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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Bernie Fuchs... "A Guiding Light" part 3
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Do you have a sample of that truck ad? Or does anyone else out there reading this post? I'd love to see it.
- Charlie Allen3:28 PM
TOM.....Thanks so much for your blog and your contribution to the Fuchs story. I had clipped gobs of Fuchs illustrations in the old days....but in this case, only recognized the first example you posted....I had never seen the others. In addition to Fuchs' infinite creativity, the artist produced an almost unbelievable quantity and volume of work. What an age of creative excellence we lived through!!ReplyDelete
Daniel, I only have a b/w version that I will scan and send to Leif.ReplyDelete
Thanks Charlie, only the first part of my comments are showing up, due to technical difficulty.. hope the rest shows up later today.. stay tuned. Yes we did live and work in a special time of illustration history. As the old saying goes, "I wish I knew then, what I know now". ;-)
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- Chad Sterling5:21 PM
Extraordinary.Just outstanding.I can't imagine anyone being able to take this style of illustration any further.If I had been an illustrator then I'd have felt exhilarated... yet profoundly depressed at the likelihood of never being able to equal this standard of work.ReplyDelete
For Daniel and others who are curious about that "truck ad," I believe you can find it in the Society of Illustrators Annual for 1959 (image 142). I actually talked with Bernie about that ad, because I had the same question that Tom did: did Bernie do the technical painting of the truck, as well as all the people and activity surrounding it? Here is what he said:ReplyDelete
"I was 26 or 27 when I painted this, and yes, I painted the truck and everything else in this picture. I'm trying to remember whether they had one of the older guys in the studio touch up some of the chrome on the fender after I was done. Chrome was pretty hard to get right. But I don't think so. It was a long time ago. Later I specialized in people and backgrounds, and the cars themselves would be painted by artists who were more capable than I was. My art director submitted this painting to the Society of Illustrators competition without even telling me. I had no idea there was such a thing until he came to me and told me that the jury had picked my painting to be in the show."
One other thing about the picture of the truck. You'll see Bernie straining to integrate the truck into its surroundings without blocking the truck itself. He has a couple of children in front of the truck partially obscuring one of the wheels. Up until that time, nobody had ever dared to obscure part of the vehicle; there was a very rigid code in Detroit that you never, ever covered up the merchandise. It was cast iron thinking policed by rigid ad agencies (much the way that movie posters are micro managed now.) Shortly after he did this truck painting, Bernie tried painting a car with a grown man standing in front of part of it. When the sales rep from the art studio delivered the job to the ad agency, the client not only rejected it but threw the painting on the floor and yelled at the sales rep that Bernie was a real "prima donna" for trying to paint a man in front of the car.
Perhaps that partially explains why Bernie felt he needed a little more artistic freedom than he was able to get doing paintings for GM in Detroit.
Tom, I am really enjoying your descriptions of how Bernie's work was perceived when it came out, and your thoughtful discussion of the quality of his art. Thanks so much.
Thanks David, for those very interesting true details about Bernie Fuchs' early years in Detroit and the shedding light on the truck illo. Also, knowing that in real life he was such a great guy, makes his great talent even more amazing and inspiring for me. I spent time talking to Al Parker and John Clymer in their studios many years ago, and they were also exceptionally polite, gracious and hospitable to me and my wife, in spite of the fact that I approached them as a complete stranger.ReplyDelete
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A little sci-fi, a "Devil Wears Prada" rip-off, a runaway train loaded with explosive toxins, an indie darling, a Sundance winner, a political thriller, surely there's something here for you.
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Rachel McAdams gets a job as a producer on a morning news show, where she must calm the battle of egos between her co-anchors, played by Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton, all while trying to keep her romance with a colleague, played by Patrick Wilson, afloat. Imagine a less smart and funny version of screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna's big hit, "The Devil Wears Prada." In theaters everywhere, read our review and watch the trailer
Denzel Washington and Chris Pine must set aside their differences and join forces to stop "8 freight cars of hazardous chemicals--We're not just talking about a train, we're talking about a missile the size of the Chrysler Building!" from blowing up a Pennsylvania town in the latest piece of popcorn fun from director Tony Scott. In theaters everywhere, read our review and watch the trailer
Aliens descend from outerspace and begin harvesting humans via gigantic tractor beam. In theaters everywhere, watch the trailer
Cool It
A documentary, based on the book of the same name by Bjorn Lomborg, that looks at the controversial writer's claims that many of our fears about--and fixes for--the environment are wildly misguided. In limited release, watch the trailer
Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham is the writer, director and star of this intimate and highly autobiographical portrait of a young woman's return to the nest following college, a film that won Best Narrative Feature at South by Southwest. In limited release, watch the trailer
Fair Game
Naomi Watts is Valerie Plame and Sean Penn is Joe Wilson in director Doug Liman's dramatization of the couple's notorious battle with the Bush Administration, one that ultimately led to her cover as a 20-year veteran of the CIA being blown. Expanding into new markets, read our review and watch the trailer
The Taqwacores
By turns clumsy, thought provoking and funny, it follows a young college student in Buffalo seeking to live in a home with fellow Muslims who will help him stay true to his faith. He instead finds himself in a cauldron of inter-faith strife stoked by fans of Taqwacore, a fictional Muslim punk scene that takes its name from "taqwa," an awareness of Allah, and "core," from hardcore. In Los Angeles, read our review and watch the trailer
Winter's Bone
The big winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, it stars Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly, a 17-year-old Missourian who must care for her younger siblings and her sick mother. The family's fortunes take a sharp turn for the worse when Sheriff Baskin stops by to inform her that her bail-jumping dad put the family's house and land in the Ozarks up for his bond. It's essentially a mafia movie, with flannel shirts, accents, rusty old pickup trucks and dense woods. The look and feel director Debra Granik brings are well crafted, but the story has an uneven and frustrating pace and a finish that feels suspiciously tidy. In limited re-release, read our review and watch the trailer


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==Movements Within Anglicanism==
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The Anglican Communion is a confederation of national churches, each considered independent, yet sharing Full Communion with one another and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the spiritual (although not administrative) head of the Communion. The Anglican Communion maintains the traditional three-fold hierarchy of clergy: Bishops, Priests and Deacons. In some member churches, women have been admitted to one or more of these orders, whereas some member churches have maintained an all-male clergy. Beyond the three-fold order, though the administration and leadership of each national church is decided by that particular church. In the Church of England, for example, the Queen appoints Bishops. In the Episcopal Church (USA), on the other hand, bishops are elected by diocese and then confirmed by the House of Bishops.
Of particular interest to Orthodox inquirers is the current Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Rowan Williams, formerly Archbishop of Wales. Dr. Williams, an academic, has written two books on the spirituality of iconography ("The Dwelling of the Light: Praying With Icons of Christ" and "Ponder These Things: Praying With Icons of the Virgin") and did his doctoral thesis on the theology of Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky.
