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Booklist's 2017 Editors' Choice Picks
Over at Booklist, the Adult Books editors selected the following titles as representative of the year's outstanding books for public library collections, including 13 Macmillan titles:
Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books, 2017 (full list)
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
FRESH COMPLAINT by Jeffrey Eugenides
MARLENA by Julie Buntin
THE NINTH HOUR by Alice McDermott
NO ONE CAN PRONOUNCE MY NAME by Rakesh Satyal
SOME RISE BY SIN by Philip Caputo
DON'T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
Social Sciences
BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
Read Donna Seaman's Carnegie Award shortlist interview with Ellsberg
I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet
Geography & Travel
NOTES ON A FOREIGN COUNTRY: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen readmoreremove
PW's Best Books of 2017
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017 list includes 20 Macmillan titles:
Top 10 (full list)
ANTS AMONG ELEPHANTS: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
FEAR CITY: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein
GRIEF COTTAGE by Gail Godwin
Fiction (full list)
BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
MARLENA by Julie Buntin
THE SEVENTH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE by Laurent Binet
GRIEF COTTAGE by Gail Godwin
Poetry (full list)
DON'T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
SF/Fantasy/Horror (full list)
THE BEDLAM STACKS by Natasha Pulley
Comics (full list)
BOUNDLESS by Jillian Tamaki
MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS by Nagata Kabi
Nonfiction (full list)
ANTS AMONG ELEPHANTS: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
THE EXILE: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy
THE GOURMANDS' WAY: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy by Justin Spring
I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet
LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
THE SECRET LIFE: Three True Stories of the Digital Age by Andrew O'Hagan
FEAR CITY: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein
Lifestyle (full list)
THE HUNGRY BRAIN: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Stephan Guyenet
Check out our Edelweiss collection of Macmillan's Best Books of 2017 for collection development made easy. We'll update it as more "Best of 2017" lists come in.
Stars & TV News for I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE
Washington Post reporter Souad Mekhennet is a German-born Muslim of Moroccan and Turkish descent, and she uses the balance between the Muslim and Western sides of her life to provide a mediating voice between these cultures, which too often misunderstand each other.
Souad's memoir, I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad is being developed into a TV Drama and has THREE starred reviews:
"A riveting memoir and a literary bombshell that effectively eviscerates every preconception, misconception, and prejudice readers have about the Arab world, I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE reinforces the singular significance of journalism, especially foreign journalism, at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges. Compelling, insightful, and shockingly relevant, Mekhennet's chronicle is a must-read and nothing less than a revelation." — Booklist, starred review
"Washington Post correspondent Mekhennet offers a spellbinding fusion of history, memoir, and reportage in this enthralling account of her personal experience as a journalist and a Muslim on assignment in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The value of this work lies in Mekhennet's commitment to 'not taking any side, but speaking to all sides and challenging them.'" — Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The thrilling narrative brings up critical, persuasive insights while trying to answer the questions of where terrorism comes from and why it's so difficult to eradicate. For readers who are interested in modern politics, the Middle East, journalism, or strong female voices." — Library Journal, starred review readmoreremove
PW Best Books of Summer 2017
Publishers Weekly's editors recently selected their Best Books of Summer 2017, including these seven Macmillan titles:
Staff Picks (full list)
BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer
"About that thing on the cover—is it a genetically modified bird-of-paradise? Some cousin of the odoriferous corpse flower? I was intrigued from the moment I saw it, as is Rachel, the postapocalyptic scavenger who finds the improbably sentient and mutable creature—who 'smelled of beach reeds on lazy summer afternoons and, beneath the sea salt, of passionflowers'—while picking through the fur of the gargantuan flying bear that terrorizes her devastated city. And then things start to get weird." — Carolyn Juris, features editor
ISADORA by Amelia Gray
"Gray's most recent book, the story collection GUTSHOT, was weird as hell and as visceral as its title. Whose life would be better for her to fictionalize, then, than that of notorious mother of modern dance Isadora Duncan? An openly bisexual communist and atheist in an era that condemned all three, Duncan was famous for wearing long, flowing scarves even up until her death, when her scarf got caught in one of the axles of the car she was riding in. Flung from the vehicle, Duncan died of a broken neck—a tragic end that will surely make for a riveting finale in Gray's novel." — John Maher, assistant news editor
Fiction (full list)
THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING by Grant Ginder
Ginder takes family dysfunction to its hysterical limit in this joyously ribald novel about siblings Alice and Paul begrudgingly attending the lavish wedding of their half-sister, Eloise, in England. Lovesick Alice and Paul—both in doomed relationships—see Eloise as the snotty daughter of a rich dad, and Donna, their mother, as a coldhearted widow who ditched all remnants of their father after his death. During the boozy pre-wedding days, the resentment and secrets come tumbling out in outbursts and hilariously bad decisions. readmoreremove
PW Spring 2017 Announcements
Publishers Weekly looked into their crystal ball and predicted that these 98(!) Macmillan adult books will stand out in the first half of 2017:
Art, Architecture & Photography (full list)
THE SAGRADA FAMILIA: The Astonishing Story of Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece by Gijs van Hensbergen
Out: July 25
This book chronicles the story of architect Antoni Gaudí's strange masterpiece, which has remained under construction for the past 130 years, as well as the building's complicated relationship with the city and residents of Barcelona.
YOUNG LEONARDO: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist, 1472–1499 by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown
Out: May 23
A study of Leonardo da Vinci's formative years, his triumphs and failures in the Renaissance art world, and how his techniques developed into the style he's famous for today.
Business & Economics (full list)
GLASS HOUSE: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town by Brian Alexander (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 14
Alexander examines how the purchase of the Anchor Hocking Glass Company by a private equity firm all but destroyed the company and the town of Lancaster, Ohio.
DROP THE BALL: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu
Out: Feb. 14
Dufu recounts how she learned to reevaluate expectations, shrink her to-do list, and meaningfully engage the assistance of others—freeing the space she needed to flourish at work and to develop deeper, more meaningful relationships at home. Foreword by Gloria Steinem.
THE COMPLACENT CLASS: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream by Tyler Cowen
Out: Feb. 28
The well-known blogger, economist, and author argues that by relying on algorithms that wall Americans off from anything that might be too new or different, we postpone necessary change, which will lead to major fiscal and budgetary crisis.
Comics & Graphic Novels (full list)
BOUNDLESS by Jillian Tamaki (a Top 10 pick)
Out: June 6
With masterful art and evocative storytelling, Tamaki's short stories tackle subjects from bedbugs to the addictive nature of pop culture to pornography.
PALOOKAVILLE #23 by Seth (a Top 10 pick)
Out: May 30
Seth's been writing his massive story of the Matchcard brothers and their failing fan company since 1998, and it finally winds up in this book.
THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS WRONG by Mimi Pond
Out: Apr. 18
Pond's autobiographical story continues with the saga of a naive young artist working in a restaurant full of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Pond folds their tales into her own emergence as an artist in the scuzzy, low-rent war zone of late 1970s Oakland.
HOSTAGE by Guy Delisle
Out: May 2
In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and kept prisoner for three months in the Caucasus. Award-winning cartoonist Delisle recounts André's harrowing experiences.
Cooking & Food (full list)
KNIFE: Steakhouse Meals at Home by John Tesar (a Top 10 pick)
Out: May 2
Bravo's Top Chef contestant celebrates steak in every form, with recipes for popular cuts.
RIVER COTTAGE A TO Z: Our Favourite Ingredients, & How to Cook Them by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Pam Corbin, Mark Diacono, Nikki Duffy, Nick Fisher, Steven Lamb, Tim Maddams, Gill Meller, and John Wright
Out: May 2
An authoritative encyclopedia of more than 300 ingredients and 300 recipes, set to become a solid addition to the River Cottage library.
THE BUTCHER BABE COOKBOOK: Comfort Food Hacked by a Classically Trained Chef by Loreal Gavin
Out: Apr. 25
A quirky Food Network chef elevates classic cooking techniques with eclectic, rock 'n' roll twists.
AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON: 101 Nourishing Recipes for Your Family from a Californian Expat by Marissa Hermer
Out: Apr. 4
The restaurateur and star of Bravo's Ladies of London provides nourishing, family-friendly recipes inspired by her Californian childhood and current British lifestyle.
