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'A New Beginning": That's what President Obama called his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo back in June 2009.
Speaking at al-Azhar University, an ancient seat of Muslim scholarship, Obama called for a fresh start "based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.
"There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground."
How's that "new beginning" working out, Mr. President?
In two coordinated, planned attacks on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Tuesday — most likely by al Qaeda — a howling, vengeful, armed Islamic mob assaulted our embassy in Cairo, ripped down and burned our flag.
Ostensibly, they were protesting an obscure short film that supposedly "insulted" Islam's prophet Mohammad. But they gave the game away when they shouted, "Obama, Obama, there are still a billion Osamas," and ran up the al Qaeda banner.
Even worse, in Benghazi, Libya, our consulate was incinerated and at least four Americans killed, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
The rioting has now spread to Yemen and Tunisia, while Obama has told Telemundo that Egypt is no longer a US ally.
So much for hope and change.
In fact, Obama's "Muslim outreach" was an embrace of entrenched rulers. Both human rights and the Bush "democracy agenda" were out the window — this was going to be a tyrant-appeasing, State Department-compliant, "stable" foreign policy on the model of the first President George Bush.
He promised a rush to the exits in Iraq (even faster than the pullout already negotiated by the Bushies) and put the supposed center of all Mideast woes, the Israel-Palestine issue, at the top of his to-do list.
Oh, and offered an "open hand" to the mullahs in Iran. We'd negotiate them into shutting down their nuclear-weapons program, with some assistance from the United Nations, using the stick of sanctions ameliorated by the carrot of appeasement.
So when vast numbers of Iranians took to the streets that summer to protest a stolen election — the greatest threat since its 1979 founding to a regime that has always declared its implacable enmity to us — the administration stood by. It said nothing as long as possible, then waved a desultory finger as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bully boys opened fire on their own young people.
After all, we needed Tehran to get back to the negotiating table and make the striped-pants set happy. Three years later, we're still there — and the mullahs are getting very close to the bomb.
The story was little different, come the Arab Spring.
What began in Tunisia with an act of self-immolation by a street vendor fed up with official corruption in December 2010 quickly turned into revolution against entrenched Arab dictators, mostly US allies.
The administration was caught flat-footed — most especially in Egypt, where we at first supported our longtime ally, Hosni Mubarak, then dropped him.
Our Egypt strategy then was to hope their military (handsomely subsidized by the US taxpayer) could keep a share of power. Now that a Muslim Brotherhood veteran has won the presidency and purged the military, we're hoping he'll prove a "moderate" Brother. Good luck with that.
At least when the revolt broke out in Libya, we were willing to lead the British and French "from behind" in helping overthrow the odious Col. Khadafy. Maybe the West showing some cojones there was a factor in the fact that the Islamists didn't win control of that new government.
On the other hand, Libya's new rulers were too weak to prevent the al Qaeda operation in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Stevens and the others.
And we're firmly on the sidelines in Syria's civil war, even as Islamists increasingly take control of the revolt against bloody Bashar Assad. Whoever wins won't be our pal.
Bottom line: Rather than placating the "Islamic world" with the conciliatory Cairo speech and "realistic" policies, this administration has unleashed chaos — then stood by as Islamists work to control the newly "free" nations and move closer to their dream of a universal caliphate.
Obama should know all this. Of all presidents, he should have a unique insight into religious and cultural Islam.
But he has other priorities. So, instead of action after the murder of our diplomats, we got a statement from the president that "strongly condemned the outrageous attack." Then he headed off to Las Vegas, for more campaigning.
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- Explore the dark side of Rome's history
- Hear stories about the restless dead
- Pass spooky churches
- Hear what the guidebooks don't tell you
- Keep a look out for the ghost of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI
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Your tour starts at Piazza di Spagna, where you'll learn about the people that roam their palaces and piazzas in the middle of the night.
Meet poets from the past, such as Keats and Shelley, along with kings such as Umberto I and artists like Borromini. Hear about reviled noblewomen, such as the 'Pimpaccia of Piazza Navona', and restless popes like the Borgia Pope Alexander VI.
Your local guide will tell eerie stories about the spirits of Rome, revealing myths and legends. During your tour, you'll pass some of the city's most famous sites, including the magnificent Pantheon, Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, and the lively Piazza Navona.
The tour ends at the Roman church of Santa Maria in Monserrato on Via Giulia, the location of an intriguing story about the ghost of Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia (Pope Alexander VI).
The tour is operated in English.
How do I get my tickets?
Shortly after your booking is complete your e-ticket will be sent directly to your email, just print it out and bring it on your tour.
Where does the tour begin?
The tour starts at Spagna metro station at Piazza de Spagna. Please be there 15 minutes before the tour starts.
Where does the tour end?
The tour ends at the church of Santa Maria in Monserrato.
How long does the tour last?
The tour lasts approx. 2 hours.
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Hell's Kitchen is getting populated one face at a time. The latest performer to join Netflix's "Daredevil" series is Rosario Dawson.
Marvel announced the actress would be joining the cast of the 13-episode series on Friday.
According to Marvel, Dawson will be playing a "dedicated young woman whose quest to heal the wounds of Hell's Kitchen brings Matt Murdock unexpectedly crashing into her life." No word on what her character's name will be.
In a statement, "Daredevil" executive producer Jeph Loeb said, "Her role in the series is absolutely critical to Matt Murdock's journey to become the hero we know as Daredevil."
Charlie Cox was previously announced to play blind attorney Matt Murdock (a.k.a. Daredevil) and Vincent D'Onofrio will play the main villain Wilson Fisk, "The Kingpin."
The "Daredevil" series is expected to debut on Netflix in 2015 and will be the first of several planned Marvel series, which will include the characters Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, to be followed by a series teaming all of them called "The Defenders."
"Spartacus" creator Steven S. DeKnight will serve as show runner on "Daredevil." DeKnight, writer-director Drew Goddard and Loeb will serve as executive producers.
Grant Gustin shows off full Flash costume
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Report: Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors
Appendix D Job Listing
GSA Contract Billing Rates (a)
|OPM GS Series (b)
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|Senior Cartographer/Jr. GIS Analyst
Senior Cartographer
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Office of Personnel Management, "Federal Classification and Job Grading System: Position Classification Standards for White Collar Work." (Downloaded March 7, 2011)
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Standard Occupational Classification: 213 SOC Major Groups." (Downloaded March 7, 2011)
General Services Administration, "GSA eLibrary." (Downloaded March 7, 2011) To find the contractor billable rates, click on the "Services" link in the "Category Guide" box, then enter the SIN in the search field; and to find labor rate information for specific contracts, click on the "Services" link in the "Category Guide" box, enter the SIN in the search field, click on the SIN appearing under the "Category" heading in the description match, then click the "Contract Terms & Conditions" icon corresponding to the contract number.
(a) Any of the cited rates that do not comport with data currently published by GSA can be explained in one of the following three ways: 1) POGO transferred data that was available during August 2010, and where possible selected rates in effect for FY 2009, although some of these contracts have expired or been modified; 2) where billing rates varied by location, security levels, etc. POGO used the average of those rates; and 3) manual transference of data from GSA's website may have resulted in a de minimis number of discrepancies that would be inconsequential for the comparisons POGO calculated. POGO calculated the average annual contractor billing rates by selecting from the GSA's "Schedule Sale Query" (SSQ) a sample of contracts with other than small businesses generating the most sales.
