|Publication number||US3689962 A|
|Publication date||Sep 12, 1972|
|Filing date||Oct 19, 1970|
|Priority date||Oct 19, 1970|
|Publication number||US 3689962 A, US 3689962A, US-A-3689962, US3689962 A, US3689962A|
|Inventors||Erickson Marlin D|
|Original Assignee||Janet E Erikson, Erickson Marlin D|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (17), Classifications (7)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
United States Patent Erickson Sept. 12, 1972 541 RELEASABLE BUTTON-LIKE ELEMENT  Inventor: Marlin D. Erickson, Cedar Rapids,
 Assignee: Janet E. Erikson, Hiawatha, Iowa a part interest  Filed: Oct. 19, 1970  Appl. No.: 81,810
 US. Cl ..-..24/l08, 85/5, 24/208 A, 24/90 PR, 24/216  Int. Cl. ..A44b 1/38  Field of Search....24/107, 108, 208 A, 217, 216, 24/90 RR, 90 E, 90 D, 90 A, 90 B, 42; 85/5,
 References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,148,978 8/1915 Manning ..24/91 2,552,066 5/1951 Sorensen ..'..24/2 1 7 3,120,971 2/1964 Bengtsson ..85/5 R 485,848 11/1892 Perrine ..24/ l 08 Primary ExaminerBobby R. Gay Assistant ExaminerGarry Moore Attorney-Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall [5 7] ABSTRACT A button is integrally formed with a square shaft having one or more axially spaced recesses. A grommet is provided with a lip which releasably mates with such recesses to form a fabric clamp. The grommet has an outer flange portion which extends axially of the shaft from the lip such that insertion in the diametrically opposite position provides a completely different spacing, for accommodating correspondingly different thicknesses of fabrics.
6 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures PATENTED i973 3.689.962
MARLIN D. ERICKSON BY BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to'a button-member or the like connected to a fabric without the necessities of the usual needle and thread and one which is releasably clamped to the fabric.
Generally, buttons and the like are interconnected to the fabric through a suitable thread which is applied through appropriate openings in the button and the fabric by use of a suitable needle. Buttons and like members have been suggested which can be attached to the fabric by a piercing shaft and a suitable clamping member. Generally, such detachable members have employed a shaft member with a relatively complicated interconnecting grommet arrangement. Further, each unit is generally constructed for connection to a particular fabric thickness such as a shirt or the like.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION The present invention is particularly directed to a button-like element or the like for releasable interconnection to fabrics of different thickness with a firm and reliable releasable connection. Generally, in accordance with the present invention, a button-like member is connected with a coupling or connecting shaft and a clamping grommet which are constructed with an interconnecting lip and notch connection means to produce a firm and reliable connection. Further, in accordance with the present invention the connection means permits changing of the spacing between the button-like member and grommet with at least two fixed different distances, depending upon the interconnection between the grommet and the shaft.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the grommet is provided with a lip adaptedto match with a slot in the shaft. The grommet has an outer flange portion which extends axially of the shaft from the lip such that insertion in one direction establishes a first spacing while insertion in the diametrically opposite position provides a completely different spacing. Further, the shaft may be provided with a plurality of notches to permit adjustment for different spacing and with the novel lip and flange grommet provides a substantial number of differing spacings for accommodating a large number of different thicknesses.
Further, the connecting stem and grommet opening may be formed of a relatively square configuration to provide a more positive interlock between the members.
The present invention thus provides a novel buttonlike structure which can be readily connected to fabrics of widely differing thicknesses.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING The drawing furnished herewith illustrates the best mode presently contemplated by the inventor for carrying out the subject invention in which the above advantages and features are clearly disclosed as well as others which will be readily understood from the following description of such embodiment.
In the drawing:
FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a button constructed in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the button structure shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a vertical section taken generally on line 3-3 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 3 showing an alternate assembly of the structure shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a side elevational view similar to FIG. 2 illustrating an alternate construction; and
FIG. 6 is a vertical section taken generally on line 6-6 of FIG. 5.
DESCRIPTION THE ILLUSTRATED EMBODIMENT Referring to the drawing and particularly to FIG. 1, the present invention is illustrated in connection with a conventional appearing button 1 having the usual thread openings simulated by appropriately spaced black dots or the like and interconnected to a fabric 2 in accordance with the teaching of the present invention. In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIGS. 1 through 3, a shaft or stem 3 is integrally connected to the backside of the button 1 and extends outwardly through the fabric 2. A special flanged grommet 4 is releasably secured to the protruding and outer end of the shaft 3 and releasably clamps the button 1 to the fabric 2. In accordance with the illustrated embodiment of the present invention, the shaft 3 is provided with a notch to which the flanged grommet 4 is secured in either of two positions shown respectively in FIGS. 1 and 4, to provide for alternate spacings between the backside of the button 1 and the opposing and adjacent face of the grommet 4.
More particularly in the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the shaft 3 is shown having a generally round cross-section and terminating in the outer end in a slightly pointed end 5 to permit ready piercing of a fabric 2. The shaft 3 is provided with an annular detent or recess 6 spaced rearwardly from the button 1 generally in accordance with a maximum thickness material or fabric 2 to which the button 1 is to be secured.
The grommet 4 includes a radial continuous lip of base portion 7 having a central opening 8 having a diameter somewhat larger than the size of the shaft 3 portion within the annular recess 6. In addition the grommet 4 includes an outer flange 9 integrally connected to the outer edge of the base portion 7. The inner surface of the flange 9 is spaced upwardly of the shaft 3.
The shaft 3 is formed of a relatively rigid material while the grommet 4 and particularly the base or lip portion 7 is formed of a relatively flexible material. As a result the grommet 4 can be forced over the pointed end 5 of the shaft 3 with the lip 7 moving inwardly into the recess 6 to securely interconnect the grommet 4 to the shaft 3.
With the grommet 4 attached as shown in FIGS. 1 through 3, the base portion 7 of the grommet 4 is in opposing facing relation to the button 1. Consequently, a first predetermined distance is established therebetween permitting a relatively thick material or fabric 2.
Alternatively, the grommet 4 can be reversed (Fig. 4) and applied to the shaft with the outer edge of flange 9 in opposed, facing relationship to the button 1. As a result with the lip 7 engaged with the annular recess 6 the forwardly projecting flange 9 defines a relatively inwardly spaced clamping face, thereby reducing the space between the button 1 and the clamping face of the grommet 4 to provide relatively secureinterconnection to a relatively thin fabric 2.
