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Friday, June 25, 2010
Reason 1: They're Overrated.
Don't get me wrong. Legendary's are great weapons for their ilevel and even beyond their ilevel. If there was a caster DPS Legendary I would love to have it I'm sure, but the legend of the Legendary items is bigger then the reality. Lets look at a couple of examples.
[Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings] vs [Heartcrusher]
If you do a quick comparison of the stats you will notice that Val'anyr has 17 more stamina and 14 more crit rating. Heartcrusher on the other hand has 1 more int, 5 more haste rating, and a red socket that is likely to result at least 17 more spell power. If you are comparing pure stats Heartcrusher is the clear winner. Obviously the proc makes Val'anyr the better weapon, but it's important to note that the proc is really the only difference.
[Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings] vs [Royal Scepter of Terenas II]
I realize that the Royal Scepter is not an easy to obtain item, but if you are in a guild that allows you to get Val'anyr in a reasonable amount of time, then you are likely in a guild that has a reasonable shot at the Heroic Lich King at some point.
If you are able to pick up the Royal Scepter over Val'anyr you gain 24 int, 26 stamina, 5 crit rating, 22 haste rating, a red socket, and 272 spell power.
I tried looking for some theorycrafting on the Val'anyr proc but didn't find anything conclusive. I don't know what the value of the proc is but one thing is clear to me. If you upgrade to the Royal Scepter you gain a lot of stats, and at the very least all those additional stats erode the value of the Val'anyr proc, and the legendary mace will be replaced sooner then most people think.
Acting Like Idoits: Lodur's Experiences
While writing this post I remembered a post made by Lodur on World of Matticus. In it he talks about the Val'anyr curse and his experiences healing random heroics with the mace. In his post he talks about two experiences he had using the mace in a pug. The first was when a tank saw the mace an thought it meant he could pull several trash packs and a boss. The second involved a druid that insisted the only way a shaman could heal the ICC 5man heroics was if they had the mace.
In my opinion, if someone has Val'anyr it shows that they are very likely to be a very good healer. For a guild to go to all of that work of obtaining a mace they are definitely going to give it to when of their top raid members. So, the fact that Lodur was able to handle both of the situations is not a surprise, but the fact that his groups attributed his success to the mace is laughable. Both groups treated the Val'anyr as a heroic I.W.I.N. button when in reality it was the healer behind the mace that saved their butts.
Reason 2: Poor Distribution
Obviously, for a legendary to truly be legendary it has to be rare. If everyone is walking around with a [Shadowmourne] the it lose some of the mystique that makes it special. Blizzard has primarily used two methods (or a combination of the two) to make these items rare.
Random Drop: This method was used to its fullest extent in The Burning Crusade expansion since both the [Warglaives of Azzinoth] and [Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury] were random drops off of the end bosses in Black Temple and Sunwell respectively. However, random drops have been a part of every legendary in the game to some extent.
The problem with the purely random drop was made famous by Nihilum in TBC. They were the first guild to clear the Black Temple and proceeded to run Black Temple multiple times a week for almost a year without a single Warglaive drop. Other guilds were able to complete several sets with only 2 or 3 months of clears on the instance. It is clear that with a low drop rate these legendarys were not a reward for effort, but were just regular loot.
Guild Effort for Single Drop: The part that probably bugs me the most about legendary items is that it is a guild effort to reward a single member. The best example of this is [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]. Not only did the entire guild of 40 people have to farm an instance for months to get the mats to craft a quest item, once that was complete the entire guild had to kill a special raid boss to get the weapon to drop.
To make matters worse, since then all the quest items needed to form legendary weapons are Bind on Pickup. So, you have to choose who will receive the time months before one will actually be created. This can create a huge problem for a guild and cause their efforts to be wasted. For example, my guild never crafted a Val'anyr mace despite clearing Ulduar so many times that I cannot count. The first person who was to receive the mace was a very dedicated raider, but got burned out a bit and took a break when she had 28 [Fragments of Val'anyr]. At this point ToC wasn't far off, and we didn't have as much time in Ulduar as we did before, but we had another healer got 28 fragments as well. Unfortunately due to a variety of issues she was demoted and eventually left the guild. And this doesn't include 5 or 6 fragments that we gave to other people do to the first two being absent when when the fragments dropped. We had more then enough to make two maces, but the guilds efforts were wasted because of the actions of a few.
My Conclusion:
I realize that some of my issues could be fixed by creating a new Bind on Guild item type, but even after the item is created it would suck if the person who was given the legendary changed guilds. I would hate to be the person to just complete a Legendary item for the guild and then realize this wasn't the guild for me anymore. To some extent I think I would feel obligated to continue to participate in the unhappy situation or continue playing a game I no longer enjoyed. I would think having a Legendary would be a lot more pressure then I would want to handle.
In the end I just don't think Legendary's are worth the trouble. First off, it's clear they are not required for success in this game since any boss can be killed without one. Second the drama potential on these items is huge. Not only do you have to deal with picking someone to get the item, but you have to deal with what happens if they leave or have to reduce their schedule.
While legendarys are cool and I would love to have one personal, the relatively minor benefit we receive is not that significant when compared to the effort exerted by the guild that created it and the potential drama it can cause. Blizzard should just remove legendary's from the game.
19 comments:
- SirFWALGMan said...
wouldn't bind to guild work though? As long as you are in the guild you can use the mace once you leave it reverts back to the guild vault. Anyone in the guild could use it at any given time and then put it back in the vault for others to use.
- June 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Jay said...
Val'anyr is BIS for Resto all the way through this expansion. It may even be BIS for the first tier or so of the next expansion, depending on how they do itemization, and on whether there happens to be anything as good as Trauma thrown in. (Heroic Trauma is currently the only thing in the same ballpark as Val'anyr).
I don't see the problem with the "collect shards" methods of legendary acquisition. No matter how loot of any kind is distributed, sometimes people who have it will leave the guild. It's part of the flow of things--when your guild churns members, you lose some gear as well. It shouldn't mean that we can't have nice things.
It was more of an issue when Legendaries were seriously overpowered (Thunderfury is really the only example). But part of the problem back then was that was a random-drop acquisition (you mention collecting the Elementium and killing the Windseeker, but those were mere formalities--the only difficulty in obtained TF was lucking into the Binding drops). With a fragment-based system, that's not an issue, another can be obtained in a predictable amount of time. Also, they've simply been made less rare: guilds were lucky to get one TF drop in a reasonable amount of time, but many guilds have 4 or 5 Val'anyrs.
- June 25, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Graylo said...
I don't think having the actual Legendary be BoG would be a good idea.
First, That would prompt some sort of rotation. People would want to try it out, and ultimately would probably cause a lot of stress for the guild leaders over something that isn't that significant.
Second, that means everyone would need to have two weapons. I would hate to be the person who spent a year in a guild, get a legendary, have to change guilds for what ever reason and try and explain why my main hand is from 2 or 3 tiers below content.
- June 25, 2010 at 11:47 AM
- Redhawks said...
I actually think they should go the other way with Legendary Items. They should make them more like Heirloom items and get better as new tiers and new levels open up. That way, it can make it more of an investment to get it in the first place.
In addition, with Shadowmourne, once you build one, everybody in the guild does get rewards with a random drop after each LK kill with the new weekly Shadowmourne quest. This encourages guilds to get Shadowmourne for somebody and rewards all the players for staying with the guild after they get Shadowmourne.
I think Blizzard is moving in the right direction with Legendarys. Not perfect, but getting there.
- June 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- Tsuki said...
Val'anyr may be a BiS because of its proc (OMG EXTRA EH!!11), but it's really bland for something that's supposed to be legendary. Look at shadowmourne and how brutally OP it is; you can't even look at another weapon and think "hm, it might be better", because you're wrong.
On obtaining it, I think they almost got it right with Shadowmourne. It's not a guild-wide effort like TF, but it still requires cooperation. It's not hard to obtain, but it's not cheap or quick either. They just need, badly, to bind the tokens/shards/fragments to the guild, so you don't have your efforts wasted. I agree with you on not binding the weapon itself to the guild; binding the quest items is just a way to ensure a legendary will be "born" before someone bails out for a reason or another. Having a legendary sitting in your gbank after a couple years makes little sense.
- June 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM
- Backthief said...
You´ve made the wrong comparasion. You have to compare a legendary item with a item available on the same timeframe. therefore [Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings] should be compared with Constellus and similar drops from Ulduar.
- June 25, 2010 at 3:01 PM
- Adgamorix said...
When I started building my Val'anyr we handled it like this.
First night of 25m raiding everyone who was interested in obtaining the weapon did a /roll - high roll got the fragments. The caveat was that they gave up the right to /roll-DKP whatever any other loot unless it would go to offspec/rot.
Given the proc, it's BIS for Holy Paladins as well - even against the H-LK25m weapons.
As for Shadowmourne - ask any guild who wiped on bosses while the next 'recipient' tried to get attuned. It's a guild effort for sure.
- June 25, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Graylo said...
I don't have a huge problem with the collecting shards method, btu I wish that they weren't bound to the player. It always sucks for someone to miss a couple of shards because they have to go on vacation or something, or leaves before the item is completed.
I've also never seen a big problem with a guild losing gear, but I think a legendary is a little different since they generally take a month or more to create.
As for having 4 or 5, most of the guilds I know that crated 4 or 5 did so because they were running multiple Ulduar IDs each week to gear alts for the limited attempts instances. Therefore, it is easy to get more of them when you have multiple people working on it.
Legendary's are likely never to work like Heirlooms. Blizzard wants you to upgrade your gear, and they don't want people to go farm an old legedary from Vanilla wow to use in Cataclysm.
