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Department of Sport Management receives COSMA accreditation
Liberty University's Bachelor of Science in Sport Management recently received accreditation from the Board of Commissioners of the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA), the new national governing body for sport management.
Liberty is one of five institutions to receive COSMA accreditation. Liberty's Master of Science in Sport Management, which launched in Spring 2010, is in the initial stages of the COSMA accreditation process.
"I am extremely proud and excited about receiving full accreditation for the Department of Sport Management," said department chair Vicky Martin. "The site reviewers gave the program a great review and thanked us for a wonderful visit. We are one of the first institutions to receive COSMA accreditation, which will only strengthen and grow the program for future and current sport management students."
Now in its third decade of preparing students for careers in the sport industry, Liberty's Department of Sport Management, a division of the School of Education, has more than 300 undergraduate students and about 360 graduate students. The undergraduate program is residential, and in addition to the bachelor's degree, students can earn minors in Sport Management and Coaching. The graduate degree is a blended (residential and online) program with thesis or non-thesis options and specializations in Sport Administration or Outdoor Recreation Management.
The Sport Management program exposes students to a Christian worldview pertaining to the concepts and principles of sport management, while preparing them to organize, administer, and facilitate sport programs at the corporate, agency, professional, and amateur levels. Career opportunities range from collegiate athletic administration to advertising, marketing, resort management, facility management, and other positions in the sport industry.


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Can you believe it?! I'm finally back into the groove with the Daring Cooks and Daring Bakers challenges. After hit-and-miss spring and nonexistent summer attempts, I've kicked things back in gear and I'm ready to get cooking.
This month's challenge was hosted by Mary, a lovely blogger and longtime member of the Daring Kitchen challenges. Mary, who writes the delicious blog, Mary Mary Culinary was our August Daring Cooks' host. Mary chose to show us how delicious South Indian cuisine is. She challenged us to make Appam and another South Indian/Sri Lankan dish to go with the warm flat bread.
When I saw that our entire challenge revolved around Indian food, I knew things were going to get fun. Despite my love of almost all foods and all cuisines, I'm especially fanatical about Indian food. Whether it's the complex mixtures of aromatic spices, the satisfyingly hearty array of flat breads, or the incredible diversity of dishes and cultures spreading across the subcontinent, India and its food have always held a special place in my heart.
With this challenge, the Daring Cooks were assigned to make Appams, a type of South Indian flat bread consisting mostly of rice, yeast, and coconut milk. Along with that, we also had to make any type of South Indian or Sri Lankan dish to serve with the appams. For me, this dish was the delicious Chicken Kerala.
However, before I go off skipping through the fields, singing songs of curry-love, we first need to discuss the process of making appams. As much as I hate to generalize this tasty form of flat bread, I have to say that it actually tastes very similar to hot grits—except in thin, crepe-like form, made with rice instead of cornmeal. What definitely does make appams completely unique is the method of preparation, which proved to be both easy and daunting.
First, it's a question of soaking about 1 1/2 cups of uncooked rice overnight. The next day, that rice gets drained and whirled through a blender or food processor until smooth. To that pureed rice, one adds a mixture of yeast, sugar, and water—giving it all another quick buzz through the blender/food processor/Magic Bullet until smooth. Yet again, this mixture sits overnight at room temperature, allowing the yeast to do its work and allowing the mixture to slightly ferment. The next day, this concoction is combined with coconut milk and salt, then cooked in a pan much in the way you'd cook crepes—pour, swirl, etc. After that, it's simply a question of how many can you eat with how much Chicken Kerala before you're too full to move.
Now, I can't gloss over things and avoid telling you about the few mishaps I encountered on my way to appam-licious glory. At first, it was challenge enough to muster the patience to take the 48+ hours to bring this dish to fruition. In my previous skimming of the challenge recipe earlier in the month, I neglected to spot the second overnight resting/rising time for the dough—an unhappy surprise, but one that was overcome.
Also, I think I've led you to believe that it's easy to perfect that whole "pour, swirl, cook" technique for cooking the appams. Truly, it took me almost the whole bowl of batter before I hit my stride with the process. Initially, I would pour a small ladle of batter into the pan and it would immediately solidify and stick, foiling all of my attempts at graceful batter-swirling. Buzzing it with an immersion blender solved that problem quite nicely, helping to further liquefy the rice bits. I also discovered that it worked better for me to cook them over medium-low heat, rather than over medium-high heat. As far as quick cooking goes, I don't have those kind of reflexes.
If the task of making appams now suddenly sounds scary and insurmountable to you, please take heart. Eating a savory and subtly sweet appam with a bowl of spicy chicken and potato curry is more than enough reward. Seriously, this Chicken Kerala, with its familiar blend of ginger, garlic, and chili, along with the creaminess of coconut milk and the bright punch of fresh cilantro, was the perfect accompaniment for this challenge's appams.
It was also the perfect accompaniment for my lunch, snack, and dinner all in one day.
If you'd like to give the appam recipe a try or learn more about the challenge, take a peek at the info packet from the Daring Kitchen website.
If you'd like to make a tasty pot of Chicken Kerala, look no further…
Chicken Kerala
Recipe adapted from "Chicken Kerala" by Manju Malhi
3 tablespoons canola oil
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
2 serrano peppers, seeds removed from one; all finely chopped
1 teaspoon grated ginger
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon hot chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon garam masala
pinch curry powder
1 pound, 2 ounces boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into small cubes
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
2 large white potatoes, cut into small cubes
1 13.5-ounce can coconut milk, divided
1/4 to 1/3 cup water, as needed
1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped
Heat the canola oil in a heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Sauté the onion and serrano peppers for three minutes. Toss in the ginger, garlic, chili powder, coriander, turmeric, salt, garam masala, and curry powder, stirring to combine.
Add the chicken cubes and cook for about 8 minutes, until browned. Add the tomatoes and potatoes, cooking for another 2 minutes.
Pour in 3 1/2 ounces of the coconut milk and simmer for 6 minutes. Add the remaining coconut milk and 1/4 cup water. Simmer for 10-15 minutes, until the potatoes are tender and the chicken is cooked. Note: If the sauce looks too thick, add 1/3 cup water instead of 1/4 cup.
Check the seasonings, stir in the cilantro, and serve warm with rice or flatbread.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Hooper Bay man was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday in the beating death of his girlfriend in the western Alaska village.
David Hoelscher, 33, was arrested Tuesday in the death of Pauline Mann, 27.
Hoelscher and Mann were in a relationship and had two daughters, prosecutors said. Both girls were inside the home when Mann died, according to an affidavit by Alaska State Trooper R. Bressler.
The older girl, a 9-year-old identified as S.H. in the affidavit, said Hoelscher became angry at Mann late Sunday, accusing her of doing a "bad word" while she was in Anchorage. The girl said her father began pulling her mother's hair, and punched and kicked her.
The girl said her mother was not breathing Monday morning, and her hands and feet were cold.
The affidavit says Hoelscher walked into the village police office that afternoon and said, "I think I did something bad last night when I was drunk," and, "I think I might have killed my honey."
Village Public Safety Officer James Hoelscher went to the home and saw Mann through the window. The officer said David Hoelscher is a distant relative.
According to the affidavit, the officer forced his way inside and found Mann dead on a bed, a 2-inch religious cross on top of her shirt and two large clumps of black hair on the floor. Mann was covered with numerous red and purple bruises, Bressler wrote.
There was a softball-size clump of black hair in a cardboard trash box in the bathroom, the affidavit states.
David Hoelscher told authorities he and Mann were drinking homebrew late Sunday and he got mad at her "because she cheated on him while she was in Anchorage," the affidavit says. He said he grabbed Mann by the hair and threw her around the house, punching her numerous times on her face and body.
"David also stated that while she was on the ground by the bed he stomped on her stomach and that's when he thinks he killed her," the trooper wrote. "David stated he stomped with enough force to break a 2×4 piece of lumber."
Hoelscher went to sleep on the couch and when he woke up, the 9-year-old girl and her 2-year-old sister were crying next to Mann, according to the affidavit. Hoelscher told authorities Mann was not breathing and she felt cold to the touch. He said put her on the bed and that the older girl put the cross on Mann's chest.
Hoelscher said he then sent the girls to their grandparents' home and he went to the public safety office.
Mann's body was being sent to Anchorage for an autopsy by the state medical examiner's office.
Hoelscher was in custody at the hub town of Bethel, 160 miles southeast of Hooper Bay. A state court website did not immediately list an attorney for Hoelscher, who was set for a court hearing Wednesday afternoon.
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Addendum (10/16/13) - Michael Russell of The Oregonian reports that pizzaiolo Chris Whaley acted only as a consultant at Pronto Pizza and is not actively in the kitchen there. In fact, he will be opening a restaurant on SE Division called The American Local in the former Caffe Pallino space. Hopefully he'll be serving pizza there, and if so, I'll be there to check it out!


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I'm a newbie here and I'm glad I found this place!! I need to get back on my fitness grind, shake the cobwebs off my raquet, and meet new folks to hit with. Would anyone be interested in hitting in the afternoon later this week (3:30-5ish) or this weekend?
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Hi Nicole, Where are you located? I'm in Arlington - VA Highlands park is close by me.
If you dont mind travling to Pentagon City on the weekends, I could do Saturday morning. If during the week works better for you i could do wednesday or monday evening (but probably not till around 6pm).
Pentagon City is a straight shot for me so Saturday is a done deal. About what time?
