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I wish the Modern Pro Tour were tomorrow so I could play this deck. Obviously the tournament is not tomorrow, and if it was tomorrow, presumably people would have prepared. But a man can dream of a situation in which everyone is unhappy but himself.
The tournament is not for a few months still, and I expect changes to the banned list and ridiculous new cards from Born of the Gods to shake things up, so I see no problem in doing my job this week and talking about the Magic that's been played. If there is secrecy I'll save it for the very end. Creating the best possible deck is way more important right now.
Ninja Bear Delver
If you've got questions you want to ask already, hold off for now. I'm going to do my best in this article to explain everything—my thoughts on the deck and every single major Modern matchup.
Gonna be a good one for those of you looking for an edge in the format!
4xGitaxian Probe
4xSerum Visions
4xVapor Snag
4xDelver of Secrets
4xPhantasmal Bear
4xSnapcaster Mage
4xCryptic Command
4xNinja of the Deep Hours
4xDisrupting Shoals
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Trav, all 4-ofs? Isn't card diversity useful in a deck like this? You haven't changed a single card in the main since your initial sketch! Did you nail it perfect or are you resistant to change?
Good questions. I've got to pull a personal story out of the bag to answer this one.
I like round numbers. Like, I REALLY like round numbers. When I was growing up I always thought 6 foot 0 inches would be a good height. It's tall, but not too tall. It's definitely a sufficient height for the things I want to do in life. Most importantly, it's a round number.
Now, I've always been told that "height is genetic." Sure. But growing up, I still did things that I thought would contribute to getting me to 6'0". Basically, I tried to eat a lot of food and run around a lot. Did it work? Maybe not, but it happened anyway, and it took a while. It wasn't until after I was 20 that I was finally measured by a doctor at 6 foot even.
Funny thing is, people often peg me at 6'1 or 6'2 simply on account of standing at my full height all the time. And, with shoes, I guess I am at least 6'1. But 6'0… it's round!
Similarly, 160 lbs seems like a good weight to weigh for a 6'0 man. It's definitely a lean weight, but it allows for some strength and is not an unusual build for professional athletes.
Again, I'm told there is a genetic component to weight, and I believe that. But I will tell you that I work hard so that after I eat my last meal of the day and fuel up on water before sleep, if I step on the scale I will see 160.
So, 6'0, 160. Makes me feel good to have coherent measurements by the American scale I was brought up in, although admittedly I'm somewhat uncomfortable that 160 is not divisible by 6, so 180 would be the next best choice.
Now, I haven't told ANYONE this before, so why share this now? Well, this is my way of saying that we are all influenced by our own irrational neuroses. Preference.
I prefer 4-ofs in a deck like this. It makes sense to me in a fundamental way. Is it right? I feel it is. But, more than anything, seeing stacks of 19 lands, 21 one-drops, 6 two-drops, 1 three-drop, and 9 four-drops makes me physically ill.
Basically, if you build a version of this deck, feel free to experiment and tweak numbers around. You might improve your winning with the deck by doing so, but I don't think that I would.
The Case for Mono-Blue
The case for mono-blue starts with Gitaxian Probe
[draft]Gitaxian Probe[/draft]
This is an extremely powerful Magic card that sees plays in a variety of decks. It's a zero-mana draw spell! It lets you play more cards to flip Delver of Secrets while giving Snapcaster more flexibility! It plays well with Pyromancer Ascension and Past in Flames.
Sure. But there are decks that play Gitaxian Probe JUST to look at the opponent's hand, and this is the most powerful effect of them all.
Looking at the opponent's hand is incredibly powerful and underrated. If you start the game with perfect knowledge it becomes easy to craft a game plan around tangible information. "Judgement calls" don't happen, because you just know.
In this deck, Gitaxian Probe gives you information on what threats to commit to the board and when, which spell to save Gitaxian Probe for, when to hold up countermagic, and more. It does all of this for ZERO MANA. The card is the glue that holds everything together.
But the card has a cost. Life! When we play with Gitaxian Probe, we expect to free-cast it between 1-2 times a game. We can't afford to spend mana on the card most of the time. With the card in our deck we can expect to start the game with virtually 17 life.
[draft]Steam Vents
Scalding Tarn[/draft]
If we are going to splash another color, we are going to have to do it through the fetch/shock combo. That's the only way to do it with 0 comes-into-play-tapped lands. Assuming we are going to play just the minimum 8 fetches and 1 shock, we can expect to fetch twice and shock once every single game unless we slow down.
With Probes AND one additional color, we're looking at a starting life total of like 13.
13 life.
That is NOT much life when most of the decks play these cards:
[draft]Deathrite Shaman
Snapcaster Mage
Lightning Bolt[/draft]
A lot of decks in Modern are very good at switching gears and attacking the life total—starting the game with 13 life just makes you low hanging fruit. I don't think it's worth it.
BUT, imagine you want to try it out, just to play with Lightning Bolt yourself. After all, the card is so powerful, it must be better than Vapor Snag, right?
[draft]Vapor Snag
Lightning Bolt[/draft]
Lightning Bolt is that ultimate gear-shifting removal spell/go-to-the-face-type card that works well in aggressive blue decks. It can kill pesky small creatures like Deathrite Shaman and Grim Lavamancer that Vapor Snag couldn't, and can team up with Snapcaster Mage to take a third of the opponent's starting life out of nowhere. The card is strong.
Vapor Snag is also a card though. Sure, Snag, can't kill the small creatures, but it can remove creatures Lightning Bolt never could, like Tarmogoyf and Wurmcoil Engine, all while dealing a point of damage. Now, a point of damage might not seem like a lot, but it is 5% of a starting 20—not negligible.
Vapor Snag is also a very flexible card in allowing us to pick up our own creature—perhaps a Snapcaster Mage to re-buy a Cryptic Command?
Finally, Vapor Snag is useful with Disrupting Shoal.
Playing with the deck for two weeks now, it is not obvious to me that Lightning Bolt is better than Vapor Snag heads-up, and when you factor in the cost of a fetch/shock mana base, I think the case for mono-blue is clear.
