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Pets, Pets, Pets
Christmas is a time to reflect and rejoice. Looking back at 2012, there were many happy events in our tiny corner of the shelter rescue universe. Here are a few of the shining stars from the last year. Since most have a dog slant to them, we might call them "serious Sirius" moments. Introduction to some of the dogs below are archived in "Pets" columns:
Tiny Timothy, a Lhasa pup at Babylon Shelter found with a leg so twisted that it needed to be amputated was adopted by his foster mom. Timothy became the "ambassadog" at Last Hope school, library and scout visits. Just recently, he graduated as a "certified" therapy dog.
Jin Jin, speaking of therapy dogs- My rescued Afghan pal from Toms River won the New Yorkie Runway Fashion Show in NYC, a benefit for Westminster Kennel Club's therapy dog program- Angel on a Leashafter a huge online voting competition and a stop outside Good Morning America where meteorologist Sam Champion introduced her to viewers all over the US.
Bingo, a Saint Bernard mix, had been tied to the debris of a burned down house in West Virginia for over a year. Neighbors would feed him, thinking the owners were coming back. As the property was to be sold, Bingo was on his way to the pound where he stood no chance of being adopted. He came to Last Hope on a transport and went to a wonderful home in less than a week.
Two blonde, unrelated Cocker Spaniels entered Babylon Shelter several months apart. Both had cherry eye which is mostly a cosmetic condition. Baker was adopted by a retired chief of orthopedic surgery who insisted he pay for the eye surgery at a specialist, while Mattingly was adopted by a dear lady who loves him just the way he is.
Babylon Town Shelter renovations included air conditioning installed in the kennels with absolutely no disruption to the dogs; the yard divided into five separate play areas with a pebble base, much neater than mud puddles and the incredible "Buddy Cares" suite designed and built by Animal Control Officer Kristin. This room brings comfort and serenity to owners who stay when faced with the daunting task of putting cherished pets to sleep.
Susie is a three-legged Carolina dog from West Virginia. That might sound like a state contradiction but "Carolina dog" is a regional term that describes a generic brown dog common to the South. Susie arrived on a transport and found a fabulous home immediately. She had backup people waiting in the wings for her, and now she even has her own blog.
Maggie, a Weimaraner puppy given up to Hempstead Shelter by a soldier about to be deployed, now lives in Smithtown along with a Weim sister from Brookhaven Shelter and a Weim brother from Babylon Shelter. They spend hours everyday with their mom in Blydenburg and other LI parks, running, swimming and exploring- enjoying all the activities that sporting dogs were born to do.
Boo, now "Sirius," not named after the Dog Star but for a Harry Potter character, was a starved Shepherd from Kentucky. He was adopted from Last Hope by a nurse and intern as their wedding gift to each other. At the command, "Avada Kedavra," a J. K. Rowling killing curse, the precocious pup now "plays dead" on You- Tube.
The second annual Bully Breed Brigade hosted by Hempstead Shelter and Last Hope attracted shelters and rescues from LI, NYC and CT to advocate for the many misunderstood Pits languishing in our shelters. Tia Torres from Animal Planet's "Pit Bulls & Parolees" attended again to support our united cause.
Zola actually benefited from Sandy. This Pit mix lost her home when her family went to a domestic violence shelter. She spent months at Hempstead Shelter before moving to Last Hope. A Buffalo man came down after the storm to check on his daughters in Bellmore. He met Zola who now resides on his campground paradise upstate.
Wendy, a West Virginia Aussie with a limp, was like a mail-order bride. A lovely LI family found her on Petfinder and offered to pay for her orthopedic surgery before adopting her. When the WV vets and NY vets had differing opinions on her treatment plan, Last Hope brought her to LI where an orthopedic specialist repaired her knee before she went home with the people who fell in love with her photo.
Location, location, location. Last Hope moved to the former Bideawee on Beltagh Avenue in Wantagh in June 2011. Before that we rented space at an animal hospital next to a motel and within a cul de sac frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes. In 2010, the last year before the move, we placed 88 dogs; in 2011, spending six months in each location, we re-homed 164 dogs. As 2012, our first full year in Wantagh ends, close to 300 dogs will have found loving homes, thanks to a fabulous spot and the efforts of 200 Dog Center volunteers.
On a personal note- God willing, the "Pets" column will turn 30 years old in February 2013. Dog Writers Association of America has been kind to "Pets." In 2010, the column won the "best newspaper column" award; in 2011, the "best editorial," and this year, "Pets" is nominated in both categories.
For Adoption: "Ace" #2-506, a handsome orange tabby at Babylon Town Shelter (631-643-9270) is fine with kids and other cats. He let a child at the shelter carry him around like a stuffed toy. "Mickey" is a Babylon Shelter alumnus, now at Last Hope (631-946-9528). Four years ago after losing an eye when hit by a car, he was adopted by an older woman. Following the storm, her family came from FL to check on her and realized that she could no longer care for herself. Mom went to FL; Mickey went to the town shelter. Mickey is a dear boy who likes kids and other dogs, and recently had 10 teeth pulled. Ouch! Merry Christ- mas!


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Asus has build up its reputation as manufacturers of best laptops which are famous in the market and popular among the users not only because of their good look but also best performance. They demonstrate the highest level of Asus expertise and reliability of the product. They are equally famous for smartphones and tablets. Recently at the CES 2015 they have introduce their mid range smartphone with good specs with the Asus ZenFone 2. It is successor to Asus ZenFone and more or less the same in specs and performance. It is the first smartphone with a massive RAM of 4GB. None before have such a big RAM.
Build and Design
It carries impressive design and dimensions. By holding it in the hand users feel so comfortable and pleasant touch of the handset. It is well shaped device made out of plastic and molded into a beautiful shape. Since its rear cover is removable therefore it is highly customizable and users can personalize it by changing the cover of color of their own choice. It is in RED metallic finish having brushed effect yet giving the truth out that it is plastic. There are various texture patterns and colors available for the cover and users can change it on choice. For a convenient control the volume button is located on the back of the mobile. Design concerns the apparent look of the device and placement of controls on the body.
The Asus ZenFone 2 front look is decorated with 5.5 inches IPS display having 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. This is a common information that most of the users have and there is nothing new in it. It shows bright colors in their natural hue and give a pleasant effect to the eye. Although it is not very special feature but it is certainly a plus point in this mid range handset. The brightness of the screen enhances the visibility and can be used in bright light also.
Software and user Interface
The device is android based but not purely android operated because Asus is Chinese company and the manufacturers are not idle minded people. They are dynamic and always looking for something new and own, therefore Android inside the Asus ZenFone 2 is Asus customized Android with the ZenUI and it runs the latest version of the UI on top of Android 5.0 Lollipop. That is something wonderful considering the fact that many current high-end Android phones are still waiting to be updated. It carries a good balance between minimalism and responsiveness, as every interaction is followed by some quick and pleasant looking animation. The new interface keeps the users busy and absorbed as the users would like to explore more and more and experiment with it according to their imagination.
Processor and Memory
Asus is experimenting different configurations but with extreme expertise. It has Android with its own UI and here it has a 64-bit based Intel Atom Z3580 processor and with very powerful 4GB of RAM. This provides extreme smoothness with great speed and any task is no problem with this sort of configuration. In memory we have three versions of ZenFone 2. It will be provided with three options; 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities, further supported by microSD card slot to increase the storage externally enhancing its utility for those who need to store large files and huge data on their smartphone for ready reference anywhere.
Gone are the days when we were very happy to talk on a wireless mobile phone without any feature other than just a telephone. Now that feature is far behind and we look for more and more and rather everything in a device that we can hold move around and do anything. Now we cannot imagine a smartphone without a camera. We take it for granted that mobile phone is definitely equipped with a camera. Now it is the race of quality and capacity of the camera that is matter of concern.
