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When Tom Bergstrom imagines a megadairy farm near his home in northwestern Illinois, he envisions vast pools of manure contaminating groundwater and the stench of ammonia clouding the air.
When Tom Bergstrom imagines a megadairy farm near his home in northwestern Illinois, he envisions vast pools of manure contaminating groundwater and the stench of ammonia clouding the air.
Jo Daviess County, with its rolling hills and meandering roads, is a top Illinois tourist destination. Bergstrom fears the farm, with 5,464 cows and associated tanker-truck traffic, may poison that picturesque scene near Nora, a town about 50 miles west and north of Rockford.
"We have nothing to gain out here," he said. "We're just trying to fight for our water and the good air and our clean environment and the parks that we have around here."
Manure bothers detractors
For detractors, mountains of cow manure to be held at the site and eventually spread on local fields are a major issue, with many expressing fears about the impact on streams and the aquifer. For supporters, the sheer size of the operation portends economic benefits, and reinforces the fact that livestock is welcome in Illinois.
It will be up to the state Department of Agriculture to decide the issue, something it may do as soon as Thursday by ruling whether to allow A.J. Bos, a California dairyman, to build his farm on 100 acres he has purchased in northeastern Jo Daviess County. Bos bought a total of 1,450 acres, but the dairy operation will be confined to 100 acres, he said. The rest of the land will be used for other purposes, including crops.
If the agency approves a permit, Bos would have to begin construction by Nov. 14. The operation would be the largest dairy farm in Illinois -- 26 percent larger than any other built since 1996, when livestock farms were first required to get the state's permission to build.
Bos initially proposed two farms next to Nora -- each with 5,464 head of cattle -- but he withdrew his plan for the second farm after the owners of a local business threatened to file a lawsuit. The business owners said the second farm would be closer to their business then state law would allow.
Megafarms taking over
Nationwide, megafarms are overtaking small-scale, family-owned farms. They're also called concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, because they pack thousands of livestock into far less space than is necessary for the animals to graze.
The Bos family runs many megafarms, including several in northwest Indiana. A.J. Bos, 40, said he is just another family farmer.
"I don't have investors. It's just me, my wife and my kids. We grew up on dairies," he said. "We are family farms. We're just bigger than what other people out there are used to."
The Jo Daviess County board voted 11-5 against the Bos farm in February. But state law states the county's vote is not binding. The state has full control over whether to grant a permit.
County Board Chairman Marvin Schultz said the county is very much divided over the plan, and that outspoken opponents may have misled observers to believe everyone in the county is against it.
"It's so emotional with some of the folks that some people supporting it are not coming out and writing letters to the editor," he said. "They are quietly stating their opinions (by calling Schultz's office)."
Support from farmers
Some local farmers support the Bos plan. They look forward to manure -- fertilizer, high in nitrogen, for their crops -- from the Bos farm. They also hope to sell Bos feed for his cows.
Farmer Bill Harbach of nearby Warren has a contract with Bos to collect free manure to fertilize his land.
"We just hope that if the thing is built that the wounds that are being developed in the area would be healed shortly, and everyone would get back to their daily activities and forget about all the problems that this is causing between families," Harbach said.
Manure at the proposed dairy would flow into three massive collection ponds, which would be emptied once a year. Terry Feldmann, an agricultural engineer working for Bos, said the ponds would be lined with clay to prevent manure from leaking into the ground. A fiber mat would cover the pond with concentrated solid matter to minimize odor, he said.
Local critics aren't convinced the clay will keep the manure from penetrating the bedrock.
Bos said he picked Illinois for his next dairy to cut transportation costs.
"It's purely transportation," he said, citing $4 fuel.
Why Jo Daviess County? No particular reason, Bos said.
"It could have been Carroll County, It could have been Wisconsin. It could have been just because I found that farm there," he said.
But his choice of Jo Daviess County, as opposed to another location in rural Illinois, prompted an additional controversy -- one that threatens to derail the plan.
The bedrock of Jo Daviess County is karst, meaning it's fractured and particularly susceptible to groundwater contamination, according to Sam Panno, senior geochemist at the Illinois State Geological Survey.
As state officials from legislative leaders to the attorney general focused on the mega-farm plan in recent months, Panno authored a series of reports about the bedrock and groundwater underlying Bos' two adjacent farm sites.
"Given the thin nature of the overlying sediment and the likelihood of sinkholes on the sites, the karst aquifer underlying the proposed sites would be highly susceptible to groundwater contamination by spills/seeps of animal waste," he wrote.
Critics also note that a creek running through the two proposed farm sites ultimately flows northwest into the scenic Apple River Canyon State Park.
Bos commissioned his own testing of the area, and he said it showed there is no karst.
Ultimately, the Department of Agriculture must make its own determination about whether the bedrock is karst -- and whether Bos must modify his manure retention plan to accommodate that risk.
State law also all but cuts the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency out of the permit review process, vesting almost total authority in the Department of Agriculture. The EPA regulates livestock facilities only to the extent that they discharge water or waste into a waterway -- something Bos insists he won't be doing.
Even the act of spreading the manure on local fields is controversial. The manure is stored in water, and is spread on fields after it is liquefied.
Danielle Diamond, a lawyer in the anthropology department at Northern Illinois University, said nitrogen runoff from farms is the top cause of water pollution, and that often large facilities lead to farmers putting too much fertilizer, or manure, on the land.
Legislative backing
Rep. Jim Sacia, a Pecatonica Republican whose district includes Jo Daviess County, strongly supports the Bos farm. He traversed the country in recent months, visiting similar megafarms and building his case for the Bos farm. He said he paid for all of those trips with his own money, and that he would not benefit financially from Bos' farm.
He said he is confident they are environmentally sound, saying larger dairy operations tend to be more sophisticated and better able to manage pollution. He also argued that small-scale farms are increasingly difficult to sustain economically.
"It's the old 'not in my backyard' thing," he said. "That's what the issue really is."
Sacia said the farm would be an economic boon.
"Let's look at that manure as a very valuable commodity. It is fertilizer. It is something that other farmers have a definite need for," he said. "Other farms are going to have the ability to sell their crops to Mr. Bos."
He also believes the farm would help retain the state's position as a livestock state.
"We aren't saying as a state, 'Livestock go away,' '' he said.
Indeed, Bergstrom and other local homeowners say they don't want the Bos farm in their backyard. Bergstrom, 59, also lives in Warren. He helped organize an opposition group, which is online at stopthemegadairy.org.
The agriculture department also must weigh other factors, such as the farm's possible impact on tourism.
Galena Mayor Tom Brusch said he is keeping an open mind. Galena, about 30 miles west of Nora, is the tourist hub of Jo Daviess County.
"As for tourism, I don't see that it would hurt us," Brusch said.
Sacia said the Bos farm could become an actual tourist attraction, as the megafarms in northwest Indiana have become. Steve Bos, a cousin of A.J.'s who runs the family operation there, said the farms offer a bus tour to educate the public about why they should not be afraid and why they need mega-farms.
"We keep this food supply safe and relatively inexpensive if you look around the world," Steve Bos said. "People are afraid of the unknown."
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Lot 5 (Sporting Art, Wildlife and Dogs, 30th April 2019)
R Moseley, 20th century
Signed l.r., oil on canvas
30.5 x 40.5cm
Sold for £350
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Reposted from the TexasIslandClub.com Forum. Trip report comes from Club Captain Steve Mullins, AKA Crazy Yak, who took a fun trip along the Texas coast just south east of Houston in a pair of Hobie sailing kayaks.
My family and I met up with Bob and Kathleen and sailed from Kemah to San Leon. After launching at the Kemah boat ramp our destination was Bubba's Shrimp Palace (http://www.bubbasshrimppalace.com).
The weather conditions, sailing, and food was excellent. We beached our sailing kayaks inside the protected dock in front of the restaurant.
Short video shortly after leaving Kemah:
Our total distance sailed was 16 miles and took only 2 hours with a max speed of 9.2kn / 10.5 mph. With water temps in the mid-50′s the proper exposure protection was required; waders with dry paddle jackets did the trick and we almost stayed dry. On the return we sailed against whitecaps with a crosswind, definitely sporty conditions! Reefing the sail to about 50% made for a smoother and drier ride.


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Each year, the National Restaurant Association surveys professional chefs — this year 1,609 of them — about trends they expect to see in the coming year.
It seems a bit hollow to write about 2009 restaurant trends when the biggest wrinkle in the New Year is that many people, sadly, will be forced to cut back on dining out.
