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Bulbapedia:Blocking policy(Redirected from Edit warring)
| This article is an official policy on Bulbapedia.
Its contents are strongly binding and can be considered law on Bulbapedia.
Blocking is one way to actually enforce bans on Bulbapedia. There are three targets that can be blocked:
- User accounts
- IP addresses
- IP address ranges
Please note that blocking is not always the only way for a situation to be resolved. A user may simply be asked by an administrator to refrain from editing a certain type of article or a certain article for a period of time, between 48 and 96 hours. If the user follows these instructions, then no block will be instituted. Failure to comply with this rule will result in a temporary block.
How to block
Any administrator can place a block by accessing Special:Blockip, or by using the [block] link next to a username on an edits list.
When to block
Blocking will be put in effect if any of the following circumstances are met:
Ignoring bans
If a user deliberately ignores a ban, the ban will be forcibly enforced using a block. Be sure to inform a user of their ban - assume good faith if the user has not been properly notified - otherwise, after (repeated) notification, issue a block.
Edit flood
If a user is judged as having made many edits in a short timespan that contradict prevailing trends, a "cooldown" block may be issued depending on the number of edits made. The length of the block is to be judged by the blocking administrator, but should not exceed 3 hours unless the situation is exceptionally severe. Additionally, the block length may be contested by other administrators if it is felt to be unfair or biased. During that time, the edits will be reviewed and any unacceptable ones will be reverted. As with other short term blocks, this can not be appealed.
If pages are vandalized, the offending user will be blocked for a sysop-determined amount of time based on the severity of the incident. Blocks for vandalism can last anywhere from 24 hours to an indefinite or permanent amount of time; serious vandalism will be cause for a very long block.
Deliberately inserting false information to mislead is classed as a major act of vandalism (even if only a few articles are affected) and will result in severe penalties. However, unless clear evidence of malice exists, assume good faith.
Repeated and pointless page creation/modification can be grounds for blocking. Creating a page entitled "MAGIC PEEKACHU", and then another called "MAGIC RAICHOO", and so on, is grounds for a temporary blocking, because it's quite simply unwanted. Anything that clutters Bulbapedia like that will be removed and any user that creates it will be blocked for 24 hours on the first offense. Repeat offenders will be blocked for longer periods of time.
Link spam
The nature of a wiki is such that its Google PageRank tends to be a little higher than usual. Advertisers try to take advantage of this by adding their own links to pages, hoping that some of the PageRank will be passed on to their sites.
This sort of link spam cannot be tolerated, and the offending accounts will be blocked indefinitely. (However, it is more likely that they will never be used again after the initial attack.) The contaminated revisions of articles should also be deleted, however, this is not required.
Threats and edit/revert wars
Harassment in Talk pages or editing wars can be grounds for a block. Harassing other users in talk/discussion pages is simply not permitted. Active, vibrant discussion quite obviously is wanted and necessary; however, when it descends into flaming, it will be put to a stop by temporary blocking of the offending party/parties. Also, all parties involved in an editing or reverting war will be blocked; for help on someone modifying a page via a revert or edit, contact one of the administrators. Taking matters into the user's own hands will result in the temporary blocking of both parties involved, typically for 24 to 72 hours. Taking part in an edit war will result in being blocked for one day per reverted edit.
Usernames can lead to immediate blockings under special circumstances. Usernames that are inflammatory or insulting to will be blocked; that's the rule. The "insulting" factor of a username will determined by a panel of 3 Bulbapedia staff members if there is any doubt as to the content of a username. Bots that are not approved by the Bulbapedia staff may also be banned, as they have the potential to add clutter in excess to the Bulbapedia site. Appeals on the grounds of decency will be considered by a larger panel of Bulbapedia staff members. See: Username policy
Additional accounts
Unauthorized sockpuppets, that is, accounts created for the sole purpose of hiding one's identity to conduct fraud, are not permitted on Bulbapedia. Additional accounts created to evade bans are blocked indefinitely, and may result in an extension or institution of a block on the primary account.
There are legitimate reasons for creating new accounts when you already have one, for example, if you have strong reasons to want to be dissociated from your past. This does not mean that accounts can be created for the sole purpose of starting fresh. To ensure that the reason is valid, an application must be submitted to a member of the editorial board, detailing full reasons. Only after the application is approved, a new account may be created, and the old account must become inactive as soon as possible.
Please contact a member of the Editorial Board to obtain permission to create additional accounts.
Uncivil behavior
A user who does not behave civilly to fellow contributors who are acting in good faith may be blocked to enforce a Wikibreak. Such behavior includes and is not limited to:
- Always assuming bad faith.
- Use of abusive language.
- Personal attacks on other contributors.
Such behavior is to be avoided in a collaborative project such as this, thus should be punished. A contributor that fails to change their behavior after being warned several times may be blocked temporarily, or even permanently if need be.
Extended blocks
Some users who are known to be counterproductive may have their Bulbanews or Bulbagarden Archives accounts blocked as well. This is done on a case-by-case basis, but users should be warned that if these accounts are left unblocked, they should not use them to get around the block that has been enforced.
Similarly, blocked users may not use the Bulbawiki forum, the Bulbagarden Discord, or other Bulbagarden projects to circumvent their block. Users who do this, particularly users who have been permanently banned from the Bulbawiki system, will have their access to these areas removed.
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India's supreme court recently extended a month-old ban on tourism within the country's tiger preserves. The two judges overseeing the case said local governments and government ministries have not been enforcing a law in place since the 1970s designed to protect tiger breeding grounds from tourism. By many estimates, about half the world's tiger population — which is a little more than 3,000 — lives in India.
On the surface, the judges' decision seems logical: The easiest way to address worries about tourist traffic is to stop it. However, people who make their living from eco-tourism inside the dozens of tiger conservation areas in India oppose the ban. The areas that are supposed to be off-limits to tourists make up only a portion of each preserve, yet the preserves have been shuttered completely. Surprisingly, some conservationists also oppose the ban, saying it is an over-simpliflied simple solution to a complex problem.
Leading tiger advocates, such as the tiger-focused group Wildlife Protection Society of India, say the ban will hurt the country's tiger population more than help it. According to the group, regular tourist traffic and the presence of tour staffers in the preserves reduces the chance of poaching, which along with deforestation has been blamed for the rapid decline in the subcontinent's tiger population, down to less than 1,500 from tens of thousands less than a century ago. Also, the tourism industry boosts the economies of the rural, generally impoverished areas where the preserves are located and provides jobs to local people who might otherwise consider poaching or logging as a means of income. In turn, this provides an incentive to protect tiger habitats.
