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Can a landholder stop me using an unformed legal road?
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No. Landholders do not have the right to refuse access over adjoining public land. This includes unformed legal roads.
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Published Jul 10, 2018, 11:45 AM
No. Landholders do not have the right to refuse access over adjoining public land. This includes unformed legal roads.
Published Jul 10, 2018, 11:49 AM
There is no general right of public access across private land. Owners of private land have the right of exclusive occupation and enjoyment of that land.
Published Jul 10, 2018, 12:02 PM
Marginal strips are strips of land adjoining the coast, lakes larger than eight hectares in area, and rivers greater than three metres in width.
Published Jul 10, 2018, 12:05 PM
These are different legal mechanisms involving access, but there may be restrictions on their use. Check with the relevant territorial authority.
Published Aug 8, 2018, 11:44 AM
The law enables farmers to grant access to recreational visitors, as they have done for generations. They are still obliged to warn visitors of risks that they wouldn't normally expect on a farm.
Published Aug 8, 2018, 11:51 AM
If a landholder is charging a fee for access, an activity that might have been purely recreational (e.g. access to a fishing spot) becomes a workplace activity.
Published Aug 17, 2018, 1:02 PM
These are the statutory provisions, processes and criteria we use when addressing walking access benefits that may be offered by overseas purchasers of land.
Published Sep 3, 2018, 11:35 AM
Landholders may refuse access to their land, even if such access may have been traditional and the request seems to be reasonable.
Published Sep 3, 2018, 11:51 AM
Landowners have a duty to warn authorised visitors of significant, work-related, out-of-the-ordinary hazards. The landowner is not liable for any injuries.
Published Sep 5, 2018, 1:23 PM
What is the Queen's Chain and what happens when erosion, accretion or water movement affect public access? What are the access rights relating to the foreshore?


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EVP of Verizon Credits Mentors, Family and Stevens for Success
She was a 23-year-old chemical engineer when she joined New York Telephone in 1984. One of her first jobs: be the first female boss for some veteran union workers testing phone circuits in Lower Manhattan.
Virginia Ruesterholz '83 had never actually tested phone circuits herself. But one of her technicians, Walter Jarvis, had, so she worked alongside this veteran—who was old enough to be her dad and who took the time to teach her.
Ruesterholz fondly recalls Jarvis more than 25 years later, as she reflects on an extraordinary career she's built to become one of the highest ranking women ever in the telecommunications giant that later followed New York Telephone, Verizon Communications.
"You never know who your most important mentors may be," she says. Often, it can be someone who works for you.
Like her mentors, Ruesterholz generously shares the lessons she's learned through her 28-year rise within one of the world's most prestigious companies. She describes her career as a story of "so many opportunities, so many people to learn from."
"When I look at my career, people say: What was your career plan? It really was one word: Yes," she says. She's always said yes to new challenges, even to jobs that required impossible commutes or just seemed out of her league.
Among the undergraduate women who have passed through the Stevens campus over the past 40 years, Virginia Ruesterholz shines as a spectacular success story. She is currently executive vice president of Verizon Communications, responsible for overseeing the company's key strategic initiatives. She is the person who led Verizon's recent charge to roll out FiOS, the well-regarded, high-speed fiber optic network that offers phone, internet and television services through wiring directly to people's homes.
She is also the first woman in Stevens' history to be named vice chair of the Stevens Board of Trustees, where she has served since 2007. In addition, she is the chair of the Board of Advisors for the Stevens School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE).
Perhaps most impressive of all is that she accomplished all of this while still raising two children with her husband, Kevin '83.
When she speaks by phone one recent afternoon from her office in Basking Ridge, N.J., Ruesterholz is warm, gracious and instantly makes you feel comfortable. She shares memories and seems genuinely grateful to so many people for the success she has enjoyed. She seems super organized—she prefers that questions about her life start from her beginnings—and makes a half-hour conversation engaging and fulfilling as she completes the call just in time to rush off to a meeting.
When asked about her proudest accomplishments, she says that the FiOS project was certainly a highlight. So was the great team effort that she led earlier in her career to automate the dispatching of technicians, whose repair and installation visits had been tracked by mountains of paperwork, not a computer.
The successes she recalls have to do with people who came together to do amazing things, including her own family.
