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The transtasman battle for test players is taking the heat off the Kiwis. So let's put the heat back on them before the October 13 test in Townsville.
The Kiwis DO already have the players available to beat Australia and are just not putting enough wins on the board. Apart from a few finals victories, the Kiwis' record this century is shocking.
The latter stages of the NRL has shown just how good players such as Frank Pritchard, Greg Eastwood, Isaac Luke and Sam Perrett are. Kieran Foran is among the best halves in the competition. Grand finalists Melbourne have Kiwi forwards in excellent form. There is talent young and old all over the place.
The loss of the odd disputed player such as James Tamou - a big loss - should not be used as an excuse. Test contests can be won on belief and using controversy to build an us-against-the-world attitude. There is a defeated air hanging over the Kiwis - similar to the Wallabies approach to playing the All Blacks - and this latest whinge-athon isn't helping.
The Kiwi administration has had tough battles for players but they don't always have a strong case.
There are State of Origin reasons to hold legitimate anger over the loss of Tamou to Australia, and the potential defection of Sam Kasiano. The ARL commission is, thankfully, looking at Origin eligibility rules to protect the Kiwis selection pool. Otahuhu junior Kasiano - who crossed the ditch aged 16 - should, I believe, be prevented from playing for Australia until that new rule comes in, so he is not lost for good during a transition period.
But the NZRL and their football manager Tony Kemp also need to be careful that they don't push their claims too far and shoot holes in their own arguments.
The so-called spat over the young Canberra Raiders hard nut Josh Papali'i is a red herring and the Kiwis have no right to claim the former Junior Kiwi for life.
So, he signed a worthless letter of intent for the Kiwis at some point. Of course a young bloke is going to take up the chance to play international junior league, and if you shove a bit of paper in front of him, he'll probably sign.
Papali'i was only 6 years old when he went to Queensland. He's been brought up in the heart of the State of Origin hysteria and played for the Queensland under-18s. Whether money is involved in his decision is irrelevant because he is a legitimate Queenslander. End of story.
Most of us can barely remember anything before we were 6 years old. Papalii's formative years were spent in Queensland. You could accuse the NZRL of poaching and manipulating a young player in his case.
Put it this way. He's way more Australian than Kiwis Brent Webb and Nathan Fien were New Zealanders. Put it another way. Nathan Cayless, the World Cup-winning Kiwis captain was born in Australia, lived in Australia, and played for Australian schoolboys.
Papali'i has been caught up in the general controversy and the finer details of his case are being lost.
He has not "turned his back" on the Kiwis - he's gone for the state that he grew up in. You could argue just as strongly that Papali'i initially "turned his back" on Queensland. If the NZRL wants to avoid the risk of "losing" players such as Papali'i, they should quit picking Australian-raised kids in the Junior Kiwis.
Meanwhile, the senior Kiwis must get on with the on-field job, and doing it a lot better than they have been. That's the real issue - because they are good enough to beat Australia.
Wallabies are boring
Quade Cooper is bang on. The way the Wallabies play under coach Robbie Deans is boring, and bound to fail against the All Blacks.
Whether Tweet-ing his criticisms is the right way to go is another matter, but if no one in high places says or does anything, the problem will go on. Australia's record and performances against the All Blacks are so awful that it is a surprise Deans still has the job.
However, Cooper's inference that he is the Wallabies' saviour is debatable because no player is so obviously fragile under pressure.
The reason he has been so good in the Super 15 and so bad in tests is obvious - test rugby is much harder than Super rugby, with less room for the few creative artists left to operate.
As for Cooper's potential move to rugby league, his fragile defence and overall football makeup would be a major problem in the NRL, although his tricky dicky moves are interesting to contemplate.


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The two Bangor Area elementary schoolchildren sickened by an unknown drug in September inadvertently took the illegal hallucinogen LSD, disguised as breath drops they found on their front steps, District Attorney John Morganelli announced today.
The two Bangor Area elementary schoolchildren sickened by an unknown drug in September inadvertently took the illegal hallucinogen LSD, disguised as breath drops they found on their front steps, District Attorney John Morganelli announced today.
Although investigators have learned known drug users lived below the 7-year-old and 10-year-old brothers, Morganelli said police cannot determine how the bottle wound up in front of the home in the 500 block of Market Street in Bangor.
No charges will be filed as a result, Morganelli said.
"Although it is quite unfortunate that these young children were exposed to LSD, luckily it appears that there will be no long term effects," he said. Neither boy has any memory of the incident other than recalling going to the hospital, he said.
The boys' mother told police her sons were late for school Sept. 24 and one had not brushed his teeth. The other boy then pulled out a small breath freshener container and gave him two drops and took one drop himself. The mother then drove the boys to the bus stop, where they boarded their bus without incident, police said.
On the bus, however, one of the boys became sick and began to vomit. By the time they were taken to the nurse's office when they arrived, both boys were foaming at the mouth, hallucinating and staring into space, Morganelli said. They were taken to Pocono Medical Center and later transferred to Lehigh Valley Hospital, where they were released the next day.
Once recovered, the boys told police they found the bottle on the front steps outside their home and took it inside. Pennsylvania State Police tests determined it contained liquid LSD. The bottle, however, was too contaminated for police to gather any useful information from it, Morganelli said.
Investigators tested the boys' mother and her live-in paramour for five weeks, and the Division of Children, Youth and Family Services conducted visits to the home. Both adults passed all tests, and the children were never found to be at risk in the home, Morganelli said.
Morganelli said the boys' downstairs neighbors at the time had a history with drugs, but no evidence existed that linked them to the bottle. Both neighbors have since moved out of the house, with one in rehab and the other out of the area. He declined to name the neighbors.
"It's probably not going to be determined at this point. No one is going to volunteer that it was theirs," Morganelli said.
Attempts to contact the boys' mother were not successful.


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To Switch or Not to Switch
Crazy Little Thing Called Switch An Overview
The "switch" is one of the most underrated statements in C++ programming. Usually, you'll find it mentioned in the "do not" sections of books and articlesassociated with the dangers of manual type dispatching and implicitly denoting bad programming style. Not even efficiency saves it from obscurity. When code is optimized for speed or the case labels have a compact distribution of values, "switch" is implemented as a jump tableextremely fast without any manual intervention. The only possible optimization is to concentrate the most used cases on the first places inside the switchon small embedded platforms, it might make a difference.
All the above means that there is not much to say about a "switch" and the subject is hopelessly uninteresting.
The potential problem in these cases is how to maintain and extend a switch1. There is an idiom for extending a switch (see canon_switch.cpp):
struct A { static int doSwitch(int pos) { switch (pos) { case 0: return 0; default: return -1; } } }; template <class S> struct B { static int doSwitch(int pos) { switch (pos) { case 1: return 1; default: return S::doSwitch(pos); } } };
Variations are possible: inheritance instead of composition, for example. The issue here is that individual cases are hard to maintain.
Another way is to use std::map instead of switch. This technique has the added benefit of dispatching on types other than integer and is easy to extend (just append a new instance). The penalty to pay is an additional step of loading the map. This is great as long as the map stays in memory and is used over and over again. But, in stateless designs, this might be an overburden.
There is a meta-programming version of "switch" too [2]:
template<int I> class CASE { public: static inline void f() //default { } }; class CASE<value1> { public: static inline void f() { } }; class CASE<value2> { public: static inline void f() {} }; CASE<I>::f();
It looks almost perfect, but (nothing is perfect!) it can be used at compile-time only.
I will try to investigate other options, balancing different factors and alternatives.
