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"It was a Friday morning (June 21). I was at the house. I'd had been on the phone with some other folks who were at work. The phone rings and this voice says 'Bea? It's Barry.'"
"It took me a second to realize who was calling."
Barry was Dr. Barry Goldstein, the SACS vice president who oversees CBC.
"By the time it clicked who he was, he already was telling me that the commission had reaffirmed CBC's accreditation.
"Well," Dr. Espinoza replied, "that's good news!"
Sitting in her office Monday, she was having a difficult time curbing her enthusiasm.
"How long do you wait before you burst?" she asked, and laughed, explaining that the college has not issued a news release until it receives the word from SACs in writing.
"I felt confident after I sent it in," she says.
"It" was 1,590 pages of documentation — Espinoza wrote most of it.
"Part of the confidence came from seeing exactly how far we had drilled into the information we had and how we represented it. By the time I got to the final stage, I felt confident in knowing we had done our very best to showcase the college."
The SACS committee had pointed out several areas of concern, including institutional effectiveness — which is planning — "which aligns with the budget. We were pretty much upside down in our finances."
Espinoza discovered in the first months of her presidency that CBC's financial reserves for paying off its debt service were depleted from $1.5 million to a mere $4,000. Concurrently, the facility's documentation required by SACS for accreditation was years behind. Enrollment was dropping, as was federal funding.
"I had a six-month window to start to correct things," she says. "Between a December 2012 audit report, I had to start looking for ways to cut costs."
That included contracts not being renewed.
"That caused a lot of grief for the college," she admits. Grievance hearings before the board — some of them public — still are underway.
"But, it was because we were that far off in our management of financial resources," Espinoza says. "We took the right steps to keep the college solvent and healthy as a respectable entity in higher education. That is so critical for the community. I know it was painful. It brought some pains to the college as a whole, but it wasn't without reason."
The reaffirmation, she says, declares that SACS believes CBC is going in the right direction.
"Most experienced presidents do not have issues like this except maybe once in their tenure. I had multiple ones in year one. But, I have no regrets. It's the job I took on.
"If I had been aware of all this, I would have taken an all-new approach. This definitely wore me (out), not because I didn't have confidence to get past it, but because of the magnitude of the issues we were dealing with."
With the news from Goldstein, Espinoza says the only direction for the college is forward.
The benefits from the SACS reaffirmation are twofold, she says.
"First, there is no bump in the road for students. They have no worries whatsoever. Their credits count the same and financial aid access is the same.
"That, and saving face in the community and people recognizing the excellence that's provided at their local community college."
Next on the agenda?
"We will have two celebrations to recognize all the hard work by the staff and faculty," she says. The first is a picnic next Wednesday at noon; the second in the fall when the faculty returns.
Espinoza plans to take a few days off to go to Disney World with her family.
"I'm going to keep doing the 'Snoopy dance' for a while."
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Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions
Note: The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is publishing a new series of e-books. The first two offerings are an excellent new book on critical thinking by Bob Carroll, Unnatural Acts, and the first in a planned series of republications of classic skeptical works, Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, by Oliver Wendell Holmes. I was asked to write the introduction for the latter, and the JREF has kindly given their permission for me to reproduce it here.
The German philosopher Hegel said, "We learn from history that we don't learn from history." "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions" is a remarkable little book based on two lectures Oliver Wendell Holmes gave in 1842. It is a masterful debunking of homeopathy. If his lessons had been taken to heart, homeopathy would not have survived and we could have avoided a great number of other medical delusions that continue to plague us today, both from charlatans and from well-meaning advocates who lack Holmes' critical thinking skills.
To realize just how remarkable this book is, imagine the world of 1842. Samuel Hahnemann, the inventor of homeopathy, was still alive. Roentgen wouldn't discover x-rays until 1895. The germ theory was not yet established. Semmelweis wouldn't make his observations on puerperal fever until 3 years later. It wasn't until 1854 that John Snow removed the Broad Street pump handle and stopped a cholera epidemic. Koch's postulates for determining infectious causes of disease weren't published until 1890. Doctors didn't wash their hands or use sterile precautions for surgery. Bloodletting to "balance the humors" was still a common practice. The randomized placebo-controlled trial wouldn't appear for another century. Contemporary medicine often did more harm than good. In fact, Holmes himself famously quipped "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." (more…)
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Ukraine's long, rocky roadMarch 02,2014During the years I reported from the Soviet Union, English speakers almost always called it The Ukraine. That implied a region, rather than a sovereign state. Even though there was clearly a distinct Ukrainian people, language and culture, for centuries Ukraines borders had constantly shifted as the result of wars and hostile neighbors. Then, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, The Ukraine voted for independence and officially became Ukraine without the article.
I was in Ukraine during that period and can vouch for the sheer joy that most Ukrainians felt at the prospect of being free from Moscows often brutal embrace. Yet independence has provided Ukrainians little escape from their centuries-long, complex history with Russia. The worst of that history took place under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, an experience now embedded in Ukraines DNA.
After World War I and the bloody civil war that followed the Russian Revolution, Ukraine became a founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As the breadbasket for much of the entire Soviet state, Stalin counted on Ukraine to feed and finance his huge industrial projects. And so began agricultural collectivization forcing Ukrainian peasants onto collective farms, keeping them there with troops and secret police, and confiscating most of their crops for the benefit of the state.
This had a devastating effect on agricultural productivity, leading to widespread food shortages. Stalins response was to impose starvation as punishment for those peasants who failed to meet their unrealistic quotas. By the end of the 1930s, an estimated 10 million Ukrainians had died in the Great Famine caused mainly by a form of genocide, unmatched by even the worst of the czars.
At the same time Stalin tried to stamp out any notion of Ukrainian identity. Throughout the 1930s he conducted purges of Ukraines writers, artists and intellectuals for being nationalist deviationists. This resulted in the killings of nearly 700,000 people including four-fifths of the Ukrainian cultural elite and three-quarters of the Red Armys highest ranking officers.
Ukraines cruel fate continued with World War II. While numerous Ukrainian resistance units emerged, and some joined the Nazi invaders, most Ukrainians fought with Russias Red Army. By wars end, an estimated 5 million to 8 million Ukrainians had been killed. This includes about half a million Jews who were victims of the invading Nazis, sometimes abetted by local collaborators.
