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New Abilities
|(Feral) Thrash (Level 81): Thrash deals damage and causes all targets within 10 yards to bleed every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. The intent here is to give bears another button to hit while tanking. Talents will affect the bleed, such as causing Swipe to deal more damage to bleeding targets. 5-second cooldown. 25 Rage.
Sounds like a bear-only ability, though it would be interesting to see with cat form as well. Adding bleeds to an indefinite number of aoe-tanked targets will certainly make those that rely on bleed effects quite happy (I haven't read the rogue report yet, but my WotLK Kaeya-rogue is grinning at the idea). Interesting part of this is that there is NO mention of "threat" in this ability description, despite being added as a bear tanking ability.
On the flip side, I also find it interesting that they are granting bears another AoE tanking ability, when they've also stated that they plan for instances in Cataclysm to be heavily CC/tactics rather than the WotLK AoE-fest.
|(Feral) Stampeding Roar (Level 83): The druid roars, increasing the movement of all allies within 10 yards by 40% for 8 seconds. Stampeding Roar can be used in cat or bear form, but bears might have a talent to drop the cooldown. The goal of this ability is to give both bears and cats a little more situational group utility. 3-minute cooldown. No cost.
I like this. Oh yes, I like this.
"I'm a huge frikkin bear, and I'm gonna maul yur ass if you don't MOVE."
Only better motivation to get your fellow raiders to run faster is to attach a chocolate bar and/or a Hot Pocket on a stick and hold it out in front of them.
Sindragosa-type nova and someone lagged? RAWR you can has speed buff. Good times.
|(ALL) Wild Mushroom (Level 85): Grows a magical mushroom at the target location. After 4 seconds the mushroom becomes invisible. Enemies who cross the mushroom detonate it, causing it to deal area-of-effect damage, though its damage component will remain very effective against single targets. The druid can also choose to detonate the mushroom ahead of time. This is primarily a tool for the Balance druid, and there will be talents that play off of it. No cooldown. 40-yard range. Instant cast.
.... wild and crazy magical mushrooms: not for consumption. Explosive. They must have a spore cloud of doom. In my opinion, it should debuff the AoE enemy targets with a poison spore cloud when it detonates, but no, they just explode.
Exploding shrooms.
Mechanics Changes
|(Resto) All heal-over-time spells (HoTs) will benefit from crit and haste innately in Cataclysm. Hasted HoTs do not reduce their duration, but instead add additional HoT ticks. Haste will also benefit Energy generation while in cat form.
I was expecting this when I first noticed the warlock changes calling for hasted DoTs that didn't reduce the debuff duration. This change makes me a very happy druid: I can have my cake (faster HoT ticks) and eat it, too (targets are swiftmendable for a longer period of time), though it will make theorycrafting a PitA to calculate the number of HoT ticks your hasted spell will have over its duration. I see charts in the future, big haste-to-ticks charts. As a plus, they can crit. Mmmmm crit.
FYI, a later blue post clarified that crit/haste will also effect other druid DoTs like moonfire, ISS, and rake/rip. Fear my moonfire spam. Pew pew.
|(Resto) Unlike the other healers, Restoration druids will not be receiving any new spells. They have plenty to work with already, and our challenge instead is to make sure all of them have a well-defined niche. A druid should be able to tank-heal with stacks of Lifebloom, spot-heal a group with Nourish and Regrowth, and top off lightly wounded targets with Rejuvenation.
AND (in a later blue post)
|(Resto) Druids don't have perfect analogs to the priest heals, but you can imagine Regrowth as the Flash Heal, Nourish as the heal, and Healing Touch as the greater heal. Lifebloom is something you'd put on a tank before healing with Nourish or Healing Touch (which might even refresh the stack). Rejuv will still be good for the reason hots are good. Wild Growth is still a group heal. Tranquility is an emergency heal, and we'll change it to act more like Divine Hymn.
AND (in a later blue post)
|(Resto) (response to a post saying, "Other from the universal healing changes Resto Druids have absolutely NOTHING to relearn or spend time to master unlike the other healing class notes released", Let me know how that Rejuv spamming with WG on cooldown works out for you at 85
I am content with this. Resto druids have a large arsenal of spells already, and if anything, they need to have certain spells revamped rather than be given new ones (I'm looking at you, Tranquility). The breakdown of lifebloom/nourish/regrowth/rejuv sounds spot-on and it doesn't sound like it'll require much alteration of playstyle for myself (except to make HT and Tranquility more situationally useful beyond NS+HT), though I know many druids these days rely much more heavily on just blanketing a raid with rejuv, as the style lends itself well to larger raids than my ten-strict. Based on GhostCrawlers' response, it sounds like they're expecting restos to heal more like the ten-strict druids and less like rejuv/wildgrowth bots.
|(Feral) We want to add tools to cat form and depth to bear form. If a Feral cat is going to fill a very similar niche to that of a rogue, warrior or Enhancement shaman, it needs a few more tools -- primarily a reliable interrupt. Bears need to be pushing a few more buttons just so the contrast between tanking and damage-dealing is not so steep.
|(Feral) We plan on giving Feral cats and bears a Kick/Pummel equivalent -- an interrupt that is off the global cooldown and does no damage. We feel like they need this utility to be able to fill the melee role in a dungeon or raid group, and to give them more PvP utility.
Good to see a revamp or addition to the cat-interrupt Maim, as a CP-using interrupt is far more unwieldy than a good Kick (nevermind the idea of bear-charge and bear-bash).
The comment on bears intrigues me, as it suggests they have further plans in mind beyond adding the Thrash ability.
Ninja kitty, go!
|(ALL) Barkskin will be innately undispellable.
Ummm... okay. Yay for not having naked, barkless trees? ;) PvP change, aside cases where they may throw in a boss mechanic that dispels buffs (which has happened in the past).
|(Feral) We will be buffing the damage of Mangle (cat) significantly so that when cat druids cannot Shred, they are not at such a damage-dealing loss.
This tells me they do not intend to remove the "must be behind your target" component to shred, something I've been expecting to see happen ever since they removed it from Mutilate (rogues) for WotLK. However, cats are currently far more viable with their from-behind Shred than Assassination rogues were in TBC with their from-behind mutilate, so I'm not shedding tears over it.
|(Resto) Druids will lose Abolish Poison with the dispel mechanics change, but Restoration druids will gain Dispel Magic (on friendly targets) as a talent. All druids can still remove poisons with Cure Poison and remove curses with Remove Curse.
We were shown this in the previous dispel mechanics preview. I will miss abolish poison, as abolish was very useful in situations where you were expecting a poison--particularly a sleep effect or a rogue--and could abolish poison and keep on healing without needing to reapply the cleanse for a decent chunk of time. It was a good tactic of thinking in advance. This change will, unfortunately for us, make poison cleanses purely reactionary... and they've told us it will also cost us more mana to cast it.
Talent Changes
|(Resto) Tree of Life is changing from a passive talent to a cooldown-based talent, similar to Metamorphosis. Mechanically, it feels unfair for a druid to have to give up so much offense and utility in order to be just as good at healing as the other classes who are not asked to make that trade. We are exploring the exact benefit the druid gets from Tree of Life. It could strictly be better healing, or it could be that each heal behaves slightly different. You also will not be able to be banished in Tree of Life form (this will probably be true of Metamorphosis as well). Additionally, we would like to update the Tree of Life model so that it feels more exciting when you do decide to go into that form. Our feeling is that druids rarely actually get to show off their armor, so it would be nice to have at least one spec that looked like a night elf or tauren (and soon troll or worgen) for most of the time.
