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I love watching Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network. Ina's life in the Hamptons is filled with food, flowers, and friends. I love the glass doors on the simple white cabinets in her kitchen. The latch hardware is a perfect complement to the crisp white paint. Who wouldn't want an 8-burner Viking range and a massive granite-topped island? I have serious kitchen envy whenever she's in her large walk-in pantry deciding which chocolate (or pasta or liquor) she'd like to use. And her kitchen overlooks her beautiful (and large) purple-and-orange themed garden. Ina has row upon row of herbs whereas my tiny, San Francisco sized herb garden boasts 1 parsley, 1 sage, 1 rosemary, and 2 thymes.
Some of my friends can't understand why I find the show so appealing. Some hate the style in which the show is filmed. Too many close up shots of a used whisk/spatula/fork on the Boos block. Too much time spent on florists delivering flowers to clients or realtors taking potential home buyers to visit a cheese factory. Others find Ina, and the Hamptons, totally pretentious. Okay, I will admit that the whole scene is a bit over-the-top. I do live in casual California after all. But Barefoot Contessa is a glimpse into a world so far removed from my reality except for the good food. It's a guilty pleasure that I look forward to every Saturday. And speaking of guilty pleasures, here's Ina's recipe for coconut macaroons. They are moist and super rich especially when drizzled with melted chocolate. Now how bad can that be?
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14 ounces sweetened shredded coconut
14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 extra-large egg whites, at room temperature
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Combine the coconut, condensed milk, and vanilla in a large bowl. Whip the egg whites and salt on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment until they make medium-firm peaks. Carefully fold the egg whites into the coconut mixture.
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First, 15th-seeded Norfolk State knocked off Missouri. Later, another 15, Lehigh, beat Duke. And, just for good measure, No. 13 Ohio beat Michigan 65-60,
Oh, those fabulous 15s.
Did they leave your bracket in shambles? Join the club.
And sit back and enjoy this one. Because 10 — or 15 — years from now, they still might be talking about Friday the 16th as the day the 15s rose up and produced one of the greatest episodes in NCAA tournament history.
First, 15th-seeded Norfolk State knocked off Missouri. Later, another 15, Lehigh, beat Duke. And, just for good measure, No. 13 Ohio beat Michigan 65-60, making this the first time that three teams seeded 13th or higher all won on the same day.
"We messed up some brackets! We messed up some brackets!" Norfolk senior Kyle O'Quinn exclaimed after he spearheaded Norfolk's 86-84 upset over Missouri. And then, in a moment of exhilarated candor: "We even messed up my bracket."
He didn't know the half of it.
Because while the Norfolk celebration was winding down, Lehigh — enrollment 4,700 and based in Bethlehem, Pa. — knocked off a team you might have heard of: Duke. Final score, 75-70.
Before Friday, there had been a total of four 2-15 upsets since the bracket was expanded to 64 teams in 1985. After Friday, there are six.
"I told them they needed to suspend disbelief," Lehigh coach Brett Reed said. "Because there are so many naysayers, so many prognosticators."
None of them could have guessed this. And, in fact, none of them did.
According to ESPN, there were 4,728 perfect brackets out of 6.45 million early in the day before the upsets began. After: Not a single one.
But this day was about more than the brackets and office pools that drive so much of the madness each March.
There's another element to it: America loves an underdog.
When Michigan plays Ohio State, millions of fans watch, thousands of alumni show their passion and bragging rights are on the line. But there's nothing too cute and cuddly about watching two behemoth powerhouses collide.
Now, when Michigan plays plain ol' Ohio? That's a different deal. That's a chance for everyone outside of Ann Arbor to pull for the little guy — a chance for sports fans to watch five players who didn't wind up at the big school have their day on the floor with five who did and see how things really stack up.
"This game will take you to incredible highs, and it will also take you to incredible lows," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "That's the name of the game, and today is one of those incredible lows."
A day like this seems all the more fitting this year — one that's been plagued by scandal, conference-shifting money grabs and a general sense that college sports don't have much to do with college anymore.
Make no mistake — the NCAA certainly doesn't put on the best tournament around for free. It's a $10.8 billion enterprise, bankrolled by CBS and its partners — an enterprise that feeds directly into many of the problems that won't go away.
But those five guys on the floor for Norfolk State or Ohio or Lehigh — well, on days like this, it's hard to imagine they're part of those problems.
Coming up, they'll try to become the "Next Small Thing" in college basketball.
They'll hope to follow the lead of underdogs from Final Fours past — Butler or VCU or George Mason.
How did those teams get there? Maybe Lehigh forward John Adams put it best.
"We thought we could match up very well against them," he said after the win over Duke. "We all believed it, and we showed it on the floor. Everybody bought into that idea. And the rest is history, as they say."


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Last Christmas season was wonderful and easy for my new little family. Jason and I were still basking in the glow of being new parents. We were excited for extended family members to meet Jack. Jack was still young enough that planning holiday festivities around his schedule was no problem at all! But looking to this year … I was afraid things would be very different.
To be honest, I was worried this Christmas was going to be stressful. I was dreading putting out the Christmas decorations with a toddler underfoot, I was sure finding time to Christmas shop was going to be next to impossible, and I was concerned that all of the holiday festivities would throw Jack's schedule completely for a loop! (I can see my husband now … shaking his head at my tendency to worry too much.)
The reality is … this Christmas season has been great so far! We put up the Christmas decorations after Jack went to bed one night! We kept things simple this year and didn't go overboard. In fact, we put up the Christmas tree without any ornaments so that Jack could enjoy and explore it without us having to constantly monitor which ornaments he was handling. (Did I mention the tree is pre-lit? All we had to do was fluff it and plug it in! That's my kind of decorating!)
While the busy part of the month hasn't hit yet, I shouldn't worry too much about planning around Jack's schedule for Christmas activities. He's very laid-back and has never had a problem being flexible!
And on the shopping front, we are almost done, and it has been fun to shop with Jack! We only have a few more gifts to buy for family. Then we can turn our attention to shopping for Jack … who surprisingly has become the hardest to shop for!
Last year Jack was too little to care what anybody got for him so we gave him practical things like bibs, blankets, clothes, and other essentials. But this year, there is a new pressure to get not only toys he will be excited about but also toys that are durable and will grow with him over the years. We only want to get him a few presents, so narrowing it down has been more difficult than I thought it would be. I'm sure all of the pondering will be well worth it though when Jack opens his presents on Christmas morning. I can't wait to experience Christmas through his eyes!!