Templates Come to the Rescue
This is the first attempt:
template < int I> struct X { static int getValue(int pos) { if (pos== I) return I; return X<I -1>::getValue(pos); } }; template < > struct X<-1> { static int getValue(int pos) { return -1; } }; template < > struct X<0> { static int getValue(int pos) { if (pos == 0) return 0; return X<-1>::getValue(pos); } }; void doSwitch(int pos) { std::cout << X<I>::getValue(pos); }
This design exposes the meta-programming model to the real-time realm through chaining. Is it very efficient (the chain is actually calculated at compile time), but it doesn't do a very good job in hiding the chaining mechanism itselfevery specialization has to (re)implement it (see X<0>).
Using a Curiously Recurring Template Pattern
An alternative is to use CRTP (Curiously Recurring Template Pattern)3and factor out the mechanism (see sequence.cpp):
template <template <int> class T, int I> struct Root { int run(int pos) const { const T<I>& ref = static_cast<const T<I>&>(*this); if (pos== I) return ref.getValue(); return T<I-1>().run(pos); } }; template <template <int> class T> struct Root<T, -1> { int run(int pos) const { return -1; } }; template < int I> struct X : Root<X, I> { static int getValue() { return I; } }; template < > struct X<2> : Root<X, 2> { static int getValue() { return 10; } }; void doSeq(int j) { std::cout << X<10>().run(j) << std::endl; }Now, Root contains the advancing mechanismthe specializations only contain what's traditionally found in case statements. Unfortunately, the "template template" non-type specialization used in the above code is not fully supported by some compilers at this moment (VC 7.1, for example).
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No. 17 UCLA (5-2, 2-2 Pac-12) vs. Colorado (3-4, 0-4)
Location: Rose Bowl, Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m.
TV: Fox Sports 1 (Craig Bolerjack, Joey Harrington, Ryan Nece)
Radio: 570 AM (Chris Roberts, Matt Stevens, Wayne Cook)
Last meeting: UCLA beat the Buffs, 42-14, in Boulder as Brett Hundley threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more. Colorado was in the midst of a 1-11 season under Jon Embree, who was fired after just two years.
Key storylines: The Bruins need to get their offense back on track after several lackluster efforts this month. The offensive line looks like it's coming together again after losing three left tackles to injury, but quarterback Brett Hundley has veered from average to mediocre to awful this month. The Buffs provide him an easy target, but a high-volume performance that only looks good in the box score — see his 410 yards against Cal — won't bode well.
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The story of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who founded Angelus Temple in Echo Park, has captivated many people. But New York theater critics are harder to please. The Thursday night opening of "Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson" on Broadway met with some mixed reviews for the musical created by TV host Kathy Lee Gifford, reports Culture Monster. While many praised lead actress Carolee Carmelo as Sister Aimee, there were few kind words for the music. Said the New York Times of Carmelo's performance:
What she cannot do — no singer without the power of miracle could — is bring distinction to songs that never rise above the serviceable.
Newsday called the production well produced and professional but not that interesting:
At least as problematic is the bombardment of nursery-rhyme lyrics — that is, "come with me, on bended knee" and "there's a child deep inside who won't be denied" and "You can touch the sky, why can't I?" and, oh, well, "Hey, little lassie, come show me your assie."
Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy was even less impressed, calling the show "insipid and patronizing, a work that seems more at home in a church parking lot than on Broadway."
There is no mention if Scandalous, which was supported in part by the Foursquare Foundation, an arm of the church founded by Sister Aimee, will ever appear at Angelus Temple in Echo Park. If it does, it sounds like Gifford might want to tweak those lyrics a bit.


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And lose horribly and they beat us by over 50pts would you laugh or cry?
I feel no fear of the outcome BUT I also feel like since we are play-off bound we will now be taking our foot off the pedal. I can't see it happening with the way RW is lighting it up, such a stud.


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Challenge 19 of 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy by Amy Coffin is:
Examine the "Genealogy and Military Records" page on the National Archives page. (Non-U.S. folks: examine the military records information from your country's national archives.) Click the links and read everything you can. If you've ordered a military file before, read this page again and refresh you memory so you can help others. Authors of genealogy blogs can write about records they've received, comment on the National Archives page, or ask questions of their readers via their blog.
The National Archives page about military records is excellent and I recommend that everyone take a look at it if you have any military ancestors in your family tree.
I have used the online ordering available at the bottom of this page to order 2 civil war pension files for my ancestors. One, for Robert Bruce BASCOM, is missing. Somehow NARA has misplaced it. Apparently they left a note in the right place that they should let me know if they ever find it. Yippee! The other file I ordered was for Francis Marion WASHBURN. That one I received as a PDF on a CD. I chose the PDF option because I didn't want to have to scan the entire file when someone else would do it for me.
While we are on the topic of military records from NARA, Michael John Neill wrote a blog post recently about the civil war pension payment cards. The Allen County Public Library had their microfilms of this record set scanned and they are available at Internet Archive. Michael's post explains how to get to find your ancestors in these records.
I was able to find the payment cards for Robert Bruce BASCOM's widow, Olive BOVARD. So at least I have something about his pension now.


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hip, multigenerational, eyecatching, the kind of design that makes a button collector sigh and say "I gotta have that"
needs to feature sewing buttons and the friendships made between collectors
Must include words "button buddies 4ever"
this will be a self-published t-shirt so must comply with CafePress guidelines for t-shirt printing
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Leech collectors
In early modern Europe, leeches were in high demand for their medicinal uses in bloodletting, a demand which only increased during a 'leech craze' in the first half of the 1800s. To meet this demand there was a whole profession devoted to the collection of leeches. Collectors, mostly women, waded into ponds populated by leeches, and attracted the worms with their bare legs. Some used animals instead, for example horses that were too old for hard physical labour. While this work was not physically demanding, leech collectors suffered from the loss of blood and frequently from infections they caught from the leeches.
Wordsworth describes an encounter with a leech collector in 'Resolution and Independence', a poem of 1807:
...to these waters he had come
To gather leeches, being old and poor:
Employment hazardous and wearisome
And he had many hardships to endure:
From pond to pond he roamed, from moor to moor;
Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance,
And in this way he gained an honest maintenance.
Today, as medical scientists find new uses for leeches in surgery and pharmaceutical research, the leeches are supplied by specialised 'leech farms'.
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Related links
Techniques and Technologies:
M Duke, The Development of Medical Techniques and Treatments. From Leeches to Heart Surgery (Madison, Conn: International Universities Press, 1991)
T Robinson, The Worst Jobs in History. Two Thousand Years of Miserable Employment (London: Pan, 2005)
A type of worm that possesses suckers at both ends of its body. Formerly widely used for letting blood, the medicinal leech may now be used following microsurgery to encourage the growth of new capillaries. Leeches are found in tropical forests, grasslands and in water.


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A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Everywhere means something to someone. You don't have to own it, or even see it everyday, for a place, and its stories to be important to you. The Spirit of Place Project will zoom in past the grid reference on the map that is our town to explore and celebrate this place close up - the people, the places, the language, the legends – all the aspects that impart our town with its unique and distinct identity.
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SPIRIT OF PLACE PROJECT - Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland
Not-for-profit group wish to create and maintain the connections with the place we live in. We would like the townspeople to co-create the content via a website (domain = mycommunity - not live yet). Everyone will have the chance to upload their own A-Z of Tuam as well as enter significant dates or events in Tuam's history.
People can upload text, music, video clip etc.
Layout should be similar to:
with search boxes on the left side for A-Z and for specific dates. Right hand side of page should have space for featured contributions. No coding required.
Everywhere means something to someone. You don't have to own it, or even see it everyday, for a place, and its stories to be important to you. The combination of commonplace histories and ordinary nature makes places what they are. Things do not have to be spectacular, rare or endangered for people to value them and want them about their everyday lives.
