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AHMEDABAD: In Umiya Educational Institute campus in Sola, nine teachers are slogging it out, assessing 7,500 English medium papers of Business Administration subject of HSC (general) stream since March 19. The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) had issued orders for assessment work to 31 teachers.
"Of these, only 12 reported for paper checking duty. Later, three teachers bunked their duty midway, leaving only nine with the job of assessing more than 7,000 papers," said an official.
Obviously, the nine teachers, all of whom belong to grant-in-aid schools, are crying foul saying that they are saturated with assessment work and need replacements to give them a breather. Board rules say that each teacher should put in maximum 15 to 20 days of assessment work. However, for these teachers, the paper correction work will continue for 30 to 35 days if all the 7,500 answer sheets are to be assessed.
Teachers, on condition of anonymity, say that they have written several representations to the district education officer and GSHSEB to ensure that teachers from private and other English medium schools are roped in to relieve them of duty, but to no avail.
Sources say that with tired teachers continuing with the correction work, risk of incorrect assessment becomes manifold. "If tired teachers are correcting papers, they are prone to errors. Board should ensure that all teachers fulfill their responsibility instead of burdening a couple of teachers," said a member of the teacher's association.
This year, English medium self-financed schools have invited ire of the board by not sending their teachers for correction work. Officials now confess that strict action is must to reverse the pathetic situation where paper correction is being done by 50-odd per cent of the teachers, while the rest remain conspicuous by their absence.
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(July 6) Indianola, Miss.-based Delta Harvest LLC plans to draw attention to its efforts to widen the state's agricultural spectrum with a planned July 12 tour of its sweet corn facility featuring the hybrid Mirai supersweet variety.
Attendees and featured speakers for the tours range from Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour to the senior regional buyer for Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Steve Pinkston.
Sweet corn hasn't been high on the list of crops in Mississippi, said Tracie Stoltenburg, a public relations associate for Eden Prairie, Minn.-based CH Robinson Worldwide Inc., which markets for Delta Harvest. She said typical state exports are catfish, lumber and cotton.
The Mirai supersweet variety featured on the tours has gained in popularity since it was first test marketed in Japan six years ago. It is the No. 1 variety of sweet corn sold in Japan at about 35% of the market, Stoltenburg said.
It is a proprietary variety developed by Centest Inc. and Twin Garden Farms, both of Harvard, Ill., and has been available in the U.S. for the past three years.
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How long does it take for sician eggplant flowers to start turning into fruit. I have has a lot of lovely flowers on my eggplant, since about a week and a half ago, during long islands heat wave, one looks like its producing a small white fruit but its hard to tell. I dont want to know how long the whole process takes, cause i noticed others asked the same question and people just told them how long it takes, and I dont need to know how long it takes to be picked. I would simply like to know how long it takes to go from flower to tiny fruits. I have been doing greay with my baby amathyst eggplant, but I planted these later, and I really love that larger variety. I just want to make sure it could still turn to fruit. I know the heat anf humidity cause problems with polination. |
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My production for the Jokai Szinhaz in Bekescaba, Hungary, will be performed at the Vig Szinhaz on the 24th April, 19:00
From the 8th to the 23rd February 2014, I will be leading an 'Acting for the Screen' workshop at Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok.
The course is being hosted by the College of Social Communication & Innovation.
From the 2011 production at RWCMD.
We've had a wonderful reaction to our touring production of Handel's Rodelinda for Scottish Opera. Many of the audiences we've taken the show to have never heard a baroque piece before, some have never seen an opera.
The cast tell me that in each place they feel a vibrant connection with the audience. They seem engaged by Handel's exquisite score, as well as the human interest of the characters as they fight to survive in a harsh political world.
As this is a small-scale tour, it's unfortunate we can't take a full baroque orchestra with us to give our audiences 'the real deal'. But Derek Clark's clever arrangement for harpsichord, violin, and cello gives a strong flavour of the piece, and I've been really impressed by the connection between the singers and the musicians, led by the very talented Susannah Wapshott from the keyboard.
Some people think, of course, that Handel shouldn't be reduced in this way, but none of our audiences seem to agree. From Stornaway to Wick, Dumfries to Ullapool, it's a privilege to perform for them. It gets opera out of the opera house, and presents it to fresh ears and eyes.
A trailer for the Jokai Szinhaz (Hungary) production of King Lear. Directed by Chris Rolls, designed by Sean Crowley, dramaturgy by Tibor Zalán.
Is the theatre dead? Isn't it just entertainment? What can you really do with it? Wouldn't it be preferable to write a book, a newspaper article, a film, than stage an opera? Why is theatre not film and what can it do that film cannot do? Why is theatre so expensive? Why should we care? What has theatre or opera got do with politics really? Isn't it just a middle class obsession for middle class people? Is a theatre audience a hive mind: collectively more intelligent than a single person, or is it plain dumb? Does being in an audience make you think differently? Isn't everything on the stage just a distraction from real life? Is it just masturbation? What is still not permissible on the stage? Is the theatre now a niche pastime for consumers? Why should we fund theatre when there are hospitals and schools to be maintained and built? Are we good audience members? How many Artistic Directors use political language simply to justify their funding? Wouldn't we rather be Tweeting or playing X-Box? Who is an ideal audience member? How are we supposed to react? Do we have a right to be entertained? What are our consumer rights? What do we hand over with the price of a ticket? 'Astonish me,' or, 'don't disturb my prejudices?'
After opening in Greenock on the 26th September, Handel's Rodelinda for Scottish Opera now goes on tour throughout Scotland to 16 venues. (Pictures by KK Dundas / Mark Howland)
What no Handel opera can claim is a simple storyline. There is usually a scheming monarch or several, some convoluted mistaken identities, the odd bout of madness or hocus pocus.
The themes tend to be obvious enough (love, loyalty, revenge, vice, virtue) but with characters whose names all sound roughly the same and whose family trees look like tangly creepers, even the hardiest opera-goer can easily lose the plot, so to speak.
And that makes it doubly intriguing that the director of Scottish Opera's new touring production of Handel's Rodelinda is a self-proclaimed 'story junkie'. Chris Rolls – a sharp-minded, soft-spoken young director from Lichfield, Staffordshire – describes his priority as "a decent case of what-happens-next"; that's what keeps audiences hooked, he says, more than concept, more than moral message.
Luckily, Rodelinda is one of Handel's more straight-forward operas, as well as one of his greatest – it's up there with Tamerlano and Giulio Cesare, all written in 1724/25.
