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Cameroon and RD Congo through to zonal phase at African qualifier for World Champs
Libreville, Gabon, July 20, 2013- Cameroon and the DR Congo women's volleyball teams have secured their zonal phase tickets – the next stage in the African Women Pool F qualification tournament for the 2014 World Championship – after securing wins over Congo Brazzaville and Gabon respectively, on Saturday.
Cameroon easily trounced Congo Brazzaville 3-0 (25-8, 25-9, 25-6) in less than an hour to improve their record to 2-0, while Congo dropped to 0-2.
DR Congo also clinched a straight sets victory over Gabon in the second match (2518, 25-9, 25-10) in 57 minutes. The DR Congo also improved their record to 2-0 and Gabon dropped to 0-2.
Cameroon meets the DR Congo in the third and last day for the gold medal in the four nation round robin tournament, while Gabon meets Congo Brazzaville for the bronze medal where the winner will join both Cameroon and RD Congo to the zonal phase of the qualifier.
The top three countries of this pool will proceed to the zonal phase of the qualification to be held in October and November, 2013.
The African World Championship Qualifier passes
through the sub-zonal stage this month, where 30 teams will qualify for the second
round, which is the zonal phase to be held in October and November 2013.


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by Mark Garcia August 13, 2013
Pool Heat Pump Sizing Guidelines
Heat pumps provide slow, even pool heating by transferring the heat in the air outside to your pool water.
They aren't known for speed, but average about 1-3 degrees increase in the water temperature per day, and can add 20 degrees of temperature rise.
Very cheap to operate, only a few dollars per day, and without burning fossil fuels or emitting carbon monoxide, heat pumps are the choice for eco-friendly pool owners everywhere.
They do have a drawback, besides their slow heating. They lose effectiveness when it's below 50 degrees outside. Warm and humid air is needed to heat the pool water.
Here are the factors to consider when sizing heat pumps for your pool.
Pool Size
Specifically surface area of your pool. Multiply the length x width of your pool - for freeform pools use the longest length and widest width, to calculate your pool surface area. An 18x36' pool would have 18'x36'=648 square feet of surface area. For round pools the formula is pi x radius squared. For a 24' round pool, it's 3.14 x144 = 452 sq. ft.
Here's a chart you can use to see the range of sizes that would be good for the square footage (area) of your pool.
Covered Pools
If you cover the pool consistently, either with a solar blanket of good quality, or an automatic pool cover, you can be in the left hand third of the heat pump size ranges for your size of pool.
Covered pools retain 70% or more of heat put into the pool. In other words, if you plan to use a cover, consistently, then you may be able to install a heat pump of a smaller size.
Sunbelt or Snowbelt Pools
If you live in a mild climate, with annual average temperatures in the 60's, which includes most of the south and west, you can be in the left hand third of the heat pump size ranges for your size pool. For those that live in the upper third of these United States, look to the right hand third of the heat pump size ranges. In other words, if you live in a colder climate, where 50 degree days come early - install a larger heat pump.
Heat pumps still work at lower temperatures, just not as well, when temps reach 50 degrees, BTU output drops by as much as half, and as the temperature gets into the forties, it drops off by half again.
Wind Speed
On any uncovered pool, wind is the largest heat thief, stealing your BTU's as it whips across the surface. If your pool area is windy, you may lean towards the larger sizes in the heat pump size ranges for your size pool. Wind blocks such as fences, pool houses or hedges, built on the windward side of the pool, can make a difference.
Average or low wind areas need not consider this perhaps, but others in high wind areas should consider this when sizing a heat pump.
Key Takeaways
What have we learned today?
- Heat Pump sizing is by BTU of output
- More surface area, and windy and cold areas should use a larger heat pump
- Wind is still a Lowdown Heat Thief
- Heat pumps heat less in colder temps, at 40 degrees they don't work at all
- Heat pumps cost twice as much as a gas heater, but cost 80% less to operate
Thanks for Reading!
Mark Garcia

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The expansion pre-order is now available!
The regular version costs $50 / €45
The Digital Deluxe edition costs $70.
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Warlords of Draenor will also be available as a retail-exclusive Collector's Edition (in limited quantities), which comes with the in-game extras from the Digital Deluxe Edition along with an array of awesome artifacts from the physical realm, including a hardcover art book, behind-the-scenes Blu-ray/DVD set, Warlords of Draenor mouse pad, and CD soundtrack featuring epic music from the expansion. Check with your local retailer for pre-ordering details. We'll have more specifics to share on the Collector's Edition closer to the game's launch.
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You are now able to purchase Level 90 Boosts for $60 in game! Your boosted character gets:
Item level 483 gear. You can quickly upgrade to the
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Q: How does boosting a character work?
When you pre-purchase the expansion* or purchase a standalone character boost from within the game, a Character Boost token will appear on the character-select screen in World of Warcraft. Once you purchase it through either method, you can click the token to apply your boost at any time—no need to use it right away if you're not ready. Keep in mind that character boosts are irreversible, so it's a good idea to make sure you're boosting the character you really want to.
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That depends! If you pre-purchase the expansion, the Character Boost token will only appear when you're logged in to the WoW account you upgraded to Warlords of Draenor. If you purchase a standalone character boost, you'll be able to use it on any eligible World of Warcraft account on your Battle.net account.
Note that if you're upgrading to Warlords of Draenor directly from the World of Warcraft Starter Edition, it may take up to 72 hours for you to receive your character boost.
Q: When will I receive my in-game goodies if I pre-purchase the Digital Deluxe Edition?
If you pre-purchase the Digital Deluxe Edition, you'll receive the World of Warcraft pet and mount right away, along with the in-game bonuses for StarCraft II and Diablo III.
Q: Can I get a character boost immediately if I decide to pre-order a physical standard or Collector's Edition from a retailer?
Players who purchase either the physical standard edition or physical Collector's Edition from a retail store will get their character boost when they receive their copies at the launch of the expansion.
If you'd like to receive your character boost immediately*, several options are currently available:
Pre-purchase the expansion digitally through the Battle.net Shop.