(b) Office of Personnel Management's job classification General Schedule Series.
(c) Department of Commerce's Standard Occupational Classification coding system. SOC codes 11-3041 and 11-3042 (Human Resources Management) and 15-1099 and 15-1081 (Information Technology Management) are not listed in this appendix because the GSA contracts did not specify these particular occupational specialties, thus no billing rates could be established.
(d) General Services Administration's Special Identification Number for procurement of specific goods and services.
(e) Hourly billing rate for services performed at a federal government worksite.
(f) Some contracts do not contain a date range because the contracts were modified and therefore only the date of the modification is listed.
(g) Average annual contractor billing rates are typically based on a 2,087-hour conversion method, but for the sake of comparison to total government compensation, POGO used a 2,080-hour conversion. As a result, POGO multiplied the average hourly contractor billing rate by 2,080 to calculate the average annual contractor billing rate.


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Cover is illustrated with fighter planes and U.S. Air Force rank chevrons, and features the shield of the former USAF Tactical Fighter Weapons Center. "History of Nellis" on back page. Incudes wine list. "The United States Air Force Warfare Center was established in 1966 as the USAF Tactical Fighter Weapons Center ... undergoing several name changes in the 1990s. In 1991, the center became the USAF Fighter Weapons Center, and then the USAF Weapons and Tactics Center in 1992."]]>
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William B. Burford lithograph on front cover. Illustration of the Occidental Hotel on the back cover. "An extra charge made for fruit, nuts, etc. carried from the table. Apply to waiters for wine card."]]>
"Corkage 75 cents." At bottom of front cover, "Engraved and copyrighted by A. W. Robinson, Boston Mass, 1880."]]>
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Handwritten inscription on back of menu, "Compliments of the proprietor H. W. Hoyt Chicago, Dec 25th '83"]]>
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I have a dog that is up for grabs to anyone (responsible person with the right conditions for the dog) in the central Florida area.
I recently rescued her from terrible conditions.
The owners that had her, had her tied up in the back yard by her leash to a clothes line pole, with no cover from rain or cold. The last few months it has gotten as low as the mid to high 20's and we have had a decent amount of rain.
We noticed the dog was tied up for several months and even spoke to neighbors who stated the dog had never been off her leash, the dog was obviously being starved and I could fit my hands around her waist. (A dog who now weighs around 20-30+ pounds)
We called animal control and the county police several times both of which refused to get envolved.
So after several months of these conditions what broke the final straw for me was that the owners septic was over flowing and the poor dog was standing in an inch or two of septic water where she could not escape and had been drinking it as she wasn't being fed or given water.
So my brother-in-law and I basically waited until night time and dog napped the poor girl. (Keep in mind we tried official help)
She's a high energy dog, doesn't have any training and therefore is an out side dog. Somewhere where she has room to roam and have fun.
My little back yard inside city limits just isn't enough for the little girl so if you're interested please let me know.
A great dog who LOVES people but just isnt right for being in the house. (Poor thing, it isnt her fault.)
She is about 15-20 inches tall, 20-30 pounds, 8-12 months old and seems to be Pit mixed with a smaller terrier breed.
If anyone is interested ill get pics of "Lizzy".
Mixed Pit available to the right person and her sad story!
Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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April 27, 2012 | By John Oreovicz
At least that's the obvious answer. The two prior IZOD IndyCar Series races run on the Sambodromo street course in downtown Sao Paulo were affected by wet weather. In fact, it rained so hard during the 2011 edition of the Brazilian event that the race was stopped due to flooding on the track, and not completed until Monday.
So with the forecast calling for a 60 percent chance of rain Saturday and 90 percent Sunday, inclement weather could be the big storyline in Sao Paulo.
"It's always an interesting race," wrote Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe in his regular blog for the Detroit Free Press. "There are plenty of passing opportunities, the crowd is huge and super enthusiastic, and there's always the threat of a torrential downpour.
"You might say the Sao Paulo race has a reputation for being a bit unpredictable," he added. "It's certainly never boring, and that's why I like it."
If it does rain, things will certainly get interesting and unpredictable. Each driver has five sets of Firestone rain tires for the weekend, and management of tires – and tire strategy – is likely to be the key to victory in Sunday's 75-lap contest.
"A street circuit in the rain is one of the toughest combinations a driver can come across," observed Andretti Autosport driver James Hinchcliffe. "The race last year was probably the most challenging conditions I've ever raced in and just finishing felt like a win. Big rain falls like that aren't uncommon there, so we will have to do our best to prepare for all sorts of different conditions."
Some drivers actually relish running in the wet. The late Mark Donohue, who won the 1972 Indianapolis 500, famously called rain 'the great equalizer.'
"I love the track and I had a lot of fun in the wet last year," remarked Andretti Autosport's Marco Andretti. "I really like it when it's treacherous because it really comes down to car control. I think we could capitalize on that this year if it happens again."
Tires have played a key role in the way races have unfolded in 2012, with some observers calling it the best start to a new season in many years.
Through a combination of strategy and speed, Team Penske's Will Power has won the last two races after starting ninth and 12th, respectively, on tracks where passing was known to be difficult.
The team determines the strategy of knowing when to bolt on the quicker, red-sidewall Firestone alternate tires, and then it's up to the drivers to maximize their early speed advantage while managing their more rapid wear throughout a full stint.
Firestone is fully prepared for any eventuality. Each team receives five sets of primary tires, three sets of alternates, and five sets of rains.
"Many drivers and team officials have credited the new Firestone tire specifications for adding to the excitement by making passing opportunities much more frequent, and we truly appreciate the compliments," stated Firestone Racing executive director Al Speyer.
"As we also remember too well from last year, it can rain in São Paulo and Firestone is prepared for that with the same wet tire spec that received many positive driver reviews, particularly from Marco Andretti and Graham Rahal, following its use a few weeks ago at Barber Motorsports Park."
The other key storyline to follow this weekend is the potential of improved performance from the Honda brigade.
Chevrolet engines in cars fielded by Team Penske have won all three races this season, and while Honda drivers finished second in each of those races, the Chevy engine has clearly looked slightly superior.
Honda responded by testing an alternate turbocharger housing, one of two housings approved by INDYCAR for it's 2.2-liter, single turbocharged engine. The housing's revised inlet shape reportedly improved the throttle response of the Honda engine, which was lacking compared to the twin-turbo designs favored by Chevrolet and Lotus that reduce turbo lag on acceleration.
Four-time IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti, who has struggled to adapt to the new DW12 chassis and turbo engines introduced for 2012, was conclusively fastest in a test at Infineon Raceway and the modified turbo housings were installed on all the Honda cars prior to the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
However, Chevrolet protested and the original housings were re-installed before practice began. On Thursday, a three-man panel denied Chevrolet's protest by Chevrolet and upheld INDYCAR's original decision to allow Honda to introduce the alternate homologated turbocharger housing (known as the 0.74 A/R compressor cover) starting this weekend at Sao Paulo.
IndyCar Series engine manufacturers Honda, Chevrolet and Lotus were permitted to submit two compressor covers for approval. The turbocharger assemblies contained within the shrouds are the same with either housing.
Chevrolet argued that the change in compressor was against engine specifications that were locked in on February 28. Honda reportedly claimed that the turbo housing change was a modification to the exhaust system and also documented that the participating manufacturers approved changes of this nature during a new car development meeting in late 2010.
Either way, the three-man panel (featuring one representative nominated by Honda, one by Chevrolet and one by the league) was persuaded by Honda's case.