The plot goes roughly like this: everyone thinks Bertarido, king of Milan, is dead, including his wife Rodelinda. However, he is in hiding while the evil Grimoaldo (who is engaged to Bertarido's sister Eduige) tries to overthrow the throne and force Rodelinda to marry him while he is at it.
There are dodgy dealings by a court counsellor called Garibaldo, some near misses with daggers in dark dungeons, but, ultimately, the faith and ingenuity of the long-suffering lady wins through and rightful order is restored.
Rolls insists it is possible to tell it straight. "I think all great storytelling comes from character," he says. "I am addicted to TV series The Killing at the moment. The first series is 20 hours long, yet you really, really want to know what is going to happen next. How is it possible to hold someone's interest for 20 hours? Only by making them care about the characters.
"In opera there is often a gap between what the music is expressing and what the words are saying. Character can exist in that gap." Think of it like life, he says: what we say is not always what we really mean. In opera the words and music can both be disingenuous to varying and conflicting degrees – so much for straightforward, but it is a lot to play with.
So why do Handelian characters often end up acting as archetypes? Rodelinda stands for love and loyalty; Grimoaldo stands for malice, and so on, without much everyday human fine-print. For Rolls that approach is a cop-out.
"On day one of rehearsals we decided to investigate these characters as if they are real people. There is always an aria or a recitative that reveals them. Garibaldo is pretty Machiavellian, but there are fleeting glimpses where he is also screwed up and vulnerable. Those are the moments we have to hone in on."
The fact this is an up-close production is helpful here, he says, "because it's especially important to be detailed and truthful. It's all about convincing relationships."
But there won't be a full orchestra (Scottish Opera has cut the score to a bare-bones trio of cello, violin and harpsichord) so that makes Rolls's job even harder: often it is Handel's colourful instrumental writing that gives away the unspoken emotional narrative.
Rolls came to opera via theatre. He studied English at Edinburgh, where he spent most of his time acting and directing at the Bedlam. "I'm not a musician," he says. "I can make my way through a vocal score, but mostly I treat an opera as I would a play."
He has spent enough time in opera houses to know what works, though; he assisted David McVicar on Scottish Opera's Cosi fan tutte in 2009, Barrie Kosky on English National Opera's Castor and Pollux in 2011, and recently directed a community production of Verdi's Macbeth at Blackheath Halls in London.
"That really made me appreciate what opera can be. To get people who might not otherwise connect singing together, experiencing the same emotional power at the same moment, is amazing."
He likes the idea that much of the audience for this tour might be "experiencing this kind of music for the first time," and hates the idea of creating work for people who have already seen the same opera in a hundred different productions – "that seems a really arrogant approach". Ultimately, he says, what the audience takes away is whether they felt empathy with a character.
"Don't get me wrong: I love concept, and working with Kosky taught me it is possible to do both. As long as you are taking people somewhere where they are desperate to know what happens next, then you can be as wilfully conceptual as you like. Maybe it is Shakespeare's fault that in this country we are such story junkies and we tend to switch off if the narrative is unclear."
Which brings us back to Handel. What about all those da capo arias, where a character reflects on their feelings by singing a melody through once then repeating a great chunk of it again? In Handel's day they were all the rage because they showed off star singers (the repeat would be loaded up with trills and frills).
These days, directors often stumble over a form that, dramatically speaking, can be deathly stagnant.
"You're telling me! Basically I'm trying to treat these arias as if they are continuously unfolding scenes of action. A repeat is never a repeat in terms of intention. This is our chance to get to know the character, to really see beyond the public persona and into their deepest feelings. In terms of character-building, these are the most insightful moments."
Failing that, the tunes are great.
My production of King Lear won an MTVA Award last week, following it's performance at a festival of Hungarian theatre in Budapest. I'm so proud of everyone involved. Peter Fekete, Artistic Director of the Jokai Theater, collected the award.
Handel's 1725 masterpiece, Rodelinda, opens in Greenock for Scottish Opera next week. The tour takes in venues throughout Scotland. A fabulous cast brings a tale of betrayal, corruption, passion, and love to vivid life. Set and costumes by Oliver Townsend, lighting by Mark Howland.


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Luis Gonzalez remembers the day his mother said goodbye. With a blessing and the sign of the cross, she left him and his two sisters in Tijuana and set off with a human smuggler across the mountains and into San Diego for what she hoped would be a better life.
Almost 30 years later, the Chandler engineer has joined the immigration movement and is telling his story for the first time.
As the Valley today girds for the largest march ever in Arizona — and perhaps the largest of an expected 60 marches nationwide — professionals will join students and day laborers to put the state firmly on the map as a leading immigration battleground.
An estimated 100,000 people are expected to walk from the Arizona State Fairground to the state Capitol to call for reform that includes a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants and a guest worker program.
"This is a movement," said Mercedes Mercado-Ochoa, a member of Unidos en Arizona and the Mesa Association of Hispanic Citizens. "We want to be reckoned with."
While Arizona and the Valley have been struggling with immigration for years, the growing Latino population has struggled to become politically active. That changed with the march on the Phoenix office of Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., last month, which drew an estimated 20,000 people and surprised even its organizers.
"Finally, we were able to get the citizens together with the noncitizens," Mercado-Ochoa said. "Now, everybody's united."
But what moved them? And why now? Why here?
Lobbyist and former state senator Alfredo Gutierrez calls it a "perfect storm" of anti-immigrant legislation at the state and federal level, which followed national coverage of Minuteman border patrols and calls from Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, for border walls and deportation of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants — including 500,000 in Arizona.
"Every one of those acts pushed more and more people toward the tipping point," Gutierrez said. "But 4437 was it."
HR4437, passed the U.S. House last month and would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally. The bill would allow those who aid illegal immigrants to be prosecuted.
Family members, activists, churches, and social service organizations united in protest, forming larger, more cohesive coalitions.
In Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahoney urged priests in his diocese to defy the measure it if became law.
"It was tantamount to the Japanese Internment Act," he said. "As a people, as we begin to understand the depths of this, we have to mobilize. Not a month from now. We have to mobilize today. And we're staying mobilized until we get justice for our families."
Just as sweeping immigration reform proposals in Congress have mobilized Latinos and church leaders, they have caused an outcry among immigration opponents, who plan to stage counterprotests along today's march route.
Whatever the outcome of the march or the ongoing political debates, there is no turning back the demographic tide, studies show.
"There's nothing anyone can do to stop it," said Loui Olivas, associate vice president of academic affairs at Arizona State University and a third-generation Arizonan. "So let's grow up and get over it."