Asus Zenfone 2 has a 13-megapixel rear camera that features a 5-element f/2.0 apertures lens and a dual-color Real Tone LED flash. This camera is an excellent thing for use under low-lighting conditions and its dynamic-range mode features to adapt and enhance photos to expose improved details and the color range. For selfies and video calling it has a respectable 5-megapixel wide-angle camera with an f/2.0 aperture lens. This camera configuration sounds good and is impressive but seeing is believing and until we see it, use it and see the results, we cannot comment any further on assumptions. Let us wait for its physical presence.
ZenFone 2 comes with a powerhouse contained in sturdy 3,000 mAh Li-Po battery with support for fast charging tech which makes it possible to restore 60% of the total capacity in just 39 minutes which is quite impressive. This capacity, coupled with the frugal 1080p display would likely mean about two days of normal usage on a charge. However these are just the figures subject to test and trial to prove the fact behind these specifications.
ASUS Zenfone 2 is well configured handset and is loaded with many good features giving an impression of something very costly. The company is aware of the competition in the market and cannot ask very high price. Considering many factors ASUS Zenfone 2 has been priced at $199 off-contract available in March with five different color options.
Release Date
Asus ZenFone 2 will be in the market available for sale to the users in March 2015 whereas more advanced version named ZenFone Zoom has to wait for market appearance till second quarter of the year
With such specs and other features Asus has the ZenFone 2 is priced at an impressive cost of $200. That's really surprising and unbelievable. Especially for something with a 5.5-inch 1080p display, a 64-bit based processor, and running Android 5.0 Lollipop. Hopefully it will be source of satisfaction for the users and the company both.

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I ran into the same thing initially around 3 months, when my period returned, and used fenugreek after that during periods, which helped some, but around 9 months I hit the pumping wall. I changed membranes, etc. but didn't see improvement (this doesn't mean you won't! definitely worth trying), and at 10 months-ish wasn't able to produce anything with the pump anymore. What worked for us was that my husband started bringing my son to my office at the time I would normally pump. My supply was fine, but I didn't let down for the pump anymore, so this worked well. Is going to your daughter's nursery possible, even for a lunchtime nursing session?
Also, I don't know how long you're planning to pump/nurse, but even though I stopped pumping around 10 months, I was able to nurse until my son was 21 months old, so not being able to pump doesn't mean you won't be able to nurse if you want to (I was really worried about that).
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|2011-01-30, 20:44
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This series isn't entirely about taking up challenges with love and faith. Mami's death was a demonstration of that, you also need to constantly think and be aware of what's going on. Sayaka made a hasty decision in the heat of the moment and can never go back on it, Madoka on the other hand is still capable of weighing her options. She realized that her resolve isn't strong enough to truly become a magical girl and changed her mind, hence her apologetic attitude in episode 4. She technically did nothing wrong, she just feels guilty for not being able to do what she said she would. Completely understandable given the circumstances. Sayaka on the other hand will regret her choice and it's pretty much foreshadowed that she will regret it soon, unlike Madoka who didn't want to make the rest of her life miserable for the sake of a promise that seemed serious at the time, Sayaka risked her life for a guy who so far seems to be indifferent towards her despite being childhood friends. There's more to the story than that, however one can't say that Sayaka's decision was the best one.
Also, no this is not Sailor Moon. Usagi faced her fears because she had to, she had to fight Beryl after watching each of her friends die rather unpleasant deaths. That much is true, but the circumstances and events framing that were completely different. Madoka is not Usagi, she is not Nanoha, she is not Tsukikage Yuri, she is Kaname Madoka. It is not fair to her character to judge and compare her to other characters who are part of a similar yet different genres after episode 4. It's not fair to oversimplify things. It's not fair to attack her character after she hasn't even been given a chance to develop. I do understand that while in my opinion it's not fair to do this so soon, it's not yours and you are free to do what you want as will everybody else. I just think it'd be a good idea to give her a chance and to stop comparing her character to others so soon because of one or two plot points that either weren't brought up or that you didn't like.
|2011-01-30, 20:53
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Sailor Moon had her reasons for fighting (Because she going to die if she didn't if I remember)
Shinji had his reasons for fighting (Because if he didn't want his dick of a father would send an injured Rei back out to the front lines)
Madoka guess what doesn't have one! (not as of yet mind you) but lets for the sake of argument say she does make a contract she would have to put her life on the line doing a thankless job that knows no end with zero reward beside one wish. Now one would think it'd be pretty dumb to jump into that unless it was one hell of a wish and as of right now as fare as Madoka is concerned no wish on earth, heaven, or hell seems worth the risk.
And as for Sayaka the only real reason she made her wish was to heal her boyfriend and gaining the magical powers was just to further sugar coat the deal but mark my words shes going to see that spending time with him may be harder now that she has to take time out of her day to slay giant monster.
|2011-01-30, 21:10
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I'm really puzzled on how we aren't supposed to judge Madoka at all. We apparently can't compare one 14 year old magical girl who watched multiple friends die, to another 14 year old possible magical girl who watched a friend die. That's strange, but okay.
And even if you wouldn't be up for it, I know a lot of people here would. Hell, I would. Homura may have her reasons for trying to drive Madoka out of it, and the writers may be trying to tell us how horrible it is; but so far, it doesn't seem like a bad deal. Equivalent exchange, as Kyube said.
I'll say it again: Regardless of how it ends up for her, and regardless of her reasons... and you know, for the sake of argument, let's assume she made her wish for purely selfish reasons, and let's assume that it does end horribly for her.
She STILL made the choice to risk her life, knowing it was a "thankless job with zero reward" and that she'd have to fight for the rest of her life, risking death and being forgotten.
That takes balls in my book. Big, stainless steel ones.
But this isn't a Sayaka thread. This is a Madoka thread. A thread that's getting good discussion now.
Edit to add some more: I'll repeat that Madoka having flaws is a GOOD thing. It means she can grow out of them into a better person. But if you try to excuse them, you simply take away from the moment when Madoka grows out of it. She becomes your standard magical girl that whines about fighting and wishes she could live a normal life. When that type of MG finally fights, it doesn't bring about any "Wow, she finally grew up!" feeling. More of a "Man, it's about time; wish she'd cut out the whining and just do it!"
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|2011-01-30, 21:26
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And hey, I'll give the girl some grieving time. It's not totally a bad thing that she hasn't stepped forward just yet. My only concern was hoping she didn't become a character stereotype of the terminally depressed, like a certain Eva pilot or a crying moon girl.
I think she won't, but then again, we'll see. A lot of people are forecasting this to be a dark series, and given how Madoka has handled that so far, she'll end up in an asylum before too long...
|2011-01-31, 04:38
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|2011-01-31, 08:24
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In most other magical girl series, the girls in question accept the magic by the end of the first episode. By the time something happens that makes them think, "OMG, I really could die while doing this!" they're already in so deep, they have to buckle up and continue on, trusting in their abilities and experience as magical girls to pull them through.
Madoka in comparison has the luxury of seeing the glorious and ugly sides of magical girls in action repeatedly before deciding if she wants to become one. Unlike almost every other magical girl ever, she still has the option of walking away without consequences at this stage of the game.
|2011-01-31, 08:25
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In episode 1, i found Madoka so-so. In episode 2, impressions improved but still don't really care. Episode 3, found her naviety annoying but otherwise ok. Episode 4, i found myself hoping she never becomes a mahou shoujo.
I blame the toothbrushing scenes and the scenes where she lets down her hair. Her pancake style face is growing on me as well. Episodes 1-3 established her as an innocent person while 4 gave her sadness, fear and bravery. When Kyubei's sentences are accepted as double meaning (episode 1: If you give up now, everything ends! <-yeah you would end you furry idiot), the bad end that is in store really sucks.
They really pulled off the emotional manipulation good there. The manipulation of light and shadow to control the underlying messages was also very well done. If she was established as a idiot + innocent + naive, then i won't not have cared about her upcoming bad end since no one can save an idiot.
