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Here are the patch notes for 4.1 as of today, 02/24/2011. Posting here primarily for those people who cannot view official sites while at work. Taken from MMO-Champion.
Yep guys, the first major content patch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is almost completed it's development stage and we are getting ready to push some early updates onto the Test Realms. So you may ask: What will be there in 4.1 Test Realms (I believe you will do so right?)? So, here it comes!
Remnants of the Gurubashi Tribe
Originally released in Patch 1.7, the classic 20-man raid Zul'Gurub will open its gate once again, bringing new stories, new encounters and fully refined items! Zul'Gurub is now a level-85 Heroic 5-man dungeon, to help the Cataclysm dungeons provide a higher tier of contents. Players may find level 353 epic items in this Heroic dungeon. You have to meet a mininum average item level of 346 to enter it.
The Return of Zul'Aman
The fan-favorite level 70 10-man raid Zul'Aman is also reborn as a level-85 Heroic 5-man dungeon. Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub will both appear in the Heroic Dungeon list in the LFD tool, providing level 353 epic loot. You also have to meet a mininum average item level of 346 to enter.
Since Zul'Aman is back, you might be curious on whether the rare mounts will be back? Yes, we're proud to annouce that new rare-drop Raptor, Tiger and Warbear mount will be available, while the old mounts still have their unique beauty in hand. We will share a lot more on obtaining the new mounts.
Class Design
Though we only hope to do a small mount of balance changes in Patch 4.1, you can still expect multiple updates. The following are the ones we currently can share with you. Keep in mind these changes do not reflect all changes in Patch 4.1, and are not promised to be in the early Test Realm updates.
First we want to balance the area attack potentials between different damage dealing talents, you can expect changes regarding this one in the testing phase.
Inner Rage is now trainable at level 56. Originally it was given to solve the rage overflow problems, but it's not an issue to Warriors these days. We have implemented Warriors a new level 83 ability: Rallying Cry.
Colossus Smash now ignores 70% of target's armor, down from 100%. We'll buff the damage of other Fury and Arms damage dealing abilities to compensate that.
Word of Glory: We hope Retribution and Protection Paladins occasionaly do the right healing to others, but as we know Paladins sometimes feel that Holy Power is only for the healing. We rather like these specs use more Holy Power on damage abilities, and occasionally heal.
More to Come
We are still developing more features, updating balace changes and fix bugs for Patch 4.1. We will update the Test Realms in the upcoming days and weeks, and bring you more information on this.
Achievement Changes
Dungeons & Raids
Cataclysm Dungeon
It's Not Easy Being Green Do not get hit by Bloodvenom, Pool of Acrid Tears, or Venomous Effusion in the High Priest Venoxis encounter in Zul'Gurub on Heroic difficulty.
Gurubashi Headhunter Defeat Gub, Mortaxx, Kaolema, Mor'Lek, the Florawing Hive Queen, a Lost Offspring of Ghaz'Ranka, and the Gurubashi Master Chef in Zul'Gurub on Heroic difficulty.
Tunnel Vision Defeat Halazzi in Zul'Aman on Heroic difficulty without killing any of his totems.
Explore Vashj'ir no longer requires to explore Fireplume Trench
Eastern Kingdoms
Explore Hillsbrad Foothills no longer requires to explore Lordamere Internment Camp, requires Brazie Farmstead instead.
Petting Zoo Collect 100 unique companion pets.
Menagerie Collect 125 unique companion pets.
Vial of the Sands Learn how to transform into a dragon and carry an ally.
Cataclysmically Delicious Sample 100 different kinds of food.
Drown Your Sorrows Drink 50 different types of beverages.
Thirty Tabards Equip 30 unique tabards.
Player vs. Player
Strand of the Ancients
Steady Hands now requires you to disarm 2 seaforium charges in a single battle, down from 5.
The Limnologist now requires you to catch 45 different fishes, down from 48.
The Oceanographer now requires you to catch 31 different fishes, down from 33.
2500 Daily Quests Complete Complete 2500 daily quests.
Justly Rewarded Make 30,000 gold from quest rewards.
Bloodmyst Isle Quests now requires 60 quests, down from 65.
Stonetalon Mountains Quests now requires 55 quests, down from 60.