"INDYCAR committed well in advance of the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series season to structure engine regulations focused on creating parity between competing manufacturers, and this commitment played a significant role in our decision to adopt a single turbocharger configuration for the new HI12RT Honda Indy V-6," read a Honda Performance Development statement.
"The new compressor cover helps to offset the performance disadvantage of the current IndyCar single turbo hardware as measured by INDYCAR's turbo supplier. This correction was designed and provided by the turbo supplier under the direction of IndyCar and was approved prior to the 2012 season. We look forward to deploying the new compressor cover to optimize performance of the Honda Indy V-6, as we continue to do battle with our worthy adversaries from Lotus and General Motors."
Chevrolet has until 5 p.m. Monday to appeal.
"Chevrolet believed the modification was contrary to the applicable series rules, and asked IndyCar to thoroughly review the issue so that the rules were applied fairly," stated Jim Campbell, Chevrolet's U.S. Vice President of Performance Vehicles and Motorsports. "We respect the diligence of the panel appointed to hear the protest and examine the situation. While we are disappointed with today's decision, we are prepared to continue to compete at the highest level in the IZOD IndyCar Series."
Rain or shine, it should be an excellent battle on track this weekend in Brazil.


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I mentioned in a previous post that during Divided Kingdom week at the LBC, I would be offering the view from the "Green Quarter" of the kingdom, where the melancholics are housed, and so I have.
If you accuse me of having had fun while writing it, I shall take great umbrage at such aspersions till my bitter end.
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Flu shot clinic, Oct. 3-4
September 27, 2012
Greetings to the Lewis and Clark Community from the Student Health Service,
It is fall and time to give yourself the best protection we have against the seasonal flu. The Student Health Service will be hosting two seasonal flu vaccination clinics for all employees and students.
Flu Shot Clinics
Where: Student Health Service, Templeton Student Center
When: Wednesday, October 3 and Thursday, October 4, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
The cost is $28. Students may pay with check, cash or charge the cost to their student accounts. If paying by check, please have your check ready and payable to Lewis & Clark College. While clinic staff cannot bill insurance directly, they will provide individuals with a receipt which can be submitted to insurance carriers for reimbursement. Students enrolled in the Aetna Student Health Insurance Plan offered by Lewis & Clark can expect 100% reimbursement from Aetna Student Health, as long as students submit their receipts. Students with other insurance coverage should contact their insurance carrier to determine the amount of reimbursement to expect.
Please note: The Student Health Service is an out-of-network provider for the Pioneer Medical Regence BlueCross BlueShield (PPO) plan. This means that most employees will not be eligible for reimbursement for the cost of flu shots received at the Student Health Service. Employees covered under the Regence BlueCross BlueShield Plan can have their flu shots covered at 100% by going to an in-network provider. For employees participating in the Kaiser Medical Plan, please visit www.kp.org/flu for details on a walk-in flu clinic at a Kaiser Permanente medical facility near you.
The Student Health Service encourages everyone to get your flu shot early. For those unable to attend this clinic, the Health Service will be offering additional opportunities for students and employees to receive flu shots while supplies last.
Questions? Call the Student Health Service at 503 768-7165.


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The Year In Pictures, In Review
Luminate CEO (and my boss) Bob Lisbonne debuted his Forbes column, Visual Approach, with a look back at "the most widely photographed year in history" and the major developments across the imagesphere in 2012: The Year In Pictures, In Review.
The year in images dawned with an explosive start when Facebook announced it would acquire Instagram. While many fixated on the $1 billion price tag, implications for Facebook's mobile strategy, or whirlwind negotiations, I found it fascinating that a company whose essence revolved around relationships between friends, would find irresistible a network whose connections centered on pictures.
It was a year of significant hardware innovations, pictures from Mars, break-through interactive galleries and the first skirmishes in a battle of the Internet titans over who will dominate the future of photography. Full column here.


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BOSTON (AP) — Derek Jeter shook off an injury to tie Willie Mays for 10th place on the career hits list, backing Phil Hughes and helping the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 2-0 Thursday night to maintain a share of the AL East lead.
New York won consecutive games for the first time in a month and kept pace with the Baltimore Orioles, who completed a three-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays with a 3-2, 14-inning win.
Hughes (15-12) retired his first 10 batters and gave up five hits in 7 1-3 innings. He struck out seven, walked one and allowed just three runners past first base, ending a streak of seven straight starts in which he allowed home runs. Hughes has given up two or fewer runs in five of his last six starts.
Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his 38th save in 41 chances.
Jeter started at designated hitter after leaving Wednesday night's 5-4 win when he pulled up lame lunging for first base trying to avoid a double-play grounder in the eighth.
He was 0 for 3 then blooped a run-scoring single to center field in the seventh inning for the 3,283rd hit of his career to match Mays. Eddie Collins is next at 3,313.
New York, which led the division by 10 games before play on July 19, went 5-5 on a trip to Tampa Bay, Baltimore and Boston.
After winning back to back for the first time since taking three straight from Texas over Aug. 13-15, the Yankees return home for nine games against the Rays, Toronto and Oakland, then play three games at Minnesota and four at Toronto before finishing up with a three-game series in the Bronx against Boston.
Boston lost for the 13th time in 15 games, lowering its magic number for AL East elimination to two. TheRed Sox fielded a lineup with only five players who started the season in the majors. Dustin Pedroia missed the game to be with his wife, who gave birth to their second child.
Felix Doubront (10-9) gave up two runs and four hits in 6 1-3 innings, dropping to 0-5 with a 7.38 ERA in his last eight starts.
New York loaded the bases with no outs in the fourth on a single by Alex Rodriguez, who stole second, and walks to Robinson Cano and Russell Martin. Andruw Jones hit a sacrifice fly, and Curtis Granderson lined out to first baseman James Loney, who stepped on first for a double play.
Doubront was chased with one out in the seventh when he walked Steve Pearce and allowed a single to Eduardo Nunez. Junichi Tazawa gave up Jeter's single.
NOTES: Yankees LHP Andy Pettitte is scheduled to start against Toronto on Tuesday, his first appearance since June 27 when his left ankle was broken by a liner from Cleveland's Casey Kotchman. … Comedian Bill Cosby threw out the ceremonial first pitch. … Actors Larry David and Jon Hamm were in the crowd. … Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-5) turned 32 on Thursday. He is scheduled to pitch for Boston on Friday night against Aaron Laffey (3-5) in the opener of a three-game series at Toronto. … CC Sabathia (13-5) starts for the Yankees on Friday against David Price (17-5).
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But it's a lot to gamble on.
Indianapolis spent the of its draft upgrading the offensive line and the defense. T.Y. Hilton is still a star receiver, but otherwise, the depth chart is bare, hence the reason Colts signed Ryan Grant to a prove-it deal . Running back remains a hodgepodge of names.
The Colts might not give up 56 sacks again this year, and Luck might see the field. But the defense is still bad, and years of rebuilding done wrong aren't things he can prop up on his own.
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We're getting into the teams capable of huge jumps if everything goes perfectly.
Look at the Arizona Cardinals.
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Running back David Johnson is one of the NFL's best and competed for an MVP in 2016 thanks to his 1,239 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns with another 879 yards and four scores as a receiver.
But he played one game and had 11 carries in 2017.