As for the extra Shadowmourn rewards I don't think it works that way. You only get those items the first time you kill him with a particular Shadowmourn. So you do get a little extra reward but it still only affects a few people and all of the rewards are largely cosmetic.
I disagree. There is no doubt that Val'anyr was BIS when it first came out, and several of the other commentors are saying it is still BIS.
The point of my comparison was to show that the only difference between a legedary item and an Epic item is the proc. Any other difference is due to ilevel. Since Ulduar was not the end of WotLK understanding the difference is important.
- June 25, 2010 at 3:47 PM
My experience is that getting a Legendary is the best thing to spur someone to leave the game.
- June 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- GamingLifer said...
As a one time guild leader and raid, leader, I agree, legendaries are fucking stupid because they cause too much drama.
We should have given the first Valanyr to Kasim.
- June 27, 2010 at 8:41 PM
I do need to correct Graylo just a bit on the Val'anyr situation that his guild faced. The mace came down to two individuals who were constant, dedicated raiders. The person that was chosen to receive the first left from burn out and then eventually caused enough drama in the guild to warrant a gkick. The second person lined up to receive it was myself. Yes, I was demoted and eventually left the guild to just get away.
What you failed to mention and understand is why LoE really never finished a mace, Graylo. It wasn't because of how Sid and I left. It came down to the fact that the guild interest and desire to finish off those last few fragments was gone. Hell I remember receiving a tell from yourself saying "I really don't want to come, but I can if you need me." Ulduar was obsolete content when I left. Those who were constantly there to help me pug Ulduar were not enough to even dent the bosses in there. It came down to killing a few bosses a week with a handful of guildies and a crapton of pugs who had no clue about the instance. That alone was a hurdle in even getting to the final 30 fragments.
It was no longer a guild effort to finish the mace at that point, it was the drive of the person with the fragments. Yes there were times when we'd finished content and went into Ulduar but I could hear the groans of unrest across the country. In the end it was left up to me to organize the pugs and the handful of guildies to get the final fragments and I did that till I just couldn't take it any more.
LoE was unlucky in the number of fragments we got during our time in Ulduar but in the end that wasn't the sole reason it never had a Val'anyr to call its own. Next time you want to make past guildies your punching bag, make sure you have your facts straight before they come and bite you in the ass.
- June 27, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- TyphoonAndrew said...
I like having them in the game, but think they need abilities that extend their appeal beyond the stats. ie. Make the stats on par with the gear at its expansion, but make the on-use or alternate powers handy for a very long time.
Firstly the item models should always be totally unique. That way the item is always visually identifiable as a status symbol; which folks love.
Secondly don't make them special by adding powers that will date with combat encounters, add powers that make the special for ever.
Transformations of toon, teleports, summoning portals, conversation based RP affects, free health-stones, Imp blood buff, or specific buffs, etc.
All the stuff that we like having in runs, but recognise that the item raw affect may be outdated eventually.
This might help with the overall demand and drama, but keep the cool factor.
- June 27, 2010 at 9:21 PM
I'd think Graylo after the reaction from previous posts, you were going to give up controversial post headings like "Legendary Items Suck." If you'd proven your point, maybe it'd be fine (if still a questionable choice) but you hadn't even done the basic research on the proc.
All I did is look up the Val'anyr on wowhead (http://www.wowhead.com/item=46017/valanyr-hammer-of-ancient-kings#comments:0) and reviewed the comments. One of the earliest posts gives the official description of how the proc works. On page 2 comments, I saw someone claim the proc accounts for 10-20% of healing. That seemed really high so I decided to check out a WOL of a guild that's killing Lich King heroic (there's what, like 50 guilds in the world that have done it?) to see if that was true of a guild capable of getting their healers the best weapon in ICC. I chose the top ranked dps WOL for H LK (http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-242hakcsora7uril/sum/healingDone/?s=2437&e=3467) and found they had 3 healers with the legendary (you can tell from Protection of Ancient Kings as a heal) and it accounted for 10%, 12% and 16% of their heals respectably. Anyone healing H LK must be wearing a fair amount of 277 level gear so it's impressive that the proc still accounts for 10-20% of their heals. That's a fair amount of healing from what's basically a damage shield, and it's all at zero mana cost.
So from cursory research, I don't see how the difference in stats to any weapon in WOTLK compares to the proc. In fact, from what I've seen from the Val'anyr and Shadowmourne, both truly are remarkable and will last well past their ilvl.
- June 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM
- Kae said...
"So, the fact that Lodur was able to handle both of the situations is not a surprise, but the fact that his groups attributed his success to the mace is laughable."
*sarcasm alert*
Because Gear > Skill.
*/end sarcasm*
That's what I expect those players to be thinking, anyway. There is one big benefit to tree form: I look look no different than a fresh 80, so unless they take the time to inspect me and my Loremaster title (I learned quick to not run Kingslayer) before they run off down the dungeon halls, most pugs can't glance at my gear and assume that they can slack off and get themselves killed by dancing in fire or pulling the whole instance at once.
- June 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Graylo said...
If you feel like a punching bag, I'm sorry. That was not my intent. My point was that stuff happens and people leave. It's not your fault that LoE didn't craft a mace, and I don't think it's really Sids either eventhough she did quit just before having enough. The point was giving all the frags from a guild effort to one person is a bad idea.
All that said, I want to make a couple of other points. Your version of the story isn't really inaccruate, but I think it is a little bias. I also want to point out that I did not identify you or Sid in my post. That was you.
I give you a lot of credit for the work you did to try and "pug" the remaining fragments. That said a good portion of your Frags came from guild runs. On your pugs you also had several guildies come and help. So, while you did do a lot of the work yourself, your frags still represented a guild effort to some extent.
And yes, I did say "I really don't want to come, but I can if you need me." Meaning I could bring Graylo. I also said I could bring an alt who according to web sites and such was geared enough to help. You turned me down on both accounts, so it didn't sound like to me that you needed the help.
Honestly could you really blame anyone for not wanting to go to Ulduar. We are a 9hour a week guild for a reason. Many of us don't have the time that we can commit to doing more then that, and we've been our face against those encounters long enough. While having LoE craft a mace would have been cool. For me, it was really hard to justify the wife aggro and such so that some else could get a new weapon that wouldn't matter in the long run.
- June 28, 2010 at 10:07 AM
I think legendary weapons are great ideas. They're still the items on players that make you go "Wow!," unlike all the other epics in the game. Sure, I guess if you're competing for the top dps in the world as a rogue or hunter having thoridral or wg of azz not drop would really suck, but then again not EVERYONE is suppose to have one. I came from a guild where people were tight nit and we all for the most part got along. Loot was handled by the officers fairly and nobody complained. Having to do special things for a legendary puts a new twist into the game sometimes, like Thunderfury did.
I can think of much worse loot ideas (Can you say the Lich King?). Seriously, you get your weapon and why even bother doing him again?
- June 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
What if instead of making the item Bind on Guild, the FRAGMENTS were BoG. That way the guild can collect say all 50 fragments and THEN decide based on the entirety of the collection process who the best candidate for the weapon is. Because you would get to choose at the END, you would also have a good idea of the burnout situation, real life things, etc. In addition, you'd have more flexibility with raid comp (having to have the same person in every single raid and them never ever being able to even be late to raid is a bit crazy...).
You wouldn't end up with 14 half-finished legendaries, or people who get the legendary only to be burnt out a week later. Finally, there's no one person who feels obligated to stay with a guild. The guild is in control of the legendary's progress, not the individual.
I like legendaries because it's nice to have something out of the ordinary. As a healer, weapons are just another stat stick. It's fun when they actually contribute something more. That being said, Trauma is a nice step in the right direction. I especially like the jump in throughput between the normal & heroic version. It went from contributing ~1% total effective healing as a holy priest to ~4% while playing disc (much fewer procs because of playstyle).
- June 30, 2010 at 10:27 AM
tbh, make both the fragments and the resulting weapons BoG. That way the guild gets a tool that they can give to anyone they choose from the members that turn up on any given night. Given that guild > individual, the guild always benefits.
Having said that, I do believe that individual players should be able to pick up legendary items without having to be helped by others should they choose to. It would be nice to be able to complete a lengthy solo quest chain and have a nice functional item to show off at the end of it to mark your achievement, rather than maybe a unique mount or such.
- June 30, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- Woodlum said...
Hi Gray, long time old friend. I liked your post over all as you brought up many good points and supporting facts. I like that you mentioned BoG Legendaries to be honest. You made some arguments against that after it was recommended but I think it was an awesome way to avoid the waste you mentioned. Your ending argument was Legendaries should be dissolved because there is potentially drama attached (and in part because they are worthless in a tier or two). To be frank, though, all those arguments you made are life, and this is a social game. Folks tend to go out when they are on top. Priorities just change when they have everything they want. How many people do you know would quit their jobs the minute they won the lottery? Unfortunately, that is most people bro. And maybe they should just design the items better, I have ALWAYS had problems with the Lead Item Designer in WoW, what else is new man, you know this and I know this having both played Druid a long time, love that cloth gear right? I don't like when Blizzard tries to control the social aspect of an MMO because people are going to be people and the decisions should be each individual's to participate in an environment that rises above if they so wish, people are in - Hyjal because of the reputation and environment we have after all. To be honest, I would LOVE to have the deciding factor in a Legendary as a part of a BoG type of thing, where the guild earns it and it stays with the guild whether the player stays or goes. And maybe the whole Legendary thing could be a guild achievement as it truly is. Icing on the cake. Blizzard could do a lot with this model, hit me up anytime if you are reading. I've hunted down devs at previous cons to give you guys a good earful on what to improve before. Cheers Graylo on a wonderful blog man, glad to see you are still around!
- July 1, 2010 at 11:41 PM


