HS are the lowest of the three levels within our contract. I do not work under the supervision of an MLS--our schoolbaord doesn't have MLS'. (Let me say that I think a MLS library-coordinator at the board level would be helpful.)
I don't think certification will solve anything, in fact, I think it will put more roadblocks up than anything.
Support staff cannot be lumped together, as much as you might like us to be.
True, there is less job security, particularly in the grade schools I think. No amount of education is going to change the pecking order.
Schools also have bigger budgets in general.
Certification is a crock and moneygrab.
Directors need Master's degrees.
Librarians need 2-4 year degrees and the oversight of the position above.
Support Staff need a high school diploma and the oversight of the two positions above.
*That* should be considered the national standard.
Cities' public libraries' users, staff, unions.
Customer service quality needs to be made a part of certifying, credentialing. Better receptivity needs to be developed that would encourage complaints, concerns and suggestions. Our North American cities' public libraries tend to deflect any perceived critique. The matter affects staff who also are deflected at different levels of management. And the matter of customer service affects our cities' public libraries' labor unions' advocates deflected routinely.
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Re:not all support staff are the same
Your boss would figure that the prestige and grandeur of the new title would be greater compensation than a pay increase would ever be.
Titles and certificates - me, I'd rather have money!


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feet in the clouds & head on the ground
They say it all breaks down to keeping your feet on the ground
My sole intention is keeping my head in the clouds
They say that I can't last a day in the real world
I say you wouldn't survive one night in mine
Asking Alexandria
So. Suffice it to say that 99% of the best businesses have figured out how to successfully keep their feet in the clouds and their head on the ground.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it looks like I got it twisted around … but I did not. Good businesses are always walking with the future in mind. Always traveling toward possibilities. Always seeking 'what's next.'
Good businesses are always closely listening to the drumbeat of the feet of what is happening around them. Ear to the ground insuring everyone in the business is keeping their head in the game today.
I have called it mastering pragmatism & possibilities. But, in reality, it is the ability to have your feet in the clouds and head on the ground.
I tend to believe if more people thought about it this way businesses would actually manage their pragmatism better (i.e., maximize existing resources in an agile way), would have more hope (i.e., maximize opportunities that arise better) and achieve more possibilities than they could ever imagine.
You have to admit the current definition – feet on the ground & head in the clouds – just ain't working that well these days. Businesses seem to be more woefully stagnant <albeit always 'talking' change> and have more despair and lack of hope with regard to actionable possibilities than ever.
Why? Well. I am sure I could invest dozens of page sharing thoughts on why but instead I will focus on what I would consider the intellectual aspects, i.e., what is going on in with our attitudes that affect our heads, how we think and how we approach these things.
- Issue one. over-simplification
Suffice it to say we have devolved into a society of sound bites. This is true in business even moreso. In business it seems to be all about simplicity. In everyday Life it is 'summarize it for me' or 'oh, it's simple <insert some explanation here>.' In the end I can't figure out if should be pointing the finger at us or them.
Them <management & leadership> because they think we are not capable of understanding some form of complexity and therefore they only offer up simplified versions of what needs to be communicated.
Or us <the employees> because we either:
<a> demand a sound bite under the guise of 'we only have time for the headline'
<b> we only latch on to the fragment of the whole which we believe summarizes the whole.
Therefore I will point the finger at all of us and them. Here is a Truth.
Most things are just not that simple. An effect can have multiple causes and a cause can have multiple effects. I say this despite the fact, naturally, we would like all the dominoes to line up one after another and when one falls the next naturally is impacted and falls.
Well. Things don't really work that way. Especially in a business environment. Maybe in a controlled test environment but, in business, events are typically bombarded from a variety of directions and while not all causes are created equal <some can impact more than others> most things are too complex to be simplified into 'one thing.' And, yet, we oversimplify again and again and again.
Over simplifying simply means ignoring complexities.
Over simplifying simply means being consciously ignorant.
Over simplifying … well … just doesn't work in the long run.
It eases you through the moment only to have to doubly <or exponentially> invest energy later on. Let me put this as simply as I can: over simplification just doesn't work.
Instead of dumbing things down to some simplistic sound bite we need to raise the level of general understanding & knowledge to the level of complexity of the ideas & systems in which a business works. Factually, seconds of involvement <sound bites> versus minutes of involvement <deeper complex discussion> leads to degrees of real knowledge, i.e., seconds leads to shallow knowledge or let's call it 'less knowledgeable.' Over simplification will not demystify uncertainty and cannot help us do what we really need to do … reconcepting & rethinking that which is.
What I am suggesting is difficult and uncertain work. But certainly more satisfying and inspiring when we solve and recreate and it certainly is a more effective way to keep your feet in the clouds and head on the ground..
