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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Chattanooga volleyball's Briana Reid (Houston, Texas) was named to the Country Inns & Suites All-Tournament Team Saturday night at the conclusion of the three-day, five-team tournament. It is the sophomore's first All-Tournament honor and the close to a successfully-hosted Chattanooga tournament despite a couple of Mocs losses to UT Martin and UNC Asheville on the final night.
The Houston, Texas native led the Mocs with 103 assists and averaged 6.06 assists per set. The outside-hitter-tuned-setter also recorded 55 digs and 15 blocks, en route to 25.0 points on the weekend.
"We saw a lot of good things this weekend out of our team," Head Coach Travis Filar said. "We still have some things to work on and we are a very young team. I saw us iron out a few things – improving on blocking being the major one – and hopefully we can continue to see those improvements as we move forward."
The UT Martin Skyhawks took the first set of the day from the Mocs with a nail-biting 3-2 win. Chattanooga snagged the first set with a 25-23 victory that saw four long rallies put the Mocs over the top. Freshman Kendall Sexton (Orlando, Fla.) served up five Chattanooga attacks from behind the line while a couple of kills each coming from fellow freshman Allie Davenport (Tyrone, Ga.) and sophomore Sarah Batterton (Colbert, Wash.) forced a UT Martin timeout.
The Skyhawks returned to win set two with four points in the end to take the victory. A neck-and-neck set from the starting line, UT Martin began to pull away and soon collected a three-point lead they would command for most of the frame. The Skyhawks took the set 25-18 and their drive carried over into the third with a 25-16 win, putting them up 2-1 in the match.
Chattanooga stormed back in the fourth set with a 25-22 spot, edging out a tie and sending the match to a deciding set. Chattanooga's luck would run out though, falling 15-9 in the fifth.
Batterton led the Mocs offense with 13 kills while Reid and freshman Hannah Merkle (Parker, Colo.) steered the defense with 19 and 18 digs, respectively.
UNC Asheville handed the Mocs their seventh loss of the season in the final game of the tournament with a 3-1 defeat.
Chattanooga won the first set with a narrow 25-23 victory, but the Bulldogs proved too strong with three straight set wins – nearly identical scores – to take the win.
UNC Asheville took an early lead in the second frame and won 25-18 before repeating their jump-ahead success in the third stanza with a 25-17 win. The Bulldogs sealed off the 'W' with a 25-17 win in the third.
Sophomore Julimar Alvarado (San Juan, Puerto Rico) stood tall for the Mocs with 10 kills and six digs to serve as UTC's standout in the match. Merkle led the defense with 18 digs Reid and Sexton each collected five blocks.
The Mocs continue their 2013 schedule Tuesday as UTC travels in-state rival Belmont for a match in Nashville, Tenn., at 7 p.m. After their trip to Music City, the Mocs then head to Miami, Fla., to participate in the Florida International Invitational. There, Chattanooga will meet up with FIU, Jacksonville and South Dakota State.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2000 She was a slave, a woman and an Indian. And America might not be what it is today without Sacagawea.
She was probably born in 1790 in what is now Idaho. A member of the Shoshone tribe, she was kidnapped as a child by the Hidatsa tribe. The Hidatsas sold her as a slave to the Mandan Sioux of modern-day North Dakota.
There are conflicting stories, but Sacagawea ended up with a Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau. One story says he won her and another Indian woman in a bet. Others say Charbonneau bought the women. Whatever the truth, by the winter of 1805, the two were a couple, and Sacagawea was pregnant and near term. That sets the stage.
Two years earlier, President Thomas Jefferson had sent emissaries to France to buy New Orleans. He believed U.S. interests mandated that the city, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, be part of the country. Alternatively, the emissaries were to negotiate free navigation of the river.
But Napoleon had another idea. He needed money and offered a deal: France's entire Louisiana Territory for a then- kingly $15 million. Jefferson jumped at it.
So what was out there? Before the Louisiana Purchase, the United States of America ended at the Mississippi. The fact is, white Easterners at the time knew more about the face of the moon than the interior of the North American continent -- and the U.S. government had just bought 800,000 square miles of it sight unseen.
Jefferson sent his private secretary, Army Capt. Meriwether Lewis, to explore. Lewis recruited Lt. William Clark and the Corps of Discovery and in 1804 set off up the Missouri River into terra incognita. The all-male, all-single, mostly soldier group was to map, observe and record everything and to find a navigable water route to the Pacific.
Lewis and Clark realized they would need interpreters to speak with the Indian tribes they expected to meet. In 1805, they wintered at the Mandan village along the Missouri. There, they hired Charbonneau as an interpreter and guide.
