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Tombstone Unveiling
In a few weeks we are having the unveiling of the tombstone for my mother-in-law. She was not a member of a synagogue and did not have a rabbi who knew her. I had a very good relationship with her and we respected each other very much. I would like to perform the ceremony myself. My wife and sister-in-law, her only children, feel it would be more meaningful if I did it. If you agree, I would like to know what prayers need to be said. And is it customary to serve refreshments to those attending the ceremony?
The Aish Rabbi Replies:
An unveiling is a way to commemorate the first year since the passing of a loved one. Sometimes it is done after 30 days.
The custom is to gather a minyan at the cemetery, and to recite Psalms according to the Hebrew name of the deceased. If you open to chapter 119, you will see that it is comprised of many short paragraphs according to the order of the Aleph-Bet. For example, if the deceased's name was Moshe (spelled mem, shin, hey), then one recites the entire paragraph beginning with the letter MEM, then the paragraph of SHIN, then HEY.
Afterwards, the same thing is done, but this time according to the Hebrew word for soul – "neshama" – nun, shin, mem, hey.
If a minyan is present, then the one who is reciting Kaddish on behalf of the deceased recites Kaddish at this point.
By the way, it is very important that Kaddish be said every year on the yahrtzeit (and every day during the first 11 months after death). If nobody is doing this, we have a service in Jerusalem whereby yeshiva students do so at the Western Wall. See: www.aish.com/kaddish
I should also mention regarding the tombstone itself: The custom is to engrave the Hebrew name of the deceased and his father's name, as well as the Hebrew date of death.
Finally, it is not necessary to serve any food. If it is convenient for people to come to your house afterward, you might want to provide some refreshments.
May the Almighty grant an elevation to the soul of your beloved mother-in-law.


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That's something I've thought of as well. In the recent past I've actually recommended Macintosh computers to those who seem to be suited for it. I have been hesitant to do so since Lion came out, as it is the beginning of the end of OS X (in my opinion). Now I have a concrete reason to say "stay away", but it's inevitable that when one starts discussing patents and trademarks and shady business practices, the subject's eyes gloss over and they start looking for an excuse to exit the conversation.
And that very ambivalence towards the legal situation is probably what Apple is banking on these days. They must know just how dirty and morally bankrupt their actions are, but they also know the average potential Apple customer is either oblivious or uncaring of the issues. They just want their shiny iPad or Macbook, and let the courts deal with the details.
That said, geek that I am I have a lot of geeky friends who would listen and understand. Most of those, however, already don't like Apple so it would only be another notch on their board of animosity.
So, next time I'm asked for a product recommendation and the person specifically mentions Apple, I can honestly say I don't care for the company or their products anymore. If I'm pushed for a reason, I can highlight the situation and if I have an eager audience I'll continue from there.

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Why does the remedy appear to be more harmful to AMD - an Intel competitor - than to Intel themselves?
I don't know, but you're right. Any increased competition from another manufacturer will hurt AMD much more than Intel. AMD already has the bulk of the business from those willing to purchase non-Intel chips and an additional competitor will draw its customers from that group, not from Intel (who enjoys a large loyal following of customers who won't even consider anything else).
If AMD and Nvidia can truly make competitive products, then having more of a non-Intel option makes that option seem much more mainstream.
Not only that, but what if Intel tries to leverage their monopoly to get Nvidia out of their graphics offerings, and instead tries to bundle their processors with their own integrated graphics chipsets? One of the FTC's complaints was that Intel was doing something pretty close to this on their netbook/atom platform. If they tried it on the higher end, I could see that backfiring for them.
You mean the same way Nvidia has integrated PhysX into their hardware and gone so far as to disable such acceleration if any additional cards made by a competitor are present.
The move to system on a chip is not an anti-competitive practice, it's the way the entire industry works. Third party hardware solutions have long been incorporated into mainstream designs as their silicon requirements decrease. Discrete math coprocessors and memory controllers were devoured by the CPU, video decoding and physics acceleration have been integrated into GPUs.
Why would SoC's from intel be considered anti-competitive, while AMD fusion and Nvidia Tegra, which are essentially the same, be considered innovative?
The FTC needs to consider whether the consumer would really benefit by forcing chipmakers to keep various pieces seperate for the sake of competition. The continued decline in average selling price, combined with the increasing capability of each new generation of microprocessor indicates that consumers are not negatively impacted by such design integration.
You mean the same way Nvidia has integrated PhysX into their hardware
PhysX isn't that much "integrated". PhysX is just 1 of the middleware for physics simulation on the market. The original version was compiled to run on some peculiar accelerator boards (Ageia PhysX cards), Nvidia just ported and compiled it for a different platform (Their CUDA-enabled GPUs). From a technical point of view nothing prevents a port / compile for OpenCV. From a legal point of view : Nvidia owns the code and can do pretty much everything they want with it.
Now, the big difference with Intel, is t
Intel's situation is different. Modern commercial computer games run almost only on x86 hardware. Intel has a huge market share in x86 CPUs.
Computer games do not constitute a market. I would have agreed with you 10 years ago when x86 was the leading force behind most consumer level computer. However, the nature of the semiconductor industry is changing.
The traditional desktop PC is being replaced by portable computing. The industry is clearly moving to a low cost, low power, highly integrated solutions.
Modern commercial computer games run almost only on x86 hardware.
Computer games do not constitute a market. I would have agreed with you 10 years ago when x86 was the leading force behind most consumer level computer. {...} The traditional desktop PC is being replaced by portable computing.
Yes, I acknowledge that the real future in gaming is in the hands of ARM + PowerVR inside some i- / Google- / Whatever- Phone. And/or inside a virtual machine like Flash Player.
But that's not what WoW is running on, and that's not what the companies mentioned in this article and thread usually do.
This story is about change in the equilibrium between Intel, AMD/ATI and Nvidia, and thus specifically affect the landscape of *computer* gaming (hence my emphasis). A given the number of WoW-subscriber and such, e
The issue is that Intel has been slowly but surely changing the licensing on everything so that no one else will have the IP rights to put something on a motherboard with an Intel CPU, or at the very least ensuring that they have to go through a route of Intel's choosing.
For example, Nvidia can't utilize QPI or DMI, and make an enthusiast chip for the Lynnfield, Bloomfield or Clarkdale chips so far. And they won't be able to do so for Arrandale in Q1 2010, Gulftown in H1, or other new designs later on.
The g
"The FTC needs to consider whether the consumer would really benefit by forcing chipmakers to keep various pieces seperate for the sake of competition. The continued decline in average selling price, combined with the increasing capability of each new generation of microprocessor indicates that consumers are not negatively impacted by such design integration."
The problem is not integration as it is the liscensing issues, where Intel tweaked Nehalem chips to deny Nvidia a liscense to make motherboard chipset
Nvidia already bundles their graphics acceleration with their own processor [nvidia.com]. The Tegra processor has plenty of power for Internet Tablets, with way lower power and overall system cost. I think it would be a terrible mistake for Nvidia to enter the i386 compatible market. They should instead help us build a future without all that baggage.
wha? neither intel nor AMD has stagnated
Uhhhhh...come again? I was a life long Intel man, going back to the 486, but after building a couple of AMD duals for my customers I just had to switch. Frankly the bang for the buck on the new AMDs is just crazy. I was used to Intel IGPs where you didn't even want to watch a video on the thing until after you got a discrete card put in, and went from that to actually playing games like Bioshock with decent framerates! From a fricking IGP?
The problem is all the reviewers seem to care about is "sorry about your penis" 3DMark and Crysis benchmarks. But as someone who has been building boxes since Win3.x I can tell you the average Joe couldn't care less about that. They want it to be fast for the things they do, like videos, web surfing, etc and frankly the new AMDs have long gone past "good enough" for the vast majority of folks.
The main problem AMD has IMHO is getting the word out. Ruiz was an idiot, and didn't advertise for squat when they had the lead, and frankly most folks don't really know WHAT chips are out there, they have just seen the Intel "bong bong bong bong" commercial. With the economy in the crapper AMD really needs to push the "bang for the buck" mantra and get the word out. Because frankly you can't beat $99 quads, and the new AMD IGPs kick the living snot out of Intel. But for what 95% of the average Joe is doing with their PC an AMD dual is "good enough" and the new quads are downright scary.