This one has caused quite a stir in the druid community. The key comment in here is, "druids rarely actually get to show off their armor." Yes, that has been a common (and loud) complaint among druids for some time now, but taking the shapeshifts AWAY is not the answer: what druids want to see is armor applying in-form, and a far less ugly treeform. Bears with barding, with a polearm strapped across their furry shoulders; trees with a hood and gown flowing down like the branches of a willow. Shapeshifted armor is what druids have wanted to see, not their chunky cow forms. Caveat: elves are much prettier than grumpy-old-man trees.
I spend plenty enough time in raids and heroics in my (chunky) cow-form. When I'm not needed for super-amazing heals, I can HoT up the tanks in cow-form and cast hurricane and oooh and ahhh at the pretty lightening. If my tree form were prettier (grumpy old man tree? no thanks), I'd have complained far less about loosing my pretty elf form when I played Alliance back in the end of vanilla. Why is it that when you're offering to finally grant us a graphic update (hopefully one prettier than the ugly model now), we're now being told that resto is the ONE spec of druid that is expected to spend most of its time in base form?
Blizzard has heard our past form-armor complaints, but went off in an unexpected direction with it. I am with Lissanna on this: "I really want to see what the new tree mechanic would actually look like before I start freaking out."
|(Feral) We want to make the Feral cat damage rotation slightly more forgiving. We do not want to remove what druids like about their gameplay, but we do want to make it less punishing to miss, say, a Savage Roar or Rake. The changes here will be on par with increasing the duration of Mangle like we did for patch 3.3.3.
The take-home lesson from this is they do not want hit-caps to be such a big deal, something I noticed with the stat-change preview (and Scythe reminds me that the haste changes will grant faster energy returns, which in turn makes the rotation more forgiving as well). In regards to actual ability chances, this chunk of the preview is a vague "yeah things'll change but we'll have to test it to see how it all plays out before we tell you anything."
Edit: I have found clarification on this,
|The recent Mangle change is a good example. Other candidates include letting Rake last longer, changing Mangle's damage such that it's not such a gigantic dps loss not to Shred, and / or changing the bonus of Savage Roar so that it's not such a crippling dps loss if it falls off. Using Savage Roar after a target with cps on it has died will help too.
We still want the John Madden crowd to be able to try and maximize their dps. We just want players not playing at that level to not be so far behind (though behind is fine).
|(Balance) Balance druids will have a new talent ability called Nature's Torrent, which strikes for either Nature or Arcane damage depending on which will do the most damage (or possibly both), and moves the Eclipse meter more (details below). The improved version of Nature's Torrent also reduces the target's movement speed. 10-second cooldown.
Another button to push for the turkeys, one which sounds to be intended to break up the starfire/wrath rotation (ie make it more interesting) without actually interrupting it.
|(Resto) Restoration druids will have a new talent called Efflorescence, which causes a bed of healing flora to sprout beneath targets that are critically healed by Regrowth.
Moonglade: your new go-to florist shop for all of your Valentine's, birthday, anniversary, and get-well-soon needs!
It seems to be a little mini wild-growth splash from your Regrowth crits; interesting. It's not a major change from what I can tell, though that would depend on the amount of healing the sprouted flowers do, and whether it is AoE or single-target or some sort of floral light-well (pick a flower, get a heal? Humorous, but I don't think the mechanic would go over well!).
|(PvP) We want to make sure Feral and Balance druids feel like good options for an Arena team. They need the tools to where you might consider a Feral druid over an Arms warrior, or a Balance druid over a mage or warlock. Remember that the PvP landscape will probably look pretty different for Cataclysm with a focus on rated, competitive Battlegrounds.
I like that they are returning battlegrounds to the spotlight over arenas. Arenas were nasty (imo) and had no goal but to slaughter the other team: battlegrounds had goals and more interesting terrain and felt like they actually had a story-roleplay purpose for securing and defending your territory. I don't have plans to return to any sort of hardcore battleground team like I did in vanilla, but I still like seeing it happen.
|(Balance) Eclipse: We are moving Eclipse from a talent into a core mechanic of the class and making it less random. Balance druids will have a new UI element that shows a sun and a moon. Whenever they cast an Arcane spell, it will move the UI closer to the sun, and buff their Nature damage. Whenever they cast a Nature spell, it will move the UI closer to the moon, and buff their Arcane damage. The gameplay intention is to alternate Arcane and Nature spells (largely Starfire and Wrath) to maintain the balance.
AND in a later blue-post,
|We're going to try a few different things and see what feels the best. Spells cast is the simplest system, but we also get a little more dynamic system if it was damage done or even if just crits moved the meter more. We still don't want a rotation that is just 1111222211112222.
|(Feral) Bleed Damage and Savage Defense: Feral druids will receive two sets of passive bonuses depending on whether the druid is in cat or bear form. Bleed Damage will be improved for cats. Savage Defense is the current bear mechanic for converting crits into damage absorption and will be improved for bears.
Pretty self-explanatory, moving some current WotLK talents and turning them into passive bonuses that can, conceivably, be gained at lower levels, making lowbie tanking much more forgiving, among other things.
|(Resto) HoT Scale Healing: HoTs will do increased healing on more wounded targets. The mechanic is similar to that of the Restoration shaman, but with HoTs instead of direct heals. In Cataclysm, we anticipate druids using a greater variety of their spells so there is a distinction between healing and HoT healing.
My immediate reaction is that they liked the idea of the original Glyph of Rejuv (double-healing ticks below 50% health) and decided to throw it on all of our spells with a passive mastery talent, especially since so few druids have the glyph flexibility to glyph for it. It will aid in the "triage" aspect of healing, especially on a DPS who strayed into fire and you can't spare more than a single HoT to keep them alive.
|(Feral) Vengeance: This is a mechanic to ensure that tank damage (and therefore threat) doesn't fall behind as damage-dealing classes improve their gear during the course of the expansion. All tanking specs will have Vengeance as their second talent tree passive bonus. Whenever a tank gets hit, Vengeance will give them a stacking attack power buff equal to 5% of the damage done, up to a maximum of 10% of the character's unbuffed health. For boss encounters we expect that tanks will always have the attack power bonus equal to 10% of their health. The 5% and 10% bonuses assume 51 talent points have been put into the Feral tree and the druid is in bear form -- these values will be smaller at lower levels. Remember, you only get this bonus if you have spent the most talent points in the Feral tree and are in bear form, so you won't see Balance, Restoration, or Feral druids in cat form running around with it. Vengeance will let us continue to make tank gear more or less the way we do today -- there will be some damage-dealing stats, but mostly survival-oriented stats. Druids typically have more damage-dealing stats even on their tanking gear, so the Vengeance benefit may be smaller, but overall the goal is that all four tanks do about the same damage when tanking.
