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Thursday, March 10, 2011
The first major patch is here!
* You can now link locations in chat! Just like other links, shift-right-click your map or minimap while entering chat text. Clicking someone's location link in chat will place a waypoint on your own map.
(What this means is when people are like where is that puzzle or where is that invasion boss people can now link where in chat instead of saying 5000,5000. A large enough amount of people didn't know how to use the co-ordinates system that well and I found it kind of annoying and wished people would just say a bit south of here.)
* Experience for appropriately sized groups relative to the difficulty of Rift, Invasion, and Foothold content has been returned to higher amounts as seen previously in Beta.
(What this means is people will again be able to go from rift to rift and actually level instead of just questing to level up. This is amazing because a lot of people including myself came to rift to do rifts and I felt they gave just too little experience to actually be able to level up via rifting. This is also good because now people have four ways to level, questing, dungeons, pvp, rifts. The more ways the better. :)
* Increased the bonus health given to Rift NPCs when nearby player population is high. Also added increased damage based on population.
(What this means is harder invasion bosses! Woo! Before once you got enough people they weren't even tough which made them uninteresting quickly, this should help a lot!)
* Water, Life, Death, and Air Raid Rifts are now available.
(What this means is more endgame content!)
* Warfronts: Deserters will not be tolerated! If you leave a Warfront before the match has finished you will not be allowed into additional Warfronts for 15 minutes.
(What this means is less afkers and less people leaving just because you are losing by 10 to however many points you are losing by.)
* All items sold from Vendors can no longer be Salvaged or broken down with Runebreaking.
* Starting equipment can no longer be sold to vendors.
(What this means is... Starting equipment can no longer be sold to vendors.)
(Most classes got a few slight nerfs and buffs but from what I read nothing huge for any of the classes. One of the things I expected were void knights, champs, bards, sabs to be nerfed a bit but I didn't really see that in any of their patch notes.)
(Most of the instances had lots of small changes, some pretty big nerfs or buffs to damage and health but the biggest thing I found is they made greenscale the first raid considerably harder.)
GREENSCALE'S BLIGHT [Raid]
* Increased Damage of Duke Letareus, Infiltrator Johlen, Oracle Aleria, and Prince Hylas.
* Increased Health of Johlen, Hylas.
* Enraged bosses now have increased movement speed.
* Increased Damage of Blighted Hexmasters, Blighted Guards, Voracious Bloodletters, Blighted Sentries, and Blightleaf Protectors.
* Increased Health of Blightleaf Shamblers.
Duke Letareus
Decreased the amount of time before Letareus Enrages.
Infiltrator Johlen
* Damage from Furious Wisps and Swarming Wisps now report properly in the combat log.
* Lowered the health of Concussion Bombs.
* Reduced the damage of Swarming Wisps.
* Decreased the amount of time before Johlen Enrages.
Oracle Aleria
* Necrotic Boon now increases run speed.
* Decreased the amount of time before Aleria Enrages.
* Necrotic Eruption can no longer be cast on pets.
* Lowered the health of Invigorating Wisps.
* Invigorating Wisps no longer continue channeling after they are killed.
* Killing one Invigorating Wisp will not disrupt the channel of another Wisp.
Prince Hylas
* Hylas now summons Blightleaf Guards during Invocation of Life after a period of time has passed.
* Hylas' lieutenants now cast Shared Purpose, an aura effecting Hylas and other lieutenants.
* Soul Fracture: Increased Life damage significantly.
* Contagious Cottontail: The wandering effect range has been reduced.
* Landmine: Warning time slightly increased.
If you want the full patch notes they are just below this text. Enjoy!
* You can now link locations in chat! Just like other links, shift-right-click your map or minimap while entering chat text. Clicking someone's location link in chat will place a waypoint on your own map.
* You can swim up using the jump key while also in mouselook mode (default: right mouse button to look around).
* Added a custom error if you cannot use a questgiving item.
* Raid groups roaming across the lands to destroy non-Rift/Invasion content will see lowered experience rewards.
* Experience for appropriately sized groups relative to the difficulty of Rift, Invasion, and Foothold content has been returned to higher amounts as seen previously in Beta.
* Cash loot is now auto-split in all group loot modes, including Free-for-All.
* Players are now automatically bound to the Soul Recall point of the first Porticulum Master they speak to.
* Achievement: Seeking Solace: Fixed an issue causing the achievement to grant early and prevent you from looting the other objects.
* Fixed a bug during Major Rifts where low ranking contributors wouldn't get Planarite. All contributors should receive at least some Planarite.
* Reduced the amount of zone event participation required to earn the rare Sourceshards.
* Experience for Rift, Invasion, and Foothold content now scales down from these increased levels when very oversized groups are participating – with the net result being that very large groups should see experience values similar to the amounts granted prior to this update. Smaller groups will see increased experience reward.
* Reduced Notoriety gained from Invasions from 75 to 50 total.
* Increased the bonus health given to Rift NPCs when nearby player population is high. Also added increased damage based on population.
* Added additional fail-safes to ensure Colossi bosses appear at the end of events.
* The Care and Imprisonment of Changelings: Changed to not require you to have claimed the colossi mob. You only need to participate in the kill.
* Links in the pages of the book 'Clever Kehmeh' have been fixed so all seven pages are readable.
* Anthousa Mona and Kaspar Massi have updated character models. Kaspar also has a new voice!
* The necklace rewards for the Epic Cult Saga have had their power increased.
* Quests for Ancient Wardstones are now labeled as such in your quest journal.
* After turning in quests at some Ancient Wardstones, a Rare Planar Goods Merchant might appear so you can purchase sweet gear with the currency you just earned.
* Journeyman has been fixed and will now work as described.
* Abilities and other effects that increase the duration of other effects now do so before that duration calculation is modified by diminishing returns.
* You can no longer cycle between ranged and melee weapons while casting an ability.
* Fixed several maintained buffs that would cause non-offensive polymorphs to break (ex: troll disguise in Stonefield, etc).
* Clerics: Fixed a bug causing some procced heals to consume effects that modify next heal.
* Ashen Defense: Corrected the debuff tooltip to match the ability description.
* Mental Flare: The cooldown reduction provided by Swift Thoughts is now reflected in the ability tooltip.
* Pillaging Stone: Rank 9 and 10 now give the correct buff values when cast.
* Searing Vitality: Damage can now critically hit.
* Consuming Flames: The self-damage portion of this ability will no longer critically hit the caster.
* Burning Purpose: Polymorph, Confuse, Root, and Fear effects will not trigger the damage proc.
* Expose Weakness: Fixed a bug so that the charges of this ability are only consumed by physical damage effects. Also fixed so it correctly adds extra damage.
* Poison Malice: Removed from global cooldown. Now costs 25 Energy to activate.
* Deafening Music: This ability now updates the tooltip damage numbers for Coda of Fury and Coda of Wrath.
* Coda of Cowardice: Debuff should now be in the same stacking group as the Archon's Ashen Defense and the Shaman's Vengeance of the Piercing Cold.
* Using Verse of Fascination or Verse of Captivation now turns off auto-attack, since these effects break on damage.
* Backhanded Blow: Now gives an Attack Point and triggers the global cooldown.
* Dancing Steel: Fixed so that it includes immunity to knockback when active.
* Blade Tempo, Blade and Soul Parity, Dualism, Double Coup: Removed from global cooldown. These now cost 25 Energy to activate.
* Nebulous Haze: Now only increases cast time by the 20% shown in the tooltip.
* Entropic Veil: Will no longer be overwritten by less effective buffs.