Shortly after her daughter, Katie, was born, in 1995, Ruesterholz was transferred from Manhattan to Garden City, N.Y. to head NYNEX's Long Island business unit. She had two young children and was living in Holmdel, N.J.; the new job would require a 170-mile round-trip commute. But she knew it was a great opportunity and thanks to her husband and her parents, she was able to take the assignment.
Her team in Long Island saw how hard she worked, how she started work early and left late despite the long commute, and they stepped up, too. They enjoyed great success and a great relationship, she recalls.
But Ruesterholz saves her greatest praise for her family. Her parents, the late George and Virginia Mahoney, cared for her children when they were small. And Kevin, who now works as an attorney but had been a senior manager with Lucent Technologies near their home, was indispensable. She says that she wouldn't be where she is today without them.
"You've got to find a support system, and he's there for me," she says. "There always has to be someone who carries the ball when it's falling."
When Ruesterholz received an honorary degree from Stevens in 2008, her husband and children were there to cheer her on. She honored them.
"Throughout my career, I relied on my parents, my husband and my children to keep me grounded and remind me what's really important in life," she said that day.
The only child of George, a middle school principal, and Virginia, an elementary school teacher, Ruesterholz grew up in Matawan, N.J. Her parents had a strong belief in education, and her mother was proud to have earned a college degree when few women of her generation did.
"They told me that you need to get a great education, then you need to pick a career and give back," she says.
Ruesterholz also salutes Sister Margaret Mary, her calculus teacher at St. John Vianney Regional High School in Holmdel, who encouraged her to use her strengths in math and science to become an engineer.
She visited Stevens and fell in love with it: the "tremendous, good feeling," the close-knit community. "I really felt a connection," she says.
It was here that she met her husband. They started dating their senior year, getting better acquainted after she accidentally sprayed him full blast with a faucet during chemistry lab. They'll be married 28 years this June.
"I met my husband there, and it's been such a major influence on my life," she says, when she explains why she does so much for Stevens, from her time as a trustee to her family's support as major donors. Ruesterholz was very active as a student, as president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of Tau Beta Pi and the Society of Women Engineers. For her many professional accomplishments, Ruesterholz, who earned a master's degree in telecommunications management from Polytechnic University, received the Stevens Honor Award in 1995.
Ruesterholz's climb through the ranks of New York Telephone, NYNEX and Bell Atlantic, companies that through mergers and acquisitions became Verizon, has been extraordinary. After starting with New York Telephone as a manager, Ruesterholz was named market area vice president and general manager for service delivery and field operations. She later rose to senior vice president of Wholesale Markets.
She was later promoted to president of Verizon Telecom, where she was responsible for sales, customer service, operations and IT for the consumer, general business and domestic wholesale markets. Before assuming her current position, she served as president of the former Verizon Services Operations, a global shared-services business group that operated Verizon's wireline network as well as the finance operations, real estate and supply chain services that support all Verizon companies.
Stevens Professor Richard Magee '63 serves with Ruesterholz on the Stevens Board of Trustees and praises her leadership skills, dedication and ability to connect with others.
"She's just great to work with," he says. "She provides wise counsel and clearly is a worker. She puts a lot of time in; it's quality time. She makes people around her feel very comfortable."
With her prominent position with Verizon, and the demands of her work with Stevens, Ruesterholz has limited free time. Her favorite way to unwind? Be with her family as much as she can.
Some days, she'll just jump on the train to Washington, D.C., to catch a movie with Scott, 19, who attends Georgetown University. She attends 16-year-old Katie's field hockey games whenever she can.
When Ruesterholz thinks back on the rewards of her long career—and the sacrifices she's made—she always comes back to the people.
"You can have the greatest technology," she says, but it's the people you work with—to solve problems together, to help each other – who make the work worthwhile.
"People make it," she says.

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Jan 28, 2008
Goodbye President Hinckley!
Jan 23, 2008
People Magazine Edition
That's when I see this picture from "Ten Things I Hate About You" circa 1999:
You'll be missed Mr. Ledger!
Jan 21, 2008
This Is A Public Service Announcement...
Jan 17, 2008
Snow Daze
In Utah, on the other hand, school is rarely cancelled. While we were there over the holidays, there were numerous snow storms and life went on as usual. There, people have learned to handle the snow. But not just handle it, subdue it and embrace it.
