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Think For Yourself – Part II
This entry is a follow up to Part I. I will address some of the questions that arose following the original piece.
To begin, my advice to think for yourself is not a suggestion to reinvent the wheel. Strength isn't new. The wheel has already been invented.
Clearly, the novice needs direction. He isn't expected to arrive at the gym on his first day with all of the answers. Even Einstein had to gradually acquire his knowledge. Thinking for yourself doesn't mean spitting in the face of common logic. I'm certainly not knocking traditional sources of knowledge (ex. reading books, working with different routines, questioning more experienced athletes, etc.).
Instead, I simply remind you that you too can become a valuable source of knowledge. Often times, we learn by doing. There is only so much that you can take away from a book that was written by someone else. Human beings are not automated robots. We must all recognize and appreciate the uniqueness of each individual.
Unfortunately, many from this industry would like you to believe that their word is gospel. It is their way or the highway. These same people often try to confuse otherwise simple topics in an attempt to create dependencies. There is nothing more ignorant than suggesting that there is a single "way" to train. Great athletes have been developed with countless methods and protocols. There is no single way and there never will be.
As I stated before in a past entry:
The Internet has changed the fitness industry. Never before has getting in shape been made out to be so complex. I'm only in my 30's, but even we didn't have the Internet when I was in high school. I didn't learn of the Internet until my freshman year in college. Back in the day, no one assumed that a degree in rocket science was required to build strength in the gym. I know groups of guys who may have had one brain between the entire group, yet were monsters in the gym. Not many athletes and gym rats were in contention for valedictorian. I'd be willing to bet that our high school valedictorian didn't know the difference between a pull-up and a chin-up. Fitness wasn't his gig. Exercise wasn't thought of as one of the lucrative fields to pursue. There were still loads of strong and amazing athletes however. The difference was that no one was trying to confuse them with irrelevant bullsh*t. Athletes went to the gym and busted their ass. The results followed. That's it. Nothing fancy.
Raise The Bar
Furthermore, thinking for yourself often means nothing more than reacting to the moment. For example, if a cookie cutter routines calls for 4 sets, you won't be penalized or fined if you feel the need to go for a 5th or 6th set. You don't need to be a 10 year veteran to have a good day. There is nothing wrong with raising the bar and trying to separate yourself from the majority.
As a kid, I would come home from baseball practice and pitch into an empty garbage can. I had days when I pitched a full game by myself. I called balls and strikes as I pitched into the empty barrel. On other days, I would throw the ball against a backstop and practice fielding ground balls. I practiced into evening, long after the sun went down. I wasn't an experienced (elite) athlete. I was a young kid who wanted to be better than everyone else. If the team practiced for two hours, I wanted to practice for four. I never wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better.
Still Trying
Twenty years later, I am still trying to improve. Despite all of the books and journals that I've read, there were certain things that I needed to find out on my own. The answers (for me) weren't written in a book. I had to get in the gym, experiment with different methods and then come to my own conclusions. I've also learned that what works for me may not always work for one of my athletes. I don't force my athletes to follow my exact lead. I recognize the uniqueness of the individual and cater their plans accordingly.
There isn't a single book of answers that will apply exactly to all individuals. As a novice, you'll gain strength by looking at a barbell. Almost anything will work. The time will come however when you begin to plateau. Yes, you'll need to seek out new sources of knowledge (ex. within a book), but you'll also need to learn things on your own.
And while this may be commonsense to some, there are still plenty who overlook this seemingly obvious truth. Many have been misled to believe that they cannot think on their own. They've been fooled by those puppet masters who do everything in their power to create false dependencies.
The Truth
Look at dominant athletes from any sport and more often than not you'll find athletes who engage in unique methods. Does anyone actually believe that all successful powerlifters follow the exact routine day after day? Does anyone actually believe that there is a single strength program that everyone in the world should follow precisely?
Even athletes with similar goals may need entirely different routines. For example, suppose John and Joe both wish to improve their bench press. If John's weakness is the lower half of the bench, but Joe struggles with his lockout, each man has unique needs. They will need to travel different roads to improve their lifts. Each is plagued by a unique bottleneck, therefore each requires unique attention.
Many of the greats have figured things out for themselves. A perfect example of this concept can be seen within the second video from this past entry. Listen how Kroc discusses his use of heavy rows. Through trial and error, he found something that worked for him.
There will never be a single protocol or method that reigns supreme for all athletes. And even if such a program did exist, it would only last for a split second before someone then tried to make it better. Dominant athletes don't want to be like everyone else. They always want to take what is good and then make it better. That's the difference between the ordinary and extraordinary.