Restaurateurs, already skating on razor-thin profits, will have to respond with even more ingenuity. I don't know how that's possible, but members of the American Culinary Federation have some ideas.
Each year, the National Restaurant Association surveys professional chefs — this year 1,609 of them — about trends they expect to see in the coming year.
No. 1 for 2009, not surprisingly, is locally grown produce. Concern about environmental pollution, fears about food contamination, the desire to support local farmers and the incomparable taste of foods grown close by have caused this issue to leap onto the radar screens of even the most casual of foodies. Farmers markets are booming, backyard gardens are back in style and customers are asking to see local sources for restaurant offerings listed on the menu.
Bite-size desserts — the top trend in this survey for the past two years — slipped to second place for 2009. Many diners like a taste of something sweet after a meal, but a slice of carrot cake with sizable real estate is just too much. Among local eateries offering mini desserts is Chili's, which has shot glasses filled with warm cinnamon roll, double chocolate fudge brownie, Key lime pie and red velvet cake. Applebee's also has small desserts in a glass: apple-caramel, Key lime pie, chocolate mousse, hot-fudge sundae and strawberry cheesecake.
Third on the list is organic produce, which goes along with locally grown produce. People want to know their food is clean and was grown in a manner that doesn't hurt the Earth.
No. 4 is nutritionally balanced children's dishes. For too long, restaurants have catered to families by having a "kids' menu" laden with greasy burgers, fried chicken nuggets and calorie-rich macaroni and cheese, accompanied by fries and a soft drink.
Parents are asking for more lower-calorie, nutrient-dense choices for the little ones, on track to become the fattest Americans ever. Restaurants are responding with skim milk, yogurt, juices and fruits and veggies sliced to fit into tiny hands.
New cuts of meat are next on the list. No, the cow hasn't grown a new part. After analyzing the various muscles for flavor, tenderness and functionality, sections can be cut differently to produce more variety and, sometimes, value. Look for names such as flat iron, Denver, Sierra cut and ranch steak on the menu.
No. 6 is fruit and vegetable children's side items. See No. 4.
Next on the list is superfruits. Can you say acai, goji berry, mangosteen?
Rounding out the eighth spot is small plates/tapas/mezze/dim sum. Same principle as mini desserts. Sometimes you just want a couple of bites.
Micro-distilled and artisan liquor is ninth. Expect to see mixologists showcasing their creativity behind the bar.
No. 10 is sustainable seafood, an increasingly popular choice among diners concerned about overfishing and environmentally destructive fishing methods.
Among the practices and edibles the chefs deemed old fashioned were organ meats, rose wine, Mexican appetizers, cold soups, entree salads with salmon, canning, beer-based cocktails and Mexican entree salads.
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I have heard good things about this bread, so when I was at my local health food store a few weeks back, I decided to give it a try. It wasn't cheap by any means ~ $5.89/loaf. I was out of bread at home and thought now was a good time.
I got home and toasted up some of the bread in my toaster oven. I made a deli turkey, cheese, lettuce & tomato sandwich out of the bread. I dove right in. The bread was not horrible by any means, but it wasn't fantastic either. I was more than a little disappointed. Maybe my expectations were too high? I don't know. I normally eat Pamela's Wheat Free Bread that is made from a mix. I make it in my bread machine. So, maybe I am just spoiled. I served this bread to my son, not telling him how I felt about the bread. He said the same thing I did. The next day I served him a grilled cheese sandwich on it and he said it was much better that way. So, apparently just toasting the bread isn't enough. You apparently need to spread butter on it and then grill it. It would probably also work well with french toast or stuffing for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Thousands of healthcare workers walked off the job at the University of California's five medical centers on Tuesday, delaying surgeries, diagnostic procedures, treatments and emergency care throughout the state.
The union representing nearly 13,000 vocational nurses, respiratory therapists and radiology technologists said they staged the strike -- scheduled to last two days -- to draw attention to staffing shortages that they say undermine patient care at the hospitals in San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles, San Diego and Irvine.
Some of the public hospital system's estimated 3,400 pharmacists, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists and lab scientists also walked out on Tuesday in a one-day sympathy strike at the five medical centers.
"The allegation is they're doing this for patient safety," UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein said. "If we had unsafe staffing levels, we wouldn't be in operation. I really don't understand how walking off the job and leaving patients stranded is helping them."
Todd Stenhouse, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents the striking workers, said the union's primary consideration was ensuring adequate staff for patient care.
"Our top concern is about safe staffing, and we need to put a stop to the diversion of resources away from patient care," he said. He said the workers have been working without a contract since September.
Klein said the sticking point in negotiations has been the union's unwillingness to agree to changes to a pension system that most of the university's other workers have already accepted. "What AFSCME wants is a special deal for them, and we don't think it's fair," she said.
Proposed changes include raising employee pension contributions, revising eligibility rules for retiree health benefits, and creating a second tier of retirement benefits for new workers.
Tim Thrush picketed outside UC San Francisco, where he works as a diagnostic sonographer, holding a sign saying, "Striking for our patients, our family and our future."
"I'm very excited and energized to be in the middle of hundreds of my co-workers who are standing up to UC and letting them know that their messed-up priorities that are shortchanging patient care on a daily basis need to stop," said Thrush, 46.
University of California Vice President for Human Resources Dwaine Duckett said his organization had offered the workers a four-year contract with up to 3.5 percent annual wage increases. The average employee in the union earns $55,000 a year, he said.


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Object Serialization
This series, The Object-Oriented Thought Process, is intended for someone just learning an object-oriented language and wants to understand the basic concepts before jumping into the code or someone who wants to understand the infrastructure behind an OOP language they are already using. Click here to start at the beginning of the series.
In keeping with the code examples used in the previous articles, Java will be the language used to implement the concepts in code. One of the reasons that I like to use Java is because you can download the Java compiler for personal use at the Sun Microsystems Web site http://java.sun.com/. You can download the J2SE 1.4.2 SDK (software development kit) to compile and execute these applications and I will provide the code listings for all examples in this article. I have the SDK 1.4.0 loaded on my machine. I will also provide figures and the output (when appropriate) for these examples. See the previous articles in this series for detailed descriptions for compiling and running all the code examples.
In the next few columns, you will explore the concept of object wrappers by considering several interesting technologies. In many ways, object wrapping is simply another example of the paramount object-oriented concept pertaining to separating the interface from the implementation.
Perhaps the most obvious topic to illustrate this concept is that of data handlingsaving program data to external media with the intent of restoring it later. The basic idea is to develop a way to encapsulate various data access technologies and make them transparent to the user. In short, you will create a single interface that will allow the user to save and restore an object, regardless of the technology.
In this article, you will investigate the process of serializing an object so that you can write it out to a file. Next month, you will create wrappers that will allow you to write data from a Java program using JDBC to a database (your first example will be Microsoft Access). In the process of these next few articles, you will focus on the concept of object wrappers. After you cover the topics of object serialization and connecting to a database, you will see the power of object wrappers first hand.
Interface/Implementation Revisited
The overriding concept behind object wrappers is that of the separation of the interface from the implementation. By now, you should have realized that this concept is the basis of much of the material in this column. Thus, when designing a class, what the user needs to know and what the user does not need to know are of vital importance. Encapsulation is the means by which nonessential data is hidden from the user.
Consider the example of designing and producing a simple toaster. The toaster, or any appliance for that matter, is simply plugged into an interface, which is an electrical outlet. All appliances can access electricity by complying with and using the correct interface: the electrical outlet. The toaster doesn't need to know about the implementation, or how the electricity is produced. A coal plant or a nuclear plant could produce the electricitythe appliance does not care which, as long as the interface works.
As another example, consider an automobile. The interface between you and the car includes components such as steering wheels, gas pedals, brakes, and ignition switch. For most people, aesthetic issues aside, the main concern when driving a car is that the car starts, accelerates, stops, steers, and so on. The implementation, basically the stuff that you don't see, is of little concern to the average driver. In fact, most people would not even be able to identify certain components, such as the catalytic converters and gaskets. However, any driver would recognize and know how to use the steering wheel because this is a common interface. By installing a standard steering wheel in the car, manufacturers are assured that the people in their target market will be able to use the mechanism.
If, however, a manufacturer decided to install a joystick in place of the steering wheel, most drivers would balk at this, and the automobile might not be a big seller (except for some eclectic people who love bucking the trends). On the other hand, as long as the performance and aesthetics didn't change, the average driver would not notice whether the manufacturer changed the enginepart of the implementationof the automobile.