It's high upside or nothing in Arizona, where coordinator Mike McCoy is heading after getting canned in Denver. Bradford has played in seven, 14, 15 and two games over his last four years, so if he goes down, a potential-laden offense will have to throw No. 10 pick Josh Rosen into the fire.
There are too many variables here to have the Cardinals ranked any higher.
2018 Offensive Coordinator: Nathaniel Hackett
The Jacksonville Jaguars might be the most extreme example of what an NFL team can do to prop up a quarterback.
A year ago, Blake Bortles only threw 21 touchdowns with 13 interceptions while constantly facing short fields and good opportunities thanks to an elite defense. Behind him, rookie backLeonard Fournette rumbled for 1,040 yards and nine touchdowns. Only one target caught more than three scores—with tight end Marcedes Lewis topping out at five.
It should be more of the same in 2018 with coordinator Nathaniel Hackett back at the controls. Wide receiver Allen Robinson left for Chicago, and the team will have to bank on good performances from Dede Westbrook, rookie D.J. Chark and Donte Moncrief on a depth chart with no real standouts.Fournette, as good as he is, will likely come close to his rookie average of 3.9 yards per carry because opponents don't feel threatened by the passing game.
And that's fine—the Jaguars win via defense. Unless the team gets a breakout year from a receiver, one of the NFL's best defenses is ready to do the heavy lifting.
2018 Offensive Coordinator: Matt Cavanaugh
The Washington Redskins didn't make much of an effort to keep Cousins after playing the franchise-tag game for years.
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Rotterdam is one of the second largest city in the Netherlands and it's known for being the biggest European port. The city is extremely dynamic, if you just think that it completely reinvented itself after being destroyed by bombs in the Second World War.
You might have heard of Rotterdam for its peculiar architectures (the Markthal, the Erasmusburg, Rotterdam Central Station and many others) but what you might not know is that Rotterdam is mostly below sea level, and is greatly threathened by climate change and its extreme weather conditions (heavier rainstorms, higher water levels in the Meuse, longer drought and heat waves).
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However, Climate change could create many opportunities that may strengthen the economy of the city and its port, increasing the biodiversity and encouraging participation. The city developed the Rotterdam Climate Change Adaptation Strategy to make Rotterdam "climate proof" by 2025.
Being "Climate Proof" means that by 2025 all the necessary measures will have to already been taken in order to be as resilient as possible to Climate Change.To maintain and improve the already existing infrastructure (for example the storm surge barriers, dykes and pumping stations) is extremely important. However, those won't be enough to ensure climate change resiliency. Adaptations must be developed on a big and small scale.What will be the consequences of Climate Change in Rotterdam?
Have you ever wondered what protects Rotterdam? The answer to this question is dunes along the coast, dykes along the river and the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier .
Map of Rotterdam, in light green the primary dyke is marked. Whatever lies behind that line is inner-dyke, all the areas in front of it are part of the outer-dyke areas [ Image credit: ROTTERDAM.CLIMATE.INITIATIVE ].
Risks in the outer dyke areas In the above picture, the light green line represents the dykes of Rotterdam. The outer dyke area is quite consistent and it also includes the port area. The only protection that this area has, at the moment, is the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier. All the outer dyke areas have been already heightened above the NAP level, however, due to the consequneces of Climate Change, extra protection is needed.
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I talk to a lot of competent, hard-working young people. I do this at our business partners, in Praxis interviews, during speaking engagements, and on social media. The audience I am engaging is better than your average 18 or 22 year old. These are people who actually look forward to working and are excited about the opportunity to add value in companies.
But one thing is often lacking: big ambition .big ambition
Too many young people today are afraid of
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in their ambitions and letting the world know that they want to achieve great things — and they end up worse off for it.
I think a lot of young people hedge their ambitions and their dreams because they want to be "realistic" and they want to not look silly if their goals don't pan out. On more than one occasion, some have told me, "If I don't announce my goals and I fail to hit them, then the only person who knows I failed is myself."
This looks like it makes sense on its face, but it is an unhealthy way of thinking of yourself and can get in the way of your professional and personal growth.
On the flip side, I have yet to meet an already-successful who stumbled into success. This isn't self-help, Napoleon Hill-talk — I have seen this with our own business partners. Every successful business partner of ours had a goal and set themselves to it while growing their business. They wanted to grow big, so they thought big.
The unsuccessful businesspeople I have met were never sure of their growth, never sure of the direction in which they wanted to take the company, and never sure if their hard work would pay off.
Is being ambitions a guarantee for success? No, but not being ambitious is a guarantee of failure.
Do your ambitions need to include making millions of dollars and owning several jets? No, but why settle for what is essentially the outcome if you do nothing?
As a young person today, you have the more time and resources available to you than most people who have ever walked the earth. Why wouldn't you be ambitious?
Hedging your ambition — knowing that you want and could do something more but lowering your aims — isn't just an insult to your opportunity, it also undermines your career chances.
People with clear, high bars for their ambitions have to be focused in order to achieve them. No successful person who met their goals in their career, marriage, or intellectual life did so by saying, "Meh, I'll settle for less than I can do."
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D'Antoni shrugs off 27 straight missed threes: Rockets have right formula
Houston Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni insists his team have "the right formula" despite seeing them miss a playoff record 27 straight three-pointers in the game seven defeat to the Golden State Warriors.D'Antoni insists his team have "the right formula" despite seeing them miss a playoff record 27 straight three-pointers
The Rockets' reliance on the three is illustrated by the fact they broke the record for the most shots attempted from beyond the arc in a single NBA regular season for the second year in succession this term with 3,470, making 1,256 – also beating the league benchmark they set in 2016-17.they broke the record for the most shots attempted from beyond the arc in a single NBA regular season
However, Houston - without the injured Chris Paul - went cold in their decider against defending champions the Warriors, converting just seven of their 44 attempts from downtown in the 101-92 defeat at Toyota Center.seven of their 44 attempts from downtown in the 101-92 defeat at Toyota Center.
Asked if the outcome made D'Antoni lose confidence in relying on three-point shooting, he replied: "No, because the other team's doing it. Not at all. No, that's what you do. That's where the game's going."No, because the other team's doing it. Not at all. No, that's what you do. That's where the game's going.
"Now we should have made some more, but no, I don't lose confidence in that. No, we've got the right formula.No, we've got the right formula.
"We've got to execute it. We've got to do a little bit better, and it would be nice if they would help out a little bit, but it seems like they're not. We'll get better."We've got to do a little bit better, and it would be nice if they would help out a little bit, but it seems like they're not.
Congratulations to the Rockets on an excellent season. This is a great team with a bright future. Houston should be proud.
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WILLIAMSTOWN — Pleasure, drama, sturdiness, light. These are the qualities (along with a potentially endless list of free associations, starting with childhood, weather, war, danger, and death) that spring to mind when contemplating the work of Winslow Homer.
The opportunity to do just that comes around with dependable regularity in these parts. So it's just as well that yet another quality — inexhaustibility — is equally present. Who gets sick of looking at Homer? No one I know.
Williamstown has long been one of the pilgrimage sites for lovers of Homer, mainly because one of his more passionate and wealthy admirers was Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), the founder of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Between 1915 and 1955, when the museum opened, Clark assembled the finest collection of Homer works by any single person after the artist's lifetime. In deference both to his longstanding passion and, of course, to Homer's popularity, the Clark builds temporary exhibitions around aspects of its Homer collection almost every year.