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Josh Leeger March 20th, 2009 1:04 am
Amen Ross. Not only that, but some things you just can't coach, no matter how hard you try. They have to be learned by being in the midst of the work itself.
Jeremy March 20th, 2009 5:56 am
"Crime isn't the only danger; there is also isolation. If people can segregate themselves in ever-increasingly specialized groups, then they're less likely to be exposed to alternative ideas. We see a mild form of this in the current political trend of rival political parties having their own news sources, their own narratives, and their own facts. Increased radicalization is another danger lurking below the Coasean floor."
Amazon Reviewer commenting on Clay Shirky's book 'Here comes everybody'The dependencies you speak of that are invoked by some members of the fitness industry, I think, border on cult like behaviour.
Yavor Marichkov March 20th, 2009 7:37 am
Yup – thinking for ourselves…
Now the irony of what I am gonna write next is that I will actually quote SOMEONE ELSE to reinforce that we should think for OURSELVES lol!
So there:
"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"
It is attributed to the late Bruce Lee. In actuality Bruce was probably inspired to coin it by Krishnamurti (Deepak Chopra's teacher). Which is exactly the quote put in action! Awesome.
Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach March 20th, 2009 12:03 pm
Great article! I managed to lose 50+ pounds myself and carve out my own exercise regime by simply researching online, trying what worked for me and adding what suggested itself. It's been 2+ years and I'm still going strong.
Manveet March 21st, 2009 6:22 am
SOLID post!
william March 23rd, 2009 2:44 am
great post Ross. I like what you write. I read it and think i wish i could have said that.
I remember reading on your site a while ago "Conventional Wisdom is No Wisdom at All. " I liked that and have used it many times since then when people say i should not be doing the things that I am doing. In reference to my workout or races i sign up for..
thanks Again -
Andy March 24th, 2009 5:49 am
Great post, Ross….I loved it.
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Starting January 1, 2014, the ordinance for burglary and robbery alarms will take place.
The purpose of this ordinance is to encourage alarm users to properly maintain the operational effectiveness of alarm systems to reduce or eliminate false alarms, and to defray associated costs through permit fees and false alarm charges.
The City Council amended the ordinance on December 12, 2013.
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text: E-DRUG: Philippines Generics law -------------------------------- [copied from Pharm-Policy; WB] We are still waiting for the USTR to provide justification for its 301 listing of the Philippines for generic drug laws. Here is a November 9, 1999 article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer about the Philippine legislation. Note also that the Philippines has a per capital gross domestic product of about $100 per month. http://www.inquirer.net/issues/nov99/nov09/news/news_2.htm House to probe drug firms By Rocky Nazareno and Stella O. Gonzales THE HOUSE of Representatives starts today its investigation of the overpricing of medicines by drug companies which has placed the life saving-commodity beyond the reach of many Filipinos. At the Department of Health, Secretary Alberto Romualdez yesterday vowed to reduce prices of medicines by 30-60 percent starting next year. Romualdez said the price reduction would be made possible through a series of orders that would include stricter compliance with the Generics Law, limiting the use of branded drugs, and requiring pharmaceutical companies to manufacture the generic equivalents of their branded drugs. Malacañang also announced moves to stop the overpricing of medicines. The steps include investigating firms for ''transfer pricing,'' strict implementation of the Generics Drugs Act, and setting up distribution centers for low-priced medicines. House Majority Leader Manuel ''Mar'' Roxas II yesterday filed a resolution calling for an investigation of the alleged overpricing of medicine by as much as 500 to 1,000 percent. ''There is a multi-faceted issue to drug over-pricing and this should be tackled immediately because the poor has long been deprived of low costs of medicine and health services for far too long,'' the Liberal Party congressman said. Roxas said he would raise the practice of overpricing drugs when the House committee on health meets today to discuss House Bill No. 76. The bill seeks tax relief on the importation of medicine, equipment and other raw materials used for the manufacture of medicines. Roxas said drug prices were overpriced because over P1 billion or 25 percent of the costs incurred by the pharmaceutical industry had been earmarked for marketing costs. He said independent analysts ''had suggested that the high cost of medicines in the local market is a function of the pharmaceutical industry's dependence on marketing, advertising and promotions as a tool to ensure steady sales.'' Roxas said marketing costs included the ''representation expenses to entice physicians to prescribe their branded drugs to even poor patients.'' The Capiz congressman said the ''huge budget set aside by medical companies for the purpose of luring physicians into prescribing their drugs defeats the objectives and mission of the Generic Drugs Act.'' He noted that only ''one out of 10 consumers buy generic drugs because doctors and pharmaceutical companies continue to recommend branded products.'' This translates to a mere 40-percent compliance of the Generic Drugs Law, 11 years after its implementation. Compliance with the law hit a high of 80 percent in 1988. He said sales of generic drugs represented only 8 percent of total pharmaceutical sales in 1996. Other factors that have led to the high costs of medicines are ''graft and corruption in government purchases and collusion and price-fixing by pharmaceutical companies