Pre-purchase the Digital Standard Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition from GameStop in the U.S. or (coming soon) EB Games in Canada (paid in full at the time of pre-purchase). You'll receive a code redeemable on Battle.net that will unlock your level-90 boost immediately* and also unlock a copy of the expansion pack when it releases.
Select retailers in the U.S. are also now selling Battle.net Balance gift cards. You can use these to charge up your Battle.net Balance to pre-purchase a digital copy of the game through the Battle.net Shop and unlock your level-90 boost immediately (sales tax may apply).
*Players upgrading to Warlords of Draenor from World of Warcraft Starter Edition must wait until trial restrictions are removed before character boost becomes available (may take up to 72 hours).
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Warlords of Draenor Trailer: Wish You Were Here
Blizzard just published a new trailer/ad for Warlords of Draenor, nothing super new but I do love watching gnomes fly on a lovely sunday.
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Looking forward to the changes. I think this is going to vastly widen the gap between low-skill & high-skill players, thoughts?
So the top 20% go "awesome" and the bottom 30% shelve their healing spec and join the 2 hr que for 5 mans
I see it as a mandatory design constraint that the so-called "bottom 30%" can still have a fun healing experience. (
It may give exceptional healers more room to distinguish themselves. But we plan to avoid the pitfalls of early Cata healing. (
Can you elaborate on this? (Given the 140 character limit, that is...)
Mana regen was a huge issue early Cata, along with overtuning. Created a trap for many healers; too easy to OOM. (
So, Cata all over again, unless you're homogenizing the classes so every healing spec has a triage-capable toolkit?
It's possible for every healing spec to have a triage-capable toolkit without every healing spec feeling/playing the same. (
I'd argue that HoTs are an essential triage spell, for the injured player who probably isn't taking more damage soon. (
I would like to think so, but triage and HoTs don't play well together, and Druids are all about the HoTs.
Also a world in which more people are partially injured more of the time is a world in which HoTs can do much more effective healing (
I'm also a "survivor" of Cata's healing mindset, so I'm colored by those experiences, which were highly painful.
Completely understood. We're definitely not approaching this saying "Cata healing was perfect, let's do that again!" (
Atanae the core problem of Cata healing had to do with LFD and the GO GO GO mentality of players from WOTLK
Core problem was high damage output paired with weak regen in blues. Felt better in epics by 4.2 but the damage was done. (
healing felt terrible when Cata started, oom often, feeling behind the 8ball every pull. We wont be revisiting that again r we?
Nope. Cata's healing had upsides and downsides. We're capturing the upsides, and preventing the downsides. (
For example, triage healing is good. Caring about which heals you cast is good. Easily going OOM in low gear is not good. (
On the flip side, how do you make it so that these changes aren't irrelevant by the last tier due to outgearing?
By giving healers more room to grow with added regen. Right now you become time-limited, not mana-limited, on some classes. (
Interesting - I assume you mean added regen earlier on, being removed in later tiers? I appreciate your response.
Take current MW for example, in first tier. Now double her mana regen. How much does her throughput go up? Not a lot. (
Triage healing wasn't fun in Cata, doubt it will be fun in WOD. Feels like a constant emergency, stressful.
On the contrary, that's what we're trying to get away from. Currently, we have to hit everyone so hard, that anyone who has to tank virtually any damage is in immediate danger of dying. Constant emergency healing. That's because you have the ability to heal someone back up to full from low health so fast. We aren't just going to nerf healing and continue tuning incoming damage the way we have been. Damage is going to be slower; you'll have time to heal people back up without emergency heals. (
If everyone is constantly in a state of partially injured, don't absorbs inherently lose a lot of value?
Yes. (
are we going to be sat out for absorb healers due to no mobility at all, loss of our utility (raw power)? very worried
When people are injured more often, absorbs don't trump other heals nearly as much. Healer spec balance is important to us. (
Instant Heals
The nerfs to instant heals might be overkill and hard to balance. Isn't longer CDs a better solution for them?
Longer CDs lowers your throughput, which is not the goal of that change. A cast time does not lower throughput, but rather mobility. (
mainly wondering from PvP side. all instant heals getting a cast time? Or is the goal like 1or2 instant s per class?
There'll still be some instant heals, just not as many. (
Smart Heals
Probably will have a target cap of 6 for better client/server performance. Will hit 6 random injured players. (
Wouldn't turning smart heals into "not-so-smart heals" make them too random and unpredictable?
That's the point. It also emphasizes single target heals in supplement. (
Smart heals are changing, does that mean you will be changing or pruning abilities like healing stream/tide and healing rain?
It's safe to say that we're changing all smart heals. (
Regen and Items
Will the mana pool for healers change relative to regen? 4m fights vs 10m fights with the same initial mana is pretty different.
Intentionally so. Fight duration is a strong differentiator between fights for healers, and will stay. (
are we possibly going to see haste affecting global cooldown? Classes with instant dps spells loses dps with it not reducing it.
Haste already does reduce the GCD for spells, as a general rule. (
With spirit being buffed, it just means you need less spirit on gear, but is it still primary mana regen?
Baseline regen will be higher, Spirit will still be good where you can get it. (
Regarding the healing changes, won't gear for a healer matter less now? We already gear dps first as it is..
No, this will not make gear matter less for healers. (
so healers are gonna be the the last to be geared in a raid group cause they don't benefit as much on gear?
No. These changes aren't making gear less valuable for healers. Can fit healing progression in a smaller regen-space. (
If these healing changes are going in with the 6.0 pre-patch, will Thok become significantly harder w/o instants? Retuning him?
We'll do a tuning pass on SoO once 6.0 changes are finalized to make sure nothing gets harder as a result of systems changes. (
How do you plan to counter that "players <100% is fine" (no instant deaths) puts more responsibility on healers, less on DDs?
Avoidable damage will still kill you if you fail to get out of the fire. But now we can be more moderate with unavoidable damage (
Just to confirm are the healing spells that are listed the ONLY healing spells (have you removed lifebloom/swiftmend)?
No, those are just some of your healing spells. That's not a complete list of all heals, by any means. Just examples. (
*Appears* and *Will Actually* be nerfed; brought down to be in line with all the other nerfed heals is still power loss
%-based heals will not be nerfed any more or less than all other heals in general. (
Will abilities like death pact be nerfed? Currently feels weak in pvp however the blog said percentage based spells=nerfed.