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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
by Liz Smith
"LET me explain this. I take a step on the terrace. Where I was is just a memory. I take another step — a memory. Look! A shooting star. It's gone, shot! It's a memory!"
"You seem very wrought up, dear."
So it went between Elizabeth Taylor and Noel Coward in Joseph Losey's unintentional comedy, "Boom!" This was based on Tennessee Williams' play, "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." (Coward's wry, dry response to Taylor's strenuous emoting brought hoots of laughter and applause when the movie was released in 1968. It seems even funnier today.)
|ELIZABETH Taylor died in March of 2011. Since then there have been a few unimaginative photo books. But nothing unusual, splendid, truly revealing or new about the star of stars.
Elizabeth herself would have been the first to agree that at age 79 and bedeviled by ill-health, she had outlived her "legend." She was not to be an iconic James Dean/Marilyn kind of star.
Her refusal to "do a Dietrich" also worked against her being feted, post-death. She did herself up, she put on her bling, and got out there — often in a wheelchair, usually to continue the AIDS battle. She told us by her very presence to "get over it" — everybody grows old, nobody is beautiful forever.
|Elizabeth worked on stage, in movies and TV until 2001. Her public life as an activist, businesswoman and general phenomenon never ended. (I remember attending a massive AIDS fundraiser/birthday party for the star in 1997. Elizabeth was accompanied by Michael Jackson and every member of her large family. The very next day she entered the hospital for an operation to remove a brain tumor. Later, recuperating, she allowed Harry Benson to photograph her, with shaven head and no make-up. What a woman!)
|Why is nobody — to my knowledge — working on a major biography on the star of stars? The amount of work and the various interactions Elizabeth had between 1976 and her death would be enough to fill a three-volume biography! You don't have to dig back to MGM's golden age, or the peak of Elizabeth big screen career, to put together a fascinating book.
|I AM going to give a partial list of names — still active and vital — who either worked with Elizabeth or had significant contact with her at various events. In no particular order — Whoopi Goldberg ... Rosie O' Donnell ... John Goodman ... Lesley Anne Down ... Diana Rigg ... C. Thomas Howell ... Julie Andrews ... Joseph Bottoms ... Chad Lowe ... Robert Wagner ... Jane Alexander ... George Hamilton ... Tom Skerritt ... Austin Pendleton ... Dennis Christopher ... Carrie Fisher ... Valentino ... Mia Fonssagrives ... Mia Farrow ... Michael Caine ... Brian Hutton ... Sally Hay ... Nicole Kidman ... Shirley Bassey ... Dr. Mathilde Krim ... Debbie Reynolds ... Donny Osmond ... Barbara Walters ... Joan Collins ... James Earl Jones ... Sally Morrison ... Sophia Loren ... Tony Geary ... Kim Novak ... Mark Harmon ... Valerie Perrine ... Franco Zeffirelli ... Angela Lansbury ... Beau Bridges ... Carol Burnett ... Len Cariou ... Hal Prince ... Stephen Sondheim ... Ursula Andress ... Magic Johnson ... kd lang ... Cindy Crawford ... Elton John ... Bob Dylan ... Liza Minnelli ... Robert De Niro ... Cicely Tyson ... George Segal ... Sharon Osborne ... Henry Kissinger ... Harrison Ford ... Bill Clinton ... Shirley MacLaine ... Jimmy Carter ... Mikhail Baryshnikov ... James Brolin ... Barbra Streisand ... Denis Ferrara ... Liz Smith.
|Get it? And so many more. Along with all the surviving casts and crews of her two stage plays and many TV movies — the directors, cameramen, costume designers, etc.
And let's not forget all the people she met during her strenuous campaigning in Virginia for John Warner, winning him his Senate seat. Elizabeth's spring and summer of 1976, juggling three suitors and making almost daily grand appearances in Manhattan or Washington D.C. is a book in itself! (In the midst of this frenzy of activity she was still very much carrying the torch for Richard Burton.)
|There are a million people with a million ET tales to tell if somebody gets on board right now to record them.
Elizabeth died holding most of her secrets. She told only a little, and judiciously. When I interviewed her during the filming of "The Bluebird" in 1975, she took her fist and thumped it on her fabled bosom and declared, "I have so much to say, but I won't. It's all in here!"
|And I will brag on myself that I suggested to Barbara Walters that she ask Elizabeth exactly what she meant when the star made a hurried remark to Oprah Winfrey that she and Michael Jackson shared "abusive" childhoods. (Oprah didn't follow-up!) Barbara asked, and Elizabeth told — her father used to beat her! She forgave him, she said.
So, it's up to others to try to connect the dots. Elizabeth was more complex than she wanted to appear. She didn't beg for sympathy or wish to be seen as neurotic or needy. She was both — eight marriages attest to that. But she was not a brooder. Taylor shook off depression by living big. (And if that big living happened to include other women's husbands? Well, it does take two to tango.)
|Hers was the great movie star life! She began in childhood beauty, became Hollywood royalty, and never really faded from public consciousness, though the last years were kind of a long death watch.
Elizabeth deserves due attention. Not all of it will be sympathetic. That's life. And she'd be the first to say so.
How about biographer Brian Kellow for the job?
Contact Liz Smith here.
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Unit B: Interactions Among Living Things
The books listed below may be available through publishers, distributors such as bookstores or online retailers, or library systems.
Leveled Independent Science Books
Extra Support
- Life on the Serengeti
- Summary: A photographer "captures" wild animals on a safari to the Serengeti.
On Level
- Biomes
- Summary: A fictional visit to desert, grassland, forest, and tundra biomes.
- Father Eusebio Kino
- Summary: This priest and explorer brought new plants and animals to America.
- Janice VanCleave's Science Around the World
- Activities help explain how climate and geography affect biomes from the African savannas to the South American rainforests.
- Food Chains and Webs
- A look at the interdependence of plants and animals.
- The Dictionary of the Environment and Its Biomes
- Offers an overview of the biomes around the world.
- America's Wetlands: Guide to Plants and Animals
- Describes wetland types, such as ponds, marshes, and swamps, and their plant and animal life.
- Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays
- A woman fights to protect a bay from pollutants.
- Life in the Tundra
- Examines the species and plants in the ecosystem of Alaska's North Slope.