Now you could try it out. You'd probably want to cut Disrupting Shoal. You'd probably want to switch Phantasmal Bear for Goblin Guide. You might want to switch in Young Pyromancer. You might end up just cutting everything for burn and either play a burn deck or a counter-burn deck.
You could do that if you wanted. Go ahead. I'm gonna stick with mono-blue myself.
Ninja Bear Delver Turn One Sequencing
Before we get into specific matches I wanted to cover turn 1 sequencing a bit, as there has been some contention over how to play Gitaxian Probe, Serum Visions, Phantasmal Bear, and Delver of Secrets.
[draft]Gitaxian Probe
Serum Visions
Phantasmal Bear
Delver of Secrets[/draft]
Gitaxian Probe should always lead the way for 2 life, whenever there is a decision on how to spend our first mana. It guides the plan, and even if we don't have a 1-drop in hand we have a 1/3rd chance of drawing one and wasting a mana on turn 1 is pretty bad. If we know our first play already, we can wait to see 1 more card from the opponent's hand.
Then we have the case of whether to lead with Phantasmal Bear or Delver of Secrets. I will generally lead with Bear. Bear attacks through Deathrite Shaman. If we have neither Ninja of the Deep Hours nor Serum Visions, leading with Delver becomes better.
We also have hands like this:
[draft]Serum Visions
Delver of Secrets
Phantasmal Bear
Ninja of the Deep Hours
Snapcaster Mage
Cryptic Command
I know a lot of people want to lead with a creature here and rip a land to hit with Ninja turn 2. I, on the other hand, will always Serum Visions here. This deck really likes to hit its land drops, and Serum visions is good at setting that up—but only a turn in advance.
By making this play we can never be rewarded with a turn 2 Ninja, but we also minimize chances of stumbling on land and falling further behind.
Ninja Bear Delver Matchups
I like all my matchups. Every single one. Now, I'm not saying that every matchup is "good," but I have a coherent and executable plan in every matchup. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't, but just having it gives me confidence.
These matchup plans are likely to change somewhat—I might tweak more, or maybe bannings will shake everything up. Until then, feel free to absorb what you can from this and copy these plans, and I think you will get a major edge in competitive Modern.
Before we get started, here is the full deck and sideboard. Instead of going through and explaining the sideboard I am going to go through the matchups, which will make everything about the sideboard clear.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. Melira Pod
Melira Pod is the most common tier 1 deck I'm paired against online. It's a must-beat if you want to take down Grand Prix.
The deck will win from almost any situation with an unanswered Birthing Pod. Even without Birthing Pod, the deck has a powerful ground game that can stall the game out or grind through for a win.
[draft]Birthing Pod[/draft]
The main thing about the matchup is not letting Birthing Pod resolve. This means saving Disrupting Shoal if you see a Birds of Paradise or Temple Garden. Some games they will stick one turn 2 and the game just ends, sometimes we can get them with Disrupting Shoal and we have a huge advantage.
If we can keep Birthing Pod off the table we are in good shape, but they still might be able to gum the ground up with cards like Kitchen Finks. If our ground assault is halted, we'll want to set up for a Cryptic Command tap draw, Snapcaster Cryptic Command tap draw end game. If we have time to hard-cast Ninja of the Deep Hours before doing this it's worth it, as it provides us a lot of extra cards to keep chaining off.
Viscera Seer can be annoying against Cryptic Command because it can be used to untap persist creatures like Kitchen Finks and Murderous Redcap, so keeping Viscera Seer off the table in a late game is also a high priority. Similarly, Deathrite Shaman can nerf our Snapcaster Mage, which is something we can beat but must be aware of.
Hibernation is an absurd card against them. Birds of Paradise, Deathrite Shaman, Voice of Resurgence, Melira, Sylvok Outcast, Wall of Roots, Kitchen Finks, and even Birthing Pod all get scooped up for just 3 mana. This is backbreaking in a lot of games in a way that Vapor Snag couldn't be.
This really complements our plan of chaining Time Walk type effects. We now have 4 Hibernation, 4 Cryptic Command, and 4 Snapcaster Mage, all supplemented by a ton of draw.
The main card Hibernation is pretty ineffective against is Murderous Redcap. Murderous Recap is capable of trading with FOUR of our creatures, so countering it is a high priority. If it resolves, we can still go into Cryptic Command.
[draft]Murderous Redcap[/draft]
A card that I have never seen a Melira player board in against me is Lingering Souls, and I am surprised by this. I suspect this will change as our deck gains popularity, and after seeing a single Lingering Souls I will probably adjust by bringing in Echoing Truth.
Lingering Souls is great against Hibernation and is a virtual 2-for-1 against us. It's also pretty decent against the Cryptic Command plan as it can provide blockers in the second main phase.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. Affinity
My matchup against Affinity has been stellar, which surprised me at first. In theory their deck is so fast that they can just run us over a lot of the time. The reality is different.
Affinity tends to lean on Steel Overseer and Cranial Plating against us, and if we catch their only one with a Shoal they might have zero pressure and they never really get going.
Arcbound Ravager is not particularly exciting against us as our removal spell of choice is Vapor Snag, which is great against everything they're doing.
The Affinity deck is also pretty bad at blocking in the early game, which means it is easy for Ninja of the Deep Hours to connect. Once it does, Affinity can't interact very well with Cryptic Command tapping their team and Snapcaster Mage flashing it back with Ninja of the Deep Hours fueling everything.
Similar to Hibernation against Pod, we have Hurkyl's Recall against Affinity. Affinity can usually rebuild over the course of 1-2 turns, but getting 1-2 turns for 1 card is ridiculous. We also have Snapcaster Mage to flash it back.
I've also been bringing in a couple Vedalken Shackles, as Remand isn't very good. Vedalken Shackles is free wins if the opponent's draw is slow at all, but I think it's clunky enough that I don't want to board in the full set.
Affinity doesn't really have much to board in against us—or anyone. It's definitely possible to lose, but the matchup is surprisingly breezy.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. Splinter Twin
It's a struggle for Splinter Twin to actually ever get a combo kill, as Vapor Snag, Remand, Cryptic Command, and Disrupting Shoal with plenty of 4s means we have a lot of mana inefficient disruption.