with retail outlets,'' Roxas said. He said drug firms were also passing on to consumers their tax burden. Gov't pharmacies The Department of Health, through its hospital pharmacies, will soon sell drugs to patients. ''The actual significant reduction will not be in place until January or February,'' Romualdez said. He defined ''significant reduction'' as ''30-60 percent lower than the present price.'' Romualdez complained that multinational pharmaceutical companies wielded a ''strong influence'' and ''can get foreign embassies to warn about sanctions'' if the DOH pursued its plan to limit, if not totally ban, the use of branded drugs. ''The European Union and some European countries agree with the PHAP (Pharmaceutical Health Care Association of the Philippines) stand that what we are doing is infringing on trade regulations and this is not within the province of the DOH,'' he said. He said ''trade sanctions'' had been ''explicitly discussed'' by the PHAP and the US and European embassies. These parties, he said, were looking at possible court actions against any order the DOH might issue. The DOH chief said the pharmaceutical companies believe that drug pricing was not a health issue but a trade issue ''and the DOH has no business taking action on drug prices.'' ''We have 200,000 infants dying unnecessarily of causes that could likely be treated with antibiotics. Every year 200,000 babies die because of high drug prices, infections, communicable diseases. If the state of health and death of thousands of Filipinos is not a health issue, then I have to see a definition of what they consider to be a health issue,'' Romualdez said. The data cited by Romualdez is apparently the figure worldwide. Data from the National Statistics Office show that 30,631 infants died in 1995 due to various causes. Romualdez said another factor that had been hampering the DOH program to reduce the prices of medicines was the refusal of pharmaceutical companies to submit their actual cost of production in manufacturing drugs. Romualdez had formed a consultative committee that included a representative from the PHAP and a local drug manufacturers group to study the DOH's proposals to reduce drug prices. The committee has about 20 days to finalize its recommendations. But with or without the inputs from the pharmaceutical industry, Romualdez said the DOH would implement these policies. ''The department is willing to take unilateral action,'' he declared. The DOH is also trying to encourage generic prescribing among doctors under the principle that generic drugs, while cheaper, are as effective as their branded counterparts. The Bureau of Food and Drugs, since three months ago, has been checking prescriptions issued by doctors to determine compliance with the Generics Law. Under the law, doctors are supposed to write the generic name of a drug and, if he so wishes, indicate in parenthesis a brand of the drug. BFAD reported to Romualdez that it has been issuing ''warnings'' to an average of 20 doctor-violators per day nationwide. Romualdez claimed that generic prescribing was now about 50 percent. Presidential spokesperson Fernando Barican said the President Estrada ordered the DOH to investigate ''transfer pricing'' by pharmaceutical firms, which resulted in the steep costs of medicines in the country. ''One of the things that the DOH is doing is to look into the transfer pricing, yes,'' Barican said when asked if the drug firms responsible for the overpricing will be investigated. Barican said the President identified the following areas where ''possible government support can be applied.'' Importation and manufacturing Marketing distribution Retail trading ''The President has standing instructions to the DOH (Department of Health) to look closely at the supply chain of drugs and medicines and determine where the government can introduce measures to lower prices of health-related products,'' Barican said in a statement. With a report from Juliet L. Javellana November 9, 1999 ======================================================= James Love, Director | http://www.cptech.org Consumer Project on Technology | mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com P.O. Box 19367 | voice: 1.202.387.8030 Washington, DC 20036 | fax: 18.104.22.16876 ======================================================= _______________________________________________ Pharm-policy mailing list email@example.com http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/pharm-policy -- Send mail for the `E-Drug' conference to `firstname.lastname@example.com'. Mail administrative requests to `email@example.com'. 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Towards the fast scrambling conjecture
- Nima Lashkari,
- Douglas Stanford,
- Matthew Hastings,
- Tobias Osborne,
- Patrick Hayden
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Many proposed quantum mechanical models of black holes include highly non-local interactions. The time required for thermalization to occur in such models should reflect the relaxation times associated with classical black holes in general relativity. Moreover, the time required for a particularly strong form of thermalization to occur, sometimes known as scrambling, determines the time scale on which black holes should start to release information. It has been conjectured that black holes scramble in a time logarithmic in their entropy, and that no system in nature can scramble faster. In this article, we address the conjecture from two directions. First, we exhibit two examples of systems that do indeed scramble in logarithmic time: Brownian quantum circuits and the antiferromagnetic Ising model on a sparse random graph. Unfortunately, both fail to be truly ideal fast scramblers for reasons we discuss. Second, we use Lieb-Robinson techniques to prove a logarithmic lower bound on the scrambling time of systems with finite norm terms in their Hamiltonian. The bound holds in spite of any nonlocal structure in the Hamiltonian, which might permit every degree of freedom to interact directly with every other one.