FABIO'S 30-MINUTE ITALIAN: Over 100 Fabulous, Quick, and Easy Recipes by Fabio Viviani
Out: May 2
The bestselling author of FABIO'S ITALIAN KITCHEN presents a collection of recipes with tips and inspiration for making great Italian food in no time.
Essays & Literary Criticism (full list)
THE NOVEL OF THE CENTURY: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Mar. 7
Bellos recounts the birth and many later lives of one of the world's most popular novels.
AMERICAN ORIGINALITY: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück
Out: Mar. 14
The poet's second book of essays, after 1993's PROOFS AND THEORIES, focuses on contemporary American poetry.
HOUSMAN COUNTRY: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
Out: June 20
This book investigates the particularly English sensibility of poet and classical scholar A.E. Housman (1859–1936), best remembered for the collection A SHROPSHIRE LAD, published in 1896.
TOO MUCH AND NOT IN THE MOOD: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
Out: Apr. 11
Inspired by Virginia Woolf's April 11, 1931, entry in A WRITER'S DIARY, Chew-Bose makes a self-portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice.
THE WORLD BROKE IN TWO: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature by Bill Goldstein
Out: July 4
A narrative of the intersecting lives and works of four revered authors during 1922, the birth year of modernism.
ONE DAY WE'LL ALL BE DEAD AND NONE OF THIS WILL MATTER: Essays by Scaachi Koul
Out: May 2
A debut collection about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants, addressing sexism, cultural stereotypes, and the universal miseries of life.
History (full list)
CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION: Petrograd, Russia, 1917—A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 7
The author of THE ROMANOV SISTERS relates the outbreak of the Russian revolution through eyewitness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
LENIN ON THE TRAIN by Catherine Merridale (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Mar. 28
A celebrated scholar of Russian history offers an account of Lenin's 1917 rail trip from Zurich to Petrograd, and the underground conspiracy and subterfuge that went into making it happen.
HIGH NOON: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel
Out: Feb. 21
Frankel relates the making of the 1952 American western film High Noon, and how screenwriter Carl Foreman's concept of the film evolved from idea to first draft to final script, taking on allegorical weight as he was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party.
ISABELLA OF CASTILE: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett
Out: Mar. 7
Chronicles the life of Isabella of Castile, whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1479 united two kingdoms, setting the stage for Spain's golden era of global dominance.
THE LOCOMOTIVE OF WAR: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt by Peter Clarke
Out: July 18
This book studies the power of war through the trajectories of David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, John Maynard Keynes, Woodrow Wilson, and F.D.R., while examining the interplay between key figures in the context of unprecedented all-out wars (both in 1914 and 1939) and the broader dynamics of history during an extraordinary period.
AUTUMN OF THE BLACK SNAKE by William Hogeland
Out: May 16
Hogeland conjures up the woodland battles and hardball politics that formed the Legion of the United States, the country's first true standing army, when in 1783 the newly independent United States found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands.
APOLLO 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger
Out: May 16
Kluger tells of the 1968 race—over the course of just 16 weeks—to prepare an untested rocket to launch humankind's first flight to the moon.
DODGE CITY: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin
Out: Feb. 28
Relates the story of two young and largely self-trained lawmen who led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, specifically the depraved and criminal town of Dodge City, Kans.
MURDER IN THE CITY: New York, 1910–1920 by Wilfried Kaute
Out: June 13
A time capsule of crime and murder in New York in the decade of the 1910s, documented through more than 150 photographs, medical and police reports, testimonies, and analysis from the era.
Lifestyle (full list)
A COLORFUL WAY OF LIVING: How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way by Barbara Bradley Baekgaard (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Apr. 4
The founder of Vera Bradley shares the values to which she attributes her company's runaway success.
THE HUNGRY BRAIN: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Stephan Guyenet (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 7
Neuroscience researcher Guyenet ties together mind and body in a health guide aimed at changing habits of thought, as well as habits of fitness and diet.
REAL LOVE: The Art of Authentic Connection by Sharon Salzberg
Out: June 6
A creative toolkit of mindfulness exercises, meditation techniques, and interactive applications that will guide readers through the process of stripping away layers of habit to find a truer meaning of love.
WHAT THE DEAD HAVE TAUGHT ME ABOUT LIVING WELL by Rebecca Rosen
Out: Feb. 14
A spiritual medium opens up about her personal life and answers the question she is asked most often: how does your connection to the "other side" help you navigate your day-to-day world?
THE HIIT BIBLE: Supercharge Your Body and Brain by Steve Barrett
Out: July 18
With HIIT (high intensity interval training) attaining widespread acceptance as a method for improving cardiovascular performance, this book aims to consolidate and demystify the science while also highlighting some of HIIT's lesser-known benefits.
Literary Fiction (full list)
UNIVERSAL HARVESTER by John Darnielle (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 7
When mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut, life in the small town of Nevada, Iowa, takes a dark turn.
THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING by Grant Ginder
Out: June 6
A fractured family from the Chicago suburbs gathers in London for the eldest daughter's marriage to an upper-crust Englishman, proving that the harder we strain against the ties that bind, the tighter they hold us close.
THE ANSWERS by Catherine Lacey
Out: June 6
Mary scours Craigslist for fast-cash jobs and finds herself applying for the "Girlfriend Experiment," the brainchild of an eccentric and narcissistic actor, Kurt Sky, who is determined to find the perfect relationship—even if that means paying different women to fulfill distinctive roles.
LOVER by Anna Raverat
Out: Mar. 7
Kate, a senior executive at a multinational hotel company, has devoted her life to her job and her family. Catering to the needs of others comes easily to her, but now, after 10 years of marriage and two children, Kate discovers e-mails from her husband to another woman.
ENCIRCLING by Carl Frode Tiller, trans. by Barbara J. Haveland
Out: Feb. 21
David has lost his memory. When a newspaper ad asks his friends and family to share their memories of him, three respond: Jon, his closest friend; Silje, his teenage girlfriend; and Arvid, his estranged stepfather. This first book of a trilogy is a psychological portrait of a man by his friends.
SO MUCH BLUE by Percival Everett
Out: June 13
Kevin Pace, working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see, had an affair 10 years earlier with a young watercolorist in Paris. As the events of the past intersect with the present, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he's made for his art and the secrets he's kept from his wife.
MARLENA by Julie Buntin
Out: Apr. 4
Fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. The story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life and define the other's for decades.
THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR by Yewande Omotoso
Out: Feb. 7
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires.
THE STANDARD GRAND by Jay Baron Nicorvo
Out: Apr. 25
When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown borscht belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard—and its 2,000 acres over the Marcellus shale formation—is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Three violent acts are at the center of this debut.
Memoirs & Biographies (full list)
SCHADENFREUDE, A LOVE STORY: Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words For by Rebecca Schuman (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 7
A young Jewish intellectual falls in love with a boy, a language, and a landscape as well as Kafka, and tries to figure them all out.
THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 7
A personal account of a life afflicted with depression, from an affluent but neglected childhood to the present day.
THIS IS NOT A BORDER: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by Ahdaf Soueif (a Top 10 pick)
Out: May 9
A collection of essays, poems, and sketches celebrating, in the words of Edward Said, "the power of culture over the culture of power."
RECKLESS DAUGHTER: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe
Out: June 13
A biography, with dozens of in-person interviews with Mitchell, reveals the backstory behind the famous songs—from her youth on the Canadian prairie, the child she gave up for adoption, through her albums and love affairs, to the present.
I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet
Out: June 13
The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, born and educated in Germany, Mekhennet reports from the Middle East to North Africa to explain the rise of Islamic radicalism.
FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL: A True Love Story by Peter Turner
Out: May 2
This memoir recounts a story of friendship, love and stardom that began when Turner's former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, collapsed in a Lancaster hotel, and he took her into his eccentric family's home in Liverpool. Soon to be a major feature film starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, and Vanessa Redgrave.
JACK AND NORMAN: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" by Jerome Loving
Out: Feb. 21
The tragic behind-the-scenes story of Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG, and his relationship with Jack Henry Abbott, who the author helped get out of prison and publish his book, IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST, after which Abbott murdered a waiter and fled to Mexico before being recaptured and imprisoned.