It must be stressed that the interchangeable engines must be identical in every wayas far as the driver's perceptions go. Replacing a four-cylinder engine with an eight-cylinder engine would change the rules just as changing the current from AC to DC would affect the rules in the power plant example.
The engine is part of the implementation, and the steering wheel is part of the interface. A change in the implementation should have no impact on the driver, whereas a change to the interface might.Interfaces also relate directly to classes. End users do not normally see any classesthey see the GUI or command line. However, programmers would see the class interfaces. Class reuse means that someone has already written a class. Thus, a programmer who uses a class must know how to use the class. This programmer will combine many classes to create a system. The programmer is the one who needs to understand the interfaces of a class. Therefore, when I talk about users in this article, I mean designers and developersnot end users. And when I talk about interfaces, I are talking about class interfaces, not GUIs.
To encapsulate data, classes are designed in two partsthe interface and the implementation.
The Interface
The interface is the services that are presented to an end user. In the best case, only the services that the end user needs are presented. Of course, which services the user needs may be a matter of opinion. If you put 10 people in a room and ask each of them to do an independent design, you might receive 10 totally different designs. There is nothing wrong with this. However, as a rule of thumb, the interface to a class should contain only what the user needs to know. In the toaster example, the user only needs to know that the toaster must be plugged into the interfacewhich in this case is the electrical outlet.
Perhaps the most important issue when designing a class is identifying the audience, or users, of the class.
The Implementation
The implementation details of the interface services are hidden from the user and can be changed as long as the interface remains the same. Recall that in the toaster example, although the interface is always the electric outlet, the implementation could change from a coal power plant to a nuclear power plant without affecting the toaster. There is one very important caveat to be made here: The coal or nuclear plant must also conform to the interface specification. If the coal plant produces AC power, but the nuclear plant produces DC power, there is a problem. The bottom line is that both the user and the implementation must conform to the interface specification.
Using Wrappers to Hide the Implementation
How does the concept of interface/implementation relate to the discussion on serialization and connecting to a database? The basic idea is that you as a user of a class should be able to write an object to a persistence data storage device without knowing what the implementation of the device is. This holds for specific implementations like whether or not you use an MS Access database or an Oracle database, and so on. It also holds true for the actual means of storage, like whether or not you use serialization or connect to a database. In short, all you should have to do is write the object; the underlying implementation should be hidden. In this way, you can change the implementation without affecting the user code. You will explore this concept in great detail after you cover the specific technologies. As stated earlier, this article describes object serialization; the next will cover connecting to a database using JDBC. Then, you will build the appropriate wrappers to allow you to seamlessly use one or both of these technologies. Thus, you can see how to write an object to a file.
Serializing an Object
No matter what type of business application that you create, saving the data to a storage device most likely will be part of the mix. In fact, one of my favorite lines when it comes to software development is "it's all about the data." In short, no matter what hardware, operating system, applications software, and so forth, is used when creating a software application, the data may well be the reason for creating the system in the first place.
Persistent Objects Basics
Recall that when an object is instantiated by an application, it lives only as long as the application itself. Thus, if you instantiate an Employee object that contains attributes such as name, ss#, and the like, that Employee object will cease to exist when the application terminates. Figure 1 illustrates the traditional object life cycle.
Figure 1: The Object Life Cycle.
When the Employee object is instantiated and initialized, it has a specific state. Remember that the state of an object is defined by the value of is attributes. If you want to maintain the state of the Employee object, you must take some sort of action to save the state of this object beyond the life of the application. The concept of saving the state of an object so that it can be used later is called persistence. Thus, you use the term persistent object to define an object that can be restored and used independent of the application. Figure 2 illustrates the traditional object life cycle with persistence.
Figure 2: Object Life Cycle with Persistence.
There are many ways to save the state of an object. Some of these are as follows:
- Save to a flat file
- Save to a relational database
- Save to an object database
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Access Health CT past sign-up projection
There are only three weeks left for Americans to sign up for health coverage through the insurance marketplaces created as part of the sweeping federal health reform legislation known as Obamacare.
But even with the deadline looming, the leader of the state's exchange is calm, saying he doesn't expect a huge enrollment crush in the coming weeks.
"I don't think our experience for the end of March is going to be quite as active as the end of December," when state residents were rushing to sign up so they could be covered by Jan. 1, said Kevin Counihan, chief executive officer of Connecticut health care marketplace, Access Health CT.
Counihan was one of six state exchange leaders who participated in a conference call Thursday led by the nonprofit health advocacy group Families USA. They talked about their respective states' progress in getting residents to sign up by the deadline. Consumers must sign up for coverage or receive an exemption by March 31 to avoid a tax penalty. For 2014, the penalty is either 1 percent of the family's gross household income or $95 per uninsured individual -- whichever amount is greater.
In Connecticut, 160,580 people have enrolled in coverage through Access Health CT, surpassing the exchange's self-imposed goal of 100,000 people. Counihan said roughly 62,000 of those who enrolled signed up for one of three private health plans represented on the exchange. Most of the remainder signed up for some form of Medicaid.
Counihan said about 2,000 people a day sign up through the state marketplace, and of those who have enrolled so far, 92 percent have paid their premiums.
"I think what we've been seeing is that this is becoming a little bit like a machine," he said.
Most of those on the call didn't share Counihan's calm about the remainder of the eligibility period, including Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack.
"I think we have reason to believe that there's going to be, in the month of March, a huge influx to get people enrolled," he said.
More InformationTo learn more
Consumers can continue to compare the plans offered through the health exchange and shop for coverage online at www.accesshealthct.com or call 1-855-805-4325. A list of upcoming enrollment fairs and a link to locate an in-person assister are available at learn.accesshealthct.com.
At least one person involved in helping educate Connecticut residents on the exchange agreed with Pollack. "We're still seeing a lot of traffic," said Robin Lamott Sparks, senior director of policy and research at the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition.
The coalition is one of the many "assister" organizations in the state charged with teaching people about Access Health, and walking them through the various plans to find the one that's best for them. Sparks said the coalition was so overwhelmed, they asked Access Health to temporarily remove their number from the list of assisters.
Counihan also said many of Access Health's marketing efforts of late have centered on educating people about the tax penalty.
"We're a little concerned that people in our state think the penalty is only $95 and don't know (that it could be) 1 percent of their income," he said.
Though it hasn't been without hiccups -- including a long delay in launching its Spanish-language web site -- Access Health CT has been relatively free of the woes plaguing other some states, particularly those without their own exchanges. Residents of these states had to seek coverage through the federal website, HealthCare.gov, which was bogged down with well-publicized technical difficulties.
This week, the federal government announced that 4.2 million people have bought coverage in plans sold through either the federal exchange or a state marketplace. That's roughly 2 million short of the 6 million people the government hoped to enroll by March 31.
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Expedia is best known for bringing pioneering technology to the vast travel market.
Now, nearly 20 years later, the Bellevue online travel giant is leveraging improvements in that technology to help it weather recent economic storms and looming challenges.
The story shows up in the company's financial statements: After a so-so first half of 2013, Expedia reported a 17 percent increase in revenue in the third quarter, and an 18 percent increase in the fourth quarter over the same periods the previous year. For all of 2013, the company reported revenue of $4.8 billion, maintaining the leadership of online travel-agency market with Priceline Group.
Analysts think the performance was not a fluke. JPMorgan noted the revenue improvement was driven by "solid performance in Expedia's core brands." The company's revenues are derived primarily from hotel-booking fees and digital advertising by airlines, car-rental companies, hotels, cruise lines, tourism boards and other travel businesses.
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"In 2007 Expedia was ranked the fifth-largest travel retailer in the world and by 2012 it had climbed to No. 1," said Michelle Grant, travel and tourism research manager at Euromonitor International, a London-based market-intelligence firm. "It's had a very strong rise. It's been able to grow against weaker competitors, like Travelocity and Orbitz."
Expedia — which owns Hotwire, corporate travel agency Egencia, Chinese travel agency eLong and more than a half dozen other brands — credits strategic investments in technology and acquisitions for the financial boost.
"We have, over the course of the last couple of years, transitioned our technology platforms from platforms that were built in the late 1990s and early 2000s," said Mark Okerstrom, chief financial officer. Instead of being able to add features and applications to platforms three or four times a year, for example, the company can release new features on a continuous basis.
Okerstrom said Expedia has about 40 to 50 test applications on its platform now, and users can vote with their clicks what features they like best.
"If we find something that works, we can deploy globally," he said.
