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Once again, we're on the eve of a new expansion. Tonight, many of you will be logging in and starting the grind from 90 to 100. For the first time in a long time, many of you will actually be doing it in protection spec. But regardless of how you get there, at some point you'll hit level 100 and want to know how to optimize yourself for raids.
When patch 6.0 dropped on live servers, I posted a Survival Guide focused on what has changed at level 90. This post is the complement to that, containing details on how things change at level 100. Some things are obviously the same, like the stat squish and changes to abilities, so I won't be going over them again. I'm only going to talk about things that I either haven't covered in that post, or have changed significantly from level 90 to 100.
Level 100 Talents
You may recall that I made a qualitative post about our level 100 talents a little more than a month ago. Now let's look at them qualitatively. Below are the results of a multi-actor simulation containing a bunch of paladins with slightly different L75 and L100 talents. The specs should be easily inferred from the names, but there are a few minor tweaks I should explain.
Empowered Seals gives you a fairly wide range of options. For example, you can sit in Seal of Insight for maximum survivability, or you can ignore Insight and twist Truth and Righteousness for maximum DPS. Twisting all three seals gives you a middle-of-the-road option, which is what the default APL is set up to do. So to give a proper representation of Empowered Seals, I've added "_DPS" and "_SUR" actors. The "_DPS" actor twists Truth and Righteousness to maximize DPS, and the "_SUR" actor just sits in Seal of Insight to get maximum survivability.
However, that's also not terribly fair to Seraphim and Holy Shield. After all, you could swap to Seal of Truth while using either of those talents for a significant DPS boost. So to show that, I've added two "_SoT" actors which use Seal of Truth, but are otherwise identical to their companion actor (e.g. SS_SW_Sera_SoT is identical SS_SW_Sera except for using Seal of Truth).
With that out of the way, let's look at the data.
Holy Shield performs pretty well in these sims. It gives the best baseline survivability of the three by a slim margin. "Survival mode" Empowered Seals can match it, but at a hefty cost of around 3000 DPS. That said, it lags in single-target damage a bit compared to either of the other two options. It will lag even further if you spend time not actively tanking things.
Seraphim performs very well. With Seal of Insight, it produces higher DPS than the other talents (including the default Empowered Seals APL) at a small TMI cost (around 3k). With Seal of Truth active, it's the flat-out highest DPS talent available. And the on/off nature of the buff can make it strong for tank swaps, provided the timing is right.
I think the balancing of these two talents is pretty solid. Neither is head and shoulders above the other, and both perform close enough to one another that they're both perfectly viable. Seraphim gives you a little DPS edge when played perfectly, and gives you more control over when you get that DPS, but takes more concentration and makes you a little squishier while the Seraphim buff isn't active.
Empowered Seals though… well, in short it just doesn't keep up. It's versatile, but that versatility doesn't seem to pay major dividends. You can sit in "survival mode" at a large DPS cost, but your survival is no better than if you took Holy Shield. Likewise, you can sit in "DPS mode," but you're actually about 1k DPS behind using Seal of Truth with Seraphim.
The benefit is supposedly that you can do this all within a single encounter, without changing specs. But I think you're probably actually better off with Holy Shield in that situation. Switching to "survival mode" costs you a large chunk of DPS compared to either of the other talents, but while in "dps mode" you're only about 1000 DPS ahead of Holy Shield with Seal of Truth active. Unless you spend about 2/3 of the fight in "dps mode" and only 1/3 in "survival mode," you'll actually produce more DPS and have better survivability by just taking Holy Shield and swapping from Seal of Insight to Seal of Truth based on what you care about at the moment.
In other words… Holy Shield does seal twisting better than the "seal twisting" talent does.
The other thing I should mention is how each talent performs in AoE situations. In short, Holy Shield excels here as well. With as few as two targets, it's nearly caught up with Seraphim in DPS and out-performs everything else for survivability. For three or more targets, it just plain dominates in both DPS and TMI. I won't belabor that point with loads of plots, but if you're curious here are some sims with two, three, and four targets so you can see for yourself:
So, with that said, my advice regarding level 100 talents is:
Take Holy Shield or Seraphim.
Holy Shield will be a solid choice on most encounters, especially cases where you have to tank multiple targets at once, and has the benefit of taking literally no attention away from the encounter. This makes it a perfect choice for learning a new boss fight, since you can pay more attention to the encounter mechanics that you need to learn rather than micromanaging your rotation.
Once you have the mechanics down, you may decide to shift gears to take Seraphim if the encounter suits it. It gives you better burst DPS, and more control over the timing of that DPS. Be aware, however, that the longer you delay Seraphim, the less effective it is. The DPS gains may disappear if you're not casting it at regular 15-second intervals, so this talent is much more susceptible to sloppy play or mismanaged timings.
Also remember that you're most vulnerable in the ~5 seconds before you re-apply Seraphim, because you need to be pooling Holy Power during that period to recast it. This is a good time to use Divine Protection, especially with Unbreakable Spirit talented. Another trick you can use is to sit on a Divine Purpose proc and consume it during that 5-second window, since you can't use it for Seraphim anyway.
If you really enjoy seal twisting, it doesn't hurt much to take Empowered Seals. It just isn't really overly strong in any particular category, and it's hard to justify the extra attention required to maintain multiple seal buffs. I could see this talent being more effective if we had a much emptier rotation, like some of the other tank classes now have. But without culling some of our rotational spells, that just isn't going to happen.
You'll note that I only used Sacred Shield in these sims. You can see the version with Selfless Healer and Eternal Flame included here. It doesn't really add anything though – EF and SH are uniformly worse for TMI, and the small DPS gains that you achieve by not spending GCDs refreshing Sacred Shield aren't really worth it.
Stat Priorities
One of the big changes is in our stat priorities. If you recall from the Survival Guide, at level 90 mastery was king, with bonus armor right behind it, and then versatility, haste, and critical strike rating trailing a little behind. The gap between the stats was not that large though, and even the lowest stat (crit) was still 2/3 the value of mastery.
All of that changes at level 100 though. Ten levels and a bunch of gear upgrades make a pretty big difference, but there are plenty of other factors that affect the stat weights as well. For example, at level 90 it took 20 haste rating to increase your haste by 1%, compared to 23 rating for crit or mastery. At level 100, it's now 100 haste rating vs. 110 crit or mastery rating, which should weaken haste relative to the other two stats.
Level 100 talents can also have a fairly significant effect. Holy Shield favors mastery slightly because you're blocking spells now, and the reactive damage adds to mastery's DPS contribution. Seraphim and Empowered Seals will likewise favor certain stats more than others.
Finally, the gear set we use can make a difference. The T17H profiles, which use Holy Shield, have been optimized around that choice and heavily favor mastery. So to start with, let's look at that situation. Below are scale factors calculated using the T17H profile against a T17M TMI boss:
Let's analyze these results in a little more detail.
- Bonus Armor is head and shoulders above everything else in this sim. It's just flat-out awesome, giving solid effective health against physical attacks and increased healing by increasing your attack power.
- Stamina and Strength are also strong. Stamina's value is obviously dependent on how much you have and how willing you are to trade survivability for DPS, so YMMV there. Strength performs well thanks to granting a combination of AP and parry.
- Mastery commands a solid lead over the remaining secondary stats. Unlike at level 90, where it had several stats nipping at its heels, the next closest secondary stat is nearly a full 30% weaker. That said, this sim is using Holy Shield, which makes mastery a little stronger than usual.
- Crit and Versatility are roughly tied for the next place. The order in which these two show up depends a lot on the specifics of your gear, though I think that versatility tends to be a little stronger overall. This is one of those things you'll just have to sim for yourself if you want more accuracy for your own character.
- Multistrike and Haste bring up the rear, with multistrike generally leading haste. Also note that this is a solo sim, so the effect of Shining Protector is underrepresented compared to a real situation. How much is one of those subjective questions that is hard to answer.
In summary, at level 100 the stat priority for survival seems to be
Bonus Armor > STR > Mastery > Versatility / Crit > Multistrike > Haste
I've left off armor and stamina since they're not something we can actively choose in most cases, but the numerical values are there in case you want them.
In addition, note that the gear set I'm using here is already heavily biased towards mastery. In other words, even in a high-mastery gear set, stacking mastery instead of other secondary stats is a solid bet for survivability. At level 90, haste had finally managed to catch up to mastery once you stacked 55%-60% of it. It's possible we will once we have T18+ gear and higher mastery percentages, but we're not there yet in T17.