It's not impossible for them to win by dealing 20 though, and a lot of that has to do with Grim Lavamancer.
[draft]Grim Lavamancer[/draft]
That card must be countered, or it's just about impossible to win. If it sneaks through, we have Vapor Snag, Cryptic Command, and Disrupting Shoal to deal with it, but that gives the opponent so much time that Snapcaster Mages and Pestermites can get busy.
Speaking of Pestermite, the tap creatures can make short work of Phantasmal Bears, so our offense can be a bit stunted at times.
In general, their deck is clunky and full of 3s and 4s, while ours is full of 1s and 2s.
After sideboarding we can make things harder for them while dodging the things that are supposed to make it harder for us.
We can cut the Bear and Ninja, which have a hard time connecting, and are weak to their deck naturally for Vedalken Shackles, Vendilion Clique, and Wurmcoil Engine.
Vedalken Shackles is the breaker in any kind of blue mirror. Every blue deck wants to win by attacking, and Vedalken Shackles says no to that plan. Splinter Twin has a hard time countering or removing one, and if it sticks, even a Grim Lavamancer is pretty irrelevant.
As the game goes longer we can expect to grind them down to the point that a topdecked Wurmcoil is the finishing blow, or perhaps our fliers connect enough to win.
I have lost individual games but not a match against Splinter Twin.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. GR Tron
GR Tron is a pretty interesting matchup.
Their deck is full of big clunky spells that are weak to Remand and Cryptic Command. Even a resolved Wurmcoil Engine might just get Vapor Snagged and a Karn isn't game winning here.
However, they have a cheap sweeper in Pyroclasm and a hard-to-counter sweeper in Oblivion Stone.
Since the main tension of the match plays around these sweepers, Gitaxian Probe becomes our best card as it gives us the information of when to hold back and when to dump everything. Disrupting Shoal is also important as it gives us protection to add additional threats to the board.
I have been liking Vendilion Clique against Tron for a couple reasons. The first is actually just as a flash 3-power creature, it is a natural strong end of turn against a resolved Pyroclasm.
The card also gives vision of the hand, and if that hand has only one piece of action, Vendilion Clique can be a wrecking.
To add the Cliques, I've been going down on Snags and a Snapcaster. Snag is an all-star against Wurmcoil, but not every game is a Wurmcoil game. Snapcaster Mage is a great card, but since they play 4 Relic of Progenitus there are times when it's not very useful.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. Jund (and Junk)
I actually like my Jund matchup. It's definitely not a cakewalk like some of the other matchups, but we have some natural advantages against them too.
They can steal some free wins off of a Deathrite Shaman into a Liliana of the Veil on the play. Similarly, we might lead off with Phantasmal Bear into their Raging Ravine. Almost everything they play loses life, loses tempo, or both, so if we get an early lead we can often hold it until a victory.
Their most powerful card against us in the main is Tarmogoyf, or Kitchen Finks if they play that. Without a beefy ground blocker to stabilize the board they can be in trouble. Tarmogoyf must be bounced, countered, tapped, or worst-case scenario, attacked through. It can be tough to muster the resources to pull this off with everything else going on.
Vedalken Shackles will beat Jund if they don't kill it. They usually rock a couple Abrupt Decay and/or Maelstrom Pulse as well as Ancient Grudge from the board (which I have never seen). Hopefully they are going to use their removal spells on our early creatures and we have one leftover Vedalken Shackles to take the game over.
We can expect a lot of these games to go long, which favors us in several ways. In a long game they do have access to beefy manlands and Deathrite drains, but they are also topdecking discard spells while we have Vedalken Shackles and Wurmcoil to rip into. Our deck is mostly draw and bombs.
I have been sideboarding out a mix of Vapor Snag, Remand, and Disrupting Shoal. On the surface Disrupting Shoal looks like an easy cut, but the hardcast mode of the card is affordable in this matchup.
The Junk deck plays out pretty similarly, with the main difference being the inclusion of Lingering Souls. Lingering Souls can be really annoying, as it can trade with several of our creatures.
[draft]Lingering Souls[/draft]
If I see white with black I will always expect Lingering Souls, and I will adjust my sideboarding slightly. I will never board out Remand against Lingering Souls, as Remand is excellent against the Lingering Souls flashback. I will also board in Echoing Truth every time as it is a huge tempo play against Lingering Souls that can be played a second time with Snapcaster.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. UWR
Is it just me or is the current incarnation of UWR just a bad deck?
On the surface it looks like UWR lines up very well against us, but I still haven't lost a match, and I'm not certain I haven't lost a game either.
They have so much removal in Lightning Bolt, Path to Exile, Lightning Helix, and Electrolyze.
How can we ever stick a threat? It's unclear but it happens. And a lot of it has to do with UWR's complete inability to actually kill the opponent. The deck usually plays 4 Snapcaster Mage, 4 Celestial Colonnade, and maybe 1 spice card.
Dealing 20 with a deck configuration like that is incredibly difficult, so games will go long. In long games, every single creature MUST be killed, which presumably UWR should be able to do.
Except they play a combination of Path to Exile and Mana Leak. Path ramps us to pay for Mana Leak in long games. We have extra mana to win counter wars.
Where they have Mana Leak, we have Remand, which is one of the most powerful cards in a counter war as it can rescue our own spell back to our hand, creating a clean 2-for-1 against even Cryptic Command.
Eventually these small plays add up and the UWR player slowly succumbs—but usually in a landslide. It usually starts with a Ninja hit, and it's a gradual drag to 20 from there. At least that's been my experience.
Again, Vedalken Shackles is so hard for them to beat. Their burn is occupied by our creatures, so how do they expect to ever actually kill us? In my experience, it just hasn't happened, but who knows. Maybe those guys will get it together, and figure out a new plan. Maybe they'll board in Stony Silence or something. I don't know.
I've chosen to board out Vapor Snag and Phantasmal Bear. Vapor Snag is a flexible card that can pick up our own creature or bounce their Celestial Colonnade, but Vedalken Shackles is that card plus more.