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- Title
- Towards the fast scrambling conjecture
- Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
- Online Date
- April 2013
- Online ISSN
- 1029-8479
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Lattice Integrable Models
- M(atrix) Theories
- Black Holes
- Quantum Dissipative Systems
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Nima Lashkari (1)
- Douglas Stanford (2)
- Matthew Hastings (3) (4)
- Tobias Osborne (5)
- Patrick Hayden (1) (6) (7)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Physics, McGill University, Rue University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2. Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA, U.S.A
- 3. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A
- 4. Microsoft Station Q, Elings Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A
- 5. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Appelstrasse, Hannover, Germany
- 6. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Rue University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 7. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caroline Street, Waterloo, ON, Canada


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Quick hits from the NBA thus far
Yup, we're just two games into the season for the Celtics. I don't care, I'm ready to make absurdly early judgments on the team and its place in the NBA's upper echelon.
*The Celtics are the favorites in the East. The Magic are my number two, and the Cavs are third. No one else scares me in a playoff series. Toronto, Washington, and Atlanta ought to be in the next level, with Philly threatening if they play the right lineup (Elton Brand at center, more Marreese Speights and less Samuel Dalembert). I don't know of any other really interesting teams other than Chicago, but I wouldn't be surprised to see anything from the Bulls this year.
*The Lakers and Spurs will face off in the Western Conference Finals if there's any justice in this world (OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration). But, the Spurs are as stacked as the Celtics. They reloaded at an even more furious clip than Boston did this summer, and they dispatched the Hornets last night by 17 points with 10 guys playing about 24 minutes each. Think about that.
*I count five elite teams in the NBA, more than we've grown accustomed to, which is a good thing. The Celtics, Magic, and Cavs (once they make some trades and get the roster set up by the end of the season) on the best coast and the Spurs and Lakers on the west coast. The Nuggets are on the fringe, but I'm not a believer at this point. They're about as good as the Cavs will be come playoff time, but the LeBron factor makes Cleveland matter, while 'Melo doesn't do the same for Denver yet, if ever.
*The Magic are stacked. Orlando has good players EVERYWHERE. Even without Rashard Lewis I wouldn't be surprised to see them start out 9-1 or 10-0. The race for the top seed in the East will be epic, with both the Celtics and Magic aiming for 70 wins. This should be fun. I hope Rasheed Wallace is right and the C's push for the wins record ... with a caveat that they do it while playing the starters between 30 and 32 minutes per game. Doc Rivers played Ray Allen a whopping 38 minutes last night while Larry Birding the Bobcats (+33). That's after Mr. Shuttlesworth played 42 minutes in a hard-fought win against the Cavs the night before on the road. This perplexes me, and suggests a trade for a better shooting guard to back up Ray might be needed to convince Doc to take him out of the game once in a while.


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CADDO PARISH, LA (KMSS) — Four people were taken into custody Wednesday following a meth raid in south Caddo Parish.
According to Sheriff Steve Prator and Chief Willie Shaw, agents with the narcotics unit and DEA members made the arrests after a short-term investigation. Search warrants were issued for hotels in the 5000 block of Monkhouse Drive.