Things improved for Ukrainians after Stalins death in 1953. He was replaced by Nikita Khrushchev, who was born in Russia near the Ukrainian border and rose to become head of the Ukrainian Communist Party. Evidently to atone for Stalins sins (and his own), Khrushchev began to emphasize Russian-Ukrainian friendship.
In a major gesture he gave control of the Crimea, which was historically part of Russia, to Ukraine. This is significant in todays context because the Russian navys Black Sea Fleet is based in the Crimea, which remains an autonomous region of Ukraine. It is also where ethnic Russians still comprise a substantial majority and where armed protesters this past week have been demanding that Crimea be returned to Russia.
Under Khrushchev, and then Leonid Brezhnev who was a Ukrainian, Ukraine became the center for Soviet armaments and high-tech industries, and Ukrainians became prominent in the Soviet Communist Party leadership, as well as in the arts, sciences and athletics. Still, on Dec. 1, 1991, 90 percent of Ukrainians voted in favor of the Act of Independence, declaring Ukraine an independent, democratic state.
The independence road has been a rocky one. In its first decade, Ukraines gross national product dropped by 60 percent and inflation ran rampant. Old Soviet habits die hard and pervasive political corruption has stymied economic growth and the development of democratic institutions. Those problems have been compounded by the rise to power in Russia of the autocratic Vladimir Putin.
Putin may not be trying to recreate the old Soviet Union, but he clearly has the old imperial Russia in mind, when among other things, Ukraine was usually a Russian vassal state. So when Ukraine began to flirt with the European Union, broadening economic links with the EU and even toying with the idea of membership, Putin said nyet to that adding the threat to jack up the price of Russian natural gas exports to Ukraine by 30 percent and the bribe of a $15 billion bailout to ease its debt crisis.
This issue of the Eurofication of Ukraine is central to the latest political crisis which exploded last month when nearly 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured, mostly by security forces shooting at anti- government protesters. That led to President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing Kiev and the parliament voting for his impeachment and arrest. He later showed up in Russia and like Putins government, has strongly challenged the legitimacy of this parliament and its new interim government.
Ukraine is divided between those mainly in western Ukraine who want closer ties with Europe and those in eastern and southern Ukraine who are pro-Russia. Of Ukraines 45 million people, three quarters are ethnic Ukrainians, and only 17 percent are Russian. But 40 percent of Ukrainians speak Russian. So especially amidst current political uncertainties, Ukraine remains in danger of greater civil strife. For now, all parties, including the Russians, the European Union and the U.S. agree that Ukraines territorial integrity must be maintained. That is key although Russian reaction is still unfolding.
It is in European and American interests to help the Ukrainians financially, with conditions that encourage the further development of democracy. At the same time, the West needs to at least tacitly recognize Russias historical and contemporary connections to Ukraine. It should not over-react to Putins blusters such as the big, new, Russian military exercises this weekend.
Remember how ferociously America once fought Soviet attempts to gain influence in Central and South America. In 1962 the world barely escaped nuclear war when the Soviets tried to introduce nuclear missiles into Cuba. Big powers, and Russia still is one, tend to be very sensitive about perceived threats in their own backyards.
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Home List of Titles Collective oscillations of a confined Bose gas at finite temperature in the random-phase approximation
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/81632
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- Title
- Collective oscillations of a confined Bose gas at finite temperature in the random-phase approximation
- Author(s)
- Liu, Xia-Ji; Hu, Hui; Minguzzi, A.; Tosi, M. P.
- Abstract
- We present a theory for the linear dynamics of a weakly interacting Bose gas confined inside a harmonic trap at finite temperature. The theory treats the motions of the condensate and of the noncondensate on an equal footing within a generalized random-phase approximation, which (i) extends the second-order Beliaev-Popov approach by allowing for the dynamical coupling between fluctuations in the thermal cloud, and (ii) reduces to an earlier random-phase scheme when the anomalous density fluctuations are omitted. Numerical calculations of the low-lying spectra in the case of isotropic confinement show that the present theory obeys with high accuracy the generalized Kohn theorem for the dipolar excitations and demonstrate that combined normal and anomalous density fluctuations play an important role in the monopolar excitations of the condensate. Mean-field theory is instead found to yield accurate results for the quadrupolar modes of the condensate. Although the restriction to spherical confinement prevents quantitative comparisons with measured spectra, it appears that the non-mean-field effects that we examine may be relevant to explain the features exhibited by the breathing mode as a function of temperature in the experiments carried out at JILA on a gas of ^87Rb atoms.
- Publication type
- Journal article
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- Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol. 69, no. 4 (Apr 2004), article no. 043605
- Publication year
- 2004
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- 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics; 0204 Condensed Matter Physics; 0205 Optical Physics
- Keyword(s)
- Approximation theory; Bose gases; Frequencies; Gas condensates; Gas dynamics; Hamiltonians; Mathematical models; Monopolar excitations; Oscillations; Quantum theory; Random-phase-approximation; RPA; Rubidium; Thermal cloud; Thermodynamics
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- American Physical Society
- 1050-2947
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- Copyright © 2004 The American Physical Society. The accepted manuscript of the paper is reproduced here for noncommerical purposes only in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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Jason first obtained his White Belt in 1996, and acheived Black Belt in 2001. Since then, he has taught many classes and workshops from coast to coast and all across the USA and Italy and Ireland. After having spent over a decade teaching and living in New York City while simultaneous enjoying an acting and modeling career there, he hung it ALL up in 2011 to do some soul searching.
"The idea was to go Tabula Rasa and spend a lot of time in RAW. Relaxed, alert and waiting for whatever calling I will be answering next." Jason found himself adopting a dog from the local shelter and buying a car. "The open road was going to be my next calling". But then Jason found himself answering the call to Nia. When missing from his life, Jason could feel the desire to have it back. It was a clear call.
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Penn Researchers Find Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM) Offers Limited Gains to Life Expectancy for Breast Cancer Patients
Rates of Surgery Rising Despite a Lack of Evidence Demonstrating Significant Benefits
Publication #PD02-02: A Decision Analysis of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy in Women Undergoing Treatment for Sporadic Unilateral Breast Cancer.
(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) -- Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), a procedure that removes the unaffected breast in patients with cancer in one breast, provides only a modest increase in life expectancy, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In fact, the study shows that the surgery may actually reduce the quality-adjusted life expectancy – a measure of life expectancy that takes into account quality of life – among women whose breast cancer is not hereditary. Since only around 10% of breast cancers are known to be caused by genetic factors, the findings of the study apply to the vast majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer who are treated with mastectomy.