That's a complex paragraph; give it another read. The blog is explaining why they'll *appear* to be nerfed, but aren't actually. (
*Appears* and *Will Actually* be nerfed; brought down to be in line with all the other nerfed heals is still power loss
%-based heals will not be nerfed any more or less than all other heals in general. (
W/ health pools scaling w/ healing power, how will you make healers feel more powerful as the expac progresses?
Faster casts, able to do more expensive heals, crit more, able to use more cooldowns, more mastery effects, multistrike more. (
So damage as % of total health will increase each tier just not to the extent of previous expacs?
It will increase a bit, but not remotely as much as previous expacs. 20%->40%, instead of 20%->70%, maybe ballpark. (
When healers can top off critically injured players in seconds, encounters have to try to kill players before healers can react. Not ideal. (
no, but when healing becomes harder, it does not become more fun. Thats what happened at the beginning of cata. Wasnt good.
The goal isn't to make healing harder, actually. I'd say it's to replace testing reaction time with testing decision-making. (
Low throughput heals served a role of feeling like the auto attack for healers. Do healers frequently do nothing during combat?
Your efficient single-target heal (Healing Wave, Holy Light, etc.) should still be a mainstay. Unrelated: Big fan of Healer:ALitD (
Having a heal you can always be casting without worrying about the mana cost seems important to prevent healers just watching.
Agreed, I see the value there. For some, a DPS filler can work fine (free Lightning Bolt for shaman, Atonement for Disc, etc.). (
Proc on crit effects could be nerfed to compensate. Or could just nerf other 2nd stats too
You'd have to double crit chance, which there isn't room for. The problem is just PvP burst; focused solution. (
So wait? the 200% Crit dmg and healing bonus is nerfed to 150% across the board?
150% crits is PvP only. Still 200% in PvE. (
Yeah, I can see how that could be interpreted both ways. : 150% crit, only PvP?
PvP only. (
I.e. Will open orld PvP still see 200% crits? Or 150% against all players, anywhere?
150% against player-controlled units, anywhere. (
What about heals out in the world? How do you determine if they are PvP?
Same as Battle Fatigue does currently. (
so what happens in open world pvp? Does it look at PvP flag to determine crit #? Can I heal my questing group 200%
Same as current Battle Fatigue. It's based on whether they're engaged in PvP combat. (
You guys sure you want to fiddle w/crit instead of shaping burst (e.g. y=(x^3)/100)?
Burst in the abstract is often controlled. But crit is random and we need to keep the worst-case chain-crit combos in check. (
Whats the point to add cast time for EF/LoD? We already have the worst mobility from all healers and you are still nerfing it .
We're bringing down mobility across the board, not just for you. (
Does that mean baseline movement from WW Monks and Feral Druids are going away?
I meant to healers, wasn't talking everyone. (
Also, is that 1.5s without haste? No more haste breakpoints, so does that mean it doesn't affect cast spd?
All of the cast times mentioned in the blog are pre-haste. Haste still increases cast speed. (
In 6.0+ monsters will hit harder, but my %-heal (and everyone else's heal) will be for less.
Yes, very much intentionally. That's not at all related to them being % heals though. (
how will the 150% crit affect crit heavy classes like mages, warriors and ele shamans?
Their sustained damage will feel higher relative to their burst damage. (
How do these healing changes affect tank self-heals? Will they be on some sort of CD or just not as effective as today?
Tank self heals are currently very much related to Vengeance, which we're changing (mentioned a lot about before). (
Healing bloggy didn't overtly touch on non-healer heals. Will those see proportional adjustments identical to healer heals?
Yes. Healing changes aren't restricted to just healers' heals. (
Is Gift of the Naaru going to be reduced to 12.5% instead of 25%?
Gift of the Naaru heals for 4% of your max HP, every 1sec, for 5sec. (
Is it instant cast?
Yes. (
Good moves I like them, I would like to see more class differences like we did with Pali and druid healers in TBC.
Agreed, though overspecialized niches are no good either. E.g. raiding resto druid in BC was often just rolling Lifebloom forever (
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Efflorescence is listed as a healing spell for druids. What happened to Shrooms & Swiftmend it was tied to
Efflorescence is on Shrooms baseline now. (
with removal of a lot of insta casts is NS staying? For resto or all specs?
Yes, but as per the aforementioned CC changes, it won't be usable on CC spells. (
Yeah, we talked about Innervate specifically in that context on Resto discussion.
Yeah, there's not a lot of gameplay involved currently with Innervate and similar. Hit it on cooldown... (
Is Efflorescence an active spell now?
No, it's just baseline attached to Shrooms. (
Ah ok. So referring to it as higher efficiency in WoD means using shrooms?
Yes. (
Will Rejuvenation and Lifebloom stay instant casts?
Yes. The only currently planned changed to cast times are the ones listed in the blog. (
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No mention of melee healing for Monks, can you tell us if we should get our hopes up or not?
Fistweaving (via Crane Stance) is still planned. (
What do you think if mistweavers picking up chi explosion and use it in place of uplift as it would not have a cast time?
It does have a cast time. (
Is it 1.5sec like Uplift is then?
Yes. (
Will Uplift and Chi Explosion Be able to cast instanlty while using it like Chi Surge and Enveloping Mist? Thanks for responding
Haven't decided yet. Mistweavers are seeing several interconnected changes, so evaluating any one in a vacuum is difficult. (
And Chi Explosion will not have a cast time for Windwalkers and Brewmasters correct?
Correct. (
Is Enveloping mists being removed or just not mentioned in the post? Without it MW lack a single target chi finisher.
Enveloping Mists is still there. (
Uplift is usually a monk's #1 or #2 throughput spells. Will its numbers be adjusted to reflect the new cast time?
Yes. (
when you say you're making smartheals more random, that makes me concerned about mistweavers! renewing mists even more clunky
Mistweavers will be seeing other improvements -- we're not looking to leave their effectiveness at the mercy of random jumps. (
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Also if you plan to increase value single target heals . Any plan to change HP generations or we will have to spam HR anyway ?