Along with Charbonneau came Sacagawea. The thinking was she could help translate when the expedition reached her native area. The Indian teen-ager gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on Feb. 12, 1805, in the Mandan village. The baby was strapped to his mother's back when the expedition left the Mandans that April.
The expedition continued up the Missouri River. Stories told over the years have Sacagawea guiding Lewis and Clark through the wilderness, interpreting for them and keeping them out of harm's way more than a few times. There are contrarians.
Historian Stephen Ambrose, in "Undaunted Courage," his book about the Lewis and Clark expedition, contends Sacagawea was not a guide and that neither Lewis nor Clark thought of consulting her even when she clearly could have helped. The two seem to have asked for her advice only once -- for a route when they entered her people's hunting grounds. She pointed them up a tributary of the Beaverhead River.
What is not disputed are the events following Sacagawea's reunion with her tribe on Aug. 15, 1805. If what happened had been part of a Hollywood movie, critics probably would have panned it as unrealistic. Lewis met with the chief of the Shoshones. Sacagawea listened to the parlay and then recognized the chief was her brother, Cameahwait.
Her relationship to the chief cemented the expedition's standing with the tribe. It also may have been the critical breakthrough Lewis and Clark needed to reach the Pacific and return. They desperately needed Indian help to get over the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho.
Cameahwait sold horses to the travelers and provided a guide to lead them across the Bitterroots. Even with Shoshone help, the expedition suffered many hardships going over the mountains. Had Sacagewea not helped them establish a rapport with Cameahwait, the explorers would certainly have fared far worse.
Eventually, Lewis and Clark met up with the Nez Perce tribe and made their way to the Columbia River and to the Pacific Ocean. They wintered over at the mouth of the Columbia and started home in the spring. When the party reached the Mandan village, Charbonneau and Sacagawea stayed behind.
Following the expedition, Clark offered to school Jean Baptiste. Charbonneau and Sacagawea accepted the offer and moved to the St. Louis area. They had a daughter named Lizette and then moved back to the Mandan village in 1811.
Sacagawea died of "putrid fever" on Dec. 20, 1812, or maybe not. Shoshone oral tradition says she returned to the Shoshones and settled at the Wind River reservation in modern-day Wyoming. Tribal tradition says she died on April 9, 1884, and is buried there.
A slave, an Indian and a woman, Sacagawea received little respect during her lifetime. Today, the United States recognizes her and her place in American history through its new Golden Dollar coin. The front features a portrait of her and a bundled Jean Baptiste.


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"We were relying on [the defense] and they definitely stepped up in the second half to help us out," Pierce said.
Paint Branch quarterback Gaston Cooper completed 15 of 33 passes for 280 yards. The senior struggled in the first half, starting the game with seven consecutive incomplete passes before settling into a rhythm in the second quarter.
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Northwest 55, Paint Branch 36
Northwest (11-2) 14 21 8 12 — 55
Paint Branch (11-2) 6 23 7 0 — 36
N — Mark Pierce 1 run (Diego Melendez kick)
P — Johnny Littlejohn 93 run (kick failed)
N — Trint Coulter 4 pass from Mark Pierce (Diego Melendez kick)
P — Darryl Hill Jr. 9 pass from Gaston Cooper (pass failed)
N — E.J. Lee 21 pass from Mark Pierce (Diego Melendez kick)
P — Johnny Littlejohn 25 pass from Gaston Cooper (Johnny Littlejohn run)
N — E.J. Lee 6 pass from Mark Pierce (Diego Melendez kick)
P — Johnny Littlejohn 49 pass from Gaston Cooper (pass failed)
N — Joshua Gills 32 pass from Mark Pierce (Diego Melendez kick)
P — Sam Stewart 29 kick
N — Matt Watson 21 pass from Mark Pierce (Trint Coulter pass from Mark Pierce)
P — Gaston Cooper 6 run (Sam Stewart kick)
N — Matt Watson 13 pass from Mark Pierce (failed)
N — Matt Watson 93 run (failed)
Northwest — Matt Watson 3-109; E.J. Lee 12-70; Mark Pierce 13-15; Rasheed Gillis 7-21; Jamar Wilson 1-(-2); Joshua Gills 2-8.
Paint Branch — Johnny Littlejohn 6-102; Gaston Cooper 12-31; Javan Grafton 1-8; Darryl Hill Jr. 2-7.
Northwest — Mark Pierce 29-37-335-0.
Paint Branch — Gaston Cooper 15-33-280-0.
Northwest — Joshua Gills 8-159; Matt Watson 7-74; E.J. Lee 6-59; Trint Coulter 4-27; Jamar Wilson 4-16.
Paint Branch — Javan Grafton 5-160; Johnny Littlejohn 4-78; Ryan Stango 1-16; Darryl Hill Jr. 4-13 Casey Schmucker 1-11.