This is only half of the story though. Those are stat weights for TMI, but we also produce respectable DPS now, so in Warlords raids we may very well care about how each stat affects DPS. Those stat weights are below:
The obvious take-away here is that strength and bonus armor are great. They're also two of our best TMI stats, which is convenient. With Holy Shield selected, mastery gets a slight edge over versatility, haste, multistrike, and crit, but they're all pretty close to one another. Obviously stamina and armor provide no DPS contribution, hence they come out as zero (or close enough to it, within error) in this plot.
So to summarize, at level 100, the stat priority for DPS is
Strength > Bonus Armor >> Mastery > Versatility / Haste / Multistrike / Crit
I would be remiss if I didn't address some of the earlier disclaimers I threw at you. For example, I mentioned that the choice of level 100 talent can affect the stat weights. Here's what you get if you take this profile and swap Holy Shield out for Empowered Seals or Seraphim:
On the Empowered Seals plot, mastery drops a bit compared to armor, as does strength. But both still command a healthy lead over the remaining secondary stats. Versatility swaps places with crit, but otherwise the order is basically unchanged.
Seraphim works a little differently, in that mastery's value drops, falling in line with the other secondaries. There's a fairly good reason for this, which I mentioned a little earlier in the post. While Seraphim is up, you're in very little danger, because you have lots of excess stats. But your most vulnerable time is the 5-second window right before you recast Seraphim, while you're pooling holy power. That's where your big spikes come, and unfortunately, that's a period you are almost never covering with Shield of the Righteous, taking a lot of the wind out of mastery's sails. We're also simming with a very mastery-heavy gear set, which further reduces mastery's value.
If we take these stat weights and re-optimize the gear set somewhat, we get completely different stat weights:
Suddenly haste is back in the spotlight! How does that even work?
This highlights one of the major problems with calculating stat weights. This sort of calculation is based off of the assumption of linearity. In other words, we assume that the increase due to each stat is extremely linear, such that our quick sampling accurately reveals the overall trend.
Unfortunately, that assumption of linearity isn't always very good. One way to test it is to use one of SimC's other features, called scaling plots. This sim takes longer, but generates a graph showing how your TMI changes over a range of values. To illustrate that thought, let's look at the scaling plots for Holy Shield and Empowered Seals:
Since we're looking at TMI, the stat that has the largest negative slope on these plots is the best, because it reduces TMI by the most per point. Both of these plots tell the same story that the scale factor bar plots did: bonus armor is far and away the best stat, followed by mastery, and then followed by the other secondary stats, which all clump together.
However, this is what the Seraphim plot looks like:
Kind of crazy! We see some of the features shown on the scale factor bar plots. Bonus armor is still awesome, and mastery is now back in the clump of other secondary stats. But the haste plot is all over the place, making it tough to trust values generated from just a single scale factor simulation.
What's happening here is that we're hitting haste breakpoints with Seraphim. It's a little complicated, because it's a mix of interactions due to the rigid 15-second cycle, the reduction of the GCD, the 5-second lockout period during which we pool HP, and a few other factors. I think that in practice, none of this is worth worrying about, as a real player will make enough errors to smooth this curve out.
What you should take away from this graph is that despite haste being much less linear than the others, over the course of the graph it doesn't actually outperform the other secondary stats. Haste might sim above or below the other secondaries in any single scale factor simulation, but on average it just oscillates around the others as you increase the amount of haste you have. Here's the associated plot from the alternate gear set, showing the same effect. So in practice, I think that the secondary stat weights for Seraphim should probably just be "Bonus Armor > everything else," possibly with a slight bias towards versatility and crit since those do seem to consistently outperform mastery and multistrike.
Finally, it may be worth talking briefly about the DPS stat weights for Seraphim and Empowered Seals. There isn't a lot of difference, but here are the plots:
As you can see, both Empowered Seals and Seraphim favor haste, crit, and multistrike a little in terms of DPS. That said, again, we're in a mastery-heavy set, so this is sort of expected.
With all of that in mind, I recommend you follow the survivability priority we came up with for Holy Shield. Strength and bonus armor don't generally compete for itemization, so you'll still be maximizing both of those regardless of which you choose. Mastery is your next-best stat in both as well. For the remainder, the small differences in stat value really aren't going to make or break your performance. If you want a quick-and-dirty rule of thumb, it would be:
Bonus Armor > Strength > Mastery > everything else
If you're using Seraphim or Empowered Seals and want to eke out some more DPS, you can shift itemization into haste, multistrike, and crit and de-emphasize mastery, but the DPS gain isn't going to be that great.
Now that we have stat weights, let's talk about how this affects our gearing.
Gear Choices
The stat weight results have some important, if subtle, implications for how we gear.
First, note that most of the time we aren't going to be making tough decisions between gearing for DPS or gearing for survivability. Higher-ilvl gear has more of everything, but most importantly it has higher strength, stamina and armor. This means that a higher-ilvl piece will almost always be preferable to lower-ilvl piece because of the innate defensive boost from stamina and armor, and the boost to everything from strength.
Secondary stats are all similar for DPS, so we can almost ignore that aspect and select pieces based on which gives better defensive bonuses. In general, that means taking pieces with mastery on them, but again, it will usually still be a gain to take a higher-ilvl piece without mastery than a lower-ilvl piece with mastery just due to the huge value of strength, stamina, and armor.
I say almost above because it's clear that bonus armor is an outlier here. It's got a massive lead in both departments. There's almost no reason you should ever pass up a bonus armor item as a result. Even a lower-ilvl item with bonus armor can trump a higher-ilvl piece without it. Bonus armor is the one stat you should be drooling over and hoarding. Luckily, only other tanks will want that gear, so competition should be low.
This manifests itself quite noticeably in one particular slot: trinkets. About a week ago, I ran a fairly comprehensive set of tests for the trinkets in tier 17, first individually and then in combinations. The two plots that most clearly summarize these results are below:
The top few DPS trinkets are either strength (Horn of Screaming Spirits, Tectus' Beating Heart, Forgemaster's Insignia) or bonus armor (Evergaze Arcane Eidolon, Blast Furnace Door, Tablet of Turnbuckle Teamwork). The top few TMI trinkets are stamina trinkets (Pillar of the Earth, Petrified Flesh-Eating Spore, Battering Talisman), but they're followed closely by the bonus armor trinkets (BFD, EAE, and Pol's Blinded Eye) and strength trinkets (HoSS, Bottle of Infesting Spores).
This is a bit of a departure from what we're used to. For the first time in a long time (at least for 25-man raiding), there isn't a huge survivability gain to be had from stamina trinkets. They're a little better than bonus armor and strength trinkets, but only barely – and they come with a pretty hefty DPS loss. As a result, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't bother using stamina trinkets at all this tier.
Of course, the usual disclaimers apply. This sim is only one potential scenario, a TMI boss that does ~75% physical damage, etc. Stamina may shine in an encounter with a lot of magic damage and so on. But bonus armor has really taken a serious run at stamina here, because it provides all the effective-health goodness that stamina does (at least, against physical attacks), but also gives us a lot of DPS.
In fact, the bonus armor trinkets are the ones that really shine here. The combination of Blast Furnace Door and Evergaze Arcane Eidolon give you nearly the best DPS possible and almost match the TMI you get with stamina trinkets. If you look at the sim with trinket pairs, you'll see that the only way to improve DPS over the BFD+EAE combination is to pair a bonus armor trinket with a Horn of Screaming Spirits, and the gain is only about 100 dps. The only way to beat BFD+EAE in TMI is to replace one or both with stamina trinkets, for at best a reduction of about 2k TMI.
Obviously you'll take what drops as it comes and adjust accordingly, but it seems clear that the two trinkets we'll value most highly are BFD and EAE. And again, as bonus armor trinkets, you won't be competing for them with your plate DPS guild-mates. It won't hurt to keep a spare stamina trinket or Horn of Screaming Spirits in your bags to customize your load-out to the fight, but in all likelihood the BFD+EAE combination will be your go-to trinket setup for the entire tier, provided you can get your hands on them.
There's one last gearing point to discuss, and that's tier bonuses. Unfortunately, there isn't much to say yet. Preliminary work suggests that both tier bonuses are worth getting, despite the fact that our tier isn't heavily mastery-itemized. But I haven't had time to do an exhaustive comparison here, and frankly, that sort of comparison won't be relevant for at least a month or more thanks to the fact that the Highmaul raid doesn't drop tier tokens. By the time we actually have access to them, I'll have results to share. So expect a follow-up blog post on that topic.