This summer's show, "Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History," is a re staging, right down to the title, of a major effort, organized in fall 2005 by Marc Simpson, associate director of the Williams College graduate program in the history of art, with help from Susannah Maurer, who was then a graduate student at Williams. This 2013 incarnation is fleshed out by some interesting loans from Williams College Museum of Art and a private collector. It is also accompanied by an excellent catalog (the earlier show had only a brochure) that contains a complete illustrated checklist of the more than 200 Homer works in the Clark's collection, and an essay by Simpson about its formation.
What you'll see at the Clark are 11 splendid oil paintings, among them "Summer Squall," "Undertow," "The Bridle Path, White Mountains," and "The Last Goose at Yorktown." The latter, a rarely seen loan from a private collection, shows two Union soldiers sneaking up on an unsuspecting candidate for dinner — and possibly breakfast and lunch too.
There are also 18 of Homer's ravishing watercolors, dating from 1874, a year after he took up the medium. Four are from private lenders in New York, two from Williams College.
And last but not least, there are dozens of drawings, etchings, lithographs and chromolithographs, letters, photographs, illustrated books, and wood engravings.
The wood engravings, most of them done after Homer drawings for Harper's Weekly and a handful of other magazines between the early 1860s and the mid 1870s, often feel like the artist's finest achievement. It's a true pleasure seeing so many of them crammed flush against each other and covering the wall.
Most artists would suffer from such a crowded hang. Homer doesn't: His feeling for the emotion and drama in simplified, compressed forms prompted Clark himself to compare Homer with Piero della Francesca. This feeling, or knack, gives rise to his two strongest qualities, lucidity and sculptural solidity, and there's very little you can do to suppress it.
It's in these gorgeous wood engravings that the artist's flinty emotional restraint is allowed to spill over into something more sociable and voluble, veering at times into hilarity. An early wood engraving, "The Bathe at Newport," for instance, may prefigure Homer's later preoccupation with crashing surf and solitude. But it is itself preoccupied with the visual chaos and crashing comedy of ungainly humans crowding the shallows.
The vantage point is notable, and typically inventive: Homer is in the water with his subjects (a viewpoint that no one at the time could have imagined the recently invented camera adopting). He invites us to savor the scene's visual overlap and disorder, even as the appearance of what looks to me like a shark's dorsal fin in the foreground prompts us to imagine the view from underwater, and the birds wheeling above encourage yet another view (presumably just as comical).
"Fireworks on the Night of the Fourth of July," with its improbable vantage point a head or two above the crowd, is just as busy, and just as legible: Your eyes scan the image and they don't miss a beat. And how can you not love the detail at bottom right: a firework landing on a surprised man's top hat?
There are other, better-known works, including the marvelous "Snap-the-Whip," a classic post-Civil War image of childhood high jinks haunted by death, and "A Country Store — Getting Weighed," an image of "pretty healthy girls who are indulging in the mild dissipation of being weighed," as the accompanying caption in Harper's Weekly aptly put it.
After seeing some of these wood engravings at a New York dealer in 1941, the sharp-eyed Clark noted in his diary: "They portray the life of the times from about 1863 to 1875 or so — Really admirable some of them . . . Lots of movement . . . A really great artist." What could any puffed-up piece of art criticism add to that?
Clark had purchased his first Homer, an unremarkable painting called "The Rooster," in New York in 1915. (Homer had died in 1910, at 74). It cost him $800. He later sold it. Before the end of World War I, Clark had acquired the painting "Two Guides," as well as two watercolors, "The Eagle's Nest" and "A Good Pool, Saguenay River"— masterpieces all three.
In 1923 and 1924, in the wake of his acrimonious break with his brother Stephen, Clark spent almost $140,000 ("an immense sum for the era," writes Simpson) on works by Homer, among them "Summer Squall," "Undertow," and "Eastern Point."
"Eastern Point" he later sold, before having a change of heart and, after many years of trying and failing, buying it back. He paid for his indecision: The price the second time around was far higher than he paid for any other Homer.
"Undertow," although it is among the grandest and most sparkling of Homer's canvases, is a picture I cannot look at without some discomfort: Virile to a fault, those lifesavers may be doing a great job, but must they pose and preen like that?
It's unfair to project 20th-century hysteria and catastrophe back onto poor 19th-century Homer, but the almost comically extreme masculinity of the lifesavers makes "Undertow" an unfortunate prefiguration of familiar (kitsch) tropes of 20th-century totalitarian art.
Among the highlights of the show, for me, is the 1868 painting, "The Bridle Path, White Mountains," a luminous, high-altitude vision set against haze and hot rock. It shows a young woman sitting sidesaddle on a white horse. The invisible trail connecting her with her riding companions, both far ahead and behind, forms a horseshoe shape, or a wave, cresting up close.
The formation itself implies the swell and recession of storytelling; no explicit narrative is needed. Lighted from behind, the woman is ours to observe but not to know: We have caught her in her solitude, expressionless, inviolate.
It's a different story in "An October Day," the show's finest watercolor — although the composition is uncannily similar. In the foreground we see the head and antlers of a deer swimming across a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Autumnal trees on the far slope are reflected in the lake's placid waters.
But in the distance, to left and to right of the deer, are its enemies: a dog on the far shore, which has just chased the deer into the water, and a hunter, in a canoe, waiting to shoot.
This method of hunting, forcing the prey into water, was called "hounding," and, like sharpshooting, a new practice during the Civil War which Homer also depicted, it was condemned at the time for its barbarism. The picture's moral tension — innocence and beauty on the one hand, diabolical death on the other — was a Homer specialty.Sebastian Smee can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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According to Yahoo the Baltimore Orioles are only second to the Cleveland Indians in ALL sports as far as decreased attendance....F*** you Angleos for running a once proud franchise into the ground.
Decrease in attendance: 44.00 percent
2001 W-L record: 63-98 (finished 4th in AL East)
2010 W-L record: 66-96 (finished 5th in AL East)
League championships last decade: none
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I just saw Bert's thread on this over on scout and he crucifies Mulla Petey
and rightly so but it's not all just him.
Don't forget, MLB put a new team in DC while under pressure from
Congress and Petey said he'd lose 44% attendance.
I was wrong in thinking Bmore could support a team alone but if we had
our glory years back I'm sure that 44% would be back.
BTW, someone just told me that Petey is retiring next year. That means
his sons John and Louie take over.
That means things get even worse. Think Petey was bad. Wait til you see
these punks in action. I know ushers at the stadium that said things come
all the way down to them and they didn't like Petey's son as well as a
front office employee who worked for them.
Things go from bad to worse with these clowns.


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Youth and disabled hunters are encouraged to apply for this limited hunt now through July 31
MANHATTAN—The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, Riley County Fish and Game Association, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Tuttle Creek Lake are currently accepting applications through July 31 for the upcoming 2014 Tuttle Creek Youth/Disabled Assisted Deer Hunt, September 6 and 7. This hunt, which is offered free of charge, is open to resident youth age 11-16 and those with a certified disability.
Participants will need a Kansas hunting license, deer permit, and, if required by Kansas law, must have completed an approved hunter education course. Assistance meeting these requirements, including scholarship assistance to purchase a hunting license and deer permit, can be provided.
If needed, rifles and ammunition will also be available to hunters. Each participant will be guided by an experienced hunter, and arrangements have been made with area lockers to provide basic processing of harvested deer free of charge. Other items provided for this hunt include accessible hunting blinds, hunting locations, hunter orange hats and vests, and transportation to and from the field.
