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Orlando not ready to trade Dwight Howard. Yet.

Give this to Magic general manager Otis Smith — he was pretty up front.

He has about the most difficult job in the NBA right now: Either retool the Magic roster enough that Dwight Howard wants to stay (a job Smith made harder on himself with bad moves last year), or find a way to get some real value back in a trade of the biggest star the franchise has had since Shaq.

But he laid it out for the Orlando Sentinel — he doesn’t want to trade Howard, but he has to keep all his options open.

“I think, one, you have to talk to your player first. We have to figure out where his head is, not where everyone thinks his head is, and just more figure out where he wants to be. And then you have to make the best decision of what’s in the best interests of the franchise. That’s how I’ve always went about it: to make the best decision that’s in the best interests of the Orlando Magic.

“I think you have to wait and leave all that up in the air. I don’t think you can say you will or you won’t [trade] at this point because you don’t know what you don’t know. I can speculate based on what I read and hear, but that’s really not fair to Dwight and it’s not fair to us. So you have to have a conversation with him about what he wants to do, and then you have to make the best decision that’s in the best interests of the franchise, as always.”

You can bet that Smith and Dan Fegan, Howard’s agent, will speak soon.

What the Magic need to hope for is Howard to be direct and honest with them — no “I might sign with you if I feel the team is moving in the right direction” stuff. Be direct. Be honest. “This is what it takes for me to stay.” If Howard truly cares about the Magic and the Magic’s fans he owes it to them to be up front about his thoughts and intentions. It’s not easy and there are a lot of emotions in play, but he needs to be a professional here.

If Howard says he wants to move on, expect this process to move pretty quickly. Smith does not want a repeat of what happened last year in Denver. Well, except for the part where the Nuggets got some quality pieces back and played well without their star.

James Harden scores 34, Rockets hold off Timberwolves 129-120

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — James Harden had 34 points and 12 assists, and Houston held off a fourth-quarter rally to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 129-120 on Sunday night for the Rockets’ 26th win in 28 games.

The West’s top team led by as many as 25 before the Timberwolves, holding on for dear life in a tightening playoff race, pulled within five in the fourth. The loss dropped the Wolves into the eighth playoff spot after they started the day in a three-way tie for fifth.

Harden had 11 points in the final 6:34, including a 3-pointer with 58 seconds left that effectively secured the win.

Chris Paul and Clint Capela each had 16 points for the Rockets.

Jeff Teague led Minnesota with 23 points, Andrew Wiggins had 21, and Karl-Anthony Towns and Jamal Crawford each added 20.

The Wolves got a burst of energy after a fourth-quarter scuffle between Gorgui Dieng, Paul and Gerald Green. Green was ejected for coming to Paul’s defense after a frustrated Dieng pushed him down after a foul. With the pumped-up crowd chanting “Gor-Gui!,” Derek Rose had back-to-back layups to pull the Wolves to 109-102. But Paul hit a jumper with Crawford in his face, and Harden easily drove past Dieng for a layup to give the Rockets some breathing room.

Minnesota’s 19-6 run made it 115-110 with 3:58 to play before Trevor Ariza hit a 3, and the Rockets were able to answer every Wolves bucket to hold off the rally.

The game was seemingly over by halftime; Houston shot 63 percent, hit 11 3-pointers and led by as many as 24 in the first half while turning the ball over only three times. Harden had 10 assists in the first half, when the Wolves were as close as three before Houston reeled off a 12-0 run and didn’t allow Minnesota to recover.

Jimmy Butler targeting return to Timberwolves before end of season

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Jimmy Butler could return to the court for the Minnesota Timberwolves before the end of the regular season, if he stays on track with his rehabilitation from knee surgery.

Butler spoke to reporters Sunday for the first time since the meniscus injury he suffered Feb. 23 at Houston . He confirmed an initial recovery estimate of four to six weeks. Even on the long end of that timetable, he’d likely have two games with the Timberwolves before the postseason.

Butler said he’s confident in both his ability to heal in time and the team’s ability to hang on to a spot in the playoffs. The Wolves entered their game against the Rockets in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Western Conference, but no room for a slump.

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Gerald Green ejected for pushing Gorgui Dieng into stands (VIDEO)

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I don’t know why everyone in the NBA is so geeked this weekend. Coaches are getting fined, referees are throwing dudes out left and right. Maybe it’s because most of us recently saw the sun for the first time in five months, although I couldn’t tell you for certain.

As the Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets went head-to-head on Sunday, something had players on both sides itching. Early in the fourth quarter, Timberwolves big man Gorgui Dieng got into it with Houston’s Chris Paul and Gerald Green.

The incident came as Dieng was being defended by Paul in the low post. Paul was whistled for a foul while trying to get the ball away from Dieng, but even after the whistle blew the Rockets guard did not stop trying to get the ball. Dieng responded by pushing Paul, who fell to the ground as if someone cut the strings on him.

That prompted another whistle from the refs, and a crowd of players ensued. Green rushed to push Dieng, sending the Timberwolves center into the stands.

When the scene settled, Dieng was issued a technical foul and Green was ejected.

After the game, Dieng told reporters he thought Paul’s constant digging for the ball was a cheap shot, so he responded in kind.

Minnesota, energized, tried to make a late push on the top team in the Western Conference but came up just short. Houston beat the Timberwolves, 129-120.

Alvin Gentry, Stan Van Gundy fined $15,000 each for criticizing officials

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All is not right between NBA players, coaches, and the referees. What else is new?

After contentious games on Saturday night, both Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy and New Orleans Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry expressed their opinions about what they felt was a poor officiating.

Van Gundy — whose team lost to the Portland Trail Blazers as they continued on to their 12th straight win — complained that his players were being “screwed” as they were knocked down, hammered, and hit. Gentry was especially infuriated after a late foul call went against his team as James Harden was hit on the hand while shooting a 3-pointer.

Now, the NBA has announced that both coaches have been fined $15,000 each for public criticism of officials.

Things were slated to get better between the NBRA and NBPA after the All-Star break. The two sides were supposed to have a meeting which discussed some of the more concerning trends that players and coaches have publicly complained about this year. That meeting got moved up to December, with more talks to come later. It’s not clear if they’ve done any good.

Right after All-Star Weekend guys like LeBron James were still making waves about how they are being officiated. Coaches like Doc Rivers continue to openly complain about the referees and draw fines. Van Gundy and Gentry are just the latest additions to the list, and it’s unlikely they’ll be the last before the season ends.

Hell, the end of the game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Toronto Raptors was just about as bad as we’ve seen all year. In that game, Raptors coach Dwane Casey was ejected after a comment made by a fan sitting near the floor was incorrectly attributed to him.

The NBA lost a lot of veteran officials due to retirement in the changeover to this season, and the transition has been rough. They’re going to need to figure some things out over the summer. I expect bigger announcements about those efforts to come out after the NBA Finals as a means to restore public faith in the officiating crews.