40 Exalted Reputations now rewards "The Exalted" title
50 Exalted Reputations now properly requires 50 reputations, no longer rewards "The Exalted"
Dungeons & Raids
Tracking statistics have been added for all Cataclysm encounters. (Mostly used by addons)
Spell Changes
Companion Pets
Landro's Lichling Right Click to summon or dismiss Landro's Lichling. Instant
Landro's Lil' XT Right Click to set down or pick up your Landro's Lil' XT action figure. Instant
Nightsaber Cub Right Click to summon and dismiss your Nightsaber Cub. Instant
Panther Cub Right Click to summon and dismiss your panther cub. Instant
Winterspring Cub Right Click to summon and dismiss your Winterspring cub. Instant
Armored Razzashi Raptor Summons and dismisses a rideable Armored Razzashi Raptor. 1.5 sec cast
Beryl Fire Hawk Summons and dismisses a rideable Beryl Fire Hawk. This is a flying mount. 1.5 sec cast
Crimson Fire Hawk Summons and dismisses a rideable Crimson Fire Hawk. This is a flying mount. 1.5 sec cast
Flameward Hippogryph Summons and dismisses a rideable Flameward Hippogryph mount. This is a flying mount. 1.5 sec cast
Mottled Drake Summons and dismisses a rideable Mottled Drake. 1.5 sec cast
Savage Raptor Summons and dismisses a rideable Savage Raptor. 1.5 sec cast
Swift Zulian Panther Summons and dismisses a swift Zulian panther. 1.5 sec cast
Blacksmithing: Elementium Earthguard now gives +170 Strength, down from 190. now gives 117 Mastery Rating, down from 127. now gives 117 Hit Rating, down from 127. Now has a Blue Socket (Socket Bonus: +15 Stamina)
Blacksmithing: Elementium Stormshield now gives +170 Intellect, down from 190. Now gives +122 Spirit, down from 127. Now gives 112 Haste Rating, down from 127. Now has a Red Socket (Socket Bonus: +10 Intellect)
Engineering: Cardboard Assassin can now be used once every minute, down from 5 minutes.
Engineering: Synapse Springs now increases your highest primary statistic instead of Intellect.
Inscription: Dust of Disappearance now requires 1 Blackfallow Ink, down from 2.
Leatherworking: Assassin's Chestplate now gives +321 Agility, down from 341. Now gives 173 Hit Rating, down from 183. Now gives 243 Critical Strike rating, down from 253. Now has a Red Socket (Socket Bonus: +10 Agility)
Leatherworking: Belt of Nefarious Whispers now gives +233 Agility, down from 253. Now gives 174 Hit Rating, down from 184. Now gives 134 Mastery Rating, down from 144. Now has a Red Socket (Socket Bonus: +10 Agility)
Leatherworking: Corded Viper Belt now gives +233 Agility, down from 253. Now gives 159 Critical Strike rating, down from 169. Now gives 159 Mastery rating, down from 169. Now has a Red Socket (Socket Bonus: +10 Agility)
Leatherworking: Dragonkiller Tunic now gives +231 Agility, down from 341. Now gives 249 Haste rating, down from 259. Now gives 163 Mastery rating, down from 173. Now has a Red Socket (Socket Bonus: +10 Agility)
Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Blood of the North now Permanently transforms your Blood Runes into Death Runes. Death Runes count as a Blood, Frost, or Unholy Rune.
Dark Transformation now has a 100 yards range, up from 60.
Death's Advance now prevents movement-impairing effects from reducing you below 60/75% of normal movement speed, down from 75/100%.
Shadow Infusion now increases Ghoul damage by 6%, down from 8%.
Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Mangle now deals 260% normal damage plus 754, up from 235% plus 682.
Maul now scales from 26.4% of Attack Power, up from 24%.
Thrash now deals [202 + 12.8% of AP] to [249 + 12.8% of AP] damage instead of [202 + 15.4% of AP] damage. Bleed damage now scales from 6.51% of AP, down from 7.8%.
Moonfury now increases Arcane and Nature spell damage by 10%, down from 15%.
Hunter (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery
Aspect of the Hawk now increases ranged attack power by 2000, up from 637.