Holy Radiance will not be your optimal way to generate Holy Power for single target healing. (
Why does it have Holy Light listed 4 hpally, but not Divine Light, when you said you're removing lowcost heals ie. Holy Light?
Divine Light has essentially been renamed to Holy Light. DL = big, efficient heal; Flash = big, fast, but less efficient heal (
Heavily disagreeing on the need of a 1.5 sec cast time to EF/LoD. Paladins already feel immobile and this makes it worse
Maybe compared to monks and druids doing midair flips while they heal.... In any case, this is a starting point for beta iteration. (
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Why has divine star never been nerfed? 15sec cd, no DR. Disc was supposedly being nerfed, then DR was removed and SoO = broken.
Divine Star is probably the most overpowered spell in the game, currently. It will be nerfed in 6.0. (
Cautiously optimistic about the healing blog, but can you tell us what's the new Disc-only Holy Nova do?
Similar to what it does today, except decent, efficient healing. Damage still likely to be trivial. (
still just an explosion around you?
Yes. (
Cooldown like COH? Or spamable? 1.5 Cast time I assume....
No cooldown. Still deciding on instant vs 1.5s cast. (
Can you shed any light on the intention for Atonement healing? Intended only as filler or can it still be my main healing?
Atonement will not be as much healing throughput as normal healing. Does significant damage when you don't need as much healing. (
holy priest ---, reduced throughput, PoM Casttime, 90 Talent Cast Time - mana regen nerf - confused?!?
Mana regen nerf? Also we didn't reduce throughput; increased player health pools and buffed heals by less. Affects all healers (
"and a new focus on efficiency decisions." which means holy priests with lack of efficient heals = regen prob(nerf wrong word)
Holy Priests will have as many efficient options as other healers. This is a broad set of changes that affects all specs. (
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Is shaman healing output being rethought? Considering >80% of our healing is all smart healing. Also any spells getting casttime
Shaman has far fewer instant heals than most. And yes, between CH, HR, and HST, too much of a Shaman's throughput is smart atm. (
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Last week, we talked about squishing stats and pruning unnecessary complexity as part of our ongoing design goals for World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor. This time, we'll look at a few topics all related to one vital element: health.
Player Health and Resilience
In the next expansion, we're planning several interconnected changes designed to provide better-tuned gameplay for healers and improve the healing dynamic in PvP.
The high amount of base Resilience and Battle Fatigue in Mists of Pandaria currently causes characters to feel much weaker in PvP than they do in PvE. To address this disparity, we're approaching Warlords of Draenor with the goal of shrinking that gap as much as possible. To reduce dependence on Resilience, we needed to increase player survivability against other players, and we chose to do this by essentially doubling (post-squish) player health.
On its own, that increase in health would make players more survivable in the world at large, so we're also increasing creature damage and the effectiveness of healing spells to balance things out. The net result of these changes is that individual attacks will knock a smaller chunk off of a player's health pool in PvP, but your survivability in PvE won't be affected.
Doubling player health gave us room to reduce Resilience and Battle Fatigue, but our goal was to be able to remove them entirely. In order to achieve that, we're also reducing PvP spike damage across the board by lowering Critical Damage and Critical Heals to 150% of their normal effect (down from 200%).
Our hope is that these changes allow us to reduce Base Resilience and Battle Fatigue to 0%. It's possible that we'll still find a need for some minor amount of Base Resilience and/or Battle Fatigue, and we'll be testing these changes extensively and adjusting as needed.
Retuning Healing Spells
One of our goals for healing in Warlords of Draenor is to tone down the raw throughput of healers relative to the size of player health pools. Currently, as healers and their allies acquire better and better gear, the percentage of a player's health that any given heal restores increases significantly. As a result, healers are able to refill health bars so fast that we have to make damage more and more "bursty" in order to challenge them. Ideally, we want players to spend some time below full health without having healers feel like the players they're responsible for are in danger of dying at any moment. We also think that healer gameplay would be more varied, interesting, and skillful if your allies spent more time between 0% and 100%, rather than just getting damaged quickly to low health, forcing the healer to then scramble to get them back to 100% as quickly as possible.
To that end, we're buffing heals less than we're increasing creature damage. Heals will be deliberately less potent compared to health pools than before the item squish. Additionally, as gear improves, the scaling rates of health and healing will now be very similar, so the relative power of any given healing spell shouldn't climb so much over the course of this expansion. For those concerned about what this means for raiding, don't worry—we're taking all of these changes into account when designing Raid content for Warlords of Draenor.
It's also important to note that spells that heal based on a percentage of maximum health are being effectively buffed by the massive increase to player health pools, so we're lowering those percentages to offset the effect. That may make them appear to have been nerfed—however, the net result is that those percentage-based heals stay about the same as before relative to other heals.
All of these changes apply to damage-absorption shields as well. Additionally, we're toning down the power of absorbs in general. When they get too strong, absorption effects are often used in place of direct healing instead of as a way to supplement it. We will, of course, take these changes into account when tuning specializations that rely heavily on absorbs, such as Discipline Priests.
We also took a look at healing spells that were passive or auto-targeted (so-called "smart" heals).
We want healers to care about who they're targeting and which heals they're using, because that makes healer gameplay more interactive and fun. To that end, we're reducing the healing of many passive and auto-targeted heals, and making smart heals a little less smart. Smart heals will now randomly pick any injured target within range instead of always picking the most injured target. Priority will still be given to players over pets, of course.
Another of our goals for healing in this expansion is to strike a better balance between single-target and multi-target healing spells. We've taken a close look at the mana efficiency of our multi-target heals, and in many cases, we're reducing their efficiency, usually by reducing the amount they heal. Sometimes, but more rarely, raising their mana cost was a better decision. We want players to use multi-target heals, but they should only be better than their single-target equivalents when they heal more than two players without any overhealing. This way, players will face an interesting choice between whether to use a single-target heal or a multi-target heal based on the situation.
