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Juan Domingo Peron, Giant of Argentine Politics:
Early Life of Juan Domingo Perón:
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Juan Domingo Perón's legacy:
It's impossible to overstate Perón's legacy in Argentina: in terms of impact, he's right up there with names like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. His brand of politics even has its own name: Peronism. Peronism survives today in Argentina as a legitimate political philosophy which incorporates nationalism, international political independence and a strong government. Cristina Kirchner, current President of Argentina, is a member of the Justicialist party, which is an offshoot of Peronism.
Like every political leader, Perón had his ups and downs and left a mixed legacy. On the plus side, some of his accomplishments were impressive: he increased basic rights for workers, vastly improved the infrastructure (particularly in terms of electrical power) and modernized the economy. He was a skillful politician who was on good terms with both the east and the west during the cold war.
One good example of Peron's political skills can be seen in his relations with the Jews in Argentina. Peron closed the doors to Jewish immigration during and after World War Two. Every now and then, however, he would make a public, magnanimous gesture, such as when he allowed a boatload of Holocaust survivors to enter Argentina. He got good press for these gestures, but never changed the policies themselves. He also allowed hundreds of Nazi war criminals to find safe haven in Argentina after World War Two, making him surely one of the only people in the world who managed to stay on good terms with Jews AND Nazis at the same time.
He also had his critics, however. The economy eventually stagnated under his rule, particularly in terms of agriculture. He doubled the size of the state bureaucracy, placing further strain on the national economy. He had autocratic tendencies and would crack down on opposition from the left or the right if it suited him. During his time in exile, his promises to liberals and conservatives alike created hopes for his return that he could not deliver: his selection of his inept third wife as his Vice-President had disastrous consequences after she assumed the presidency upon his death, as her incompetence encouraged Argentine Generals to seize power and kick off the bloodshed and repression of the Dirty War.
Alvarez, Garcia, Marcos. Líderes políticos del siglo XX en América Latina. Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2007.
Rock, David. Argentina 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín. Berkeley: the University of California Press, 1987


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Willie Cabrera and Ernesto Mejia helped Mississippi sweep a double header, Arodys Vizcaino had another fantastic start, and 3 hit days by David Rohm and Jakob Dalfonso coudln't overcome Rome's pitching woes.
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Today's game against Lehigh Valley was rained out and will be made up as part of a Tuesday double header starting at 10:35 AM. Julio Teheran will pitch in the first game, followed by Todd Redmond in the second.
Mississippi Braves 8, Jackson Generals 5, Game 1
- Tyler Pastornicky SS 3-4, 2B, HR (4), .3 RBI, .317 AVG
- Willie Cabrera RF 1-4, 2 RBI, .240 AVG
- Ernesto Mejia 1B 3-4, 2B, RBI, .285 AVG
- Jeff Fiorentino DH 2-3, 2B, RBI, .238 AVG
- Paul Clemens 3 IP, 3 ER, 3 H, 4 BB, 2 K, 2.39 ERA
Paul Clemens had his least effective start of the season in the first game of the double header, tossing 40 of his 74 pitches for balls, leading to 4 walks and 3 earned runs in just 3 innings. Tyler Pastornicky had 3 hits, including a double and his fourth homer of the year. After going 1-5 in the second game, the 21 year old is hitting .314 with a .822 OPS on the year. If he keeps it up, there's little reason to believe he won't be move up to Gwinnett by the All-Star break.
Mississippi Braves 12, Jackson Generals 10, Game 2
- Antoan Richardson CF 4-5, SB (6), .306 AVG
- Willie Cabrera RF 3-5, 2B, HR (1), 3 RBI, .257 AVG
- Donell LInares 3B 2-4, 3B, 2 RBI, .302 AVG
- Ernesto Mejia 1B 2-4, 2B, 3 RBI, .290 AVG
- Jesus Sucre C 2-4, 2B, .227 AVG
- Matt Crim 4.1 IP, 3 ER, 8 H, 1 BB, 3 K, .4.70 ERA
The pitching wasn't very good in the second game, as Matt Crim, Richard Sullivan, and Luis Avilan combined to allow 10 runs, 9 earned, over 8.1 innings, but the M-Braves offense picked them up, pounding out 17 hits, 6 of them for extra bases, and scoring 10 runs. Ernesto Mejia combined to go 5-8 with 2 doubles and 4 RBI in the double header, improving his season line to a .290 average and a .840 OPS. Willie Cabrera also had a fine day, combining to go 4-9 with a double, a homer, and 5 RBI, but his season line has been uncharateristic, as he's hit just .257 with a .687 OPS. Jesus Sucre had a nice return from the DL with a 2 hit day. Antoan Richardson went 5-6 in the double header, stealing a bag in each game, and he's been great as the team's leadoff hitter, churning out a .306 average and a .450 OBP.
The M-Braves will open a series with the Tennessee Smokies Tuesday, with Randall Delgado taking the hill.
Lynchburg Hillcats 2, Winston-Salem Dash 1, 11 innings
- Adam Milligan RF 2-5, .241 AVG
- Joe Leonard DH 1-4, RBI, ..256 AVG
- Barrett Kleinknecht 3B 2-4, 2B, .354 AVG
- Shawn McGill C 2-4, 2B, RBI, .276 AVG
- Arodys Vizcaino 7 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 0 BB, 5 K, 2.45 ERA
The Hillcats won in the bottom of the 11th after singles by Adam Milligan and Joe Terdoslavich set up a Joe Leonard walkoff sacrifice fly. The team's other run came off of back to back doubles in the 5th by Barrett Kleinknecht and Shawn McGill. Arodys Vizcaino didn't factor in the decision, but he had another fantastic start, shutting out the Dash over 7 innings, walking none and striking out 5. In his last 3 starts, the 20 year old has a 0.47 ERA, a 0.53 WHIP, 3.3 H/9, 1.4 BB/9, 7.1 K/9, and 5 K/BB.
Chris Masters faces the Dash tomorrow.