The aim of Tuam Spirit of Place Project is to zoom in past the grid reference on the map that is Tuam in order to explore and celebrate this place close up - the people, the places, the language, the legends – all the aspects that impart Tuam with its unique and distinct identity.
With input and collaboration from as many people as possible we will collectively weave the fabric that is Tuam, the old threads side by side with the new. We hope that the unfolding story will preserve the stories from the past, reveal new curiosities, give a home to the ordinary and provide guidance to policy makers and town developers to incorporate the spirit of place into their decision-making. Here is wikipedia entry for Tuam:
Our aim after Phase1 of the website is to convert the co-created knowledge into the following outputs - Dictionary, Book of Folklore, CD of local music, etc...
There may be other aspects that you need to know so please ask any questions you may have before commencing your work and I will reply quickly. Thanks for your interest in this contest!
- web 2.0
- clean & crisp - abstract design preferred
- easy to navigate - tabs are Home, About, Login, Contribute, Guestbook
- 2 links at bottom - 'contact' and 'legal'
- a-z search on left hand side
- a-z detailed seach should show CATEGORY in addition to Contributer's name, Letter, etc as entries will be sorted by Person, Culture, Folklore ...
- search calendar showing 1 month view with left/right navigation to scroll between months. Click on a date will show special events on that day for all years.
- want to use clustrmap on home page to see where visitors are located
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Is there a more perfect breakfast than brioche, fresh from the oven, served with fruit preserves? Glorious, golden brown brioche gets its glow from lots of egg yolks and a healthy amount of butter. To give the dough its light-as-a-feather texture, avoid adding too much flour during mixing (it should be just cohesive enough to barely hold its shape when it is removed from the mixing bowl) and handle it gently during shaping. This is my favorite morning pastry. I think it may become yours as well.–Sarabeth Levine
LC Better from Scratch Note
Sure, you could traipse off to the local boulangerie and bring home a bag of buttery little brioche, warm from the oven and aromatic in that nutty sort of way, rather than make them yourself. If you live in Paris. But where's the satisfaction in just buying them? These miniature brioche from Sarabeth's, the much ballyhooed brunchtime spot in NYC, don't require much in the form of actual hands-on time, although they do warrant a slight expense in the form of diminutive brioche tins. Should you need any sort of rationale to justify this, bear in mind the little reflective metal tins work really quite well as wee tea light holders.
Sarabeth's Baker's Note: The butter must be very soft (but not melted) so it can be incorporated into the dough. Cut it into tablespoon-size pieces and let stand at room temperature for at least 1 hour before using.
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- Makes twelve 3 1/2-inch brioche
- 1 ounce (2 packed tablespoons) compressed yeast, or 3 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons superfine sugar (or just blitz granulated sugar in a blender until finely ground but not powdery)
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon whole milk (cold if using compressed yeast, warm if using active dry yeast)
- 8 large egg yolks
- 2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, as needed, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, softened, plus more for the bowl and brioche tins
- 1 large egg, well beaten with a hand blender
- 1. If using compressed yeast, crumble the yeast finely into the bowl of a heavy-duty stand mixer. Add the sugar and let stand until the yeast gives off some moisture, about 3 minutes. Whisk well to dissolve. Add the cold milk and yolks and whisk to combine.
If using active dry yeast, sprinkle the yeast over 1/3 cup warm, 105° to 115°F (40° to 46°C) milk in a small bowl. Let stand until softened, about 5 minutes, then stir to dissolve. Add to the mixer bowl along with 1 tablespoon cold milk, the sugar, and yolks, and whisk to combine.
- 2. Attach the bowl to the mixer and fit with the paddle attachment. With the machine on low speed, add 2 cups of the flour and the salt. Mix until the mixture forms a sticky, batter-like dough that clings to the sides of the bowl. Increase the speed to medium. Beat in the softened butter, one tablespoon at a time, letting each addition become absorbed before adding another. Remove the paddle attachment.
- 3. Using a spatula, scrape the dough into the center of the bowl. Attach the dough hook to the mixer. Knead the dough on medium-high speed until it is gathers into a ball around the hook. Return to medium speed and knead, adding tablespoons of the remaining flour, until the dough is smooth but feels tacky and sticks to the bottom of the bowl, about 3 minutes.
- 4. Generously butter a medium bowl. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Gently shape into a ball. Turn the ball, smooth side down, in the bowl, and turn right side up to lightly coat the ball in butter. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let stand in a warm place until doubled, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
- 5. Butter twelve 3 1/2-inch-wide brioche tins. Carefully turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface, but do not punch it down—its texture should remind you of a feather-filled pillow. Cut the dough into 12 equal portions. (If you have a kitchen scale, each portion will weigh 2 ounces.)
- 6. One at a time, shape each portion into a ball on the work surface, taking care not to break the exterior of the dough. To do this, cup both hands around the dough. Carefully turn the dough in your cupped hands to gently shape it into a ball—overhandling will soften the butter too much. Place the dough on its side, with the rough underside facing one side. Lightly dust the side of your hand with flour. Place the side of your hand about 1 inch from the smooth end of the dough. Using the upper part of your hand, including the last finger, move your hand back and forth to cut into the dough, forming a small ball that is attached to the larger portion by a thin strand.
- 7. Transfer the shaped dough to a brioche tin, holding the larger portion in one hand and the small ball in the other, taking care not to break the connection. Place the larger portion of dough in the bottom of the tin. Using your thumb and first two fingers, still holding the small ball of dough, force a hole into the center of the larger portion of dough, reaching all the way down to the bottom of the tin, and stick the smaller ball in the hole. This keeps it from popping off during baking. Repeat with the remaining balls of dough. Place the tins on a half-sheet pan. Lightly brush the tops of the brioche with some of the beaten egg, reserving the rest.
- 8. Choose a warm spot in the kitchen for proofing. Slip the half-sheet pan into a tall "kitchen-sized" plastic bag. Place two tall glasses of very hot water near the center of the pan. Wave the opening of the bag to trap air and inflate the bag like a balloon to create "head room," being sure that the plastic does not touch the sticky dough. Twist the bag closed. Let stand in a warm place until the brioche looks puffy, about 1 hour.
- 9. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350°F (176°C). Remove the glasses from the bag, and then the pan. Lightly brush the tops of the brioche again with the reserved egg. Bake until the brioche are golden brown, about 20 minutes. Let cool in their tins for 5 minutes. Remove the brioche from their tins and serve warm or at room temperature. (Leftover brioche—if there are any—can be frozen for up to 2 weeks. They're great toasted.)
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Novint, the folks behind that most curious Falcon peripheral, are back again with yet more hardware curios. This time, it's the ability to turn your arm into a motion-controlled rumble pack.
It's latest device is called Xio, and Novint says it adds the sense of "touch" to gaming. "Unlike current motion control technologies out there, you will be able to feel what is in the game," explains Novint. "When you shoot a gun, take a full body golf swing, jump a car, or smash a sword into a shield, you'll be able to feel what happens."
The Xio is currently aimed (geddit?) at PCs, is apparently lag-free and should cost about the same as a Falcon.
In the above video, Novint shows off the Xio, along with a custom-built VR outfit that even uses a FPS gaming vest, the TNGames Third Space Vest, along with some prototype guns and a knife. If it was anyone else, I'd be very jaded and say this was vaporware, but this is Novint, those guys have dont nutty things in the past. This is madness. And I like it.
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Relay for Riley Collections Underwayby Jim Amidon • September 13, 2004 Share:
Virtually all of us know a child who has benefited from the excellence of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. The Indianapolis children's hospital has saved the lives of countless thousands of Hoosiers, and helped terminally ill children and their families come to grips with their illnesses and diseases.