* Nature's Touch: Rank 2 now gives 22 Charge when cast.
* Essence Surge: Reduced aggro generated by this ability.
* Instant-cast spells no longer consume Quick Thinking proc effects.
* Improved Mana Wrench: Now correctly affects the energy drain of Mana Wrench rank 4.
* Transmogrify will no longer land on the Dominator if it is reflected.
* Satyr: Reduced size of the model; it's now approximate in size to a Bahmi.
* Faerie's Favor: Now limited to one stack per caster, instead of one stack total.
* Icy Carapace: Fixed an issue with the ability description and debuff tooltip. They now correctly show damage values. This is also correctly modified by all effects that apply to Water damage.
INFILTRATOR [PvP]
* Fixed a number of ability tooltip issues.
* Soul Drain: No longer applies Clinging Spirit without the caster having spent any points on that ability. Changed tooltip to better indicate that this is a player-based area of effect ability.
* Bolt of Judgment: Fixed the Spell Power contribution on ranks 1-9.
* Clinging Spirit: Fixed the tooltip to reflect that this only increases magical damage taken.
* Life and Death Concord: Description now properly indicates that the effect may not occur again for 6 seconds, rather than 8.
* Righteous Mandate: No longer blocks itself from being recast on the same target.
* Doctrine of Loyalty: Rank 5 now properly removes a Conviction.
* Hit and Run, Controlled Fire, Close Quarters Combat, and Fire and Forget: Removed from global cooldown. Now cost 25 Energy to activate.
* Quick Reload: Removed from global cooldown.
* Retreat: Should now put you 20 meters back from your current location at use.
* Lightning Fury: Fixed a tooltip error so it properly indicates that this reduces armor by a fixed value, instead of a percentage. Tooltip also now updates when spending points in Collateral Damage.
* Fan Out: Tooltip now updates when you add points into Collateral Damage.
* On the Double, Gateway: The additional effect making you immune to Snares and Roots (when you've purchased Gateway) is now displayed on On the Double.
* Skeletal Zealot: Fixed ranks 1, 2, 4, and 5 to properly respawn if it was alive when the owner died in a Warfront.
* Lich Form: Fixed a tooltip issue.
* Fell Blades: Healing debuff should now be in the same stacking group as the Druid's Spiteful Spirit.
* Ebon Fury: Taken off of global cooldown. Now costs 25 energy to activate.
* Scourge of Darkness: Can no longer miss, be parried, dodged, or blocked.
* Balance of Power, Tip the Balance: Fixed an issue where these were being additionally affected by Attack Power, making the heal amount greater than it should have been.
* Paladin's Reprisal: Now has icons that match between the ability and the Soul Tree.
* Aegis of Salvation: Now stacks correctly with other Endurance buffs.
* Searing Transfusion: Will no longer consume effects that don't actually modify it, such as Flashover, Enflamed Rejuvenation, or Greater Empowerment.
* Life of the Era: Fixed the tooltip to clear up confusion with the radius appearing to be the buff value.
* Fiery Blessing: No longer triggers the global cooldown, as the tooltip already claimed it did.
* Heat Wave, Internalize Charge: Will no longer be overwritten by less effective buffs.
* Withering Flames: Increased damage.
* Wildfire: Procs now appear in the reactive abilities UI.
* Backdraft: Rank 1 tooltip now lists the correct damage values.
* Fleeting Instinct: Fixed so that it doesn't cause stealth to break when active.
* Master Huntsman: Fixed a spelling error in ability description.
* Track Beasts, Track Humanoids: Updated the tooltips to indicate that only one tracking ability can be active at a time.
* Prey on the Weak: Fixed a tooltip bug.
* Crest of the Abyss: Now properly applies its armor buff.
* Boosted Recovery: The incoming healing bonus has been reduced to 2-6%, down from 10-30%, to be in line with the Warlord ability Figurehead.
* Ruthless Stalker, Rift Barrier, Freedom of Movement, Hasted Time: No longer causes Stealth to break when using Shadow Shift, Shadow Stalk, Shadow Warp, and Flashback.
* Stalker Phase: No longer causes Stealth to break when using Shadow Stalk.
* Track Air Rifts: Updated the tooltip to indicate that only one tracking ability can be active at a time.
* Fixed a bug allowing Riftstalker teleports to cause them to occasionally fall through the world.
* Carpet Bombing: Taken off of global cooldown. Now costs 25 Energy to activate.
* Annihilation Bomb: Should now deal damage if the enemy is immune to stuns instead of failing both damage and stun components.
* Track Constructs: Updated the tooltip to indicate that only one tracking ability can be active at a time.
* Frozen Earth: No longer stacks with other snares.
* Courage of the Bear: Fixed the tooltip to include restriction of only maintaining one Courage at a time.
* Bitter Wind: Tooltip now explains that this ability does not trigger a global cooldown.
* Lightning Hammer: Fixed Rank 7's tooltip.
* Endless Winter: Will now show the icon with Show Ability Icons option enabled.
* Brutalize: Updated the icon to actually look like a bleed effect instead of using the same icon as Massive Blow.
* Arctic Blast: Now has a 20 second cooldown.
* Improved Electrocute: Now properly affects the cooldown of Electrocute.
TEMPLAR [PvP]
* Echoes of Ascension: Now also restores 20% mana.
* Blessing of the Stone, Creeping Remedy, Little Off the Top: All of these will now correctly appear with Show Ability Icons setting enabled.
* Discharge: To better fit with desired usage, Discharge has a few new changes. Cooldown has been changed to 8 seconds. Damage reduced to come in line with other large-hit abilities. The Damage effect is now increased by Attack Power, to scale better with characters and gear.
* Singularity: Tooltip now displays the correct durations for each Attack Point.
* Rift Summon: Fixed tooltip.
* Quality Care: Clarified the tooltip on this ability to help explain it better.
* Healing Cataract: Fixed a bug causing the mana cost to be calculated as a single-target heal rather than a raid heal.
* Crushing Wave: Range reduced to 20 meters.
* Overflow: Now with more actual heals!
* Reconstruct: Reduced aggro generation of this ability.
* Intercept: Can now be used on allies that are behind the Warlord.
* Aspect of the Elements: Power cost changed to match with other Aspects.
* Empowering Strike: Threat generation has been increased to match Leader's Mark.
* The Stray One: Podovaxus should now properly give quest credit.
* Podoxavus is no longer quite so spammy on death.
* Tampering With the Well: Fixed an issue causing this quest to not update correctly.
* Splitmouth Shamans have changed to Splitmouth Elementalists and regained their casting class, including more pew pew!
* There is a new porticulum at Knight's Stand to make travel around Freemarch easier. We also added a path from one side of Smith's Haven to the other.
* Washed Away: Reduced Mayor Jerrin's respawn time.
* I Heard a Storm Was Coming: Reduced the Fathomlord's respawn time.
* No Mercy for the Merciless: Reduced Iriri the Merciless' respawn time.
* Burning Down the Hill: Increased the number of tents that can be set on fire, and decreased the respawn of kerosene urns. Decreased general frustration level by 80%.
*The Living and The Dead: Fixed an issue that could cause innocent bystanders to be teleported to Scarlet Gorge during this quest.
* A Rift location close to Meridian that spawned NPCs inside of rocks should no longer do so.
* Fixed a missing quest - Protector of Your Weak - in the Guardian quest flow.
* Dagda Skullthumper, the Redsnow bandit, should no longer return to life instantly when slain.
* Removed the obsolete reagent vendor. These were not the items you were looking for.
* Hammerlord Post has more generally 'interesting' things going on in it.