Rome Braves 5, HIckory Crawdads 15
- David Rohm RF 3-5, RBI, .261 AVG
- Jakob Dalfonso 3B 3-4, HR (4), 3 RBI, .297 AVG
- Ronan Pacheco 4.1 IP, 5 R, 4 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 2 K, 4.24 ERA
The R-Braves pitching staff just didn't have it today, as Ronan Pacheco allowed 4 earned runs in 4.1 innings, Steve Kent gave up 6 in 2.1 innings, and Matt Suschak allowed 4 in 2 innings. Only Chasen Shreve escaped clean, recording 1 out and stranding 2 runners to end the top of the 9th. David Rohm stayed hot at the plate, rapping out 3 hits, extending his hitting streak to 7 games. He's gone 13-26 with 4 doubles, 2 triples, a homer, and 12 RBI in those games, that's a .500 average and a 1.423 OPS, which is really good. Jakob Dalfonso had 3 hits as well, including his 4th homer of the year, and he's been hot as well. In his last 10 games he's hit .368 with a 1.151 OPS including all 4 of those homers.
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Jimenez has started just once this season, and gave up six runs in six innings before going on the Disabled List with a cut cuticle on his pitching thumb. But with the cuticle healed, Jimenez is scheduled to face off against Jonathan Sanchez Tuesday night at Coors Field.
Everybody associated with the Rockies should be thrilled, save perhaps Greg Reynolds, who went 1-0 with a 3.27 ERA as Jimenez's replacement. But with only three strikeouts in his 11 innings, Reynolds hardly staked his claim on a slot in the rotation, and figures to be heading back to Triple-A Colorado Springs.
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This thread is for basic discussion of the DPS Monk spec. In the interest of having a centralized listing of abilities and core concepts of the spec, I've compiled the following post. It's my understanding that the Windwalker will no be shipped as we now know it from beta testing, so this is not intended to be a guide; it may serve the purpose to start shaping one out, though. In the meantime I'll be updating this post as we get new beta releases, and with feedback from this thread and others in several discussion boards, datamining sites and live footage; see that, at the moment, I don't have access to beta, so any kind of information to fill up gaps, or further develop the OP, is welcomed; if you spot an error and think replying to the thread would pollute it excessively, feel free to PM me. In the future I might be interested in writing a guide, but I haven't yet decided if I'll be directly involved in Monk theorycrafting, that is: the guide is still up for grabs so, if you are up to the task, don't hesitate to contact EJ Mods (particularly Aldriana).
Please note that, as the monk class is prone to fast changes, it's understandable that the discussion will flow in more speculative ways than usual, and moderation may be a tad more lenient. However, all general forum rules apply: I'll be checking regularly on the thread, and it's expected that mods will mod.
The windwalker monk is the dps spec of the new class introduced with Mists of Pandaria. It's a mêlée fighter themed around punches and kicks with a wedge of martial arts. Monks were announced to lack autoattack and use 3 different resources; the implementation we have now in beta does autoattack and has a streamlined 2 resource system.
At its core it functions much like the rogue class, where some basic spells need to be used before gaining access to presumably more powerful spells or finishers. Monks, unlike rogues, have a fixed cost for those finishers, thusly making possible to chain finishers.
Core mechanics and spells
Resource system
Much like rogues, dps monks use two resources, energy and chi. It's worth noting that, as it stands, windwalker monks are largely capped on resources, not gcd (the gcd is 1'', like that of rogues). The main energy consuming move (Jab) is somewhat expensive and, while it can be used several times in a row, it's not an spammable ability.
Is an ever-regenerating pool used by certain utility spells (disarms, snares, heal, etc.) and, primarily by Jab (40e). It regens at a steady pace (8 per second baseline); aside from haste procs and bloodlust-like buffs there's only one way to change energy acquisition: by using the 60s cooldown Energizing Brew.
Is built primarily through the use of Jab (2chi per, thanks to Stance of the fierce Tiger); it's consumed in finishers of sorts, being the main difference with rogues the static chi cost; also, unlike combo points, chi stacks on the monk. Chi can be pooled up to 4 (5 if talented) and most finishers cost 1 or 2, so it is possible to chain finishers. Aside from Jab, there are some other ways to gain chi:
- Expel Harm: self-heal that also deals damage and grants 2chi (thanks to Stance of the fierce Tiger). Additionly it doesn't trigger mastery procs but its damage as of 15781 compensates for that.
- Spinning Crane Kick: aoe move that grants 1chi.
- Chi Brew: a lvl45 talent that replenishes all chi on a 90s cooldown.
- Power Strikes: another lvl45 talent that adds an extra 1chi per jab every 20''.
- Afterlife: a windwalker-only passive that has a 50% chance to summon a Chi Sphere by dealing a killing blow with Blackout Kick, which restores 1chi when walking over it.
- Crackling Jade Lightning: which has a 15% chance to build 1chi per tick.
Passive spells
Combo Breaker: this is the windwalker's mastery. Each time the monk uses Jab, there is a chance to proc either or both of Combo Breaker: Tiger Palm and Combo Breaker: Blackout Kick, thus allowing the use of those finishers free of cost.
Brewing: Tigereye Brew: while this buff is passive it requires player feedback (consuming the brew). It's a mechanic that stacks as a self-buff (up to 10) every 4chi that the monk consumes; once released with Tigereye Brew, it'll increase the windwalker's damage by up to 20% during 15''.
Stance of the Fierce Tiger: each monk spec has a stance (tanking being the Sturdy Ox, and healing the Wise Serpent). The dps one increases damage dealt by 20% and is required in order to use most of the damage moves. It also makes it so that Jab and Expel Harm produce 2 chi instead of the baseline 1 of other monk specs.
Tiger Strikes: is a proc that simply increases the amount of white swings the monk performs.
Way of the Monk: increases white damage if dual wielding or attack speed if wielding a two-hander.
Power Strikes (through talents): if specced into this, the windwalker will get one extra chi per Jab every 20''. If that chi goes over the cap it'll summon a Chi Sphere that can be absorbed by the monk afterwards.
Raid buffs
All monk specs provide Legacy of the Emperor (+5%stats). Windwalker monks formerly brought the new mastery raid buff but now grant the 5% increased critical strike chance one Legacy of the White Tiger (+5%crit).
Usable spells
Basic abilities
Jab: this is the most basic attack and main chi builder (2chi per 40energy). It'll morph into jab, club, sever, slice, pike or clobber if you equip fists/maces/axes/swords/polearm/staff. Following the rogue simile, this'd be a sinister strike.
Expel Harm: is an aternative to Jab; it builds as much chi for the same energy cost, while dealing more damage and also some self-healing. Its drawback is the 15'' cooldown and the fact that it won't trigger mastery procs.
Tiger Palm: is a cheap finisher with no cooldown. It buffs the monk with Tiger Power ignoring 5% armour (stacking up to 3 times) for 15''.