I can unequivocally state that the fate of possibilities for a business, any business, lies in balance if we don't invest in the hard work of 'non over simplification.'
And worse? We won't solve any of the problems we face if we do not address this.
This leads me to …
- Issue two. being intellectually insightful is about hard work.
Let me begin by suggesting that good ideas cannot be decided by number of tweet votes in favor of. Business ideas do not compete on American Idol nor, frankly, should they compete in any larger group. We are not all judges <and probably shouldn't be on American idol either>.
Why? Good ideas are rarely popular; therefore, I don't really want a business idea to win some meaningless popularity contest. If we really want to do what needs to be done to maximize both the pragmatism & the possibilities in business we have to hunker down and work hard … work hard in that we need to use what we have to rethink things … use all aspects including economic thought and philosophy and the past … all of which means dealing with ambiguity and contradiction.
And, yes, that is hard work. That is the kind of work that hones the intellectual insightfulness necessary to keep your feet in the clouds and your feet on the ground and, well, make progress. Smart progress.
Instead of dumbing things down we need to be raising the level of general understanding to the level of complexity of the systems in which we are embedded and which are embedded in us. And while you may balk at something like 'intellectual insightfulness' as too far reaching or 'elitist' … suffice it to say we just need to be smarter … less ignorant … more enlightened <open to additional thoughts> and more involved in the difficult and uncertain work of demystification and reconcepting ideas and systems in which we live in and … well … just plain rethinking shit.
Suffice it to say that there is nothing simple when talking about world-changing ideas … because talking will not simply make the world change.
I read somewhere recently that 'if you remove this boundary … the only boundary left is our imagination.'
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Imagination is important, but even imagination is complicated and difficult and tends to not offer tidy solutions. Especially if you don't invest in the hard work.
We need to be doing more of 'using your imagination within the box of what exists.' We don't need to be wandering aimlessly 'outside the box' but rather using our imagination insightfully and creatively WITHIN the box … and expand the boundaries.
It is all hard work, but hard work will work. And in this case I mean hard thinking work.
Simply 'doing' aint gonna cut it. We need to be smarter. And whether you think about thinking this way or not, it ain't about staring off into space doing nothing <random dreaming>, thinking is a blue collar job. Thinking is all about work. Hmmmmmm … it is quite possible that what I just wrote defines "head on the ground" better than anything I have ever written before.
Anyway. As a corollary to issue number two …
- Issue three. innovation is not <just> technology.
What makes oversimplification even more challenging is that for some reason we seem to be associating innovation with technology … and just technology. We can't … and shouldn't.
This type of thinking leads us to possibly believe technology innovations will eventually solve all problems and maximize everyone's Life as some point. That is a very dangerous idea.
It is dangerous because in reality if we focus just on technology as the solution we are actually preventing the real change we need. It's a very dangerous idea because it completely removes the human aspect.
Minds need to innovate too. Thinking and attitudes need to evolve and innovate. New thought systems, economic systems and systems in which people live eat and breath all need to evolve and that happens through innovation <whether technology is involved or not>. Technology is simply a path that runs parallel to culture <or society> basically amplifying everything that is happening on the parallel path <the corollary to that is … with nothing to amplify the technology remains silent>.
Technology and culture and business are entangled. Technologies may enable new ways of doing things, not just doing but thinking. This effects culture … so culturally we need to innovate to structure how those technologies will be involved in our lives <so that we can dictate a little how they are incorporated> and we need to innovate our thinking and culture so that we can actually impact how technology evolves <so that we can dictate how what technology is innovated in some form or fashion>.
At the moment it seems like we respond to technology rather than proactively drive technology. Yes. Technology has certainly dramatically improved the overall quality of business but, at some point, technology is not a reason for being, but rather simply an enabler for being. The paradox is that the system we have now may make amazing new technology possible, but at same time is creating such cultural conflict that maximizing technology 'what could be' seems impossible. We need to innovate the systems in which technology exists.
Economically, culturally and philosophically. All systems need to see innovation.
- Issue four. adaptability does not mean 'no strategy'.
Businesses inherently like structure. They see structure as replicable (safe, efficient & maintaining whatever level of effectiveness they have currently attained). The problem is emphasizing structure, pragmatism, actually increases the fragility of a business (source: antifragile) and limits the scope/horizon view of pursuing possibilities. With a 'feet on the ground' philosophy structure & construct of resources/systems/process dictate the direction, velocity and vision of the business. In other words, pragmatism is the source of possibilities. If you flip the equation, pragmatism becomes the enabler of possibilities. This does not mean a business has no strategy, all it does is maximize flexibility & agility to pragmatically apply resources to possibilities as they arise. Taleb calls this AntiFragile, Toffler called it the polymalleable organization, HBR has called it "Agile", I call it "feet in the clouds, head on the ground" or "managing pragmatism & possibilities." Call it whatever you want but it is the issue a business needs to address in order to be successful in the future.
