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With repeated attempts into the sub-20% range, I'm ready to expound upon healing Heroic Lich King (10-strict). This fight very nearly requires that you have a disc priest in your raid: they will very likely be your co-healer. My own guild, Vortex, has chosen a resto druid as the second healer to aid in the final phase's AoE healing and movement requirements, but we are fairly confident that any other healer could handle that spot.
EDIT: well, we killed him, US-first and world-second kill for strict-ten's. I added a few notes to the final phase; this is the strat that worked for us!
Phase 1:
"WTF I'm tank healing?"
With the disc priest put to bubble-shielding the Infest, your primary job as the second healer will be keeping the two tanks alive. For the sake of limiting the movement of the DPS, don't stand with them: stand either in between the ranged and the tanks, or on the other side of the tanks from the ranged dps group. This prevents others from having to move away from your shadow traps. Also, always make sure you are within running distance of the adds so that you can drop off your disease on them. FYI, it is safe to stand in front of the Lich King: he has no cleaves or cone attacks.
Below is a general diagram of how we handle Phase 1. Light blue is the platform, light gray is the inner circle, blue dot is the useless ice blocked dude, and the dark gray is the outer, cracked ring of the platform. Purple circles are example shadow traps that we've moved away from :)
Rejuv, lifebloom, and regrowth: try to keep all three running on both tanks as much as possible. Use nourish around them, and cast it proactively rather than reactively. You should (hopefully) have between 1/4 and 1/2 mana left at the end of this phase, if DPS is strong. For the sake of mana, I recommend letting the lifebloom stack bloom off of one tank or the other (only one at a time) whenever possible, but here are a few conditions:
- do NOT bloom when both tanks are low health, as you can't immediately restack them; get one tank up to higher health before letting the other bloom.
- do NOT let both bloom at the same time or you'll be scrambling for GCDs to restack both.
- do NOT let the add-tank's bloom when s/he has an enraged shambler, or has two shamblers and there is no Tranq shot in the raid. Keep it rolling and bolster her with nourish.
Don't hit a shadow trap, and don't run in front of the shamblers. Be very aware of where EVERYTHING is around you: this can be difficult when you're glued to the tanks' health bars, but it is very necessary.
If you have ghoul aggro, don't let it stick on you long. Call out for a tank to taunt them off of you, or run them to a tank, if necessary: ghouls have a nasty habit of dazing you while you're trying to escape an incoming shadow trap.
"Hope the RNG gods put enough diseases on the shamblers."
As LK nears 73%, get yourself towards the outer rim of the room without letting HoTs drop. Make note of how many adds are up, and definitely make sure the add tank maintains full HoTs. As the Lich King reaches 70%, he will transition as normal, and you can let HoTs momentarily lapse off of the MT until he begins picking up spirits. Mind that you don't cross in front of the shamblers while moving forward.
Make sure the group splits roughly half and half on the shelf, sort of like so:
We have the shambler tank cross over to the far right of this diagram, while the MT picks up spirits and tanks them in the center of the dps' cluster.
Keep full HoTs running on the OT until the shamblers are dead of diseases; the little ghouls won't hurt much and only require a rejuv or so to heal through. As the MT picks up and begins tanking the spawned spirits in the middle of the group, begin reHoTing him and keep the HoTs going, though allow your lifebloom to bloom off for mana. Use an innervate in this phase if you need it, otherwise use it early during the next phase.
Phase 2:
"Let's do the Defile Dance!"
As the group is running in to meet the Lich King again, get full HoTs rolling on the MT if they've dropped at all and be ready for some big hits, as the Lich King's buff stacks from Phase 1 may not yet have dropped off. Keep some HoTs rolling on the OT, as well, until the spirit she is tanking from the transition is dead: the MT will be taking far more damage, however.
Ironically, this is probably the easiest phase for me. While the disc priest is back to raid-bubbling around Infest, I go back to tank healing... but we only use one tank, so I don't have to maintain two lifeblooms again. In normal mode, we choose to swap tanks for soul reaper, but for heroic, we've moved to a single-tank strategy, using cooldowns for every reaper to shield the tank. This allows me to keep HoTs rolling on the MT at all times, and allows our OT (prot pally) to focus on just maintaining soul-reaper cooldowns and stunning the valkyr. The OT should periodically be taunting to ensure she maintains secondary threat on the Lich King in case the MT dies.
You will need to watch ALL timers. They are all important to you.
- Infest: if the timer is ticking down and someone is missing a shield (due to bubbling fail, disc priest taken by valk, or the target loosing their shield to standing in a defile), the disc priest needs to CALL OUT who is missing the shield if they will need help clearing the infest. In cases where 2-3 people in a party missing a shield, things like the moonkin or a feral druid using tranquility is a great split-second rescue; otherwise, the MT-healer can usually save those couple people. A ret or prot pally can be asked to use lay-on-hands to counter a disastrous infest, as well.
- Defile: the group needs to move out of the center circle to drop these. About 3-5 seconds before it goes off, run yourself up towards the throne side of the platform so that, if you're targeted, it'll drop the defile harmlessly out of the path of everyone. Just don't run far if a valkyr is about to spawn. We have most of our raiders drop their defiles up in this region, while a few of our dps scatter to the sides. The key is making sure the defiles are not in the center of the platform (it's hardest when it's on tanks) and that all raiders scatter from each other in the seconds before defile is dropped. Having a largely ranged-dps raid aids in this.
- Valkyr: be close to the center. It's the same as normal mode, which you should, by now, be able to handle :) My only note here is that you try to refresh lifebloom to full on the MT before the valk swoops down in case you're the one grabbed, so that the tank has more time with HoTs while you're in the valk's clutches. If you are the one grabbed, make sure to call it out, so that your co-healer knows they need to cover your job and so that others know they may need to blow extra cooldowns/potions.
- Soul Reaper: the raid needs to maintain a cooldown rotation on the MT, assuming you are not tank-swapping. As the reaper begins to tick off, spam nourish so that it will quickly offset the health drop, before the tank takes another hit. If you are tank-swapping, monitor it so that you can catch both the drop in health from the first tank, and the incoming hits on the second.
For a general idea of the movement, refer to these diagrams:
Note that people are avoiding putting a defile puddle at their back, as compared to the dead center of the room. This is because if they were picked up, the valkyr would take them over that puddle, which would inhibit melee assistance as well as possibly drop them into the puddle when they are freed. Using a pair of example defiles, you can see by the red-tint where you don't want to stand when a valk is about to spawn (unless you're a warlock with a teleporter at your back).
As with normal-mode, make sure the group doesn't transition past 42% without grouping at the edge of the platform together. Don't let the group move to the edge until after a valk spawn, and mind defiles: push him to 40% only when there is no risk of either a) people getting caught in the middle during the transition or b) people getting valk'd while too close to the edge for a rescue.
"Hai, I can haz mana?"
I generally heal everyone during this phase. Similar to the first transition, sans the adds, though I recommend having both tanks picking up spirits to split the damage they're taking; keep them both lightly HoTed, but you can give your lifebloom button a bit of a breather in favor of rejuv and wild growth, with nourishes to quickly boost someone who the Pain and Suffering debuff is stacking high on, or tanks.
Innervate again if you need it: the next phase will be intensive.
Phase 3:
"Ghost-bombs! FLEE!"
The group can just step onto the platform and work immediately on killing the leftover transition spirits. In the meantime, we had the MT and healers work their way towards the center platform to pre-position themselves; this worked because we had such mobile healers. This first bit doesn't last long: just get HoTs rolling on anyone who needs it, as the whole raid will shortly be Soul-Harvested. Also, make sure no one stands in front of the adds' silence-cones.
With the whole raid getting sucked into sword-land, group up immediately in the center, then follow a pre-determined "leader" (likely a tank or melee appropriately marked) around the room. Heal everyone. Rejuv-blanket, wild growth on cooldown, swiftmend as emergency. Use every GCD. This is going to be hard when you've also got to be following someone through the shifting maze of falling bombs. I really suggest having that leader be vocal in vent about movements, ie "going a bit towards the center" or "moving a bit further, watch the bombs behind us" or "hold up here, don't go too far," being the vocal shepherd while you're distracted by keeping everyone alive.