Blackout Kick: is another finisher with no cooldown. Along with the two above, this move is shared by all monk specs. For windwalkers it can proc a 4''dot (4 ticks) dealing an extra 20% damage when attacking from behind thanks to Combat Conditioning. They are iterating over this ability fairly often.
Rising Sun Kick: is a windwalker-only finisher on a short cooldown. It'll also debuff enemy units for 15'' to take 10% increased damage from the monk.
Fists of Fury: is an expensive finisher on a short-ish cooldown that damages (and stuns) in a frontal cone during 4s. Note that, as a regular channel, it disables autoattak and will break out of channel if moving.
AoE abilities
Spinning Crane Kick: is shared among all specs and is very similar to a warrior whirlwind. It awards 1chi, half the amount of chi a Jab does and disables autoattack.
Fists of Fury: is very expensive as an aoe, since it splits the damage between all units; its strength as an aoe, if any, lies in the aoe stun (which is now merely a token of it's former incarnation)
Flying Serpent Kick: has two components, a movement forward and an aoe damage/snare on-landing ( Flying Serpent Kick). It has no cost so it may work as a filler spell.
Other damage related abilities
Brewing: Tigereye Brew: formerly a cleave-like cooldown, this is now a mechanic that stacks as a self-buff (up to 10) every 4chi that the monk consumes; once released with Tigereye Brew, it'll increase the windwalker's damage by 2% per charge during 15''.
Spinning Fire Blossom: ranged attack that can be used as filler on the pull (if specced into Chi Brew) or while running.
Crackling Jade Lightning: channeled ranged damage; each tick has a chance to generate 1chi.
Path of Blossoms: mouse-targeted fire damage triggered by the enemy when stepping on it (much like a hunter's trap)
Utility spells
All monks come with a wide array of spells such as interrupts, disarms, mobility, etc. Some of them, if previous xpacks serve as an example, are more pvp oriented, but may see an use during pve at some point.
There's a big change for gems in MoP: secondary stats come in double the amount of primary stats; stamina comes in 3/4 the amount of a secondary stat. This means that we might be socketing for the bonus a lot more frequently (we'll know once stat weights are studied). I'll be linking to perfect uncommon cuts since they are budgeted the same as rare cuts: Delicate Primordial Ruby and Perfect Delicate Pandarian Garnet both give 160 agility. Epic green/purple/orange gems are already in the database ( Glinting Zyanite) but the way to obtain them is not clear yet. Note that, tipicaly, only the gems in the first column are of interest to agility classes, the rest may be useful if stat weights for secondary stats hover around 0.5AEP.
For the Meta slot we seem to be getting again the +3% critical effect: Agile Primal Diamond.
As for JC-only gems, this time around we only get to equip 2 of them, instead of the usual 3, finally equalizing the strength of JC with every other crafting tradeskill: Delicate Serpent's Eye.
(*): Agility food is cooked with the Wok Specialization. As of current beta, this is the only way to get top tier food (+300).
(**): The strength of the banquets (250 or 275) is based on the cooking spec that crafted it; windwalker monks will get 275agi from a (Great) Banquet of the Wok. For more info visit El's Extreme Anglin'
Most crafting tradeskills grant 320 extra agility with the exception of Tailoring (the cape enchant might be a close equivalent), Leatherworking (330 extra agility) and engineering (~490 average agi). Gathering ones, as usual, provide a boost in secondary stats. Alchemist's Flask doesn't show the propper tooltip and engineering might have the glove enchant nerfed at some point.
Talents and glyphs
With the next MoP xpack, talents will no longer be tied to specs. As a windwalker, choosing talents and glyphs will be a matter of raid utility as they're largely unrelated to enhancing damage output.
Older talents and datamined abilities that may replace the mistery talents:
Mystery Talent
Ring of Peace
Death Cocoon
These are the talent tiers related to dps:
-Level 30 (hibrid heal/damage/defense finishers):
It's been stated by the devs that they're not intended to be used in normal combat cycles. Zen sphere is reported to be extremely strong, but an eventual nerf is expected.
-Level 45 (resources):
Both Chi Brew and Power Strikes provide a boost of chi. Power strikes offers more chi regen (up to 0.05chi/s) than Chi Brew (up to ~0.044chi/s) but lacks its burst-on-demand aspect.
As for Ascension, in patchwerk-esque fights, managing a larger resource pool only matters in two scenarions: one, when pooling has any kind of effect in the cycle, or two, if capping in some resource is unavoidable: non of the two happen in current windwalker cycles. A case for fights where some kind of very small burst in waves of ~20s is needed can be made for Ascension, but that's about it: it'd allow the use of one extra Palm when finisher chaining.
-Level 90: every option leads to dps in one or another way. At the moment we don't have final numbers to judge any of the three, but it appears as Xuen woudl be the go-to talent for single target.
The damage-related glyphs for windwalkers are few: Glyph of Touch of Karma doesn't add any damage component to it but may favor its use in, for instane, fights with multiple units; Touch of Death, and Crackling Jade Shock (only non-boss units) may see some situational use too.
Hereinafter a wide variety of monk glyphs that have no bearing on windwakers.
Here I'll keep logging the info we have on mechancis and spells of particular interest, as well as some basic math to assess the value of them.
Strike formulae and normalization
For starters, no monk strike has a bonus damage: a standard formula reads as 'deals X% weapon damage plus Y' while all monk strike scale only from weapon damage (or dps, really, but we'll get to that in a second), so a monk strike formula is basicly 'X% weapon dps'. Now, that weapon damage factor is -usually- the normalized weapon damage but monks don't normalize weapons in the same fashion (see that weapon_dps = weapon_damage / weapon_speed):
I don't know the full reasoning behind this, but it steams from the fact that monk strikes can be performed with either a 2h or with both 1h when dual-weilding (whereas most other classes spells can do one of the two, or strike with the mh only, be it a 1h or a 2h). In fact the whole formula for a strike goes like [X% * dw_mod * (mh_dps + oh_dps / 2 + AP /14)] where the dw_mod is 0.898882 when dual-weilding and 1.00 when using a 2h.
Strike efficiency
Chi burners:
mods = (1.2) * dw_mod * (weapon_dps + AP / 14) * armor_reduction * raid_modifiers
A couple words on the derivation of FoF: since it disables AA, its value in a cycle is a bit lower than its straight damage compared to other spells; that's why I'm listing the 'adjusted dpc'. If we consider the damage of AA as 1weapon_dps per sec, the damage of FoF would be 5 rounds of FoF (5 * 5weapon_dps) minus 4 seconds of AA (4weapon_dps) for a total of 21weapon_dps. In adition to that, a ww monk won't be proccing Tiger Strikes during the channel, but that derivation is a bit more tricky.
