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Fridge: The Hunt for Red October

Fridge Logic

  • The Russian Crew has been rescued by the American Navy after they bail due to a "radiation leak". Then they believe their captain is fighting the Americans and cheer... on the deck of the American Warship that saved their butts. Not exactly polite. One has to wonder how the American crew reacted.
    • Unhappy, probably, but cheering alone is hardly good reason to start mistreating detainees on the high seas.
  • Mancuso sent the message to Ramius via Morse Code. Presumably, that message was initially spelled out in English. Is Ramius familiar enough with Morse to both understand Mancuso's admittedly rusty transmission and translate it to Russian?
    • That may not be necessary - International Morse Code was was made standard by the International Telecommunication Union in 1865, an agency now under aegis of the United Nations, and it's established Ramius knows English.

Fridge Brilliance

  • At one point the Soviet ambassador (played by Joss Ackland) is speaking to NSA Jeffery Pelt. Sweating profusely in a state of agitation, the ambassador tells Pelt that Captain Ramius has suffered a mental breakdown and will try to fire his missiles at the United States. This is a lie, of course, since Ramius is trying to defect and the Soviets want America to help them sink him before he can do that. When called on the fact that he hadn't mentioned this development before, the ambassador lamely blames Moscow for not telling him. Despite his nervousness, the ambassador lies well enough to get the Americans to go along with it . . . except that maybe the ambassador didn't actually lie. If you want someone to tell a lie well, it's helpful if they believe the lie themselves. Given the USSR's reputation for dishonesty, it's not hard to imagine that they decieved the ambassador himself so he would make a more compelling case to the Americans. And that's why the ambassador is sweating so hard. He believes that Ramius really has gone nuts and is about to nuke them, with the most likely target being right where he is sitting.
    • I've always thought that was what's going on. To make sure the ruse was complete, they just lied to their ambassador (and unseen, probably told at least the ambassadors to the UK and and France and Canada the same lie), and possibly told their naval captains the same story as well. Maybe only a dozen people actually knew Ramius' intentions (namely, Admiral Padorin, Premier Chernenko, and a few others of Soviet Naval Command).
    • Another iteration - even if they had told the truth to their ambassador, he was so used to his bosses being liars that he didn't believe them, or at least did not know what to believe. If you think about it, everybody in the story except Ramius and those who know him best (his fellow officers and Ryan) is in the position of not knowing what to believe.
  • Ramius encouraged his men singing the Russian National Anthem - why? Because he knew they would give the sub away. Foreshadowed by Jones' Pavarotti story earlier in the film. Sure enough, Jones hears them singing.
    • "It was Paganini. Pavarotti is a tenor, Paganini was a composer. If you're going to tell it, tell it right." :)
  • In the novel, there is a scene where one of the many attack subs, the ES Politovski, undergoes a critical reactor failure that destroys the sub. In a rather obtuse way, this was foreshadowed earlier in the book, during the section describing Ramius' life. It stated that he had been baptized as a Roman Catholic but it could never be revealed, even to him, as 'Marxism-Leninism is a jealous god that allows no others'. The scene involving the Politovski has the zampolit overriding the chief engineer's request to back down on the dangerously overloaded reactor for repairs. The engineer protested in his mind about 'the Party thinking that physical laws could be overturned by the whim of an apparatchik'. In a round about way, Marxism-Leninism (as a godhood proxy as Ramius described it earlier) was being stealthily paralleled to a theocracy, where the fiat of the priests of the faith (or in this case, the Zampolitni of the Party) trumped everything, even nature itself. An irony there, considering the religious suppression in the Soviet era.
  • In the film, there is the opening disclaimer that says that "nothing of what you're about to see ever happened". But in the end credits, there's the standard disclaimer that "any similarity to real persons is purely coincidental.", which just makes you wonder even more if it really happened.
    • That's not much fridge brilliance. The novel is based on the official version (both in NATO and the Warsaw pact as it was convenient for both sides) of the mutiny led by Valery Sablin in 1976. Except it's very loosely based on this, as in reality, Sablin was a committed communist, was russian, was the ship's political officer, had the captain imprisoned, and was heading to Leningrad to make a radio address to the people of the soviet republics to rise up against the corrupt gerontocracy for a second communist revolution that would restore power to the soviets (more or less the general gist of what survives). He would have hated Ramius.
      • That mutiny is even mentioned in the novel when the plausibility of a mass defection is being debated.
    • The incident cited at the beginning of the film is likely a reference to the Yankee class submarine K-219, which actually sank in the areanote  after an explosion and fire in its missile bay which damaged the sub's reactor controls. Unlike Ramius, the captain was rescued along with the surviving crewmembers and returned to the Soviet Union.
  • Connery as Captain Ramius has a bit of Fridge Brilliance to it above and beyond it being, well, Sean Connery. Raimus is Lithuanian - and, therefore, would be presumed to have a fair bit of an accent in Russian, compared to a Great Russian "native" speaker of the language. So, when applying the Translation Convention to English, Connery's Scottish burr reflects that.