* Polish to loot tables for Rift events.
* The Living and the Dead: Now with voiceover!
* A Failure of Leadership: Fixed an issue that caused this quest to take a long time to reset.
* In the Blighted Pit, characters with pets should no longer aggro Gnarlbone while he is still behind his energy field.
* Crushing Chitin: Total amount of Bloodsilk Mageweavers has been increased, which should make this quest less frustrating.
* Friend to Nature: Tamed Beast no longer auto-flags Defiants for PvP when they defend themselves.
* Rift - Eaters of the Dead: The Sable Broodmother should now be killable.
* The Uncovered Grave that can occasionally be found in Treant's Grove is now home to some Undead who don't particularly like their crypt being disturbed.
* Rift: Gedlo Supply Drop should be dropping more fun now!
* Death faction NPCs are now friendly with their buddies, the Death Rift NPCs.
* The Stillmoor defenders that shout for help during Zone Events no longer shout all the way to Moonshade Highlands.
* Fatal Distraction: Using the control collar now increments that quest objective for the entire party.
* Bad for Business: Quest now allows more types of trolls to count toward the objectives.
* Rift - Deepstrike Summons: Skarn in this Rift event no longer have extra health and damage boosts.
* Fixed an issue where Expert Dungeons and Raid lockouts would sometimes reset a day later than intended.
* Water, Life, Death, and Air Raid Rifts are now available.
* Made the failure messages for Raid Rift lures more consistent with why the lure failed.
* Fixed Raid readycheck behavior. Indicators will now clear properly when leaving a group. Failing a readycheck now has a sound effect.
* Fixed a bug with parties disbanding and reforming inside an instance not being properly joined to that instance.
* Expert: Abyssal Precipice and King's Breach bosses now drop the correct type of Rift lure components.
* Iceclaw Skuttler's Shell Shock no longer crits, and has reduced damage.
* Expert: Kaler Andrenos now has a Frenzy ability.
* Expert: Xaeiel and Sanwusu are no longer required to be killed to gain credit for defeating Gronik.
* Expert: Smouldaron now has a Frenzy ability.
* Standard: Gatekeeper Kaleida's health reduced.
* Standard: Rotted Dredgers on Overseer Markus' platform no longer give loot or experience.
Overseer Markus: Fixed a bug where his Frenzy could be cleansed.
Expert: Overseer Markus: Frenzy now stacks.
* Rorf's Infected Wound should now properly remove when the target reaches full health.
* Expert: Flamebringer Druhl's Molten Instability is no longer cleansable.
* Expert: Queen Vallnara's hatchlings should no longer despawn after appearing.
GREENSCALE'S BLIGHT [Raid]
* Increased Damage of Duke Letareus, Infiltrator Johlen, Oracle Aleria, and Prince Hylas.
* Increased Health of Johlen, Hylas.
* Enraged bosses now have increased movement speed.
* Increased Damage of Blighted Hexmasters, Blighted Guards, Voracious Bloodletters, Blighted Sentries, and Blightleaf Protectors.
* Increased Health of Blightleaf Shamblers.
Duke Letareus
Decreased the amount of time before Letareus Enrages.
Infiltrator Johlen
* Damage from Furious Wisps and Swarming Wisps now report properly in the combat log.
* Lowered the health of Concussion Bombs.
* Reduced the damage of Swarming Wisps.
* Decreased the amount of time before Johlen Enrages.
Oracle Aleria
* Necrotic Boon now increases run speed.
* Decreased the amount of time before Aleria Enrages.
* Necrotic Eruption can no longer be cast on pets.
* Lowered the health of Invigorating Wisps.
* Invigorating Wisps no longer continue channeling after they are killed.
* Killing one Invigorating Wisp will not disrupt the channel of another Wisp.
Prince Hylas
* Hylas now summons Blightleaf Guards during Invocation of Life after a period of time has passed.
* Hylas' lieutenants now cast Shared Purpose, an aura effecting Hylas and other lieutenants.
* Soul Fracture: Increased Life damage significantly.
* Contagious Cottontail: The wandering effect range has been reduced.
* Landmine: Warning time slightly increased.
* Standard: Shadowed Fiends and Shadowed Renders no longer respawn indefinitely.
* A number of Iron Tombs quests were rewarding items from the Realm of the Fae item list. These are corrected and these quests now offer unique items.
* Flesheater Autoch's Wounding Charge now deals less damage.
* Fae Lord Twyl can no longer be reset after being killed.
* A number if item drops in this zone were set to an incorrect level. These have been corrected and items upgraded to match with their new, proper level requirement.
* Eliam the Corrupted: Fixed a bug where Wretched Souls were not casting Wretched Union during this encounter.
* Expert: Atrophinius the Fallen's Death Rite now has a warning message. It can also be cast during Atrophinius' Charge state.
* Expert: Atrophinius the Fallen: Reduced the duration of Deathly Draught and Staggering Blitz. Tick values have been adjusted so the net effect is the same.
* Expert: Rictus now has a Frenzy ability.
* Warfronts: Deserters will not be tolerated! If you leave a Warfront before the match has finished you will not be allowed into additional Warfronts for 15 minutes.
* Whitefall Steppes: If you manage to get the other team's Sourcestone into your own starting area, it will return to its spawn point.
* Black Garden: Applied more physics to prevent double-jumping up walls. Darn gravity!
* Port Scion: Increased the power of bosses and mini-bosses in this Warfront. There are also more benefits for defending objects in this map! Ascended Defender buff increases Favor gain by 5% when near certain important objectives or NPCs.
* Rewards from Warfront quests no longer have a required level to use.
* Embrace the End: Quest now rewards The Moribund notoriety, instead of Eldritch Seekers.
* Quests that require winning 5 matches of a given Warfront no longer give multiple updates for each member of the raid who is on the quest.
* Guards will pay more attention to stopping PvP attacks.
* Increased the range of skillups given from refining a tier of hide, ore, and wood. These recipes should award a few more points and stay green longer.
* Expert Dungeons now drop recipes for Apothecary and Runecrafting.
* Parchment and Vellum recipes are once again available from any Artificer Trainer.
* Planar faction merchants now have new Runecrafting recipes. These include Planar resistance runes and, in some cases, unique-flagged Planar runes.
* Crafting Quest: Pure Distillate: Defiants can now complete the second step. Craft on, McCrafty!
* Recipes purchased from Planar faction merchants can no longer be resold for silver.
* The Runecrafting Artisan Store now offers some new Master level recipes. Pure stat runes for weapons and three unique Planar runes have recipes for sale.
* Fixed a number of Artisan Store end-game runes that were applying incorrect enhancements.
* The Apothecary recipes offered by the Arcane Hand, Dragonslayer Covenant, Order of Mathos, and Icewatch have been changed. Heroic Manasurge Vial, Heroic Fortified Vial, and Heroic Enduring Vials have been removed. New recipes for Heroic Warding Potion, Heroic Philter of Power, Sheepish Concoction, and Exalted Bottle of Tricks have been added in their place.
* Removed faction requirement to purchase Runecrafting and Apothecary Artisan recipe scrolls.
* Fixed an issue where the Light Seafoam Dye recipe scroll required 90 skill to use instead of 110, which was the recipe's actual requirement to craft.
* The Favor quartermasters in Meridian and Sanctum now offer Runecrafting recipes for Valorous Runes.
* Fixed an issue where Rugged Fabric was not combining properly into Processed Cloth.
* A large number of Weaponsmith-crafted items were marked as 'Unique'. Some of these should have been Unique-Equip meaning you can make many of them but only have one equipped at a time. Some should not have been Unique at all. These are now updated so you can craft as many as you'd like!