Chi builders:
Expel Harm produces [3.15 * mods] damage plus 2chi.
Jab produces [1.5 * mods + 0.11TP + .11BOK] damage plus 2chi. Its damage adds adds up to [(1.5 + 0.11 * 3 + 0.11 * 9.6) * mods] or [2.886 * mods] damage plus 2chi (or [2.71 * mods] if the BOK is performed from the front).
It seems like Expel Harm is more efficient than Jab, but this is likely to change as we aquire more mastery rating.
Spell behaviour
Tiger Strikes:
It's a two-roll yellow strike that simply shows up in white text in-game.
Once procced, you get 4 charges (next 4 swings), but you also get a TS strike from the swing that generated it for a grand total of 5.
Both the proc and the 'charges' procs off of white swings (misses and the like included). It doesn't seem to have an icd. It can't proc off of itself.
The proc rate is not yet confirmed: latest blue on the matter stated that TS is a balance knob for dw/2h; however, I haven't found yet any evidence suggesting the proc rate to be any different than 10%. Hamlet proposed using the old [1 - (1 - p) ^ N] to come up with the uptime on it (for 2h at least). I imagine the proc rate could be derived in the same fashion: rate = 1 - (1 - uptime) ^ (1 / 4); however, the logs I've been checking have too much variance for me to pin it down (iteration through beta builds is a huge factor here).
Combo Breaker:
It only procs off of Jab: not Expel Harm nor Spinning Crane Kick.
Both TP/BOK procs are independent: you can get one or the other or both from the same Jab.
Tier 45 talents:
Power Strikes: 1 chi every 20s produce 0.050 chi/s.
Chi Brew: 4 chi every 90s produce 0.044 chi/s.
Ascension only matters for resource pooling, which is not an issue in straight up fights.
Tigereye Brew:
At 8energy per second regen, a ww monk can cast a Jab every 5s, thus generating 0.4chi/s (plus 0.05 from Power Strikes). A fully stacked Tigereye takes 100s to build (88.89 with Power Strikes).
Fists of fury:
Point blank channel; breaks when moving and disables AA.
5 assaults or rounds: the one when starting the channel and one each second for 4s after that.
Can proc melee enchants while channeling.
Blackout Kick dot
According to the devs it rolls like ignite: if used when a previous dot is up, the damage is recombined in a new dot; thusly, at the end of a fight (overkill and rounding aside) it should deal exactly 20% of the damage of all the BOK strikes.
It's unclear to me, though, how will crit affect this: I would imagine it can doube dip on crit (a crit tick from a crit BOK benefits from the 2x modifier twice) so some testing is due to pin this down. The mechanic is a bit bugged now, dealing considerabl less overall damage than it should do, so I'd wait until next build to test this.
Some personal notes:
The cycle seems to feel fuid enough. However, it's worth pointing out that one of the reasons many people were interested in the class was the dark/light chi resources. Now that that is gone, the spec sounds a lot like a simplified rogue. The possibility to pool on chi is an interesting twist but the strength of the idea is diluted in that the burst on demand it could offer is offset by the impossibility to chain more than 2 strong finishers.
I would also like to note that all 3 basic finishers are instant damage without anything to differentiate them or to track a dot or a self-buff; while it may fit with the street fighter kind of a theme monks have going on, I find this lack as a very bland feature of the class. Now, we all know many things will change, but at first glance the spec lacks some complexities that make other classes fun to play.
Finally, the lack of procs, like double chi gains, or energy regen increases, or cooldown resets, or any other weird interaction between abilities is notable. The mastery proc is the only proc that expects and action from the players (using a finisher that is); Tiger strikes is an un-interesting proc, being passive and offering no way to predict, force, stack with others or, in short, interact in any way with it. As it is now, to me it feels like we're still missing a relatively big piece in the puzzle.
Change log:
Thread started.
Reworked some wowhead links and deleted mentions to the older thread as the insight in that one is largely reposted here.
Talents and glyphs included.
Layout changed; some sections may seem out of proportion, but I expect them to change and grow in the future. Included some icons.
Updated to build 15508.
Updated info on Combo Breaker, Rising Sun Kick and Flying Serpent Kick at several points.
Updated to build 15544: Blackout Kick is now cheaper and has no cd nor hp requirement; it also puts a dot when below 50%. New talent 'Power Strikes'.
Jab now produces 2chi; updated references and combat cycle. Some talents have swaped tiers and some are gone.
Updated combat cycle to reflect the finisher priorities studied in the thread.
Updated to build 15589: new talents; Blackout's dot is now 6'', Muscle Memory has been reworked and the statue's on-click is gone.
Updated to build 15640: many talents changes and new glyphs; Tigereye Brew reworked; blackout's cost re-upped to 2chi; detox no longer dispels bleeds; tiger statue is replaced with Invoke Xuen.
Updated to build 15650: talent changes; windwalkers get the 'dual-wield' passive (tanks and healers don't?); Invoke Xuen is apparently a talent now.
Deleted the Statue section. Included some enchants/gems (will keep updating it now and then).
Updated to build 15657: Muscle Memory has been baked into Tiger Stance.
Updated to build 15662: Chi Wave is now available to all specs as a talent.
Updated to build 15668: Palm reworked: buffs with stacking armor ignore regardless of hp threshold. RSK applies the healing debuff. Tigereye's effect doubled (now ww exclusive).
Linked most (when possible) glyphs to the glyph item. Updated several icons: blame wowhead if the tooltips are not yet updated.
Updated to build 15677: new glyphs; also: Flying Nimbus!
Updated to build 15689: Spinning Crane Kick awards 1chi.
Updated to build 15699: Blackout execute-dot is gone.
Included some notes on Blackout Kick at several points where applicable.
Updated to build 15726: Legacy of the White Tiger grants 5%crit raid buff instead of 5mast. Power Strikes severely nerfed (from 0.067 to 0.05chi/s).
Pushed build number to 15739: Not much going on for ww. Noted that enchanting the head slot is no longer possible.
Pushed build number to 15752: energy cost for raid buffs reduced.
Updated to build 15762: Blackout was significantly buffed with Combat Conditioning.