While the court's latest decision was meant to punish the government for failing to do enough to regulate tourism, it is resort owners, tour operators and their employees who are feeling the most pain. Tourist traffic has not just slowed in tiger areas; it has stopped, leaving resorts, guides and employees without even a slim financial lifeline until the problem is resolved. The only silver lining for them is that it is monsoon season in parts of India, when tourist numbers are generally low anyway.
On the other end of the argument is activist Ajay Dubey, who petitioned the Supreme Court. He says the issue isn't complex and merely involves enforcing the Wildlife Act of 1972, which bans tourism in the "core" tiger breeding zones. The court has agreed with Dubey's contention that the government and law enforcement have largely ignored the law; the court seems to be using the ban to pressure these groups into compliance. However, the states and Ministry of Forests and the Environment have been slow to react, and there are now rumblings that the ban might be made permanent, effectively killing the tiger tourism industry in India.
Whatever the court decides, its ruling will have implications for conservation efforts and eco-tourism around the world, although those effects may not be evident for years.
If the ban is upheld, will it help or hurt the endangered animals in the long run? If it is overturned, will conservationists find out if tourism is a viable tool for good — possibly saving an endangered species?
Environmental activists will be keeping an eye on whatever happens in India, and tiger advocates can only hope that the outcome will be positive and that the conservation efforts can be applied elsewhere. Of course, the opposite is also possible: India's handling of the tiger situation could be an example of how not to save an endangered species.
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Up until last week's BMW Championship at Crooked Stick, it had been a long time since our friends in Indiana had seen top level golf up close.
Why did it take so long? We don't know. What we do know is there's no shortage of great golf courses that are open to the public in the Hoosier state.
For this week's, 'A Quick Nine,' feature, we asked our friends in PGA.com Facebook Nation to identify for us the top-9 courses that are open to the public in Indiana.
Here's the list, composed by you.
Remember, if you've played one of the courses listed below, please click its name. You will then be directed to that courses page on PGA.com, where you can leave a review.
Agree with the list? Disagree with the list? Tell us why or why not in the comment section below.
9. The Brickyard Crossing in Indianapolis, Ind. Located right beside Indianapolis Motor Speedway (home of the Indy 500), Brickyard Crossing has played host to several PGA Tour and Champions Tour events through the years. Plus, you get some pretty cool views of the race track.
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"Brickyard Crossing, Speedway, Ind." -- Ron Allen
"Brickyard Crossing." -- Steve Ashworth
"Brickyard Crossing from the tips!" -- Jim Curley
8. Coyote Crossing Golf Course in West Lafayette, Ind. In 2010, Golf Digest ranked Coyote Crossing No. 3 in America's nine sweetest deals.
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"Coyote Crossing, Lafayette, Ind." -- Hunter Coffin
"Coyote Crossing in West Lafayette." -- Kyle Kline
"Coyote Crossing in West Lafayette!" -- Shane Weist
"Played Coyote Crossing for the first time earlier this summer -- very nice and in great shape." -- Patrick McCollum
7. Rock Hollow Golf Club in Peru, Ind. Here's the course description from its website: Rock Hollow Golf Club was the perfect reclamation project for Rock Industries, Inc., an aggregate manufacturing company located in Peru, Indiana. Laid out over 300 acres of a mined-out gravel pit, Rock Hollow Golf Club has become one of the premier public tracks not only in Indiana but also throughout the Midwest. Designed by Indianapolis native Tim Liddy, protégé of world-renowned golf course architect Pete Dye, Rock Hollow boasts a terrain like none other in the Hoosier State. Taking full advantage of its natural surroundings, Rock Hollow mixes old-growth forests, cat tailed wetlands, beautiful boulders and rocks, and changes in elevation to produce dramatic scenery. Measuring 6,944 yards from the tips, Rock Hollow not only caters to the scratch golfer, but with three other sets of tees, it also provides an enjoyable round for golfers of any skill level.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Rock Hollow." -- Graham Maxwell
"Rock Hollow in Peru." -- Justin Houlihan
"Rock Hollow." -- Justin Anglemyer
"Rock Hollow in Peru." -- Brandon Mygrant
6. Twin Bridges Golf Club in Danville, Ind. Twin Bridge had received a four-star rating from Golf Digest and is open year round. The front nine is known for its larger greens and fescue-lined bent grass fairways while the more traditional back nine offers rolling hills and tightly guarded greens.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Twin Bridges G.C Danville, Ind." -- Corey Mcfarland
5. Timbergate Golf Course in Edinburgh, Ind. Timbergate is owned by the town of Edinburgh and is named for the rich history of wood crafting the town is built upon. Designed by Clyde Johnston with Indiana native Fuzzy Zoeller, Timbergate is one of the premiere public courses in Indiana. The complete links style design was geared by Fuzzy to be both challenging to experienced players as well as playable by higher handicappers.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Timbergate in Edinburgh." -- Paul Johnson
"Timbergate Fuzzy Zoeller Course." -- Anthony Cognata
4. The Fort Golf Resort in Indianapolis, Ind. The course was redesigned by Pete Dye and Tim Liddy. In 1998, The Fort Golf Course was third under "Best Affordable New Public Courses" in Golf Digest. It's considered one of Indiana's best public golf courses.
Facebook fan quotes:
"The Fort Golf Course in Indianapolis for sure. They should have a tour event out here." -- Nick Crawford
"The Fort." -- Jeff Elliot
"The Fort in Indy." -- Dave Miller
"A friend of mine works at 'The Fort' never been but I hear it's a great track." -- Michael Moreno
3. French Lick Resort in French Lick, Ind. This includes two absolute gems -- the Donald Ross Course and the Pete Dye Course. Both played host to the PGA Professional National Championship in 2010.
Facebook fan quotes:
"French Lick." -- Kathryn Elizabeth
"Dye Course at French Lick." -- Mike Liming
"Ross Course, French Lick." -- Roger Gain
"French Lick Donald Ross." -- Mikel Breeden
2. Purgatory Golf Club in Noblesville, Ind. Here's what the Indianapolis Business Journal had to say about Purgatory: "an enchanting design, gleaned from the inspirations of legendary architects Alistair MacKenzie, George Thomas, Seth Raynor and Indiana's own Bill Diddle... it's more beauty than beast. The greens are firm and fast, but fair. A well-struck putt is rewarded. The fairways, which I strolled across during my forays into the bunkers and rough, were exceptional."