One example of an app is Things to Do, which is on the Expedia.com site. Enter a city and a date, and the applet will return a listing of available events, including tours, dining and music.
Platform upgrades
Expedia's new platform infrastructure has also allowed the company to be a service provider to strategically selected companies. For example, Expedia hosts loyalty-redemption services for some banks, and last year struck a deal to host all the Travelocity websites in the U.S. and Canada.
"Travelocity will continue to market that brand," Okerstrom said. "They will continue to have the finance and analytics organization, but everything else that they do will ultimately be to the aim of driving their users to a website that is actually sitting on top of the brand Expedia platform."
Grant contends the Travelocity deal amounts to a bit more than that. "What you have now in the online travel space is two competitors — Expedia and Priceline," noted Grant. "Travelocity basically admitted defeat by teaming up with Expedia."
Priceline is rival
Priceline Group, which went public nine months before Expedia in 1999, includes booking.com, agoda.com, Kayak and rental cars.com. Based in Norwalk, Conn., Priceline has nearly 8,000 employees and provides online travel services in more than 190 countries.
For 2013, Priceline reported net income of $1.9 billion, up 35 percent over 2012, on gross bookings of $39.2 billion, up 38 percent.
Okerstrom declined to disclose how much Expedia invested in upgrading its platform infrastructure. He did note, however, that the majority of the company's 14,750 employees are in Bellevue, while most of the physical infrastructure is at a server farm in Arizona.
"Since they started out as a technology company, it doesn't surprise me that they are putting a lot of emphasis on that and it is a competitive advantage," Grant said.
Going mobile
Another aspect of Expedia's tech upgrade has been in developing mobile applications.
"We think mobile is a huge opportunity," Okerstrom said. "It has gone from a theory to reality, and I think it is done so faster than we and everyone in e-commerce thought it would."
Already, Okerstrom reports, Expedia brands have had more than 90 million downloads of their mobile applications and, in December, 20 percent of current transactions were taking place via mobile devices.
The mobile applications have delivered new capabilities to consumers. One application, for example, allows users to locate and book a hotel room from the road for check-in at midnight the same night. "That type of technology didn't really exist before," Okerstrom said.
Grant said spending on that technology is "necessary to capitalize on that shift to tablets and smartphones for bookings."
Making acquisitions
One key benefit of the platform upgrades, says Okerstrom, is that "it also enables us to integrate partners very easily." And the company has moved aggressively to acquire and integrate partners, most recently with the acquisition last March of the hotel search engine trivago.
"They all have their own specific strength," said Okerstrom of Expedia's broad array of brands. "We have really no brands that are directly head to head."
For example, while the flagship Expedia brand offers multiple products — hotel rooms, car rentals, surfing lessons — Hotels.com offers just discounted hotel rooms.
Each strategy, says Okerstrom, "resonates with certain types of consumers."
Another Expedia brand, Hotwire, follows yet another strategy by offering deeply discounted rooms "opaquely." That is, the consumer knows the star rating and the general location of the hotel, but not the specific facility.
Riding out ups, downs
Expedia's expansion through acquisitions gives it two major advantages. First, it can ride out ups and downs in the various travel markets.
For the past few years, for example, economic trends have resulted in poorer performance at Hotwire. That unit's discounts depend on airlines, hotels and car-rental companies' having lots of excess inventory to unload, Okerstrom said.
"When you are faced with an industry dynamic where things are pretty healthy in the air industry, occupancy levels are relatively high in hotels, and in the car industry you have had significant amount of consolidation, that makes it difficult for Hotwire to get copious amounts of excess inventory," he said.
Preference program
Expedia's expanding reach also gives it advantages of scale. One current example is the company's new Expedia Traveler Preference Program, which allows consumers to pay in advance for a hotel room or at the end of their stay. That can be especially desirable for international travel when reservations are often made in advance and when currency fluctuations can make a big difference.
Of course, offering that choice means taking on the additional burden of managing credit-card transactions and assuming the risk losses if the currency depreciates.
"It is a part of our business," said Okerstrom, adding that Expedia has extensive foreign-exchange hedging operations and the scale that allows the company to minimize the risk.
"Travel is one of those industries that is pretty darn resilient," he said. "Of course, there have been pockets of weakness in Europe, as obviously that region has had economic troubles.
"If you look at the United States specifically, the airline industry is healthier than it is ever been. Occupancy levels in hotels are nearing the peak of where you like to see them."
Generally, Trefis, a corporate-analytics firm, agrees. Still, Trefis warns that Expedia faces competition from Priceline, as that company turns its focus increasingly toward U.S. markets.
And trouble can also come from unexpected directions. In late January, shares of Expedia slid 4.3 percent after a blogger made public a report showing the company's online visibility falling significantly, possibly a result of actions taken by Google to punish companies that were gaming its search algorithms. Neither Google nor Expedia would comment on the issue.
Expedia stock closed at $74.20 Friday, down $1.01.
Grant says Expedia will need to keep developing its technological edge. "It is a very competitive market and there are a lot of people who like to invest in travel startups, and you see a lot of innovation coming from outside the industry," he said. "To retain their own competitive advantage they really can't be complacent."
Patrick Marshall is a freelance writer in Seattle and a regular contributor to The Seattle Times.


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Mirror Universe
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(coexisting on another dimensional plane)
For the prime universe counterpart, please see Quark's.
Quark's Bar was an Alliance-owned institution on Terok Nor. The previous bartender and namesake Quark, was a kindhearted, Terran-freeing Ferengi who was subsequently executed on the orders of Intendant Kira Nerys in 2370. (DS9: "Crossover")
The next bartender, Quark's younger brother Rom, was an Alliance triple agent who was killed by the Alliance to prevent him from leaking information to the Terran Rebellion in 2371. (DS9: "Through the Looking Glass")
Rom's son Nog was the last known bartender before he was killed by the Intendant in 2372. (DS9: "Shattered Mirror")
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COLUMBIA, MO — The first class of its kind in the country to be offered in the college classroom will educate non-science major undergraduate students about the hazards of physical inactivity and its implications for public policy.
Through a series of lectures, the course at the the University of Missouri-Columbia will examine the science of the calorie, the biology of aging and the effect of chronic disease on public policy. The majority of the course content will be taken from research that relates physical inactivity to a number of common disorders including obesity, type-2 diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer.
"This will be more than a sermon course," said Frank Booth, professor of biomedical sciences and co-professor of the new course with Marybeth Brown, professor of physical therapy. "We'll put the information in terms for the undergraduate, non-science major to understand. We will tell them what they do to their bodies when they're not active. Then they have to decide what to do with this information."
Recently, Booth found that just two days of physical inactivity can reduce the body's insulin efficiency. Insulin takes blood sugar from the blood stream and into the muscle to be used for energy, but physical inactivity causes the amount of sugar taken into the muscle to decrease.
Booth said the purpose of the course is to encourage lifestyle modifications in students today to help them prevent health problems later in life. He hopes to reach students in non-science fields, such as journalism and law, who will be implementing public policy in the future.
"We're not going to be able to change society unless we reach leaders who are not science majors," Booth said. "These students will be making public policy and writing about it. They'll decide that constructing sidewalks is not just a money issue but a health issue as well."
The course will begin as a one credit-hour class with a maximum enrollment of 50 students. Pending student interest and a successful first semester this fall, Booth hopes to expand the course in the future.


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Here we have the sensationally stunning English model, Abbey Clancy, donning her trademark blonde hairstyle with thick visible dark roots. Checkout some pics below.
This is a stunningly gorgeous middle parted style with lovely long layers and cute partial side bangs, which really compliments the entire hairstyle.
Next we see a slightly more casual and shorter style, which would be appropriate for almost any occasion, big or small. Plus this is a nice snapshot of her dashing eyelashes.
Once again, we see her beautiful blonde locks, this time styled in more of a formal fashion with heavy partially side swept bangs and fantstic curls on the end, perhaps with a few extensions mixed in for added texture.


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IamGugu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 87 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
biohonk (bio means natural; honk means to warn people about the importance of the choice of their food and cosmetics to health)
We opening our e-commerce webshop to promote healthy living and sell organic baby food, baby cosmetics and handmade cosmetics for women.
We need you to build a website concept for us. We understand that feedback is important, so we'll give you feedback several times a day!!
We'd like to be advocates for healthy living, so apart from selling products, we'll publish blogs, articles and provide online consultancy to our visitors.