Census projections show minority groups — led by Latinos — will become the majority in Arizona by 2035.
Two-thirds of the children of Hispanic immigrants — and 93 percent under age 6 — were born in this country, even if one or both of their parents weren't, according to a Migration Policy Institute study.
Another study, by the Pew Hispanic Center, indicates that record immigration and high fertility among immigrants will produce some startling results: Between 2000 and 2020, secondgeneration Latinos in U.S. schools will double and their number in the U.S. work force will triple.
Magdalena Schwartz is bringing the next generation to today's march — her 11-year-old son.
"He wants to march. He wants to make signs. He wants to speak," said Schwartz, a Mesa member of Inmigrantes Sin Fronteras. "He said, 'It's not right, mommy. Because everybody came to this country from someplace else.' "
Luis Gonzalez's family was separated for just a few days and settled in the San Fernando Valley. The children flourished in public schools. He earned a scholarship to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now works for Phelps Dodge. It took him almost two decades to become a U.S. citizen.
Gonzalez and his wife have two children, ages 5 and 9, and he's gained a deeper understanding of why his mother left when he was 7 years old.
"She had to leave her children, not knowing whether she would survive or if she would see us again. But in the end, she thought all that was worth the risk," he said.


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Great review. My wife and I try to get there at least once a month. Not only is the food wonderful, but the staff and the service are great, too.
The best curry I've ever tasted was at a pop-up beer garden near the banks of the Mekong River on the border between Thailand and Laos. The proprietors had pieced together a kitchen from a series of elaborate camp stoves, and they used it to feed a huge crowd, waiters tottering between plastic tables with platters loaded with beer, baskets of rice and that sublime curry. Using their mortar and pestle and a collection of sauté pans on the stoves, the cooks had created a fiery, orange-hued curry, dotted with angry-looking red chiles and full of pieces of bell pepper, eggplant and prawns. It was incredible, and I dream of it still.
Curry is a mainstay of Thai cuisine — served at roadside stands, in top-end joints and everywhere in between. It's one of a handful of dishes you'll find in every corner of the country, albeit in very different forms. But Thai curry didn't originate on the Indochinese peninsula. Nor did it come from China or Europe, the two areas that most heavily influenced Southeast Asian fare. Rather, it migrated from India centuries ago, becoming thinner as it moved north. Thai curry is soupier than the Indian version — still made from a paste that includes hot chile peppers, cumin and turmeric, but most of the dried herbs, such as cardamom and cinnamon, have been replaced with fresh ones.
Although curry is ubiquitous in Thailand, it wasn't until the 1970s that Thai curry really made its way to the United States. It evolved in this country, too — but not for the better. Most of the renditions you find here are utterly mediocre: too sweet, too simple, too made from a pre-mixed paste. There are exceptions, of course. My old neighborhood in Los Angeles County had several restaurants that slung the real thing: Thai curry that was simultaneously hearty and delicate; sweet, savory and spicy; complexly layered with garlic, ginger, woody galangal and piney lemongrass. Thickened with coconut milk, it was laced with racy green or red Thai chiles or toasted cumin and topped with a smattering of sweet-tart kaffir lime leaves or a few sprigs of fresh basil; it might have been filled with chunks of crisp vegetables and tender hunks of meat or used to smother a whole, just-caught fish.
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But even those places were few and far between in Southern California, where there's a sizable Thai population. In Denver, the Thai curries I've tried in the past have always been disappointing. And after my recent trip to Southeast Asia, where I ate great Thai curry just about every day and truly sublime Thai curry in that pop-up beer garden, I was almost too frightened to try again.
And then I went to Thai Flavor.
Surin Thanon, a native of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, took over Thai Flavor seven years ago, preserving the name, the bubblegum-hued storefront entrance and the sparsely decorated dining room. She breathed life back into the menu, though, bringing her capable touch to such standards as pad Thai and the curries, and adding specialties from her home — including some, like certain whole-fish dishes, that aren't translated into English on the menu. But the offerings also sweep down the country to include southern Thai specialties, like Massaman curry — which is actually similar in flavor to Indian curry, with cinnamon and cloves mixed with the lemongrass and galangal — as well as dishes from Vietnam. On my first visit, I settled into a high-backed booth, slugged a light Chang beer while listening to out-of-context Billie Holliday on the speakers, and dug into a som tum green papaya salad, a preparation popular across the Southeast Asian subcontinent. I'd asked for it hot, which garnered a good-natured chuckle from my server.
"Medium," he'd said. "If it's not hot enough, I'll bring you more chiles. Or you can add the crushed ones on the table."
It was hot enough. Shreds of freshly grated crisp papaya mixed with stiff green beans and firm cherry tomato halves had been coated with sweet-garlicky fish sauce tinged with sour lime, then studded with a crunchy dusting of peanuts. And while I could see tiny bits of red chiles, which Thanon grows both in the restaurant and in her garden at home, it took three bites before the full scope of the heat hit my palate, burning slowly and steadily until I had to beg for sticky rice to soothe my tongue. That was a happy accidental order, though, because the sticky rice had been cooked just right: It was soft, chewy, grainy and so sticky that I could pull off clumps with my fingers and dip them in sauce like chunks of bread. Which I couldn't stop doing as my mouth became acclimated to the heat. I also gnawed my way through a pile of barbecued ribs, succulent beef slightly charred and caramelized by the grill, and served with hot mustard. True to versions I'd had in Asia, the ribs were imbued with an intense, smoky sweetness that cut all the way down to the bone.
Then, finally, the main event: a brimming bowl of Panang curry, creamy and caramel-colored. The first spoonful was pungent and peppery, laced with the same chile-infused heat as the salad, but this time checked by the natural sugar of the coconut milk, the savory bite of garlic and the tangy nip of a freshly squeezed lime. The curry was swimming with tender strips of pork and dotted with scallions and basil. It was a seemingly never-ending bowl, and I ladled spoonful after spoonful onto perfect, fluffy rice, slurping just the liquid when I was too full to eat more meat.
Great review. My wife and I try to get there at least once a month. Not only is the food wonderful, but the staff and the service are great, too.
The pad prik khing is to die for - I've ordered numerous dishes of theirs and I just can't get enough of this dish!
note there is a small thai menu as well for people that can read it. also there is stuff i haven't seen elsewhere at other thai restaurants. and if you go with a thai person, they'll make the dishes even more authentic.