When I recently went to price intel and AMD solutions, I ended up getting MB+CPU for less than intel's CPU with similar performance alone. And we're talking retail "black edition" overclockable CPU, not OEM, and a motherboard with every port I could want (well, OK, there's no fw800 on it) and support for overclocking, which I haven't even messed with yet. AMD's big problem is that they are fighting the perceptual technology leader — not the real one, but the one the public perceives as being there. It
The intel part is superior only where the intel part costs twice as much or more. AMD is by far the leader in price:performance, regardless of what interconnect technology intel is using. An intel CPU twice as fast costs at least four times as much money, that's not a win!
What are you talking about? AMD pretty much owns the x64 market, since Itanium flopped hard. QPI is *JUST NOW* catching up with HyperTransport in bandwidth capability. AMD has been able to offer fewer features on their chips and STILL get the performance needed simply because they had superior design (on-die memory controller, moved away from FSB.) Intel has been playing catch-up. Shit the IGP AMD/ATi offers blows away anything Intel can put out.
More isn't necessarily better.
Give me a Pentium 3, 512MB of PC
Give me a Pentium 3, 512MB of PC3200, a decent GPU, and some people that know how to write tight optimized assembly code, and I'd laugh at anything anybody puts out today.
as much of a fan of assembly code as i am (and I really am) if you think writing everything in assembly on a modern computer to do typical modern computer things is feasible, you're kidding yourself
Also, if you know assembly, and know enough about compilers etc, you can use this knowledge to write C code that when compiled translates to the assembly you would have written anyway. (possible exception being using vector units for highly specialised applications)
When you know how it works, the c language is li
Give me a Pentium 3, 512MB of PC3200, a decent GPU, and some people that know how to write tight optimized assembly code, and I'd laugh at anything anybody puts out today. The only reason we need more of anything, is because most people simply don't know how to program and rely upon high-level abstracted development interfaces and languages to achieve the same performance on beastly hardware that we got using pure assembler and plug-in math co-processors a decade ago.
Now apply that to video encoding.
I was going to say, if you dared mention NetBurst I'd have to smack you silly.
BTW video encoding has been done on much, much weaker systems. I've been doing HD encoding (frame by frame) on a Pentium 2 266MHz. Sure, it may take a longer amount of time to get a finished result, but the results are, for the most part, one and the same, on a slower computer or faster one.
Most people just don't have patience, and thus we end up in this particular situation because of it.
I think the problem is most folks don't realize how scary fast the new AMDs are at everyday tasks. I took a little of my Xmas money to upgrade from a 7550 ( which frankly was doing everything I wanted it to) to a Quad 925 [newegg.com] and the speed of this thing is just insanity. No matter how much multitasking I do it just keeps on coming, no slowdowns or stutters.
And I built the original 7550 dual for just $525 after rebates, with 8Gb of RAM, a 1Gb 4650, dual burners, and Windows 7 HP x64. It is truly crazy the amount
A Quad 925 is about on par with a q9400 ($140 vs $190). Which is great if you want to save $50 when building a midrange system, but for high-end systems, the (on the verge of being discontinued) i7 or upper Q96xx models simply have no competition from AMD, and by the time they do, Intel will have 6-core i9s on the market.
Don't worry... nVidia will never, or at least not in the near future, be able to make x86 chips that would come even close to Intel's and AMD's performance...
I think nVidia wants to release it's own x86+GPU Ion style platform... They realise that Intel has it's own CPU's and GPU's and AMD has it's own CPU's and GPU's.AMD is their main competitor and if the market is going to shift towards hybrid processing units than this is the only way nVidia can keep up with the competition...
I don't know, but you're right. Any increased competition from another manufacturer will hurt AMD much more than Intel. AMD already has the bulk of the business from those willing to purchase non-Intel chips and an additional competitor will draw its customers from that group, not from Intel (who enjoys a large loyal following of customers who won't even consider anything else).
Nonsense. I'd bet less than half of Intel's customers are loyal. Most just want the most performance.
If AMD starts pumping out x86 quad-core CPUs with 64 GPU shaders inside, I can see them taking over the HTPC, high end laptop, and low end gaming machine markets.
They might even be popular for business machines, if the price is right. It all depends on where they get the power consumption to.
It'll hurt both AMD and Intel.
What computer were you using at the turn of the century?
One with an x86 instruction set. Same as now.
What computer were you using at the turn of the century?
One with an x86 instruction set. Same as now.
Fuck you.
What computer were you using at the turn of the century?
RFC 1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.
Silly Doncha member??
Intel x86. Serving all of us since 1978.
There's no reason to believe that this is going to change. Motorola's 68k never went anywhere, and PowerPC is dead. IBM's Cell went nowhere. AMD? Well they make a clone, and have 15% versus 83% marketshare, and one-fifth the revenue [robabdul.com]. Cyrix? Well they went belly up and got bought by NS, then Via. We're talking scraps. less than 2% of the market here.
Oh yeah, and AMD is teetering into bankruptcy. Primo competitive environment eh?
AMD is teetering out of bankruptcy, and the settlement + extra intel damage = expect AMD to leapfrog intel the next couple generations of cpu's. ARM, if it gains traction, will kill intel's market.
Power is dead? Tell that to Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, all of whom are using PPC chips of various kinds in their current generation consoles.
Cell is basically a PPC core with a bunch of specialist number-crunching coprocessors attached. And its by no means dead unless you consider the fact that a Cell CPU is found in every one of the 27 million and counting PS3 systems out there as being dead.
I will grant that PPC is dead as a desktop CPU with x86 being the only viable solution at this point for mainstre
Since we are still stuck with Unix 40 years later and still will be 40 years from now, I can see that we could be still stuck with x86 for a long time. To the Computer Science graduate, they are flawed designs, but in the real world they work and work good enough not to merit a costly change.
Yes there are CPU architectures, but are they significantly better to warrant a change? Even Apple after touting the merits of PowerPC succumbed to the x86 train. Even Intel tried multiple times to bring an alternative
stuck with Unix"
Seems to me we're stuck with Windows
"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you." -- Ken Thompson
I wonder if Ken has ever seen Vista?
Don't get me wrong, I love Unix. Maybe "stuck" was the wrong term. I never claimed to be an English major. If you read my whole post, you'd have got the message that I believe x86 and Unix are more than good enough and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
Seems to me we're stuck with Windows
"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you." -- Ken Thompson
I wonder if Ken has ever seen Vista?
Yeah, I'm stuck with Windows at work. I go home to Mac OS X and Linux/X/GNU goodness, my main machine runs BlackBox on top of Debian.
My signature is a tongue-in-cheek comment, I don't expect people to take it too seriously. Just like x86 and Unix
yeah right because intel won't simply buy up AMD's patents for cents on the dollar.
Because there aren't other companies that specialize in purchasing the patents of companies in order to sue the dominant manufacturer?
We have legal precedent in this case: look up how the Feds went after United Shoe Machinery Company in the first half of the 20th Century. United Shoe was notorious for using its patent portfolio on shoe-machine machinery to drive out competitors, just as Intel is using its CPU and motherboard chipset patents to keep AMD/ATI at bay.
We could see Intel hit with a multi-billion dollar fine and be forced to share information on x86 CPU and motherboard chipset technology with AMD and nVidia.
Still, if I was the FTC, I would force Intel to do two things: license the X86 ISA and its extensions, plus the CPU bus interface to all comers in a RAND basis.
One good thing is motherboard chipsets are becoming irrelevant.
Good for intel maybe, I don't think it's good for those who want better 3D performance from their laptops and small form factor boxes though.
At least in the desktop and mobile segment. Intel's increasingly bundling the north bridge with the CPU package.
Indeed they are and things don't look good for anyone trying to compete with intel in the onboard graphics market.
For LGA775 processors (late p4 and core 2) intel integrated the graphics with the
Current nahelm based processors don't seem to have any provisions for onboard graphics at all (other than using a PCIe soloution with it's own memory) which would seem to be a good thing for vendors of add-in cards. However with the next shrink it seems they are going to put graphics in the package with the CPU. I'd bet that the vast majority of nahelm based laptops will be using that on-chip graphics.
Many onboard graphics solutions have used a shared memory architecture without a separate frame buffer but
IBM gave up?
16-core 4GHz processor modules would like to have a word with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7 [wikipedia.org]
VIA is still at it, they're just attacking the Atom end of the market, now. This is where they were before Atom came along, but they have been developing newer processors.
The market that could very well turn to ARM?
I don't see much of a future for Via. I'm not being a troll, it is just my observation.
ARM's problem is, quite simply, they don't have Windows, and to get the desktop, they either have to wait 10 years (and pay Microsoft to maintain a Windows port for that entire time) for a Windows port to take root, or displace Windows, too.