Eg Sayaka. To me she's an idiot, wishing for something that could be solved without wishes just because it was expedient. Now she's probably going to drag Madoka in when she's about to get killed or similar.
|2011-01-31, 13:14
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By the way, not sure what you mean about "something that could be solved without wishes" as we were very definitely told that Kamijou's hand could not be healed with any medical technology. Only a wish could have healed him and allowed him to play again.
|2011-01-31, 14:24
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Then there is the problem of can she even die inside there? Has any normals been killed inside a witch dimension?
|2011-01-31, 14:58
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|2011-01-31, 15:00
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And in actuality, by Sayaka becoming an MG, Madoka doesn't have to. Now there is someone who can take of the witches. So Sayaka is helping to keep Madoka uninvolved in the MG business.
Also, since witches deliberately feed on normal people, I would assume it could draw them in.
Your original comment was that his hand could be "solved" without wishes. That is blatantly untrue. It's a point of fact: Kamijou would never have been able to play the violin again without a wish (or some other magic or miracle). Heh, it's one of the few facts we have.
|2011-01-31, 15:20
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Too coincidental when a nice example of the furball showing up exactly when Sayaka friend is acting up is added into the equation.
Yes we could make a case of her being young (yet she is aware of the selfishness that serves as the root for wishing for others) and we could make a case of her being emotionally fragile (and she never thought such a day would happen?!?)
Normally in such cases in anime, i just wait for them to reap what they sow and laugh about it but in this case, she's probably bringing down Madoka and that is just not nice.
|2011-01-31, 15:36
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See, this would imply Kyube has control over witch victims, something that hasn't been stated. You're welcome to the assumption, though, if it makes you feel better. When you're assuming there is a Chessmaster in play, you have to be able to account for them controlling what is random. There is no way Kyube could have controlled where Madoka went, nor predicted where she would go.
You're Kyube far too much credit for controlling things, that it begins to stress the sense of disbelief. Having written many stories myself, I've had to rewrite some of my stories when it was pointed out that no one could have successfully engineered certain things; there were just too many uncontrollable random elements in play.
Or perhaps you'd see someone suffering on the side of the road, but not stop to help because, "Eh, it's just a little pain they are going through. With enough support, they'll get better."
Holy shit, you scare me.
|2011-01-31, 15:55
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And sorry you don't need to control the witch victims you just need control over the witch. Grief seed stuck in a hospital where surprise surprise Sayaka's friend is in?
Lets put it in sci fi. Could Q from startrek have done what you said?
i) Point out where i said Sayaka should have gleeful laughed at her friend
ii) Point out where i mentioned complete paralysis.
iii) Is losing access to your left had complete paralysis?
iv) Exactly where did i say that Sayaka would feel that its better to remain as he was, depressed and dreamless?
v) If Sayaka helped him be spending YEARS or DECADES, does that mean a greater SACRIFICE than "wish your hand was fine, ok i'm off to die now"?
... But then again like i said, some things can't be taught.
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|2011-01-31, 16:09
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In short, whether Kyube showed up there on his own whim or Sayaka's is immaterial. Sayaka appeared quite ready to make the wish, and if Kyube hadn't showed up, she probably would have gone looking for him. If anything, Kuybe was responding to her heart.
Again, you make assumptions. Are they interesting theories? Yes, that I'll grant. But they haven't been proven one way or the other.
I'm sorry I can't share that assumption. Even if I buy that she couldn't have died, she was at least in pain from being stretched, so I suppose you think endless torture is somehow better than death?
But you're trying to make it sound like a bad thing that he was healed, and that he'll once again be able to do the thing he loved more than anything: play the violin. I'm really trying to wrap my head around this; do you really think people should turn down a chance to be able to do what they loved? Do you think injured people shouldn't be healed?
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|2011-01-31, 16:33
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Madoka was safe from making that wish UNTIL someone she cares for is threatened. Currently that is Sayaka and will remain so. If/When she bites it, the next in line is her family.
Sure her family could be bumped up in the queue if Sayaka did not make her wish BUT stopping her family from suiciding is easier than stopping a witch which is what an inexperienced and not very powerful Sayaka (Mami never mentioned Sayaka) will face.
Ever wonder why the furball is so anxious to get Madoka to become mahou shoujo? This implies urgency which implies something critical whether a time limit or what not.
It is a STUPID thing he was healed because the COST is Sayaka dying (ok no big deal to me, reap what you sow etc) and probably dragging down Madoka with her.
None of this NEEDED to happen if she really wanted to help him. Now he gets his hand back and she's going to die. Seriously think about it. The method i proposed, she would LIVE (abeit with much sadness until the guy got over it) and the guy could still be saved.
|2011-01-31, 16:38
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|2011-01-31, 16:44
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That would have made one HELL of an impression on Madoka. Even if she didn't decide to become an MG, it's great mental torture to subject someone to, knowing that in time, they'd probably come to you because they know about a specific wish you can grant. Instead, he apologizes for bringing them in.
Note that Kyube doesn't even appear when Madoka gets involved with the zombies. He could have popped in and said, "I can help get you out of this if you contract with me." Would have been perfect.
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|2010-05-22, 08:15
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Finally caught up to this episode after a long anime hiatus. Pretty good show; I like it.
|2010-05-22, 08:21
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|2010-05-22, 08:21
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The clones show quite a bit more personality than Kanade. Kanade's personality has always been extremely passive, to some extent robotic. So now that the clones have been absorbed back into Kanade, it would be interesting to see how Kanade's personality evolves as a result.
|2010-05-22, 08:44
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Kanade vs Clone was epic, even if only for 0.5 seconds. Rest of first half was okay, not great though. Second half... okay I've seen the scenery before, the deaths are just repeated jokes (not funny anymore), can't even feel sorry for them as they'll be back soon enough. Also why would the clones be distracted by someone impaling himself on her blade while she blocks the only exit? Seriously, just chop them up with your second blade, you stupid clone! *Sigh* There's so much wasted potential in this show.
|2010-05-22, 10:05
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The discovery of the manual seems like major stuff to me. Implying it's a game, and they use the phrase npc a lot. I think we are going to find out god is a fan of World of Warcraft!
I saw the complication of absorbing coming a mile away. I was like "no!" "someone do something!" during those 10 seconds. Good helpless feeling.
|2010-05-22, 10:10
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Sure the death jokes have been "overused," but what's the point of an anime where the characters can't die if you can't abuse their deaths a bit? The whole constantly killing themselves theme is funny because the characters can't seem to realize they could try survial instead of suicide.
Irregardless though, the deaths always make me laugh, so I have no complaints for them.
But really, this cliffhanger? Most stressed I've been for the next chapter/episode of something to come out for a long time. While I loved all the Evil Tenshi and their laughing, smirking and general emotions, I'm really worried for Kanade now... like every other Kanade fanboy.
|2010-05-22, 10:47
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Well this is interesting, it looks like their going down the "virtual reality" route, even though I have no clue how this is going to work. The suicide's in general were hilarious but TK again stole the show. The whole disaster with Yurippe and the computer was pretty obvious but I wonder how this is going to tie into the plot.
|2010-05-22, 11:17
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It's still sort of odd the way they all dramatically react to their fellows being slaughtered around them. You'd think they'd all be used to it by now watching each other get mangled and maimed and then get back together later like it was nothing. Normally you'd think that after a while when the characters start realizing that the concept of mortality does not exist at all where they are they'd start treating it as a normal everyday occurrence.
The biggest fault of the series right now is that the excellent premise and the urgency of the recent events really clashes with the way it seems that everyone else gets pushed aside. Being a Key work one would be used to the story having a lot of characters, but the story does tend to suffer some from the pacing and rushed issues Maeda supposedly admitted to. So much potential in such a large cast with their very individual nuances and personalities that it really sucks the series isn't running long enough to give everyone their time to shine. It almost feels like the first half of Air TV.