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Should a cloth wearing healing class be afforded the same chance to beat a chain wearing DPS class?
Or should a developer flat out refuse to allow the everyone can beat everyone mentality?
in EVE you wont see a logistics ship roll up on a HAC and stand toe to toe with one.
But in WoW.....
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Originally posted by Swollen_Beef
If the game allows only one combat role per character, then the developer would be wise to allow any character to beat any other. If the game allows characters to change combat role with a change of gear, then the game can easily say that one role easily defeats another in direct combat.
World of Warcraft is class-based and allows essentially one combat role per character - its class. EVE Online is gear-based and allows change of combat role by change of ship.
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Originally posted by JB47394
That is true about World of Warcraft, however WoW isn't 'that' limiting. Within a class you can perform different roles. Like a Warrior can be a Tank or a Damage Dealer, or the Priest a Healer or a Damage Dealer (Shadow). Or let's say for the Druid it can perform all 3 roles, Tank, Healer, Damage Dealer. Though agreed you're limited to the class, but there is a lot you can do with that particular class. :)
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The quest for PvP "balance" has ruined the vast majority of PvP games. PvP has turned into an E-Sport.. with scoreboards and timers. I don't want to play CTF or deathmatch or king of the hill.. if I did I'd do it in a FPS. I just want any PvP to be a natural part of the world in which I am playing. With real repercushions.
Balance between classes is not only something that I don't feel has to exist... but it shouldn't even be a development goal. I don't care if Johnny Fireball can kick my ass one on one. That just means I should bring a friend. It adds variety to the game and an element of the unknown instead of everything being cookie-cutter.
Edit to add: If we want balance in a game we shuld just remove levels and skills.. and equipment. Everyone is even... doesn't sound like I game that I would personally want to play though.
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Facta, non verba.
No. Fill out your role. In regards to EvE..you can fit a logistics ship with damage mods...so technically you could destroy a dps ship..say one that was fitted only for travel. In DF..back when I played....everyone wore bone armor b/c it gave the best resist vs least intrusive magic fizzle.
In PnP games...I have seen several mage types destroy armor clad warriors with magic...so I guess your question is "can a cloth wearing healing class be afforded the same chance to beat a chain wearing DPS class in melee combat?? I would say no.
A. Serenity touched on the different roles that druids, etc can play so I think your question is a bit too broad. I personally have seen a corpmate OWN people in a scimitar in EvE...and up til that point...I think I had only ever seen one in an Alliance Tourney.
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planetside did it propperly, let's hope sony does not screw it for PS Next :)
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MMORPGs are no longer about the mass multi-user
Originally posted by Swollen_Beef
Short answer: NO
Seen it happen in Aion too where a healer (me) kicked a tank, only because of the healing... Lame IMO. healer = support and certainly no PvP class.
Look at Lineage II (odly enough same developer as Aion). I think there they've graped the concept of healers & buffers as they should be - 100% support class. No main PvP but keep the actual PvPers alive.
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Originally posted by Slapshot1188
I really agree with you on this. Personally I didn't think many players thought this way anymore. So it is nice to know there are others still out there.
Seems PVP these days is slowly evolving into FPS styled, where there is no open world element and it is all controlled in an instanced enviroment be is 10 vs 10... 40 vs 40... Would be nice if games went back to when it wasn't a tournament...
You need that element of fear of walking through the woods and a 'PK' could be lurking nearby...
If a mele class closes in on a caster, then the mele should win, but if the caster can nuke down the mele before he gets in range then it makes sense the caster wins out.
But with stuns, purges, damage absorb, insta cloak, and more items than an Ikea outlet.
Someone made a post somewhere on the forum (forget where i read it) that it seems a bit absurd that a non-magic class is allowed an ability that removes all magic. Despite having ZERO understanding of magic and how it works.
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Originally posted by A.Serenity
Yup. The point is that each class has to have the ability to compete in PvP solo. In contrast, not every ship in EVE Online has to have the ability to compete in PvP solo. This gives CCP the freedom to design ships that are utterly useless in solo combat, but are ideal for other activities. That's the crux of the point.
I'm of the opinion that gear-based roles are infinitely superior to class-based roles. That's true for both developers and players. Everyone goes on about how restrictive the class trinity is in fantasy games. To open things up, go with gear-based roles. With that one change, player characters can temporarily adopt extremely niche roles in a group, allowing for all sorts of group dynamics. All you have to do is change your gear (and have the requisite character skills). That will give you the abilities of that gear and temporarily gimp your character otherwise.
Because EVE Online takes place in a science fiction setting, they can restrict gear changes by forcing players to change whole ships. That's just like changing characters, which is why so many people find EVE Online disasteful. "I don't want to be a spaceship." While it alienates players, it makes mutually-exclusive gear changes very easy. Wholesale gear changes in a fantasy setting are a bit more problematic.