Participants will be required to attend a firearm safety presentation and sight-in at the Fancy Creek Shooting Range at 4 p.m., Sunday, August 17.
For more information, or to obtain an application, contact U.S. Army Corps of Engineers natural resource specialist Steve Prockish at (785) 539-8511, ext. 3167, or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Applications can also be found by visiting: http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/Portals/29/docs/lakesites/tuttlecreek/DeerHunt.pdf
This event is made possible by Friends of Fancy Creek Range, Kansas City Chapter of Safari Club International, Kansas State Rifle Association and the Tuttle Creek Lake Association.


text: Born in Dillsboro, Jackson County, North Carolina, Tack Knight moved to San Francisco in 1913. He was apparently already cartooning for the local paper, the Waynesville Enterprise, in 1910. He attended the Mary Hopkins Institute of Art and continued his newspaper career at the Oakland Tribune in 1914. He drew sports and commercial art, and did animated cartooning. He ghosted for Gene Byrnes on the newspaper strip 'Reg'lar Fellers' from 1924 to 1929 and created 'My Big Brudder' for Dell Publishing. He created the syndicated newspaper strips 'Baby Sister' (1929) and 'Little Folks' (1930). His animation credits include Disney, Fleischer and KGO-TV.


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"If you want a similar experience in Johannesburg to that of hearing stories of the Zulu battles, spend a day with Robin Binckes" - The Late David Rattray, Master Storyteller.
Tour Highlights
- Make your own tour - see places to visit
- A Taste of the History of South Africa (A)
- A Taste of the History of South Africa (B)
- Mandela's Footprints - The Struggle for Freedom
Thank you for something wonderful and new. South Africa needs innovators like you. Jean Urry, South Africa.
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Comments from Our Guests
- Don and Elaine Mackay-Coghill, Australia.
A very necessarry experience prior to a trip around South Africa. Anyone listening to Rob and visiting Alexandra could not help but be optimistic about the future of the country. Rob, you were an inspiration.
- Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2, Great Britain.
Thank you for all your insight and knowledge, which will really help with our documentary.
- Mauricio de Maria y Campos, Mexican Ambassador to South Africa, Mexico.
Knowledge of South African history plus enthusiasm for life plus histrionic skills plus love of this country plus social tolerance equals Rob Binckes.
- Jorge Imana, Mexico.
Thanks to you the memories we are taking back with us from SA are more complete, not only in the historical context but also the human one.
- Alattia Abdulla (His Excellency Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah), 2nd Deputy Prime Minister, Qatar.
Excellent tour. Thank you!
- Hilton Walker, Wilderness Safaris, South Africa.
Thank you for bringing our South African history closer to home and alive. This is a must for all South Africans - not only our international guests.
- Dennis Beckett, TV journalist, writer & critic, South Africa.
Eye-opening beyond expectation.
- Jimmy Verner, history teacher, South Africa.
Well designed tour, with a great guide. An interesting experience that covers a good range of our local history.
- Colleen Wolff, history teacher and lover of SA culture, South Africa.
You have the ability to tell the real story of our collective lives. Thank you for spreading this passion. The experience is life-altering.
- Nkepile Mabuse, TV journalist, South Africa.
You made me realize how little I know about my own country & people. I'll be sure to make it a point that everyone I know goes on this tour.
- Carol Clark, South Africa.
I have been on many guided tours of many cities both in South Africa and abroad, but this one was unique and fascinating. I am still dining out on a novel experience.
- Bearnard O'Riain, South Africa.
I have lived in South Africa for 33 years. In one day you showed me the story of this country.
- Jean Urry, South Africa.
Thank you for something wonderful and new. South Africa needs innovators like you.
- Shira Bacher, South Africa.
Thank you for the amazing tour of Alex - it was a day that will be imprinted in my memory. I really admire your enthusiasm and dedication to our wonderful country.
- Sam Rogers, TV journalist, 2001 CNN Africa journalist of the year, South Africa.
Chilled to the bone by Vlakplaas; Inspired by Alex; Educated at the monument. Proud, proud proud of being South African.
- Simon Eilanger, Switzerland.
That was the best tour I have ever been on - interesting and most amazing!
- George Aelion, UN World Food Programme.
A nice perspective on South Africa from the past to the present. This really helped to understand the different cultures that make up the new South Africa.
- Beth Schmidt, Radio journalist, New York, USA.
Thank you for such an educational day. You have given me a glimpse of past, present & future South africa. I feel very lucky to have crossed paths with you.
- Mike Shakespeare, Freedom Park Consultant, USA.
Living proof that the oral tradition crosses all cultures in SA. Incisive, thoughtful and personal. Thank you.
- Jim Brown, Professor of History, Samford University, USA.
Incredible day, Robin.The trouble with being a proffessional historian, is that every now and then, you come across "amateurs" who know a lot more!
- Wendy Sherman and Bruce Stokes, Bethesda, USA.
You are a National treasure! Not only are you a font of endless Historical knowledge about your country, but your sharing of your personal journey provides insight and power to the complex and profound country that is South Africa. We are deeply grateful that you led us on this journey.
- Amy Farley, senior editor at Travel + Leisure magazine, USA.
Travel + Leisure Website article about Rob as a tour guide.
- Ellen Ferguson, Seattle, USA.
What a gift to share this day with you! I can imagine NO better Guide to Jo'burg and the Apartheid story- one we all followed closely for so long. What a joy too , to share your passion for the wonderful people of Alexandra…. What a privilege to share it with you. Many thanks for the wonderful work you do and for offering us a glimpse of a hopeful future!
- Arnie and Judy Brier, North Oaks, USA.
When we were told that you had only two days available we arranged our trip around you- and it was worth it! These two days have been moving, informative and an outstanding introduction to the History of South Africa. Your honesty about your own transformation, your wealth of detail, your kindness and charm, your generosity and your superb story telling made this an unforgettable experience.
- Dr Daniel Feinberg, New York, USA.
Today has been the Mecedez-Benz of tours! Thanks from the bottom of my heart for enabling us to get so many photos of a truly beautiful people- and for enriching us with your encyclopedic historical knowledge.
- Richard and Anna Gordin, Washington DC., USA.
You were the best! I will always remember this day as the culmination of our African experience. We experienced this tour with all of our senses. A moving and fascinating experience. One of the best "tours" I have ever had-anywhere at any time!
- Kumbarai Chiwadwe, Zimbabwe.
Wonderful story teller with an incredible knowledge of South African history- a most informative day.


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Renee Oteri's new love is actually an old acquaintance.
Her fiancé's name is Bracy Maynard, and he's known The Bachelor alum since she was 12, PEOPLE confirms exclusively.
The single mom, 32, first introduced her son to Maynard five years ago, when Ben was 3.
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"At the end of it all, I m very happy that Renee found someone and want to send her my congratulations," the current Bachelor wrote in his latest PEOPLE blog. "I hope to be invited to the wedding some day."
Galavis previously wrote that "letting Renee go was very difficult" as "she never tried to show me something she was not."
Oteri shared a photo of her stunning diamond engagement ring from Maynard on Instagram, and it certainly looks to outshine any rose.
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Open AccessA first inversion of the backscatter profile and extinction-to-backscatter ratio from pulsed elastic-backscatter lidar returns is treated by means of an extended Kalman filter (EKF). The EKF approach enables one to overcome ...
