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It would have been a restful night had the phone not rung.
Banta farmer Dave Colli had no choice but to answer the call from his farmhand at 3:50 a.m. in early October and find out that someone was on his property trying to roll away with a few hay bales.
Colli raced shirtless out the door to catch the rustler.
He hopped into his Chevy pickup and sped away, backing in front of the thief's truck to block him in.
"I pulled right up and shined my lights on him," Colli said.
As Colli sat in his cab, windows up and doors locked, the man gave up his attempt to escape, hopped out, pushed the five bales out of his pick-up bed, popped his hood and started pouring water on the radiator.
San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies pulled up a few minutes later to lay down the law.
The thief told deputies he was just cooling the radiator. But the straw all over the guy's clothes gave him away.
"He was caught, but he did know exactly what he was doing," Colli chuckled.
As does Colli himself. As a farmer and owner of horse stables and an inn, he's a jack-of-all-trades. Stopping the hay thief was all in a day's work, even in 2007.
Colli's life is a hectic mix between restaurant-bar manager (as of little more than a year ago, when he bought the Banta Inn), farmer, investor, stable owner and father.
"He can fix just about anything — except a computer," said Johnni, 20, one of Colli's two sons.
On a typical day, Colli will get up early to chat with the inn's chefs to line up everything for the day and then head back to the farm to get the hay baler out with his son. The two will spend hours flipping and baling the alfalfa and grain hay, deliver the bales to buyers, fix up the tractors, balers and other mechanical equipment on the 200-acre farm, then head back to the inn for another quick visit with staff.
With enough time, they might enjoy a dish with Colli's "Italian-cowboy" flair, like balsamic steak, country potatoes or chicken cacciatore.
Colli can't even guess how long his days are, in the everyday helter-skelter.
"I don't count the hours," he sighed.
Having grown up in a farming family, Colli didn't pick up the habit of keeping a schedule.
"I'm done when the job's done is more the way it works," he said with a laugh.
Born in Stockton, Colli was raised in Banta, the small, unincorporated township outside Tracy. The 47-year-old has never wanted to leave.
When his parents died, he bought the house he grew up in, which means he's even lived in the same house his whole life.
Last May, he formed a partnership with Henry Costa, a 63-year-old dairy farmer in Banta, to buy the 127-year-old Banta Inn and refurbish it. Colli has known Costa since he was 8 years old and Costa was 24.
"There's no one I'd rather do business with," Costa said. "I've known him since he was a kid. I used to give him hell for shooting pigeons at the dairy farm. But he's such a polite, caring man. When you seem him in the inn, he's always talking to people."
Even after his divorce, Colli's managed to stay good friends with his ex-wife, going so far as to entertain her and her new boyfriend at the inn.
Colli led the inn's remodeling, without straying from its roots as a traveler's inn, haunted by ghosts and decorated with 1950s road-trip kitsch — dinged up license plates, street signs, bumper stickers, resin-glazed photos and newspaper clippings on the tables.
On one wall hangs an antique scythe, saw and machete.
Outside, Colli kept the hitching post to encourage diners to ride up on horseback, just like the old days, which in Banta wasn't that long ago.
"It's a lot like the Old West out here," Colli admitted. "But I want to encourage that, with, you know, people bringing their horses here and coming to meet with people they've known their whole lives. Or meet new ones."
Chef Ray Ellis' banter about the inferior quality of steak at chain restaurants drifts from the kitchen into the adjacent dining room.
"It's true," Colli chuckled. "No one cooks up a steak like us."
The backyard fence is painted to resemble a ghost town, with a one-dimensional saloon, bank and blacksmith.
A stage for live entertainment sits across from the painted enclosure, and a smoker's patio is right outside the inn's dining room, barred on one side by a gate Johnni made entirely out of welded horseshoes.
"He's an artist," Colli said proudly. "Like I said, a farmer knows a little of everything."
His son Johnni's interest in farming encourages Colli more than anything else.
"Family is really important to me," he said. "If there's anything to say about me, it's that they mean everything in the scheme of things. And Johnni taking an interest in what I'm doing means a lot."
"I'm just hoping that my kids, my boys, will want to take over something," Colli reflected. "One morning, the cook at the inn didn't show up, but Johnni was there, just ready to help me cook breakfast. And that's how we do things. He's taken a strong interest in what I do."
Colli talks proudly of all his children but works more closely with his eldest son. Daniel spends most of his time playing football or studying. His daughter, Genna, is busy at work as a preschool teacher in Tracy.
Because Colli's dad and his father before him were farmers, continuing that tradition has taken on deeper meaning since he's had two sons and a daughter of his own.
The Colli family emigrated from Italy in the 1920s first to Santa Maria, then to a little town in Mendocino County called Elk, off Highway 1, where they rented a dairy farm.
After they raised enough money, the Collis moved south to Banta, which then was little more than a vast expanse of raw land, checkered here and there by plowed plots, punctuated by the occasional farmhouse.
The Roy Colli Dairy opened its doors on California Avenue in 1928. It stayed open as a dairy until some changes in wastewater treatment laws in the 1970s made it difficult to keep the small operation running.
"The dairy was too small to keep up with the laws," Colli recalled.
So he converted it to what it is now — Banta's Double D Stables, where he boards 80 horses. He owns three horses himself.
But more than horse-sitting, it's the hours on end of inn-keeping and alfalfa farming that claim most of Colli's time — and puts him in contact with the most people.
"Everyone in Banta knows each other," he said.
"And everyone knows my dad," added Johnni. "Most of them are old friends."
Colli nodded in agreement.
"There aren't many people who haven't been friends their whole lives out here. It's part of why Banta is the way it is. I hope it doesn't get swallowed up by the city of Tracy."
What keeps Banta rural?
"I don't know. But it's stayed much the same for years, aside from a few houses popping up in the last two years. I love it for that. And for its history," he added, referring to Banta's storied past as a rest stop along the cross-country Lincoln Highway.
But it's his own family's history that has the strongest draw for Colli.
"This is where I'm from. And I hope my sons can feel this way about what I do."