And here's the proof:
Yep. That's Thomas. Sculpted out of snow and spray painted. This picture was taken in Springville, Utah by my Sister-in-law Christina. (There are, I believe, two more sculpture pictures on Christina's new blog.) Evidently, the guy responsible for this creates these snow masterpieces frequently and continuously all winter long. Here's one I got to see when I was there:
Notice the mailbox eye.
See, this guy obviously isn't afraid of a little snow. Or even a lot of snow in the form of 5 foot tall plowed snow banks.
Take note Little Rhody: Man is meant to be master of snow! Not the other way around!!!
...now bring on SPRING!
*Monday is my shopping day and I don't appreciate having my schedule disrupted! I just can't handle taking three boys shopping so I have to do it while one is in school. No school, no shopping. No shopping, no groceries, no groceries, no nightly dinners, which means no leftovers, which means no lunch for Doug, which means he buys lunch everyday, which means we're spending too much, which means more loans, which means an extra five years to get out of debt. See why this is a problem?
Jan 14, 2008
We'll call this one "Peed Upon"
"I feo in da toiyet today."
Which reminded me of the story of when Sam fell in the toilet. Which happened earlier today.
(In Adrian Monk's voice)
"Here's what happened;"
All was peaceful in the Dub household. Six-year-old Max was playing happily in the family room. Mom and Sam were in the bathroom giving the baby a bath. Sam sat on the toilet seat supervising while Mom perched on the edge of the tub.
After a few minutes, Sam stood up and reached into the tub to grab a toy. At the same moment, Max came rushing into the room, threw the toilet seat up, and proceeded to (to put it bluntly) pee.
And then time seemed to slow...
You may see where I'm going with this...
Sam, with eyes still on the bathtub, stepped back to sit again. Only the toilet seat and lid were no longer down! They were both up!
So he fell right in.
And was peed upon by a bewildered Max.
It was all very dramatic. There were shouts from Max and tears from Sam. Sam was immediately stripped and plopped into the tub while I mopped up the mess.
I think the moral here is, "Always look before you sit down." Either that or "Pee with caution". Whichever works for you.
Either way, a good time was had by all.
(No, it wasn't.)
Gotta go. I have laundry to do.
Dear Man-With-The-Yellow-Hat,
Jan 10, 2008
We're BAAaaaaaaAHck!
Well, we're finally home from our marathon Christmas/Wedding/New Year's vacation to Utah/San Diego/Utah. And I think I can honestly say it was a fun/exhausting/exciting/relaxing/frustrating/satisfying trip.
In the past 2.5 weeks, my kids have gotten to see every single Aunt, Uncle, and cousin they have with only one exception--my sister Jenny who lives in Virginia and couldn't make it to the San Diego wedding.
We've also...
gained numerous Christmas presents and pounds,
driven over 1500 miles,
flown for two days,
consumed 10,000 unhealthy treats,
cooked 2 delicious meals,
eaten-out about 100 times,
played with exactly 29 different cousins, 8 aunts and 8 uncles,
learned to say "chillax!",
suffered through a few colds,
slipped on much ice and slogged through much snow,
stared longingly at the beautiful, happy, Pacific ocean,
saw old friends,
met new people,
lost sleep,
slept in,
and generally had fun.
Boy, it's good to be home!


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Very recently, we were invited at Om Mahmoud's house for dinner. After sampling her delicious entrees, she went into the kitchen and brought back a small white bag. "This is for you", she said, "my brother-in-law has them growing in a corner at his orange grove. I picked them with my own hands. They are sooo hooot, so you'd better be careful." Like a little kid opening up Christmas presents, I looked inside the bag with anticipation. There they were, green and red in the spirit of the season and varying in size from 1 to 1.5", a small bunch of Cayenne peppers awaited my caressing fingers.
But wait a minute; let's not get ahead of ourselves by calling them "Cayenne". Peppers in general are not native to the Levant and as such the different varieties were introduced at various times over the course of history and successfully cultivated. One particular genus characterized by its uniquely elongated shape, relatively small size, acutely hot tang is called in Tartous and possibly in other Levantine cities, Zanbour Al-Set = The Lady's Clitoris. It could be equally argued that Tartoussis are either awfully vulgar or unequivocally savant to give such a name to a pepper. Yet it's unmistakably a part of our folklore and needs not be obscured or shunned at.