There is, perhaps, no greater tragedy than a young life cut short; no greater sadness than a child in pain. In turn, there may be no organization more deserving of charitable gifts, of philanthropy, than Riley Children's Hospital.
That's why I'm so excited that the Wabash men of the Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity have chosen to again conduct a "Relay for Riley' this fall. Some of you will no doubt recall the group's inaugural efforts last fall.
A few men, led by John Meyer, whose idea it was to run the relay, cobbled together some donations and took turns running the actual distance from the Wabash College mall to the Indianapolis hospital. Once there, they made a donation of $2,800 and a teddy bear to symbolize their efforts. It was a miserably hot day last year, yet the young men persevered. And we're not talking about a group of distance runners here. We're talking about 12 average Wabash students who happen to care more for others than themselves. They kept running, an average of about four miles per man, to symbolize the courage and conviction a child battling leukemia must possess. It is indeed a most worthwhile event.
This year, Meyer says the goal is to raise $10,000 — still a relatively small amount at a place that works miracles. But Riley has a reputation of serving all children, regardless of insurance or financial background. In that way, every penny counts.
"With the help of the entire community, we can reach our goal and present the children and families of Riley Hospital with a big check," says Meyer.
So, how can you help? Saturday, September 18 is Community Day at Little Giant Stadium. Again this year, I hope you'll be our guest for a picnic-style lunch on the College mall prior to the Little Giants' home opener against Washington University. The picnic is free and there is no charge for admission to the football game.
So think about what you might pay for lunch and a game ticket, and donate that much money to Relay for Riley. Alpha Phi Omega members will be at the entrance to the stadium and will walk around during the picnic to collect donations. Any gift is appreciated.
Meyer reminds me that checks can be made payable to "Relay for Riley" and that all donations are tax deductible. He also quips that to reach his goal, the group must raise 13 cents per step and $222.22 per mile. You might spend $10 for a hot dog and ticket to the football game; that's a tremendous donation for the Relay for Riley.
If you'd like more information about the event or would like to send a donation in advance of Community Day, contact Meyer at the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. He can be reached by phone at 361-7628 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Just for kicks, I asked Meyer what his motivation was for founding the event last fall. I figured he was once a sick child who enjoyed the tremendous services of Riley Hospital. Nope. But he's volunteered there, and the looks on the kids' faces left an indelible mark on him. He said to me that it's bad enough that these kids have to spend the best years of their lives in the hospital, so the very least he can do is donate a few bucks to make it a better experience for the children and their families.
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"Avenging a Wrong"
Remember Aaron Vargas? He was the man who went to the home of the older man whom he said had molested him as a child, shot the man once in the chest, and then waited half an hour to be sure he died. The Northern California community of Fort Bragg had rallied around Vargas, and he was expecting a lenient sentence after his guilty plea to manslaughter.
The judge said no dice; the fact that the victim was a child molester was largely irrelevant. "To grant probation in this case would put a stamp of approval on the defendant's actions, which I cannot do," he told a courtroom packed with Vargas supporters. "The use of violence to correct a wrong only encourages more violence."
The sentence: 9 years in the state pen.
"Street Brawl"
The other case featured in the exercise was that of Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield, age 20, who stabbed a University of California at Berkeley fraternity man to death during a drunken street brawl. A jury had rejected his plea of self defense, and convicted him of second-degree murder. Although he cried and pleaded for leniency, the judge noted that he fled from the scene after the stabbing, discarded his knife and hid out at a friend's house.
The sentence: 16 years of hard time.
Reactions, readers? Were either of the sentences surprising? Were they just?
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The Huntington Beach Water Polo Club boys' 12- and 14-and-under teams took first place in their respective divisions Sunday at the Ventura Cup at Cal Lutheran University.
The 14U team scored wins against Bakersfield (13-1), South Coast (13-2), South Bay United (7-1), and defeated L.A. Premier, 8-5, in Sunday's title game.
The 12U team defeated Alliance Water Polo Club, 10-5, in the division final Sunday. Huntington had scored earlier wins over Gold Coast (5-1), Riverside (9-1) and Expo Sharks (9-1). The 12U team is: Kyle Wilbourn, Casey Reagan, Josh Bowman, Charles Slutsky, Jacob Pyle (goalie), Garrett Lee, Cameron Reagan, Randal Macias, Jackson Williams, Dane Howell and Ethan Shipman. The team is coached by Sasa Branisavljevic.
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GTFC takes Region 56 tourney title
The Gladiator Turtle Futbol Club captured the AYSO Region 56 (South Huntington Beach) boys' under-14 division championship by winning the three-team, round-robin event Nov. 17 at Brethren Christian High.
GTFC defeated the No. 1-rated team in Area K, Team Roberts, 3-2. Clay Culhane scored two goals and Keegan Coleman scored once and had an assist as GTFC avenged a 3-0 loss to Team Roberts earlier in the season. In the second game of the round robin tournament, GTFC defeated Blue Man Group, 3-2. Coleman scored twice and assisted a goal by Noe Olivares.
GTFC received solid play in goal from Brooks Juhasz, on defense by Jack Davis, Kaleb Wartnaby, and Damian Koptyra and Jason Koptyra, in midfield play by David Gomez and Blake Sepe, and offensive support from Daniel Parra, Connor Hanks and Drake Williamson.
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Oreo Crushers win Region 55 crown
The Oreo Crushers took the AYSO Region 55 (Huntington Beach) boys' 12-and-under title Nov. 12 by defeating Better Than Bronze, 2-1, in overtime. Both teams move on to compete Saturday at the Area 11 K tournament at the Dan Young Soccer Complex in Santa Ana.
The Oreo Crushers are: Jason St. Pierre, Aidan Minear, Max Richardson, Garrett Lee, Cody Schuesler, Anthony Wilson, Clayton Zarate, Drew Lottsfeldt, Logun Scott, Jovanni Page, Isaiah Seward, and Joel Kosareff. The team is coached by Jeff Schuesler.
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Little League registration is Thursday
Westminster Little League, which serves Westminster, northwest Huntington Beach, and Midway City and is part of Little League District 62, is holding a registration session for the 2013 season from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Johnson Middle School in Westminster (13603 Edwards. St.).
Online registration also is available at http://www.westminsterlittleleague.org.
The Westminster Little League boundary in northwest Huntington Beach is north of McFadden Avenue, between Bolsa Chica and Magnolia streets.
For more information, call (714) 894-1578 or email.
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I enjoyed this recent arXiv post by Zack Treisman, apparently notes for a summer course for high school students he taught. It leads a beginning mathematician by discovery through the basics of arithmetic of complex numbers, higher dimensional geometry, a word or two on knot theory, and then onto the main topic: the Hopf fibration. I wish someone had told me about these things when I was in high school.
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Ain't No Beans About It Vegan Chili
I made this up on a cold Lenten winter with a few random things I had in my cupboard. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Serve with crusty bread.
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Dom's Car Care (subtitle is) Premium Detail Service
I am a college student who has a great detailing business and I want to become a bit more professional so I can appeal to the higher end vehicles. I am VERY thorough with car detailing and I want people to look at my business as something they can bring their $100K+ car to. I already handle several high value vehicles, but I don't have any logos that I can put on shirts and things.
Any car is my market, but I am tryign to appeal to those who are busy (I drive to and from their house or work and pick up their car and do the work, so very service oriented) and someone with a higher end car is much more likely to appreciate my services.
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VIDEO: "Please don't forget Sutherland Springs," pleads mother of 14-year-old victim
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) -- Sherri Pomeroy is the wife of First Baptist Church's pastor - Frank.