Vendilion Clique and Wurmcoil also offer us some additional raw power that Phantasmal Bear doesn't, and tempo isn't as important in this matchup.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. Living End
Living End placed two in the Top 8 of the last Grand Prix, so it's something to be aware of. On the surface it looks like we just beat them, as we can put pressure into play on the first turn and keep up countermagic for the rest of the game until they lose.
That's almost true, but Living End is a bit crafty.
Now, if we are on the play we can sneak in a Ninja of the Deep Hours before they get 3 mana up, but if we don't, we might be trying to ride 1 Phantasmal Bear all the way to 20. Demonic Dread becomes a problem. Hardcast Deadshot Minotaur becomes a problem. Hardcast Pale Recluse becomes a problem.
Living End also has some opportunities to slip a Living End in. They can end of turn Violent Outburst or Beast Within and untap into another which has the potential to overload our mana. If we are light on pressure they can suspend Living End and wait for it to come off. These are things to be aware of.
Vapor Snag is not very good but Vendilion Clique is the only strong card we have coming in. Hibernation is interesting, but Vapor Snag does damage so I like it.
[draft]Ricochet Trap[/draft]
The main card to be aware of is Ricochet Trap. There isn't necessarily that much we can do about it, but Gitaxian Probe might at least tell us it's coming.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. Pyromancer Storm
The Pyromancer Storm matchup is pretty straightforward, but I figured it would be worth discussing to bring up Spell Snare.
I used to have Spell Snare in the board and bring it in here, but I ended up cutting the card. That card has the unfortunate combination of being both inflexible and situational. It's just not a good card in Modern. Best case scenario you gain 1 mana from an interaction. Worst case scenario it rots in your hand forever (common).
Now, Spell Snare is awesome in this matchup as they actually can't win without resolving a 2-drop, but whatever. The matchup is pretty good anyways.
Here we swap out Snags for Vendilion Clique and Echoing Truth. Echoing Truth is a nice effect for making them pick up their Goblin Electromancer or Pyromancer Ascension as well as being a nice out for if they boarded into the Empty the Warrens plan.
Ninja Bear Delver vs. the World
There you have it. That covers just about every major matchup you would expect to see in a major tournament. For everything else, hopefully you can use this information as a base to figure it out. The tools are in the main and the sideboard.
I think the deck is a great choice for winning at Modern right now. I like my 75. I have invested two solid weeks of work into this deck now, and feel like the list is just about perfect until the shakeup. If you believe me, I bet you will get the wins you want, and if you don't go ahead and tweak. I encourage you.
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Youngsters shoot for the stars in rocket-design competition
Standing in front of the big blue box on the table, seventh-grader Adam Keller flicked the toggle switch to arm the device and then gazed around at the grass field in front of him.
"Range is clear," he said. Glancing at the overcast sky, he intoned, "Sky is clear."
Then, with excitement building, he and three classmates counted down, "Five, four, three, two, one," and he pressed the bright red button.
With an explosion of white light and a burst of gray smoke, the slender 2-foot-tall rocket shot off the launchpad rail and into the air Sunday morning, propelled more than 800 feet high as friends and parents watched.
Its acceleration complete, it topped out and began to fall back to earth, only to be slowed by a red parachute that quickly deployed and lowered the projectile gently to the ground, where Adam and his team ran out to a grassy median in the East Aurora Senior High School parking lot to retrieve it.
The youthful team of four, one of several on the field from nearby Immaculate Conception School, had just launched its first rocket test using a commercially available kit as part of their months-long preparation to compete in the national Team America Rocketry Challenge.
The competition is designed to encourage middle school and high school students across the country to learn more about engineering and math, in the hopes that more of them will consider them for future careers.
"There's been a big push in recent years to get kids interested in the science fields, to compete better globally," said Justin Mullen, the science and math teacher at Immaculate Conception. "Hopefully, this gets them more interested so that when they go to college, they choose those fields."
Sponsored jointly by the National Association of Rocketry and the Aerospace Industry Association, the competition for seventh- through 12th-graders calls for teams to design rockets that can be fired into the air and land safely, while carrying a payload of eggs. The engines are commercially made, but the rocket frames and other parts are designed and built by the students, with few specifications to meet.
"They design their own fins, they decide what shape the nose cone will be, how long the rocket will be. They learn how making small changes to the rockets can lead to big changes," Mullen said. "And with it all coming down to seconds, it matters."
Last year, the rockets had to fly 750 feet in 48 to 50 seconds, carrying one raw egg, in order to qualify. Teams are scored based on penalties for every foot or second they are off the mark, with the cutoff to qualify last year at 16.22 penalty points. This year's competition requires a height of 825 feet, with two raw eggs.
So far, Immaculate Conception is the only local school participating in the contest, and this is only the school's second year of doing so. Last year, the school's only team of five girls placed 105th out of 750 teams nationwide that had registered to compete, after coming in just over the 16.22-point mark. But that was still enough to qualify as an "alternate" team, so they were able to go to Washington, D.C.
This year, the five friends – 14-year-olds Grace Brach and Claire Zwack and 13-year-olds Aoife Scannell, Cassie Whittemore and Julia Wing – are back for another try, with hopes of moving up at least six places to be among the national competitors. Two of the girls graduated last year and now attend other schools, but they're still on the Immaculate Conception team.
Meanwhile, the school was able to form three more teams of four students each, with three of the five team members from last year volunteering to be "junior mentors" for the new teams.
"The fact that the girls last year, just a small group of seventh- and eighth-graders, came so close to competition in the nationals really says a lot about their determination," Mullen said. "They were successful enough to get more interest in the school."