<that's it for my issues>
Hope and possibilities grounded with enlightened pragmatism abound in today's business world if you look hard enough <and have your feet in the clouds an head to the ground>. But none of it comes easy … these types of things are rarely just given … they need to be earned … mostly thru hard work.
I don't believe simplicity is bad.
I don't believe being optimistic or having a positive attitude is bad.
I don't believe technology is bad.
I don't believe hard work, smartly done, is bad.
But we seem trapped in the old paradigm of "head in the clouds & feet on the ground." This old paradigm kind of separates work & thinking <vision> in a non useful way. And I … well … I admit I sometimes think this paradigm encourages a slightly warped version of some lazy thinking.
And we cannot be lazy moving forward. And we certainly cannot afford to be lazy thinkers. For in this type of laziness lurks ignorance and it is ignorance we should fear. Not any ideological argument or technological innovation which inserts itself into our daily lives but ignorance.
Avoid lazy thinking. Maybe have everyone should hearken to Emerson's words …
"Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt, and are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of society, to the circumference of things."
My thought for businesses today?
Consent yourself to be of your highest thought.
And how do you do that? Keep your feet in the clouds and your head on the ground.
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Innosilicon still has not made any release of the source code of their cgminer fork with support for the A2 Scrypt ASIC chips, what you get with their A2 Terminator Scrypt ASIC devices is a Raspberry Pi with a preloaded cgminer and simple web interface to control the device. The standard web interface however is a bit limited in the supported operating frequencies – 1000 and 1200 MHz. The recompiled cgminer does allow for a few more operating frequencies to be used, however they are not selectable by default through the web interface of the miner. Some time ago there was a modified image released by a user called Emdje that supposedly allowed more overclock options. However it has turned out that it was not really functional as even though you could select operating frequency at steps of 5 MHz the cgminer did not accept these values and instead defaulted to some of the supported frequencies.
Back when we first had the chance to do a remote test of a A2BOX Scrypt ASIC miner we have discovered that the only supported operating frequencies by the Innosilicon A2 Terminator Scrypt ASIC miners are: 1000, 1080, 1100, 1200, 1280, 1300 and 1400 MHz. This is why we have made a modification to the standard RPi image that ships with the A2 miners, so that you can quickly and easily add the supported frequencies to be selectable from the web interface of the miner. This should allow you to squeeze some more extra performance from your device, regardless if it is the smaller 2 module or the large 6 module ASIC model, as our tests have shown that most of the miners should be able to work pretty well at up to 1280-1300 MHz up from the maximum of 1200 MHz that you have by default. Below you can download the modification we have prepared along with the instructions on how to update your miner, so that you get the extra OC options available.
How to login to your miner via SSH/SFTP using putty/WinSCP:
– username: pi
– password: innosilicon
Where to find the miner and web interface:
Replace the index.php file with the following modification:
– modified index.php
All that is left is to refresh the webpage with the miner interface and you should see the new options for operating frequencies available in the dropdown boxes for the A2 modules. For the smaller miners you need to select just the first two frequencies as you can see on the image above, for the large A2 miners you need to set all of the six frequencies. Do note that each of the modules can operate at a different frequency, so experiment and set the best frequency for each one that gives the lowest HW error rate and optimum performance.
Last month we've had the opportunity to do some remote performance tests of one of the earlier prototypes of the A2BOX Scrypt ASIC miners and recently we were able to get our hands on one of these powerful miners to do a hands on review of the final product being shipped to customers from MinerEU. These miners are based on the 28nm Innosilicon A2 Scrypt ASIC chips and have 48 of them placed on 6 separate modules able to provide a total hashrate of about 84-86 MHS. The device comes with a built in power supply and a Raspberry Pi controller with a web based control panel, so it is ready to be connected and you can immediately start mining with it.
The power consumption mentioned in the specifications of the miner is 750W and the power supply you will find inside the case is GameZone GX1100M, apparently rated at 1100W 80Plus Gold certified. We could not find that much information about these power supplies as they are apparently a Chinese brand, but a good quality one judging from the specs and the performance they offer – supposedly providing 90% efficiency. We are going to be comparing these power supplies to other well know brand model in terms of power usage and efficiency, but we are not going to be focusing on that here. The review of the miner will be done with the ATX power supply that you get the Scrypt ASIC miner with and as we've already mentioned the GameZone GX1100M does a great job in powering the device. The specific model should be capable of handling peaks of up to 1300W as we understand and it uses a modular design, though not fully modular.