By employing a flexible lip grommet 4 the button 1 can be attached and readily removed while establishing a firm and reliable interconnection of the button to fabric 2. This may be of particular significance in connection with washing of various garments and the like where it is desirable to remove the button, because of some adverse effect such as the particular material from which the button is constructed. Further, it might provide for easier ironing or other processing of the garment.
The present invention thus provides a highly versatile, releasable button construction which can be rapidly attached and removed from a garment without the necessity of the usual threadingand sewing operation.
Further, to further increase the thickness or the variability of the thickness of thefabric 2 to which the button 1 might be secured, the shaft and grommet can be modified as shown in Figs. and 6, wherein the corresponding elements of the previous embodiment are similarly numbered for simplicity and clarity of explanation. in the embodiment of FIGS. 5 and 6, the button l is secured to a shaft 3 having a second notch or recess spaced from the first recess 6. The shaft may have a square cross-section to firmly interlock with the grommet. The selective interconnection of the grommet 4 to the two notches 6 and 10 provides a means further increasing the variations in acceptable fabric thickness. For example, the double notched unit with a flanged grommet 4 of FIGS. 1-4 would permit assembly of the button unit with four different fabrics.
Further, if desired, the grommet 4 can be formed with a second oppositely extending flange 11 which projects axially of the other flange 9, with one of the flanges 9 or 11 interconnected to the base portion 7 in a break-away manner such as by a thin connection portion '12 in the flange 11. Each clamping recess and the.
dual flanged grommet 4 would permit interconnection of the single button unit to three different sized fabrics. Thus, the double notched stem 3 would allow the interconnection to six different thicknesses of fabric.
The present invention thus provides a single unit construction which is very versatile and can be applied to a relatively large different number of fabrics in a simple, reliable and inexpensive manner. Although described in the preferred embodiment as applied to a flat button member, the invention is equally applicable to any other similar small member to beattached to clothing and the terminology button-like assembly is used to broadly cover button members and other similar small elements.
Various modes of carrying out the invention are contemplated as being within the scope of the following over the fre end f said shaft fro eit er end f the grommet, said sha and grommet i r iclufling a re easable interengaging lip means and recess means defining a locking means to lock said grommet to said shaft, said grommet having at least two clamping surfaces differentially axially spaced in relation to and to the opposite sides of said locking means and being reversibly mountable on said shaft to define at least two different releasably fixed positions defining two different spacements between the grommet and the button-like member in accordance with the clamping surface located in facing relation to said button-like member and thereby adapting said button-like assembly for connection to corresponding different thicknesses of fabric.
2. The detachable button of claim 1 wherein said recess means is formed in said shaft and said grommet includes an apertured base defining said lip means engaging said notch means, said grommet having an outer flange projecting from said base in one direction further than in the opposite direction to thereby define said spacements in accordance with the attachment of said grommet to said shaft.
3. The detachable button-like assembly of claim 1 wherein said recess means includes a recess on said shaft, and said grommet includes a lip selectively engaging said recesses and an outer flange projecting axially of said lip to define said different spacements.
4. The detachable button-like assembly of claim 1 wherein said recess means is formed as an annular recess in said shaft and said grommet is formed of a resilientvrubberlike tubular member and includes an apertured base defining a'flexible lip means having an opening less than the size of the shaft and larger than the base of the recess, said grommet including oppositely extending locating elements secured to said base and at least one of said elements being secured with a break-away connection.
5. The assembly of claim 4 wherein said elements are each an outer flange projecting from said base in one direction further than in the opposite direction to thereby define said spacements in accordance with the attachment of said grommet to said shaft.
6. The detachable button-like assembly of claim 1 wherein said shaft within said recess means has a square cross-section to firmly interlock with the grommet.
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|U.S. Classification||24/108, 24/114.4, 24/696|
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For the much-anticipated and much-discussed Broadway Jones apartments, developer NRP Group has agreed to an incentive deal that will provide 10 percent of the project’s 283 units to households making between 50 and 60 percent of the area median income (AMI), or between $33,400 and $40,800, respectively.
The discount only applies to one-bedroom apartments.
For example, a household making $33,400 would pay $835 a month for a one-bedroom apartment at Broadway Jones, based on the agreement. Under the deal, a tenant would be charged 30 percent of their income, a rent restriction intended to make these units truly affordable. However, NRP Group—which is the developer, the builder and the management company for Broadway Jones—has the ability to charge up to 35 percent of a tenant’s income.
On Wednesday, the deal was solidified between NRP Group and the San Antonio Housing Trust Public Facility Corp. (PFC), a city-created nonprofit run by the City Council members who represent Districts 1-5. NRP Group, the PFC and an undisclosed equity provider, are partnering with an undisclosed bank to make Broadway Jones happen.
Here’s roughly how it works:
The development partnership is exempt from paying all property taxes because the PFC also owns the property and everything built on it. In exchange for the tax exemption, NRP Group must offer half of the 283 units at Broadway Jones to people making 80 percent AMI, according to state law. NRP Group will rent the other half at market-rate prices.
But many observers, including Mayor Ron Nirenberg, have recently questioned whether a typical San Antonio household making 80 percent AMI—or, $53,440—should be described as low income. Others on the City Council agree. And it was from Council discussions in the past month that NRP Group decided to take its agreement with the PFC a step further and add 10 percent of the units, or 28 apartments (taken from the half that’s offered at 80 percent AMI) and offer them to people in the 50 to 60 percent AMI bracket.
So what does NRP Group get in return?
By offering rents to people making between 50 and 60 percent AMI, NRP Group doesn’t pay the PFC’s closing fee of $250,000. Instead, those funds will be used to create a reserve that will “buy down” rents, i.e. make up the cost of making the apartments affordable.
The area median income for a family of four in the greater San Antonio area (including New Braunfels) is $66,800. Here’s how it breaks down for lower-income households:
» 80% – $53,440
» 60% – $40,800
» 50% – $33,400
» 40% – $26,720
» 30% – $20,400
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
For example, a one-bedroom rented to someone making 80 percent AMI would cost $1,065 (based on the 30 percent rent restriction). For the person making 50 percent AMI, it would cost $835. The difference—or, $230—will be subsidized using the $250,000 reserve fund.
In an interview a few weeks ago, Veronica Soto, director of the city’s Neighborhood and Housing Services Department, described the practice of “buying down” rents as an incentive.
The agreement comes after much discussion among City Council members about the city’s role in incentivizing housing, especially in the downtown area. In light of San Antonio’s economic segregation, a handful on the Council said they must be able to convince their constituents that the public is receiving a worthwhile benefit in return for doling out tax breaks to developers. Cheaper apartments, especially in the downtown area, do that, they said.