I don't see the latter happening.
ARM's problem is, quite simply, they don't have Windows
I don't see a problem there....
Except they're going after the netbook market, which didn't take off until it got Windows.
And, back when the first netbooks came out, they didn't have Windows netbooks to compete against.
ARM is going to have one hell of a fight on their hands, for Joe Sixpack, when $50 gets you a faster CPU, faster graphics (even the GMA500, which is worse than the GMA950, is (slightly) faster than the fastest stuff strapped to an ARM,) Windows, twice the RAM, 18.6-37.3 times the storage, albeit a fan and 3 hours battery li
The problem with the switch to ARM is that for the kind of grunt you need in these sorts of machines (vs a MP3 player or a cellphone or whatever), the price difference between ARM and x86 is not big enough for consumers to pick the ARM option.
It seems you forgot ARM processors...this tiny, insignificant part of the market which, by now, perhaps ships more CPUs annually than Intel has ever produced.
This only means ARM isn't ripping you off. Doesn't change the simple fact that they are hugely successful (and also profitable, of course)
That's a US CEOs definition of "failure" at most.
Interestingly, a market that Intel is eager to get into (remember their claims about future of Atom? Licensing its IP on a similar terms to ARM cores?)
Intel could purchase almost every individual company on the planet. It doesn't make most companies on the planet a failure in any way.
Arguing that ARM is not successful in light of their very positive situation - yes, that is unreasonable.
ARM and Intel are simply different. Which also influences the thing that you can't really compare their "market capitalization" directly. ARM is an IP company. How much is IP part of Intel worth? How should we include in comparisons fabs, chips & OEM manufacturers that
but Unlike Intel, what is ARM's debts? Almost no-existent AFAIK because they simply don't produce much more then the actual Design of the CPU and own the patents. What's the difference between ARM and x86? Simply put, it's who can produce the damn things. Unlike the current x86 issue (Intel/AMD) there are so many ARM producers that even if one of the fails and goes bankrupt, the market is hardly impacted due to the numbers and ease of gaining a license but if either Intel or AMD goes bankrupt, you have the
What's the profit margin on those ARM CPUs? How much does each individual chip sell for? Oh, right, there's very little profits and the chips are dirt cheap...
This is what I came to say.
If you look at the stocks of ARM [google.com] & Intel [google.com], you'll notice a massive disparity in their trading volumes.
Intel sometimes trades more stock in an hour than ARM does in a day.
Yes ARM sells billions of chips, but the margins are barely there.
What exactly are you trying to infer from the trading volumes? It just looks like more people are trading Intel because Intel is a bigger company. Also, the link to ARM you posted is for an ADR [wikipedia.org], so Google might not even be including the numbers from the native exchange. And above all the, the only thing a heavily traded stock should mean is a low bid-ask spread
Finally, ARM doesn't sell any chips. They design them, and license the cores to companies that fab them, ie TI, Nvidia, and even Intel.
We've been using this instruction set for years and years now. There's gotta be something better around by now. Is it ARM? Cell?
Are Microsoft and Windows the only reasons we haven't moved on? How hard would it be for them to target a different architecture? Linux seems to manage fine in this regard. Rewrite a bit of assembly and choose a different c compiler. Shouldn't be too hard right?
There have been quite a few different architectures, all supported by Microsoft and Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 [wikipedia.org]
Even though Microsoft abandon PowerPC long ago (XBox excluded), they still support IA64 to this day.
The biggest problem hasn't really been vendor support, but compatibility. PowerPC held Apple back for the longest time because users had no good solutions for running x86 Windows apps when needed, whereas now they have WINE and native booting. IA64, while having some x86 compatibility, does not have clear enough benefits for consumers, and generally runs existing apps slower.
Ironically enough, AMD pretty much killed IA64 and gave x86 a longer life when they came out with x86-64, thus cutting off Intel's attempts to replace x86. Smart business decision for AMD, but it hampered attempts to replace x86.
Intel didn't help themselves by making IA64 expensive to license and program for.
We've been using this instruction set for years and years now. There's gotta be something better around by now. Is it ARM? Cell?
Actually, it's just the opposite. There WERE plenty of better architectures in the early days of x86. Today, x86 is just simply THE chip. The one that's left, competing for the high-end, pushing economies of scale, being all things to all people, and most importantly, with a healthy ecosystem of competitors continually trying to one-up each other.
Everything but the kitchen sink
Do you know how much Microsoft has invested in
Platforms that huge don't just rewrite themselves to run on ARM or another architecture.
Switching would probably cost Microsoft 100 billion or more.
Clarification: Porting their OS,
I still think they're using Transmeta's engineers to run x86 code on their GPUs so they can get Windows to run on systems with other ISAs for their CPU. ARM and POWER, anyone? It sounds much cheaper and simpler than doing the insane amount of testing needed to roll out a new chip, and you'd get the added benefit of accellerating your everyday applications without needing to recompile them for CUDA. Plus NVIDIA will have the advantage of being the first ones out there with SSE5. So BAM!
Except their GPUs aren't fullly programmable in the same way that x86 processors are.
I posted some of my thoughts on this topic here:
http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8143 [pcper.com]
Why would NVIDIA want to dive into such a complex product line when the GPU is becoming more and more important in general purpose computing anyway and that is obviously where their expertise is.
I agree and Windows should support some sort of DirectX standard for accelerating the OS on graphics cards (and I mean more then the GUI in Vista/7 lol)
Would be nice to put that power to use for things like video conversion (I know you already can do this in a limited fashion but if it was coded into some sort of framework things would go better)
I know Flash just got some beta support for hardware acceleration so thats at least some improvement.
By the way awesome article, I am more of an ATI man myself but
I suppose the NYT could be right, in the sense that they see NVIDIA getting an x86 license out of this in the same way that conspiracy theorists see that the Apollo 11 landings were filmed on a soundstage.
There's nothing about remedy 17 or remedy 18 that would lead to NVIDIA getting an x86 license directly from Intel. In short:
17: Intel has to license its chipset buses to other companies (e.g. NVIDIA) so that they can make chipsets for Intel's newest CPUs. NVIDIA only has an AGTL+ license for older Core 2 CPUs, they don't have one for DMI (low-end and mid-range Core i3/i5/i7) or QPI (high-end Core i7).
18: Intel can't get in the way of AMD's efforts to spin off their fabs in to Global Foundries. Up until AMD and Intel inked their own settlement, Intel intended to enforce provisions of AMD's x86 license that required them to do the vast majority of production in-house, which wasn't going to be possible if they spun-off their fabs.
The only way NVIDIA could end up with an x86 license out of this is that remedy 18 would allow VIA to transfer their x86 license, and in reality Intel has never fully acknowledged them having one. VIA only gets away with it because they have a couple of patents that are critical to Itanium, and those patents should be expiring soon.
So I don't know why the NYT is claiming that NVIDIA is going to get an x86 license out of this. This seems to be wild dreaming, or an attempt to generate traffic with ridiculous claims.
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Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host,
Matt Low, the grand pooh-bah of World of Matticus, is on vacation.
Hello readers! Your favorite Canadian priest is off on some sort of an adventure this week so I'm here to cover for him. (I don't know the specifics, but I heard something about a Princess Leia metal bikini and twenty boxes of tropical flavored Fruit Roll-Ups. Your guess is as good as mine.) Usually I just handle priest healing over at Spiritual Guidance (thus, don't be surprised by the heavy priest bias) but I figured I could take a stab at this. I should warn you though: I'm no phlebotomist. I might need to stab you multiple times. No big deal right? I've got Flash Heal.
Anyway, when I asked Matt what topic I should cover, he relayed a story to me on how his raid leader refused to start their 25-man ICC because the group had no holy paladin. The raid leader wanted someone who could "heal the tanks." This forced them to wait 90-minutes for a healadin while available healing priests, shamans, and druids were turned away. Sounds frustrating, yes? Matt suggested I tackle the topic in his place (probably so I can take all the flames), so here I am.
So here's the situation: you're putting together a raid and either your normal pally is absent, for some reason (read: debauchery), or you're in a pug and there are no paladins to be found in ye ol' trade chat. What do you do? Can your other healers handle the tanks or are you doomed to a wipe fest?
Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host,
Holy paladins are probably the most influential healers a raid team has because what they do for the raid is so important. That role is, of course, healing the tanks.