For example there's the problem of a character wearing plate mail, shield, bow, magical rings, lock picks and sharpening stones. There's nothing inherent in the fantasy setting that makes it obvious why a character cannot wear the gear for most every activity in the game. Yet because the goal is to make roles mutually exclusive, something would have to be worked out. The classic example is that metal interferes with magic, so characters pursuing a magical role would leave their metal at home.
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Short answer: Yes.
As another poster said, the question isn't always that simple. The cloth wearing healer shouldn't be able to beat the chain wearing melee in melee combat. The healer should also be forced to heal more than damage making the combat long and drawn out. The melee should ideally just give up because of the length of combat. Oh how I miss thee DAoC.
To use DAoC references, I believe they did a lot of things right in this regard.
Wardens - awesome support class. They could cast "bubbles" to negate one source of damage every few seconds. They also had some minor healing. However, their own damage was extremely weak. You could literally fight a warden for 3 to 5 minutes. Do they run out of mana or do you eventually die a slow death to them. Solution - bring a second person. The bubble only negates one damage source. Bring two and the warden goes down.
Bolt casters - The longest range magic in the game. Most bolt casters had 2 bolts on long recast timers with some weak DDs. The bolts could be blocked by shield wearers. They were extremely damaging. Most classes would die if hit by both. However, if you could block the bolts or get into melee range then the caster was dead.
I also miss how DAoC had crowd control classes. Everyone didn't have stuns, silences, fears, or mezzes. You had classes that specialized in crowd control. They weren't much good at anything else, but they were great at controlling entire groups of other people. Now you have games like in Rift were melee plate wearers have AE fear. You also have plate wearers with leaps and rogues with teleports to close the distance to casters. The point is supposed to be that the caster is strong from far away. You shouldn't be able to instantly close the distance. Don't get me wrong. I'm not just blaming Rift. I still play it. Other games do this as well.
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In a pure PVP game, skill beats everything.
MMORPGs aren't pure PVP experiences.
(Skill being the quality of your team's decisions combined with your ability to execute on those decisions.)
Chess, Football, and Team Fortress 2 would be ruined if they allowed zerging or progression to influence outcome. Instead, matches are completely determined by each player/team's skill.
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Originally posted by Axehilt
TF2 doesn't have 20 sided dice either.
its apples and oranges. You can make a game all day long that promotes zerging, has 20 different classes each with their own uniqe abilites, and instead of playing a game better suited to their desires, you have players that will bitch and try to force the devs to re-make the game in the player's image.
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Originally posted by Swollen_Beef
Technically TF2 does have random elements (critical hits) but they're actually sort of a negative for the game the way they're designed.
PVP design isn't quite apples and oranges. Whether it's Chess, an FPS, or whatever, the underlying fundamental design of a good PVP game remains the same.
The supporter of MMORPG PVP's best bet in discussions on PVP is to embrace what the PVP is: casual. It's a tough argument to beat, to point out that there's a lot of casual PVPers who want PVP to hinge upon very simple factors ("I brought more friends", "I grinded longer".)
If you also point out that skilled PVP is only won by the skilled (and most people aren't, so most people don't experience victory) then that further solidifies the argument. And you begin to see why a significant number of these casual PVP experiences exist.
It may be a waste of time for players to want devs to re-make the game, but those underlying complaints are valid. And if a new dev provides a superior solution to those complaints, those players will shift over to the new game. (Which is why it's an interesting topic to discuss, despite casual PVP being a fundamental shortcoming of MMORPGs.) Granted, the point of MMORPG PVP is to intentionally be casual. So who's to say how many casual PVPers you lose by retaining the PVP purists.
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FUCK the Balance!
It destroys any game, any fun, any diversity bcs most time people speak of balance they either mean total equality of every class/skill or total domination for the class/skill they use.
Dont Balance games any longer, give any class/skill a use that is logical in context to the gameworld and let the player take their choice.
If the player wants to be a librarian the player will simply not be able to compete in the gladiatorgames but may have knowledge how to translate dragon runes leading to a hidden treasure.
But since players have been reared to become mass murderer and evrything else is seen as inferior gameplay and mind challenging gameplay is eleminated more and more form any game i only can hope some developers dares to ignore the crybabies and produce a game that is not only about dps...
A really good game does not care for equality - its goal is to achive diversity!
And as long Balance means to equal anything, to plane all differences in dps and
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When I think of good PvP two games come to mind, DAoC and L2. What do both of these games have in common? They had massive PvP battles where there was an emphasis on filling a role more then 1v1. For a game to have good PvP I think this is a necessity. If everyone is so evenly matched where are the tactics? It just becomes mindless zerging which has been beat to death in this topic.