Mysteries & Thrillers (full list)
DOWN A DARK ROAD by Linda Castillo (a Top 10 pick)
Out: July 11
Crime and religion collide in Castillo's ninth Kate Burkholder mystery. The police chief of Painters Mill, Ohio, must track down an Amish man convicted of murdering his wife who has escaped from prison and taken his five children hostage.
ECHOES IN DEATH by J.D. Robb (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 7
The 44th novel featuring Lt. Eve Dallas from Robb (the pseudonym of Nora Roberts), a tale of murder and high society in a future Manhattan, shows why she dominates bestseller lists.
WOLF ON A STRING by Benjamin Black (a Top 10 pick)
Out: June 6
Black, the pen name of the Man Booker Prize–winning novelist John Banville, is the author of the Quirke mystery series set in 1950s Ireland and a Philip Marlowe pastiche, THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE. Now he turns his eye on 16th-century Prague in a tale of murder and magic.
BASED ON A TRUE STORY by Delphine de Vigan, trans. by George Miller
Out: May 9
In this metafictional psychological thriller, Delphine, a successful novelist, meets L.L., an intuitive woman who promises to cure her writer's block. As their lives become more and more entwined, L. threatens Delphine's identity, both as a writer and as an individual.
SIX FOUR by Hideo Yokoyama, trans. by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies
Out: Feb. 7
For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never see their daughter again. Fourteen years later, a press officer notices an anomaly in the case.
TOWER DOWN: A Kirk McGarvey Novel by David Hagberg
Out: May 16
A freelance killer, code-named Al-Nassar, blows the supports on a pencil tower in Manhattan and sends it crashing down. CIA legend McGarvey believes that someone in the Saudi Arabian government is behind the attack.
Poetry (full list)
AFTERLAND by Mai Der Vang (a Top 10 pick)
Out Apr. 4
The 2016 Walt Whitman Award–winner devastatingly describes the Hmong exodus from Laos; the fate of thousands of refugees, including her family; and Hmong resilience in exile.
I AM FLYING INTO MYSELF: Selected Poems, 1960–2014 by Bill Knott, edited by Thomas Lux (a Top 10 pick)
Out: Feb. 14
Arranged by his friend, poet Thomas Lux, Knott's work—encompassing surrealistic wordplay, the antipoem, sonnets, sestinas, and haikus—all convenes in this inventive and brilliant book. readmoreremove


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by Matthew Dalby, sports information graduate assistant
>>>Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball team (32-15, 12-9 PBC) used a mid-week victory over Valdosta State University (18-21), along with a 3-1 series win over Erskine College (27-21) to propel up multiple national polls.
The Bobcats moved up two spots to No. 19 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper NCAA Division II poll.
In the College Baseball Lineup Division II National Poll the 'Cats moved to No. 18, three spots higher than last week.
Georgia College stayed put at No. 8 in the NCAA Southeast Region Rankings, sitting closely behind Limestone College (32-16) and Peach Belt Conference member UNC Pembroke (33-10).
The NCAA Southeast Region Rankings help determine the three at-large teams that will participate in the NCAA Regional Tournament, along with the three conference winners.
Mount Olive College stays at the top spot in the region, clinching their spot in the NCAA Regional Tournament with their Conference Carolinas Conference Championship.
Wingate University (34-20) has also clinched a spot in the Regional Tournament after winning the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) Tournament.
The Bobcats will play host to Southeast Region No. 5 Armstrong Atlantic in a crucial three-game set beginning Friday, April 29 at 7 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.

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text: Some folks say that even those who get sent to Hell are better off than those who are simply passed over--and I'm talking about those noble savages who never fit into the scheme to begin with. Being lifted out of an endless sea is better than being pulled under, but being pulled under is better than being passed over, because at least those unfortunate little souls have the benefit of being taken into account. The others are forgotten--left adrift. Would the Great Flood have served its purpose had it not sent countless numbers of people straight to hell?


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Mr. Olde: "What?"
2 months ago
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
That would be a Yes then. LOL
Oh dear....
NOT funny, as we do this at the breakfast table every morning.
Off topic, but a study shows that grumpy people make better decisions:
yep, it's always the invisible disabilities that are the funniest.
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Other than the Casey spousal notification case, the Samuel Alito opinion I've heard the most criticism of is his dissent in Doe v. Groody, where, it is said, Alito voted to authorize a strip search of a ten-year-old girl in the course of executing a search warrant. Liberals will no doubt portray Groody in the most lurid light possible, so it's worth reviewing the case in some detail.
Groody was a lawsuit by two "Jane Doe" plaintiffs against four police officers. The plaintiffs claimed that they were illegally searched by the officers, and asked for money damages. The officers moved for summary judgment, arguing that the search did not violate any clearly established constitutional rights. By a two-to-one vote, the 3rd Circuit panel upheld the trial court's denial of the officers' motion to dismiss the case. Alito was the dissenter.
The case arose out of the execution of a search warrant on a meth house. In the affidavit that the officers submitted to obtain the warrant, they noted that when drug dealers see that they are being raided, they commonly hide drugs on the persons of whoever may also be on the premises, hoping that the search warrant won't allow the officers to search them. So, in this case, the officers requested permission to search anyone they found on the premises, not just the drug dealer who was the target of the raid.
The search warrant was drafted by the police officers and signed by a magistrate. It granted the officers' request for a warrant, but didn't specifically say that they could search occupants of the house other than the drug dealer. The officers testified that this was only because the box on the form where they described the premises to be searched wasn't big enough to contain more information, but that they believed that the information in their supporting affidavit was incorporated by reference.
The majority held that the warrant did not authorize the officers to search anyone but the drug dealer himself. Alito disagreed. In my opinion, Alito got much the better of the argument. You can judge for yourself by reading the decision here. Alito wrote:
First, the best reading of the warrant is that it authorized the search of any persons found on the premises. Second, even if the warrant did not contain such authorization, a reasonable police officer could certainly have read the warrant as doing so, and therefore the appellants are entitled to qualified immunity.
Alito noted that, under the controlling authorities, search warrants "are to be read 'in a commonsense and realistic fashion,'" a proposition with which I think most Americans, and most Senators, would agree.
Liberals' reference to a "strip search" by officers will evoke images of slavering voyeurs gratuitously disrobing a mother and child, so it is important to understand what really happened. This description comes from the majority opinion:
The officers decided to search Jane and Mary Doe for contraband, and sent for the meter patrol officer. When she arrived, the female officer removed both Jane and Mary Doe to an upstairs bathroom. They were instructed to empty their pockets and lift their shirts. The female officer patted their pockets. She then told Jane and Mary Doe to drop their pants and turn around. No contraband was found. With the search completed, both Jane and Mary Doe were returned to the ground floor to await the end of the search.
Judge Alito made it clear that he was not pleased by the fact that searches of this nature may be necessary. But, as in so many other instances, the problem doesn't arise from gratuitous malice on the part of police officers, it arises from the tactics of drug dealers:
I share the majoritys visceral dislike of the intrusive search of John Does young daughter, but it is a sad fact that drug dealers sometimes use children to carry out their business and to avoid prosecution. I know of no legal principle that bars an officer from searching a child (in a proper manner) if a warrant has been issued and the warrant is not illegal on its face. Because the warrant in this case authorized the searches that are challenged and because a reasonable officer, in any event, certainly could have thought that the warrant conferred such authority I would reverse.
Every indication is that the officers in this case met the highest professional standards. What did they get for their pains? They got sued. Judge Alito's opinion in Groody is well-reasoned and highly persuasive. There is no reason why leftists should be allowed to use it to cast doubt on Alito's qualifications. On the contrary, it is a good illustration of why we need jurists like Judge Alito on the Supreme Court.


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Anders, the son of a Bahamian (from the Bahamas??) woman I work out with and ex pro American football player, had this awesome think-outside-of-the-box idea, when he asked me to help him start a midnight trail race in Næstved. Anders is the type of guy everyone is friends with, so I had no doubt it would work out.