But don't think that a healadin's influence is just the result of what he does and not what he is; holy paladins heal the tanks because they're very good at it. They are designed for single target healing, and have been that way for a very long time. Currently, a paladin's bread and butter spell, Holy Light, is the strongest single target heal (not on a long cooldown) around. Paired up with Beacon of a Light and
you have to wonder why they think they can't raid heal you've got more single-target fire power than a disc priest can produce in twice the time, and that's counting the absorbs.
So here's the big question: do you really need a holy paladin to raid?
The answer is no.
That's not to say paladins are obsolete, though. It just means they, like every other class and spec, are not necessary to succeed. Sure, most top end guilds run one, two, or even three paladins in their rosters, but it doesn't mean you have to. Top guilds bring whatever gets the job done and use their extensive resources to stack the odds in their favor as much as possible. That doesn't really describe the majority of raid teams. It's much more common for a raid team to have to modify strats and work with what they have; this admirable quality shouldn't vanish on the night you've got no pally.
So, how do you compensate for a lack of 25k Holy Lights? Well, you can't just hodgepodge a group together and rush into a raid instance thoughtlessly. There is a certain degree of care and attention that must be taken to accommodate "alternative" raid compositions. I say alternative mostly because having a paladin healer is very much the norm and people are used to raiding in a situation where one is present. To succeed you simply have to recondition your raiders to play differently. Let's see what other healers can do.
With a paladin Typically, the primary focus of a shaman will be the raid, though she has the flexibility to juggle helping out on the raid and tanks at the same time. When a paladin is in the raid, a good shaman will generally contribute to the tank healing by keeping Earth Shield up on the tank. When raid damage is low, the shaman can use Riptide on the tank, then follow it up with a Chain Heal so it aids the surrounding melee. If a shaman keeps going back to heal the tank, she will also be maintaining a stack of the damage-reducing, Ancestral Healing buff.
Without a paladin When without your libram-wielding companions, shaman are incredibly well-equipped to focus their heals on a tank. First and foremost, keeping Earth Shield up on the tank doesn't change. But now instead of following up each Riptide with a Chain Heal, a shaman should instead take advantage of the Tidal Waves talents, which buff up the healing effects of Healing Wave and Lesser Healing Wave, in addition to providing one with a haste buff and the other with an increased chance to crit. Don't forget that all this focus also maintains Ancestral Healing as well. The biggest concern shaman will have is mana, since most of them are geared for Chain Heal. A shaman will need to have an alternative gear set with a healthy amount of MP5 to support their single target healing.
Priest (discipline and holy)
With a paladin Priests have two talent trees dedicated to healing. One is the infamous discipline spec, the other is the more well-thought of holy spec. When there is a paladin in the raid, both have some options to assist with healing the tanks. First, both specced priests proc Inspiration when they land a critical heal. (You cannot stack the buff from multiple priests, nor with the identical shaman buff, Ancestral Healing.) All priests can also throw Prayer of Mending to the tank, which will not only heal him, but usually the surrounding melee when there is raid damage. External tank cooldowns (Guardian Spirit for holy and Pain Suppression for disc) are also quite notable, but those would generally be used to help out on the tank regardless of what a priest is doing in a fight.
From there, what a priest does to assist a paladin healer in a normal raid group is largely dependent on the priest himself. A holy priest can, at the very least, keep a Renew up on the tank. He may also center his Circle of Healing on the tank if the melee DPS are in need of heals.
A disc priest, on the other hand, may vary. You see, discipline comes in two general varieties, bubble bot and stubborn tank healer. If you have a disc priest who fancies himself a tank healer, then you can expect him to already be constantly assisting the healadin by keeping up Power Word: Shield whenever the tank isn't afflicted with Weakened Soul, and spamming single-target heals. If, on the other hand, you have a disc priest who is immersed in the wild, wonderful world of bubbles (you can usually pick them by their biting sarcasm) then the contribution may only take on the form of an occasional shield. That's not to say the disc priest can't do more, but to stop and spot heal regularly will ultimately keep a disc priest from their job as a shield spammer.
Without a paladin If you're sans paladin, a disc priest should naturally have no problem taking over, provided the raid continues to assist on tanks the way they do when a paladin is healing. The disc priest is most effective when healing a single target (as opposed to jumping between two) since the focus allows him to stack up Grace, and extra shields from Divine Aegis from his heals. A priest on tank healing duty will cast lots of Flash Heals, Penance, and even Greater Heal, but through them Divine Aegis will actually account for the most healing the priest does. So, the more they can throw down heals to one target, the better things will work out on that one tank.
For a holy priest, swapping to tank healing isn't as seamless as it is for disc. Sure, when you look over a holy priest you can see they're equipped with great talents like Serendipity (decreases the cast time of Greater Heal after casting Flash Heal) and Surge of Light (gifts an instant cast Flash Heal), but a lack of tools is not the problem. Much like shaman, holy priests require a different set of gear that pumps up crit and regen (through spirit and Holy Concentration) to manage the strain of tank healing. Without the gear, healing becomes incredibly strenuous on mana and responding to burst will always be difficult (even with gear), especially if you're at the wrong point in your Serendipity rotation. The crit will help soften that shortcoming though.
With a paladin Like the previous two AoE healers I've discussed, druids also typically stay focused on the raid. Druid HoTs aren't limited to the raid though, and a good druid can keep a Rejuvenation and a stack of Lifebloom up on the tank most of the time. If a tank needs a little extra attention, Swiftmend provides a great response to burst. Regrowth is also a strong, fast heal plus HoT to cash in on, provided the druid using it knows not to run herself OOM.
Without a paladin Druids are actually very notable tank healers, in my opinion, but it seems like they prefer to keep that hush hush. I suspect it has something to do with Nourish. From a priest's perspective, Nourish is a cheaper, cooler Flash Heal with an amazing glyph. To our leafy friends however, Nourish is some sort of taboo subject matter, crossed between Garrosh Hellscream and Sparkle Pony genocide. Every druid I know hates it; I don't know why. Supposedly it has something to do with killing druid mobility and breaking up the fluidity of the work flow, but I could be misinformed. Anyway, despite protest, you can still stick a druid on a tank and their mana should be fine. Usually the HoTs stagger nicely that they don't need a lot of back up except on fights with big, bursty tank damage. So, just like when the other healing classes are up to bat at tank healing (I once knew a tank named Wrigley) druids shouldn't be left alone to heal unassisted.
Thing to consider
Finally, if you do decide to employ a non-paladin as a tank healer, you'll need to consider a few things. Some of this I'm reiterating in hopes that it will sink in better.
- You can't just play the same way you do as when there is a paladin around. You have to play to your strengths. This is especially true in 10-man raids. Obviously shaman, druids, and holy priests all bring a lot to raid healing, but given the situation you'll just need to adapt. Before each pull, sort out your healing assignments based on the needs of the fight. For example, if raid members must spread out a lot, it will make more sense for a shaman to be on the tanks, since her AoE works best when targets are grouped closely together.
- Help each other out. This should seem obvious from the rest of the article, but I'm going to mention a weird phenomenon I see on occasion. For whatever reason, some healers become very indignant when they have to break from their traditional raid job because there is no paladin is present. They'll all scream that the sky is falling, and protest any compromise by withholding healing assistance to whatever poor soul is assigned to the tank -- even if they're normally happy to back up a paladin on the same job. I don't understand why this happens so consider this is a friendly reminder (*cracks knuckles*) to not do it. The sky is where it always was, folks.
- Be prepared to spam and overheal. Ever watch how paladin's heal? It's one spell after another. You'll need to do the same thing, and pop your mana return cooldowns at the right times to insure you don't go OOM. Coordinate with your other healers to see if you can line up things like Hymn of Hope or Mana Tide Totem.
- Be patient and polite. Non-healing raiders especially are going to get impatient if you wipe to heals when there isn't a paladin around. Keep it together, communicate in a civil manner with fellow healers and raiders; try to problem solve the issue. When in doubt, swap roles or redistribute the healing jobs.
- Think outside the box. As I said earlier, the status quo of healing is to have a paladin. When you don't have a paladin everything you typically do can change. Look to your other spells, talents, even different trinkets, flasks, or meta gems. If there is a deficiency somewhere, see what you can do to fill it.