I did a little preliminary work with glyphs here, and updated them for L100 here. The short version is that for DPS,
Harsh Words > Alabaster Shield > Double Jeopardy (2T+) > Focused Shield (1T) > Final Wrath
This is with Holy Shield selected, which gives Alabaster Shield a boost (thanks to Holy Shield). It's also using Divine Purpose, so Final Wrath may get a little stronger if you take Sanctified Wrath, but probably not enough to catch up to the next two choices (it's behind by 300-some DPS). Note that you only get a benefit from Double Jeopardy if you're properly cycling targets the whole time, and Focused Shield is a flat-out DPS loss whenever you can cleave to 2+ targets.
The only other thing to mention is that while Immediate Truth is a DPS loss against bosses, it could be useful while leveling. The difference in DPS is small enough that it's almost certainly a DPS gain if the target doesn't live long enough to build up a 5-stack of Censure, which is pretty common while leveling. So you may want to consider using that if you're leveling with Seal of Truth active.
WeakAuras Strings
Not much has changed here, though I did add a Seraphim cooldown icon. I hope. I forgot to do it on beta, so I had to do it on live, which means I obviously can't test it. But I will as soon as I get to 100, and it's a simple icon so it should just work assuming I got the right spell id.
Here's what they look like:
As I said last time, I removed a lot of the useless stuff. While I'm not using a Resolve bar, somebody asked for one, so you can find it on the WeakAuras page.
Any Questions?
That's pretty much all I have for you today. But I've been pretty busy lately, so it's possible that I've forgotten something. Or that you might want to know more about something I mentioned, or maybe something I didn't mention. So I'll try to be around most of today to answer any questions you post in the comments.


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Ask supporters about former Pinellas County Sheriff Everett Rice, and you'll hear about his hands-off leadership style. He empowers and validates those beneath him, admirers say. He brings people together to make big decisions.
"He's very strong on collaboration," said former St. Petersburg College President Carl Kuttler, who worked with Rice during the 16 years he served as sheriff and plans to vote for him in the Aug. 14 Republican primary. "He's not a heavy-handed person at all."
With his shock of white hair, piercing blue eyes and Virginia drawl, Rice, 67, embodies a certain idea of Southern gentility.
But those skeptical of his effort to reclaim his old job from Sheriff Bob Gualtieri see weaknesses beneath the surface. They say Rice's light-on-detail appeals to integrity in policing mask an ignorance of the changing nature of law enforcement.
"He has no plan for the future," Gualtieri said at a recent campaign event. "All he's talking about is the past."
Some hallmarks of Rice's tenure as sheriff are at odds with current financial and political realities. During his four terms as sheriff, ending in 2004, Pinellas' largest law enforcement agency was flush. The budget grew by $151 million dollars between 1989 and 2005. By contrast, over the last four years, the agency's spending has shrunk by $72 million.
"It's a different organization now than when Everett was there," said former Sheriff Jim Coats, who earlier served as Rice's chief deputy and has endorsed Gualtieri. Then, "the sheriff got whatever he asked for, because the funding was there."
Citing low deputy morale and a scandal in the narcotics unit, Rice has made change a centerpiece of his campaign. Yet when pressed on what reforms he would institute, he said that after eight years away, he can't offer ideas without better knowledge of the department's workings.
"I don't know exactly what they're doing now," he said.
While Rice acknowledges his ignorance of how the Sheriff's Office is doing business, he says he can restore what he describes as lost public trust in the agency.
"The credibility of the Sheriff's Office is shot, and the only way to fix that is to change the leadership," he said. "Leadership qualities, they don't change, and they don't expire with time."
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A native of Roanoke, Va., Rice joined the Pinellas agency at age 23 after serving four years in the Merchant Marine. He worked there for the next 18 years, rising to chief of detectives.
During that time he received a B.A. in criminal justice from the University of South Florida and, in 1984, a J.D. from Stetson University College of Law. In 1985, Rice left police work for private law practice.
In 1988, he challenged Pinellas Sheriff Gerry Coleman, whose department was dogged by complaints of corruption and brutality. Rice, running as a reformer, won. He was re-elected three more times before stepping down in 2004.
The overarching theme of his administration, Rice says, was modernization of the Sheriff's Office. He adopted up-to-date forensics and set up rehabilitation programs at the jail. He was instrumental in creating a civil service board that provided due process in the disciplining and firing of employees. He preferred suits to a uniform and enjoyed the esteem of voters and fellow elected officials.
There was another theme to Rice's time in office: growth.
County tax revenues were buoyed by a swelling population and rising property values, and Sheriff's Office staffing grew apace. The department's annual budget rose from $73 million in 1989 to $224 million in 2005, the last year for which Rice crafted a budget. Adjusted for inflation, spending roughly doubled on his watch. It was a fiscally permissive environment that Pinellas County Commissioner Nancy Bostock, who has endorsed Gualtieri, says won't reappear any time soon. "We are going to maintain tight budgets," she said. "We don't have a choice in this economy."
The same year Rice stepped down as sheriff, the Treasure Island resident ran unopposed for the state Legislature. He served a single, uneventful term in the House of Representatives. He said his most significant accomplishment as a lawmaker was helping author the Jessica Lunsford Act, which increased penalties for sex offenders.
While involved in state politics, Rice was known as a moderate. But he has given signs of a rightward drift in the current election season.
He has been endorsed in the sheriff's race by Richard Mack, an Arizona antigovernment activist who is a favorite on the tea party speaking circuit. Rice refuses to confirm or deny that President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen, a stance that might appeal to "birther" conspiracy theorists on the far-right fringe.
Rice said he enjoyed his time in Tallahassee, but chafed against the limits of legislators' power. After his term ended, he went to work for the law firm of Barry Cohen, a prominent Tampa litigator. Rice's responsibilities there have primarily involved client intake and investigating cases, rather than trial work.
"His greatest strength was his ability to analyze a problem — to separate all the bulls---, if you will, and get right to the heart of it," Cohen said.
He said he was also impressed by the respect that Rice, a longtime cop, had for due process in criminal cases.
It's an attitude that has driven his campaign. Earlier this year, a handful of Pinellas narcotics detectives were accused of trespassing and lying to obtain search warrants for marijuana grow houses. The allegations eventually led to three deputies resigning and one being fired.
The scandal was a stain on the administrations of both Coats and Gualtieri, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to lead the Sheriff's Office when Coats stepped down in November. (Gualtieri had previously served as Coats' chief deputy.) Rice said the scandal would not have happened on his watch.
"To me, it's a cultural thing," Rice said. "Why did the deputies think they could get away with these things?"
Yet he was vague when questioned about how he would do things differently.
"Lead by example," he said. "Let people do their jobs."
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Rice has been endorsed by two prominent police unions — the Suncoast Police Benevolent Association, which represents Pinellas deputies, and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 43. Some of that support could stem from Rice's promises to give deputies a raise if elected. Agency employees have had no wage increases for years because of revenue shortfalls.
Gualtieri said he would like to give deputies a one-time raise in the near future, but acknowledges he has not yet freed up the money to do it. While tax revenues have picked up somewhat, Pinellas County is still facing a $25 million deficit this year.
At a debate in Clearwater this week, Rice was more assertive.
"Giving deputies and the other employees a raise is the number-one priority, and I would find the money," he said.
Asked where the funding would come from, Rice said he would need time to study the sheriff's budget before getting specific.
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I'll be in Palm Springs/Desert from Feb 12-19. I'll be staying at the Hyatt hotels in both places. 4.0 player here (used to be 4.5, but haven't played in a while.)
anyway, i'm looking forward to getting back into shape. if you're around and interested in hitting, let me know.
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No ego for Anderson, who will help A's from 'pen
OAKLAND -- As advantageous as a healthy Brett Anderson proved to be as a starter in the playoffs last year, the A's believe the lefty's availability out of the bullpen for this year's postseason rematch with the Tigers is equally valuable.
The A's initially hoped Anderson, who was sidelined for four months by a stress fracture in his right foot, could be stretched out as a starter upon his late August return. That never happened, though.
Luckily, the 25-year-old was just as open to the idea of remaining in the bullpen through year's end as his employers were despite having been a starter throughout his entire career. So that's where Oakland's Opening Day starter will be, with a pair of rookies in Sonny Gray (Game 2 of the best-of-five American League Division Series) and Dan Straily (Game 4, if necessary) instead getting starting nods alongside Bartolo Colon and Jarrod Parker.