She is also the mother of 14-year-old Annabelle, one of the victims of Sunday's mass shooting.
During a press conference on Monday, Pomeroy pleaded with the world, "please don't forget Sutherland Springs."
Pomeroy also remembered the unity her church stood for saying, "our church was not comprised of members, or parishioners. We were very close family. We ate together, we laughed together, we cried together and we worshipped together."
Her husband was emotional during the beginning of the conference as he remembered those who were lost.
Police are still investigating Sunday's mass shooting which killed 26 people. It is now the worst mass shooting to ever take place at a place of worship in modern United States history.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Head coach Ken Preston announced Friday that the UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball team picked up four high school seniors during the 2007 fall signing period. Outside hitters Grant Goswiller, Mark Liebermann, and Matt Townsend, as well as middle blocker/opposite Jake Piva will don the blue and gold for the 2009 season.
Goswiller, a 6-foot-3 outside, hails from Coto de Caza, Calif. and Tesoro High School. He has also played club ball for Balboa Bay and OC Riptides. Goswiller was an all-tournament selection at the 2007 Junior Olympics (17 Open) in Atlanta. Outside of volleyball, he was a member of the Lionsheart Community Service Club and the Invisible Children's Club. In the classroom, Goswiller was a three-year Presidential Honor Roll member.
"Grant has a very quick arm and good jump," said Preston, who is in his 30th season leading the Gauchos. "He has a tremendous upside as he is just 17 years old and still growing. He is a very focused player with great ball control."
Liebermann is from Newport Beach, Calif. and Newport Harbor High School. The 6-foot-5 outside was part of a Balboa Bay Volleyball Club squad that took first place at the 2007 Holiday Classic.
"Mark has steadily improved and he will be an important asset to our team in the future," commented Preston. "He has a heavy arm, which lends itself to an excellent jump serve. He also blocks well, has solid ball control, and makes very few hitting errors."
Piva, a 6-foot-8 middle/opposite, is from Valencia, Calif. and won a CIF title with Valencia High School, a perennial powerhouse in the Foothill League. With Santa Monica Beach Club, he won a 2007 title in the Open Division and has twice been named all-tourney at Junior Olympics.
"Jake is a huge presence on the volleyball court," said Preston. "His size and emotion make him intimidating. He has a very good arm, which has led him to playing at the opposite position in club ball. Having experience as both a middle and opposite will be very good for his development. He will be an extraordinary addition to our team."
Townsend is from Granada Hills, Calif. and plays for Chaminade College Prep. A four-year letterwinner, the 6-foot-4 outside has garnered First Team All-Mission League honors. In 2007, he was a member of the Southern California Volleyball Association Regional Team that competed at the Slovenia Global Challenge. Townsend won gold at the 2007 Junior Olympics (17 Open) and silver at the 2006 JOs (16 Open).
"Matt is an all-around accomplished volleyball player," stated Preston. "He has a very smooth playing style, a quiet confidence, and a very even temperament on the floor. His passing skills are excellent and he hits with high efficiency. Matt did not want to attend any college except UCSB."
The Gauchos open their 2008 campaign with an exhibition match against Canadian powerhouse Alberta on Jan. 2 at Robertson Gymnasium (7 p.m.). The regular season kicks off with the annual Elephant Bar Restaurant Collegiate Invitational Jan. 4-5 in Santa Barbara. Joining UCSB will be Alberta, Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, Pacific, Stanford, UC Irvine, and USC.
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LOS ANGELES – First Beverage Group, a full-service financial services firm dedicated exclusively to the beverage industry, today announced that Jason Camillos has joined the firm as managing director of First Beverage Ventures, the company's private equity division.
"Timing Jason's hire to coincide with the launch of our new fund allows us to hit the ground running as we add new brands to our portfolio," said William Anderson, founder and CEO of First Beverage Group. "Jason's multi-faceted experience with building great consumer brands will be an enormous asset to our company, our team and our partners."
"Jason has diverse talents and a deep knowledge of this industry," said Tom First, managing partner of First Beverage Group, who previously worked with Camillos at the juice company First co-founded, Nantucket Nectars. "He has been a key player in the success of several great brands and I'm excited to work with him again."
Camillos, who has over 21 years of experience in the food and beverage industries, is an expert at driving success with emerging brands and will be responsible for managing all operating activities of First Beverage's portfolio companies. Before joining First Beverage, Camillos most recently led market development efforts at Unreal Brands, a candy start-up company based in Boston. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of business development at Glaceau, where he established a business planning and commercial operations infrastructure that was critical to the successful management of the fast-growing enhanced water business. His efforts helped to position the company for sale to the Coca-Cola Company in 2007 for the historic sum of $4.2B. Camillos has a BA in English from Princeton University and lives in Connecticut.
"I have always been passionate about creating and building things, whether a brand, a company or a team," said Camillos. "We have seen so much innovation in the beverage industry over the last 20 years, and the pace at which new ideas come to market seems only to grow quicker. It will be a thrill to be at the forefront of this activity and to be a promoter of change in this incredibly dynamic industry."
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10 vs 25: A Year Later
For obvious reasons, it was impossible to say who was going to be right and who was going to be wrong, but here we are a year later with 6months of Cataclysm under our belt and the first tier of Cataclysm raiding nearing a close. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at my reaction and the reaction of some of my commenters and see what ended up happening.
Quick Disclaimer: I'm assuming that tensions over this issue (and the way I titled one of my posts) have calmed down quite a bit over the past year. I don't expect any of the drama that resulted last time. However, in an effort to prevent any issue I want to acknowledge one thing. Most of my "evidence" comes from personal experience or observations I've seen on the servers I've played. I do use some numbers from WoWProgress.com, but none of it is scientific.
Personal Experience:
The Concern: My first reaction was very negative. Most of my 10man experiences in WotLK were very positive. My groups were filled with 25man raiders so we overgeared the content, and we had a lot of funny joking around in a way that wasn't really possible in the 25man raid. After a little thought I still had my doubts, but I also saw some of the potential of the change. I could man a chance to raid an alt in a meaningful way or just sleep more once the allure of the 10man rewards was removed.
The Result: A year later and a year wiser, I must say my second reaction was much more correct then my first. When I wrote my first reaction post the best days of my 10man groups were behind me. My 10man group like my guild saw a lot of turn over and we had trouble building a group. We did eventually end up killing heroic Lich King, but that was only after a massive effort from a few dedicated players and was months after it should have happened. In the end, it was the people that made my 10man experience so great, and that couldn't last forever.
The second reality is that I don't have much of an interest in maintaining that type of schedule anymore. To do the 10mans, I was staying up to one or two in the morning several nights a week. On the other nights it wasn't unusual for me to stay up late leveling an alt, crafting for my AH businesses, or doing some other activity. I didn't sleep a whole lot and it had an impact on my life in the game and in my normal life. There are still nights where I stay up very late playing the game, but not having the 10man raid has removed the obligation to doing so. If I stay up late one night, it's likely that I will go to bed early the next. My play time is much more balanced now, and that is probably for the best.
Balancing: Can 10man Equal 25man?
The Concern: I and many other 25man supporters questioned if Blizzard could balance the 10man and 25man formats to be relatively equal. While the gear ilevel difference was the main balancing difference between the two formats in WotLK, it wasn't the only difference. Converting a 25man raid to a 10man or vice versa isn't a simple fix where you just have to adjust a bosses total health. Spread out mechanics favor smaller groups because they have more space to work with. It's unavoidable that Room design and boss abilities will have different levels of significance for different sized groups. Some mechanics will be easier for 10mans because they have more room to spread out or fewer targets to deal with. Other mechanics will be easier for 25mans because they have more people to fill the needed rolls and players are allowed to specialize their responsibilities more. Skeptics like me were unsure if Blizzard could counteract these inevitable balancing differences between the two formats.