Finally, we're removing the low-throughput, low-mana-cost heals like Nourish, Holy Light, Heal, and Healing Wave, because we think that while they do add complexity, they don't truly add depth to healing gameplay. (We're also renaming some spells to re-use those names. For example, Greater Healing Wave is being redubbed Healing Wave.) However, we still want healers to think about their mana when deciding which heal to cast, and so the mana costs and throughputs of many spells are being altered to give players a choice between spells with lower throughput and lower cost versus spells with higher throughput and higher costs. Here are some examples from each healer class:
Druid Higher Efficiency:
Healing Touch, Rejuvenation, Efflorescence
Druid Higher Throughput:
Regrowth, Wild Growth
Monk Higher Efficiency:
Soothing Mist, Renewing Mist
Monk Higher Throughput:
Surging Mist, Spinning Crane Kick
Paladin Higher Efficiency:
Holy Light, Holy Shock, Word of Glory, Light of Dawn
Paladin Higher Throughput:
Flash of Light, Holy Radiance
Priest Higher Efficiency:
Greater Heal, Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending, Holy Nova (new Discipline-only version), Penance
Priest Higher Throughput:
Flash Heal, Prayer of Healing
Shaman Higher Efficiency:
Healing Wave, Riptide, Healing Rain
Shaman Higher Throughput:
Healing Surge, Chain Heal
All of this discussion of efficiency may cause most healers to start worrying about mana regeneration and their mana pool. To allay those concerns, we've increased base mana regen a great deal at early gear levels, while having it scale up less at later gear levels. This will make all of these changes play well even in early content such as Heroic Dungeons and the first tier of Raid content, and also play well in the final Raid tier without mana and efficiency becoming irrelevant due to extremely high regeneration values.
That's a lot of big changes for healers: reduced throughput, more triage, less powerful "smart" heals, weaker absorbs, fewer spells, and a new focus on efficiency decisions. We're confident that we can apply lessons learned from previous expansions to make this the best healer experience yet: more dynamic, engaging, non-punishing, and frankly a lot more fun.
Instant-Cast Heals
Over time, healers have gained a bigger and bigger arsenal of heals that they can cast while on the move, which removes the inherent cost that movement is intended to have for them, while also limiting players' ability to counter healing in PvP. This left silences and crowd control (which we're trying to curb—see "Pruning the Garden of War") as the only ways to actually limit an enemy player's healing output. We're still preserving the option to instantly heal, but are reducing the number of instant-cast healing abilities overall. Here are some examples:
Wild Growth (Restoration) now has a 1.5-second cast time.
Uplift (Mistweaver) now has a 1.5-second cast time.
Eternal Flame and Word of Glory now each have a 1.5-second cast time when specced Holy.
Light of Dawn now has a 1.5-second cast time.
Cascade, Divine Star, and Halo now each have a 1.5-second cast time.
Prayer of Mending now has a 1.5-second cast time.
All of these changes taken together are intended to make gameplay more consistent between PvE and PvP, and invigorate healers with more dynamic gameplay.
These are only some of the many changes that you'll be seeing as we continue development, and what we've shared so far is only one piece of a much larger puzzle. We hope that as we share more with you here, on the official site, the forums, and on Twitter, you'll get a good understanding of what's to come in Warlords of Draenor and the direction we're working toward. As always, keep in mind that any of this information could change over the course of the testing process. We look forward to seeing your constructive feedback!
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To help Lincoln residents comply with parking bans, the City invites citizens to use lots in City parks and other public facilities for temporary parking while snow removal efforts continue.
The City is under a snow emergency, which bans parking on emergency snow routes, bus routes and other major arterial streets. Mayor Coleen Seng also has announced that a residential parking ban will go into effect at 8 a.m. Tuesday, January 27. This is a total parking ban, and parking will be banned on both sides of the street in most residential areas until plows have cleared the snow.
The only exception to the total parking ban is in high-density neighborhoods where parking will be banned on the even numbered sides of the street (the north and east sides). When this side is cleared, the parking ban will switch to the other side. A map showing emergency and bus routes and high-density areas can be found on page 38 in the blue pages of the Alltel phone directory. Vehicles parked in violation of the ban may be ticketed and towed at the owner's expense. The latest information is posted on the City web site at lincoln.ne.gov.
"It is very important that residents move their cars off the streets to allow the snow plows to do their job as quickly and efficiently as possible," said Mayor Seng. "We need everyone's cooperation as we work to make the streets passable and safe."
The following lots and facilities are open and available for parking:
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Citizens can also contact the nearest library or church to find out if any additional temporary parking facilities are available during the continuing clean-up effort.


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I'm typing this from hotel room in Lousiville, Kentucky. We are here for the Southern Baptist Convention.
This morning we went to a church that we knew nothing about. When we arrived at the church this morning, we found out that Dr. Frank Page was their guest speaker. Dr. Page is the former President of the SBC and is now on the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. During his sermon, Dr. Page mentioned this committee and the fact that he never dreamed he would have this kind of opportunity. He also made this statement, (it's not an exact quote but it's pretty close),
"I know that I am the 'right-wing fundamentalist' on this committee but I will unashamedly stand and be voice for the Pro-Life movement and the unborn child."
To which the congregation gave resounding applause and lots of AMENS, myself included.
After the service, Steven and I got to meet Dr. Page and share with him that we live in Millen, he used to pastor in Augusta so he was very familiar with Millen. I then shared with him that I am part of a group of bloggers whose purpose to pray and ask God to change President Obama's heart on abortion. Dr. Page was so encouraged and asked us to keep praying. He said that he has a very good relationship with President Obama but that it gets "pretty tense" when it comes to the issue of abortion.
I was so excited about this. It's so easy to get discouraged when you're praying and not seeing any change. But God really used this to encourage me and to renew my passion about praying for our President.
So my challenge to you is, as we pray for our President, lets lift up Dr. Page as well. God has placed him in a key position for a reason.
Love y'all dearly!
Sunday, June 21, 2009
I'm typing this from hotel room in Lousiville, Kentucky. We are here for the Southern Baptist Convention.
Thoughts from Cheryl at 10:40 PM 3 thoughts from Y*O*U
Labels: President Obama, SBC
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
2 months old
This picture is priceless! "Help me Momma, he's gonna get me!!!"
Thoughts from Cheryl at 10:44 PM 5 thoughts from Y*O*U
Labels: Asher
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I just have a minute to blog. We've been at our 1st annual children's camp since Sunday evening. It was soooooo great! We had 6 children make a 1st time commitment to Christ! Go God!