From the looks of Johnni and his dad rushing off to attend to their chores around the inn, the tradition is likely to live on.
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"The point of institutionalized education has never been to benefit the student for his or her own sake." - Zander Sherman
Here's my interview with Zander Sherman about his book The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment (Viking, 2012).
The book tells the story of institutionalised education, from the early-mid 19th century all the way up to the present. It covers topics such as standardized testing, the role of corporations in higher education, and the growing student debt crisis. Throughout, Sherman recounts the ways in which school has been used to manufacture outcomes—to turn students into soldiers, citizens, and human capital. The Canadian writer and novelist Will Ferguson described the book as "provocative in the purest sense of the word – meaning, it makes you think; provokes discussion – while never overstepping the bounds of reason".
Sherman was homeschooled until the age of 13, has worked as a freelance writer, and currently lives north of Toronto.
A PDF of the interview can be downloaded from here for free.
(1) What motivated you to write a book about the story of school? And why did you decide to call it 'The Curiosity of School'?
At the high school I attended there was a student population of about a thousand, but the cafeteria could only hold five hundred. At lunchtime, half the school would take its meal sitting in the halls. If the administration caught us sitting they would tell us to stand, saying it was against "fire-code regulation." That made no sense to me. In the event of a fire, who was going to stay sitting? Looking at that policy began a long process of investigation and research. School is strange because we spend so much time there, and accept its value as a thoroughfare to work, while having little awareness of what it actually is, where it came from, and why we use it the way we do.


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September 15, 2009, 8:08 AM — Pretty much all the gadget blogs have now gotten their hands on a Zune HD and early reports and pseudo-reviews are rolling in. One of the first surprises users will get is that the Zune HD doesn't work out of the box. The device apparently comes with no firmware, and the first order of business for new owners is to sync it with a PC to get the thing working. At least, that's the way I'm reading things, though it seems almost too bizarre to believe. Maybe a TechnoFile reader/early adopter can confirm this? In any case, Mac and Linux users need not apply.
One of our big questions leading up to release was what form the app store would take. It sounds like Microsoft is retaining control of the Zune app store, and that for now at least all the apps are free. Basically they're taking extra software bits out of the main Zune OS and allowing users to pick and choose what they want to devote space to. The Seattle Times interviewed Zune marketing manager Brian Seitz, who said, in response to a question about the app store:
Last year our apps were games. We introduced a bundle of games in the update, which was convenient but also really painful because the download was really big. So we stripped those out. Now they're a side-load experience through the software in the marketplace or on the device.
When it comes to apps on Zune on the 15th what you'll see is primarily games. We're refreshing a lot of the games to take advantage of the multitouch. Casual games. plus a couple of apps like the weather app and calculator. Plus we're building a Twitter (app), a Facebook (app) and a bunch of 3D games like "Project Gotham Racing" that will come out in November.
All of our apps are free ... and it's a managed solution right now, so we're building these apps or working with third parties to build these apps and provide them to our customers for free.
It really sounds like the Zune app store is a work-in-progress. The Xbox 360 has the XNA ecosystem that allows end users to build and sell games on the Xbox Live Marketplace; it seems like a no-brainer to fork this system to support the Zune HD as well. Maybe Microsoft just isn't ready to talk about that yet.
On the other hand, Seitz goes on to reaffirm that the Zune team's "laser focus" is on music and video.
Here's an incomplete list of sites that have Zune hands-on pieces available:
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Took Olivia and my nephew Ethan to make cupcakes at the headquarters of How Sweet Bakery.....
Checking out the bakery shop inside while waiting for our factory tour and cupcake-making to start.
Starting the factory tour.
Trying to pay attention to what the tour guide had to say.
If you can't tell yet, this polar bear is their official mascot.
Ready to start making some cupcakes.
Starting to get impatient.
Did they hear me fart?
The mamas helping out.
All done.
Time to go home and show Grandma & Grandpa their creations!
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How Sweet Bakery
Labels: bakery, food, how sweet, kids, new taipei city, taipei county, taiwan, wugu
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That place looks a lot of fun!
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yeah, good fun for the kids :)
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – A JCPS school bus, #1043, was involved in a hit and run at Dixie Highway and Breckinridge Street, according to MetroSafe.
MetroSafe says no one was injured.
According to Ben Jackey, 16 students, on the bus, were from Coleridge-Taylor. Jackey says there is a small scratch on the bus and the vehicle that hit the bus did not stop.
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The SLS AMG GT3 has been available since 2011, and is used by customer-sport teams all over the world. The racing version of the gullwing features spectacular design and purebred motorsport technology. Developed according to the GT3 regulations of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the SLS AMG GT3 is designed as a customer-sport car for sprint and endurance races.
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Hylobittacus apicalis (Hagen, 1861)
Diagnosis: This species of hanging-fly is unmistakable: it has highly iridescent wings that are mostly transparent, but with darkened wingtips. No other bittacid in North America looks like this. The male genital bulb has short epiandrial lobes that are only about as long as the basistyles and have thick denticles at the apex. The cerci are much shorter than the basistyles.
Distribution – Geographical: This species is found in the southeastern and Atlantic coastal states of the U.S. as far west as Illinois and eastern Oklahoma.
Distribution – Temporal: Adult emergence is from late May to early August, with peak emergence in June.
Ecology: This species is found in warm, moist, bottomland forests with high humidity.
Biology: The immature stages and mating behavior have been described by Setty (1940).
Notes: This is the only hanging-fly in North America that routinely rests with its wings spread.
Originally described in the genus Bittacus, it was transferred to its own genus (Hylobittacus) by Byers in 1979.
The name apicalis refers to the darkened tips of the wings in this species.
Byers, G.W. 1979. Hylobittacus, a New Genus of North American Bittacidae (Mecoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 52(2):402-404.
Hagen, H.A. 1861. Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, with a list of the South American species. Smithsonian miscellaneous Collections,4(1):xx, 1-347.
Setty, L.R. 1940. Biology and morphology of some North American Bittacidae (Order Mecoptera). American Midland Naturalist, 23:257-353.