- Don't be dismayed by the numbers. It's true that nothing can trump a paladin's pure HPS. For most of us, our biggest crits only heal for 1/3 to 1/2 of a normal Holy Light, but just because a paladin heals for that much, doesn't mean they use that much. The bulk of paladin healing is surplus and becomes overhealing. Tanks don't need those numbers to stay alive -- paladins need those numbers to keep tanks alive. They don't have as many spells available to them like other healers; they can't instantly manipulate the way a health pool is plummeting (read: do not BoP the tank) so they get raw numbers instead. Paladin's don't have Pain Suppression or Guardian Spirit. They don't have Nature's Swiftness with Healing Touch or Healing Wave.
- You don't need to be a paladin to heal a tank. Don't forget it.
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Warez is a term commonly applied to software that has been stripped of its copy protection and made available on the internet for downloading. Those participating in the warez scene have become a priority target for law enforcement.
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The defendants were charged in a 15-count indictment that was returned late last Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Chicago, where the investigation was conducted.
All 19 defendants were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, and 15 of the 19 were charged with one additional count each of copyright infringement – both of which offences are prohibited by the No Electronic Theft Act, also known as the NET Act.
If convicted, conspiracy to infringe a copyright carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and copyright infringement carries a maximum of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. – If you want a dairy cow to produce as much milk as possible, one of the things you need to do is make sure she spends enough time each day just lying down, content and at ease. But to be happy, she's got to be comfortable in her pen or wherever she is.
Wanting to help dairy farmers learn more about this to maximize their milk production, Oregon State University has launched research to study the factors that influence dairy cows' comfort level. To do this, the OSU dairy center is using an Israeli-made ankle bracelet that senses when a cow is lying down by determining the angle of her leg to the ground. When a cow lies down, the blood flow to her udder increases, which produces more milk.
"This device is a way for the cows to tell us things," said Aurora Villarroel, an OSU Extension veterinarian in the College of Veterinary Medicine who is conducting the research. "It's a way for us to interpret what they're doing without being there 24-7 or filming them."
Villarroel and her team attached the device, which is orange and about the size of a deck of playing cards, to about 100 cows earlier this year and began gathering baseline data. Now she's asking dairy farmers what factors they'd like OSU to test. She's encouraging dairies to contact her at 541-737-5853 with their ideas or questions. She aims to start testing some of their suggestions this summer.
The factors can vary from environmental to nutritional. For example, researchers may see if straw bedding makes a cow lie down more than sand or if separating Jerseys from Holsteins instead of having mixed herds affects their time on the ground, Villarroel said. Or perhaps they'll tweak the size of the freestalls or the number of cows in a pen and see what happens, she added. Additional factors might be drastic weather changes, what the cows eat, and times of milking, she said.
Whatever the factors might be that influence the amount of time a cow rests, the bottom line is that more time on the ground equals more milk, according to research. A study by the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in New York looked at how much milk was produced by cows that rested between seven hours and 17 hours a day.
"We found a positive correlation between those two variables," said Peter Krawczel, a research assistant at the institute. "The result was that we predict that for each additional hour of rest, there would be a gain of 3.7 pounds of milk."
For example, he said, if a cow normally rests for seven hours a day, but increases her rest to eight hours, then her milk production would increase 3.7 pounds that day. If she rested for nine hours, she would produce 7.4 more pounds that day, he said.
Those extra pounds mean extra cash for dairies. In Oregon, dairy farmers grossed $500 million in milk sales in 2008, according to a preliminary report by the OSU Extension Service. In terms of farmgate sales, milk was Oregon's third largest commodity group after cattle and nursery crops, the report said.
OSU isn't just using the ankle bracelets to record cows' resting habits though. The device, which is made by SAE Afikim, also works as a pedometer, counting how many steps a cow takes each day. This helps dairies know when a cow is ready to be bred because cows' activity levels increase when they're in heat.
Once the cows are in the milking parlor, a sensor transmits the data in their ankle bracelets to a computer where it can be analyzed. Custom reports can then be made for herds and individual cows.
Although using pedometers to detect heat in U.S. cows isn't new, OSU is the only facility in the country that is using ones that sense if cows are lying down, said Udi Golan, a products manager for Afikim who talked about the device during an open house at the dairy center this month. He said Afikim plans to start selling pedometers with this tilt-detecting sensor in the United States in a few months. Dairy equipment provider DeLaval will distribute them.
Also at the open house, Ben Krahn, the manager of the center, explained how he and his crew are using other technology that is new to the center, which is run by the animal sciences department in the College of Agricultural Sciences. A few weeks ago, they began using radio frequency identification tags on the cows' ears that function as barcodes.
Cow handlers wave a wand next to them and the cow's personal medical record immediately appears on a handheld computer. Data include the cow's birthdate, when she was bred, who her parents are, when a veterinarian last examined her, and how much milk she has produced. Examiners can also input data into the handheld device, which is about the size of a small paperback book.
Having a computer at a cow's side means that examiners don't have to run back to an office computer and look up data or possibly make mistakes while jotting it down on a clipboard, said David Nansel, an account manager for Utah-based DHI-Provo, which makes the software.
DHI-Provo asked OSU to test it out so the company can fine tune it for the industry, Nansel said.
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Hi there! Really hoping someone can help me - I need music in my life! Anyway here's the problem...
I was listening to my walkman e465 before class one day and put it on hold and in my pocket (as I always do) during class. When class was over, I pulled it out to resume listening and found the hold button "stuck" on - the player was flashing the yellow hold box on the display and would not allow me to push any buttons though the hold switch was not really on anymore. I reset the player, and this amazingly fixed the problem. When I then picked a song and played it, I found there was now no sound being output by the player (I've scanned through almost all tracks I have, none work). I know the headphones are fine, and the player does not output sound to any other devices. It also does not recognize when I push either of the volume control buttons. (the volume level indicator no longer pops up on the screen) I ran an audio check in test mode and found all checks worked except the S/N one and F2 - during both checks I heard nothing. Sony told me the player needs 'serviced' though this costs about as much as buying a new player - which if I have to do I will certainly will not be buying another walkman (my last one malfunctioned inexplicably as well) any help here would be greatly appreciated - as I cannot afford to buy a new mp3 player right now.
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This doesn't surprise me one bit. I heard from a source that the DNC has been pulling a Penn State type cover up. Another unidentified source said that Chuck Schumer actually caught Reid in the Senate shower with a young boy and didn't report it.
This would certainly explain why he hangs around KMart so much: its because of the sign that says "Boys Pants Half off"!
The high-stakes political battle between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken a new turn, and its as ugly as Jerry Sanduskys future.
The Urban Dictionary, an fast-evolving online lexicon that promotes itself as the dictionary you wrote, has added a new definition of Reid that seems calculated to respond to the Nevada senators recent claims about Romneys alleged federal income tax evasion.
Harry Reid, the dictionary now says, is defined as [a]n unofficial rap sheet of alleged pederasty and sexual abuse of minors by anonymous sources that may not exist.
The definition emerged, the dictionary notes, after an explosion of reports surfaced online and on the airwaves, that [Reid] is a serial pederast. The outlets reporting the allegations all protected the anonymity of their sources, and no one knows if the allegations are true, but theyre out there. A spokesperson for Reid declined to deny them.
Its unknown who submitted the definition. The Urban Dictionary employs a panel of moderators who approve of reject new definitions, many of which hinge on pop-culture references.
Reid attracted criticism from conservatives after he told The Huffington Post on July 31 that an unnamed Bain Capital investor told him Romney didnt pay any taxes for 10 years.
And speaking August 2 on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Reid doubled down. The word is out that [Romney] has not paid any taxes for 10 years, Reid declared. Let him prove he has paid taxes, because he has not.
Republicans complaints have largely centered on the anonymity of Reids source, which makes his allegation impossible to prove. The same phenomenon apparently applies to The Urban Dictionarys anonymous, unsubstantiated claim which is obviously false that Reid himself is a pederast, or a man who has sexual relations with young boys.
The Internet meme that put the new Reid definition on the map originated within hours of Reids initial statement, when conservatives began to use the Twitter hash-tag #HarryReidisaPederast. At one point that evening, the hash-tag was the top trending item on Twitter in the United States.
Some guy told me #HarryReidIsAPederast, read one typical tweet. Not sure if its true, but I should probably just throw it out there and let the people decide.
So an unnamed source has told another that #HarryReidIsAPederast, tweeted another user. Reid is silent. Wheres the front page story @HuffingtonPost?
The Twitter account managed by Ace of Spades, a conservative blog, now declares that it is [a]n account to remember the alleged victims of Harry Reid, and those fresh victims inevitably to come.
If Harry Reid isnt a pederast, why is everyone saying he is? that account tweeted Aug. 2. People dont just make up vicious smears for political advantage.