Interesting: "Whenever a tank gets hit" and "...threat) doesn't fall behind as damage-dealing classes improve their gear" are not really the problems I see in my instances. Usually, when I see a group over-gear content (as a whole group), the tank's threat problems stem from NOT getting hit due to high dodge/block/parry (or the mob dieing too fast), which causes paladins to go OoM from lack of needed heals or warriors/bears/DKs not generate rage or runic power from being hit, and THEN they have threat problems. The non-pallies can get a few swings in of their own and start building rage eventually, but pallies are just out of luck on mana if they are not being hit by the mobs.
Unless they are seeing this Vengeance thing as a pug-fix where an undergeared tank (who WILL be hit but may not deal much damage) is grouped with overgeared DPS (who will be high-threat), I'm not fully understanding their direction with this.
The most ground-breaking changes are in the revamp of Eclipse and the consideration of removal of "permanent" Tree of Life shapeshift in trade for (what sounds like) a click-use cooldown. I am wary but keeping an open mind with the tree form changes (we are getting new art, finally), but will state flat-out that I'd rather see remodeled (prettier) trees wearing armor and shift out to cast a damage spell (costs no GCD to unshift), than see look-alike trees on a cooldown providing some crazy temporary x-amount-of-spellpower buff that would be replicated with a trinket. Now, if the cooldown-tree-buff provided something really cool, like heals providing a bark-like damage shield on the tank for the duration, I'd be quite happy.
Time will tell how many of these changes stick around, are changed again, or are nixed altogether.


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#4 from 2014: How User-Generated Crisis Maps Save Lives in Disasters
This post was originally posted on February 26, 2014
YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, blogs… This list could easily go on and on for paragraphs. Today, we are so immersed in social media that we can hardly go a day without reading or watching user-generated online content. Videos like "Charlie Bit My Finger" make us laugh. Free lessons on Khan Academy, which were originally started by a hedge fund analyst at home, help us learn.
But user-generated online content is not all about entertainment and free classes. Crisis maps on crowd-sourcing platforms like OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi have demonstrated a less expected yet significant capacity of user-led content creation online: it saves lives in disasters.

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The Badge belongs to Ferrari and to recognised Ferrari clubs
Maranello, 27 November
The Prancing Horse can only be used by true Ferrari affiliates which have been officially authorised. That was the clear and concise message from a sentence passed today, as reported in the past hours by press agencies. It relates to the first session of a civil case heard in the Court of Cassation which judged in favour of Ferrari in its action against an unofficial Milan club which used the Maranello marque's badge, assisted on this occasion by the legal offices of NCTM.
The sentence handed down from the Piazza Cavour, the highest Court in the Italian legal system, annuls the one from the Milan Court of Appeal of 22 July 2006, which had ruled that the use of the Ferrari badges, the Prancing Horse and Ferrari Club, by the Milan club did not damage the activities of the company and officially recognised Ferrari clubs. This judgement is therefore establishes a very important precedence in the protection of the Ferrari brands.
The Cassation has lodged a new investigation of the case to the Milan Court of Appeal to evaluate if this could lead to a case being brought of counterfeiting of a registered trademark.


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TUNICA, Miss.—The Birmingham-Southern women's golf team placed third at the Rhodes Collegiate Classic at Cottonwoods Golf Course in Tunica, Miss., to wrap up the fall 2011 season.
BSC shot 657, four strokes behind No. 12 Illinois Wesleyan and 20 strokes behind tournament winner No. 5 Centre College.
Sophomore Ellen Chun was the Panthers' top finisher, shooting 161 to tie for seventh overall. Sophomore Kaleigh Toole tied for ninth with 162, and sophomore Rachelle Struthers was 13th with 166. Freshman Meredith Wollenman finished 16th with a 167, followed by senior Jennifer Commander at 19th with 168. Freshman Jesse Lawley placed 38th with 177.
The Panthers are back in action in February, hosting the Ann Rhoads Invitational, Feb. 19-20 at Oxmoor Valley Golf Course in Birmingham.


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Woman killed in DeKalb nursing home fire | News
TUCKER, Ga. -- One person is dead in a DeKalb County nursing home fire Tuesday morning. Two people were transported to a hospital with minor injuries.
The victim was identified late Tuesday morning as 64-year-old Laura Barrett.
The fire, which broke out at around 3 a.m., was reported to be in one room of the Meadow Brook Nursing Home located at 4608 Lawrenceville Highway in Tucker. DeKalb County fire officials said the blaze began when a nursing home resident smoked a cigarette in bed next to an oxygen tank.
Fire officials say 75 people were evacuated from the second floor. They were first brought outside and then when everything was clear, they were brought back inside and out of the cold. About 120 residents live at the facility.
The fire was confined to one room, but there was smoke and water damage to other areas of the building.
According to Medicare.gov, the nursing home was cited for fire safety deficiencies in the past, but those issues were fixed by 2012. Fire officials said the staff did a great job getting the residents out of the building safely.


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Note: Listen to KUOW's Weekday Tuesday at 9am Pacific for a discussion of Initiative 1183. I will be discussing the wine related changes at about half past the hour.
This is part three of a series of posts on Initiative 1183. See Part I on Volume Discounting here, Part II on Central Warehousing here, and an overview of the changes proposed in the initiative here.
While Initiative 1183 is primarily about privatizing liquor sales and distribution along with changing laws to allow volume discounting and central warehousing, there are several other aspects of the initiative that bear mentioning. Some of these are not readily apparent without a close read of the initiative. Here I have listed several that stand out.
Retail-to-Retail Sales of Wine and Spirits
Initiative 1183 would allow retail-to-retail sales of wine and spirits for on-premise consumption. What this means is that restaurants would be able to go to a store, like Costco, and buy their wine and spirits if they desired to do so. They would then be able to sell this liquor at their restaurant. As many restaurants buy food from Costco, this provides added convenience. Of course, they would be paying Costco's retail price, so this may not make economic sense unless this price is competitive with a distributors' wholesale price. However, for Costco's house brands, especially given volume discounting and central warehousing, it may well be. No single sale would be allowed to exceed 24 liters.
10,000-foot Floor Space Restriction
As has been widely publicized, Initiative 1183 restricts spirits from being sold at locations that have less than 10,000 square feet of floor space. The stated intent of this is to restrict spirits from being sold at convenience stores and gas stations. The initiative, however, does contain a provision that allows for stores of less than 10,000 feet if there is no other provider within a 'trade area.'
It is worth noting that, while the 10,000 square foot restriction does eliminate most convenience stores and gas stations, it also prevents small, independent wine and beer stores from selling spirits unless they exceed the 10,000 square foot requirement or meet the trade area exception. This essentially means that Washingtonians will be able to buy liquor at private stores, but all of these stores are guaranteed to be large stores.
The graphic above from New Rules Project provides square footage comparisons of small to large businesses. Click on the graphic to enlarge the image.
Spirits Distributor Licensee Payments
By March 2013 companies with spirits distributor licenses must have paid $150M or more in spirits distributor license fees. If not, the Liquor Control Board must collect from licensees the difference based on the sales that they made during the 2012 calendar year. In this way, the state is guaranteed to make $150M. Some have argued that this may dissuade all but the largest distributors from entering the Washington market.
SB 5942, which would privatize the liquor distribution system but not sales, was passed by the state legislature earlier this year. According to reports, there are currently two bids to takeover distribution from the state. Many have argued (correctly in my opinion) that this long-term contract would just replace one monopoly with another.