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Export and economic growth in Southeast Asia current Newly Industrialized Countries: Evidence from nonparametric approach
AbstractNonlinearity in the nexus of export and economic growth has not been addressed in most of the previous studies. If the true relationship is nonlinear, then inference from linear model may be invalid. This study re-examines the exports-growth nexus in four current Newly Industrialized Countries by nonparametric methodology. Results from Breitung cointegration test show existence of nonlinearities in the cointegration relationship of exports and economic growth in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. With evidences of nonlinearities from cointegration test, nonparametric causality test based on rank series provides more reliable results than conventional linear model. The nonparametric causality test indicates a bilateral causality between exports and economic growth in Malaysia and Thailand. On the contrary, Indonesia support the hypothesis that growth driven exports. This results highlight that export is an engine to economic growth through its multiplier effect but it is not a general rule for all the Newly Industrialized Countries.
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Cratis Williams
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The Broyhill Center for Continuing Education here on the campus of Appalachian State University is situated on a headwaters tributary of the South Fork of the New River, which flows from a spring on the grounds of the Green Park Hotel in Blowing Rock and only a stone's throw from the Continental Divide. We are in Watauga County, the birthplace of rivers. No river flows through Watauga County, but four flow out of it.
The old Buffalo Trail, tramped out over the centuries by the migration to the Piedmont of thousands of buffalo, entered North Carolina near Trade, Tennessee, and crossed the valley of the South Fork of the New River a few miles east of Boone. This trail, still discernible in undisturbed woodlands, was followed by Indians for many generations before the white man arrived. Prior to settlement of the region beginning in the 1780's, hunters, herdsmen, and explorers followed the Buffalo Trail from the Yadkin River Valley through Deep Gap and into the mountains and beyond. The Daniel Boone Trail follows roughly the Buffalo Trail. Early land grants tended to cluster along this trail, and surveys were made to either side of it. Most of the settlers there came up from the Yadkin Valley and beyond, among them many of German origin. Among families living along the trail prior to 1800 were Blackburns, Bryans, Greenes, Jacksons, Lookabills, Millers, Norrises, Proffitts, Ragans, Tugmans, and Woodrings. Some of the progenitors of these families were among the charter members of the Three Forks Baptist Church, organized in 1790 and located on the South Fork of New River about three miles east of Boone.
One of the first explorers in the Upper New River Valley was Bishop Spangenburg, who, along with a band of Moravians, came searching in the fall of 1752 for 100,000 acres on which to settle. While camping in early December near the present town of Blowing Rock they almost froze. Moving down the South Fork and past the site of Boone into what is now Ashe County, they found the mountains too rugged and the weather too severe to suit them and finally settled in and around old Salem, now Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
By 1760 Benjamin Howard, who lived in the Yadkin Valley, had begun herding cattle during the summer months in the region in and around what is now Boone. He built a crude cabin on what is today the campus of Appalachian State University. The spot, now covered by Rivers Street, was marked in 1912 by an 18-foot-high stone-and-concrete monument, a replica of which stands at the foot of the hill below Justice Hall and a hundred yards or so east of the site of the original marker.
It was the Howard cabin that Daniel Boone used while on hunting trips to the region and while exploring in Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. At the time, Boone, whose family had settled in the Yadkin Valley in 1751, was living in what was to become Wilkes County.
There is little evidence extant of permanent settlements in the Upper New River Valley prior to the 1770's, although Andrew Baker might have been living there as early as 1763. David Helton, William Walling, and William McLean came down from Virginia on a hunting expedition to the North Fork of the New River in what is now Ashe County in 1770. A year later they returned and built cabins on Helton Creek, a few miles northeast of here, but at that time they could not legally claim land there. However, Enoch Osborne had moved up from Rowan County, N.C., to the Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, over the line from Ashe County by 1765. One of Enoch's sons, Soloman, was killed by Indians while on a hunting trip into what is now Watauga County in 1772. Captain Enoch Osborne kept the fort at the Mouth of Wilson during the War.
By 1778 a few families were living in the region. Benjamin Howard, a Tory, returned to what is now Boone, and hid out for a time in a shallow cliff on the knob that bears his name. He took the oath of allegiance in 1778 but afterwards returned to the Yadkin Valley to live. In 1778 Martin Gambill brought his young wife and some slaves to the Bend of the New River in Ashe County where he established a home. Prior to 1778 it had not been possible to obtain a North Carolina title to lands west of the Blue Ridge.
Many hunters had built shelters in the region. Some of the hunters had no doubt made land surveys which they entered later. Some of the "shelters" referred to in entries for land by 1780 were those of progenitors of such well known families as Baker, Collins, Fee, Gambill, Howell, Mahon, Robinson, and Sizemore. Families actually living on land prior to 1780 at the time entries for grants were made included Baker, Johnston, Yates, Pennington, Howell, Ellison, King, Little.
Many of the pioneers in the North Fork were members of Captain Enoch Osborne's militia during the Revolution, and some of them were with the Overmountain Men at the Battle of King's Mountain, but only one episode connected with the American Revolution occurred in the Upper New River Valley. Captain William Riddle, a Tory, and some of his men captured Colonel Ben Cleveland, who had come up to inspect his land at Old Fields, and were holding him as a prisoner in the Wolf Den on Riddle's Knob a few miles northeast of Boone. This occurred in April, 1781. Robert Cleveland, having been told about the capture of his brother, gathered 20 or 30 patriots, stole through the wilderness at night, surprised Captain Riddle at sunrise, and rescued Colonel Cleveland. Later, Colonel Cleveland captured Riddle and some of his men and hanged them on the Tory Oak at Wilkesboro.