For the purpose of this article I carried out a little online research and found a few sites dedicated entirely to peppers and Chile. They are listed toward the end and I can assure you that you will find them very enjoyable to browse if you were like me, that is if you take pleasure in the Hot & Spicy side of gastronomy. From these sites, and after looking at dozens of photos, I learned that the "LAOTIAN - hot; Cayenne Type; 1.5 to 2 inches long by 0.25 to 0.375 inches wide; thin flesh; matures from green to red; upright pods become pendant; green leaves; 12 to 18 inches tall; Mid Season; Uses: Oriental Cuisine; from Laos; C.annuum" is the closest thing to our Zanbour Al-Set.
So I returned home with my little treasure in hand, a small bag filled with colored clitorides (that is plural of clitoris for the uninitiated in Latin). I was only certain of two things, such little gems need to be oiled perfectly and treated gently. Luckily, I had faultless virgin olive oil from the Qualaat Al Khawabi Village. I was only missing proper glassware.
I went down to Sile, my favorite watering hole in Tartous, and considered my bottle collection. I couldn't quite climax to that Eureka feeling but instead was convinced that I have to throw away a whole bunch of empty bottles. So I considered my next best option and drove to the Free Shop located inside the port of Tartous. There, amid hundreds of strikingly nice-looking bottles, I came across a Wyborowa Vodka bottle, product of Poland. The glasswork is a masterpiece and there is no way on earth the liquid inside could be less exquisite. Despite the somehow steep price tag, I bought it and headed home, calling a couple of friends along the way to share it with. We did so until deep in the night. I bid them farewell and could only think of the clitorides waiting for me in the kitchen, of all places.
Have I already mentioned the point behind this article? I guess not. Well, it's really about how to preserve Cayenne/Jalapeño/Chile peppers in olive oil to make the "Ultimate Hot Olive Oil". Since the process is so easy and straight forward the least I could do is write more than a few simple lines after such a long absence away from my blog, hence this moronic post. As a matter of fact, if you just follow the pictures you've got it made but I'll details the steps and ingredients anyway.
-One good-looking bottle of Vodka: Consume it 12 hours ahead with friends and don't throw away the bottle. Remember that you bought it and drank it because you needed the empty glassware.
-Two handfuls of hot, eager and colored Laotian Cayenne peppers.
-Olive oil - enough to fill the bottle. I recommend the highest quality olive oil you can find.
1- Remove the stems of the peppers, wash them with running water and dry them out completely with tissue papers.
2- Place inside washed and dried Vodka bottle – Do not touch your eyes in the process.
3- Pour the oil slowly until bottle is filled – Cover but do not tighten until next day so that trapped air is released.
4- Tighten cover and forget about the whole thing for at least 3 months.
For the next 2 years (minimum) you will be able to add taste and zest to any and all of your recipes. A few drops of this magical elixir and you'll morph a dull meal into a most exciting entrée. Whenever the oil level drops, just replenish with more. Depending on how hot the peppers were when you started you might never notice the difference. Every once in a while, treat yourself to a few peppers. They taste out of this world.
You still can't figure out what to do with the Hot Olive Oil!!! Well let's see. Pizza, Labneh, Hommos, Fried Eggs, Omelettes, Soups, Salads, Meats, Fish, Poultry, etc. Where Tabasco goes, your Home-Made Hot Olive Oil is certainly a much better choice.
* Due to some controversy arising in the comment section as to which pepper is the hottest, I have added the famous Scoville Scale for the reader's reference.
Peppers Complete Guide: http://www.backyardgardener.com/veg/greenpeppers.html
Great to order on-line: http://www.chileplants.com/
Scoville Scale: http://ushotstuff.com/Heat.Scale.htm


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- 1 EclipseLink JPA Deployed on GlassFish 3 using Eclipse 3.5
- 1.1 Tutorial Source
- 1.2 Development Environment
- 1.3 Prerequisites
- 1.4 EclipseLink Library Location
- 1.5 JPA Specification Library Location
- 1.6 Updating EclipseLink Bundles Shipped with GlassFish
- 1.7 Progress
- 1.8 Deploying a secure EAR on GlassFish
- 1.9 References
EclipseLink JPA Deployed on GlassFish 3 using Eclipse 3.5
- This tutorial's progress is on hold, it needs to be finished and significantly expanded - vote for EclipseLink bug# 308477 if you would like this work to be fast tracked and/or raised in the queue.