Some conspiracy theorists out there have speculated that there will be an announcement about what company is awarded the contract in advance of Election Day in the interests of discouraging passage of 1183. If 1183 passes, SB 5942 is negated.
Next up on this issue, my own position on Initiative 1183.
Focusing on Initiative 1183 Part III - Miscellaneous
Note: Listen to KUOW's Weekday Tuesday at 9am Pacific for a discussion of Initiative 1183. I will be discussing the wine related changes at about half past the hour.
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Cindy W. Says:
Soooooo....if I am visualizing the 10,000 square feet correctly in my mind, any private liquor store would have to be rather large....larger than most of the state-owned liquor stores are now? This would also keep out small places that sell specialized spirits, right? For example, we'd be unlikely to see a Scotch & Whiskey shop.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Cindy, that is correct. In terms of Seattle-area wine stores, the only one I can think of that is big enough to meet the 10,000 square foot requirement is Wine World Warehouse. Esquin may be big enough - I have a message out to them to find out. But you won't be seeing small, independent spirits stores or see your local wine and beer shop selling spirits - an unfortunate side effect of the 10k requirement.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Esquin is currently 7,000 square feet and would not meet Initiative 1183's requirements to sell spirits unless it expanded the space.
Dave Malone Says:
A question and a comment for you. With regards to the 10,000 rule, does this mean that the store must have this much sales floor space or can they count other spaces, such as stock rooms, offices, etc?
As for the provision that allows for retail to retail sales of alcohol, this I feel could get a little dicey. As the law stands now with no volume discounting available, it doesn't really come into play. Should this provision pass, its likely that with the volume discount retailers, such as Costco, will get on all brands, their retail prices will likely be cheaper than what a wholesaler is offering to a smaller restaurant. In this siutation I feel bad for the wholesale sales rep who has to call on restaurants only to hear managers say "Why should I buy from you when I can get it cheaper at Costco?" That just doesn't seem right.


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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Salisbury University Head Coach Sherman Wood and punter Kyle Hamby were named Empire 8 Coach and Special Teams Player of the Year, respectively, leading a group of 19 selections to the 2012 All-Empire 8 Teams, announced Tuesday by the conference.
In all, five Salisbury players landed on the first team, seven on the second and four were picked as honorable mention. Each of the league's teams had a player named Sportsman of the Year.
First-team selections include seniors Brian Mansfield and Matt McMurdo, junior Andre Carter, sophomores Steven Gamble and Hamby. Second teamers are seniors Dan Griffin, Joe Benedetti and Paul Moore, juniors Mark Bohanan and Greg Stanton and sophomores Tommy Hawks and Nick Ochoa. Honorable-mention picks are seniors Jeremy Harrissmith, Rodney Hill, Juma Richards and sophomore Isaiah Taylor.
Griffin earned Sportsman of the Year honors as a player who competes with honor and integrity.
The team was chosen by Empire 8 head coaches.
Wood earned his second straight conference Coach of the Year honor after leading the Sea Gulls to the outright E8 championship for the second year in a row. Wood, who won his 100th game at Salisbury with a 48-2 Regents Cup win over Frostburg State University on Nov. 10, is 121-86-1 (.586) in 20 years as a collegiate head coach.
Hamby is fourth in NCAA Division III in punting, averaging 41.76 yards per kick. He has placed 18 of 45 punts inside the 20-yard line to lead the league. Hamby booted three 60-yard-plus punts this season, including a season high of 68 – one yard off a school record he shares – in a win against Hartwick College. He was named E8 Special Teams Player of the Week and BSN Division III Punter of the Week once each this season.
Mansfield, SU's starting center for the last two seasons, was a second-team selection last season. He has helped the Sea Gulls run for the sixth most yards per game in Division III this season at 287.16 and was part of the line that earned Beyond Sports Division III Offensive Line of the Week after Salisbury racked up 611 yards of offense, 564 and nine touchdowns on the ground in a win against Utica College on Nov. 3.
Linebacker McMurdo, also a first-team honoree in 2011, was named a preseason All-American by USA Football News, BSN and the D3Senior Classic. He is second on the team with 64 tackles, and leads the team in assisted tackles with 41. He has 4.5 tackles for loss, two sacks and returned a fumble 26 yards for a TD against North Carolina Wesleyan College on Sept. 15.
Cornerback Carter earned his second consecutive first-team selection after leading the league with 18 passes broken up. He also had 41 tackles, including 3.5 for loss and two fumble recoveries on the year. Carter was named a BSN Preseason All-American, USA Football News Preseason Honorable Mention All-American and a D3football.com Team of the Week member on Oct. 2.
Gamble had a breakout year as an outside linebacker. He leads the team with 67 tackles, was third in the Empire 8 with 15 tackles for loss, had three sacks and one of Salisbury's six blocked kicks this season. Gamble collected five weekly honors in 2012, including NCAA Division III Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 10.
Quarterback Griffin, the E8 Offensive Player of Year and a first teamer last season is 44-for-82 passing with seven TDs and seven interceptions and has run for 605 yards and is tied for a league-best 12 TDs on 157 carries. Griffin won five different preseason honors and was named Empire 8 Offensive Player of the Week for back-to-back weeks (Nov. 5 and 12).
Superback Benedetti became Wood's eighth 1,000-yard rusher in his tenure at Salisbury this season. The Langhorne, Pa., native has run for 1,126 yards and 12 TDs on 187 attempts. He ran for a career-high 216 yards and four scores in a season-opening win at Christopher Newport University on Sept. 1. He was named BSN Division III Running Back of the Week for his efforts.
After taking a year away from football in 2011, cornerback Moore is back on an all-conference team for the first time since being an All-ACFC first-team selection in 2010. Moore broke up 13 passes, made two interceptions, recovered three fumbles and scored three touchdowns this season. He was named BSN Division III Cornerback of the Week on Oct. 8 and E8 Defensive Player of the Week (Nov. 12).
Bohanan, the Sea Gulls' starting right guard, teamed with Mansfield on the offensive line that earned the BSN Offensive Line of the Week honor.
Free safety Stanton leads the team and is tied for second in the E8 with six interceptions. He made 64 tackles, 1.5 for loss, eight breakups and a block this season. Stanton was named E8 Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 22) and ECAC Division III Northwest Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 23).
Hawks, a second-team pick in 2011, made 29 tackles, 5.5 for a loss as a nose guard. He also had one quarterback hurry and recovered one fumble on the year. Hawks was named E8 Special Teams Player of the Week on Sept. 4 after blocking an extra point at CNU on Sept. 1.
Playing next to Hawks as the right defensive end, Ochoa was fourth in the Empire 8 with 15 tackles for loss. He also had 38 total tackles, three sacks and one hurry.
Left guard Harrissmith was part of the line that won the BSN honor following the season-high totals against Utica.
Hill is fourth on the team with 62 tackles this season. An outside linebacker, he also has 6.5 tackles for loss, an interception, six passes broken up and a blocked extra point.
Richards, SU's second-leading receiver, has caught 16 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns.