A few notes:
- The sword-phase is the best time for a bear tank to provide an innervate to healers.
- Anyone who takes an ankh, battle res, or soulstone after the group is sucked into the sword will have that time peacefully unmolested on the platform, where they can heal themselves, rebuff, and poke the Lich King. I don't suggest having people suicide needlessly for this... but it is a good use of people who get pancaked by spirit explosions.
- About 5 seconds before the sword phase ends, get HoTs restacked on the MT.
We kept non-tanks out of the center line of the room (north to south) aside from dropping traps, because they used this line to kite the Lich King back and forth each add spawn. We aimed to keep it free of defiles, and the soaker (be it the OT or a dispersioned shadow priest) would hop in to absorb a chunk of explosions; all other players needed to steer clear of it. If you, as a healer, get out of range of one of the tanks, let your other healer and the tanks know over vent so that they can cover appropriately while you get back in range.
You can take one ghost hit at a time (two if you have a priest bubble plus barkskin). Use your barkskin to help shield against impact. Spread out a bit from the rest of the group, and constantly be on the move so that you can pop rejuvs around the raid while keeping the MT standing. Don't stand right next to the tank in case a defile drops. A range mod set to 10 can help you with keeping clear of others who are taking an explosion near you.
Once the leftover transition adds are down, the raid will focus on dpsing the Lich King and killing the flying spirits. Just focus on staying alive and keeping the whole raid up, especially the MT around the Soul Reapers. Have your raid make use of all available CC and survival mechanisms to handle the spirits: moonkin typhoons, dispersion, frost traps, etc.
...good luck :)
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DELAND, Fla. (Jan. 16, 2014) – Stetson's Edmunds Center has historically been a difficult place for the ETSU men's basketball team to play. Thursday night was no different.
Playing their final game at Stetson as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference, the Buccaneers suffered yet another disappointing loss to the Hatters, falling 64-58 after struggling through a poor offensive effort in the second half.
With the loss, ETSU falls to 9-9 overall, 2-3 in A-Sun play, while Stetson improved to 4-14, 2-4.
"Well, this is a disappointing loss," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow. "We just didn't play well or make enough shots – especially in the second half. Our zone defense wasn't very good either. We just have to regroup and try to bounce back Saturday against a very good Florida Gulf Coast team."
The Bucs shot just 31 percent from the field in the second half, going 9-of-29 and scoring just seven points over the final six minutes of the game. During that final stretch, the Hatters outscored the Bucs 14-7 to turn a 51-50 ETSU edge into the six-point victory.
For ETSU, senior forward Hunter Harris (Nashville) scored a team-high 13 points, junior guard Jalen Riley (Racine, Wis.) added 12 points, and guards Lester Wilson (Knoxville) and Rashawn Rembert (Tampa, Fla.) netted 10 points apiece.
Stetson was led by senior forward Willie Green's game-high 15 points, as the Hatters outscored the Bucs 30-18 in the paint.
The first half was a back-and-forth contest most of the way, with the Bucs holding their largest lead at 30-24 with 25 seconds left. However, a 3-pointer by Stetson guard Glen Baral with three seconds left made it 30-27 at the break. In the first half, the Bucs shot 48 percent from the field and an impressive 57 percent from 3-point range, while also out-rebounding the Hatters 16-10. But those numbers did not transfer to the second half.
After the break, ETSU built a lead of as many as seven at 37-30, but found that lead short-lived as Stetson went on a 12-3 run to regain the advantage at 42-40. Later, with the game tied at 58, Stetson scored the final six points of the contest to pick up the victory.
The Bucs will return to action on the road Saturday night at Florida Gulf Coast, with tip set for 7:35 p.m. inside Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Fla. For more on ETSU men's hoops throughout the year, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.

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The flame of science burned high at George Washington Carver Elementary School in Gonzales, La., on Thursday. Two Louisiana State University professors were on hand to conduct experiments with liquid nitrogen and liquid hydrogen. They were assisted by Louisiana's first lady Supriya Jindal, herself a degreed chemist.
The flame of science burned high at George Washington Carver Elementary School on Thursday.
Two Louisiana State University professors were on hand to conduct experiments with liquid nitrogen and liquid hydrogen. They were assisted by Louisiana's first lady Supriya Jindal, herself a degreed chemist.
During one experiment with liquid nitrogen, the students and Jindal immersed long-stemmed flowers into the liquid to see the effect.
Jindal withdrew her flower, and the professors encouraged everyone to see what would happen if the no longer fresh flowers were dropped on the floor.
To the amazement of the kids, and their screams of surprise and delight, the beautiful flowers shattered on the Carver gymnasium floor.
In between experiments, LSU professors of chemistry Dr. George Stanley and Julia Chan talked about math and science.
"What temperature does water freeze at?" Stanley asked.
When someone answered 32 degrees, he replied, "Yes, 32 degrees Fahrenheit." Without a pause he asked, "At what temperature does it freeze on the Celsius scale?"
That answer, zero degrees, was a little more slow coming.
While the gathering of third- and fourth-graders waited patiently for the first lady to arrive, Stanley kept their attention by putting liquid nitrogen in his mouth, carefully not swallowing, and then spitting it out on the floor, as a thick cloud of cold steam rose above his head.
When he asked for volunteers to help Jindal conduct an experiment, just about every hand in the place shot up.
"How many of you want to go to LSU?" Carver Principal Barbara Guthrie asked.
Again, most kids raised their hands.
"How many of you are smart enough to go to LSU?" she asked. "I better see every hand."
And for the most part, she did, as the excited children quickly raised their hands again.
Stanley advised the kids that they would need to study if they wanted to go to LSU, even if they were the smartest kids in the state.
Then the first lady arrived and the excitement level shot to the roof.
"I'm so excited to be here," she said. Then she asked the kids why math and science were so important.
Because you can do experiments, one student said. You can use it in jobs, said another. It can make you smarter, another student added.
"Do you know how many people work in the chemical industry in Louisiana?" Jindal asked.
A long series of guesses ranged between 1,000 and 1 million people.
"26,000 people," Jindal said. She asked students to name things that engineers and scientists make, and the answers ranged from medicine to cars to airplanes to houses.
A few minutes later, some of the braver kids were holding a section of PVC pipe with either a helium or a hydrogen balloon tied to the end and rising into the air. Each time Stanley stepped up with a blow torch and popped the balloon, causing a loud boom and a quick burst of flame.
Somewhere in Louisiana, kids might have disdain for science and math.
But, not at G.W. Carver on Thursday.
With the first lady and a couple of LSU professors leading the way, science and math were the most fun in town.
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Better late than never! I realize it's the middle of February and I'm a couple of weeks late but the hunt is always going!
Taking a quick look back at last year…..I bought 178 different music items totalling $1820, that's only about $35 a week and I've been known to spend a LOT more than that. I'm a little more budget concious now and I've come to the realization that I can't buy everything so this year's purchases are going to be a little more thought out and a little more of the less expensive side. I may equal or surpass last year's dollar amount but I want to add more items to my collection. What's the old saying? "Less is more"? Not in my collecting world…..MORE is more! Xmas came and Santa brought me $100 dollars in Newbury Comics gift cards so I was armed and ready when I walked into the Warwick, RI location…..
One thing to check out…..I'm adding Total Savings per trip and for the year into the stats at the end of the hunt so you can compare what I would have paid had I paid regular prices.
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Black Sabbath – Mob Rules (2010 Deluxe Edition) – $35 (free with gift card): The top album on my Want List was the deluxe edition of Sabbath's Mob Rules for one reason and one reason only…..the bonus CD of the Rhino Handmade release of LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON. Back in May 2007, Rhino Records' custom division released the limited edition numbered CD of LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON for a meager $20 and the 5000 copies sold out immeadiately. There was a pre-order but I never bought in because money was tight at the time. I've been kicking myself ever since because that custom CD became a hot collector's item not only for the music but for the exclusivity of having 1 of 5000 copies. In the years since, this has been one of the hottest bootlegged CDs on the secondary market. I was going to pick up all the Dio-era Sabbath deluxe editions anyway but once I heard what the extra disc was, I had to have it! Unfortunately, the Newbury Comics closer to my house in North Attleboro stocked only one copy and it sold right away. I kept my eye out and, when I saw it in the Warwick location, it was a done deal! There are also two bonus tracks that accompany the album proper: a live version of 'Die Young' and the original version of 'The Mob Rules' from the Heavy Metal movie soundtrack. Saved $35.