Their individual deaths thus becomes a mixture of pure hilarity and... well pity. Yes it's funny but at the same time I feel bad for them being almost relegated to comedic sideshows.
Anyway enough of that. Serious Key-style cliffhanger drama shit at the end. If it's time for Maeda to start doing what he does best, that is reducing grown men into puddles of blubbering meat, then it likely begins next week.
|2010-05-22, 11:30
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Even if they are immortal, Its unthinkable your friend stabbed by foes = you "laughing"
Hell if Baccano! have a scene where the Immortal point exposed as jokes.
But whatever the jokes killed the "intensity" too for me... sigh why its always like this, when the atmosphere getting tense they always try to kill it somehow.
I smelling a conspiracy here...
|2010-05-22, 11:41
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the pink *** finally shut the *** up! thank you, metal hard thing!
Yuri being *** again not caring about Kanade getting hurt. she may acknowledged Kanade as a human like them, but it doesn't mean she can't make her punch bag again.
the weird thing is the Angel Player manual. if Kanade is really just a normal human like them, why she has a manual? if she created the program herself she has no need of manual, but if she got the program and the manual from someone else... could that be that Kanade got her "Tenshi" task form the same person? maybe she has connection with God?
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|2010-05-22, 11:47
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Btw is this show related to Kadokawa somehow ?
At least the pace is getting neat now, hope they won't screw it again.
|2010-05-22, 11:59
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Undergraduate Catalog
2012 – 2013
Office of Admissions
Emil H. Messikomer Hall
100 W. Rosedale Avenue
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-3411
Fax: 610-436-2907
Revised June 2018
222 Sturzebecker Health Sciences Center
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
Dr. Mackey, Chairperson
Dr. Stowe, Assistant Chairperson and Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Janet S. Hickman, Ed.D., Temple University
Charlotte Mackey, Ed.D., Widener University
Cheryl Ann Monturo, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Ann Coghlan Stowe, Ph.D., Widener University
Christine Thomas, Ph.D., Widener University
Brent W. Thompson, Ph.D., Widener University
Edward Mackey, Ph.D., Northcentral University
Christine Moriconi, Psy.D., LaSalle University
Cheryl Schlamb, D.N.P., CRNP, Case Western University
Marcia Welch, D.L., Widener University
The mission of the Department of Nursing at West Chester University is to provide high-quality professional degree education in nursing. The baccalaureate program prepares graduates for entry to nursing practice, and the master's program prepares graduates for advanced practice in public health nursing. The goal of the department is to prepare nurses for leadership and advocacy in the health promotion, disease prevention, and health restoration of individuals, families, and communities. Graduates of these nursing programs will be professionals capable of assuming leadership in present and emerging health care roles, citizens who contribute to society and are committed to life-long learning and personal development.
At the end of the M.S.N. program, the graduate will be able to:
The minimum admission standards for the Department of Nursing are a B.S.N. degree from a National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) or a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accredited program, an undergraduate GPA of at least 2.8, a course in statistics, a course in physical assessment, current licensure as a registered nurse (Pennsylvania licensure required prior to the clinical practicum), at least two years of recent full-time experience as a nurse providing direct clinical care, and two letters of recommendation from individuals familiar with the applicant's academic and/or professional qualifications. RN applicants with a bachelor's degree in another discipline may apply for the M.S.N. and will be evaluated on an individual basis.
The nursing education certificate program will provide nurses who have B.S.N. or M.S.N. degrees with the knowledge and experience to teach nursing students at the entry levels of A.D.N. and B.S.N.
The nursing education certificate program requires successful completion of four, three-credit graduate courses:
NSG 507, 508, 511, and 513.
Important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended this program.
The master of science in nursing program will prepare professional nurses for leadership roles in public health nursing through in-depth consideration of community-based health care delivery systems, preparation in a functional role, and the use of critical inquiry and scholarship to improve the practice of nursing.
The program curriculum, developed in coordination with nurse educators, clinicians, and professional societies, offers a choice of instructional focus. The student will select education, administration, or integrative health as a functional component within the public health program of study. All students pursuing the M.S.N. degree are required to earn six credits in nursing research to complete the program.
The focus in nursing education will enhance the skills of the professional nurse in curriculum development and teaching competencies in nursing.
The nursing administration focus will facilitate preparation of graduate nurses for advanced public health roles in fields such as gerontology and chronic illness. This focus is designed in view of a more severely ill case mix in acute-care settings, as well as accelerated use of HMO's, home health agencies, and other types of community-based care.
The integrative health focus provides both content and field experience in alternative and complementary health modalities. Relevant electives (three credits) are selected under advisement.
Insurance. Students are required to carry liability insurance coverage in the amount of $1,000,000/$3,000,000 when enrolled in nursing courses having a clinical component.
CPR Certification. Students enrolled in nursing courses having a clinical component are required to be currently certified by the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, or other acceptable resource in life support (two-person) cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The CPR course must include resuscitation of infants and children.
Students enrolled in nursing courses having a clinical component must provide the Department of Nursing with evidence of a current (within one year) health assessment performed by a physician or certified nurse practitioner. Documentation of immunity to Rubella, rubeola, measles, mumps, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria, hepatitis B, and varicella is required.
Students are expected to perform unimpaired. Prior to taking NSG 502, students must have a negative substance-abuse result. This policy is in addition to the West Chester University Student Code of Conduct and the Drug-Free Campus policy (Section III, Ram's Eye View).
In order to comply with agency requirements, a two-step tuberculin skin test will be required for all students prior to taking NSG 502 and any subsequent clinical practicum if more than 12 months have transpired.
501 Nursing Theories and Issues (3) Exploration of a variety of theories and current issues that affect nursing practice, education, and administration.
502 Perspectives of Public Health Nursing (4) Introduction to concepts of public health and community health nursing. Includes both classroom presentations and clinical practicum in an agency of interest to the student, focusing primarily on community health care. PREREQ or CONCURR: NSG 501.
503 Principles and Practice of Public Health Nursing (6) Students will continue to refine the application of principles of public health during a second in the series of courses combining theory with practice. Continued emphasis on the political, governmental, and fiscal management aspects of public health nursing. PREREQ: NSG 502.
504 Advanced Concepts of Public Health Nursing (2) Seminar on advanced concepts of public health. No clinical practicum is associated with this course, which will be taken either prior to or together with the functional practicum. PREREQ: NSG 503.
505 Nursing Research I (3)
506 Nursing Research II (3) Critical analysis of research design and outcomes, using existing nursing research studies from the professional literature and existing computerized simulated research to develop skill in research modalities. PREREQ: NSG 505.
507 Curriculum Development in Nursing Education (3) This course is designed to examine the theory and practice of curriculum development as a group process, synthesizing basic principles of curriculum in nursing education.
508 Teaching Competencies in Nursing - Principles and Methods (3) Examination of the teaching-learning process and skills in professional nursing, with emphasis on baccalaureate or in-service education. Includes both classroom and clinical practicum teaching experience, as well as seminars with other students enrolled. Focus is community health nursing throughout. PREREQ: NSG 507.
509 Public Health Nursing Administration (3) Principles of administration, leadership, and organization related to the delivery of public health nursing care. Organizational, management, power, decision-making, motivational, and change theories will be examined in relationship to the community health nurse administrator.
510 Nursing Administration in Public Health Nursing Settings (3) Examination of management skills for nurse-administrators in a service setting in public health. Includes both classroom and clinical practicum administrative experience, as well as seminars with other students enrolled. Focus is public health nursing throughout. PREREQ: NSG 509.
511 Measurement and Evaluation in Nursing Education (3) This course will focus on the application of principles of measurement and evaluation within nursing education. Practical experiences will include the construction and evaluation of classroom tests and clinical assessment instruments, as well as interpretation of standardized tests used within nursing education. Current trends and issues related to evaluation will be discussed.