Fridge Horror

  • Here's something a bit unsettling. Ok, so the Russians tell the US that Ramius is insane, and is getting ready to launch his warheads on the US. Now, let's think for a second, how many people in the Soviet Union were told this? Virtually none. Now, imagine that Moscow got what they wanted, and the US sunk the Red October, killing all on board... and then that information got back to the people of the Soviet Union... To them, the US just destroyed one of their submarines unprovoked, in international waters. The families of the crew (ESPECIALLY the ones with high enough political connections) would be calling for blood. Which, in itself, would spark a war. Not only that, but both Soviet, and NATO ships were within a hairs breath of one another, and during that political fiasco, tensions would likely be tight (something that's even pointed out in the film, three times). Now, could the USSR and NATO reach an agreement to avert a war? More then likely, but the tensions would be so tight it wouldn't take much to spark one. So basically, Ramius faking the reactor problem, getting his crew off in sight of an American Warship (that would likely attempt to stop them from submerging anyway, but wouldn't leave the crew stranded), and telling one of his officers that he intends to scuttle the ship, actually AVERTED a major war. Although the spectacle of a glorious Last Stand was certainly not planned, Captain Tupolev certainly helped cement that one.
  • Ramius visibly shows great concern for the lives of those of his crew not in on the plot. For instance, he refuses to evacuate the submarine off the Labrador coast, even though that would be a safer option for him, because the waters there are so cold that it is less likely that the men would be rescued alive. However he ends up killing the entire crew of Tupolev's submarine, most of whom were merely mooks doing their duty and were just as innocent and undeserving of death as his own crewmen were.
    • Of course, they did fire torpedoes at them.
    • Alternatively it may be more about a captain's responsibility to his crew. It's not Ramius' job to protect the other crew; it's Tupolev's. Tradition and loyalty would never allow Ramius to betray his own crew.
  • Oh yes, and he really might have started a nuclear war. It is stressed more in the book than in the film just how likely it was that one of the numerous tense confrontations between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces that resulted from the pursuit of Red October would spiral out of control.
    • True, but Ramius' own reasoning for defecting with the Red October was that the existence of such technology was massively destabilizing in itself if kept only in one side's hands, as it would grant first-strike capability (or, more importantly, make one side believe they have it whether or not they actually do). If he was also aware of the very paranoid Soviet leadership between Brezhnev and Gorbachev in the early 80's, that would have given Ramius even more reason to believe someone would pull the metaphorical trigger with the Red October or a sister ship somewhere down the line. It's not a stretch for him to conclude that it'd be better to risk a gamble now than allow the precipice to draw closer via bureaucracy.
  • Rationally, the Americans ought to have hunted down and destroyed Red October even if they did have a hunch that Ramius was trying to defect. Even the slightest chance that he might be planning an independent launch of his missiles - which would have killed millions - should have been too grave a risk to run.


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Literature: Keeper of the Swords

The Keeper of the Swords (Хранитель мечей) cycle is a High Fantasy novel series by the Russian author Nick Perumov. It is part of the Chronicles of the Rift series, which began with a (mostly) standalone novel Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword and later continued with the Enchanted Forest trilogy. The title of the cycle refers to Fess, a freelance spy who accidentally becomes the guardian of the eponymous artifacts from DSWS at the end of that novel and ends up taking them into an entirely different corner of The Multiverse.

The cycle consists of following novels:

  • The Mage's Birth (1999)
  • The Mage's Travels (2000)
  • The Mage's Solitude (2001)
  • The Mage's War: Opening (2003)
  • The Mage's War: Middlegame (2004)
  • The Mage's War: Endgame (2006)
  • The Mage's War: Game Over (2006)

The novels contain examples of following tropes:

  • The Archmage: The wise Archmage Ignacius Cooper. Subverted in the end when instead of a wise patron he is shown to be spiteful, manipulative and just evil.
  • BFS: Sylvia gets to wield a Flammberg (see below) which, however, has a magic that in Sylvia's (and other "rightful" hands) gives it a properties of a Laser Blade, including near-zero wielding weight (but not for the ones hit).
  • Child Soldiers: Teenage sorceress Sylvia of Arc was "considered a veteran at the age of ten." She fills both variants (i.e. is both Precociously Talented AND Tragic) of this trope, though, as she is IMMENSELY talented and could take most adult opponents with ease... until she started to run into demigods, that is.
  • Crystal Dragon Jesus: There is an evil Crystal Dragon Jesus called "The Saviour", who resembles actual Jesus very much. Creepy.
  • Dark Magical Girl: Sylvia.
  • First Contact: a High Fantasy version. The world of Evial was "closed" and thus barred from contact with other worlds of the Multiverse; however, some of the local wizards have long theoretized about the existence of other worlds and their sentient inhabitants. Those wizards are looked down onto by their colleagues and thought of as eccentric and possibly delusional. They are vindicated when a party of unambiguously "alien" planeswalkers sets foot on Evial, and a major subplot starts, involving the local wizards and priests learning the ways of the newly arrived strangers (and vice versa).
  • Harmful to Minors: It is revealed that Sylvia had to fight in the wars (as a sorceress) from early on, so that by ten(!), she was "already considered a battle-hardened veteran". She also suggests that she witnessed another sorceress, Seges, being a "pervert", though it's not clear whether she herself was abused. In the story itself, she has a Near-Death Experience AT LEAST once a book. She gets speared, buried under rubble of a tower, her head smashed with a candelabra, hit by magical lightning... Way to have a childhood.
  • Infant Immortality: Sylvia, being in a city overrun with monsters, hears a plea for help, coming from a 6-year old girl. She rushes in, but cannot save the girl anymore. This sets Sylvia in a deep rage. Cue one big Crowning Moment of Awesome where Sylvia invites all monsters in a city to feast on her, and when they really come proceeds to hack them all in pieces with her sword. She single-handedly defeats a monster army capable of overrunning dozens of local wizards.
  • MacGuffin Title: Though it sounds like a word salad at first, but later you learn that the eponymous Swords from Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword are the MacGuffin. Another sword, Sylvia's, is also part of the set, and in the end, all three are assembled in one place and used to defeat the big bad.
  • Magic Knight:
    • There is an order of Battle Mages, who are strong magically, but also can fight with regular weapons, or with magically augmented weapons. One member of it, Klara Huemmel, "Preferred to rely on steel rather than magic. And she outlived many who had different preferences."
    • Also young Sylvia, who is not very strong, but quite skilled with weapons. She also gets a big magic sword for most of series.
  • Squishy Wizard: The world of Evial features a "Rule of one Gift", meaning that you simply CANNOT be both a good wizard and a good fighter. In another world Mel'in, the physical weakness of most wizards allowed the young Emperor to successfully wage war against wizards. Nevertheless the same series there are Battle Mages, who are both super strong wizards and good fighters. They do not hail from Evial, so they are not subject to the rule. When Fess remembers his past and ceases to identify himself as Evialian, he also stops being subject to the Rule of One Gift.
  • Tome of Eldritch Lore: Of the Essence of Otherbeing by Evengar of Sallador.
  • Unholy Ground: The entire world of Evial is like this, due to the presence of the entity known as the Western Darkness. Any graveyard can go bad, sooner or later, necessitating the presence of clerics and necromancers to deal with the undead. And necromancers are the safer, saner option: the sacrifices they need to stop the undead are just cats, while the priests will torture or burn some human sinners.