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January 30, 2008
The Colorado Association of Wabash Men welcomed President Pat White and his wife Chris to the Denver area Tuesday evening, January 29, 2008. The group gathered for a reception and delicious dinner at Maggianos in Englewood. Pat White updated the group on the College and answered questions after dinner.
John Panozzo '89, the president of the area's regional association, welcomed the Whites to Colorado before dinner and thanked everyone for attending. Some attending drove over an hour to meet the Whites.
Pat updated the group on the College' strategic planning efforts, which made significant progress this past weekend as the College's Trustees spent extra time working with Pat and his administration on the plan. White also discussed the effort to develop a campus master plan which will work hand-in-hand with the strategic plan to guide future efforts.
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text: Alfalfa Hay Prices Soar March 11, 2011 11:30 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Catherine Merlo Farm Journal's Milk Western and Online Editor Email Driven by limited carryover supplies and renewed demand from California dairies, alfalfa hay is soaring to new price levels and this year's crop could reach its second-highest prices ever, says Seth Hoyt, whose hay market analyses and insights are widely followed. "I'm bullish on hay prices because of the lower acreage we're going to see in the West, the small carryover from 2010 into 2011 and the outlook for stronger milk prices in the $17.50 to $18 per cwt. range in the next few months," he says. Hoyt projects alfalfa hay from the Imperial Valley, a major alfalfa-producing area in Southern California, will be $190 to $200 per ton for the first cutting, which began in February. In California's Central Valley, where alfalfa growers will harvest their first cutting in early April, Hoyt predicts prices of $220 to $230 per ton fob. In Utah, another major hay production area, Hoyt foresees first-cutting prices of $170 to $180 per ton, and in Idaho and Washington, $180 to $200 per ton. "We haven't seen those kinds of prices since 2008," he says. "They would be the second-highest prices ever if that happens." Overall, alfalfa hay has risen by $50 per ton since November 2010, he adds. Exports boost prices. Improving demand for milk powder, butter, whey and cheese, especially in Southeast Asia, is boosting milk prices. "Fifty percent of the powder being produced in the U.S. is being exported," Hoyt says. "Even as the U.S. economy is improving, other places in the world are rebounding even more quickly." In fact, Hoyt foresees strong competition between U.S. dairies and the export market for alfalfa hay. "In 2010, because of the financial losses in the dairy industry and the strong demand for export hay, exporters bought more hay and were outbidding and more competitive than dairy buyers," he says. "For 2011 it's the reverse because of higher milk prices and the more money dairies will have, at least for short-term purchases. They'll be more competitive than exporters." Acre game. High market prices will help corn displace some alfalfa acreage in 2011. Hoyt forecasts alfalfa acreage to decrease 10% to 15% in Washington and Idaho and 5% in California, Utah and Arizona. He expects Nevada's 2011 alfalfa acreage to be unchanged. Back to news