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Heat without Wade: Less slashing, more shooting

Against Milwaukee on Sunday, the Heat role players shot the ball like, well, the Heat role players from last season. Take LeBron James and Chris Bosh out of the equation and the Heat shot 25.7 percent for the game, and were just 2-of-9 from three.

That stood out because it had not been the case for the six games prior — which is why the Heat have looked good without Dwyane Wade.

It is not that the Heat are better or more dangerous without Wade — Erik Spoelstra put it well calling that discussion the “theater of the absurd” — but they have a newfound depth that allows better floor spacing and had been better at shooting (until Sunday). Rather than two guys who are best at slashing, they roll out a lineup that has a combination James Jones, Mario Chalmers, Shane Battier and Mike Miller. Their roster is filled with better shooters this season, something James often lacked in Cleveland.

That is why they started 6-0 without him. Look at this quote from Philadelphia coach Doug Collins, via ESPN’s Heat Index.

“They are a different team without Dwyane,” Sixers coach Doug Collins said. “They space the floor a little bit more and they use the 3-ball a little bit more.”

ESPN’s Brian Windhorst explains the lineup situation while Wade is out well.

Instead of having two slashers who like to create their own shot but aren’t great shooters, the Heat now generally have multiple shooting specialists on the court next to James and Bosh. It is never easy to defend James or Wade when they are on the attack, but it is challenging to have them attack at the same time. But shooters have to be guarded or you’ll often pay the price…

Wade’s latest injury has coincided with the return of Mike Miller from his own injury, which has allowed Spoelstra to play Miller, Shane Battier and James Jones all at once.

When Wade returns that lineup will have to shift. But look for Spoelstra to go to this shooter-heavy lineup for stretches when Wade and LeBron rest. It works.

The Heat are not better without Wade — their pressure and up-tempo attack had then with the most efficient offense in the NBA before Wade went down. Having Wade, Bosh and James brings a diversity to their attack that is very difficult to defend.

But what they have found with him out is another, different way to score. Which is going to make them better come this spring.

James Harden scores 34, Rockets hold off Timberwolves 129-120

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — James Harden had 34 points and 12 assists, and Houston held off a fourth-quarter rally to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 129-120 on Sunday night for the Rockets’ 26th win in 28 games.

The West’s top team led by as many as 25 before the Timberwolves, holding on for dear life in a tightening playoff race, pulled within five in the fourth. The loss dropped the Wolves into the eighth playoff spot after they started the day in a three-way tie for fifth.

Harden had 11 points in the final 6:34, including a 3-pointer with 58 seconds left that effectively secured the win.

Chris Paul and Clint Capela each had 16 points for the Rockets.

Jeff Teague led Minnesota with 23 points, Andrew Wiggins had 21, and Karl-Anthony Towns and Jamal Crawford each added 20.

The Wolves got a burst of energy after a fourth-quarter scuffle between Gorgui Dieng, Paul and Gerald Green. Green was ejected for coming to Paul’s defense after a frustrated Dieng pushed him down after a foul. With the pumped-up crowd chanting “Gor-Gui!,” Derek Rose had back-to-back layups to pull the Wolves to 109-102. But Paul hit a jumper with Crawford in his face, and Harden easily drove past Dieng for a layup to give the Rockets some breathing room.

Minnesota’s 19-6 run made it 115-110 with 3:58 to play before Trevor Ariza hit a 3, and the Rockets were able to answer every Wolves bucket to hold off the rally.

The game was seemingly over by halftime; Houston shot 63 percent, hit 11 3-pointers and led by as many as 24 in the first half while turning the ball over only three times. Harden had 10 assists in the first half, when the Wolves were as close as three before Houston reeled off a 12-0 run and didn’t allow Minnesota to recover.

Jimmy Butler targeting return to Timberwolves before end of season

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Jimmy Butler could return to the court for the Minnesota Timberwolves before the end of the regular season, if he stays on track with his rehabilitation from knee surgery.

Butler spoke to reporters Sunday for the first time since the meniscus injury he suffered Feb. 23 at Houston . He confirmed an initial recovery estimate of four to six weeks. Even on the long end of that timetable, he’d likely have two games with the Timberwolves before the postseason.

Butler said he’s confident in both his ability to heal in time and the team’s ability to hang on to a spot in the playoffs. The Wolves entered their game against the Rockets in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Western Conference, but no room for a slump.

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Gerald Green ejected for pushing Gorgui Dieng into stands (VIDEO)

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I don’t know why everyone in the NBA is so geeked this weekend. Coaches are getting fined, referees are throwing dudes out left and right. Maybe it’s because most of us recently saw the sun for the first time in five months, although I couldn’t tell you for certain.

As the Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets went head-to-head on Sunday, something had players on both sides itching. Early in the fourth quarter, Timberwolves big man Gorgui Dieng got into it with Houston’s Chris Paul and Gerald Green.

The incident came as Dieng was being defended by Paul in the low post. Paul was whistled for a foul while trying to get the ball away from Dieng, but even after the whistle blew the Rockets guard did not stop trying to get the ball. Dieng responded by pushing Paul, who fell to the ground as if someone cut the strings on him.

That prompted another whistle from the refs, and a crowd of players ensued. Green rushed to push Dieng, sending the Timberwolves center into the stands.

When the scene settled, Dieng was issued a technical foul and Green was ejected.

After the game, Dieng told reporters he thought Paul’s constant digging for the ball was a cheap shot, so he responded in kind.

Minnesota, energized, tried to make a late push on the top team in the Western Conference but came up just short. Houston beat the Timberwolves, 129-120.

Alvin Gentry, Stan Van Gundy fined $15,000 each for criticizing officials

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All is not right between NBA players, coaches, and the referees. What else is new?

After contentious games on Saturday night, both Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy and New Orleans Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry expressed their opinions about what they felt was a poor officiating.

Van Gundy — whose team lost to the Portland Trail Blazers as they continued on to their 12th straight win — complained that his players were being “screwed” as they were knocked down, hammered, and hit. Gentry was especially infuriated after a late foul call went against his team as James Harden was hit on the hand while shooting a 3-pointer.

Now, the NBA has announced that both coaches have been fined $15,000 each for public criticism of officials.

Things were slated to get better between the NBRA and NBPA after the All-Star break. The two sides were supposed to have a meeting which discussed some of the more concerning trends that players and coaches have publicly complained about this year. That meeting got moved up to December, with more talks to come later. It’s not clear if they’ve done any good.

Right after All-Star Weekend guys like LeBron James were still making waves about how they are being officiated. Coaches like Doc Rivers continue to openly complain about the referees and draw fines. Van Gundy and Gentry are just the latest additions to the list, and it’s unlikely they’ll be the last before the season ends.

Hell, the end of the game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Toronto Raptors was just about as bad as we’ve seen all year. In that game, Raptors coach Dwane Casey was ejected after a comment made by a fan sitting near the floor was incorrectly attributed to him.