"I wouldn't say it was a hard sell," manager Bob Melvin said on Wednesday, as his team prepared for Game 1 on Friday (6:30 p.m. PT, TBS). "He wanted to contribute, and he knew that relieving was probably going to be his best option. There were times we tried to stretch him out some. We probably never got him into a position where he could start a game and give us 80 or 90 pitches, but I think moving him around in the bullpen and pitching him in different roles allowed him to adjust to whatever role we put him in, and he is that one guy where there's no set role for him."
Melvin sees that as more of a benefit than a disadvantage, particularly since Anderson throws left-handed.
"He can pitch a couple innings for us, he can match up against a lefty, he can come in in the middle of an inning," Melvin said. "Based on his starting ability and his weapon against right-handers, he can get us through a whole inning. With us moving around a little bit, I think it allows him to be ready for whatever role we use him."
"I have to be ready from the first pitch to the last out," said Anderson, who didn't allow a run in his final two regular-season appearances. "I could be in any situation. A couple hitters here, or it's an inning in the middle or go long if the starter doesn't go long. My stuff kind of plays anywhere, so it's being open to those roles and trying to help the team win."
Anderson struggled greatly against the Tigers this year, allowing 10 earned runs on 13 hits, including three home runs, in 8 2/3 combined innings. Seven of those runs came in 5 2/3 innings in an April start, not too long before it was discovered Anderson was pitching on a bum ankle. Then he faced the Tigers in his first appearance off the disabled list on Aug. 28, allowing three runs in as many innings out of the bullpen.
Considering he could've been pitching with an injury in the first outing and was just coming back from one in his second, that's not exactly a telling sample size. More significant is what Anderson was able to do against the Tigers in a Game 3 start last year: allow only two hits in six scoreless innings in a postseason setting.
"Getting to the postseason last year and getting a test, well, I've been here for a while when we struggled, so just getting there and trying to help us win is a big thing," Anderson said. "Starting is what I've done pretty much up until this point, but now it's about where is the need. Egos go out of the window in the postseason."


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California veterans may be losing out on $400 million in federal benefits annually and among the options some are looking at to capture that money is to use potential savings by cutting costs at veterans homes.
The emerging debate centers on whether the state spends too much on its homes for veterans who are older, ill or disabled and instead should focus more resources to help younger returning veterans with their claims for federal benefits to prevent rejections and even more delays.
The untapped amount of federal dollars alarms advocates for veterans, who are urging Gov. Jerry Brown to spend what they view as a modest amount to hire more people who could drastically increase the benefits for veterans.
The veteran groups are lobbying for $11 million in spending that was authorized by previous legislation but never materialized because of nagging state deficits. Brown has offered $2.6 million in his proposed 2013-14 spending plan — an amount unchanged since 2006-07.
The California Department of Veterans Affairs overall budget is $328.6 million.
Spending $11 million for more for benefits assistance would bring in $400 million in additional federal benefits, said Pete Conaty, a lobbyist who represents the County Veteran Services Officers who help file the bulk of federal claims. His estimate is based on the projected number of additional claims that could be filed, speedier returns and obtaining the maximum benefits available. The state does not dispute the figure.
Veterans advocates' first choice is for Brown is to simply allocate the money.
Another possibility, according to a local lawmaker and others, would be to shift money from the state's system of six veterans homes, which includes one in Chula Vista.
Assemblyman Rocky Chavez, R-Oceanside, was acting secretary of the state Department of Veterans Affairs under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He called the veterans homes "the Cadillac of programs paid by California taxpayers."
He said the $100,000 or so the state now spends on average for each resident of veterans homes could be trimmed back through privatizing of pharmacies, food service, gardening and other tasks.
Others have suggested increasing fees and tightening the mostly unlimited access to health care for residents.
The state could also look into ways to keep veterans in their own homes longer, said the recently elected Chavez, a retired Marine Corps colonel and vice chair of the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee.
Those savings could help bolster claim-filing efforts, Chavez said.
"You could bring in more revenues for their quality of life, for the community, the economy," he said.
Peter Gravett, the current secretary of veterans affairs and a retired Army major general, said his agency is doing its best to expedite claims given funding levels and competing priorities.
"If the governor gives us additional money, we'll take a look and see where the best place is to place those funds," he said in an interview. "Obviously helping veterans and assisting veterans in filing claims is one of our priorities."
But he said cuts at homes would be tantamount to the state turning its back on promises to care for those who served their country.
"Most veterans understand that when a veteran becomes older, that they have a place to go in California. We take care of our veterans," said Gravett, whose father and eight brothers also served.
Veterans do pay part of their way, but how much depends on the type of care and their income, Gravett said. "There is no free lunch," he said.
The state spends about $188 million on general operations on its six homes — more than half the veterans department budget — that house 1,694 residents. The one in Chula Vista houses 305 residents, costs the state $29 million annually and brings in $3.88 million in resident fees.
One argument in play is the vacancy rate. Critics point to the low numbers of filled beds and say perhaps as much as half are not being used.
The department contends the vacancy rate is inflated because the home in Los Angeles is just ramping up and new homes in Redding and Fresno will not admit residents until later this year. Also, not every bed is filled on purpose to make sure patients can be moved in case they become infectious with an illness.
That doesn't satisfy some critics. Veteran homes "remain an inefficient delivery model raft with bureaucratic bloat," argues Ted Puntillo, director of veteran services in Solano County.
The Little Hoover Commission, a nonpartisan state advisory panel, has already held one broad review of issues related to veteran care and claims and plans more. A much-anticipated investigation of veterans homes by the independent state auditor is expected later this spring. And the Assembly veterans committee opens the first of a number of oversight hearings on Tuesday.
"It's safe to say the status quo is not acceptable," said Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, a Torrance Democrat and committee chairman.
California is home to nearly 2 million veterans, including about 228,500 in San Diego County. Statewide, veterans in 2010-11 reaped about $4.5 billion in federal pensions and disability pay. In San Diego that figure was $779 million.
For Juan Chavez, a retired Navy captain from Poway, dealing with the federal Veterans Administration has been a frustrating experience filled with time-consuming delays given the backlog of applications.
He has some benefits after 38 years of service, including time in Vietnam and Iraq. But his injuries have become more acute over time, especially the chronic degeneration of his joints and lung damage from asbestos. So, he filed supplemental claims — the most recent in October 2011.
"I haven't had a decision yet," Chavez said. "It's been nothing but a horrendous battle with them. It's depressing and stressful.…
"They are swamped. That's what they tell me. How patient do they want a veteran to be? Two, three, four, five years?" Chavez continued. "A lot of veterans are surviving on just their retirement and benefits. If you're not getting that, your quality of life isn't what it should be after years of defending your country."
Federal delays in processing claims by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are compounding problems in getting the money into their pockets and into the local economies, say state advocates for veterans.
Federal data indicate the wait for benefits can be as much as 18 months. In San Diego County, three out of every four claims have not been resolved after 125 days.
In an email, federal officials say the department is working to speed up processing. The backlog, they said, can be traced to the growing number of veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, who routinely file multiple claims for an assortment of injuries. Also, in the last two years the department processed 150,000 claims associated with Vietnam-era Agent Orange exposure, federal officials say.
Typically, veterans rely on the chain of 56 County Veterans Service Offices to help process claims for benefits, such as service-connected disability checks and pensions.
These offices generally receive about 85 percent of their funding from counties and 15 percent from the state. The state's share is based on the amount of applications that get turned in and another check comes after the claim is approved.
Tom Splitgerber, the San Diego County County Veterans Service Officer, said his five-member team of accredited representatives each files about 400 claims a year. His office could almost double the number of claims with three to five more workers, he said.
Sen. Marty Block, D-San Diego, is a member of the Senate veterans committee and said he is sympathetic to doing more given the previous lean budget years.
"Counterproductively, we've been cutting programs that have brought money to us. We had no choice," he said.
That may change given the more flush budget thanks to voter-approved tax increases and an improved economy.
"A word of caution," Block said. "This is one of many deserving programs that need to be restored now that we have a little bit of discretionary revenue."


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NASHVILLE‐Special Agents of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested a Macon County man on Tuesday for Burglary and Aggravated Assault.
On March 10, 2014 and at the request of District Attorney General Tommy Thompson, TBI began an investigation into an assault that occurred on Douglas Lane in Lafayette. A man identified as Andy Wayne Goad, age 33 of Pleasant Shade, TN, had a romantic relationship with his girlfriend for two years until December 2013. Goad believed the reason why they
broke up was because of another man.