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Thanks to a massive datacenter consolidation, hardware refresh, and creative, energy-efficient facility design, Sun has reduced power capacity demand by 75 per cent at its California datacenter alone, saving US$1.1 million per year in energy costs, while increasing its datacenter processing power more than four times. Overall, Sun estimates that its consolidation efforts will save 4,100 tons of CO2 per year and cut 1 per cent from its total carbon footprint.
Sun's consolidation grew out of twin promises to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent from 2002 levels by 2012 and to achieve a 4 per cent operating margin by shedding real state, consolidating datacenter space, and saving energy costs. In order to maximize its energy savings, Sun not only consolidated all its datacenters down to three -- one each in California, the UK, and Bangalore, India -- but the company refreshed its datacenter hardware with more energy-efficient machines and reassessed its entire approach to datacenter design.
"We discarded the traditional raised-floor, whole-room approach to datacenter cooling in favor of a slab floor and a modular design based on 'pods,' stand-alone structures with their own individual airflow management, integrated cooling power, and network distribution," says Mark Monroe, Sun's director of sustainable computing.
A pod is born
Sun uses multiple APC hot aisle containers, each of which holds two opposing sets of racks back to back and is closed off with a roof and doors to prevent hot and cold air from mixing within the datacenter. Overhead piping and Liebert XD cooling units target each rack individually, directing cooling exactly where it is needed, rather than cooling the room as a whole. This increases energy efficiency dramatically and lets Sun scale cooling closely with processing power. "We've reduced our power draw in Santa Clara from 2.2 MWs to 560kW using this design," Monroe says. "We also achieve efficiency by keeping the chillers, power distribution systems, and UPSes close to full capacity at all times, rather than the 50 or 25 per cent of capacity typical of many datacenters."
In-row APC chilled-water cooling units supplement the overhead units and can sense and react to changing local temperature conditions, so if a 5kW rack is replaced with a 2kW rack, the fans scale down automatically to save power. Sun estimates that scaling back fans by 50 per cent reduces power consumption to one-eighth of what it is at 100 per cent.
Sun's modular approach also allows for a lot of flexibility and growth. "We can scale power and cooling dramatically without having to change the overall datacenter design," Monroe says.
This is obviously important as racks are likely to get more powerful over time. For power distribution, Sun uses Universal Electric's Starline Track Busways, which are based on a snap-in backplane design similar to track lighting. "Over the life of the datacenter, the Starline systems will save about 50 per cent of the copper used in power distribution," Monroe says.
Finally, more energy is saved by the use of Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, which Sun claims can reduce power consumption by 30 per cent over competing machines. Sun diverted some of the capital expenses used for construction to pay for the hardware refresh.


