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You could say it was the Sandy Hook grade-school slaughter seven weeks ago that set Arne Duncan's gears into motion.
Or you could say it was the murder last week in Chicago of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, a King College Prep student who was shot, along with two other kids, at 2 in the afternoon while standing under a park canopy to avoid rain.
That one was tough because Pendleton, who was shot in the back for no apparent reason, had just returned from Washington, where her school majorette team had performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration.
Oh, and there was 17-year-old Morgan Park High School student Tyrone Lawson, who was shot and killed two weeks ago outside the gym where his school team had played Simeon in basketball.
Said Lawson's mother afterward: ''There is no safe place.''
And that phrase, more than any or all of these horrific incidents, is what nearly has undone Duncan, a native Chicagoan who played hoops on the South Side and is in his second term as U.S. secretary of education.
''I didn't think it could get any worse,'' he recently said in a lengthy and emotional interview. ''I remember having to run off courts — and you had to go hide — because of gunfire. The guys I played with, so many of them were shot and killed. It has plagued me and haunted me ever since. It has scarred me. Those are visceral memories, and I know how the killings have harmed so many families in Chicago. You feel this anger, this rage, because of it. And now it's gone on so long.
''And it's gotten worse. I didn't think it could, but it has. I visited a school in Chicago not long ago, and a little kid had drawn a picture for me. It said, 'If I grow up, I want to be a fireman.' If I grow up! How is this possible in a civilized nation?''
Duncan, who was raised in Hyde Park by his educator parents, began playing basketball with Obama when Obama started teaching at the University of Chicago in the early 1990s. Along with young Chicago financier John Rogers, a former Princeton team captain, the three became a sort of thinking-man's hardwood triumvirate.
They recognized the special problems Chicago has as a large city, with a history of segregation, gang violence and political corruption, and they discussed ways that fairness, safety and legality could be made the rule, not just in privileged areas. They still are discussing it.
One thing is for sure: Many children growing up in poverty and violence will be stunted in frightening ways, perhaps even with their brains rewiring as a sort of psychological protection, because of the trauma around them. It is known that children who have seen too much shooting suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome, just as soldiers returning from combat do.
Duncan said Chicago is different from, say, New York and Los Angeles, where shootings and murders are way down from years ago. There were 506 homicides in Chicago in 2012. And 2013 started with a bang, so to speak, with three men shot and killed Jan. 1.
''Chicago is particularly bad,'' Duncan said of youth killings. ''It has a level of violence and murder that is inconceivable. John Rogers and I had a school called Aerial Community Academy, and one of our kids was shot in the head at a picnic.''
The difference between Sandy Hook and Chicago, Duncan noted, is the difference between an explosion and a steady grass fire.
''The president, the vice president, the attorney general, all of us are going to put it on the line to get all the things we've identified [for child safety] done,'' Duncan said. ''The president and I are acutely aware of this. We have to help Chicago. We have to help the country.''
At the beginning of the ESPN film ''Benji,'' about the shooting death of Simeon basketball star Ben Wilson, there is a scene of street basketball being played in Chicago. It's the Y.V.I. league — ''Youth, Vision, Integrity'' — and a young Duncan goes flashing down the court.
''I'm the white guy,'' said Duncan, who played college ball at Harvard and would be named the most valuable player of the Y.V.I. league in the summer of 1986.
Wilson had been shot to death in 1984, and Duncan said, ''That hit me incredibly hard.''
He knew there was danger, poverty, cheap guns and absurdity out there. In time, he would dedicate his life to trying to make things better.
''I had two middle-class, caring parents,'' Duncan said. ''I played sports. I was going to be OK. But you can talk to kindergarten teachers now, and they'll tell you already the two or three boys who are going to be at risk.''
It's all about boys, really. Chicago's gangs primarily are made up of young males. According to USA Today, of the 62 mass killings in the last 30 years, all but one was committed by a male. The gangs and violence fill in for absentee fathers, broken homes, lost moral compasses.
Duncan and Bulls stars Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah stay in close contact, with all of them recognizing the anarchy overtaking the city.
''Derrick and Joakim are two young men I have extreme respect for beyond their court skills,'' Duncan said. ''They both have stepped up and asked to do more.''
That includes summer programs, youth games, even ads that might tell young Chicagoans that shooting isn't good, that not snitching leads nowhere.