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text: -- Jonathan De Graeve Network/System Administrator Imelda vzw Informatica Dienst 015/50.52.98 Jonathan dot de dot graeve at imelda dot be > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: James Eaton-Lee [mailto:james dot mailing at gmail dot com] > Verzonden: zaterdag 10 december 2005 19:02 > Aan: Don Munyak > CC: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > Onderwerp: Re: [m0n0wall] Wireless AP recommendations > > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 23:59 -0500, Don Munyak wrote: > > re:Wireless AP recommendations > > > > Since wireless capabilities have been removed from the current stable > > release AND, from what I have read, using a AP is a simplier > > solution... I was hoping to get some feedback from anyone with > > recommendations, as well as what to stay away from. > > I use a 3com OfficeConnect, model no: 3CRWE454G72. > (http://www.3com.com/prod/en_UK_EMEA/detail.jsp?tab=features&sku=3CRWE45 4G > 72) > > It has the usual features such as MAC filtering and a built in DHCP > server, as well as the ability to be used as a wireless bridge and a > repeater. The range is great, it's never locked up or stopped working > (not the case with the linksys I had!), it barely heats up at all > (again, not the case with the linksys I had!) and I get good throughput > out of it. > > I think on the whole 3com tend to do this stuff better (and support it > better) because the OfficeConnect series is - as the name implies - > aimed specifically at offices rather than home users. > > For what it's worth, a cursory poke at the firmware yields a build > string for a linux prism54 driver, so I think it both has a prism54 card > and is running linux. May be wrong here - just a guess! I had a lot of 3com AP's in test (8250,8750 and 7250) All ran on Vxworks. A quick note on the 7250 you should better buy a HP procurve wl 420 for it because it's the same hardware but the HP firmware supports much more features and is at my opinion better. J. |


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Merrimack, NH -- After two years of turmoil, the voters of Merrimack, NH have regained control of their School Board. Pro-education candidate, Rosemarie Rung, won election by a stunning landslide in the largest turnout in town history.
By winning this seat, Rung has completed the process started last year when Ken Coleman and Brenda Grady were elected by the largest margins in town history. The controlling majority (Chris Ager, Shelly Uscinski, and Ginny Twardosky) that came to power in 1994 has lost, and no longer can force the agenda of the Radical Religious Right on Merrimack.
"This election has brought back local control of the School Board," observed Rung. "The people of Merrimack have spoken loudly and strongly. We have rejected the extremist agendas of outside activists -- and their followers on the Board. At last, we can return to the real business of operating our schools wisely and efficiently."
Immediately after seizing control, the majority started enacting the national agenda of the Radical Religious Right. The willingness of the controlling majority of the School Board to enact these outside agendas is shocking. First came school prayer disguised as a moment of silence.
Next came creationism in the science courses, with debate so heated that it drew international media attention. Removing guidance and psychological counseling services, a favorite issue of the Church of Scientology, surfaced just before the 1995 election.
After failing to gain new seats, the majority enacted the infamous anti-gay Policy 6540. For the past two years, Merrimack has suffered through bitterly divisive debate over non-educational "hot-button" issues such as these. At the same time, the School Board has neglected the basic issues of education.
The range of individuals and organizations using Merrimack to advance their agendas is truly astonishing. After the election, Uscinski joined the Christian Coalition and now travels around the country giving training seminars on how to win elections by stealth.
Top executives of the Christian Coalition (Paul Nagy, George Fellendorf, and Ray White) appear at Merrimack School Board meetings. Uscinski also serves as a Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Church of Scientology. Recently, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, of the Unification Church, presented her with an award from his newest front organization, the Washington Times Foundation.
Ager, who did not dare to run for re-election, has acknowledged his contacts with Rev. Lou Sheldon of the California-based Traditional Values Coalition. Sheldon has boasted of his frequent trips to Merrimack to speak at local churches to stir up local support for the anti-gay policy.
With only one seat open in 1996, the voters had a clear opportunity to defeat or support the controlling majority. Rosemarie Rung, the pro-education candidate, offered a three-point platform emphasizing Strategic Planning, Curriculum Improvement, and Building Partnerships with Business and Industry.
She also rejected the past two years of dabbling with "hot-button" issues, including Policy 6540. As the campaign gathered momentum, the controlling majority began to use the anti-gay Policy 6540 as their wedge issue. Bert Tenhave, campaign manager for the losing candidate, Ginny Cadarette, framed their approach when he said, "I see the next election as the Christian Coalition vs. the gay and lesbian agenda," (Nashua Telegraph, Feb. 7, 1996).
Cadarette claimed to have no set agenda, and no particular ideas about running the schools. Although she denied any connections with the Christian Coalition, she supported all of their fundamental issues, pledging to continue the work of the current majority if elected. Specifically, she supported Policy 6540, and would not change or repeal it.