9:30or 10 am?
Hey Allison,
Would you like to do mixed dubs Sunday at Hains Point? (see below threads...there HAS to be an easier way to organize these threads....)
I'll have to pass on Sunday, sorry. Do you still want to play on Saturday or would you rather reschedule so that you can play Sunday?? Either way is fine.
Hey no worries. I hope your son gets better! Lets go for Sunday instead at Hains Point. John Brown brought up mixed dubs, and if Alison would be interested maybe the four of us can hit then?
I hope theres an easier way to coordinate the format here is getting a bit complicated.
I'm going to have to pass on doubles for Sunday - but you three should play and have fun!!!!
Sorry...was out of the loop for the weekend, but name another day/date and we can definitely make it happen!
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- How to Report A Bug: How to report the bug in a helpful way
- Introduction: Introduction to XCache
- FeatureList: Feature list
- Faq: Frequently asked questions
Install From Source...
Install From Binary...
- INI Settings: XCache ini settings reference
- API: XCache API reference
- Testing: How XCache is being tested
How To Report A Bug
If you find a bug in XCache, you can help alot to find a fix for it by following some simple steps:
- Don't Panic
- if it's a compile/build problem
- configure problem: check last n lines error message that configure script outputs, and check config.log
- make problem: check last n lines error message that make outputs
- if it's a runtime problem
- if it's reproducable, make a minimum yet still reproducable php script
- collect information we need
- check your system version
- check your gcc version
- php version
- if it is a crash generate a Backtrace
- file a bug, or submit a patch
You can check the following sections for instructions on how to do all the steps above.
Checking System Version
$ uname -a
Linux gentoo 2.6.12-*** #3 Mon Feb 13 22:58:28 CET 2006 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GNU/Linux
Checking gcc/glibc Version
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/specs
Configured with: ...............
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)
Checking PHP Version
$ php -v PHP 5.2.0-dev (cli) (built: May 8 2006 18:26:52) (DEBUG) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies gentoo ~/src/xcache/trunk/build $ php-cgi -v PHP 4.4.3-dev (cgi-fcgi) (built: Mar 10 2006 18:46:02) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies with XCache v1.0, Copyright (c) 2005-2006, by mOo
are you sure which one you use in webserver? check
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Generating a Backtrace
If you don't have a core file yet
Read generating a Backtrace on php.net.
- config xcache.coredump_directory in /etc/php.ini
- Ensure that the xcache.coredump_directory has write permissions for the user who's running PHP.
- Remove any limits you may have on core dump size from your shell:
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- PHP CGI: Simply run php with the script that crashes it
- PHP FastCGI: Simply setup normal webserver-fastcgi configuration, and access the script that crashes PHP
- PHP As Apache Module: Run httpd -X, and access the script that crashes PHP
Once you have the core file
check where the coredump is
$ grep xcache.coredump_directory /etc/php.ini xcache.coredump_directory = "/tmp/" $ ls /tmp/core /tmp/core
ok, it's there
- PHP as CGI/FastCGI: Run gdb with the path to the PHP or PHP-enabled httpd binary, and path to the core file, for example:
$ gdb /usr/local/bin/php-cgi-fcgi /tmp/core ........ (gdb) bt (gdb) source ~/src/php5/.gdbinit (gdb) dump_bt
- PHP As Webserver Module: Run gdb with the path to the PHP or PHP-enabled httpd binary, and path to the core file, for example:
$ gdb /usr/local/apache/sbin/httpd /tmp/core ........ (gdb) bt (gdb) source ~/src/php5/.gdbinit (gdb) dump_bt
Filing A Bug
File bug here. We need as much information as possible. It will greatly helps us tracing it down.
Submiting A Patch
If you've managed to write a patch, you may attach it at here too. It would helps us a lot if you generate the bug with:
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Before you can hope to make it as a speculator and start slingin' barrels for big money, you've got to understand exactly what's gushing forth from the earth's crust. Yes, that's right – it doesn't start and stop just with crude, and there's far more to oil than dinosaur bones. In fact, most experts agree that the bulk of crude oil is derived from prehistoric single-celled plankton remains. Then you've got the abiogenic theory, which posits that…
Er, wrong oils. Sorry.
Today's post is actually about edible oils. Well, they're all technically edible – they can all be swallowed and digested – but as for being palatable, let alone healthful? That remains to be seen. Not all oils are created equal, especially given the fact that most of the ones people use nowadays are actually created in an industrial laboratory. No oil "exists naturally," mind you. Olive oil isn't harvested by leaving open containers under leaking, dripping olives on the branch, nor is that liquid sloshing around inside a coconut pure oil. I'm not trying to disparage processing in and of itself. It takes a certain amount of processing to get any sort of oil, but a good general rule is to avoid consuming the oils that require processing on a large scale. If it involves an industrial plant, multiple stainless steel vats, a deodorizer, a de-gummer, and the harsh petroleum-derived solvent known as hexane, I wouldn't eat it. But that's just me (and Grok [1], who probably wasn't processing wild rapeseed to get the precious canola oil).
But this is the Definitive Guide to Oils. Everything goes. No stone left unturned. No oil left un-tasted and bereft of analysis for fatty acid profile, oxidative potential, and rancidity proclivity.
Canola oil comes from rapeseed, a completely unpalatable seed rich in erucic acid, which is bitter and rather toxic. Canola oil is rapeseed oil stripped of erucic acid, as I detailed in this previous post [2]. It gets a lot of attention from doctors as a "heart healthy" oil (one of the "good" fats) rich in omega-3s, but the fact that canola processing generally uses upwards of 500 degrees means a good portion of the Omega-3s could be rancid on the shelf.
21% Omega-6 PUFA
9-11% Omega-3 PUFA
Flax Seed
I mentioned the seed and its oil a few times, and, after being initially supportive of flax consumption, I now recommend minimizing intake [3]. People generally use flax oil as an Omega-3 supplement, rather than for cooking – and this is a good choice, seeing as how flax is almost entirely made of PUFAs, which are prone to rancidity and oxidation when exposed to heat. Meat eaters, though, would be better off just taking fish oil. The DHA and EPA in fish oil [4] are far more useful than the ALA in flax seed oil. Strict vegetarians, have at it – just don't use flax seed oil to sautee your tofu.
24% Omega-6 PUFA
47% Omega-3 PUFA (from ALA)
Corn oil boggles my mind. I can't wrap my head around how extracting gallons upon gallons of liquid oil from a lowly corncob is actually possible. How isn't it too much work for the payoff? I mean, I'm no corn eater, but I've chomped a few kernels in my day, and I don't understand how squeezing oil out of this non-vegetable sounds like a good idea to anyone.
59% PUFA (mostly O-6)
Olive (and variations)
Olive oil got a pretty good breakdown [5] last year, so unless I'm leaving out some recent momentous news breaking out of the highly secretive olive oil world, there's not much more to say. It's a delicious salad oil, a decent sautéing oil, and it can even be used as moisturizer and shaving lotion. Olive oil is one area where CW [6] gets it right. Enjoy this one, and keep a bottle of extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil on hand for salad dressings [7]. It also does a decent job standing up to heat, but will lose it's delicate flavors if heated too high. This is a good enough reason for me [8] to use a different fat/oil when cooking at high temps. (Why waste precious (and often expensive!) olive oil when lard, for instance, will do the trick?)
3.5-21% Omega-6 PUFA
1% Omega-3 PUFA (not even worth mentioning, really)
MDA's darling, coconut oil is truly a star. I went over why [9] yesterday, and in past posts [10], but the gist of it is this: it's a tasty, shelf-stable (no hydrogenation required) tropical oil with a ton of saturated fatty acids. In fact, it's almost purely saturated, which is why most doctors and nutritionists will probably advise against its consumption. Not us, though. We love SFA [11]. The refined coconut oil stands up to heat a bit better, and it doesn't have a distinctive taste, but I can't recommend it [12]. Unrefined virgin oil is a murky, cloudy mess – but a delicious, creamy mess. Eat the unrefined by the spoonful.
Palm oil is controversial; just check out the comments section on my last post [13] on the subject. Many palm oil plantations encroach upon the rapidly dwindling natural habitats of the orangutan, which are already in short supply in this world. The consensus seems to be that sustainable palm oil, especially the more complex, nutritious unrefined red palm oil, can be found. You've just got to look a little harder at the labels. West African red palm oil, for example, is considered to be pretty safe environmentally. Oh, and palm oil is also highly saturated and heat stable. Red palm oil is also stable, but it deserves special mention for its nutrient density – lots of CoQ10, Vitamin E, and SFAs.
Fish oil is another one of the widely accepted "good" fats. This time, though, we agree with Conventional Wisdom. The Omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, are unequivocally beneficial to us. They help balance our O6-O3 ratios (to a more appropriate, pre-agricultural level), while they also promote proper cell function, good lipid numbers, and improved insulin sensitivity. To bone up on more fish oil information, check out my Definitive Guide [4] on the subject.
EPA and DHA levels vary by brand and type of fish. Check the label for yourself, or look at this handy table [14] if you're getting your fish oil from actual seafood.
Who doesn't love a plump avocado with the right amount of give? If you can't get your hands on a good one, the next best thing might be a bottle of avocado oil. Its fatty acid profile is similar to that of olive oil, but it has an even higher smoke point, making it a great choice for cooking. The light, subtle taste lends itself well to salad dressing, too. Buy in dark bottles to minimize oxidation.