And it did! Here a picture from the start of Zulu's Nat Marathon.
|There is SR in the back middle row in his Afton shirt. Picture by Anders Risager.
|Anything that gets the boys excited about running is worth the time and effort.
|I had to take this shot of Mattias to remind him he started in 0mm drop shoes with very poor traction profile- and slipped and fell in the mud on his first trail run.
|Wild raspberries lined the trails in the woods today and apparently all over Sjælland, I've heard from friends. Yum! I always wanted to be the kind of mom who gathered berries with her young.
|Oh yeah- and here is the Team Salomon outfit. I lost the 4lbs I had gained in California, so I allowed myself to wear it in public. Photo Jan K. Madsen
|I started out in the middle of the pack. Look- you can't even see me! But you can probably see Thea to the left... Photo: Jan K. Madsen
|I was able to hold on to Jesper for about 300 meters and then he took off with 4 other men. Photo: Jan K Madsen
|Photo: Jan K Madsen


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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Treasure Chest Thursday -- Grandma's Patch Quilt
This is a patch quilt that grandma Smedley made. It was being used as a mattress pad on the old iron bed that dad used to sleep in when he was a kid. The bed is mine now and of course I took the quilt along with it. Unfortunately the bed is still in Idaho.
It sure looks like hard work. The quilt is made of many different types of material. There are pieces of old sleeping bags, curtains, old material scraps, a polyester suit, clothing, and stuff I can't even name. The most important pieces to me are the ones from grandpa's old flannel shirts. When rapped in the quilt it is almost like snuggling with grandpa.
I'm not sure how old the quilt is, it could be anywhere from forty to sixty years old. I really need to do some repairs on it. Looking at some of the rips you can see that she did not use batting in the middle, but a couple of layers of more patch work. Let me tell ya, that thing is very heavy and warm.
Posted by Leslie Ann at 11:20 AM
Labels: Quilt, Smedley, Treasure chest Thursday
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I love these old quilts! I have three that my grandmother made (would have had more had I not destroyed one through stupidity when I was in college) that were made of scraps provided by her children and often had family names embroidered in them.ReplyDelete
I ALWAYS get ideas for my own posts from you Leslie. I had forgotten about an old quilt that my Aunt gave me years ago and it is sitting very near me right now in a plastic box! I particularly like that you feel like you are getting a hug from your grandfather since his flannel shirts are pieces in your quilt. Nice job!ReplyDelete
Glad to know that I could be of service ;-)ReplyDelete
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DIY PVC Grow Light Standcomments (25) January 9th, 2011
There comes a point in every gardener's life when starting your own transplants from seed not only makes economic sense, but also opens up a whole new world of varieties that are available to you. Two invaluable purchases that need to be considered are heat mats and grow lights.
Regarding grow light systems, there are many options available to you, at different sizes and styles. Unfortunately, most of these can come with a steep cost. The ones I researched online were in the neighborhood of $150-200 or higher.
While these were of pretty good quality, it made me look for more inexpensive options. So I offer you a basic DIY grow light stand made entirely of PVC (with required metal hardware). I was able to build one of these for less than $60, including the light fixture itself.
This design's measurements will yield a grow light stand that supports a 4-foot (48") wide fluorescent shoplight fixture. You can certainly design it to fit a smaller one that carries a 3- or 2-foot fixture.
• 48" Fluorescent twin-bulb shoplight fixture with recommended bulbs (1).
• 10-foot length of 1 1/4" (1.25) PVC tubing (2)
• Two 2-foot (24") pieces of 1" PVC tubing (3)
• Two 1 1/4" (1.25) "Tee" PVC connectors (4)
• Two 1 1/4" (1.25) 90-degree "elbow" PVC connectors (5)
• Four 1 1/4" (1.25) PVC end caps (6)
• Two lag bolts or equivalent, and their accompanying nuts. I would recommend 1/4" diameter by 3" bolts
• Pack of two 1/4" x 4" "eye hooks" and their accompanying nuts.
• Pack of two 1" "S-hooks"
• Drill and assortment of drill bits
• Hacksaw or PVC cutting tool
• Tape measure
• PVC cement
• Pen or permanent marker
• Timer
Easy to intermediate, depending on your craft and cutting skills.
1. Gather all of the needed parts and tools (Photo A).
2. Cut a length of the 1 1/4" PVC tubing long enough to go beyond the length of your fluorescent light fixture. For the 4-foot fixture, I cut a piece about 55". Then glue one of the elbow connectors to each end. You now have the "top support bar" completed (Photo B).
3. Cut 4 equal lengths of the 1 1/4" PVC tubing to serve as support "legs". These can be whatever length you wish, but I wouldn't go any shorter than 8". I cut mine to 10" (Photo C).
4. Take two of those 4 equal length pieces and glue them to the Tee connector. Then glue two of the 4 end caps to that. You have now finished one of the "leg stands". Repeat this step for the second leg stand (Photo D).
5. Cut 2 more equal lengths of the 1 1/4" PVC tubing, and glue into the ends of the "top support bar" you finished in STEP #2. I made mine about 2 1/2" (2.5), but that length can be between 2-6" (Photo E).
6. Cut 2 more equal lengths (again) of the 1 1/4" PVC tubing to serve as the "risers" coming up from the leg stands. These can again be whatever length you wish. I made mine about 6". These pieces are one of the two pieces that will raise and lower the light fixture (Photo F).
Yep, that's right! This baby is adjustable. Not the fancy mechanism that the more expensive commercial ones have, but it will do the job. Here's how it happens:
7. Insert one of the 1" PVC tubing pieces into the "leg stands" you finished in STEP 4. This is the other piece that will determine how tall your light fixture is raised. Drill a hole into BOTH the outer 1 1/4" AND the inner 1" pieces of PVC tubing. The hole diameter should be wide enough to allow the adjustment bolts to go in and out of the hole easily. Repeat this for the other side (Photo G).
8. Take both of the 1" PVC pieces out, and mark 4-5 points, in 1" increments, to the LEFT of the hole that you previously drilled. These will be the different positions you can raise the light fixture with (Photo H).
9. Using the pen marks as a guide, drill the other holes. If you put the piece with the holes back into the base, you can now see how the fixture will be raised and lowered (Photo I).
10. Put the top support bar onto the two leg pieces and you're almost finished (Photo J).
11. Drill two holes, at equal distance from each side, on the top of the support bar. Put in the eye hooks, "hole" in bottom. These will connect to the chains provided by the light fixture (Photo K).
12. Unpackage your light fixture and attach the support chains to the eye hooks on the PVC support.
At this point my friends, you're pretty much done. Plug it in, attach an optional (but highly recommended) timer to it, and you're ready to go.
So go forth and let your seedlings "see the light"
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Its Amazing ideas
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I also used the rope lights!
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Love the growlight stand, thanks for the great idea and easy to follow instructions. Hope to get one made this week.
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Thanks Greg for your plans.
Posted: 10:45 am on January 23rd
However, I have a confession. I did succumb to the 'siren call' of a fancy commercial light stand about ten years ago, because it fit perfectly in front of the fixed pane of my patio door, and held eight flats (two per shelf). So much for DIY...
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I have mounted three 4-foot shop-light fixtures on a sheet of plywood, that is in turn suspended on chains from a tall sawhorse. This allows me to place several seed flats under the fixture. I use four of these contraptions for seed starting.
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I had additional supervision by the neighbor kitty when I built mine: http://www.brownthumbmama.com/2010/02/make-your-own-seed-starting-light.html
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December 12, 2010 – New York Rangers 7, Washington Capitals 0 (Game No. 32, Home No. 16)
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- The Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals, 7-0, tonight at Madison Square Garden, to improve to 18-13-1 overall and 7-8-1 at home. New York has won eight of their last 12 games (8-4-0), and is now tied for fourth in the NHL with 18 wins and ranks sixth overall with 37 points.
- The last time the Rangers defeated the Capitals by seven goals was Mar. 24, 1978 (11-4) at Washington.
- The Blueshirts improved to 8-0-0 in the second game of back-to-back sets, with a 3-0-0 mark when the second game is at MSG. Over the last two seasons, the Rangers have posted a record of 17-2-2 in the second game of back-to-backs, including a 7-1-1 mark at home over the span.
- Today marks the first time since Nov. 26, 2005, that both the Rangers and Knicks (NBA) won on the same day at Madison Square Garden. On that day, the Rangers defeated the Capitals, 3-2, following an NHL record 15-round shootout, while the Knicks defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, 105-102, in overtime earlier in the day. *statistic courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau
- Seven different Blueshirt players registered two points, marking the first time since Oct. 12, 2009 (7-2 win vs. Toronto at MSG, eight players) that seven or more players posted multi-point performances for the Rangers in a game.