On Nov. 1, before voting on a reimbursement grant worth up to $680,000 from the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone, the Council entered a candid discussion about what some members called a lack of affordability at Broadway Jones. At the time, the agreement between the PFC and NRP Group did not include 60 percent AMI rents—just half at 80 percent AMI, half at market rate.
During the discussion, District 9 Councilman John Courage voted against the incentive for Broadway Jones because it didn’t offer apartments to people making below 80 percent AMI.
On Wednesday, via text, Courage said he was encouraged to hear that the PFC and NRP Group found the means to incentivize more affordable units at Broadway Jones.
“We need to keep our inner city and downtown neighborhoods affordable for all San Antonio working families,” Courage said.
The $55.9 million, five-story, Broadway Jones apartments will add 283 mixed-income units to what is arguably San Antonio’s hottest real estate submarket—River North. It will also add roughly 15,000-square-feet of retail on two floors. Restaurants, most likely.
How PFCs work
This type of agreement between the PFC and NRP Group produced the Cevallos Lofts in Southtown, and the newer Baldwin apartments on the near East Side, to name a few. The PFC partners with other affordable housing builders, and most are built outside downtown. For example, for the Friedrich Lofts project on the East Side, the PFC is partnering with Dallas developer Provident Realty Advisors, Inc.
It’s the same type of agreement that’s resulting in The ’68 at Hemisfair, but that agreement is between AREA Real Estate and the Hemisfair Park Public Facility Corp.
The San Antonio Housing Trust PFC’s board is composed of Council members representing Districts 1-5, who are, in district order: Roberto Treviño, William “Cruz” Shaw, Rebecca Viagran (chairwoman), Rey Saldaña and Shirley Gonzales.
The PFC purchases the land and owns everything built on the land.
The PFC forms a partnership with an apartment developer, and typically a third equity partner, and the partnership finds a lender, a bank, which then backs the project. The partnership leases the property from the PFC for 75 years, and it also constructs the building. At the end of the 75 years, the PFC owns the development outright.
Broadway Jones total incentives
» $680,000—Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone reimbursement grant
» $1.5 million—Center City Housing Incentive Policy (a combination of city and SAWS fee waivers, and a mixed-use loan)
» ?—fully property tax exemption
In October, the San Antonio Express-News analyzed Broadway Jones and concluded the project will deprive public agencies of an estimated $1.6 million a year. Reporter Richard Webner, who recently left the Express-News, told me he used the estimated tax figures from the Bexar County Appraisal District records, from the properties involved, in his calculations. His article did not give an estimated total value of the tax exemption over the 75-year lease. (The Heron is currently working on its own calculation.)
The PFC, in the case of Broadway Jones, owns 15 percent of the partnership without putting in any equity. It’s bringing to the table the tax exemption (the total value of which the PFC has not shared after requests from the Heron). However, for its 15 percent ownership, the PFC receives 15 percent of the rent revenue stream. It also receives an annual administrative fee from the developer, which is $20,000 a year for Broadway Jones, according to Soto.
If NRP Group decided to charge full market-rate prices, or sell its partnership stake to another developer who then charged full market-rate, the development would lose its tax exemption. If this were to happen, the PFC would still have the right to own its 15 percent.
In Broadway Jones, NRP Group is also an equity partner, though Travis Sheffield, NRP Group’s vice president of development, declined to say how much money the developer was putting into the project.
When asked who the other equity partner was, and which bank was lending the rest of the funds, Sheffield said he would disclose those other players once NRP Group closes on the deal, which it’s scheduled to do on Dec. 14.
When asked about the development’s projected rate of return on investment, Sheffield deferred to PFC attorney Jim Plummer with the law firm Bracewell LLP. Plummer told me he didn’t remember.
“If I knew it, I’d tell ya,” Plummer said. “I don’t know it off the top of my head.”
The 2.6 acres is currently owned by developer James Lifshutz, which is selling the three combined properties for an unknown price to the PFC. Under the partnership agreement, Lifshutz will own and lease the retail portion of the building, and pay sales taxes. The three properties are valued at $5.7 million by the Bexar County Appraisal District.
NRP Group hopes to break ground on Broadway Jones the first week of January, Sheffield said.
[ Editor’s note: The Mayor’s Housing Task Force uses an AMI of $49,000 (just San Antonio)—a 2016 figure from the U.S. Census American Community Survey 1-year estimate—because it’s more representative of San Antonio’s workforce. Broadway Jones, and all other city incentives programs, uses the HUD definition of $66,800 for the greater San Antonio area, which includes New Braunfels. ]
Are the tax breaks necessary?
At the Nov. 1 Council meeting, Sheffield and Assistant Manager Lori Houston told Council members that the full tax exemption offered by the PFC was necessary because the property, even though the land is arguable the most prime real estate in the downtown area, possesses a set of challenges unique to the location.
PFC projects such as the Friedrich Lofts, which are replacing the decades-long vacant former Friedrich refrigerator factory, are said to be economic boosters of long-neglected neighborhoods.
But the Broadway corridor is far from being ignored. It has seen a flurry of multifamily projects pop up since the creation of the city’s Center City Housing Incentive Policy (CCHIP) is 2012. Last year, voters approved the 2017-2022 bond program, the largest single item of which was $40 million toward Broadway street and sidewalk upgrades, right outside the front doors of Broadway Jones. It’s nearly equidistant from the Pearl and downtown proper, and is a quarter-block from the Museum Reach section of the San Antonio River. It’s also a short bike ride away from the gentrifying East Side.
A city-funded assessment of CCHIP, which offers rebates on city property taxes alone, concluded that these types of projects—wood-framed, five-story apartment buildings along downtown’s outskirts—no longer required incentives to be successful, because the rents they’re able to command offer a large enough revenue stream that they are profitable without incentives.
At Broadway Jones, environmental issues having to do with the removal of underground storage tanks, and the spacing out of utility poles, which is required in order for NRP Group to maximize the land, have added additional cost to the project, Sheffield said.
In short, Sheffield said NRP Group could possibly build the apartments without the tax break, but the apartments wouldn’t be affordable.
“The project itself would be challenging to exist without the PFC partnership and the incentives,” Sheffield said after the Nov. 1 meeting. “You would need significantly higher rents. Now there are new products in the area on the river that are really pushing rents that haven’t quite been proven. I can’t say if (Broadway Jones) would exist on the same timeline. It might exist five years later. It’s possible. (The rents) would have to be very expensive.”
At the Nov. 1 meeting, District 6 Councilman Greg Brockhouse criticized Broadway Jones for only offering one-bedrooms to low-income households.
“You quoted it as the ‘best development in the city’ … that a family can not live in,” Brockhouse told Sheffield at the meeting. “That is a problem. So (families) cannot have access to the best developed unit.”