A Google search Wednesday evening turned up more than 482,000 results for the combination of Harry Reid and pederast.
Reids liberal allies have largely supported him in his claim that Romney failed to pay taxes for a full decade including a super PAC affiliated with the powerful AFL-CIO federation of labor unions. (RELATED: Liberals have Dirty Harrys back on tax charge against Romney)
Reid and other Democrats have argued that Romney should make public his personal income tax returns for more than the two years he has already released. The move is seen as an attempt to paint the former Massachusetts governor as an out-of-touch, wealthy elite.
But Reids accusation that he is also a tax evader a charge that Romney has flatly denied has put Republicans in a box, since releasing ten years worth of tax returns is the only practical way to demonstrate that Reids claim is false.
Fact-checkers at the Tampa Bay Times PolitiFact website quickly declared that Reids public accusation is false, giving it a Pants on Fire rating on July 31.
Update: Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson has not responded to The Daily Callers request, first made August 4, for confirmation or denial about whether the Senate Majority Leader is in fact a pederast. Jentleson offered a one-word comment on the developing story to the Ace of Spades blog on Aug. 3: Cute.
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This doesn't surprise me one bit. I heard from a source that the DNC has been pulling a Penn State type cover up. Another unidentified source said that Chuck Schumer actually caught Reid in the Senate shower with a young boy and didn't report it.
On Sirius Left last night, the host was having a spirited conversation with a guest (didn't get the name) about Romney's life as a Mormon Bishop/Church Leader, and his role, both personally and in a leadership position, in the massive child sex abuse apparently (they claim) engaged in by the Mormon Church.
So it would appear that at least in the wonkosphere, Romney has already been attacked with the "Child Sex Predator or Protector of Predators" label.
Take of it as you like.
This is politics?
"The other guy doesn't pay taxes"
"Well, you're a pedo"
I don't condone this. But it does make me laugh.
You reap what you sow, Harry.
I wonder if Romney would support and provide government funding for an unmanned rover mission to Kolob....
You reap what you sow. Didn't Jon Stewart say something in his segment "Harry Reid you are terrible" like "if you have to follow your statement with I don't know then shut the F up".
yeah but they started it.


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LONG BEACH, Calif. (MarketWatch) — If you own a mutual fund that consistently underperforms and you're looking for someone to blame, perhaps the managers' bosses are eager to find a scapegoat, too. If so, that could be where they went wrong and why you're worse off than you should be.
That's the rough idea behind an analysis by Jason Hsu at Research Affiliates. In a report in the investment firm's latest monthly newsletter, Hsu identifies a "culture of blame" at some firms as a factor contributing to poor decisions made by managers anxious to neutralize the blame that they fear is coming if they screw up. Hsu describes the dynamic this way:
"When blame lives in an investment organization, professionals take joy in second-guessing investment decisions after poor short-term performance. . . . The logical moves for the investment professionals, in this environment, are either to get defensive and deflect blame onto others or to proactively hide poor results."
The inclination to do the latter helps to explain one of the most peculiar yet widespread tactics used by portfolio managers: window dressing. This is when hot stocks are bought in the waning days or hours of a calendar quarter so that shareholders will think that the managers rode them all the way through instead of hopping on just before the finish line.
Fund owners can see what kind of return they achieved, no matter what was in the portfolio. If a fund held one fabulous performer after another, then investors must wonder which stinkers were also in there to drive down results. Even if window dressing could fool shareholders, it's hard to imagine that it would work on investment committees and supervisory boards — but apparently it succeeds just enough.
"It seems too absurd to believe that such ridiculous behavior could persist in the investment industry, where delivering [outperformance] is the only thing that supposedly matters," Hsu writes. "But to practitioners, buying popular winners at high prices and selling the cheap, beleaguered dogs are as natural as can be when one has to deal with reproachful board members or client account managers."
Focusing on short-term performance, let alone affixing blame for it, is counterproductive, Hsu contends, because it's so random, especially for a volatile asset class like stocks. Better to concentrate on the long haul, he finds, and in a more constructive and less ad hominem way.
"We would believe that superior long-term investment results can be produced by an organization which unflinchingly identifies problems, debates them with openness and without blame, emphasizes fixing them and focuses on learning to avoid similar mistakes in the future," Hsu writes.
Responsibility and reward
Sounds reasonable, but what can investors do to raise the odds of handing their money to a progressive and open-minded fund firm?
Laura Lutton, who is in charge of analyzing fund stewardship at the research firm Morningstar, identified some factors that indicate whether a management company has a culture of blame or an emphasis on problem-solving.
An important one, she said in an interview, is the extent to which managers are compensated for short- or long-term results. This can be gleaned from the "statement of additional information" that firms must file each year with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statements, which the public can find online, include details of pay policies.
"We look to see what the time periods are for which managers' performance is being judged," Lutton said. "If it's based on one-year returns, that's not as good as three- or five years. The longer the period is, the better off shareholders are going to be because strong long-term returns, which is what fund holders are looking for, and managers' compensation are locked in step."
Other signs of a blame culture that investors can detect fairly easily include high manager turnover and shrinking asset bases. Any spike in portfolio turnover would also be a red flag.
Another way to assess management culture is to look at the stewardship ratings that Morningstar assigns to the 20 largest asset managers. Lutton does the analysis so you don't have to.
Two firms she highlighted for getting it right, and that have A ratings, are Vanguard Group and American Funds.
Two that she places in the "mediocre camp" are Fidelity Investments and BlackRock. They get C ratings mainly due to the jack-of-all-trades factor. "When you're running so much money in so many investment styles, it's hard to be an expert at everything," she said.
Two firms not large enough to get ratings but that Lutton said would get a D or F are Alliance Bernstein and Goldman Sachs. They suffer from high manager turnover, she said, adding that "it's hard to have confidence that things are on the mend there."
Lutton pointed to a 2011 Morningstar study that found a positive correlation between the stewardship ratings and risk-adjusted returns. So you would be wise to use the ratings when choosing a manager or research some of the components that are simple enough to obtain, such as manager turnover and compensation policies.
If you don't and you buy a weak performer, you'll have no one to blame but yourself.


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The Cataclysm cinematic, as first shown this afternoon at the BlizzCon 2009 opening ceremonies, is pretty darn epic (as all of Blizz's cinematics have been, really). If you haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet, fear not - there are options. You can watch it embedded above in this post, or you can head on over to Blizzard's official site and watch it streaming or download a high-quality version.
And you definitely should watch it if you haven't yet. There's a ton of good information right here on WoW.com, but a video is worth quite a lot of words. There's even a gnome in this one! (A priest, near the end.) Not to mention goblins, which I hear are the new gnomes. I am incredibly excited.
BlizzCon 2009 is here! WoW.com has continuing coverage, bringing you the latest in Cataclysm news, live blogs, galleries, and reports right from the convention floor. Check out WoW.com's Guide to BlizzCon for the latest!


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Lopez is slotted to serve as a key setupman for closer Rafael Betancourt. Coveted for his ability to throw strikes and get groundball outs, Lopez, 29, went 6-3 with a 2.17 ERA, posting 10 saves while bringing some stability to an embattled Houston pitching staff.
The Phillies attempted to acquire Lopez last week, but called off the deal because of concerns over an elbow injury that landed Lopez on the disabled list last season. Colorado did extensive work on the Nicaraguan native over the last few days before signing off the deal. He underwent an MRI, easing the Rockies' concerns.
"We are comfortable with his health," said Bill Geivett, the Rockies' director of major league operations. "What we like about him is that he's a strike thrower. What we understand about his leadership and the type of the guy he is, we believe he's going to be impactful for us."
Geivett explained that Betancourt, who turns 38 during the season, enters camp as the Rockies' closer. However, Lopez gives the Rockies more versatility, teaming with Matt Belisle, who has carried a huge workload the past two years, and Rex Brothers. Lopez has a 2.64 ERA since 2010 with just 31 walks in 204-plus innings. The right-hander is arbitration eligible and in line to make between $1.6 and $2 million.
Houston wasn't going to make the deal without White included. He is known to Rockies' fans because he was part of the Ubaldo Jimenez trade on July 30, 2011. The Indians' former first-round pick never gained traction with the Rockies. He is 5-13 with a 6.03 career ERA, going 2-9 with a 5.51 ERA last season. White, who struggled with the four-man rotation and 75-pitch count the Rockies adopted for two months last season, was demoted to the bullpen following his start on Sept. 16.