The NBA lost a lot of veteran officials due to retirement in the changeover to this season, and the transition has been rough. They’re going to need to figure some things out over the summer. I expect bigger announcements about those efforts to come out after the NBA Finals as a means to restore public faith in the officiating crews.

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O'Reilly on Chang (2013)

Chang, Ting. Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 197. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3776-5

         Chiara O’Reilly, University of Sydney

Ting Chang’s erudite and intriguing study of travel and Asian art collections in nineteenth-century Paris offers a challenging re-examination of collections and objects. Chang’s approach invites us to consider not just the objects, or the collector who shaped them into a collection, but also the physical demands of travel to the East, the shifting political frameworks, and the important influences of both military and economic power. Her examination of this complex interplay reveals how the interpretation of objects, the exotic, and perceptions of value shift and change. Chang engages with a broad range of scholarship from art history, cultural geography, and anthropology to literary criticism and collection studies. The richness of references and critical frameworks offers a nuanced discussion of preconceptions and presents new conclusions about the relationships between East and West and the complex structures at play in intercultural exchange and interpretation.

Broken into four chapters the book opens with a succinct overview of the history of the period—outlining the numerous treaties that defined political frameworks, cultural exchange, and providing a general history of object acquisition. Her approach differs from many in that it engages not just with the well-known European accounts of the East, but also with lesser-known accounts by Chinese and Japanese travellers to Europe, thus exposing a deeper history of cross-cultural encounter. This paints a picture of joint examination, curiosity, and flux, and establishes a series of themes that run throughout the argument as all sides of the exchange attempt to define, contain ideas of difference, and exert influence.

Chang’s introduction underlines how her study is focused on the movement from one place to another. Her approach examines the points of crossing between cultures, and seeks to highlight the risks and challenges of intercultural exchange. The three main chapters are focused on three iconic collectors and their collections: Enrico (Henri) Cernuschi (1821-96) and the Musée Cernuschi founded in 1897, Émile Guimet (1836-1918), the founder of the Musée Guimet (initially displayed in Lyon but moved to Paris in 1883), and finally Edmond de Goncourt (1822-96) and the impressive collection he developed, documented, and then organised to dissolve in a posthumous sale. Each of these collectors is examined via a different frame to stress not just the roles they played in defining ideas of Asian art, but also to place them within a broader context of cultural engagement and understanding in order to reveal how knowledge can be produced via collecting and collectors.

In chapter two, “Gold, Silver and Bronze: Cernuschi’s Collection and Reappraisals of Europe and Asia,” discussion of Cernuschi introduces questions of value. His position as an authority on currency standards offers Chang a thought-provoking reading of wider notions of value and transnational exchange, suggesting how this collection of bronzes can be used to index “the unstable ground negotiated by individuals and countries in transnational, cross-cultural relations” (39).

The chapter on Guimet, “The Labor of Travel: Guimet and Régamey in Asia,” is focused on this collector’s travels and the illustrations produced by the artist Félix Régamey who accompanied him throughout East Asia. Travel here is considered as a messy process of intercultural exchange. Chang teases out new ways of considering this exchange, with clever close visual analysis of little-known illustrations and images to highlight the “inversion of power that complicated the exchange between East and West” (102). A key stress in this chapter is how the somatic experience of travel and its visual legacy reveals new perspectives on collections that were “domesticated” (102) in European museums; this allows Chang to offer a fuller historiography.

The final chapter, “Equivalence and Inversion: France, Japan, and China in Goncourt’s Cabinet,” explores the multiple ways the writer narrated and interpreted his acquisitions to provide a complex understanding not only of the collection as a subject, but also of its role in shaping and shifting Goncourt’s own vision and thus its wider influence. Here the collection is considered as inspiration, a constantly shifting display, a point of social power, showing that the history of individual objects established a lineage of collectors and thus status. This opens a wide web of possibilities for interpreting collections and a variety of different models to see the collector/collection/object.

Published as part of the Ashgate series on the Histories of Material Culture and Collection (1700-1950), Chang’s study is an important contribution to the field, particularly as it challenges our ideas about collecting and how we interpret objects, which she suggests “have reached a point of diminishing returns” (39). The book offers a rich variety of approaches in its stress on political, economic, somatic, ideological, symbolic, and narrative models, which offer new ways to consider the history of material culture and our understanding of them.

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To swatch or not to swatch....?

Sometimes the swatch is a controversial subject between knitters! Which side do you fall on?.... or do you sit on the fence? I used to avoid the swatch with a very large pole but as I've become more advanced I hold the swatch up on a high pedestal! I've even come to accept that it is a vital part of the knitting process, especially where garments need to fit. My next project is going to be a chunky shrug by Isabell Kraemer.

I bought this lovely yarn and quickly cast on for the swatch! All too eagerly I had a very quick look at the label and saw the 30° symbol. An hour later when the washing machine had done it job disappointment hit me like a punch in the face! My swatch had come out half the original size and matted like a sheep that had been on the mountains all winter!
I scratched my head in confusion and went to find the yarn label.....I'd overlooked the vital bit hand wash at 30°!

Lesson learnt: READ THE LABEL!
The swatch is now blocked and I'm waiting for it to dry to cast cast on! Why do things seem to take forever when your waiting for them?

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I'm reposting this from the Phoenix comic's twitter account - a shot of some of the entries that have been pouring in already for the Complete-the-Cover Competition I mentioned the other day. Amazing stuff, and amazing levels of craziness, and I'm just delighted that people have been getting into it. Still PLENTY of time to enter - you've got until 1st July - so head over to the Phoenix website to check out all the details and such!

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I'm off for two weeks for the holiday break, but I wanted to wish everyone who has read and supported me in this effort the very best this season.

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

WCF/MSMQ/.Net 4.0 stops processing messages–code fix

I recently upgraded a self hosted WCF service to .Net 4.0. Everything seemed to go well, but a few hours after deploying the service messages started piling up in the queue. I check the service host process and it was idle. It was still executing, but the service had stopped pulling messages. After a bit of trial and error I have discovered the problem and hopefully a solution.

The problem

It seems that .Net 4 has changed the behavior of WCF/MSMQ services slightly. If a problem occurs with the queue, the service host faults and stops.

The solution (I think)

Here is the code I came up with to address the problem. I wrote a class that creates the ServiceHost and attaches an event handlers to the Faulted event. If a fault occurs, I abort the ServiceHost and restart a new instance. (This is for a self-hosted WCF service – if you are hosting your service in IIS/WAS, I think you need to create a ServiceHostFactory class.)  Here is my code:

    /// <summary>
/// In .Net 4, the WCF/MSMQ behavior seems to have changed slightly. Occasionally, the service will fault and not restart causing
/// messages to get stuck in the queue. This class attempts to abort and re-start the service host in the event of a fault.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">Your service class</typeparam>
public class RestartingServiceHost<T>
protected static readonly log4net.ILog Log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
ServiceHost _serviceHost;

public void Start()
_serviceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(T));
_serviceHost.Faulted += new EventHandler(host_Faulted);

private void Restart()

private void host_Faulted(object sender, EventArgs e)
Log.Info("Host faulted. Restarting service.");

To use the class, simply create an instance of this class using the type of your service class:

var host = new RestartingServiceHost<MyService>();

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Glyph of Nourish: Does it stack?