You can see that inside the case of the miner there are 6 modules with big aluminum heatsinks. Each module has 8 chips and there are heatsinks both on the back of the PCBs as well as on the front side directly placed on the A2 chips for better cooling. The fact that the device uses 28nm chips and has large heatsinks on both sides along with serious airflow ensures that the miner runs pretty cool, even with the not so low power usage of the device. We'll get back to the cooling system and its performance and the operating temperatures in a bit when we start talking about the tests. What does make a very good impression is the fact that the miner is very sturdy and well built and you would expect nothing less for a piece of hardware that is so expensive.
The A2BOX Scrypt ASIC miner comes in a standard 4U case, so you can say that it is ready to go directly into more serious mining farms that use racks in data centers for example. The device itself does look a bit like a server because of the case and because of the noise level you will get from it. We've seen noisier miners, but you cannot call a noise level of about 67 dBA at a distance of 1 meter from the device very silent either. The miner uses three server grade 120x38mm Nidec TA4500DC fans for the cooling and they do a great job with the noise not being considered at all. What you should be well aware of is that this miner is not a great choice to have at home in your living room or bedroom to mine 24/7, it is best suited for use in a well ventilated dedicated room for mining hardware or a more serious mining farms.
Taking a look at the power usage of the device we can see that it needs about 825W of power from the power socket, and if we take into account the 90% efficiency of the power supply the actual power consumption of the hardware should be about 750W. You are however going to be paying for the 825W of power as the difference is what gets wasted as heat during the conversion inside the PSU. Since currently Innosilicon A2 Scrypt ASIC chips are still the only ones that are based on 28nm process they are also the most power efficient solution available on the market in the form of a Scrypt ASIC miner. The drawback is that the miners based on these chips are more expensive to produce and that affects the end user price as well, but at the moment reaching the same hashrate with alternative solutions that are based on 55nm chips would come with about 3 times higher power consumption.
Here are two thermal images we took of the A2BOX miner working and as you can see the operating temperatures of the hardware are pretty low, we were actually surprised after we were used to seeing higher temperatures with the 55nm ASIC miners. The three big cooling fans push air inside the case thorough the large aluminum heatsinks and the hottest temperature we've measured was just at about 42 degrees Celsius. This is with an ambient temperature of 25 degrees C, so there could be some variance and you should be careful not to place the miner in hot areas without good ventilation.
Now, we've mentioned that the A2BOX Scrypt ASIC miner comes with a built-in Raspberry Pi controller and it also has a web-based control panel installed, so you can easily access, control and monitor the device. The main screen offers quick and easy options for you to setup the miner's network settings, mining pools, operating frequency, basic stats etc. As we've said it is more basic solution, but has all of the important stuff in a single page, so it is very easy to use. As a backend the miner relies on a special version of cgminer 3.9.0 with support of the A2 scrypt ASIC chips. The web interface does allow you to set the operating frequency for each of the 6 modules independently, though you have only two options available – 14.88 MHS per board at 1200 MHz or 12.40 MHS at 1000 MHz.
There is also a more detailed real-time status monitor available that can help you monitor the performance of your device and if needed to take some steps to improve the results you are getting or change some settings for the best possible results. The results you see on the screenshot above are from the miner running at the higher clock of 1200 MHz. With our initial tests of the earlier prototype we've seen that it has produced a bit more HW errors that we've liked, but now the final production units does seem to perform much better and with far less HW errors. Do note that for ASIC decides it is normal to get some HW errors over time, however you should find the best balance between performance and HW errors in order to maximize the useable hashrate.
If you would like to have a bit more advanced and user friendly web-based control of your miner there is a solution available, a Scripta-based image with A2 chip support. You can download and put that image on another SD flash card and replace the one you get by default with the miner installed in the RPi controller. We do recommend to keep the original SD card with the official image intact just in case and as a backup and not to overwrite it with another image.
But what about performance, well it is also improved and higher than what we were getting in our earlier remote testing of the prototype device. As you can see on the screenshot above taken from the LTC Rabbit for a period of 48 hours the hashrate remains very stable and averages somewhere in between 85 and 86 MHS poolside. The locally reported hashrate is a bit higher, though the poolside reported rate from the miner's web interface is also about 86 MHS. Testing the device at other pools hash also shown us an average in between 85 MHS and 86 MHS pool side hashrate with the miner running the A2 chips at the higher 1200 MHz operating frequency.
