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EMERALD ISLE, N.C. (WNCT)A deck inspection program put in place by the town of Emerald Isle following several collapses two years ago has now been expanded.
The deck inspection program currently requires all vacation rental unit decks to be inspected annually by a licensed contractor.
An expansion to that program includes condo units.
It took a little bit longer, just because its more complicated but essentially it sets up regular inspections by their personnel and also by their engineers, said Frank Rush, town manager. Basically, we work with them to come up with common, consistent management practices in those condo complexes.
The new program is a collaboration between the town and condo associations.
Crystal Coast Management Consultants is one collaborator thats been replacing decks at its properties since 2012.
We talked to the town about what we were doing and the town talked about what they would like to do and what we found out is that we have a great deal of commonality between what we were doing and their thinking, said Johnny Cameron, Crystal Coast Management Consultants.
The program consists of five initiatives including:
There are nine condo complexes throughout the town. Rush says the town is pleased that all of the complexes are so willing to get involved in the program.
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Knights of the Frozen Throne is pushing the boundaries of Hearthstone's mechanics. With no card is that more true than the new Priest legendary.
As cards continue to be revealed, pros and casual players alike find themselves dazzled by the possibilities. Trying to figure out if cards are useful before you can actually play with them is pretty difficultespecially when the effect is particularly dramatic.
Enter Archbishop Benedictus. The Priest legendary, revealed by Blizzard through IGN, which has one of the most game changing effects seen in the game.
The stats for seven mana are obviously not ideal, in fact following the exact line as Reno Jackson but for one more mana. But this card is all about effect. If shuffles a copy of all the cards left in your opponents deck into yours. If played on curve, you could be talking about 20 cards or more. Obviously, this card is amazing in a fatigue warbut only if you've played it early, potentially before you know it's definitely going to fatigue.
In theory it's incredibly powerful. But in practice, is it any good? After consulting with some in the community, they have their concerns. Against aggro decks in particular, this card won't help you a lot of the time. If you play an under-statted minion that doesn't challenge the board state on turn seven against an aggressive deck, they will just ignore it and kill you. Even if you do get to make use of it, you just restrict your access to your anti-aggro tools by diluting your deck.
Even in a fatigue match-up, you are just playing cards which might not be as useful to you as they were to your opponent.
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The decks have been cleared for an integrated campus of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) at Surajmal Vihar in east Delhi, modelled on the lines of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad.
The new campus had found a mention in Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodias budget speech earlier this year and is among the three ambitious projects which also includes a Teacher Training Institute under Ambedkar University at Lodhi Road and a new campus for the Shaheed Sukh Dev College at Rohini of the AAP government related to higher education.
To cost Rs. 231 crore
The foundation stone for the sprawling campus, which will come up at an estimated cost of Rs. 231 crore over the next two years, had been laid by then Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani in December 2014.
However, issues related to ownership of land on which the campus was to come up had led to suspension of construction work. On Friday, the Delhi Works Advisory Board, headed by Ashwani Kumar, Principal Secretary, Public Works Department, unanimously decided to resume construction.
Various courses
The University School of Architecture and Planning (USAP) is planned for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in architecture and planning, while the University School of Design (USD) is planned for courses at the same levels in varied disciplines such as textile, production, furniture, interior, graphic, film and video design, said the official.
The university will have a proposed intake of 1,500 students across six courses in addition to offering residential facilities.
Not only is the area in east Delhi densely populated but it also has a sizeable student population. Thanks to connectivity to the Delhi Metro as well as the bus network, not only students residing nearby but also those based across the National Capital Region are expected to benefit from it, the official added.
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Washington: The US state department has issued the necessary license for the export of 22 predator Guardian drones to India, a government source here said, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump had their first bilateral meeting at the White House.
The state department has "issued the DSP-5 Guardian export licence" for India, the source told PTI. A DSP-5 category licence is issued for permanent export of military hardware as found in the US Munitions List, which is defined by the International Traffic Arms Regulations.
The Guardian drones will enhance India's maritime surveillance capabilities in the Indian Ocean region and their sale was announced by Trump on 26 June after he met Modi for their first face-to-face meeting.
The deal is one of the key takeaways from the Narendra Modi-Donald Trump meet in Washington last month. PTI file image
The drones are estimated to cost around $2 billion and are being built by General Atomics, considered a pioneer in the unmanned aerial vehicles domain. The speed with which the Trump administration decided on India's request for the drones, the source said, is reflective of the desire in White House to strengthen India's military capabilities in the Indo-Asia Pacific region, where China's aggressive diplomatic and military posture has unnerved other countries.