The findings of the study will be reported on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Using a computer-based decision analysis, researchers examined the impact of CPM on life expectancy and quality-adjusted life expectancy among groups of women with newly diagnosed unilateral breast cancer and no known genetic predisposition to the disease. Studies show that among these patients, there has been a 150 percent increase in this type of surgery in recent years.
The authors hope the findings will assist patients and physicians in making informed decisions about treatment strategies, based on a clear understanding of the actual benefits and risks involved in preventive mastectomies, and the potential for the surgery to have an adverse impact on women's quality of life.
"We suspect that many of the women who elect to undergo CPM are acting on the belief the surgery will substantially reduce their overall risk of dying of breast cancer," said senior author Robert G. Prosnitz, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of Radiation Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "However, our study shows that a woman's risk of death from her primary breast cancer far outweighs her risk of death from a potential breast cancer developing in the unaffected breast. Additionally, the modest increase in life expectancy resulting from CPM may ultimately be negated by a reduction in quality of life."
The study showed that CPM produced modest gains in life expectancy in all subjects, regardless of the stage or subtype of the cancer. The greatest life expectancy gain from electing to have the procedure was seen in younger women with early-stage cancers whose type is known to carry a favorable prognosis. Even in these patients, however, the risk of death from their primary breast cancer far exceeded the risk of death from a breast cancer that may later develop on the opposite side. In these types of patients who forego CPM, for example, the study found that the risk of death from the primary breast cancer within 20 years was 10 times higher than the risk of death from a breast cancer that might later arise on the unaffected side.
Additional results of the study showed that CPM may actually reduce the quality-adjusted life expectancy for patients with unilateral breast cancers not linked to genetic factors. Because CPM is associated with both short and long-term effects that may reduce quality of life, the researchers used a model that took into account those issues. If CPM is assumed to cause even a small reduction in quality of life - due to surgical complications, loss of sensation in the breast, etc – the results indicate that not undergoing this procedure is the preferred strategy for all patients, regardless of age, cancer stage or tumor molecular subtype.
Based on the findings, Prosnitz and his colleagues plan to develop and test decision aids that will help patients better assess their treatment options."At the outset of the study, we already knew that CPM was not going to help women with locally advanced breast cancers," said Prosnitz. "What surprised us, however, was how small the benefits were for women with even the most favorable breast cancers."
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Uploading, Saving and Downloading Binary Data in a MySQL Database
Hopefully, the inaugural column convinced you that SQL is a skill you want to have under your belt. In case you missed it, here's a quick synopsis: SQL is a database manipulation language, pure and simple. It is a rich language -- it has a number of commands for managing the database structure itself, powerful functions, many data types, and other useful features -- but at its most basic level, SQL is simply about three things:
Nothing too mind-bending there! Of course there is plenty of power under the hood for gurus, but even a newbie can get an enormous amount of work accomplished with a few simple commands. So where to begin...? A good first step is choosing a SQL environment.
Before we can talk about SQL commands, we need an environment that understands SQL commands -- basically, we need a relational database management system, or RDBMS. And you thought I was going to say we need a database! Well, we do need a database -- but databases (files or filesystems) are created by RDBMS tools like Oracle, MySQL, and all the other programs that you probably call a "database." An RDBMS provides an environment that can be used to create and manipulate databases as well as the tools to manipulate the data in the database. One ground rule for aboutSQL -- when I say database, I always mean a relational database. For the record, there are other models like network, hierarchical, and object, to name a few, but SQL is all about relational databases.
Almost all RDBMS tools implement some version of the SQL standard and, for our purposes, should be interchangeable. You already know the names of a lot of them (e.g. IBM DB2, Sybase). For our purposes I'll assume you're using some sort of personal database, as opposed to your production database server. In any case, the details shouldn't matter too much. But if you're looking for an RDBMS to use as a learning environment, here are the ones that I'd suggest, in order of preference:
Once you have one of these installed, you're almost ready to try your hand at SQL. But first I need to make sure you understand what I'm talking about when I start throwing around unfamiliar words. We'll start with the database basics.
Relational databases are pretty easy to understand if you think about each one as a set of one or more tables of data. In fact, a table is exactly the term used to describe a collection of data in a database. The table below is a representation of a simple database of musical recordings.
|Pet Sounds
|The Beach Boys
|Peter Gabriel
|The Way it Is
|Bruce Hornsby
|Joshua Judges Ruth
|Lyle Lovett
The collection of data is a table that could be one of many related tables in a single database. The horizontal green row is typically called a record in the database. The columns of data, such as the years (in bold) are typically called fields. So '1996' is the value of the Year field of record number 1 in this database. There's plenty of other terminology to introduce, but that should do for now.
In the next series of columns, we'll start with the most important SQL command of all -- SELECT. In the meantime, get a database installed and be ready to start experimenting next week as you learn aboutSQL.
John Paul Ashenfelter is president and CTO of TransitionPoint.com, a technology development and analysis group focusing on web database applications.
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It's Spring Cleaning Season!
By Health Day
..a ritual of a bygone time.
But germ experts at St. Louis University Medical Center suggest it's still a good idea....and they're sharing these tips to get you started.
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Mr. Hackman was born Dec. 5, 1960, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to William Gerald and Nancy Ann (Ryder) Hackman. He was the craftshop supervisor for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, McConnell Unit in Beeville.
Survivors include his wife, Rose Sauceda Hackman; two daughters, Ashley Ketler of Hood River, Oregon, and Megan Hackman of College Station; three step-daughters, Regina Trevino and Julia Rivas, both of Beeville, and Mallorie Rivas of Austin; one sister, Pat Evans of Spicewood; two brothers, Raymond Hackman of Lewisville and Mark Hackman of Anthen, Arizona.
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North Central College presents the student-written and –directed drama "Blight," an intense examination of an industry-dependent small town.
Three performances of "Blight" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. April 12, 13 and 14 in North Central College's Madden Theatre at the Fine Arts Center, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville. Tickets are $5/adults and $3/students and senior citizens; call the North Central College Box Office at 630-637-SHOW (7469) or visit northcentralcollege.edu/showtix. This show contains some strong language.