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Spiritual Guidance: Priest healing for Dragon Soul's Hagara and Ultraxion {WoW}
Dec 22nd 2011 9:38AM @jjustaposter
and when your 10 man healing setup is disc priest, holy paladin, resto druid, who takes green? The paladin takes blue, the druid can't take green because of hots, so the priest gets it. It's not even worth switching to holy because holy is still weak on 10 man, doesn't get green from sanctuary and disc is very powerful on that boss.
Your "I'm right, everyone else is wrong, lalala I can't hear you" posts are both useful and amusing though. Keep up the good work.
Spiritual Guidance: Priest healing for Dragon Soul's Hagara and Ultraxion {WoW}
Dec 21st 2011 9:37AM Red is good for everyone, green is bad for everyone.
As a disc priest I consistently top the meters in Ultraxion both before the buffs have come out and at the end of the fight. PoH + DA is just really good when it's pulsing damage on a stacked up raid, and being able to put out big 4P shields on people before they take twilight is useful too.
However, I usually take green. The reason for that is simply that green is bad for me but even worse for other healers. Healing Rain doesn't trigger green, and that's where most of a shaman's heals come from on the fight. Druids are out too because of HoTs, and paladins get blue.
Green for disc roughly doubles the direct heal from PoH but doesn't trigger DA.
The post-patch 4.3 rare gem market {WoW}
Dec 13th 2011 9:17AM Brilliant Inferno Rubies are currently going for 450g on my realm. Demand is high, supply is low, but it seems to only be an issue with the Brilliant cuts, while other red gems are going for a fraction of the price.
JCs, please cut more Brilliant Inferno Rubies. You will make a lot of gold, and supply will increase, helping everyone.
Spiritual Guidance: Further thoughts on priest healing in Pandaria {WoW}
Nov 15th 2011 9:01AM While I love playing disc and hate playing holy, I would be fine with them just merging the specs into one, and maybe making a MoP style talent choice between something like CoH and Atonement.
As disc, we already have different stat priorities depending on what we're doing. In 10 man we need to do a bit of everything so it doesn't really matter, but in 25 man you might actually be assigned to heal the tank or the raid and not both.
Holy and disc aren't really that different in terms of gear right now, because priest gear in firelands is so bad, we really don't have much choice of what to get. The main difference is how you reforge it, in which case switching from disc to holy is the same as switching from affliction to demonology. You just get the reforgelite addon and save up a lot of gold.
Now if they did merge the healing trees, what would they do with the 3rd spec? Keep shadow as DoT and make a new bursty DD tree based around things like mind spike and orbs?
Spiritual Guidance: A first look at healing priest talents in Mists of Pandaria {WoW}
Nov 3rd 2011 10:31AM Power Infusion does not stack with Blood Lust, unfortunately. It should work with self-haste buffs though.
Spiritual Guidance: Through a Glass, Darkly: Getting the legendary, part 1 {WoW}
Nov 2nd 2011 6:51PM Has anyone on 10 man actually got this yet? The first one should just about be finished around now.
Spiritual Guidance: A first look at healing priest talents in Mists of Pandaria {WoW}
Oct 31st 2011 8:56PM Well, for example, PI is just plain so good that all 3 specs would prefer to have it. The limiting factor right now is that only disc can get it.
VoU just seems like a really bad version of beacon. The power of beacon is that you can put it on a tank and even when you heal someone else, you're still healing the tank. If there are 2 tanks, you can heal both at the same time. VoU is a weak beacon that you can only cast on yourself, hurts you, has a long cooldown and is quickly broken if you put it on a tank, which means it's probably better for PvP than raiding. Swapping your health with someone with void shift is generally going to be a bad idea too, if there's any chance that you can take any incoming damage afterwards. You usually don't want to sacrifice a healer to save a DPS, and fights where you aren't going to take any raid damage at all, such as Baleroc, are incredibly few and far between. On the other hand, VD is a constant, free smart heal that is useful whenever more than one person is taking any damage, and is probably even more significant when you're balled up raid healing, depending on how they tweak it before release. Even as shadow, VD is probably better for your raid than VoU or VS.
Path of the Devout will be useless as long as levitate is broken by any amount of damage, and the moment boost from body and soul can be very useful, particularly when you're casting a lot of shields as a disc priest anyway.
While they aren't absolute numbers that can be crunched by theorycrafting, there are some which are just clearly superior to others and there always will be, because you can't make all 3 talents in a group equally good for all 3 specs at the same time.
I don't want to go into too much detail on every choice I gave, because we just don't have the final numbers yet and things will almost certainly change before release.
Spiritual Guidance: A first look at healing priest talents in Mists of Pandaria {WoW}
Oct 31st 2011 5:27PM As a raiding disc priest, most of the choices here are fairly obvious, unfortunately.
15: Pretty much nothing in raids can be feared, so go snare.
30: B&S for most fights, maybe Phantasm for fights that have slow puddles.
45: Divine Star, unless it's about as useful as holy nova, in which case SoL, because smite healing is generally bad.
60: Probably angelic bulwark.
75: Obviously PI
90: Probably VD (because who doesn't want VD?)
I don't really mind, but the idea that this would ever stop cookie cutter builds is just silly.
Spiritual Guidance: Minor glyphs for discipline and holy priests, plus some pre-BlizzCon silliness {WoW}
Oct 18th 2011 8:40AM Firstly, I should point out that you're posting this in the wrong place. Fox does shadow priests, Dawn does healing priests.
Now that that's out of the way, it sounds like you either haven't played shadow PvP for a long time or don't know how to play it.
For example, you can use dispersion heavily. Not only does it give 90% damage reduction, it also makes you immune to snares. There's also a talented fade that breaks snares on you now, with a 15s cooldown glyphed, your shadowform has a damage reduction, you now have inner will for a movement buff to get away or inner fire for some armour against physical damage, and the healer 4set bonus is used even by shadow priests so that when they shield themselves, they can't be snared. Psychic Horror is not just a normal fear which can be broken with things like berserker rage, it's a terror effect. On top of that, it has a built in undispellable disarm, which will also stop a warrior's bladestorm in its tracks.
I would say though that shadow self heals aren't nearly as useful as they used to be. You're better just taking less damage by killing them faster.
You should also be stacking resilience heavily. Gear makes a big difference in PvP.
Shadow priests, played correctly, are certainly not a "glass cannon" ... "with no gtfo button" in PvP.
I'm personally not such a fan of Disc in PvP, even though it's my raiding spec, but that's just my preference. Penance is just a giant "nuke me now" flag if you use it on anyone but yourself. In RBG they seem to nuke the disc priest first, and the most use I have is as a meat shield for the flag carrier. Pain sup myself, throw shields out where I can, other healers help keep me alive because they try to nuke me before the tank or any other healers that are there.