By 1790 as many as 200 land grants had been issued, but there were probably not more than 80 households in the Upper New River Valley at that time. During the following decade many North Fork families migrated to the Powell Valley in Lee County, Virginia, among them Boggses, Creeches, Flanerys, Huffs, Osbornes, Penningtons, Sheppards, Stidhams, Sturgills, and Wellses. A generation later these families "swarmed" again, this time into eastern Kentucky. I grew up at Blaine in Lawrence County, Kentucky, but among my ancestors were Boggses and Wellses who were living on the North Fork in 1790. Their neighbors at Blaine included Creeches, Gambills, Holbrooks, Lyons, Millers, Osborns, Penningtons, Sparkses, Stidhams, Sturgills, and Weavers. The Upper New River Valley, like the Yadkin Valley, was a nursery basket for the Westward Movement.
Early settlers in the region established schools and churches. General Lenoir is credited with having founded a Baptist church in Ashe County in the early 1770's. There were Methodists in the county by 1783, before Bishop Asbury visited the region, beginning in 1789. The Three Forks Baptist Church near Boone, of which Daniel Boone's brother was a sometime member, was founded in 1790. By 1840 there was a Lutheran congregation near the Buffalo Trail in Watauga County.
Martin Gambill built a log school on his farm at Chestnut Hill about 1790 for his children and those of his neighbors. In the summer of 1784 there were four schools in what is now Ashe County. By 1790 there were ten. Schools in those days were kept only during the warm summer months.
Soil in the valley is fertile. The rugged terrain and the remoteness of the region, identified later as the "Lost Provinces," made it difficult to transport bulky produce to markets off the mountains. Roads were impassible. By the 1930's only two paved roads traversed the region. People lived simply but comfortably as subsistence farmers, supplementing their income by growing a few cattle to sell to drovers, hunting, and gathering herbs, chestnuts, and bark which they transported by wagon to markets in Piedmont towns.
Until the coming of sawmills near the end of the 19th century, homes in the Valley continued to be constructed of logs, the oblong cabin with a chimney on the outside of one end of it the basic architectural unit. The quality of life did not change much during that century. Dr. Elisha Mitchell, who made a geological survey of Ashe County in 1828, described the region as an ocean of mountains. Most of the homes in the North Fork were log huts. Fields were fertile. Herds of cattle, some driven over from Washington County, Virginia, grazed in hillside pastures. Roads followed streams. Mitchell reported that he forded the stream 32 times while riding his horse a distance of 10 miles north of Helton. While in the neighborhood he attended a Methodist meeting, where he heard "a reasonable amount of female screaming and vociferation." He visited Captain Ballou's forge, and inspected Perkins' ore bank. He heard an account of an old man in the area who "determined the locality of ores by the mineral rod."
The 1818 census reported a population of 3,694 people in Ashe County, which then included Watauga, much of Avery, and Alleghany. By 1830 there were 492 slaves in the county and by 1860 only 533.
The Civil War brought divisions among the people and left poverty that retarded economic development. Many families had left the region by the 1880's, migrating this time to the West and the Far West.
In 1884 Charles Dudley Warner, best remembered as the co-author, along with Mark Twain, of the Guilded Age (1873), the title of which gave the name to the decade of the 1870's, traveled through the Upper New River Valley of Ashe County and Watauga County, North Carolina. His account of his journey was included in On Horseback, A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, which appeared first in the Atlantic Monthly and then in book form in 1889.
After spending a night in a home near Trade, Tennessee, Warner and his party rode into Ashe County. Interested in the dialect of the natives of the region, he was disappointed when he found no local peculiarity of speech except for an occasional use of "hit" for "it." On the North Carolina-Tennessee line the travelers visited a tavern and distillery, where they were amused by a pretty, talkative young woman who explained that she was staying there for a while in order to avoid being called as a witness in the trial of one of her admirers who had killed another. She punctuated her account by spitting tobacco juice into a fireplace "with accuracy of aim and with a nonchalance that was not assumed." At Worth's in Ashe County they found a well-to-do mountain farmer whose two daughters had been to finishing school, wore stylish clothes, and could play the two pianos that were in the house.
For dinner they stopped at Tatem's on the New River. Tatem had very little corn for the horses. His home, consisting of two log cabins backed up to a huge chimney and a lean-to behind, was crude. The rough dinner was seasoned with too much grease to suit the taste of the travelers, but it was rendered even more distasteful by the presence of a bed in the dining room and a tubercular daughter with a "graveyard cough." In Mr. Tatem's "parlour," which had two beds in it, the hearth was decorated with two gleaming white gravestones. Mr. Tatem was not illiterate. He subscribed to the Blue Ridge Baptist, but told his guests he was planning to discontinue his subscription. His guests thought he overcharged for their dinners.
The people of Watauga County the travelers found fond of lawsuits. On court days they assembled in large numbers in the shabby little village of Boone, which boasted that its elevation made it the highest county seat east of the Mississippi River. The tavern in Boone was rickety and poorly kept. A profusion of flies swarmed everywhere, but an ingenious foot-operated fly shoo hung over the table in the dining room and creaked miserably as meals were being served. No alcoholic drinks were available in Watauga County. As they rode away from the tavern the next morning, the travelers noticed that the porch "resembled a carpenter's shop; it was literally covered with the whittlings of the row of natives who had spent the evening there in the sedative occupation of whittling."
As is evident in Warner's report, stereotypes of Appalachians were being created. But the region was coming out of its poverty. By the end of the century, though life in the region was much as it had been from the beginning, new homes, large country houses with many chimneys, wide porches, and gingerbread decorations, were being built, many of them around the original log cabins of the pioneers. Mostly, the same families lived in the region, many of them on the same tracts of land for which the progenitors had received grants before 1800. The "Lost Provinces" were preparing to join North Carolina, but they did not succeed in doing so completely until after World War II.
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James Reimer came out of nowhere and lifted the city of Toronto off its collective feet a season ago. Now, the AHL call-up turned NHL starting goaltender will look to repeat last season's success and build upon it, hoping to capture the Leafs' first playoff berth in nearly seven years.
In his rookie campaign, Reimer went 20-10-5 with a goals against average of 2.60 and a save percentage of.921, which ranks as one the best seasons for a Leafs' rookie goalie in team history.
With Reimer in net, the Leafs moved up seven spots in league standings, going from 27th to 20th. Their 10th place Eastern Conference finishing had them just nine points out of eighth seed, four points closer than they were before Reimer made his starting debut on January 1.