People who lives a busy lifestyle and want to live a healthy life. Mostly women who cares about quality and toxic-free cosmetics and families who want to give the best food and treat their babies with the best cosmetics. We believe that our audience are people conscious about how they live their life, health and about their choices when it comes to buying.
Please build a frontpage and products page webdesign for our e-commerce website.
What we'd like to see is:
A main page with:
- 3-4 top products highlighted (large images),
- recently published articles, blogs,
- list of product categories (costmetics for adults, baby cosmetics, baby food, breastfeeding, books) to browse,
- search box,
- login box (make sure that it's really visible),
- Shopping cart,
- menus: News, Blog, Products, Free Consultancy, Contact, About biohonk
Product page:
- Same header as frontpage,
- Product category listing (same categories as above)
- List of products with pictures within the category, for an example list, see: http://www.econatural.ie/Default.as…roductName
We like natural colours and clean design. Use your imagination and full creativity - we don't want to limit you on any colour, shape or form though - you are the master in what you are doing!
We'll apply this design on a DotNetNuke CMS framework - have a look at the wireframe: http://dnn5.excomhost.com/ShopNow/t…fault.aspx
If you are interested, we'll hire the winner to build the CSS for the DotNetNuke template!!!!!
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I have thought of two ideas that you might like to use GB
The first and very easy to implement is why don't you introduce a manager of the month and season award like in football for example.
Second idea is to do with the end of season draft. What about using a transfer system with money.
Here's how it goes, depending on where a team finishes in the leauge they get so much money ie last in div 2 gets 60 million and first in div 1 gets 10 million, which they then get to spend on transfers, the reason for the difference in money relates to how good a team is so coming top of div 1 means that they are not going to need to make changes a team that is already the best etc and last in div 2 must mean the team is bad and needs better players to be competive etc. ok what happends is that each manager then decides which players they want to buy and e-mails / leaves a message here, the team manager of the player that they wish to buy and then the two managers then come to an agreement between themsleves about how much they will offer, remembering that they only have so much to spend, once the two managers agree then they simply e-mail or leave a message here for you GB letting you know of the transfer (player and how much for) you then make a note of change and how much each team has left to spend etc. The money then swaps beween the teams like in a normal transfer.
You could also say that other sorts of transfers are acceptable for thoses with less money ie Player + Cash or player for player etc
These means that the lesser teams will be able to out bid the better teams at the start so that the gap between the teams ablity should come down.
Also the amount of work you have to do GB would be minamal as all you need to do it update each team with how much money they have left and make a note of which players have moved where.
As for the acadmey teams well that's up to you, because I can't think of a good way of doing it.
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most weekend mornings start with a bowl of cereal or some fruit and yogurt. occasionally we'll have breakfast tacos or a pancake or two, but our waffle iron only comes out once or twice a year. maybe i should change that.
gingerbread waffles of insane greatness
adapted from food network
50 minutes total, 20 minutes active; serves 2 adults (makes 4 waffles)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground clove
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon molasses
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
your favorite waffle accompaniment for serving
- in a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices.
- add the milk, buttermilk, oil, molasses, egg, sugar, and vanilla and mix well.
- cover with plastic wrap and let the mixture rest on your counter for 30 minutes.
- when the batter has ten minutes left to rest, preheat your waffle iron.
- when the batter is ready, spray your waffle iron with non stick spray. divide batter evenly amongst four waffles and cook according to the manufacturer's instructions.


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We had a hard time deciding the winner of the chainguard contest. There were several great submissions, but after tallying the staff votes this neat design by Chase wins. Chase gets his choice of a blank or regular chainguard and a $100 VO gift certificate.
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brother how r u?
hope u r fine. missing our elder brother's wonderful sharings....hope to see it soon...
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Nation's oldest carriage service no more
St. Augustine Transfer Company owner says city ran him out of town
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Not everyone rides the carriages in St. Augustine, but nearly everyone sees them.
What fun-loving tourists in the nation's oldest city were not seeing Monday is the sad and divisive end to the city's oldest business -- the oldest operating carriage service in the country -- the St. Augustine Transfer Company.
"It's as if your father died or something," company owner Murphy McDaniel said. "It's gone."
McDaniel has operated the carriage service as Avalon Carriage since 1982. Not long after buying the business, he started having serious legal disagreements with the city.
There is no doubt in his mind that his grave financial problems are the direct result of the city changing the permit rules after he had already made a huge investment under the old rules.
He says the city ran him out of town.
"I would say 100 percent, yes they did," McDaniel said.
"No, we wanted the carriage industry to thrive, but those things that are beyond our control are beyond our control," St. Augustine city manager John Regan said.
Meanwhile, it's hard to imagine St. Augustine without its historic horse-drawn carriages. It's a highlight of the trip for Connecticut resident Kaleigh Rusgrave and her grandmother, Charlene.
"Especially in a more historic place like this, it's nice to see it's still operating," Rusgrave said.
McDaniel currently holds half of the city's 30 permits, so that means 15 of them will eventually be up for grabs.
"You want to be a little careful how you just release the permits so we don't have too many carriages on the road," Regan said. "But I assure you that we'll be putting permits back into circulation."
As for McDaniel, all of Avalon's carriages are parked at the stables, a facility about to go into foreclosure. McDaniel is still scraping money together to feed the horses until he can sell them or get them adopted.
It was a difficult day for him.
"In some ways, I'm blessed. I'm still alive. I'm healthy. I'm standing up," he said. "There's a future of some sort. I don't know what it is, but it could be a lot worse."
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The Elements necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Elements is an internet based procurement and materials management system that helps businesses trade with each other more effectively by allowing purchasers to buy from their approved suppliers at the best possible price at a given point in time. Our company has been operating for over 10 years; it is time to re-design our front-end.
This is only the first of many design projects to come; we have a whole web application to redesign. We are looking to work closely with the winning designer or best designers at our discretion on an on-going basis. Show us what you can do!
The contest will start open to give everyone feedback and be made closed toward the end to ensure original work is submitted. Please review attached information.
We target organisations that regularly place a high volume of orders to suppliers. Our system is mainly used by, but not restricted to 4-5 Star International Hotels. The day to day users are varied with differing language and computer literacy skills, from Purchasing Officers, Stock Takers, Goods Receivable / Loading Dock Personnel, Inventory Managers, to Department Managers, Financial Controllers, General Managers and Regional Purchasing Managers.
No fancy graphics that distract the user from their job. Just simple and functional design. We require a design of 2 pages that make up the 'Create a New Purchase Requisition' section of our site (see attachments for current and proposed layout). New look and feel with emphasis is on intuitive and clear navigation. Design brief attached.
Standard page structure components for all pages
• User Details
• Search Function
• Email Function link/icon
• Menu Header Bar
• Retractable Side Navigation Bar
• Clearly defined action buttons
Page 1 additional components – Select from a List
• Select from a List
Page 2 additional components - Create a New Purchase Requisition
• Purchase requisition number displayed
• A list of items that may be ordered.
• Order Header Information, hidden unless selected.
• Buttons - Green = Progress, Amber = Perform an Action on the Same Page, Red = Ending Action. The buttons are standard to each page, though the functions may vary. Include an "unavailable" version.
• Colour should be used to draw attention to action button, highlight information or mark place. A good example is http://www.xero.com.
- Red = PMS 1955c
- Orange/Amber = PMS 166c
- Green = PMS 377c
- Blue = PMS 2955c
- Grey = PMS Cool Grey 10c
• 1280x1024 resolution.
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The recently-announced Vengeance revamp gives me a chance to revisit one of my favorite rants. Vengeance isn't exactly a new topic for us, as you may already know. I've covered it in this blog post, and this one, and Mel's covered it here and here. As much as I like beating a dead horse, I'm going to leave it to the reader to revisit those posts and bring themselves up to speed, so I can focus on the more immediate issue, which is what effects this new implementation brings to the table.
The Good
First, the good: the new ramping mechanism is great. Vengeance feels good when it behaves like a permanent, static buff that boosts your damage, and a better ramping system facilitates that. It's more or less what Mel and I suggested in several previous blog posts, among other places. This system mitigates some of the reliability issues by stacking the buff faster and extending the buff on an avoid, finally conquering the RNG monster. This is the sort of change we've been hoping for since the mechanic's implementation. So hooray for small victories.
Unfortunately, that's about the only good thing I have to say about the new system. Now for the bad.