Taylor is tied for 22nd nationally, averaging 12 yards per punt return this season. He returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown against Frostburg State for Salisbury's first punt-return score since 2009. He also caught four passes, including a 37-yard touchdown, for 116 yards to be named the SU MVP of the Regents Cup. For the year, Taylor made 17 receptions for 429 yards and three TDs; he also ran for 223 yards and three more scores.
Salisbury (9-2) topped Rowan University, 17-9, last Saturday in the first round of the NCAA tournament and will face Widener University at Leslie C. Quick Stadium in Chester, Pa., this Saturday at noon in the second round.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Why RootsTech is the Bees Knees
All the RootsTech recaps are done. I hope you liked my play-by-play action. There's just a little bit more to say about the event. Here are a few reasons why I enjoyed RootsTech and felt it stood out from other national events of similar size:
The conference and all the sessions looked forward.
No matter the topic, all sessions and speakers' messages had a common element. They all had vision and considered the future, even when talking about the past. This is the attitude I want in the events for which I pay to attend, and I will look for that element in future conferences.
The environment encouraged the use of electronics and social media tools.
I am SO OVER events that dictate what I can and can't use to take notes and push content. I really appreciated that the RootsTech crew wanted me to use my netbook and phone. I took notes. I communicated with others at home. I was happy. In the future, I will seek out events that desire and accept their attendees to learn in all different ways, including with electronic devices.
RootsTech planners explored other session formats including unconferencing and ample use of the panel format.
I've really come to enjoy panel discussions and group collaborations. Speakers and lectures are great, but I want to hear more information from more people. Other fields have been doing unconferencing for years. Kudos to RootsTech for introducing it to the genealogy world. I hope to attend more of these sessions at Rootstech 2.0 in 2012.
I felt like FamilySearch was genuinely happy to have me there.
FamilySearch staff were always available and ready to help me. They provided extensive information for me to post on my blog, and really sincerely wanted my feedback. I can't say that I've felt that way at most of the major genealogy events I've attended. In the future, I will gravitate toward events that have the same type of positive vibe that was generated at RootsTech.
There was a variety of keynote speakers.
Did you notice that some of the best information came from non-genealogy speakers? I must tip my hat to the RootsTech planners for casting a wider net and reeling in some of the bigger names in the information field. Jay Verkler understands that genealogy is a lane on the information highway. It's time to get moving in the same technological direction as the other fields on the road, and RootsTech exists to see that it happens.
The vibe had no right or wrong, but instead a common goal.
At RootsTech, there were no citation police, no technology police, no ad nauseam email discussions on the beating of dead horses. Rather, it was a joining together event to discuss what we do and see how we can do it better. I dig this groove and will be looking for other events that share the same philosophy.
Keep the rock music.
This is so silly, but I heard a handful of complaints from folks that didn't like the music used to introduce keynote speakers. Really? Really. That's your main complaint about the conference? So I feel I must counter the crankypants faction and say I hope they keep the music and play more of it.
These are my people.
I don't feel inclined to say ABC and XYZ conferences should be more like RootsTech. Every event has its own personality and customer base. That's what makes them special. What I learned last week however, was that I have a preference for events like this here RootsTech shin dig. In the future, this is where I and my genealogy dollars will be. If your family history event has the same forward-thinking vibe, then maybe I'll come to your party, too, or not. There's a lot of choices out there now.
RootsTech 2011 was a game changer, and I feel blessed to have a front-row seat. It's a great time to be a genealogist.
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I will be spending my conference dollars here as well Rock Star. If you can believe this, I attended a genealogy lecture recently on research where the internet and all those extremely productive resources were never mentioned. Not once in an entire day! -fMReplyDelete
Thanks for the play by play. Even though I was there, there were so many other things I wish I could have soaked in. It is good to see other people's experiences and get to see other aspects of the conference. I could have done this for two weeks and not gotten enough. Your kind of people are mine too. It's so good to have people.ReplyDelete
RootsTech 2011 was the greatest. I got to fly to Texas and spend a week with my Grandson. Thanks FamilySearch, wish there was a RootsTech 2011 1/2 but really looking forward to RootsTech 2012. We had a great week together. Thanks, GrandpaReplyDelete
I loved the rock music! It made everything seem so important and "happening"! And it was a very teeny tiny part of the entire experience anyway, why would anyone complain?ReplyDelete
Grandpa George, there's Jamboree in Burbank in June so add that to your calendar. Also, I'd like to go to something in September, but we can talk about that when you come back out.ReplyDelete
Genealogy Blogger, I have no idea why anyone would take the effort to complain about 3 seconds of music, but enough people did so I had to counter. I will never understand people. :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks Amy for all your posts. Wish I could have been there, but at least you were and all the other bloggers to report back.ReplyDelete
Love this. I agree on all points (especially the last one).ReplyDelete
I didn't even notice the music, but now that I know about it, I totally demand that they use Duran Duran songs from 1983-1986 or else I'm not coming. That's reasonable, right?
I thought the music really brought things to LIFE! Nothing pumps people up like an exciting, upbeat, musical element. I applaud FamilySearch for ALL the wonderful elements woven into this conference. Your recap was outstanding, Amy!ReplyDelete
I only "attended" the streaming lectures, which were awesome, but I loved some of the music so much that I grabbed my phone and used SoundHound to identify and download one of the songs. I agree that Rootstech seemed to be a gathering of "my" people, and I hope to attend the next oneReplyDelete
Amy, your comments are so on track. We were twittering during the conference so you know that I am all about the convergence of the tech and genealogy worlds. I am trying to find ways to implement (and if possible, improve on) many of the coolest features of RootsTech. I wish we had the space of the Salt Plaza and I wish we had the financial and volunteer resources of FamilySearch. If wishes were fishes... Any way, look for Jamboree's own version of the best elements of RootsTech.ReplyDelete
Paula, just from a SCGS member standpoint, I was impressed that you were paying attention from home. SCGS is doing all the right things with the resources it has. I'll gladly spend my genealogy dollars on Jamboree 2011 and I'll discuss with you privately my experience with the gen society unconference and what I felt others were doing wrong. I can't wait to see you in Burbank!ReplyDelete
Agreed on all counts! I loved being surrounded by people who shared my interests, passions, and concerns. It was awesome. I wish there were more ways to meet/visit with people (hard in a lecture)--more dinner options? And more classes on blogging, and on copyright/intellectual property discussions, which came up in some of the lectures I attended. Plus more stuff for sale--I love finding great genealogy books and paraphernalia. Here's to 2012!ReplyDelete
this is good. My experience with genealogy conferences is 100% Jamboree. (woulda been rootstech but for this illness, igg. You may be as sick of reading this as I am sick of saying it. or sick period. feh.)ReplyDelete
My perspective (as I read recaps and "I found my tribe" exclamations --from you, cluewagon) is as someone who's attended a goodly number of tech conferences, and a few unconferences, too (shoutout to my local Barcamp!). My reaction to this is, "of course!" and "glad to see it here." Most of all, having been aware for some years now about (non genealogist) Brewster Kahle, when I saw that he was a keynote speaker, that told me, a person of tech, RootsTech is serious about addressing the tech side of things. Was a major factor in my decision to go (but for the illness, etc., etc.)
Amy, I totally agree with you. This conference WAS the Bees Knees. I enjoyed it all and especially enjoyed how welcome we were made to feel. It was a great learning and networking environment. I wouldn't be surprised if the attendance grew even more next year.ReplyDelete
It was great to see you again.