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Every 1st and 15th day of Lunar calender my mom will offer huat kuih and fruits to our ancestor and god on the prayer alter.These days my mom make her own huat kuih instead of buying from market.As promised ,I brought few Wilton's food coloring for my mom to make her huat kuih.Since I'm free and idling,I offered to help my mom making huat kuih by scooping and steaming.That is all I can help since my mom prepare all the huat kuih ingredients early in morning.Did you see the different between the pink and orange color huat kuih? Well,the different is the pink color was made by your truly yours and the orange color huat kuih made by my mom.Of course,the orange color huat kuih look pretty and huge compared with the pink color huat kuih.
200 gm cold cooked rice(overnight cooked rice)
1 piece tapai ragi
2 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp water
300 gm sugar,mixed with 4 cups (32 oz) water,boiled to dissolve sugar syrup,cooled
600 gm rice flour
2 tsp ENO( fruit salt)
2 tsp double action baking powder
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1:Combine (A) in a clean glass container and cover with clean cloth.Keep aside and leave to ferment for 48 hours/2 days.
2:Pour fermented ingredients (A) into a blender,add 1/2 amount of sugar syrup and blend until smooth.Mix in rice flour and the remaining 1/2 amount of sugar syrup into the mixture.
3:Strain into a clean container,cover with clean cloth and leave to ferment for another 8-9 hours.
4:Add (C) except coloring if you intend to make more than one color into a mixing bowl,add fermented rice flour mixture and stir well.Then use different bowl to mix each coloring before pour into mould for steaming.
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Under draft guidelines released Friday, oil shale and tar sands developers would have to demonstrate their technologies work and can yield petroleum in an economically and environmentally sound manner before winning full access to federal lands.
The Department of Interior's proposed rules, which drew a swift rebuke from Republican lawmakers, accompany a major Record of Decision that sets federal acreage open to oil shale development at about 700,000 acres in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming and another 130,000 acres of tar sands in Utah.
The proposed rules "will help ensure that we acquire critically important information about these technologies and their potential effects on the landscape, especially our scarce water resources in the West," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a news release.
"Oil shale would be a big gamble on our water resources," said Bill Midcap, director of external affairs for the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. "We think it very speculative. This plan protects our water. Industry says they have found ways to use much less water. This plan would make them prove this."
Once the document is posted on the Federal Register, the public will have 60 days to comment on the leasing rules, which won praise from wildlife, recreation and agricultural interests. Comments can be submitted through http://www.regulations.gov.
Ranchers and environmentalists have been concerned with the potential impacts of unconventional oil extractions on water resources, fisheries and wildlife habitat.
"It takes a research-first approach," said Michael Saul, attorney for the National Wildlife Federation. "We've got the paradox of potentially rich [oil shale] deposits and world-class fish and wildlife habitat. The government needs to exercise great caution."
The rules allow for the sale of "research, development and demonstration" leases that would be upgraded to "commercial" leases after energy companies satisfy certain conditions and meet clean air and water quality requirements.
But congressional Republicans dismissed the rules as "onerous new government red tape" and accused the White House of thwarting development of Western oil shale, which by some estimates could dwarf Saudi oil reserves by a factor of six.
"President Obama has already locked up 87 percent of America's oil shale from production and today the Obama administration took another giant step backwards with new regulations that discourage production of the available oil shale, sends oil shale jobs overseas and prolongs our dependence on Middle Eastern oil," said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee.
The rules would affect future leasing as well as eight existing leases covering about 31,000 acres. Only one, Enefit American Oil, is in Utah. Not affected is a proposed tar sands project on federal land at Asphalt Ridge, which has been mined for paving materials for years.
The crucial issue with oil shale and tar sands is that their hydrocarbon bounty is not liquid oil, but petroleum precursors embedded in rock and sediments. In most processes, the resource must be strip-mined and processed to remove the hydrocarbons and convert them to oil using heat, water or chemical solvents.
Friday's Record of Decision amends 10 land-use plans, include those for Utah's Vernal, Price, Richfield and Monticello Bureau of Land Management field offices. It stems from a programmatic environmental impact statement released last November that recommended halving the acreage available for oil shale under a Bush-era decision.
This finding had drawn formal protests from the state of Utah and some Utah counties for allowing too little development and from environmentalists for allowing too much.
Friday's decision shaves Utah's federal land available for oil shale from 671,000 to 360,000 acres, mostly in the Uinta Basin and cuts tar sands by 301,000 acres.


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• The Service Technician is responsible for performing vehicle repair and maintenance work as assigned in accordance with dealer and factory standards. S/he also will oversee the work of any apprentice technician assigned to him/her.
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• Receive repair orders from dispatcher and take to stall area.
• Perform work as outlined on repair order with efficiency and accuracy, in accordance with dealership and factory standards.
• Diagnose cause of any malfunction and perform repair.
• Communicate with parts department to obtain needed parts.
• Save and tag parts if the job is under warranty or if requested by the customer.
• Examine the vehicle to determine if additional safety or service work is required.
• Notify service advisor immediately if additional work outlined is not needed or required.
• Notify service advisor immediately if repairs cannot be completed within the time promised.
• Document work performed.
• Road-test vehicles when required or refer to the test technician, keeping in mind that the customer vehicle should not be used for personal errands.
• Supervise work of any apprentice technicians as assigned.
• Attend factory-sponsored training classes.
• Keep abreast of factory technical bulletins.
• Ensure that customers' cars are kept clean.
• Keep shop area neat, clean, and be able to account for all dealership-owned tools at all times.
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Oct. 16 is World Food Day, created in 1979 to increase awareness of the global food problem. In light of this event, we will be doing our part to raise awareness of simple, natural ways to combat malnutrition and hunger. Because CFCA spends more money on nutrition-related benefits than any other, our project staff and families are very creative when it comes to sustainable options. For example, in a recent report from the Philippines, we learned that CFCA families plant moringa trees. Not only is this tree extremely nutritious, but itís drought-resistant AND most of the tree can be used. Although this is the first time weíve heard of this tree, our projects are very familiar with its benefits. This week, you will hear how several projects incorporate this ìmiracleî tree into the CFCA program.
|Llyod harvests the tiny moringa leaves.
Q&A with Malou Navio, Antipolo, Philippines, project coordinator
- You said in the Clean and Green report that CFCA families plant moringa trees. How do they use the trees?
The moringa tree is a popular, indigenous herb to us and to people in the communities. Its matured bark is scraped to get a teaspoonful of shavings to mix with a cup of hot or cold water to make a tea known to cleanse the urinary tract. It can also be used as an antiseptic.
The young branch can also be used as plaster liniment. We start with a six-inch cutting, then make it flat, add a little oil, then heat it. When it warms to a tolerable temperature, put on the painful area to relieve the pain.