After the resounding people's victory tonight, Rung remarked, "This election proves that the citizens of Merrimack have the moral courage to reject the politics of fear and divisiveness. What the Radical Religious Right failed to realize when it moved into Merrimack advocating its agenda, from creationism to Policy 6540, is that we truly believe in freedom of speech, and equal protection of the laws. We respect the rights of all of our citizens. We have strong family values, and we do not exclude others solely because of political or religious differences. That robust moral fiber in our town is what Paul Nagy and Ray White of the Christian Coalition, and Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition didn't anticipate when they came to Merrimack," concluded Rung.
Merrimack clearly has been a textbook example of how the Radical Religious Right targets a town for a takeover. People of other communities can learn from the events in Merrimack.
The Christian Coalition has made infiltrating the school boards of America a major political goal (more important than winning the presidency according to Ralph Reed). Lou Sheldon bragged in Time and the Telegraph about his involvement in many other communities around the country. Whether the current wedge issue is creationism, school prayer, homophobia, phonics, or Goals 2000, the players are always the same.
"Make no mistake," advises Rung. "The activists of the far right are not coming to your town. They are already working behind the scenes to subvert your school board," Rung warns. "In Merrimack, it took just two elections for them to gain control by stealth tactics. We then suffered through two years of furious attacks on our schools, and complete inattention to education. Never allow the merchants of fear and hate to infiltrate your town and use your community for their personal political and financial gains. Stand up to them, and drive them out," Rung urged. "We did it in Merrimack, just as the people of San Diego, CA; Vista, CA; Helena, MT; and many other towns did. You can defeat them in your town, too. Our schools, and your children's futures, depend on your involvement."
Final vote tallies as called in from the polls at 8:50 pm: Rosemarie Rung, 4,132; Ginny Cadarette 1,953.


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WoW Insider is looking for a PVP columnist {WoW}
Oct 18th 2011 5:11PM It's about Mother F'N time !!!! Been so sick of waiting weeks in between PvP article posts!
Lichborne: PVPing as a blood death knight {WoW}
Sep 21st 2011 2:35PM @Whitcomb - Fist, thank you so much for writing more about pvp. It's great to see something that isn't gear related or pve in general. I would suggest that in the future maybe you can write more about how to deal with other classes since that might help some people who are new / returning to the class.
Second, you wrote the column as though blood was ineffectual as dps in PvP, which is absolutely not the case. Granted, the over all damage output may be lower but blood spec can still hit like a truck. Not to mention the fact that unlike frost or unholy, blood gets to stick around long enough to do some damage. And in the end there is one inescapable truth. Dead dps does no damage.
For other comments about casters, that same idea applies to all 3 specs of DK's and all most melee in general. Any ranged class can, under the right circumstances be a major threat to our survival. It's our job to know how to deal with, or better yet, keep it from happening in the first place.
Is it time to kill pure DPS? {WoW}
Sep 5th 2011 8:49PM Rossi was very careful not to mention the word Rift when referring to "other MMO's", but it's a simple fact. Rogues can be effective tanks and mages can be effective healers. There's a reason we're not still driving model A cars anymore, or listening to eight track tapes. Progress needs to be made for things to improve.
@ those bad mouthing PvP. Most of your viewpoints work in reverse too. If you can't add something constructive, then don't bother complaining about it here either since this isn't the forum for it.
Lichborne: Patch 4.2 raid gear for the DPS death knight {WoW}
Aug 30th 2011 7:07PM Maybe now that you've used up the three different specs, you can discuss something other than gear as these aren't really very useful posts for our class.
About the Bloggers: Daniel Whitcomb {WoW}
Aug 18th 2011 2:42PM Someone made some rather pointed remarks about your lack of information concerning PvP following that with a question about gear sets. You answered the question about the sets, but ignored the PvP portion all together.
There isn't nearly enough information with regards to DK PvP. Far too much time is spent discussing items from raiding, dailies, questing and a large portion about tanking. And while that is useful stuff, there still needs to be more emphasis placed on PvP since there are way too few good resources as it is.
Many people who play DK's are looking to you and your column for some solid information that will help promote ALL avenues of the class. Please focus more on PvP in the future. It would be greatly appreciated.
Cataclysm Beta: Warrior changes in build 12984 {WoW}
Sep 21st 2010 12:06PM Cheers for anything that helps Arms be more viable outside of pvp. Is haste really going to become a stat we should be focusing on since the loss of ArP ?
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Patch 4.0.1 is a good thing {WoW}
Sep 21st 2010 10:41AM The new changes to Arms sound awesome and it would be great to remain viable for raiding while allowing fury to be an option for those that enjoy it. Also, it's about time Arms had an interrupt! That in itself is a great improvement.