"We are extremely pleased that Trump and Modi have had excellent deliberations and the path forward for a game-changer in US-India defence relations has been charted," said Vivek Lall of General Atomics.
Lall, who in his previous capacity at Boeing, was instrumental in the sale of high-tech military hardware to India, is believed to have played a role in convincing the Trump administration to accelerate the sale of the drones. "Given the Sea Guardian's capabilities, such a response to the Indian Navy's request demonstrates a major change in US policy as this type of aircraft capability is only exported to a very select few of America's closest defence partners," he said.
"This represents tangible implementation of US Congress' designation of India as a 'Major Defence Partner'," said Lall.
On Tuesday, Lall met US vice-president Mike Pence on the sidelines of the annual US-India Business Council summit, when Pence endorsed the deal to provide India with Apache attack helicopters, C-17 transport aircraft, besides the drones. The deal is seen as the biggest tangible takeaway from the Trump-Modi meeting towards the operationalisation of the major defence partner relationship.
The Indian Navy requested for the drones early last year. But no tangible action was taken under the previous Obama administration, apparently because of the stiff opposition from the state department, which argued that this could upset Pakistan, America's ally in war against terror in Afghanistan.
The Trump White House spearheaded the inter-agency process to make a significant policy change in favour of India by granting this technology based on government-to-government interactions, the source told PTI.
India had been eyeing the Predator technology for years, and it was only the Trump-Modi combination that they were able to move the decision to this point, the source said. Pakistan is said to be actively lobbying Washington against the sale of the drones to India. However, the White House overruled all objections, paving the way for a new phase of India-US defence relationship.
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After stirring up loads of controversy, Hearthstones much-maligned Quest Rogue deck is finally getting nerfed. Instead of triggering the quest by playing four minions with the same name, now players will have to find a way to summon five, which might seem like a small change but is actually a significantly harder task.
Quest Rogue is a deck that gives every minion a 5 health / 5 attack stat line when the player summons four minions with the same name. Since most minions in the deck can be summoned at a very low mana cost, the quest is one of the strongest in the game, and is practically unbeatable unless its up against a deck that specifically counters it.
Apparently, in Blizzards eyes, the card was so strong it warranted some tweaks. Todays changes will make turn-three quest finishes near impossible to pull off, meaning that Quest Rogues will be weaker against aggro decks, but still potent against late-game focused decks that spend a lot of time stalling.
While Blizzards balance team says that Quest Rogue decks arent single-handedly wrecking Hearthstones metagame, they say the change is meant to expand the deck options available to players, which is already a good thing. On top of that, though, the change will address the problem that pro players like Brian Brian Kibler Kibler struggled with: namely, that the deck feels like it has a limited axis of interaction.
If you arent crazy lucky, and you dont kill a Quest Rogue before turn four, youre usually dead unless youre running a direct counter. Kibler actually recommended this exact change to the quest in his video addressing its problems, so he and other pros are happy to see the card changed:
This nerf pattern will look familiar to anyone whos been following Hearthstone for more than a few months. Back in February, when Midrange Shamans and Pirate Warriors smashed almost everything else in the metagame, Blizzard stepped in and nerfed two cards that were key to those decks: Small-time Buccaneer and Spirit Claws. While the nerfs werent so intense that they made those decks irrelevant, they tweaked the game just enough to let other decks like Renolock and Jade Druid back into the mix.
Its hard to know whether the changes to Quest Rogue will have a significant impact on the metagame, because right now, the highest tiers of Hearthstone play are already much more varied than they were back in February. While the Quest Rogue will likely rotate out of popularity, its hard to say whether thatll affect the rest of the tier list ecosystem.
So why bother making the changes? Comparing Februarys nerfs to todays, the one thing that they both have in common is that theyre both set for release about a month before the launch of a new expansion. With Blizzard already dropping hints about an upcoming set of cards, the move is probably more of an attempt to prep for the next set than it is to shake things up in todays competitive scene.
If Blizzard wants to release powerful new cards in the next set, it probably doesnt want boring, static Quest Rogue decklists running amok and deflating their appeal. This issue actually reared its ugly head earlier this month, when Cong Strifecro Shu reached top 20 in Hearthstones Wild mode using a fully-standard Quest Rogue decklist, which seems broken as hell when you consider that Wild players can use cards from every expansion ever released.
If youve got your own Quest Rogue deck and are freaking out about the change, dont sweat it too muchas a consolation prize, once the nerf is live, youll be able to disenchant the decks defining card, The Caverns Below, for a full 1600 dust. Maybe hold onto it though, because with a new expansion coming out soon, who knows? The deck might get a card that brings it back to its former glory.
Joshua Calixto (@hitherejosh) writes about esports, culture, and technology.
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