What can we conclude about the 86 MHS A2BOX Innosilicon A2-based Scrypt ASIC miner is that it definitely delivers what you are promised. You get a well designed and built device that comes with absolutely everything that you need to start mining immediately, no need to buy something separately to make it work such as a power supply for example that can add to the expenses that need to be calculated when you consider what is the expected return of the investment. The miner is very power efficient for the hashrate it offers when you compare it to what the alternative 55nm solutions do provide at the moment. The miner is not very silent, but the proper cooling is way more important and the fans do a great job in keeping the ASIC chips cool and operating with low error rate.
All seems good so far, but there is a catch and one thing that is not that great and this particular thing is the price of the miner. Currently the standard price of the 86 MHS A2BOX Scrypt ASIC is $10200 USD, so out of the budget for many miners and a more interesting option for more serious miners and larger mining farms. We have some good news for the people that are actually interested in buying this device, we have a special promo code that will get you $700 USD off the standard price, so you will be able to get the A2BOX Scrypt ASIC for $9500 USD. All you have to do is enter the following coupon code when you add the device in the shopping cart 9500A2BOX_cryptomining-blog to be able to take advantage of the promotional price at MinerEU. There is also another alternative option, a smaller and more affordable in terms of price version of the A2BOX miner – the 28 MHS A2Mini Scrypt ASIC available for a price of $3900 USD at the moment. Unfortunately there are still no very affordable solutions that use just one or two A2 chips inside a compact and very power efficient device while still producing a few MHS available that would be of interest to the average small crypto miner that might be interested in getting a very affordable Scrypt ASIC miner.


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Pretty easy rule to follow, and there's little to no dispute on where that rule came from.
Aside from disagreements arising on what if any killing is not murder (ask fruitarians how easy it is to follow), I might point out that while the phrase is associated with the Bible and particularly the KJV, there is a bit more to the dispute on the rule's origin. Specifically, we have yet to reach consensus on whether it was divinely inspired.
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Hi.. I have some output results as Xml String.. and i want to display that output as DataGrid Tables... help me how to use datagrid in swings like c# Datagrid...?
What is a DataGrid? Do you mean a JTable? Have you gone through the Swing tutorials yet?
yah.. actually i have seen .net code for that.. actually i am getting output xml file from web services as a string... so i want to convert it into xml then tables... how to use JTables for that? if any example pls give me....
Here's a link to the tutorial for tables:
How to Use Tables (The Java Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Using Swing Components)
If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.
Thank u Norm.. but I want to know how to add xml data to a JTable.. and how to add Xml data as multiple rows to a table....?
@ch.nagaraju: you're making a common mistake of trying to look for a tutorial for a very specific problem, one that likely doesn't exist. You must break your current problem into smaller steps, and then understand how to do the smaller steps. I suggest you read up on and learn how to extract information from XML files with Java, and then read the tutorial that Norm has linked to on how to create JTables. Then use your brain to combine the two into one finished product.
ok. thank u Curmudgeon...
ok i understood.... i know how to convert string to xml file.. but i want to know how to use JTable for that xml file.... i want to display that xml as a table...
As curmudgeon has pointed out, you need to break the problem down. XML is technically a language, and how you wish to display the contents to a user is dependent upon the data it contains, which you have given us no insight into...is it a list? Is it hierarchical? Are there multiple entries? You have provided no information regarding these questions, so we can only advise to use a JTable because you mention DataGrid (again, not defining what this is but making us guess).
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Facebook uses BitTorent as an ideal solution for transferring huge amounts of files to a number of locations, in a short span of time. With that view, it uses BitTotrrent to upgrade files across its servers. This makes BitTorrent a prospective enterprise solution for file transfer and upgrades its image from being a simple file sharing utility.
Large websites have a huge number of servers to serve data locally, all of which synchronize centrally. We see this system prevalent in Google and Facebook. Facebook's systems engineer Tom Cook talked at the Velocity Conference saying,
BitTorrent is fantastic for this, it's really great. Its superduper' fast and it allows us to alleviate a lot of scaling concerns we've had in the past, where it took forever to get code to the webservers before you could even boot it up and run it.
With this innovation, Facebook can send hundreds of MBs of updates to all its servers in a few minutes. Without BitTorrent, they say it would have taken hours for the process to complete.
Apparently, Facebook is not the only one using this tech. Twitter uses the same technology to roll out its updates. This endorsement has almost made BitTorrent an industry standard in transferring huge data reliably and quickly.


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Day 2
December 3
Updates on the trade front and looking over possibilities for Thursday's Rule 5 draft basically occupied the Phillies' suite today in day 2 of the Winter Meetings.
Pat Gillick and his team met at 8 a.m., scattered on intelligence missions, reconvened at 2:30 to go over potential players they could select on Thursday and then received progress reports on discussions with other teams.