Rootstech was my first US genealogy conference and I was pleased I travelled all the way from Australia for the event.ReplyDelete
I loved the vibe, the hype, the bright lights,the music, the tech speakers and meeting so many cool genealogy mates.
I thought Rootstech must have been a typical US genealogy conference. You have shattered my illusion!
I watched some of the live videos and am thankful for those who make this technology available to those of us nor attending. And I loved the music too and feel that it created some excitement in the introduction of each speaker.ReplyDelete
Again, your comments are spot on! I thought the music added to the buzz and atmosphere - if that was all certain people could find to complain about that's pretty good (Did this one replace "the rooms were too cold?" complaints from other conferences?)
I also agree that it was great how they encouraged the use of laptops, cell phones and social media.
It was great hanging out with you - especially during the showing of "Who Do You Think You Are?"
This is one of the best recaps that I have read. What a cool conference.ReplyDelete


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ATLANTA -- Anna Sumner unloads her dishwasher, then heads outside to rake the leaves. The sorts of chores many find mundane or mind numbing are exactly the sorts of things in which Anna revels, because for most of her adult life, there was only one thing she did to the exclusion of all else.
"I kept telling myself well I was just a girl who needed a little bit more sleep than the average bear," she said.
Anna says her deep craving for sleep began at the end of high school and by her mid 20's sleep was an addiction that consumed her. Anna slept so much, 16 and even 18 hours a day, that when we asked her at the beginning of our interview how old she is, she hesitated.
Looking toward the ceiling she paused. "I am 37 -- I had to think. When you sleep thru your 20's and 30's, you kind of forget how old you are at a certain point."
One can't help but think of Sleeping Beauty who could only be awakened by a kiss from a prince, but the reality of Anna's life was that no amount of sleep was enough; she never felt rested, or fully awake. For Anna, there was no prince, but there was Emory's Dr. David Rye, who was determined to find out why this driven young woman, who had graduated from Princeton University and Duke law school, could no longer work as an attorney, because she couldn't stay awake.
Anna said, "My record was 53 hours. There was no difference between going to bed at night and waking up the next day and going to bed one night and waking up two days later."
People like Anna, who sleep too much, have forever been diagnosed with other things. Dr. Rye said, "They get diagnosed with laziness. They get diagnosed with depression. They get diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome."
At first Anna did sleep studies, but it took a spinal tap to reveal why this young, formerly vibrant woman was sleeping her life away.
"There's a small molecule that we can isolate from the spinal fluids of these patients, that seems to act like a sedative drug," Rye said.
That peptide, too much of it, made Anna and the other 31 people in Dr. Rye's study feel like they were on heavy doses of Ambien 24 hours a day, year after year after year. When Anna got the news, she was on disability, living with her parents in Mississippi.
She said, "Dr. Rye called and said 'Well we know what it is.' It was a watershed moment."
The amazing news is the condition can be reversed with a drug that is used to awaken patients from minor surgery. Dr. Rye predicts one in 800 people, almost 400,000, could have the newly discovered disease, tentatively named Hypersomnia.
The bad news is the drug is only made in IV form, and there's far too little to go around. He said, "We'd be able to treat four to five people with the entire yearly supply of North America. So there's a scaling problem here."
Anna is the only person in the world getting the medicine, Flumazenil, specially compounded for her. She slips pills under her tongue several times a day to stay awake, and it's in a cream she rubs on her arms at bedtime every night - so she can wake up the next morning.
"It's given me my life," she said. "There's no other way to put it."
And it has given Anna the luxury of time. Until now she had no social life, no dinners or movies or trips or even nights out with friends. She's got a lot of catching up to do.
But she has only a year's supply of the medicine left, and she can hardly bear to contemplate returning to a life that was no life at all.
"Emotionally, I think it would, it would almost kill me," she said.
Rye is hoping the announcement of this new disease will spur drug makers to action. As for Anna, all that lost time has taught her a most important lesson -- to live in the moment.


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Monday, Dec. 24, at 18:00 - Christmas Eve Church services, at the Yonkers Church, and at the Long Island Church..
Tuesday, Dec. 25, at 11:00 - Christmas Day Church services, at the East Orange Church.
Latvian School Christmas celebrations in New Jersey and Yonkers, NY
Saturday, Dec. 15, at 11:00 - The New Jersey Latvian school's "Eglīte" ("Christmas Tree" celebration), at Priedaine NJ and Sunday, Dec. 16, at 10:00 - Church services followed by The Bronx Latvian school's and the congregation's Northern district (Ziemeļu novads) "Eglīte" ("Christmas Tree" celebration) at the Yonkers Church.
Church services in Manhattan at Seafarers
Saturday, Dec. 15 at 14:00 - Church service in Manhattan, at the Seafarers & International House, 123 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003.
All of Latvia was exercising! The NJ Latvian school joins in.
On September 28th all Latvia was excercising! In order to popularize the Olympic movement...
Church service followed by the annual meeting of the congregation's Jamaica, Queens district (Džamaikas novads)
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At the New Jersey Latvian School, a talk and slide show: "What did The New York Times report about Latvia's War of Independence in 1918-1920?"
Saturday, Dec. 8, at 10:00 a.m. - At the New Jersey Latvian School, a talk and slide show: "What did The New York Times report about Latvia's War of Independence in 1918-1920?" by Marģers Pinnis. at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 638 Mountain Ave., Springfield, NJ 07081.
Church services followed by the annual Christmas market at the Long Island church
Sunday, Dec. 2 at 10:30 - Church services followed by the annual
Christmas market, at the Long Island Church (Salas baznīca).
Enjoy a Latvian style lunch. Latvian food will be offered for sale including piparkūkas, rudzu maize, dzeltenmaize, pīrādziņi,
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New York Latvian Concert Choir's Advent concert at the Yonkers church
Sunday, Dec. 2 at 10:00 - New York Latvian Concert Choir's Advent concert at the Yonkers Church.
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Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child
The New Jersey Latvian School has for a second year, led by religion teacher Aldis Jatnieks, participated in the work of the charity Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child.
Seeking donations for the Latvian families affected by hurricane Sandy.
Latvian Independence Day Commemoration, Nov. 17 at the Yonkers Church.
Saturday, Nov. 17, at 14:00 - Latvian Independence Day Commemoration, at the Yonkers Church.
Program will feature an address by Armands Birkens, member of the famous Latvian-American musical ensemble Čikāgas piecīši, (in Latvian) and a concert also by Armands Birkens singing and accompanying himself on guitar. A social afternoon will follow the program in the church's social hall, downstairs, with hors d'oeuvres and refreshments.
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The bill, sponsored by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Glendale, would create a tax credit for freight carriers that fly cargo to international destinations from Lambert. Schmitt said his proposal is a scaled-down version of the "China Hub" proposal floated and failed two years ago. The new bill would allow up to $7.5 million in credits per year until 2021.
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The bill, approved 404-0, would give the Homeland Security Department six months to devise a preference system for the Armed Forces. The legislation went to the Senate.
If the bill becomes law, the earliest beneficiaries would likely be troops returning from Afghanistan next year and their family members, who also would receive preferential treatment.