The Bad
I don't think this will truly fix the 5-man damage discrepancy that Ghostcrawler described. The over-representation of tank damage in 5-mans is primarily caused by AoE on trash groups. Looking at boss parses alone, the discrepancy resolves itself, and DPS specs easily out-damage the tank. It's only when looking at overall damage done that a tank pulls ahead, and Vengeance isn't really the root of that problem. I'm fairly certain we're still going to be on-par with our DPS counterparts in that regard. Our AoE damage sources simply aren't as limited as a DPS spec.
The lack of a cap will cause a variety of problems. For starters, Vengeance will now be a significantly larger part our our AP than it was before, which means the damage disparity between tanking and not tanking is going to increase. In a follow-up post, Ghostcrawler quoted some numbers for warriors – around 25k AP baseline, and an additional 68k AP from Vengeance. With numbers like that, well over 2/3 of our output will be dependent on Vengeance. This "on/off" damage discrepancy was a major issue with the mechanic already, and it's going to be worse now.
As an example, consider early-fight tank swaps. When I taunt off of another tank, and they have full Vengeance while I have none, it is very difficult to maintain aggro. Frequently, the other tank just tears aggro back through brute force, even if all of my abilities connect. There's literally nothing one can do short of taunting it back (and remember, we're losing our second taunt) or having the other tank stop attacking.
It's not a fun or intuitive mechanic to have to stop attacking when someone taunts off of you. It's just annoying and frustrating, because it's another one of those instances where the game asks you to stand around and wait rather than continue to be active and engaged with the boss. It also heavily encourages you to use a threat meter just to monitor these situations (so you know if you should hold back). While the faster ramping of "new Vengeance" helps combat this, the discrepancy in damage output is going to make it worse overall.
In addition, "new Vengeance" is going to make protection leveling even more excruciating. I've been leveling as protection on the beta, and I can tell you that it's abysmally slow because during questing, you simply don't have any Vengeance to work with. I made this point rather well in the previous blog post, and I encourage you to read (or re-read) it rather than reproduce it here. Suffice to say, there's no way in hell I'm going to level as protection when Mists goes live. It's simply not efficient or fun. I'm going to give in and go retribution for the bulk of it, only switching to a tank spec for dungeons. It simply doesn't make sense to level as protection when everything dies 5 times faster as retribution.
The lack of a cap introduces even weirder effects that I don't think were explicitly intended. For example, a tank's DPS is primarily determined by the boss's DPS rather than our own gearing. That takes control out of the hands of the player and reduces or eliminates the effect that Vengeance was intended to fix in the first place – namely that tank damage should scale with gear. Now, our gear scaling is basically irrelevant, because our scaling is primarily determined by raid content. A newly-minted character will do as much DPS as a heavily-geared character while tanking the same raid boss. That revocation of player control is really demoralizing.
Worse yet, the newly-minted character may do more damage than the heavily-geared tank, because he'll have less armor. If the new Vengeance value is calculated as post-armor-mitigated boss DPS, which is how it's been explained, then we've introduced the same inverse-scaling paradigm that we had before Vengeance. To do more DPS as a tank, you're encouraged to sacrifice survivability in the form of armor, or in a more general sense by standing in fire and/or taking unnecessary damage. We're back to the "tank with your pants off" paradigm of Wrath. Rather than keep wearing your tanking gear for 5-mans, you should swap to Ret gear. With the introduction of Challenge Modes, this is an even more serious issue than it was when 5-mans weren't much more than a stepping stone to raids.
Another strange oddity: consider that most protection paladins used a combination of Tier 12 retribution and Tier 12 protection gear for Ultraxion progression, because both 2-piece set bonuses (to CS and SotR, respectively) were large enough to offset the AP loss by using last-tier's gear. If personal stats are less important to DPS, and we offset or make up for the STR-based AP loss by losing a bunch of armor, those set bonuses will continue to be obscenely powerful in T14+ content. This is the sort of unintuitive behavior that this version of Vengeance can cause. I'm sure they can (and will) nerf the T12 set bonuses, but that's just a band-aid fix to cover up the underlying mechanical problems with Vengeance.
The Ugly
Tank DPS is also going to vary significantly across content in this system. Our output will fluctuate wildly with encounter mechanics, specifically bosses with large variances in time-off-target. Or for that matter, sections of an encounter where one tank is taking most of the damage, leaving the off-tank doing very little. And there will be a huge variation in damage not just between 10-man and 25-man versions of content, but between normal and heroic versions of that content. I can see that being a huge balancing nightmare on several fronts – a retribution paladin does similar damage whether you set the boss to normal or heroic mode, but your tank's damage may vary by up to a factor of 2.
I also don't see the point in having a significant difference in tank DPS between 10- and 25-man versions of content. Tank damage may be a smaller proportion of raid DPS in the 25-man format, but it's no less important. For bosses with reasonably-tuned enrage timers (i.e., almost every meaningful heroic mode), tanks were already doing what they could to optimize damage. It really doesn't need to be normalized to keep the players happy, and I doubt it's a significant hurdle in balancing the encounters given the array of other, more noticeable differences between the formats.
Another side-effect of our DPS being dependent on boss DPS is that it opens up some really bizarre situations for our rotation. Our abilities don't scale equally with AP, and as a result our optimum rotation changes based on whether we're at 0% or 100% Vengeance. Amplifying this effect and making it vary per encounter is even worse, because it means that our ideal rotation can now change from boss to boss.
Now, you might say, "But wait Theck, DPS specs change their rotation from boss to boss too." And you'd be right, but only in the trivial sense. They may perform different actions for different numbers of targets, or bosses with strange special abilities. But they don't change anything when going from Patchwerk #1 to Patchwerk #2, which is their basic "nuke a single target" rotation, the bread-and-butter of their class. But with "new Vengeance," a tank's ideal rotation could be different depending on which boss they're facing, what phase it is, and whether they're the main- or off-tank. That's not just unintuitive, it's frustrating and annoying, especially for less experienced or less hardcore players.
Why this change?
I also don't think a change is required. Active Mitigation already gives us an incentive to care about our rotation, this new version of Vengeance isn't needed to achieve that. The new version doesn't do anything to scale tank threat with tank stats, and converts it to a mechanic that exists solely to make tanks contribute more DPS in raid content. The problem is that there's no reason for tanks to do more damage in raid content anymore. In Meloree's words:
..we could do zero DPS in raids, and be balanced around doing zero DPS in raids, and the encounters could be balanced around that, and it would be fine. We have an incentive to run our rotation, thanks to [Active Mitigation]. Imagine Vengeance was along the lines of "You do 100% less damage in raids, but no mob will ever stop paying attention to you unless someone else taunts it." That's not all that far off from current threat mechanics, barring the low-vengeance swap. And it's not all that far off from how important tank DPS isn't in 25H content. That Vengeance isn't really that much of a stretch. But it would really suck if we did zero actual damage while solo.The point is mostly that new Vengeance and/or high tank DPS isn't in any way required to cause tanks to engage in content, or for balance. Doing big numbers is fun, sure. I'd be annoyed if we did, in fact, do zero damage. But it's not mechanically required in any way that tanks do damage in raids. It might be simpler if they didn't do any.
If the rationale is that this version helps tank survival abilities scale equally with incoming damage, as Ghostcrawler suggested in his post, then AP is hardly the most intuitive stat to use for that purpose. There are better ways to do that, and the alternatives don't open a Pandora's Box of unintuitive side effects. If the problem is that WoG and Shield Barrier don't stay competitive with SotR in 25's because they are being balanced around 10-man damage intake, it would be simpler to give WoG and Shield Barrier the Death Strike treatment. Give them bonus healing based on recent damage taken. It's essentially the same mechanic, but confined to the appropriate area of applicability, without all the side effects.
And it's one step closer to "why bother having tank gear at all anymore." This solution encourages tanks to move further away from "stack survival" and towards "stack just enough survival, then DPS." Our returns on DPS stats will be a disproportionate increase to RDPS thanks to the goofy amounts of AP we'll be sitting on.
How to calm Vengeance
My recommendation is to re-institute a stamina-based cap on Vengeance AP, which is basically reverting the change (but keeping the good changes to ramping). That ties it back into our gearing and keeps our output more constant from situation to situation. I think it was already a bit much that half of our AP was dependent on a boss hitting us, having 2/3 or more of my output being dependent on it just feels depressing.
Though as I've been saying for a long time now, Vengeance just feels like a fundamentally flawed mechanic. The problem that Vengeance was intended to solve was always a "numbers problem." And instead of getting a "numbers solution," it got a complicated, unintuitive, and frankly un-fun "mechanics solution." Instead of seeing a nail and grabbing a hammer to fix it, a developer saw a nail and decided to smack it with the business end of a power drill. It doesn't feel elegant or right, and both of those factors permeate into how it feels while playing.