The original production is written and directed by North Central College senior Ross McIntire of Galva, Ill., as part of the College's Student Director Series. In the Student Director Series, members of the College's theatre faculty invite students to submit a proposal to direct their own theatrical productions and the best are chosen.
The show, which measures the flesh and blood impact of a factory closure in Midwestern America, follows a group of men and women in a small town bar. They have come for various reasons: to meet friends, to avoid enemies and to live their lives.
As the night progresses and the glasses are emptied, the truth about the now derelict factory comes out into the open. The variety of characters—representing everyone from an arrogant car salesman to a tired lawyer—realize exactly how much people in small communities count on each other to get by and how financial and class conflicts between them color their perception of events.
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Melissa Rogers: Chelsey Walker of Plainfield, a freshman majoring in musical theatre
Raymond Bergland: Mike Allison of Downers Grove, a sophomore majoring in broadcast communication
Tom Williams: Kyle Ryan of Plainfield, a freshman majoring in musical theatre
Cecil Bradley: Brett Bush of Clarendon Hills, a freshman majoring in music education
Denise Williams: Anna Kopsky of Bolingbrook, a sophomore majoring in broadcast communication
Ward Greene: Brad Morrison of St. Charles, a junior majoring in music and musical theatre
Justine Williams: Emily Refner of Allegan, Mich., a sophomore majoring in English literature and psychology
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Assistant Director: Colin Loeffler of Sun Prairie, Wis., a sophomore majoring in English literature and theatre
Assistant Director: Hywel Griffith of Pontypridd, Wales, U.K., a senior majoring in theatre
Stage Manager: Frances Wuts of Wheaton, a junior majoring in theatre
North Central College offers majors in theatre or musical theatre and a minor in dance. A full range of acting and dance classes is available, as well as opportunities to direct a full-length production. Students of all majors can participate in musical and nonmusical performances, actor showcases and one-act plays and performances in the College's four theatre venues. Full-time professors and active professionals who are artist-teachers serve as faculty. Visit northcentralcollege.edu/majors/theatre to learn more about studying theatre at North Central College.
This performance is one of many ongoing programs at North Central College to enrich and broaden the cultural and academic outlook for the College and community. North Central offers a variety of venues accommodating a rich range of local and world-class events, performances and space needs for the public. For a comprehensive schedule of musical performances, theatrical and dance productions, art exhibits and lectures, visit northcentralcollege.edu/show or call the box office at 630-637-SHOW (7469).
Founded in 1861 and celebrating its Sesquicentennial in 2011-2012, North Central College is an independent, comprehensive college of the liberal arts and sciences that offers more than 55 undergraduate majors and graduate programming in six areas. With more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students, North Central College is committed to academic excellence, a climate that emphasizes leadership, ethics, values and service, a curriculum that balances job-related knowledge with a liberal arts foundation and a caring environment with small classes. Visit northcentralcollege.edu to learn more.


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Matson Navigation Co. said Tuesday the earnings include a charge of nearly $10 million to settle a lawsuit.
Matson CEO Matt Cox said in a conference call the case is related to allegations that certain Matson freight forwarder customers had improperly billed the Defense Department for shipping military household goods.
Cox says the allegations lack merit, but the time and costs of litigation and the risks of a jury trial convinced the company to settle.
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By Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer
Josh Megyeri had a shooting debut to remember, and Western New Mexico had a start it would like to forget.
Playing in its season debut, and the Eastern New Mexico University coaching debut for Andrew Helton, the Greyhounds held Western to one field goal in the first eight minutes and never looked back in an 83-68 victory Tuesday night at Greyhound Arena.
ENMU, which faces the Mustangs again 3 p.m. Saturday in Silver City, never trailed. They led by as many as 23 points and had nine players finish with at least five points in a balanced effort.
The Mustangs used pressure defense to get on track offensively in the second half, but they could never recover from the opening eight-minute stretch where they went 1-of-16 and turned the ball over six times.
"We came out flat, which was surprising because it was our opener," WNMU coach Mark Coleman said. "We were tentative offensively, we weren't getting to the basket. We turned the ball over, and they converted."
Seven Greyhounds had points in the opening 15-2 run, but Helton credited most of those scoring chances to what Eastern did on the other end of the court.
"We defended pretty well, to be honest," Helton said. "Some of their shots didn't go, and they're a good team. But we defended a little better than we had been doing so far."
Victor Reid scored 17 points to lead three Greyhounds in double figures, while Migyeri added 15 points on 5-of-7 from 3-point range to lead a 34-point effort from the ENMU bench.
Megyeri, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound guard, hit the first of his five treys near the end of the game-opening run, He had two more to push the lead to 23-9 midway through the first half, then hit two more as the Hounds upped the lead to 20 in the second half.
Helton said he didn't envision Megyeri would get minutes as a 3-point specialist, but said: "If he keeps shooting like that, he will."
The Mustangs changed up their style, going to a guard-heavy lineup. The full court-pressure caused a 16-turnover second half and got the deficit to 71-61 with five minutes to play.
But the style also led to fouls, and the Hounds converted 14 of their last 15 free throws down the stretch to keep the Mustangs at bay.
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By Steve Terrell: The New Mexican
About six weeks before he was to be executed by the state of Illinois, Randy Steidl's mother went to a cemetery and purchased a burial plot for him.
"That's something a mother should never have to do," Steidl told a reporter Friday.
Steidl came to Santa Fe to try to persuade to New Mexico senators to support House Bill 285, which would repeal the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole.
New Mexico is one of 36 states that still have capital punishment. Although Gov. Bill Richardson has long supported the death penalty, he said recently that he has softened his stance and might consider signing a repeal bill if the Legislature passes one.
The bill approved by the House is scheduled to be heard Monday in the Senate Judiciary Committee — which in recent years has been the place where death-penalty-repeal bills have died.
Steidl, one of several former death-row inmates to come to New Mexico in recent years to talk to lawmakers about capital punishment, was convicted of murder in 1987. He and former drinking buddy Herb Whitlock were found guilty of killing a young newlywed couple, Dyke and Karen Rhoads, in Paris, Ill., a small town about 150 miles south of Chicago. The victims were stabbed repeatedly in their bedroom before their home was set on fire.
Steidl is a free man. In 2004, after he had spent 17 years in prison, 12 of them on death row, a federal judge ruled that Steidl either be released from prison or retried. After reexamining the case, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan decided not to retry Steidl.