Moringa seeds can be used as water purifier. Just pound the seeds then place them in the water jug or jar.
2. How do you care for the moringa trees?
Just water the moringa tree during dry season. In rainy season, elevate the soil around the trees. Moringa will die if water sits for long around its roots. Pruning is also helpful to sprout more branches.
3. If the leaves are used for food, how do you prepare moringa? How do you eat it?
We thresh the leaves from its stem. It can be incorporated almost in all viands — soups, noodles, sweets, snacks, burgers and juice. It is prepared just like an ordinary cabbage or spinach.
4. Can you harvest the tree at any time of the year or only certain seasons?
Moringa can be harvested at any time of the year when there are enough leaves. For a large tree, we can harvest twice weekly.


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One reason solid wood is praised for its ability to last for generations is that is can be resanded or refinished if it starts to show scratches and wear. Furniture with thin wood veneers cannot be sanded or finished without damaging and exposing the substrate of wood solids underneath. While furniture with thin wood or plastic veneers is definitely cheaper short-term, the step down in quality will end up costing more in the long run when your furniture needs to be replaced every few years. This piece of furniture isn't the easiest to move from one place to another, but if you intend to stay in one home for a long time, this furniture is definitely heavier and hardier than the rest.
The Hadleigh Queen Bedroom Group by Kincaid Furniture at AHFA in the area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Fine furniture should make a statement, a lasting first impression that speaks volumes about your family home. The Hadleigh collection is an exceptional example - its heirloom styling and quality makes for furniture that can be in your family for generations. Once you've put down roots in your dream home, you can finally invest in pieces like a solid wood bedroom set or traditionally-carved, solid wood dining set. Hadleigh brings you a multitude of richly styled pieces for the bedroom and dining room, all crafted from solid, wild black cherry wood. Inspired styling from the 18th century and beyond can be seen throughout the collection, from the gorgeous, carved pediments on the rice-carved poster bed to the brushed gold, bail pull hardware. Fresh updates like whisper soft-close drawers and an upholstered bed with nailheads make Hadleigh a look that both traditionalists and fashionistas can love.
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The Student Development Office of Geneva College recently announced a change in residential housing for the 2010/11 academic year. While Pearce will continue to be a men′s freshmen residence hall and Clarke will continue to be a women′s freshmen residence hall, Memorial and McKee will become overflow halls to accommodate freshmen after Pearce and Clarke are full.
Neither Pearce nor Clarke is large enough to accommodate incoming freshmen students. This past year, only 52% of new freshmen men were able to be in Pearce while only 72% of the new freshmen women were able to be in Clarke. The rest of the new freshmen resided in other halls across campus.
"The bonding, relationships and formation of community that take place in the freshmen residence halls are extremely important. The new students are all adjusting to the college experience together, and we can provide programming that facilitates that process. They also form friendships they will have throughout their college career at Geneva," noted Dean of Student Development Mike Loomis.
Dean Loomis explained that when new students are housed in a community with upper class students, their transition can be more difficult. At the same time, upper class students prefer to be with other upper class students because of the extra time involved in helping new students to adjust and because they generally have a heavier workload, often compounded by jobs and internships.
Because of the change, only student leaders can sign up to live in Memorial or McKee in April. Other students can request to be put on a waiting list, however. The number of upper class students able to move into Memorial or McKee will depend on the size of the incoming freshman class, the size of the returning residential population and the gender breakdown of both.
Upper class students who desire to serve new students may apply for leadership job opportunities such as health educators, discipleship coordinators and multicultural counselors. They may talk to the appropriate directors in the upcoming weeks.
Geneva College is a comprehensive Christian college of the arts, sciences and professional studies. Founded in the tradition of the Reformed Christian faith, Geneva prepares students to serve Christ in all areas of society: work, family and the church. Geneva College′s philosophy of education is based on the Foundational Concepts of Christian Higher Education. Geneva is a founding member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU).
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we call them dumb animals,and so they are,for they cannot tell us how they feel,but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
I totally agree that cruelty is everybody's business and reputation comes from your behaviour.
I think that kindness and determination decide one's future.
How funny I was! I told my friend the book was a biography!...Continua
everyone who likes a sad but yet adventurous plots should read this book! its is awesome!!!!


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Keeping people safer: Working in the gap between national strategy and everyday practice
The King's Fund
Thursday, 20 October 2016 from 09:00 to 16:30 (BST)
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We would prefer you to book by debit or credit card. If, however, you need us to invoice your organisation instead please ensure you have approval to make the booking and contact your accounts department to ensure you submit the correct name and invoicing address.
There is a £20 surcharge to cover the cost of processing invoices. This is an addition to the ticket price and will be added to your invoice. There is no charge for paying by debit or credit card.
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The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England. We help to shape policy and practice through research and analysis; develop individuals, teams and organisations; promote understanding of the health and social care system; and bring people together to learn, share knowledge and debate. Our vision is that the best possible care is available to all.
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To choose adidas Performance sports shoes is to perpetuate a legend born of one man's vision. Adi Dassler made his very first shoes by hand in the confines of his mum's tiny laundry room and took his brand all around the globe on the feet of the greatest athletes in history. The names speak for themselves: the legendary Olympic track and field athlete Jesse Owens wore adidas shoes in Berlin in 1936, as did the great marathon runner Haile Gebreselassie. And did you know that high jumper Dick Fosbury invented his revolutionary technique with adidas on his feet? Boxers Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier were proudly kitted out in adidas for the fight of the century, as were Steffi Graf and Ivan Lendl, heroes of the tennis courts. The German football team lifted its three World Cup Trophies following victories on adidas spikes, and more recently Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham and top basketball player Kobe Bryant have all enjoyed incredible success wearing adidas footwear. The confidence of these sportsmen and women in adidas sports shoes speaks volumes about the quality...and the Performance range continues this great sporting tradition. The success story of the brand is punctuated by numerous innovations, such as the invention of the first shoe with built-in computer (the Micro Pacer in 1984). So become part of the legend and pull on a pair of adidas Performance sports shoes yourself!
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HDS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 414 diseños de 84 diseñadores freelance.
Arc Intermedia
Arc Intermedia is new marketing agency that will launch in January 2010. The agency will provide a number of interrelated services, such as website design, search engine advertising, direct mail campaigns, social media, html email marketing, print design and consultation on other marketing solutions.
I have been in the communications and interactive fields for over 20 years. Clients come to me because they have problem. They want to hear how I would solve it and then ultimately ask me to take on the assignment. I focus on marketing challenges from a business standpoint first.
Having a very positive, "can do" attitude is why clients stay with me. This should come through in this logo.