When you have certain classes that are better suited to take down other classes, and people playing support roles the PvP becomes more like a team sport to me, and more importantly adds to that Massively part of MMORPG.
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They just need to make player skill play a much larger part in MMO's - as it used to. No more autohoming projectiles or spells. No more gear or level's that provide a MASSIVE advantage of others. Make it so gear and level's provide worthwhile benefits, but nothing drastic.
AC1 had it right. I remember re-rolling on AC1 (had a level 50) and was only level 5, and a level 18 attacked me. After a 2 minute+ fight I won... just. Although he had a clar advantage over me, I managed to make up for the difference by playing smart, and using personal 'skill'. And this was a common theme, a group of skilled tight nit players could take on a group of higher level and better geared players and win.
In MMO's these days that level 5 probably wouldn't even be able to kill a level 18 character even if he was afk, it would just show 'resist resist, dodge'.
Less purples, more player skill!
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all i know is vanilla wow was the most fun i ever had in pvp with the paper scissors stone mechanic the classes had back then.
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Well while I do agree with the majority that ballancing a PvP game so everyone has an equal chance in PvP is not the best choice you guys are way off about EVE. In EVE if I spend months training up my skills to be an uber miner I can't just one day decide I want to PvP jump in a battleship and go own people. Without the properly trained skills which would take just as much time to train as the months I speant becoming a top miner I'd be just as effective if I took my mining barge into PvP. No ship is going to make you magically uber if you haven't trained the proper skill set adaquately.
PvP in EVE is more about how you've trained your skills to utilize your ship and it's fittings than the ship itself.
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I do very strongly believe DAoC had it best when it came to pvp. Such a variety in classes and specialities made it a wonderful pvp game. I was a Frostalf Mend/Pac healer which meant I was the main healer but also had the best CC for Midgard. It was a really fun mix.
I do believe however that Rift has done many things right. It is not a pvp game and it is certainly not mind bogglingly amazing pvp but the mix of skills between the classes and souls really makes pvp fun.
I really wish they would do a remake of DAoC. I would never look at another game.


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"All of that being said, and as cool as the thought of new hardware is, I still think iOS 7 and iCloud will be far, far more important for Apple in 2013."
I agree. I guess the question is, will we see the beta of iOS 7 in the Spring or during the WWDC keynote in the summer?


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Ok, for all you "not a doctors" out there[:D], Here is my situation. I'll be 8 weeks tomorrow. From the beginning I have been checking BP every morning - 125ish over 75ish. Before I got pregnant, i checked kind of randomly in the morning - usually 130/80 - probably bc i wasn't as diligent about meds[:(]. Anyway, I rarely checked at night or afternoon, so I don't know if it usually goes up. But now, for some reason (I think I had a headache a couple weeks ago)I decided to check in the afternoon. 135/85-100 every day! So, I called Dr. yesterday, the nurse said no that's not normal come in Thursday. Any thoughts? What do you think i'm gonna have to do (here is the neurosis coming out[:I])? I am on Methyldopa 500 mg 3x day. Dr. says that is a high dosage but can be increased. She also (at first visit) mentioned that we could add calcium channel blockers. We were going to have an appt with peri around 12 weeks to meet him under non-stressful conditions - I wonder if this will change things. By the way - I am not a stressed person - work is easy & fun (usually) I commute one hour - no traffic, so I don't attribute it to daily stress. I have been very tired and I had forgotten how miserably naseous I was all day with first preg. YEAH! All worth it, though!
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A one-year waiver of the N.C. State Board of Education's end of course (EOC) testing requirements was unanimously approved by the Ashe County Board of Education at its January meeting last night.
Students' EOC test scores in English II, algebra I and biology count for 25 percent their final grades for those courses. Ashe County High School Principal Jason Krider asked the board to waive the requirement, which the state is allowing for the 2012-13 school year due to implementation difficulties.
Fall semester test scores for 425 students will not be returned until February, Krider said. Rescheduling of students who failed courses based on EOC results would mean splitting up classes several weeks into the new semester.
For 2012-13, he said, "we certainly felt a student's semester-long grade to be a better reflection of…academic progress."
Board member Dr. Lee Beckworth asked if there was any indication whether the gravity of the EOC assessment affected student performance. "We can certainly look at that," Krider said, adding that he thought most students took final exams pretty seriously in any case and want to do well.
A propane service agreement between Ashe County Schools and Blue Ridge Energies (BRE) was unanimously approved which will spearhead an effort to convert school buses to use propane.
According to the agreement, BRE will install liquid propane (LP) injection kits and fuel tanks beginning with one activity bus, and will fuel converted vehicles at its West Jefferson facility on N.C. 163. The company offered the board two pricing options: a retail price, which would fluctuate with the market, versus a locked-in rate set for determined periods of time.