Reimer's next test in his career will be a tough one. The 23-year-old will have to play consistent hockey throughout the entire year if the Leafs are to make the playoffs.
This is the test of a lifetime that any goalie yearns for. And at such a young age playing in the media-frenzied city of Toronto, it must be hard not to fall prey to the pressure.
But if anyone's to pull it off, it's Reimer. Nothing seemed to faze him last year, and his maturity should only grow from here on out. He plays with tremendous focus and attention to detail on the ice, and he's a hardworking class act off it.
If nothing else, he has given hope to a city that hasn't won Lord Stanley's Cup in what will be 44 years. Outside of hockey, Toronto hasn't had produced a winner since '93 with the Blue Jays. And even since that year, Toronto has been starved of real contenders.
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In many cases for possession of marijuana, my clients end up charged with possession of marijuana due to a routine traffic stop. The officer finds some reason to pull them over for something, begins to discuss the ticket that he thinks he's going to issue, and ends up with probable cause for marijuana.
But what if the office did not have reasonable suspicion to pull you over? If that's the case, then anything that he finds during the search will be suppressed in court. If he made a stop for something that's not actually against the law, then we have a very compelling argument to have anything that he finds during the stop to be suppressed and not brought into evidence.
In one case my client was stopped due to allegedly not having a front license plate. The client told me that his plate was properly mounted, and it was clearly mounted correctly on the vehicle. When I listened to the police video, the officer walked up to the front of the car and says, "Do you know why I pulled you over? It's because you don't have front plate," and my client said, "Well, yes I do have a front plate." Then a little while later the officer looks at the front bumper and says, "There is a plate."
What we had in this case was a classic example of an officer making a mistake (at least I hope it was an honest mistake). The officer pulled someone over based on what he thinks to be an illegal action, and it turns out that he was wrong.
When we got to court surprisingly the officer maintained his version that the front plate was not mounted properly. However, I produced a photograph showing the white license plate mounted dead center on my client's dark-colored bumper. Once the prosecutor saw that, it was clear that the officer did not have any reasonable suspicion to pull my client over, and the case quickly went away.
That's just one tiny example of how a bad stop can keep out evidence. And most prosecutors will drop a case when they know they have a bad stop.
However, to determine whether or not the stop is bad and to really push that in a borderline case, an attorney is usually needed. In this particular case, the commonwealth attorney was very reasonable, but I had to convince them that the officer was not accurate on the nature of the stop. Sometimes they trust the officer's report a little too much, and without an attorney pushing on behalf of the driver, I'm not sure that that case would have turned out in a positive way for the driver.
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After months of festering rumors and uncertainty among the Hutcheson Medical Center staff, Gina Harrison's nightmare came true.
When Harrison received a call from her boss on Monday — her day off — asking her to come to a meeting at the hospital, she knew she was about to lose her job.
"I'm not in shock because I knew it would come," said Harrison, 41, a custodian at the hospital for four years. "But they could have been upfront with us. We've been in the dark the whole time."
Harrison was among 75 employees who were told to pack their belongings before they were escorted from the Fort Oglethorpe hospital on Monday with little notice.
For the last several months, rumors have circulated among the Hutcheson staff about whether the hospital would lay off employees, go bankrupt or partner with Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, Harrison said.
The layoffs came one day after three of the hospital's four oversight boards voted unanimously to accept a finalized contract with Erlanger, moving one step closer to a partnership, and lifeline for the financially troubled North Georgia hospital.
Hutcheson and Erlanger have been negotiating for months on a plan that would pump money into the struggling hospital. Hutcheson has been losing $1 million a month, and it has defaulted on a $35 million bond. The 195-bed hospital also has struggled to keep doctors admitting their patients.
Before the layoffs, Hutcheson had 900 employees and was averaging 30 to 40 patient visits a day, said Haley Johnson, a hospital spokeswoman.
The hospital has lost millions in the last three years, according to financial records.
With a recommendation from Plano, Texas-based consultant Community Hospital Corp., Hutcheson officials decided to lay off 75 employees — about 8 percent of the work force — to help financially stabilize the hospital, Johnson said. Hutcheson hired Community Hospital Corp. last year to help the hospital deal with its financial problems.
The monthly savings from salaries and benefits from the layoffs will be $285,000 a month, or $3.4 million a year, Johnson said.
Those affected by the layoffs were given a two-week severance package that officials said includes accrued paid time off.
In contrast, former CEO Charles Stewart, who resigned in February, was given a $325,000 severance payout to be distributed over the next 12 months. He also earned a $69,000 bonus for the 2010 fiscal year in which Hutcheson lost $7 million.
Hutcheson board members contend the layoffs were necessary to keep the hospital afloat.
"This is something that has been building for several months," said Jim Emberson, a member of the Hutcheson board. "It's obvious we have an overage of personnel."
Hutcheson Medical Center board Chairwoman Martha Attaway was not available for comment because she is out of the office all week. She didn't return emails seeking comment.
Interim President and CEO Debbie Reeves said in a news release that the cuts were a last resort because of the hospital's financial state.
"We had to implement this difficult task of aligning our staffing levels to meet our patient volumes," she said.
Harrison said another whisper going around Hutcheson is that this is only the first round of layoffs.
Board members declined to comment on what might happen in the future.
Walker County Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell said she is not surprised.
"We've known this was coming," she said. "There'd been talk of this since October. There was talk of 200 people being laid off."
Heiskell has been an outspoken critic of the management proposal from Erlanger. One of the prerequisites for the partnership is that Walker County must guarantee loans needed to keep the facility operating. Heiskell said she is unwilling to put county taxpayers on the hook for that money.
"I want the hospital to be viable. They do need someone to come in and manage it properly," she said. "I just feel like this is too much to ask."
But several officials who are in favor of the partnership with Erlanger argue that this week's layoffs could have been delayed or perhaps avoided altogether if a decision about new management had been made more quickly.