513 Nursing Informatics (3) This course will focus on the current and potential impact of the microcomputer in the nursing arenas of practice, education, and administration. Basic concepts of computer literacy will be reviewed with lab exercises to assist those who are not computer literate. The course then will proceed from the history of nursing informatics and culminate with the future of nursing informatics.
514 Human Lactation, Breast-Feeding, and Health of the Community (3) This three-credit course is for students seeking in-depth knowledge about breast-feeding and human lactation. Through various assignments, the research in lactation will be explored and critiqued. Emphasis is on understanding the physiology of human lactation and the health impact on infants and their mothers. The normal process of breast-feeding will be addressed with analysis of the barriers to breast-feeding in today's society. Using national policies and standards as the focal point, the student will analyze what local, national, and international organizations are doing to support breast-feeding.
515 Nursing Practice in Integrative Health Settings (3) An advanced practice nursing course in community-based integrative health setting(s). Includes both classroom and clinical practice as well as seminars with other students enrolled. Focus is on community health nursing throughout. One hour of class, eight hours of clinical per week. PREREQ: NSG 518 or HEA 501.
516 Cancer Nursing Practice (3) The emphasis of this course is the care of clients with cancer. This course examines the various physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual effects this disease has on clients and their families. A variety of topics will be discussed, including communication, hope, sexuality, spirituality, loss, pain, and altered body image. The focus of the course is on the role of the professional nurse in prevention, diagnosis, and client management.
518 Care of the Community Spirit (3) This course focuses on community building and spirituality. Course content includes introduction to the concept of community spirit, culture, and community; integration of health and spirit within the community.
520 Health Assessment in Advanced Nursing Practice (3) This course combines comprehensive theoretical and laboratory experience to enable the nurse in advanced practice to complete a holistic health assessment of the client. Opportunity is provided to enhance the participant's ability to collect relevant data via use of appropriate interviewing methods, developmental and physical assessment techniques, critical thinking, and psychomotor skills (two hours, lecture; three hours, laboratory).
521 Palliative Nursing Care in the Community (3) Provision of palliative care in various community settings. End-of-life issues addressed with strategies to promote change. Biopsychosocial and spiritual symptom management for individuals and families is emphasized.
522 Epidemiology (3) An overview of the epidemiological model of disease causation. Various epidemiological study designs and their applications will be presented.
523 Suggestive Therapeutics for the Practicing Healthcare Professional (3) An in-depth study of selected, current topics relevant to the development of nursing majors. This course will emphasize the critical analysis of current topics that impact professional nursing. Each student will develop a commitment to reading and critiquing nursing research in professional journals as part of the teaching-learning process.


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Quick HookI think Daisuke got a little bit of a quick hook by Francona right there. He's been flirting with trouble a bit the last couple innings, but with a 6-0 lead, you have to give the man a chance to work out of it. He wasn't happy to come out of the game. All of Japan is watching and this was his moment to shine. This was the championship game of the WBC all over again for Daisuke and for the entire nation of Japan. For him to come out mid-inning was slightly deflating.
5.1 innings pitched looks a lot less impressive than 6 complete. Now Hawpe swings at the first pitch and gives up an earned run to Daisuke. That's horses*&t in baseball parlance. Our man got a seriously raw deal.


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HIV-Positive Won't Stop Her
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"I was often sick, and we used to go to hospital with my granny. When my mother died, granny left the doctor's office crying. I was thinking to myself, what could afflict her so much? She then told me about my HIV status and that I would constantly have to take medicine."
15 year old Liza, from the Ukraine, may have been diagnosed with HIV at a young age, but that does not stop her. Liza is a well-known civic activist not only in her home country, but abroad. She openly talks about her HIV status and speaks about the issue among children and adults. She knew she had HIV since she was young – her mother was a drug addict who died from AIDS when Liza was just 6 years old.
Why Be an Activist for HIV & AIDS?
Liza said she told her friend about her HIV during class and she was so scared about what her friend would say or do, she ran into the bathroom to hide. Luckily, her friends and her family were very supportive.
However, she struggled with her teachers' response to her diagnosis due to lack of awareness and the spread of stereotypes in the classroom. For example, during one of Liza's health classes, they said HIV could be transmitted airborne or by shaking hands with someone who has HIV. Discrimination examples like these prompted Liza to take action.
Why HIV-positive Can't Stop Her Now
Liza did not sit back and listen to the stereotypes she heard and faced in her classroom. She wanted to raise awareness. She wanted to speak out and get involved! Liza began to be involved with the School of young leaders which is organized by the Eastern European and Central Asia Association of People Living with HIV with the support of UNICEF. She has also represented HIV positive children at a meeting with the President of Ukraine, and has spoken publicly to Kerkovna Rada of Ukraine to allocate funds for the treatment of HIV/Aids, and other disease in the state budget. Her speech in Parliament made her nationally known as it was broadcast on TV.
Recently, in September, Liza supported the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) which is a UNICEF initiative that draws attention to the importance of child's rights and their significance of football in their rehabilitation. Liza went and participated in the opening in one of the most crowded games of the year to support the players of England and Ukraine on their way to the World Cup 2014. Liza in support of the game and her civic activism spoke about the event: "I was very lucky to get at such an important game for our country. It was so amazing that almost 70,000 people including myself and other children watched the game at the stadium. They will remember the match for a long time. I and other children who opened the match with the players will remember this game even longer. This is unforgettable!"
For more, see here:http://www.unicef.org/ukraine/media_24708.html
photo © UNICEF / UKRAINE / 2013 / R.Rudakov
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|2012-10-28, 11:55
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|2012-10-28, 12:01
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This is one anime I'll be looking for to in 2013.
For the remaining episodes of Side-A, wasn't sure how far they will cover though. Are they seriously gonna cover taichou match with only 3 episodes? I rather hope they have at least 2 more extra OVA hidden up their sleves.
As for Side-B, there are lots of things to look forward to, I want to see anime Cold Touka, and as long as no one spoils the other team that will be advancing along with Kiyosumi, everything should be fine.
|2012-10-28, 17:26
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Oh, and HELL YEAH! Animated Toyone! (For more than 3 seconds) With voice even! However, the part I'm looking forward the most is Hisa losing her cool only to bounce back like the glorious pimp she is. Also, Kinu's raging incestous love.
About Achiga, I do wonder how they can cover so much in just 3 episodes, especially Ako's match, and come on, only one episode, or even less, for Awai? Parts I'm looking forward the most are Kuro realizing what Toki and Kirame went through, and Yuu utterly dominating Sumire. Also, please give Shizu the chance to do something awesome!
About the latest manga chapter, is it me or Koromo doesn't look so loli anymore? She's still flat, but she looked bigger than before. And Hajime continues being the queen of exhibitionism in the sakiverse. Indeed, Yuuki, the lewd stuff begins now.
|2012-10-28, 18:50
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Requiem-x: You're ignoring one little minus from the plus that is getting Miyamori animated.
Eisui. Eisui Eisui EISUI. We'll see Kasumi's gonzagas in all their horrible glory. By Haruhi. I don't think my back will survive them seeing them ANIMATED.
|2012-10-28, 20:09
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So, yeah... DEAR GOD, THE HORROR Just thinking about those things actually moving makes me sick. And you know they'll move. They'll bounce all over the place. No amount of Usuzumi's flatness can make up for that.
Moving on, looking again at the screenshots from the PV, I noticed Shizu is wearing Achiga's uniform, what the hell? So she powers up by putting MORE clothes on? And there was no problem with her wearing the jacket on the last match, so why the change? Is she making an statement, like "we're achiga, bitches"? Is she actually gonna wear a skirt?! Yes, I know it wouldn't be the first time, but for the final battle? Didn't see that coming.
|2012-10-28, 20:35
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And on the subjects of Kasumi's bottle rockets: I always wondered what would happen if you took a needle and just poked them. What would come out? Because tits that big SHOULD NOT be on a girl her age.
|2012-10-28, 20:46
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About your other question, you could get anything from Amaterasu to Suwako. It's a divine roulette with Kasumi.