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Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz Sued for Allegedly Stealing $500,000 From Band
Ex-guitarist Oren Kaplan says 'Everything Is Illuminated' actor owes him a cool million
While Gogol Bordello are celebrating the recent release of their excellent sixth album, Pura Vida Conspiracy, a former band member is suing frontman Eugene Hütz for $950,000 over an alleged financial scheme. Wisely, the occasional actor began preparing his defense c. 2005 via Everything Is Illuminated: "Forgive my speaking of English ... as I'm not so premium with it." He did ask some highly unusual questions about accounting at the time.
According to lawsuit filings, guitarist Oren Kaplan — who left the gypsy punks in 2012 — contends, "Hütz brazenly absconded with approximately half a million dollars from the bank accounts of the Gogol Bordello entities and deposited those funds into the accounts of new companies which are wholly owned by Hütz." As The Guardian reports, the two shared accounting duties until 2009, when the singer took over and started paying himself double: $130,000 a year. Kaplan was getting paid $57,000, he says
Far scummier, the aggrieved ax-slinger says Hütz told him to take a hiatus in order to grieve for his recently deceased mother, but actually just wanted him out of the picture so he wouldn't share in the profits of a lucrative song sync. "Hütz accomplished this ruse by feigning concern for plaintiff ... and encouraging plaintiff to take an extended leave of absence from the group, during the very time when the group would be recording its song for the Coca-Cola commercial."
So now Kaplan is asking for $950,000 in personal damages. He claims that he improved the band's musicianship and finances, should be paid more for royalties, and that Hutz somehow "tricked other band members into signing 'consent forms' to kick Kaplan out of the group," according to the New York Daily News. The lawsuit also asks for an additional $950,000 to be paid to the other members of Gogol, though they are
Kaplan's accountant reportedly discovered the shady dealings in a 2012 audit, but it's unclear whether that happened before or after he left the band after a 12-year tenure. Hütz and the rest of the band (who are probably a little concerned at the moment) have yet to comment. Let the rigid search begin.


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From 1987-2003, labor productivity (as measured by output per hour) increased at an average annual rate of 0.6 percent in the engineering services industry.
Productivity in engineering services grew most rapidly at the end of the 1980s and during the second half of the 1990s. From 1995 to 2000, output per hour grew 1.8 percent per year as output rose 6.2 percent per year and hours increased 4.3 percent.
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Please do not give me credit for this, it was not my idea Quote: Role: Ranged, Assassin, Marksman(woman?) Quote: [Innate] Piercing Daggers Ayelia's basic attacks impale the target with a dagger. If she moves with 200 units of the target she removes the blade and deals physical damage to them. This ability has an 8 second cooldown. Quote: [Q] Merciless Razor Ayelia throws 2 daggers at the target's feet, snaring them for 2 seconds. Quote: [W] Death Seeker Ayelia throws a dagger towards the cursor, impaling the first target it comes across for physical damage. If a target is impaled she can dash towards the enemy and remove the dagger, activating Piercing Blades. Quote: [E] Blade Dancer (First Cast): Ayelia leaps towards the enemy champion and prepares to kick off after one second. (Second Cast): Ayelia vaults off the target towards the cursor and flings 3 daggers at the champion, dealing physical damage. Quote: [R] Hidden Edge [Passive] Ayelia stores a hidden blade every few seconds, up to a maximum of X. Activating Piercing Blades adding a stock of Hidden Edge. [Active] Ayelia throws all of her hidden blades out in a cone dealing physical damage, For each blade lodged in the target their armor is reduced by X% for X seconds, or until destroyed. The armor reduction is 50% effective for each additional blade stuck in the target. If Ayelia is within 200 units of the afflicted target and clicks on a lodged dagger she pulls it out of the enemies, activating Piercing Blades. Quote: Classic Ayelia Quotes Upon Selection: - I am the hidden edge. Movement: - There are strange workings in Noxus. - Beware the Black Rose. - Silent as the night. - Hesitation is death. - Keep your eyes and ears open. Attacking: - Without so much as a whimper. - Strike with precision. - Aim for the vitals. - Very well. - As you command. - I'll take this dance. Joke Near Friendly Alistar: - Alistar, I knew I'd see you again! - *Jumps on Alistar's shoulders* Joke Near Katarina: - Shall I arrange for the Might of Demacia to come here, Young Master Du Couteau? Joke Near Talon: - Master Talon, about those leads that you asked of me? - Shall I investigate the Demacian known as Quinn, Master Talon? If you are wondering this is the slave girl who rescued Alistar.