Gordon Lakey, the Phillies veteran Major League scout, says the Opryland Hotel is a tough place to track someone down because of its vastness. Last year in Orlando, there was a gigantic circular lobby that was packed constantly with baseball people.
Teams that don't have a full 40-man roster can select players for $50,000 on Thursday morning. The Phillies have the 24th overall pick but when you pull out teams with full rosters, the Phillies number drops to 15th. The Phillies currently have space for one player.
Over the course of years, the Phillies have taken different approaches to the Rule 5 draft. Coming off the NL East championship, the Phillies are looking for someone who could slot into the pitching staff or the extra outfielder role. During lean years, the club would considerf a young player out of A ball, someone they could carry on the 25-roster for the full season. A Rule 5 selection has to stay on the big league roster the entire year or be offered back to the club from which the player was selected.
The two most notable Rule 5 draftees for the Phillies are Dave Hollins and Shane Victorino. Their biggest loss: OF George Bell, selected by Gillick when he was with the Blue Jays in the 1970s.
Gillick left the room to attend the minor league awards luncheon at noon and again at 4:30 for his daily press briefing with five Philly writers. Leslie Gudel from Comcast SportsNet is here for the week and Pat did a 1-on-1 interview with her. He also did a solo interview with Scott Palmer for this website.
The informal briefing took place in the corner of the expansive lobby to the Delta Convention Center. That lobby was buzzing. MLB.com had a large studio set; ESPN TV was 100-feet away with another studio and XM Radio was set up in another corner. Inside the large media workroom, hundreds of reporters were knocking out stories for the papers or websites. It is quite an impress scene.
Comment Corner
A reader inquired as to the Phillies' interest in Eric Bedard, the Orioles LHP. I'm sorry, but discussing other team's players can lead to a tampering charge. It is best I refrain because I don't want to stick the Phillies with a stiff fine. Hope you understand.
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I really appreciate to know that my comments are read and considered, and I fully understand why it could not be answered.
I am curious though since we are discussing the minor league system, why do the Phillies spend so little on the draft process. I know that we do spend some money but we are rarely willing to spend over slot money. I was just wondering the reasoning behind that general rule of thumb that seems to come.
The current trade market is very focused on top prospects. Having traded some good pitching prospects to get Garcia last year, I'm sure that impacts the available pool of prospects you would be willing to trade. How do you balance the need to keep developing players who can be stars (Hamels, Howard, Utley, Rollins, etc.) vs. trading prospects to fill an immediate need?
Well if its pitching the Phillies are "only" interested in and we can't mention players names for fear of a fine,may I suggest the Phillies run to the Fish station & get on the "D" train! Oh & SIGN Aaron.
dani66272, I don't understand why people like Aaron Rowand so much. I think he is good but he isn't worth the years he is asking for. He had a career year last year and its important to note that people almost ALWAYS do better on their walk years and then slump (comparatively) after they sign a long contract. We all fell inlove with 07 Rowand, but he will be more like 06 than anything and I don't want to spend 10 million or whatever on him.
D-Train isn't good anymore and the Marlins are crazy. They want amazing prospects for a #3 starter. Carlos Silva has better VORP than Willis. The D-Train has been D-railed a long time ago
Like J-role slumped like Utley slumped I don't think Aaron will get the 5 years but if so more power to him.I think 4 years or 3 years overpaid is not too much to pay for a gold glove, 300 avg, world series experienced ctr fielder who gives you everything on every play. Thats why i like him so much!


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escrito necesitaba un nuevo diseño de fondo de Twitter y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 93 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
abookduct is collaborative writing on twitter.
It is about bringing different people together on the web to write a book, tweet by tweet, taking turns adding to the draft.
It is a wordplay on "abduct" with "a book duct", because it is:
- a channel for writing something on twitter, thus each book being written is considered a 'duct', by which people channel their collaborative work.
- a social network that 'abducts' people into writing and collaborating, involving them.
Please see our current website: http://abookduct.com/
(Note: the design does NOT need to be similar to the current design on the website)
It is also refered to as #abookduct due to this being the hashtag that identifies collaboration on twitter (aside from a unique hashtag for each book duct).
We support fiction as well as non-fiction and any other inventive writing format that can be thought up.
We are preparing to relaunch the twitter service in early 2011, with a website fully programmed around the API to automate the collaborative process; after testing the system with two successful short stories written by dozens of people.
Twitter users of all demographics, who like reading, from Twilight teen fans to stay-at-home moms, passing through non-fiction business readers and much more.
We need the background to feature an abookduct logo, which is to be created by the winning designer.
The logo designed MUST lend itself to being iconized (like creating an icon out of a remarkable element in the full logo), such as for the twitter avatar and for a favicon.
We need the following:
- Twitter background file.
- Color codes for the twitter profile.