Black Sabbath – Seventh Star (2010 Deluxe Edition) – $35 (free with gift card): I was going to pick up the HEAVEN & HELL Deluxe Edition but there were two copies of it at the store while there was only one copy of the SEVENTH STAR Deluxe Edition. My paranoia that I would miss out on SEVENTH STAR forced my hand! I am a huge fan of all post-Ozzy eras of Black Sabbath and I bought this album back in 1986 when it first came out on cassette. Actually, I almost went to the concert at the Providence Civic Center that tour but my parents wouldn't let me go, concerts were a new thing for me and them back in 1985/1986. Anyway, the extras here are a remixed version of 'No Stranger To Love' on the album CD and the bonus disc is a live recording with Ray Gillen at Hammersmith Odeon 6/2/1986. For the sake of history, the Providence, RI gig was 3/25/1986 and was the next to last show with SEVENTH STAR vocalist Glenn Hughes fronting the band. Saved $35.
The Rolling Stones – Hot Rocks (1964-1971) (2002 remaster) – $30 (free with gift card): When I started to get into music in the early '80s, The Rolling Stones were billed as "the ultimate Rock 'n' Roll band" and they were always on local FM radio. I grew up listening to the radio and I grew up listening to the band's songs. When I started heading out to record stores, I wanted a Rolling Stones greatest hits cassette…..enter HOT ROCKS. I bought my cassette copy at the old Good Vibrations chain and I remember it was so expensive (probably around $15) because it was considered a double album…..I still have the cassette today. I had $30 left in gift cards and I wanted something special and that's when I thought of HOT ROCKS. The price has doubled for the remastered single CD compared to my cassette from back in the day but I figured I would never spend the $30 on my own so I decided that it was now or never and I burned the last gift card. Saved $30.
Holy Grail – Crisis In Utopia (2010) – $12: Holy Grail is a spin-off band from one of my favorite new bands White Wizzard. I'm not really sure who left to form what band but now I know that there are two solid U.S. Power metal bands out there! I had read a lot of reviews on Holy Grail in Decibel and Revolver magazines, as well as, online so I kept the band and album in mind but I had totally forgotten as I was burning all my gift cards. As I was walking to the checkout counter with my three albums, I saw CRISIS IN UTOPIA sitting in a display so I snatched it up right away. I figured that I wasn't paying for the three other deluxe CDs so I could spend some of my own money and buy this album. Good thing I grabbed the CD on display because a quick look in the Metal section under 'H' and I found another copy at the regular $15.99 price! I'll take a sale CD anyday! Saved $4.
Electric Wizard – Black Masses (2011) – $10: One of the hardest things about being an obsessive collector is that you want to hear and buy everything but everything is not always available. I had Electric Wizard's latest, BLACK MASSES, on my list all year long but I wasn't about to pay the high import prices. I don't own any Electric Wizard albums but, after reading so many great reviews, I decided to start with the new album. Unfortunately, there was no U.S. release date set! So I waited and then the 2010 year end best of lists started coming out online and in print. Gues what album always seemed to be at or near the top? A couple weeks after my gift card shopping trip, I decided to drop in quickly to the local Newbury Comics closer to home and there's BLACK MASSES in the new release section for a cool $10…..about $15 less than the import price + shipping! A no-brainer to pick up…..saved $4 off the regular price. Just a note here…..this is the North American release and it's dated 2011 on the CD even though it was released everywhere else in 2010.
Bret Michaels – Songs Of Life (2003) – $4 used: If you're going to pop in the local record store quick and immeadiately find an album you want on the new release rack in front of the entrance, then it's your duty as a collector to make sure that there are no other treasures hiding in plain sight. I took a quick lap through the entire store and guess what album I find staring at my from the Poison section? I know I've crucified Bret the last few years for releasing "new" albums that are really repackage deals of his previous solo work but I've made it a personal mission to acquire all the Bret solo albums that were released in the mid-2000s on his own label, Poor Boy Records. Slowly but surely, I started to find all the Bret albums but SONGS OF LIFE had eluded me at a fair price, it was going for $25+ on Ebay! I saw the CD and grabbed it right away, then I saw the $4 price tag…..that's a huge deal! I estimate that this originally went for $15 when it was released so I saved about $11.
W.A.S.P. – The Last Command (1985) – $7 used: This was a great find for very personal reasons. About 8 years ago, when my wife and I were expecting our second child, money was a little tight. My wife wasn't working and my work schedule wasn't flexible enough for me to get a second job. I turned to my CD collecting hobby for additional income. I started selling used CDs that I found in the record stores on ebay and I started to make a couple extra bucks. When we needed even more extra cash, I turned to my own collection for CDs to sell. One of my big sales was all the original pressings of every W.A.S.P. album from the first to THE CRIMSON IDOL (1992)…..6 CDs and I netted $100! That was a huge help back then and I justified it not only by the situation but by the fact that I had bought the W.A.S.P. remasters back in 1999. Years later, I'm unhappy with the sound on the remasters and I've been searching for the original pressings again. W.A.S.P. has always been one of my favorite bands and I was there from before the debut album so these records are special, THE LAST COMMAND being my favorite. An obvious purchase and a great find at what I estimate as half off regular price. Saved $8.
Hardcore Superstar – No Regrets (2003) – $4 used: I found this CD in a bargain bin and I recognized the name but I wasn't sure what kind of music they played. I remembered seeing reviews on one of the websites I frequent but I had never heard one song from Hardcore Superstar. Thank god for smartphones! First, I checked my collection to see if I already owned it (I've seen more than a few copies at a low used price). Second, I got online and looked the band up. Once I found the reviews at some of my favorite websites, I decided to take the $4 risk. Third, I checked Ebay to see what the CD was going for because there was a second copy of NO REGRETS at the same price. It wasn't selling at auction so I figured I'd leave it for someone else to discover. I'm going to use this as a jumping off point to check out the band because it's their fourth out of eight albums and, if I like their brand of Sleaze Rock, I will try and get the rest as cheap as possible. I estimate the regular price at $15 when researching online and taking into account Newbury Comics' prices, so I saved $11.
Damageplan – New Found Power (2004) – $3 used: I found this in the same bargain bin that I found the Hardcore Superstar disc in and I used my smartphone again to make sure I didn't have it in my collection. I have always been a Pantera fan, maybe not as big as others, but I have all their records in my collection, including the independent ones before COWBOYS FROM HELL. I never bothered to collect all the spin-off bands until I bought both HellYeah albums last year. I had every intention of checking out Damageplan after the untimely death of Dimebag Darrell but I just never got around to it. In fact, I've passed on more than a few used copies over the years but none at this price. To make sure I was getting the best deal (and how could $3 not be a great deal!), I went over to the 'D' section and noticed that regular price on this disc was $15.99 and the other used price was $7.99. I saved $13 off the regular price.
Rhapsody Of Fire – The Cold Embrace Of Fear E.P. (2010) – $7: As I was picking up the W.A.S.P., Hardcore Superstar and Damageplan CDs on my third trip of the year to the record store, I noticed this new release by Rhapsody Of Fire in the new release rack. I wasn't really sure what this release was, and Rhapsody does have a pattern of releasing E.P.s and multi-track CD singles between albums, so I got online with my phone for quick research…..my Android phone is my new best tool while on the hunt! Turns out this E.P. was released in Europe in October 2010 and it's one 35 minute song broken into seven acts. I'm skeptical about these type of releases because what does a 35 minute song sound like? And am I going to get bored? I have almost every Rhapsody release so the completist in me had to have it and, at $7, it wasn't too much to risk. Saved $3 off regular price.