Facebook fan quotes:
"Purgatory in Noblesville." -- Tyler Corder
"Hands down would be PURGATORY in Noblesville, Ind." -- Julie King
"Purgatory." -- Garron Anglemyer
"Purgatory." -- Matt Evans
1. Otter Creek Golf Course in Columbus, Ind. Here's a look at the course description from its website: Otter Creek Golf Course has been ranked among the top 25 public golf courses in the U.S. since its inception in 1964. Renowned golf course designers Robert Trent Jones and Rees Jones created this magnificent 27-hole championship course in harmony with Southern Indiana's existing land. Utilizing the natural contours of the land ensures all golfers a great challenge. Jones has distinguished Otter Creek as a championship golf course unique to all others.
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"Otter Creek." -- Ted Yantis
"Otter Creek." -- Marc Steven Mathews
"Best public course in Indiana right now is hands down Otter Creek Golf Course in Columbus. Amazing condition!" -- Kit Venderley
"Otter Creek." -- David Ward
"Otter Creek, no question." -- Andy Dismore
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Burger King Drops Controversial Palm Oil Supplier
Burger King has become the latest company to stop buying palm oil from an embattled Indonesian company its critics accuse of deforestation.
Burger King will no longer purchase palm oil from a subsidiary of Sinar Mas after an audit "raised valid concerns about some of the sustainability practices of Sinar Mas' palm oil production and its impact on rainforests," Burger King announced on its Facebook page.
The fast food giant will transition to a new supplier for 176 restaurants that received palm oil from Sinar Mas subsidiary PT SMART Tbk. Over the last year, Unilever, Nestle and Abengoa Bioenergy, a Spanish energy company, have walked away from PT SMART's palm oil. Staples, Woolworths, and U.K. retailers Tesco and Carrefour stopped buying products from Asia Pulp and Paper, another Sinar Mas subsidiary. HSBC also sold off all of its shares in Sinar Mas.
The driving force behind these developments has been Greenpeace, which launched a series of campaigns to raise awareness of what it considers to be Sinar Mas' destructive forestry practices, while also applying public pressure on consumer-facing companies to cut ties with the Indonesian conglomerate.
Underpinning these campaigns were a series of reports with titles that include "Caught Red Handed," "Burning Up Borneo" and "Sinar Mas Continues Rainforest Destruction."
In response to allegations in the reports of land-clearing and other wrongdoings, Sinar Mas hired a team of independent auditors to verify the Greenpeace claims. The report found Sinar Mas had indeed cleared and planted on deep peatland "but not as extensively as claimed," and it cleared land in certain areas before required environmental impact assessments were approved. The report also noted weaknesses in PT SMART's documentation of its engagement with landowners during compensation dialogues.
Sinar Mas touted the report as proof that the Greenpeace allegations were either wrong or exaggerated.
The auditors released a clarified statement two weeks ago because some parts of its research were "misreported as it has been published and presented," said authors BSI Group, Control Union Certifications (CUC) and experts from the faculty of forestry at Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB). "We therefore wish to restate the key findings of the report in the IVEX Team Report Summary and would ask all parties concerned to do the same."
In a statement Wednesday, Sinar Mas expressed disappointment with Burger King's decision.
"We are disappointed with this decision and will continue to engage Burger King to help them better understand our sustainability commitments," the company said. "We hope to welcome them back as customers soon. We are confident that Burger King's decision does not represent the view of the majority of our customers."
Sinar Mas acknowledged mistakes, "but these are not to the extent that it has been made out to be," it said. "This must be put into context. We have also made clear that where mistakes were made, we have taken the necessary action to ensure that this is not repeated."
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10-megawatt solar installation would turn Chicago South Side brownfield site into a source of low-carbon electricity
CHICAGO (April 22, 2009) - Exelon and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) today announced an agreement to develop the nation's largest urban solar power plant at a former industrial site on Chicago's South Side. The 10-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) facility is scheduled for completion by the end of this year.
The $60 million project is contingent upon Exelon receiving a federal loan guarantee under the recently passed federal stimulus legislation formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which includes provisions for investment in green jobs and emissions reduction. Exelon is seeking a loan guarantee for up to 80 percent of the project cost from the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program Office (LGPO).
Exelon plans to lease 39 acres of the West Pullman Industrial Redevelopment Area from the City of Chicago for the project. The former industrial site is a "brownfield" property that will be redeveloped for productive reuse. Exelon Generation will own and operate the plant and market the electricity and Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs) it generates. SunPower, a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, will design, manufacture and install the solar system.
"With nearly 2,000 megawatts of renewable power in our energy portfolio, including hydro-electricity, wind, landfill gas and solar, Exelon is investing aggressively but wisely in renewables as part of our comprehensive environmental strategy, Exelon 2020," said Exelon Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe. "As a provider of electrical service in urban areas, we understand the importance of finding urban locations for renewable energy and we are pleased to bring the largest urban solar installation to West Pullman, helping to revitalize an area where industry once thrived."
The project's 32,800 solar panels will convert the sun's rays into enough clean, reliable electricity to meet the annual energy requirements of 1,200 to 1,500 homes per year. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's system for calculating emissions savings, the installation will displace approximately 31.2 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions annually, the equivalent of taking more than 2,500 cars off the road or planting more than 3,200 acres of forest.
"Today, SunPower's solar PV technology can be implemented anywhere and at any scale - from rooftops, to parking lots, to utility-scale power plants, and urban industrial sites," said SunPower Chief Executive Officer Tom Werner. "Delivering a 10-megawatt solar plant in a space-constrained, 39-acre area is only possible using SunPower's high-efficiency solar technology, which generates more power per square foot than competing technologies."
Exelon and SunPower's environmentally sustainable design supports the City of Chicago's efforts to create an environmental legacy for its residents. The project will create about 200 jobs at prevailing wage rates during construction, maximizing the use of local labor and providing job training opportunities. The solar power systems will consist of many U.S.-made components, including steel tubing sourced from businesses on Chicago's South Side.