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Quotes: Historia Brittonum

"I, Nennius, disciple of St. Elbotus, have endeavoured to write some extracts which the dullness of the British nation had cast away, because teachers had no knowledge, nor gave any information in their books about this island of Britain. But I have got together all that I could find as well from the annals of the Romans as from the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Hieronymus, Eusebius, Isidorus, Prosper, and from the annals of the Scots and Saxons, and from our ancient traditions. Many teachers and scribes have attempted to write this, but somehow or other have abandoned it from its difficulty, either on account of frequent deaths, or the often recurring calamities of war. I pray that every reader who shall read this book, may pardon me, for having attempted, like a chattering jay, or like some weak witness, to write these things, after they had failed. I yield to him who knows more of these things than I do."
—"The Apology of Nennius", Historia Brittonum

At that time, the Saxons greatly increased in Britain, both in strength and numbers. And Octa, after the death of his father Hengist, came from the sinistral part of the island to the kingdom of Kent, and from him have proceeded all the kings of that province, to the present period. Then it was that the magnanimous Arthur, with all the kings and military force of Britain, fought against the Saxons. And though there were many more noble than himself, yet he was twelve times chosen their commander, and was as often conqueror.
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Sundance 2012 Review: GRABBERS is One Classy Creature Feature

Something has gone badly wrong on picturesque Erin Island. The boatload of missing fisherman should have given that away. Or, if not that, then the entire pod of pilot whales that washed up on shore dead and with great gash marks down their side. But, sadly, nobody really paid attention to the obvious signs. Not until it was too late, anyway. It's not entirely their fault, really. A new woman arrived in this tiny, isolated hamlet and the local males were too busy jostling for her attention to pay much attention to anything else.

For the first half of its run time, Jon Wright's Grabbers scratches the horror-comedy sweet spot in a manner seldom seen since 1990's Tremors. Like that film, Grabbers draws its humor far less from slapstick and gags than character interactions, closely observed quirks of behavior from a cast of characters just slightly larger than life. And, like Tremors, Grabbers manages to ratchet up the tension when desired while also remaining almost entirely bloodless (though that never distracts). This is a film that plays its shocks for entertainment rather than revulsion and it does so remarkably well. For the first half of its run time Grabbers is every thirteen year old geeky kid's perfect film, basically, and while it struggles to sustain itself through the back half of its run time it still remains a thoroughly entertaining romp.

The positives are obvious from the very beginning. Director Jon Wright has a fabulous sense of composition and timing, a great eye for composition coupled with a fabulous sense of just how far to push a joke. He's helped greatly on that front by a sharp script from Kevin Lehane and sterling performances from the entire cast with Richard Coyle, Russell Tovey and Lalor Roddy as the town's perpetually drunk fisherman Paddy standing out in particular. The creatures - essentially a big ball of tentacles with a hungry, hungry mouth in the middle - are pretty fantastic as well.

Where things stumble is a little more thorny. Essentially this is a case of a central gag being funnier on paper than in execution. You see, the core joke here is that while the invading creatures would like nothing more than to feast on the blood of the locals they find alcohol toxic. Thus, if you want to be safe the solution is drunkenness. It's a fabulous concept on paper but ask yourself this: When was the last time you found a friend's funny and/or clever story about something they did while drunk or high actually funny and/or clever (especially if you weren't drunk and/or hight)? Drunkenness is one of those things that is consistently funnier in theory than in practice and while Lehane and Wright play it better than many do there is a definite sag in the climax of the picture. The writing-directing duo appear to be aware that promoting drunkenness as a good thing may not play well in certain quarters as well and so they also insert a subplot about leading man Coyle being a functional alcoholic that plays not only as a supremely cursory and unsatisfying treatment of the topic but also as a weirdly moralistic downer of a counterpoint to throw into a film about fighting monsters by getting pissed.

A few qualms aside, however, Grabbers stands as a good time throwback to the cult hit creature features of old. While it misses the opportunity to become a true classic itself - a height the first half absolutely hits - it still remains a solidly entertaining picture.

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State of the Cataclysm

Posted by Malevica on February - 2 - 2011

Well there’s nothing like leading a 25-man guild through a new expansion to suck up all of your free time, and nothing like writing up a thesis to suppress your love of writing as a hobby!