This is going to get a little technical, so as Sammy L Jackson says in Jpark: "Hold onto yer butts."

Does the Glyph of Nourish stack with our 4 piece T7 bonus?

Yes. Yes, it does.

But if you stop reading now, I'ma kick you in the shins, because I spent HOURS testing this damn thing out on the PTR, and taking notes, and if you know what's best for you, you'll read through all my math - and you'll like it, too!!!

Ok, ok, you can just skim it, I suppose.

/collects self

Step 1: Obtain a Glyph of Nourish.

Step 1 proved to be quite a challenge. Those darn glyph vendors were down ALL night. I don't think they came up once. And then when I asked in trade to see if someone had the glyph I needed, I get some lecture IN TRADE from some homeboy about being prepared, and how I should have bought them yesterday. Thanks, Homeboy. That really helps me out. Next time I'll use my powers of SEEING INTO THE FUTURE.

Thankfully I was able to snag one from the auction house, which totally wiped out the rest of the gold I had.

Nevertheless, I had my Glyph! So I pranced on over to the lexicon and equipped it.

Step 2: Cast many, many, many Nourishes.

Math coming up here. Steel yourself! =O

(Note: when testing out these averages, I cast Nourish 100 times. Yeah, that's right, 100 times. For *each* average tested. I didn't count crits, because I didn't want those to skew the percentages. I used Regrowth as my one HoT, because it ticks for the longest period of time.)

When I cast Nourish *without* a HoT on me (with no glyph, no tier bonus, no nuttin'), it hits for an average of 3635.

When I cast Nourish *with* a HoT on me, it hits for an average of 4365. Which is (as the Nourish tool tip states) 20% more than the original.

So with JUST the glyph (and one HoT on me), my Nourish should land for 26% more than that original. Right? 20% for the HoT, and 6% for the glyph.

So, a 26% boost to the original (3635) should make it 4580. After casting 100 Nourishes, I had, on average, 4575. Pretty close!!

Now - The real question is, will it blend??

I meant to say, does it stack?? (there we go.)

If you have the glyph, AND the tier bonus, AND assuming it stacks - we should have a total of a 31% increase. 20% from the HoT, 6% from the glyph, and 5% from the tier bonus.

When we boost the original (3637) by 31%, we *should* get 4764.

My average numbers, by casting Nourish 100 times with one HoT on me, the glyph, AND the tier bonus: 4721.

Close enough? You decide. I wish they matched up better, but I'm certainly not going to fudge numbers to try and "fix" it. I don't know if it's a math problem, or if I just have too small of a sample size? 100 casts seemed to be big enough... and dear lord, I dont think I could sit around and cast more than that again.

But think of it like this. If you had just the glyph on, and one HoT - it would be a 26% increase, like we said before. If the glyph and tier bonus did NOT stack, then adding the tier bonus wouldn't change a thing. The 6% increase from the glyph would override the 5% increase from the tier bonus.

But it DOES change, it increases it by quite a lot.

Conclusion: Glyph of Nourish and the T7 bonus stack!

....and as always, please let me know if you find any obvious holes in my math. =)

So what does this mean for us?

Should we hold onto our 4 piece T7? Should we use Glyph of Nourish? In the beginning of Ulduar, sure, try it out! See how it feels having Nourish land for like, 30 million when you have 4 HoTs on the target (disclaimer: your Nourish will not land for 30 million). However, I think that once you eventually break that 4 piece set, (and you really should break it - the upgrades in T8.5 are going to be too good to warrant hanging onto four pieces of T7.5 gear), you should look at switching out the Nourish Glyph - unless you're a HUGE Nourish user, perhaps. I think that Blizzard made this glyph for those people who use Nourish a lot, who will really miss that T7 bonus. It's also a way to make Nourish more appealing for people who don't use it that often.

So what am *I* going to do? I'm going to replace my Glyph of Lifebloom with the Glyph of Wild Growth, and take out the Glyph of Regrowth and put in the Glyph of Nourish. Depending on how much or little I like that, I might swap the regrowth glyph back in - we'll just have to see how it goes.

What do you guys think in terms of holding onto that four piece bonus?

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Roman said...

I thought they should stack, 'cause obtaining a 4-piece bonus is not that easy, but anyone can just go and buy the gliff. Overriding a hard earned equipment bonus with something that easy to obtain.. I tink Blizzard will never allow that kind of thing.
But still, knowing for sure is much better than guessing. Thanks for your research!

Averna said...

@Roman: Agreed, it would be silly to have the glyph override it. I would have had even more of a question in my mind about it if the T7 bonus was a higher percentage than the glyph - then I'd be wondering, does the set bonus override the glyph bonus? Which would be more plausible than the other way around.

Roman said...

Agreed, too)
Btw sorry for my mistakes and awkward sentences and so on. Tenses in Russian are simplier and often I'm just confused about which one to use.(

Keeva said...

Thanks Averna, I tried all day but the vendors were down the whole time.

Last night I finally picked up my helm, meaning I have 4pc ready to go for Ulduar :)

I think what I'll end up doing is wearing my "best in slot" gear for fights where I am not healing the tank *really* heavily, and the T7 4pc for heavy tank-healing fights.

Averna said...

@Keeva: that healing plan sounds about right to me =) I've never been a big Nourish user, but that might change if I have the 4 piece and the glyph.

Keeva said...

I'm still looking forward to the tank rotation that I always wanted:

HoT up the tank, Nourish in the gaps, refresh HoTs, Nourish in the gaps.

Add in WG/RJ on the raid as necessary.

I just couldn't do it before because Nourish was so... mediocre. The changes to the Imp Regrowth talent plus the new glyph will make it very nice for tank healing.

I just hope there are plenty of fights with enough damage on the tank to warrant that.

Lissanna said...

I had some numbers on it that I posted on my blog, that came to the same conclusion. With both the glyph and the 4-piece bonus, we should be able to handle tank healing in Ulduar with nourish, along with 3 HOTs (rejuv, regrowith, & slow-rolled lifeblooms).

They made our T8 4-piece bonus just appealing enough that we'll still want to upgrade our gear.

Sylly said...

Wow, good stuff, Averna! I just finished up my 4pc set bonus last night on Gluth. Woohoo! It's nice to have this bit of info to stash away when I'm making gearing and glyphing decisions for 3.1. Muchos gracias for the hard, probably mind-numbing, work!

Corgii said...

Holy Nourish, Averna! Thanks for your dedication!!!

I started out Wrath with that BC Tree druid mind-set...