''Oh, man, Arne is cool,'' the still-injured Rose said at a
recent Bulls game. ''I'll do anything for him.''
Noah was just as impassioned.
''You play for the Bulls, you represent more than just an NBA player,'' he said. ''You represent Chicago. I'm a role model, and I love that. But we need to combine forces with players, the community leaders, politicians. We need to try to stop this. Arne? No question, I'm with him.''
The needed changes are many, and they aren't simple. Guns, families, idle time, poverty, police guidance, knowledge — all of it matters.
But Duncan said it must start.
''I've cried many times,'' he said. ''I'm a huge supporter of the Second Amendment. People should be able to hunt and protect their homes. But to hunt children? What have we become?''


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Franz Hoffmann® Concert Violin Outfit - 4/4 sizeREVIEWED ON: November 30, 2014
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Very good
reviewed by: Teacher, Anonymous
My student had a 1/4 size of this model, and was very happy with it. She has recently upgraded to the 1/2 size, and is sounding very good.
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Franz Hoffmann® Amadeus Violin Outfit - 4/4 sizeREVIEWED ON: November 28, 2014
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Carlo Lamberti® Sonata ViolinREVIEWED ON: November 01, 2014
reviewed by: Student, Anonymous
I wrote the review directly below this one. I know it reads 1 star but that was a complete mistake. I was in a hurry and accidentally pressed the wrong number of stars. This violin deserves 5 stars. Not one. Sorry about the mistake in the previous review.
Carlo Lamberti® Sonata ViolinREVIEWED ON: October 15, 2014
reviewed by: Student, Anonymous
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Great Violin
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I really like this violin. I used to have an awful student instrument and stepped up to this instrument. What a difference it made! It has great projection, an even tone, and sings beautifully for me. It does have a slightly nasal quality to its sound, but other than that I have absolutely fallen in love with this instrument.
Carlo Lamberti® Sonata ViolinREVIEWED ON: July 25, 2014
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I am very impressed with the sound quality of this violin! I just bought a 3/4 size for my grandson, and just loved playing it myself. The sound is deep, rich, refined and more. I have bought 5 different types of violins from Shar, and even though some others were far more expensive, I feel that this one sounds the best of all. No 2 violins will ever sound the same, even though they may be of the same trademark, so maybe I was just lucky with this particular instrument?


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|Series :
|The Next Generation
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|27 May 1991
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|Geordi and Data test out a phaser rifle in this episode. In order to do this they set up the weapon in the middle of main engineering. They fire it into a small target apparatus directly in front of the master situation display, and don't even go to the trouble of putting up a warning sign or rope barrier to stop people walking into the beam. I don't know what kind of safety regulations there are for firing phaser beams aboard ship, but surely they can do better than this!
|Great Moment :
|Geordi's last scene with Troi.
|Body Count :
|A holographic O'Brien is killed by Geordi.
Geordie LaForge is abducted and brain washed by the mysterious Sela. Under Romulan control he attempts to end the Fereration - Klingon alliance once and for all.
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|The Original Series
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|When Sylvia and Korob are seen in their true form at the end of the episode you can quite clearly see the strings. Thankfully the remastered episode fixes this.
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|The giant cat chasing them around. Sorry, but this just looks terribly, terribly unconvincing and quite funny.
|Body Count :
|Crewman Jackson and the two aliens, Sylvia and Korob.
|Factoid :
|This was the Halloween episode, hence the witches.
This is Walter Koenig's first episode as Pavel Chekov, although Chekov himself likely served aboard the ship during the first season, as Khan recognised him by sight in the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
Writer Robert Bloch based this episode loosely the short story "Broomstick Ride", which he also wrote.
This episode is a nominee for the DITL "Worst of Trek" award.
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|"Very bad poetry, Captain" - Spock to Kirk; when asked for an analysis of the witches
The Enterprise is investigating the planet Pyris VII, but the landing party - comprising Sulu, Scott and Crewman Jackson - is overdue for their routine check in. Jackson finally contacts the ship asking to be beamed aboard, but when he appears he collapses to the floor, dead. Amazingly, a voice from his mouth informs Kirk that the ship is cursed!