Plummer said in future PFC deals, he’s telling developers they need to include 60 percent AMI rents across all bedroom types.
The new direction in affordability seems to be the result of some strong feedback from Nirenberg, Courage, and, most notably, Saldaña, who has been beating the affordability drum for more than a year in regards to CCHIP and, now, the PFC.
“I just want to say, we’re changing the course of business,” Saldaña said Nov. 1. “I do think we have to start holding the line on certain items.”
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News & Notes: Justin Timberlake to shoot film scenes in Princeton on Friday
Justin Timberlake will be in Princeton all day Friday to shoot the film “Runner, Runner” on various streets in the Borough as well as inside of Ivy Inn. All filming locations are within walking distance from campus, according to Geoff Aton, a business affiliate of Ivy Inn who is familiar with the filming logistics.
Aton said that while details regarding the film production are “tight-lipped,” the basic outline is that film crew will start filming around 6:30 a.m. and finish around 9 p.m.
Ivy Inn will be closed all day Friday and will be serving as the film crew’s “home base,” according to Aton. Production members will likely be going back and forth from Ivy Inn to the street locations.
Aton predicted that street filming will take place in the morning hours and will move into Ivy Inn later in the afternoon.
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Officials say 5 Afghan evacuees have been diagnosed with measles in Virginia.
In Virginia, five people who traveled from Afghanistan were diagnosed with measles. Measles is still “common” in some regions of the world, despite the fact that most Americans have been vaccinated.
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced Tuesday that five people who were part of the US government’s emergency evacuation from Afghanistan had been diagnosed with measles. Measles is classified as a “very contagious” disease. As a result, investigators have been seeking to locate and contact everyone who may have come into touch with the suspects at the hospital, Fort Pickett, Dulles International Airport, or other sites.
VDH is identifying sites to warn the public of the probable danger when there is an ongoing worry that individuals may be unaware of potential exposure to a person diagnosed with measles. “When potential exposures are limited and individuals who may have been exposed are identified, VDH approaches them directly.”
This comes only days after a measles case was discovered at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, prompting the isolation of contacts and the provision of post-exposure prophylaxis. According to CNBC, a White House official said Monday that inbound flights of Afghan refugees to the United States would be postponed for “at least another week” due to the confirmed measles cases.
Measles is a highly contagious disease.
As previously said, measles is a highly contagious viral virus that may travel from one person to another “quite readily.” According to Healthline, someone who is susceptible and has been exposed to measles has a 90% probability of being infected.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the measles vaccine is a “highly efficient” way of preventing infection. Those who have gotten two doses of the measles vaccine in accordance with the US immunization schedule are claimed to be “protected for life” and do not require a booster shot “ever,” according to the CDC.
Despite the vaccine’s availability, it remains a “major cause of death worldwide.”
In 2017, for example, 110,000 people died worldwide from measles, the majority of them were children under the age of five. Furthermore, according to Healthline, incidences have been rising in the United States in recent years.
Vaccination is crucial for more than simply safeguarding yourself and your family, according to the outlet. “It’s also vital for folks who aren’t able to get vaccinated.”

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EIA/TIA wiring standards were first published in 1991 and have been evolving ever since. The EIA/TIA-568 standard defines the specification of the cable to be used as well as some installation rules. The latest version of the EIA/TIA standard is 568B, which contains some minor enhancements to the original 1991 standard. The most popular is Category 5, the highest-quality UTP cable. It is tested at 100 MHz, allowing it to run high-speed protocols such as 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet and FDDI. Category 5 cable also uses either 22 or 24 AWG unshielded twisted pair wire with impedance of 100 ohms.
The IEEE has defined three new physical layers for 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet. By far, the 100Base-TX is the most popular one. However, the IEEE also demands rigid compliance of how the cable is installed with RJ-45 connector. Otherwise, you will have high-speed data transmission problem – NEXT. NEXT is the coupling of signals from one twisted pair to another. NEXT is undesired because it represents unwanted spillover from one pair to other. The result is corrupted data or no connection at all.
Even you are using Cat 5 cable with 4 twisted pair wires, it doesn’t mean that the cable is 100% compliant with EIA/TIA standard if it is not connected to RJ-45 in the way it should be. The Straight-through cable (“Patch cable“) connection should be:
Pin 1 and 2 are connected to same twisted pair wire
Pin 3 and 6 are connected to same twisted pair wire
Pin 4 and 5 are connected to same twisted pair wire
Pin 7 and 8 are connected to same twisted pair wire
PIN Pair Cable Color 1| —\ 1 T2 White/Orange
RJ-45 Plug with clip facing down
2| —/ 2 R2 Orange 3| ——\ 3 T3 White/Green 4| —\ \ 4 R1 Blue 5| —/ / 5 T1 White/Blue 6| ——/ 6 R3 Green 7| —\ 7 T4 White/Brown 8| —/ 8 R4 Brown
If you have the problem mentioned above, please check your cable to see if it is compliant with the standard. If not just simply cut out the existing RJ-45 connectors and replace them in the RIGHT way!
Here is the pin-out for Crossover cable (“Uplink cable”):
In normal wiring, the transmit pair is in ORANGE and the receive pair is in GREEN. The other two pairs, blue and brown, are ignored.
There is also another wiring standard – EIA/TIA-568A. Technically, there is no different between 568A and 568B in Ethernet applications. However, if Ethernet system combined with phone system is being used, most of the people will prefer 568A standard due to the fact that 568B may have backward compatibility problem with standard Universal Service Order Codes (USOC) hardware, which are commonly used in the telephone infrastructure.
|568A and 568B Pin-out|
|Blue||–\ \||Blue||–\ \||Pin 4|
|White/Blue||–/ /||White/Blue||–/ /||Pin 5|


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Everyone has a colleague who infuriates them so much that they're desperate for a stiff one (behave) at the end of the day.
Now, imagine if your co-worker was Piers Morgan - you'd definitely need a shot or two after a shift with him.
Susanna Reid, who hosts Good Morning Britain alongside the infamous TV personality, has revealed that her fellow presenter drove her to drink again.
She had teetotal for seven months before Morgan made her desperate to drink again.
The popular presenter has described how her co-host's daily provocations infuriated her and made her feel "I can't do this".
Reid said Morgan sapped her of the BBC neutrality built up before her move to ITV, and forced her to have an opinion.
She told Prima magazine that this change was positive, but also ended her abstinence.
She said: "When Piers Morgan joined Good Morning Britain in 2015, I'd been teetotal for seven months.
"Believe it or not, he drove me to the booze again.
"At 6.01am every morning, I would think 'I can't do this'.