With this new agency, we will focus heavily on smart, upfront planning. Having a strong strategy is paramount. Next we design, code, produce or complete whatever production is required. A huge benefit is that this agency will have expertise in all these related fields.
This logo should convey the feeling of a progressive, company that is also solid, stable and worthy of being entrusted with 6 and 7 figure budgets. We give respect and want to be respected.
This logo should offer a big company feel, not some coder working out of his basement (not that this is what I am).
The logo should convey the following attributes:
Progressive, Nimble, Organic, Forward-thinking, Elegant, upward mobility.
It should not convey these attributes:
too masculine, ominous, blocky, immovable, informal.
The company will target very large companies spanning varying industries - pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, financial services, private equity, entertainment and professional sports.
They expect top level service from a large, stable partner.
The main contacts at these companies are typically marketing directors. These people are wary of a firm whose logo appears like it belongs on a skateboard shop or conversely for an accounting firm. This logo should speak to these people and convey a forward-thinking, savvy partner.
Logo Requirements:
>> It must be 2 color.
Please try the following combinations:
1. Blue (something like PMS 232) & Green (something like PMS 262)
2. Red (pms 200) and black or gray.
3. Also, feel free to suggest your own combination.
>> It MUST work in pure black and white.
>> Supporting graphic and icon desired but No globes or clip art-looking icons. It should have an original, unique graphical presentation.
>> No excessive 3-D or color gradations.
>> This should be the anchor for a modern, web 2.0 website.
>> The font should feel nimble, modern and forward moving. No Blocky fonts. Consider something with a light serif.
>> A true test of a good logo is will it work well small. Make sure your proportions are in balance.
>> Don't overplay the A. There is no significance to the A.
>> It may be a good idea to try an eco-friendly looking approach with the blue and green. An ORGANIC feel would be nice.
>> Ultimately, I hope to have a logo that will also work with the reflective (siting on glass effect) when it appears on my website.
I will monitor this closely and give plenty of feedback asap. Feel free to post up concepts and I will give direction quickly. We will get there together and I'm guaranteeing a winner.
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J/30 Sailing Review
By Dale Mead
"Anyone who's had even the briefest exposure to sailboat racing has heard of J/Boats. Ask a racer to list the hottest production racers active today, and they're sure to Include J/24s and J/35s. Begun in 1977, J/Boats Incorporated, has defied the yacht sales slump with an ever-changing line that threatens to run out of numbers - 18 models through 1991, ranging from 22 to 44 feet.
For 1992, they've come out with a J/105 and J/92 (metric measurements equal to 34.5 and 30 feet respectively, opening the door to the European market), both of which have been pushed aggressively as fast, family oriented and very simple to sail. In addition, the J/130, a 42-footer, will debut in October, and a J/60 (feet) is in the advanced planning stage. Is there a length they've missed?
Surviving The Fastnet Storm
The story of two J/30's caught in the middle of yachting's worst disaster as reported by phone to Bob Johnstone.
"J/30 hull number 10 was shipped to Westerly Marine to serve as a model as they began production in the U.K.. She was named JUGGERNAUT and entered in the Fastnet Race skippered by Andy Cassel and crewed by Tim Levett, project manager from Westerly.
J/30 number 29 was purchased by Bill Wallace from Houston, Texas. She was commissioned in Rhode Island, sailed single handed from Bermuda across to England where she was caught entering the channel during the storm. Bill plans to enter the OSTAR singlehanded trans-Atlantic race next June.
Fitting Out for Extended J/30 Cruising
By Thomas Mitchell
Years ago in a Chicago bar over our last call drinks, my friend suggested we spend the following cold season sailing the Caribbean. Hoots of bitter derision naturally followed, and then quiet. Was it possible? Well, yes ... all we needed was a boat.
I don't have to tell you she was a J/30. Most people down the Ditch who heard our float plan took one look at the boat and said - you guys are crazy. Well, sure. Connecticut to the Yucatan to the Virgin Islands and up 6,000 miles the wrong way around. Now my tan's slowly being replaced with freckles of Blue Streak, and the guys at the yard have a kinder view of my sanity. And a pretty solid respect for the strength of J-boats.


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Couple from Grass Valley California
Relaxing from Hamilton Wenham
Calling All Kids!
Join us February 8, 2pm
at the Ferrini Dramatics Center, HWRHS for:
Big Bang Boom, a pop/rock band playing (parent-friendly) kid's tunes, is set to rock the house in a live family concert sponsored by the Hamilton-Wenham Friends of the Arts and funded in part by the Hamilton –Wenham Cultural Council.
Established in 2007, Big Bang Boom hails from Greensboro, NC and has played venues large and small around the country. Big Bang Boom is kid's music with a pop sensibility. It is something parents can feel good about letting their kids listen to and that they will enjoy too!
All proceeds from the event go right back to our community arts programs!
– Tickets are $10 each or 4 or more $8 (limit 12)
– Seats are general admission
– Save time and order your advance tickets online @ HWFOTA.ORG
– A limited number of tickets will also be available at the door
For more information on Big Bang Boom go to:
Thank you for supporting the arts in Hamilton-Wenham! We'll see you at the show!


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City police investigate two Sunday shootings
Both victims made it to hospitals on their own, police say
Baltimore City police are investigating two shootings that happened Sunday in which the victims were able to make their way to hospitals on their own.
Officers were first called to Sinai Hospital around 5:45 p.m. after getting reports of a 54-year-old man who had walked into the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the torso.
The victim told police he had been shot by someone he didn't know in the 3700 block of Liberty Heights Avenue around 5:30 p.m.
Officers were then called around 10 p.m. to the 2800 block of Annapolis Road after getting reports of a shooting. Detectives said they couldn't find a victim, but later heard that the victim had walked into Saint Agnes Hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Officials are still looking for suspects and a motive in each shooting. Anyone with information on either case should call police.


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The Benton County solid waste program is managed by the Benton County Road Department and run in accordance with the Benton County Solid Waste Plan and with the advice of the Benton County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC). The program is operated on a county-wide basis, though it functions in conjunction with activities managed by individual cities in Benton County (please see the Interlocal Agency Agreements section). The solid waste program is funded through county taxes, as well as a coordinated prevention grant (CPG) offered by the Washington State Department of Ecology. For more information, please see below.
Benton County Solid Waste Plan
Approval of Benton County Solid Waste Plan by the Washington State Department of Ecology
The Benton County solid waste program coordinates with the cities in Benton County as part of the coordinated prevention grant (CPG). The interlocal agency agreements with these cities for the 2013-2015 biennium can be located below.