Other major thinkers to come out of the Anglican Communion have been reformers John and Charles Wesley, convert to Roman Catholicism Cardinal John Henry Newman, social activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and authors Dorothy Sayers and C. S. Lewis.
Member Churches
The national churches below are all self-governing members of the Anglican Communion. There are Anglicans in other countries, however. In these cases, the parishes are under the jurisdiction of one of the national churches. The "Primates" (head bishops) of each national church meet periodically to discuss matters of faith and discipline. In addition, every 10 years (1988, 1998, etc.) the Anglican bishops from around the world are gathered to Lambeth Palace (home of the Archbishop of Canterbury) for the "Lambeth Conference." The decisions of the Lambeth Conference are seen as advisory, not binding, on the member churches.
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- The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
- The Anglican Church of Australia
- A Igreja Episcopal do Brasil
- The Church of the Province of Burundi
- The Anglican Church of Canada
- The Episcopal Church of Cuba
- The Church of England
- Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
- The Church of North India
- The Church of South India
- The Church of Ireland
- Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Holy Catholic Church in Japan)
- The Anglican Church of Kenya
- The Anglican Church of Korea
- La Iglesia Anglicana de México
- The Church of the Province of Myanmar
- The Church of the Province of Nigeria
- The Church of Pakistan
- The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
- The Philippine Episcopal Church
- The Lusitanian Church of Portugal
- The Province of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda
- The Scottish Episcopal Church
- The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
- The Church of Sri Lanka
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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Harvard University ski program finished ninth out of 12 programs at the Middlebury Carnival at the Snow Bowl and Rikert Touring Center. The Crimson finished with 410 points. The women's Nordic program had a huge weekend with a fifth place finish in the sprint relay and a sixth place finish in the 10K free technique.
In the relay, freshman Jen Rolfes, sophomore Esther Kennedy, and sophomore Alena Tofte guided the Crimson through the unusual format with each member of the team skiing one kilometer circles before relaying off to a teammate with each member eventually completing three legs.
Tofte also led the women in the free technique event, finishing 15th overall after a 59th place start. Anthony Ryerson led the men in the same event with a solid 27th place finish.
In the downhill events, Catherine Sheils took home 11th place in the slalom, while Caroline McHugh finished in 24th place. Sheils also turned in her career-best finish in the giant slalom, placing 13th overall to keep Harvard skiers atop the leader board in every downhill event this season.
With poor skiing conditions coupled with snow squalls and a decision to lay down salt on the mountain, Kevin McNamara turned in respectable finishes of 27th place in the slalom and 31st in the giant slalom after starting in 63rd and 71st place, respectively, and having to ski through the worst of the conditions.


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One of the CSIRO's most successful research units – at least measured by the royalties it generates – is being slimmed down, according to the CSIRO Staff Association.
The union has called the job cuts "baffling" given the value of wireless research to the scientific body. Through a series of long-running lawsuits with vendors and carriers, CSIRO has made patent settlements worth more than $AU500 million, including a $AU220 million settlement with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile earlier this year.
More recently, the unit has been working hard to attract attention to its 50 Mbps Ngara wireless technology. While it says it is in discussions regarding commercialisation, no private sector partners have been named.
The staff association says it has been told by CSIRO ICT division management the cuts won't "eliminate any scientific capability" from the research centre. However, the union remains sceptical, since the wireless unit comprises just 60 positions nationally. The new staff cuts of three full-time equivalents is seen as significant, and follows on from an earlier cut of five staff.
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"We are relatively early on in the process and have identified three people – one scientist and two technical – who are surplus to the ICT Centre's requirements, but not necessarily to CSIRO. It is hoped the staff can be redeployed within CSIRO," the spokesperson told us.
"CSIRO's investment in different areas of research is governed by an internal science investment prioritisation process. Major projects, including the Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope, are appropriately staffed." ®
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Ebb and Flow: Explorations in Painting by Herbert Murrie
Franklin & Eleanor, enamel alkyd, mixed media, polymer resins on wood panel, 40" x 48", 2009, GVSU, 2015.58.6, Gift of Herbert and Lisa Murrie
Date and TimeWednesday, March 21, 2018
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Haas Center for Performing Arts » 1121 - GVSU Art Gallery
For over 40 years, Herbert Murrie had a successful advertising and design career based in Chicago. As a result of his artistic upbringing and personal drive, he often returned to the studio in pursuit of a more spontaneous and freeing output. In 1988, Murrie began painting seriously and by the late 1990's he was exhibiting regularly. Over the next 10 to 15 years evidence of his freed state leapt off the canvas. Controlled manipulation of paint and color bore witness to his understanding of design, while his process of working intuitively noted elements of the artistic movements he grew up with in the mid-20th century.
Like many artists, Murrie often draws back and then returns to work he feels is unfinished. This exhibition examines the ebb and flow of his creative process, while looking back at his painting career and forwards to a new body of work. It includes 26 pieces that span his career as a painter – from 1995 to present. They are drawn out of private collections and the GVSU permanent collection, which includes 16 works that were donated by Herbert and Lisa Murrie in 2015.
Opening Reception
Thursday, January 18, 5 - 7 PM
1121 Haas Center for Performing Arts
Explorations in Painting Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 28, 11 AM - 12 PM
1121 Haas Center for Performing Arts
New Music Ensemble Composition Competition
Thursday, March 1, 2018 7:30 PM
1121 Haas Center for Performing Arts
Art Gallery, 616-331-2563
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GVMC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 357 diseños de 55 diseñadores freelance.
I have been the owner of a successful flooring business for 14 years. I have a large premises on the outskirts of London from which my business is based. My company specialises in carpets and wooden flooring. The latter of which is becoming increasingly popular. We offer a full survey, design and installation service by our own team of experienced contractors.
I am in the process of rebranding to more accurately reflect the services I offer and the customers I wish to attract. Included in this will be a new website and large new showroom at my retail premises. Company vehicles, stationary and clothing for employees will carry the new identity.
The ethos of the new company
Higherground is a forward looking independent flooring outlet with a large modern showroom and a strong online presence with higher-ground.co.uk. Higherground provides an unrivalled service, product range and an expert installation service. Higherground looks to source the latest products for their quality, style and longevity. Higherground believes in surpassing customer's expectations by providing products and service that is unrivalled.
My target audience consists of homeowners that are remodelling their new or exisiting home and want a quality contractor to provide and install their flooring. They consist mainly of professional couples aged 25-60 in a middle to higher income bracket. It is accepted that females have more input and interest in furnishing the home this may or may not have a bearing on design. Higherground will have a strong online presence in which to showcase a large selection of products. This will be designed and built over the coming few months, to culminate in a launch with a new showroom in January 2011. It is hoped that an ecommerce site will follow which will be based around the winning design from you.
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The produsts that I sell give the customer pleasure and make their home look beautiful. I would like the identity to reflect that.