"Exelon's planned solar installation will benefit the West Pullman community in many ways, including increased economic activity, new jobs, and the revitalization of these unused parcels of land," said Chicago 34th Ward Alderman Carrie M. Austin. "Exelon has always been a great corporate citizen to Chicago, and I look forward to working with Exelon and the community to bring this high-tech solar plant to the West Pullman area."
SunPower solar panels generate up to 50 percent more power than conventional solar panels and two to four times as much power as thin-film solar technology. Exelon selected SunPower® Trackers, solar tracking systems that tilt toward the sun as it moves across the sky, increasing daily energy production by up to 25 percent, improving the economics of solar power and reducing land-use requirements. SunPower has installed more than 500 solar power systems totaling more than 400 megawatts worldwide, including solar power plants in Europe, Asia and North America.
The project supports Exelon 2020, Exelon's strategy to reduce, offset or displace more than 15 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year by 2020. Among other things, Exelon 2020 calls for Exelon to offer more low-carbon electricity in the marketplace that will replace electricity generated by higher-emitting energy sources.


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Three Saturdays ago, Tennessee lost to Vanderbilt, 41-18, dropping the Volunteers to 4-7 on the season and 0-7 in the SEC. This pretty inconsequential game has led to a brief but wonderful domino effect, wherein:
- Derek Dooley was fired as head coach of Tennessee.
- Butch Jones, head coach at Cincinnati, was hired to replace him.
- Tommy Tuberville, head coach at Texas Tech, was hired to replace Jones at Cincinnati.
The head-coaching position at Texas Tech is a pretty plum job, and so the domino effect will likely continue in the next few weeks as the program looks to tap either Clemson's or Texas A&M's offensive coordinator. Then someone will have to be fired to fill that position. And someone will have to be hired to fill that position. You get the idea.
These coaching ladders reveal football's real hierarchy, turning the NCAA into a parody of 1950s corporate America, in which a vacancy on the board can lead, 30 steps down the line, to the assistant mail boy being promoted to head mail boy. While you await an announcement from Texas Tech, take a look at the sequence from 2010 at the top of the page. That's the longest NCAA coaching ladder we could find dating back to the 1998-1999 season.
Here's an extremely Midwestern coach-swap, from 2009-2010:
And finally a visually pleasing southeastern romp from 2007, which once again begins with poor Jim Mora being fired from the NFL:
Know of any longer ladders? Leave them in the comments. The rules are:
- All coaching changes must take place within the span of one year.
- The ladder must begin with a coach getting shitcanned, retiring, or dying.
- At least three NCAA Division I head-coaching jobs must change hands, although NFL coaching positions, coordinator positions, Division II & III positions, and even high school positions can also be included.
- The ladder ends when a program promotes from within, hires someone who did not coach the year before, or leaves the position vacant for a season.
Good luck!
See also: Infographic: Watch More Coaches Climb Up Football's Hierarchies


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HONOLULU — The William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa proudly announces that its law student team of Scott Hovey, Jr. and Anosh Yaqoob earned top honors at the 2007 National Native American Law Student Association (NALSA) Moot Court Competition held in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn, in February. Hovey and Yaqoob, both second-year law students at Mānoa, brought home the 2007 National NALSA Moot Court National Championship as the Best Advocate. Yaqoob also earned second place for Best Oralist.
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If you've ever read the blog, you might notice that one thing Mel and I agree on is Vengeance. It's one of the topics that we've covered several times before. And it's one that I'd like to touch on again. I know this may come across as beating a dead horse. In fact, that's putting it mildly – it's more like exhuming a horse that was beaten to death and taking a sledgehammer to the bones. But there are at least a few good reasons to do that. Err.. talking about Vengeance, I mean. Not exhuming and mutilating horse corpses.
Mists of Pandaria is already in an internal alpha based on the screenshots being used by community managers, so the public beta can't be too many months away. Now is the time to start hammering on the points that matter – the things that we most want to see changed or fixed. So now is an appropriate time to dig up the issues we care most about and hammer those points home.
Vengeance is one of those mechanics that seems great in concept. In Ghostcrawler's own words,
Vengeance was designed for a single purpose, which is to make sure tank threat scales as other players improve their gear. Imagine a raid of reasonably geared level-85 characters. In the absence of Vengeance, the tank might generate about 50% of the damage of a DPS character. With the tank's threat modifiers this should be sufficient for her to generate enough threat to keep her targets stuck to her (unless something unusual is going on in the encounter). The problem is that in later tiers the mages and rogues in the raid accumulate gear that continues to increase their damage, while the tank chooses gear that increases her survivability.
On its own, it seems like a great idea to have our DPS scale with "tanky" stats. Converting stamina to bonus attack power is a perfectly logical way to accomplish that. We do need a mechanism to help us keep up. It's not the concept of Vengeance that's flawed, but the implementation. Lets look at the problems with the current version of Vengeance.
Damage Discrepancy in Raids
One of the biggest problems is due to the sheer size of the Vengeance AP contribution. A paladin in full heroic T13 gear will have around 36k attack power, with 19k of that coming from Vengeance. Now, Vengeance needs to grant a lot of AP to be able to have a significant effect on our DPS scaling. But this design ensures that our damage output while tanking is around twice as large as when we aren't. And make no mistake, we're not balanced around our damage while soloing quest mobs. They balance our damage under ideal conditions – having a boss smashing our face in – which means our damage in every other aspect of the game sucks. Whether it's off-tanking, questing, doing dailies, or anything else.
To get a feel for how bad this is, let's look at some numbers. Raid-buffed Retribution paladins perform roughly at the middle-of-the-pack, around 45k DPS. Protection puts out around 23k, barely half of what a Ret can dish out. And worse yet, these are the best numbers, which include paladins putting on "stunt" gear sets to parse. But even if we take them at face value, that means our DPS without Vengeance is around 12k, or about a quarter of what a DPS spec can do. Doing less than 10k DPS to a mob in solo play is, quite frankly, pathetic. A DPS spec blows through those same mobs at 30-40k DPS in equivalent gear. It's pitiful, and it doesn't make any sense. What compelling reason is there to keep tanks doing less than 25% of a pure class's DPS in solo PvE content?