- Full logo (on a separate file).
- Avatar (square; on a separate file).
We need these 3 final files in .svg only, with all elements individually modifiable (vector).


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Hacking Beyond The Browser with BeEF (Robbing Your Wireless Keys)
Pauldotcom has a very interesting post on "Retrieving Clear Text Wireless Keys" from Compromised Systems" at http://pauldotcom.com/2012/03/retrieving-wireless-keys-from.html
As mentioned in the post, this works on Windows Vista and 7.
I have written a BeEF module called "Get Wireless Keys" which automates the process of robbing the victim of the wireless keys using a signed Java applet.
Follow the steps listed on https://github.com/beefproject/beef/wiki/BeEF-and-Backtrack-5 in order to download BeEF. My module is now available in the repo.
If you are new to BeEF, you can find some video tutorials here. https://github.com/beefproject/beef/wiki
This will act as a bridge to allow hacking beyond the browser as you will easily be able to compromise other systems in the network once you connect to the victim's wireless networks using the stolen wireless keys on your computer.
Upon launching the module against the victim, the victim will get a popup on his browser. The victim would need to click "Run" in order for this to work.
You will see the below output in the console of BeEF. This means that the victim's has executed the java applet and the applet has returned some results.
In the below screen shot, it shows that the wireless profiles on the victim's computer has been saved to /pentest/web/beef/exported_wlan_profiles.xml
The next thing that we need to do is to import the wireless into your Windows Vista/7 computer.
You should be able to connect to the wireless networks that have been saved on the victim's computer without any password prompts.
You might want to use this module together with "get physical location" module that I have written to identify the actual location of the wireless access point that the victim use in his home or office.
Thats if you are within close proximity to the victim. If not, this module is useless to you.
Alternatively, you could mass mail to all emails address that you can find that belong to a domain with the link to beef.
If you are using Preshared Keys instead WPA/WPA2 enterprise in your organisation, then all you need is one person in the organization to click Run to the Java Applet alert popup to get pwned.
Please feel free to leave me your comments or follow me on twitter at @keith55.
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Maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Davidson Planning Areas
- Local Historic Overlay
- Village Infill Overlay
- Streets
- Parks
- Bicycle Facilities
Davidson Planning Areas:
Planning areas are different from conventional zoning districts in that they are defined not by land use but by geographical areas related to the historical and topographical patterns of growth in the community and the Targeted Growth Plan from the 2010 Davidson Comprehensive Plan. Therefore, we have replaced the conventional terminology of "Zoning District" with "Planning Areas." These planning areas have the same legal authority as zoning districts. There are detailed provisions, uses, and standards for the design of the built environment within each respective planning area, including dimensional standards, permitted building types, height, parking, lighting, signage, permitted uses and other development standards.
You can find additional information about each planning area in Section 2 of the Planning Ordinance.
Click here to download a PDF copy of the Davidson Planning Areas Map
Planning Areas as of July (2018)
Local Historic Overlay:
Davidson's historic district has a unique sense of place. It is a legacy that links present and future residents with the community's past and provides a diversity vital to the town's quality of life. Local historic district designation is designed to protect and enhance the existing character of Davidson's historic district. The overlay zoning protects the district from un-managed change through a review process based on established guidelines.
Buildings in the local historic district must meet the requirements in Section 4 and Section 22. If there are conflicts, the stricter regulation takes precedence.
Click here to download a PDF copy of the Local Historic Overlay Map
Village Infill Overlay District:
The Village Infill Overlay District is established to preserve the character of the older parts of Davidson as defined by the Village Infill Overlay Districts. The town's historic core cannot remain static, but its existing character is worth preserving. It is acceptable for new houses to be larger than older ones, but not so much larger as to threaten neighborhood character.
Development in the Village Infill Overlay District should:
- Remind one of the surrounding neighborhood;
- Recognize the built environment;
- Have a human scale; and
- Preserve significant trees;
You can find additional information about each Village Infill Overlay District in Section 2 of the Planning Ordinance.
Click here to download a PDF copy of the Village Infill Overlay District Map
Our parks and recreation system is a reflection of the community's long-held values and support for parkland, green space, fitness and wellness. Today's system of urban parks, trails, programs, athletic facilities, and large parcels of natural space is a major contributor to Davidson's high quality of life and the result of community support and investment.
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SET 1: Stash, The Old Home Place > Cavern > Divided Sky, If I Could, The Fog That Surrounds, Acoustic Army, Julius, Sample in a Jar
SET 2: Possum > Bathtub Gin, Mound, Mike's Song -> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Weekapaug Groove[1] -> Llama, Suzy Greenberg[1] -> Crossroads, Hello My Baby, A Day in the Life
ENCORE: Chalk Dust Torture
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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I'm an Colorado native, who learned to surf in the Pacific Northwest, and SW Canada. I live inland near the mountains now, and love to get out on my SUP. It's weird, but I love windy, choppy days as no-one is out and I like the challenge.