Anyway, what pearls of wisdom can I share?

I’ve got my Priest and Paladin to 85 so far, and my Shaman is close behind at 83. I levelled Malevica as Discipline and had a blast. It wasn’t as quick as it could have been as Shadow, but I usually find that the time I spend reorganising all my bars and learning how to Shadow just isn’t recouped in time savings while levelling; that’s not to say that’s universal though.

On the other hand, I really regret trying to level my Paladin as Holy. Levels 80-83 were OK, but Uldum and Twilight Highlands were just pretty awful. And the problem was easy to fix: Exorcism just costs too much damn mana. I could keep Inquisition up fine but my main nuke is Exorcism. Exorcism does plenty of damage but just can’t be cast for long enough to kill more than one mob before needing to drink again. Give me a glyph, or even a talent, to reduce its mana cost by half and the problem is solved. It has no impact at end-game because DPS specs shouldn’t be mana-starved now.
But, I hear you cry, you’re doing it wrong! Why not just go Ret like everyone else? Well, I chose to go Holy because I was instancing a fair bit and trying to maintain two completely separate gear sets on an alt felt like just too much work. Plus, don’t forget, I’d just finished levelling a Priest as a healing spec with no problems.

And don’t even get me started on quest mobs with 150,000 HP for no very good reason. If a mob is in no danger of killing me (and in Cataclysm there’s no single quest mob which poses any risk to the player unless you’re AFK) then all you achieve by giving it twice the HP of a typical mob is making me press Nuke No.1 twice as many times. Which is boring, especially when I’m already killing mobs slowly.
Let me be clear, I’m in favour of big scary mobs at the end of quest chains, but what makes them big and scary should be more complicated mechanics to deal with and a real sense that they come close to killing me, not just more hit points.

On the subject of linear questing, I love the story-telling and how the heavy use of phasing keeps the zones feeling less crowded, and since my focus is getting to 85 so I can run heroics or raids the ease of finding quest hubs is a bonus. But I will admit that levelling my third character is feeling a bit less exciting when I know I’ve done every quest before.

At the start of the expansion, Blizzard seemed to have achieved their goal of making heroics hard, even taking into account the huge numbers of people carrying around PvP gear or Shadow Priests with plate gear just to game the itemlevel restriction.

What they did well from my perspective is make the encounters problematic if your group tries to nuke ignore the mechanics, while making them fairly manageable if your group avoids the bad, interrupts the Spell-of-Death and kills the adds.

Which leads me to the biggest realisation I had while adjusting to the new expansion, and the best piece of advice I’d give to any new healer:

If the thought going through your mind constantly is “I can’t heal through this!!!”, there’s a very good chance your group is doing it wrong.

Of course, maybe you are just undergeared or not adapting to the new expansion at all, but bear in mind that it’s probably not your fault.
Case in point, my first (guild) run in Lost City was a nightmare. Especially High Prophet Barim (didn’t he use to sell reagents?) and Siamat. Why? We weren’t killing the Soul Fragments in time on the former and we were killing the adds too near to the group on the latter. And no one had the gear to compensate for it.

In WoW, people like to talk about Skill > Gear. Really it’s more like Potential ~ Gear x Skill. If you need a certain level of performance to defeat a boss, you can make it possible by raising your gear or your skill/execution/tactics, or both. Right now, as February dawns, the general levels of gear in the playing community are rising which makes heroics a bit more manageable for the average pickup group, yet they’re still defeating groups regularly if they ignore mechanics, which I count as a success.

My guild is committed to 25-man raiding, and we’re 9/12 at the moment (Cho’gall is so dead this week!), making us the 3rd Horde guild for 25-man raiding (the other two are 10/12, curse them!)

I’ve loved the pace of the raids so far. We’ve generally spent at least a couple of hours on each boss before downing them, so there’s not been a Naxx moment where an entire wing drops in a night. Trash is well-designed, often demonstrating the principles of the fights (Ascendant Council is a great example) and making you think, while not taking hours to plough through.

My favourite encounters are probably Chimaeron, for daring healers not to heal and then challenging them to switch gears in a second, and the Conclave of Wind for the incredible scenery as well as the coordination needed of the whole raid.

25-man raids do seem to be in dire straits at the moment though. On my server a lot of the big Horde 25-man guilds either broke up into 10-man guilds around the expansion or have subsequently dropped to 10s. We have no plans to change the format of our guild, but if I were looking to set up a new guild I certainly wouldn’t be trying to start a 25-man guild.
I’m not predicting the death of 25-man raiding though, just a consolidation into a smaller number of guilds dedicated to the format.

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I’m still here and I do intend to post more, especially as the guild/raid leadership demands begin to lower a bit, but I also have a lot going on and honestly TH4H is dropping quite a way down the list.

I will be updating the raid strategies by the weekend though, I know some of them are way out of date. I’ve got up-to-date versions on my guild’s forums that just need converting.

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[Leadership] The Influence of Celebrities

Posted by Malevica on December - 10 - 2010

I was reading Kurn’s latest post, and a comment in it caught my eye:

The problem with being a GM who has a blog that’s mostly healing-related is that I have a LOT of healers and they’re all awesomesauce and all chomping at the bit to get in there and HEAL.

Now this is something I’ve observed in other guilds as well; not with bloggers (not that I know of, anyway) but with the GM and Officers in those guilds. There seems to me to be a rough correlation between the high-profile figures residing in a given guild and the number and performance of the members of that same class or role. So if your GM is a healer, you’ll find you tend to have strong, enthusiastic healers around.