Spiritual Guidance: Minor glyphs for discipline and holy priests, plus some pre-BlizzCon silliness {WoW}
Oct 18th 2011 8:07AM I raid with glyph of shadowfiend. Here are some reasons why.
1) I do some PvP too.
2) I only use shadowfiend for mana, and even with the incredibly small chance that it dies, if it does die, I still want my mana.
3) Minor glyphs are pretty useless anyway. There certainly aren't 3 better than shadowfiend.
There's basically nothing to shackle in cataclysm and if something does need CC, you shouldn't be the one doing it. The mana cost of pw:fortitude only matters if you're casting it mid fight. If someone needs a rebuff mid fight because of a combat res, get a shadowpriest to do it.
Levitate is useful basically because without the glyph, it's a broken spell. They should honestly just remove the reagent cost from it in the first place. Nobody carries feathers, they either glyph it or don't use it at all.
While glyph of shadowfiend is pretty bad for PvE, if your shadowfiend actually did ever die to some bizarre mechanic, the glyph means it doesn't matter, which is just slightly less useless than the other crap minor glyphs, like 5y extra range on a spell I haven't cast once in raiding the entire expansion.


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I was at a landscaping trade show today and was intrigued by a couple of companies selling compost pellets. This stuff is plant based, no manures or animal products, so would not have any nitrogen value but does it work to 1) amend the soil with humus and 2) provide good micro organisms. I have a two acre property with 1 acre of lawn and many large beds so although I compost I can't create enough compost myself for my gardens and you can't get bulk delivery of compost in our area. I was intrigued with the ability to put this stuff down on my lawn by broadcast spreader. Has anyone tried this stuff? Does it work. I'm thinking of doing this along with converting to an organic turf care program by the same company.
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Compost is mostly used to restore the bacterial balance of the soil and isn't really (as you noted) a food. Once, if you have noticeable issues, sure. I'm guessing the pelletized is more expensive than the raw stuff, but the convenience could easily offset that for you. I never bothered. Other people use compost once a year or more. We all seem to get good results. General feeding, though, if you can get your hands on feed grains from a local mill, they're a lot cheaper than any company's organic offerings. They're also not difficult to handle with a broadcast spreader. I pay $8 per 40 lb bag of Milorganite, or $9 for a 50 lb bag of soybean meal, or $4 for 50 lbs of cornmeal (this is corn country--cracked corn is even less). In American dollars. Most "specialty" foods are a lot more expensive and don't do a better job. If the prices are competitive, by all means, do it! |
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Aug 15, 2011 4:43 PM by Beth Saboe
BELGRADE - Funeral and memorial services are planned this week for a Belgrade school principal who died suddenly over the weekend.
Craig Cummings, 53, was the principal of Heck/Quaw elementary.
Belgrade superintendent Candy Lubansky sent out a letter to family and friends of the Heck/Quaw Elementary School stating that Cummings passed away Saturday, August 13 at 9:00 P.M.
Lubansky said he had been in a coma since Monday, August 8, when he suffered a heart-related event. According to the superintendent, Cummings was surrounded by his wife, three children and extended family when he died.
A funeral for Cummings will be held Thursday, August 18 at 11:00 A.M. in Belt, MT at the Belt High School gymnasium.
The Belgrade school district plans to hold a tribute to Cummings on Friday, August 19 at 4 P.M. in the Belgrade High School auditorium. Friends and family will be able to gather afterwards at Quaw School.
More details will be posted on the Belgrade school district's website.
Labansky said elementary counselors will hold a session for parents only on how to talk with children about grief and loss on Friday, August 19 from 10:00 to 10:30 A.M. in the Quaw music room.
"Mr. Cummings passing leaves a huge hole in our school district's heart and is a tremendous loss of professional talent and expertise," said Lubansky. "We shall miss him deeply and will continue to honor the many contributions he made for children here at Belgrade School District."
David Smith will act as the interim principal at Heck/Quaw elementary. School is slated to start August 24.
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/auc clear [itemlink] - this command will clear data for a specific item; very useful if an item suddenly increases or decrease in price. Obviously you need to perform new scans to obtain fresh data.
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Grimaldi's Pizzeria (2168 E. Williams Field Rd. #102 [480] 814-7722). This New York-based eatery has been making pizza in coal-fired brick ovens for generations - and after the first bite you'll know why. The menu is basic, but the taste is anything but. Not in the mood for a pie? Try the antipasto, which features mozzarella, oven-roasted sweet red peppers, Genoa salami, olives and fresh baked bread. Additional locations in Chandler, Old Town Scottsdale and north Scottsdale. $
Joe's Farm Grill (3000 E. Ray Road, [480] 563-4745). Organic, locally grown food with surprising taste and range. From the Americana decor and tasty hickory pork barbecue to the light and tangy BBQ Chicken Pizza, to niche favorites like the Ahi Tuna sandwich, the Farm Grill proves to be a hickory smoked leg up on the average Joe's. Try the sweet potato fries and the hot fudge cream puff. $
Joe's Real BBQ (301 N. Gilbert Road, [480] 503-3805). Looking for inexpensive yet tasty eats? At Joe's you'll find plenty of smoked meats and savory sides including mac and cheese and the best beans in town. Give the lemon cake a go, too - moist, tart and tangy, it's delicious. $
Liberty Market (230 N. Gilbert Road, [480] 892-1900). This grocery store turned restaurant has been a landmark in downtown since 1935. Stop in for traditional comfort food at breakfast, lunch or dinner. If you crave something a little different, try the salmon plate with lemon olive oil, greens, tapenade, chives and crisps in the morning; a fruit-infused chicken salad sandwich with a side of hummus around noon; or the apricot glazed chicken in the evening. $
Oregano's Pizza Bistro (328 N. Gilbert Road, [480] 882-9336). Waiting for a table is the norm on a busy night at Oregano's Pizza Bistro. The pizza is worth the wait. Choose a specialty pizza or build your own on a thin crust or decadent, gooey pan crust. Any meal at Oregano's should be followed by the Original Pizza Cookie (partially baked cookie dough topped with vanilla ice cream - the ultimate chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream). Additional locations in Scottsdale, Tempe and Mesa. $
Romeo's Euro Cafe (207 N. Gilbert Road, [480] 962-4224). The eclectic, Mediterranean-influenced menu includes more than two dozen pitas, a delightful selection of seafood and other intriguing dishes like Transylvania chicken and sunflower beef. For a fun and easy way to expand your palate, reserve a spot for one of their frequent food and wine pairings. $-$$
Someburros (1335 E. Baseline Road, [480] 755-8226 and 2597 S. Market St., [480] 497-8226). While it lacks ambiance, Someburros scores points for its flavorful, inexpensive Mexican fare. A good place for families with children and those looking for a casual night out. The extensive menu includes the requisite tacos, tamales and enchiladas plus house specialties such as the pollo fundido, which features chunks of chicken wrapped in a deep-fried tortilla topped with spicy cream cheese, grated cheddar and green onions. Offerings also include vegetarian options and traditional American fare. Additional locations in Chandler and Tempe. $
Sushi Ave. (866 N. Higley Road, [480] 218-5700). Not only is this one of the best sushi spots in the East Valley, it's also Gilbert's coolest space to eat. The black wood tables, chairs and sushi bar, dark aqua walls, earthy slate tiles on the floor and walls, and soft track lighting create a hip Asian ambiance. The simple menu includes nine stir-fry options for the sushi shy, including the generously portioned and spiced suicide chicken. $
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I make music. All sorts of it. Here's a sampling of my work. All of these and more can be found and downloaded at my bandcamp, where I post most finished things, and my soundcloud, which is mostly mashups and experiments. I also occasionally post things to the music tag of my blog.