The LP kit injects propane into the vehicle's air intake, resulting in reduced fuel costs and emissions, and increased power and mileage with longer service intervals, according to BRE's October proposal to the board.
Seeking board approval for the project, Assistant Superintendent Phyllis Yates said BRE assured her that the fuel tanks, which are certified by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, are 20 times more puncture-resistant than conventional diesel tanks.
The agreement read that either party can terminate the agreement at any time by giving 60 days written notice. Yates said BRE would amend it to allow as little as 15 days notice of termination if the program does not work out for either party.
Ashe County School's personnel recommendations for the year were approved without exception. Donnie Johnson will be serving as interim superintendent for the remainder of the school year following the resignation of Dr. Travis Reeves, who went to Surry County Schools this month.
Johnson served as superintendent of Ashe County Schools from 1999 until his retirement in 2009.
Dr. Beckworth said of Johnson: "We're very fortunate to have a man of his character and caliber that we can call on."
The board voted to renew the contract of Anderson Smith & Wike PLLC for three more years. The Wilkesboro-based accounting firm has performed the board's annual financial audits in recent years, and "has been doing a good job for us" Yates said.
Three requests for class trips to Washington D.C. were unanimously approved. Sixth-graders, teachers and chaperons from Blue Ridge, Mountain View and Westwood elementary schools will be taking buses to the capitol between Mar. 12 and Apr. 11.
Dwayne Farmer, a teacher assistant at Ashe County High School was recognized as ACS's Employee of the Month for January.
The board's next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 4.


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For those who have asked, I most likely won't share my NaNo novel on my blog. At least not right now. I am one of those people who is harder on myself than anyone else so I'll want to edit my novel A LOT once November is actually over.
Yesterday was a HUGE day for me. I had the day off and I was committed to starting off this year with a bang. And did I ever. My goal for the day was 1,667 words. And by the end of yesterday I was up to 5,024 words. That's more than triple what I needed.
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When the PACE Director visited his job site and talked about the PACE program, Travis Jones of Decatur started researching to see if the program would be right for him. Following high school, Travis had studied for a year at MacMurray College, then transferred to a community college in Michigan, and later back to Richland Community College before taking a long hiatus from his education. For the past ten years, Travis has worked for the State of Illinois where he spent six years as a Correctional Counselor for the Department of Corrections. Nearing the completion of his Organizational Leadership degree, with budget cuts impacting the State, Travis' pending diploma allowed him to move into the position of Human Resource Representative where he now supports 4-5 agencies.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. While the tax package that Congress passed New Years Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.
Thats because the legislation did nothing to prevent a temporary reduction in the Social Security payroll tax from expiring. In 2012, that 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax was worth about $1,000 to a worker making $50,000 a year.
The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington research group, estimates that 77 percent of American households will face higher federal taxes in 2013 under the agreement negotiated between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans. High-income families will feel the biggest tax increases, but many middle- and low-income families will pay higher taxes too.
Households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will face an average tax increase of $579 in 2013, according to the Tax Policy Centers analysis. Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will face an average tax increase of $822.
For most people, its just the payroll tax, said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
The tax increases could be a lot higher. A huge package of tax cuts first enacted under President George W. Bush was scheduled to expire Tuesday as part of the fiscal cliff. The Bush-era tax cuts lowered taxes for families at every income level, reduced investment taxes and the estate tax, and enhanced a number of tax credits, including a $1,000-per-child credit.
The package passed Tuesday by the Senate and House extends most the Bush-era tax cuts for individuals making less than $400,000 and married couples making less than $450,000.
Obama said the deal protects 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small business owners from a middle-class tax hike. While neither Democrats nor Republicans got everything they wanted, this agreement is the right thing to do for our country.
The income threshold covers more than 99 percent of all households, exceeding Obamas claim, according to the Tax Policy Center. However, the increase in payroll taxes will hit nearly every wage earner.
Social Security is financed by a 12.4 percent tax on wages up to $113,700, with employers paying half and workers paying the other half. Obama and Congress reduced the share paid by workers from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for 2011 and 2012, saving a typical family about $1,000 a year.
Obama pushed hard to enact the payroll tax cut for 2011 and to extend it through 2012. But it was never fully embraced by either party, and this time around, there was general agreement to let it expire.
The new tax package would increase the income tax rate from 35 percent to 39.6 percent on income above $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for married couples. Investment taxes would increase for people who fall in the new top tax bracket.
High-income families will also pay higher taxes this year as part of Obamas 2010 health care law. As part of that law, a new 3.8 percent tax is being imposed on investment income for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and couples making more than $250,000.