12% Omega-6 PUFA
1% Omega-3 PUFA
Walnut oil [15] is one of the better tasting nut oils. It is high in Omega-6s, sure, but walnut oil isn't something you're going to use every day, or even every week. The stuff tastes great, though, and a small splash goes a long way at the end of a cooking session or onto a tossed salad. I definitely would advise against using this on a regular basis, especially for cooking, and you should always store it in a dark, cool spot in the house. For those that "do dairy", try mixing a bit with some full-fat Greek yogurt, or unsweetened fresh whipped cream and berries: amazing.
53% Omega-6 PUFA
10% Omega-3 PUFA
Macadamia Nut
I love this oil, but I also love the parent nut. The oil assumes the buttery, smooth, rich flavor of the macadamia nut, making it an interesting – but favorable – choice for salad dressings. It's also remarkably high in MUFAs and low in PUFAs, so it won't throw your ratios all out of whack. Makes a surprisingly good homemade mayonnaise, and can be used to sauté and cook in a pinch. The only drawback is its price; macadamia nut oil can get expensive.
Sesame Seed
The premier "flavor oil." Sesame seed oil, especially the toasted variety, offers an unmatched and irreplaceable flavor profile. Certain Asian dishes work best with a bit of sesame oil, but if you're wary of using it over high heat (which you probably should be), you can always add it to the dish after cooking. Despite the high PUFA content, sesame oil also contains a ton of antioxidants that can help minimize heat oxidation. I wouldn't use this more than semi-regularly, though. Good to keep in your pantry (or fridge), but not an everyday item.
Restaurants like to tout that they use "healthy" peanut oil in their deep fryers. Okay, the relatively MUFA-rich peanut oil may be a better choice than corn or sunflower oil for high heating, but it's still a legume (already off limits [16]) oil prone to rancidity. In the UK, it's known as groundnut oil. Avoid both.
Sunflower Seed
Insanely high in PUFAs with little to no Omega-3s to balance them out, sunflower seed oil is a pretty bad choice for sauteeing, baking, roasting, and even salad making. Trouble is it's everywhere, and it has a reputation for being healthy. Just don't keep the stuff in your house (not a problem; it's flavorless, odorless, and completely boring), and keep dining out in cheap chain restaurants to a minimum (or you could do what I do and request everything be cooked in butter), and you should be able to avoid sunflower seed oil.
Like sunflower seed oil but worse, the oil derived from the "bastard saffron" is about 75% Omega-6 PUFAs with not a speck of Omega-3 in sight. It's also lower in MUFAs and SFAs. What's not to dislike?
At least most of the oils I've mentioned come from technically edible plants, in some form or another. Cottonseed oil, however, comes from cotton. You know, the stuff that shirts are made of? Yeah. It's everywhere, from margarines to cereal to shortening to frozen desserts to bread, because it's cheaper than other oils (you can thank its status as one of Monsanto's big four genetically modified crops for that) and it only needs "partial hydrogenation" to maintain stability. Luckily, that won't be an issue for PBers who already avoid all that stuff in the first place. Warn your friends and family, though.
Grape Seed
Skip this stuff. It does have a buttery taste, and it gets a lot of hype as a worthy replacement for olive oil, but it's got high oxidation potential, especially if you follow the recommended instructions and use it for deep frying or high heat sauteeing. It's rather pricey, too, so there's no good reason to use it.
Soybean Oil
Soybean oil is about as ubiquitous as corn and canola (again, thanks to Monsanto). In fact, you'll often see an ingredient list include "canola and/or soybean oil." Huh? Do food manufacturers honestly not know what kind of fat is going into their product? Best avoid the crapshoot and skip anything that "might contain" soybean oil altogether. The fact that it's often partially hydrogenated suppresses my appetite even further. No thanks.
51% Omega-6 PUFA
6% Omega-3 PUFA
As you can tell, seed and nut oils probably shouldn't make up a significant portion of your diet. Some, like coconut, olive, macadamia, palm, avocado, and fish, are great, but the vast majority of oils are unnatural and way too high in PUFAs. And just remember, with some of the more questionable/borderline oils, a little bit goes a long way.
I haven't covered every edible oil known to humankind in this article. For information on other oils reference these tables [17] and start up a discussion in the comment board or the forum [18].
What are your preferred edible oils and why? Let me know your thoughts. Grok on! [19]
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Bates student dies from injuries in fall
Troy Pappas of Eliot passes away at 18
A Bates College student, who suffered serious injuries when he fell down a stairwell at his dorm, died from his injuries on Friday afternoon at a Lewiston hospital.
Bates College posted a release about Troy Pappas' death on the college's website on Friday night.
"This news is heartbreaking for Troy's family and for the Bates community," Bates College President Clayton Spencer said.
Pappas' family is pursuing the option of donating his organs to follow his wishes, the website said.
Pappas graduated in 2012 from Marshwood High School in South Berwick, where he was a standout athlete and honor student. He was a wide receiver on the Bates College football team and was studying math and science.
In an email to the campus community, Spencer said the incident happened around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday at Parker Hall. A friend was with Pappas at the time of the fall and called for help.
Bates College is working with Lewiston police, who are investigating the incident.
Bates officials said that staff members have been providing counseling and emotional support to students.


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Growing up, the stuffing of choice at our Thanksgiving table was always Stovetop. I remember looking at a forkful of it when I was in high school and wondering "What is stuffing? What is in there?" But it tasted so salty and herby, that I certainly didn't question it for more than a second. (Plus, this is the 80s we're talking about here, so in general no one was really questioning anything about the food they were putting in their mouths — at least not in my corner of the world.) But once I was a grown-up and responsible for things like mortgage payments and Thanksgiving side dishes, it occurred to me that stuffing was maybe something I could try to make from scratch, so I went in search of a recipe that could deliver on my (admittedly modest) Stovetop-ian expectations. I found it two Thanksgivings ago with this Martha Stewart recipe. It was the perfect Starter Stuffing. Basic, easy, nothing fancy, seemingly begging for personalizing and riffing. I am throwing apples and sausage in it this year and hoping for the best.
Sausage and Apple Stuffing
Adapted from Martha Stewart
Preheat oven to 400°F. Heat half a stick of butter in a large, deep skillet over medium heat. Add 2 small onions (chopped), 6 stalks celery (chopped), salt and pepper. Cook until vegetables are soft, about 15 minutes. Add 1 pound assorted mushrooms (quartered). Cover and cook until they release their liquid, 5 to 7 minutes. Uncover and cook another 7 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and let cool. While it cools, cook 2 links sweet Italian sausage (casings removed) in the same skillet over medium heat, breaking up meat with a fork.
Once meat is cooked, add to the onion mixture in the bowl, along with 2 loaves of Italian bread (in pieces, about 12-16 cups total), a 15-ounce can of chicken or vegetable broth, 1 bunch parsely (chopped), 3 eggs (lightly beaten), and 1 apple (peeled, chopped into chunks). Add mixture to a baking dish, cover with foil and bake for 25 minutes. Remove foil; bake until golden, about 20 more minutes.


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Ancient DNA Links Native Americans With Europe – "…from the complete nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years ago — the oldest complete genome of a modern human sequenced to date. His DNA shows close ties to those of today's Native Americans. Yet he apparently descended not from East Asians, but from people who had lived in Europe or western Asia. The finding suggests that about a third of the ancestry of today's Native Americans can be traced to 'western Eurasia,' with the other two-thirds coming from eastern Asia…. It also implies that traces of European ancestry previously detected in modern Native Americans do not come solely from mixing with European colonists, as most scientists had assumed, but have much deeper roots." — see also: The First of the Mohicans from greg cochran.
Your face may have been sculpted by junk DNA – "There is a huge degree of variation in human faces but, as family resemblances show, the overall shape is heavily constrained by genetics. However, so far, geneticists have identified only a small number of genes that influence the shape. These explain just a tiny fraction of the variation seen in human faces. According to Axel Visel of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and his colleagues, more variation is controlled by distant-acting enhancers. These are short sequences of DNA, in non-coding regions of the genome, that can influence the activity of the facial genes, even if they are a long way along the DNA strand."
Behavior problems in preschool and child care centers may be an issue of genes – "A new study suggests that some children may be genetically predisposed to developing behavioral problems in child care and preschool settings…. [B]irth parents who had high rates of negative emotion and self-control, based on a self-reported temperament scale, were more likely to have children who struggled with behavioral issues such as lack of self-control and anger, in child care centers. They controlled for adoptive parent's characteristics, and still found a modest effect based on the genetic link."
Your Ethnicity Determines the Species of Bacteria That Live in Your Mouth – "[P]eople from each of the four different ethnic groups represented in the study (all participants self-identified as either Caucasian, African-American, Chinese or Latino) generally had similar species of bacteria, especially underneath the gums. As a result, simply by counting which varieties of bacteria appeared in this area, the researchers developed a model that was able to guess a person's ethnicity with an accuracy significantly better than chance — it got it right 62 percent of the time. Some groups were even easier to identify via the bacteria than others: It could correctly identify Latinos 67 percent of the time and African-Americans with 100 accuracy. The variation along ethnic lines, they believe, is a reflection of genetics, not environment. That's because, if you assumed that the mouth microbiome is totally dependent on environmental factors, you'd expect that members of the same ethnic group would have different mixes of bacteria depending on whether they were first-generation immigrants to the U.S. or had family histories that stretched back generations in the country. Instead, people's background — in terms of foods they ate and other lifestyle trends — didn't seem to have any correlation with the bacterial communities in their mouths." – h/t super bob!