The Result: With Tier 11 raiding, Blizzard did a pretty good job. I've done very few fights in the 10man format, but what I'm told by people who have raided in both formats is that the lead up bosses are fairly well balanced, but there are/were a few balancing issues with the end bosses. Nefarian and Cho'gall were much tougher in the 10man format and had their damage nerfed significantly in patch 4.1. On the other hand Al'Akir is significantly easier in the 10man format, and several 25man guilds have gone in and killed Al'Akir on 10man to get the kill and ranking just as some of us skeptics worried might happen.
All in all, I can't really expect Blizzard to do a better job then they did. This type of thing is never going to be perfect the first time. I'm also pleased that they errorred on the side of 10mans being to hard (though I don't know if this was by choice). The fact that 10mans were a bit harder on some of the end bosses may have prevented a mass exodus of progression guilds switching to the 10 format.
Destabilization of Guilds:
The Concern: Organizing 10 to 15 people is easier then organizing 25 to 35. There are a lot of tasks involved in running a guild/raid that just get harder with the addition of more people. It's more people you have to evaluate, it's more people you have manage, it's more whispers and PMs you have to respond to. The question was, why would a GM stick with the 25man format when they can get the same rewards from the 10man format with less work and few problems. Not only that, but a 25man GM could take his best 10-15 players and form a more successful 10man they they could have at the 25man level. It seems like a perfect situation for guilds to abandon the 25man format for the more accessible but similarly rewarding 10man format.
The Result: There has definitely been some movement away from 25mans to 10mans. In the past six months I've seen several 25man guilds reform as 10 man guilds due to recruiting and other issues. I've also seen very few new 25man guilds form, but I've seen many recruiting posts for newly formed 10man guilds.
That said the 25man format definitely isn't dead. Progression raiding still seems to favor the 25man format, while 10man seems to be favored by casual raiding. Looking at numbers from WoWProgress this division is clear. Of the top 100 guilds in the world only five are 10man guilds and of those only one is in the top fifty. The 25man format also has a much higher participation rate in the heroic modes then the 10man format. This is probably an indication that many of the historically successful progression guilds have stuck with the 25man format.
The question now is how is this going to change in the future. Is the 25man format still in decline or has has it stabilized? How many of the 25man guilds in WoWProgress are dead guilds that failed after a couple of months of raiding and won't be active in Firelands? It's going to be really interesting to see the progression numbers at the end of Tier 12 progression cycle. It's my guess that 25mans will still be the dominate format in progression raiding for a couple of progression cycles. However, it's quite possible that the 10man progression guilds needed the Tier 11 cycle to get organized and come out and take the T12 raids by storm and dominate the 25man format.
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So I've been running a progression focused 10-man raid group. And I've been filling in on an alt in a 25-man raid.
25-man raiding is noticeably easier in most of the fights. And it also gives noticeably more loot. And the extra loot means the raid gears up faster.
From personal experience, I watched a group whose core 10 had the week before tried Cho'gall-10 and barely made it in to phase 2, 3-shot Cho'gall on their first attempt in 25-man with ~12 of the raiders having never seen the fight. And this is not a group that is being at all progression oriented or that I would consider the top of the top.
So yeah, I expect progression will stay 25 for a while. The faster rate of gearing up combined with most fights being slightly easier on 25 means if you are racing to be in the top progress, you need to be racing in 25s.
- June 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM
As someone in a 10-man guild, I can't say they've done a good job balancing 10s and 25s. Halfus, Maloriak, Chim, Nef for example; they're virtually the same fight that have to be handled with less than half the people, and none of the issues are related to damage output.
25s are harder only when they should naturally be: fights you need to spread out.
I'm not on PTR, so I can only hope they learned with this tier.
- June 6, 2011 at 11:33 AM
It doesn't seem like you considered HM's at all (which is alot more relevant when comparing difficulties of 10 and 25m progression) - and the differences in HM's between 10 and 25 are much more apparent. And there are some fights that are easier in 10m and some that are easier on 25. That the differences are there is not surprising, really. Did anyone *really* believe blizzard when they said they'd be balanced? Doubtful.
- June 6, 2011 at 12:20 PM
- lancore said...
You can't really compare rankings from both formats when 10m raids where stuck at bosses for months bacause of balancing issues, waiting for a silence hotfix that will most likely never be mentioned in any patch notes.
You don't have a good chance at top50+ when half the bosses were unkillable at first
- June 7, 2011 at 2:29 AM
- Imakulata said...
Lancore, this was true at first but I think the fights eventually got balanced better - mostly by nerfing the 10-mans.
Also, I believe the 10-man format is more popular among casual and starting guilds. Claiming that 25-mans being easier is the only reason for the small number of progressed 10-mans would be begging the question IMO.
- June 7, 2011 at 2:44 AM
I started Cata running in a 10 man group because a number of people in my guild (25 man wrath raiding) just wanted to do 10 mans. We stayed as one guild and had three 10 man groups. To accomplish this required recruiting for my group and eventually for the other groups as well. Dealing with peoples RL schedules and not being able to raid because of one person caused one group to fall apart and my group to seek 25 man raiding. The third 10 man still runs as a 10 man.
My group recruited and temporarily teamed up with another guild for 25 man raiding until we acheived enough for our own 25 man group.
So my experience for T11 is clearing 90% of normal content on 10 man and then again in 25 man and will agree 25 man is much easier to progress in. We've done great building a very solid 25 man group and are progressing pretty quickly into heroic modes. The heroics are challenging in a 25 man format but I agree 10 man is a larger challenge.
- June 7, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- m said...
Raiding 25 guild here. We stayed with the 25 men format, but this slowed us because of a few trouble refilling the ranks when people left for a reason or another.
I am the kind of player who only play on evening or weekend, and usually I only play ONE char.
So I don't like at all the 25/10 fusion. I loved to play with casual non raiding guildies in 10 men while raiding with core members in 25 men flavour. I cannot do this anymore, and I find myself very often just bored having nothing to do, expecially now when you can clean all in a day or two...
Anyway, 25 men may be easier for some encounters, but is also a lot more difficult to sustain. You need 25 people all playing, all dedicated, all with good connection, good mood, good astral conjuction :-)
25 men means more key people on the table, more possibility a disconnection will ruin your try, more chances you will have to spend a week or two asking for new guildies, integrating them...
No, managing a 25 men guild is not easier than a 10 men one... and so 25 men raiding is surely harder overall...
We was forced to raid 10 men for a month, while trying to refill the roles, and we found really easy to do it, easier than 25 men, but may be is just us... I mean, who cares if an EASY boss is easier in 25 men, I care instead when an HARD boss is HARDER in 25 men.... like al'akir...
- June 7, 2011 at 7:41 AM
- Graylo said...
Half the bosses were unkillable? Really? The guilds that did it clearly hacked the fight to kill it am I right?
I agree that the difficulty of a couple of encounters (not half) held back 10man progression to some extent, but anyone who thinks about it for a second will realize there are other factors involved as well.
Just because something's hard doesn't mean it's over tuned. Remember virtually all of the elite progression focused guilds from WotLK are 25man guilds. This gives them a huge advantage since most 10man guilds are less then 6 months old. Plus, most of the elite players interested in raiding were already in these 25man guilds. It's going to be hard for the 10man guilds to compete as a whole until these elite players move to the 10man format or until the 10man format has time to develope some of their own.