Reformat the talents section
Updated to build 15781: Strike scaling got updated. Rare cuts are back and some epic gems are in.
Updated the combat cycle section and finally changed energy regen to 8 (and every section affected by this)
Started the 'Mechanics' section.
Updated to build 15799: base energy regen went up to 13 but it's expected to be a bug. ZS still waiting for its nerf.
Updated to build 15851: energy regen back to 8.
Posted 26 March 2012 - 06:21 PM
So energy per second = 10(1+haste) + 60/60
Jabs per second = EPS/40. Jab damage can be computed independently of anything else (putting aside how to deal with Muscle memory).
Chi per second = EPS/40*(total hit).
Find finisher with best damage per chi (possible capping due to cooldown as Aldriana mentioned). Finisher damage can be computed independently of anything else from the looks of it.
Free Blackout Kicks per second = EPS/40*(total hit)*(proc rate) (Flag potential Blackout Kick capping issue although seems unlikely with current numbers)
White DPS independent of everything, just have to compute Tiger Strikes uptime.
Okay, spreadsheet done. No, this has to be pretty unfinished, everything about the rotation is totally static. And I'm pretty sure it is unfinished since they've closed off L85 Monk premades for now.
Do we have AP coefficients on any of these spells?
Posted 26 March 2012 - 06:45 PM
1) The rotation does indeed feel bland; it might get better if Rising Sun Kick surpasses Tiger Palm and Blackout Kick in damage per chi (which is the only relevant measure of move quality right now), but even then: with 0 haste you *can* keep up with your Chi generation just with Rising Sun Kick, so even with a lot of haste - say 20% - you'd only need to spend 1 chi every 40 seconds on other moves. Hence, to a very large extent, you're going to be alternating between Jab (or equivalent) and a single finisher, possibly using a second (different) finisher to soak up mastery procs. Not exactly the most exciting cycle they've ever designed. You'll be weaving Flying Serpent Kick and (maybe) Fists of Fury in, but its still not exactly something you have to think carefully about.
2) Expertise/Hit cap are going to be very important. Missed energy abilities refund no energy; missed chi abilities refund no chi. Hence each 1% miss chance results in 2% fewer chi moves done, which is likely to be a significant loss of damage.
3) Meditation seems really overpowered. Its Dispersion on crack, and Dispersion was already extremely useful on a number of fights in Cataclysm. I have to believe that 99% number will be dropped to something more reasonable (like, 40%) sometime before launch.
4) I have my doubts about Muscle Memory. Given that you only get 1 jab every 4 seconds baseline, its going to take something like 7 minutes to max out your stack - maybe 6 with haste. As all but the longest boss fights are shorter than that, it basically means that Monks are going to steadily get stronger over the course of every fight - in addition to having a potential execute mechanic in Blackout Kick. I'm really not sure why they're designed that way - it seems like a recipe for trouble wherein they're overpowered in long fights or underpowered in short ones. Will be interesting to see if they conclude whether that's actually a good thing or not, as it seems like a pretty bad idea to me.
Posted 26 March 2012 - 06:56 PM
30: Ascendance doesn't accomplish anything for DPS at the moment. Cider cives 4 Chi every 90s.
90: 3 different options for new spells that each let you do X damage once every Y seconds.
No other tiers have DPS talents.
So yeah, nothing here affects the DPS rotation (aside from the straightforward bonus from Cider).
Posted 27 March 2012 - 03:55 AM
Jab does 79-80 naked (434 AP)
Jab does 180-181 with 996 AP. (defensive stance). So looking like about 0.18 on Jab (am I reinventing the wheel here? I don't know there's a well-known convention for what the coefficient would be).
Tiger Palm does 236 @ 434AP w/50% bonus.
537 @996AP. Coeff--0.5356, or 0.357 before the bonus.
Blackout Kick: 555, 1263, for 1.26.
Posted 27 March 2012 - 04:48 AM
Edit: Also, what target was that on? We'll need to factor in armor mitigation to get actual coefficients.
Posted 27 March 2012 - 05:06 AM
I see though. So you're saying my observed coefficients from unarmed attacks might not mean anything since the coefficient changes based on weapon type (up to normalization speed?).
Posted 27 March 2012 - 05:36 AM
There's also the fact that, if you believe wowhead, your Jab should be doing a baseline 139.4 damage just by virtue of your level, and its clearly not. I suspect we're going to need to do testing 1) over a wider range of AP values and 2) with an assortment of weapons with better-understood properties before we can really draw many conclusions about the exact formulas for the abilities. And probably against targets with better understood armor properties.
Are there by chance any critters around you can kill? Rats in the deeprun tram were always a good way to get a good estimate of the unmitigated damage of an attack.
Posted 27 March 2012 - 06:26 AM
The 139 damage is what the tooltip read in-game. And since wowhead can only see what's in the tooltips, that probably doesn't mean too much.
I did check that the damage values I posted continued linearly to some higher values of AP.
I'll see if I can find anything more tomorrow or sometime soon; the account with the 85 Monk isn't mine.
Posted 28 March 2012 - 04:33 PM
--I think the training targets have 0 armor, just judging by unarmed white attacks.
--Also, armed white attacks with the staff looked to scale perfectly at AP/14*3.3, also seemingly indicating 0 armor.
--I didn't put enough time in for a perfect damage range on Jab, but probably got close. It looked like adding in the AP from one Agi item was adding something very close to AP/14*3.3 damage. The Jab itself was doing something on the order of 75% of a white attack.
This isn't quite as mushy as it sounds, i.e. I know how to test spellpower coefficients properly, just a pain to get an exact damage range without a proper dummy.
Tell me if this is correct as far as how melee attacks usually work:
for Weapon Damage (listed range on weapon), Attack Power, Normalized speed, spell-specific Coefficient. Or is it:
Like you say this will be more worth our time when there's more to test with, but it was good for me to spend a little bit remembering how melee attacks work in the first place. And if anyone felts like putting in enough swings to nail down an exact (or nearly-exact) damage range on some things I think you could deduce a lot even from one weapon.
Posted 28 March 2012 - 05:11 PM
Posted 28 March 2012 - 05:42 PM
Also note that, if anyone is testing this, white swings are not normalized: white_damage = weapon_speed * (weapon_dps + AP / 14)
Posted 03 April 2012 - 11:56 AM
The way it works on beta is that each jab has a (1.4 * mastery)% chance to proc Combo Breaker: Tiger Palm (making your next tiger palm free) and an independant (1.4 * mastery)% chance to proc Combo Breaker: Blackout Kick (making blackout kick free and usable regardless of health). Both can proc off the same jab.