I think there are two main reasons for a plausible link:

  1. Fame and respect – A well-respected class blogger and commentator like Kurn or someone known around the realm as a good player will obviously attract people to them. And the people drawn to them are more likely to be of the same class or role because we tend to pay more attention to people with similar interests as ourselves.
    They don’t need to be Officers to attract this sort of attention.

  3. Representation within the guild – If your Officers are all ranged DPS, you might expect they they’ll have a different, possibly less sympathetic, perspective on the challenges faced by healers or tanks compared to a more balanced Officer team. Your potential recruits might not even be aware of this, but it can still affect them subconsciously.
    I know I consciously looked at the Officers when I chose my current guild, because the last guild I was in with a DPS-dominated Officer corps was not a place that was sympathetic to healers or tanks at all.

I’d strongly advise guild leaders to keep an eye on their Officer compositions, and if you have to have a corps dominated by one role or another, make sure you have good strong links with the high profile people from the other roles to reassure people that they are listened to and understood.

Early in my raid-leading days I realise I was guilty of being a bit overly demanding on the DPS, until I spent a few months forced to play Shadow. That changed my perspective a lot. You need to be open to the other person’s point of view, so make some critical friends who will tell you when there’s a real problem.

And don’t forget to pamper and spoil your blogging colleagues, because basically we’re awesome!

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Constructive Criticism

Posted by Malevica on December - 9 - 2010

I thought I’d break from the Cataclysm stuff with an old post I’ve finally got round to finishing.

A concept that crops up from time to time, particularly in raiding circles, is the idea of “constructive criticism”. A vast majority of guild charters and guild applications will mention a willingness to accept criticism somewhere within them, but what do we mean by “constructive criticism”? What does it look like? And how do we make sure we’re giving it?

A definition

First, let’s look at “criticism”.

Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of the work or actions of an individual or group by another (the critic). To criticize does not necessarily imply to find fault.

(Emphasis mine, Source)
Criticism is simply an analysis and judgement, it is not automatically negative or fault-finding only. That’s a key point to remember.

Now for the “constructive” part.

Constructive criticism is criticism kindly meant that has a goal of improving some area of another person’s life or work.

(Emphasis mine, Source)
What makes it constructive is that the criticism is meant to help the recipient improve. It does not say anything about the content of the criticism.

What does it look like?

I’ll illustrate this with a hypothetical example.

Your guild has recently taken on a new recruit of your class, who says in their application that they always welcome constructive criticism. It’s been noticed that they seem to be struggling with mana and going OOM a lot, calling for Innervates a lot more than the other healers.

Let’s say that you’re asked by an Officer for an appraisal of that player; they want to know about the new recruit to evaluate their trial. At this point you’re still probably in the realm of simple criticism. Your feedback to the Officer might be quite brief and factual, for example:

This player seems to be fitting in well, asking questions in the healing channel.
They stick to their assignment well.
They put out good healing on the meters but they do seem to have mana problems, calling for a lot more innervates than I usually do.

Recall the definitions above. From the definition of criticism, note that there’s both positives and negatives in there, and some judgement, but the feedback is pretty objective and factual. There’s no real attempt to help the person improve, which would be required to meet the definition of constructive.

Now, imagine that the Officer asks you to have a chat with the recruit to see if you can help them with any mana problems they might be having. Now the purpose for your feedback has changed: you’re interested in helping them improve, which is where the constructive part comes in. So your feedback to the recruit might look something like:

It’s really nice that you’re fitting in here so well during your trial.
I’ve noticed that you seem to be using a lot of Innervates though and I wondered if we can help you out. Do you find mana a problem in raids? Why you think why this might be? What do you think of this alternative spec?
It’s also really good to be able to rely on you to cover your assignment in raids.

I know that sounds a bit stilted, it would be much better as a conversation than a single message to the recruit, but it does illustrate a few points that I’ll look at later. The difference between the two examples is that in the constructive example the intention is clearly to help the person improve.

Giving constructive feedback

I can’t hope to offer a pro forma for giving feedback, and you need to use your judgement about the situation and the people involved, but there are a few general guidelines that might help.

  1. Choose your moment – Criticism should be given close to the event so that it’s fresh in everyone’s mind, but doing it in the heat of the moment when emotions might be running high is unlikely to get the desired results. You also need to allow enough time for a decent conversation, including thinking time.
    Use your judgement: if someone’s standing in fire, mention it between pulls; if someone’s underhealing, that might be better saved for between raids.

  3. Include praise – Some people talk about the “sandwich technique”, where you surround your criticism with praise before and after. I’ve done this in my hypothetical example above, and it looks a little bit odd written down like that, but in a real report or conversation it’s easy enough to end on a high note. The recipient’s attitude to the whole of the feedback is shaped by the tone of the first few exchanges or sentences, so you should start positive; the mood they’re left with is influenced by the last things that were said.

  5. Address the area that needs improvement, but don’t criticise the person. – This can be a very tricky line to walk at times. It’s fine to observe that someone runs out of mana a lot, but you must not judge the person as a “bad player” or “fail” because of it. Think of those “How to raise your little horror” TV shows: you can, and should, tell your child that setting fire to the cat is unacceptable because animals have feelings too, but just labelling the child as “a naughty child” is not useful.