King Lizard – Viva La Decadence (2010) – $20: I happened to find out about King Lizard through a podcast I listen to and I liked the song so much that I went to their website to buy the album. Of course, I was too late because they were sold out of the first pressing with the uncensored artwork! I didn't want to wait for a second pressing to become available so I emailed the band direct and inquired on the availability. The band responded and I bought the LAST copy they had with the uncensored artwork AND they autographed it for me! Not a bad deal at all! Sometimes all you have to do is ask and you definitely shall receive, as long as you have a genuine interest and still pay for the item! Thanks to King Lizard for hooking me up so watch for an album review here soon. More info on the band can be found at their official website: http://www.kinglizard.co.uk/
Total = $67
Total (year) = $67
Average Price (per item) = $6.09
Total Savings (month) = $154
Total Savings (year) = $154
Total CDs (year) = 11
Total DVDs (year) = 0
Total Box Sets (year) = 0
Total LPs (year) = 0


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Nazir Hussain, the veteran actor of Hindi cinema with more than 400 films under his belt, began his professional journey with the British Army and then inspired by Subhash Chandra Bose worked in the Indian National Army
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[dropcap]N[/dropcap]azir Hussain, the famous character artist was born on May 15, 1922 in the village of Usia in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district. Hussain, now long forgotten, acted in more than 400 movies and is considered as the Pitamah of Bhojpuri cinema. Much before it became fashionable and productive, Hussain was instrumental in the making of first Bhojpuri film 'Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo' produced by B P Shahabadi. The success of Bhojpuri films in the last few years led to talks of his contribution to Bhojpuri cinema. However, not many know that he was in Subash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army (INA), which became the reason for his entry into Bollywood.
Nazir Hussain's father Shahabzad Khan was a guard in the Railways and Hussain grew up in Lucknow. He worked in the British army for a short time but came under the influence of Subhas Chandra Bose and joined the Indian National Army (INA). I asked scholar Sugata Bose about Nazir Hussain and he replied: "Yes, Nazir Hussain was in the INA. He joined with Bimal Roy to make the film 'Pahela Aadmi' based on the INA experience." I have not been able to find out his exact role but he seems to have faced imprisonment and was released after Independence. He was accorded the status of freedom fighter and was given free railway pass for life.
In those days Bimal Roy was planning a film on Bose and the INA. To give it an authentic touch he was scouting for INA members to help him. Nazir Hussain's personality and impressive voice perhaps helped Bimal Roy to notice him. However, Hussain was reluctant to work in films as he had no such background. After much persuasion and cajoling from friends and colleagues he relented. 'Pehla Aadmi' released in 1950 launched him to stardom and he became a permanent fixture in Bimal Roy's movies.
He excelled as a character artist and starred in several blockbuster movies. He became famous for his emotional scenes and is best remembered for his roles in Amar Akbar Anthony, Charas, Jewel Thief, Parakh, Devdas, Leader, Ram Aur Shyam, Kashmir Ki Kali and many others. While Hussain was busy in the Bombay film industry a meeting with President Rajendra Prasad changed the course of his life. At an awards function, Hussain was introduced to Prasad and after knowing that he hailed from Ghazipur started speaking in Bhojpuri.
Prasad told Hussain to consider making Bhojpuri films which resulted in the super hit 'Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo'. Hussain wrote the script for the movie that became a raging hit. The songs were super hit and Hussain himself went on to produce and direct several Bhojpuri films in the 60s and 70s. One of his films Balam Pardesia is considered a landmark in the Bhojpuri film industry. Unlike the Bhojpuri films of today, the films made by Nazir Hussain (and others) revolved around social issues. They tackled the problems of dowry and landless farmers, highlighting the wickedness of cruel zamindars and capitalists.
My personal favourite is his role as a rickshaw puller who trains Balraj Sahni in Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zameen. Despite his broad shoulders and good physique, he excelled in roles as heroine's father or poor, helpless farmer/worker. Any film he starred had to have a crying scene. No doubt he was dubbed 'Aansuon Ka Kanastar' in the film industry. In real life too he was an emotional person. He used to don silky suits and Indian clothes with equal elan in movies. However, whenever he used to visit his native village he prefered dhoti-kurta. People would come from far-off places in huge numbers to see and meet him at his small village in Ghazipur.
Hussain shot several of his films at his ancestral village and put Ghazipur on the film industry map. After Nazir Hussain, Ghazipur gave several film personalities like Rahi Masoom Raza, Anjan Shrivastava and Yunus Parvez. The veteran actress Leela Mishra too was from Ghazipur and starred along with Nazir Hussain in 'Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo'.
"I have met Nazir cha in Bombay and he told me that he had been in the INA and became very emotional thinking of my parents," activist Subhashini Ali, daughter of Colonel Prem Kumar and Captain Lakshmi Sehgal told me few months back. I remember meeting actor Raj Babbar in Mumbai for a report and when I told him I am from Ghazipur his immediate remark was: "Nazir Hussain too was from Ghazipur."
Danish Khan is a London based writer and journalist. He also runs www.urdufigures.blogspot.co.uk and is doing his Ph.D at Oxford University


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When my youngest daughter was in kindergarten, her class frequently made Kinderlit books. I loved the idea, but things like this have never been in our budget. I decided a few years ago to make our own version, using some of the art projects we already do and tailor them for the book pages.
We traced our hands and colored them to resemble turkeys for the cover.
We made little Mayflower boats for the first page.
We made wigwams from construction paper and paper towels for the second page. This was great fine motor practice using our cutting and tearing skills.
We made indian corn by painting with bubble wrap. This was a lot of fun for the kids to do and even more fun for me to watch. Some of the kids painted each bubble separately, some painted sections with different fall colors and others just slathered on the paint. No matter which process they used, the corn looked great and was a wonderful tactile experience! We added a little "vanilla" (manilla) paper fringe for the husk.
Since the last page talked about the feast, we cut out pictures of scrumptious meals from magazines.
We made our books over a period of about 2 weeks and read them as a class at circle time. Our last reading was shortly before our big Thanksgiving feast with our families, then sent them home to enjoy for the holiday!


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Kansas State holds off No. 7 Kansas in OT
- Kansas State beat Kansas%2C 85-82%2C in overtime
- The Wildcats squandered a nine-point lead late%2C but bounced back in the extra frame
- It was the first victory in six tries against Kansas for Wildcats coach Bruce Weber
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State's Marcus Foster was battered and bruised, just like everyone else on the court, and was having a hard time limping around during breaks in the play.
When the final buzzer sounded, he had no problem jumping up in celebration.
Foster scored a game-high 20 points, two coming on free throws in the closing seconds of overtime, and helped the Wildcats hold off No. 7 Kansas 85-82 on Monday night.
"Marcus is Marcus," Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said of the freshman. "He hit a lot of big shots."
Will Spradling added 15 points for the Wildcats (17-7, 7-4 Big 12), who blew a nine-point lead with less than 2 minutes left in regulation, only to survive for just their third win over the Jayhawks (18-6, 9-2) in 26 games played at Bramlage Coliseum.
Hundreds of students flooded the court when the final buzzer sounded to celebrate the end of a six-game skid against Kansas. The Wildcats, who had lost 48 of the last 51 in the series, hadn't beaten their rivals in their on-campus octagon since Feb. 14, 2011.
"We just went out there and played hard," said Foster, who turned his right ankle and showed up to the postgame news conference in a walking boot. "We knew if we played hard, the rest would take care of itself."
Andrew Wiggins scored 16 points for the Jayhawks, including a putback of his own miss with 6.9 seconds left to force overtime. Perry Ellis had 19 points, Naadir Tharpe added 13 and Brannen Greene scored 10, making two key baskets near the end of regulation.
"I thought momentum was on our side," Kansas coach Bill Self said.
Tarik Black even scored the opening basket of overtime, but every time the Jayhawks tried to build a lead, the Wildcats had an answer — a three-point play by Foster, a free throw by Omari Lawrence, or a big putback from unheralded big man D.J. Johnson, who had nine points.
"We felt good. We felt energized," Ellis said. "We just couldn't get no stops. We couldn't get no stops in the second half and overtime."
Still, it wasn't over until Foster's two free throws with 21.9 seconds left gave Kansas State an 83-79 lead, and Wiggins missed a 3-pointer at the other end. Black missed another shot, and the Wildcats finally corralled the rebound, allowing time to run out.
"If we lost," Weber said, "it would have been a heartbreaker."
Unlike the first meeting in January, when the Jayhawks raced out to a big lead and then simply nursed it through the second half, the rivals played to a draw Monday night.