"It's really difficult because we liked Alex a lot. He was the player they asked for, and we were looking for reliable major league relief," Geivett said. "It's difficult. But we felt like it was more important to make the move to help strengthen our bullpen."
Troy E. Renck, The Denver Post


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A lot of people are worried about their holiday travel plans. This coming storm could make driving conditions dangerous for drivers heading out of town.
Some folks are heading out of town early, to try to beat the storm that's headed our way later today.
On I-80 this morning near Mogul, a few truck drivers pulled over to check out their chains. That's a good thing to have if you plan to travel through the mountains over the weekend.
Last December, a semi-truck jackknifed on I-80 as it traveled through the Sierra. That accident caused a huge backup that stranded other cars for hours. Holiday travelers are hoping the same kind of thing does not happen this year.
KOLO 8 News Now's Facebook fans posted their fears and concerns. Some people said they're not going to head to California as planned anymore because of the weather. And plenty of people had stories of when they decided, in the past, to drive through a storm in the Sierra anyway, only to regret it later.


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New Fulham manager Felix Magath sees no reason to change the strict training regimes which have helped turn his German teams into winners - declaring "no-one has died".
The 60-year-old replaced Dutch coach Rene Meulensteen last week and the west London club's third manager of a rollercoaster season has been charged with lifting Fulham out of the relegation zone with only 12 league games remaining.
Magath won the 1983 European Cup as a player with Hamburg and appeared in two World Cup finals before moving into the dugout where he earned a reputation as "the fireman", taking over in difficult circumstances to great success at Nurnberg, Werder Bremen and Eintracht Frankfurt before joining Stuttgart, whom he guided to Intertoto Cup success at 2002, which brought him to the attention of Bayern Munich.
Successive Bundesliga titles followed, and Magath would go on to also guide Wolfsburg to the domestic championship in 2008-09.
Magath's reputation was built on tough discipline - with one former player Eintracht Frankfurt player Bachirou Salou labelling him as the "last dictator in Europe".
The new Fulham manager, however, will not be about to alter his methods for what is unknown territory in the English game, having already called the Fulham squad in for extra sessions since his arrival.
"Why should I change my training? At the moment I am the most successful (club) coach of Germany. Why should I change?" he said.
"I don't know. Can you explain? Until now everybody has loved my training. No-one died."
Magath added: "I am a nice guy, very nice (not a tough guy)," he said.
"Ask Raul about my work, don't ask a player who did not know here in England. Ask the good players and you will get the right answers."
Magath had been out of work since leaving Wolfsburg for the second time in October 2012.
The German, though, expressed limited sympathy for Meulensteen, his assistant manager Ray Wilkins and first-team technical director Alan Curbishley, who have all left Craven Cottage under a clean break after results were not turned around despite plenty of support from owner Shahid Khan in the January transfer window.
"I had to talk with him (Curbishley) about football and he gave me information about West Brom (away on Saturday), was very good, very nice, but I decided to make a real cut," Magath said.
"If you make one here, one there, it is not the same.
"We have good relations and I know he is a very good manager who knows the English league well.
"So I am sorry for that, but I think it is the best for Fulham."
Magath is set to leave his squad in no uncertain terms of what is expected as they aim to haul themselves off the bottom and make up what is currently a four-point deficit ahead of Saturday's trip to the Hawthorns, which is followed by the visit of west London neighbours Chelsea on March 1.
"We have to do what we can at the moment and play to win, not to impress our fans. Sorry for that, but they have to be patient for a few months," he said.
"I am sure the players want to stay in the league, so I think they are happy that they had a change.
"I think they are trusting me that we stay in the league."
Magath added: "The most important thing for me is to get the players together and to work as fast as we can, that is why I called them to come on Sunday because we have no time to get to know each other.
"The players have to know me and they have to try to understand what I want, I have to understand the players and I have to think about what I can ask for.
"For me it is not the most important thing to know what they did four weeks ago, because that is the past.
"It is important what they do now and what I can ask for."
Source: PA


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Shady Bowl Speedway crowns six
- Written by THE BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER STAFF
Memorial Day weekend treated racing fans to an exciting night of racing at Shady Bowl Speedway on Saturday as six winners were crowned in six divisions.
ABOVE: Daniel Wirrick was the dwarf car winner. FRONT PAGE PHOTO: Josh Smith was the winner of the late model main. (PHOTOS | SHADY BOWL)
The late model main saw Quincy driver Josh Smith hold off Brad Koons to take the checkered flag. John Stroble, Jacob Muncy and Dylan Troyer rounded out the top five. Nathan Herron won the heat and Austin Troyer was the dash winner.
Joe Pequignot dominated the modifieds as he led every lap. Rob Yelton was second, with Brad Williams, Buddy Townsend and fast qualifier Shane Shirk rounding out the top five. Williams was the dash winner, with Chris Parker the heat winner.
The tuner feature saw Terry Eaton dominate on his way to first-place finish. Chris Crozier was second, with Larry Kemp third, Eddie Kemp fourth and Jake Moody fifth. Holli Eaton was the dash winner, with Les Rhodes winning the heat.
In Pro-4 action, Justin Meed held off the rest of the field to take the win. Steve Clarkson settled for the runner-up spot, David Gerstner was third, Matt Thompson was fourth and Paul Hazlett was fifth. Clarkson carried the checkered flag in the heat race.
The street stocks saw Dave Sage hold off Rodney Roush to take the feature win. Ray Muncy was third, Robert Roush was fourth and Roger Thornhill came in fifth. Purtee won the dash and Sage and Sullenberger grabbed heat wins.
Shady Bowl returns on Saturday, with late models, modifieds, tuners, compacts and dwarfs set to race. Gates open at 4 p.m. and racing begins at 7 p.m.


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February 4, 2007, 5:45 pm
Pass the chips
Hand it to Doritos, for the catchy Super Bowl ads created by amateurs. Some of the least expensive spots (one cost $12.79 and was made by a 21-year-old wannabe filmmaker) are just as memorable as the expensive ones (like FedEx in space, Bud Lite's face slap, GM's robot dream or the Chevy shirtless music video).
Clearly user-generated content is this year's big commercial trend.


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Ruth Elizabeth White, an East Hampton resident for seven years who lived most of her adult life in Water Mill, died on Dec. 2 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson. She was 87.
She was born on March 24, 1924, in Inwood to Granville Lamberson and the former Harriet Marsden. She graduated from Lawrence High School in 1942.
Her father, a Fuller Brush salesman, moved to Water Mill in the 1940s and it was in a shop there that Roger Fowler White noticed her and asked someone to make an introduction. They married on Jan. 29, 1949.
Mr. White died before her. Her children are Shirley Mapes, who lives in East Hampton, and Edward White of Hampton Bays. She had three grandchildren with whom she was very close.
Ms. White worked as a caregiver for older people and as a baby sitter. A quiet person, her daughter said, she enjoyed flower gardening and birdwatching.
A service for her was held at the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton on Monday. Burial was in Flying Point Cemetery in Water Mill, followed by a gathering of family and friends at the Southampton Presbyterian Church.
Memorial donations have been suggested to the Southampton Presbyterian Church, 2 South Main Street, Southampton 11968, or to Meals on Wheels, 33 Newtown Lane, Suite 205, East Hampton 11937.


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Thursday Thoughts--
In Difficult Times, Eat Chocolate--
Okay, I have to be honest, there's been a lot of Halloween candy eaten this week. I know it's not quite Halloween, but bags have been opened. Many many bags.
However, there's some new chocolate I just discovered by the same company that make my other favorite treat as you may know (Ghirardelli non-pariels). It seems Ghirardelli now has these new big bars of chocolate called Luxe Milk Chocolate. There are 5 kinds and well, I've tried them all (seriously!) and all I have to say for myself is yum! My favorites are the milk chocolate, hazelnut, and the crisp. Though the almond one was a close contender.
There was even one called "Duet," which was dark chocolate and milk chocolate on top of each other--honestly, I didn't think this would taste good because I like my chocolate separate...it was fantastic and gave me that "rich" feeling (the same feeling I have when I buy those small bottles of Perrier).
Anyway, I just found them all online. It says you can currently get them at Borders and Walgreens (just in case I've made you hungry and you need to try your own), though it looks as if they will soon be available at Target & Cost Plus. Dear family & friends, do not be surprised if you get a Christmas gift from me with one of these bars tied on top...and do not be upset if there's a bite out of it as well.
I swear, until this election is over, I'm going to be drowning myself in this chocolate. It's the best.