Ok my champion name is maya, the psychic mage (you can give another name if you want). The lore, in resume is that she is syndra friend that got separated after syndra was taken away from her village. At that moment she knew it her inner power submerged and cause a havoc in her village. the mages in the villages decide to sent maya away to ioana where many experiment was made on her. Then one day an experiment went wrong and maya was able to wake up from her sleep as she was on asleep by mean of sedatives. Maya unleashed her power and destroy the lab then she run away until she found her friend, syndra back on the way to the league on the way syndra and maya both help each other . They finally arrive at the league and after their long route they were able to control their power. Now for the ability: 1. passive: hidden power maya attract minions,champions or neutral monster towards her whose life is below 50% . Minions and neutral monsters whose life is below 30% automatically explode and regenerate 4/8/12/16/20 mana . Each time maya kill a champion she got 0.5% magic penetration and cooldown upon death 1/4 of the stack is loss.since maya is a psychic user, she does not deal any basic attack . 2. Q : mental force maya target a unit or champion she knock airbone him and heavily smashed it on the ground to deal magic damage 70/140/210/280/350 + 40% of maya ability power. If it was a champion who is smashed on the ground it deal an additional 20% area of effect damage to nearby enemies. 3. W : inner tide active: after each 7 spell cast maya unleash a tide of psychic wave in a large AOE around her and repelling all healthy enemy champions in the area and dealing to all enemies in the area 50/100/150/200/250 +60% of maya ability power. If inner tide is cast again within 5 seconds maya then attract the enemies whose health are below 50% towards her. passive: maya store inner tide up to three stacks. maya also gain an increase in armor and magic resistance for all unit she kills 1/2/3/4/5 4. E : psychic barrier maya create a barrier around her and shield herself and others nearby aliies near her for 40/60/80/100/120 +80% ability power . If maya or her ally barrier breaks she or they are heal for 60/120/180/240/300 . the barrier remains on just for 5 seconds. 5.R : mental shock wave maya channel her power and focus on 1 single AOE attack. she first create a sphere preventing all escape from enemies champions futile (like the range of xerath ult) she then stay immobile for 5 second forcing all enemies champions to come to her she then break the sphere and unleashed a devastating shock wave that deal 200/400/600 + 80% of maya abilty power if maya is attacked during the channeling time, maya unleash the shockwave at an earlier stage causing minor damage 100/200/300 + 40% maya ability power but the sphere will not break until 10 seconds time out even if maya is dead. hope you guys read it and appreciate it its a full thought champion not even copied from any game I played so far. thanks for reading and hope she will be the new champion after velkoz even you guys bring some change in her no problem but keep the name plz.
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Did you seriously just post your own champion idea in someone else's thread?
What Varkarrus said... ^^^^^^^^<<<<<<<<<<<<
It is alright what he did about the champion mayaIt is a intersting concept if i say so myself. I got the information from this thread http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com...hlight=alistar. Just give me feed back so I can get art for this woman.


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The Richmond Court Docent Program has been in continuous operation in the City of Richmond for thirty years and Henrico Court Docent Program has been in continuous operation for nearly the same length of time. These programs foster community improvement by helping 8th grade students make wise choices, by enriching the social studies curriculum and by promoting good citizenship.
Docent Programs
The Henrico and Richmond Court Docent Programs have enjoyed a successful Spring semester of 2013 with many middle school students taking tours. For the Fall semester of 2013 eight grade students from twelve Henrico County middle schools have visited the Henrico Courts, detention center and jail accompanied by teachers and docents. An attorney also goes with the class and makes a follow up visit to the classroom.
The Richmond Court Docent Program has taken eight grade civics students from eight schools on tours since the start of this semester in October. One hundred and ten students from these schools visited circuit and general district courts and juvenile and domestic relations court. The tour of the jail has been temporally discontinued.
Both Court Docent Programs are scheduling tours for the Spring semester 2014. Several schools have already taken the tours.
Those interested in volunteering for these worthwhile programs should email email@example.com for Henrico and firstname.lastname@example.com for Richmond.
Richmond Lawyers Auxiliary has receved this message from the American Lawyers Alliance:
"We are again so privileged to honor this Model Court Docent Program for the Nation, conducted by this auxiliary for more than 30 years. This ongoing and outstanding program educates 8th graders in the city of Richmond and the county of Henrico about the court system. It entails extensive "before & after" follow up in the classroom with docents from the auxiliary and involvement of attorney volunteers."