- Henrik Lundqvist turned aside 31 shots to post his fifth shutout of the season, and 29th of his career, and improved to 13-11-1 overall with a 4-6-1 mark at home. He is now 6-3-0 with a 1.64 goals against average, a .937 save percentage and three shutouts in the last nine games. Lundqvist's five shutouts are tied for first in the NHL.
- Marc Staal notched a shorthanded goal and added a power play assist to capture First Star honors. He has now registered eight points (three goals, five assists) in the last 10 games, including three shorthanded points (one goal, two assists) over the span. Staal also led all skaters with 25:01 of ice time and posted a plus-three rating.
- Brandon Dubinsky registered a Gordie Howe Hat Trick, with one goal, one assist and a fighting major, and posted a career-high, plus-four rating. He has now recorded eight points (two goals, six assists) in the last eight games.
- Brandon Prust opened the game's scoring with an even strength tally at 17:57 of the first period, and added an assist on Staal's shorthanded goal at 10:42 of the second to post his first multi-point effort of the season and second of his career. Prust has now registered five points (three goals, two assists) in the last six games.
- Ryan Callahan notched two, third period goals, posted a career-high, plus-four rating, and was credited with a team-high, six hits.
- Brian Boyle recorded a career-high, two assists, including one on the game-winning goal and the primary assist on Staal's shorthanded goal, and led all skaters with a career-high, seven blocked shots. He has now registered four points (one goal, three assists) in the last five games.
- Artem Anisimov tallied an unassisted goal in the opening minute of the second period, and added an assist for his fifth multi-point effort of the season. He also posted a career-high, plus-three rating in the contest.
- Dan Girardi registered two assists, blocked three shots and posted a plus-two rating in 22:51 of ice time. He now leads the team with 14 assists on the season.
- Marian Gaborik notched a power play goal at 3:07 of the second period, and has now tallied 16 points (nine goals, seven assists) in his last 15 games.
- Alex Frolov and Michal Rozsival each recorded an assist for the Rangers. Frolov registered the primary assist on the game-winning goal, and Rozsival assisted on Gaborik's power play goal and posted a plus-three rating.
- After an off-day tomorrow, the Blueshirts' next practice is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 14, at the MSG Training Center.
- The Rangers will return to action on Wednesday, Dec. 15, when they will begin their ninth back-to-back set of the season against the Pittsburgh Penguins at CONSOL Energy Center (7:00 p.m.), before returning home to host the Phoenix Coyotes at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, Dec. 16 (7:00 p.m.).
John Tortorella on tonight's game…
"What we talked about prior to the game was that we should feel good about ourselves. The puck went in tonight. The biggest message about this game was to feel good about yourself and play the right way."
Brandon Dubinsky on tonight's game…
"We have played well in back-to-backs all year long. Last night we thought we played well enough to get points but we didn't put the puck in the net. To come back and play well like that – everyone chipped in. It was a huge win against a good hockey team. Hopefully something to build on and get ready for Pittsburgh."
Henrik Lundqvist on the Rangers' defense…
"It was good for us to respond this way. They have been great all year especially lately. They have been playing great defensively. It was a nice surprise to see how hard they worked the last ten minutes, the whole game really."


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Thursday, April 07, 2011
Carrying a Tank
It's pretty rare, but I've seen a group carry a tank before.
I define "carrying" as when a character performs significantly below normal, to such an extent that it requires other characters to perform significantly above normal in order for the group to be successful.
I was once put into a Dungeon Finder group with three DPS and a bear tank, all from the same guild. The bear tank had a 150k health, so I thought all was good.
As we progressed through the instance I noticed two things. First, the DPS was very good, all pushing 10k. Second, the bear was taking a ton of damage. I was having to chain Divine Lights and pop cooldowns to keep him up. I found this amazingly odd, given that the tank came from the same guild as three top-notch DPS.
Mid-way through the run, I inspected the tank. The tank was in full PvP gear. So he had a lot of health, but was missing all the avoidance and mastery that would have significantly reduced his damage taken. He was also missing the talent Natural Reaction.
The tank had enough health so that he wasn't one-shot, but he took damage at a rate that required me to burn mana at a much higher rate than normal. However, the DPS performed at such a high level that they were able to end the fights before I ran out of mana, in addition to requiring the barest minimum of healing themselves.
It's fairly obvious that the group decided to have their druid respec and wear PvP gear, and let the DPS carry him through the instance, rather than face 45 minute queue times. I think the Natural Reaction thing was just a mistake, as the druid spec looked good otherwise.
The point is that because the tank performed at such a low level, the DPS had to perform at a much higher level so that the run was successful. The performance of the DPS effectively carried the performance of the tank in that run.
The moral of the story is that very high DPS forgives a lot of sins.
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This sounds more like the tank playing in sub-optimal spec and gear knowingly, rather than the tank "performing significantly below normal" (though I guess you could call it that..:P).ReplyDelete
If he happened to be totally unable to hold aggro as well, you'd need some ridiculous DPS for things to go smoothly - but I do get your point about the survivability side from a healer's perspective.
Are you sure he wasn't in a DPS/PvP Feral spec ? My first thought was that he's normally a DPS Feral who slapped on some pvp gear and queued as a tank with his 3 DPS buddies.
- Anonymous6:45 AM, April 08, 2011
Sounds a bit like the healer carrying the tank, too.ReplyDelete
My GL and our main healer often notes that in Cata tanks who are gem stacked for Stam are MUCH harder to heal in heroics, for similar reasons you mentioned about the PvP geared tank. They don't have their block or dodge or parry at the optimum levels and take a rap-ton of damage.ReplyDelete
I'd also like to point out that DPS gets SO much grief these days because there's "too many" of us or DPS QQs too much about queues (I honestly don't care how long the queue is) or about how our classes are "easy." If you are a healer w/a bad tank or a tank w/a bad healer, DPS CAN SAVE YOUR RUN!
Glad to see at least someone recognizes it. :P
If he happened to be totally unable to hold aggro as well, you'd need some ridiculous DPS for things to go smoothlyReplyDelete
Within the guild, we carry a new tank by taking him in a dps role along with an experienced tank. We give him all the tank drops until he both has the gear and knows the role.
So, yeah, we carry the tank by carrying the dps ;P
I agree that good dps can make up for a poor tank. However in my opinion it is much more important that they understand the boss mechanics and react accordingly to avoid damage. A decent healer will always be able to keep up a tank in a heroic, even if the tank is not using cooldowns or damage mitigating abilities (a few exceptions but this is almost always true.) However, if they constantly have to direct heals at the dps who are not moving out of the fire etc, then there is a much higher chance that the tank will drop.ReplyDelete
I would argue that healers are able to carry a group much more than a tank or a dps.
@Rammurg, well, knowingly performing badly, and unknowingly performing badly kinda all ends up in the same place.ReplyDelete
It may have been a PvP spec. To me, it looked like a bear spec (didn't have most Cat talents) only inexplicably missing Natural Reaction. So I chalked it up to a mistake made by someone respeccing quickly.
In following this discussion on several different blogs, the issue is all the differing opinions on what it means to "carry" someone. In the example Rohan gives here, the tank may not have been properly geared or spec'd, but the fact that they were able to complete the instance would suggest that he still had a good grasp of situational awareness and aggro generation. So while it is true that the rest of the group had to compensate for him somewhat, I would not call it "carrying" him per say.ReplyDelete
To me "carrying" someone would mean that person benefiting when they had absolutely no right to do so. In other words, they fail at executing even the basic requirements of their role, but the rest of the group is still able to complete the run regardless and the "carried" player receives the same benefit as the other players. That may sound like "splitting hairs" on the surface, but it is a fundamental difference in my opinion. The bear tank Rohan talks about here is obviously not an ideal tank, but it is equally obvious that he is not incompetent. He's doing the best with what he brought.
@ Ghira: Can I join your guild?ReplyDelete
I have been on both sides of this equation.