Sleep Well--
Last night I slept for 12 hours. I went to bed at 7:30 p.m. This is me in bizarro world. I rarely go to sleep so early, but this cold I've had has just been dragging me down and I was hoping a giant dose of sleep would help. It kind of did...
It's been kind of last on my list, which is a little sad considering I am, well, a poet.
I have forgotten about how the holiday season basically begins in October and carries me through New Year's. I've had a lot more on my calendar than in other years, which reminds me I need to say no. Though I think I like saying yes, until I've yessed all over my calendar and have no time for myself. It's a balancing act sometimes. And I'm balancing these days, not very well, but balancing.
Also, I just let myself off down this week, though I've decided to let myself off the hook for it. There was a something I as going to apply for but didn't because I procrastinated. I'm bummed I didn't get my act together, but well, I didn't get my act together and today told myself to just forget it. I'm not happy when I let myself down like that, but well, sometimes I let myself down like that. Maybe it's time for chocolate. Maybe it's time to really let myself off the hook.
Also, if you haven't read Rebecca Loudon's interview here, you need to.
I absolutely loved what she said here--
"My ideal reader is a person who has suffered, who feels apart, who has known trauma, and who is capable of honestly engaging with the lot they've been handed. Everyone has suffered, but some people are willing to embrace the forest that surrounds us, some are not. "
That response is poetry itself. I think one of the reasons I appreciate Rebecca's work is because of the emotional honesty of it, add that to the intelligence of her poems and it's what makes her work so good.
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I SAW those chocolates at Walgreens, but I resisited. The one I wanted to try was chocolate peanut butter. So Kelli, did you taste that one, and what is your report? Would a Reese's fan/addict like me love it?ReplyDelete
You invent chocolate in poetry; you desire chocolate in prose.
I did not try the peanut butter (I hadn't seen it!) But I found this link to it:ReplyDelete
I tend to think it would be good because my main issue with Reese's is that they use too much peanut butter. I'll have to "research" this Ghirardelli bar and get back to you. And while I'm at it, I'll also research the dark chocolate mint, I hadn't seen that one either! (small town stores!)
I like your chocolate in poetry and prose.
thank you, kelli. love your costume.ReplyDelete
i am going to a party tonight as "Big Nurse" Rached.


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How the NTC salved one student's grief
Vince Nappo, shown playing Alan Berg in "God's Country": "When you cut off a limb, you've given up a piece of who you are." Photo by P. Switzer
The following testimonial was received this week from Vince Nappo, National Theatre Conservatory class of 2005:
I started my training at the NTC in 2002. I had a broken heart. My brother had died in 2000, and I was still very much in grief. When he died, I had thought about giving up acting. I realized that I didn't want to give it up, but I knew that I needed to bury myself somewhere, to be hidden in work.
I decided that place was grad school. I applied to several places and was accepted to Brown, The Old Globe San Diego, and the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver. I flew out to Denver for my callback audition, and I fell in love with the place.
I was extremely excited by the faculty. I felt so welcomed by the current students. I couldn't get over how professional the company seemed. I was blown away by the Denver Performing Arts Complex. And I knew, without a doubt, that the Denver Center was where I wanted to spend the next three years of my life.
I chose the NTC. I have never regretted my decision. If I were to write a list of all the things my training has done for me, the list would never end. However, I can tell you the thing that would be at the top of the list, and that is healing. I felt myself heal at the NTC. And I think that was what I was seeking when I chose the NTC.
I wanted to become a better actor. And I wanted an equity card. And I wanted to make connections. And I wanted to be on stage at the DCTC. And I wanted my faculty to like me. And I wanted to play Alan Berg in "God's Country." And I wanted to play Dexter Haven in "The Philadelphia Story." And I wanted to play Malvolio in "Twelfth Night." And I wanted to swing/sing/and dance my soul on a trapeze. And I wanted the other students to appreciate my work. And I wanted to be better because I was so inspired by the other students. And I wanted to get agents when I graduated. And I wanted lots of things.
But mostly I wanted to work. And to be exhausted by doing what I loved. And to feel inspired by the artists around me. And to feel healing. And I did.
I understand that the NTC doesn't make much money for the DCPA, but I don't think that's it's job. I think the NTC is supposed to offer exceptional, first-rate training to its students. I think it's supposed to prepare them for an extremely difficult business. I think it's supposed to give them the space to risk. Risk, risk, risk, every day that they are there. I think the NTC is there to challenge it's students to be better, to rise above, to reach out and touch, to explore from this angle, and that angle, from above, and below.
And to fail. And to fall. And to get back up, and fail and fall again. To learn. And to grow. And to carry all the things that we've learned with us. To carry in our hearts the things that Archie Smith, Kathy Brady, Jamie Horton, Annette Helde, Larry Hecht, Tony Church, John Hutton, Keith Hatten, Robynn Rodriguez, Gary Logan, Harvey Blanks, Jacqueline Antaramian, Daniel Renner, Carol Halstead, Bob Davidson, Kim Staunton and so many others have taught us.
The NTC is there to hold us for a while as artists, and to nurture in us the ability to go out and weather the storm that this business really is, and to fight through the waves of frustration, so that we can share. Share ourselves. To be able to "hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of his time his form and pressure."
I don't know the ins and outs of the DCPA's budget. I don't know how to run a successful company like the Denver Center Theatre Company. I'm sure it is extremely difficult. But I do know that the easiest choices are never the most exciting, creative, interesting, or rewarding.
Shutting the NTC down without exploring other options seems to me to be the easiest choice. It makes no sense to me. To just cut something out. Something this special. This necessary. If money is tight, then OK, money is tight. When money is tight, there's less to eat, and we all kind of end up on a diet.
I guess the DCPA is looking to lose weight. To drop a few pounds. That's understandable. These are very tough times. But is amputating a limb the best way to achieve this? Sure the limb will take off a few pounds, and very quickly. But at the end of the day, that's a limb. You've given up a piece of who you are. You've lost something you can never get back. Is this the best solution?
These grad students are the future. They are going to be a part of the next generation of theater in America. They have been trained at one of the best MFA programs in America. They have trained at the National Theatre Conservatory! They have trained at one of the best theaters in the America. They have trained at the Denver Center Theatre Company!! This is one of the most difficult and exciting times in our history.
How can we just give up? How can we be expected to not fight? How can we settle for this?


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Cowboys will pay Jon Kitna $53,000; he'll donate it to high school
IRVING — Much has been made of the Cowboys signing high school math teacher Jon Kitna out of retirement to figure into their quarterback puzzle against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Almost every reference has mentioned the quarterback, who retired from the Cowboys after the 2011 season, will earn about $53,000 for his Christmas week's work.
Only Kitna, 41, is not keeping the money. It didn't come up in his Christmas Day media scrum in the locker room. But later, while relaxing on a locker room couch and reconnecting with radio play-by-play voice Brad Sham, Kitna said he would be donating his NFL check to his school. He also told several teammates.
Since retiring from the Cowboys, Kitna, who has 15 seasons and four teams on his NFL résumé, has taught math and coached football at Lincoln High School in his native Tacoma, Wash.
The football team — the Abes — finished its season last month at 8-2. That was up from 5-5 during Kitna's first season. Kitna's son, Jordan, a sophomore, was his starting quarterback.
Kitna, a father of four, said he heard about Tony Romo's back problem and texted Cowboys coach Jason Garrett on Tuesday morning, announcing his availability. A 30-minute phone conversation followed.
"I told Jason if he wants me or somebody to come in and call a play and be able to pull a play off if a bad situation happened, I would be willing to do that," Kitna said.
Garrett, who worked out three other former NFL quarterbacks on Tuesday, opted, sight unseen, for Kitna, who knows how the Cowboys do things.
If Romo is unable to start, Kitna will back up Kyle Orton, who has been Romo's little-used backup the last two seasons. At practice on Wednesday, Kitna ran the scout team offense.
It's something he had been doing for the Lincoln Abes.
"He said he would run scout team for the high school team and give them a really good look like he gave us great looks when he was here," Garrett said. "So he's a very active guy. He's a mentally tough guy. … And he's certainly very young at heart. So it was good to have him back, good to have him back in the meetings, and [I'm] excited to see him practice today."
In 2010, Kitna played in 10 games, starting nine, for the Cowboys after Romo suffered a broken collarbone. He was 4-5. He appeared in three games, all off the bench in 2011. Overall, he has started 124 NFL games for Seattle, Cincinnati, Detroit and the Cowboys.
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