Also, tits that big shouldn't be on a girl, period.
|2012-10-28, 22:11
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|2012-10-28, 22:26
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Maybe we're overreacting a bit, when we saw the preview of them in the original series episode 26 the boob monsters were a bit more reasonably proportioned.
Yeah I'm probably kidding myself.
I wonder if this'll be a 2 cour series? They'd probably be hard pressed to squeeze the 2nd round battle in a single cour as it is. If it does make 2 cour I'd probably predict it'll go all the way up to the end of the semi finals, leaving the actual finals and maybe individuals as a maybe season 3?
|2012-10-28, 22:34
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Location: Canada eh?
|2012-10-28, 22:39
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Moderate Haruhiist
The thing is with Eisui is they're (quite literally in this case) unbalanced in the boobie department. Komaki, Kasumi, and Haru are all above Nodoka in size. Sure, Hatsumi is as flat as a board, but that doesn't make up for it!
|2012-10-29, 00:15
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lol, I dunno what issue people have with Eisui's boobs. Even if they aren't necessarily attractive, they are most certainly outrageous and funny. Impossibly lewd/ridiculous stuff like this is part of the charm of Saki.
As for the length of the second season, I think 1 cours is out of the question. Even with Achiga-hen we've already seen that they're needing at minimum 15 episodes (17-18 would be even better, imo). Taking into account outside-of-match stuff like tournament setup and the first stage of the matches before the Quarterfinals, there's no way they could stuff everything up through the Quarterfinals match into 12 episodes.
With the preliminary Finals taking 10 episodes in S1, and the side A Quarterfinals taking ~7-9 episodes in Achiga, I think they could probably comfortably fit both Kiyosumi's Quarterfinals and Semifinals into a 26 episode anime. Hopefully that is the plan. Given the biweekly chapter schedule for Saki allowing for maybe ~25 chapters per year...allowing for maybe ~40 chapters per big match, and the S2 anime running concurrently with the manga...perhaps we can look forward to S2 of the anime airing either next September, or January of 2014. Either way will be great/awesome. I'm really pumped.
|2012-10-29, 01:59
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Critical fanboy
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As for season 2, I've to say you sure are patient. Not sure if I can wait that long. I expect them to air during summer 2013. Keep in mind that Saki anime franchise has reputation of overtaking the manga.
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Much ado about something
The U.S. Senate knows it is coming - an up or down vote on the Flag Amendment. All of a sudden, congressional staffers in 34 offices are trying to trivialize the issue - much ado about nothing - to justify a NO vote by their respective bosses. Justifying the vote that would kill this amendment is hard work.
Flag burning is expressive conduct; nobody's burning flags; flag burning doesn't hurt anyone; and flag burning is wrong, but must be tolerated and protected are among the many benign statements appearing in letters to constituents and editors to trivialize the issue - much ado about nothing.
The Constitution never guaranteed absolute freedom of speech. Conduct is either right or wrong; frequency is not a legality factor. Offensive conduct can enrage emotions and even incite violence. Illegal actions do not have to be tolerated.
What is a flag? A national banner placed on the casket of a fallen hero. What is desecration? Putting to unworthy use. Burning is not the only example of unworthy use - urinating, defecating, and other acts to defile. A reasonable person can recognize acts of physical desecration, especially someone accustomed to pledging allegiance to the flag.
So who is right and does it really matter? Right, wrong, or indifferent is much ado about nothing. The real issue is the Constitution of the United States - the blueprint of our democracy.
The Founding Fathers realized the Constitution had to be a living document subject to modification by the governed. As the ink was drying, a list of initial amendments were wisely offered of which the first ten ratified became known as the original Bill of Rights. Since then, 17 other changes were made, to include the most recent one that took over 200 years to be ratified.
Amending the Constitution is very laborious and deliberative, by design. However, its "checks and balances" system was designed to catch and correct mistakes made by any branch of government - legislative, executive or judicial - no exceptions.
In 1989, contrary to judicial precedence, the U.S. Supreme Court shocked the vast majority of Americans in a 5-4 decision that the physical desecration of Old Glory is constitutionally protected conduct. By the narrowest decision, 48 state laws and a federal statute were ruled unconstitutional. Even constitutional scholars couldn't agree on whether the decision was correct or incorrect, but they all agreed that the only way to reverse the decision was through the amendment process.
Clearly, rewriting the entire Constitution to correct a bad decision is both illogical and impractical. That is why the constitutional amendment process requires passage by a two-thirds majority in both chambers and ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures - hardly much ado about nothing.
To date, all 50 states have petitioned Congress to send a proposed amendment to the state legislatures for ratification. The House has passed this proposed amendment an unprecedented six times thanks in a large part to tremendous and persistent grassroots pressure at the local, state, and national levels. After 17 years, the proposed constitutional amendment is within one vote of passage in the Senate. We, the people, will ultimately decide if Old Glory warrants special status and protection that the Court has denied.
S.J. Res. 12 states: The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. When ratified, any flag protection law would have to pass the Congress, presidential veto, and judicial review before becoming enforceable, just like any other law in this democracy. "A government of the people, by the people, and for the people" is much ado about something.
Thomas L. Bock is national commander of the 2.7 million-member American Legion, the nation's largest veterans organization.


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Tactical error costs Team USA in latest loss
Thanks to a tactical move that backfired in Tuesday's early race, Oracle Team USA is in such disarray that it used its "postponement card" to scrub the later race.
When that race takes place Thursday, it's entirely possible that tactician John Kostecki may not be on the boat.
"I can't guarantee anything," skipper Jimmy Spithill said. "I probably can't guarantee I'll be on there."
Each team is allowed one postponement per series - no strings attached, no explanations needed.
To the average American sports fan, it's a little like a team trailing 35-7 at halftime of the Super Bowl but announcing, "Let's knock off until Tuesday."
Or imagine a manager who doesn't like the next pitching matchup with his team down 3-0 in the World Series. If the sailing rule applied, he could wait a day or two until Big Lefty was rested enough to pitch.
Suffice it to say Oracle is in deep trouble. It is down 4-to-minus-1 and needs 10 more points to retain the Cup. Emirates Team New Zealand needs just five to wrench it from Oracle's grasp.
Oracle was leading the Kiwis until Kostecki called for a tack on top of a turn around the leeward mark. Had the boat taken a normal turn and waited for its first normal tack on the upwind leg, it probably would have maintained the lead.
Instead, a poorly executed tack slowed the boat to a crawl, and the gleeful Kiwis took command on their first starboard tack of the leg. They led by a whopping 1,500 meters on the downwind fourth leg and won the five-leg race by 1 minute, 17 seconds.
"It was a mistake," strategist-grinder Tom Slingsby said. "We wanted to cover the right-hand side" of the course toward Alcatraz. "Ideally, we probably should have kept going straight and tacked when they tacked."
If Kostecki, a Bay Area native, is replaced, Slingsby and Ben Ainslie - who skippered Oracle's other boat during in-house racing - would be candidates to replace him.
Spithill sidestepped a question on whether Kostecki might be benched. "Right now we're focusing on ways to make the boat go faster," he said. Invoking a phrase from football, he said the team couldn't decide "until we've seen the video."
He made no apologies for using the postponement card. "The boat was fine," he said. "We feel like we need to regroup. ... It's obvious we've got to make some changes."
The team is not about to use a lay day Wednesday to "massage each other's egos," he said. If Oracle did not scrub the race and make changes, he said, "there was a real chance we weren't going to win the second race of the day."