I didn't begin tanking until I hit 80 back in WoLK. I had no clue what to or when to do it. I had to run a crapload of PUGs to get points to buy tank gear. I was carried on more than one occasion by ICC geared DPS who were doing their daily frost run.
I eventually became a solid tank after studying, practicing and frankly, failing on many occasions. It took a dedicated effort on my part and I'm sure some patience from PUGs and even guildies.
As a DPS and even healer I have run with really bad tanks. Sometimes I will offer some advice but most of the time it isn't worth it. Just DPS through the fight and avoid the discussions. Or, heal my ass off and try to prevent a wipe. It may mean letting the tank die in lieu of the top DPS in the group, but if that's what is carrying the run why let the Hunter die?
Point is, DPS carrying a tank happens more often than one might imagine. Tanks may even appreciate it.
- Anonymous3:09 PM, April 08, 2011
We regularly brute force Heroic and 85 level normal content with raid geared dps and heals when our alternate tanks are learning boss fights and gearing up.ReplyDelete
It makes the learning curve much less steep and gives everyone a chance to see the content without the crushing burden of PUG Tank expectations.
I refuse to PUG Tank. I can brute force stupid as a healer, but overcoming crap dps and an undergeared/clueless healer is much harder.
- mandaree7:55 PM, April 09, 2011
I healed Halls of Stone (I think) one time with a tank who was a total incompetent, chain-pulled everything and couldn't hold aggro if his life depended on it. Fortunately I was way overgeared, but I had to work my ass off to keep the dps up. I think the tank took less than a third of the total damage on the run.ReplyDelete
- Sieghardt1:50 PM, April 16, 2011
I must be a bit of a sadist, because I really enjoy tanking pugs as long as they don't do anything dramatically retarded. It's kinda fun when the party screws up and I end up saving the day by healing myself AND my party while tanking and pulling back aggro from a DPS that got too excited, followed by a chorus of "BEAST TANK!" from the group.ReplyDelete
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that I'm familiar with all of the ins and outs of the world of ballet, but as the father of a 6-year-old daughter who's preparing to embark on her fourth dance recital (this year's routine is set to the Beach Boys' "Drive-In," which pleases me to no end), rest assured that I've endured more than my fair share of the stuff, including seemingly-interminable screenings of various episodes of Dance Moms. As such, upon learning of the impending arrival of a new ballet-themed reality series from The CW, I immediately crossed my fingers and prayed that, if nothing else, it would at least be less painful to watch as a family than the misadventures of the completely mental Abby Lee Miller.
Unfortunately, while it would be fair to say that Breaking Pointe is a classier show than Dance Moms (paging the Faint Praise Police), the debut episode offers precious little in the way of actual dancing, which means that my kid's almost certainly not going to have an interest in watching it regularly. On the other hand, that means that her father probably won't have to sit through on a weekly basis, either, so let's go ahead and put one in the "win" column for ol' Pop, shall we?
Call it an additional bit of faint-praise damning, but Breaking Pointe does actually have a pedigree that, at least on paper, makes it seem as though it's head and shoulders above any reality show ever to have appeared on The CW. Produced by BBC Worldwide Productions in conjunction with two alumni from behind the scenes of Dancing With The Stars (Izzie Pick Ashcroft and Jane Tranter), the show looks top-notch, and it's clarified up front that the events witnessed within these proceedings are the result of Salt Lake City's Ballet West allowing cameras inside their doors for the first time ever.
This seems like it should be extremely exciting, especially when it's added that "each year thousands of dancers compete for only 40 contracts; this week they find out who stays and who goes," but the whole thing sinks into melodrama almost immediately. Indeed, as I settled in to watch the premiere on TiVo, having not yet returned home from a brief outing when it started, my A.V. Club mentor Noel Murray filled my heart with dread by informing me, "I made it through about 10 minutes. The first staged, Hills-like coffee-shop conversation did me in. Good luck!" Having never watched any of Audrina Patridge's antics, I checked with my wife to confirm Mr. Murray's assurances, and she confirmed that his point of comparison was indeed spot on.
During the course of the first episode, we meet seven dancers—Beckanne (19 years old), brothers Ronald (19) and Rex (24), Allison (28), Ronnie (30), Christiana (32), and Katie (23)—and we are assured during the opening credits that these crazy kids do their dancing "for that one chance to have that one single moment onstage where everything comes together," additionally clarifying that "we do it…to be perfect." This certainly sums up Christiana, who's the old pro of the bunch and has a tendency to look suspicious and act threatened whenever she sees any other dancer show any semblance of talent, which is why she and Beckanne do not get along. There is little question that Beckanne is a talented and beautiful young dancer, a fact not lost on the company's artistic director, Adam Sklute, who promptly bumps her up to demi-soloist, a title which is apparently really, really impressive for a 19-year-old to achieve.
Unfortunately, Beckanne's best buddy in the company, Katie, isn't doing quite as well, resulting in her contract not being picked up. This upsets Beckanne, but it also seriously bums out Ronald, who, as it turns out, is Katie's boyfriend. As Katie drives into the sunset with intentions of finding work elsewhere, Ronald vows he's going to make their relationship work no matter what. This sort of romantic dedication seems to be inherent in Ronald's genetic makeup, as his brother Rex has similarly strong feelings about the woman he loves. Sadly, however, that woman—the aforementioned Allison—is convinced that she can't possibly have a romantic relationship at the same time that she's pursuing her career in ballet, and she feels this so steadfastly that her reaction to Rex's dropping of the L-bomb is to shake her head and sigh, "I will never, ever play into you when I think you're talking crazy."
These are the key storylines in the first episode of Breaking Pointe, which means that poor Ronnie gets the short end of the stick until next week. This, of course, is provided that viewers can even be bothered to come back. It's not as though the series is awful, but the goings-on lean toward the unexciting far more often than not, with any possible momentum about the challenges involved in pulling a contract with Ballet West quickly neutered by cutaways to events like, say, Rex and Allison going on what may well be one of the least exciting shopping trips in the history of reality television.
It's to the show's credit that it shows the competitive nature of dance, making no effort to paint a shiny happy portrait of the interpersonal relationships within the group, but while a proper documentary on these events might've been scintillating, Breaking Pointe comes off as relatively pedestrian and, ultimately, pretty darned blah.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An international design team made up of MVRDV of Rotterdam, The Jerde Partnership, Inc. of Los Angeles, and ARUP (Dublin), together with developer Wijaya Karya - Benhil Property, have collaborated to create Peruri 88 – a new landmark icon for the people of Jakarta. The team recently presented the plans to owner Peruri as part of a developer's bid competition for the prominent site at Jl. Palatehan 4 Jakarta on November 2, 2012.
Peruri 88 is approximately a 360,000 square-meter 88-story high rise mixed-use district in the heart of Jakarta's capitol region. MVRDV and Jerde are the project's design architects, while ARUP provided structural engineering consultation. Designed to be the grandeur of Peruri and Indonesia, Peruri 88 combines residential, hotel, office, retail and entertainment uses and is envisioned as a modern iconic and active public gathering place for the city.
MVRDV designed the high rise tower that will house residential, office and hotel to become the most prominent building in Jakarta's evolving downtown. "Peruri's soaring Tower (Vertical Jakarta) represents a new, denser, social, green mini-city – a monument to the development of Jakarta as a modern icon literally raised from its own city fabric," says Winy Maas, MVRDV Founder.
The Jerde-designed Peruri commercial podium reflects the city's historic island existence with reflective bodies of water and landscape traversing the public street levels, while integrating a striking sunken garden plaza. "Our inspiration for the commercial podium and public spaces was the island's natural setting -- lush jungle and stone surrounded by expansive ocean," says David Rogers, FAIA, Jerde Design Director.


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Astronomers have caught the moment a meteorite turned into a fireball as powerful as a nuclear explosion just 21 miles above the Earth and headed over the UK.
The blast was so visible that the Irish Coast Guard contacted Astronomy Ireland as they were receiving so many reports of possible distress flares
Footage of the "car-sized" meteorite burning up in the atmosphere was so good because it was destroyed much lower than the usual 50 to 70 miles up.
Experts believe it broke off an asteroid in orbit between Mars and Jupiter and headed towards earth at 100,000mph.
Fragments of the rock which made it to Earth are worth ten times the price of gold.
The video was recorded by the United Kingdom Meteor Observing Network at Portadown on Sunday at around 10.10pm.