* Updated Riding Chaps, Insoles, Padding, and Whetstones. All of these temporary items now have a duration of four hours, rather than 5-30 minutes.
* Brilliant Tough Rune and Blazing Tough Rune: Changed from Toughness increase to Dodge and Endurance increase.
* Recipe for Ceremonial Visage now requires Stillmoor-appropriate drops instead of Iron Pine drops.
* Soft Tissue Boots can now be Runebroken.
* Werewolves can now be Butchered.
* Renamed Icebound Tear to Icebound Heart.
* Recipe: Fireworks: Now teaches the intended recipe.
* Removed a Kingswood Log node from Shimmersand that would respawn repeatedly.
* Fixed rare cases where you could be double-charged when learning a new recipe from a trainer.
* All items sold from Vendors can no longer be Salvaged or broken down with Runebreaking.
* Previously, skinnable animals would show red or white text in the skill requirement tooltip. Now it shows appropriate skill level coloration based on your Butchering level.
* Raised the spawn rate of Copper in level 12+ and 15+ areas of Freemarch.
* Added more harvest nodes to Gloamwood, particularly ore. Iron should be more abundant.
* Added more harvest nodes to Stonefield, covering a number of gaps. Like Gloamwood, a specific focus was given to increasing Iron nodes.
* Toughness is now available on four item slots: Shoulders, Chest, Legs, and Feet. Toughness is only available on items at and above level 50. The amount of Toughness per each item has been reduced as a result of this change.
* Fixed a bug causing some items to reset their cooldowns when teleporting or logging out and in.
* Potions that grant Charge now display what they're modifying in the combat log.
* Iron Claw Shooter: Fixed so it boosts Attack Power instead of Spell Power.
* Amphibious Brew: Corrected duration to 8 minutes.
* The PvP reward, Diminishing Helm: This was improperly set as a breastplate. Fixed it to go on your head instead.
* Fixed a bug causing Lesser Scrolls to be unusable until level 5. They can now be used at level 1.
* Reduced effectiveness of Indomitable Runeshards, Thin Planar Lenses, and Reinforced Planar Lenses.
* Book: 'The Bahmi: A Study' can now be read.
* Dichrom's 'Eternal Breastplate', which is a helm, has been renamed to Eternal Helm. Not to be confused with Plutonus' Eternal Breastplate, which is, in fact, chest armor.
* Granite Falls Spaulders now properly sort as Shoulder items in the Auction House.
* Starting equipment can no longer be sold to vendors.
* Fixed issues causing player armor to appear the wrong colors after respawning or Soul Walking.
* Changed overhead PvP Quest icons to be color coded based on faction.
* Added new PvP mouse cursors.
* Fixed missing projectile effect on Flame Spear.
* Improved lighting for more natural-looking character skin.
* Updated sky and ambient lighting scheme for more '3D' feel.
* More ghostly ghosts!
* Updated a bunch of Soul ability sounds.
* Updated visual effects for Marksman soul abilities for a new unified look.
* The 'UI Volume' slider no longer affects non-environmental background noise anymore.
* Additional volume mix tuning for relative loudness/quietness of audio.
* The camera should work better with underwater clipping, making it so you aren't seeing above and below water at the same time.
* Adjusted the swim height of female Dwarves so their heads are above water.
* /leave (channel name) now works! This used to only allow channel numbers.
* Macro tooltips now show all lines of the macro.
* When replying to a tell, you can now hit Tab to cycle through names of people you've recently received /tells from.
* The macro system now supports the /suppressmacrofailures command, which will block the "Can only cast one ability per macro" and other messages generated by any commands following the /suppressmacrofailures entry.
* A macro's #show will now work after training up ranks in a #show'n ability.
* Fixed mousebutton 3, 4, and 5 + a keyboard modifier key (SHIFT, ALT, CTRL) not working very well when bound to an action bar.
* Also fixed mousebutton 3, 4, and 5 + Shift not working when replacing an existing keybinding.
* /wink correctly prints the wink emote text, rather than /flirt's.
* Substitution tokens such as %t, %R, etc, now work in /tweets.
* You can now shift-click to split stacks of items in your bank or bank bags.
* Destroying items now works from the character sheet, even if your inventory is full.
* Fixed a bug that would remove the Class Mechanic UI when resetting the UI.
* Class Mechanic UI: Fixed a bug causing the current number of stacks to carry over to new targets that didn't actually have them.
* Class Mechanic UI: Now displays time remaining for each effect.
* Class Mechanic UI: Fixed a bug that could allow Saboteur charges displayed to increase beyond 5.
* You can now set how many quests to track on-screen at once (up to 10) by changing the setting in the Interface -> Display category.
* The mouse cursor should now correctly change to the glowing or greyed out gauntlet to indicate whether you can cast a spell on a ground target, Salvage, or Runebreak.
* Mouse cursor also changes when you are selecting an item to preview (ctrl-click).
* Soul Tree shortcut button in the icon tray will now glow when you have unspent Soul Points. The tooltip for this button will also update to indicate this.
* Usable items in quest tracking stickies are now 50% easier to click on (because they're 50% larger)!
* The Quest Complete reward selection now has a visual effect on the entire reward background if a choice is required.
* The pet bar is now always visible when a pet is summoned, including when mounted. Using a pet ability while on a mount will cause you to be dismounted.
* Hovering over raid members in the raid frame will highlight that character in the game world.
* The Auction House now properly saves and displays the duration of the last posted auction.
* Removed 'Survival' search category from the Auction House.
* Planar Augments are now removed from the Crafting display after they've been used to create an item.
* Moved quest log indicators to the correct location for quests that group members are also on.
* Friend login/logout messages are now displayed in the chat window. Added an option under Social settings to toggle these notifications.
* The guild roster now supports right clicking on member names to select a 'send tell' option.
* Guild logs will correctly show Server First achievement names if they are listed.
* Edit Layout mode: It's now possible to enter decimal points into the scale/alpha setting boxes.
* Edit Layout Mode: Elements can now be set to fade in and out when moused over or when entering and leaving combat.
* Additional Edit Layout improvements.
* Mount icons on toolbars will now properly grey out when inside instances.
* We also display a better error message when you're blocked from mounting in an area, rather than 'Invalid Target'.
* Right-click context menus are not allowed to display outside of the edges of the game window.
* New characters show minimap tracking for Healers and Calling Trainers by default.
* Added support for additional Turkish chat characters.
* Added a Delete Character popup requiring you to type confirmation text before a character is deleted.
* Added new categories for contacting a GM, 'Report Spam' and 'Hacked Account'.
* The 'I'm Stuck' button will stop getting stuck after 24 hours has passed. The irony of this is not lost on us, either.
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- AnonymousMarch 10, 2011 at 3:56 PM
* Warfronts: Deserters will not be tolerated! If you leave a Warfront before the match has finished you will not be allowed into additional Warfronts for 15 minutes.ReplyDelete
(What this means is less afkers and less people leaving just because you are losing by 10 to however many points you are losing by.)
Ah, no. No, it has no effect on afkers. In fact, they have more incentive to do so, since people will be forced to stick around, and if they are being forced to stick around, they will fight. Won't win, won't be happy, but they will increase the number of points the afker gets. Big big win for the afkers. Big big loss for the legit player who no longer has the option to drop from a match overrun by afkers.