Interlocal Agency Agreements with Benton County Cities for Solid Waste Management
The Benton County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC) is comprised of representatives from each of the cities in Benton County, the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Benton-Franklin Health District, and local garbage and recycling companies. Please see below for the current members of the Benton County SWAC. The meetings are open to the public and are held on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the Ben Franklin Transit office building, 1000 Columbia Park Trail, Richland, Washington, at 3:30 pm.
Current SWAC Members
Vanessa Coates - City of Benton City, Councilwoman
Don Britain - City of Kennewick
Don Aubrey - City of Prosser, Councilman
Brad Anderson - City of Richland, Councilman
Richard Bloom, Committee Chairman - City of West Richland, Councilman
Darrick Dietrich - Basin Disposal, Inc.
Patrick Puntney - Clayton-Ward, Inc.
Jeff Wheatley - Waste Management, Inc.
Mike Jewett - Sanitary Disposal, Inc.
Khris Olsen - Public Citizen
(position open) Agricultural Representative
Meeting summaries for previous SWAC meetings:
SWAC Summary - June 28, 2017
SWAC Summary - April 26, 2017
SWAC Summary - January 25, 2017
SWAC Summary - September 28, 2016
SWAC Summary - March 30, 2016
SWAC Summary - February 24, 2016
The Benton County solid waste program is partially funded through a Washington State Department of Ecology coordinated prevention grant (CPG). This grant reimburses select activities up to 75 percent of their total cost. The CPG operates on a county-wide basis. The monetary value of the grant, as well as the activities funded, vary by county. The text of the 2015-2017 biennium grant for Benton County can be found below.
2015-2017 Coordinated Prevention Grant
MODERATE RISK WASTE FACILITY (MRWF) STUDY (Draft)
The Benton County Public Works Department has had a draft study completed investigating the potential viability of retrofitting an existing government shop facility to a moderate risk waste facility. This facility, if completed, would serve to replace the semiannual collection events currently held by Benton County for household hazardous waste (HHW). A copy of the draft study can be found here.


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Bake the Book: Goat Cheese Ice Cream with Roasted Red Cherries
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There is a small but very strong faction that believes that goat cheese deserves a place not only on the cheese cart but on the dessert cart as well. These supporters are fond of whipping chèvre into creamy cheesecakes, baking batches of goat cheese brownies, and churning this favorite cheese into lovely scoops of Goat Cheese Ice Cream with Roasted Red Cherries.
This recipe comes from Jeni Britton Bauer's Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home. By combining cream cheese and goat cheese, she's created an ice cream with an incredible creaminess.
Lovers of all things goaty would be more than happy to spoon away this creamy, grassy ice cream on its own, but Britton Bauer adds a bit of sweetness and intrigue by way of slow roasted cherries. Slowly cooked down to the consistency of pie filling, they have a warmly concentrated flavor that runs ribbons of sweet-tart cherries through the ice cream.
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In 1962, Edward Moore Kennedy, the 30-year-old brother of the nation's president and its attorney general, sought election to the seat John Kennedy had held. He had no experience and was not a good campaigner.
In a debate, his fellow Democratic opponent jabbed his finger at Kennedy and said that if his name "was not Kennedy, with his qualifications, Teddy ... if it was Edward Moore, your candidacy would be a joke.' "
The crowd applauded and laughed. But Ted Kennedy was nominated and then elected and returned over and over again. He obviously got the last laugh.
But not at first in Washington. Fellow senators were uncertain about him. For instance, he paid a call on the venerable Sen. Richard Russell. Kennedy said they were alike in that both were elected to the Senate as youngsters. The Georgian quickly and sharply pointed out that he had been speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and then governor of his state before he was elected to the Senate.
Gradually, as this very thorough and readable biography shows, Kennedy soon got to work in such a way that gradually earned him respect. Within the decade he was chosen by Democratic senators to be their party whip.
He was also sought by some in the party to seek the presidential nomination twice in the decade. But having had both brothers assassinated within the '60s, he wasn't ready for that. Then came 1969 and - Chappaquiddick.
He had been seeking relief of his family burdens in somewhat relaxing but improper ways. One night, after a party on that Massachusetts island, Kennedy drove an automobile into a pond, leaving a young woman passenger to drown.
It was the end of his presidential future. It faded away for the next decade. It was the beginning of legislating that few if any senator of any era could match.
Only once from then to 2009 did Kennedy seek the presidency. That was in 1980, when he sought to replace President Jimmy Carter in the White House. He failed, but his campaign paved the way for Ronald Reagan to beat Carter.
According to "Last Lion" Kennedy has authored "roughly 2,500 major bills ... of which at least 300 became law. In whole areas of policy - civil rights, immigration, health care, and education - he dominated the Congress for almost a half century."
He was able to do that by being both liberal and realistic. He has brought several Republicans to his side on some of his special projects. And it was a Republican senator who provided the title for this book. "I have described Ted Kennedy as the last lion in the Senate because he remains the single most effective member if you want to get results."
So spoke Sen. John McCain.
Fifty years ago last month in which some journalists have dubbed "The Senatorial Hall of Fame" the five "greatest" senators were "inducted" and had their portraits hung in the Capitol. Only those who have passed away are eligible. The five were selected by a five-man committee headed by Sen. John F. Kennedy. Since then, only two more senators have been added.
I am certain that almost all people who read "Last Lion" in the future or otherwise study his history will agree that Edward Moore Kennedy's portrait deserves to be so honored.
Theo Lippman Jr. is a former Savannah Morning News reporter and author of "Senator Ted Kennedy: The Career Behind the Image."


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'Worst Week' is apparently some kind of adapted British show about a guy whose life sucks, or something. I don't know. All I do know is that this guy's iPhone is not an iPhone.
To add insult to injury, the person on the other end of the line has an actual iPhone, assuming that he isn't entirely hallucinated by the iPodder. Note: with the whole iPod thing, that would make sense, AND set off a pretty neat little story arc. NOW PAY ME, CBS. [CBS—Thanks, Kelly and David!]


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In his state of the state address last week, California Governor and new state cheer leader-in-chief Jerry Brown gushed over the "fact" that during the past year, the state's annual structural deficit was slashed to $5 billion from $20 billion.
As a result, the governor beamed, a balanced budget is in sight.
Bravo, except the numbers don't add up.
U.S. & World
Just weeks ago, the nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst estimated that the deficit on July 1, 2012, at the beginning of the new fiscal year, would be $13 billion. The governor's office replied that it would be "only" $9 billion.
Either number is a lot more than $5 billion.
Add to those numbers the report by state Controller John Chiang that as of Dec. 31, halfway into the current fiscal year, the difference between expected revenues and expenses were $2.5 billion, suggesting an end of the year deficit of about $5 billion.