Mage (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Arcane Blast now costs 5% of base mana, down from 7%.
Ignite now procs from non-periodic Fire damage spells.
Frostburn now increases your damage against Frozen targets by 5%, down from 20%.
Paladin (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Divine Light now costs 30% of base mana, down from 33%.
Flash of Light now costs 27% of base mana, down from 30%.
Walk in the Light (Mastery) now removes the cooldown on your Word of Glory.
Word of Glory now has a 20 sec cooldown.
Aura Mastery now improves the effect of Devotion Aura, Resistance Aura, and Retribution Aura instead of all auras.
Conviction now procs from non-periodic spells.
Divine Guardian now has a 3 min cooldown, up from 2 min.
Divine Storm now grants a charge of Holy Power if it hits 4 or more targets.
Sacred Shield now cannot occur more than once every 60 sec, up from 30 sec.
Priest (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Absolution (Mastery) *New* – Enables your Dispel Magic spell to be cast on friendly targets to remove 2 harmful magical effects.
Dispel Magic can now only be casted on yourself to remove harmful effects, and now only removes 1 beneficial spell from enemies, down from 2.
Power Word: Shield now costs 34% of base mana, up from 25%. Now lasts 15 sec, down from 30 sec.
Divine Aegis now lasts 15 sec, up from 12 sec.
Absolution (Mastery) *New* – Enables your Dispel Magic spell to be cast on friendly targets to remove 2 harmful magical effects.
Body and Soul now increases the target's movement speed by 12/25%, down from 30/60%.
Shadow Power now increases Spell damage by 15%, down from 25%.
Rogue (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Recuperate now restores 3% of maximum health, up from 2%.
Improved Recuperate now increases Recuperate's ability to restore by an additional 0.5/1% of your maximum health, down from 1/2%.
Stealth now has a 4 sec cooldown. Apparently no longer reduces your speed.
Tricks of the Trade now has a 100 yards range, up from 20 yards.
Nightstalker now increases your speed while stealthed by 5/10%, down from 7/15%. Now reduces the cooldown of Stealth by 2/4 sec, down from 3/6 sec.
Shaman (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Earthquake base damage has been reduced by 40%.
Fire Nova now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards. Cooldown reduced from 10 sec to 4 sec. Now Ignites your Flame Shock spell on any nearby enemies, causing each of them to emit a wave of flames that deals 647 to 724 Fire damage to every other enemy within 10 yards.
Improved Fire Nova has been replaced with Seasoned Winds – When you successfully prevent an enemy spellcast with Wind Shear or Grounding Totem, you gain [if (PL<=70) then PL else if (PL<=80) then PL+(PL-70)*5 else PL+(PL-70)*5+(PL-80)*7] resistance to that spell's magical school for 10 sec. (PL = Player Level, and if you're wondering, that's basically the same resist aura as any other spell)
Purification now increases the effectiveness of healing spells by 25%, up from 10%.
Warlock (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Nothing! But I have a hug for you!
Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Intercept now stuns for 1 sec, down from 3 sec.
Whirlwind now has its cooldown reduced by 6 sec. if it deals damage to 4 or more targets.
Rallying Cry *New* (Level 83) – Temporarily grants you and all party or raid members within 30 yards 20% of maximum health for 10 sec. After the effect expires, the health is lost. 3 min cooldown, Instant
Colossus Smash now bypass 70% of armor instead of 100%.
Mortal Strike now deals 175% weapon damage, up from 150%.
Overpower now deals 145% weapon damage, up from 125%.
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization (Mastery) now increases damage dealt with 2H weapons by 20%, up from 10%.
Improved Hamstring now also reduces the global cooldown of Hamstring by 0.5/1 sec.
Improved Slam now increases Slam's damage by 20/40%, up from 10/20%
Juggernaut now reduces the cooldown of Charge by 3 sec but no longer increases the stun duration.