Need a song for a video, film, game, or just to play in the shower to get you psyched for the day? Here are some themes and bits of scores I've done:
- Baman Piderman Kickstarter (2014)
- Phil is Dead (2012)
- Game of Thrones Theme (cover, 2011)
- Steven San Miguel (2011)
- Meeting Girls on the T (2011)
- Midnight Dance of the Fonzis (2011)
I write songs for pleasure, too! I'm working on an album, but I'm pressing it on vinyl made from repurposed $100 bills, so it's shaping up to be a costly and time-consuming endeavor. If you'd like to donate, I'd like you. Anyway, here are some demos.
- Bejnamin Franklin (2010)
- Monkey in a Suit (2011)
- Emma Watson (2011)
- Toxic (cover, 2012)
- You and You and Me (2012)
- La Alegría (2013)
This is a selection of mashups that I've done. A mashup consists of two or more different songs combined to create another thing altogether. They're fun because they let you recontextualize familiar songs, and sometimes explore harmonies between tracks and across genres. I'm currently working on an full length gapless mashup album sampling several hundred artists—check out my soundcloud for works in progress.
- Double Dutch (Part II)
(25 Minute Gapless Mashup Album, over 100 artists sampled, 2013) - Lazy Royals
(Lorde vs. Enya, 2013) - Merry X-Mash
(Medley of Christmas songs, hip hop songs, and pop/rock songs, 2013) - I Want You to Party and Bullshit
(Notorious BIG vs. The Jackson 5, 2009) - Shake That Maple Leaf
Savage vs. Scott Joplin, 2013) - ROQUIT
(Rocket Power vs. ABBA vs. 2-Live Crew, 2010) - Airplanes in the Middle
(They Might Be Giants vs. B.o.B. & Hayley Williams, 2010) - GINJUR
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How the Blethen family lost 49.5 percent of the Seattle Times Co.
When Gary Pruitt, McClatchy Co.'s chief executive, told shareholders last week that his company was willing to sell a 49.5 percent minority stake in the Seattle Times Co., a McClatchy executive quickly declared Pruitt's announcement wasn't news. McClatchy has been "willing to sell ever since we acquired it," said Elaine Lintecum, McClatchy's treasurer.
That might be McClatchy's position these days. Publicly and privately, however, Lintecum and other McClatchy officials previously have said the Sacramento-based newspaper chain planned to hold on to the Times stake, which McClatchy picked up as part of a $4.5 billion purchase of Knight Ridder in 2006. "We plan to be a partner," Howard Weaver, McClatchy's vice president for news, told The Seattle Times at the time. "We plan to participate."
Times change, and since the Knight Ridder acquisition McClatchy has gone from the newspaper industry's power position to a precarious financial bind — its stock has fallen to less than a quarter of its value at the start of 2007. McClatchy's writedown of its Seattle Times Co. stake by 88 percent, from $102.2 million to $12.1 million in the last year, makes the Seattle company the biggest loser in a troubled newspaper portfolio.
So how did Knight Ridder become the Times Co. minority shareholder, anyway? The official corporate history is somewhat vague about details of the transaction. But two documents — a 2001 Harvard Business School case study on the Seattle Times Co. and the Seattle-area Blethen family, which owns the controlling interest in the company, and a 1946 Washington Supreme Court decision in a legal fight between the Ridder family and the Blethens — provide a detailed account.
The Harvard study was written by John Davis, a professor, head of Harvard's Families in Business Program, and former advisor to the Blethens, and Cathy Quinn, a Beverly Hills-based psychologist. It is remarkably frank in its assessment of the Blethen history. "They were extraordinarily forthcoming, especially given the sad family history they've had," Davis said in an interview with me in 2003. All the information in the 24-page study was based on documents and interviews with members of the Blethen family, he said, and Seattle Times publisher and Seattle Times Co. CEO Frank Blethen had the final say on what appeared in the report.
According to the Harvard case study and court documents, Clarance Brettun Blethen, Frank Blethen's grandfather, known as C.B., spent heavily during the second generation of Blethen control of the Times Co., both on the newspaper and on personal luxuries, including a lavish yacht. C.B. often dressed in a military uniform and preferred to be addressed by the his National Guard rank of colonel. He barely skirted bankruptcy by allowing the Ridders, owners of the Journal of Commerce in New York, to invest in the company, accepting $1.5 million from Bernard Ridder, who was tipped off in 1929 to the Seattle company's problems. In return, Ridder got 49.5 percent of the company's voting shares and three-quarters of the dividend-paying shares.
The deal was rife with intrigue. While Ridder hoped to use his investment to ultimately wrest control of the Seattle Times Co. from the Blethens, state Supreme Court papers indicate that C.B. Blethen schemed to use Ridder's cash infusion to accumulate the rest of his family's shares under his own control.
"The Ridder investment enabled C.B. to buy out his sisters' voting and common stock," the Harvard study says. The sisters received preferred stock, which was eventually retired.
"If there is anything clear from these contracts," the state Supreme Court wrote in a decision 17 years later, "it is that Colonel Blethen's unswerving purpose was to maintain his own and (after his death) his family's control of the Seattle Times."