Interestingly enough, one of the reasons we looked forward to Vengeance was that we were promised we'd be able to do competitive damage, since it wouldn't be always on (and thus, wouldn't make us overpowered in PvP). But in fact, our current DPS is in-line with our output in Wrath and BC, before Vengeance existed. So the net effect of Vengeance for tanks has been that we get to keep our relatively poor DPS output in raids, but we lost the ability to do even half of that in the absence of a raid boss.
I don't think you can make a credible argument that a tank doing 15-20k DPS while off-tanking, soloing mobs, or questing is unbalanced when a DPS spec can pull 2-3x that. They've already decided to turn off Vengeance in PvP, alleviating any concern about us doing more damage to other players than our survivability should permit. So why are we made to suffer with a Vengeance implementation that makes for a poor gaming experience outside of one specific situation?
Threat Inconsistency
One of the more frustrating parts of Vengeance is that it's not there when we need it most: on the pull. One or two "lucky" dodges or parries (or a miss or two thanks to our total disregard for threat stats) can easily lead to a loss of aggro and a tasty melee-DPS snack for the boss. Now, apparently, that's by design – quoting the developer blog again:
Vengeance is not supposed to solve the threat problem completely. A tank shouldn't be able to just auto-attack and let Vengeance do the rest. Vengeance isn't a replacement for the tank generating enough initial threat to get the targets to stick to her. She shouldn't need to rely on Vengeance in the first six seconds of combat. It's there to prevent the warlock from slowly creeping up on her threat in the middle of the fight.
Vengeance paired with a 500% threat modifier makes the "DPS creeping up on you" problem nonexistent, that's for sure. So in that sense, mission accomplished.
Unfortunately, we have a dilemma here. In the absence of Vengeance (i.e. on the pull) we put out 25% of what a DPS spec does. So with a 500% modifier, we should be putting out 125% of their threat, right? Well, no, because that's 125% of their average threat. That's great on paper, but back here in the real world, DPS players are going to be pre-potting and popping their cooldowns on the pull, which means they'll be doing their maximum spike DPS, which can be as much as twice their average DPS.
So we have a problem, because the one point in the fight where we actually need the extra threat, we don't have it. And it's a mechanic we have no control over, because it's limited by the whim of the RNG. Dodge a few attacks on the pull? Unless you have a tricks and misdirect, good luck!
Note that this developer blog was written when they still cared about threat:
Threat needs to be an important part of the game — I'll try to explain why we think so in a future blog. However, it isn't our design intent for threat generation to get much harder in the third tier of content relative to the first
Or, as explained in a later blog post, threat needs to matter. We've since been told that threat isn't an interesting mechanic, and it's been essentially removed from the game. Steady-state, middle-of-the-fight threat is a complete non-issue anymore, Vengeance or not. But it still matters on the pull, in the one situation we have no control over. If threat isn't an interesting enough mechanic to matter later into the fight, why must we still struggle with it on the pull?
Or an even better question: Since threat isn't an interesting mechanic, Vengeance is purely a DPS bonus for getting smashed in the face. Why must that account for 50% of our DPS? Why couldn't a larger potion of it be baked into our raw damage output? There's no mathematical reason it can't, I can assure you of that.
Frustrating Tank Swaps
Perhaps the most annoying "feature" of Vengeance is how frustrating it makes tank swaps. You know exactly what I mean: your co-tank starts the encounter, builds up his Vengeance and a boatload of threat, and then the encounter mandates that you taunt off of him. Except you don't have any Vengeance, so right after taunting you're putting out half the DPS he is. You can play some tricks, like holding a SotR and popping wings on the taunt, or timing your taunt against the boss's swing timer to ensure you take an attack during the fixate duration. But that only does so much, and more often than not if your co-tank doesn't stop attacking, they're just going to pull aggro back off of you. Thank the Light for having two taunts right? Oh wait, that's gone in Mists too!
It's not until later in the fight, when the two of you have amassed enough threat that the 10% aggro pull threshold isn't achievable in a 5-10 second window, that this problem goes away. And it's something that no amount of skill can correct for; if you get unlucky and dodge a few attacks after your taunt, it doesn't matter how much gear you have, you're going to cede aggro. The only solution is to arrange for your co-tank to stop attacking after you taunt, which isn't very fun for either of you.
Reverse Scaling Confusion
One thing that Mel and I both dislike is mechanics that reward you for doing illogical things, or worse yet penalize you for doing otherwise logical things. Vengeance has this problem on a fundamental level because it's triggered by taking damage, an event that we as tanks go out of our way to avoid. We gear, gem, enchant, use cooldowns, and optimize our play around surviving, which usually means "take less damage." But by optimizing our character for succeeding in an encounter, we're rewarded with lower stacks of Vengeance and less DPS. It doesn't make much sense. As a player, I want to be more badass as I gear up, not less.
This problem still exists in current content, though the updates in 4.3 went a long way toward alleviating it. For the most part, you can treat Vengeance as "always on" for Dragon Soul bosses (when you're actively tanking). But it's exacerbated in older content we outgear. Try going back and doing any of the entry-level raids in T11 and you'll notice that you won't maintain full stacks of Vengeance – often you'll hover around 30-50%. Again, as I gear up, I want to feel more badass, not less, and doubly so when I'm trying to go back and blast through content that's no longer very relevant. Does a DPS spec generate 50% less DPS as soon as they set foot into an instance they out-gear? Of course not. So why should we?
Weak Scaling
Vengeance was supposed to make us naturally scale so that we'd be able to keep up with DPS. We've already decided that threat is irrelevant, but we can say that it should ensure our DPS scales the same way a DPS spec does. And in fact, if you take a look at our DPS over the course of the expansion, you might conclude that it's been working pretty well. That plot seems to show us consistently parsing at ~50% of a DPS spec. Unfortunately, it isn't that simple.
Vengeance isn't actually scaling fast enough to account for that change. In normal-mode T11 gear, Vengeance gave us around 14k attack power, which added to our innate attack power from gear gave us around 27k total AP. In heroic T13, it's only 19k out of a total of 36k AP. Our total AP has gone up by around 33%, but DPS has more than doubled – we do 23k now compared to 10k in T11, similarly 45k+ for DPS specs compared to ~20k in T11. Our DPS scales linearly with AP, but not well enough for 33% AP to double our DPS. So how do we explain the data in the plot?