My feeling is for a sans-serif typeface which is elegant with strong modern colours. It should give the feeling of assurance, quality and style. A combination of upper and lower case can be used. I want an exciting stimulating identity that makes me smile everytime I look at it!!!! I want it to excite and inspire.
Lateral not literal thinking is called for.
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Riesling Report: Alzinger Riesling Durnsteiner Federspiel, 2008
July is riesling month! We're drinking it all month long...and maybe longer. Got a favorite riesling? Recommend it in the comments!
From the Wachau. The scent reminded us of sage and stones, and the wine is full of the flavors of herbs and frilly lettuces, endives tossed in lemon. We tasted matcha and chives, tart green strawberries—this wine has a bite to it. As it opens up in the glass, muddled peaches and lime wedges, a splash of tonic and a mouthful of minerality.
This wine was a little austere for us (one taster said it was 'businesslike') but would be a refreshing accompaniment for pork chops or bratwurst with mustard, rosemary-rubbed hams or a platter of cold chicken on a hot day.
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May we all have a peaceful and reflective Good Friday and remember what this day is all about. For Christians, this is a day of forgiveness – the ultimate day of forgiveness and mercy. In a recent blog post, Bristol explained this by quoting a lyric from a song: "After all, it's not about what you've done, it's about what's been done for you." Good Friday is about what was done for us. At her Catholic blog, National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez saw Bristol's message and was reminded of something a priest friend told her: "live the present with God, leaving the past to His mercy and the future to His providence."
The Living Bible's translation of 1 Peter 2:24 promises that Christ suffered and overcame for us, and He is our example. And the Resurrection promise is "His wounds have healed ours." That's something to hold on to!
God bless you all on this Good Friday.
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If you're looking for an enjoyable romp through the late '60s/early '70s Laurel Canyon scene, Legends of the Canyon is the film for you. Photographer Henry Diltz narrates, and his photos and footage are used throughout, along with enlightening interviews with folks like David Crosby, Ahmet Ertegun, Van Dyke Parks, Michelle Phillips, David Geffen, Stephen Stills, Dallas Taylor, plus some great talk from Graham Nash, and many more.
There's an easy intimacy in the interviews, no doubt because Henry was involved in the process and he has known and been friends with these people for decades. Stephen Stills reveals how he was completely intimidated by Joni Mitchell, Michelle Phillips touches on how vulnerable Gene Clark was, Dallas Taylor talks about what made Graham Nash cry, and Graham Nash speaks of Neil Young's total devotion to the music, among many other stories. There's interview extras on the disc as well, a sweet inclusion.


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Yes, ladies and gentlemen: another week has passed, Friday is upon us, and that means it's time for Letters to Doug, the weekly column wherein I provide good, sound advice to loyal Jalopnik readers, and then you tell me how wrong I am.
This week's letter comes to us from a reader named Leonard (just kidding, I changed his name to Leonard), who is located somewhere in America. Leonard writes:
Hey Doug,
Ive got an idea that i cant quite shake loose.
After browsing craigslist, I noticed that a used GTR as actually pretty cheap. Low enough in fact that its attainable for me.
Ive been finding deals on 2009-2011 ish nissans with almost exactly 35k miles for right around $45k. Sometimes cheaper!
I love me a good godzilla car, but is this to good to be true? Because i feel like im missing something here.
Also, would it be douche-bagish for me to be driving around a mild supercar while in my early 20s? Im not rich, but i could afford it without a huge issue. Ultimately its between that or a truck. Truck < gtr
Leonard, you've asked an excellent question, because this is something I hear all the time. "YO MAN" people tell me. "I CAN GET XYZ COOL CAR FOR XYZ MONEY. THEY'RE SO CHEAP!"
I especially heard this when I had my Ferrari. People would see my videos, and they'd see my car, and they'd get all excited, so they'd go on eBay, and they'd find a gray 360 that was about four years overdue for a major service; a car that had mismatched wheels and bald tires and a "minor accident" on the Carfax and 47,000 miles and a nonfunctional F1 transmission, and it would be going for $49,250. And they'd say to me: "MAN! 360s ARE LESS THAN FIFTY GRAND NOW!"
And then I'd sit them down, and I'd look them directly in the face, and I'd spit on them.
You see, Leonard, here's the thing: just because you can buy a cool, high-performance sports car for a "low" price doesn't mean you should. To explain what I mean, I suggest you log on to AutoTrader.com, perform a nationwide search for 2009-2011 GT-Rs, and check in the bottom right corner. See where it says "Average Price"? That's right: $70,000. The average asking price of a 2009-2011 GT-R is seventy grand.
Now, what this means is that if you're very lucky, and you play your cards right, and you're willing to go for a higher mileage example, and you compromise on color, and you're OK with searching across the entire country, you might find a good one in the mid-sixties. Maybe even the low sixties if you get really lucky and you allow them to buy your trade-in with coins from the parts department cash register.
Now, that doesn't mean the $45,000 GT-R doesn't exist. But I will promise you this: every single GT-R available for $45,000 has severe problems. Every. Single. One. And now, I will go over what some of these problems might be, because I am a bona fide GT-R expert in the sense that I spent about 15 minutes on the forums earlier this week.
POTENTIAL PROBLEM #1: It has a severe accident in its history. If you find a GT-R for around $20,000 less than the going rate, it probably has some sort of severe accident history. Now, you might be thinking: "I don't care about that shit! I'll drive it anyway!" But you know who cares? Your insurance company, Leonard. When you call and try to insure a car with a salvage title, they're going to laugh at you like a Full House studio audience: loudly, and for way too long.
You know who else cares about your GT-R's accident history? The next owner. Because when you go to sell this thing, people are going to see your low price, and they're going to call you, and you're going to say that everything is great, and fine, and perfect, "except for that one minor issue where a cement truck fell on it," and they're going to laugh at you in a long, sad, depressing way, that you haven't personally experienced since the time you called your insurance company.
POTENTIAL PROBLEM #2: It has a bad transmission. Allow me to explain how the R35 GT-R works. You have a reliable car with a robust engine and a sturdy chassis and a nice interior and a strong frame and an impressive all-wheel drive system. And then you have a transmission made out of pine straw.
Seriously: the GT-R is a wonderful, excellent, amazing, beautiful automobile, but its gearbox doesn't seem up to the task of lasting forever. The result is that transmission failure is rampant in these things. So rampant that the GT-R is the only car Nissan doesn't offer in its certified pre-owned program.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "So what?! I once had a Dodge Caliber with a bad transmission, and me and my buddy Gary changed that out in my driveway on a Saturday." Yeah, well, here's the thing: a GT-R transmission costs $13,500 before shipping and installation. In fact, for the cost of a GT-R transmission, you could buy a running, driving Dodge Caliber and still have enough left over to bail Gary out of jail for his drunk and disorderly charge. Think about that.