The government already has initiated, and is expanding, a more intelligence-driven trusted traveler program for civilians. Participants include travelers in American and Delta airlines' frequent-flier programs as well as people who are part of three other programs. These people volunteer more information about themselves so the government can vet them before they arrive at airport security checkpoints.
Chief sponsor Chip Cravaack, R-Minn., said it takes longer for men and women in uniform to pass through security because of their gear, medals on their uniforms and boots that must be unlaced. Allowing them through security more quickly would speed up the waiting time for those not part of a preference program, he said.
While Homeland Security would establish the new preferential system, Cravaack envisions troops not having to remove boots, belt buckles, bulky military jackets and medals. Troops could go to the front of the line, or a separate line could be created.
"This falls in line with the pilot program" now under way," Cravaack said. "I was an airline pilot for 17 years. We would go to the head of the line. I saw people who were not exactly happy with that.
"But the main emphasis is expediting troops going through a security process that wasn't made for them."
Kate Hanni, executive director of FlyersRights.org, said her passenger rights group "strongly supports expedited screening for the military and that should be extended to all law enforcement, DOD folks with security clearance and other government officials with security clearance."
The Transportation Security Administration is currently testing a trusted traveler program at airports in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit and Miami. The program will expand to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul over the next few months.
The civilian program allows participants to go to a dedicated lane. The traveler will provide the TSA officer with a boarding pass that has information about his or her vetted and trusted status embedded in the barcode. A machine will read the barcode, and if the traveler is deemed part of a "low-risk" category, he or she will likely be able to keep on belts, shoes and jackets and leave laptops and liquids in bags when going through the screening process.
In addition, TSA on Nov. 15 began a test at the Monterey Peninsula Airport in California, allowing members of the Armed Forces to present their Defense Department identification card for scanning. The experiment is only to see if the scanning system works, but there is no change in screening procedures.
Although it's a policy, not law, the TSA already makes some accommodations to service members.in uniform with a proper identification card.
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Word had barely come down that the Supreme Court majority was upholding the Affordable Care Act when incensed conservatives began printing up "Impeach Jon Roberts" t-shirts and a hacker had altered the chief justice's title on his Wikipedia page to "Chief Traitor of the United States."
On a freshly minted "Impeach John Roberts" Facebook page, one tea party "patriot" wrote: "Welcome to fascism. Thanks to this horrible decision from the 4 liberal justices and John Roberts there is zero limit to what the government can force us to do."
Outside of the perpetually alarmed right-wing loony bin, however, Mr. Roberts was receiving praise for acting as the fair umpire he promised to be when he was first confirmed by the Senate. Of all the major players with much to win or lose in the challenge to the Democrats' monumental health care law, Mr. Roberts may have gained the most.
Obviously, he will not be impeached, no matter how loud the howling from the hard right. Instead, he has improved his own reputation and begun building a balanced legacy as chief justice.
Until this week, his critics on the left dismissed Justice Roberts as just one more predictable, partisan vote in the Republican faction of the high court. However, now that he joined in striking down much of Arizona's immigration law on Monday and siding with the court's four liberals on the health care law on Thursday, that caricature has been erased.
By taking charge of the Obamacare ruling, Mr. Roberts asserted his leadership of the court while fashioning the decision to match his own philosophy. He avoided the peril of overturning a landmark piece of legislation by switching the key premise on which it was being defended. The core element of the law is the requirement that all Americans must obtain health care insurance. Those who can afford it but refuse to buy it will be penalized with a fine. Supporters said this mandate was permitted by the commerce clause of the Constitution. Detractors said the mandate was an unconstitutional expansion of government power that, if allowed, would mean, as the tea party scribe wrote, "there is zero limit to what the government can force us to do."
Mr. Roberts agreed with his fellow conservatives that the mandate should not be justified as part of the congressional responsibility to regulate interstate commerce, but he reasoned that the fine for failing to buy health insurance falls well within the power of Congress to levy taxes and, therefore, the mandate is legal and constitutional. Court liberals probably did not like the implicit limitation Mr. Roberts was placing on the commerce clause, but a win is a win, and they fell in line behind his opinion.
President Obama was thrilled to see his administration's premier legislative achievement upheld, especially after so many predictions that it would never survive the scrutiny of a conservative court (and after CNN and Fox News prematurely and erroneously reported the court had struck down the law). Mr. Obama will now have a second chance to sell his health care scheme to a skeptical electorate, and the stamp of approval from the Supreme Court should make that an easier task.
Mitt Romney may not be entirely upset by the outcome, either, since he can now run as the only man who can kill Obamacare (as long as voters do not begrudge him the fact that he is the godfather of the health care mandate, having instituted the same mechanism in Massachusetts when he was governor). But, in the long run, no matter who wins the presidential election, Republicans will have a much harder time getting rid of the central elements of the health care act: access to coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, limits to what insurance companies can charge, inclusion of young adults on their parents' policies, guaranteed coverage for preventative care, no limits on payouts for people with long term illnesses. The Supreme Court could have made it easy on Republicans by doing the job for them. Now, Republicans will risk the wrath of voters if and when they try.
Ironic as it may be, history may one day call John Roberts the savior of Obamacare.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Horsey is a political commentator for the Los Angeles Times. Go to latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/ to see more of his work.


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VESTAL, N.Y. – Senior sprinter Dennison Long (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt/FIU) won the 100m and 200m dash events, and anchored the 4x100m relay to a stirring win as the UMBC men's track and field team earned its best-ever finish at the America East Outdoor Championships, placing second overall, Sunday at Binghamton University's East Gym Complex.
Long, who also scored with the 4x400 relay team, earned the Most Outstanding Male Track Performer award, as well as the Coaches' Award for accumulating the most points of any individual competitor.
The Retrievers scored 176 points and finished behind only champion Albany (230.5 pts.). Maine (121 pts.), Binghamton (117 pts.), and New Hampshire (115 pts.) rounded out the top-five with Vermont (63.5 pts.), Stony Brook (27 pts.), and Hartford (6 pts.) completing the standings.
With the program-best finish, head coach David Bobb, along with his assistants, was named the America East Men's Coaching Staff of the Year.
Albany also won the women's title by totaling 245 points, ahead of Binghamton (136 pts.), Vermont (109.5 pts.), UMBC (108 pts.), and UNH (105.5 pts.). Maine (84 pts.), Stony Brook (36 pts.), and Hartford (34 pts.) closed out the rankings.
Long, who also earned the top individual honor at the indoor championships, started his day by finishing the 4x100 relay for the team consisting of junior Pat Balderson (Mount Airy, Md./Linganore),Jenove Blanfort, and senior Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone). Long gave the Retrievers the photo-finish win by crossing the line just ahead of Albany's Winston McCormark, Jr.
He followed the win by taking the top spot in the 100m dash with Blanfort placing fourth. The two sprinters then gave UMBC a one-two finish in the 200m event crossing the line ahead of three Great Danes.
Sophomore Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) paced the women's squad, sweeping the 100m and 200m sprints in America East record time. Jackson won the 100m event with a conference-best time of 11.68 and then took the 200m race by besting her own conference mark and school record with a time of 23.58. For her efforts, she was rewarded with the America East Most Outstanding Female Track award.