Together, the new tax package and Obamas health care law will produce significant tax increases for many high-income families.
For 2013, households making between $500,000 and $1 million would get an average tax increase of $14,812, according to the Tax Policy Center analysis. Households making more than $1 million would get an average tax increase of $170,341.
If youre rich, youre almost certain to get a big tax increase, Williams said.
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
This first full week of May is a time to honor two groups of professionals who embody service above self – nurses and teachers.
This year, for National Nurses Week, the American Nurses Association has chosen the theme "Delivering Quality and Innovation in Patient Care." At KidsPeace, our nurses blend science and compassion every day, putting in long hours to make life a little easier for the children and adolescents in our care. And through tackling both the ordinary and extraordinary situations that arise each day, they have the chance to make a permanent impression not just on their patients, but also the families of those they serve. We are immensely grateful for the passion they bring to their vocation.
National Nurses Week began Monday and runs through May 12, which was the birthday of Florence Nightingale, who is considered the founder of modern nursing. Whether nurses are working directly with patients, educating those who are in the trenches or conducting research, their purpose is always to ease others' burdens and provide high-quality, patient-driven care.
In addition to honoring nurses, May 6-10 is Teacher Appreciation Week. I'm sure everyone can recall at least one special teacher who went above and beyond to make learning enjoyable. Good teachers help their students by showcasing their strengths, teaching new skills and encouraging them to dream bigger for their future. At KidsPeace, our teachers work hard every day to ensure out students receive a well-rounded education. It's never too late to thank a teacher for setting you on the right path. If you are a parent, you are probably even more aware of the crucial role teachers play. So take a moment this week to say thank you, volunteer in a classroom or nominate a teacher for an award.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
I have one resolution for 2013. Manage.
My American Collegiate Dictionary defines manage as "to be in charge of; to administer and regulate; to moderate."
I was never in charge, and I consider moderation a four-letter word, but there are many facets of my life that I need to better manage.
I want to better manage my weight, which leads to better managing my health. I've done a decent job of managing my weight so far, managing to almost undo a 150-pound gain since my divorce. I have 50 more pounds to go, but when people ask me how I'm doing it, my answer of "it's the 'I'm Broke' diet,'" is not a good example of managing.
Surviving the last four days until payday by making homemade Ramen noodles because I can't afford to drop a dime on a real package of Ramen noodles is not managing. Neither is calling a bullion cube in a cup of hot water "soup."
I need to start managing my money. "Finances" is too grown up a word for what I do with money. It implies having money, which I don't most of the time.
Managing money does not mean doing a fist pump when I find a lost $20 bill in my pants pocket as I try to figure out which pair looks the least wrinkled because I can't afford to do laundry.
Anyone who knows how to calculate the split between what to charge on your debit card and what to pay for with Coke-gunked coins pilfered from the front dash cup holder does not know how to manage money.
Time. I want to manage my time. I either have too much of it or not enough.
I waste, kill, spend, and long for time.
"I'll do it later," is my mantra. I am the Henry VIII of procrastination. Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow, or get someone else to do for you.
I don't trust myself to be on time so I'm either the first one there an hour early, or I'm embarrassingly late. I do my best work at the literal last minute. I have the award plaques to prove it, too.
Lastly, I want to manage my life.
Currently I employ the "Runaway Wagon" method of life management. It is when you describe your life as being on a runaway wagon careening wildly down a steep hill, the brakes are out, and there's a BRIDGE OUT sign at the bottom.
Use of the word "careen" to describe anything happening in your life outside of wild, unbridled romance is not good. Neither is "dodging bullets."
I am the Neo of dodging bullets.
Navigating around life's sharp turns down this same steep hill as three of the four wagon wheels become airborne and the fourth grips precariously to a few stray pebbles of the road shoulder is not effective life management. Keeping it between the ditches isn't either, but somehow I've managed.
I don't want to just manage, I want to manage.
I want to do more than prove my mom, "raised me better than that," even though it is loads of fun to make her think she didn't.
The New Year is like life's mulligan, and given how I suffer through golf, I make full use of all mulligans. I'm already compiling my list of 2014 resolutions.
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In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her—especially Curt Wad, a surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in the 1950s.
More than twenty years later, Detective Carl Mørck already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that sent Carl to Department Q.
But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. Sifting through the evidence, they inch closer to Curt Wad, who is still committed to his twisted beliefs, and whose treatment of Nete only hints at his capacity for evil.