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The guideXML syntax is lightweight yet expressive, so that it is easy to learn yet also provides all the features we need for the creation of web documentation. The number of tags is kept to a minimum -- just those we need. This makes it easy to transform guide into other formats, such as DocBook XML/SGML or web-ready HTML.
The goal is to make it easy to
If you are planning on contributing documentation to Gentoo, or you want to
test GuideXML, please read our
You may want to look at the
Let's start learning the GuideXML syntax. We'll start with the the initial tags used in a GuideXML document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">  <guide link="/doc/en/guide.xml" lang="en"> <title>Gentoo Documentation Guide</title> <author title="Author"> <mail link="firstname.lastname@example.com">Your Name</mail> </author> <abstract> This guide shows you how to compose web documentation using our new lightweight Gentoo GuideXML syntax. This syntax is the official format for Gentoo web documentation, and this document itself was created using GuideXML. </abstract>   <license/> <version>1.0</version> <date>2004-12-25</date>
On the first lines, we see the requisite tag that identifies this as an XML
document and specifies its DTD. The
Next, there's a
Then, we come to the
Next, we come to the
This sums up the tags that should appear at the beginning of a guide document.
Besides the
Finally we have the
Once the initial tags have been specified, you're ready to start adding the
structural elements of the document. Guide documents are divided into
chapters, and each chapter can hold one or more sections. Every chapter and
section has a title. Here's an example chapter with a single section,
consisting of a paragraph. If you append this XML to the XML in the
<chapter> <title>This is my chapter</title>
 <title>This is section one of my chapter</title>
 This is the actual text content of my section.