However, the original prosecutor in the case last year told CBS — which has featured the case more than once on its network TV news program "48 Hours" — that Steidl and Whitlock are still suspects in the case, even though the federal judge's decision cast serious doubt on key physical evidence and the testimony of alleged eyewitnesses to the killings, both of whom later recanted their testimony.
Nobody else has been charged in the killings.
A former Illinois state police lieutenant who tried to reopen the case told CBS, "I was told that I could not reopen the Rhoads case, that it was too politically sensitive. I could not touch it." The officer, Michale Callahan, eventually was transferred out of the department's investigations division. He sued the department, claiming his superiors punished him for conclusions he reached in that investigation. Though the jury ruled in Callahan's favor, a federal appeals court reversed that verdict.
Whitlock, Steidl's co-defendant, who was sentenced to a prison term rather than death, was not released until last year.
Steidl on Friday talked about possible political motives for Illinois authorities. He said that shortly before the murders he and Whitlock had talked to the FBI about corruption and public drug use by local law enforcement.
"Twelve years on death row and there were twelve men executed," Steidl said. "I didn't see a tear in the eye of any of those guys. They were being released. I really believe that life in prison without parole is the worst punishment you can give anyone."
Steidl has two children, a son who was 9 when his father went to prison and a daughter who was 16.
"They didn't have a dad to go to their graduations or their weddings," he said.
Steidl said he worked in the printing business after his release but recently was laid off. He's also worked for Witness to Innocence, a Philadelphia-based organization opposed to the death penalty. He said he's been to several other state legislatures to lobby for death-penalty abolition, including Texas, Maryland, Nebraska and North Carolina.
Steidl said his mother died last month. "At least she got to see me free," he said. The burial plot she bought for her son is next to her own grave. "Someday I'll be resting there beside her," he said.
Other former death-row inmates who have testified here in recent years against capital punishment include Juan Melendez, who spent 17 years on Florida's death row. Melendez now lives in New Mexico.
Another is Ron Keine, who, along with three other members of a California motorcycle gang, were convicted in 1974 of the murder of a University of New Mexico student. Keine and the others spent nearly two years on this state's death row until the real killer confessed.
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Some schools around the country are now dropping out of the healthier new federal lunch program, complaining that too many students don't want healthy meals and that the cafeterias were losing money.
Check out cable channel TLC's list of the healthiest school lunch plans in the country, in no particular order.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina. The school district consistently keeps things healthy for its students. Vegetarian choices appear on the menu daily, including entrees like black-eyed peas with rice or spaghetti with marinara sauce. The district puts nutrition education into action with gardens in several of the schools. Students help maintain the gardens and are also encouraged to take home some of the crops.
Promise Academy, New York City. This Harlem charter school's lunch program includes a wide range of healthy, unprocessed food. Students enjoy from-scratch lunches like turkey lasagna with fresh zucchini, whole-wheat pasta with local squash, or Swiss chard. The school also holds monthly "farmer's markets" in the cafeteria, and offers cooking classes that parents and children can take together.
Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia. Registered dieticians plan all school meals to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The school system also plans to eliminate all trans fat from its lunch menus. In addition to offering several vegetarian entrees each day, students also have a daily vegan option. Students can choose from fare like hummus, whole grain breadsticks, veggie burgers and salad. A daily selection of fresh fruits and vegetables with dip are also available to students. Nondairy beverages like soymilk are offered as well.
Betty Shabazz International Charter School, Illinois. Winner of the 2007 Golden Carrot Award for exceptional school lunch programs, the Betty Shabazz International Charter School in Chicago offers an entirely vegetarian menu. To provide necessary nutrients like iron and protein, school chefs create meals using tofu, beans, nuts and fortified cereals. Students can choose from meatless, low-fat meals like veggie burgers and dogs, burritos, veggie gumbo with tofu, jerk or curry tofu.
Pinellas County Schools, Florida. These schools offer their students a plethora of good, healthy choices for lunch. Menus include a variety of foods -- low-fat vegetarian entrees, an egg- and dairy-free salad and veggie burgers -- to keep students interested. Fresh fruit, side salads and vegetable side dishes are on the menu every day. In lieu of milk, students may choose fruit juice. Also available are bottled water and soymilk.
Kenton County Schools, Kentucky. This school system is notable not just for its cafeteria menu, but for setting a good example for other schools. Kenton's food service director started small, removing fried potato chips and sugary fruit drinks from the cafeteria. Phasing out vending machines on school grounds was risky, as these machines provide much-needed revenue to schools. Popular meals include healthy pizza with a 50 percent whole grain crust and low-fat cheese, baked chicken nuggets and sweet potato fries.
Berkeley Unified School District, California. This school district is home to the original "Edible Schoolyard," a concept created by famed restaurateur Alice Waters. Several schools planted one-acre gardens on school grounds. Teachers used the garden to teach students about local food, biology, nutrition and science. Students and teachers tended the gardens together during special classes. They learned about different vegetables and herbs by taste testing their harvest. The idea was that if the children were more invested in where their food came from, they'd be more willing to experiment and make healthier food choices.
Montgomery Public Schools, Maryland. This district encourages students to make the right choices by offering a wide variety of healthy foods. The school offers no less than four low-fat vegetable side dishes each day, as well as low-fat salad dressings and baby carrots. Students can choose from several healthy vegetarian options each day, like black bean burgers. The district also worked closely with the United Soybean Board to incorporate these vegetable-based protein items into their menu.
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C. Although it's been around since 1883, this private school entered the public consciousness in November 2008, with the election of President Barack Obama. When the Obamas announced their two daughters would attend Sidwell Friends, the world got a look inside the school.
The cafeteria emphasizes local vendors, as well as organic and fair-trade ingredients. It strives for a seasonable approach to meal planning to ensure the freshest ingredients are always available. Food waste becomes compost, which is then used to fertilize school gardens.
Ross School, New York. A private school located in the Hamptons, New York, Ross works with a dietician to make sure its students have healthy choices. Students in every grade take nutrition classes, as well as learn about food history. Students eat from plates and use metal (not plastic) flatware, bus their own tables and sort their own recycling. The menu revolves around seasonal, local and organic ingredients.
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June 18,2014
Hypocrisy on Scouting
A letter to Councilor Guerlain:
As a longtime Scouter, I am very disappointed that you feel the need to use a local group of young people to advance your personal agenda. The local troop of Scouts are simply trying to be Scouts. At no point does the national membership policy cross the minds of those youth. Why would you force the issue on them?