Herpes virus genome traces the ancient path of human migration – "Researchers…sequenced the genomes of 31 samples of herpes simplex virus type-1 to reconstruct how it hitchhiked on humans as they dispersed around the world. The results match the pattern proposed by the 'Out of Africa' theory, which has become the most widely accepted scenario for ancient human migration. The analysis showed that African strains of the virus contained the most genetic diversity — suggesting that they had the oldest roots."
Genetic variation alters efficacy of antidepressant – "Having a different form of a gene that regulates the brain chemical noradrenaline influences how well men remember negative memories after taking the antidepressant drug reboxetine, according to a study published in the October 23 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings demonstrate how genes can influence antidepressant response." – see also: Genes predispose some people to focus on the negative.
Much Earlier Split for Neanderthals, Humans? – "This suggests that the last common ancestor of H. sapiens and Neanderthals lived sometime earlier, perhaps as far back as one million years ago."
Denisovans in Wallacea? – from greg cochran.
Life on Earth Was Not a Fluke – "Figuring out how biomolecular self-organization happens may hold the key to understanding life on Earth formed and perhaps how it might form on other planets." – h/t jayman!
Genetics made very simple – from dr. james thompson.
Low historical rates of cuckoldry in a Western European human population traced by Y-chromosome and genealogical data – "[W]e estimate that over the last few centuries, EPP rates in Flanders (Belgium) were only around 1–2% per generation. This figure is substantially lower than the 8–30% per generation reported in some behavioural studies on historical EPP rates, but comparable with the rates reported by other genetic studies of contemporary Western European populations. These results suggest that human EPP rates have not changed substantially during the last 400 years in Flanders and imply that legal genealogies rarely differ from the biological ones." – h/t rob brooks!
'Endowment Effect' Not Present in Hunter-Gather Societies – "'The more isolated Hadza traded about 50 percent of the time — which is what rational people should do,' Azevedo said. People near the village traded about 25 percent of the time, which is much closer to the 10 percent we see with Western students." – h/t jason collins! – previously: personality goes a long way… in which researchers find just big TWO personality traits in a group of hunter-gatherers (the tsimane).
speaking of the tsimane: UCSB anthropologist studies the evolutionary benefit of human personality traits – "'Being more extroverted, open, agreeable and conscientious –– and less neurotic –– was associated with having more kids.'" in tsimane men. (if they really have all those personality traits…see link immediately above.)
What Happens When a Language Has No Numbers? – on the pirahã. – h/t nn!
Can Your Genes Predict Whether You'll Be a Conservative or a Liberal? – "Scientific research shows political partisanship transcends economics, environment, and upbringing." – from avi tuschman.
Life expectancy and the dawn of agriculture – from jason collins.
Origins of Americans (Looking At HLA Haplotypes) – from our very own chris davies! previously from chris: human leukocyte antigen (hla) haplotypes and human biodiversity.
Number sense in infancy predicts mathematical abilities in childhood – "Preverbal number sense in 6-month-old infants predicted standardized math scores in the same children 3 years later. This discovery shows that number sense in infancy is a building block for later mathematical ability and invites educational interventions to improve number sense even before children learn to count." – h/t simon baron-cohen!
Black Suits, Gowns, & Skin: SAT Scores by Income, Education, & Race – @the unsilenced science. see also: Obama Administration: Moynihan's Law of Canadian Border kinda right from steve sailer.
Of Race and Intelligence – from helian.
Sex on the Mind – "It is a truth universally acknowledged — at least by biologists — that every person owes his or her existence to parents who successfully reproduced, each of whom, in turn, had two parents who did the same … and so on, going back hundreds of millions of years to the first ancestral blob (or two) of protoplasmic goo that trundled onto terra firma from the early earth's organic soup." – from david barash. — see also: Why Have Sex? – from the advanced apes.
Lust Is Love – from heartiste.
Kids Are More Likely to Trust Attractive Adults – h/t hbd bibliography!
Asymmetries in altruistic behavior during violent intergroup conflict – "Some empirical studies on intergroup conflict in hunter-gatherer societies and chimpanzees indicate that fitness relevant risks and potential benefits of attacks and defenses might have differed substantially under ancestral conditions. Drawing on these studies, it is hypothesized that the success of defenses was much more important for individual and kin survival and that a disposition to act altruistically during intergroup conflict is thus more likely to evolve for the strategic situation of defense…. Analyzing detailed historical case data from 20th century wars, this study finds that altruistic behavior towards members of the in-group indeed seems to occur more frequently when soldiers are defending themselves and their comrades against enemy attacks." – h/t hbd bibliography!
Who gives? Multilevel effects of gender and ethnicity on workplace charitable giving. – "[E]thnic minorities donate less money to workplace charity than do Whites." – and men less than women. – via richard lynn @amren.
Paradoxes of the Nordic Model II – "Denmark is a high trust, highly cooperative society. There is very low crime. Most parked bicycles are not even locked. Bank employees may not work very efficiently, but nobody tried to swindle me. In theoretical terms, what it means is that when there are very few defectors, the amount of common good produced overall is maximized. So everybody is well of, even though they don't work hard – but they don't free-ride, either…." – from peter turchin.
Ma'am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For – paying it forward in america! – h/t charles murray!
Napoleon Chagnon: The Fierce Sociobiologist – "[Yanomamo] Men from the highland villages were much less belligerent than men from villages along the river. Heterogeneity in belligerence existed even within this single tribe."
Where Have All the Geniuses Gone?
Aboriginal Hunting Practice Increases Animal Populations – monitor lizards, anyway.
"Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity – "Researchers are rewarded for splashy findings, not for double-checking accuracy. So many scientists looking for cures to diseases have been building on ideas that aren't even true." – h/t outsideness! – see also: Trouble at the lab – "Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not."
These Unresolved Ethical Questions Are About to Get Real
bonus: Hunted by their own government – the fight to save Kalahari Bushmen – "Survival International, which campaigns on behalf of tribal peoples, has called for tourists to boycott holidays in Botswana, which is forcing Kalahari Bushmen off their reserves."
bonus bonus: How did ancient Greek music sound? – beautiful apparently! – h/t ed west!
bonus bonus bonus: Author: In China, 'everyone is guilty of corruption' – on guanxi.
bonus bonus bonus bonus: The couple having four babies by two surrogates – "A British couple are to become parents of two sets of twin babies carried by two Indian surrogate women they have never met. Experts say twiblings – or children born to separate surrogates but created from the same batch of embryos – are not uncommon in India."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Gang Rape in India, Routine and Invisible – "[T]he Mumbai case provides an unusual glimpse into a group of bored young men who had committed the same crime often enough to develop a routine. The police say the men had committed at least five rapes in the same spot. Their casual confidence reinforces the notion that rape has been a largely invisible crime here, where convictions are infrequent and victims silently go away." – see also: Trying to Make Sense of India's Sexual Violence, State by State from t.greer.
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Insects aren't gay, they're just enthusiastic! Scientists discover same-sex mating in bugs is down to a rush to reproduce – h/t hbd bibliography!
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Mysterious hum keeping people up all night 'could be mating fish' – "A council investigation was launched in Hythe, Southampton after some people had to move away because of the drone 'pulsating' through their homes."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Are conspiracy theories destroying democracy? – "The more information we have about what governments and corporations are up to the less we seem to trust them. Will conspiracy theories eventually destroy democracy?" – h/t avi tuschman!
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'Mission: Impossible 5′ Attracts 'Iron Man 3′ Writer
'Mission: Impossible 5' is quickly moving forward now that Tom Cruise has signed the dotted line for a fourth sequel. And to speed things up, 'Iron Man 3' screenwriter Drew Pearce has been brought in to pen the latest installment.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Pearce has signed on to the picture, with Christopher McQuarrie still mentioned as the most likely candidate to direct. Pearce seems a good choice as his other big project is this summer's 'Pacific Rim,' which he worked on with Guillermo del Toro.
These three projects suggest a scripter who is good at working with directors who are used to both writing and directing. But that also means that it's hard to know how much to credit him for the screenplay of something like 'Iron Man 3.' There he was was working with co-writer/director Shane Black, but when interviewed about making the movie Pearce said it was his idea that 'Iron Man 3' be set at Christmas (a Black trademark), which definitely confuses the issue.
THR also notes that Cruise's next project is 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,' which has been adding to its cast recently, and that 'M:I 5' would be his next project after that, which suggests a 2015 launch for the film.


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Fundraising for Fiscal Year 2014 Ahead of Schedule
POSTED ON: January 22, 2014
Fundraising for the FY14 campaign year is on track to exceed last year's $10 million cash total. For the Annual Fund, cash receipts as of January 22, 2014, total $1.6 million, roughly 12 percent higher than at the same time a year ago. Other private giving has reached $6.4 million, for a grand total of $8 million at the midpoint of the fiscal year.
In addition, The Cooper Union has received several major gifts thus far:
- $2.4 million, the first distribution of an estate gift from Howard Betts (ME'49)
- $1 million, representing a distribution from the estate of Elaine Flug (father: Isaac Allen [Ar'24])
- $1 million from Martin Trust (ME'56)
- $150,000 grant from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust
- $100,000 gift from Kevin Burke (EE'72).