Kirk beams down with Spock and McCoy, leaving Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle in command of the ship. They arrive in a fogbound environment, quite at odds with what their sensor readings indicated. Detecting lifeforms nearby the landing party investigates, only to be confronted with a ghostly apparition - three witches, warning them to leave or face disaster. Undaunted, the officers press on and discover a large castle. They enter and begin to explore, but a section of floor collapses beneath them, knocking them out.
They wake to find themselves chained in a dungeon. Scotty and Sulu appear, but they appear to by drugged or hypnotised, not recognising their fellow officers. They free the landing party and take them at gunpoint from the room to meet a robed man. He is, apparently, some kind of magician - complete with a wand and black cat. The man's name is Korob, and he appears intent on getting the Enterprise officers to leave as soon as possible. Korob claims that the events have been staged to test the Enterprise crew, but he clearly seems to be hiding the truth.
A woman, Sylvia, enters. She demonstrates her own power to Kirk, holding a small model of the Enterprise over a candle - and action which causes the real ship in orbit to grow unbearably hot! Although she spares the ship, Korob seals the model in a glass block, which paralyses the real ship within a strange forcefield.
Kirk and Spock are taken to the dungeon, whilst Sylvia questions McCoy. She argues with Korob about their plans - Sylvia states that she enjoys the sensations she is experiencing in her present form, as apparently their normal existence does not afford them such. Korob argues that they have a mission to complete, but Sylvia seems in favour of abandoning it.
Sylvia brings Kirk back to talk, and reveals that she has become enamoured of him. She is thinking of getting rid of Korob and keeping Kirk for herself. Kirk plays along for information, and learns that the "magic wand" is a transmuter, able to reform matter into different forms - this is how the pair create the various strange things Kirk has encountered. She realises the deception and has Kirk returned to the dungeon.
Korob, beginning to fear Sylvia's intentions, releases the Enterprise and Kirk and Spock. He expresses regret for how things have gone, wishing there could have been peaceful contact. As they attempt to flee, Kirk and Spock encounter Sylvia's black cat, only grown to enormous size. The cat kills Korob, and Kirk grabs his transmuter wand and escapes. Sylvia demands the transmuter wand, which is more powerful than her own device, but as Kirk begins to hand it over he instead smashes it. At once the castle and everything within it vanishes, leaving only Sylvia and Korob in their true form - two small, vaguely birdlike aliens who quickly die. With the menace defeated, the officers beam back to the ship.
This is rather transparently a "halloween" episode, with the plot basically serving as an excuse to throw all sorts of scary images onto the screen - witches, voices from the dead, dark castles, etc. It's all pretty thin stuff, and to be honest it never really works. The most painful moment is the "giant cat". Sorry, but despite the best efforts of the characters and the special effects, this is comical rather than scary. The obvious puppets of Sylvia and Korob are also quite comical, but thankfully this at least was repaired in the remastered version.
Overall, just not a good episode.
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Wow! So how do the chickens not get stung as they eat them? I would figure that as a last stand a chicken would be poked from the little bugger. If they do eat them like they eat other bugs, I would have WAY more than the 50+ that you have! lol I would definitely potty train mine if I had those creepy bugs IN my house! I would rather deal with common chicken poop than getting stung anyday!
I got 50+ quail yesterday! The boys are super excited to hatch two eggs too!
Fun! How cute!! We might start referring to you as the crazy bird/chicken lady though! ;) teehee
Some of your chickens use napkins, so what manners are your quails going to bring to the table?
I want to come over and watch the eggs hatch!
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Want Successful Students? Meet the Parents
At the "Heart of Route 66," in northwestern Arizona, is the rural community of Kingman. The local high school is attended by your "typical" teenagers, although some still ride their horses to and from school!
The students I work with at Kingman High School (KHS) are primarily lower income, Hispanic, and at risk of dropping out. Many of their parents have recently lost their jobs or their homes due to the economy. They feel the need to explain that this is the first time they have had to ask for help and how embarrassed they are to do so. I let them know that they are not alone and should not be embarrassed because each of us at one time or another needs a little help.
I was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona to a Hispanic father and Filipina/German-Irish mother. For 25 years, I worked as a probation officer, the majority of that time with juveniles and their families. My background has definitely been an asset as Kingman High School's Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) Coordinator and head of Student Assistance because I can easily relate to my students and their families. I am very honest about my past. When I was a teen, I caused my parents a lot of heartache. I was an "at risk" student during high school and a single parent on welfare during college. When I meet students' parents I ask them what they want for their child, and I share some of my personal experiences. I let them know that if I got a degree, their child certainly can too.