When does Vengeance feel like it's working properly? As I said before, it feels right when you don't notice it's there. In other words, when it acts like a permanent, always-on, static AP buff. Whenever that condition is violated, Vengeance feels clunky, frustrating, annoying, fickle, and all-around a pain in the ass. If there's one mechanic I absolutely loathe about tanking, it's Vengeance, because it's out of my control and often tries to subvert what I'm trying to do. It's one thing for a boss to do that – they're supposed to be working against me. My own abilities shouldn't be.
So, once more with feeling, I appeal to the developers: Fix Vengeance properly, once and for all. How, you ask? The same way I suggested in February:
Vengeance – Your attacks deal 50% more damage to NPCs. This value increases as you gain more Stamina.
That's it. That's all there is to it. It's a simple solution that fixes every single one of the problems with Vengeance without creating any new ones. No more pathetic DPS while soloing or off-tanking. No more taking your pants off on farm content to make sure the boss hits you hard enough to hold aggro. No more giant threat differentials or aggro losses immediately after a taunt. No more concerns about excessive tank DPS in PvP. And it fulfills the stated purpose of Vengeance: our DPS will still scale with a "tanky" stat. You get the same net effect in a more elegant, more intuitive, and just plain better form.
Yes, it introduces an artificial difference between PvE and PvP. But the recent hotfix does that anyway, and the current form of Vengeance isn't much less artificial than what I've proposed. As they learned with Colossus Smash, sometimes the best solution is to recognize that PvE and PvP are different beasts, and adjust accordingly.
If the developers are absolutely dead-set on tanks doing more damage in 25-man raids than 10-man – despite the fact that I haven't seen a good argument for why they should, and despite the fact that it's going to be a divisive feature and increase the animosity between 10's and 25's – then there are easy ways to do that. Vengeance could scale with party size:
Band of Heroes – Your fellow adventurers inspire you, causing your attacks to do X% more damage to NPCs for each player in your party or raid.
X can scale with stamina and be chosen differently for 5, 10, and 25-man groups. It's not elegant in its conception, I'll admit. It's artificial. But it would at least work, which is something I'm not convinced the new version of Vengeance will. And arguably, the current version hasn't been doing all that well either.


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Essayist misunderstood Occupy and its fingers
I don't mind criticism of the Occupy movement except when it is based on misrepresentations of the sort in the essay ["Great people? Steve Jobs, the Occupy movement, and us"] on the last page of the December 8 Hook.
The finger wiggling has nothing to do with whether we want to let a particular speaker talk. That part's already a given. The finger wiggles (up, down, or sideways) simply give the speaker instant feedback on whether the listeners agree, disagree, or don't have any strong feelings.
And favoring the creation of jobs or creating them aren't what we're all about either. We're about all kinds of things, but we're mostly about doing whatever works to turn the system of our country, even the world, into the kind of system that maximizes the possibilities for every human to develop his full capacities.
As for Solyndra vs. Apple, Gunderson seems to forget that Apple was once a brand new type of business just as Solyndra was. Remember the 1000 ways of trying to make a light bulb that didn't work before one did? Well, Solyndra discovered at least one way of building a solar energy company that didn't work. Eventually, one will.
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MISSION VIEJO – After a decade of discussion and false starts, the city has approved a dog park that comes with a price tag estimated at $860,000.
The park will sit on 6 acres at the eastern edge of the city. The design includes separate turf areas for small and large dogs, a single-dog area, fencing and a gravel parking lot, a staff report said.
More than 70 residents packed council chambers Monday, the majority in favor of the park. Of the handful who spoke against it, their primary concern was the cost. Much of that will go to grading the site, which sits at the top of a slope on the edge of O'Neill Regional Park.
Mayor Pro Tem Rhonda Reardon said she supports a dog park but at a lower cost, noting the $860,000 will be paying for the park's initial phase, "a graded dirt patch with some grass and a fence around it."
Councilman Dave Leckness said the dog park is an investment in something that enhances the city, adding that the cost will be paid for out of $8 million in park fees the city has received from developers.
The City Council on Monday night voted 3-2 to put the project out to bid. Council members Reardon and Cathy Schlicht voted no.


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Springer Harris
Class of 2010
Major/Minor: Business Management
The Weber Shandwick Connection
"You will be searched," warns Springer Harris '10 in giving advice to students looking to gain entry into the burgeoning world of social media and online communications. Shortly after graduation, Springer, a former business management major, landed a position as an Account Coordinator at Weber Shandwick, one of the leading public relations agencies in the world.
Springer is referring, of course, to the importance companies now place on social media sites and how students looking to enter the PR and communications industry can use online media to their advantage. "New graduates are social media natives. We grew up with it and are natural at it," Springer notes, so companies like Weber Shandwick conduct online searches to see what potential hires are already doing online, such as tweeting and blogging.
Knowledge of online communities is important to Springer's position in the company's Office of Digital Communications. This office works with a number of Fortune 100 and 500 firms and manages a variety of the clients' online needs, such as running Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, blogs and micro-sites. In his position, Springer has the opportunity to work across a variety of these accounts. "Companies don't just have a space online, they need someone to manage it," says Springer. "With Facebook and other trends changing daily, we can recommend what a client needs."
As an undergraduate, Springer served as Vice President of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, captain of the crew team, and treasurer of Sigma Beta Delta while pursuing his business studies. Based on his academic performance and leadership skills, his business professors recommended Springer to Kevin O'Keefe, the 1974 Washington College graduate who now serves as President of Weber Shandwick's Baltimore office. O'Keefe, a former College Trustee, had contacted the school in search of a good candidate for the position. Springer had searched for a position in advertising, but O'Keefe's relationship with the school opened up an unexpected and very exciting opportunity for him.
"I don't know where I'd be without Washington College," says Springer. "The lessons I learned inside and outside the classroom helped me get where I am now. And the business program, especially the senior thesis project, was great preparation for life in the workplace."
— Lauren Lawson '11


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I am so incredibly stoked about today's post. This project is over a year in the making and today it finally goes live! I've been working closely with friend and videographer Sasha Perry on a 'Day in the Life' video series: I spend the day with a vegan athlete training, cooking and learning the ins and outs of their veganism. Athletes have the most demanding nutrition needs and if veganism can work for them, it can work for you. I'm in a unique position as a Registered Dietitian and an athlete to both professionally evaluate their meals and to attempt their workouts. And it's fun!
The first athlete in our series is a good friend of mine, Brian Davidson. This guy is incredible. He's an airplane mechanic, who spends the day on his feet wrenching on airplanes, yet still finds time to bike commute and train. He does everything from water polo to iron-distance triathlons and has finished the 500-mile Furnace Creek 508 bike race twice. His Stokedtivity Levels are not only off the charts, but contagious! He was nice enough to share his training and eating with us while we figured out how to make this show work. Thanks Brian, you rule!
Without further ado, here's the 10-minute glimpse into Brian's vegan lifestyle. The recipes we make are below, along with nutrition information.
Are you stoked to eat and train? Here's how you can eat like Brian:
Brian's Super Breakfast Smoothie
5 bananas
½ cup peanut butter
1 ½ cups frozen blueberries
Add all ingredients to blender. Blend! Add water as needed. Drink.
Make sure your teeth aren't purple before you go out.
Calorie breakdown- Carbohydrate 50%, Protein 10%, Fat 40%
Carbohydrate- 94g
Fat- 34g
Fiber- 15g
Iron- 1.6g
Nutrition Analysis- The simplicity of this smoothie is gold. Easy, low-cost, nutrient and calorically dense ingredients. It is very high in fat at 40%, but for someone like Brian who requires 4,000-5,000 calories a day eating a higher fat diet makes sense. I also like the flexibility of the recipe- you can sub another nut butter- almond, sunflower seed, cashew, etc or any frozen or fresh berries or fruits. And it's a great use of over-ripe bananas!
Vegan Cashew Chicken Salad
16 ounces romaine hearts and/or salad greens
¼ cup cashews
2 roma tomatoes, cut into chunks
1 avocado, sliced
1 cup sliced carrots (optional: saute)
4 ounces vegan chicken strips, sauteed in a small amount of oil
2 tablespoons ginger miso dressing (optional: homemade dressing, recipes below!)
I love a slightly warm salad. Toss all of the room temperature ingredients and then add the vegan chicken and carrots, if sauteed.