"We are fortunate to have alumni and friends who actively support The Cooper Union, its faculty and students," said President Jamshed Bharucha. "Their philanthropy is crucially important at this moment in our history, as it expresses their trust in our ability as an academic community to meet and exceed the challenges of our time."


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Accordance Services Collection
Posted 18 September 2012 - 11:04 AM
New here, looking for a link to the accordance services collection by Joe Weaks, his link is broken and was wondering if anyone knows where I coulld get the services collection.
Posted 18 September 2012 - 03:10 PM
This is the third thread come up here along with some personal messages asking to get them available once more. My excuse is that I wanted to hold off on reposting and release an updated collection with a couple enhancements and test the whole script engine with the new Accordance 10. The new interface of Acc10 has broken some functions.
I'd appreciate receiving reports from current users of what is and isn't working in Acc10. You can post it in this forum topic if you like.
I will see if I can start on this tomorrow, and get a new link up.
Sorry for the delay. I'll post here when they are available.
Posted 18 September 2012 - 03:49 PM
Posted 26 September 2012 - 01:24 AM
Any volunteers to test things out?
Posted 26 September 2012 - 06:39 AM
By the way, I have continued to use the current services with some measure of success.
Posted 26 September 2012 - 05:05 PM
I'm sending you a download link privately.
Posted 26 September 2012 - 05:34 PM
Posted 26 September 2012 - 08:03 PM
Posted 26 September 2012 - 08:15 PM
Lead Australian Accordance Demonstrator
Administrator, Accordance Exchange
Assistant Minister, Summer Hill Church
Posted 29 September 2012 - 08:56 PM
You can find more info here.
It includes all new Services, all new Quicksilver Actions, and a new Microsoft Word Plugin.
Twas a lot of work, so hope it's useful.
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Posted 30 September 2012 - 10:37 PM
I do have a question. I installed a few of the services and with a couple of them i.e. with Accordance Verses NIV11 I get the message "Access for assistive devices is disabled". Do you know what that is about?
David Voth
Posted 30 September 2012 - 11:12 PM
This was in the previous documentation I know, so surprised it got left out. You must check "Enable access for Assistive Devices" in System Preferences/Accessibility.
This allows the script library to select menu items and put text in search boxes in Accordance. Explanation here.
Posted 01 October 2012 - 01:38 PM
David Voth
Posted 01 October 2012 - 01:40 PM
Rubén Gómez
Posted 02 October 2012 - 09:12 AM
The Word plug-in was also a great addition to the set!
Thanks Joe!
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 06:05 PM
Posted 04 October 2012 - 07:03 PM
As the new webmaster for the Accordance Exchange, there are a few useful tools over there, and it's worth a look around, though it has been a bit quiet lately. I have posted Joe's collection over there as well. Click here to go the area of the exchange where his collection is hosted.
We'd love more contributions. A strong sharing community helps us all!
Lead Australian Accordance Demonstrator
Administrator, Accordance Exchange
Assistant Minister, Summer Hill Church
Posted 05 October 2012 - 03:31 PM
You can find the video here.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 01:13 AM
I think you just made my pastor a very person, and as his tech guy that makes me happy. The tool is the insert verse tool in Word. Probably one of your more simple ones, but looks like it might solve one of his complaints about accordance.
There are some incredible tools here that I think just made Accordance a more usable and more valuable tool than it already is.
Thank you for your expertise and dedication!
Todd Mogilner
Posted 06 October 2012 - 08:16 PM
Glad to hear. The VBA Word script can be customized, as well, if it's not exactly what you want.
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» Monday, January 30, 2012
Asked for details about the Foreign Secretary's (FS) trip to New York, the Prime Minister's Spokesperson (PMS) told the assembled media that Government hoped to agree a United Nations Security Council Resolution this week, the international community had repeatedly called on President Assad to stop the killing and repression of civilians.
Asked for details about what to expect in New York, the PMS said that we have been working in New York to support a text drafted by Arab members of the Security Council which promotes a regional approach to the crisis. We welcome the briefing tomorrow by Qatari Foreign Minister, Hamad bin Jassim, and Arab League Secretary General, Al Arabiy. We believe that the UN must act to support the people of Syria and that Russia can no longer explain blocking the UN and providing cover for the regime's brutal repression.
Asked if the PM had made any calls on the matter, the PMS said that the FS had been leading on the issue.
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Los Angeles Galaxy head coach and general manager Bruce Arena said the club is not interested in extending the loan of Landon Donovan to Everton of the English Premier League, despite reports that the Toffees will pursue such an arrangement.
Everton manager David Moyes was quoted by the Press Association in the United Kingdom as saying he was hoping to extend the loan which began Jan. 6 and is scheduled to end March 15. Donovan has played in eight games with Everton and has one goal and two assists.
"I am keen to keep Landon," Moyes said. "In the main he has done a really good job for us. It is very rare you can bring in someone in January on loan who can make a real difference to you but Landon has.
"Landon has been thrown straight in so we had to find out very quickly if he could do a job or not. But I think his manager at LA Galaxy would say the best World Cup preparation for him would be to start in their team."
Arena confirmed such sentiments Friday.
"We're not interested," Arena said before his club scrimmaged San Diego State. "Landon will be back here March 15. We're being consistent with everything we've said all along."
Donovan signed a new four-year contract with Los Angeles in mid-December, but several clubs were interested in his services during the offseason. Aside from Everton, those reportedly included Serie A side Livorno, Paris Saint-Germain of France's Ligue 1, Mexico's Club America, Scotland's Glasgow Celtic and even Liverpool of the English Premier League.
Donovan is coming off arguably his finest season. The nine-year MLS standout was named the league's Most Valuable Player, he led the U.S. into the finals of the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, he was named to his ninth MLS All-Star team and he became the league's leading scorer in the MLS Cup Playoffs.
Arena did leave an opening, however. MLS currently is in talks with the players union about a new labor agreement, and the start of the regular season -- the Galaxy open against New England on March 27 -- could be jeopardy if no deal is reached.
If the league does not start on time, Donovan then might be able to stay with Everton.
"Obviously the collective bargaining could change that," Arena said. "If we didn't have a league going on we would certainly entertain the idea of allowing Landon to stay there.
"If we have a league, Landon's going to be playing for the Galaxy."
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To be considered for undergraduate admission, international applicants must meet the following requirements:
- If applying as a freshman, hold an academic credential that is comparable to a U.S. high school diploma and have a cumulative grade point average greater than or equal to 2.5 on a 4.0 scale.
- If applying as a transfer student with the equivalent of 24 or more semester credit hours at a recognized post-secondary institution, have a cumulative grade point average greater than or equal to 2.0 on a 4.0 scale on all post-secondary academic coursework.
- If English is not the student's native language, English proficiency must be
demonstrated prior to beginning the academic program at Western Illinois University.
Evidence of English proficiency must be dated no more than two years prior to the date
of matriculation to WIU. Evidence of English proficiency may be met by one of the
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- TOEFL score of 533 or greater (paper version/PBT) or 73 or greater (internet based version/iBT).
- IELTS score (academic format) of 6.0 or better.
- Freshman: Have studied in residence a minimum of two years at a state recognized U.S. high school and earned at least a 2.50 GPA (on a 4.00 scale) in an academic core curriculum.
- Transfer: Have studied in residence at a regionally accredited U.S. post-secondary institution and have earned at least 24 semester hours of transferable degree credit, which must include ENG 180 and 280 with a grade of "C" or higher; OR earned an Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, or Associate of General Studies degree while completing the equivalent of ENG 180 and 280 with a grade of "C" or higher.
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Students who meet the minimum requirements but need further English language instruction as assessed by the Center for International Studies administrative staff and/ or individual undergraduate departments will be required to take the WESL placement test upon arrival to campus and may be required to enroll in and graduate from WESL prior to beginning their academic program.
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The legend of "Jim's Original" started over 80 years ago, when a young, bright-eyed European immigrant named "Jimmy" arrived in America. Once in Chicago, Jimmy began working at a small hot dog stand on the bustling corners of Maxwell and Halsted Streets. Jimmy worked hard, bought the stand from his aunt, and then made it literally "World Famous." He piled succulent polish sausages high on the grill and created the first Maxwell Street Polish Sausage sandwich, with sweet grilled onions and a smear of mustard. Perhaps there has never been a pleasure as great and as simple as taking a bite into one of Jimmy's original sandwiches. Due to UIC expansion and City pressures, that little stand, Jim's Original, was relocated first in 2001 and then in 2005 a block North and a block East to the Southwest Corner of Union Avenue & James Rochford Street. Today we continue to serve the Original Maxwell Street Polish Sausage Sandwich as Jimmy did when he first "invented" it in 1943, along with several other sandwiches including the pork chop sandwich "with the bone on a bun".
Jim's Original is the longest continuously operating hot dog stand to have once done business on Maxwell Street. Except for a short closure in 2001 when we were relocated from Maxwell Street to Union Avenue, we have been in business since 1939, with 62 years of history on Maxwell Street. Jim's was so well-known and has so consistently served Chicagoans that we became the cornerstone of the Old Maxwell Street Market until its relocation in 1994. People still identify the Old Maxwell Street Market with the sweet smell of onions that emanated from Jim's stand.
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Patch 6.0.2 is upon us, and with it comes a host of changes to the game and our class. This post is your quick and easy guide to making the transition from raiding in 5.4.8 to raiding in the brave new world of 6.0.2.
Unlike usual, I'll try and keep things short and to the point.