Hmm, yeah that does make sense, hopefully though instead of having people drop and having to have unbalanced teams we will have more people participating. But yes, I do see now how this will create more afkers which is a shame. :| Hopefully we will see a penalty of some sort for afkers. I would love to see a option where if enough people report a player afk it will just kick the afker.ReplyDelete
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Living with Samsung's Galaxy Note
I've spent the past few weeks travelling with a Samsung Galaxy Note and after a bit of initial reluctance, I'm finding a lot to like. The Galaxy Note has often been referred to, usually sarcastically, as a "phablet" because its 5.3-inch display lands it somewhere between a phone and a tablet. For me, it seems mostly like a very large phone, with the addition of a stylus to enable a few unique applications.
Despite its odd size, or maybe because of it, the Galaxy Note has been finding a niche in the market. It's great for people who want a device that is larger than a typical smartphone, but don't want to carry a tablet too.
At its core, the Galaxy Note is an Android device with a 5.3-inch, 1,280-by-800 pixel Super AMOLED screen and stylus capabilities, running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). To me, the OS firmly roots the device on the phone side, as "tablet" applications don't run on it. But then again, there aren't that many Android tablet apps and nearly all the phone applications I tried worked quite well on the larger screen. I found it particularly good for applications like email, where the larger (and higher-resolution) screen lets me see more of my messages.
The size does take some getting used to. It's large, but surprisingly slim and light. Carrying it in a coat or trouser pocket is easy, but I find it just a bit too big for most jean pockets. My hands are small, and I can't reach all the corners of the device with a single hand, so I find myself most often using two hands. If you have larger hands, you might like it more.
If you primarily use a tablet to read books or to check news headlines, I can see how the Galaxy Note might be a good alternative to carrying both a smaller phone and a larger tablet.
As a phone, I know some people think it's too large to be pressed against the side of the head. I used it mainly with a headset, so that wasn't an issue for me; then again, I don't make that many voice calls anyway and the size didn't bother me. The phone uses AT&T's 4G LTE network, and I got very good speeds in most places where I used it in the New York and San Francisco areas. (As usual, though, there were other places where I had almost no signal. That's still true for all the phones I've tested, on all the major networks. The Galaxy Note didn't seem any different from, say, the new iPad on the AT&T network in this regard.)
What makes the device really stand out, though, is the stylus used for applications. Samsung calls it the S Pen and it slips nicely into a slot on the back of the device.
The most important seems to be an application called S Memo, which lets you either type or, more impressively, draw notes and comments. You can also share your memos via Twitter, Facebook, and email. You can pull up a light version of this by just holding the button on the side of the screen and taping twice with the pen. It's pretty convenient.
That is nice, but I was even more impressed by Soonr Scribble, which lets you use the pen to mark up and annotate a variety of different documents, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It also comes with Polaris Office, another way of viewing and editing Office documents, though I don't find that works particularly well with the pen.
A number of other applications that use the pen are available, including Zen Brush, ComicBook!, and some interesting games, such as Crayon Physics. Most would be more interesting to me if I had some artistic talent, but alas, I don't. Still, I can see why people enjoy this.
Some of the pen features are built in to the interface of the phone. For instance, press the stylus to the screen while pressing the button on the side, and you can capture a screen.
In general, the pen is useful for someone who can draw, needs to take notes, or wants to annotate documents. You won't want to use it for handwriting recognition, but for the basic tasks, it works great.
On more standard applications, the Galaxy Note works quite well for an Android 2.3 phone. It seems very fast (with a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor with 1GB of RAM), the camera works well, and videos look great on the big screen. Still, I would have preferred Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which is supposed to be coming soon.
Despite the large display and the fast processor, its battery life seems quite acceptable. I found it almost always lasted through a day of reasonably heavy use, and even had a bit of charge left. The one exception was a day when I was using the LTE network frequently but had limited coverage—a situation which drains the battery on just about every phone. I did charge it nightly, but that's become a standard with almost every phone in this class.
There were a couple of other impressive areas. You can get a cover for the device that simply replaces the back cover and goes around to cover the front. It doesn't have the magnetic features of the iPad smart cover, but it is very light and handy yet gives another level of protection.
It has two cameras: an 8MP back camera and a 2MP front facing one. It is also capable of 1080p video. I think the quality of the pictures is quite good, though not quite up to what I've been getting on an iPhone 4S.
Overall, the Galaxy Note is surprisingly nice. I was skeptical at first, but find carrying it to be easier than I thought. The device works quite well, even though I'd like to see an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. I'm not convinced that this is a phone for everyone—even for me, it's a bit large—but I certainly see the appeal, especially for visual or artistic people.
Read PCMag's full review.

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This dungeon isn't fun. It's the exact opposite of fun. I had one level where I only made it to level 5 before running out space to explore.
I can't decide whether the Illusions, Animated Armors, or Resist Down Golems are the most frustrating part. The Wraiths and Warlocks being the "easy' monsters don't exactly help.
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The good news was they had a buyer.
Glorieta Conference Center, owned by the Southern Baptist Convention's LifeWay Christian Resources, is one of the largest and best-known Christian conference facilities in the country, sitting on 2,100 acres near Santa Fe, New Mexico. But for 24 of the last 25 years it has drained money from the organization.
"There's just not a demand for the kinds of things that we do and used to do at Glorieta," said LifeWay spokesman Marty King. So, last September, LifeWay's trustees decided to investigate selling the campus. The plan was to sell to the Baptist Convention of New Mexico for the nominal price of $1. However, the convention said the cost of upgrading Glorieta and potential environmental liability made acquisition unattractive.
Then came an offer from San Francisco–based Olivet University. (The school has no connection to Illinois-based Olivet Nazarene University.) The school, founded by Korean pastor David Jang in 1992, has several affiliate ministries and Internet businesses that reportedly helped it to raise enough funds to buy and run the Glorieta campus.
The bad news for LifeWay was that Jang is a controversial figure who, according to credible reports, has been hailed by some of his followers as the "Second Coming Christ."
Over the last five years, ministries and organizations founded by or connected to Jang have gained influence in American and global evangelical ministries, including the World Evangelical Alliance. Yet in the same period, a number of mainstream Christian organizations in Korea and China have severed relationships with his affiliated organizations after investigating such claims and finding them credible. Other groups ...1


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NEA leader's task: Win back public
The new president of the largest teachers union in the country will become the voice of roughly 3 million teachers at perhaps the most critical moment in the National Education Association's history.
First item on the agenda: Win back the public.
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Union watchers say the newly elected Lily Eskelsen García — a former school cafeteria worker teacher, folk singer and Utah teacher of the year — has a "hell of a job" ahead of her. She faces court cases challenging teacher tenure and job protections, the defection of historically loyal Democrats, growing apprehension over the Common Core, diminishing ranks, public relations campaigns painting her union as greedy and a complicated chessboard of state and local members with a variety of interests.
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Eskelsen García, elected Friday, has big plans: She wants to further shift the union away from its longstanding and reflexive support of Democrats — which it has already begun. She wants to banish what she says is a loaded word — tenure. And she wants to lead a campaign against high-stakes decision-making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.
But to do any of it, she has to make clear not just what the union is against, but what it's for, said Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform.
In an interview with POLITICO, Eskelsen García said indeed, the union must be clear about its agenda.
"People will take a bad idea if we don't offer them something better," she said.
At the union's annual convention last week in Denver, where Eskelsen García was officially elected, some teachers said it's time for a leader who will play hardball with the feds and push back against Education Secretary Arne Duncan's agenda, which includes evaluating teachers in part by student test scores and supporting the growth of charter schools, often staffed by non-union teachers.