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PowerColor 5770 PCS+ Vortex Review
With the 5000 series from ATI having solidified itself in the market over time due to the performance leads over NVIDIA, manufacturers have come forth with more exotic video card designs and speeds. The 5700 cards are equipped with the second most powerful GPU core, Juniper, which targets the midrange market and is available on the 5770 and 5750. The strongest core is the Cypress, which power the 5970, 5870, and 5850 designs. Both cores are built on the 40nm fabrication process and share a similar design, although the Juniper is virtually half a Cypress with half the stream processing units, ROPs, memory bus, and close to half the amount of transistors, die size, and pixel/texture fill rates. However, both can come paired with 1GB of GDDR5 and have similar clock speeds. Half the size means that these cost ATI a whole lot less and should result in better binning and yields in comparison to the Cypress core, as more Juniper cores can be produced per wafer, not to mention a smaller design is also easier to produce.
New variants have been pumped out by many of the manufacturers supporting ATI for some time and PowerColor has just designed a new video card based off of the 5770 PCS+ that was reviewed here at OCC a few months ago. The new design is called the 5770 PCS+ Vortex and sports a new heat sink design and higher core overclock of 900 MHz. One of the things that stands out over most heat sinks is that this one has a movable fan that can possibly operate more efficiently if the system has enough room - with the fan in the normal position, the card only takes up two slots, while with the fan extended it protrudes into a third slot. Overclocking headroom could be limited from the decent factory overclock, but that will have to wait until later on in the review!
Closer Look:
PowerColor has reused its older HD 5770 box by using a sliding sleeve to cover the older box up and to show off the new features and contents, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As is the norm for PowerColor, a car has been blended with the heat sink as the box art, giving some hints as to the general look of the video card, minus the wheels. With 1GB of GDDR5 memory, the video card is in the same range as most midrange and high level cards, memory-wise. Rotating to the back reveals some features of the HD 5770 - the video card is built on a 128-bit memory bus, connects through PCI Express 2.1, has a core built on 40nm fabrication technology, and supports Microsoft DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5.0, as well as some other features. Further along the back are thermal images of the card with the fan in its default position and again in the raised position. The raising of the fan creates a buffer, or shroud, effect that in turn allows air to more evenly distribute from the impeller. This is important because the motor hub generally overlaps the heat sink and thus inhibits airflow, usually right over or near the core where the heat sink is the warmest. To the right are seven translations of the basic features. Lastly, at the bottom of the backside, is a rating system for gaming, office, and entertainment performance with up to five stars for the best performance. They gave the HD 5770 PCS+ Vortex four stars in gaming, and five in entertainment and office performance. There is also an explanation of what the PCS acronym means.
Sliding the cover off shows the older HD 5770 box, which has a sticker saying that it contains a free copy of Dirt 2. Two free games would be nice, but I suspect that it is an error caused by reusing the prior material when Dirt 2 was given away for free on the 5770. The inside box art continues the common usage of cars, this time a different angle of another car heat sink.
Opening the main package yields the typical cardboard container, and opening it up immediately gives a sneak peek at the new heat sink design. Dirt 2 is not inside and neither is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - perhaps Modern Warfare 2 was removed for the review sample. Only a driver disk, DVI to VGA adapter, a CrossFireX connector, and a pair of user manuals were included. The standard translucent, grayish-blue anti-static bag protects the 5770 PCS+ Vortex and gives a small glimpse of what the new video card looks like.
Time to get a better look at the PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ Vortex!

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CRESTVIEW � Davidson Middle School�s Builders Club, which organizes community and school fundraisers, is struggling to maintain membership.
CRESTVIEW � Davidson Middle School�s Builders Club, which organizes community and school fundraisers, is struggling to maintain membership.
The club, in its third year, has seen student participation steadily decline, program adviser Kim Fitzgerald said.
"Last year, there were ten or twelve students (in the club)," she said. "Right now, we have three.
"The kids don't know what it is necessarily about. A lot of it is due to that (students) can't get rides or stay (after school)."
The school bus, for many students, is the lone transportation mode home. Many parents or guardians� work schedules prevent them from picking up kids, Fitzgerald said.
Club members Haylee Files and Angel Harrell, both 14, hope the club continues after they graduate.
Haylee said she enjoyed collecting General Mills box tops, which help raised $425 for the school's general fund. The school collected more than 4,000 qualifying box tops.
Club members also participated in the recent Crestview Relay for Life.
Participation has brought enduring life lessons, members said.
"It has taught us how to treat other people," Angel said.
Such an example is the club�s new-student orientation program.