Within a week of arriving at KHS, I was asked to sponsor the Hispanic Student Union (HSU). We started with 25 members and now have 108! Students in HSU have a sense of unity and a purpose for attending school. Hispanic discipline referrals have dropped significantly. Many of my students simply need someone to listen and guide them. They know my office is a safe, judgment-free place and open to them any time. If they are hungry, they can make a peanut butter sandwich. I am warm-hearted and easygoing, but I can also be no-nonsense. If you ask any student who frequents my office what is the one word that is not allowed, they will immediately respond "hate". I try to rid them of any prejudices or misconceptions they might have for others.
I have found that teens need and actually want boundaries! They share with me their problems, concerns, and fears. I listen, and honestly answer their questions, offer suggestions. I let them know as a parent that I would want my child to come talk to me about things that worry them. Many students come back and tell me they have done this, and that it helped them connect more with their parents.
The majority of Hispanic families I work with want their children to attend college. For many families, my students will be the first to do so. I appreciate their desire to live in the U.S., and how they work hard so their children can receive a better education, and, ultimately have a better life than what they had. Don't all parents want that for their children?
The most recent challenging issue—especially with the passage of SB 1070 (Immigration bill)—is the fear of deportation. The process to obtain the paperwork to become "naturalized" is labor intensive and takes several years. Many of our students have had a parent or other family member deported. This creates financial and emotional hardship, and impacts attendance, especially when these students travel to Mexico to visit deported family members. The majority of my students have lived in the United States since they were very young. This country is their home! I don't ask my students if they are here legally because it doesn't change how I treat or help them.
It's not always possible to share the same ethnicity or culture as the students you work with. Key characteristics for building trusting, quality relationships with students and parents of a different culture—especially in a school setting—are honesty, not being afraid to ask questions, apologizing when you're wrong, and admitting you don't always have the answers. Student success often comes down to making an effort to meet the parents, and not just at parent-teacher conferences or when their child has discipline issues. I've hosted potlucks so that I can meet the parents and share a meal with them. Food is always a great ice breaker! I make it a point to say one positive thing about their student; sometimes it's several things because their kid is so awesome! I know I've established a positive rapport with parents when I see them at the grocery store or at a restaurant, and they give me a hug or tell me how they're doing.
Despite my best efforts, I have students who continue to struggle in school. Some don't make an effort to pass their classes because they don't feel respected by their teachers. Others have been kicked out of their homes, expected to survive on their own. I constantly worry about my students becoming teen parents. I dread hearing that one of our students was picked up and is pending deportation.
In spite of these scenarios, I love going to work each day. My students make me feel welcome. They worry when I'm gone. They make me laugh … and cry. They make me proud! I have been invited to quinceaneras, confirmations, baby showers, and graduation fiestas. My students have allowed me to be part of their lives, and for that I am especially grateful.
Girlie's Top Five Tips for Connecting with Students and Parents
1. Be honest. As hard as it is, you've got to present to students and parents the "big picture," and the consequences for their poor decisions.
2. Get involved. If you can, support students in their activities—attend their games, performances, etc. Be their cheerleader!
3. Have a sense of humor. Kids will know you're human and that you are not so uptight.
4. Always be respectful. Allow students and parents the opportunity to speak and validate what they have to say. It will help establish a positive rapport.
5. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Other teachers and staff have knowledge and experiences that can help you do a better job. Their wisdom is invaluable.
Girlie Lopez Forman wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Girlie is the program coordinator for Kingman High School's Student Assistance Office, in northwest Arizona. When she's not working, Girlie enjoys spending time with her husband Ray, their three grown children, her nephew and his family, and especially her grandson, Connor. She treasures being with her 92 year-old mother, and loves getting together with her "Kingman" family.