  7. Ask questions – The best way to remain objective and avoid the recipient feeling like you’re picking on them is to let them do most of the talking. Sometimes the best way to help is to ask a really insightful question that gets right to the heart of the issue. For example, rather than saying “you should use this spec”, ask them for their thoughts on the spec or a blog post talking about it. By doing this, you get to make a suggestion, but you also give the recipient a route to refute that suggestion.
    The other advantage of asking questions is that you reduce the risk of simply telling people what they already know, which can come across as patronising.

  9. Focus on solutions, not causes – While it’s important to understand what’s going on, your goal in giving the criticism is to help the person improve, so move on quickly from the problem to solutions. This also helps to keep the discussion positive and focused on the future.
    Where possible, the soltions should also be phrased positively: instead of “stop using spell X”, have the solution as “use more spell Y”. It sounds corny, but it does make a difference.

  11. Be objective – Your only agenda should be to help the person improve, so you need to keep your own prejudices quiet. Don’t just push your solution on the person, but work with them to find the right solution for them.
    And make sure that the solution can be objectively assessed later, so that when you come to do follow-up (you do intend to follow up, right?) you can keep your future judgements objective as well.

Dealing with defensiveness

Sometimes, despite your best intentions, you might not get the response you’re looking for, and the most common response to feedback is defensiveness, where the recipient of the feedback refuses to listen or might even become angry.

In my experience, the first thing you should do is stop and step back; pressing on is likely only going to antagonise the person further. Wait a while, and you might find that point you were making might be taken anyway, once everyone’s emotions have faded and the recipient can consider your words more calmly. They may approach you again, or work out a solution on their own.

If you get no results from this though, you have two main options. The first is trying again, using a different medium. Changing the medium will also almost certainly alter the tone of the conversation: a whisper is less personal than Ventrilo, while a PM allows the recipient to take their time in dealing with it and can relieve a lot of pressure they might feel.

The second option is to have a different person try. Sometimes it can be a personality clash, or it could be your position in the guild, your gender, nationality, or one of many factors that causes the recipient to respond differently to you than to someone else.
Some people get very defensive if someone not of their class/role tries to offer criticism, while others might get defensive around someone who is the same class/role because of some percieved competition.

Your input

I’ll freely admit I’m not the best at people management, so I would really welcome comments from other people about how they deal with giving feedback, be it in the form of advice or anecdotes.

Have you had to give feedback? Did it go well? Did it go badly? How do you take feedback yourself?

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What are extensions?

Extensions are the cornerstone in the internal architecture of TYPO3. In order to understand the importance and the endless perspectives of this concept, lets take a quick look at past.

The illustration below shows how TYPO3 fits into a structure with PHP, MySQL, Apache, the website and backend administration around it. In the versions before 3.5, this illustration applied to the internal structure of TYPO3; everything melted together, overlapped, and depended on each other. It was not necessarily a mess - just very hard for everyone but the most experienced to clearly identify the relationship between things.

All of that changed with TYPO3 3.5, though, which was released in the first beta version just a few weeks after 3.3. The single most important feature of 3.5 was the emergence of the Extension Manager, which is an internal control center managing the new radical structure of basically the same good old parts - now just put into "boxes".

In other words; The big gray "blob" of everything was aligned into 1) one core and 2) many extensions:

This division will surely show to be a vital part of TYPO3s future growth for these reasons:

  • Easy sharing: Extensions are exceedingly easy to share; You press a single button and it's uploaded and online, available for others. Then a single click and it's downloaded, installed and running somewhere else.
  • Hassle-free updates: Updates of extensions are - just like installing - a one-click process. And the core itself is also easy to upgrade because it has been separated from the extensions.
  • Quick development: Extensions are easy to get kickstarted with an internal visual tool. Plus, all files of an extension are located in one single folder - very easy to handle.
  • High quality: Extensions will probably have a high quality since there is an API, clear guidelines for coding, well defined namespaces, and a whole community to comment and review them.
  • Documentation: Extensions can easily be well-documented since a very flexible and powerful integration of OpenOffice Writer documents (sxw) has been deployed. It really can't be easier.
  • Unlimited application: Extensions are able to integrate with almost every little corner of TYPO3, and that makes the possible applications of extensions practically unlimited.
  • Developer responsibility: The modular approach of extensions make the "developer-bazaar" just a little more organized and helps identify responsibility for each single part of TYPO3.
  • Support load: Since extensions will allow people to clearly identify what extension they need support for, it is easy to ask at the right place.

My personal experience is that bringing some random PHP code to work for a specific situation can be done quickly, but making it general and reusable will take, say, 3-4 times more time! With all the streamlined approaches around extensions I would suggest that it now takes only double the time to make an extension re-usable for a large variety of cases. Hopefully that will motivate developers to spend just a little more time and effort to make things right from the start. Spend one hour and it works one place - spend two hours and it works in a hundred places.

The Extension Manager

The Extension Manager (EM) - the control center of extensions - looks like this:

Available extensions on the server are listed, and you can enable/disable each one with a single click of a button. It's that easy! Depending on what the extension does to TYPO3s internal processes, you might have to configure a few things or just accept a certain action. In the case an extension requires an extra table in the database, that is automatically handled by the EM.

For more details, you should really spend a few minutes watching our videos showing in detail how the extension concept works! It's a very cool demonstration.

The Structure

The illustration below shows an annotated version of the TYPO3 architecture. Through the TYPO3 Extension API, all extensions connect themselves to the core of TYPO3.

The core is maintained by the TYPO3 Core Group and has a high level of trust and integrity since it is developed by the most experienced TYPO3 developers in the community. Typical core jobs are authentication and control of permissions, database connectivity and initialization, the visual framework (the interface), installation verification, integrity checks etc. It also includes formal guidelines for how extensions should be coded in order to match the style throughout the system.