You are quoted as saying, It was the best thing that ever happened to me as a kid, far and away. Even though gay members werent allowed when you were a Scout (gay youth are currently allowed), did that have any effect on your experience as a Scout? Did it even cross your mind? Why would it? Its not part of the program. If Scouting was so meaningful to you back then, why would you make such an effort to deny it to current Scouts? You sound very hypocritical. By issuing the permit to sell water, the city would not be endorsing any group. You would be doing your job of regulating taxes. The free market will decide whether Montpelier wants to support Scouting. Its not your job.
The only time a persons sexual orientation is an issue is when they make it an issue. For Scouts, its not discussed. Its not part of the program. Period. The standing policy is that discussions about sexuality are best done within the Scouts family. Why would you think it best done in a public forum, if not to further your personal agenda?
Despite the efforts to hurt our youth, last year Scouting in Vermont still provided over 50,000 hours of service, produced almost 100 Eagle Scouts, and kept almost 5,000 youth off the streets and taught them to be productive instead of destructive. Scouts are far more likely to graduate high school. Scouts are far more likely to register to vote. Scouts are far more likely to join civic and charitable organizations. I would think the Montpelier City Council would want to promote that kind of thing, not kill it.
The city boards job isnt to teach anyone a lesson, which is exactly what you are proposing. Kids just want to have fun. Thats why they are Scouts. Not to push some agenda, unlike some adults.
This group of Scouts has nothing to do with the national policy. Your proposing to punish a local group of boys based on a national Scouting policy will hurt no one but these boys. Not a dime of their fundraising will go to the national office. Oh, and one other thing: The national Scout office is in Texas, not Washington. You need to actually get your facts straight before you start condemning.
Jon Hosford
Tolerating all ideas
Hypocritical Norwich professor Rowland Brucken gives lip service to the marketplace of ideas but would deny that marketplace an opportunity to consider the ideas of Condoleezza Rice straight from the horses mouth. He would have us consider her ideas through his filter and whatever filters he deems appropriate.
Absurdly, in his public spanking of his employer, Brucken lets on that he is troubled by the administration of Norwich University citing Thomas Jeffersons classic words long incorporated into its stirring mission statement in support of Rices right to speak ponder these beautiful words for a moment tolerate all ideas when reason is free to combat them. In a word, perfection. Those words remain the perfect response to those who would impose their own filters on free men and women because they trust We the people to weigh ideas with their consequences and judge rightly. A free marketplace of ideas, by definition, gives place for all ideas to live or die based on merit because there is no better disinfectant than the bright light of day.
Clearly it is Brucken who either does not comprehend or simply rejects the very simple concept of a free marketplace of ideas. If I had a student in his classroom and any part of his lectures dwell on the free marketplace of ideas or any other pillar of liberty I would run not walk to get my money back.
Last, but not least, I remain grateful to Norwich University for supplying top shelf speakers on a wide variety of important issues at a price I can afford free.
Mary Richter
Grateful for the efforts
The Daniels family would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of our family, friends, neighbors and the amazing fire departments who all gave all they could during and after the fire on June 10 at our childrens home in Northfield Falls. We may have lost much, but because of Mary, CJ and Judy, we came home to our children alive, safe and much loved by all.
And to all of the fire and emergency personnel, we are blessed to live in a place where so many people who we will never even know or meet give and volunteer their time to help their communities. We are not able to name every name in this letter, but we do carry each of you in our hearts with thankfulness.
There is no greater gift than love, and we have seen such an abundance we are overwhelmed and humbled.
There are not enough thank yous in the world for all of you. We are forever grateful.
Marty, Kim, Maggie, Troy, Ben, Karla and Alex Daniels
Nightmare of our making
When will America wake up from the nightmare it created in the Middle East? When will America wake up to the fact that the countless wars on terror only create more terrorism? And when will America wake up to realize that the sunrise doesnt shine down on the home of the free but creates shadows where the criminal nature of prisons that support torture have destroyed our credibility in the world?
I fear it is too late. Ice shelves are falling into the sea as corporate-supported think tanks spew ignorance that implies clean coal and taxpayer-supported oil are not at fault.
I fear it is too late. Our government is run by, gives reverence to, and unabashedly supports the wishes of the wealthy at the cost of a middle class getting by on the myth of democracy and Horatio Alger.
I fear it is too late. Those who oppose minimum wage are only too happy to have their pockets full while sneering at those who only want an even playing field.
I only want to hope that my fears are in vain. That the criminals behind our destruction of Iraq will be held accountable. That the truth of global warming will send the alarm that ends our species march to self-destruction. That our government will recognize its allegiance to the people and its social responsibility to follow through on such an allegiance.
I only hope.
William Gay
Time to act
Re: the June 15 online article Obama says climate change deniers ignoring science: The presidents speech called out politicians who disingenuously say, Im not a scientist, refusing to act on climate change when the National Academy of Sciences, Congress official scientific advisory body, clearly says climate change is man-made and we urgently need to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Theres no higher scientific authority than the NAS.
The president also called on grads to fight climate change. Theres a way we can all fight climate change. It requires only a very small amount of time and effort, will cost us nothing and save us trillions. Just contact Congress and tell our representatives we want a revenue-neutral carbon tax: a tax thats paid by fossil fuels to taxpayers. No government regulations and revenue-neutral.
This plan is endorsed by eight Nobel economists, and a new REMI report shows it will create millions of jobs while cutting carbon dioxide emissions more than the EPA regulations. This tax will also be placed on imports from carbon polluters. Theyll need to go green fast to compete. The higher their emissions, the higher the tax. That tax money goes directly to us so we can afford to buy U.S. products instead.
The new EPA regulations will not cut emissions enough or in time to prevent the catastrophic climate change the IPCC reports warn of, and they ignore methane emissions from fracking, which make natural gas bad as coal.
Climate change disasters have already cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion (NOAA), and the International Energy Agency estimates just two more years of failing to make major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will cost $4 trillion.
The Citizens Climate Lobby website has more on the revenue-neutral carbon tax. Make Congress feel the heat if you want action.
Lynn Goldgarb
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A super-automatic machine controls all aspects of making espresso: grinding, tamping, pulling a shot, and steaming milk. They are very convenient, but typically the quality of the espresso and final beverage is not as good as that from a semi-automatic machine.