David Moore from Astronomy Ireland said: "This event was so bright that a piece or pieces may have survived the re-entry and landed as extremely rare and valuable meteorites."
Amateur enthusiasts hoping for a quick buck by finding a piece may be out of luck though as they suspect from the trajectory it travelled any pieces would now be at the bottom of the Irish sea.
The clip, uploaded to YouTube by the UK Meteor Observation Network, shows the massive dash of light fly across the sky at Portadown and Lurgan.
At around 10:10pm on Sunday night the huge 'fireball' was seen right across the country, lighting up all of the whole island like daylight for about five seconds.
David Moore said: "This event was so bright that a piece or pieces may have survived the re-entry and landed as extremely rare and valuable meteorites.
"We are appealing to everyone who saw the fireball to fill in to online report form on Astronomy Ireland's website 'astronomy.ie' as soon as possible while the details are fresh in their minds.
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I'm introducing a couple of new features at ER: the Unapologetic Encyclopedia, and "XFiles Friday."
The Unapologetic Encyclopedia is going to be an ongoing project for a while. From time to time, I'm going to look at the various apologetic arguments used to support Christianity, and show where their error lies. My goal is ultimately to accumulate a comprehensive reference list of Christian apologetic arguments and their refutations, similar to the Index of Creationist Claims. The "Encyclopedia" link at the top of the blog points to an index page that lists each apologetic in alphabetical order, with links to the post(s) in which that particular argument is refuted.
The new "XFiles Friday" feature doesn't have anything to do with any popular TV shows (think "X as in Xmas"), but instead serves as a handy place to put my blog postings about the various books of apologetics (XFiles) that I'll be reviewing. I was going to make such reviews the main feature of this blog, but unfortunately I'm not finding the time to do a proper rebuttal every day, so I'll have to be content with a weekly feature.
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WORCESTER, Mass.—The Harvard heavyweight and lightweight crews both captured their respective Eastern varsity and team championships and Ivy League titles at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints Championships Sunday on Lake Quinsigamond.
Harvard won both lightweight and heavyweight varsity gold for the 13th time. The Crimson won six grand finals on the day, including five of the six divisions that count toward the team competitions. The winners were: the heavyweight and lightweight varsity eights, heavyweight and lightweight second varsity eights, heavyweight freshman eight and heavyweight fourth varsity eight.
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anjellenee needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Kompositions is a creative design agency that offers affordable packages to small-mid sized businesses in need of brand identity, effective advertising, print & packaging, powerful websites, and multimedia presentations.
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Logo should include name (Kompositons) and some graphic element that can be used standalone for icons etc without having to use our name.
We are looking for a logo that conveys creativity and reflects name "composition", but also shows that we do technical things as well.
Other key cornerstones to our business lie in acheiving results, we are about getting the job done, right. WE are also client focused. If this helps.
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Ken Iovino needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 28 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
I'm looking for a clean, sharp, shiny & friendly web 2.0 logo for a new PHP company. There are no set colors in mind. I would like a clean glossy looking logo that will tell the visitor that they are at a professional PHP company.
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iVino, Inc is pleased to announce the first Logo Design Contest!
The person who submits the winning logo design will receive a $150 first place prize. The selected logo may be modified for use on iVino.org when the site is officially launched later this year.
We require the winning selection to be submitted in an editable format such as PSD, allowing us to make any necessary adjustments.
The logo should be a crisp, glossy Web 2.0 design. This logo will be used for business cards or t-shirts as well. Please do not let that lessen the quality of your work. Printing prices are the least of our worries.
The logo will also determine the design of the rest of the site. This logo will be the heart of iVino.org.
- The winning designer must agree to transfer all rights of ownership of the logo design to iVino, Inc., without any further compensation beyond the prize being offered: $150.00 (USD)
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Quite unexpectedly, something from Banfi! Tuscan wines in Walla Walla, go figure!
Anyhow, 40% Sauv Blanc, 30% Pinot Grigio, 30% Chardonnay, the Centine Bianco … fairly restrained aromatics, a lot of nose calisthenics required to draw the bouquet out … what's there is nice tho, definitely some oak, but a nice dose of mineral and mid-to-high-tone fruit as well … nicely, smells like hill fruit!
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At the METAV 2018, HEIDENHAIN will be focusing on leading-edge topics for machinists, covering subjects such as Connected Machining, new functions for the TNC 640, turning with the CNC PILOT 640, and much more.
You will have several opportunities in Düsseldorf to experience and discover these highlights from quite different perspectives:
- HEIDENHAIN booth: Hall 16, Booth C32 "Well-connected milling"—a live demonstration with the TNC 640 and Connected Machining
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If ever the consumer was king, it's in this sector. The internet and social networks in particular have given the consumer a world of information regarding their travel, tourism and leisure choices.
They've also opened up new routes to potential customers through which they can take advantage of the most favourable prices and purchase channels, whether they choose to research or book direct, or through a 'deal-of-the-day' website, comparison sites, aggregators, affiliate sites or social sites. Regardless of which channel consumers choose, they expect the same experience. This makes it increasingly important to join up online and offline activities so that you can make smarter, more informed decisions and ultimately build long term customer relationships that will last.
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Independent investigation into Benghazi attack complete
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An independent investigation into the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, is complete, and Congress will be briefed on its findings this week, the State Department said Monday.
The classified report by the Accountability Review Board will be sent to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a day before the panel's two most senior members will testify in closed session before the House and Senate foreign affairs committees. The board was established to examine the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
An unclassified version of the report is expected to be released to the public after board chairman Thomas Pickering, a former ambassador, and Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appear at Wednesday's hearings, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
The House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees will then hear open testimony on the report on Thursday from William Burns and Thomas Nides, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's two main deputies, Nuland said.
Clinton created the board in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack to look into security procedures before and during the incident in which heavily armed militants laid siege to the mission and a nearby CIA annex. She had been scheduled to appear before the committees this week, but canceled after fainting and sustaining a concussion while recovering from a stomach virus that left her severely dehydrated.
Nuland said Clinton had been given a copy of the report on Monday. She added that Clinton was "on the mend" but was obeying her doctors' recommendations to stay at home this week and recuperate. Clinton had canceled a trip to North Africa and the Middle East last week because of the ailment.
In a letter sent on Monday to the two committees, Clinton said it was her hope to release as much of the report to the public as possible though there were limits due to classified information.
She said she looked forward to "engaging the committees in January," though it was unclear whether that would mean public testimony or simply conversations to answer questions.
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None played better for longer than Cheliosby Corey Masisak / Chicago Blackhawks
Ask enough former and current NHL players, coaches and executives about Chris Chelios and a clear pattern of responses begins to emerge.
Chelios is lauded for his toughness, his leadership, his talent, his durability and his determination. He was a hockey player's hockey player, an everyman who wouldn't be deprived of achieving his dream and a force of nature who other world-class athletes were left to marvel at.
"You know, he's just an ultimate warrior," Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter said. "I don't think you have to say anything more than that."
Added Nashville Predators general manager David Poile: "Right up there with one of the best Americans ever. Now that it's all over you think of endurance because of how long he played, how old he was when he played; you think of the word warrior."
Chelios is one of the best defensemen in the history of the sport. He played at the game's highest level for longer than anyone ever except for Gordie Howe.
Most of the numbers, whether it was his production or his longevity, are astounding. Chelios will be honored for a remarkable career this weekend in Toronto and on Monday he will be enshrined into the Hockey Hall of Fame along with Scott Niedermayer, Brendan Shanahan, Geraldine Heaney and Fred Shero.
"I mean, he's a shoo-in. What hasn't he done?" Pittsburgh Penguins player development coach Bill Guerin said. "His international experience, his NHL … I mean, he was a dominant player for so long. And the way he played the game, like the passion that he has for the game.
"[Chelios] is just, you know, he's a Hall of Famer. Always has been."
A long and successful Hall of Fame career almost never happened. Chelios was born in Chicago but his family moved to California long before the explosion of hockey rinks, teams and players with NHL dreams became as commonplace as it is today.
For as remarkable as Chelios' career was, that it almost didn't start at all might be even more so. He tried to make multiple junior teams in Canada when he was 16 years old but couldn't. He tried out for a small college team near his home the following year and didn't make it.