Finally, the school and its local sponsor – East Aurora-based aerospace company Moog, which is also a national sponsor – are trying to reach out to other schools and organizations for participation, including the East Aurora high school and middle school, as well as the East Aurora Boys & Girls Club.
Indeed, Moog CEO John Scannell – whose daughter is team member Aoife and whose wife, Eileen O'Brien, is an Immaculate teacher and STEM education coordinator – introduced the competition to the school through his wife after learning about it at an industry conference. He said he would like to see enough local teams to have a Buffalo "fly-off" contest.
"Engineering is a wonderful career for boys and girls," Scannell said. "The nice thing about engineering as a career is it's portable. It's a completely transferable skill and gives you the ability to go into anything."
Sunday morning, the teams were gathered in a small area of the high school's athletic field, cordoned off by yellow caution tape, with three tables in the middle for "rocket flight preparation," "pre-flight inspection" and "launch control." The third table held the rectangular 14.67-volt lithium battery, hooked by a winding set of wires to the bright yellow, three-legged launch pad about fifty feet away.
One by one, the teams worked with Mullen, O'Brien and Moog executive Roger Lipke to prepare their rockets. All three of the new teams had successful test launches, using off-the-shelf rocket kits so they could get used to firing rockets before they design their own.
The competitive team from last year, meanwhile, worked to test and perfect its prototype design, since the rocket's flight time has been too short so far. The first launch of the 2.6-inch-diameter rocket went off course, angling too far and too low, and landing in the mud near Center Street. The second launch, almost straight up, was better.
"I'm very impressed so far," said Lipke, who volunteered to help the local teams as an adviser on the competition. "Even last year's team has learned a lot. They've come a long way."
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Pepperup Elixir was a potion. Its alcohol content was 46%. The label warned that dosages should not exceed "7/21 drops per potion."[1] The label for this potion was issued by the Potions Association.
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- Due to the similarities in their names, this elixir and the Pepperup Potion may be related.
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Jon Stewart on Monday cherry-picked thirteen seconds out of a 24 minute interview to accuse "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace of claiming, "We don't tell both sides of the story."
Unfortunately, that's not what Wallace said Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JON STEWART, HOST: The unedited version which is on the web had what I thought was the take away moment of the entire interview, where Chris Wallace, one of the more respected individuals at Fox, basically gives away the game.
STEWART: You believe that Fox News is exactly the ideological equivalent of NBC News.
CHRIS WALLACE: I think we're the counterweight.
STEWART: You believe that…
WALLACE: I think that they have a liberal agenda and I think we tell the other side of the story.
STEWART: The other side of the story. We don't, we don't tell both sides of the story. We tell one side. The other side, the one we perceive is never told, the conservative side.
Actually, that's not what Wallace said. Directly from the transcript:
WALLACE: I think that they have a liberal agenda and I think we tell the other side of the story.
Wallace didn't say, "We don't tell both sides of the story." He said, "We tell the other side of the story." That certainly doesn't preclude one from telling both sides.
The point Wallace was making was that outlets like NBC News only give the liberal viewpoint, and that Fox by comparison does tell the conservative side as well.
To suggest that Fox only offers conservative viewpoints or that this is what Wallace said is absurd.
After all, if that had been the case, the liberal Stewart wouldn't have been given almost one quarter of Sunday's program to express his liberal views, would he?
Stewart and his crew apparently didn't think about that.
They also ignored that that the other major guest Sunday besides Stewart was Obama's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. Would a member of the Obama administration be brought on Fox if the network doesn't tell both sides?
But it gets better, for Bill Burton, former Obama deputy press secretary, was part of the program's roundtable segment as was NPR's Mara Liasson.
Add it all up, and the "FNS" program Stewart was on actually had more liberal guests than conservatives, as only former Bush press secretary Dana Perino and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol represented the right.
Talk about only telling one side.
As NewsBusters readers know, if one added up all the conservative contributors to ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC, they wouldn't equal the number of liberal contributors to Fox News.
But such logic is unimportant to Stewart and his followers:
STEWART: Because as you know, news only comes in two sides.
STEWART: And if the conservative side isn't being told, what's being told must be liberal. Fox News isn't fair and balanced, it's balancing the system, man. Don't you get it? The system's unfair and unbalanced! To balance the system, Fox has to be the purest form of right-wing resin because of how, because of how heavy left-wing America is. Hollywood, comedians, every single news organization, the internet, facts, history, science, it's all just left-wing bullshit, man! Each one of those things designed purely to shut down conservatives.
Yes, Stewart really did suggest that facts, history, and science are all exclusive to liberals. Pretty disgusting. But he wasn't finished:
STEWART: But don't worry, Broseph, Fox isn't going to let that happen. Is fox unbalanced? Yeah. Seriously, like their ears are nearly touching the floor. But it's only because the system's unbalanced. At least, I thought that was what Chris Wallace was saying, which I thought was an interesting point.
If that's what Stewart really thought Wallace was saying, he's got more than his ears touching the floor.
But what can you expect from a guy that shortly after appearing on Fox was quickly exposed by PolitiFact for falsely claiming that its audience are "the most consistently misinformed media viewers?"
As NewsBusters' Rich Noyes pointed out Monday, it's Stewart who's the ignorant one.
Color me unsurprised that he didn't address this falsehood of his Monday evening.
That would be telling both sides.