So, for a very long time, I never really used Wild Growth. Well, after slapping some sense into myself I started using Wild Growth and it ended up being 40% of my healing done. After that, I did something similar with Nourish. My heals are typically 40% WG, 30-40% Nourish, and then typically LB or Rejuv coming in after that.

That said, this glyph stacking with the 4 set is drool-worthy! I'm so excited! Since I already use Nourish quite a bit this change is great for me 8D Thanks for doing all that testing!!!

Peli said...

How in the world do you get 30-40% of your total heal as Nourish?!?! In Averna's and my guild, any nourishes are almost entirely overheal on the tanks because the other healers fight for effective healing so much, especially so on boss fights. Not only that, but it's hard to squeeze in Nourishes in between your HoT rotation if you're healing 2 or more tanks...

Lissanna said...

A lot of the time, I think my regrowth HOT manages to do like 40% of my healing done in most raids, because I use regrowth as a heal for all situations, which I can't do when it will spam me OOM.

I've been doing my best to find alternative healing strategies, and I think "using hots to buff nourish" should work for MT healing situations & HOTs for raid healing.

Corgii said...

I think my percentages might be off (I could be exaggerating a bit). But they do tend to average out between 20 and 30%. I tend to pretend I'm a holy pally at times and throw out Nourishes like they're Flashes of Light XD

Jason said...

While Nourish is a good heal to have in 5/10 man situations, I don't see many heroic raiding druids even using nourish except for certain fight(eg. Patchwerk) Even with wild growth counting towards the 5% bonus in 3.1, I still don't see nourish as that great of a raid heal.

Additionally, with the strength of the T8/8.5 bonuses combined with the relative ease of Ulduar, I see the majority of the druid raiding community breaking the 4 piece bonus the first week of release (If they haven't already in favor of current ilevel 226 gear).


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By: Bruno Chies

Interview conducted on 29 May 2016, Paris, France. Part 1 of 2. Find part 2 here.

Matthew Slater is a community currency engineer. He proposes a technology that will scale trust and solidarity beyond the local level, for communities running their economy with their own currencies. ‘You could do the whole global economy that way’, Slater envisions in this new monetary architecture of interconnected complementary currencies. There is, however, no sense of gullible techno-fetishism in his ideas. He is very much aware that technology, and top-down reforms to the monetary system, are not enough to change power relations in society if they are not accompanied by a simultaneous change of consciousness among the people.

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Biography: Matthew Slater is a software developer and has been involved with complementary currencies for at least 8 years, since the crash of 2008. He is the co-founder and main developer of Community Forge, a platform for complementary currencies that runs more than 150 LETS and Time Banks. Together with professor Jem Bendell, he has also designed and is a tutor of the free massive open online course (MOOC) Money and Society, directed at people who want to understand money from a social innovation perspective. Education about money and all that it implies is a critical part of what Slater does.

Bruno Chies: Let’s start with a very general question: What is wrong, in your opinion, with today’s state-backed money?

Matthew Slater: It’s hard to separate what’s wrong with money from what’s wrong in everything else in society. The fundamental problem with the design of money is that it’s treated in all respects as a commodity which is owned by rich people and lent to everybody else, while money should be a medium of exchange first and foremost. In fact, rich people don’t own money, they’re actually lending it out of nothing. They do have their own assets, but what they’re lending is a legal fiction and it is a privilege that they have been given by the government, the crown, the sovereign, whatever, and can then charge interest on. So that’s a problem that goes deeper than the monetary system, to the system of privilege in society.

BC: What do you think about proposals of monetary reforms at the level of the state, like the Positive Money proposal in which money should be created debt-free and solely by the government, through a democratically accountable committee?

MS: I think it’s great if you regard the monetary system as a separately individual system. But as soon as you start bringing in the critique that a government is owned by corporations, this changes. You start seeing that either a reform like that cannot happen at all, in which case all you can do is raise awareness about how bad things are, or you can say that if it did happen somebody will get to this democratically accountable committee. That committee will never be neutral.

It is not simply a matter of redesigning money and the purpose it should serve…

I think that’s naïve. Money reflects our attitude towards the government, our attitude towards the rich and their attitude towards us. If you changed money, but not the attitude, the attitude would change it back. Money isn’t real, it’s only a reflection or projection of other power dynamics in society.

What do you think is the role of complementary and alternative currencies in the process of transitioning to a different social model?

I think they have several roles. One is to prototype. Another one is to understand more deeply how these systems work. Yet another is to take a little bit of sovereignty into our local groups. I think those are the main ones.

The idea of taking back sovereignty sounds like it is about taking back power and expanding democracy. It this what you mean by it?

I don’t know much about the history of the word sovereignty, but it usually starts with the king. The king is the sovereign and nobody tells him what to do. Sovereignty is not something we can all strive towards, but greater self-determination is something we could. This will always be at the cost of whoever is telling us what to do and how to be. I would like to see a society in which people exercise greater self-determination. A complementary currency could build trust and issue units among a group that wants to exercise a little bit of economic power. Typically, they will issue these units out of nothing, as if they had currency or as IOU credit obligations, because you don’t benefit very much from a currency if you have to buy it first…

Which is the difference between commodity-based currencies and credit-based currencies…

Exactly. You can exercise some sovereignty by creating a unit of account and everyone agreeing that to value it in exchange with each other. These units of account are worthless to anyone outside that group, so they can’t be taken away in tax. It also provides a way to build your own taxing system which leads to self-determination by allocating those resources. When groups come together to work in solidarity, there are loads of devices they can use, hacks and things like that, and a currency is one of them. It helps them to allocate resources and helps them to agree on what they value together.

Such as issue new tokens in order to fund collective projects?

It would be very similar to taxing and spending. If you issue new tokens, their value will go down, but the issuer takes the spending power. This is exactly what governments do. In theory, they spend, which is an act of issuance, and then tax back to prevent the inflation. It’s not the other way around, as the myth of handbag economics suggests. In this myth, the government is like a household, that has to earn before spending, and money is treated as a commodity. If you spend more than you take in, you have to borrow and pay interest. On one side of the economy, ordinary people would earn and then spend, and on the other side, the government would spend and then earn, which would make a good cycle. Now, along with others in government, George Osborne of the British Conservative Party is saying that the government should run a surplus, which means that the rest of the economy must run a deficit. That’s a problem. It looks good for the government because it can say it’s not spending too much, but at the same time it forces everybody else to spend too much.

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And go into debt…

The government’s role is to issue money by spending more than it takes back in tax. The difference is the supply of money. That is the theory of fiat money, which we don’t have anymore. Currently, the supply of money is all that the banks lent, that hadn’t previously been saved. The banks have taken on the role of sovereign.

They are creating money out of nothing.