 </chapter>
Above, I set the chapter title by adding a child
Now, it's time to learn how to mark up actual content. Here's the XML code for
an example

 This is a paragraph. <path>/etc/passwd</path> is a file. <uri>http://forums.gentoo.org</uri> is my favorite website. Type <c>ls</c> if you feel like it. I <e>really</e> want to go to sleep now.

 This is text output or code. # this is user input Make HTML/XML easier to read by using selective emphasis: <foo>bar</foo> <comment>(This is how to insert a comment into a code block)</comment>
 <note> This is a note. </note> <warn> This is a warning. </warn> <impo> This is important. </impo>
Now, here's how the
This is a paragraph.
This is text output or code. # this is user input Make HTML/XML easier to read by using selective emphasis: <foo>bar</foo>
(This is how to insert a comment into a code block)
We introduced a lot of new tags in the previous section -- here's what you need
to know. The

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Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Epigraphs are sometimes used at the beginning of chapters to illustrate what is
to follow. It is simply a paragraph with a

 Delegates from the original 13 states formed the...

As you might have guessed,
To improve the readability of code samples, the following tags are allowed
Sample colour-coded
# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ DESCRIPTION= "Exuberant ctags generates tags files for quick source navigation" HOMEPAGE= "http://ctags.sourceforge.net" SRC_URI= "mirror://sourceforge/ctags/${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE= "GPL-2" SLOT= "0" KEYWORDS= "~mips ~sparc ~x86" IUSE= "" src_compile(){ econf--with-posix-regex || die "econf failed" emake|| die "emake failed"} src_install(){ make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "install failed" dodocFAQ NEWS README dohtmlEXTENDING.html ctags.html }
We've taken a look at the
Shorter forms make it easier to use names and emails of Gentoo developers. Both
This is particularly useful when you want to name a developer whose name contains "funny" characters that you can't type.
You should not use a
Please avoid the
Here's how to insert a figure into a document --
GuideXML supports a simplified table syntax similar to that of HTML. To start a
table, use a
Besides, both table headers (
Furthermore, table items (
|This title spans 4 columns
|This title spans 6 rows
|Blocky 2x2 title
To create ordered or unordered lists, simply use the XHTML-style
Definition lists (
The following list copied from
GuideXML makes it really easy to reference other parts of the document using
hyperlinks. You can create a link pointing to
However, some guides change often and using such "counting" can lead to broken
links. In order to cope with this, you can define a name for a
<chapter id="foo"> <title>This is foo!</title> ...
 More information can be found in the <uri link="#foo">foo chapter</uri>

When marking a document as obsolete, you might want to add a link to a new
version. The
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">  <guide disclaimer="obsolete" redirect="/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml"> <title>Gentoo x86 Installation Guide</title> <author title="Author"> ...
FAQ documents need to start with a list of questions with links to their
answers. Creating such a list is both time-consuming and error-prone. The list
can be created automatically if you use a
A quick look at a
For high-volume documentation, such as the
The first change is the need for a "master" document. This document contains no real content, but links to the individual documentation modules. The syntax doesn't differ much from GuideXML:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "/dtd/book.dtd">  <book> <title>Example Book Usage</title> <author...> ... </author> <abstract> ... </abstract>   <license/> <version>...</version> <date>...</date>
So far no real differences (except for the
<part> <title>Part One</title> <abstract> ... </abstract>
(Defining the several chapters)</part>
Each part is accompanied by a
Inside each part, you define the individual
<chapter> <title>Chapter One</title> <include href="path/to/chapter-one.xml"/> </chapter>
The content of an individual chapter is structured as follows:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE sections SYSTEM "/dtd/book.dtd">    <sections> <abstract> This is a small explanation on chapter one. </abstract> <version>...</version> <date>...</date>
(Define the several
 and <subsection>)</sections>
Inside each chapter you can define
Each individual chapter should have its own date and version elements. The latest date of all chapters and master document will be displayed when a user browses through all parts of the book.
Sometimes, the same values are repeated many times in several parts of a handbook. Global search and replace operations tend to forget some or introduce unwanted changes. Besides, it can be useful to define different values to be used in shared chapters depending on which handbook includes the chapter.
Global values can be defined in a handbook master file and used in all included chapters.
To define global values, add a
The following example defines three values in a handbook master file:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "/dtd/book.dtd">  <book> <title>Example Book Usage</title> <values> <key id="arch">x86</key> <key id="min-cd-name">install-x86-minimal-2007.0-r1.iso</key> <key id="min-cd-size">57</key> </values> <author...> ... </author> ...
The defined values can then be used throughout the handbook with the in-line