Major Game Mechanics Changes
These are all changes to core systems in the game that affect us as tanks, so you should know about them.
- Hit and Expertise are gone – You'll now automatically hit appropriate-level targets all the time. Technically speaking, there's still a 3% chance to be parried when attacking from the front, but as a tank, you have a passive that gives you a free 3% expertise (Sanctuary for paladins) that eliminate that chance.
- Everything was squished – You'll note that stats are much lower than before, and the amount of rating on gear has been reduced substantially, but so have the conversion coefficients. So for example, it used to take 425 haste rating for 1% haste, but now it only takes 20 haste rating!
- Tank mitigation was squished – To try and rein in tank survivability and self-sustainability, tank mitigation was nerfed pretty much across the board. You'll find that many spells, especially ones that provided flat percentage effects, now provide less mitigation than they used to. We'll talk more about details further down the page. However….
- Health was squished… less? – You won't have 1 million hit points anymore, but you will still have substantially more health compared to what you'd expect post-squish. That's because rather than getting 14 hit points per point of stamina, you now get 60. This is all part of the revamped tanking/healing model they're trying in WoD.
- Snapshotting is gone – For the most part, damage-over-time and heal-over-time spells do not snapshot stats (like attack power, crit, etc.) anymore. There are a few exceptions, but none (at least that I know of) that we care about. The damage and healing of abilities like Eternal Flame, Sacred Shield, etc. will now dynamically update with your current stats on every tick.
- Pandemic for everyone! – If you've played a warlock, you may recall a passive effect called "Pandemic" that allowed you to refresh DoTs to up to 150% of their base duration. That same mechanic (though reduced to 130%) has been applied to all HoTs and DoTs in WoD. This means that, for example, if you refresh Sacred Shield with 15 seconds remaining, the new duration will be 39 seconds, not 30 seconds. Likewise it means that refreshing it with up to 9 seconds remaining won't "waste" any of the remaining duration.
And there's one change so big that it deserves its own section….
Vengeance – GONE
Vengeance is finally gone. No more standing in the fire to boost your DPS!
It's been replaced by a mechanic called Resolve. The tooltip for Resolve is misleading – much earlier in beta, there was a static component based on your Stamina, but that's long since been removed. Now it just increases your self-healing and self-absorb effects based on the damage you take. Mathematically it's fairly complex – I covered the original version in this blog post, but that's now out of date – but for now all you need to know is that:
- It doesn't turn on until you've taken a certain amount of damage in the last 10 seconds,
- It continuously re-calculates its value based on the damaging events that happened in the last 10 seconds,
- It has built-in diminishing returns that limit its effectiveness to a 240% boost to your baseline (zero-Resolve) healing.
The plot below shows the diminishing returns curve as a function of "DamageMod," which is related to your damage intake. Again, I don't want to get into the mathy details today, so for now all you need to worry about is that it increases your self-healing more as you take more damage, with fairly smooth diminishing returns.
There are a few reasons that Resolve is pretty awesome when compared to Vengeance. First, since it's decoupled from damage entirely, there's no longer an incentive to stand in fire, or worse, jump through inane hoops to solo-tank bosses for huge DPS gains (Heroic 25M Garrosh, I'm looking at you…). The diminishing returns also ensures that it's never worth taking increased damage – for example, if you take 2x as much damage, you won't generate twice as much healing, so it's a net survivability loss.And thanks to the changes to snapshotting, our self-healing abilities will dynamically update with Resolve. That means we can get rid of a ton of weakauras we've historically used, both for tracking our current amount of Resolve and for tracking what level of Resolve, haste, and so on we were at when we last cast Eternal Flame or Sacred Shield. I am really looking forward to hitting "delete" on a bunch of those auras!
Class Changes
There are a bunch of changes that affect Prot Paladins specifically that I want to talk about in more detail.
In the great ability pruning of '14, many a skill was lost by many a class. As Protection Paladins, we lost access to Avenging Wrath, Devotion Aura, and…. that's about it. So much for freeing up key bindings. Technically we freed up another key bind in Blinding Light, which was moved to the second talent tier.
Sanctified Wrath has been totally redesigned since we no longer have Avenging Wrath. Now it causes Holy Wrath to generate a charge of Holy Power and makes it hit like a truck by doubling its damage. No, seriously, like a truck:
If you decide to take the Final Wrath glyph, you can add another 50% to that. In other words, if it does 10k damage with no talents, it does 20k with Sanctified Wrath talented and 30k if Final Wrath is glyphed. Fun stuff.
One downside of all of this massive damage is that Holy Wrath has a longer cooldown in Warlords, up from 9 seconds to 15 seconds. This is somewhat unfortunate from the perspective of picking up groups of adds, in that it will be less available than before. But it will hit significantly harder, so it'll do a better job of picking them up when it is available. It's just a shame that it still splits damage amongst all targets hit.
Level 45 talents have all seen some significant changes. Eternal Flame got hit pretty hard with the nerfbat. The base heal is unchanged (still identical to Word of Glory), but the heal-over-time portion was nerfed several ways, the biggest one being that it no longer benefits from Bastion of Glory. This is bad from a "massively overpowered self-healing throughput" point of view, but good from a balance perspective because… well… it was massively overpowered. This should put allow it to stay on more even footing with the other options in this tier.
I should also add that it got a quality-of-life improvement, though. Rather than having the heal-over-time portion heal for less when you cast with less than three holy power, it now just has a shorter duration. So if you need to emergency-WoG yourself with only one or two Holy Power, you're not gimping yourself with the HoT – you're just not getting the full 30 seconds out of it.
Sacred Shield, on the other hand, got hit with the… buffbat? Unlike in MoP, Sacred Shield ticks can now individually crit, and now that multistrike is a thing they can do that as well. So if your Sacred Shield normally ticks for 100, a lucky tick that crits and makes both multistrike rolls will tick for 320.
Selfless Healer got nerfed, in that it no longer benefits from Bastion of Glory. On the other hand, in all the re-tuning it ended up in a not-so-awful place. So it might actually be a viable contender in 6.x. More on that later.
As I mentioned earlier, many of our mitigation abilities got nerfed. It isn't worth going into detail on all of them, but there are a few you should be aware of:
- Shield of the Righteous' base mitigation was nerfed to 20% (from 25%), and each point of mastery now only provides an additional 0.75% mitigation (down from 1%).
- Bastion of Glory only provides 6% per stack (down from 10%), and each point of mastery only adds 0.75% (down from 1%).
- Divine Protection and Guardian of Ancient Kings now only last 8 seconds (down from 10).
Finally, there are some new passive skills you should know about. The first is Bladed Armor, which is a hidden passive that causes bonus armor on gear to also grant attack power. This makes bonus armor a potent offensive stat in addition to its already-respectable defensive benefits.
The second is Riposte, which causes critical strike rating from gear to also grant an equal amount of parry rating. This gives crit rating a defensive benefit, so that it isn't useless to us.
The third is Shining Protector, which gives multistrike a more significant defensive benefit. Any time we receive a heal, Shining Protector has a chance to proc an extra heal for 30% of that amount. It works on our own self-healing as well as external healing.
And finally, the new passive Sacred Duty increases the amount of haste rating you get from gear by 5%.
Gear Changes
After the patch, all of your gear will be "squished" in the sense that it will have much less rating on it. In addition, hit, expertise, dodge, and parry will be converted to crit, mastery, or haste. For example, here's the dodge/parry chest from T15 before and after the squish:
The one exception is that dodge and parry on "non-armor" pieces like rings, amulets, and trinkets, which can turn into bonus armor. Since bonus armor will be a fairly prized stat, this will make some items that were ignored pre-6.0, like Juggernaut's Focusing Crystal, suddenly very desirable.
Gems were also squished – you'll find that your 320 haste gems from 5.4.8 are now only 20 haste. On the other hand, that's actually a buff due to rating conversion changes. Pre-patch, each of those gems gave you 0.75% haste, while post-patch they each give you 1.00%.
In addition, all of your hit and expertise gems will have turned into crit and haste gems, respectively. Wowhead has a great summary of both the new gem combinations and the other gear changes coming with this patch.
Between the more favorable rating conversions and a large chunk of hit and expertise on your gear turning into haste, you may find yourself significantly over the 50% haste cap when you log in on Tuesday.
Stat Priority
Unsurprisingly, the shuffling of stats, massive re-tuning of abilities, and tank mitigation nerfs all had noticeable effects on our stat priority. Whereas before, haste was our most-desired stat, it's now only about average. On the other hand, mastery has really become strong, which in part led to the SotR and Bastion of Glory nerfs mentioned earlier.
Here's an example of what your stat weights might look like if you're wearing Mythic T16 gear:
I've tweaked the gear in this case so that we're far enough below the haste cap of 50% that we aren't artificially lowering its value. As you can see, mastery and bonus armor dominate, with stats like versatility, haste, and crit all trailing. Our new secondary stat priorities for survivability are,
Mastery > Bonus Armor > Haste (to 50%) > Crit > Multistrike
There are some caveats to mention here, of course. First of all, multistrike is probably a little stronger than the sim represents, because we're simming without an external healer here. That said, I don't know that it's that much more valuable. It's certainly a strong throughput stat when you're being healed, but generally when you're being healed you aren't dying either. In the situations where you do die, which are usually situations where you have a shortage of incoming healing, multistrike's value isn't likely to be much higher than this sim predicts.