"We've been standing around, watching the barn burn and arguing who's going to pour the water on it," said Leonard Fant, chairman of the Hutcheson Health Foundation's board, one of the hospital's four boards.
Meanwhile on Monday, Hutcheson workers huddled together, peeping their heads out of windows as several laid-off workers walked to the parking lot with their belongings in hand.
Employees shook their heads when questioned if they knew who was being laid off.
"It could be me for all I know," an employee said as she walked inside the hospital.
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Description: The MAX336/MAX337 are monolithic, CMOS analog multiplexers (muxes). The 16-channel MAX336 is designed to connect one of 16 inputs to a common output by control of a 4-bit binary address. The dual,8-channel MAX337 is designed to connect one of eight inputs to a common output by control of a 3-bit
- Configuration: 16x1
- Supply Voltage (VS): 4.5 to 30 volts
- Max Ron: 400 ohms
- tON: 500 ns
Supplier: Perfect Parts Corporation
Description: IC,ANALOG MUX,SINGLE,16-CHANNEL,CMOS,LDCC,28PIN,PLASTIC
Supplier: American Microsemiconductor, Inc.
Description: 2-Channel input MUX;Serial out
- IC Package Type: Other
- Resolution: 16 bits
- Input Voltage Range (Vpp): -5 to 5 volts
Supplier: OMEGA Engineering, Inc.
Description: The CIO-EXP16 and CIO-EXP32, respectively, are 16 and 32 channel analog signal multiplexers. These accessory boards, designed for the CIO-DAS08 and CIO-DAS16 cards, can also be used with virtually any A/D board in a variety of multiplexing applications. The CIO-EXP16 multiplexers 16 inputs
- Signal Conditioning Type: Signal Filter, Sensor Multiplexer
- Form Factor: Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
- Analog Input Channels: 16
- Differential Channels: Yes
CompactPCI and PXI Products - NI PXI-2576 Multi-Bank Multiplexer (16 Banks of 4x1 2-wire Muxes) -- 778572-76Supplier: National Instruments
Description: The National Instruments PXI-2576 is a multibank multiplexing module with 16 banks of 4x1 2-wire multiplexers. With the flexible architecture of the NI PXI-2576, you can configure it in a variety of topologies that make it suitable for parallel measurement operations requiring low-channel counts
- Product Type: Switch
- Technology: PXITM Compliant
- Form Factor: 3U
- Operating System: Windows® NT, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, Linux®
Supplier: Integrated Device Technology
Description: The IDT 89HT0816P 16-channel PCIe Gen3 Retimer offers the industry a blend of top analog performance, lower power, and the most system level features in signal retimers optimized for demanding 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps and 8Gbps applications in computing, storage, and communications. 16 channel PCIe Gen3
- Product Type: Other
Supplier: Microwave Photonic Systems, Inc.
Description: The MPS-2900 Singlemode Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM) provides a cost-effective solution for increasing fiber optic network signal capacity by enabling the simultaneous transmission of eight wavelengths over the same common fiber. That is, the MPS-2900 works in such a way as to MUX
- Multiplexer Type: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM)
- Connector Type: FC, LC, SC, ST, Other
- DWDM Channel Spacing: 100 GHz
Description: , 8, 16, 32, 64, 128(PGA112, PGA116) Scope Gains: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 (PGA113, PGA117) Gain Switching Time: 200ns Two Channel MUX: PGA112, PGA113 10 Channel MUX: PGA116, PGA117 Four Internal Calibration Channels Amplifier Optimized for Driving CDAC ADCs Output Swing: 50mV to Supply
- Device Type: Variable Gain Amplifiers
- Package Type: TSSOP
- Operating Range: Industrial
- RoHS Compliant: Yes
Description: High Speed 2x2 LVPECL Crosspoint Switch LVDS Crosspoint Switch Available in SN65LVCP22 50 ps (Typ), of Peak-to-Peak Jitter With PRBS = 223- 1 Pattern Output (Channel-to-Channel) Skew Is 10 ps (Typ), 50 ps (Max) Configurable as 2:1 Mux, 1:2 Demux, Repeater or 1:2 Signal Splitter Inputs Accept
- Configuration: Other
- Applications: Communications
- Supply Voltage (VS): 3 to 3.6 volts
- Operating Ambient Temperature: -40 to 185 F
Supplier: TriQuint
Description: TGA4947-SL Dual Channel 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Modulator Driver The TriQuint TGA4947-SL is a dual channel optical modulator driver amplifier designed to operate at frequencies that target both the 40 and 100 Gb/s optical markets using a 16 x 10.5 x 3.6 mm surface mount system in package (SIP
- Applications: Mobile / Wireless Systems, Other
- Operating Frequency: 0.0 to 4.00E10 Hz
- Form Factor / Package: Surface Mount Technology (SMT)
- Supply Voltage: 5 volts
Description: ;1.0/1.5 LSB Max DNL at 2.7V 16-Bit NMC Over Temperature Excellent AC Performance at 5V, fIN = 1kHz: 91.5dB SNR, 101dB SFDR, –100dB THD Flexible Analog Input Arrangement: On-Chip 4-/8-Channel Mux with Breakout Auto/Manual Channel Select and Trigger Other Hardware Features: On-Chip
- Architecture: SAR
- Interface Type: SPI
- Input Type: Single-Ended
- IC Package Type: Other
Supplier: Visual Sound, Inc.
Description: Black Box Network Services Link up to 16 asynchronous terminals to your host.