I'll post some pics soon.
Emma, Dougie and Caleb left yesterday after camp to spend a few days with my parents. We're going to go up tonight and we're all going to Six Fl*gs tomorrow, so I'll be absent from the blog a few more days.
Go eat a popsicle!
Love Y'all,
Thoughts from Cheryl at 9:30 AM 5 thoughts from Y*O*U
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The Waltons meet American Idol
Last night we were putting the kids to bed and they began yelling good night to each other from their rooms. Being a child of the 70's, I had immediate flashbacks of the Waltons and couldn't resist yelling, "Good night John Boy." Then for dramatic effect, I continued, "Good night Sue Ellen." To which, Caleb, who I remind you is 2, yelled,
"Good night Kris Allen!"
I couldn't make this stuff up if I wanted to!!!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 6:50 PM 7 thoughts from Y*O*U
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Music Apps for Android
Music apps available for Android include audio players that sync music from your computer to your Android device, touch synthesizers, audio/video podcast managers, and audio file editors. Other music apps let you purchase music from your device, listen to old-time radio broadcasts, find out who's singing a song you're listening to, and display a song's lyrics in time with the audio.
Some of the top music apps for Android devices include the following:
Amazon MP3 (free): Amazon MP3 is quite possibly the easiest way to purchase music directly on your Android device. Search the store, browse by genre, and see the current bestselling albums and songs. If you're looking for deals, you'll find them right on Amazon MP3's home page as the Free Song of the Day and the Album Daily Deal.
BeyondPod Podcast Manager ($6.99 US): In addition to managing audio podcast subscriptions, this app also manages your RSS feeds and Video podcast subscriptions—and it seamlessly integrates with your Google Reader account (if you have one). Assign your feeds to categories, and then set specific update schedules for each category to automatically download the feeds to your device.
doubleTwist Player (free): doubleTwist Player has all the typical features you expect from an audio player. And there's no easier way to sync audio files from your computer to your Android device — doubleTwist has often been called "iTunes for Android." Download doubleTwist for your computer from doubletwist.com.
Ethereal Dialpad (free): Musicians and non-musicians alike can get a lot of enjoyment from the Ethereal Dialpad touch synthesizer. Just tap the display or drag your finger across the screen to generate some trippy-sounding music. You can alter the synthesizer's sound by playing with the Pitch quantizer, Octaves, and various other effects settings.
Make sure to also install the free Dialpad: NightSky plug-in, which lets you use two fingers on the screen simultaneously to create music.
Old Timer Radio Player (free; ad supported): This app lets you listen to the original broadcasts of old radio shows such as Fibber McGee and Molly, The Lone Ranger, and The Shadow. Give them a listen — they'll truly transport you into the past. Finding these old shows is as simple as installing Old Timer Radio Player and selecting them from the listed genres (there is no search function).
Ringdroid (free): Ringdroid is an audio-editing app that lets you take audio files stored on your Android device's SD card, trim them down to shorter clips, and then save the resulting audio as ringtone, notification, or alarm audio files. You even have the option of saving edited audio files as music files.
Scanner Radio (free; ad supported): These days, many police, fire, and EMS radio frequencies stream live over the Internet, so anyone can eavesdrop on what his or her community's public safety workers are up to. Thanks to Scanner Radio, you can also listen in using your Android device. Scanner Radio includes audio from more than 2,300 feeds around the world, including air, marine, and rail radio communications.
Slacker Radio (free; ad supported): This app lets you specify the type of music you want to hear. Slacker is the sort of service commonly known as streaming music or music discovery. You specify a music genre or artist, and Slacker Radio starts playing songs from that genre or artist. If you pick an artist, Slacker Radio mixes in songs from other similar artists. By listening to similar artists, you potentially learn about new artists and songs.
SoundHound (free; ad supported): Do you sometimes need to know who's singing a particular song that you're listening to? Face your Android device's microphone toward the source of the music and tap SoundHound's What's That Song? button. SoundHound streams the audio it hears from the microphone over the Internet to a server that analyzes the audio against a database of music, and then sends the results back to SoundHound within seconds.
TuneWiki Social Media Player (free; ad supported): TuneWiki has all the normal media player necessities for playing music and videos stored on your device's SD card. But as soon you start playing music, TuneWiki's unique capabilities begin making their appearance. As a song plays, its lyrics scroll up the screen in time with the audio.


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A quick jump to a power conditioning device may not solve the problem and actually may create more of a problem.
Let's begin the examination of power conditioning by considering voltage regulating equipment and equipment called "line conditioners." This latter term is generally accepted to mean the combination of a voltage regulator with a noise rejection system, such as a shielded isolation transformer, for the protection against common mode noise and the enhancement of voltage stabilization.
The products in this category (voltage regulators and line conditioners) were among the first recommended by manufacturers of sensitive equipment to assist in protecting data processing systems from outside power influences. In the early days of the applications, little consideration was given to load/source interactions. In some cases, the resulting "conditioning" was worse on the output than the power source waveshape at the conditioner's input. In time, it became apparent to manufacturers and end users alike that just another "box" in the circuit might not be necessary, even though it appeared to give additional protection.
One example of this over zealous approach to voltage regulation came by way of a new regulator said to have a range of correction of + 10% to -40%. When we asked the salesman if that lower limit would extend the low-voltage limit of the power supply (designed already for -12%), he said it would make the low end -52%! We tested the theory only to find that the protective device for the circuit would trip each time we lowered the input voltage to the product more than 25%. This is what we would expect: On a constant load, the current will rise in proportion to the drop in voltage. At the point of 125%, the proper protective device will trip.
Consider this
Consider that almost all of the sensitive power supplies used in digital electronic systems are designed with the finest voltage regulator available, one having a range of operation of almost 20% from the top of the voltage limit to the bottom. Also, it responds extremely fast. The CBEMA (Computer Business Equipment Manufacturers Association) curve indicates a + 6% to - 13% range for many devices. If these units have such a fine regulator, one that can handle any variation within the listed range, then why do we need to promote an additional voltage regulation product in line with this unit?