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1. Re: Email destination mappingBryan Burr-Oracle Nov 1, 2012 9:24 AM (in response to SteveEd)Hi Steve,
Are you using Enterprise Edition? What version? If you are using enterprise edition you can look in the Enterprise Administration Guide (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17552_01/documaker_enterprise_ag.pdf)
It has this to say about using email on page 14
"Enterprise Edition lets you distribute document sets by email for a named user
with specific contact information. The distribution process for email relies upon
the presence of an email address in the ADR_EMAIL column of the RCPS table.
This column is populated by addressee logic that applies address-specific
information to an instance of a recipient identified in the MRL. If you want to
use this functionality, apply an address map to a specific recipient within the
MRL by updating the recipient within the Business Definition (BDF) file. You
access the BDF file using Documaker Studio. For more information, see the
Documaker Studio User Guide."
2. Re: Email destination mappingMr Peabody-Oracle Nov 1, 2012 7:13 PM (in response to SteveEd)As the last reply suggest, the answer depends upon "what" is trying to generate the email and what documentation you are looking at. Factory has one requirement while regular GenPrint or Workstation Entry (PPS) have different options.


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Harry's got feelings for Niall that he's trying to hide from everyone - even himself. When Zayn finds out his little secret, everything goes downhill. But can Niall save the day?
Harry took deep breaths and tried to slow his heart rate down. Stop it, he thought, stop looking at him. But he could only try to tear his gaze away from the Irish boy sitting across the rehearsal room, laughing like always at something Louis had said. The two sat there chatting and giggling as though they didn't have a care in the world. Harry frowned. He was getting that feeling again; that feeling he had whenever he saw Niall having so much fun with someone that wasn't him. He had convinced himself it wasn't jealousy. What was there to be jealous of? He was Harry Styles. He was the one who picked up girls almost every night at clubs, coffee shops, any place that had girls; he could get 'em. Girls. He liked girls. Not boys, not Niall. Things had been different lately, though. Usually he was real smooth with the ladies, but for the past couple weeks he somehow wasn't able to get even one girl. It seemed every time he wanted to chat a girl up, his mind wouldn't function properly for some reason. Any words that had even managed to come out of his mouth came out jumbled and stuttering. And he repeated over and over that the reason was definitely not, and never would be Niall. But he could only lie to himself for so long.
"You like him, don't you?" Harry jumped at the voice of his fellow band mate. Zayn was looking at him with a smirk on his face. Harry blinked, trying to look confused. "What do you mean, like him? Like who?" Harry very well knew what he meant, but he couldn't tell him that of course. "Oh please," came Zayn's reply, "you've been staring at him eat pizza for almost twenty minutes now." He subtly motioned towards Niall with a quick movement of his head. It was true, Harry had been observing Niall eat. He couldn't help watching, Niall was just so cute when he ate. The way he folded his pizza down the middle in order to get it down faster, the way he would pause every couple minutes to laugh loudly at a joke Louis had made. He realised Zayn was still staring at him, grinning from ear to ear. Harry shrugged and tried to act cool. "Of course I like him," he said, "he's one of my best friends." Zayn frowned at Harry's stubbornness. "No, Harry," he shook his head, "you like like him." Harry began to laugh, as loud as he could. "Zayn, oh my god, why would you even-" he playfully slapped Zayn on the arm. Oh god what am I doing stop it. But he couldn't stop. He giggled like a overly flirtatious girl talking to her crush. All the boys had stopped talking and were now staring at him with baffled expressions on their faces. He just kept laughing, knowing that if he stopped he would let something slip about his feelings for Niall.
"What the hell was that, Harry?" Zayn walked into the kitchen where Harry sat, confused and embarrassed. Harry shrugged and mumbled a couple words. He couldn't answer Zayn because he himself didn't know what the hell that was. Zayn took a seat next to him.
"Hey man, if you like Niall, you can tell me you know. I would never tell him." Oh please, you would tell him in a heartbeat. Harry stared at him. "I don't like him, okay? Stop bothering me."
"Alright Harry, no need to get rude." Zayn got up, roughly pushed his chair in and stomped towards the exit, slowing down near the door in case Harry decided to change his mind. Harry watched him, a little amused but still annoyed at how easily he would give in. He put his hands up in surrender, "Okay," Zayn stopped in his tracks and turned to face him, a wide grin on his face. Harry took a deep breath, "maybe, maybe I like him a little. Okay? Are you happy now?" Zayn looked like he had never been happier. He scurried back over and plumped himself down in the chair next to Harry's and began drilling him with questions, when did it start? What did it feel like? Was he going to do anything about it? The exact questions Harry had been asking himself for a while now,"Look I don't know okay I just need time to think and figure things out."
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Our employees are our most valuable assets without whom we cannot achieve our business objectives. Our priorities last year included employee retention, succession planning and nurturing and growing internal talent. Various employee engagement initiatives coupled with enhanced focus on individual training needs in alignment with the business objectives helped us meet our objectives.
We continued to focus on effective management of people performances through linkage with business results and motivation through rewards. The Short Term Incentive Plan which was introduced in FY2011 for the middle management of Essar Oil employees was paid out at the end of FY2013 to consistent performers.
Essar Oil operates within a framework of HR policies, practices and regulations appropriate to the country of operation. We maintain policies relating to labour aspects which highlight our commitment to being an employee friendly organisation. There are HR processes in place for recruitment and selection of personnel at all levels; policies in place for induction, performance management, learning and development, retirement, separation, business practices and exit.
The Group HR Function has functional responsibility for HR issues at Essar. Group HR provides direction in different aspects of HR and introduces innovative models and tools for continual improvement and value creation.
The Group President of HR, who is also a member of the highest governing body within the organisation, has operational responsibility for all aspects of the workforce. He has a team of senior professionals with separate portfolios for talent acquisition and management, learning and development and employee engagement. In the last couple of years our focus has been on refining our people management processes and building our talent pipeline. We undertook a number of training and development initiatives to create a learning environment and developed programmes which link people across the Group to facilitate business requirements.
The Essar Brand 'Positive Action' emphasizes superior execution, translating positive intentions to 'actions', delivering value to internal and external stakeholders, strong goal orientation, and aligning values to performance.
At Essar Oil, we have established six key operational objectives, the 'Essar Capabilities', as follows:
The Essar Capabilities are a strategic human resources vehicle to create intangible value and reinforce the brand. The Essar Capabilities are the touchstone for decisions on talent acquisition, assessment, development, promotion, and succession planning. In this, and other ways, Essar Oil is leveraging organisational capability to derive sustained competitive advantage in the marketplace and to assist in value creation.
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Sue's Views -- Timeless value of Scouts
Anyone who knows me understands that mornings are not my thing. Never have been. I have struggled with this through the years at many jobs -- cleaning cabins at a resort, working at a bakery, having a newborn, even doing the sign-on shift at the radio station. I was sure I had been utterly evil in a past life and having to be cheerful and care for others before 9 a.m. was my penance. Undoubtedly, my parents, spouse and children have had similar thoughts having to deal with my night owl ways as well, but let's not ask them for details.
Anyway, you can imagine I was not the first one at a 7 a.m. breakfast Tuesday. But I did get there in a close enough time frame and was one of a handful of folks treated to that rare glimpse of a young person recognizing that they have success and that they've had help achieving it.
The breakfast was organized in support of Boy Scouting. Of course, the goal was to raise money. But according to Jim Stratton, District Executive for the Northern Lights Council, they also are looking for partners for things such as the Exploring program, which helps young men learn about a career, and Learning for Life, which supports classroom lessons.
Of course, there are lots of people and organizations who have also asked for my time and money. Why Scouting?
Well, that's where the conversation got interesting. Tim Busian and Ryan Donovan, both Eagle Scouts and former members of Troop 467, told us what Scouting has meant for them.
Tim earned his Eagle Scout in 1995. He said that through Scouting, he was able to learn more about himself, what he likes and what he doesn't like. "I would never have known some of this without Boy Scouts and it has defined what I like to do and brought me to where I am."
Okay, parents, how much would you give to have your child stand up and say that they have come to appreciate doing things they didn't like because it helped them become a better person? Honestly, I wanted to drag Tim to my house to repeat that for my son, who has in just these brief first few weeks of summer, told me dozens of times that I am ruining his life by making him do things he hates.
Alas, my son has inherited my internal clock and he wouldn't even be close to conscious at 7:30 a.m. How's that for ironic?
Ryan Donovan became an Eagle Scout in 1994. And he said that the values that he learned while earning the rank of Eagle Scout -- being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent -- are the same skills that employers are looking for in their workers. He has also found that it is life experience that defines a person more than age. Donovan also admitted that young people need to have someone besides their parents helping them learn that, because sometimes when you're a teenager, you don't listen to parents.
Oh, how I envied Tim and Ryan's parents, listening to their children be the kind of adults that we all hope for from the moment they are born.
The good news is that there is room for more in both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts -- more youth, more adults, more community.
Here are a few other thing about me that aren't a secret -- I don't camp, fish or shoot things. But even with these limitations, I have been able to help out in a very small way with the activities of scouting.
Dr. Pat Burke is the local Scoutmaster and Steve Dudding is the Cub Scout leader. Help is needed year round for big and small projects. Ask them how you can help our community's young people make us all proud.