That's $5 billion on top of the numbers offered by the governor and LAO for the coming year.
Combined, these numbers represent an overall imbalance on July 1, 2012, of somewhere between $14 billion and $18 billion, considerably more than the governor's claim.
All this is disconcerting enough, but the problem only grows worse given the governor's desire to spend more on public education, the Bay delta, high speed rail, and numerous other public policy areas.
How can all these things occur, given the state's continuing massive deficit?
Brown says that most of the problem will go away if the voters pass his bundle of temporary taxes in November, which would bring in as much as $7 billion annually. But $7 billion is a long way from a gap of $14-$18 billion.
To repeat, the numbers don't add up. No wonder the public is so skeptical of state policy makers.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


text: As this year winds down, many of us at National Aquarium are looking forward into the new year and thinking about the many ways we can make our lives and the lives of our families and communities healthier and happier! Here are some of the resolutions we're starting 2014 off with: Ditch the bottled water: According to the International Bottled Water Association, more than 9.67 billion gallons of bottled water were sold in the United States in 2012. Unnecessary resources are consumed in the packaging, shipping, and disposal of this commodity. In early 2014, the Aquarium will be installing water fountains throughout our buildings that are designed to fill reusable water bottles. Concurrently, we will be eliminating the sale of bottled water on our campus. The next time you visit the Aquarium, bring your own water bottle and check it out! Eat local: We all know that buying food produced and harvested locally helps support our communities and significantly decreases the resources required to put food on our table. To help further support this effort, we are working with our catering partners to increase the amount of locally sourced options available in our cafes and through our catered events. In 2014, we will also be promoting local seafood through our sustainable seafood dinner series, Fresh Thoughts! There are many local produce and seafood options available in the area. Take a look and make a commitment to serve local food at your table in 2014. Recycle water: As an Aquarium, we obviously care deeply about water (quantity and quality). We understand the connection between healthy water and healthy communities and we take our commitment to clean water very seriously – both inside our building and out. Internally we are developing new processes to clean our exhibit water – allowing us to recycle greater amounts of water throughout our buildings. By doing our part to clean the water before it filters to the harbor, we are helping to improve the water quality for the human and animal communities that depend on it. Plant a tree (or a wetland, or a sand dune): For more than a decade, the National Aquarium has helped restore more than 190 acres of native habitat in the region. More than 13,000 volunteers have joined us in providing habitat for local or migrating aquatic, terrestrial and avian species. Together we have planted more than 1.7 million native trees, grasses and shrubs. In 2014, we are committed to significantly adding to that number. Join us. Invite your friends and family to volunteer at one of our events and together we can make a difference. We know there is more to be done, but by committing to these steps in 2014, we hope to build on our commitment to improving the health of our blue planet. Care to join us? Tags: 2014-resolution, Conservation, conservation-resolutions, national-aquarium-experts, new-year, resolutions, thoughtful-thursday Categories: Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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I hinted about a "secret project" in my last post, and promised I'd be more forthcoming this week. It's about time for the big reveal. But first, let's take a trip down memory lane.
In The Beginning, There Was Hit
I've been playing WoW since release, but I didn't really get into theorycrafting until the early part of 2009. At that time, protection paladin mechanics were pretty simple. Our rotation was so simple, in fact, that it was a true "rotation" that repeated and was 100% predictable. If you ask paladins from this era, which was the beginning of Wrath of the Lich King, they'll tell you all about the 969 rotation. You'd alternate between a 9-second cooldown (one of Judgment, Consecration, and Holy Shield) and a 6-second cooldown (Hammer of the Righteous and Shield of Righteousness). That X-Y-X-Y-X-Y casting sequence repeated itself every two cycles, or 18 seconds.
This was also back in the day when threat mattered, so people cared about tank DPS for reasons other than abusing Vengeance (which didn't even exist yet!). And even though theorycrafting at the time was miles ahead of what it was in previous expansions, it's not even close to what we have today. Not due to mind share, because there were some smart cookies working on this stuff back then too, but because the tools were much more limited.
We didn't have AskMrRobot or Simulationcraft, and World of Logs was fresh on the scene. The brains were available, but the modeling tools were mostly limited to hand-calculations and spreadsheets. I think Rawr was the only software tool out there that truly did modeling, and it had limited support for most classes.
The tool that most influenced me at the time was Jonesey's Prot DPS/TPS Spreadsheet (EJ link). It wasn't anything too fancy, just a spreadsheet that took your unbuffed character sheet values and calculated DPS, TPS, and stat weights for the 969 rotation. But it was the tool we had, and probably one of the first situations where someone had tried to model prot paladin mechanics as a whole rather than just looking at one part of the puzzle. Unfortunately, while the links remain, the spreadsheet itself seems to have been lost to time. Even I don't have a copy lying around.
But while spreadsheets are a nice tool, arguably the most common tool back in those days, they're rather limited. If you code a spreadsheet to calculate DPS, like Jonesey did, it can be difficult to adapt it to do something else. For example, if you want to compare a bunch of weapons, you need to plug in each weapon, note the result, and make a new spreadsheet with those ordered pairs to make plots. And there are even worse examples, like comparing different rotations, which that sort of spreadsheet really can't do without a complete overhaul.
My first major contribution to theorycrafting was to take Jonesey's spreadsheet and transcribe it into MATLAB. I chose MATLAB because it was a tool I was familiar with and used heavily during my graduate work, and because it was designed around doing the sorts of things that the spreadsheets of the time can't. It treats everything like an array (or matrix, hence the name: MATrix LABoratory), and makes plotting intuitive and simple. If you want to find out how DPS scales with, say, strength, all you need to do is change strength from a scalar to an array, and all of your outputs are now identically-sized arrays. Simple as pi.
I first used the MATLAB model to show that, in contrast to the conventional wisdom of the time, hit was actually our second-best threat stat behind strength. The thread I posted those results into (Hit so bad?) ended up going from a discussion about hit into a discussion of the MATLAB model and what we could do with it, and eventually got split off into its own thread. That thread became my WotLK MATLAB thread, and saw that simple analytical MATLAB DPS model grow to encompass everything from stat and talent comparisons to detailed calculations of seal trade-offs and weapon choices.
But that was only half of the story. Inspired by Aldriana of rogue theorycrafting fame, whom I still admire for his incredible thoroughness and attention to detail, I also set myself to testing many of the mechanics in-game, because several of the equations in the original spreadsheet made incorrect assumptions about how certain spells worked. And in the process, we discovered a lot of things that we didn't previously know about how different spells were implemented and how they interacted. Slowly, the pieces of the puzzle came together.