The answer is that we've been propped up by other mechanics changes over the course of the expansion. In 4.1, holy power generation was added to Grand Crusader, Avenger's Shield lost the ability to be blocked, and Judgement became a trigger for Sacred Duty. Those two changes gave us a pretty significant DPS boost, roughly between 1k-2k DPS. In 4.2, we were given two extremely strong set bonuses to play with, as both the ret and prot T12 two-piece bonuses were large DPS increases. In fact, they're so large – around 1k DPS each – that most of the players parsing in Dragon soul are still wearing either 2xT12 ret or 2xT12 prot (as of the time of this writing, the top 25H Ultraxion parse is from the time when SoT was bugged; every other parse in the top 5 contains either Righteous Flames or Flames of the Faithful or both). So patch 4.2 gave us another 1-2k DPS independently of Vengeance. And in 4.3, we saw a significant buff to Judgement of Truth combined with mechanics changes that improved the uptime of Vengeance (another hint that the ramping mechanism was faulty) and improved scaling of the T12 ret/prot bonuses All told that's another 1k-2k DPS added to our baseline.
In short, Vengeance hasn't done its job well enough. Without the jolt of DPS from other sources that we've been given each patch, we'd have fallen behind by 3k-6k DPS over the course of the expansion. We'd now be doing 17k-20k to a DPS's 45k+, or around 40% what they put out. Without the buff to the threat modifier, we would be dangerously close to losing aggro if it were solely up to Vengeance to sustain us. This isn't a critical flaw, because it's easy to correct, but it does mean that Blizzard under-shot the scaling on Vengeance during tuning.
PVP Concerns
I hesitate to talk about this, because it's been explicitly stated that Vengeance is not supposed to be a balance mechanism for PvP:
Vengeance also isn't supposed to make you scared to attack a tank in PvP. Tanks have enough benefits in PvP, such as being hard to kill and control, especially in Cataclysm when Rated Battlegrounds provide them with a role where they can defend flags or towers. Players generally don't hit hard enough to trigger the full effect of Vengeance, unless they are all ganging up on one tank, at which point someone in the group should have the ability to dispel it (Vengeance is treated as an Enrage effect for dispel purposes).
But I have trouble believing that, because the argument doesn't make sense to me. If the ramping-on-damage-taken mechanic wasn't for PvP reasons, then I'm not sure why it even exists. It has never served any useful purpose in raiding. I could see that concern if Vengeance gave tanks comparable damage to a pure class, because then you might see raids bringing tanks instead of pure classes (same dps, but more survivable). But it doesn't and hasn't, even in T11 when it was at its peak. As long as Blizzard tweaks the numbers such that tanks do 75% or less DPS than a pure spec, the ramping mechanic is completely unnecessary, because no raid is going to bring more tanks to an encounter than absolutely necessary.
The only logical reason for the ramping is to keep us from having the one-two punch of great survivability and strong DPS in a PvP scenario. Balancing the solo PvE game around having survivability is ludicrous. At low levels, everyone's DPS is so high that people blow through the leveling experience regardless of spec. At high levels (80-85), tank DPS is so pathetic that the survivability benefit isn't worth the loss. Everyone I know switches to their Ret off-spec if they plan on doing an hour of solo grinding (AoE grinding may be a notable exception here).
The smoking gun is the change that eliminated Vengeance stacking based on PvP damage. It fully decouples Vengeance from the PvP game. If part of the intent of Vengeance wasn't to limit our PvP DPS before, it certainly is now, because Vengeance now specifically gives us DPS in PvE but not in PvP. I'd argue that it was doing this all along, whether the developers realized it or not.
The only other option is that despite having all the knobs to tweak to keep our DPS output at 50% of those pure classes all expansion, they truly believed that raid leaders would bring extra tanks to an encounter instead of pure DPS specs. And I just can't fathom that, because I've never met a raid leader who would. An encounter is an optimization problem, and raid leaders stress out about the <1k DPS boost you get from flasks and feasts. Why would they voluntarily take a 20k DPS loss? On progression encounters, you rarely have that sort of breathing room.
Vengeance – Your attacks deal 50% more damage to NPCs. This value increases as you gain more Stamina.
That's it. That's all there is to it. It's a simple solution that fixes every single one of the problems with Vengeance without creating any new ones. No more pathetic DPS while soloing or off-tanking. No more taking your pants off on farm content to make sure the boss hits you hard enough to hold aggro. No more giant threat differentials or aggro losses immediately after a taunt. No more concerns about excessive tank DPS in PvP. And it fulfills the stated purpose of Vengeance: our DPS will still scale with a "tanky" stat. You get the same net effect in a more elegant, more intuitive, and just plain better form.
Yes, it introduces an artificial difference between PvE and PvP. But the recent hotfix does that anyway, and the current form of Vengeance isn't much less artificial than what I've proposed. As they learned with Colossus Smash, sometimes the best solution is to recognize that PvE and PvP are different beasts, and adjust accordingly.
You may notice that I've left the exact formula vague here. The current version is essentially y=mx, with y being AP and x being stamina. But anyone whose had a high-school algebra class can tell you that the equation of an arbitrary line is y=mx+b. Right now, "b" is implicitly defined by our DPS at the beginning of the expansion, which limits the ability to tune things properly. But it would be ideal to have more flexibility – maybe we get more accurate scaling by granting 50% damage as a baseline and only increasing it for stamina over a certain threshold, like 1% for every 100 stamina in excess of 4000 (mathematically: damage=50%+1%*(Stamina-4000)/100). A system with an explicit way to tweak b without needing to adjust baseline DPS gives you that flexibility.
In the end, I'd rather see the Vengeance mechanic work well, not just in the environment where it matters most (raids), but in every aspect of game play. And it will never do that effectively as long as it's based on taking damage.


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After years spent doing award winning Corvette restorations, sometimes you have to mix it up. That is exactly what Kevin Mackay of the well known but unoriginally titled Valley Stream, NY restoration shop Corvette Repair Inc. decided to do when he came across this 1969 Corvette L88 sitting at a machine shop.
Although this topless 'Vette features all of the high quality restoration work Corvette Restoration Inc. is known for and is fully functional, it is obviously missing a rather large part of what made the C3 Corvettes famous—the fiberglass body work. Special brackets were made to attach all necessary lights to make the car street legal and this Corvette has actually passed New York State inspection in its current stripped down state.