On March 10, 2014, Goad went to his ex‐girlfriend's house on Douglas Lane and entered her home where he found another male and his ex‐girlfriend. At that time, he assaulted both of them with a wooden club. Both the male and Goad's ex‐girlfriend suffered serious bodily injuries.
On March 11, 2014, Goad was arrested and charged with one count of Especially Aggravated Burglary, two counts of Aggravated Assault and one count of Unlawful Possession of a Weapon.
He was released from the Macon County Jail after making his $25,000 bond.
Macon County Sheriff Mark Gammons made this comment regarding his reasons for turning the case over to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation:
"With all of the parties involved, I felt like it would be a conflict of interest for our department to investigate this case, so I called District Attorney Thompson and requested that he ask the TBI to investigate the case."


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David Draiman on Israel/Palestine Media Tactics: 'You've Set the Stage for a New Holocaust'
Those who've followed Disturbed / Device frontman David Draiman over the years know that he's proud of his Jewish heritage and that he's very passionate when it comes to world events. Draiman stirred up quite the reaction over the weekend when he took to his Twitter account to blast the mainstream media over their coverage of the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
In a series of tweets, the rocker accused a number of mainstream media outlets of "biased, libelous and often erroneous" portrayals of Israel in the current conflict. His comments on the matter can be read below.
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THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S BIASED, LIBELOUS, AND OFTEN ERRONEOUS PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL IN THE CURRENT CONFLICT HAS FUELED A WAVE OF ANTI SEMITISM, THE LIKES OF WHICH I HAVE NOT WITNESSED IN MY LIFETIME. WELL DONE @CNN @BBC @Reuters @MSNBC, YOU'VE SET THE STAGE FOR A NEW HOLOCAUST. MAYBE YOU'D BE HAPPY/SATISFIED WHEN THE EXTREMIST NUTBAGS YOU DEFEND SO MUCH, WHO EAGERLY MARTYR THEIR OWN CHILDREN. WHO CHANT FOR THE DEATH OF ALL JEWS, NOT JUST THE ISRAELI'S, AND WHO'S ETHICS, MORALS, & VALUES STAND DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO YOUR OWN LIBERAL VIEWS OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION, GAY MARRIAGE, PRO CHOICE, AND EVEN DEMOCRACY ITSELF, STRIP THE REGION OF THE ONLY BASTION OF TRUE LIBERTY THAT EXISTS IN THE REGION. WELL GUESS WHAT? NEVER AGAIN. JEWS ARENT SO EASY TO F--K WITH ANYMORE.
As expected, Draiman's rant received quite the reaction with the rocker even stating that he was having to deal with outcry from both sides of the conflict.
The rocker then provided a well thought out point-by-point reasoning for his support of Israel in the conflict. He pointed out six specific falsities that have been floating around in the public mindset, from Israel being founded on land stolen from the Palestinian people to Israel purposefully targeting civilians and trying to commit genocide. To check out Draiman's lengthy post on the matter, read below.
I have struggled for many weeks now as to whether or not I should once again write a formal letter, as I did the last time this conflict erupted in 2007, regarding my position of defending the actions of Israel in their current battle against the terrorist organization Hamas. Having been blessed with a beautiful family, and looking into the eyes of my beloved son, your world takes on a very different weight and perspective, and at first I was reluctant to once again put myself out there, even more than I already have, fearing, as I'm sure many of my colleagues do, that I could be putting my family at potential risk and opening myself up to attacks…verbal and otherwise.
I have just returned from my brothers wedding in Jerusalem. It thankfully was a very peaceful, moving, and emotional experience, as I was lucky enough to be there during another short-lived cease-fire, which was of course purposefully and intentionally broken by Hamas, again, just as I was leaving the country. Seeing my family; my brother Ben and his new family, my Grandmother (a blind woman, well into her late 80's who had herself served in the Israeli army), my many cousins I saw, and the several hundred others that still live there under constant threat of rocket attack, I could hear the voice of my Grandfather (may he rest in peace, also a highly decorated Israeli commando, as was my father), calling to me from beyond the grave (I have had family living in Israel since well before the state was founded; since the early 1900's to be exact). As I returned home, and once again fell into the loving arms of my wife and kissed the sweet face of my infant son, I looked into my sons eyes and thought, "How could I explain to him, when he is older and is able to understand, that when our family, our people, were in jeopardy, that I did not do all I could, in my own small way, to try and shed some light on the truth in the defense of our people?"
I cant. I wont. I owe it to him, to them, to the future of my people to at least try.
The horrors that this constant war has unleashed upon the people of the region are beyond measure. With every report of another death, Israeli or Palestinian, my very heart bleeds, for as I have stated before, there are no two people on the face of this planet with closer blood lineage than the Arabs and the Jews, both descendants of Abraham, and the very fact that we are still killing one another, is both ludicrous and tragic beyond words.
I still believe in my heart that there is always hope. Hope that one day there can be a lasting peace, a peace we so longingly refer to in Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah", but that hope continues to be marred by the constant false/truths and heavy accusations weighed out by the Mainstream Media (the flame fanning, whoring pimp that she is; selling blood and gore, and a monster movie story, to jack up its ratings, and charge more for advertisement on their networks), and certainly by the continual condemnations of the sham of an organization known as the United Nations (who is in bed/business with many of the Arab countries directly opposed to Israel's very existence). So then, let me from my own extensive personal knowledge of this particular area of subject matter; shed some light on some common misconceptions, distortions of the truth, and outright lies.
1. Israel was founded on land stolen from the Palestinian people=FALSE.
Israel was founded after decades of a movement called Zionism, which simply means, the belief of establishing a Jewish state within the ancestral homeland of the Jews, the land of Israel. The movement's momentum culminated after one of the greatest atrocities man ever committed upon its fellow man, the Holocaust. An event that many have tried to deny ever having occurred, (Both of my grandparents on my Mother's side were survivors of the camps, with the remainder of their families wiped out completely. My grandfather, a strong, stocky fellow, survived because he was assigned to wheel barrow duty, carrying the bodies of the dead to the crematorium, until his camp, Bergen Belsen was liberated. My grandmother was a little girl in Auschwitz, who survived because each time she stood in line for the gas chambers (there were three before she was liberated), the people in line allowed her to crawl underneath their legs to the back of the line so that the chamber was filled before she could enter. She still lives in Chicago and still has the numbered tattoo that the Nazi's branded her with), caused the world to feel pity for the Jewish people for once, and the UN itself voted for the establishment of a Jewish state within the ancestral homeland of it's people (Israel). The details of what happened during that time are completely represented with total historical accuracy by the following short video from the Prager Institute. I implore anyone and everyone to watch this to gain a concise and clear understanding of this conflict.
Lets say, just for argument's sake that the anti-Semites (and that's exactly what they are, there is no distinction between "anti-Zionists" and anti Semites. They are chanting "death to the Jews" in these protest crowds, they're not singling out the Israeli army or government, so lets just have you take your masks off, shall we?), were right, and the land was stolen, and the Holocaust never happened.
Do you really think 6.3 million Jews who have been living there, making the desert bloom since, and well before 1948, are just going to up and leave? You think that's the answer? Do you really want peace? Or do you just want all the Jews in pieces? History has shown that it is certainly the latter. The only answer to any of this, is to eventually come to a compromise, a two state solution, that puts the burden of responsibility back on the Palestinian people to maintain order and finally accept the existence of the state of Israel, and embrace peace and prosperity; not the gospel of Martyrdom, death, and Jihad that Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, and their ilk preach.
2. Hamas wants to compromise and achieve a two state solution=FALSE
They want it all. They have violated every attempt at a cease-fire. They want to kill every last Jew on the face of the planet and to enforce the barbaric system of sharia law upon all the people under its control. A system that encourages the subjugation of women, denies any religious freedom, denies any sexual freedom, and denies any freedom of expression, often, on pain of death.
(Please see above charter)
3. Israel intentionally targets civilians, and is trying to commit Genocide=FALSE
Israel goes to great lengths to try and avoid civilian casualties whenever possible, but when your enemy is constantly firing at you, utilizing it's own children/civilians as human shields, it nearly impossible to avoid civilian casualties, and unfortunately, mistakes happen in times of war, horrific ones, tragic ones.
Hamas however, always targets civilians…always.