POTENTIAL PROBLEM #3: It's actually an Altima Coupe. There is the distinct possibility that a low-priced GT-R is not a GT-R at all, but actually an Altima Coupe. To verify this, climb inside the vehicle and check in the back. If you can sit in the middle, it's an Altima Coupe. This vehicle is not worth $45,000. In fact, Kelley Blue Book says the current going rate for an Altima Coupe is "three heads of lettuce," or – if it's a V6 model – "three heads of lettuce and a Power Bar."
And so, Leonard, a quick summary. When I was searching for my Ferrari, someone told me a fantastic adage that certainly applies in this situation: the cheapest Ferrari is actually the most expensive Ferrari. And while the GT-R isn't as expensive to own as a Ferrari, the lesson remains true: these things aren't cheap. And cheap ones especially aren't cheap. If you have to find one with accident history or a bad transmission in order to get your foot in the door, you might want to wait a few more years and save your money for a nicer example.
In the meantime, consider an Altima Coupe.
Please remember that you, too, can participate in Letters to Doug, assuming that you have a) a topical, relevant question, and b) an Internet connection. E-mail me your question at email@example.com, or Tweet me at @DougDeMuro – but remember, I can only reply to one letter per week, so please refrain from anger if I don't chose your letter. After all, there's always next week, when I will probably not choose your letter again.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After starting OVC play 0-2 over the weekend the Tigers rallied with a vengeance Tuesday to win a five set match over pre-season OVC favorite Belmont.
The fifth and decisive set started with Belmont (8-11, 1-2 OVC) taking the early, 5-2, lead. Tennessee State (4-9, 1-2 OVC) clawed back to tie the set at eight with a Sherryce Butler kill. The Bruins used a 4-0 run to regain the lead, 12-8, and Head Coach Kathy Roulhac called a timeout to rally the Tigers. The move worked with TSU using a 3-0 run to pull within one point, 12-11.
With Belmont leading, 13-11, the Tigers used a furious run to take control of the match. Back –to-back Butler kills knotted the score at 13. A Belmont hitting error gave the Tigers a chance to win the set with All-OVC setter Erika Moss serving. The senior responded with an ace that split the Belmont defenders, giving Tennessee State the 15-13 set win to take the match, 3-2.
Sherryce Butler tallied a career-high 23 kills on the evening while posting a .370 hitting percentage to lead the Tigers. The junior also paced the team in blocks picking up two solo and six total.
Moss recorded a season-high in assists, picking up 54 helpers on the night.
The Tigers were paced defensively by junior Ileanushka Maldanado who led the team in digs with 22. Taylor Patterson (12), Katie Burnett (11) and Naomi Wells (10) also posted double digit kills in the win. Wells also added 10 kills to post her fifth double-double of the season.
As a team Tennessee State set season high marks in kills, total attacks and assists.
The Tigers came out of the gate firing to begin the match taking the early, 11-7, lead. The Briuns would trim the lead down to 14-11, but the Tigers would extend their lead again with the help of a 3-0 run, making the score 18-13. The run was capped off by an monstrous block from Butler and Taylor Swayzer.
Tennessee State and Belmont would trade points with the Tigers closing out the set with a Butler kill winning the opening stanza, 25-22. Butler led the Tigers in the set racking up five kills and posting a .571 hitting percentage.
TSU would carry its momentum into the second set opening with a, 4-1, lead with the help of a 4-0 run after Belmont took the first point. With TSU leading, 10-7, the Tigers used a 6-1 run to extend their lead out to 17-9 capped off by a Swayzer kill. The run was highlighted by two Arijana Anderson kills with Swayzer adding a kill and a block during the span. Tennessee State would cruise to the 25-17 set win.
The set win allowed the Tigers to take the 2-0 set lead into the locker room.
After the break Belmont answered the Tigers momentum with each team trading slim leads. Neither team would lead by more than two points until a 4-0 run gave the Bruins a, 13-10, lead. TSU would answer with a 5-0 run to regain the lead at 15-13.
Both teams would again trade the leads with neither team leading by more than two points until the Bruins strung together a 5-0 run to close out the set ,25-20, cutting the TSU set lead to 2-1.
TSU took the early 6-1 set lead to begin the fourth set. Belmont would claw its way back into the set using a 9-4 run to even the set at 10. The Bruins would continue the run taking the 17-14 lead. Tennessee State answered back, tying the set at 18 on a Belmont error. The Bruins would close out the period, 25-22, to win the fourth set to tie the match 2-2.
Tennessee State begins a five match road swing this weekend when the team heads to Eastern Illinois this Friday with a match against the Panthers. The match will be the first OVC road contest for the Tigers with first serve slated for 7 p.m.


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Inauguration of OPSU and Dinner Dance
In the wake of time last year when past student of Our Lady of Mercy Senior High taught it wise to reestablish the Union officially and to swear in Executive for the union brought us together under one roof at the school hall.
From the organizer of the program, this will go a long way to hype the union to greater height. Most honored guest were invited which include Mrs. Roberta Appau ( Head Mistress), Dr Andoh ( Chairperson ), The PTA Chair, Guest Speaker Mr. Adade, Rev. Ft. Obeng.
Speech read by the President Gideon Makui, declared the year onward as the "GROWTH OF OPSU" and was optimistic that our number will increase and the aims and objective of the union will be fulfilled.In his speech we laid down plans and action to be taken to bring the union to it full potential. One being the adoption of OPSU in the tertiary institution since most of our numbers are in school and the rest in the working field.
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We misuse the concept of tragedy in human life. Tragedies like Macbeth are about crises- something that happens that drives everyone to disaster. One minute the world is stable and the next through a tragic flaw and a sudden set of decisions, the world careers off into a darkened path. Those tragedies tell us a lot about the world and the nature and vulnerability of human life: but they are not the tragedy that faces most of us. Most of us won't have a tragic flaw that creates war between nations- we don't have tragic flaws that are completely irredeemable either. Most of us are flawed but Othello and Macbeth act upon a greater stage. Our tragedy is not that often but its what Konnie Huq describes here, its growing old, and feeling pain and suffering slowly unto death. Age itself is no tragedy, people age well and gracefully- just see John Pocock. However the wrenches of age are something we all have to, hopefully, face. Children leave, someone cleverer comes along at work and someone who can contribute more energy, fashions change, the world moves on.
The Illusionist is about the transition from one world to another. A magician lives in Paris and moves to follow his work. His work is declining though. Who wants to go to a magician when you can go to the Beatles. So the Illusionist- M. Tatischeff- moves over to London. His show closes there and various other shows collapse. He goes up to the North of Scotland through a series of accidents and eventually ends up in an inn there. He does some tricks and the crowd is more appreciative- but in particular one little girl believes in his magic. She believes his tricks are correct. He leaves the island to return to Edinburgh. She follows him, leaving home. He therefore becomes in a sense her father and in Edinburgh we see a series of charming moments in which father and daughter bond over the city and the experience of being in it. She slowly learns how to be a city-girl. He has some success and finds in the other acrobats and show people some solidarity. So you see a relationship evolving- a concern evolving between two people and the way that Sylvain Chomet films this concern developing is beautiful.