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It's Time to Challenge the Propaganda Regarding Who is Killed by U. S. Drones
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Robert Greenwald, head of the progressive internet video and documentary film company, Brave New Films, recently traveled to Pakistan, supported financially by hundreds of BNF donors, to witness first hand the stories of families who have had innocent loved ones killed by U.S. drone attacks. Greenwald is challenging both the morality and the factual effectiveness of the U.S drone program as we learn more about the failures and questionable policies. The U.S. claims that drone missiles are aimed at potential terrorists but because the ground rules of who can be targeted is both vague and has been loosened, the number of innocents being killed has risen sharply. Furthermore, the information that is used to target people, appears to be the result of a system of bribery at the local level, which is of questionable reliability.
It wasn't until April 2012 that John Brennan, White House counter-terrorism adviser admitted for the first time publicly, that our government has been using drones in Pakistan, and later Yemen, to attempt to kill those they consider as potential terrorists. This was the first public acknowledgment, despite the fact that the program had been going for at least several years. Still far more information was withheld in Brennan's announcement about the the program, than was revealed.
As The Washington Post reports: "Brennan's speech was also noteworthy, however, for what he withheld. He did not disclose how many people have been killed, list all the locations where armed drones are being flown or mention the administration's increasing reliance on 'signature' strikes, which allow the CIA to fire missiles even when it doesn't know the identities of those who could be killed."
The CIA runs the drone program and it is shrouded in secrecy, which enables people like Brennan to characterize the program in glowing terms, which go mainly unchallenged by the media, and contribute to the public assumption that drones are accurate, safe, and taking out the bad guys. Thus Brennan is able to get away with saying, as reported in the Post : Drones' capability to linger over targets for days enables unprecedented "surgical precision," Brennan said, "the ability, with laser-like focus, to eliminate the cancerous tumor called an al-Qaeda terrorist while limiting damage to the tissue around it — that makes this counter-terrorism tool so essential." This despite little evidence that active or powerful elements of Al-Qaeda are operating in the Swat area of Pakistan which has been targeted by drones.
Nevertheless, increasingly another story is emerging which raises fundamental questions about the wisdom and the morality of our policy vis a vis Pakistan, and Brennan's effort to pretend that the drone program isn't destructive, and hugely alienating to Pakistan. According to Greenwald, speaking to his staff in a briefing upon his return from Pakistan, people with whom he spoke " said the Drone attacks were a great recruiting tool for the Taliban, because powerless
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Researchers have found that, unsurprisingly, students who admit to regularly using cell phones in class get a poorer grade score, on average, than students who don't use phones. But these students are not only hurting themselves. Another study has found that students are distracted when other students text du ring lessons. Teachers likewise find it disconcerting when they notice a student more absorbed in his or her cell phone than the lesson materials. And, of course, any time taken to address these issues is time taken away from teaching.
Cell phones can also be used to cheat in exams. Some students attempt to text an accomplice to get information they need to answer a question, or even sneak a quick phone call if they are allowed a bathroom break. Another approach is to use the phone to photograph textbook pages or notes that can be used as reference material during a test.
This is not to say that cell phone use can't be incorporated into lessons when appropriate. Students may be encouraged to use cell phones to look up information on the Web to aid in classroom discussion, for example. Outside of these explicit uses, however, cell phone use is a distraction at best, and an aid to cheating at worst.
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Despite these kinds of sanctions, 65 percent of students admit to bringing phones into classrooms even when they are prohibited. They smuggle them in using a variety of creative methods, hiding them in their underwear, socks, or lunches, for example. Fifty-eight percent of these students also admit that they have texted during class.
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well you don't need every socket bonus, but spreadsheets are bad judgments for DPS. with a trinket proc that gives you 100% ArP with the proc will boost DPS, I've noticed this with my DK after I had gotten NES.
So, if you check my current armory, you'll see im still stacking pure STR (with crit on gems to meet socket bonuses).
I put my gear thru the spreadsheet when i bought my 264 chest, and realized if i change all my +20 STR to +20 ArP, and all my 10 STR/15 STA to 10 ArP/15 STA i will be "soft capped" with my NES procs.
but, i lose about 60 dps on the spreadsheet doing this. i know theres been a debate with ArP and STR, ive read and searched and read again to avoid mine being the millionth post about it. but the overwhelming consensus seems to be "stay away from ArP until you can soft cap", which i now can.
is it just as simple as my gear still being to low to be viable with ArP gemming, even at the soft cap?
well you don't need every socket bonus, but spreadsheets are bad judgments for DPS. with a trinket proc that gives you 100% ArP with the proc will boost DPS, I've noticed this with my DK after I had gotten NES.