It will remain to see exactly how deaths happen in 6.0 before we can really estimate it more accurately – if trickle-down deaths over 10+ seconds are the norm, then multistrike will probably be a fairly strong stat that we may want to stack over haste and crit. If spike deaths in 5- to 6-second windows are still the target (as opposed to the 2-second windows we see now), then it's not likely to be our go-to stat.
Second, we're simming this against a T17 Mythic boss scaled down to level 90. So stamina's value here is a little larger than it normally would be. Again, for Siege content you can probably skimp on stamina in favor of mastery for more mitigation, but until we really get a chance to play with 6.0 Siege it'll be hard to say exactly how much stamina feels comfortable.
In case you're wondering, the DPS stat priorities are a little different:
In this case, strength reigns supreme, followed closely by bonus armor. Put in order, our DPS priorities would be:
Strength > Bonus Armor > Multistrike / Crit > Versatility > Mastery > Haste
For buffs or effects that give attack power, you can just recall that 1 bonus armor gives 1 attack power, so AP is exactly the same as bonus armor for offense.
I ran some quick sims of the same T16M gear set with different gemming patterns to see how they differed. You can see all of the specifics here, but in summary, I took the gear set and re-gemmed it for haste, crit, and mastery just to see what would happen. Here are the DPS and TMI results:
As you can see, the mastery build does hold a significant TMI advantage, while the crit build gives the most DPS. Haste doesn't really excel in either department anymore, sadly. The entire report can be found here if you want to dig through it in more detail.
Obviously at level 90, we don't need to worry about the new level 100 talents. So our talent questions center around the usual three tiers: level 45, level 75, and level 90.
Level 90 is the easiest. Execution Sentence is still top DPS, but neither Light's Hammer nor Holy Prism are that far behind. Holy Prism is still a great choice for add pick-up and such, while Light's Hammer is still a very versatile AoE pick-up tool. Both of their raid-healing capabilities are somewhat diminished by the removal of Vengeance – Resolve won't boost their healing on other raid members.
For the other two tiers, here are some sim results:
At level 45, we actually have a fair choice. Even though it's not on the plots, Selfless Healer has been surprising me in some of my L100 sims, mostly in that it's not that far behind. But it's still far enough that we probably won't take it. That said, if you really like that play style, you aren't gimping yourself as much by taking it after 6.0.
Between Sacred Shield and Eternal Flame, the race is tighter. You really aren't in too bad shape with either choice, but even with the strength of the T16 4-piece bonus, Sacred Shield comes out ahead. It does, however, come with a small DPS cost thanks to the GCDs required to refresh it.
The HoT component of Eternal Flame only does about 1/3 as much healing as Sacred Shield provides in absorption, which is why Eternal Flame can't really keep up here. Once we lose the T16 bonus that's propping up Eternal Flame, it'll fall even further behind. Without a significant buff, I don't see EF competing with Sacred Shield at level 100.
Finally, for our L75 talents, we again have a pretty fair choice. Divine Purpose is dominating the TMI charts, but also gives the lowest DPS. Sanctified Wrath gives the highest DPS, but at a TMI cost. Holy Avenger performs respectably in both categories, though it trails the other two in TMI. Really though, they're all fine, and it will generally come down to personal preference or which one suits the fight better.
To be honest, I'm pretty impressed – never before have we seen both the L45 and L75 talents so well balanced with one another. My initial sims suggest that this will remain the case at 100, which is pretty neat. It's gotten pretty boring having only one "correct" answer in a tier, and I'm glad to see that we're moving away from that.
I've been doing a lot of work fine-tuning the rotation that I've used in these sims, especially for level 100. At level 90 it's significantly easier, and doesn't take much modification from what you're already used to.
At level 90, the base rotation priority is as follows:
- Crusader Strike
- Judgment
- Holy Wrath – if Sanctified Wrath is chosen
- Avenger's Shield
- Level 90 Talent (any of them)
- Hammer of Wrath
- Holy Wrath
- Consecration
As you can see, not too much has changed. Holy Wrath is much higher in priority with Sanctified Wrath chosen thanks to the Holy Power generation. As we level to 90, the second Holy Wrath entry will actually drop behind Consecration once the Improved Consecration perk is obtained.
As far as Sacred Shield goes, refresh it in any empty GCD. If it's about to expire, slot it in above anything that doesn't generate Holy Power (so use it instead of Avenger's Shield only if you don't have a Grand Crusader proc).
For AoE, make some simple modifications:
- Replace Crusader Strike with Hammer of the Righteous,
- Bump Consecration up to be equal with L90 talents (technically ahead of Execution Sentence, but behind Light's Hammer or Holy Prism), and
- Move Avenger's Shield to the very top of the list if you have a Grand Crusader proc and you will hit more than one target (i.e. Focused Shield is not glyphed).
None of those should be all that surprising, and they're basically exactly what you do now in AoE circumstances.
I've updated my WeakAuras on the beta, though I haven't added level 100 talents yet. I'll have a more complete post discussing what changed up in the next week or so. The links below will give you the import strings you need to get up and running though:
Resolve/Haste Text Indicators
The Priority and Cooldowns groups are similar to before, but I've re-arranged them for the new spell priorities and removed spells we don't have anymore (Avenging Wrath, Devotion Aura, etc.). The "Priority-SW" group is an overlay that switches the priority when you talent into Sanctified Wrath. Finally, the Resolve/Haste indicators are just simple text indicators that show your current haste percent and Resolve amounts.
Note that all of the Vengeance Bars, SS and EF indicators, and so on are all gone – they're all irrelevant now, so it was nice to clean house and get rid of loads of excess auras. Those were also some of the more computationally-intensive auras, so the rest of the suite should run a little faster as a result.
One warning: on beta, the cooldown spirals weren't working, and I couldn't figure out why. I assume it's a simple bug in WeakAuras that will be fixed eventually.
Ask A Theck!
That covers all of the important topics that I could remember, but it's entirely possible I forgot to mention something. I've been working in "beta-mode" for so long now that the line between "current" and "beta" has started to blur. So if there's anything you want me to clarify further, or any questions you have for me, feel free to ask them in the comments. I'll try to answer everything that gets asked throughout the day.
Also don't forget that you can run your own character through SimC to see how your personal stat weights work out. I'll have a post up Friday giving you an overview of all of the new features we've added to SimC in the last few months.
The Icy Veins guide, which I help edit, has also been updated for 6.0.


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I got a unique opportunity in the summer to illustrate a short story written by DC's Editor Adam Schlagman. When I got the story, I learned it focused around a character I had no clue about: Animal Man. But I was up for a challenge and I really love all of the obscure DC characters so I jumped in head first. I got some copy's of the old Grant Morrison Animal Man runs and read through some of it to understand the characters. I also really had fun drawing his costume because it has some great elements, like the jacket. Plus I got the draw him as a zombie. Here are some pencils and the AMAZING inks by Ryan Wynn. Enjoy.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Soulfire Volume 3
Last weekend I was invited out to the New York Comic Convention in order to promote the series I am working on with Aspen Comics. It was really cool to be on the other side of the booth, signing autographs, doing commissions and being able to meet people. At the Aspen Panel, they announced me as the new artist on Michael Turner's Soulfire. I'm really excited for this opportunity, and I've been working hard to really make these issue's stand out. Michael Turner was an amazing artist and creator and to be working on one of his flagship titles is an honor. Check out the pencils and colours for the 3 promo shots that made there debut at NYCC.
Colors by Peter Steigerwald.
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Hofesh Shechter 'Uprising' from Martin French on Vimeo.
A video excerpt of Hofesh Shechter's Uprising.
In recent years, Israeli contemporary dance has stretched far beyond Israel's borders as companies embarked on international tours and as some Israeli choreographers created artistic homes for themselves abroad. Didn't realize how much Israeli dancers were moving around the globe? Consider the performing schedules of Hofesh Shechter and Talia Paz, two artists who will be featured later in Tel Aviv Dance 2008 (see our Events page for listings).
Hofesh Shechter's U.K.-based company will be onstage at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center on November 11-12, while Israeli-based Talia Paz will perform at the Suzanne Dellal Center on November 20-21 in a work by Sharon Eyal. Besides participating in the Tel Aviv Dance 2008 festival, they also appeared in New York for City Center's popular Fall for Dance series in September – and in between these two events, Shechter's troupe made several stops in the U.K., Spain, and Germany.
Dance In Israel was online in a beta version this summer and early autumn, and I wrote the post below about Fall for Dance prior to the blog's renovation.
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For the last few years, City Center's Fall for Dance series has given New York audiences the opportunity to sample offerings from a wide variety of companies and choreographers. Forget traditional programming; this is the chance to see ballet and butoh on the same bill. I was tempted to forgo packing and trek to the theater for this spread of dance, especially because of appearances by Talia Paz and Hofesh Shechter, but my aliyah schedule made it impossible to attend the performances (it's official: I am an olah hadasha!). However, there are some reports available from other sources which I have compiled below:


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Christine Frederick arrested
Christine Frederick, a friend of a man accused of killing his father and beating his brother and mother with a baseball bat, is facing drug charges.
Farmington Hills police arrested Christine Frederick Friday night. The 47-year-old was charged with possession with intent to manufacture marijuana and possession of marijuana. She was released from police custody on personal bond Saturday morning.
Frederick is a friend of Tucker Cipriano, a 19-year-old who is facing charges in the attack against his Farmington Hills family. His father was killed during the attack, while his mother and 17-year-old brother suffered critical injuries. Tucker Cipriano's 20-year-old friend, Mitchell Young, is also facing charges in the case. Both men are charged with first-degree murder and first-degree felony murder for the April 16 incident.