"It's a new school and they don't know anybody; it�s nice to try and help them," Haylee said.
Fitzgerald, hoping to attract more interest, plans to promote the club at the beginning of next school year.
"If I have the interest from the kids, I definitely would continue (the program)," she said. "The hard part is just drumming up the interest from the kids."
Interested in volunteering?
Contact Kim Fitzgerald, email@example.com, for more information about Davidson Middle School�s Builders Club.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Matthew Brown at 850-682-6524 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbMatthew.


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Pictured: Harvard set a program record for lacrosse
attendance with 13,285 fans Friday evening.
Photo courtesy: Gil Talbot
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
– Before a record-setting crowd of 13,285
fans, the 14th-ranked Harvard men's lacrosse team suffered a
14-5 non-conference loss to No. 7 Duke at Harvard Stadium Friday
evening. The attendance fell just short of the Massachusetts
collegiate record for a regular-season lacrosse game, set by UMass
in a game against Syracuse on April 25, 2009 (13,722).
The crowd Friday evening was also the largest for a non-football Harvard home event on record. With the loss, the Crimson drops to 5-3 overall, while the Blue Devils improve to 8-3.
After a slow start, the Crimson responded with three goals in the second quarter. Peter Schwartz scored his first career goal at 12:16 of the second, while Dean Gibbons netted Harvard's second goal less than three minutes later at 9:22. With 3:22 remaining in the first half, Jeff Cohen teamed up with Travis Burr for a score, making it a 12-3 contest in favor of the Blue Devils heading into the break.
In the second half, Cohen and Gibbons each notched even-strength
goals, as the Crimson closed the game with a 2-0 run.
Harvard goalkeeper Harry Krieger made a career-high 17 saves, while the foursome of Kevin Vaughan, Andrew Parchman, Cohen and Jeff Molinari grabbed three ground balls each. Parchman won four faceoffs, while Alex White claimed three faceoff victories.
The Crimson will travel to No. 6 Cornell in a key Ivy League contest Saturday, April 10. The opening faceoff is slated for 3 p.m.
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STERLING – There were six pins and a technical fall among Sterling's nine wins, but it's two decision victories stood out most.
Austin Olalde returned from a heart ailment to earn a win in his first match of the season, and teammate Angel Pereda, in his first season as a wrestler, pulled out a dramatic victory.
Olalde and Pereda jump-started the Golden Warriors (3-8), getting the team's first two wins on the way to a 47-26 Northern Illinois Big 12 West dual victory over Ottawa on Thursday night at Musgrove Fieldhouse.
Olalde, a sophomore, fell behind 2-0 early but rallied for a 7-4 win at 132 pounds, thanks to a three-point near fall with 1:05 left in the third period. It was Sterling's first win after Ottawa opened with a pin at 126.
Olalde has had far bigger issues than simply making weight.
"In eighth grade, I had heart surgery to get rid of this problem," he said. "I have too many electrical impulses going to my heart, and that throws it off, and it could be bad."
Olalde has to wear a heart monitor after he wrestles.
"I put it on after I wrestle so they can keep track of it," he said. "You never know if anything can go wrong. I just try to put that aside and focus on the match."
Pereda had the moment of the match when he scored a reversal with 7 seconds left to earn a 6-5 win at 138.
"All I heard was there was 15 seconds left, and that's when I think I work best," he said. "I just wanted to get out. I thought about just getting the one [escape], but I wanted to get the win."
The meet also marked the return of Sterling's Isaac Anderson, who had been sidelined with a concussion. Anderson dominated his match at 113, cruising to a 16-1 technical fall.
The Warriors' six-pack of pin winners included Jaden Urrutia (106), Nick Terronez (145), Andrew Ingram (152), Bryant Lilly (170), Joshua Villareal (195) and Curtis Lilly (285). Villarreal improved to 11-0, while Curtis Lilly and Urrutia upped their marks to 10-1.
"Three of our pins were by freshmen," Sterling coach Charlie Bishop said. "We got some key guys back. We're slowly piecing ourselves together. By January we'll have a full team and great lineup. It was one thing after the next at the beginning of the season. Now we're finally getting past all that."