Kansas State surged to an early lead thanks to some poor shooting by the Jayhawks, only to go into a slump of its own. Both teams eventually got into foul trouble as the game began to resemble an old Big Eight tussle, and the result was a 29-29 halftime tie.
In fact, there may have been more bodies on the court than baskets made, and the Jayhawks' Black even had to limp off after twisting his ankle while going up for a rebound.
The angst reached a crescendo midway through the second half, when Thomas Gipson of the Wildcats and Kansas guard Frank Mason got into a shoving match. Both were given technical fouls.
Kansas was already playing without reserve forward Jamari Traylor, whom Self sat for disciplinary reasons. With the nagging injury to Black on top of the foul trouble, one of the deepest teams in the nation had its depth tested in one of the rare instances all season.
"Both teams are beat up," Self said afterward.
After taking a 35-34 lead with 17:34 remaining, the Wildcats ripped off the next nine points. And even when Foster turned his ankle and briefly went to the locker room, Kansas State was still able to match the Jayhawks basket for basket.
The Wildcats couldn't close the game in regulation, though.
Wesley Iwundu made one of two free throws with 30 seconds left to give Kansas State a 69-65 lead, but Tharpe quickly answered with a layup. Iwundu was fouled again but missed the front end of a 1-and-1, giving Wiggins a chance to send the game to overtime.
The Wildcats simply refused to give up.
"We made mistakes," Weber said. "To their credit they came back, but our character, and that's something we talked about, let us overcome the emotion."


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Jobs are SQL Server 7.0's answer to the repetitive work that database administrators do to maintain their systems. The descendants of SQL Server 6.x tasks, jobs can do more than tasks. A job isn't a single-linear process task as is a Transact-SQL (T-SQL) command or CmdExec batch file. It's a series of decision steps, more like a program. You can use jobs to create repeatable procedures so you can schedule work how and when you need it.
Only a SQL Server system administrators (sysadmin) or database owner (db_owner) can create jobs. The SQL Server Agent uses SQL Server to manage, schedule, and run jobs. You can run jobs from stored procedures, by alerts, from Enterprise Manager, or by creating applications that use SQL DMO objects. You construct jobs from active scripting programs, T-SQL, CmdExec, or Replication commands.
Jobs are useful for administrators who manage only a few databases because they offer more capabilities than tasks did, and jobs are useful in multiserver environments. But jobs truly excel in large corporate or multisite environments.
To demonstrate the usefulness of SQL Server 7.0 jobs, I'll use the example of PlanetBank, a large corporation with hundreds of branches, each with a SQL Server database. The main office uploads and manages data daily. PlanetBank offers a credit card, telephone banking, life insurance, and other products and services, which all run on SQL Server databases. A large development group creates the many applications PlanetBank runs, and this group has its own development servers.
You can use one of several methods to create a job. I'll show you how to create a basic job, then I'll show you how to use the that job.
Using the Create Job Wizard
The Create Job Wizard uses the standard Microsoft wizard format. It's useful for basic work, but it lets you have only one step per job. You can use the wizard to create jobs, then later you can use Enterprise Manager later to customize the jobs.
To use the Create Job Wizard, open Enterprise Manager and select a server. From the tool bar, choose the wizard icon (a magic wand). You'll see several wizard groups you can choose from. Choose the Management wizard group to open the set of database management wizards, then select Create Job. Then, choose Transact-SQL, Operating-System Shell Command, or Active Script Steps. You won't see Replication among the choices because the wizard will let you create only one step and Replication requires more than one step. If you use this Wizard, the SQL Server Agent will default to the manual start setting. To change this setting, you need to open Control Panel/Services and select the automatic start setting.
Using Enterprise Manager
You use Enterprise Manager to do most of your jobs work. Open Enterprise Manager, then choose a server. Select SQL Server Agent, right-click Jobs, then New Jobs. You'll see the New Job Properties dialog box. Select the General tab, then enter a name for the new job. There are defaults that use the multiserver administration format, Target server and Source server. A Target server receives a copy of the task from the Source server. As this example is not running on a master server, the Source field defaults to the local server. From the Owner list, select the owner responsible for running the job. (The owner is the person who created the job.) In the Description box, enter comments about the job. Then click the Steps tab and select New. You need to create at least one step for each job or you won't be able to save the job.
Using T-SQL
To create a job using T-SQL, run sp_add_job to create a job; execute sp_add_jobstep to create one or more job steps; and run sp_add_jobschedule to create the job schedule. You can use this method to create a basic job, then use Enterprise Manager to customize the job. You can also use scripts to create jobs, but you'll need to test the scripts. For ad hoc jobs, use Enterprise Manager.
In this section, I'll describe the properties of jobs. You can construct jobs to be as simple or complex as you choose. One complex characteristic of jobs is the nesting property. Jobs have attributes, one of which is the job steps that do the work. Job steps also have attributes. For clarity, I'll describe the job attributes, leaving the job steps until last. Then I'll use the PlanetBank example to explain the job steps attributes.
Job Categories
You use job categories to organize jobs into a coherent structure. If you correctly use the job categories feature, you can reduce the time you spend on job maintenance. SQL Server 7.0's 12 built-in job categories include Web Assistant, Database Maintenance, Full Text, and a set of Replication categories. You cannot delete built-in categories. The default category for local jobs is Local \[Uncategorized(local)\]. On master servers, the default category for multiserver administration jobs is Uncategorized(multiserver). The multiserver category is not available on a target server. (I'll discuss master and target servers in an upcoming article, but briefly multiserver administration means you can run a copy of the same job across many servers without having a local copy. This means there needs to be only one source directory and you have much tighter change control. SQL Server forces you to have one Source server where the job actually resides. A target server receives a copy of any job that is flagged as multiserver from that Source server.) You can delete or edit jobs only with Enterprise Manager, but you can revise the category listing only within T-SQL.
You can create your own job categories tailored to your working environment, departments, job types, and actions. You use Enterprise Manager or T-SQL to create user-defined job categories. Then you can place jobs in a file type structure and manage them according to how you work. PlanetBank created job categories by function and named the categories credit card, insurance, business accounts, accounts, loans, etc. PlanetBank chose this scheme because most of the jobs in the system manage data for these functional groups. Because the work and structure of the jobs were different among the groups, PlanetBank also grouped the jobs by function. The database administrators use the Database Maintenance category for most server maintenance, and they created their own Testjobs category for that purpose. To add categories, open Enterprise Manager, select SQL Server Agent, and right-click. Select Job Categories to display the categories, then select Add. You can also use the sp_add_category command in T-SQL to add categories.
Job Properties
You use Enterprise Manager to define a job. The only mandatory attributes are job name and a job step. I'll use as an example a housekeeping job that checks the data in the Customers database and dumps it for backup. I'll call the job ChecknDump.
Name is a mandatory attribute and is limited to 128 characters. Description is a general comment/description field of up to 512 characters. The target local server property defines a job as local or multiserver. You use the source property to specify the server the job originated on (this property defaults to local). A systems administrators (sa) can use Owner to specify the job owner. Other properties such as last modified self-explanatory and are shown in the example below. Screen 1 shows the PlanetBank job at creation. This is a local job because I didn't define the server as a master server. I chose the Database Maintenance job category.
Job Scheduling
You can schedule jobs more flexibly with SQL Server 7.0 jobs than you can with SQL Server 6.x tasks. You can run jobs when the CPU is idle, on a regular schedule, or at a specific date and time. Although this is a small change from the way you schedule tasks in SQL Server 6.5, the CPU idle option in SQL Server 7.0 is useful for busy servers.However, if a long job starts in a temporary CPU lull, conflicts might occur with other operations when competing processes fight for CPU resources.
Let's continue the example. PlanetBank decided to run ChecknDump daily on a main office server. In choosing when to run a job, you need to consider the database and server usage. In this example, the server holds the main customer database, is a live server and the customer database is a repository rather than directly used by all sources. The server does not operate 24 x 7, and the main processing load occurs within office hours. PlanetBank scheduled the ChecknDump job at 8:00 p.m. daily and named the job ChecknDump Customers. Screen 2 shows the notification dialog boxes and how to define a new job schedule.