Extensions, however, are an open bazaar and everyone is invited to contribute. Typically an extension will have a single author and a group of members. This is formed spontaneously by the people concerned about the extension. But extensions are also subject to natural selection, and therefore many extensions solving similar purposes will naturally be sorted by the approaches that has in practice shown the highest quality. The Core Group offers a team of "Mentors", as well, which can be invoked to perform a quality review of a certain version of an extension an then rate the effort. This will be the trusted "stamp of quality".

Despite extensions being provided by a multitude of people, the whole of TYPO3 will still have a unified appearance for users on all levels. This is due to the API and the coding guidelines, combined with the criterias for good reviews by the mentors. So, although TYPO3 installations are made up of many small bricks, the overall impression will be a homogeneous system.

The Depth of the Deep

TYPO3 is truly extendable. Even extensions can be extended. In any corner of TYPO3, every little method in a class can be extended due to a streamlined mechanism applied consistently throughout the system. This fundamental truth practically eliminates any need for custom, non-backward compatible changes in the open source of the system since class extension is really just a "covering layer" put on top of something underneath.

The TYPO3 Extension Repository

So, the extension repository is right here are your fingertips. This is the official collection of user contributed parts for TYPO3. Now, browse around, look in the categories, dive into the great manuals, and enjoy the beauty of an ordered bazaar's unified efforts to bring the most powerful collection of CMS tools to you - for free under the GPL license!

Technical Details

If you want to know more technical details about extensions you should go and read the TYPO3 Extension API.


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Modeling and schematics
Looking for schematics or helpful tips on modeling? This might be the place for you to share your ideas.
U-31 Class Schematic
Posted by: John H ()
Date: April 02, 2010 07:53PM

Hello, I am working on a screenplay set during World War 1 and am looking for diagram, schematic or blueprint of a U-31 class, ocean-going diesel-powered torpedo attack boat. My hero begins the movie as an engine room crewman and I would like to follow him through the ship. I would also like to identify the location of the bolt holding the external keel.

As a side note, my hero is based on my wife's grandfather, who served in just such a position during WW1. His boat was forced down by British destroyers and "ran aground," the keel stuck in the soft ocean bottom. After several attempts at "rocking" the boat by alternately filling and blowing port and starboard ballast tanks, they released the external iron keel. The boat rose quickly to the surface but without the keel they could no longer submerge and had to make it back to port on the surface - a dangerous task for a slow-moving boat with one forward gun.

Many thanks for any and all assistance. John

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Peer-reviewed Article

Effect of environment on reproduction in dusky-veined walnut aphids

William H. Olson, Butte County

publication information

California Agriculture 29(5):10-11. May 1975.

author affiliations

W. H. Olson is a Farm Advisor in Butte County. Assistance was provided by Dr. William C. Batiste, formerly with the Division of Entomology and California, Berkeley.

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

The dusky-veined walnut aphid, Panaphis juglandis (Goeze), appears in three distinct forms: alate viviparous parthenogenetic females, apterous oviparous females, and alate males. Commonly, only the alate viviparous parthenogenetic female form of this aphid can be found during the spring and summer months. The apterous oviparae and males appear during the fall. This suggests that temperature, day length, or host plant (English walnut) condition influences form.


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Annual to tree, generally glandular, some ± aquatic. Stem: round to square in ×-section. Leaf: simple, generally alternate, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0 (present in Limosella). Inflorescence: spike to panicle (head-like), generally bracted, or flowers 1–4 in axils. Flower: generally bisexual; calyx lobes 4–5; corolla bilateral to radial, lobes 4–5; stamens epipetalous, 4–5, 5th a staminode in Scrophularia; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2. Fruit: capsule, generally ± ovoid, loculicidal or septicidal, or drupe-like.
± 65 genera, 1700 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (Verbascum). [Olmstead et al. 2001 Amer J Bot 88:348–361] Other taxa moved to Plantaginaceae (Antirrhinum, Bacopa, Collinsia, Cymbalaria, Digitalis, Dopatrium, Gambelia, Gratiola, Hebe, Holmgrenanthe, Keckiella, Kickxia, Limnophila, Linaria, Lindernia, Maurandella, Mohavea, Nothochelone, Penstemon, Pseudorontium, Stemodia, Synthyris, Tonella, Veronica), Orobanchaceae (Bellardia, Castilleja, Cordylanthus, Orthocarpus, Parentucellia, Pedicularis, Triphysaria), Phrymaceae (Mimulus). —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Unabridged references: [Albach et al. 2005 Amer J Bot 92:297–315]

Key to Scrophulariaceae

Kim R. Kersh

Annual, perennial herb, subshrub, erect, generally glandular-puberulent to -hairy. Stem: square in ×-section; (15)70–180 cm. Leaf: petioled; opposite, pairs at right angles to each other, lanceolate to triangular-ovate, serrate, dentate, or deeply cut, dark to light green, yellow-green, or gray-green (dull green), base cordate to truncate or occasionally ± wedge-shaped. Inflorescence: generally panicle of cymes, occasionally axillary cymes or flower 1; axes, pedicels generally slender, occasionally glabrous. Flower: calyx lobes 5, 2–4 mm, triangular-ovate to lanceolate, acuminate to acute or rounded, green, persistent, margins scarious or not; corolla 6–14 mm, inflated proximally, generally 2-colored, upper lip 2-lobed, generally darker than lower, lower lip < upper, 3-lobed, middle lobe reflexed, lateral lobes erect, mouth constricted; fertile stamens 4, included, 2 generally longer; staminode 0 or proximally fused to corolla, much-reduced, or elongated with expanded tip; stigma head-like or 2-lobed; nectary disk fleshy, at ovary base. Fruit: septicidal. Seed: oblong-ovoid, ridged.
150–200 species: North America, temperate Asia, Mediterranean. (Latin: associated with the disease scrofula) [Shaw 1962 Aliso 5:147–178]
Unabridged etymology: (Latin: associated with the disease scrofula by the doctrine of signatures)