"He's not afraid to say the most personal and provocative things, which I found infuriating.
"I tried ignoring it at first, before realising he was determined to prod and poke me until I was forced to have an opinion on something.
"He now says he's drained out of me the BBC neutrality that I carried with me for the first 20 years of my career - he's right.
"Actually, it's turned out to be a good thing."
Reid said there are "more bad pictures of me in existence than there are good", but accepts her appearance as a "real woman".
When asked about her ideal guest, the presenter said: "We have a WhatsApp group where we discuss our dream guests; my number one is Michelle Obama.
"I've just started reading her memoir, Becoming, and there's so much I'd love to ask her."
The full interview can be read in Prima magazine, on sale on May 6.
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Tensions over the conflict in Syria are expected to be high on the agenda Monday when U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin hold their first face-to-face talks in about a year.
The two leaders will meet in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov also announced Monday the possibility of wider talks next month with countries that have influence on the situation in Syria, including the U.S., Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt.
Ahead of that meeting, Putin -- for the second time in a week -- addressed Russia's expanding military role in Syria.
In an interview recorded in Moscow and aired Sunday, Putin told CBS network's 60 Minutes that Russia intends to support its longtime ally, embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
But he said Russia will not participate in any Syrian ground action against Islamic State extremists in Syria at this time.
WATCH: Related video by VOA State Department correspondent Pam Dockins
Earlier Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in what the State Department said was a bid to lay the groundwork for the president’s talks with Putin.
“The critical thing is that all of the efforts need to be coordinated,” said Kerry, as he headed into talks with Lavrov.
Later, a senior State Department official described their talks as a “very thorough exchange of views on both the military and the political implications of Russia’s increased engagement with Syria.”
For weeks, Russia has been sending aircraft and other military equipment into Syria in an apparent effort to support President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
That support directly conflicts with the U.S. position that Assad has lost legitimacy and needs to step down.
But in an earlier interview with U.S. TV networks last week, President Putin suggested the U.S. support for the moderate Syrian opposition is illegal.
"In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter. We support only legal governmental structures," said Putin through a translator.
Russia has no desire to see the collapse of Assad’s regime, no matter how weakened it becomes, said Faysal Itani, a Middle East scholar at the Atlantic Council.
“This is Russia’s way of saying, ‘I now have a more tangible stake and say in the trajectory of this conflict,' " he said.
Moscow’s stepped-up military engagement in Syria seems to be some kind of “classic hedge,” said Perry Cammack of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“Clearly, they are interested in protecting the Assad regime,” he said, “but also, I assume, they are looking to leverage it toward some kind of political process down the line.”
The U.S. effort to gain clarity on the way forward against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq may have been further complicated by a new development in Baghdad.
Iraq said Sunday that it has a new agreement with Syria, Russia and Iran to share intelligence in the fighting the militant group.
Iraqi officials said the new effort by the four countries would focus on “monitoring the movements of terrorists” to try to degrade their capabilities.


text: Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar on Tuesday announced in the Assembly that there will be no change in the rules and norms of reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Backward Classes (BC) in government jobs. The existing rules will remain, Khattar said, responding to the points raised by the opposition regarding changes brought by the state government to allow any person living in Haryana for five years to get a domicile certificate as against the earlier requirement of 15 years. Khattar was responding to the discussion of the motion of thanks to the governors address in the Assembly. On some issues flagged by opposition members regarding the governments policy to reserve 75 per cent private sector jobs for local youths, Khattar said Haryana was not the only state to have such a provision. Whatever is in the interest of our state, we will do that, he said, adding if any changes are to be made, the government will do so. We dont have any pressure, he said. On the issue of farmers, he said their interests are paramount for the state government which had taken a number of steps for their welfare. The chief minister said that state government is committed to economic development and prosperity of farmers of the state. The chief minister said that to reduce water consumption, the state government had urged farmers to adopt crop diversification and this decision too drew a lot of criticism initially. Under the Distress Ration Scheme, 4.86 lakh families were provided free ration for three months, he said. He accused the opposition Congress of misleading people about the rate of unemployment in the state, and said its members were quoting figures from a private agency which were not correct.

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On Sunday, November 3, Solebury School made the exciting announcement that it has acquired 50 acres of adjacent land directly east of the school.
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Innovation, Design, Engineering, and Art. These critical elements of a 21st-century education have found a home in Solebury School’s newest offering - the IDEA Lab.
"Spring at a school is an interesting time. Memories and dreams mingling together, competing for attention as we embrace our history, all the while pondering the future of those about to embark on a new journey that will take them away from us."
On Friday, May 17, we resurrected an age-old Solebury School tradition of an all-school Service Day — a truly wonderful and productive day that celebrated Solebury's big giving heart.
"When you learn how to make art, particularly when you learn how to work from observation, you start to see things more clearly..."
Can you trace a path over all seven bridges shown here, without crossing any of them more than once? The solution to this problem led to a new field of mathematics. The riddle also happens to illustrate what it is that mathematicians do...
Last summer, Julianna traveled halfway around the world with people she had just met...and had one of the best months of her life. In celebration of Global Education Week, here are just a few of the things she learned in Cambodia.
"Most kids aren’t disorganized on purpose — organization is actually a skill many students need to be explicitly taught." Here are a few ways to help them.
"Community service cultivates our interests, gives us a chance to reflect on and appreciate what we have, and advances humanity. And it can be fun."
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Salman's bae Iulia, Pooja, Bani, Armaan & others at Will Smith's film BRIGHT premiere
Bollywood Celebs like Salman Khan's alleged girlfriend Iulia Vantur, MOHENJO DARO fame Pooja Hegde, singer Armaan Malik, VJ Gurbani Judge, Sarah-Jane Dias, Rakul Preet Singh, Darshan Kumaar attended Will Smith's film BRIGHT premiere. Will Smith, Noomi Rapace, Joel Edgerton and David Ayer also attended the premiere. The film also stars Lucy Fry, Édgar Ramírez and Ike Barinholtz, and will be released on December 22, 2017.