The first thing to consider when purchasing an espresso machine is boiler type. Steaming milk requires a higher temperature than pulling an espresso shot, so some boilers allow you to do both at the same time while others require a waiting period when switching between the two modes.
Double boiler espresso machines have one boiler each for steam and espresso. You can steam and pull shots simultaneously. Additionally, the steam boiler has a dedicated power switch, which gives the user the option to provide power only to the group head boiler if milk steaming won't be necessary. Double boilers typically control the temperature digitally for the most consistent temperature. If you want the best, consider a double boiler.
Heat exchange machines have a single boiler that is always set to steam temperature. A metal tube runs through the boiler, which flash heats the water at around 200 degrees to the grouphead. This clever design delivers fresh water from the pump to the grouphead, and mimics the capabilities of a double boiler machine.
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Single boiler espresso machines have one boiler for steam production and espresso brewing. These machines have 2 thermostats to separately control the steam and brew temperature.
While you aren't able to steam milk and brew coffee simultaneously, it's quite simple to get the rhythm of heating to steam mode, frothing your milk, cooling the machine down, preparing your espresso and then pouring your latte or cappuccino.
A PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) controller closely monitors and electronically regulates the water temperature at the brew group. A PID sends short bursts of power to your boiler, keeping the temperature within a very narrow range. With a machine like the Izzo Duetto, you can control the temperature to within 1 degree of accuracy. Heat exchangers cannot be used with a PID, and instead rely on a mechanical pressurestat to regulate temperature. Single boilers can have PID control, and are an upgrade option on machines like the Quick Mill Alexia.
PIDs are not required for a good espresso shot, but they do allow you to precisely dial in your brew temperature. This is especially important for single origin espressos and straight shot enthusiasts.
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Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several distant galaxies. One of these galaxies, among the most distant ever seen, appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the young universe.
This came as a surprise to astronomers, as the earliest galaxies in the universe are commonly thought to have been much smaller associations of stars that gradually merged to build large galaxies like our Milky Way.
"This galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, appears to have bulked up quickly, within the first few hundred million years after the big bang. It made about eight times more mass in stars than are found in our own Milky Way, and then, just as suddenly, it stopped forming new stars," said Bahram Mobasher of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore and the European Space Agency, Paris.
The galaxy was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small patch of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The galaxy is believed to be about as far away as the most distant known galaxies. It represents an era when the universe was only 800 million years old. That is about five percent of the universe's age of 14 billion years.
Scientists studying the UDF found this galaxy in Hubble's infrared images. They expected it to be young and small, like other known galaxies at similar distances. Instead, they found evidence the galaxy is remarkably mature and much more massive, and its stars appear to have been in place for a long time.
Hubble's optical-light UDF image is the deepest image ever taken, yet this galaxy was not evident. This indicates much of the galaxy's optical light has been absorbed by traveling billions of light-years through intervening hydrogen gas. The galaxy was detected using Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. It was also detected by an infrared camera on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory. At those longer infrared wavelengths, it is very faint and red.
The big surprise is how much brighter the galaxy is in even longer- wavelength infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer is sensitive to the light from older, redder stars, which should make up most of the mass in a galaxy. The infrared brightness of the galaxy suggests it is massive. "This would be quite a big galaxy even today," said Mark Dickinson of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Ariz. "At a time when the universe was only 800 million years old, it's positively gigantic," he added.
Spitzer observations were also independently reported by Laurence Eyles from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and Haojing Yan of the Spitzer Science Center, Pasadena, Calif. They also revealed evidence for mature stars in more ordinary, less massive galaxies at similar distances, when the universe was less than one billion years old.
The new observations reported by Mobasher extend this notion of surprisingly mature "baby galaxies" to an object which is perhaps 10 times more massive, and which seemed to form its stars even earlier in the history of the universe.
Mobasher's team estimated the distance to this galaxy by combining information provided by the Hubble, Spitzer, and VLT observations. The relative brightness of the galaxy at different wavelengths is influenced by the expanding universe and allows astronomers to estimate its distance. They can also get an idea of the make-up of the galaxy in terms of the mass and age of its stars. It will take the next generation of telescopes, such as the infrared James Webb Space Telescope, to confirm the galaxy's distance.
While astronomers generally believe most galaxies were built piecewise by mergers of smaller galaxies, the discovery of this object suggests at least a few galaxies formed quickly long ago. For such a large galaxy, this would have been a tremendously explosive event of star birth. Mobasher's results will appear in the Astrophysical Journal on Dec. 20.
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ALBANY, NY — At his state of the state address on January 8, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was expected to announce a change in policy that would allow for the limited use of medical marijuana.
This marks a turnabout for Cuomo, who said as recently as last April that he was opposed to the idea. He said at the time, "I do not support medical marijuana. I understand the pros and cons. I understand the argument." But he added that his opinion was "evolving."
The move marks New York as the 21st state to allow the use of medical marijuana, and two states, Colorado and Washington, also allow or will allow recreational use. In December 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the growing, distribution and sale of the plant.
In New York, the assembly has passed a medical marijuana bill in the past, but it was blocked in the senate. Cuomo plans to bypass the legislature by using a provision as a health law that will grant about 20 hospitals the authority to prescribe the drug. In states where it is legal, marijuana is typically prescribed to alleviate the side-effects from chemotherapy, to treat chronic pain, glaucoma and other conditions.
According to a statement on the website of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), which was briefed on Cuomo's plan, "Details of the program will be determined through regulations, which will be established by the Department of Health with input by experts. The move by Governor Cuomo is likely to have a constructive, transformative impact on the medical marijuana debate in Albany and across the country."
gabriel sayegh, who spells his name without capital letters and who is New York State Director of DPA, praised Cuomo for taking the action, but said the senate should also move forward with legalization. sayegh said, "The assembly has on four occasions passed the Compassionate Care Act, but the senate has failed to take action or even hold a hearing on the issue. The logjam in the Republican-controlled state senate has made New York the only state in the Northeast without a medical marijuana program—so New Yorkers continue to suffer while residents in neighboring states can gain much-needed relief. That's not acceptable."
A majority of New Yorkers seem to agree. A Sienna College poll conducted in the state last year showed that 82% are in favor of allowing seriously and terminally ill people to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if recommended by their doctor.