Moment of the meet: Angel Pereda, Sterling, reversal with 7 seconds left to win 6-5 decision at 138 pounds
Up next: Sterling hosts DeJarnatt Invitational, 9:30 p.m. Saturday


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Last week I drove into Brisbane to deliver my prints, corals and greeting cards to m(art), the retail face of Craft Queensland. This has meant spending many hours crocheting and felting corals and printing linoprints. I've had the weekend to rest..... aaahhhh!!
The felting process...... friction, hot water and dishwashing liquid. Preferably done wearing pyjamas and accompanied by many cups of tea.


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Jim Salisbury of CSN Philly looks at which corner outfielders the Phillies are likely to keep or are on their way out. Among the ones who could be free agents are Juan Pierre, Laynce Nix, and Ty Wigginton.
I have a mild interest in Wigginton, but Pierre may be a better fit for the team and he shouldn't be too costly. Here is what Salisbury writes:
Juan Pierre
For a guy who lingered on the free-agent market into January and came to camp on a minor-league deal, Pierre made a huge contribution in 2012 and was a bargain at $800,000. He made 98 starts in left field, ranked second on the team in batting average (.307), tied for second in hits (121) and third in on-base percentage at .351. He also led the team with 37 steals and was caught just seven times.
In addition to his contributions on the field, Pierre was one of the most prepared and professional players to come through the Phillies' clubhouse in years. He never took a play off. If Pierre wants to stay in baseball after his playing days, some organization would be wise to hire him to mentor young players on the art of being a big-leaguer. The guy has a baseball IQ that is off the charts and excellent people skills. Future manager? You heard it here first.
Despite Pierre's contribution in 2012, the Phillies face a tough decision regarding the 35-year-old's future. There are indications that the team would like to add more of a power bat in left field. Pierre also hits left-handed on a team that is heavy in left-handed bats. The heart says bring Pierre back, but the head says the Phillies may go in a different direction.
Pierre has been incredibly consistent over the last three seasons and has averaged 150 games per season in that span. He would certainly give the team such much needed speed, would be a better leadoff hitter than Andres Torres, and fills a need in the outfield. He's just a slap-hitting, singles guy with the occasional triple, but he still does a good job of rattling a pitcher's concentration and can lay down a bunt. He's a great contact hitter and averages only 38 strikeouts a season in his career. The fact that he knows the game and has great fundamentals won't hurt either especially if it rubs off on some of the other players.


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LONDON — Based strictly on the tone of the questions lobbed their way in the aftermath of their blowout win over France in their Olympic opener Sunday, you'd have thought the U.S. Men's Senior National Team squeezed out a win on a last second shot in overtime instead of rolling by 27 points.
Such is the weight of expectations, their own and everyone else's, especially those who remember the men in the USA uniforms that came 20 years before them.
A 22-21 lead after one quarter was cause for concern by some, but not the U.S. Team.
"That's not how we operate," LeBron James said. "That's what you all [the media] do."
James said he will make sure his team remains unfazed by anyone else's expectation of what this team can or should do. Instead, they will remain locked and loaded on whatever the task at hand is and not pay any attention to what comes beyond.
That attitude is what made it so easy for the U.S. to shift into another gear against France after struggling to pull away early.
"We can take it to another level," Kevin Durant said. "I know we can. We were sloppy and probably a little too aggressive [against France], we got into silly foul trouble and that slowed us down a little bit. But we can play better than we did, much better."
Any suggestions that Durant and other members of the U.S. team making their Olympic debuts might have been a bit nervous, and that was what contributed to their uneven start, were dismissed by U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski.
"These guys don't have jitters," he said. "There was an adjustment to a new venue and the way the game was administered, but this was a really good day for us, a good first step."
As much as it has been discussed in the lead-up to the Games, there doesn't seem to be much willingness to play the comparison game with the original Dream Team now that the competition has begun. And yet, everything this team does will no doubt be compared to what transpired 20 years ago in Barcelona.
The focus, as James mentioned, however, won't be on that former U.S. Olympic Team. Not if James and Carmelo Anthony, the only two veterans on this team to experience defeat in the Olympics, have anything to say about it.
Anthony admitted that the memories from Athens and the disappointment of the team's performance in the 2004 Summer Games remain in the back of his mind at all times.