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By Amy Nicholson
By Stephanie Zacharek
By Calum Marsh
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This Was the Year Of…
In 2011's echo chamber of movies celebrating movies (The Artist, Hugo, My Week with Marilyn), only one of them fully functioned as a well-tooled thrill machine on its own terms, and that was Drive. You could pick out the '80s homage stuck between your teeth, or simply savor the perfect action."—Joshua Rothkopf
This was a strong year for terrific genre films in less noticeable places. The big money-grosser was Paranormal Activity 3, but another thrilling mock doc, Trollhunter, is more deserving of acclaim. This brilliant environmental satire uses an overdone "found footage" conceit and does wonderful things with it—both technologically, with first-rate special effects, and by developing a highly original take on established folklore, re-imagining it within the context of government bureaucracy. The trollhunter in question is tired of playing babysitter to the country's unruly monsters, but he does the dirty clean-up work because it's the only thing that keeps him (and Norway) going. It's the Scandinavian Men in Black. — Eric Kohn
2011 has been strong, both in terms of world premieres on the festival circuit and foreign / independent features from 2010 which were reaching North American cinemas for the first time this year. By contrast, we're watching helplessly as the studios perpetrate one of the weakest crops of year-end Oscar-bait in nearly a decade—one auteurist triumph (Hugo), two shrug-worthy mediocrities (The Artist and The Descendants), and a bunch of movies based on "beloved properties," so focus-grouped that we're all tired of them before they even open. Who cares? The bottom line: the contrast between genuinely attentive critics and studio shills has rarely been starker. — Michael Sicinski
Soon after the Occupy Wall Street movement got underway, an organization called Occupy Cinema appeared. They programmed a screening of Peter Watkins’ 1971 Punishment Park. As good as Peter Watkins’ film is, I fear that its close association with the '60s counterculture inadvertently plays into the notion that OWS protesters are patchouli oil-scented neo-hippies. But what contemporary political films could they have chosen? Apart from some films inspired by the Iraq War, overt politics are notably missing from American narrative cinema these days, dwelling instead in the documentary ghetto. (Protected by genre and allegory, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a startling exception.) To be fair, Occupy Cinema did go on to present a contemporary film, Cédric Klapisch’s My Piece of the Pie. Of the films on my top 10 list, the Chinese documentary “Petition” seems most relevant to the Arab Spring and OWS movements. Made two years ago (and shown for only a week in New York), it depicts ordinary Chinese men and women standing up against their government, even becoming homeless in order to file lawsuits against it. Their courage is breathtaking. Director Zhao Liang then made the odd move of making a feature-length PSA about HIV awareness funded by the Chinese government. While not a bad film, it killed off Western festivals’ interest in him, even if he was the subject of a New York Times cover story last summer. —Steven Erickson
My comment on 2011 films? Look. The Descendants, The Artist, Moneyball, Hugo et al are all exceptional, four-star movies. But years from now, when I'm channel-flipping at home on a cold night, I'm heading straight for Bridesmaids. —Mara Reinstein
Oops, We Forgot Some Winners
Most Overexposed Actor, Double Entendre Division: Michael Fassbender.
Most Overexposed Actor, Non-Double Entendre Division: Ryan Gosling. The Ides of March would have been a lot more plausible—and maybe even more compelling—if we'd learned that Ryan's incongruously credulous PR "genius" had received a blunt head trauma just before the opening scene.
Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease Award: the wheezing wagon axles of Meek's Cutoff were the sound design coup of the year. Kudos to Leslie Schatz for finding the perfect aural corollary to Kelly Reichardt's dusty, trudging visuals.
Best Thor: not Chris Hemsworth's hammer-wielding hero, but Chris Zylka's brawny, bicurious dorm-room hunk in Gregg Araki's kinky Kaboom. Let's see Marvel's Thor try to give himself a blow job—and without CGI, I might add. —Adam Nayman
My Breakthrough of the Year was Kevin Smith, who finally was delivered from making one charming-or-less-charming slacker comedy after another...to creating a dark genre movie that riffs on the mythos of Fred ("God Hates Fags") Phelps and feels as perfectly in tune with the lunacy of this historical moment as any recent American picture. Zigging and zagging from an '80s teen sex comedy (with 2011 dialogue), to an Eli Roth torture-porn ritual (performed on a born-again altar), and climaxing in a Waco-style cops-and-wingnuts showdown that's more Carpenter than Carpenter, Red State is written as a series of High Church of Quentin virtuoso monologues but delivers action with sniper-school precision. The Too-Fat-to-Fly Guy finally got his robe and his little tasseled hat: he graduated to Real Filmmaker—and Real Good Filmmaker at that! —Matthew Wilder
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Rarely has the chasm between the year's best films and the ones being celebrated seemed so wide. Presented with twelve months of exciting international cinema, too many voting groups have already fallen in lockstep behind the same middling crop of prospective award contenders. On the other hand, the late wellspring of support for Margaret proves that taking up the cause of an unsung hero hasn't gone completely out of fashion. What value do any of us serve if we can't direct readers to something they've never heard of? — A.A. Dowd
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Reports out of Dubai mean this could very well be the first Lamborghini Aventador SV on fire on the planet. It happened on a stretch of the Dubai Marina and apparently started in the engine before gobbling up the rest of the supercar.
Ferraris, McLarens, Bugattis, Lamborghinis and more were all captured by cameras from the world’s most automotive-minded photographers over the past week, and a few of the finest shots taken made their way to our Facebook wall. Below you will find the ten top images that were submitted to us by photographers from around the world, each of which incorporates not just stunning cars, but stunning landscapes and composition.
Oh my gosh! This car is just so darn beautiful that we can simply not contain our excitement when looking at it. It makes our gear heads brains want to straight up explode all over our computer monitors. What sort of car could possibly have this sort of effect on a gear head?
This Is A Heavily Modified BMW Beast!! It Is A BMW E36 That Has A Chevy Small Block V8 Inside!! Check It Out Nailing A 1100 Horsepower Nissan GT-R On Track!
Car Meets Are Awesome, You Will Get To See Some beautiful Super Cars, But If It Ended Wrong, It Turns To Be Real Bad For Everybody!
We all have seen the new BMW M4GTS beast!! And also more of us wanted to see its reveal!! It's finally Out .
This is a concept graphic video for the BMW M4 GTS!! it is a high performance model of the BMW M4 and it looks really really awesome!!


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Hey everyone, you might have read that the Province has posted BC’s Restart Plan, and it talks about a safe re-start with WorkSafeBC. WorkSafeBC has a page dedicated to return to safe operations. On their page, they have a great list of resources geared to support mental health in the workplace:
- COVID-19 Psychological First Aid Service: Information and Signup (British Columbia Psychological Association) – Free virtual counselling provided by registered psychologists.
- COVID-19: Staying Well In Uncertain Times (Canadian Mental Health Association – B.C.) – Tips and information on how to reduce and manage anxiety in the workplace due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
- Managing COVID-19 Stress, Anxiety and Depression (Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions) – Tips and resources on things we can do as individuals and collectively to deal with stress and support one another during these challenging times.
- Mental Health and Psychosocial Considerations During COVID-19 Outbreak (World Health Organization) – These mental health considerations were developed by the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Use as messages targeting different groups to support for mental and psychosocial well-being during COVID-19 outbreak.