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Looking into my Crystal Ball
The past week I've had my mind filled with plans and projects. So instead of writing a sophisticated, thoughtful post, I'm going to ramble nervously.
Podcast Hype
Had it just been me, I probably would have kept the Good News a secret until the very last minute (I love giving surprises), but Oestrus has been promoting our little project for some time now and has been getting the Twitterverse pumped at the thought of hearing us talk to each other for an hour.
Well, I guess there is something to it. After all, we're both fearless (her moreso than me, but I'm easily influenced), in-your-face and no nonsense. And I'd like to think we have a good sense of humour too.
I'm really excited about the project and if all goes according to plan, we should be doing our first recording around this time next week. We're both super new at this so no live shows yet, but I wouldn't discount it in the future. Don't worry, I promise I won't edit out anything juicy.
I volunteered to take care of the production aspect of the podcast so I spent the past week experimenting with different sound editing software. I was taken by surprise. I wasn't expecting to have so much fun playing with noises! I felt like I was 13 again, having just spent my saved up babysitting money to buy an electronic keyboard with midi output. Back then, I had big dreams of becoming a sound engineer and I spent a lot of my evenings trying to mix tracks with minimal cacophony. Trying and failing.. Let's hope I'm better at it 13 years later.
Anyway, if you want to listen to two gutsy girls goof off and talk about WoW, you'll love the Double O podcast.
Writing about Paladin Stuff
If not for the title, I don't think any new readers would guess that this is a paladin blog. It's just that when choosing between writing about a paladin cooldown and the impulse of the moment, the impulse of the moment always wins.
I did promise TopRosters a paladin-related guest post, though, so I do plan on making myself useful some time in the near future.
In-Game Plans
Since moving on from Conquest, I've been taking it easy in game so I can get through my clerkship without too much pain. TeamSport has been lovely and welcoming to the little drifter that I am. The culture shock was tough at first – I'm not a 10 man raider and I'm not a casual player, but after nearly two months, I'm finding it easier to relax in raids. I laugh at jokes, I don't mind if I screw up and I've even tanked a couple of times without any kind of shaking, sobbing or hyperventilating! I'm also finding myself getting attached to the team and I have to hold back to not throw myself headfirst into guild life.
At the same time, I've got my eyes open for after I move in July. I know it's a long way off, but the thought of guild shopping again stresses me out. I don't think I'll rest easy until it happens. I'd like to stay on the server. Ner'zhul is a great place to be. I want to keep in touch with a number of people from TeamSport and Conquest and keeping transfers as the last resort is the easiest way.
But the list of 25 man progression guilds on Ner'zhul, like most other servers, is pretty short. The top guilds are crossed out on my list. Raiding 20 hours a week really isn't my thing and, besides, their members are constantly making fools of themselves in Trade and PuGs. I can't imagine having to put up with them in guild chat!
So that leaves two guilds. One is the guild I already left. Which brings the selection down to one guild. One single guild. I hope we'll be compatible.
From my own observations and from what O's reported, when guild searching, healers get pounced on like a piece of fresh meat. I hope that guild will be like a hungry tiger in a couple of months. My lack of gear, end boss kills and hard mode experience makes me somewhat less appealing. I'm less like a piece of fresh meat and more like festering roadkill.
Perhaps, during the two and half months between finishing clerkship and moving to Alberta, I can rent myself out to other raid teams on offnights and get some extra experience.
I know it'll all work out in the end, but I'm anxious to see where and with whom I'll be ending up. The suspense is eating up my insides like they're a delicious rare steak.Explore posts in the same categories: Beyond WoW
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14 Comments on "Looking into my Crystal Ball"
March 26, 2011 at 8:28 pm
I love the name of the podcast, and checked out the site and logo. Everything looks great so far! I'm excited to hear your first set. 🙂
March 27, 2011 at 12:44 pm
I cannot wait for another healer podcast to listen to… but where are all the shamans? There's like none on any healer podcast I know of. Boo for no shamans. 😉 Although Pallies are underrepresented as well, I think. So, go Ophelie!
April 3, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Can't wait to hear the Podcast, sounds like you guys are having a fun time putting this whole thing together. As for the 10 man raids, they have a bit of a "special" feel to them.
Best of luck in your search.
While I know this is the "bossy pally's blog" I do want to say to Vidyala, you are always going to be a pally blogger to me. Its what I know you as, and yes I still pop by to read what you have to say. Its still one of my favorites.