Yes, and that’s a very serious issue because it is impossible to argue that the banks are working with and for the people in their act of issuing money. The banks are profiting from the people by their very constitution. So Positive Money, in restoring the money-creating power to the state is at least trying to tell the story that the state is in partnership with the people, and that, rather than banks, the state has the legitimacy to be sovereign and to issue money. Of course, (neoclassical) economists do not acknowledge that what the banks are doing is issuing money, their theory is that banks only lend money that already exists. But this turned out to be false, so false, that the Bank of England admitted to it two years ago. This myth is taught in economics classes still and the implications of its wrongness are very profound.

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Slow Cooker Pork Tacos

I found this recipe a long time ago through Pinterest on It is so easy to make and so delicious! You can make it as spicy as you want as well which is nice for me since I cannot handle pretty much any heat at all.

Serves 4 to 6

 1 lb pork tenderloin
  • 1 - 15 oz jar salsa
  • 1 Tbsp ground cumin
  • 1 Tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 Tbsp garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp cayenne pepper
  • 8 whole-wheat or corn tortillas
  • Crumbled mexican white cheese
Rinse the pork tenderloin and place in the slow cooker. I have a smaller slow cooker and had to cut my pork tenderloin to fit. You will be shredding the cooked meat later so this is fine if you need to do that.
In a medium bowl, stir together the salsa, brown sugar, garlic, cumin, and cayenne pepper.
Pour the mixture over the pork tenderloin. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or on high for 5 hours. Shred the pork using a fork (it will just pull apart easily) and cook for another 20 to 30 minutes.

I apologize for not having the end result picture. I was having people over for this meal and forgot to take a picture at the end! We have ours with a little cilantro and white mexican cheese sprinkled on top. I recommend using a slotted spoon to scoop into tacos, otherwise the mixture may be running out the end as you eat!
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Dr. Yvette Hachtel, professor of occupational therapy at Belmont University, has been selected the chair-elect of the Ethics Commission of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) following a national vote by the organization’s membership. The Ethics Commission is one of the bodies of the representative assembly of the AOTA and is responsible for developing the ethics standards for the profession which apply to occupational therapy (OT) personnel at all levels and in all professional and societal roles.

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“I was given an extraordinary opportunity to lead a great organization, and to put the learnings from my previous roles into play. A couple of our accomplishments I am particularly proud of,” Sheryl exclaimed. “First, the Clean Water Legacy Act was enacted by the state legislature as the outcome of many groups working together to balance the needs of citizens, cities, agriculture and industry to use the water resources in Minnesota responsibly. We also passed groundbreaking mercury legislation, which led to mercury reduction in Minnesota’s waterways.”

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Circa 1990, Lake of the Woods. Sheryl’s entire career has been dedicated to furthering environmental causes.

Sheryl also spearheaded an idea about a voluntary project to reduce particulate – “soot” emissions from the diesel engines of school buses. This involved partnering with Flint Hills Resources, a Koch company. She discovered that Koch shared her values and beliefs about the necessary connections between people, natural resources and the environment. Ten years later, this program called Project Green Fleet is still a resounding success. To date, the project has retrofitted 4,600 engines, and removed an amount of particulate from Minnesota air equal to taking 750,000 cars off the road permanently.

“It led me to asking Koch if I could work for them in an environmental role,” Sheryl said.

Today, her environmental, health and safety leadership helps keep employees and communities safe, while driving better environmental performance through innovation.

“At Koch, I have never been told ‘no’ to any proposal that was good for people and the environment. Because that very same passion for making lives better and using resources responsibly exists at the highest levels of our company.”

 Sheryl pauses. Her stream of thoughts return to the river.

“Tipping that canoe started me on a path that led me to where I am today. It shaped my values and beliefs.  People, natural resources and the environment are all connected and dynamic. We make life better for all by using our resources responsibly to make the things that we all need.

“That’s what environmentalism is to me.”

Sheryl shares a personal story as evidence that dedication to the environment can and does make a big difference.


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INTERVIEW-For a more resilient world, promote women's leadership - expert

by Megan Rowling | @meganrowling | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:43 GMT

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It's time to stop talking about women as victims - and to look instead about what holds them back in their efforts to become resilient

By Megan Rowling

NEW ORLEANS, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Understanding better how women are affected by disasters, economic shocks and other crises is key to helping their communities ride out pressures including climate change, a top resilience expert says.

But putting them in the driver's seat to deal with the problems is equally crucial, she said.

Sundaa Bridgett-Jones, senior associate director with The Rockefeller Foundation, said women are often resourceful in finding ways for their families to bounce back from disasters.

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, for instance, researchers found many women started projects to earn a living after losing their men to the disaster, she said.

More women should be given leadership roles in efforts to reduce future risks, she said from New York in an interview.

"There is a lot more that can be done," said Bridgett-Jones, who leads on international development and gender equality for the New York-based foundation.

She said more efforts to understand shocks and stresses from a woman's point of view are "greatly needed".

Women's vulnerabilities can be different from those of men. For example, women may be less mobile or constrained by family duties.

But they also have different perspectives and different ways of dealing with problems that can improve how communities react, researchers say.

Bridgett-Jones cited the example of India's Mahila Housing SEWA Trust, which is helping women from slum communities in South Asian cities cope with climate risks, including heat waves, flooding, water shortages and diseases.

Its members have collected their own data to better understand risks, and used that to devise solutions such as installing green roofs and walls to lower temperatures, harvesting urban rainwater and using solar energy.

In her experience with networks The Rockefeller Foundation has built to boost resilience around the world, Bridgett-Jones has seen how women working on the issue are "energised by the notion of, 'How do we do change differently?'".

"Whether you're talking about how many women are on the board of an institution or how many women are engaged in issues at the community level, you certainly have a different lens on that problem and what the solutions might be" when women are involved, she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Bridgett-Jones said she hoped a Rockefeller Foundation-backed programme to get at least 100 women heading Fortune 500 companies by 2025 - up from around a quarter of that now - would also foster new "thinking about resilience", including ideas about how to protect supply chains from disasters.

For the past decade or so, The Rockefeller Foundation has funded a push in both developed and developing countries, through new and existing organisations, to promote the notion of resilient cities and communities.

The foundation defines resilience as the capacity of individuals, communities and systems to survive, adapt and grow in the face of stress and shocks - and even transform themselves.

Bridgett-Jones said the concept was now well-understood and the debate had moved on to "some of the big questions", such as how to effectively include women, young people and other marginalised groups, as well as how to assess resilience.

A review of recent research, carried out by the London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI), found growing evidence that promoting gender equality can enhance resilience. The ODI study said fewer organisations now point to women as "victims" of climate change and disasters, and instead highlight the structural inequalities impeding women's efforts to make themselves, their families and their communities more resilient.

Bridgett-Jones said special attention should be paid to situations where community efforts to build resilience are hindered "because they have standards and norms and practices that limit women".

Progress, however, is being made in thinking about the social aspects of more common resilience work, such as building roads that can better withstand climate change, she said.

The Asian Development Bank, for example, is now asking questions when it makes multi-million-dollar investments about whether new infrastructure will benefit women's incomes as well as men's.