Imagine the following analogy. Lucy is holding the football for Charlie Brown once again. Lucy and the football represent Hamas, and Charlie Brown represents Israel. Charlie brown runs forward to kick the ball Lucy is holding when at the last moment Lucy pulls the ball out and Charlie Brown falls trying to hit it; the difference is that here Hamas (Lucy) replaces the ball at the last possible second with innocents/civilians, and instead of whisking the ball away, encourages Charlie Brown to strike it, and he does.
This is what is happening to Israel time and time again, The Mainstream Media painting them as monsters with each inflammatory/inaccurate headline.
People ask me, "How can you as a father justify the killing of innocent children?' I don't. I cant. Hamas does.
They have sacrificed the lives of their own people, their own women and children, to gain the advantage in a media war. A media war they are clearly winning, and the UN's UNWRA organization is helping them, by turning a blind eye to storing weapons in and firing from its own facilities.
I weep every time I hear of more civilian deaths/injuries on either side (I do not have an once of pity for the deaths of Hamas/Islamic Jihad terrorists), from genuine grief, and from the frustration of knowing the oncoming condemnation from a world blinded by images of death, that the media are only too rabid to spread, whether they are actually from the current conflict, or are stolen from Assad's massacre on his own people, or even horror films (numerous fraudulent pictures have been exposed on my Twitter page https://twitter.com/DAVIDMDRAIMAN. Please feel free to read all the info contained therein).
The casualty figures reported to the UN are reported by the Palestinian authority, which has been given directives from Hamas to report every death a civilian one.
The children? These poor children are taught to hate from the day they are born,
This is child abuse. This is inhumane. This is monstrous. One of Hamas' slogans is,
"We love death more than the Jews love life". I suppose that's why they use their own children as human shields, and spend all their resources on Jewish eradication, instead of building infrastructure, building schools instead of terror tunnels, bolstering their economy and helping its people; and Israel invests in the protection of it's people (Iron Dome, thank you USA).
What would you do in the following scenario (a friend of mine, a Golani soldier in the IDF told me this at my brother's wedding)? A ten-year-old boy gets handed a grenade, and is then ordered by his parents to run at the Israeli platoon searching for terror tunnels and weapons. The soldiers don't react quickly enough, and the grenade detonates, killing the boy, and one Israeli soldier, also injuring many other soldiers as a result. How do you fight such an enemy? How do you fight an enemy that sacrifices their women and children as suicide bombers, strapping explosives to their bodies and instructing them to go to the area of highest civilian concentration that they can reach and kill themselves and as many around them as possible for the "glory of the cause" (re; the events of the first and second Intifada)?
It is these kinds of acts of cowardly terrorism/suicide bombing that prompted the building of the security wall/fence between Israel and Gaza, and since the wall has been in place, such occurrences have diminished, drastically.
What if such a threat was aimed at your family? Your wife? Your son? No matter how horrible the consequences of the decision may be, would you not do whatever it took to save them? You're a hypocrite and a liar if you say otherwise.
4. Hamas wasn't behind the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens=FALSE
They financed it. They had also been firing rockets into Israel on a consistent basis prior to this event, an incredibly pertinent fact that the Mainstream Media's narrative, seems to have conveniently forgotten about.
5. Israel is an apartheid state=FALSE
Israel is the last bastion of true freedom and democracy in the Middle East, a nation where people are able to enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and sexual freedom (the only country in the middle east to host a gay pride parade). Good luck with any of that in Gaza, or in any other Arab country for that matter. A country where naturalized Israeli Arabs can vote, have representation in Parliament, and some even serve in the Israeli army (one of the top Israeli military men is an Druze Arab).
6. Hamas is a "humanitarian organization" (Nancy Pelosi said, "that's what the Qatari's told me", Qatar and Iran being the largest financiers of terror on the planet)=FALSE
I think we all can agree that war…is hell.
This is a war that Israel has been fighting since the dawn of its existence, and an anti-Semitic hatred that we Jews have had to endure since the dawn of our existence. The enemy Israel is facing is none other than the face of true evil, a face that is being photo-shopped by the Mainstream Media into a victim, just like they planned (this is of course the same Media that glorifies terrorists and murderers of children within our own country, by plastering their names and faces all over the news every time another horrific incident occurs, immortalizing them, instead of focusing on the names of the victims, and making their memory stand for something; but that's not as sexy is it? After all, it's all about ratings. Create more monsters and keep people living in fear so they stay glued to their television sets).
I beg each and every one of you to open your minds, hearts, and listen to REASON for once instead of allowing yourselves to be brainwashed by a propaganda machine that has only one aim/goal; to keep you living in fear, to horrify you, and to profit from it.
I have personally lost too many friends and loved ones to these inhuman monsters already, and cannot tolerate another, single, one (I have a friend of mine who was widowed because her husband was killed in a bus bombing in the second Intifada, and lost her leg during the "harmless rocket fire" that started the last Gaza/Israeli conflict, who now has to care for her two children as a cripple).
Before the world is swayed further into madness, before the stage is set for a new Holocaust, I implore each and every one of you, Jew and non-Jew, to make your voices heard, and do what you can to spread this, and your own personal messages of truth.
People have been trying to exterminate the Jewish people for thousands of years (The Inquisition, The Crusades, The Persian and Ottoman Empire, The Holocaust, etc., now Hamas). You wont. The Nation of Israel lives and the Jewish people will endure, with or without your blessing.
I can now at the very least look my son in the eyes when he is old enough to understand and tell him…I tried.
I wish to thank the United States of America for all the support they have shown Israel through the years.
I pray that a true and lasting peace finally comes one day.
With the utmost sincerity, hope and conviction,
Respectfully submitted,
David Draiman


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Just days after announcing via Twitter that she and boyfriend Jim Carrey had split up, Jenny McCarthy has revealed she is closing her school for autistic children, Teach2Talk Academy.
"Jenny and her partner at the Academy, Sarah Scheflen, had different visions for the school and made a decision to go their separate ways," a rep for Jenny said in a statement to Access Hollywood late Thursday night.
The rep said the women will carry on their work related to autism.
"Both intend to continue on in this important mission," the rep's statement continued. "Sarah and Jenny really enjoyed their time working at the Academy and feel honored that they were able to provide such high quality early intervention services to so many children with autism and other developmental disabilities."
While the Academy, which is located in Sherman Oaks, Calif., is being closed, it was not immediately clear if the Teach2Talk company, which sells a series of educational resources online, would also continue.
Jenny has long been an advocate of autism. Her son Evan was diagnosed with autism in 2005.
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10:00 am - 2:00 pm
West Tisbury Grange Hall
Contact: Vineyard Artisans
Address: 1067 State Rd
Website: http://www.vineyardartisans.com/2017-vineyard-artisans-festivals/
Admission fee: Free
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A Vineyard Summer tradition and the only weekly juried art show where the public can meet over 70 artisans and buy directly from them. Many demonstrations, weaving, fine furniture, pottery, stained glass, oil paintings, pastels, mixed media, sculpture, wampum jewelry, quilts, clothing, sea glass windows, handmade books and much more.
Indoors and outdoors, rain or shine.
10:00 to 2:00 each day at the Historic Grange Hall in West Tisbury.
Great food, free parking, free admission, and a playground for kids.


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BOULDER — Ethiopia's Mamitu Daska won the women's elite Bolder Boulder, repeating from her 2012 win, and Eritrea's Afewerki Berhane won the men's elite race under sunny skies and temperatures in the low 70s.
Portland's Shalane Flanagan finished second in the women's race. Lafayette's Sean Quigley was the top American for the men.
Quigley was the biggest surprise of the day, seeded on the third American team — USA White. He topped a formidable USA Red team of Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall and professionals Luke Puskedra and Bobby Curtis.
His coach, Lee Troop, was ecstatic afterward, wrapping his arms around his runner and saying, "I'm so proud of you."
In the women's field, Daska separated herself from the pack barely a mile into the race, swinging widely to her left on a long straightaway as the rest of the women's pack moved to the right — inside of the road — as if she were trying to sneak by undetected.
She separated herself and never looked back. A four-second gap turned into eight seconds, then 10 seconds, then 18 seconds and was near 22 seconds by the time she raced into Folsom Field, with some 50,000 people cheering her arrival.
PHOTOS: Thousands run in Colorado's 2014 Bolder Boulder 10K
The roar came once more for Flanagan, the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the 10,000 meters who was the top American in Boston in April. It was Flanagan's first Bolder Boulder.
Earlier, Colorado State University assistant cross country coach Scott Dahlberg won the 2014 Bolder Boulder citizens race after a gamble in the second mile to break away from the field.