The basic rotation priority seems to be:
Rising Sun Kick on cooldown
Spend mastery procs. Order doesn't really matter as long as you use procs before you jab again, but slight priority to blackout kick as it does more damage.
Spend excess chi, saving 2 for Rising Sun Kick, unless you're going to cap on energy and not cap on chi, in which case
Jab, unless you're going to cap on chi.
The only real divergance from this would be if you have jinyu cider, which you would probably pop after you hit 0 chi after a rising sun kick or whatever.
For comparison: I don't have logs or anything, but anecdotally on the beta with a 378 geared premade monk on a 85 target dummy:
Rising sun kick hits for ~19k each * 2.3
Blackout kick hits for 35-40k.
Tiger palm hits for ~20k. (I suspect that the additional damage over 50% isn't actually applying on the target dummies, even though they're 100%; I can't prove this, however. I'd expect ~30k above 50%.)
Jab hits for roughly 6k. After extended combat, regular 12k crits.
This is with chattering claw mh/trickster's edge oh, and getting similar numbers with a 378 staff.
Again, I don't have empirical numbers, but that should give you an idea of the relative strength of the abilities.
Posted 04 April 2012 - 02:10 PM
The stats will be presumably in favor of the 2H.
About the auto-attack, I gave a shot at making a spreadsheet to see the DPS of a 2H and two 1H at level 85.
For the moment, it has several flaws but I hope to solve them soon :
• no expertise taken in account (basically, the attacks either miss or land, due to the "Hit" setting ; no dodge and parry)
• no glances
• Tiger Fury not simulated as I have some difficulty to formalize an average impact of this spell.
Don't hesitate to comment it, point out any mistake or help me about the flaws mentionned above.
... And keep in mind this is my first SS. :shobon:
(Also, sorry if my english isn't perfect. ^^ I tried my best.)
Posted 04 April 2012 - 03:30 PM
Don't hesitate to comment it, point out any mistake or help me about the flaws mentionned above.
... And keep in mind this is my first SS. :shobon:
You're currently modeling DW miss chance as 27% + 8% base for 35% miss total. I'm pretty sure the DW miss rate in the mid-20s (I don't remember what the exact most current rate is) replaces the 8% instead of adding to it. This will significantly improve DW in your comparison.
Posted 04 April 2012 - 04:13 PM
We can see that DW and 2H are pretty similar.
Tiger Fury is NYI, though, so I think it'd be to early to draw any conclusion.
Posted 04 April 2012 - 04:30 PM
On a given melee swing, that swing will benefit from TS if any of the prior 4 swings procced it. If the proc rate is a constant 10%, that chance is simply (1 - 0.9^4) = 34.4%. Add that many extra auto-attacks and scale down average swing time correspondingly. (Might have to test the properties of the extra swings later and adjust accordingly, i.e. seeing what all they can proc).
That should be a solid model for 2H. DW is tricker--I'll try getting into it more later--but the concept should apply.
Posted 04 April 2012 - 08:52 PM
2H: World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
DW: World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
I haven't had a chance to run my own logs yet or to really dissect these much further than confirming the similar damage between special attacks and the expected difference in white damage (with DW > 2H).
Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:24 AM
Namely, the tiger statue buff lasts 6 seconds with 2 charges per statue. A 15% buff to 2 players for 12 seconds is probably worth the ~1.7 second cast time if all you're missing is auto attacks. So assuming you've got someone in your raid capaple of clicking the statue every 6 seconds ad nauseum, the proper rotation depends on buying yourself time to recast your tiger every twelve seconds without capping energy (or chi during the subsequent energy dump).
With that said, this will probably not be how it works live. You'd be buffing your best DPS by a straight 15% the entire fight....that's possible currently with 5 rogues and a lot of coordination, but 1 monk doing that would almost certainly be too good. I believe there is room here for something interesting, however. Maybe 5% with 15 second duration would be more reasonable, not to mention less ridiculous to keep up.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 06:12 PM
While they use energy, my main is a DK and I find it to be quite a lot alike. I tried test dummy with mastery>haste and found the mastery procs up quite a bit and usually both popping at the same time.
It may be due to my dk history but I didn't seem to find it like a rogue much. I found myself spending chi more than energy in a sense that I was having so many procs that I was more trying to keep energy from capping while using my chi at the same time. This rarely caused any downtime. I'll try to get some WoL up at some point this weekend. Ill be going for haste>mastery tonight and see how it goes.
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After all, he's just a coach that does things a little differently. Successfully, sure; but it's not like he's some coaching superstar. E-mails between the AD and a boosters, obtained by the Dallas Morning News, confirm that this thinking existed. After Leach went 11-1 and had arguably the most successful season in school history, Leach was of the mind that he deserved a new contract. Here was the opposing perspective, an e-mail from booster Jim Sowell to Texas Tech President Kent Hance:
Kent, their latest offer is offensive. Mike wants a salary virtually the same as (Bob) Stoops and (Mack) Brown...
He won 11 games this year -- big deal -- two other tech coaches did it before him and it didn't take either one of them 9 years to do it. What did it get us? The Cotton Bowl. ... In 9 years, he has only had one real interview: Washington. (Where they hired another coach within 24 hours after their interview with Leach). We got the report from the Miami AD on their "interview" with Leach last year in a hotel lobby. The Kentucky job, where he was offensive coordinator for two years, has been open twice since he has been at Tech. They weren't interested in him. ... In spite of being Big 12 Coach of the Year, he is NOT a hot commodity. He has no bargaining power.
But see, he did have bargaining power. Because where Bobby Knight -- college basketball's all-time winningest coach and one of the more traditional figures in all of sports -- had failed to deliver Texas Tech to any true national prominence, Mike Leach had succeeded. Again and again. It was more than just 10 winning seasons and bowl appearances. As long as they had Leach, Texas Tech and the tiny town of Lubbock were relevant.
What would happen if a regular guy -- albeit a weird, really smart regular guy -- decided to coach football? Mike Leach was college football's answer. And for that, the whole country -- especially Texas Tech fans -- romanticized the hell out of him, while the higher-ups at the University refused to respect him and resented his influence.
Last year, Leach's bargaining power ultimately won out, and Texas Tech awarded him a new contract. But as the above e-mail illustrates, there was no shortage of skepticism toward Leach and all that he'd accomplished. And that sort of thing doesn't just disappear. This Adam James controversy merely offered them an opportunity to act on their frustrations. It was never about Leach's misconduct toward an injured player with a famous dad.