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One player's adventures in the World of Warcraft. Hunters, Paladins, Raiding, Mythic Plus.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Things Didn't Work The Way I Thought They Would
With the release of 4 different modes to ToC, it appeared Blizzard was giving a true path to every kind of guild. You simply needed to find the level of content that fit your guild. You could be everything from a 10 man normal guild right up to a 25 man heroic guild.
Each level awarded it's own gear with it's own iLevel. 10N was 232, 10H, 25N was 245 and 25H was 258. We had assumed that 10 man heroic would also be 245 since that is what all the drops are, it would make sense that the 245 tier gear was also available from 10 man Heroic.
While you can debate the difficulty of the actual fights (and every guild will have a different take on the difficulty of each level), it is clear that 10H is a step up from 10N. It SHOULD award better tier gear. It SHOULD drop Trophys of the Crusade from every Boss.
But it doesn't. I don't agree with that.
So let's break down the way this works for Tier in reality. Let me first explain the Tribute system that is only for Heroic Mode (10/25). You get 50 'tries' at the instance. Every time you wipe, you lose a try. We wiped 5 times to Northrend Beasts and have only 45 'tries' left for the rest of the instance. When you defeat the last boss on Heroic, you get a Tribute Chest.
Joanadark on Maintankadin explained it like this:
Tribute to Skill (25+ wipes remaining) rewards 2 trophies plus another item.
Tribute to Mad Skill (45+ wipes remaining) rewards 3(? I need to double check) trophies, cloak, plus another item.
Tribute to Insanity (all 50 wipes remaining) rewards 4 Trophies, the epic land mount, cloak, and one other item.
10N drops Emblems. You can turn those Emblems in for iLevel 232.
10H drops Emblems. You can turn those Emblems in for iLevel 232. Heroic also drops 2 to 4 Trophies of the Crusade from the Tribute Chest. You can turn in the Trophies, plus some Emblems for the iLevel 245 gear.
25N drops Emblems and 1 Trophy per Boss. You can turn in the Trophies, plus some Emblems for the iLevel 245 gear.
25H drops Emblems and 1 Trophy per Boss. You can turn in the Trophies, plus some Emblems for the iLevel 245 gear. Heroic also drops some number of Regalia from the Tribute chest These work like the tokens from earlier tiers, and are class based (e.g. Priest, Paladin, Warlock).
I had originally written that the system 'punishes' 10 man raiders. Now that I look at it, I don't think it does. It doesn't work the way I thought it would, and that's disappointing. But I can't say it's horribly unfair, or punishes one raid size or the other.
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- Feist said...
25m Raiders are just as pissed off in this case, because the only way we can get our 258 tier pieces is from the tribute chest.
FWIW, it /looks/ like the mechanic is 1 trophy/regalia (for 10/25 respectively) per 10 attempts remaining when you clear the instance.
So, clear it with 30 pulls remaining, and you'll get 3 trophies.
- September 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM
It looks like it ended up being just 4 Trophy's for a full Hard Mode Clear with 0 wipes, for the guild For the Horde.
- September 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Thorned said...
well I think its okay that you only get the 258 tier items through the heroic mode. These items are a great improvement to the current gear especially for tank paladins (shoulders and hands were not that great in tier 8/8.5)
yesterday we got our first legendary mace in our raid. Though in my opinion that wasn't as hard as it may have been in the beginning we were still really proud that we managed to obtain it after a lot of tries.
If it would be easy to get those pieces everyone would flame along the lines:
- too casual
- wellfare epics
- wow iz ezy mode
and so on.
I'm fine with the new challenge :-) lets see how hard it is to get to the end.
- September 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM
- Feist said...
@ thorned:
I'm fine with only getting them through heroic mode.
What sucks is that you only get them from the last boss, and that they're in such short supply that you basically can only reasonably hope for 2 each week, and 4 if you're /really/ playing like champions. That's just kind of excessively punishing - it makes me wonder if there's any intention that we actually manage to put on this gear.
I'm not saying they should drop in normal - and 25 Hardmodes are certainly tuned tightly enough that I don't think anyone would call regalia from those bosses 'welfare epics'.
I may be distorted in my thinking because my main is a rogue and my 4t8 is so good that it isn't worth breaking without at least 2 pieces of 258 loot, but still - I just can't grok how absolutely asinine so many things about the mechanics of the coliseum and the tribute run are set up.
- September 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM
@ feist:
i dunno about raids only being able to get 2 pieces a week. i realize the encounters are tuned pretty tight but we managed to get to twins with 38 attempts life. also most guilds that are getting to anub still have ~15. once ppl have exeperience the fights will be that much easier. plus, you know for a fact scrubs are gonna QQ and they're gonna nerf the hardmodes (which REALLY is starting to bug me).
- September 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM


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Giarrizzo appointed to business post
by Kathleen Duff
After a five-month budget development process, the Grand Island Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution for the proposed 2012-13 school district budget in the amount of $53,079,789. This includes a 2.4 percent tax rate increase and a tax levy capped at 3.25 percent. The budget will go to Grand Island voters on Tuesday, May 15.
Week by week over the past two months, administrators and trustees have worked to close an initial $7 million gap between expected revenues and expenditures. The recently passed New York state budget does send Grand Island about $20,000 more in education aid, but Superintendent of Schools Robert Christmann has continued to remind the board and the public that aid has dropped $3 million since the 2008-09 budget year. The "phase 5" budget shortfall is estimated at $1,226,731. This figure includes expenditure requests in the amount of $158,500.
Major impact expenditure increases for this year are $1,068,358 for staff salaries, $267,146 for health insurance, $129,000 for the Employee Retirement System, $209,250 for the Teacher Retirement System, $82,187 for BOCES, $115,500 for utilities, $367,500 for special education tuitions, and $50,000 for building maintenance/HVAC. Revenue decreases are $990,515 in federal education jobs funding, $600,000 in debt service reserve allocation, $100,000 in unemployment reserve allocation, $300,000 in ERS reserve allocation, and $2,783, 775 in appropriated fund balance (not available this year).
School budget details are available on the district website: www.k12.ginet.org.
Giarrizzo appointed
In other agenda items, trustees unanimously approved the appointment of Joseph Giarrizzo as director of business services. Giarrizzo will leave his current post as administrator for business and financial services for the City of Tonawanda schools and begin with Grand Island May 21.
Giarrizzo has a holds a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in management theory from Canisius College, and a master's degree in education with a concentration in school business administration from Niagara University. Christmann praised Giarrizzo's private sector experience, education and references and also gave commendation to the Loraine Ingrasci, who is retiring from her position as assistant superintendent of business and finance after eight years.
"I am looking forward to the experience and to contributing to the many great initiatives taking place in Grand Island," Giarrizzo said.
UPK Lottery
In his superintendent's report, Christmann said the annual universal pre-kindergarten lottery will be held Tuesday, June 5. Again this year, the number of applicants is larger than the number of spaces available.
Christmann also addressed the much publicized "pink slime" in some ground beef products. He said the district will not be purchasing any beef that contains the additive.
School Board Candidates Sought to Fill 3 Seats
Candidates interested in a seat on the Grand Island Board of Education must file nominating petitions with District Clerk Janet Schuster by 5 p.m. on April 16.
Thirty-nine valid signatures of district residents are required on a petition. Forms are available at the district offices, located at 1100 Ransom Road, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays. There are three three-year terms to be filled.
The qualifications to run for the Board of Education are:
•Must be a citizen of the U.S.,
•Must be at least 18 years of age,
•Must be a resident of the district for one year prior to the election, and
•Must be able to read and write.