My main point with the WoWProgress numbers was to show that 25mans is still where the majority of progression raiding happens, and 10man is where the majority of casual raiding happens. That's easy to see since over 50% of the 25man guilds have killed Halfus hard mode, while just 30% of 10mans have.
I also said it will be interesting to see how these numbers look at the end of T12 progression after the 10man guilds have had an opportunity to stabilize and come to progression content without having to organize and forma guild at the same time.
- June 7, 2011 at 8:16 AM
Former casual 25 man raider here. Quit raiding a couple months ago due to RL, but have continued to follow my old guild. Results were much as expected.
We've bled top players who left for more progressed guilds. Recruiting has been incredibly difficult. Recruits we did find had either gear or skill issues which slowed progression to the point of regression. Caused more players to leave. In the past month attrition led to a switch to the 10 man format.
With slow 25 progression we started scheduling an optional 10 man "clean up". In this 3 hour window we would often drop 2-3 bosses that we couldn't in 25. Got our council kill in 10 3.5 months before 25. It sure felt easier on 10 (normal modes). Admittedly, this may speak more to the skill gap between our top 10 and our bottom 10 then actual balancing issues.
I figured mine was the kind of guild that would suffer a quick death with the change. While it's taking longer to get there then I thought, I don't doubt that inevitability.
- June 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Progressing further in 10 man when your 25 man can't quite get the people together is because you have a good pool of players to pull from for composition issues. Why my group found 10 man to be harder is because we didn't have more than 1-2 extra people to pull from to change up the comp based on the fight. We did end up getting our first Nef kill on 10 man shortly after we started full guild 25 man raids but before our 25 man group was solidly built. We would either have enough no-shows or undergeared new people that Nef on 25 was a waste of time, but with 18 good players to pull from a 10 man group to kill Nef was easy. Our original 11-12 was range heavy with 3 solid interrupts. Change up the comp a bit and Nef was no problem.
It's harder to maintain a 10 man group (IMO) with alternates for when people can't make it or the fight calls for more interrupts, or whatever the case maybe. You either need everyone to show up every raid night, have 4-5 hybrids willing and able to fill multiple roles, and/or 4-5 backup players. We found it hard to keep people around who weren't going to get to raid everynight consistantly. This is much easier to manage in 25man I believe.
-Quota (third anony comment is mine too)
- June 7, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Edit above comment:
"withOUT 3 solid interrupts"
- June 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM
--> 2nd last anon to anon.
I don't doubt many 25s that do 10s can comp things up. Ours was an optional off-night, so we were just happy to have 10. Our first Chim kill was done with 3 resto druids (2 off-specing). Less then ideal.
Sounds like everyone has their problems. I don't think it's much easier for 25s to keep back-ups. We ran short much of the expansion. Our realm forum suggests this is not an uncommon problem for 25s.
- June 7, 2011 at 2:04 PM
I really do not get the organizational issues related to running 25-man guilds compared to 10-man. Actually, unless you have exactly 10 dedicated raiders with 100% attendance, running a 10-man guild seems harder to me. 25-man raiding requires 20% to 30% of backups. 10-man raiding requires 50% of backups. So I would say the organizational issues are actually a lot more balanced than some might think.
10-man raiding also requires a lot more flexibility from the members, often needing to be able to play 2 roles because of encounter mechanics, especially in heroic modes, where suddenly 3 tanks and/or am extra dedicated plate kiter are suddenly required. This means "bring the player, not the class" is much harder in 10-man.
10-man raiding is also a lot more affected by issues like d/c or underperformance than 25-man... 10% > 4% obviously. 10-man also gets fewer rezzes (1 = 10%, 3 = 12%)
10-man raiding gets less loot, which means gearing is slower, not only because there's obviously less loot, but because the chance that a piece of gear will be sharded is also higher.
In terms of hardcore progression (top 100 guilds), it's easier to use "stacking" strategies in 25-man, and it also gives more flexbility in terms of number of tanks and healers vs dps. In 10-man only Cho'gall is 2-healed, all the other fights require exactly 3 healers. in 25-man the number of healers can be tuned much more precisely depending on encounter and dps output.
All in all 25-man raiding is only harder when space is an issue (Atramedes, Al'Akir).
- June 8, 2011 at 3:28 AM
I guess my server might be in a somewhat different position than others. Three 25 man guilds have recently fallen apart somewhat and only run 10 mans now. Leaving some good players with a raid group or who really want to run 25 mans looking for a new guild.
My guild is maybe more unusual than I thought in going from 10 man to 25 man raiding. We took about 3 weeks or heavy recruiting to make our own 25 man raids and over the last few months we've trimmed the under performing and picked up a number of great players. With the fall of more 25 man guilds to 10s we actually have an extensive back up roster right now. They would rather be a back up with us than find a 10 man guild it seems.
- June 8, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- lancore said...
As I said, where unkillable. They got fixed eventually, partially without any patchnotes at all
- June 12, 2011 at 3:58 AM
@graylo "Half the bosses were unkillable? Really? The guilds that did it clearly hacked the fight to kill it am I right?"
Yes they were virtually pre nerf 10h.
Halfus - Required either 3 tanks or 4 healers. Still killable though and a fair few did it.
V&T - 1 guild managed it pre nerf. Required incredibly lucky rng and was basically impossible.
Council - Killable
Cho'gall - Harsh dps race. Killable, but setup dependent.
Sinestra. Virtually impossible. Relied on an spriest and good luck
Magmaw - Virtually impossible. 2 guilds managed it pre-nerf.
Omnotron - Killable.
Maloriak - Extremely hard. Adds had same hp as 25m, and it required a grp like 2xmoonkin, 2xdemo lock, mage or something.
Atramedes - Hard, but 25m faced the same issues. Exploitable for a kill.
Chimaeron - Killable.
Nef - Killable
Throne - Killable
- June 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM
I recently joined a 25m guild that moved from 10m to 25m. At least in my experience many people are severely underestimating the balance between 10m and 25m. It isn't that bad anymore, but it took 2-3 months for 10mans to get to the same level as 25mans. Before that 10mans were noticeably harder unless you had a very balanced group.
One massive problem that I saw when I was doing 10s was that bringing 3 melee and 2 ranged was much harder than 2 melee/3 ranged. That issue just doesn't happen in 25man. Sure you could have issues bringing 10 melee and 5 ranged, but that is much easier to avoid in 25s.
There are also a few classes like hunters that bring an incredible amount of utility which means if you don't have one, it just makes it a little harder. There isn't a skill in the game that comes close to frost trap and there are 3-4 fights in T11 that slowing groups of things is extremely useful.
In the end I expected this to happen. One of the 2 was going to be harder and then it was going to get nerfed(or other buffed). I completely expect the same to happen in T12, I just hope it doesn't take as long this time.
The switch has completely killed 25m pugs on my server though which to me is a sad thing. It is hard enough finding 9 good pugs, good luck getting 24. Maybe that will change in 4.2 and people will then run T11. I'm just not sure how many people will want to do just normals though.
- June 13, 2011 at 3:53 PM
You mentioned that Glyph of Starsurge will still be the best Glyph when you have multiple targets and can cast Starfall on cooldown.
I was under the impression that no matter how many targets you have 20 stars are going to fall during that 10 seconds.
My question I suppose is.. If they do not all fall in 10 seconds, How many targets do you need to have all 20 fall ?
- June 15, 2011 at 11:44 PM
I am the guild leader for a 25 man heroic raiding guild. I am starting to get frustrated with organizing and recruiting for this group. We have been held back more than once over attrition. Each time I have put in tons of work into filling up the ranks and we start progressing again, only to find attrition again within a few months. Then it's back to slowed progression. I'm the only one who does much with recruitment, the officers mostly refuse to help, no one in the raid wants to help. When I talk about it the officers spam once in trade chat and if someone applies I am the only one who deals with it. Most of the people who apply have next to no raid experience and 353 gear. I have held really strongly onto being a 25 man raiding force but with us running a 10 man on a week off I am starting to question that. The 10 man was so much less on my shoulders. I had fun instead of being stressed out the whole time because of fear of losing another 3 raiders over a night of wipes.