After making the postponement call - in collaboration with his crew, he said - Spithill jumped onto a support boat and immediately had an intense discussion with chief executive Russell Coutts, who evidently was not in on the decision.
Asked the gist of the conversation, Spithill said, mischievously, "We were just talking rugby."
Does he feel secure in his own job? He pulled out a well-worn Australian expression: "You can be a rooster one day and a feather duster the next, mate."
He vowed that the competition isn't over. "This doesn't worry us. The team's not flustered."
His bravado recalled Marine Gen. Chesty Puller's famous reaction to being told his troops were surrounded: "Great. Now we can shoot at those bastards from any direction."
Oracle was further plagued by using a heavier foresail than the Kiwis. It slowed the boat on the upwind leg, Spithill acknowledged.
At the start, Kiwis skipper Dean Barker got inside position on Spithill, but Oracle was faster to the first mark by inflicting disturbed air on the Kiwis. Oracle appeared well on its way to its second victory of the series.
Then things went awry at the other end of the racecourse.
34th America's Cup
What: Final series on S.F. Bay
Next races: Thursday, 1:15 and 2:15 p.m.
Score: Emirates Team New Zealand 4, Oracle Team USA minus-1
Format: New Zealand needs to win nine points total in the best-of-17 series. The U.S. was penalized by an international jury and needs to win 11 races, in which case the series could be extended to as many as 19 races.
Boats: 72-foot catamarans with 131-foot wing sails and crews of 11.
TV: Channel: 11 , NBC Sports Network. Replays will be shown on the America's Cup YouTube channel immediately after the live broadcast.
Tom FitzGerald is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @tomgfitzgerald


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I'm not sure how you could call one class being on top anything but a 'rigid hierarchy', but I digress.
One player's adventures in the World of Warcraft. Hunters, Paladins, Raiding, Mythic Plus.
Very well put, Honors!
God, I wish that conspiracy theory didn't make so much sense... though that would give me hope that the stuff Ghost has said recently about tank balance and paladins getting nerffed is more of the same =)
I find the Festergut argument a bit hard to swallow having killed him in 10-man with two warrior tank.
Yes as prot in heroics I can probably do better on the damage meters than a similarly geared warrior but if you really feel Paladin is better, go roll one and play it instead.
When you compare warriors to say druids and dk's there is enough in a difference between the two that you can't make an argument on which is better. But when you compare paladins and warriors they really are like brothers and so the difference is glaring.
Paladins have higher base armor, damge reduction, stamina, single target threat, aoe threat, ranged threat, stronger damage reduction cd, and higher passive survivability. Warriors have better interrupts and higher mobility and slightly better against damage magic (if the ability is reflect-able)
I, like you tank with both a warrior and paladin at lvl 80. I see how much easier tanking is on my paladin and how much more survival my paladin has... and my normal tanking partner is a paladin. I am sitting in his shadow for nearly all of ICC unable to keep up on trash mobs and can only out threat him if I have aggro on the boss and am taking steady damage.
His brother has a warrior tank and was asking for tips to tank HoR in our tank channel. I started going through this huge lists of things he needed to do to keep threat and keep his rage up... and then the pally chimes in "and then drop consecration and cast holy wrath... oh wait"
I'm not about to bash people who play pallies by any means. I'm also not calling for nerfs but it would be nice to be able to atleast keep up with pallies in SOME area. As it is I get to tank Jarraxus because I can interrupt... and rotface... because I can't possibly kite the slimes.
Also our 25 man uses a bear tank MT, pally OT, and warriors for third tank when need be. It has been this way since Ulduar.
Interesting that all this is coming out - AGAIN. A similar issue occured in tBC with Druid tanks. Their EH and armor was insanely high (no to mention their dodge) in the earlier days of tBC and Kara. This brought out a down pour of warrior tears and for a while it was a Druid/Warrior only debate.
Eventually Druids were "fixed". Now that this is happening, I doubt many feral druids are going to interject themselves into this debate that's going on with warriors and paladins.
But before I end, I will admit that in running alot of random heroics I have had ~75% tankadins, 15% warriors and 10% DKs. I have yet to heal 1 druid tank in a heroic since 3.3. Prot Paladins are finally viewed as a very viable tank. Druids? Maybe not so much anymore.
"higher base armor, damge reduction, stamina, single target threat, aoe threat, ranged threat, stronger damage reduction cd, and higher passive survivability."
That's a pretty big list and I haven't seen any theorycraft that shows Paladins are way ahead in all those areas. I means we wear essentially the same gear, how could we be miles ahead unless you are counting Devo which can be provided by Holy.
I'd love to see some conclusive data to back all that up. Feel free to email me if you feel like it would make too long a comment.
We use a Druid in the ICC10 runs that I do on the Hunter. We actually use a Druid/Warrior mix on those runs and we've had no issues thus far. The biggest problem we have in that group is lower DPS because we are all alts.
Druids are probably the most viable tanking class atm. I remember some post a while from GC stating that but then saying since so few people played them and since their "superiority" wasn't glaring, they weren't going to make any adjustments.
Paladins in general have seen bashing ever since they got revamped for WotLK. It's not really fair as finally, we're not retlol and we're competitive as holy and prot. However, the old vanguard refuses to let it be and wishes for the old status quo back. There is a difference between balance issues and class bias!
Way to point this out! Double standards FTL!!!
Maybe my wording was incorrect in saying that druids may not be a viable tank. They are. But they're definitely not the flavor of the month.
But what do I know, I'm just a healer.
Taken from the prot warrior forum on elitest jerks
It's tough to compare two classes if you aren't 100% sure they are as skilled or geared as the other so I'll just skip to the objective stuff. Last I checked Rawr (which admittedly has been a while), a Paladin with the same gear I am currently wearing on armory would have 1.2-1.5k more health and ~3% more avoidance. Moreover the Paladin defensive stances reduce physical damage by 11.5% and magical damage by nearly 17% whereas Warriors still got their old 10% for physical damage and 15.5% for magical damage. Finally, Paladins have guaranteed blocking for non-ICC-radiance content vs Warriors bigger but more RNG blocks. If you really wanted to, you could start comparing the massive EH boost Ardent Defender gives as well but meh, don't feel like doing that all over again.
Is the Url the post was a response to a warrior who was wondering why a pally with almost identical gear had higher stats and survivability. The armor I mentioned was indeed from devo but a warrior can't always rely on that buff whereas a pally always has it.
The higher stamina % gain that pallies have is because warriors have a higher base HP then pallies but the modifier has long since made up for that in modern raid gear.
Those are just the defensive stats and I'm sure everyone knows that warriors are lacking the dps/aoe threat department.
We all generate rage, so no wonder some the hate ever now and then.
As for the conspiracy theory..... I can find it believable based on all the blue notes i read and Blizz saying one thing and doing another.
I was in a Heroic today with a druid tank, It was rare to even see one at that. He barely had 32HP buffed and with Kings on him. We were in Gundrak and from start to finish he tanked it like a 100 yrd dash and the run was over in about 12 mins lol. Needless to say I found the druid quite impressive, but its rare to even see one.
Well the buffs are where it starts getting difficult. Counting the Paladin with Devo and the Warrior without shows a pretty clear intent on the behalf of the Warrior who put that together to show the Paladin in the best light with every buff possible, and the Warrior as vanilla as possible.
How you handle buffs will be key to the comparison especially when the Paladin had its origins as a buff class.
No I do agree with you when it comes to buffs. After all the same can be said with commanding shout. However that still doesn't account for talents that scale better with gear. Or the fact that paladins through glyphs get a ton of expertise, 3% damage reduction, and a glyph that can be used for something shiny. Where as a warrior has to glyph for last stand and shield wall just to have viable cd's. It drives me nuts that the glyph of shield wall comes with such a steep penalty but due to the nature of almost every fight is required. I mean you look at fights like festergut and you can clearly see that the fight was designed around chaining 1 and 2 min cd's to survive the increase in damage.