Specifying Actions
You can specify actions that will execute according to the outcome of the job operation. This choice depends on the importance of the server, the database, and the job, and on the availability of people to manage the problem. Jobs can initiate actions to notify people (either by email, paging, or a net send message, make an event log entry, or automatically delete the job itself. Choosing a course of action depends on your company and its attitude toward data problems. For example, PlanetBank believes that this server and database are critical and that the ChecknDump job's success is vital to the health of the data and the company. Screen 3 shows that the job notification process for the Check Customers step is to notify the DBA, Will Robinson, by email if the step succeeds. If the step fails, the job will page Dr. Zachary Smith so he can repair the data before the next day.
The job step is a single unit of action within a job. Job steps have different types and each type has slightly different properties. Each step is self-contained and doesn't accept parameters produced from within the rest of the job, including files.
Types of Job Steps
The five types of job steps are stored procedures and extended stored procedures, T-SQL, command executables, replication, and active scripting languages such as JavaScript and VBScript.
If you create a T-SQL or stored procedure job step, you need to select the database in which you want the job to execute, then write the T-SQL command in the window or enter the stored procedure call.
This action includes opening a file and inserting the contents as in the ISQL load function \[what file, what contents, and what is the ISQL load function?\].
You run CmdExec steps just as you do SQL Server CmdExec programs, using Windows NT and SQL Server security. The programs can use the .cmd or .exe extensions. You must include a process exit code, and you must specify the file path.
Active scripting steps are JavaScript or VBScript scripts that you can load from a file or copy when you create this type of job step.
If you create a job step with a replication type, the step creates a publication with replication. SQL Server automatically creates replication jobs for the required replication agents. The replication type determines which agent is created. The agents that produce job steps are Distribution, Log Reader, Merge, and Snapshot. The first two run continuously when the SQL Server Agent is started. You can run the other agents on command or schedule them to run.
Controlling Flow
If you create a job with more than one step, you need to determine the relationship between the steps by defining what action occurs when each step succeeds or fails. This action lets you control the step's flow. For example, if a step succeeds, the step can quit the job and report success, quit the job and report failure, or go to the next step or to a specific step identified by step id or step name. If the step fails, the step can quit the job and report failure, quit the job and report success, go to the next step, go to a specific step, or retry the step. You can specify the number of retries and the intervals between retry attempts.
Some job steps don't depend on the status of a previous step. For example, each dump in a job that schedules multiple database dumps does not depend on the success or failure of a previous dump. If the step does require structure, however, you can use the On Success/Failure attribute to define the job step.
Step Properties
When you create job steps, you need to enter step properties. Screen 4 shows the Check Customers step PlanetBank created. Step name labels each step. The limit for step name is 100 characters and the name needs to be unique within the job. Type defines the step type. If you define the type as active scripting, then you need to specify the scripting language as the language attribute. The database property lists all databases on the server and lets you choose which server to run the step on. The command property, which has a 4000-character limit, lets you enter the command or script to execute the step. Parse checks the active scripting text for correct syntax.
You'll see a different dialog box for each step type. If you choose the advanced tab for the T-SQL step, as Screen 5 shows, you can direct the step's results to Output File, which stores the results of the single step. You can use Append File to add the step's results to an existing file so you can track the job rather than the step functionality.
Screen 6 shows the completed PlanetBank's ChecknDump job steps. Note the On Success/On Failure control, they enable the job to navigate through the steps. The database will not be backed up unless it is error free. Step ID is an integer that identifies the step within the job. The Dump Database step is a .bat file that dumps the database to a file for copying to another server. As you can see from the tabs it is very obvious that the steps are an attribute of a job. Although you can run scripts from within jobs and you can use CmdExec files, you can't transfer steps between jobs.
You can use SQL Server 7.0 jobs to streamline database administration. You can create a job with a few steps that will verify data in a main office database with T-SQL, run branch data uploads with stored procedures, sort data and bcp archives with CmdExec, replicate information to branch servers, and amend a Web page to inform users of the change with active script.
The power and flexibility of SQL Server 7.0 jobs might revolutionize your task management procedures. In upcoming articles, I'll show you how to manage and maintain jobs.


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Care Policy - Lab Gruppen
Care Policy - Lab Gruppen
At Music Tribe we genuinely care about our customers and are passionate about providing life changing customer experiences.
We want you to enjoy using our products as much as we enjoy making them. So, when you need our help, we have it covered and you can count on us.
Limited Warranty
Subject to the "Exceptions" listed below and as updated in Music Tribe, Music Tribe warrants all Products to be free of defects in material and workmanship if used under normal operating conditions for 10 Years from point of original retail purchase by an end-user.
Furthermore, in respect to Lab Gruppen PLM and PLM+ products only: the limited warranty is transferrable in the event of second hand sale, and will be based on what period remains of the original warranty term. The original warranty term will be validated by proof of purchase receipt.
Requests for warranty on products bought outside of territory
For warranty on products bought outside of a user's territory of residence, the end-user will be directed to contact the dealer who actually sold the product. Of course the end-user can always choose to have it repaired by the territory's distributor instead, at their cost.
Are there warranty exceptions?
Apart from the obvious improper use of the product, there are only a few exclusions to the limited warranty that you need to be aware of, including consumables, burnt voice coils and road/flight cases.
The above warranty does not apply to:
- Consumable parts, including but not limited to, fuses, batteries, and cables.
- Drivers and diaphragm assemblies that have burnt voice coils due to over voltage or a surge from a power amplifier.
- Power amplifiers with incorrectly loaded outputs (in terms of "load"/ohms).
- Physical or shipping damage due to improper use of the Products or incorrect installation.
- Cable drum assemblies and road/flight cases, for which there will be a one (1) Year warranty period.
- Products whose factory applied serial number has been defaced, altered or removed.
Warranty transferability
This Limited Warranty is extended exclusively to the original buyer (customer of Authorized Reseller) and is not transferable to anyone who may subsequently purchase the product. No other person (distributor, dealer, fulfiller, retailer, etc.) shall be entitled to give any warranty promise on behalf of Music Tribe.less
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If your products becomes faulty at any time during the warranty period we will try to ensure you are without it for as little time as possibe, and will aim to either repair it or replace it for you within 1 week.... more
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If you find one of our products fails to the point where you can't use it as it's intended within 30 days of purchase then contact our CARE Team for further assistance and advice.
In the unlikely event we can't rectify the problem you are entitled to a free replacement product through the local Distributor/reseller. To qualify for DOA, the product should not show major signs of surface marks, worn decals, scratches, dents or markings. It needs to be returned with all originally supplied components and accessories.
The product needs to be returned in packaging suitable to fully protect it (ideally this would be its original inner and outer packaging), complete with accessories, and end user's proof of purchase should be attached (if not previously supplied).
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If one of our products needs to be serviced is under warranty, it can be returned to the point of sale or Music Tribe CARE Centre (Dependent on your location)
You can also Contact our CARE team for further advice if there is a need.
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In the unusual event that no fault is found when products are sent to us, we will advise you immediately. If after further troubleshooting no fault is verified, you may be charged for any handling charges to get it returned to you.
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In the instance where a product becomes defective after the expiry of the limited warranty period, CARE offers a chargeable repair service, to include labor, parts, and shipping.
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RRD Hardcore Wave & Wavecult 2007
TWO new types of wave board are now released by RRD to complete the wave package after the 2007 Freestyle/Wave was launched earlier in July.
For the wave purists, the Hardcore Wave is the most radical. The three boards in the range are a little shorter, with just a bit more width at the wide point. The thinnest tail of any production waveboard remains, but there is now a fraction more volume.
Combined with a deeper double concave applied to a slightly flatter rocker, the 2007 Hardcores plane earlier, but actually have better grip at high speed and in critical manoeuvres.
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The 2007 Wavecult is also a little shorter than last year. The new boards plane earlier thanks to more double concave and a flatter rocker line, whilst a slight increase in nose kick makes for a smoother ride over chop. Three sizes cover everyone's needs.
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The full-back, who turns 31 on February 14, has yet to sign an extension past the end of the season and has been linked with a return to homeland clubs Paris St German and Monaco, while Turkish giants Galatasaray are also reported to be interested.
Sagna is said to have already turned down the offer of a two-year deal for around ?70,000 per week, with negotiations on-going as they are with midfielder Tomas Rosicky and German defender Per Mertesacker.