Ensuring women's access to resources - from finance to information, and even channels to come together and talk - is an important consideration for future work on resilience, she said.

"All of those things matter," she added.

(Reporting by Megan Rowling @meganrowling; editing by Laurie Goering. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women's rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit

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Consumers Want to be Dazzled Says Upstate Professor Rosalind Corieri Paige

October 6, 2014 at 10:12 am

Be sure to check out USC Upstate professor Rosalind Corieri Paige’s latest column in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

Paige writes a column each month for the local business section.

Read about why, “Consumers Want to Be Dazzled.”

Paige is an associate professor of marketing at USC Upstate’s George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics.


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Upstate Criminal Justice Professor Discusses Mindset in Murder-Suicide Cases

February 6, 2015 at 11:56 am

USC Upstate Criminal Justice department chair Reid Toth discussed the mindset in a murder-suicide scenario during an interview with WSPA’s Amy Wood.

Toth was interviewed as part of WSPA’s coverage of the tragic murder-suicide that occurred on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia Thursday.

In the interview, Toth said USC had a previous violent situation years ago that played out in the University president’s office. Listen to Amy Wood’s interview.

Toth is a graduate of the University of South Carolina.


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St. Louis: The Evil Empire

Nov 10, 2014

A newspaper columnist in New York recently wrote a piece claiming St. Louis Cardinals fans were the least deserving of a World Series championship.  In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson takes a look at how the rest of the country views Cardinal Nation as baseball's new evil empire and who he blames for this change in perception.

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, author of Pops: The Willie Stargell Story and Growing Up With Clemente.


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SAN CARLOS CITY, Negros Occidental – Leading German solar solution and service provider Conergy joins in the celebration of the inauguration of the first phase of the San Carlos Solar Energy Inc. (SaCaSol) solar plant, a ground mounted photovoltaic solar facility on a 350,000 square-meter area at the San Carlos City Economic Zone.

President Benigno Aquino III, guest of honor at the SaCaSol inauguration led the ribbon-cutting and switching-on ceremony, together with Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla from the Department of Energy and Senator Loren Legarda. Representatives from Bronzeoak, Thomas Lloyd, the International Finance Corporation and local government officials were also in attendance.

The project is a joint venture between the local clean energy developer, Bronzeoak Philippines and leading global investment management group, ThomasLloyd.

In October 2013, Conergy was contracted by SaCaSol to carry out the planning, supply, engineering and construction of the 22-megawatt solar power plant, the largest solar farm in the country. The project has been built on two sites: 13 MW and 9 MW for Phase One and Phase Two, respectively.

With the first 13 MW of the SaCaSol solar plant commissioned, power is now being supplied to the grid at the pre-determined feed-in-tariff rate for solar power set by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) which is currently set at P9.68/kWh. The SaCaSol plant is expected to be completed by mid-2014, with 88,300 Conergy P-series modules set to produce around 35,000 megawatt hours per year – enough energy to supply 13,000 households in the Philippines. Once completed, the facility is expected to reduce CO2 gas emissions by 18,820 tons per year.

Conergy CEO for Asia Pacific, Marc Lohoff shares, “SaCaSol is the first utility scale solar plant in Negros and the Visayas region and is the largest solar power plant in the country. With our market entry in the Philippines, we are opening up another attractive and emerging growth market in Asia, adding to our strong presence in Thailand. We are just about a month away from completing this project and together with our shareholder Kawa, we are looking forward to support more initiatives that will accelerate the development of solar energy and address the growing power demand in the country with alternative power sources that are sustainable, reliable and cost-effective.”

Alexander Lenz, President for Conergy Asia & Middle East points out, “The conditions for solar projects in the country are very positive. This includes the Philippines’ electricity rates – the country has the fifth highest electricity prices in the world today, and the second in Asia and also suffers from frequent blackouts.  But thanks to high solar radiation of ~5kWh per square meter a day, and a 6-7% annual economic growth rate, solar energy can become a genuinely competitive and self-sustaining proposition in the country, especially if executed with the appropriate scale.”

“We are happy and proud to support the President and Secretary in their aim of meeting our growing energy demands by harnessing indigenous and renewable resources to supply peak power, displacing diesel power plants during high demand day time hours,” added Bronzeoak Philippines president Jose Maria P. Zabaleta Jr.

Conergy is working on the SaCaSol project in collaboration with its partner, SCHEMA Konsult Inc., a multidisciplinary technical consulting company. Project completion is expected by the first half of 2014.

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Saudi Arabia owns USD 117 billion of US debt

Washington : Oil-rich Saudi Arabia was the 13th largest holder of US debt at USD 116.8 billion by March, the Treasury Department has announced, ending four decades of keeping the sensitive figure secret. Saudi Arabia stockpiled USD 116.8 billion of US Treasuries as of March, the Treasury Department said yesterday, making the Gulf country the 13th largest foreign holder of US debt, though well behind the USD 1 trillion-plus owned by China and Japan each. NewsS


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Starting to speak before the public about the neo-Confederate movement

In mid-August I will be speaking to the public about the neo-Confederate movement. I have been working on a Powerpoint presentation. Now I am working on what type of portable technology I want to use to do presentations with small groups.

With the time for the presentation I don't have time to cover all the various animosities that neo-Confederates have to one minority or another, so I am just treating on the topic of civil rights. The primary focus is going to be the neo-Confederates movement's hostility towards egalitarianism from their promotion of pro-slavery theology to their opposition to civil rights legislation to their hostility to democracy itself and the critical supports for a democracy such as public education.

The Southern Partisan hasn't been published for some time, so I am focusing more on the contemporary neo-Confederate movement. Some of the items from the Confederate Veteran, Southern Mercury, and other publications should get a lot of interest.

I believe that an informed public is a public which will critically examine what the neo-Confederates.

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Photos: Dark Tranquillity, Warbringer & Striker live at Gramercy Theatre (9/15)

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Dark Tranquillity

Supporting their latest studio opus on Century Media titled Atoma, Swedish melo-death metal masters Dark Tranquillity are in the midst of a vast headlining North America journey that commenced earlier this month in FL and is scheduled to run until October. Support on the run is being provided by California party thrashers Warbringer and Canadian heavy hitters Striker.

New York City hosted a stop on the run this past Friday night, September 15, at the popular Gramercy Theatre. Dark Tranquillity pulled out the big guns, providing a huge 17-song performance featuring numerous fresh songs from Atoma like “Force of Hand,” “Forward Momentum,” “Encircled,” “Clearing Skies” and more. The quintet also dished out fan-favorites such as “The Mundane and the Magic,” “Monochromatic Stains,” “The Wonders at Your Feet,” “ThereIn” and others before closing out with an encore made up of “State of Trust,” “Through Smudged Lenses” and the great “Misery’s Crown.”