So what happens then is the film returns to its poignancy. The magician becomes ashamed of his lack of ability to provide for the girl, for his quasi daughter. His relationship with her is complex: she is slowly discovering his limitations and he finds that process difficult and disturbing. He finds his pride affected by that. Its another symbol of the way that the world seems to be moving on. Furthermore towards the end of the film she discovers someone else- she becomes located in Edinburgh, he still remains a flitting presence for whom Edinburgh is a location rather than the location of his life. This film is therefore one of the saddest you'll see and there are moments which reflect that universal tragedy of time passing. Chomet gets the mixture right: the Illusionist is losing his world- the world of the music hall- but he also has this personal separation from his quasi daughter.
You'll notice I've not mentioned a single actor- that's because there aren't any. Furthermore there is very little in the way of voicing- there are some words but they are in French or Gaelic. They don't really matter- the words are just sounds rather than meaning anything. Chomet draws so well that his characters act, appear very credible. You feel the film is magical- there is a magic in the animation that anyone adult or child can get. The animation is good enough though that the actions, the gestures make sense as actions or gestures. Its powerful both because its animation and because you forget its animation- because these characters matter to you as well as being mythical. Each character, even the minor ones, is captured. For example at one point an American in a white suit comes on to the screen, his casual arrogance is captured to a t from every part of his spotless white suit to the flashy smile he brandishes. Chomet captures Edinburgh brilliantly as well- there is one particular scene on a street corner which gave me a moment of deja-vu. I am sure I have been on that street corner and can remember it exactly. Edinburgh is portrayed as a traditional city, there are other parts of the city to see and this is a chocolat box Edinburgh but on the other hand, it has never been as beautifully animated before. The beauty of the city aids the spirit of poignancy in the film: Chomet makes wonderful use of the lighting and shade in his filming and it adds to what he wants to tell us.
What is that? I think there is something important here about ageing, the process of the world changing and the sadness of losing a career or a world that you inhabited easily, along with losing a child to the world they have grown into. The last shots of the film are about the acceptance of that process by the lead character. Sadness and poignancy does not mean that life has ended, but that one type of life has passed on and another form starts. So the film really offers us the poignancy of ending, but towards the end it shows the new lives on offer to its characters.
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My advice selecting a grad school: Environment matters. Pick somewhere you want to be during a bad day/week/month; grad school has many.
Reading that last one had me nodding in agreement–there are indeed many tough times in grad school. But wait, weren't there a lot of good ones, too? In fact, looking back at it, grad school was one of the happiest times in my life. And there were many great moments I will never forget. Here are a few of mine:
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- I remember the very first time I saw single molecule RNA FISH spots in the microscope, which came after months of optimization (i.e., messing around). There they were, super bright and unmistakable! I ran and got my advisor Sanjay, who was all smiles.
- Talking about conspiracies, both scientific and political, with Musa.
- The first time I saw an endogeneous RNA via RNA FISH (instead of the transgenic RNA spots from before). I felt like I was at the beginning of something very cool, like there were endless possibilities ahead of me. Also wish I had figured it out a couple years earlier... :)
- When I felt like I had finally figured out cloning with a long string of flawless ligations (winning streak since broken, by the way!).
- Writing a super complicated (for me) simulation directly in C (implicit method with Newton-Raphson for solving a non-linear PDE in 3D, I think) all in one go and having it work perfectly the first time I compiled it. Yes!
- When I was feeling like nothing was working and my project was hopeless, and I walked into Sanjay's office and talked to him for a half an hour, and came out feeling like a million bucks.
I bet many of you have a few of these too, so please leave them in the comments. Would be nice in this particular day and age to have a list of reasons reminding us why grad school might not be so bad after all.


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"Other than the vague threat of an Orwellian dystopia, as a society we don't really know why surveillance is bad," writes Washington University Law Professor, Neil Richards [PDF]. Today, the United State Senate reauthorized a controversial Obama-supported surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA), which permits intelligence agencies to monitor international communications, sometimes without a warrant and little court oversight.
Civil libertarians are up in arms, but in the face of deadly terrorist threats, does government monitoring actually harm people? Richards' attempts to argue that brazen government spying does, indeed, have real-world harms, including mass self-censorship and blackmail, and supplies moderately compelling evidence that will appeal to those naturally scared of the government.
Without the Senate's support, FISA's powers were set to expire at the end of the year. Fierce FISA critic, Senator Ron Wyden (CrunchGov Grade: A), who released a hold he put on the bill in exchange for limited congressional debate, worries that evidence of government overreach means that FISA could lead to more unnecessary spying. The scope of monitoring and the admitted breaches of the 4th Amendment are themselves shrouded in secrecy. Proponents, such as Representative Lamar Smith, (CrunchGov Grade: F) argue that national security concerns are worth the trade-off.
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His hometown built a 10-foot ice statue of him as well.
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Leslie Gordon Price – A Rat of Tobruk
Today is ANZAC Day and I foreshadowed back in February during the Bombing of Darwin 70th anniversary tour that my ANZAC Day blog this year would be dedicated to my Uncle Gordon, my mother's eldest brother.
During the bombing of Darwin tour, I met historian Brad Manera and was privileged to have him advise me on a 'kidney dish' that Gordon had carried around with him during his time in the army. For years I believed all soldiers had one, but perhaps not as engraved and decorated as Gordon's. To my surprise Brad believed it was actually an enemy souvenir and because of the illustrations quite unique. I resolved then and there to get Gordon's army dossier from the National Archives of Australia and within a few weeks of getting home from Darwin I received the dossier.
Gordon's army record is indeed reflected in his 'kidney dish' – all the big battles of the Middle East and New Guinea are recorded as he was part of the 2/13 Infantry Battalion in World War 2. The Australian War Memorial has a brief history of the unit and a listing of Battle Honours including the defence of Tobruk, the battle of El Alamein, Borneo, Lae and the liberation of Australian New Guinea to mention just a few.
The army dossier had one surprise for me and that was Gordon's date of birth – according to the file he was five years younger than he really was. So instead of enlisting at 23 he was in fact 28 years old although I'm not really sure why he would have changed the year of his birth.
The disappointment in the file is that the small photographs are not all that clear but I do have some Christmas postcards he sent home to family members that have a small photo of him in uniform. I have memories of Uncle Gordon but as a much older person as he was 45 when I was born.
Mum still has the albums with all the photos that Gordon sent home to her while he was away and when I visit her again in June, I hope to borrow the albums so that I can copy the photos and match them up to the places on the 'kidney dish' and in the dossier.