Wenger - who has himself yet to formally announce whether he will be staying on in charge of Arsenal next season - would like to get Sagna's future tied up sooner rather than later.
"When I say I expect (him to sign), it is more that I want
I hope that in the end I am right
We are not close at the moment," said Wenger.
"Because he is a defender we are ready to give him more than one year.
"He wants to keep his options open, because he is at the end of a contract
It is an important contract for him
He is 31 years old (this month) and I can understand."
Wenger added: "I am not all right with that (delay) because I would like him to sign just now, but I have to accept it.
"It is his freedom - the decision belongs to him."
Sagna joined Arsenal from Auxerre in August 2007 and has been a consistent performer, chalking up more than 250 appearances despite the setback of twice suffering a leg fracture.
Wenger said: "He is fantastic, not only a great player, but a fantastic attitude.
"You know when you start the game that Bacary Sagna will give you 100 per cent commitment, no matter where you play or against whom you play, that is a fantastic guarantee."
Asked if he felt Sagna's commitment to the Arsenal cause down the years would make it difficult for the player to walk away, Wenger said: "I believe that his future is here and any other decision would be wrong."
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School of Dentistry Dean Reappointed to Additional Five-Year Term
School of Dentistry Dean John D.B. Featherstone, MSc, PhD
UCSF School of Dentistry Dean John D.B. Featherstone has agreed to an additional five-year term as Dean, following a positive Stewardship Review Committee report and an invitation to continue in the role of Dean by UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann.
The conclusions of the report were presented by Chancellor Desmond-Hellmann in a town hall-style meeting, open to UCSF Dentistry faculty and staff, on Jan. 9, 2014, after which the Chancellor and Dean Featherstone responded to questions from the audience.
"The overarching message received by the Committee was that Dean Featherstone has been an effective, fair, transparent, and responsible steward of the school during a period of severe stress" began the closing section, adding that "he has done an admirable job of balancing the needs of a very diverse school, which included clinical as well as basic science departments, thriving educational and research programs, and the operational logistics of dental clinics."
The report concluded: "The Stewardship Committee unanimously recommends that the Dean be reappointed for another five-year term, without the requirement of interim review."
Dean Featherstone reacted to the reading by thanking "the Stewardship Review Committee for a very thorough task," adding that "I've read the report in detail and in general it's very positive, and it reflects the support that I've had from all of the faculty, staff, and students."
He also thanked Chancellor Desmond-Hellmann, who will step down as UCSF Chancellor at the end of March to lead the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for her leadership and strong support of the School of Dentistry.
Featherstone, MSc, PhD, has served as dean of the dental school since 2008. He served as Interim Dean in 2007, when he was appointed to that role by former UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop following the departure of the previous Dean Charles Bertolami, DDS, DMedSc.
Dean Featherstone has been a distinguished member of the school's faculty for 18 years and has numerous publications and honors to his credit, including the IADR (International Association for Dental Research) Distinguished Scientist Award for research in dental caries (2000), the Zsolnai Prize from the European Caries Research Organization for his lifelong contributions to caries research (2002), and the prestigious Norton Ross Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from the American Dental Association (2007). Dean Featherstone was made an Honorary Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy in 2013.
He has achieved significant additional distinction for his work in the creation of the CAMBRA (Caries Management by Risk Assessment) method. This includes the recent development, in conjunction with Dr. Peter Rechmann, of a CAMBRA app for iOS that helps dental professionals and non-professionals alike use CAMBRA to manage oral health, and the successful first-ever dental MOOC (massive, open, online course) on Coursera in the Fall of 2013, which will be offered again in the Spring of this year.


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Editor's Note: This article was originally published July 14, 2007. We run it again now as part of Pornography Awareness Week, October 26 - November 2. For more information, click here.
Divorce lawyers are noting its increasing influence.
In Great Britain, it's blamed for a 20 percent jump in sexual assaults perpetrated by kids as young as 11.
In the United States, the adult film industry sees it as a $13 billion a year business -- more money than mainstream Hollywood generates.
The numbers are staggering: up to 45 million "unique" users visited adult websites in a recent month, as tracked by Nielsen Net Ratings.
With the advent of wireless handheld devices, porn is accessible via mobile phones and similar devices.
"Certainly, this is going to make it easier to view porn in more places than ever," Pamela Paul, author of "Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families," told USA Today.
"The flood of pornography in our culture has desensitized society and has contributed to the fact that our nation is wandering aimlessly in dangerous, uncharted territory," Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said in a statement e-mailed to the Southern Baptist TEXAN.
That flood has entered the church doors, leaving anecdotal and documented evidence that families and churches are being damaged, mostly by Christian men -- some of whom are ministers -- who succumb to what Land calls a cheap imitation of God-designed sex.
"Sexuality is a far bigger and more troubling issue in the church than any other moral issue," Land said.
The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity reports that an estimated 2 million Internet users are addicted to pornography. Christian men are among them.
In an August 2000 survey of its readership by Christianity Today magazine, 36 percent of laymen who responded had visited a sexually explicit Internet site, of which 44 percent visited such sites "a few times" in the past year.
Additionally, the six-year-old research showed that 51 percent of pastors admitted pornography was a possible temptation, 37 percent said porn is a struggle and 33 percent had viewed Internet pornography at least once a year.
A Pastor's Report
One pastor who spoke to the TEXAN about the problem said the incidence of sexual immorality in the church, with pornography as the culprit, has increased in the last five years.
The pastor, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he has counseled two fellow ministry leaders regularly over the last year who have lost their ministries because of porn and related problems. One lost his marriage and the other is fighting to keep his, the pastor said.
One was a para-church leader whose wife discovered his addiction. "He's doing treatment, he's doing counseling, he's doing accountability," the pastor said. "He's doing everything he can do."
The man did not have extramarital intercourse, but "he was doing the pornography, topless bars.... He spent thousands of dollars on this type of stuff. This guy was in ministry."
The pastor estimated that "80 percent of all young ministers have at some point struggled with this on some level. Now, that may be as simple as he got sent a naked picture and he looked at it and that was the end of it. But on some level, I would say virtually every minister under the age of 30 has had some kind of experience with it in their adult lifetime."
He added: "If you're talking about just men in general under the age of 40, I'll tell you it's well above 50 percent that at least occasionally use pornography. I'm saying Christian men. Statistics show that as well."
Henry Rogers, corporate chaplain at Dallas-based Interstate Batteries and author of the book "The Silent War: Ministering to Those Trapped in the Deception of Pornography," told the radio audience of "For Faith & Family" that porn's proliferation is "ripping the soul out of the American male."
Rogers said the problem is "within the church walls and not only in the pews but in the pulpit as well."
The mind is the battlefield, Rogers said, noting the crucial Christian discipline of taking thoughts captive.
"We have an adversary who wants to take us out," Rogers said. "He may wait 10, 15, 20 years. There is no age at which we can relax, thinking we are immune to sexual temptation."
Rogers added: "Confession is a powerful deterrent to temptation."
Hope Found in a Book
Stephen Lawhon, 32, a member of Central Baptist Church in College Station, Texas, and a longtime Christian believer, said he attempted to fight the temptation of pornography for years until he found hope in the simple warnings of Scripture.
Lawhon said that even though he grew up in a Christian family, his occasional encounters with porn as a kid led to a problem that he recognized as early as age 15.
"I started seeing porn at 11 or 12 years old. There would be a dirty magazine outside somebody's house. It just escalated from there. I always had an unquenchable thirst for it."
All the while, he was a leader in his youth group. He even recalled talking to his youth minister once about it.
"He prayed with me and patted me on the back and said, 'Hey, it's going to be alright.' That was it. And that's not a slam on him. We just didn't know what to do with this back then. We just didn't talk about that stuff," Lawhon said.
In college at Texas A&M, Lawhon said he joined Central Baptist and was in college ministry leadership there, though he still battled pornography.
"I was leading this double life. I had this secret compartment tucked away. When it really took off for me was when it became available online. I would never get caught dead buying pornography. But I would download it in my room. It scares me to think where I'd be now if I had the access that kids and men have today," he said.
He once got rid of his external computer modem, then he got rid of his computer altogether. But his compulsion led him to the school computer lab, where he'd download porn on floppy disks, he said.