The School Board election and budget vote will be held from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 15 in the Grand Island High School gymnasium.
The next regular meeting of the Grand Island Board of Education is Monday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Veronica Connor Middle School Little Theater.
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The most recent farm bill has thrown everyone in the peanut industry into a brave new world — a world in which growers, shellers and manufacturers have been forced to deal with issues that heretofore were foreign to them.
"After producing, buying, selling and marketing the 2002 crop, often without any regulations to guide us, and without any history to predict the market's course, we've emerged from a challenging transition with relatively few casualties," says George Lovett of the brokerage firm Lovett & Rushing.
Armed with the knowledge from last year's experience, it's now time for those in the peanut industry to begin thinking about how to successfully market and produce U.S. peanuts around the world, says Lovett.
And, he adds, it can be helpful to look at the industry's most recent history. The "high-water mark" for U.S. domestic peanut consumption came in 1988, he says.
"On average, shellers handled about 1,274,000 tons of domestic peanuts and 457,000 tons of export peanuts in 1988, for a total of more than 1,700,000 tons. It appears to me that 1.7 million is a threshold. Shellers have said that if they're to operate their plants efficiently, they need to figure a way to handle about 1.7 million tons," says Lovett.
That number could go up, he says, as new shelling capacity comes on line this year.
Not dependent on U.S.
"That number also tells us that under no circumstances can we be solely dependent on U.S. consumption to efficiently operate those shelling plants. Consumer purchases on the domestic side don't quite equal demand," he says.
U.S. demand for peanuts reached an all-time high in 1988 with 1,464,000 tons, says Lovett. However, a big part of that domestic market was lost in 1990 when drought spelled crop failures, poor quality and higher prices, he says.
Demand rebounded somewhat in 1991 at 1,435,000 tons, only to be followed by a slow decline in 1992-1995, hitting a bottom in 1995.
"That was when we founded the Peanut Institute and began to actively promote and research the qualities that make peanuts such an outstanding product. We've been in a slow growth mode since that time.
"For the 2001 crop, I've estimated demand at 1,371,000 tons, which is substantially above the 1995 level but still about 100,000 tons below 1988. We have not been in an actively growing business for the past 15 years."
Export demand numbers have gone up and down over the last 15 years, says the broker, primarily depending on the crop size and shellers' willingness to handle additional peanuts.
Treated as leftovers
"Since U.S. or quota peanuts sold at about twice the price of the world market, additional peanuts were treated as leftovers priced against the world market."
U.S. peanut carry-out varied from 295,000 tons in 1995 to 680,000 tons in 1998.
Lovett estimates carry-in from the 2002 U.S. peanut crop at 547,000 tons of edible peanuts, with only 271,000 tons available for the domestic market.
"Manufacturers and shellers saw that the price paid for farmer stock and shelled peanuts dropped from roughly 60 cents per pound in 2001 to 40 cents in 2002, and they had no interest in carrying a pound more than was necessary going into the new crop, so domestic carry-over was exceedingly low."
Production for 2002 is estimated at 1,644,000 tons, and Lovett says this is a "guess" on his part. "We had no crop estimate from USDA this past April, and the final 2002 crop estimate isn't expected until October."
Lovett also estimates that available supply will be reduced by 70,000 tons because of Seg. 2 and Seg. 3 peanuts that ultimately will be crushed. Imports are estimated at 35,000 tons, or about one-third of what is permitted by GATT and NAFTA.
"I'm estimating a total available crop of 2,156,000 tons. For domestic demand, I show a less than 1 percent increase from 2001. I'm told that just as shellers and manufacturers recognized that lower prices were on their way as we moved into the 2002 crop, retailers recognized the same thing, and they closely managed their inventories this past fall.
"They knew that lower prices for finished products were headed their way. Once the lower prices arrived after the first of the year, retailers stuffed that money into their own pockets and didn't pass it on to consumers."
Exports challenge
Lovett estimates that only about 99,000 tons are being exported from the 2002 U.S. crop. "And this is from an industry that usually handles about 450,000 tons. As I look forward to the 2003 crop, our challenge certainly will be on in the export market. We can't operate the shelling facilities efficiently without having a wider export market, and 99,000 tons won't cut it."
Lovett sees a total demand this year of 1.7 million tons with 400,000 tons of carry-out. "When you consider the carry-out, we'll run out of 2002 crop peanuts in the middle of October."
Using an average yield of 2,550 pounds per acre, Lovett estimates a 2003 U.S. crop of 1,858,000 tons or 200,000 tons more than was handled this past year.
"While crop conditions look excellent in all areas of the country, we're a long way from being in the barn. We could import about 60,000 tons in the current crop year. GATT and NAFTA allow the importation of 93,000 tons. We'll have more imports this year than next year but still less than the maximum."
Lovett sees a substantial increase in U.S. demand for this year's crop, as lower prices and new peanut products reach consumers. "I'm guessing 4 percent. That'll still be less that we had in 1988 or 1989, but we're headed in the right direction."
Loan repayment rate
If the United States is to compete with China and Europe and maintain its export market, there must be a significant reduction in the loan repayment rate, he says, from $60 to $80 per ton.
"It's important to understand that there's no mandate from the USDA that says the loan repayment rate must be lowered. If the crop begins to deteriorate during harvest, just as last year, we may not see a significant reduction in the repayment until the crop is in the barn.
"On the other hand, if we don't see any deterioration, and we see a huge crop coming out, a rapid reduction in repayment will help us participate in the export markets earlier than otherwise would be the case. A dramatic reduction in the repayment rate will help clear CCC stocks and help CCC maintain costs."
Everything depends, says Lovett, on the crop size and exports, and exports are dependent on the repayment rate. He encourages growers, shellers and manufacturers all to work together with USDA to achieve success.
"A crop of 1,800,000 tons won't walk out of these warehouses, and who knows what'll happen if we have a crop of 2 or 2.1 million tons. The Chinese usually grow about 15 million tons of peanuts and they export about one-half million. That number can go up or down depending on how aggressive the Chinese government chooses to be.
"We'll never compete with the Chinese on the basis of price. We can't lower our prices to the point of driving the Chinese out of the market. If we're to maintain our position in the export market, we'll have to provide our customers with value and special quality at a reasonable price. If we could eliminate aflatoxin from our crop, the high-end customer would beat a path to our door."
Huge Chinese crop
The other part of the Chinese problem, says Lovett, is that due to China's crop size, it's difficult to see U.S. farmer stock selling for more than $355 per ton on a sustained basis if the United States is going to participate in the export markets.
"Argentina probably will increase acreage next year by 25 to 30 percent, and they'll continue to play an important role in the world market, especially in Europe. They'll play a significantly less important role in the U.S. market."
It's important that U.S. growers remember that the consumer is king, says Lovett. "If we're to increase U.S. peanut production in any significant way, consumer demand must determine any acreage increases. If we start planting peanuts on a 'wildcat' basis because $355 per ton looks attractive to some amateur peanut growers, we'll increase peanut program costs and place the entire program in jeopardy."
Buying and selling peanuts, he says, is all about risks, especially in the new legislative environment.
"We need to be very careful managing these risks. Manufacturers who want to use U.S. peanuts must recognize that it no longer is a quota supply, set aside for U.S. peanut product manufacturers. This introduces potential new competitive pressures that previously were not part of the U.S. peanut industry."
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