( Also on POLITICO: Full education policy coverage)
"We need a fresh face for the NEA, someone who will stand up to the conservatives — and stand up to Arne Duncan and say, 'We don't agree with your plans,'" said Reed Bretz, a high school fine arts teacher in the Kenowa Hills public schools in Grand Rapids, Mich. Current President "Dennis [Van Roekel] has tried to be too nice. He's tried to play in the sandbox and it hasn't worked."
Eskelsen García already has fiery words for the feds, who she holds responsible for the growing use of "value-added measures," or VAMs, an algorithm that aims to assess teacher effectiveness by student growth on standardized tests. The idea has gained traction under the Obama administration through waivers from No Child Left Behind and the administration's signature Race to the Top program. But studies, including some funded by the Education Department, have cast doubt on the validity of the measures.
VAMs "are the mark of the devil," Eskelsen García said.
The algorithms do aim to account for variables such as student poverty levels. But Eskelsen García said they can't capture the complete picture.
The year she taught 22 students in one class and the year she taught 39 students in one class — "Is that factored into a value-added model? No," she said. "Did they factor in the year that we didn't have enough textbooks so all four fifth-grade teachers had to share them on a cart and I couldn't send any books home to do homework with my kids?"
"It's beyond absurd," she added. "And anyone who thinks they can defend that is trying to sell you something."
Reform advocates point out that VAM scores are never the only factor in a teacher's evaluations. Principal observations and other factors are also weighted. They urge the union to embrace accountability and work to improve it, rather than resist it.
"We're 20 years into the standards and accountability movement and accountability isn't going away," said Celine Coggins, founder of Teach Plus. "So how can teachers own that? How can that be part of the profession and part of how the profession defines itself, rather than have it be something that's done to teachers?"
Duncan said he believes the department will find "common ground" with the union and and strengthen what he called their "longstanding partnership" to improve public education.
"I congratulate Lily for her election as NEA president — she is a passionate advocate and strong voice for educators," he said. "I know we will find common ground on behalf of our nation's students and educators, and I look forward to working with her to continue our collaborative relationship with NEA and its leadership."
But NEA recently split with the Education Department on a court ruling out of California that struck down job protections defended by unions.
"The world looks different today than it would have looked a month ago to a new NEA president because of Vergara," said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, an education reform group that often clashes with unions. Austin pointed to a new poll showing California voters uneasy with the tenure and job protection laws that unions have fought to defend. "The teachers union now finds itself politically isolated in the bluest state in the nation," Austin said.
Eskelsen García must navigate that minefield carefully because the "public will smell bullshit from a mile away," Williams said.
"The general public thinks it's absurd that they're willing to go so far to defend what seems indefensible," he said. "They've got to shift the conversation to fairness for teachers. The public loves teachers, but they don't want to stick up for bureaucratic processes."
Eskelsen García said that going forward, the union must emphasize that tenure doesn't mean teachers have a job for life, it simply ensures due process when they face dismissal.
"Too many people have been told that it's impossible to fire a teacher," she said. "We want to stand for a reasonable due process when someone is about to lose their job. They should know why, they should be able to defend themselves … part of the bully pulpit that I have is to at least explain to the public that we're talking about due process for educators."
But unions have been explaining that to the public for more than a year — and emphasized that point over and over in the Vergara trial — and it hasn't notably shifted public opinion. And while Eskelsen García hopes to banish the word "tenure," which she says has negative connotations, no amount of union pressure can stop opponents from using the phrase.


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Jura Capresso ENA Micro 9 One Touch Super Automatic
The Jura Capresso ENA Micro 9 One Touch Super Automatic Espresso & Coffee Center is well… awesome. Just like the rest of the Jura Capresso line we reviewed, this unit is no exception. What we really like about the Jura Capresso ENA Micro line as a whole is the idea that your kitchen countertop real estate is a valuable commodity. Jura Capresso seems to understand that and understand that you still want a great cup of espresso or coffee too. So they designed two systems (so far) that take up a lot less counter space, but still tow the line and hold their own when it comes to the perfect cup. The Jura Capresso ENA Micro 1 is a straight coffee and espresso machine with no "one touch" functionality.
On the upper end of the spectrum we have the Jura ENA Micro 9 One Touch which has 4 (5 if you count hot water) beverages available at the touch of a single button, something Jura Capresso is famous for since inventing the one touch cappuccino many years ago. The Jura ENA Micro 9 One Touch will make:
- Latte Macchiato
- Cappuccino
- Café Crème
- Espresso
- Hot Water (for tea, etc…)
It is the most compact machine of its kind with the same foot print as the Jura Capresso ENA Micro 1 (19.4 Pounds, 12.7″ H by 9″ W by 17.5″ D). It has a traffic light display that is really very simple to use (well except for those of you who are color blind). Green means GOOD and READY to brew, yellow tells you that the machine is in programming mode and red means you need to perform cleaning or maintenance.
One of the very attractive things about the Micro 9 is the "Fine Foam Technology". We are big fans of the frother; we love our foam!! The frothers have two chambers that froth the milk TWICE. The idea behind it is that this process will pop a lot of the big bubbles that the first froth creates and so the end result is a fine, light and very thick foam that seems to last forever. It's top shelf!
There is a familiar rotary dial on the Jura ENA Micro 9 that allows you to make easy programming changes to how much milk is used, and the volume and strength of the coffee. You can 'dial' in your settings exactly the way you like it for a consistant product everytime you hit the button. The Micro 9 has a professional grade conical burr grinder, 5 grind settings ranging from coarse to fine. (Make sure you are set for course if you like dark oily beans or you will clog _any_ of these automatic espresso machines!) The Jura ENA Micro 9 makes amazing coffee and espresso. Jura takes everything into account to create the 'perfect storm' for brewing things right. Time, Temperature and Pressure to create that amazing cup with a thick rich crema floating on the top. With a 15 bar pump you get a great thick rich crema everytime you press the button.
The Jura Capresso ENA Micro 9 has an automatic cleaning cycle, and a Clearyl water filtration system that if used (and replaced) will eliminate the need to decalcify and take away that chlorine taste you are likely used to. If you want a cup of decaf, or a flavored coffee (*remember not to put flavored beans in your hopper they are very oily and are not recommended in the onboard grinder), you can grind them in a seperate grinder and measure them into the machine through a special opening for automatic ground coffee.
The ENA Micro 9 comes with a 2 year warranty. It's a solid warranty, and backed up by the Swiss engineers who designed it. We love the Jura Capresso products here at Reviewboard and once again have to award the Jura ENA Micro 9 One Touch with the 2012 Reviewboard Best Buy Award. It's an outstanding product. If you are looking for a good deal on one, we highly recommend 1stincoffee.com, we have worked with them for quite awhile and we think very highly of them and their customer service. They have a great deal on the Jura Capresso ENA Micro 9 machines and they are throwing in a free Thermal Carafe, and free shipping with every order.
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- Looks – Sharp Silver and Black color profile. Looks great on any kitchen counter.
- Functionality – we tested all the features, they worked well and without an issue. We expected this from Jura they have this type of reputation.
- Price – MSRP is $1499.99, average sale price is $1400. We don't have any used pricing data yet because they are so new. If they stand up to Jura's normal you wil be able to get between 40 and 70% of the price paid back when you are ready to upgrade to a newer model. So they are an excellent value and a great hand-me-down-to-a-loved-one gift.
- Build Quality – The Jura ENA Micro 9 has an excellent build quality. The materials are solid, well constructed and engineered with you in mind.
- Support & Warranty – Outstanding 2 year support. They do replacements/swap outs when necessary, have English speaking support staff, and are not afraid to spend some time on the phone with you if necessary to pin down an issue.