Eventually he ended up in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, one step down from the three major junior leagues in Canada. Two years later he was a draft pick of the Montreal Canadiens. Two years after that he was an NCAA champion at Wisconsin and about to play for the United States at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the 1984 Canada Cup.
"Being on a few interviews and hearing his story about how he stuck with the game at a young age, just wouldn't be denied, that sort of defines his whole career," Niedermayer said. "When he was on the ice he wasn't going to be denied in any way. I can totally respect what he did."
Chelios joined the Canadiens for the end of the 1983-84 season after the Olympics and it would end up being the first of 26 seasons in the NHL. For the first half of his career he was one of the elite offensive defensemen in the League.
He won the Norris Trophy three times, in 1989, 1993 and 1996, making him one of only eight players in League history to win the award three times and the only American to do so. Seven times he totaled at least 60 points, and he's one of only three defensemen to record at least 70 points and 185 penalty minutes in a season (and he did it twice).
Those penalty minutes weren't a fluke either. Chelios was the definition of someone who played with an edge and didn't mind engaging in whatever means he felt necessary to help his team find success.
"He was a generational player … he changed the way the position was played," said Doug Weight, who is an assistant coach and special advisor to the general manager for the New York Islanders. "Very offensive, very gifted coming into the League, but the grit, the desire, for a lack of a better term the meanness he brought … he was just the prototypical mean defenseman, tough in front of the net, hard to play against. You hated him."
Chelios won the Stanley Cup in 1986 with the Canadiens and again in 2002 and 2008 with the Detroit Red Wings. He helped the Canadiens get to the Cup Final in 1989 and the Chicago Blackhawks in 1992. He played in an NHL-record 266 Stanley Cup Playoff games, three more than No. 2 Nicklas Lidstrom.
"He has won more playoff games than anyone in history," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "I remember when [Chelios] broke that record, it was [Mark] Messier's record, and how valuable he was. I think [Chelios] is the greatest American player of all time, [a] genetic freak. I guess Gordie is the same, as long as he did it at the level he did it at. You've got to be a training machine. The wear and tear you go through -- [he was a] special, special player."
Chelios was playing for the Moose Jaw Canucks in the SJHL when the Americans won the gold medal in Lake Placid in 1980. Not only did he play for the next American entry in the Olympics, Chelios became a staple for the United States and a leader for a critical generation of players for the growth of the sport in the U.S.
He participated in four Olympic Games, three Canada Cups and two World Cups of Hockey. He won gold at the 1996 World Cup and silver at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
"Really, to me, he's a real strong symbol of USA Hockey, the first real substantial growth in USA Hockey, the time that USA was considered a threat to win and he was right at the top there of the players," Poile said. "I mean, you talk about going to work. Who do you want on your team? Chris Chelios."
"For USA Hockey, he was a huge part of that veteran leadership," Weight said. "The way he stayed in shape and the way he was committed to the game and the way he loved the game, you could argue that he is the biggest lover of the game of hockey and never wanted to give it up that ever played."
Beyond the statistics, the awards and the team success, the career of Chris Chelios is defined by his longevity and his desire to win.
When Chelios retired in 2010 after 1,651 regular-season games, he became the last player from the 1981 NHL Draft to still be active in the League. There wasn't anyone from the 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 or 1986 drafts left, either.
He still was an effective player in his advanced age. Chelios averaged more than 25 minutes of ice time as a 40-year-old, more than 21 minutes at 42. He played 81 games of a condensed 2005-06 schedule for the Red Wings and averaged more than 18 minutes per night … and turned 44 years old.
Chelios was not exceptionally fast and he did not have the hardest shot. At 6-feet tall and less than 200 pounds, he certainly was not blessed with extraordinary size. He was a self-made hockey player and that work ethic and desire helped him achieve things most players could not.
"He was still very effective," Weight said. "His drive to be effective and his nutrition and the way he handled himself and got himself in shape … he was able to keep playing. It's uncanny. I'm 42-and-a-half right now, and I say half because I'm counting the months. I play a shinny game and I'm having trouble getting out of bed.
"There's not a guy that's more competitive. You'd see him across the room biting his own lip off if we were down a goal. He just couldn't wait to get on the ice and compete. He hated to lose. He just did some great things. Well-deserved to be in the Hockey Hall of Fame. I'm glad I got to play on a few teams with Chris."


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Opinion: Walmart's Phony Wage Wars
Employment Policies Institute Research Director Mike Saltsman on a new study that shows a workers' strike for higher wages has nothing to do with overpaid CEOs.
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I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel first the or the fast food strikes ... now Wal Mart workers in fifteen cities across the country this week ... when on straight to you and your plans for strikes ... on the day after Thanksgiving that important day Black Friday for shoppers ... why is this happening now in India the strikers have some real grievances ... one of policies to research director Mike Solsman joins me now from Washington ... um like lots of strikes out what'll Wal-Mart workers want ... so while workers are asking for a twelve dollar an hour wage less than the fifteen dollar an hour wages and fast the strikers are ... asking for and they're also too curiously demanding ... the road the right to unionize of the area to have the right to unionize ... I'm so this is sort of function in this case the Wal-Mart protests are ... being organized by a group called our Walmart this this is here with us to get EU ... I just like the fast food protests were being organized by the STI ... so the US to get the Etsy United Food and Commercial Workers ... Henri do though these workers have appointees at about twelve dollars fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage is at a living wage ... well I mean I think that the reality of the faces when your business like Wal-Mart day ... and then to your tagline is always low prices ... I'm you know there's that there's a tradeoff getting the benefit to the consumer is is that the prices are low that uses the wide availability of kids ... and that the trade off is when you're a low margin business and people are willing to pay low prices ... I'm you know that the employees not everyone's can make fifteen twenty twenty five dollars an hour because of the dead and those low prices wouldn't exist and so ... I don't think we need to be thinking about Wal-Mart add so much in the context of a living wage the war in the context of ... of what opportunities are people SE meaning from jobs that you know pay nine dollars an hour and what are they doing three four years after that are they hearing more and I think the research suggests that people generally are or what what about the contention that the Walmart CEO is paying you millions millions of dollars the year and in what would happen ... if his salary was cut with that make a difference ... well so we we look to this we actually sort of entertain day ... the bill worst-case or I guess if if you're a union the dusty city in ... which is that he takes the Hunter percent pay to ... not just that a salary but it is bonuses to ... ahh and we basically found a new PDA of Wal Mart employees ... less than a cent an hour increase in their hourly pay ... if the CEO didn't earn any thing and I think what it suggests is that ... I'm I'm getting unions are targeting CEO pay because they understand it is said ... to refer a line of reasoning for them that makes it seem like a there's this big disparity that ... even if you eliminated the disparity completely ... he wouldn't solve the problem in the point is ... that that that was not in the salt unless consumers they decide ... they don't really care about low prices anymore as long as they do care about that ... and you're always going to have jobs that are ... going to wage jobs but most of Joy's can add value to ... you a lot of workers to see union says the club with which to to force companies to treat them better and better ... why is it that workers that Wal-Mart had chosen not to unionize today we got about a minute left ... sure I will do I think they're couple reasons I mean I think Wal-Mart probably has its own opinions on ... on the value of the Union ... and you know in additional workers doing well but it may be ending for the same reason that ... the union membership has been declining in recent years I mean ... some people realize that anymore that ... maybe they don't want to be paying dues to a union you know maybe they feel like they're actually get a pretty good shakedown their own without the union are feeding an ... army that they don't want their dues money going to politicians they don't support her could be around variety of reasons for a ... while in this economy I guess you need every dollar you can say for him to keep an eye on the strikes ... employment Policies astute research director Michael Saltsman from Washington thank so much for being


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Using a handful of apps available on Android Market, the folks over at hdblog.it have transformed the stock Android interface into a detailed rendition of the iPhone interface complete with slide lock, dock, SMS, and icon themes. It even has a handy interface to change the color of the LED alerts.
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Interested in finding a team? The map below shows the 2016-2017 teams in the Pacific Northwest District. Many teams are looking for new mentors. If you are a mentor who would like to get involved with a school in your area, please check out our map to find a team.
To view a full screen map follow this link: http://www.easymapmaker.com/map/2017_FRC