Servings-1 big ass salad
Calorie breakdown- Carbohydrate 33%, Protein 15%, Fat 52%
Carbohydrate- 63g
Fat- 45g
Fiber- 25g
Iron- 10.2g, 57%, Calcium- 343g, 34%, Vitamin C- 80mg, 148%, Vitamin A- 500+%
Nutrition Analysis: This is a giant salad that's packed with good nutrition. Twenty grams of protein! Take that, stupid naturopaths that say you can't get enough protein from plant foods. Like his smoothie, this is very high in fat, a whopping 45 grams, mostly from the avocado and cashews. These are great polyunsaturated fats- heart healthy! Brian's theme is adjustability- even though we asked him to have recipes and ingredients ready for the show, he actually did just make it up when we got there. And so can you, if you keep healthy ingredients on hand.
Brian ate mostly raw vegan for many years and he was cool enough pass on a few of his favorite raw dressings. Like Brian, these recipes are creative and flexible.
Raw Tahini Dressing
1/3 cup seseme seeds
1 clove garlic
1-2 fresh squeeze oranges (add or reduce for consistency)
(Sometimes I just use water and add until I get the right consistency)
Blend & enjoy!
Calorie breakdown- Carbohydrate 38%, Protein 10%, Fat 52%
Carbohydrate- 41g
Protein- 11g
Fat- 24g
Fiber- 10g
Iron 7.2g, 40% Calcium 566g, 57%, Zinc 3.9g, 26%
This dressing is not playing around- look at those numbers for iron, calcium and zinc! Sesame seeds are also a great source of B-vitamins. One note about the calcium is that this is for unhulled sesame seeds- most of the calcium is in the hull of the seed (see this note from a colleague). They are sometimes labeled as 'natural' and raw ones are more likely to be unhulled. A benefit to making your own tahini dressing? Most tahini is made with hulled sesame seeds.
Raw Herb Dressing
1/3 cup sunflower seeds
1 bunch cilantro (or parsley, mint, thyme, oregano)
1-2 fresh squeezed oranges (add or reduce for consistency)
Blend & enjoy!
Calories- 210
Calorie breakdown- Carbohydrate 56%, Protein 10%, Fat 34%
Carbohydrate- 32g
Protein- 6g
Fat- 9g
Fiber- 8g
Iron 1.3g, Calcium- 119g, 12%
While this recipe is not the banger that the tahini one is, it's still solid. Also a good source of B-vitamins, like Folate and B6 and vitamin K. Also has significantly fewer calories.
Next week comes part two, where we join Brian in Death Valley to see how he fares in his 200-mile race. Without giving too much away, let's just say he made veganism look good. Like really, really good! We'll also include more details of his training, including a plan for you to ride your first 100+ mile event.
Thanks for watching and please pass this on to anyone who says, 'You can't be vegan and an athlete!' We're here to prove them wrong. Also, do you know a vegan athlete we should profile? Or other suggestions for our series? Please leave your comments below and thanks for watching!


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- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
- 1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. ground cardamom
- 3/4 tsp. kosher salt
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup crème fraîche plus more for serving
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 3/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp. almond extract
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds
- 2 cups all-purpose flour plus more for pan
Recipe Preparation
Place a rack in middle of oven and preheat to 350°. Butter a 9x5x3" loaf pan; line bottom and long sides with a strip of parchment paper, leaving overhang. Butter parchment and dust pan with flour, tapping out any excess.
Whisk baking powder, cardamom, salt, and 2 cups flour in a medium bowl; set aside. Whisk milk and ½ cup crème fraîche in a small bowl; set aside.
Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat sugar and ¾ cup butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating to blend between additions and occasionally scraping down sides and bottom of bowl with a spatula, then add vanilla and almond extracts.
Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients in 3 additions, alternating with crème fraîche mixture in 2 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients; beat just until combined. Scrape batter into prepared pan, smooth top, and sprinkle with sliced almonds.
Bake cake, rotating halfway through, until golden brown and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 55–65 minutes. (Tent with foil if browning too quickly.)
Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cake cool in pan 15 minutes. Using parchment overhang, gently remove cake from pan and transfer to rack; let cool.
Slice cake and serve with Tea-Poached Plums and crème fraîche.
DO AHEAD: Cake can be made 2 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.


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Tom fulp you still got it :P
also why dont you update this game?
really hard
I came back to the game and beat all campaigns except for "NG Legends". I suspect that beating the "Hope for the Best" bot is very luck-based, so I gave up on the Killer of Legends medal as trying over and over would take too much time.
After all of the hard work spent trying to beat every single bot, I have gained an appreciation for the strategy involved in this game. In fact, I would now consider Cathode Raybots to be primarily a puzzle game, even it seems like an action game at first glance. Most supposedly hard stages have a weak spot, where standing and firing continuously, when combined with a few jumps to dodge projectiles, allows you to beat the stage easily. For example, standing at the rightmost or leftmost (the stage is symmetric, so you can choose either one) reachable point in Sabortion and continuously firing leads to a narrow win. Heck lvl1 appears to be impossible, but after some trial and error, you may find that hitting the bot with a charged shot every 4-5 seconds is the solution. To those who may be reading this: the main message is to try to find a weakness in each stage so that you can win it reliably. Don't be that person who prances around like a monkey firing shots randomly; you'll just end up failing to beat most campaigns.
I have nothing to say about Raybot mode, as I didn't construct any patterns or stages.
Also, the bug where your character freezes and then utters a victory expression such as "Welcome to Earth" or "Smoke em if you got em" at the beginning of a battle persists. Luckily, reloading gets me back to the main menu pretty quickly, so it's not so bad.
I can't record my pattern for my Raybot but the Human mode works fine. This is a great concept for a game but it's a shame I can't make a boss battle


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|A glimpse into the last few weeks of my life via Instagram.
|outfit of the day| Shopping with Amy | sisters paper fashion design book | painting with little sister | behind the scenes: PARKSHOW 2012 campaign | obsessed with tea | holidays = puzzle time | broken iPhone | broken wrist
Lately Vol. 2
posted on: Friday, January 6, 2012
13 comments:
Ugh for the broken iphone and broken wrist!!! That's so brutal. The rest of your week looked pretty good thoughReplyDelete
Oh dear, the phone! And your wrist, ): do feel better.ReplyDelete
On a brighter note, that fashion book looks like fun!
The Iphone cracks my heart!ReplyDelete
Hope you had a good week!
I followed your blog, Please follow mine!
Your poor wrist! And phone! Hopefully the good stuff balanced those out though..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Instagram collages speak for themselves ;)ReplyDelete
Poor poor iPhone & wrist :(
That tea set is so beautiful!ReplyDelete
everything looks lovely...except the last two! Sorry girl :(ReplyDelete
+ just wanted to tell you that I added your button to my blog because I love it. :)
I was going to say that looks like a lovely couple of weeks but then saw the broken bone and phone. Sorry you've been in the wars and hope you're snug and recovering.ReplyDelete
Emily x
Hi dear, I love the layout, colour and design of your blog, its so pretty. Pictures that say more than word do...Hope you recover well, and sorry about your phoneReplyDelete
Ah! Instagram is my favorite! I wish I could live my life through an instagram filter!ReplyDelete
I am also obsessed with tea lately! Davids tea?? YUM! Love those red pants you are wearing too!ReplyDelete
<3 Kastles
First time visitor :) Your blog has great structure and atmosphere. I like! Hope your wrist heals up soon!ReplyDelete
gosh how the world of blogging has changed since Instagram got introduced to things. i LOVE these kinds of re-caps, they have got to be one of my faved type of posts. little paper fashion book is super cute, what a sweet idea. the tea set is stunning, i always creep over to my Mom's tea cup cupboard just to stare at all the finery. there's nothing like a pretty cup to sip from!ReplyDelete
dude though, the broken things look OUCH on many levels. sorry bout the cricks + cracks. wishing some speedy healing for you! xo ♥


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Caustic conditions for bearings
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I am trying to traverse the list (A (B (D E) C)) in a way that the print output should be in the following order D, E, B, C, A aka depth first traversal.
So far, I have come up with this code but it seems to have some strange problem.
Can someone please help me out.
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(setq start (list 'a (list 'b (list 'd 'e) 'c ))) ====> gives ====> (A (B (D E) C))
(defun depth-first (start)
((null start) 0)
((listp (first start)) (setq start (first start))
(depth-first (first start)))
((not (eq nil (car start))) (print (car start))
(setq start (rest start))
(depth-first (start)))
(t "Go home")))