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EFA GMR 2012 | Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work (Gender Overview)
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Gender parity and equality in education constitute a basic human right, as well as an important means of improving other social and economic outcomes. Narrowing the gender gap in primary enrolment is one of the biggest EFA successes since 2000. Even so, some countries are still in danger of not achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education by 2015. The goal goes beyond numbers of boys and girls in school. More needs to be done to ensure that all girls and boys have equitable access to educational opportunities and achieve equal educational outcomes.
Reaching gender parity remains a challenge in many countries - but gender equality is about more than making sure equal numbers of boys and girls enter and progress through school. It is also about assuring their equal treatment within school - which means providing a safe, secure and supportive learning environment for all - and equal learning outcomes, which help build equitable access to social, economic and political life in adulthood.


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I will leave the main pictures to Ken - but here are a few my wife and I took.
This one is from our gear swtichover heading to meet Steve (Oldhway) and his wife.
Left to right my wife Annemarie, Philip, Joe and Ken
My wife took this one at the overloook before the hairpin
Another shot
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The top of the mountain in the clouds, it would get worse by the time we decided to ride up and much better by the time we came back down...
A view of North Adams from the overlook, foliage is pretty near peak...
Looking down into the valley to the north, the low clouds obscuring some of the other peaks...
Our motley crew at the overlook, my RT took the picture
At the summit after lunch, it's been like this everytime I've gone to the top of Greylock...
Last one from the summit, parked under the overhang trying to keep cameras and gear dry, didn't help much...
Excellent pictures Ken - thanks for posting.
The weather may have been less than coorperative but we had a blast.
Now you know we have to go back up there, one more time, so that you can get a clear shot!!
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Kris and I had a great time and enjoyed seeing everyone from the kids table at lunch.
Greylock was an adventure but we were in the sun once we got down the other side. Spent the night in Great Barrington, then some great roads coming home today. Starting to get cold though, turned the Fabulous Mrs. Me into a popsickle by the time we got home.
When is the next great NE region forum riders ride?
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Steve good to hear you and Kris had a good time both at Greylock and Great Barrington.
I was sloppy up and down but once down it was like a different planet!
The Northeast squad shoudl come up with something - I am tied up till early November - then its dicing with the weather.
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Hey did anyone get Phillip's contact information, if so pm me with it - thanks
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Luis I just jioned (as you can see) i will try to send you a PM with my contact info.
if was nice meeting all of you on that ride, and look forward to seeing all of you again


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With the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, Japanese company Konami saw record high sales of ¥309.77 billion and 4.2 percent growth for the 2008 fiscal year. That's the good news. The bad news?
Konami's profit dropped 40.7 percent to ¥10.87 billion. According to Konami, the company's health and fitness segment faced depreciation. (Konami owns a chain of gyms in Japan.)
Though, its game division was healthy in an unhealthy economy. "In spite of this backdrop, Konami's Digital Entertainment segment recorded steady sales of METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS," the company stated, "which was released simultaneously around the world in June 2008."
For the next financial year, Konami forecasts net profit to increase 47.1 percent and sales to inch up 0.1 percent.


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1 May 2013 – Over 47 000 children were vaccinated against measles and polio during an emergency vaccination campaign conducted from 4 to 10 April in Jebel Amir area, North Darfur.
More than 110 000 people are believed to have sought refuge in five major towns after violence hit the gold-rich Jebel Amir area at the beginning of January. WHO and the State Ministry of Health of North Darfur visited Jebel Amir as early as February and decided to conduct an emergency immunization campaign of children under 15 against measles and of children under 5 against polio.
During the campaign, 22 Ministry of Health teams, with support from WHO and UNICEF, established 60 temporary vaccination sites in Alsereif, Gara Alzawia, Abo Gamra, Kabkabia and Saraf Umra.


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Pastry Cream
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 cup whole milk, divided
- 4 large egg yolks
- 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 6 ounces ounces cream cheese, cut into 1/2-inch cubes, room temperature
Plum Jam
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 12 ounces small plums (about 5), halved, pitted, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices (about 2 cups)
- 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
- 17.3-ounce package frozen puff pastry (2 sheets), thawed
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- 1 pound small plums (about 6), halved, pitted, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- Powdered sugar
Recipe Preparation
Pastry Cream
Whisk sugar and cornstarch in medium saucepan to blend. Add 1/4 cup milk; whisk until cornstarch dissolves. Whisk in remaining 3/4 cup milk and egg yolks. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Whisk over medium heat until mixture is smooth and thick and comes to boil, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Add cream cheese and whisk until smooth. Strain pastry cream into small bowl; discard solids in strainer. Press plastic wrap directly onto surface of pastry cream; chill until cold, about 4 hours.
Plum Jam
Combine sugar and 1/4 cup water in heavy medium saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring to simmer over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves and syrup begins to thicken, about 2 minutes. Add plums and orange peel; reduce heat to medium and simmer until mixture is very thick and reduced to 3/4 cup, stirring often, about 20 minutes. Cool. Discard vanilla bean. DO AHEAD Pastry cream and plum jam can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover separately and chill.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Place 1 puff pastry sheet on work surface. Brush 1 edge of sheet with cold water. Place 1 edge of second pastry sheet atop wet edge of first sheet, overlapping by 2 inches, pressing to adhere, and forming 18x10-inch rectangle. Using rolling pin, roll out pastry to 1 large sheet, 19 to 20 inches long and 11 inches wide. Transfer pastry to ungreased 18x12x1-inch baking sheet. Pierce pastry all over with fork. Using sharp knife, trim pastry to fit sheet. Bake until golden, occasionally piercing pastry with fork to deflate slightly, about 25 minutes (pastry will shrink to about 15x10-inch rectangle). Cool completely on sheet.
Carefully transfer pastry to cutting board. Using serrated knife, cut pastry into three 14x3-inch rectangles. Trim any puffed portions of pastry to flatten and even slightly.DO AHEAD Can be prepared 8 hours ahead. Cover with foil; let stand at room temperature.
Cut napoleon crosswise and serve.
Place 1 pastry rectangle on long serving platter. Stir pastry cream to loosen. Spread 1 cup pastry cream over pastry rectangle, leaving 1/2-inch plain border at all edges (reserve remaining pastry cream for another use). Place second pastry rectangle, flat side up, on cardboard rectangle or 18-inch-long ruler. Spread with half of jam (generous 1/3 cup) to cover. Top with sliced plums in neat lines, skin side facing out. Using cardboard rectangle or ruler as aid, slide pastry with plums atop pastry cream layer, plum side up. Spread remaining plum jam over flat side (underside) of third pastry rectangle. Place jam side down on plums on second pastry layer. Dust top of pastry with powdered sugar.DO AHEAD Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature; do not refrigerate.


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Lysine-Isoleucine-Arginine-Alanine wrote:What is the longest English word you can spell using the one letter abbreviations of the 20 genetic amino acids? What about the three letter abbreviations? What would the resultant peptides look like?
There may not be a lot of real English words to be made from those TLAs (Randall did miss hisser), but I see a rich vein of second-order sniglets. ("Words that should be in the list of sniglets, but aren't.") E.g., phegly, promet, proalacys, thrasp, argile, leuser, gluser.


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MGM is ready to reboot its "RoboCop" franchise.
Darren Aronofsky has signed on to direct and David Self is penning a new installment about the hero whose tagline is "part man, part machine and all cop."