- Mental Health and COVID-10 (Conference Board of Canada) – Videos on different aspects of mental health, including coping with anxiety, job loss, and dealing with isolation.
- Taking Care of Your Mental Health (COVID-19) (Public Health Agency of Canada) – Tips and resources for taking care of your mental health during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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A Hindustani Vocal Concert featuring Anirudha Srinivasraghavan
Tabla: Shri Suresh Ramaswamy
Harmonium: Shri Shreyas Ravi
Date: October 14, 2023, 5:00 PM at India International School
Anirudh Srinivasraghavan is a NYC based Indian classical vocalist.
An IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta graduate, Anirudh was initiated into classical music at a very young age by his mother, Bharatanatyam exponent Smt. Revathi Srinivasraghavan. He started his early training under Shri. Suplav Saha, Shri. Ashok Surve and Shri Pramod Prabhune.
He has been training under the tutelage of leading vocalist Pt. Dr. Ram Deshpande for over 20 years. For over 12 years, he learnt solo Harmonium under the guidance of world renowned eminent Sitarist Pt. Ravi Chary.
Anirudh specializes in the classical music of the Gwalior Gharana, and has strong influences from Agra Gharana as well. He blends his classical music repertoire with a wide variety of semi-classical genres across multiple languages.
Anirudh has been honored with the titles “National Sangeet Shiromani” at the Cuttack
Mahotsav and “Sangeet Sandipani Ratna” by Patel Cultural Foundation.
He was a recipient of the National Scholarship for Classical Music by CCRT, Ministry of Culture, Indian Government for 9 years from 2001 to 2009. He represented India as 1 among 10 candidates at the International Cultural Exchange Programme held at Mongolia for classical vocal and harmonium.
Anirudh has rendered multiple performances nationally and internationally.
Shreyas Ravi is a senior disciple notable sitarist Pt. Ravi Chary. He has given numerous Harmonium Solo & Duet performances across India & USA. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Pt. Vishu Digambar Paluskar Award & Pt. Omkarnath Thakur Award. Along with a thoughtful and robust solo, he as also been regularly accompanying vocal and tabla artists on the harmonium. Some of the notable ones include:
He has also composed and arranged classical and light music and ensembles and most recently composed origial music score for a marathi one act play "Pradakshina" which was widely appreciated.
He has taken tremendous efforts in balancing his academic career and harmonium training. After completing his MBA, currently he has been working as a management consulting in the US. He currently also teaches harmonium at India International School in Chantilly Virginia.
Suresh Ramaswamy was initiated into tabla by Shri.Nishikant Barodekar of the Punjab Gharana and is currently under the guidance of Pandit .Kiran Deshpande the eminent farrukhabad gharana maestro.
Suresh brings his understanding of Hindustani classical music into providing sangat in a way that provides comfort to the main artiste and enhances the concert.
He has provided tabla sangat for many eminent musicians - vocal and instrumental - in India , United States and Canada since 2000.


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Council leisure centres, universities and private schools would be forced into paying business rates under reforms suggested in a major review.
Ken Barclay, the former RBS chief, accused local authorities of tax avoidance by delivering services such as gyms and cafes through arm’s length organisations (ALEOS) that attract charity relief.
He said exemptions for certain activities run by universities and independent schools are also unfair because they are unavailable to competitors.
The Scottish Government commissioned the review in March last year and said they would “respond swiftly” to the recommendations.
In a 140-page report, Mr Barclay also called for nurseries to be exempt from the tax and the supplement that large business pay to be reduced to the English level.
Mr Barclay said: “Any well-functioning tax needs to rely on principles of fairness. Increasing fairness and transparency will increase credibility from ratepayers.
“Ratepayers providing the same goods or services should not be treated any differently because of their location, or by virtue of them operating in the public or private sector.
“We have also highlighted unfair advantages gained by anomalies within the system, and of those who deliberately avoid payment of tax. Neither is fair.
“These measures are essential for the rates system to remain credible for ratepayers and to ensure revenues are not undermined by avoidance tactics.
“We are clear, this is not about penalising certain sectors, it is about compliance, fairness and transparency.”
The system came under fresh criticism earlier this year when some businesses saw their bills rise by up to 400% following a controversial revaluation of what premises were worth on the rental market.
Mr Barclay proposed more regular revaluations – every three years from 2022 – to help counter that.
He also said councils had been deliberately avoiding tax by using arm’s length external organisations to run services, including leisure facilities.
ALEOS are eligible for charity relief when directly-run services are not.
Mr Barclay said this is unfair on private operators and those local authorities that do not exploit ALEOS as much as others.
“This allows councils to gain additional funding from the Scottish Government out with the usual funding arrangements, a fact that was acknowledged by councils themselves as one of the primary
reasons they put services into ALEO status in the first place,” he said.
“This is tax avoidance and should cease.”
Gail Macgregor, from council umbrella body COSLA, said they “absolutely refute any suggestions that councils have deliberately avoided paying rates”.
She added: “We do not accept this. These are legitimate decisions and cannot be construed as avoidance.”
The review also recommends that reliefs for sports clubs are reviewed to ensure they support affordable community-based facilities “rather than members’ clubs with significant assets which do not require relief”, such as prestigious golf clubs.
It also calls for an evaluation of the effectiveness of the SNP’s small business bonus scheme, which means more than half of all businesses do not pay any rates at all.
Other recommendations include the introduction of a year’s worth of rates relief for those firms investing in expansion and reductions for shops to encourage them to stay in town centres.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said: “Having now received the Barclay Review, the Scottish Government will respond swiftly to its recommendations.”


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In this Rift Rogue builds guide I will be discussing about some of the best and most widely used Rift Rogue builds. While some could be literally outstanding, some might just not even make sense. This Rift Rogue builds guide explores possible combinations for selecting souls for both solo and group or team play.
By using the powerful soul combinations recommended in this article, you will be able to level up quickly, deal a lot of damage, dominate in PvP, and even tank!
- Solo Play Builds
- Group Play Builds
- Leveling Builds
- DPS Builds
- PvP And Dungeon Builds
- Tanking Builds
In Rift you will be selecting three souls which will be the basis for all of your character’s abilities, generally you will have one main soul and two other souls which will mainly be used for the starter abilities they give. In this guide I will be discussing the Rogue souls, what they do, and which ones I suggest that you should use.
The Rogue is a pretty versatile class, but should mainly be focusing on DPS. However you can actually go for tanking with the Riftstalker soul. You also have an option between ranged and melee dps, the ranged being the Ranger and Marksman and the melee being the Saboteur, Assassin, Night Blade, and Blade Dancer. There is also a support type soul that offers healing and buffs which is the Bard, but doesn’t quite give you enough to be the main healer.