Description: 16-channel mux, direct input multiplexer
- Signal Conditioning Type: Sensor Multiplexer
- Form Factor: Modular Bay / Slot System
- Analog Input Channels: 16
- Differential Channels: Yes
Description: The 40-835 provides a single 75Ω 16-channel RF MUX in a single PXI slot. The 40-835 has been designed to exhibit low insertion loss and VSWR through the use of modern RF relay technology at an affordable cost. The MUX has been carefully designed to ensure excellent and repeatable RF
- Technology: PXITM Compliant, Other
- Form Factor: 3U
- Switch Topology: Multiplexers
- Switch Type: Relay Switch, RF Switch
Description: 16-channel Amp/Fil/Mux card, programmable preAmp 10Hz filter
- Signal Conditioning Type: Signal Filter, Instrumentation Amplifier, Sensor Multiplexer
- Form Factor: Modular Bay / Slot System
- Analog Input Channels: 16
- Differential Channels: Yes
Description: 16-channel high common mode/mux card
- Signal Conditioning Type: Isolation Amplifier, Signal Isolator, Sensor Multiplexer
- Form Factor: Modular Bay / Slot System
- Analog Input Channels: 16
- Differential Channels: Yes
Description: graphic overlay function which displays character/bitmap, box and mouse pointer. The TW2824 contains two video encoders with four 10-bit Digital-to-Analog converters for providing 2 composite or S-video outputs. Applications Security Applications Quad/Mux Systems 4/8/16 channel DVR System Car Rear
Supplier: Maxwell Technologies, Inc.
Description: Maxwell Technologies' 338 monolithic, CMOS analog multiplexer features the 338 is designed to connect one of eight inputs to a common output by control of a 3-bit binary address, and may be used as either a mux or a demux. On-resistance is 400 ohms max, and the it conducts current equally
- Configuration: 8x1
- Applications: Avionics, Military
- Supply Voltage (VS): -30 to 30 volts
- Max Ron: 500 to 650 ohms
Description: . The TW2837 can be configured up to 8/16 channel video controller using chip-to-chip cascade connection. TW2837 is pin-to-pin compatible to TW2835. Applications Security Surveillance Analog QUAD/MUX System 4/8/16 Channel DVR System Car Rear Vision System Hair Shop System Dental Care System
Supplier: Forum Valve Solutions
Description: , Digiquartz Standard survey interfaces 12 ( 8 x RS232 4 x RS485) Various options up to 44 serial channels Voltage feedback for input power and all switching controls Current sensing on each channel 1 Gb Ethernet survey mux Various AC and DC sensor with up to 42 power channels Power Distribution 215
Description: 4-channel RTD conditioner/mux card
- Signal Conditioning Type: Sensor Multiplexer, Bridge Conditioner, Other
- Form Factor: Modular Bay / Slot System
- Accuracy: 0.0100 % FS
- DC Voltage Input: Yes
Description: The 40-747 is a single 16 to 1 RF MUX available in 50 or 75 versions occupying a single PXI slot. The module is available with SMB or SMA connectors for 50 versions or, 1.0/2.3 or Mini SMB connectors for 75 versions. This allows users to simplify their cable interfacing issues in test systems
- Product Type: Switch
- Technology: CompactPCI® Compliant, PXITM Compliant
- Form Factor: 3U
- Operating System: Windows® 95/98, Windows® NT, Windows® 2000
Description: Operation +2.7V to +5.5V Headphone Sense Input and Low Power Shutdown Thermal Shutdown Protection "Click and Pop" Suppression Circuitry 2:1 Stereo Input Mux (ISL54005, ISL54006) Mixing of Two Stereo Inputs (ISL54006) TTL Logic-Compatible Available in 20 Ld 4x4 Thin QFN Description
- Supply Voltage (VS): 2.7 to 5.5 volts
Description: Quad 4-Channel RF Multiplexer 1.3GHz Bandwidth (50Ω Versions) 1GHz Bandwidth (75Ω Versions) Choice of Coaxial Connectors VISA, IVI & Kernel Drivers Supplied for Windows 2000/XP/Vista Supported in PXI or LXI Chassis 2 Year Warranty The 40-749 is a quad 4 to 1 RF MUX available
- Frequency Range: 1.00E9 Hz
- Insertion Loss: 1 to 1.25 dB
- Isolation (Port to Port): 30 to 50 dB
- Switching Speed: 5.00E6 ns
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. The. to four buttons. The internal MUX is controlled by the. target devices of this application note are the. channel select bits, C1CH <1:0 > of CM1CON0 and. PIC16F616 family, PIC16F690 family and the. C2CH <1:0 > of CM2CON0. The channel must be set. PIC16F887 family of microcontrollers. It assumes
considers that a SONET repeater may cost thousands of dollars per signal and per 40 Km of fiber. An information channel, when realized with a modulated optical frequency or wavelength, is termed an optical channel. A binary data rate modulates the optical wavelength. Most optical components in DWDM
Semiconductor Optical Amplifier in Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexed Systems
Coarse division wavelength multiplexed (CWDM) systems have been proposed for reducing the cost of metro and access networks while providing increased throughput and flexibility. CWDM multiplexes up to 16 wavelengths on a single fiber using ITU standard (G.694.2) 20 nm spacing between
Software Handling for Capacitive Sensing
] = average[index] + \. to the comparator input channel when using a part's. (raw – average[index])/16;. four inherent buttons. Using a number which is a power of 2 for the N-point. EXAMPLE 6: INDEX FOR BUTTON MAPS. average, saves processing time because right-shifts. can be used instead of software division
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. VM7000 Custom Prototyping Board. 0.25. 0.02. 0.3. 150,000. 2. VM7004 4-channel Programmable Resistor. 1.7. 0.22. 0.8. 89,500. 9. VM8016 16-Channel Low Thermal Offset MUX 3. 0.10. 0.01. 0.8. 81,000. 2. C-Size VXI Modules (non-VMIP). AXI429 ARINC 429 Simulator and Analyzer. 4.0. 0.67. 2.64. n/s. 28
Bridge Sensing with the MCP6S2X PGAs
or PICmicro® microcontroller I/O. gain options for the PGA are: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16 and. pin consumption. The multiplexer and high-speed con-. 32 V/V. version response of the PGA/Analog-to-Digital (A/D). conversion allows a differential input signal to be sam-. pled and converted in the analog domain
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Theme Park blog: Merlin keeps on growing…
The Merlin Entertainment accounts came out on Wednesday and were somewhat lost in all the doom and gloom economic news.
However, for the amusement industry giant, the year has been a massive success: like for like visitor numbers were up by 3%, representing an increase of more than one million guests and total visitors now total over 47 million guests to their 94 attractions across four continents.