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Animals can sometimes be like 1 year old… a little unpredictable. I love it when animal trainers bring the animals on the television to show the general public wildlife that we don't necessarily see everyday. Animal Planet is great, but it would be better if it had Mutual Of Omaha's Animal Kingdom.
Watch what happens as the ladies call one animal stinky. The South American Toad is so adorable, you'll want to put a crown on him and give him a kiss. He's an adorable toad prince. See for yourself and tell me if he should be cast in the next Disney movie. Smooches


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A baby shower is usually a lot of fun. There are very few disputes about that. The problem comes in who gets a baby shower. One of the most controversial questions in polite society is about the appropriateness of a shower for a second baby (or more).

Side One: No Second Showers

One camp is of the absolutely not variety. No matter what a baby shower is only for a first baby. These people tend to shun invitations to baby showers other than for a first child. Not only that but you may likely find that they are also only up for one time showers, not the showers of today where a one mother might have three, four or more showers for the same baby!

Side Two: Showers for Special Circumstances

Another faction in the baby shower debate believes also in showers only for first borns. That is unless you fall into a special category. These categories tend to be situational like, first baby of an opposite sex first baby with this partner, first in a long time (though how many years in between is hotly contested)… and the list goes on.

These exceptions don't really prove the rule, but they do make for interesting guessing about who is "allowed" to have a baby shower when.

Side Three: Showers for Every Baby

Many people have lightened up on the issue saying that every baby deserves a party. More and more moms are having showers for babies other than their first, even when they don't fit any certain category. Though the showers they throw may not be typical at all and this might be the key to bridging the gap and making everyone feel welcome at the party.

Baby Shower Themes for Second Showers

Having a baby shower for every baby and making the guests feel like it's more about celebrating the baby and the mother and less of a present grab is a fine line to walk. One of the easiest ways to figure out how to do this is through the use of a baby shower theme. Many of these second baby showers have unique themes, including:

Mom time: Shifting the focus to the mother instead of the baby can be helpful. In this shower situation, you have every guest brings a gift for mom instead of baby. This puts the focus on mom and the gifts on the less expensive side. Think a bottle of bubble bath versus a car seat.

 Books: This is a really popular option for a lot of reasons. Here you have every guest bring a book for the library of the new baby. Though you might wind up with duplicates, remember, so many books wind up as chew toys.

Dinner Party: I don't know why more people don't choose this option, but here every guest brings something to be stored to eat when the new baby arrives, or a rain check on a meal. This is also easily set up as a meal delivery calendar for after the birth of the baby. You could also simply have a "preview" party and people bring a dish to share.

 Blessingway: A circle of women gathering to wish the mother-to-be well in her journey through birth. Gifts are rarely exchanged, though guests may be asked to bring a candle, a bead or something small to make a gift for the mother at the ceremony. There are a wide variety of activities that can be done.

There are those who oppose the showers in duplicate or for subsequent children because of the greed factor. This could be the key to the whole issue – greed. Is this why many babies are being denied parties, for fear that the celebration is all about greed?

While it's always nice to have presents, the focus on baby showers is quickly becoming more about the life experience of having a baby. The gifts are those of time and thought than of cute baby booties to ooo and ahh over. In the end, the universal truth is that all babies deserve to be welcomed into the world with a celebration. Whether you call that celebration a baby shower, a blessingway, a welcoming or baby naming, it's still a celebration of new life.