... the landsoul spreadsheet is the single best judgment for warrior dps there is ...
also - im not getting every socket bonus... not trying to be a jerk but... ive yet to find a respectable warrior who would consider landsouls sheet "bad judgment"
The thing is that when softcapping you're essentially maximizing your potential for 20% uptime on a chance to proc item, and the other 80% of the time you're gonna be hitting weaker. That's probably why in the long run your overall dps is lower although minimally. Capping passive 100% ArP for sure is the best dps for warriors, softcapping has always been more iffy because of the uptime on trinkets.
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You should start by looking at your gems. For example, your belt currently has 10str/15stam and 20str x 2 with a 6 str socket bonus. Thats a total of 56 extra str from gems. The stam doesnt up your dps at all. If you switch out the 10str/15stam with a 20str you will get more str and thus more dps. A few other pieces have this problem as well. As for your question regarding ArmPen, i have no idea because I'm ret and stay away from ArmPen.
I would worry more about your expertise and hit and less about your gems. You only need 164 hit and 26 expertise. Replace that second ring with agi/arp version or something better, get crafted boots if possible, another belt etc.
i found while i was still using runestone from ulduar 10 that, while my dps was awesome for 20% of a fight, i found that going to 60-70% arp was a dps increase even though on landsoul's it would show a loss. the extra arp helped my dps while the trinket wasn't procced (~80% of the time) and it wasn't too much of wasted itemization when it was procced.
you need to change quite a bit of your gear around as well. get the leather frost badge belt to lower your hit (it's better than the plate one anyways). get the agi frost badge cloak. change your ashen verdict ring to the agi version. get the toc crafted bracers. get the crafted icc boots.
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The other thing too is you aren't even at the ArP soft cap. NES proc's 678 ArP, you have 538 ArP, combined you have 1216, which is 184 ArP below the softcap.
Changes you should look at towards your gear.
Switch your meta gem to the Relentless Earthsiege (21agi 3%crit)
Remove all dreadstones
Acquire a Nightmare Tear
Buy the Leather Frost Belt(Vengeful Noose)
Buy the Scarlet Onslaught Cloak
Buy/Make the BS Boots (Hellfrozen Bonegrinders)
Exchange your Rep ring from Might to vengeance
Remove the +44AP enchant from your gloves, you are an engineer, put the hyperspeed accelerators on them.
You should be using either +23haste cloak enchant, or again you are an engineer, flexweave underlay(+23agi)
Also your boots, again you are an engineer (Nitro Boosts, +24 crit)
After you make these changes, regem however much you need to on your gear to get to 682 armorpen(shown on your tooltip), because 682 is the minimum needed to reach the softcap with Hearty Rhino food.
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as far as the crafted stuff goes, they arent really an option for me. i literally login about about 20 minutes per night (to queue as tank and run a heroic) and 3 hours once a week to raid icc. i simply dont have the resources for crafted items.
thanks again for the tips
i'll definitely look into the engi chants. these always freakin slip by me, not sure why. i totally forget them. thanks for the reminder.
as for changing frost gear, like i said above, i'm beyond the point of changing frost things i've already bought. to late in the game. if i have frosts to kill after i hit my 4pc t10, i'll look into those.
thanks again to everyone for your replies. i appreciate you taking the time to put this stuff in here for me.
Also, in the past there are have been ample discussions about how bad spreadsheets have been with modelling arp. Not to mention that they are prone to human error. Of course they get updated, but still you should judge for yourself what works.
Last edited by haqzore; 07-07-2010 at 08:05 PM. Reason: to much work and not enough sleep makes for grouchy posts :(
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I wouldn't worry too much about survability. You've got plenty of Sta on gear. In fact, leather items are BiS in 3 places iirc, which is a signficant armor decrease from the plate versions. As DPS your job is to beat the holy bejesus out of ugglies. Let the tanks worry about survability (you'll still survive much longer than the paper-maches, I mean clothies).
Take the extra str.
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Actually, I was talking about end game BiS XD
However the leather belt is > plate belt for DPS. The agility Ashen Verdit ring is better than the Str ring. Many agility rings > str rings (ArP is usually why, as in the Agility has it the Str not as much).
But I think the belt is the only slot leather > plate for Frosties.
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