We imagine the lack of fiberglass body combined with the rebuilt 480 horsepower L88 engine make it a highly entertaining cruiser as well as an ideal way to show off the shop's high quality restoration work. Mackay considers the car done in its current state and plans to submit the car for the NCRS Top Flight, Bloomington Gold and Triple Crown awards that serve as the ultimate form of show car validation in the world of vintage Corvettes.
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i'm fighting off another damn cold.
it's hard to move from the desert to western Oregon in winter (if you know what i mean).
worked another fun bar shift. great crew, some fun customers, minimal annoying customers. had to fight with the grind a bit at one point but it worked out.
it's interesting... i'm starting to realize just how different espresso machines are - always. all our machines are (theoretically) the same. in other words, same manufacturer and same model. they're all set up the same, calibrated the same and maintained the same (all by the same person).
but working with each one is very different. and what's in the cup with each one is very different.
where this is most obvious is with steaming milk. it's actually turning out to be very hard to switch machine to machine throughout the week and have steaming dialed. i almost have to relearn the quirks of the machine each and every time.
ahhh... the joys of espresso.
we rolled out new Rwandan coffee into the cafes. the Rwanda Karaba... really lovely. raspberry-dark chocolate truffle with some lovely vanilla in the finish. as it cools, the raspberry shifts towards cranberry and a great tropical floral note emerges as well. love it.
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After a lengthy but much-deserved hiatus, everyone's favorite serial killer is back for his seventh season on the small screen. Dexter isn't afraid to shed a little blood (or, okay, make that a whole lot of blood) if he thinks that the person he's after is guilty. And what better way to celebrate the season premiere with cupcakes that look almost too painful to eat?
New York City's Magnolia Bakery whipped up a batch of red velvet cupcakes that are generously topped with shards of broken glass. In keeping with the theme, the cupcakes were then drizzled with pig's blood as a finishing touch. Appetizing, isn't it? We're just kidding, of course. The glass is actually clear candy glass and that's just bloody-red syrup dripping from the frosted cupcakes. Yum!
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Welcome to the Rajan Parrikar Music Archive. The resources of this repository are consolidated in the Vault. The Vijaya Parrikar Library is an integral part of this archive.
The exegetic monographs in the Ragas of Hindustani Music area address the gamut of ragas and raga groups found in the contemporary praxis of North Indian Classical Music (aka Hindustani Music). Supporting the analysis are over 2000 audio clips carefully culled to illuminate the nuances of raga structure and character. A significant portion of the audio material adduced remains commercially unavailable.
I wrote the first article of its kind on the ragas of Indian Classical Music – with embedded audio samples of actual performance as heuristic props – in March 1999 on the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.indian.classical. Audio streaming technology had just arrived at the desktop rendering it possible to supplement commentary with illustrative examples.
In early 2000, a couple of my friends asked for an 'under the hood' understanding of the music and at their behest I began informally developing a series of essays on rec.music.indian.classical. Part of my motivation was the near-total absence of a rigorous treatment of the subject in English. Modern educated Indians have all but relinquished serious study of their own traditions thus ceding fertile pasture to third-rate Westerners (the number of first-rate Westerners investigating Indian traditions is negligible).
Soon thereafter, Anita Thakur of the defunct South Asian Women's Forum (SAWF) portal volunteered to format the material and cast it up on her website. This enterprise continued through 2005 until the entire demesne of the ragas of Hindustani music had been surveyed. All through this journey I benefited from the encouragement and counsel of my guru Ramashreya Jha 'Ramrang' (1928-2009).
The Vijaya Parrikar Library, named after my late mother, was realized in November 2003 with the goal of bringing to a wider audience old recordings that are zealously shielded, and sometimes pickled into oblivion, by self-important philistines.
The Indian sages of yore clearly understood that the pursuit of music paves the way to paramAnanda (Supreme Bliss). The profundity of music reveals itself through manan-chintan (reflection) and anubhava (wisdom born out of experience). Appreciation of the finer points of raga structure does not come by easy; it is purchased through considerable training and musical maturity. Be that as it may, there is a great deal on tap here for the earnest habitué. The cornucopia of audio material offered on this site, mirabile dictu, brings the Beauty and Bliss of Indian Classical Music within reach of all sentient beings. On that pompous note,
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Abstract: The recent profusion of smartphones in the mobile industry offers new opportunities for mobile services vendors. One of the most influenced service categories is location-based services (LBS). Based on insights from behavioural decision-making, a theoretical framework is developed to analyse individuals" decisions to use LBS. We focus on the cognitive processes involved in individual decisionmaking. Our research is based on two studies. First, we investigated the use of LBS through semistructured interviews of smartphone users. Second, we explored daily LBS use through a study based on diaries. The findings highlight the distinct value dimension in specific contexts of use and the positive experiences of the service as the main drivers of LBS use. Thus, the user decision to use LBS can be described by either a comparative mode based on the value of LBS in relation to other available options, or by an intuitive mode where past experiences trigger the use of heuristics. These modes in turn underscore the positive influences on the continuance of LBS use. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8522
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Abstract: The continuance of use is an important topic of IS research. However, in the past, many researchers have focused on adoption rather than IS continuance. Studying continuance is of equal importance, because if use does not persist, this may limit the revenues of the provider. This is particularly true for consumer-oriented services, which rely on advertising, or subscription-based revenue models. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of location-based services (LBS) continuance as a relevant case study for the examination of IS continuance generally. A research model is developed and empirically tested through a survey of a representative sample in Germany. The proposed model builds on and extends the Limayem et al. model of IS continuance. Our analysis highlights the importance of habit and emotion in LBS continuance. The results indicate that habit has a stronger predictive power than continuance intentions for LBS continuance and that emotions are an important driver for user satisfaction with LBS. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8523
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Types of Nordic Skiing
The Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) recognizes two Nordic skiing certifications, Nordic track and Nordic downhill. A few PSIA organizations also offer backcountry certification. Though I don't believe PSIA offers a specific certification for this, another type of ski touring is alpine touring or randonn?e.
Nordic Track
Both classic and skate cross-country skiing are included under the general heading of Nordic track. Classic skiing looks similar to a walking or running motion, but has a distinct glide phase and a pole push. The actual skiing motion is considered a diagonal stride because the opposite arm and leg move forward at the same time. This type of skiing can be done on both groomed trails and terrain that has not been groomed.