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DOF discloses LGUs' fiscal performance-A A +A
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The Department of Finance (DOF) said its preliminary assessment of the fiscal performance of the local government units (LGUs) of Pampanga, Angeles City and the City of San Fernando for the period covering 2010 to 2012.
For Pampanga, the initial findings are impressive; for the two cities, the scores are not so good, if not dismal.
The province earned an overall score of "very good" while the two cities were rated from average to good, to needs improvement.
The DOF based its ratings on its evaluation of the LGUs revenue generation capacity, local collection growth, expenditure management and reportorial compliance.
The Provincial Government, in the two years covered with Governor Lilia Pineda and former Vice-Governor Joseller "Yeng" Guiao at the helm, scored high on its overall revenue generation capacity attributed to its strongly locally sourced income and reduced dependence on the internal revenue allotment. Its tax revenue collections and non-tax revenues also increased tremendously.
However, the province scored low in terms of its total expenditure per capita even if it doubled from P399 in 2010 to P812 in 2012. It also used less than 20 percent of its IRA for local development projects.
The province also exceeded its allowed expenditures for personal services in 2011 and 2012.
Pampanga fared better than the other four provinces in Central Luzon, except for Bulacan and Bataan and did as good as Tarlac.
For the City of San Fernando, the overall revenue generation capacity in 2010 and 2012 showed "a poor level of regular and local incomes for a first-income class city." However, the DOF explained that it could not make a substantive analysis both for the revenue and expenditure indicators due to the absence of the required reports for 2011.
The DOF noted that "with the SRE report for FY 2011 still unavailable for more than 2 years now, it appears that there is a deliberate neglect in complying with the directives of Department Order No. 8 -2011, thus undermining the accuracy of the aggregate LGU report of the BLGF."
Like the province, the City of San Fernando also had a "very low" expenditure per capita in 2010 at P2,826 and in P2012 at P3,013 when compared with the average expenditure of P3,919 and P4,060, respectively for first class cities. The city also utilized less than 20 percent of the IRA for local development projects.
For Angeles City, the scorecard revealed that while revenue generation improved continuously from 2010 to 2012 and low dependence on IRA and other shares from national tax collection was maintained, the overall regular and local revenue levels remain at the lowest bracket for a first class city.
On expenditure management, the city also spent less per capita at P2,856 in 2010 and P3,338 in 2012, which is considered low among cities. It also utilized less than 20 percent of the IRA for local development projects. The city also exceeded the limit on personal services.
The two cities fared less than the other cities in the region like Olongapo, Malolos, Balanga and Gapan.
'Unrealistic, overstated'
In the case of the City of San Fernando, Acting City Administrator and City Planning Officer Engr. Fernando Limbitco told Sun.Star Pampanga on Wednesday that the DOF covering the two years rated "poor and needs improvement" was due to "unrealistic and overstated budgets."
"That is why the first thing that Mayor Edwin Santiago did at the start of his administration was to review the budget and resources and make them attainable. After reviewing the performance, the execution of projects versus the budget is very realistic now," he said.
Limbitco added that the City Government continues to introduce innovations to improve its fiscal performance.
"At present, we have monthly variance meetings where we monitor our performance. It is actually a first among LGUs in the country as attested by the World Bank which endorsed it for benchmarking," he said.
The DOF assessment, dubbed as "Iskor ng 'yong Bayan", is aimed at promoting governance at all levels by rating the fiscal performance of all LGUs through the LGU fiscal sustainability scorecard. (NCS/JTD)
Published in the Sun.Star Pampanga newspaper on May 08, 2014.
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SVCC and Youth Orchestra concert
When Sunday November 21, 2010 @ 7:00 PM (2441 days ago)
Where Lehman Auditorium
Ticket Deadline Monday November 30, -0001 (-736935 days ago)
Duration 1 hour 15 minutes
Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Shenandoah Valley
Children's Choir will present a joint concert 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, in Lehman Auditorium. (See campus map)
Children's choir
Treble and Concert Choirs from the Shenandoah Valley Children's Choir (SVCC) will be
performing under the direction of founder, Julia J. White and accompanied by
Maurita Eberly, piano and John Fast, organ.
Youth orchestra
The Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra is part of EMU's Preparatory
Music Program. With 41 members from Rockingham, Augusta,
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perform "Hoe-down" from Rodeo by Copland, the Overture to "The
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Andre Iguodala missed his second consecutive game but his replacements more than picked up the slack against a defensively disinterested Phoenix Suns squad. About halfway through the game, I realized Vince Carter will be a perfect fit for the Suns. He's only 50% more disinterested than the entire franchise. This game may just have been Evan Turner's coming out party, and it was definitely fun to watch.
- OK, I've got a stat that's going to surprise you. When you look at the final score of 123-110, against the Phoenix Suns, I'm sure the first thing you're going to think is that the Sixers played the Suns game and beat them at it. Well, you're partially right. The Sixers did play very little defense, which is a Suns trademark. But I'm sure you'll be shocked to hear that this game was actually played at the Sixers' pace, almost exactly. Phoenix wasn't able to speed the Sixers up at all, which I find amazing.
- Jrue Holiday is your player of the game, and before you jump all over me, there's a reason for it beyond tonight's game. Jrue easily could've gotten the honor in each of the past two games, tonight he gets it because he's taken on the role of lead scorer and go-to-guy three straight times, and done an excellent job of not only orchestrating the offense, but being the guy who gets the big hoops when they're needed. Over the past three, the 20-year-old has scored 69 points on 63.6% shooting from the floor and handed out 21 assists (though he did have 10 turnovers). Huge, huge string of games for the kid.
- If not for Holiday's recent body of work, Evan Turner surely would've earned the POTG for his explosive and, more importantly, confident offensive game tonight. 9/12 from the floor, 1/1 from three (and the 1 was a dagger), 4/4 from the line. By my count, he scored his 23 points on only 14 possessions. Outstanding.
- If not for Holiday's recent body of work and Turner's breakout game, Andres Nocioni's shocking 22 and 12 (rebs) would easily have won player of the game. Nocioni's defensive ineptitude almost wasn't noticeable he was so efficient on offense. Almost.
- If not for Holiday's recent body of work, Turner's breakout or Nocioni's impersonation of an efficient NBA player, Spencer Hawes may just have gotten consideration for his efficient double-double.
- Basically, this was a really solid game across the board. Jodie Meeks was probably the only Sixer who didn't play a key role in the win. Meeks was 0/3 from the floor and basically saw most of his minutes given to either Lou or Turner, who deserved them with effective play.
Player of The Game: Jrue Holiday
Team Record: 13-19
Up Next: @ LAL, on New Year's Eve.
Game Capsule
3-3 on the trip, two chances to come home with a .500 record, which would be unbelievable. You have to know Collins is going to be beating that message into their heads over the next couple of days.
OK, cue the "we have to get rid of Iguodala to make room for Turner" comments. I'm ready.
by Brian on Dec 30 2010
Tags: Andres Nocioni | Basketball | Evan Turner | Jrue Holiday | Phoenix Suns | Post Game | Sixers |
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and sympathy for everyone affected by
the devastating earthquake and tsunami
in Japan. Our hearts go out to our Japanese
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When the earthquake hit, we had 74
Japanese students studying at Green
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at the end of March as planned to start
their studies at Green River for spring
Immediately following the disaster,
we did our best to help anyone with
loved ones in Japan to connect with
them, as well as provide counseling,
news, snacks and tea in our office for
Japanese students. Julia Short, a practical
nursing instructor, kindly brought over
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Our Japanese students, assisted by
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Tram Car Trial Begins in Atlantic City Today
There's nothing quite like stepping onto the Atlantic City Boardwalk and having a guy, speaking in broken English, ask if you want a ride on his rolling chair.
Those days may someday come to an end as Atlantic City moves forward to the age of the tram car.
The Atlantic City Jitney Association begins a trial on the boardwalk today of a new battery-powered tram bus.
While the Jitney Association claims it's not out to take business from the rolling chair operators, the chair-pushers aren't so sure. The issue went to court yesterday, and the judge ruled in favor of the tram operators.
"Watch for the tram car, please! That goes for yous high rollers, too."
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Toccoa Sees Another Wet Weekend; 3+ Inches of Rain
The wet weather is expected to continue for a time today before moving out in time for the Christmas holiday.
Downtown Toccoa received about 3.50 inches of rain Saturday, Sunday, and this morning.
That rainfall moves downtown Toccoa over the 80-inch plateau for rainfall in 2013.
As of this morning, downtown Toccoa is nearing the 83-inch mark for year-to-date precipitation.
There is still a chance of rain throughout the day today.
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