This question seems to beg an answer that we may have "oversold" the voltage protection concept without realizing what we have done. Granted, these voltage protection products are the least expensive way of providing some form of "buffering" ahead of the digital system; this initially was very important to manufacturers wishing to avoid problems with the "outside power influences." As the power quality industry becomes more alert to the specific needs in each of the categories, we may be able to make better application recommendations.
Constant-voltage transformers
Our first, and oldest, form of regulation is a style of transformer designed to supply a stable output voltage through all current loading within the rating of the product. This is a ferroresonant technology known as a Constant Voltage Transformer (CVT) or a Saturable Magnetic Device. The general outline of this concept is shown in Fig. 1. This transformer product is designed with a core that is intended to saturate; in other words, it's designed to actually accept energy in the core steel, flooding the iron core in such a way that the result is a flat voltage - stable across the range of load currents. Within the ratings of the device, the voltage will remain level from light load to heavy load. This is a simple and very good older technology that's still in use today. And it's very economical.
A note of caution here: The design of this product is based on sine wave load characteristics dating to a time when harmonic interaction was not yet upon us. As such, you should not try to apply this technique into the face of a high harmonic load spectrum without considerable oversizing or design modifications by the manufacturer to assure harmonic content compensation.
We also need to remember that there is an upper limit to the load range of this device; if we exceed that limit, this product may actually reduce its output slowly to zero in order to self-protect the circuit. This performance trait, known as current limiting effect, can be avoided by sizing your maximum load approximately 20% below the full load rating of your regulator. This type of oversizing also will help in the handling of harmonics, if they're present and haven't been compensated for by the manufacturer.
Finally, remember that because a CVT uses energy to "saturate" its core, its efficiency will be very low if your loading is very light. Normal efficiencies for fully loaded units will be in the high 80% area, and up to 92%, while efficiency under light loads might drop to 45% to 55%. By sizing your load somewhere in the middle, you'll be able to operate under most conditions, giving up some efficiency points to an average of 75% to 80%.
Tap switching regulators
A more modern design of a transformer product for voltage stabilizing is a tap switching regulator, as shown in Fig. 2. This device uses the same concept, but in a fully adjustable configuration with diodes and transistors, to perform automatic "stepping" between the taps by sensing the output of the transformer.
In the first production, tap switching was done on the secondary; however, this method produced electrical noise. As a result, the design was changed so that the switching is done on the primary; this design remains today and uses the nominal six tap settings of the unit.
The design is based on a regular magnetic core rather than a saturable one, and thus has all of the properties of a good isolation transformer. It has excellent overload capability, like a regular dry-type transformer; it has the same low internal impedance, which is good for interfacing between a high impedance source and a high impedance load; and it does not introduce harmonic distortion to the system.
A tap switching regulator uses sensing of the output voltage to signal the primary tap change to adjust for the variances in input supply. It can make those adjustments at the current zero crossing in order to avoid electrical noise, and it has a response time of three to five cycles. While this speed of response seems slow by comparison with the speeds of computers, it's just this difference in speed that commends this technology. If this product is used in a circuit where there is a "fast" regulator inside the CPU product, then the slower regulator will not interact with the higher speed product; the two will "handshake" well together.
Efficiencies are normally higher and remain high from zero to full load, as one would expect of a standard dry-type transformer. The efficiency of the saturable product, as per our previous discussion, falls off rapidly at partial load ratings and requires an assessment of loading for proper sizing.
Line conditioners
In both cases outlined above, we can add an electrostatic shield to make the regulator into a combination product. This is one of the best application moves that can be made when a voltage regulator is required in the circuit. With the shield, as seen in Fig. 2, the product now becomes a common mode noise rejecter and a voltage stabilizer.
A form of voltage regulator, combining stabilization with the supply of harmonic current, is known as an active power line conditioner. This technology, which was developed through the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), has the promise of a further "combination" solution for the harmonic-requiring load.
Watch for the August issue installment, where we move onto the next level of power conditioning: The resurgence of motor-alternators to provide not only voltage stabilizing, but also full mechanical isolation from input to output.
For a quick review, remember that we break down power quality problems into the following four general categories.
* Ground loops, which are associated with wiring and grounding methods. These unintentional loops lead to the circulation of common mode noise, which disrupts or damages a signal system. A sign of this trouble would be when our power quality problem has no correlation with any power system events.
* Transient phenomena, which are associated with lightning strikes, power switching, coupled bursts of radio frequency (RF) noise, etc., causing high-speed, high-frequency disturbances.
* Harmonic interactions, which are associated with the flow of low order power frequencies, the odd multiples of 60 Hz, and normally "requested" by the load device as a spectrum of currents to satisfy the operating characteristic of the load power supply.
* Power conditioning problems, which are associated with the energy supply. These problems are characterized by voltage instability, limited capacity, poor frequency, source disruption, poor power factor, etc.
Notice that power conditioning is mentioned last. While our goal in this series of articles is to expand upon the various "conditioning" tools and techniques, we must remember that the choice of "conditioning" must be able to pass the test of the other three categories listed above. For instance, we normally won't take care of a ground loop problem with a power conditioner, since the tool in question does not address wiring and grounding concerns. Likewise, we may be able to ask the chosen power product to protect against transients, but we normally won't have a product that will accomplish this. In fact, quite the opposite may be true; the power technology itself may need transient protection! In a similar manner, we must remember that our product choice in the conditioning area must be able to handle any harmonic currents in the system and must not be a contributor of more of those currents to disturb the power source further.


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AUSTIN - The Austin City Council has voted to make the capital city of Texas the first in the state to formally endorse the legalization of same-sex marriages.
The Thursday vote was unanimous.
The state of Texas doesn't presently recognize same-sex marriages. State law defines marriage as strictly between a man and a woman.
However, councilmember Sheryl Cole says that although the vote is purely symbolic, "symbolic acts matter."
According to supporting city documents, a 2010 University of Texas survey found that 63 percent of the Texans question support some form of legal civil union for same-sex couples.