This was about injured egos, and more than anything else, ignorance. Because while the backlash toward Leach is maybe understandable, the Texas Tech administration made the bigger mistake of misunderstanding Leach's success. It wasn't that they had a coach who'd produced ten winning seasons, but that they had Mike Leach. He didn't deliver Texas Tech to national prominence despite his strange style, but because of it.
College football fans cared about him -- and by extension Texas Tech -- because he was completely different than anyone we'd ever seen coaching before. Sure, his teams were successful, but not that successful. There are plenty of top 15 programs that nobody cares about. I'll watch Oklahoma State play Oklahoma, but otherwise, they're not on my radar. But Texas Tech? People will watch, solely because they know that Mike Leach and his offense will make things interesting. He had the people all across the country talking about Texas Tech.
And in the end, that's his job. It's not to win the Big 12 or win National Championships like Mack Brown or Bob Stoops. Those would be great, but from the administration's standpoint, the goal is to enhance the overall profile of the school. That's why they hired Bobby Knight after multiple instances of abusive behavior, the likes of which make Mike Leach's shed seem tame. But it wasn't Knight that got the whole country talking; it was this quirky, weird looking ex-lawyer that nobody really understood, but everyone loved.
Texas Tech stumbled onto a winning lottery ticket with Mike Leach. Now, they've chased him off because he wanted to get rich too. And yeah, I'm sure the Texas Tech administration thinks that their football team can win without him. But will anybody watch?
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Termoli, Italy, September 11, 2004 - For many of the fans watching this weekend's women's FIVB U-18 World Championships, Sunday's first semi-final between Germany and Brazil will feature the two best teams in the competition.
But, don't tell that to Margo Wiltens as she and Marlen Van Iersel will play one of the two teams in a medal match after winning the Netherlands team won a pair of elimination matches here Saturday to advance to Sunday's first semi-finals against 23rd-seeded Katarzyna Urban and Joanna Wiatr of Poland.
Sunday's second "final four" match will have second-seeded Barbara Figueiredo and Carolina Solberg Salgado of Brazil facing third-seeded Florentina Büttner and Julia Sude of Germany.
"Don't expect us or the Poles to lack any confidence in playing either the Germans or the Brazilians," said Wiltens. "We like our chances as all four of the finalists are very good teams and each is capable of winning the gold medal. The team with the fewest mistakes will win Sunday."
The fifth-seeded Van Iersel and Wiltens will be facing Urban and Wiatr for the second-time this summer as the Poles scored a 15-21, 23-21 and 15-11 win over the Netherlands pair in the first-round of the elimination bracket at the European finals. Urban and Wiatr defeated Büttner and Sude 21-18, 15-21 and 16-14 in the European U-18 gold medal match.
"We are excited to have a chance to play the Polish team again," said Wiltens. "We played them tough in the EU finals on their home sand. If we play like we played against the Americans today, we'll have an excellent chance for a win."
Van Iersel and Wiltens scored a 21-9 and 21-17 win over fourth-seeded Cynthia Barboza and Stephanie Barry of the United States to advance to the finals. Urban and Wiatr gained a "final four" berth with a 21-14 and 21-12 win over 24th-seeded Oksana Bosjanok and kadri Puri of Estonia.
Brazil and Germany were guaranteed spots in the semi-finals as their quarter-final matches pitted two teams from the same country. Büttner and Sude eliminated 19th-seeded Lina Gorenc and Katarina Schillerwein 21-16, 19-21 and 15-9 for Germany's "final four" berth. Figueiredo and Solberg Salgado scored a 21-19 and 21-12 win over 22nd-seeded Carolina Aragao and Clarisse Peixoto for Brazil's spot in Sunday's semi-finals
The FIVB U-18 World Championships also features men's competition as both genders conclude play Sunday with the semi-finals and medal matches for both genders.
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Overview of class This course addresses some "hot" topics in corporate governance, with a focus on publicly traded corporations. After introductory material on the structure of the corporation and the fiduciary duties of directors, the topics covered this term may include: shareholder and director involvement in setting executive compensation, including shareholder say on pay votes; measures taken by boards and management to defend aggressive acts by shareholders and to entrench themselves in office; conflicts of interest in corporate transactions; the role of independent directors; forum selection by-laws for shareholder litigation; and the SEC whistleblower rules and their impact on corporate internal compliance programs. A full and open discussion among all students and the instructor is a fundamental feature of this course. Registration Requirements There are no prerequisites for this course. A prior course in Business Associations or Corporations may be helpful but it is not required, as the necessary foundational readings in basic corporate law are included in the initial assignments (and students are strongly encouraged to ask questions about any legal principles or business concepts with which they are not familiar). The course covers some topics under the federal securities laws. Here, too, the necessary background materials are included in the casebook or other assigned readings. Teaching Method Independent study: A two- or three-draft paper is required. The three-draft paper will satisfy the corresponding writing requirement. For those students who may receive multiple draft credit for a two-draft paper, the two-draft paper will satisfy that writing requirement. Student who are not taking the course in order to satisfy the writing requirement must write at least a two-draft paper. Group work: Two students may form a team to write a three-draft paper Class participation: a substantial proportion of the grade will be based on class participation; each student will briefly present on his/her paper topic Research project: A two- or three-draft paper is required. Writing assignments: A two- or three-draft paper is required. Presentations: Each student will briefly present on his/her paper topic Discussion Evaluation Method Paper, final: two- or three-draft paper Attendance: Mandatory Class participation Other (see below): The last two or three weeks of class will be devoted to student presentations of their papers, though the deadline for the papers themselves is one week after the last day of the exam period. Each student will be required to write a paper of at least two drafts. Teams of two students may be formed for a three-draft paper (not for a two-draft paper). Class Materials (Required) CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CASES AND MATERIALS, J. Robert Brown & Lisa L. Casey (Lexis/Nexis 2012) (available in both hardbound and looseleaf format). ISBN-13: 978-1422426814 All other material identified in the syllabus is required unless designated "optional" Some materials are posted on Blackboard. For other materials a URL or a Westlaw citation is provided. Class Materials (Suggested) Some optional material will be listed on the syllabus by URL or Westlaw citation.