Anyway I don't want to rant too much. I'm certainly not hating on paladins by any means, just objectively looking at the strengths and weakness of both classes.
The Prot Warrior Glyph situation is definitely not one of the developers finer moments. Actually balancing through Glyphs tends to be problematic whenever they try it.
In regard to Devo Aura and Blessing of Sanc: Prot warriors get them too if a paladin is coming along. Almost every encounter requires two tanks nowadays so whats the problem with having a different set of buffs coming along? Sanc is the most powerful tanking buff in the game, they should happy that the class who brings it is raid viable enough to come along.
Our shields: Divine Shield is ridiculously OP for tanking, and it probably warrants removing our shield wall. On Festergut our other warrior tank died early and we managed to down him because I could remove his stacks and start fresh. Divine Shield in itself maybe isn't imbalance, but combined with Sacred Shield and Divine Protection it's a bit out of control.
Ardent Defender: Remove it. It pains me to say that but a "get out of jail free" card that procs when you need it most and doesn't share the 2 minute global CD on our shields is out of control.
All in all, stop the QQ Warriors and let us enjoy our fun in the sun.
Your suggestion would destroy Paladin tanks. I'm not sure we'd even be viable.
We need a second cooldown to have parity. If you AD, you'll have to give Paladins a second cooldown. I know the auto-save is a contenious issue, but AD itself is basically the same as Last Stand. It's also completely useless for something like Plasma Blast on Mimiron where Last Stand is much more helpful.
You can't use Divine Shield while tanking as it causes an aggro drop. It can be used to clear some debuffs, but those applications are fairly rare. Using it locks us out of Divine Protection. It in no way warrants removing Divine Protection (our shield wall).
Sacred Shield procs once per application for a Prot spec Paladin. That's once every 30s. It only procs more often if a Holy Paladin uses it.
I wouldn't say that Blessing of sanc is the best tanking buff in the game considering the fact that blessing of kings and a disc priest together do the same thing. Really heroism is the only buff that isn't shared by some other class. (excluding things like vigilance)
Vigilance is a strange buff. I actually think it might be behind some of the issues Warrior tanks have faced since its implementation.
Warriors seem to get a lot more choice on the damage/survivability axis when tanking.
A friend has been experienting with high-damage heroic tanking, and the short answer is that he's losing about 20% vs. my protadin on AoE trash, etc - and maybe 40% single-target.
We both have high-damage sets, but he has a talent spec and glyphs for it - I just threw a point in Command into my main tanking spec.
The difference isn't as big as most people make out - but you do have to play on top of your game as a warrior to close the gap.
Do you really think that lolheroics are the proper setting to determine balance? I would think progression Boss tanking would be a much better yardstick.
In addition to what honors said the fact that I have to spec and glyph to get within 20% of the threat output of a pally who doesn't have to tweak their spec at all is a big issue. Especially since doing so really gimps a warrior's survival. I've offered to go dual spec prot to make some aoe fights like ldw easier but the guild says my arms off spec offers the better choice.
I'm glad they are upping our single target damage but I don't think that goes far enough. I really would like to see them fix the glyph situation for warriors as well as cleave and heroic strike in low rage problems.
And as a side note I have a set of gear that I use to tank heroics using 2 dps trinkets a bunch of block gear and some dps pieces thrown in. I have to do this to keep up with the over zealous dps that you fine in heroics these days.
As someone who has tanked with a warrior/druid/paladin, I felt like weighing in here. First I am a relatively new "tanker," having tanked VERY sparingly in BC with a paladin and really got into it in wrath with my warrior now actively raid tanking with my druid. I have healed all three from vanilla to wrath as well as dps'd with all three through all wow content.
Second disclaimer, the druid is hands down my favorite toon to tank with. It has the perfect balance for me with regards to active cooldown management, gear style, and play style choices.
Warrior tanks do have valid arguments, maybe not to the extent some are saying, but warriors do require alot more effort and overall skill to be highly successful. I really don't want to get into theorycrafting but overall skillcap is much higher with warriors than paladins.
Witch/Boston does a great job with his, probably because he is the best player I know. I see few detrimental warrior issues when I co-tank with him on his warrior. This leads me to believe alot of this is toon management.
I know this is a prot paladin blog and by nature it will favor paladin activity, but threat and dps from Prot Pallys is just so far above warriors, especially in the aoe environment and 5 mans. This probably is true of druids and their AOE too, they seem to be competitive with paladins in that department.
With cooldowns, the AD proc is just so powerful to me. Especially as a somewhat novice tank, I would have died to have a "BLOW YOUR XXX-WALL NOW"/ "Bomb me with your big heals" proc. I think it should somehow be an active cooldown. No clue how to do it, but I think that it would help balance the cooldown gripe. Holy Shield, while also extremely easy to manage, in my opinion, should stay. It is iconic.
I just felt like throwing some of my thoughts out there. Good post by the way!
I'll second your thoughts on Wich/Boston. He's the best player I know, too.
I would have to agree that it's harder to play a Warrior well than a Paladin (again I haven't tanked on my Druid). But I don't believe the skillgap is a valid reason for Warrior's to be the top tank as they were in tBC design.
Personally, I'd love the answer to 'what is the top tank' to be something along the lines of 'they are really too close to tell'. I hope the Devs can achieve that in Cataclysm. I'm sure Warriors would love it sooner, but we are probably too late in Wrath's cycle for the large systemic changes it would need.
Maybe I'm buying into the Prot Pallies are OP arguments are a bit too much. So let me backtrack and clarify a couple things:
Divine Shield: The macro for quickly applying and removing Divine Shield and the mechanic where it doesn't clear you threat table make it fully viable in raid encounters. In about a GCD I can bubble, unbubble and taunt back the boss. Maybe an unlucky dps will bite the dust, but you'd rather lose of those then your last remaining tank.
Divine Protection: I think at some level my request to remove Divine Protection was more of a plea to do whatever it takes to get rid of forbearance. It kind of puts you in a bind when all your player controlled cooldowns are on a 2 minute timer (esp w/ the LoH change) because of what I assume to be PvP imbalance. I'm almost scared to use Divine Protection now because I dont feel its powerful enough to risk going 2 minutes without being able use my other two emergency buttons. I pull oodles of threat nowadays, so an Avenging Wrath + Hand of Salvation (glyphed) can accomplish nearly the same thing as Divine Protection without incurring forbearance.
Sanc not being the best tanking buff in the game: Since no buffs are really unique anymore the fact that it takes two classes to replicate that same buff puts it pretty high on the totem pole.
Ardent Defender: If it was removed I'd like to see it brought back in some capacity. Tanking already feels pretty automated and passive abilities like AD certainly doesn't make things any more challenging for the player. At the same time I dont think it's a good idea to homogenize tanks so much that AD becomes a direct clone of Last Stand. If the current incarnation of AD is the most unique way of giving us another cooldown then I'll gladly keep it, but an active CD not on forbearance would be a lot more fun.
Divine Protection should be your go to cooldown when things get crazy. I'd love to see how you did Mimiron Phase 1 without it.
Divine Protection is a 50% damage reduction. Hand of Salv Glyph is only 20% and that assumes popping AW is enough to cover the threat loss.
I'm not sure what else you are 'saving' forbearance for. You shouldn't be using Divine Shield except in very rare cases where things are already going downhill and you need to clear a debuff. In a 10 man, even 1 DPS biting it may mean you won't make the enrage timer.
BoSanct can be brought by a Priest or Paladin. It doesn't need two classes to replicate.
As far as AD, we need a second cooldown. If they determine that AD is unbalancing, they will need to replace it with another cooldown. It's really just a creative way to give Paladins a Last Stand.
Well in my previous comments I was not really focused on the "top tank" debate. I was kind of thinking more along the reasons why there is such an outcry about paladin tanking vs. others, especially warriors.