On my server I have seen absolutely no guilds be successful in creating a 25 man raid on our server since before Cataclysm launched. There are plenty of new 10 mans though (although they tend to disintegrate). From what I can tell raiding is clearly going in this direction.
I will be VERY interested to see how many are still raiding 25 mans in Firelands, I want to see the rankings next month.
Loot drops are better from 25s, boss difficulty is debatable, but the work involved in organization is no contest with a 25 man guild. There are 4 guilds on my server right now that were 25 man guilds in WotLK and want to stick with this format but have progressed in the last week by running a 10 man while "taking a break" until Firelands.
- Signed burnt out guild leader of a semi-hardcore 25 man raiding guild
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In early August, I ended a post about four Michigan congressional races (MI-1, MI-5, MI-7, and MI-9) by speculating that "in a pretty good Republican year, the party picks up two Michigan seats. In a 'wave' election, it picks up three; and in a blowout of historical portions, four." With election day almost upon us, let's take another look at these races, plus one that wasn't on my radar in August.
MI-1 is currently held by Bart Stupak who is retiring. Republican Dan Benishek has maintained a small lead throughout the campaign. In the last poll I found, he was up 42-40. A conservative third candidate was pulling 8 percent. Some of that margin may fall Benishek's way on election day. Both Nate Silver and Larry Sabato prefer Benishek's chances in this race. I think it will be a Republican pick-up.
MI-9 is held by Gary Peters. His challenger is Rocky Raczkowski. This has been nip-and-tuck in the polls. A recent EPIC/MRA poll had Peters up 48-43. However, EPIC/MRA has its detractors and a new poll by Great Lakes Strategies shows Rocky ahead by the same numbers. Both Silver and Sabato see Peters as the favorite, but in light of the new poll, perhaps it should be considered a toss-up (I don't believe Sabato is using the toss-up category in his final predictions). With the Republican gubernatorial candidate holding a 17 point lead in this district, I'd probably bet on Rocky.
MI-7 is held by Mark Schauer. The challenger is Tim Wallberg. Two recent polls have Schauer ahead by 7 points. However, I've heard that internal polling has the race basically even, and both Silver and Sabato see Wallberg as the favorite. The Repubican gubernatorial candidate is strong in this district, but Wallberg's Republican backing reportedly isn't as solid as it could be. This is a race I wouldn't bet on.
MI-5 is held by Dale Kildee. The challenger is John Kupiec. Kildee has been ahead in every poll I've seen, although one recent poll has Kupiec within 4.5 points. Silver and Sabato see it going Democratic. However, John Fund sees the real possibility of an upset. The district, which includes Flint, is economically depressed, and Kildee is 81 years old. Even so, I think I'd bet on Kildee to hang on to this seat.
Since I wrote my August post, MI-15, held by John Dingell, has come into play. In early October, a poll showed him trailing challenger Rob Steele. But last week, an EPIC/MRA poll had Dingell leading Steele 53-36. Silver and Sabato see Dingell holding the seat, and that's how I would bet.
So the over-under on Michigan pick-ups looks to me like 2.5.
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LOS ANGELES -- Bob Foster ('65) - alumnus, professor, advisor, mentor, and friend - now has a new designation as the government of Finland has bestowed upon him the honor of Knight, First Class, of the order of the White Rose of Finland. This is the highest honor the government of Finland may present to a non- Finnish citizen.
Foster received his knighthood December 9, 2011, at the Los Angeles residence of Finnish Consul General Kirsti Westphalen. The ceremony was attended by UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian, Senior Associate Deans Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. and Carla Hayn, Associate Dean Gonzalo Freixes and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Dr. Elwin Svenson, who is Foster's close colleague in the administration of Anderson's Global Access Program (GAP). Svenson himself joined the Order of the White Rose when he was knighted by the Finnish government in 2004 (Read the story here). The ceremony for Foster took place at a dinner the consul general held for a group of Finnish business executives who had traveled to Los Angeles to witness the final GAP presentations given the following day on the Anderson campus.
"Finns know their friends. Tonight, while we are looking at the wonderful achievements of the UCLA GAP program, we want to recognize our friends (and) there is especially one special friend present here," said Consul General Westphalen at the dinner. "At the request of the President of the Republic of Finland, I have the honor to bestow upon (Bob Foster) a very significant recognition: Knight First Class, The Order of White Rose of Finland.
"Our Finnish friends know what a prestigious award this is but to put it into perspective for our American and international friends, this is an award similar to the Presidential Medal of Freedom that the President of the United States bestows for extraordinary achievements. On behalf of Finland, on behalf of all of us, the one thousand alumni who you have fostered into maturity in their businesses, we are truly grateful to you," the consul general said as she presented the medal to Foster.
"I was at a loss for words, just blown away," said Foster, who was not told he'd be receiving the honor in advance. "I never thought that I would receive the knighthood. It was just an amazing experience. I never had so many pictures taken."
Foster received the Order of the White Rose in recognition of his efforts, through the GAP program, to help Finnish technology companies expand into markets abroad, including the United States. On behalf of the GAP program Foster frequently travels to Finland where he liaisons with officials of TEKES, the Finnish funding agency for technology and innovation, in efforts to recruit companies to participate in GAP.
"This is a wonderful and most deserved honor for Bob Foster - now 'Sir Bob'," said Dean Judy Olian. "The knighthood recognizes Bob's trailblazing leadership of the GAP program. It also reflects the high esteem in which GAP is held by Finland and the other nations whose companies participate in this program which achieves such broad economic impact."
Foster says that his most recent honor illustrates the value the Finnish government places on that country's relationship to UCLA and the Global Access Program. Foster said that in 13 years, there have been 121 Finnish companies participating in GAP out of 420 total.
"I consider myself very lucky," said Foster, who was named as one of UCLA Anderson's 100 Inspirational Alumni in 2010 as part of the school's 75th anniversary celebration. "We work hard, we do good work and I'm just overwhelmed. It's a great honor for the school."
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The Lord Buddha and his life itself a stream which can't be described by some mere posts but here I'm trying to get you closer about the life of Buddha. So here I have divided it in some individual posts for the different parts of the life of Lord Buddha. After reading this post you will be able to know …Read More »
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Born of Lord Buddha | Where was Buddha born ?
This post contain a brief knowledge about: * Born of Lord Buddha. * Where was Buddha born ? * Born place of Buddha. * Where Lord Buddha spend his childhood ? * How did Siddhartha Gautam (Buddha) spend his childhood ? * What lead Prince Siddhartha Gautam to leave his luxurious life ? * And all the facts about the born …Read More »


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Pear is a sweet and delicious fruit that is perfect for baked goods but it's also equally amazing as an ingredient in a savory dish.
Why not try this beautiful Pear Walnut Gorgonzola Pizza from Kitchen Confidante.
These Baked Korean Pears in Wonton Crisps Honey Cinnamon Mascarpone from Cooking on the Weekends are looks absolutely amazing. Her pictures make me drool and wanting those Korean Pears right now.
WOW! How about starting up the day with a bunch of Caramel Sea Salt Pear Pancakes. Yum Yum! Cookin' Canuck sure knows how to make a proper breakfast.
The photos on Yummy Supper blogs are absolutely gorgeous! Her Little Pear Tarts are equally gorgeous looking.