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|Spencerville bids Hatfield adieu
|Sunday, December 29, 2013 9:00 PM
Herald Correspondent
Building new schools, maintaining the operation through state budget cuts in a slow economy and making students competitive on a national level are significant tasks Hatfield tackled during his time as the superintendent of Spencerville Schools.
Hatfield said the biggest challenge came from outside his buildings.
"The hardest thing was dealing with policies with the state and federal government, many of which were not in the best interests of the students," he said.
Hatfield, who began as a middle school social studies teacher in the district in Fall 1978, coached middle school and varsity football and middle school and varsity girl's basketball. He became high school principal in 1991 and then went to the position of superintendent in 1999.
His accomplishments during his coaching time include middle school football NWC championship in 1984; middle school girl's basketball NWC championships in 1986 and 1988 and tournament champs in 1988; varsity girls basketball district runners-up 1989-90 and 1990-91; NWC runners-up 1990-91; and sectional champs 1990-91.
Hatfield's biggest and most noticeable accomplishment at Spencerville was overseeing the building of the new K-12 facility. For the more than four years of planning, designing, implementation, building and move-in, Hatfield was involved 24/7. School board members said his attention to detail and insistence for quality workmanship afforded the school a beautiful facility.
"His daily on-site direction kept mistakes to a minimum, schedules on time and the project under budget. Even after the move in January 2007, his constant attention to the few issues we had rectified and made right which will benefit this district for years to come," they said.
While his leadership role in the school is his greatest personal accomplishment, his has fond memories of his climb up the ladder and a particularly humbling experience.
"I was substituting for a teacher in a 300-student study hall and one of the students came up to where I was and informed me that my zipper was down," he said with a laugh.
Hatfield's education began in 1970 when he graduated from Kenton Senior High School (went to Waynesfield until his senior year). He graduated in 1977 from The Ohio State University with a degree in education; from the University of Dayton in 1987 with a masters of science in educational administration; served in the U.S. Army 1971-74 (stationed in Korea). He is also a member of the VFW and American Legion; has served as a board trustee and president of the board at Spencerville United Church of Christ; and also served as a member of the Spencerville Chamber of Commerce and the Spencerville Community development council.
Shortly after his retirement, Hatfield plans to take his Harley Davidson motorcycle to Florida and ride with his buddy. His wife, Tish, will continue to work for several more years.
He will retire officially on Tuesday, concluding 35 1/2 years of service to the Spencerville Schools.


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The College of St Elizabeth softball team split a doubleheader at Gallaudet, winning game 1 10-8 before dropping game 2, 7-0.
In game 1, Gallaudet University jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. In the top of the second, Danesha Triplett doubled into the gap, driving home Sharolin Saunders, giving the Eagles a 2-1 lead. 2 batters later, Valerie Lasko tripled home Julie Rodriguez, giving the Eagles a 4-1 lead. The Eagles tacked on 2 more runs in the top of the 3rd inning to open up a 6-1 lead.
Leading 7-2 in the top of the 5th inning, Triplett laced a single up the middle, driving in Kayla Gonzalez. The Eagles added one more run to blow the game open at 9-2. The Bison answered with 3 runs of their own in the bottom of the inning, cutting the Eagles lead to 9-5. The Eagles would push another run across the plate in the top of the 6th inning, before winning the game 10-8.
In the second game, the Screaming Eagles were trailing 6-2 in the top of the 3rd inning before bad weather stopped the game. The umpires did not think the weather was bad enough for the game to be called, however the Eagles did not feel it was safe enough to continue playing in the snow and hail. The Eagles ended up forfeiting the game due to player safety. According to NCAA rules, the game is considered a 7-0 win for Gallaudet and stats for the game are not counted.
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I was considering buying both and using Results on training days, and Creatine 500 on the other days. I currently train SS three days a week which means I could stretch the Results out to 10 weeks instead of thirty days, and use the Creatine 500 the other 4 days per week. This would keep the budget troll from rearing its ugly head.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- It's not a construction site, but there's plenty of work to dig into.
"The joy is really indescribable," said Barb Nathan, executive director of the Community Cancer Center. "It starts when they actually get here. Each child gets a hard hat that they get to keep. And the smiles at that point and the joy - they just think this is it."
But that's not the best part. If they want to, each child can climb on board and learn how the giant machines operate.
It's called Day of the Dozer and it benefits the Community Cancer Center of Normal.
Bob Brady, whose worked in construction for 21 years, came up with the idea a decade ago.
"The industry as a whole wanted to come up with an idea to give back to the community and we thought what a great way to do it," said Brady. "We found a cause like the Community Cancer Center and let these kids explore the power of heavy construction equipment."
"Companies such as Stark Excavating, Isaacson, Capodice, donate the pieces of equipment that are out here," said Nathan. "They donate the fuel and their operators are donating their time."
One of those operators is Mike Smith. Last October, he lost his mother-in-law to cancer, so the day has special meaning for him.
Mike says he operators a bull dozer because he's just a big kid who never grew up.
"That's what my mom always says; I'm still a kid in the sandbox with the Tonka toys," Smith said. "I love what I do, it's a great company to work for and it's a great charity that we're donating our time and efforts to."
Over 1,000 kids will get the chance to operate equipment. For some of them the experience may be the inspiration for a career.
"Hopefully, they'll find some interest. We need the youth to get back and engaged in this industry," said Brady.
Now in its 10th year the Day of the Dozer has raised more than $350,000 for the Community Cancer Center.


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U.S. President Barack Obama has been vocal about the need to rectify the pay scale that is negatively weighted against women — despite equal pay legislation having been enacted in 1963.
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Foxconn Technology Group has not complied with Chinese labor law by allowing factory workers to exceed limits on hours even as the company met most conditions set out by a monitoring group.
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Prominent Maryland alum explains how he feels about the new conference, and he might just convince a few fence-sitters.
Recapping Maryland's introductory Big Ten press conference.
The University of Maryland Board of Regents voted today to authorize a move to the Big Ten, switching the conference's athletic affiliation for the first time since 1953.
Today, the University of Maryland will decide whether or not it will leave the ACC
For a brief moment, many Saturday night thought that Maryland had accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten after the University's official FB & Twitter pages hinted as much. But minutes later, it...
It's not official, but Maryland's move to the Big Ten has gained serious traction in the last few days, leading many fans to question the move. We explain the motivation.
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We know Debbie Yow's position. Now we know a decision-maker's, too.
Expansion - and Maryland's place in it - may have just been put on pause.
What makes sense? What doesn't? We're on it.
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