In 2012, a previous poll found that just 57% of voters supported the legalization of medical marijuana, which indicates that the acceptance of marijuana has been growing in the state.
State Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat, introduced a medical marijuana bill in the Senate on December 11, 2013. She said, "The illegal marijuana economy is alive and well, and our unjust laws are branding nonviolent New Yorkers, especially young adults, as criminals, creating a vicious cycle that ruins lives and needlessly wastes taxpayer dollars. Worst of all, this system has resulted in a civil rights disaster: African Americans are dramatically more likely to be arrested for pot possession than whites, despite similar rates of marijuana use among both groups."


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I belive as long at the leader of the group lives up to what he is asking for u cant really blame anyone. Just accept that the run wasnt meant for u.
It doesnt matter how many cases of high geared but low skilled players people list in this thread, it is still a fact that higher ilvl people ON AVERAGE (=NOT ALWAYS) will do better, either because their gear or the experienced gained with the gear.
If you are making a group you have the right to require others to be close to or at your ilvl, because you are not expected to boost anyone and when looking for group, you are not entitled to a boost by higher ilvl people.
An example: You need one random (class/melee/ranged doesn't matter) dps for your flex group, you get 2 whispers, one from 520ilvl dps and one from 540ilvl dps, or if you are using OQ, these two join your waitlist at the same time.
Every single QQer in this thread would take the 540ilvl one.
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After being in 4 fail pugs that couldnt' down spoils of pandaria yesterday, I'm about to make a group that's 540+ with achievements lol. Seriously, if one person doesn't know a fight, it can kill it for the rest, but when half the group doesn't know a fight, you're in for a lot of wasted hours and a big repair bill.
That's pretty much the standard for my pugs. I'd prefer people know what they're doing rather than run around like idiots.
Don't like it? Make ur own group and you can choose Ilvl.
I never understood people who complain about certain requirements but are too lazy to make their own groups.
540 ilvl... that's the flex ilvl.... 14/14 normal SoO exp though? that's beyond retarded imo, the last Flex wing isn't even out yet!
I get people want easy flex runs, without any possibility of retards and all, but I can only pray they have an immense amount of patience because chances are, nobody with Conqueror/Liberator of Orgimmar would want to do flex unless they're on their alts (which probably won't have the required ilvl) or they're missing out on Flex-BIS items or tier pieces.
All the more reason to stick to at least half a guild flex run
I dont get why people complain about it, yes its sometimes some absurd demands raid leaders ask for. But thats their problem, and if they get a full run with 540+ilvl and 14/14 cleared peepz, gg.
However, when I make a pug, I usualy ask for about the same ilvl as I am, and the same experience as I got. That way we'll clear the fights we know fast and get time to work on some new, win win situation if you ask me.
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Because what I ment was as simple as - its his choice to have those demands, either he hopes to get carried, or he wants a nice and fast clear for an alt(Or main that miss a trinket or some item he realy wants but never drops).
It's his raid and his rules. People shouldnt realy care about it, make your own with your own rules if you dont like the pugs that allready are made.
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Because what I ment was as simple as - its his choice to have those demands, either he hopes to get carried, or he wants a nice and fast clear for an alt(Or main that miss a trinket or some item he realy wants but never drops).
It's his raid and his rules. People shouldnt realy care about it, make your own with your own rules if you dont like the pugs that allready are made.
Hook 'till you're hooked!
When i make a own Flex-Group i first look for healers and tanks while leaving the DPS-Spots open only for Ilvl 540+... until the group has enough Heal/Tanks most of the time a few 540 DDs showed up, then i just fill the remaining slots with 520+ DDs.
Well, some people really REALLY want it to go as smoothly as possible. I do believe thats a little elitist to expect full clears for 3 wings of flex modes though. Its definatelly acceptable to ask for a 530+ ilvl requirement for sure though.
funny thing:
atm there are 3 groups in /2 looking for flex members on my server:
group 1: 520il, at least guide xp
group 2: 525il, flex/nhc xp
group 3: 545il, nhc xp
for the last 15 minutes people were going on about how rediculous these requierements were (3 group). I'm still trying to figure out why people would rage this much, when obviously there are other possibilities (joined the 2nd group on my toon fyi). Funny thing, not only low il and xp people where complaining, even hc raider. 2/3 raids have average requierements, why force the 3. to lower its as well? most people complaining werent even looking for flex.
"people like the raidlead are those who are destroying wow" (read this more than once the last couple of minutes). So they are destroying it by not offering a 3. average raid but rather one with higher demands, interesting.


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Lake Meredith National Recreation Area north of Amarillo isn't just a place to fish, swim, hike and camp, officials said. With the Texas-style musical "Lone Star Rising," visitors can experience a piece of Western history.
"Lone Star Rising," which is held at the Fritch Fortress amphitheater, runs Wednesday through Sunday nights beginning at 8:15 (CDT) with a chuckwagon barbecue before each performance beginning at 6 p.m. (CDT).
Neil Hess, known for his work in developing the show "Texas," brought "Lone Star Rising" to the stage to entertain, enrich and educate visitors about the history, heritage and culture of the great state of Texas, according to a Center for Texas Culture press release.
"People are thrilled by the setting for Lone Star Rising," Hess said in the release. "Many consider the amphitheater at Lake Meredith one of the most beautiful outdoor theaters in the country."
Last summer for the shows second season visitors came from Chile, Germany, Russia, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Mexico, Canada and other foreign countries to watch a play that Center for Texas Culture Office, Manager Staci Phipps said is quality family entertainment.
"It's a beautiful setting right here by Lake Meredith, and it's affordable if you want to stay overnight," Phipps said. "Lone Star Rising really portrays the cowboy, Native American and Mexican culture of this area. There is lots of color, it's really upbeat with a lot of signing and dancing, and there is definitely a lot interesting history."
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This toolkit on how to start a Better Beginnings, Better Futures project, rests primarily on the qualitative research. From 1991 to 1998, the Better Beginnings research at each of the sites incorporated an ethnographic component, including participant observation, individual and group qualitative interviews, a review of program documents, and a multi-year immersion in th Better Beginnings project sites. Based on these methods, the site researchers gathered data to generate site and cross-site reports on topics such as resident participation, service integration, and local programming.
Each chapter of this toolkit describes the major components of the Better Beginnings program model and the critical elements of each that are necessary to consider when replicating this program model, starting from scratch.
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