In the meantime I am reading Peter FitzSimons book on Tobruk to gain a better understanding of the war in North Africa having read the basics of the Siege of Tobruk in Wikipedia. The Australian War Memorial also has the 2/13's unit diaries and these are digitised and online so I can really begin to understand what it means to be a 'Rat of Tobruk'. Lest we Forget.
Hi Shauna, your Uncle's file has now been digitized for viewing at the National Archives of Australia. It seems to me that when a copy of a WW2 service file is requested the NAA officers take the opportunity to scan it for digital preservation and online access. I'm not certain that is their publically stated policy, but I've seen many examples of this.
Sometimes sensitive information in the file, usually of a medical nature, is masked from public display.
I took the opportunity to have a look through the file. Believe the photographs to which you refer are pay book photographs. Taken for the purpose of insertion into the soldier's pay book. These photos were often a little bit indistinct, but the original in the file may be a little clearer than the photocopy I assume you have, and the scanned image.
Interestingly he original negatives of these photos appear to be in the file too. See scanned pages 5 and 14.
He saw plenty of heavy action.
Hi Bob yes when I ordered the photocopy I also agreed to have the digital copy online. I wanted the paper copy to give to Mum when I see her in June as I know she will be interested but isn't into computers.
What a fascinating story and a great discovery with the kidney dish. I'm very impressed with the NAA service, having received our records in time for ANZAC day.
Hi Shauna, thanks for sharing your Uncle's story! Reading this has helped to debunk a family myth. It was said that my great Uncle was also a Rat of Tobruk but he didn't enlist until 1942 and the siege of Tobruk was in 1941. I need to double check his enlistment date when I get his records from the NAA just to be sure.


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If you direct your request to a person who is not the recordkeeper, he/she must give you the name and location of the person who is. If the record you want is in use by someone else or otherwise not immediately available, the recordkeeper must inform you of that and set up an appointment for you within three days of receiving your request, or else give you a detailed explanation of the delay and when the record will be available for inspection.
•When can you be denied access? -- If the recordkeeper believes your repeated requests are intended to disrupt the operation of the agency, he/she can refuse your request; however, there must be clear evidence that you have abused the right.
•What about copies? -- If the requested records, written or otherwise, are to be used by the news media, the agency, will, or permit you to, make copies of them. The agency may require that your request be in writing, and it may require payment in advance, including postage if you want the materials sent to you. The agency cannot charge more than the actual costs for copies, unless you have requested the copy in a nonstandardized format, and it cannot add staff time into the cost. An agency may permit you to have online access to computerized records.
•What records are excluded? -- You cannot see personal records that would constitute an invasion of a person's privacy: confidential records compiled and maintained for scientific research; records that would give a competitor an unfair advantage, such as documents submitted in connection with loans, regulation of a commercial enterprise (i.e. mineral exploration, secret formulas), grant or review of a business license, documents regarding prospective location of a business, property acquisition by a public agency, academic tests or exams for licenses, law enforcement investigations before action is taken, preliminary records and records sealed by federal law or by the General Assembly. If open and closed records are intermingled among materials you request, the recordkeeper must separate the materials and allow you to see those that are open.
•What can you do if you believe there's been a violation?
1. You must be notified by the agency, in writing, within three working days that your request has been denied. The notice must refer to the specific exception in the law and explain how the exception applies.
2. You may then send a copy of your request and the denial statement to the Attorney General who has 20 days to issue an opinion to you and the agency. (If the agency did not give you a written reason for denying your request, send only your written request with a letter of explanation.
3. You or the agency can appeal the Attorney General's decision in Circuit Court in the county where the agency has its principal place of business or where the record you want is maintained, within 30 days of the AG's opinion. Otherwise, the AG's opinion has the force and effect of law (You can skip steps 1 and 2, if you wish, and file suit directly.) In any case, the court must give precedence to this case, and the burden of proof is on the public agency.
4. At the discretion of the court, if you win the suit, the agency may have to pay your attorneys' fees and pay you up to $25 for each day you were denied access to the record.
Shield Law, KRS 421.100
Newspaper, radio or television broadcasting station personnel need not disclose source of information. No person shall be compelled to disclose any legal proceeding or trial before any court, or before any grand or petit jury, or before the presiding officer of any tribunal, or his agent or agents, or before the General Assembly, or any committee thereof, or before any city or county legislative body or any committee thereof, or elsewhere, the source of any information procured or obtained by him, and published in a newspaper or by a radio or television broadcasting station by which he is engaged or employed, or with which he is connected.
Pocket Guide to Open Meetings Law KRS 61.805 to 61.850
•What is a public agency that must have open meetings? Virtually every state or local governing body that exists to serve or regulate the citizenry including those committees (by whatever name) that are created by public agencies. Examples: schools boards, city councils, municipal corporations, advisory committees, subcommittees, ad hoc committees of agencies and interagency bodies. Exceptions: a committee of a hospital staff or committee formed to evaluate qualifications of public agency employees.
•What is open? -- EVERYTHING, except: Parole Board deliberations; deliberations on future sale or purchase of real property when the publicity would probably affect value; discussions of proposed or pending litigation; grand and petit juries; collective bargaining negotiations; specific (not general) personnel issues; negotiations with businesses that might be jeopardized if public; state or constitution law; judicial or quasi-judicial bodies when neither the person being judged nor his representative is present (but planning and zoning commissions and boards of adjustments are specifically open). Meetings of less than a quorum of the agency's members are to be open if a series of such meeting is scheduled for the purpose of avoiding the requirements of openness.
•What must the agency do to have a secret session? -- The general nature of the business to be discussed in secret and the specific law allowing secrecy must be noted in open session. A motion and a vote to go into closed session are required. No final action can be taken in private and no matters are to be discussed in private except those exceptions provided in the law.
•How must agencies prepare for public meetings? -- They must make a schedule of regular meetings available to the public.
•What about special meetings? -- Notice of a special meeting must be made in writing and include date, time, place and agenda, with actions at the meeting limited to items on the agenda. Notice must be given at least 24 hours in advance by hand delivery, fax machine or mail to every member of the agency and to media that have requested, in writing, to be notified. (The agency may require you to submit a new written request each year.) The notice must also be posted at the meeting place and at agency headquarters.
•What about emergency meetings when 24-hour notice can't be given? -- The agency must make a "reasonable" attempt to notify you if you have a request for notification on file. At the meeting, the chairperson must describe, for the written minutes, the circumstances requiring emergency deliberation which make normal notification impossible. Discussions and actions must be limited to the emergency.
•What can you do if you believe there's been a violation?
1) Notify the presiding officer in writing that you think there's been a violation citing the alleged violation of KRS 61.805 to 61.850, and state what can be done to remedy the situation. The agency has three working days after receiving your complaint to respond. If the person denies the charge, he/she must cite specific statute(s) supporting the denial and explain how the statute applies.