Meanwhile, the Ridder family "worked to create contention and distrust among the (Blethen) family, (Times) board of directors and bankers," according to the Harvard study. C.B., still on the edge of bankruptcy despite the Ridders' cash infusion, was forced to hand over control of the Seattle Times Co. to the company's attorney, Elmer Todd, who also became the paper's publisher.
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Apple Didn't Fall Far From The Tree: Considering the Colonel and the Judge, Frank proves the old adage.
Posted Wed, May 21, 8:31 a.m.
It's a classic business "death spiral" where the company has to cut expenses which causes the product to suffer which causes revenue to drop which forces the company to cut expenses which causes etc. etc. Unfortunately, the current Seattle Times corporate management team has shown no ability to deal with the dilemma and the situation only gets worse as time passes.
Anyway, very good story
Posted Wed, May 21, 9:54 a.m.
A good example of this is the recent aquisition of the Preston, Gates, Ellis law firm. Perhaps motivated by concerns over the Abramoff scandal this 2006 merger is important to local business and the public issues this firm has, or is, involved in.
I missed this entirely. True, I wasn't active when it occurred, but it was nearly a year after bringing myself back up to speed that I heard this event referenced, and it wasn't via the media. I also wasn't completely out of touch in 2006 either.
This was a great article and it would be good to see a similar level of ongoing business coverage as it applies to other industries operating with an influence over the 'public' arena.
-Douglas Tooley
Posted Wed, May 21, 10:41 a.m.
Informative: Fascinating: I'd always wondered how Knight Ridder ended up with nearly half of the Times. Thanks for enlightening us!
Posted Sun, May 25, 7:06 a.m.
The Seattle Times isn't very good anymore and has lost their groove. It is more like reading internet news. The lifestyle section has been merged into other sections lately. The Eastside reporting is gone. Their son Ryan Blethen is writing some editorial's. It is like he is holding up the fort.
The Seattle Times should have started a website like Crosscut in the first place. Kind of odd that the best reporters in town missed that scoop.
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The Mac malware question
Do Macs get viruses? A common perception, encouraged by Apple, is that they don't. And to a very large extent it's true – but that's not quite the same as saying it's not something you should ever think about.
Mac OS X enjoys a privileged position: compared to Windows, it's been subjected to only a tiny amount of malware (malicious software). Many people have used Macs for years, without ever installing virus protection, and have never had an infection or any kind of malware-related problem. That would be highly unlikely in the Windows PC world.
It's not that the files containing viruses can't be downloaded to Macs, but the code that does the damage, the 'payload', will only execute on the operating system it's designed for – and almost invariably that isn't OS X. The Mac's built-in defences are not easy to get around, and malware creators no doubt find their time is better spent targeting an OS that accounts for more than 90% of the world's computers rather than a minority product.
But viruses aren't the only kind of malware. In 2011, tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of Macs were affected by a Trojan known as MAC Defender. Rather than executing its payload automatically, for example when the user accessed an infected website, MAC Defender would pop up a message inviting the user to respond to malware threats by installing an anti-virus app. If the user took this at face value, they would then permit the software to install – and, as usual when installing software on a Mac, would enter their administrator password to bypass OS X's protections.
It's easy to dismiss this kind of 'social engineering' attack as something you'd never fall for, but many people do – and until you encounter the next form of attack, you don't know what you should be looking out for. Phishing attacks, where users are tricked into entering passwords or personal details via the web and email, are also commonplace. While Apple has increased its security since MAC Defender, new kinds of malware are a constant possibility.
For anti-virus specialists Kaspersky, Mac securityis important because of these ongoing threats. By finding the right software from malware experts, Mac users can be protected from Trojans, spyware and phishing attempts, and cloud-based scanning helps to ensure no malware is passed via the Mac to any of the user's contacts who may be running PCs that would be affected.
As technology advances, so too do hacking networks. What started as an activity being conducted by a few technically adept individuals has grown into an increasingly mature marketplace. As this marketplace continues to evolve, it becomes harder to detect where and when these hackers are operating.
In mid-January, a major cyber-attack that has been in operation since 2007 was discovered by Russian researchers. Investigators have found that, after five years of operation, the so-called 'Red October' hackers have created more than 60 domain names to run their attacks and are targeting government and diplomatic institutions in mainly eastern European countries. Besides the traditional approach of targeting workstation computers, Red October is able to extract private data from mobile devices , including address books, the call history, SMS messages and browsing history.
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The Mog Log: The negativity song {Massively}
Oct 10th 2010 8:08AM Dranaerys, if the devs were aiming to make an approachable MMO for newbies, then they have failed utterly.
But I enjoy FF XIV because it's like a throwback game. Have you played Etrian Odyssey on the Nintendo DS? FF XIV is like the MMO version of that. In the same way EO deliberately doesn't offer auto-mapping, FF XIV forces users to band together to figure things out.
Let's look at this another way. If S-E went back and made crafting a 1 step process, made encounters straight forward, put in an auction house, added gear drops as loot, did ALL the things people want them to add...then how would it be any different from every other MMO out there?
It'd be just another DIKU clone.
Yes, the interface is often frustrating and they need to address that. Again, my comment was in response to the post, not a generic "FF XIV is perfect" comment: it is *far* from perfect.
But the things Eliot wants changes are the things that make it different. Clearly mainstream MMO players don't want things that are different, they want another game that plays similar to those they've already played. I'm not faulting anyone for that.
But for some of us who've played every major MMO since Ultima Online and who're getting tired of the same old WoW-ish clone, FF XIV is fun because it forces us to jump online and compare notes and discover things, and because crafting is so complex.
I love how threatened Massively comment drones are that they have to down-vote my post because I don't blindly follow the author and his opinion. I humbly suggest that the author himself is mature enough to be able to handle a different opinion without resorting to such practices.
The Mog Log: The negativity song {Massively}
Oct 10th 2010 2:17AM That's very cute, Tizmah, but the author didn't list inventory management as one of his issues.
I never said the game was perfect and yeah, the inventory UI sucks hard.
I'm talking about the gameplay systems, like the complex crafting and the varied difficulties of encounters. Not everyone wants to play a game where you can know ahead of time, via a color-coded system, whether you're going to win or lose an encounter before you even begin it.
I love the Massively audience. The author states an opinion, a commentor (me) states a dissenting opinion, and the trolls come out with their "clever" sarcasm to immediately derail any possibility of meaningful conversation.
The Mog Log: The negativity song {Massively}
Oct 9th 2010 9:19PM Most of your "complaints" are what make the game interesting to me. Difficulty level indicators are just 1 part of the equation. The other part is personal experience and learning what enemies are tougher or easier for the job you're in at the moment.