Groomed trails can be laid down on any surface that is primarily free of large debris such as trees and rocks. Groomed trails require snow grooming equipment that comes in many variations and price ranges. In the simplest form, some clubs groom their trails by running a snowmobile around a city park a few times to create a circular ski track. This can also be done at a golf course, open space, closed road system and on private land. Of course, the appropriate permission to access the property must be obtained.
Major Nordic centers and ski areas typically use larger pieces of equipment able to lay down a large volume of track in a short period of time. A sample resource list for larger pieces of equipment can be found on xcski.org.
Skate skiing, also known as Nordic freestyle, requires groomed trails in most circumstances. Skating is a type of skiing where the skis maintain a divergent relationship. Viewing the skier from the back, the skis would appear to make a "V" shape. Forward propulsion is achieved with a skating motion, similar to high-speed ice skating. The timing of the pole plant varies depending on the particular poling technique being used, while the skating leg motion remains essentially unchanged.
If athletes are racing or going uphill, more upper-body strength and stamina are needed due to a more aggressive use of the poles for propulsion.
Nordic Downhill
The sport of Nordic downhill includes both parallel and telemark skiing techniques. While parallel skiing techniques more closely resemble those used in alpine skiing, in telemark skiing feet are displaced fore and aft with the entire front foot and ball of the rear foot pressuring the skis. Telemark ("tele") turns are led with the heel flat on the outside ski (the downhill ski at the end of the turn), while the inside (uphill) ski is pulled beneath the skier's body with a flexed knee and raised heel.
Backcountry Skiing
Backcountry skiing usually refers to free-heel skiing outside of ski area boundaries and off of groomed trails. Backcountry skiers usually carry loaded packs, and their ski equipment is heavier to accommodate the load as well as the rough terrain. People that participate in backcountry need good fitness and skiing technique, and they need to be well educated in orienteering, mountaineering and first aid.
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Title: 구암 허준 / Gu Am Heo Joon
Chinese Title: 龜巖許浚
Genre: Historical, Medical, Romance
Episodes: 120
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2013-March-18
Air time: Monday to Friday 21:00
This drama is based on 1999-2000 MBC drama series "Hur Jun". Because of the similarities between the two main characters of the show, "Hur Jun" has often been called as male version of "Dae Jang Geum".
The story is set in Joseon Korea, primarily during the reign of Seonjo. The story covers a time that is approximately 50 years after the death of Dae Jang Geum (the reputed first female doctor of Joseon Korea). It depicts the dramatic life of historical figure Heo Joon who wrote the oriental medical textbook"Donguibogam" and became physician for King Seonjo. Kim Joo Hyuk will plays Heo Joon in this drama.
Yoo Ui Tae (Baek Yoon Shik) plays Heo Jun's mentor who is the single greatest influence in his life. Meanwhile, Ye jin Ah (Park Jin Hee) plays a lady who lost her parents at a young age but was raised by Yoo Ui Tae, and grows up learning medicine from him as well. She eventually becomes a royal nurse and works alongside Heo Jun and falls in love with him. Yoo Do Ji (Nam Goong Min) will plays Yoo Ui Tae's son.
Kim Joo Hyuk as Heo Joon
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Park Jin Hee as Ye Jin Ah
Nam Goong Min as Yoo Do Ji
Go Doo Shim as Son Ssi
Kim Mi Sook as Oh Ssi
Lee Jae Yong as Kim Min Se
Kyun Mi Ri as Ham An Daek
Park Chul Min as Goo Il Seo
Jung Eun Pyo as Oh Geun
Yeo Ho Min as Yang Tae
Park Eun Bin as Da Hee
Jung Ho Bin as Ahn Gwang Ik
Choi Jong Hwan as Yang Ye Soo
Kim So Yun as Im Mi Hyun
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As I predicted yesterday, we took a few pulls to get the adds under control, but ultimately prevailed against Lei Shi. We had everyone stack in the center when they came out and our mage Shaadey put down a Circle of Frost. It holds them long enough for the shaman and lock to Bind Elemental/Banish. On the 40% and 20% phases where there are 4 instead of only 3, we fear bombed the extra one. I threw in a Blinding Light to disorient them if we ran into trouble.
She was nice enough to leave a Sigil of Wisdom in the chest. I still need 5 more though. /slacker
Hey a shot with all 10 of us in it! L to R: Adoe, Sorak, Lyssianna, Bocat, Vanicus, jumping Zugzuug, Liyhe, Arvash, Shaadey, and Wok.
You can see the Sha of Fear there in the background. He's next. He … is not going to be done in a few pulls. He is going to make me cry. Jerk.


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Upaknee brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 79 Designs von 18 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are a messaging communications company the specializes in email and text marketing. We service both small and large enterprise customers. We would like the image to be both hip and classy.
1. Use of pronunciation phonetic rules to give the reader a sense of the proper pronunciation... i.e up-"ah"-knee is the proper pronunciation – this would translate (we think) to a phonetic description as "upänē" so perhaps the ä could be borrowed for use in the logo – i.e. as in - "upäknee"
2. Upaknee is derived from a Sanskrit word (apani) that means ours, mine, yours and everyones – the goal of upaknee is to provide enterprise grade marketing tools, service reliability and customer support to 'everyone' i.e. to make these tools accessible to small and medium business, individual entrepreneurs, professionals, etc.
3. Upaknee is a Canadian Company and proud of it.
4. We see ourselves as a communication company/messaging company and currently offer email but are expanding our offering to include SMS/Text, Voice and Social Media
5. Another way to view us is also a metrics, analytics and marketing intelligence enabler
6. Electronic Communications is a green product
7. Logo examples we love – freshbooks, etc.
8. We have other product lines that will borrow or extend the logo – Upaknee Press (content and publishing), Upaknee Campaign Manager (our flagship SaaS tool – current logo visible at cm3.upaknee.com), Upaknee Real Estate Report (a fullservice marketing tool – microsite realestatemailing.com), Upaknee Enterprise (features, support and infrastructure for large corporations)
9. We pride ourselves on Customer Support
I have attached our existing and old logo designs. This logo leveraged a 'button' image for the A.
We are interested in seeing some different design concepts that don't use the enhanced "A" as in our previous logo versions. Such as consistent block lettering for Upaknee with some other design aspect related to what we do.
We are, however, also interested in seeing some concepts highlighting the 'a' (or 'A') through an image or background.
We would like to continue to use the black and orange colors as shown in our existing logo.
Please visit our website for more information at: http://www.upaknee.com.
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