2) If this doesn't satisfy you, you should send a copy of your written complaint, the agency's written denial, and your explanation of the situation to the Attorney General within 60 days of when you received the denial. (If the agency did not respond at all or responded inadequately to your complaint, then just send a copy of your complaint and an explanation.) The AG must issue a written decision on the matter within 10 working days.
3) Either you or the agency may appeal the AG's decision through your local Circuit Court. If there is no appeal, the AG's decision has the force and effect of law and is enforceable in Circuit Court, which may void actions taking during a violation.
4) You do have to go through the AG for a decision. You may go directly to the Circuit Court within 60 days of the agency's response to your complaint or the date you filed the complaint if no response was received. Your case should to at the top of the court calendar. If you win in court, the agency may have to pay your court costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, and the court has the discretion to award you up to $100.
•What should you do if you're refused entry to a meeting that you believe to be open? -- Request that the presiding officer cite the specific statute, number and section that permits the organization to close the meeting to the public, and ask that this be included in the minutes.
•What should you do if you believe the members are going into a secret session illegally? -- Don't be afraid to stand up and request that the agency follow the law by voting to go into secret session and by stating the reason with specific statute, number and section.
•What about meeting by video teleconference? -- They're open and subject to the same requirements as regular meetings. A video teleconference is a meeting between persons at different locations, where all the participants can see and hear each other by audio-video equipment.
If you have a question regarding any of these laws, contact KPA's Freedom of Information Hotline, Attorneys Jon Fleischaker, Kim Greene, Kenyon Meyer or Julie Foster at (502) 540-2300.
Sponsored by the Kentucky Press Association News/Editorial Division with Assistance of Jon Fleischaker and Kim Greene, Dinsmore & Shohl


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Spotlight on an Alumnus - Rabbi Yona Vogel
"The winner of the contest is Yaakov Sholom Vogel!"
Thunderous applause from thousands of youngsters and their parents gathered in a huge auditorium in the Kiryat Hayovel section of Jerusalem greeted the announcement. For Yona Vogel, the winners father, it was another glorious milestone in the long road he has been successfully traveling ever since he entered Ohr Somayach over a quarter of a century ago.
Yaakov Sholom was representing his school, the Sanhedrin Talmud Torah of Chinuch Atzmai in Har Nof, in the finals of the nationwide competition in mishnayot and halacha organized by the Degel Yerushalayim Torah Culture Foundation.
This seventh grader was one of the 29 finalists chosen from amongst the more than ten thousand who participated in the competition dedicated to the memory of Hagaon Rav Chaim Shmulevitz, zatzal, longtime Rosh Hayeshiva of Yeshivat Mir in Yerushalayim. Paying tribute to this Torah giant and to the youngsters who were following in his path with their efforts to memorize significant portions of Torah Shebal Peh (Oral Law) were distinguished roshei yeshiva, rabbis and communal leaders.
The winner himself, who received a beautiful Shas (set of Talmud) as his prize, is following in the footsteps of his father who began his Torah studies at Ohr Somayach in Yerushalayim, and continued in the branch of Givat Ada. After marrying a girl from a prominent Yerushalayim family he lived and learned for many years in the Ohr Somayach community in Zichron Yaakov. It was there that he developed his skills as a sofer (scribe) and in 1983 the Jewish Learning Exchange of Ohr Somayach published his Mishnas Sofrim translation of the Mishna Berurah laws of writing the Ashurit script used in Sifrei Torah, tefillin and mezuzot.
Not long after returning with his family to Yerushalayim, Yona established the Machon Daniel program offering learning opportunities for senior citizens and others who needed the unique structure of this program. (Alumnus Yitzchok Trattner is one of its outstanding teachers.) He has since organized a similar program in Beit Shemesh and, based on his experience in heading a Talmud Torah, has established a Yeshiva High School, Lev Daniel, in that city as well. In his Torah publication MD Weekly, Yona shares his Torah insights and those of his colleagues with the general public.
The entire Ohr Somayach Family wishes Mazal Tov to Yona and his family and to Yaakov Sholom for making Ohr Somayach proud of its grandchildren.


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Journalists missing in Libya; one killed in Iraq bombing
In Libya, Saif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Qaddafi, announced during an appearance on the official station, Libyan TV, that the country is accessible to the international press. "Starting today, Libya will be opened to journalists from all over the world," he said, according to Al-Jazeera. However, in the same speech he attacked the Arab media. "The conspiracy doesn't come from Libyans but from your Arab brothers who unleashed on you their broadcasters, poisoned words, and false rumors." He added that "this is a media battle. They misguided the Libyans with media and false information. The information that these stations and channels are broadcasting is a lie," he said,according to Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya.
The New York Times reported today that three Libyan bloggers tweeted that Libyana, the country's leading cell phone provider, sent residents of Tripoli text messages that said that "a local cleric issued a fatwa against watching television channels 'like Al Jazeera,' that incite bloodshed."
"We are concerned by reports that a number of Libyan journalists have not been heard from for several days," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. "As the authorities in Tripoli invite media to visit the capital they must remember that the international community holds them responsible for the safety of all journalists."
Naim Ibrahim al-Ushayba, a Libyan journalist from Benghazi and a correspondent forLibya Al-Youm news website, told CPJ that there is still no news about his colleague Atef al-Atrash, who disappeared after speaking to Al-Jazeera on the air on February 17. Al-Ushayba said the following other journalists have also been missing since the day before the demonstrations began: Mohamed al-Sahim, a blogger and political writer who published a critical article about the Libyan regime shortly before February 17; Mohamed al-Amin, a cartoonist; blogger Jalal al-Kawafi; and Idris al-Mismar, a writer and the former editor-in-chief of Arajin, a monthly culture magazine.
A government militia today briefly detained a group of nine Italian journalists invited by the Libyan government to Tripoli as they drove to the city center from the airport, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported. Fabrizio Caccia, a correspondent for Corriere, was beaten and kicked. The journalists were released after an inspection and were able to reach their hotel in the capital, according to the paper.
In Iraq, Mohamed al-Hamdani, a correspondent for Al-Itaijah satellite TV, was killed today when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb in Ramadi, in Iraq's Al-Anbar province during religious celebrations, news website Al-Sumaria News reported. Al-Hamdani was covering the celebrations in a cultural center in Ramadi. Two journalists for Al-Aan satellite TV station-- correspondent Ahmad Abd al-Salam and radio and TV reporter Ahmad al-Hayti--were injured, according to news reports. Fourteen people were killed and 23 injured in the attack.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
New Need Before Greed Issue
Consider the case of a player who rolls Need on everything she can, regardless of what she is currently using. Under the new system, that player will prevent a off-spec character from getting the item. Under the old system, the off-spec character at least has a chance of getting the item.
So it's a trade-off, I guess. Under the old system, a rogue player has a chance--it's not guaranteed--to take main-spec items from you. Under the new system, a rogue player can guarantee that you won't get any off-spec items at all.