Crafting is complex and thus rewarding. Do we really need another game where you hit a single skill to make an epic sword of slaying, and thus wind up with hundreds on the auction house?
The issues with the market wards are pretty much the only things in the post I really agree with.
Basically you want another easy-mode WoW clone with lots of convenience features. There's nothing wrong with liking casual MMOs but don't play a hard-core MMO and then complain that it's a hardcore MMO, which seems to me to be what you're doing.
A crafting and harvesting primer for Final Fantasy XIV {Massively}
Sep 21st 2010 1:52PM So basically it sounds pretty similar to EQ2, with some tweaks to the crafting process but the same balance of durability vs progress, plus FF XIV adds quality as a separate scale while EQ2 uses it as points on the progress graph.
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has made the best progress since its poor launch? {Massively}
Sep 21st 2010 11:20AM Yup, I was going to say that Anarchy Online is like a poster child for this situation. So bad when it launched, but it got so good as it aged.
The Daily Grind: Are open betas necessary? {Massively}
Sep 5th 2010 11:36AM "What you may not be aware of is that very little is actually going to get "tested" (much less re-implemented) during this month-long honeymoon. "
So you work for S-E in the IT department, then? You must, since you know that nothing is getting tested.
And yet in response to the load they're seeing, they added more servers today. Hmm, I wonder why they did that? Couldn't be because the Open Beta TEST illustrated they didn't have the capacity they needed for launch.
It must be awesome to be omnipotent like Jef Reahard.
The Road to Mordor: If the road goes ever on, I'm gonna need a GPS {Massively}
Sep 3rd 2010 11:10AM What I'm most looking for is the 15 minute log-in queues. Oh joy!!
WRUP: Well-rested edition {Massively}
Aug 28th 2010 4:57PM We must travel in completely different circles. All the GW players I know are pissed off as hell that GW2 has 80 levels and a focus on gear.
WRUP: Well-rested edition {Massively}
Aug 28th 2010 1:15PM I wish I had a cute little fennec fox to curl up on my desk...
I salute Square-Enix for trying something different. MMO gamers constantly complain about games being clones of one another...then whenever a dev does anything slightly different, they get shat upon by another continent of MMO gamers.
They just can't win.
If I try the system and don't like it, I'll play something else. There's plenty of games out there. No need to get all butt-hurt over one dev doing something you don't like.
The Daily Grind: No grind?? No pre-order!! {Massively}
Aug 27th 2010 11:58AM ^^ Exactly
I wonder how many people who're so outraged would ever actually hit these caps? Don't you people have jobs? Don't you sleep? Eat? Go outside once in a while? All the time you're doing these things your 'fatigue' is diminishing.
For the odd nutjob who sits and plays a game for 10-15 hours straight, yeah this wil be a problem. But that person has much BIGGER problems already.


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I've had the great fortune to have served in the coaching profession for the last 33 years. My greatest joys have come from working with young people on some 70 teams. Thousands of coaching decisions have been made involving games, matches, meets and athletes. Many decisions are carefully thought out and calculated, while others are made rapid fire by the seat of the pants. There is always pressure to show respect for your sport and to do what is best for your individual athletes and for the team.
Each season the coach goes through a process in hopes of getting the team to play at its best level. Some teams are big winners, while others struggle to eke out a win. In both cases, coaches learn and grow. In so many ways, a coach's life is defined by his body of work. Over the years, I have probably garnered more respect than I have ever deserved, but I have also felt some heat from those who have had the benefit of forming their opinions after the fact.
This past week, we have read extensively about Mike Shanahan and Bruce Bochy, two head men that have been criticized and celebrated for decisions that they alone were responsible in making. What we sometimes forget is that every coaching decision brings success to one side and failure to the other. As a result, coaches are constantly adjusting to the situation at hand.
Shanahan is the future hall of fame coach who has been called upon to resurrect the Redskins. The Skins have struggled since the first departure of Joe Gibbs. Recent Redskin coaches have been saddled with a deep-pocketed owner who has been too involved in football decisions. The roster has been infused with big name players who have shown varying levels of greatness at previous stops, but have often arrived at Redskin Park with more baggage than just their suitcase. Shanahan was brought in over the off-season with the promise of the authority to make most of the football related decisions. While much of the preseason press dealt with the Haynesworth soap opera, the offense was being rebuilt around Donovan McNabb. McNabb is a gifted quarterback, but at age 33 and 240 pounds, he has probably seen his best days. All in all though, the Skins have had a decent season … until last Sunday. Washington played down to the competition in losing for the second season in a row to the improving (but still lowly) Detroit Lions. Washington played awfully, but the blame for the loss fell on the shoulders of Shanahan, who made the decision to bench McNabb in the last two minutes. Rex Grossman entered the game, proceeded to fumble on the first play, and the Skins went home losers.
Shanahan's decision instantly took him from "genious" to "idiot" status. In Shanahan's defense, he had watched the Skins offense sputter the entire second half and apparently felt the need to try to create a spark. Grossman has never been confused with Peyton Manning, but he has been an NFL starter. Shanahan's hunch failed, creating a firestorm in the ESPN world.
Bochy is the manager of the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants. Bochy was a fine big league catcher, and has now managed for 16 years in the majors. He has five division championships under his belt, but has also finished last or next to last in his division 8 times. His managerial career seems to be all or nothing. With the Giants, Bochy is blessed with an organization that understands the need to grow talent from within. The farm system has produced a great pitching staff, while the position talent appears to be two to three years away. With the exception of phenom catcher Buster Posey, the remainder of the Giants' "retreads" have been carefully assembled by General Manager Brian Sabean.
Bochy's decision elevated his status from a ".500 guy" (actually .495) to "brilliant manager." The Giants had played the entire season with Juan Uribe at short and Pablo Sandoval at third. In a calculated risk ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it."), Bochy benched Sandoval for the World Series in favor of veteran Edgar Renteria. Renteria had previous World Series experience with Florida and St. Louis, but had spent most of this summer on the disabled list. Unlike Grossman, Renteria was flawless. He played steady defense at short, hit two huge homeruns, and batted .412 on his way to the MVP award.
Two experienced coaches made personnel decisions. One decision resulted in a negative outcome, while the other paid off in spades. From youth leagues, to high school, to college, to the pros, coaches make hundreds of decisions each day. We applaud their strategy when they're successful, while we question their grey matter when things don't quite work out.
It is the life of a coach, making all of his decisions in the present tense.