"Adler-Olsen, Denmark's leading crime fiction author, outdoes his outstanding debut, The Keeper of Lost Causes, with his second Department Q novel." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Adler-Olsen has created a wonderful addition to the detective fiction genre in his sleuth….While the book can be read as a stand-alone novel, readers will be unable to resist seeking out and devouring the first and subsequent series titles." — Library Journal (starred review)
Praise for The Keeper of Lost Causes:
"The pages fly by as the twisty puzzle unfolds. Stieg Larsson fans will be delighted." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[An] absorbing psychological thriller." — Library Journal (starred review)
"Comparisons [to Stieg Larsson] are inevitable and, while he may lack a Salander, Adler-Olsen's prose is superior to Larsson's, his tortures are less discomfiting, and he has a sense of humor."— Booklist (starred review)
"Plan on putting everything else in your life on hold if you pick up this book." — The Oregonian
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Dear Reader,
The second-best thing about a Jussi Adler-Olsen book is the humor that persists throughout his novels. As Publishers Weekly puts it, "Adler-Olsen merges story lines…with ingenious aplomb, effortlessly mixing hilarities with horrors…This crime fiction tour de force could only have been devised by an author who can even turn stomach flu into a belly laugh."
But the very best thing about a Jussi Adler-Olsen book is that you can read it from the safety of your living room.
In a series of dark, atmospheric, and utterly gripping thrillers, The Purity of Vengeance stands out as one of Detective Carl Mørck's most sinister cases. There are three taut, engaging, and utterly eerie plotlines— one in the 1950s, one in the 1980s, and one in the present day—that come together in a twisted, impossible-to-guess climax. There are the dangers that Carl and his assistants, Assad and Rose, must face in an attempt to untangle the mystery. And finally, there is the fact that Jussi is drawing on historical fact. The Purity of Vengeance heavily features a real-life location: the island Sprogø, where between 1923 and 1959, Danish women who were deemed pathologically promiscuous were imprisoned and sometimes sterilized against their will.
The Purity of Vengeance is terrifying, funny, and completely absorbing: I promise you won't be able to put it down.
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Elon opened with a 1-0 lead after sweeping the doubles matches. Senior Ankit Chopra (Chandigrah, India) and freshman John Peacey (Emerald, Australia) lost to No. 38 Cameron Silverman and Stefan Fortmann (8-2) at No. 1, while seniors Chris Smith (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Roberto Vieira (Bedfordview, South Africa) fell to Brian Kowalski and Robert Lindgren (8-5) at No. 1.
Senior Manuel Barroetavena (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Jackson Tresnan (Apopka, Fla.) pushed the Phoenix duo of Juan Madrid and Jordan Kaufman before falling 9-7 at No. 3.
Elon went up 2-0 with Kaufman's (6-3, 6-4) win over Smith at No. 3. The Mocs scored the next points when Chopra defeated Lindgren (6-1, 6-4) at No. 3. It was Chopra's fourth win in a row as he improves to 12-8 overall, 7-4 in the spring and 4-0 at No. 3.
Vieira had a solid effort at No. 1 against No. 34 Silverman. He almost took the first set before falling 7-5. He lost the second 6-3, as Elon moved ahead 3-1.
Barroetavena closed the gap to 3-2 with his three-set win over Fortmann at No. 2 (6-1, 2-6, 6-1). It was his 10th win of the spring as he improves to a team-best 17-8 overall. Elon clinched the match with Madrid's (6-2, 6-2) win over sophomore Pavels Grigorjevs (Riga, Latvia) at No. 6. Tresnan lost the last match of the day in three sets to Kowalski at No. 5.
The Mocs are back on the court on Tuesday, March 26, in a rescheduled match with Lee University. First serve is set for 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.) at the Champions Club in a double-header with the women's teams. A link for live scoring is available on the men's tennis schedule page on GoMocs.com.
Elon 5, Chattanooga 2
Mar 23, 2013 at Chattanooga, Tenn. (GPS)
Doubles competition
1. #38 Cameron Silverman/Stefan Fortmann (ELON) def. John Peacey/Ankit Chopra (UTC) 8-3
2. Brian Kowalski/Robert Lindgren (ELON) def. Chris Smith/Roberto Vieira (UTC) 8-5
3. Juan Madrid/Jordan Kaufman (ELON) def. Jackson Tresnan/Manuel Barroetavena (UTC) 8-7
Singles competition
1. #34 Cameron Silverman (ELON) def. Roberto Vieira (UTC) 7-5, 6-3
2. Manuel Barroetavena (UTC) def. Stefan Fortmann (ELON) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
3. Ankit Chopra (UTC) def. Robert Lindgren (ELON) 6-1, 6-4
4. Jordan Kaufman (ELON) def. Chris Smith (UTC) 6-3, 6-4
5. Brian Kowalski (ELON) def. Jackson Tresnan (UTC) 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-8)
6. Juan Madrid (ELON) def. Pavels Grigorjevs (UTC) 6-2, 6-2
Order of finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (4,3,1,2,6,5)


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