Wabringer got the crowd moving with songs from their new record, Woe to the Vanquished, counting hits like “Silhouettes,” “Remain Violent,” “Descending Blade,” and “When the Guns Fell Silent,” before concluding with “Combat Shock” from their debut LP War Without End. The powerful Striker launched the evening into a frenzy with anthems from their brand new self-titled effort, performing bangers like “Former Glory,” Pass Me By,” “Born to Lose,” along with select numbers from their records Armed to the Teeth and Stand in the Fire.

All upcoming tour dates can be viewed here. Scroll down below for exclusive photo coverage from NYC.

Next up at Gramercy Theatre:

9/20 – Sleeping With Sirens, The White Noise, Palaye Royale, Chase Atlantic
9/21 – Thy Art Is Murder, Fallujah, Ghost Bath
9/24 – Sacred Reich, Byzantine

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Senator Ayotte Helps Craft Bill to Prevent Devastating Military Cuts

Senator Ayotte unveiled legislation on Thursday that would prevent draconian, across the board defense cuts by finding more responsible budget savings in other areas of the federal government. Under the “Down Payment to Protect National Security Act,” of which Ayotte is an original co-sponsor, arbitrary military spending reductions set for next year would be avoided by freezing pay for civilian federal workers – including members of Congress – and reducing the federal civilian workforce through attrition.

The Budget Control Act, which Ayotte voted against last August, raised the debt limit and mandated $1.2 trillion in automatic “sequestration” cuts over ten years – half from defense and half from non-defense areas of the federal budget – unless a joint Congressional committee found alternative savings. With the super committee having failed to reach an agreement last fall, the Pentagon’s budget would be reduced by approximately $600 billion during the next decade (in addition to $487 billion in separate, pending military cuts) starting in 2013.

“We have a fundamental duty to the American people as set forth in our Constitution to keep them safe. National defense is the most important constitutional duty that we have,” said Senator Ayotte, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Defense Secretary Panetta has been very clear about the impact sequestration cuts would have on our military. He said just last week that it ‘would inflict severe damage to our national defense for generations.'”

She continued: “Defense sequestration cuts would harm our military in a way that our enemies have not been able to.While we all agree that targeted savings must be found at the Pentagon, allowing across the board defense sequestration to move forward would be one of the most dangerous and irresponsible political decisions that we’ve seen in Washington in a long time. I’m calling on the president as commander in chief of this country to listen to his commanders and his Secretary of Defense to make sure we don’t allow our national defense to be undermined. We must keep faith with the American people and our troops by not allowing these cuts to happen.”

The bill specifically extends the federal employee pay freeze – first implemented by President Barack Obama – though June 2014, and restricts federal hiring to only two employees for every three leaving, until the size of the federal government workforce is reduced by five percent. According to a January 30 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, federal employees are compensated on average 16 percent higher than their private sector counterparts.

Read more in the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

VFW leaders voice their concerns regarding key veterans’ issues.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta unveiled the Pentagon’s budget priorities this week for fiscal year 2013, reflecting the Administration’s calls for a leaner, more agile force as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down. In light of pledges from the Pentagon to ensure that the U.S. military remains a lethal and effective force, VFW leaders voiced their concerns over proposed cuts that could dilute the quality of America’s military and possibly threaten the continued viability of the all-volunteer force.

The Defense Department is expected to request $525 billion as a baseline budget for FY2013, with an additional $88.4 billion for overseas contingencies; $6 billion and $27 billion less, respectively, than FY 2012. Five key strategies for DoD include driving the future military force, which will be smaller and leaner; repositioning with more emphasis on Asia-Pacific and the Middle East; strengthening through better alliances and partnerships; and developing an extremely agile and deadly force, which will be second-to-none in technology and capability.

Some key priorities and choices that could be made over the next five years include:

  • To reduce the active Army from 570,000 to 490,000 soldiers, and the active Marine Corps from 202,000 to 182,000.
  • To reduce the number of Air Force tactical air squadrons from 60 to 54, but maintain the current bomber fleet, as well as the Navy’s 11 aircraft carriers, 10 air wings and big-deck amphibious fleet.
  • To fund a new bomber, increase cruise missile capacity in future Virginia-class submarines, and increase investments in cyber capabilities, special operations, homeland missile defense, countering weapons of mass destruction, and projecting power into denied areas.
  • To provide service members full pay raises in 2013 and 2014, but begin limiting increases starting in 2015.
  • To ask Congress to conduct a comprehensive review of the military retirement system, while grandfathering all current retirees and service members into the existing system.
  • To recommend increases in healthcare fees, co-pays and deductibles for military retirees using a tiered approach, based on their retired pay, as well as create a TRICARE for Life enrollment fee for retirees age 65 and older. Exempt would be medical retirees and survivors of those who died on active duty.

In response to the announcement, VFW leaders said they continue to be wary of plans to change the current military retirement system and potentially saddle military retirees with higher health care costs.

“We are pleased to continually hear pledges from the White House and Pentagon that retirees and those serving in uniform today will be grandfathered under the old system, but our concern is for tomorrow’s recruit,” said VFW Executive Director Bob Wallace. “Asking someone to first donate 20 or more years of their youth in return for the immediate receipt of a modest retirement pay is a contract, which cannot be compared with any civilian occupation or retirement plan. We are concerned, however, that by introducing civilian retirement plans into a military world it has zero in common with, could signal the end of the all-volunteer force. A lot of trial balloons have been floated, so we have to wait for details.”

Traditionally, only eight percent of America’s military men and women serve until retirement age. With already low retention of career service members, the VFW is concerned that too many new proposed incentives for highly-trained and highly-qualified leaders to leave the military early could thin the force to such an extent that the last person standing, not the best qualified, could serve as the next service chief or senior enlisted leader. Plus, too many incentives to leave could also mean a watered down G.I. Bill for veterans.

VFW leaders went on to say that increasing enrollment fees and copayments while reducing services for retirees is a breach of faith with all who choose to serve; a sentiment the VFW has consistently voiced since launching the “10 for 10” campaign against military and veterans’ benefits cuts last summer.

When discussions of an overhaul to the military retirement first surfaced, the VFW polled readers on this blog about their inclinations to serve a full career with watered-down retirement benefits. The results, which can be viewed here, indicated to VFW leaders that such changes would threaten the continued viability of the all-volunteer force by incentivizing the best and brightest to leave early in their military careers.

Your VFW will continue to fight against these proposals, ensuring that America’s military remains strong and sustainable for future generations. Keep posted to this blog for updates.

(Image: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brief the press on major budget decisions stemming from the defense strategic guidance at the Pentagon, Jan. 26, 2012. DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley.)


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M and N Sexuality – Communication, Relationships and Sexuality

Welcome to this weeks show about Communication, Relationships and Sexuality by M and N Sexuality. This is a brief discussion about holding space for your partner to feel safe. How to be able to share openly and create more intimacy and ultimately a great sex life!

We would like to get your feedback and make our show interactive. We will be sharing our thoughts and experiences with you openly and authentically.

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