By the end of Wrath, prot paladins had an incredibly sophisticated tool that put us at the forefront of the theorycrafting community as one of the most-thoroughly-investigated and rigorously-modeled class/spec combinations. Heading into Cataclysm, it looked like the MATLAB juggernaut I had created would guide us for years to come.
And then it all came crashing down.
The Modeling Cataclysm
The beginning of Cataclysm was pretty tame. I had several people helping me work on the code, and we moved the entire project to google code to have a real versioning system. We did our homework building up to it, with a Call to Arms thread requesting various in-game tests on beta servers to make sure we could verify all of the mechanics, including the new Holy Power system and "939" rotation. As a result, we already had very complete models before Cataclysm went live, and the Cataclysm MATLAB thread was off to a good start.
Then, at some point after the release of patch 4.0.3a but before 4.1, they made a massive change – Crusader Strike stopped granting Holy Power on misses, dodges, and parries.
This was a big deal for several reasons. Up until this point, most players had ignored hit and expertise. Even in the "threat crisis" days of Wrath, which Meloree and I are skeptical ever existed (but that's another blog post entirely), we ran with as close to zero hit and expertise as possible. Suddenly, there was a potential reason to care. Which was actually a good thing from a game-design perspective, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, it was a horrible thing for modeling. Not being able to rely on Crusader Strike's Holy Power income completely undermined the analytical model we had so carefully crafted over the course of the beta. The nice, deterministic model simply wouldn't work, so we had to go back to the drawing board. I whipped up a quick Monte-Carlo to handle the rotational dynamics, and was dismayed to find that I had to run it for an incredibly long time to get the statistical accuracy I wanted.
Of course, I've gotten much better at these things since then, as my exploits with the defensive Monte Carlo sims have demonstrated over the past year. Looking back at it, I could probably have knocked that run time down by a factor of 10 or more if I were approaching it nowadays. But alas, time travel hadn't been invented yet, so there was no way for future me to tell past me that he was being obtuse. And boy, was past me obtuse.
Yet, even when things looked bad, luck stepped in. A new collaborator contacted me offering a new approach that might solve our problems. And together we built the current Finite State Machine code that forms the basis of the MATLAB DPS simulations. This new technique treats the modeling much like a Quantum Mechanics problem, and as such gives incredible results – repeatability down to +/- 1 DPS, and accuracy limited only by the inputs you feed it. And it was fast to boot, giving me outputs in under a second compared to the (admittedly, poorly-coded) Monte-Carlo that would take hours.
And so, for the remaining part of Cataclysm, the faithful FSM code carried us through. With this new tool in our back pocket, we seemed unstoppable. And then, with Mists of Pandaria, the unthinkable happened: we started caring about defense.
The Sha of Modeling
You see, in the entire history of paladin tanking before Mists, tank survivability was mostly a passive concern. You shored up your gear in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to be as defensive as it could be, and then stepped into the raid and took a beating. Apart from cooldowns, which were generally off-GCD, your entire rotation was determined by threat and DPS constraints.
Mists gave us the DK treatment, and introduced Active Mitigation. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that this has been an unqualified success – tanking has never been as dynamic, fun, or interesting as it has been this expansion.
But for modeling and theorycrafting, it's a nightmare. We suddenly had more things to keep track of, more variables to consider, and more details to obsess over. That isn't a bad thing in and of itself, it just means we have more work to do. But over the first few patches, a problem slowly became apparent. The FSM was getting slow.
You see, Finite State Machines operate by figuring out all of the possible "states" you can be in. So for a simple example, let's just consider Crusader Strike. The simplest state is the one we start in, with Crusader Strike available and no holy power. Let's call that state $(0, 0)$ to indicate that there are zero seconds left on the CS cooldown and we have zero Holy Power.
If we're in that state, then we're going to cast CS, of course, which might take us to a state $(4.5, 1)$ – 4.5 seconds on CS's cooldown, and one Holy Power. It might also take us to state $(4.5, 0)$ if we miss with CS. And if we allow one GCD to pass, then we may end up in states $(3.0, 1)$ or $(3.0, 0)$ depending on which one of the $(4.5, X)$ states we started in.
The FSM attempts to compile a list of all of these potential states along with the transitions between states (like $(0,0) \rightarrow (4.5, 1)$) and the probability of those transitions. That works very well for small numbers of states (usually called the "state space"). But as the number of things to track gets larger, the number of states gets larger exponentially. Introducing haste effects via Sanctity of Battle only compounded this problem, because it was no longer sufficient to work in simple 0.5-second increments. Worse yet were the one-minute cooldowns introduced by level 90 talents and the 30-second duration of Sacred Shield, each of which is several times worse than simply adding another spell with a short (<15 second) cooldown.
But the real nail in the coffin was Grand Crusader. Specifically, when Grand Crusader stopped being completely offense-triggered and started triggering on avoided attacks. That wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back, it was the ten-ton weight that dropped out of the sky and obliterated the poor camel, leaving a smoking crater where the dromedary used to stand.
Since that change, the FSM has gotten slow to the point of being unwieldy. Coupled with a few annoying bugs that cause it to crash once in a while, and it's hard to produce useful data with it anymore. Refreshing the simulation results has become an effort in frustration that takes several days, and often can't be done simultaneously with other work. It's become clear that the FSM just isn't the right tool for this job anymore.
And more importantly, my exploits in this blog have convinced me that the separation of survivability and DPS simulations is less than ideal. Even though our SotR usage is somewhat divorced from our rotation by being off-GCD, there's still a small amount of interaction. And, for example, while the sims I provide here can tell us whether the 2- or 4-piece set bonuses give any appreciable survival benefit, they don't tell us the cost in the DPS arena. Even if using WoG to maintain the 2-piece had come out ahead, we would have had to estimate the DPS cost by hand.
It's clear that a single simulation that does both is needed. In fact, that's been clear to me for the better part of six months now, and I spent the first few months of that investigating and debating different options. For example, I clearly have a working event-driven Monte Carlo that does defensive calculations. Do I expand that to include offensive components, which would roughly mean merging it into the MATLAB trunk to replace the rotation module? Do I recode it from scratch in C# to take advantage of the extra speed it would give me (MATLAB is slow for these applications when compared to languages like C# and C++)?
This wasn't a question that could simply be answered by expedience or numerical accuracy either. Most of my regular collaborators have reduced their involvement in the project, so I'd be doing most of this alone. And that means the time investment I'm going to have to put in becomes a factor. Not to mention that this is all focused on paladins; I regularly get requests to revisit the warrior simulations, or to write something for DKs or monks. If I'm going to write new code, I'd like to be able to re-use as much of it as possible to make those side tasks easier if I choose to tackle them.