Dahlberg, 29, who graduated from Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, finished in 30 minutes, 50 seconds, fending off a late attack from second-place finisher Andy Wacker, a former runner for the University of Colorado. Wacker finished in second in 30:56.71.
"I've run it a handful of times," Dahlberg said of the Bolder Boulder, "but this is by far the best I've felt in it. I decided to take a chance early on and break away. Wacker's a tremendous runner. I could have been where he was, and could have been where I ended up."
Sarah Crouch, 24, a professional long distance runner for Reebok-sponsored Zap Fitness, was the first women's finisher, in 35:11.72.
"After the first mile, I settled into a rhythm and stopped looking at my watch," said Crouch, who lives and trains with her husband, also a runner for Zap, in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. "A 10K is long enough that you'll have good and bad patches. I definitely had a rough patch around the 5K point. When you get to a 5K point, you either think, 'I'm feeling great' or 'Wow, I'm only halfway done.'"
Racing at altitude tends to punish a runner's lungs more than his or her legs — which is exactly what Crouch found.
"The difficulty of the altitude and the intimidation — it was easily balanced of the people of Boulder and having 50,000 runners behind me."
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I have to create an overview for a competition with about ±400 competitors. They are separate in the "best 100"-group and the others.
A random number of competitors shown as thumbnails with (if so) an 100-tag would work. (Show 10 competitors randomly)
How would a complete overview of the 100 best look like, without prioritizing single ones ("prioritize" because they are shown on page 1 of x or shown first in the slider)?


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IBM SONAS guest post from John Sing
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Guest Post written by John Sing, IBM San Jose, California
What is IBM SONAS? It's many things, so let's start with this list:
IBM SONAS makes automated tiered storage achievable and realistic at petabyte levels:
And we're just scratching the surface. IBM has plans to deploy additional protocols, storage hardware options, and software features.
However, the real question of interest should be, "who really needs that much storage capacity and throughput horsepower?"
The answer may surprise you. IMHO, the answer is: almost any modern enterprise that intends to stay competitive. Hmmm…… Consider this: the reason that IT exists today is no longer to simply save cost (that may have been true 10 years ago). Everyone is reducing cost… but how much competitive advantage is purchased through "let's cut our IT budget by 10% this year"?
Notice that in today's world, there are (many) bright people out there, changing our world every day through New Intelligence Competitive Advantage analytics-based IT applications such as real time GPS traffic data, real time energy monitoring and redirection, real time video feed with analytics, text analytics, entity analytics, real time stream computing, image recognition applications, HDTV video on demand, etc. Think of how GPS industry, cell phone / Twitter / Facebook, iPhone and iPad applications, as examples, are creating whole new industries and markets almost overnight.
Then start asking yourself, "What's behind these Competitive Advantage IT applications – as they are the ones that are driving all my storage growth? Why do they need so much storage? What do those applications mean for my storage requirements?"
( Read more about Analytics, pages 14-48 of [New Intelligence for a Smarter Planet - Driving Business Innovation with IBM Analytic Solutions] )
To be "real-time", long-held IT paradigms are being broken every day. Things like "data proximity": we can no longer can extract terabytes of data from production databases and load them to a data warehouse – where's the "real-time" in that? Instead, today's modern analytics-based applications demand:
This is a major paradigm shift in storage – and that is the solution and storage capabilities that IBM SONAS is designed to address. And of course, you should be able to save significant cost through the SONAS global virtual file server consolidation and virtualization as well.
Certainly, this topic warrants more discussion. If you found it interesting, contact me, your local IBM Business Partner or IBM Storage rep to discuss Competitive Advantage IT applications and SONAS further.
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As of 9 a.m. Monday, traffic was slow on Lombard Street near Lloyd Street in Baltimore City, due to an accident.
An accident was slowing traffic on Fallston Road near Pleasantville Road in Fallston.
A water main break was disrupting traffic around Madison Street and Guilford Avenue in Baltimore City.
North Charles Street was closed between North Avenue and West 21st Street in Baltimore City, due to water main repairs. Officials recommend that motorists use Calvert or Howard streets or I-83 as alternative routes.
The Maryland Transit Administration advises patrons there is no MARC train service or Commuter Bus service Monday due to the Veterans Day holiday. Light rail, local bus and Metro Subway service will operate on their usual schedules.
Monument Street is closed between Wolfe Street and Patterson Park Avenue in East Baltimore, due to sinkhole repairs. Maryland Transit Administration bus 35 has been diverted.
Some streets in downtown and midtown Baltimore City will be closed temporarily starting at 7 a.m. Monday for a Veterans Day parade that begins at 9 a.m. Detours and parking restrictions will be in effect.
According to the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, the following roads will be closed to through traffic starting at 7 a.m.: Eastbound Mount Vernon Place from Cathedral Street to St. Paul Street, Charles Street from Fayette Street to Monument Street; Lexington Street from Charles Street to Frederick Street; Gay Street from Fayette Street to Fallsway, and Saratoga Street from Gay Street to Holiday Street.
The parade will start at the intersection of Charles and Centre Streets. Participants will head south on Charles Street, east on Lexington Street and then to Gay Street where the parade will end.
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It has been sixteen years since professional football was played in the Los Angeles Area. And while previous attempts to bring a team back to LA have proved futile, everyone involved this time around seems optimistic that the NFL will return in the near future.
One of the proposed stadium sites is Downtown, where stadium mogul Philip Anschutz hopes to build Farmers Field next to Staples Center. The LA Kings owner is hoping to bring at least one football team to his downtown location, and may be open to buying a majority stake in a team.
Anschutz Entertainment Group, which has developed 12 arenas and stadiums worldwide, has been before the LA City Council with its proposal. However, in order for the stadium to fit at LA Live the Convention Center's west hall would need to be reconstructed.
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"We'll take down the old west hall, it's 40 years old, currently it needs $80 million worth of taxpayer's renovation to fix," said Tim Leiweke, AEG president and CEO. "Instead of putting any taxpayer's money into it, we'd build a brand new hall. And then we will guarantee a land-lease payment at Farmers Field, we will guarantee an advertising revenue payment for the convention center. And that when combined with the new property taxes we are going to pay at Farmers Field, and the new parking taxes from Farmers Field will cover, in fact more than cover, the debt service for the less than $300 million in bond money that will be borrowed to pay for the new convention center."
Leiweke cited a recent study that concluded the stadium would provide millions of dollars to the city—a summary of the study was published, but full results will not be made public.
He underscored the jobs and economic benefit a downtown stadium would bring to the city.
Even though AEG is still in discussions with the city council, Leiweke said he is confident it will bring a team to downtown Los Angeles in the "near future."


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Eating, while engaged in other activity, can prevent us from knowing what and how much we're putting in our mouths. When our focus is on the television, or in a good book while we eat, we often eat more than we should. and that means too many calories.We need to be mindful – or attentive – to not only what we eat, but how much we eat and also why we eat.
One way we can pay more attention to our food, is to not eat while doing any other activity, like watching tv or reading. Snack away from the television or do your reading away from the snack bowl.
"I know that my favorite thing to do was eat and read. So for the first six months I had to completely divorce those two activities, because I wasn't enjoying either one as much as I could."
Or, if your snack food comes in a big bag, dish out only the amount that you want to eat.
Eating mindfully also means eating to relieve hunger, not eating because we're bored, mad, sad or even happy.
"If I was down in the dumps, I'd eat. If I was happy, I'd eat. If something went right for me, it was the greatest thing to happen to me. I'd eat to celebrate."
If you find yourself eating when you're not hungry, choose another activity to occupy your time. Keep your hands busy. do something you enjoy that's healthy, productive or fun. Replace eating with some physical activity. Your body will benefit by replacing unhealthy snacking with some exercise.
If you're snacking because you are hungry, choose healthy snacks like carrots or other vegetables. Other suggestions may be whole wheat crackers, or fruit.
How do you eat during mealtime? When you sit down to a meal, do you eat quickly? Slow down. enjoy your meal. Be mindful of each bite and give your food full attention. eating slowly gives our bodies time to feel satisfied, as the amount of food we eat increases.
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When your hunger is satisfied, stop eating. eating quickly doesn't give your body time to recognize that you've eaten as much as you have. that can lead to overeating, feeling satisfied only after we've eaten too much.
"I wasn't mindful of whether I was having one egg or three eggs, or mindful of having a second helpings, third in some cases."
"I'm actually tasting the food. I'm actually present when I'm eating, where in the past I was just stuffing, and really not enjoying it."