Senior Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) completed her career sweep of the shot put, taking the gold medal with a career-best toss of 14.84m (48'8.25"). Deller won the shot put competitions at each of the four America East indoor and outdoor championships during her UMBC career. Freshmen Nneoma Edokobi (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery) and Jennifer Nelson (Plainfield, Conn./Plainfield) also scored for the Retrievers, taking fourth and fifth, respectively.
Earlier in the day, Deller won the discus for the second-straight year with a throw of 43.11m (141'5") to beat the field by nearly eight feet. Deller matched Long by taking the America East Most Outstanding Female Field Performer and Coaches' Awards.
After helping the Retrievers take the 4x100 title, Proctor earned his second-career 110m hurdles gold medal, claiming the event with a finals' time of 14.33.
In the women's 400m hurdles, sophomore Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) edged her school-record time even further for the second-consecutive day, taking third with a time of 1:00.83. Classmate Mary Katherine Kulp (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) also notched a career-best time, crossing the line in 1:02.91 to place fifth.
Coming into the 800m finals as the second-seed, freshman Andrew Keresztes (Port Jefferson, N.Y./Port Jefferson) earned his first career conference title with a career-best time of 1:51.24. Junior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) took fifth in the event.
In the women's event, junior Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) ran a career-best time of 2:11.9 to move up to second all-time at UMBC and finish fourth in the race.
A day after winning the javelin, freshman Vincent Renztsch (Oranienburg, Germany) proved his versatility by winning the two-day decathlon and earning Most Outstanding Male Rookie accolades. Coming into Sunday in third-place, Rentzsch won the discus and javelin competitions and finished tied for fourth in the pole vault, and sixth in both the 110m hurdles 1,500m run. Renztsch scored 6,585 points for the gold, the fourth-most in UMBC history.
Sophomore Thor Serafenas (Olney, Md./Good Counsel/Clemson) won the gold medal in the discus, a day after losing the hammer by one inch. Serafenas won the event with an opening-round toss of 47.99m (157'5") with junior Ray Stinsman III (Mt. Laurel, N.J./Lenape) taking fourth, junior Yao Adanto (Laurel, Md./Reservoir/Morgan St./Maryland) finishing sixth, and sophomore Nneoma Edokobi (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery) taking eighth. Adantor earned a silver medal in the shot put with a heave of 15.78m (51'9.25").
In the men's 1,500m run, junior Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) finished fourth with a school-record time of 3:48.35. His time eclipses the previous record of 3:49.20 set 2007 by Anthony Kelhower and qualifies Albino for the IC4A meet next weekend.
Most Outstanding Track: Dennison Long (UMBC)
Most Outstanding Field: Alexander Bowen (ALB)
Most Outstanding Rookie: Vincent Rentzsch (UMBC)
Coaches' Award: Dennison Long (UMBC)
Coaching Staff of the Year: UMBC
Most Outstanding Track Performer: Mercedes Jackson (UMBC)
Most Outstanding Field Performer: Amanda Deller (UMBC)
Most Outstanding Rookie: Jaclyn Masters (Maine)
Coaches' Award: Amanda Deller (UMBC)
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NBC "Today" show correspondent Natalie Morales will also join Bret Michaels, the "Celebrity Apprentice" winner and rocker, as co-host of the beauty competition Aug. 23 in Las Vegas, the Miss Universe Organization announced.
The two-hour Trump-owned pageant will feature women from more than 80 countries who are judged on three categories: swimsuit, evening gown and interview, according to the organization.
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Here is a summary of SAP Scheduling as discussed in the SAP Training class today.
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- For SAP Sales Order # 9272, line item # 10, the material availability date is 20.08.2003 and the loading date is 21.08.2003. Why ?
- For the same SAP Sales Order, why is the loading date 21.08.2003 and the goods issue date 22.08.2003 ?
- What is the Factory Calendar associated with the Shipping Point of the SAP Sales order in Q.1 above ?
- While the goods issue date is 22.08.2003, why is the Delivery date 25.08.2003 for the SAP Sales Order in Q.1 above ?
- What is the Route associated with the line No.10 of the SAP Sales Order # 9272 ?
- Describe in your own words, the difference between Transit time and Transportation Lead time ?
If the material is supposed to be loaded on 01/01/2010 and the corresponding load time is 2 days what would the Goods Issue date be ?
- Can't determine
- 04/01/2010
If the material picking time is 2 days and packing time is 3 days and the material is available on Jan 01 2010, what would the Loading date be ?
- Jan 06th 2010
- Depends on if we are doing forward scheduling or backward scheduling
- Depends on Transportation Lead time also.
If the transit time is 10 days and the Goods Issue date is Jan 01, when would the Delivery date be ?
- Jan 11th
- Based on Loading time
Delivery date in SAP is
- Date on which goods leave the warehouse
- Date on which goods leave the customer ship-to location
- Describe in your own words the difference between backward scheduling and forward scheduling ?
What is the default scheduling mechanism followed by SAP ?
- Backward Scheduling
- Forward Scheduling
Backward Scheduling in SAP is based on
- Requested Delivery Date
- Ordering Date
Forward Scheduling in SAP is based on
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DURHAM — University of New Hampshire Students displeased with the potential for a new logo by New York design firm, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, have created yet another online group in protest and the hope of deterring school officials from going with any of the three proposed options.
Following a recent presentation by the design firm, at least two pages have been created on the social media web site Facebook calling for reconsideration of what will be the institution's new logo, intended to tie together three state campuses rather than just Durham.
The most recent group, Wildcat Logo Search, has prompted not only response, but alternative logos that many students feel are more appropriate than the three created by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv.
"As a graphic designer, I am appalled by the logo concepts presented by this supposedly expert design firm. When I first read about this, I thought we would at least see some stunning, appealing, moving designs," Rose Lowry, group member, said.
Greg Moore, state director of Americans for Prosperity, who said he's been digging into the finances of UNH and the USNH system, said," this appears (unfortunately) to be an all too common a pattern in terms of a lack of disregard of the mission of both the school and system, which is providing a quality education at the lowest cost possible for the families of NH."
Others suggested using the discretionary funds raised and being used for the cost of this new logo — estimated to fall between $91,400 and $108,200 — be used as scholarship funds for one of the school's many talented graphic artists who comes up with a usable logo.
"$100,000 is an obscene misuse of taxpayer money. Yes, taxpayer. I don't care what fund it comes from, taxpayers support UNH," Alicia Preston, group member and alumnus, said.
"The three $100,000 proposals are embarrassingly bad. They're no better than a child could do with a sketchpad," student Christopher Kyiln.
The new logo, intended to replace the current Thompson Hall tower logo, will not affect the official university seal or the athletic wildcat symbol. It is intended to both be used in conjunction with those, and to attract students and dollars to all campuses, according to UNH spokeswoman Erika Mantz.
But the dollar amount, and the logo themselves, are causing a stir among students and alumni, and faculty and staff alike.
While Mantz claims many have given positive feedback, little has been found by Foster's Daily Democrat as well as UNH employees.The design firm claims they spent a significant amount of time consulting with student, faculty, staff and alumni before creating any design. However, that claim is also being challenged.
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Many group members said they spent a few minutes enjoying their morning coffee coming up with some of the designs.
Alumni John Hikel said, "The logo is just a symptom to another part of the problem."
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