Key to Scrophularia

Perennial herb, shrubby in age; occasionally glandular-long-soft-hairy. Stem: 120–180 cm. Leaf: larger blades 8–15 cm, dark to light green. Inflorescence: axes, pedicels glandular-long-soft-hairy. Flower: calyx lobes 3 mm, triangular-ovate, green, tip acute to rounded, margins generally scarious; corolla 8–11 mm, upper lobes dark maroon to ± black, lower lobes paler, mouth ± constricted; staminode an awn-like rudiment or lacking; stigma lobes 2, ± spreading.
Canyon bottoms, coastal scrub, chaparral; < 400 m. s Channel Islands (Santa Catalina, San Clemente islands); Baja California (Guadalupe Island). Feb–May [Online Interchange] {CNPS list}

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UCR’s Chicano Student Programs to Host 20th Annual Noche Cultural

Chris Reza y Mariachi highlights this family-friendly evening of music and dance

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The 20th annual Noche Cultural will take place at UC Riverside's University Theatre on Saturday, January 25, 2014.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. —  The Chicano Student Programs office at the University of California, Riverside, will host an evening of family-friendly musical entertainment at the 20th annual Noche Cultural. It will be held at the UCR University Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 25. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.; the show starts at 6:30 p.m.

“We are very excited to be celebrating 20 years of this beloved event, which features culturally rich music and dance,” said Arlene Cano Matute, social/cultural programmer for Chicano Student Programs. “Having such event shares our Chicano/Latino culture, traditions, and the spirit of La Raza with our campus and community. Our office is very pleased to reach this anniversary, and we look forward to many more years of celebrating and educating audiences on our cultura. We, along with the growing audience, look forward to it every year.”

This year’s lineup includes a featured performance by Chris Reza y Mariachi. Reza  began singing at the age of 19 with renowned vocal instructor Gualtiero Negrini and who has performed professionally at various venues such as Encuentro Internacional Del Mariachi y Charrería, as well as Mariachi USA Festival, and alongside international artists such as Beatriz Adriana and Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan. He recently released his debut album, titled “Chris Reza,” on iTunes.

Admission is $12 general / $10 students.  Tickets can be purchased through the Fine Arts Box Office by calling (951) 827-4403. Tickets can also be bought in-person at the University Theatre Box Office window from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Due to limited seating, advance ticket purchase is recommended. Parking is $5 per car in Lot 6.

Other scheduled performers include:

  • Grupo A.S.O.S.A.L, home of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional de El Salvador. A.S.O.S.A.L. was established in Los Angeles in April 1991 as a nonprofit organization to support the growing Salvadoran community. Their mission included Salvadoran cultural preservation, education and celebration through the teaching of visual and performing arts. The group will perform “El Xuc Salvadoreño” composed of música y danza tropical.
  • Ballet Folkórico Mi Linda Nicaragua, founded by Miriam Arroyo who serves as the director of the group. Created in December 1991 with the goal of honoring and preserving Latin American culture as well as engaging the youth in a positive activity, the group is a regular performer on local and national stages.
  • Sean Oliu, an 11-year-old Anaheim native who appeared as a contestant on La Voz Kids. Sean began singing at the age of seven with the Ritmó Mariachi Academy and is a solo artist with a love of cultura y música.
  • Conjunto Xi is a son jarocho group from Los Angeles composed of four talented musicians who have a love for música Jarocha y Huasteca.
  • The local familia Los Romero will be making their 20th appearance at the show with their very special renditions of romantic ballads and rich history of music sharing and storytelling.

For additional information, contact Chicano Student Programs at (951) 827-3821.

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Gaucho Men Dash to 11th-Place Finish, Women are 16th at Pre-Nationals

Junior Jeremy Acosta finished the 8K course 49th overall, clocking in at 25:09 with a pace of 3:09/K. Gaucho teammates Anthony Masci and Juan Paredes were 59th and 77th with times of 25:18 and 25:28. Overall, five of the seven Gaucho runners finished within the top 100 at the meet.

Respectively, junior Bhavik Kanzaria finished 82nd with a time of 25: 34, while senior Andrew Pilavjian finished 91st with a time of 25:38. Junior Baxter Frick and Senior Doug Whichard finished 132 and 153 with times of 26:00 and 26:10 helping the Gaucho men finish 11th overall with the top 5 times being clocked in at 2:07:08.

 The UCSB women's team was led by senior Andrea Jacobs who ran the 6K in 22:00 finishing 53rd overall. Senior Ashley Beechan finished 77th with a time of 22:17, making it as the only two Gauchos to make it within the top 100 runners of the meet.

 Senior Callie Mulgannon finished 112th with a time of 22:42, while sophomore Dani Moreno finished 119th overall in a time of 22:48. Ariana Selix, Sarah Vitug, and Christine Cooperstein finished 162, 176 and 183 helping the women finished 16th overall.

 The Gauchos will get back to it on Oct. 21, where both the men and women will compete at the Fullerton Invitational.

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