According to the Farmington Hills Police Department, Christine Frederick's arrest was related to an on going drug investigation. It is not related to the Cipriano murder case.
Police arrested three other people at the time of Frederick's arrest. Two of them were adults, the other a minor.
Fredericks does have a medical marijuana license after she suffered from a brain tumor. The tumor was removed in June of 2011. However, she suffers severe migraine headaches.
Christine Fredericks is expected to have a preliminary exam conference in May.


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Here's the summary for those of you who aren't familiar with the book: An award-winning YA fantasy debut, 16-year-old novelist Cayla Kluver brings a magical touch to an unrelentingly suspenseful coming-of-age tale. Duty-bound to wed her father's choice in successor to the throne, Princess Alera of Hytanica believes that she is being forced into the worst of all possible fates—a marriage to the arrogant and hot-tempered suitor, Steldor. When a mysterious boy from enemy Cokyri appears bearing secrets and an entirely different view of what's appropriate behavior for a young lady, Alera learns that her private desires threaten to destroy the kingdom. When Narian's shocking past comes to light, Alera finds herself in a shadowy world of palace intrigue and ancient blood feuds, facing an uncertain future with dwindling options—and must learn to decide between right and wrong all alone. Marked by witty, rapid-fire dialogue and dramatic complexity that belie the writer's age, Legacy brings a fresh, new sensibility to age-old questions of duty and inheritance and to a young heroine's quest to find her true voice.
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Although a few dinosaurs were adapted to live underwater, most dinosaurs were landlubbers through and through. And perhaps no dinosaur had less business going for a swim that this fellow, the heavily-armored, 13,000-pound Ankylosaurus.
That's why it's so bizarre that the fossils of one of these tank-like behemoths was found in the Suncor mine of northern Alberta, a sediment area associated with marine environments of the early Cretaceous. Somehow, this dinosaur lived all its life on land, yet managed to spend the next 110 million years underwater - give or take some major rearrangement of the continents around it, of course. Dinosaur Tracking explains the bizarre chain of events that deposited this dinosaur so ludicrously outside its natural habitat:
This ankylosaur must have lived along the coastline of the great Western Interior Seaway which once split North America into two. But that was many, many miles away from where the skeleton was found. Exactly how the dinosaur died is unknown, but...the carcass undoubtedly floated upside-down through the sea. The gases from decomposition gave the body enough buoyancy to travel-what paleontologists commonly refer to as a "bloat and float" scenario.
For those wanting to learn a lot more about this strange new find, there's an hour-long lecture video at the link.
Via Dinosaur Tracking. Artist's conception by LadyOfHats.


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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
In what state am I most likely to hit a deer?
West Virginia has topped the list for six years in a row, with other particularly dangerous states being virtually all of the northern Midwestern states and the mid-Atlantic states. South Dakota's No. 2, and Iowa's No. 3.
Washington, it turns out, is one of the lowest-risk states, coming in at No. 43 this year. Your odds of hitting a deer in the Evergreen State are a mere 1 in 477, according to State Farm's estimates.
The company estimates that there are about 10,700 collisons with deer in Washington state each year. (Compare that with, say, Pennsylvania's 115,000.)
Oregon is No. 37 on the list, and Idaho's 33.
Arizona, perhaps not surprisingly, is the stae in which you're least likely to run into a deer. Armadillos, however, were not part of the study.
Here's the full list.
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After Jennel's shocking elimination from 'The X Factor', she vowed that it's 'time for me to show the world who I really am.' Distraught, she admitted she felt Demi turned her into something she wasn't and audiences didn't like it.
Jennel Garcia became the latest victim to get the ax from The X Factor, as the judges chose to save Paige Thomas instead of her after a dramatic sing off. Jennel, who has vowed to pursue her dream of becoming a star, says that she now wants to shake off the image that she was given by her mentor Demi Lovato, as she feels she "was letting Demi do what she wanted. "The makeup; the hair; the heels; that wasn't necessarily me and I was letting Demi do what she wanted, and I was going to listen to her no matter what because she's my mentor and I trust her."
Jennel also regrets not pushing Demi more on the song choice of "Proud Mary," which she believes is the reason why she was went home. "I really put up a fight about singing 'Proud Mary' because the other song we were working on was 'You Oughta Know' by Alanis Morissette, which is way more me than 'Proud Mary,' but everyone disagreed and said 'Proud Mary' was the one. Clearly it was not, so I was right. I should've stuck up for myself more. I should have given them a piece of my mind, much more than I did, but I didn't because I wanted to be good and cooperative."
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Work of art: Stonehenge townhouse paints a bold picture
ADDRESS: 1042 Cheshire Court
NEIGHBORHOOD: Stonehenge, Albemarle
SIZE: 1,965 fin. sq. ft. / 87 unfin.
CURB APPEAL: 8 out of 10
AGENT: Sinisa Vasquez, Keller Williams, 220-2200
"Fantastic works of art do not convey." While those words do not appear in the listing for this week's house, potential buyers should consider themselves warned. One enters expecting to tour a townhouse, but finds instead a gallery. Every room contains three-dimensional works: dressing mannequins colorfully decorated, window frames merged with photographs, a Citroën driver's-side door mounted on the bedroom wall– getting distracted?
Even with most of the striking art gone, though, much will be left to like. The agent says this is one of the largest units in Stonehenge, a 1970s-era townhouse development tucked into the hills just off Rio Road on the lesser-taxed side of the city-county border.
From what we hear about the difficulty of getting in and out of this neighborhood, "Rio" must be Spanish for "traffic." Once in, though, mature trees and a lack of through traffic afford a pleasant refuge from the workaday hustle and bustle.
Thanks to trees and the developer's deft use of elevation, the dwelling provides a similarly surprising amount of privacy. While the house faces a neighborhood road, several large oaks stand between the road and the deck. The walk-out patio directly beneath the deck is several feet below street level.
For those wishing to live deliberately, a walking path surrounds the neighborhood and leads to Meadow Creek's share of the Rivanna Trail, over 20 miles on which Charlottesville's hikers and mountain bikers can suck all the marrow out of the no-drive hiking life.
Now that the building boom appears on hold for at least a few years, we feel safe divulging that a satellite view of the area behind Stonehenge reveals several hectares of woods, which our local proffer-pushers somehow missed during the last decade's divine quest to build a luxury townhouse and/or condominium for every man, woman, and foolish investor in America.
If we are to believe the mock tombstone erected by a citizen further down Rio after it turns into Park Street, the Meadow Creek Parkway will never be built; perhaps Thoreau, the Lorax, and these trees are all safe.
Back inside after our hike, we find a breakfast bar separating the practical and compact kitchen from the eat-in area. A large window overlooking the staircase lights the way to the bedroom level. While the current owners have chosen to keep the washer and dryer in the basement for the beneficial quadriceps workout, there are laundry hookups up here for anyone willing to undergo a great one-time workout hauling two bulky appliances up two flights.
The owners like the large family room in the tiled basement because it keeps the TV– killer of conversations and brain cells– away from the living levels. A fourth room downstairs (with full bath) works as a guest bed for in-laws, if not the county enforcers: it would be easy, the agent tells us, to make this a legal bedroom.
Although the house has more living space than most detached houses in this area, storage may be problematic. Unless they plan to reserve a bedroom for winter clothes, tools, and shoeboxes brimming with letters from old flames (everybody keeps those, right?), pack rats will need to hold a yard sale or rent a storage unit.
(Speaking of which, if any trend best represents our pointless acquisitiveness, our vote goes to the boom in storage units. Come on, folks– get rid of that third couch, the decades-old tax returns, and those steamy letters from former paramours. Put it on Craigslist– or advertise it in your favorite free weekly paper (like the one in red boxes every Thursday morning).
Although she may be open to selling some of her works, the Artist Alternately Known as the Owner is planning to take most with her. Fortunately, at least one creative project will remain: a raised living room hearth with tile surrounding river rocks, made with help from her father.
As for the rest? Check the galleries around town– we'll see you there.
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Hazoor delivered his Friday Sermon today illuminating verse (61:9) of Surah Al-Saff in which Allah the Exalted declares the certainty of His Nur (Divine Light) prevailing over the evil designs of others.
Speaking with reference to the writings of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) Hazoor said that Allah has willed that Islam's Nur or light be manifested to all to see that it indeed is the true faith. However, some do not value this blessing and try to make mischief, these are the people whose hearts are sealed. Hazoor said regardless of their evil intentions and devises, heavenly forces are implemented to guide humanity to the right path and that it is a pity that these people will not appreciate how the Divine Light of spirituality expands. Hazoor enjoined that the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that he indeed was the Messiah whose blessings were proliferating by the day, whose Nur was ever increasing, and that a day would come when kings shall seek blessings from his garments. He said that although others wanted his disgrace Allah the Exalted would decree that indeed he, the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace), was the eminent one.
Further, Hazoor enjoined the Community to be always steadfast in face of opposition, to exhibit high morals in exploitation and when verbally abused. He said that whoso is patient is granted a Divine Light which illiminates a fresh capacity in that person's wisdom and insight.
The Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu'ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammad(sa) this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
"O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew." more
"… (He who) offers the Prayers and listens quitely when the Imam stands up for sermon, will have his sins forgiven between that Friday and the next" (Bukhari)