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Players of the Week - No. 2
By Chad Waller, NAIA Director of Communications & Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Brittany Kent of Lubbock Christian (Texas) has been tabbed as the NAIA National Softball Player of the Week and Kelly Robey of Union (Tenn.) has been named the NAIA National Softball Pitcher of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Kent and Robey are the second honorees of the 2012 season. The pair was chosen, based on their performances from March 12 - 18 out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 24 conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Kent, a 5-foot-4 senior outfielder from Carlsbad, N.M., led LCU to a 10-1 record at the Tucson (Ariz.) Invitational Games last week. Kent topped the Lady Chaps with a .632 batting average where she had 24 hits in 38 at-bats and produced five doubles, three triples, a homer and 16 RBI. She had a 1.000 slugging mark and was perfect in her steal attempts going 12-for-12. She had eight multi-hit games, including four contests of three-plus base knocks.
In NAIA statistics, Kent ranks first in triples (6), stolen bases (23) and 12th in total hits (42).
Robey, a 5-foot-10, freshman pitcher from New Madrid, Mo., went 3-0 on the week including a win over No. 6 Belhaven (Miss.) on March 17. The freshman recorded 28 strikeouts in 20.1 innings pitched with wins over Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) and Spring Hill (Ala.). In the conference 2-0 shutout of Freed-Hardeman, she struck out the side three times in seven innings as a part of her 13 K's. In the 4-3 win over Spring Hill, she entered the game in relief after Union was down 3-0 and kept Spring Hill off the board for the final 5.1 innings of work. She wrapped up the week with a 7-6 win over Belhaven, where she struck out seven and gave up four earned runs.
Robey is 10-1 on the season with a 1.42 ERA. She ranks 12th in the NAIA in wins and 14th in batters struck out per nine innings (11.92).
Pitcher Nominees: Kiara Bonner, Central Baptist (Ark.); Danelle Billings, Evangel (Mo.); Kaitlyn Bourg, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Heather Oakley, Campbellsville (Ky.); Erin O'Donnell, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Nickayla Skinner, College of Idaho; Stephanie Patterson, Kansas Wesleyan; Erika Tatum, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Lana Lazar, Brenau (Ga.); Jamie Tanno, Park (Mo.); Emily Tweedy, Taylor (Ind.); Amanda Fama, Concordia (Calif.); Brooke Jones, Blue Mountain (Miss.); Maureen Sandidge, Webber International (Fla.); Aryssa Puckett, Union (Ky.); Mary Ann Warford, Asbury (Ky.); Brooke Sampson, Doane (Neb.); Jackie Barley, Madonna (Mich.); Ariel Gomez, Houston-Victoria (Texas).
Pitcher Nominees: Jessica Bock, Central Baptist (Ark.); Ali Thompson, Shawnee State (Ohio); Karlee Despres, Davenport (Mich.); Jennifer Garcia, Bethany (Kan.); Lenzie Boring, Evangel (Mo.); Jennifer Whitehead, William Penn (Iowa); Nickayla Skinner, College of Idaho; Keely Bracelin, Northwestern (Iowa); Justine Riner, Park (Mo.); Katie Cotta, Concordia (Calif.); Kristen Little, Shorter (Ga.); Kaitlyn Grimail, Warner (Fla.); Marcie McDougle, Huntington (Ind.); Abby Sears, Union (Ky.); Maris Harreld, Asbury (Ky.); Lily LaVelle, Oklahoma City; Jori Boren, Robert Morris (Ill.).
2012 Softball Weekly Honors (Player, Pitcher):
Week 1: Jordan Reynolds, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Brooke Thomas, Union (Tenn.)
Week 2: Brittany Kent, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Kelly Robey, Union (Tenn.)


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Columbia Did The Right Thing
The Iranian's positions repugnant – such as his call for the elimination of Israel in the Middle East, his questioning of the Jewish Holocaust, his coddling of racists such as David Duke whom he allowed to attend the conference to re-examine the Jewish Holocaust in Tehran – then what better place to have him publicly challenged than in one of the country's premier institutions of higher learning?
[Black Star News Editorial]
What's the use of having a university if leaders such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other contrarians can't be invited and challenged by the academic community? Why have universities at all?
Like it or not, Ahmadinejad is the president of Iran, and judging by the attendance at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs where he spoke Monday, students and professors wanted to hear him respond to questions challenging many of the contrarian positions he holds and advocates.
If many people find the Iranian's positions repugnant – such as his call for the elimination of Israel in the Middle East, his questioning of the Jewish Holocaust, his coddling of racists such as David Duke whom he allowed to attend the conference to re-examine the Jewish Holocaust in Tehran – then what better place to have him publicly challenged than in one of the country's premier institutions of higher learning?
While the Iranian does have considerable global support for seeming to standing up and challenging U.S. hegemony, back in his country his own political party's poor showing in recent local elections suggest that in his country following is waning because he does not accord the same rights he was afforded with Columbia's invitation: students in Iran and the opposition are muzzled.
It was also through the Columbia invitation that he was exposed as disingenuous when responding to a question about Iran he said: "We don't have homosexuals like in your country---In Iran we don't have this phenomenon." So, in essence, Ahmadinejad has only read about homosexuals and never encountered any in Iran: when in fact some have been executed, a punishment which, regardless of one's views on homosexuals is beyond the pale.
Some of the attacks against Columbia come from the usual suspects, such as right wing Republicans and these can be dismissed—they are still waging a personal war against Columbia President Lee Bollinger who has supported the correction of historical racism in school admission programs since his days as President of the University of Michigan.
Then there were opportunists such as career politicians State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver who even hinted, foolishly, that the state might not favorably view capital support for Columbia's projects. Hillary Clinton, sadly, an intellectual and yet ever the politician who bends with the wind, also criticized Ahmadinejad's invitation by Dr. Lee Bollinger.
The attacks against Bollinger are disingenuous because they imply that Columbia somehow endorses Ahmadinejad's views, when in fact, those who criticize him know that to be the contrary as he made clear in his introductory remarks which many people actually think was overly harsh.
Even President Bush chimed in—he noted that he was "okay" with Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia but that he was "not sure" he "would have offered the same invitation," if he were Columbia's president. Thankfully, university presidents must still be learned and intellectuals.
Columbia University did the right thing—in fact, in future, other world leaders and contrarians such as North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Sudan's President Hassan al Bashir, Uganda's dictator Yoweri Museveni and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, should also be invited so that they can be challenged by the Academy.
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