"RoboCop," which is being fast-tracked for a 2010 release, becomes the first potential tentpole to come together since Mary Parent took the reins of MGM in March. Aronofsky's involvement has been one of the worst kept secrets, with rumors rampant in the blogosphere that "The Fountain" helmer was eyeing the project.
MGM is keeping the logline under wraps, but insiders say it will take the sci-fi vigilante classic in more of a noir direction.
Phoenix Pictures' Mike Medavoy, who produced the original film for Orion 21 years ago, is producing the new "RoboCop" alongside Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and David Thwaites.
Original films centered on a fatally wounded cop who returns to the police force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. After 1987's "RoboCop" and its two sequels hit the bigscreen, they have become solid earners for MGM's film library, with 4.1 million DVDs sold. Franchise is particularly popular in Japan, Germany and the U.K.
Aronofsky ("Pi," "Requiem for a Dream") is finishing the feature "The Wrestler," which stars Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood.
Self, whose credits include "13 Days" and "Road to Perdition," has "God of War" set up at Universal, with Brett Ratner attached to direct. He also penned U's "Wolfman," which is in production.
Phoenix, whose recent credits include "Zodiac," is in production on the Mikael Halfstrom-helmed "Shanghai" and is in post-production on "Shutter Island," which teams Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
MGM recently greenlit thriller "The Cabin in the Woods," penned by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, with Goddard signed to make his directorial debut and Whedon producing.


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Police have found a missing Lancaster woman unharmed, days after she reportedly made a disturbing phone call.
Lancaster Police Capt. Scott Grant said officers located Clydie Snipes Putnam, 55, on Thursday, May 9. Putnam was last heard from on Tuesday after making a phone call stating she was going to take her life, Grant said.
In a police department press release sent Thursday afternoon, Grant said Putnam had been found "alive and well."
"Thanks to all that assisted in getting the word out," Grant said.
Officers began searching for the woman after speaking with a man who reported an unsettling phone conversation he had with her Tuesday.
The man told officers that Putnam was upset and threatened her own life, so he tried to console her, but she soon hung up the phone, the report said.
With officers not sure where to look, Putnam's information was entered into the National Criminal Information Center database, where she was listed as "missing/endangered."
The last time police had a general location for Putnam was about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, Grant said, when officers "pinged" her cellphone and noticed it was in Rock Hill. Working with the York County Sheriff's Office, authorities searched that general area twice, but did not find her.
Hopes were high again Thursday morning after the police department received a tip that someone had seen Putnam at a local convenience store, though the information did not pan out, Grant said.
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The executives of Michael Jackson's estate have agreed to hand over $55,000 to a woman who appeared in the Thrillermusic video.
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BALLSTON SPA, NY – From early October to mid-November the National Bottle Museum on Milton Avenue hosted a show of the collected art works of late Executive Director Jan Rutland. The highlight of the show was the dedication of "The Artists' Space at the National Bottle Museum" to her memory. » Read more
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We have a miter saw. It is fast, efficient, and accurate. You could use it to make something!
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- It is extremely easy to cut your human fingers off using this saw. Don't reach in until the saw has stopped moving. It only takes 10 seconds to come to a complete stop, and a trip to the ER will take you 10 hours. Slow down. What are you rushing for, anyways?
- It has a wood blade in it. Don't use it to cut metal.
- There was a blade-brake that would stop the blade when the saw reached the top, but that has been flaky. Repairing it is almost certainly more trouble than it's worth.
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It's not yet a done deal, but indications are that the Boy Scouts of America may soon lift its longtime ban on allowing openly gay members. If the policy change occurs, it will be a step forward for the 103-year-old organization.
But perhaps only a baby step. The proposal, which apparently will be discussed next week by Scouting's executive board at the group's headquarters in Irving, Texas, would overturn only the nationwide prohibition on gays. Deciding whether to accept homosexual members would be left up to local troop sponsors.
As one critic commented, the new rule wouldn't forbid bigotry; it would make bigotry optional.
The Boy Scouts' refusal to admit those who are openly gay is largely based on the part of the Scout Oath in which each boy vows "to keep myself … morally straight." The oath was written before "straight" was widely used as a synonym for heterosexual; the prohibition was based simply on the idea that being gay was immoral. It's not.
This is not the first time the Boy Scouts have decided to make some membership decisions purely local ones. About 100 years ago, the question of letting African American and white boys be Scouts together was officially linked to the policies used by the public schools in each community. Thus for decades, Scouting in the South was strictly segregated, as the schools were.
An additional complication, which apparently might also be left to the local sponsors, is whether now to allow openly gay scoutmasters. This is of particular concern because of the fear that adult men sexually attracted to teenage boys would use their positions as leaders to abuse Scouts. Such abuse has indeed occurred, in Scouting as elsewhere — but study after study has shown that gay men are no more likely to be child abusers than are straight men.
If bumping admission criteria down to the local level is all the Boy Scouts can accomplish now, so be it. But what's really needed is a nationwide policy saying that one's sexuality has no part in Scouting.


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Investors lucky enough to score stock in the Twitter IPO for anything near the $26-per-share issue price are no doubt ecstatic they were able to pile in at that level. The stock nearly doubled in its first day of trading last week, and although it's off those highs, its recent price around $43 still makes it a big winner for those who bought relatively cheaply.
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Container Store Group
Like Twitter, this (literal) box retailer has almost doubled the price of its Nov. 1 IPO. Container Store Group benefits from having a straightforward, easy-to-understand business profile (it sells, well, containers) and a physical presence in the form of 63 stores across 23 U.S. states. The company isn't yet in the black, but it seems to be getting there: It has managed to narrow its losses recently, posting a shortfall of less than $1 million in the first six months of its current fiscal year versus H1 2012's $12 million loss.
Avianca Holdings
Latin America has been a hot market for air travel lately, with the region posting some of the best passenger volume increases of any region in the world in 2012. Avianca Holdings is a marriage of two veteran Latin airlines, Colombia's Avianca and El Salvador-based TACA. In its most recently reported quarter, the company flipped to a net profit of $70 million against the nearly $45 million loss it incurred in the same quarter of 2012. Revenue over that stretch of time inched up by 8% to $1.1 billion. Investors didn't seem all that impressed with any of this, as they bid down the $15-per-share price of the company's IPO of American depositary receipts. The ADRs have come up since then but remain below that issue price. This may present an opportunity for bargain hunters looking to capitalize on the region's growing popularity as a tourist destination.
An interesting play in the dot-com space, Israel-based Wix.com is a do-it-yourself site that allows users to create Web pages from its box of virtual tools. That gives the company a good business foundation -- assuming it can find a way to turn a profit, that is. It fits the profile of a classic online play, with steeply ascending revenue and deepening bottom-line losses -- it posted a net shortfall of $17.8 million in the first three quarters of this year, worse than the $11.5 million deficit in the comparable period of 2012. But top-line growth is encouraging, with revenue coming in 83% higher over the same time frame to hit $55.5 million this past January-September. And in contrast to the stereotypical dot-com, the firm's stock hasn't moved much since its IPO (its most recent closing price was $17.27 per share against a $16.50 debut).
Midcoast Energy Partners
Another somewhat surprising damp squib of an IPO was this natural-gas concern. Midcoast is a master limited partnership -- a popular type of security just now, thanks to its association with the oil and gas sector and its propensity for declaring fat dividends. Perhaps the market is feeling saturated with MLPs at the moment, or it's just concerned about the relatively low prices of the commodity. Either way, Midcoast's units have languished. They trade nearly $1 below their issue price of $18 per unit, which in turn was below the originally expected range of $19 to $21.
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