Of course, there is a work-around. If you really want gear of a certain role, queue as that role. And guaranteeing the main-spec items you need is probably the more optimal outcome.
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I'd prefer to compete with the Main specs in the run than off specs. Its a flaw, but I can't see any way of having a perfect system when you're dealing with player greed.ReplyDelete
It's still early in the PTR, so we'll see if they tweak it.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:04 PM, October 10, 2011
Honestly, Main specs always beating Off spec rolls is probably the best system for the Looking For Raid tool.ReplyDelete
It will be the easy mode raid format, if you want gear for tanking/dps/healing play as that roll.
While picking up offspec gear now and again is nice, there is a ladder for gearing, and Step one shouldn't be "Expect to get gear for your off spec while running as your main in a match finder tool"
Will be interesting to see how they work out issues for shared gear between caster/healer and tank/dps (i. e. agility leather, which is tanking gear for bear and dps gear for rogue and cat).ReplyDelete
They could add something like whenever you won an item you get -30 for your next rolls.ReplyDelete
@Hirun: rogues are not the problem: agi/leather is ALWAYS for their main spec.ReplyDelete
The problem is casters and feral druids, which, at least for now, would be able to roll on a 2nd spec even when playing their 1st one.
@Helistar: Rogues seem to be a problem PRECISELY BECAUSE their MS gear is AGI leather. But, actually, it is the gear itself, not the class, that is the problem. Why?ReplyDelete
Consider plate-wearing classes. None of the tanking roles/specs should have to complete with DPS roles/specs for gear. The existence of tanking-oriented secondary stats makes distribution easy. If it has dodge or parry, it goes to tank; if not, it is DPS. When hit/expertise actually mattered to a tank, you could have made an argument that those secondary stats could go either way (tank or DPS), but given the current state of affairs, it would be deemed a DPS piece. (NOTE: Someone should suggest that plate DPS should be able to roll on plate tank gear if a feral druid is tanking, if that hasn't already been incorporated in the code)
Now, think about feral druid vs. rogue. There are no longer secondary stats to differentiate the role for which the gear is intended. (I'd love for someone to dig up the arguments that were used to homogenize leather gear) As it is now, AGI leather is both tank gear AND DPS gear.
And that is a problem, curable only by reintroducing dodge to fleabag leather.
Spirit has a similar problem - you shouldn't exclude a shadow priest from rolling +SPI cloth gear, because the spec was redesigned to convert spirit to hit. But, the flipside is that is they end up with more opportunities to roll, compared to mages and warlocks who get NO value from spirit. (Also, in-class feuding between resto druids and boomkin, and resto and elemental shaman as both healing and DPS utilize hit - but at least there aren't other whole classes to worry about with mail and leather)
The homogenization of gear, by removing dodge from leather and by introducing talents to convert spirit to hit, seems to be the ultimate root cause. Yes, it saved Blizzard a lot of time by eliminating the need to create additional gear for larger loot tables to satisfy all class/spec combos, but it also introduced unintended limitations that are now manifesting themselves as they try to tweak the Need Before Greed system.
Having read the precursor entry about the new NvG system, it really does come down to tagging item "roles" appropriately, which shines the light on lack of tanking stats on feral leather and Spirit-to-Hit talents blurring the line between healing and DPSing.ReplyDelete
Right, Dancingblade. It's actually an interesting predicament. If loot is role-specific, then that leads to wastage. It's like getting more spellpower plate after the Holy paladins have gotten their pieces. It goes straight to disenchant.ReplyDelete
Role-overlap means less wastage, less drops that no one wants, but more conflicts over priority.
Someone should suggest that plate DPS should be able to roll on plate tank gear if a feral druid is tanking, if that hasn't already been incorporated in the code
It already works like this. Offspec can still roll need on gear. It's just that main spec gets automatic priority. So the fury warrior would roll Need on tanking gear, and the feral druid could only roll Greed, and the fury warrior would win the item.
If there had been a protection paladin, and the protection paladin rolled Need, the protection paladin would automatically win the item over the fury warrior.
- Anonymous9:54 AM, October 11, 2011
I like the new format for rolling on loot. Main speck +100 points works for me. Remember , once the first month or two goes by , rolling on offspeck will be easier to win on.ReplyDelete
@Dancingblade: the problem is not DPS classes competing with tanks, it's people in one role being able to use the +100 bonus for their second role. A rogue should always have +100 when rolling on agi/leather, since it's main spec gear to him. The problem is a tank druid being able to roll with +100 on stuff he never plans to use for tanking, but for his 2nd cat spec.ReplyDelete
The same problem happens, as you correctly say, for resto/elemental shaman, balance/resto druid and heal/shadow priest.
I guess it's "wait and see" to know if it'll be a big problem. Up to now in LFD it's been annoying to have people rolling for off-spec, but not game-breaking.


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As I have recently posted my Redshirts tour schedule, many of you know that I will be doing a stop at the Uncle Hugo's book store in Minneapolis on Saturday, June 23rd. But I will also be at the Fourth Street Fantasy convention that entire weekend, hanging out with fantasy fans and writers like Elizabeth Bear, Scott Lynch, Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Mary Robinette Kowal and many others. I will also be baking at least one Schadenfreude Pie. And, I am likely to bring either a ukulele or my tenor guitar with me to
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Brad Sommer can't think of a better way to kick off the bowling season than having everyone in the country participate in setting a record.
Brad Sommer can't think of a better way to kick off the bowling season than having everyone in the country participate in setting a record.
Don Carter Lanes will be one of more than 3,000 bowling centers around the country participating in an attempt to set a world record for the most games rolled in a single day as part of National Bowling Week.
The event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday and runs until 9 p.m., at most centers around the Rock River Valley.
This is the third annual National Bowling Week, which started Aug. 23.
The event is one day longer than the past two years because Saturday has been added to attempt setting a world record for most games bowled in a day.
"It's really cool," said Sommer, general manager of Don Carter Lanes. "It's a great way to kick off the bowling season and it gives people a reason to get out and go bowling as a group or as a family."
Bowling centers nationwide are being asked to implement events to generate traffic, record the total number of games bowled in a 24-hour period and report the number to a promotions clearinghouse.
Each participating bowler will receive a commemorative certificate for their help.
National Bowling Week recognizes the nation's No. 1 participatory sport with more than 67.2 million people 6 and older having bowled in 2007, up more than 5 percent since 2005.
In addition to the world record effort, bowling centers will host a variety of events, games and parties.
These include free coaching clinics, free game passes, community days, special tournaments, Bowling Blast-Off youth events and quick and easy league sign-ups.
Most centers around the Rock River Valley are offering the first game free to any participant on Saturday. All games following the first free one, will be at each center's regular price.
"This is Labor Day weekend," said John Anderson, local proprietor of The Cherry Bowl. "It's the perfect time to come in and play. It gets people thinking about bowling."
Brenda Young can be reached at (815) 987-1388 or email@example.com.


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