After meeting his future wife, he told her he had struggled with pornography, but he said she underestimated the problem. He thought that once he was married he would no longer desire pornography, but he was wrong.
"The pastor who married us told us whatever problems we bring into our marriage would be magnified in the marriage. He was right, and I nearly lost my marriage over it."
Lawhon said he bought book after book on the subject, but, "It wasn't until I picked up the Bible that [God] really showed me He wrote the book thousands of years ago on this subject. It wasn't until I was truly broken that I started climbing out of it."
Lawhon said he has found hope and strength from his church family, his wife and, more than any other resource, the Bible, particularly Proverbs 7 and the warning about the harlot who lurks on every corner.
He said King David was in the wrong place when he lusted after Bathsheba and committed adultery with her, while Joseph faced his temptation with Potiphar's wife while tending to his responsibilities. Lawhon said that through the lens of Proverbs 7, one can see that Joseph had an advantage because he was where he was supposed to be while David, who should have been at war, wasn't.
"The Bible talks about how we will not be tempted beyond what we are able to endure, and when we're tempted God will provide a way out. What does that mean? What does that look like in real life? The Holy Spirit is huge in overcoming this. The Holy Spirit will bring accountability in my life. When I feel temptation coming on, I start to drift where I'm not supposed to drift ... and the phone will ring and it's a friend from church," Lawhon said.
"My point is, the Holy Spirit brings accountability into our lives. And when that way out presents itself, I have to make a choice to walk that way out."
Instead of offering "burnt offerings" by going to Promise Keepers or reading a book or attending another conference, Lawhon said he realized "I was choosing pornography over what God had for my life. I wasn't living in the grace of Jesus Christ."
Lawhon spends much of his time working with college students, many of whom are struggling through many of the battles he went through. He advises them to continually renew their minds by memorizing Scripture and dealing with only one day at a time, because overcoming sexual temptation is fought one battle at a time.
"I used to rationalize my discouragement by saying, 'I'm gonna mess up tomorrow. I might as well mess up today.' The Lord told me, 'No, you deal with today, Stephen. I'll deal with tomorrow.'"
Also, the stigma of pornography is greater than alcohol or drug abuse, Lawhon said, which makes coming forward more difficult.
The SBC's Land said in a 2002 radio interview: "You can go to your Sunday School class and say you have a real problem with alcohol and ask the class to pray for you, but if you go to your Sunday School class and say you need prayer for a problem with pornography, it would be like you set off a stink bomb in the room."
Ripples in the Kingdom
The pastor the TEXAN interviewed said one of the ministers he is counseling is "going to do everything he can to recover. He turned himself in [to his ministry], started the counseling process, started the accountability, did a contract with his wife and with me and with some other guys."
But even with accountability, vital as it is, "both you and I know that people can lie," the pastor said. "In fact, one of these guys I used to meet with, he did lie to me for a while. When all this started, when he actually was doing some of this stuff, he was lying to me."
The man later initiated a meeting and confessed that he had lied.
"There's no guarantee that goes with accountability. And we're naïve to think that just because somebody sits down and asks the questions that we are always getting the truth. But at the same time, I think it's something important. I think it's something you need to do. It's a process you need to be experiencing, though it's certainly no guarantee."
The pastor said it is crucial that a minister allows friends, staff and fellow church members to inspect the cache of his computer anytime to see what sites he has visited.
The ravages of pornography and sexual sin among believers has a ripple effect, the pastor said.
"Particularly when it's someone in ministry. It affects that pastor. It affects his spouse, his family, his children if he has any. It affects his children's friends. It affects his congregation. It affects his immediate family, cousins. It affects his neighbors. It degrades the image of Christ for those who are lost and those in the community who look to that church and those who are considering the claims of the Gospel, those who have just come to know Christ.
"It's enormous when you stop and think about the negative consequences of falling into the trap. Quite frankly, at least half the time they end up losing their family. And nobody thinks that way. Nobody thinks when they first start looking at porn that 'I'm going to lose my family, I'm going to lose my job.'
"Both of the guys I'm dealing with right now, here's what they've lost: They've lost their marriage. They've lost their job. They lost a lot of friends in the sense it will never be the same. They've lost custody of their children and now they are both doing something that they don't really want to do or feel called to do, and they're just trying to get by."
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Jerry Pierce is managing editor of the Southern Baptist TEXAN, newsjournal of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. TEXAN correspondent Bonnie Pritchett & Dwayne Hastings of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission contributed to this report. Click here to see an earlier Baptist Press story with counsel for women who learn their husbands have a pornography addiction.


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Shooting survivor lashes at Giffords
A 77-year-old Arizona man whose wife was killed in last year's mass shooting in Tucson said the sight of fellow victim Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, makes him want to vomit, according to the UK's Daily Mail online.
George Morris, 77, was shot in the leg and back in the attack just over a year ago as he tried to protect his wife from the gunman. Dorothy Morris, 76, was killed after the couple had gone to the Safeway supermarket to quiz Ms Giffords' political opinions.
Mr Morris, who describes himself as 'ultra-conservative', even refused a visit from President Obama while he recovered in hospital following the shootings in Arizona.
According to the Daily Mail, the Morrises had gone to Gifford's event to question her support of Obama's policies, including health care reform.
Mr Morris told the Arizona Republic newspaper his opinion of Ms Gifford and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly: 'Every time I see them on TV, it makes me want to vomit.'
He also blamed Mr Kelly for his wife's death, adding: 'I'd like to debate our dear captain astronaut (and ask) why he didn't have security. My wife would still be alive.'
Morris, a former Democrat, had campaigned for Gifford's Republican opponent in the 2010 election, Jesse Kelly, the paper said.
The retired Marine and airline pilot said he didn't believe Giffords should still be in office, according to the Daily Mail.
He and his wife met in high school and were married 54 years.
'I can tell you no man has ever loved a woman more than I loved my wife,' he said.
At a candlelight vigil Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly shootings by Jared Lee Loughner, Giffords led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The congresswoman - who has struggled to re-learn to walk after being shot in the head - stepped onstage to cheers from the crowd.


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Ann Schneider, secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation, has resigned, a spokesman for Gov. Pat Quinn confirmed Monday.
Ann Schneider, secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation, has resigned, a spokesman for Gov. Pat Quinn confirmed Monday.
"Schneider's resignation will be effective next week," Dave Blanchette said.
Quinn named Erica Borggren, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to replace Schneider at IDOT, Blanchette added.
"The transition will commence immediately," he said.
At Veterans Affairs, Rodrigo Garcia, who has been assistant director, has been named acting director, according to Blanchette.
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Quinn appointed Schneider, of Petersburg, to the top IDOT post in 2011. She had been acting secretary and earlier was chief of operations for the department.
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The Better Government Association reported last year that IDOT, under Quinn and his predecessor, Rod Blagojevich, hired numerous people as staff assistants in positions that should have been filled following anti-patronage guidelines under the U.S. Supreme Court's Rutan ruling.
A story in mid-June by a BGA staff member raised questions about the hiring and promotion of Schneider's stepdaughter, Ashley Carpenter. Carpenter was hired as a staff assistant and is now a data analyst with IDOT's division of aeronautics, making just under $53,000 annually, the BGA reported. She is now covered by anti-patronage rules, meaning she cannot be fired for political reasons, the report said.
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The 147th commencement ceremony
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ceremony will take place in the Jack D. Nutt Arena in the Lincoln
Center. At the commencement, the college board of trustees will
honor Tom Zurkammer as Provost Emeritus and present him with an
honorary doctorate degree as a capstone to his illustrious career.
Zurkammer will also give the commencement address.
He graduated from Lincoln Community High
School in 1961 and entered Lincoln College that fall. During his two
years at Lincoln College, he was an excellent student and star
performer on the men's basketball and baseball teams. The 1961-62
basketball team finished 11th in the nation with a 30-7 record. He
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Fame in 1996.
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teach classes in math and computer science. He coached the men's
basketball teams from 1967 to 1970. By 1982 he had established
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2008. He continues to serve the college as an adjunct professor in
math and special assistant to the president.
"Zurk" has been honored many times by Lincoln College during his
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