When playing Rift you’re able to purchase up to four roles so it is good to have a grouping role and soloing role at the very least. First we’ll look into the best soloing option for the Rogue class. You’re going to want to use Blade Dancer as your main soul and the Ranger and Bard souls for your off-souls. When these three souls are combined it gives you a ton of survivability along with damage. The ranger will give you a pet for a good source of extra DPS, and the bard gives you a 30 second heal over time which is great as it’s long enough to where you can just keep refreshing it every 30 seconds of combat.
For grouping it gets a little more complicated, you can go the route of the tank if you want to, this is using the Riftstalker soul as your main as mentioned earlier. You will be wanting Blade Dancer for the dodge buff as well as Assassin for the poison buff. When you have extra points you can’t put into Riftstalker put them into Blade Dancer for the increased dodge.
Second is the DPS, you’re able to go with the same build mentioned above for soloing with Blade Dancer as your main soul but you’ll want to switch out Assassin for the Bard off-soul, unless you want to hang on to it for some extra group healing. You’ll also want to tweak it a little bit from your soloing build to get rid of some of the damage reduction and such and replace it with more DPS oriented talents.
Another option to keep in mind is that Assassin is actually a pretty viable main soul build for DPSing in groups if you don’t like the Blade Dancer or just want to try switching it up from your soloing build if you’re getting bored of it.
Finally you’ve got the possible role of the off-healer. You’re going to need to use Bard as your main soul and pick up all of the talents that help with your buffing and healing. For your off-souls you’ll want to take Ranger and Saboteur, though they aren’t going to make too huge of a difference. Now it should be noted that you simply won’t have enough healing to be a main healer for groups in this build, so I would suggest not even going for it unless you really like healing and happened to pick the Rogue class instead of the Cleric class for some reason.
For leveling up, there is no better combination than the Bard, Marskmen, and Ranger. This class has self-healing, a pet, and some of the best damage in the game – it just does not get any better than this!
The first thing you want to is get 10 points in Bard as you can pick up Invigorated soul. This lets you use Cadence any time you want to heal you and your pet.
Additionally, with two points in Bard, you can get Anthem of Competence, which significantly improves movement speed. This makes leveling faster than any damage boost could as it makes you move faster.
Next, grab Ranger. You do not have to put any points in this role; just get it so you can have a pet.
Finally, for your third soul, get Marksman. The Swift Shot and Hasted Shot allow you to move very quickly between monsters, significantly improving leveling speed. Deadeye Shot also becomes the best use of combo points in the game once you get to rank 3.
You can use Cadence to heal and generate combo points, use two Swift Shots, then finish the enemy with Deadeye Shot. This will kill most enemies outright and leave you with a full health pool.
For more details on this Rift Rogue leveling build and how to progress it so a higher level, see the Rift Rogue leveling guide.
If maximal damage is your game, then you will want to go straight for Marksman and put all ancillary points into Ranger. Ignore all the movement speed talents in the Marksman tier and only focus on ones that help you do damage.
For example, Repelling Shot and Improved Swift Shot are soloing and PvP abilities; there is no need for them in a dungeon. Instead, Increased Fire Power and Sharpshooter are much better talent points.
Your pet, when controlled well, can actually be a nice extra source of damage. In dungeons I recommend keeping it dismissed as sometimes the pathing can draw aggro; it is much easier to only use it on boss fights.
As a third soul, you can consider the Bladedancer; six points will get you some nice passive stats and the Combat Pose dexterity buff. More time and testing will be needed to see just how effective each 31 point talent is to know whether this is ideal or not. For now, just know that Marksman and Ranger deals the most damage.
Strangely enough, out of the Rift Rogue Builds, I consider the best PvP and Dungeon build to be one and the same: Bard and Marksman.
Cadence is incredibly powerful in PvP; the group healing is massive since your team is clumped up and multiple players may be taking damage at once. To make things even better, Cadence generates quick combo points which you can then dump on Deadeye Shot or Hasted Shot.
The movement speed upgrades in Marksman allow you to chase down dying players very easily and allow you to escape as well. When you are in trouble, fire off Repelling Shot then a Hasted Shot and run for it. If that does not work, you have On the Double and Crossfire to get distance on an opponent.
There are two builds I would recommend for Rogue tanking: Riftstalker and Bard (low-level) and Riftstalker and Blade Dancer (high level).
At a low level, many healers do not have high-powered spells yet, so you will benefit immensely from 9 points in Bard for Anthem of Glory and Invigorated Soul. Put the rest of your points in Riftstalker. This way, after you have hate established, you can use Cadence to help heal yourself and the group.
At a higher level, you will want to put points into Riftstalker and Blade Dancer. I recommend putting a lot of points (31) into Blade Dancer. Pick up all the important mitigation talents and be sure to grab Improved False Blade and Disengage.
Improved False Blade means that every time you use False Blade (a Blade Dancer skill), you gain 5% dodge and 6% parry. This is a massive amount for a tank.
Additionally, given your dodge and parry rate with this Rift Rogue build, you will be able to use Disengage practically every 20 seconds. Keeping your enemy stunned 20% of the time is great for tanking!
While the level cap has prevented us from exploring this possibility just yet, I think that the Rogue will be one of the best classes for soloing tough monsters. I am under the impression that a 26 Blade Dancer, 25 Bard, 14 Riftstalker (or 22 Blade Dancer, 26 Bard, 18 Riftstalker) build will be very effective at soloing tough enemies.
You get a lot of great mitigation talents from Blade Dancer and Riftstalker yet you get a lot of good self-healing abilities from Bard. More details on this spec to come! You can also visit this lens to view some example rogue builds, or add your own for discussion as well.
No matter what you like to do in Rift, the Rogue is a highly versatile calling. By using these Rift Rogue builds, you can experience the best of what the Rogue class has to offer!

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The Penn State Nittany Lions have officially hired Bill O’Brien as their new head coach. He comes to State College after serving as the New England Patriots’ offensive coordinator.
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Is innovation, creativity, and growth-thinking important to you and your company? Is it difficult to develop and pursue out-of-the-box concepts? Well, you’re not alone and it’s incredibly normal to experience dry spells when it comes to cutting-edge ideas and strategies.
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Matthew Luhn is a top innovation keynote speaker and former lead animator and storyteller at Pixar Studios. Alongside his story work in Hollywood, Luhn works with Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, and other professionals to craft and tell stories that bridge the gap between business and heart to build stronger brands and business communication.
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