"Absolutely," Anthony said. "I talk to KD and [Russell] Westbrook about it all of the time. They always ask me, 'how was it in 2004.' And I'm not the one to blow smoke at nobody, so I tell them exactly how it was. It wasn't a great feeling in 2004. It was an embarrassment, a defeating moment, like someone stuck a pin in a balloon and it just burst. We don't want to have that feeling again, we don't want to experience that, so that's why as we go through this whole experience right now we keep that in the back of our minds."


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There are leaders and then there are followers. Generally the idea is to be the former.
But perhaps it's worth a shot to look at this phrase the other way around. Maybe to be a leader, it's worth being a follower.
The people who lead the way with awesome ideas and unique talents did so by acquiring knowledge and applying it in new and interesting ways. We all need to learn stuff to lead stuff. And those who do it best inspire others to act.
They are Thought Catalysts. Here they are as told by the keynoters giving us lightbulb moments from The Art Of.
If you want to read more of his posts, check out Stephen Dubner's page on The Art Of. If you want to know more about The Art Of and any of its brands, ask your questions here.


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Forget "The Walking Dead," "Homeland" or all the rest of the usual Sunday-night-TV sources of Monday buzz. The real shocker came from an unexpected place: Fox's long-running animated hit "Family Guy."
The development? After 11 1/2 seasons serving as the Griffin family's faithful companion, Brian the dog went to the big doggie park in the sky.
Brian, who has served as the most levelheaded member of the family since the very beginning, was struck and killed by a car in "Life of Brian," the sixth episode of Season 12
Struggling to deal with the loss, the Griffins picked up a new dog who talks a good game, voiced by guest star Tony...


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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
People who were going to be sold or had just been sold sometimes ran away to avoid being separated from their loved ones or from going to the dreaded Deep South. In this letter dated January 17, 1817, General Wilkenson, a New Orleans slave dealer wrote from Huntington Town, Calvert County, Maryland, to complain to Henry Thompson, a merchant in Baltimore that several slaves he had just purchased had run away:
"Of twenty-five Negroes for which I had formed fair Contracts of this County, every one have either absconded or been refused by their masters, under various pretexts, to be delivered, & my engagement . . . forbids the necessary delay for prosecuting my claims or apprehending the fugitives."
He submitted a draft note, or promise of payment, "through the hands of my Brother Genl. Jos. Wilkenson," on a certain B. Morgan for $2,500, "should my brother [who was apparently trying to round up fugitives] forward to the jail of Baltimore any slaves for me." Wilkinson asked Thompson to "be so good as to have them [the slaves] shipped to my address at New Orleans & draw on me for the charges."


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3DOcean Exhibition area12X9 3DMAX2010 9367543
3DOcean Exhibition area12X9 3DMAX2010 9367543
3D Model \ Buildings and Architecture \ Miscellaneous
Expo \ Show \ Exhibition \ Booth \ Stall \ Template \ Stand \ Screen \ Exhibit
3D Model - Exhibition area12X9 3DMAX2010 9367543 by xiaoq2 @ 3DOcean
3D Model \ Buildings and Architecture \ Miscellaneous
3D File Formats Included: .max (3ds Max), .obj (multi format); Animated: No; Created In: 3ds max 2010; Geometry: Polygons; Low-poly: No; Materials: Yes; Poly Count: 0; Rigged: Yes; Textured: No; UV Layout: No.
Render scene with 3DMAX 2010 and Vray
Bicycle; Yacht; Yacht; trains; motorcycles; BMW i8 2014; bicycles.
Keywords: 3d models, advertising, business, demonstration, design, display, exhibit, exhibition, exhibition booth, expo, expo show, screen, show, stall, stand, template.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Jun 2007 16:38 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"We have developed a new package-management tool, called Opium, that improves on current tools in two ways: Opium is complete, in that if there is a solution, Opium is guaranteed to find it, and Opium can optimize a user-provided objective function, which could for example state that smaller packages should be preferred over larger ones. We performed a comparative study of our tool against Debian's apt-get on 600 traces of real-world package installations. We show that Opium runs fast enough to be usable, and that its completeness and optimality guarantees provide concrete benefits to end users."