 The Minimal Installation CD is called <c><keyval id="min-cd-name"/></c> and takes up only <keyval id="min-cd-size"/> MB of diskspace. You can use this Installation CD to install Gentoo, but <e>only</e> with a working Internet connection.

To make life easier on our translators, only use actual values, i.e. content
that does not need to be translated. For instance, we defined the
Chapters that are shared by several handbooks such as our
The condition must be an
The following example uses the

 This paragraph applies to both x86 and AMD64 architectures.

 This paragraph only applies to the x86 architecture.

 This paragraph only applies to the AMD64 architecture.

 This paragraph will never be seen! The whole body is skipped because of the first condition.

 This paragraph applies to the AMD64, PPC64
and PPCarchitectures because the 'AMD64 PPC64' string does contain 'PPC'.
 <note test="func:keyval('arch')='AMD64' or func:keyval('arch')='PPC64'"> This note only applies to the AMD64 and PPC64 architectures. </note>
Since all Gentoo Documentation is a joint effort and several people will most likely change existing documentation, a coding style is needed. A coding style contains two sections. The first one is regarding internal coding - how the XML-tags are placed. The second one is regarding the content - how not to confuse the reader.
Both sections are described next.
Newlines must be placed immediately after
Blank lines must be placed immediately after
Word-wrapping must be applied at 80 characters except inside
Indentation may not be used, except with the XML-constructs of which the
parent XML-tags are
In case word-wrapping happens in
An example for indentation is:

 Foo	 Bar

 <ti>This is an example for indentation</ti> <ti> In case text cannot be shown within an 80-character wide line, you must use indentation if the parent tag allows it </ti>

First option

Second option

Attributes may not have spaces in between the attribute, the "=" mark, and the attribute value. As an example:
Wrong :
 Correct:

Inside tables (
Every sentence, including those inside tables and listings, should start with a capital letter.

No period

With period. Multiple sentences, remember?

Code Listings should
Try to use
When you comment something inside a
(Substitute "john" with your user name)# id john
GuideXML has been specially designed to be "lean and mean" so that developers
can spend more time writing documentation and less time learning the actual XML
syntax. Hopefully, this will allow developers who aren't unusually "doc-savvy"
to start writing quality Gentoo documentation. You might be interested in our


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Hereford gave their survival hopes a boost with a shock 3-0 victory over promotion-chasing Crawley Town.
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Hereford gave their survival hopes a boost with a shock 3-0 victory over promotion-chasing Crawley Town.
Substitute Yoann Arquin scored twice after Joe Colbeck's 54th-minute opener to leave Hereford needing to beat Torquay in their final game to stand a chance of staying up.
The Red Devils, meanwhile, remain in third place after Crewe's last-gasp equaliser against the Gulls. Colbeck broke the deadlock nine minutes after the break by sliding the ball in from close range after a mix-up involving keeper Michel Kuipers and Dean Howell following a through-ball from Delroy Facey.
Crawley came close to equalising when Sergio Torres rifled a poor clearance from keeper Adam Bartlett against the cross-bar. Keeper Bartlett superbly tipped over a 30-yard drive from Scott Davies before diving to save a goal-bound shot from Billy Clarke.
But Arquin doubled Hereford's lead on 77 minutes from point-blank range after Facey set him up by rounding Kuipers. Arquin struck again five minutes later by latching onto a long ball forward to beat Kuipers with a low left-footed strike.


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35395, Children's Songbook, The Gospel, Teach Me to Walk in the Light, 177
1. (Child) Teach me to walk in the light of his love;
Teach me to pray to my Father above;
Teach me to know of the things that are right;
Teach me, teach me to walk in the light.
2. (Parent) Come, little child, and together we'll learn
Of his commandments, that we may return
Home to his presence, to live in his sight
Always, always to walk in the light.
3. (Both) Father in Heaven, we thank thee this day
For loving guidance to show us the way.
Grateful, we praise thee with songs of delight!
Gladly, gladly we'll walk in the light.
Words and music: Clara W. McMaster, 1904-1997. © 1958 IRI. Copyright renewed 1986.
Obbligato by Darwin Wolford, b. 1936. © 1989 IRI
See also Hymns, no. 304
Isaiah 2:5
Ephesians 5:8


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And in the insect area, I was given a hissing cockroach to hold by one of the on-site experts. He was ostensibly there to inform visitors of interesting facts about the hissing cockroach, but when he saw my Seahawks gear, all he wanted to do was talk to me about Russell Wilson.
He says he met Wilson on a few occasions and that Wilson was doing his Children's Hospital visit thing well before he ever hit the pros. Said he was the real deal and one of the most genuine people you'd ever meet.
I still kinda can't get over how we managed to land a QB like this, much less in the 3rd round.