I was staring down the possibility of writing a fully-featured event-driven simulation for protection paladin mechanics that may eventually be extensible to other classes. And that was a frightening thought. Remember, I'm not a professional programmer. While I can write usable code, my talents lie elsewhere: in the analysis and interpretation of data, the extensive testing and verification of game mechanics, and in translating those mechanics into a software model.
Over the course of the last few months, the answer became very clear. If I'm going to be at all successful in continuing to theorycraft at the level you all are familiar with, it cannot be with code I am writing exclusively by myself. Luckily, it doesn't have to be.
After all, it would be awfully foolish to try and write the sort of simulation code that I need when it already exists.
Sorry MATLAB, It's Not Me, It's You
The Simulationcraft project, also known as Simcraft or SimC, is exactly what I'm after. It's an event-driven combat simulator that seeks to model class dynamics. It already has nearly all of the game's basic functionality implemented, and can handle a wide variety of options. And it's incredibly fast and well-optimized, partly because there are real computer science types that work on it.
What it doesn't have is a protection paladin developer.
Or, rather, that's what it didn't have. Now it does.
This has been a bit of a challenge, since SimC is written in C++. I haven't used C++ since college, and had only very limited exposure to it then. Luckily it's not that far removed from the C# I've been using in the FSM code, so the re-learning was pretty quick. I'm still not a C++ wizard, but I know enough to get around and write usable code.
Over the past two weeks, I've been heavily updating the protection paladin module of SimC. It was in a pretty sorry state when I got to it. Most of the abilities and mechanics had not been updated since Cataclysm. While it has been "working" for almost two months now thanks to another dev fixing some bugs (before that, it wouldn't even simulate if you loaded a prot paladin), the results were more or less useless because they didn't even resemble what happens in-game.
The latest release of SimC (530-3) is mostly correct for basic DPS calculations. It's still missing a few things, like some DPS glyphs (Alabaster Shield, Focused Shield/Wrath) and T14/T15 set bonuses. Those have all been implemented, but didn't make the cut for 530-3; they will be working in 530-4. There are other things that I still plan on implementing in the next two weeks, like Glyph of the Battle Healer and correcting the way that SotR mitigation recalculation is performed (i.e. not at all when the buff is extended). I also want to tweak the Holy Prism implementation a bit and clean up a few other oddities. I may even go as far as to add Clemency and Selfless Healer, though both of those are niche enough that I'm not sure it's worth the effort. But, barring unforseen circumstances, my plan is for protection paladins to be more or less fully supported by SimC version 530-4.
The other side of the coin is the defensive results. SimC currently supports determining tank scale factors based on overall damage taken per second – in other words, on total damage reduction (TDR). If you've read anything on this blog, there's a good chance you already know what I think of TDR metrics. So I'm working with the other SimC devs to implement better tanking metrics. So far, the groundwork has already been laid to perform exactly the same smoothing calculations that I do with the Monte-Carlo code, and I intend to focus on getting those up and running as soon as the Paladin module is working to my satisfaction.
This means that not only will we get the sorts of results from SimC that you've come to expect from my MATLAB simulations, but we'll be able to translate them into numerical scale factors. And as an added bonus, it won't just be useful to paladins – any tanking spec that has a working SimC module can take advantage of them.
But perhaps the best part is the increase in accessibility. While I've made my MATLAB code public for years, very few people have the knowledge necessary to read the code and look for errors, let alone verify that it's working correctly. Even fewer have MATLAB installed, and thus the ability to run the code themselves. It was a nice gesture to make it public, but ultimately didn't make much difference and was ineffective from a bug-finding and bug-fixing standpoint.
However, anyone can download SimC, load up their character, and look at the output. The types of comparisons that players often ask for are as simple as tweaking the configuration, which requires next to no coding experience. And best of all, players can load their own character up and calculate results rather than relying on extrapolated results from a small set of arbitrary gear sets that I've run calculations with. With potentially thousands of people running simulations and testing hypotheses independently, we're far more likely to uncover oddities, quirks, and edge cases. And that means we'll know more about how our class works than ever before.
Going Forward
All in all, I'm very excited about where this is headed. Being able to team up with SimC means that I can spend less time coding and more time doing analysis and constructing tests, and the automatic extensibility to other classes means that anything I do in the tanking department benefits more than just paladins.
What does this mean for the blog, you ask? I'm not entirely sure yet. You may have noticed that the updates have been scarcer and more focused on data dumps lately. Partly that's because I've been busy integrating myself into the Simcraft project, and those posts are less time-consuming than a wordy, game-design-focused post. It takes three or four hours to write a post like this one, and longer for ones that analyze a particular feature or aspect of the game. A "data dump" post might only take an hour or two once the simulation data is done (and that can be run in the background while I do other things).
Partly it's because of where we are in the expansion. The beta period is where the design-centric blog posts have greatest effect, because we're more likely to influence changes. During the bulk of the expansion, things are less volatile. While there are certainly topics of relevance that may influence change (see Valor Morghulis for example), they're less common.
But there's certainly no shortage of topics I could write about. I imagine some people are curious to hear my thoughts on Flex raids, 5.3 daily content, and the new-and-improved valor upgrade system. I just haven't had time, and have been struggling to keep up with my own self-imposed goal of one post per week. With any luck, moving to Simcraft will buy me more time in the long run to write those sorts of posts.
The other thing I'm hoping is that a new focus on Simcraft may draw Anafielle out of hiding. I know she runs her character through Simcraft on a regular basis – probably daily – and I suspect she has a lot of wisdom to share about how to interpret a SimC report that would be applicable to both protection and retribution.
I also haven't decided how I'm going to split myself between this blog and my usual Maintankadin thread format. This expansion, the DPS-focused work has been on Maintankadin, while the survivability-focused content has been here. As with the code, I think there's a happy medium of unification somewhere. A blog and a forum serve very different purposes and are good at very different things. The comment system here isn't really ideal for long threaded discussions, for example. But the Advanced Theorycraft and Calculations forum, which I moderate, is. I'm still thinking about the best way to integrate the blog and the forum without abandoning either, but it may be as simple as creating a "blog discussion" thread (or multiple topic-specific threads) in AT&C. Much like the MATLAB threads, results could both foster discussion and lead to new calculations (i.e. a blog post that grows out of the discussion).
In any event, change is on the way, and I think it's a change for the better. If you have any advice, comments, questions, etc. about Simcraft, the blog, or anything else, feel free to share in the comments. I'll try to answer anything I can, and would love to hear how you think I can make this blog more effective.
Just keep it low-profile; I haven't told MATLAB we're breaking up yet, and it's better that she hears it from me.