Again, allow yourself an appropriate serving size. instead of overeating, reduce the amount of food available to you by taking less, sharing a dish, or saving some for leftovers.
Focus on your food. think about what, how much, and why you are eating. You'll find yourself feeling more satisfied with less calories.
You can get more tips about mindful eating by talking to your healthcare provider or a nutritionist.
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The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Kevin Millwood pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Jesus Montero hit a two-run homer and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Saturday.
Millwood (4-8) gave up one unearned run and six hits in 6 1-3 innings. He struck out three, walked one and was aided by two excellent plays from shortstop Brendan Ryan.
Tom Wilhelmsen worked the ninth for his 13th save. Lorenzo Cain hit an RBI triple with two outs before Alex Gordon grounded out.
Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas sprained his right knee while diving for a grounder in the first inning. He is day to day and will be examined again Sunday.
Billy Butler was 3 for 3 for Kansas City.
Montero hit his 10th home run, connecting in the third off Bruce Chen (8-8). After navigating around two hits in the first, Chen gave up three runs on four hits in the third.
Gordon turned Kyle Seager's fly ball into a double when he lost it in the sun in left field in the third. Miguel Olivo followed with a single to right and the Mariners challenged the arm of Jeff Francoeur, who came into the game leading the league in outfield assists. Seager slid wide and tapped the plate with his hand to put Seattle up 3-1.
Kansas City took a first-inning lead when Butler singled home Alcides Escobar.
The Royals closed to 3-2 in the eighth when Gordon doubled off Brandon League and Escobar hit a one-out triple. But Chris Getz, hitting in Moustakas' spot, grounded out against a drawn-in infield and after an intentional walk to Butler, Yuniesky Betancourt grounded out to end the inning.
The Mariners added a run in the eighth on Mike Carp's sacrifice fly.
NOTES: The Mariners inducted Randy Johnson and Dan Wilson into the team's Hall of Fame. They are the fifth and sixth members, joining Alvin Davis, Edgar Martinez, Jay Buhner and former broadcaster Dave Niehaus. ... Getz came in to play second and Yuniesky Betancourt moved to Moustakas' spot at third after the injury. Getz dropped a soft fly ball on his first fielding chance. Moustakas has been hitting third and is second on the team in home runs and RBIs.


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The White House seeks to put an end to electric car and renewable energy source subsidies. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow says the Trump administration is seeking to end tax credits for consumers who buy plug-in electric vehicles, including those made by General Motors. These tax credits typically run from $2,500 to $7,500.
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Live Blogging the Oscars 2010
Well, I've been away from my blog so long that someone hacked it and I couldn't log in. Luckily I fixed it. I never did my picks this year because I didn't see very many movies this last year, so I'm just gonna wing it as I go. Also, I'm working on some budgeting spreadsheets so I might be late here and there.
First off, Hugh Jackman's introduction was far better last year. I love Alec Baldwin, I like Steve Martin, but so far not good enough.
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz. This was pretty obvious, he was a genius.
Best Animated Film
Again, so obvious. Pixar made a movie this year, so they win again.
Best Original Song
I'm gonna pick the song Marion is singing…
I'm wrong – never bet against Crazy Heart I guess. Or should I say never bet against a man named T-Bone.
Best Writing
Robert Downey Jr. is wearing the most ridiculous bowtie I think I've ever seen…I love it. But this is really flat.
I think Inglorious Basterds should win – it's Quentin's year. At least it should be…But could The Hurt Locker as well.
Bah, the locker of hurt…2 for 4. Crap.
I never pick short films because I never see any of them.
Ben Stiller dresses in Avatar suit, which at least hides a ridiculous beard…best makeup. I'm going with Star Trek.
So..3 for 5. I really wish we didn't have to listen to these people give acceptance speeches….
Best Supporting Actress
Up in the Air should win, but I wouldn't be surprised if Precious wins. Maybe I saw it too late, but I find Precious overrated (don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, but not super amazing). Yeah, Precious wins…I refuse to write the entire title because it's pretty ridiculous.
3 for 6.
Best supporting actress…This one is easy. Mo'nique. But I think that's the easy way out. That said, not the best crop of nominees here. Of course it was Mo'nique. Enjoy it girl – this is the role you were meant to play, and there are no more oscars in your future. Oh, and thanking the academy for making it about the performance instead of the politics is a joke – the politics all pointed to Mo'nique wining this award.
4 for 7
Avatar is nominated, doesn't that mean it will win? I'd like to see Nine win. Although the Academy loves period pieces.
Yeah, Avatar wins. Talk about overrated. yawn.
but building a cushion at 5 for 8.
Best costumes? Young Victoria of course. Of course. It's a period piece. Thrid Oscar for a woman who looks…uh…pretentious. 6 for 9.
Sound Editing…time to find out if Avatar is the 800 pound gorilla of the Oscars or if the Hurt Locker makes a dent. I'm gonna go with Hurt Locker, because the sound was edited.
Big time.
And it's The Hurt Locker yay!!! 7 for 10!
Let's go with same for the other Sound Award…
And it's The Hurt Locker again, 8 for 11. This really is a far superior movie to Avatar.
Visual Effects
Avatar wins for Visual Effects, which was probably the most secure lock this year.
Best Documentary
This has to be the Cove, although Food Inc. is far more sobering and important, in my opinion.
The Cove wins, showing that people care more about harming cute animals than food animals and people…
C'mon, editing has to be Hurt Locker…and it is. Booyeah. I'm getting psyched – I hope Bigelow gets Best Director if not Best Picture.
11 for 14.
Best Actor
C'mon, it's gotta be Jeff Bridges. He was robbed not getting it for Lebowski…
Yaaaaayyyy! It's getting a little dusty in the room…
Best Actress
Well, everyone says it's Sandra Bullock's year and I wasn't offended by her or that movie, so let's go with that.
And Sandra Bullock wins. After all those Miss Congeniality movies, something better had to happen. This is good – Sean Penn looks like he's on a different planet.
Best Director
Please don't be James Cameron, please don't be James Cameron, please don't be James Cameron…
And it's Kathryn Bigelow – a great win for a great movie, not to mention the first female director to win Best Director. Outstanding.
Best Picture
HURT LOCKER!!!! Listen haters, Avatar is an amazing technical accomplishment, and a spectacle like few others, but the Hollywood foreign press is on crack – it is not the best picture of the year. Neither is this (I think Inglorious Basterds and Up in the Air were better) but I'm really quite pleased.


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I ran into this particular issue while using SignalR, but it would happen in any case where you are serializing data to JSON using Newtonsoft's JSON.NET library. I was finding that properties on my C# object were clearly marked with the [ScriptIgnore] attribute were still being serialized, which was sending unnecessary data down to the browser.
The answer turned out to be simple: SignalR uses JSON.NET behind the scenes to do the heavy serialization lifting, and JSON.NET looks for the [JsonIgnore] attribute instead.
If only all of my annoying little bugs were this easy to solve!


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150/5210-5D - Painting, Marking, and Lighting of Vehicles Used on an Airport
- Date Issued
- April 01, 2010
- Responsible Office
- AAS-100, Office of Airport Safety & Standards - Airport Engineering Division
- Description
Provides guidance, specifications, and standards for painting, marking, and lighting of ground vehicles operating in the airport air operations area (AOA). The approved lights, colors, and markings described in the AC assure the conspicuity of vehicles operating in the AOA from both the ground and the air. The AC contains new specifications and recommendations for the painting, marking, and lighting of Towbarless Tow Vehicles (TLTVs).
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Land of milk and honey
Some people's life stories read like a fairy tale. As a girl, food was constantly on her mind, says Mimi Thorisson, who worked as a model before becoming a chef, food blogger and TV host. She traveled the world, married her prince and moved into an idyllic farmhouse in the Médoc region of France, where she tries out her recipes on her followers and spoils her husband, seven children and numerous dogs.


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Magnum Beanbag, green melange felt 848
- Why is it special?
- Details
Country of Origin: Denmark
Dimensions: 325 L, Ø 100 cm, H 70 cm
Materials: 80% Wool felt cover (over 25 colours available), with polystyrene beads.
Why is it Special?
One of our best selling products; the Magnum beanbags are at once a retro 70s throwback and a timeless classic. This beanbag will shape itself around your body, offering the perfect base for chilling, listening to music, watching a movie, playing video games, or reading a book. All homes need a beanbag, and Magnum comes in huge number of fabrics and colours to match any style. Great for adults and kids 2 years and older.
Features an inner liner which holds the beans, so you can take the outer cover off for drycleaning.
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