With £946m revenue, it seems to be a matter of when, not if, Merlin revenues will exceed £1 billion and the Bournemouth based business will be delighted to see total profit before tax more than quadrupling from last year to £96m.
Driving the growth was the addition of 13 new "midway" attractions, of which only 3 were in the UK. These include the opening of attractions in Blackpool, as well as taking over attractions in Sydney and Dallas. Notably, Merlin are trying to "cluster" attractions, so that you'll find a SEA LIFE Centre, Madame Tussauds and Dungeons all close together.
Interestingly, growth in 'cluster' cities has been higher than those with just one attraction – which could possibly spell the end for York dungeons over the next few years. Alternatively, it could mean that we might be able to expect a SEA LIFE centre or a Madame Tussauds!
However, for those of us who like visiting Theme Parks in the UK, they are becoming a smaller and smaller part of the business. It's no surprise though; the midway attractions make over 50% more profit from very similar revenue.
However, Merlin's efforts at making the theme parks short stay destinations and getting visitors into shops and restaurants seem to be working: although visitors to Merlin theme parks remained static from last year, revenue was up by over 5%, representing an increase of £18 million from last year – profits were also up by £7.9m (9%), highlighting that the profit in parks is made on what you sell to them in the parks, rather than their entry fee.
Legoland (which operates independently of the Theme Parks division) saw better growth than other Merlin theme parks, with like for like visitors up 4%, revenues up 8% and profits up 11%.
The opening of Legoland Florida has also been a hit, opening in October it received 600,000 guests in its first three months, generating £31m and making £10m profit. Both these figures significantly exceeded Merlin targets, and suggests that despite its somewhat remote location, visitors to Orlando are interested in visiting Legoland whilst they're in the Sunshine State.
However, it's not all good news for the world's second largest amusement park operator who have debts of over £1 billion, which exceeds their revenue. They also see themselves in a position where their current liabilities are almost double their current assets. Whilst large fixed assets and intangibles give them a pretty net assets figure, it doesn't hide the fact that Merlin had to pay £133m finance costs in the past year.
Much of the business' activities are financed through debt, for example £102m of the recent purchase of the Sydney attractions was financed through a £96m bank loan. The company may be profitable at the moment whilst interest rates are at record lows, but if the interest rate were to double over the next couple of years, Merlin would quickly become an unprofitable business.
And that is the problem that faces a UK theme park market where four of its five biggest theme parks are owned by the same company. If Merlin were to go into administration, it's highly unlikely that you'd find anyone wanting to buy all four parks at the same time (and don't forget the seven theme parks Merlin owns abroad). Were the, admittedly still very unlikely, situation to arise one certainly has to question whether Chessington World of Adventures would ever open its doors again.


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The Heart Stone Vineyard is a small 7 acre vineyard planted on a gentle South slope of limestone and shale. With 8 different clones of Syrah, 4 of Grenache and 1 Mourvedre, we aim to produce a wine that is both compelling and complex. We typically co-ferment all the varieties together with a high proportion of whole clusters, producing a tannic and spicy wine that has great purity and complexity. We age this wine with very little new oak in mostly larger puncheons for 20-28 months. Our wines are never racked off their lees and are bottled unfined and unfiltered.
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Saxum Vineyards is focused on producing Syrah, Grenache, and Mourvedre based blends from the Templeton Gap of Paso Robles, California. We let our rocky calcareous soils, steep hillsides, and cooling ocean breezes speak through our wines by keeping our yields extremely low, picking fruit at the peak of ripeness, and using a minimalist approach in the cellar. Production is kept at a total of 2200-2800 cases per year divided between 6 different cuvees, Broken Stones, Heart Stone Vineyard, James Berry Vineyard, Booker Vineyards, Rocket Block and Bone Rock.
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sofa companies but this is all down to the lovely bunch we have
working in our showrooms. Without them, we would be nothing so we
thought it was high time we put them up on a bit of a pedestal and
introduced them to the world. Plus it's always nice to be able to
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Fittleworth - Head Office
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2 years
What's your favourite thing about working
The atmosphere and the team, it's a fast growing young company
with exciting times ahead, the dynamics of my job - a real
Tell us a bit about your life
I have a 7 year old son, I am 34 (yikeees). I am mad about yoga
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Colours I love in the home are creams and beiges charcoals and
glass silver and wicker hearts that kind of thing - of course the
odd splash of colour.
What pieces from Sofas and Stuff do you
currently have your eye on?
My desk, phone and my computer!!! But if you mean furniture I
love the Bolivian stuff and the Hambledon corner
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A big fat Georgian house with a great room for my Hambledon
corner unit - complete with a huge garden and pool with sun
loungers for all my friends. Oh I better put in some more
What's a typical Friday night in for you?
A glass of wine!! Lovely food, comfy clothes, a TV catch up or a
group of mates for dinner.
Sofa or chair?
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I love my feet being nibbled by fish
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DeathPaladin said...
"With talents that boost dmg done and total AP ( Bloody Vengeance and Abomination's Might ) Wouldn't crit be a more reliable stat?"
Talents the boost damage and AP boost by a percentage, and as a result have more of an effect when you stack it. And there are also talents which boost strength (like Abomination's Might, which increases the DK's total strength by 2%, and Veteran of the Third War, which increases by 6%).
Also, Abomination's Might doesn't proc on crits. It procs on half of your Blood/Heart Strikes and all your Obliterates, regardless of crit. So +2% strength all the time, with +10% ap (which you get 2 for every point of strength), makes it a talent where you want to stack strength.
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Jay-Z 's eight-night residency at a new arena in Brooklyn, New York, the Barclays Center, ends Saturday. If you can't make it the final concert, you'll be able to watch it live on YouTube.
The show will stream live on Jay's new YouTube channel, Life + Times, beginning at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. The channel -- which you can find at YouTube.com/JayZsLifeAndTimes -- is an off-shoot of his website of the same name , which focuses on music, sports, style and more.
Jay is a part-owner of the Brooklyn Nets, which begins play at the Barclays Center this fall.
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