Please refer to the GlassFish V2 page for generic EclipseLink on GlassFish Issues.
If you want to get a small web application running quickly on the GlassFish V3 application server using the Eclipse IDE, follow the instructions in this tutorial.
This basic example details how to use Eclipse to run/debug a minimum J2EE 5/6 web application servlet using EclipseLink JPA as the persistence provider. The goal of this example is to detail the minimum steps needed to run EclipseLink inside GlassFish V3 using the Eclipse IDE - at this point no presentation/controller layer such as JSF, Spring or Struts will be used beyond a basic HttpServlet so we can concentrate on the the integration layer JPA setup.
The DALI project was used to generate Entities from a schema with sequences already populated.
Tutorial Source
And the DDL generation J2SE JPA application used to populate the database schema.
Development Environment
Software: Eclipse IDE for Java EE 3.5 Galileo (June 2009 +) , JavaDB (part of GlassFish), SUN Java JDK 1.6.0_xx, GlassFish V3 Prelude
This example will also run fine with any Database that EclipseLink supports.
Install Eclipse EE
- I installed a clean version of Eclipse 3.5 Galileo (June 2009)
Install a Database
- In this example I am the included JavaDB that is part of GlassFish V3, the table schemas have already been created manually and all entity java classes have been generated using the Eclipse DALI tool.
Install GlassFish
- Do not use V3 TP2 - use the V3 Prelude release instead.
- The following issues were quickly solved within a 24h timeframe when posted to the GlassFish Forum
- http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46886&tstart=0 GF3tp2 domain1 fails to start out of the box - JDK 1.7 collision and no proxy set
- http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=46886&tstart=0 GlassFish V3 SNAPSHOT Server Plugin for Eclipse 3.4 jar problems with TP2 - use the Prelude Plugin
Install Glassfish Tools Bundle for Eclipse
- The following link will get you a fully configured Eclipse 3.5.1 workspace with a server configuration to Glassfish V3
- http://download.java.net/glassfish/eclipse/StartDownload.html?asset=glassfish%2Feclipse%2F1.2.0%2Fglassfish-tools-bundle-for-eclipse-1.2.exe
Install Eclipse GlassFish Server Plugin
- Currently the "Download additional server adapters" link on the "New Server" dialog will not work with Eclipse 3.5 - Use the "Help | Install New Software" menu instead via the https://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse/site.xml update site to get version 32+ of the plugin that is compatible with Galileo.
- You may refer to the details of Eclipse Bug # 280365.
- Currently we get
- cannot Deploy org.eclipse.persistence.example.jpa.server.glassfishv3.EnterpriseEAR
Deployment Error for module: org.eclipse.persistence.example.jpa.server.glassfishv3.EnterpriseEAR: Exception while deploying the app : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Application [org.eclipse.persistence.example.jpa.server.glassfishv3.EnterpriseEAR] contains no valid components%%%EOL%%%
EclipseLink Library Location
- The EclipseLink modules ship as 5 separate jars in the standard modules directory (Note EclipseLink SDO and JAXB are precluded by the libraries shipped with GlassFish - the milestone version is from the JPA 2.0 trunk branch.
- \glassfish\modules
- org.eclipse.persistence.antlr.jar
- org.eclipse.persistence.asm.jar
- org.eclipse.persistence.core.jar
- org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jar
- org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.modelgen.jar
- org.eclipse.persistence.oracle.jar (optional)
- \glassfish\modules
JPA Specification Library Location
- javax.persistence.jar ships with GlassFish in the standard modules directory.
Updating EclipseLink Bundles Shipped with GlassFish
- NetBeans 6.8.1M1 20090822 with an embedded GlassFish b58 is working fine.
- I am testing on NetBeans from now on and will investigate ant/eclipse deployment later
- All of deployment, JNDI setup, persistence.xml configuration, jpql query example - in progress ......
Deploying a secure EAR on GlassFish
- This section 20110112
- Download Eclipse 3.6 Helios EE edition
- Update the server plugins by adding the latest Oracle WebLogic 11gR1 PS3 - GlassFish 3 will arrive with this one.
- "Download additional server adapters" link on the top right of the define a new server dialog
- Use Oracle WebLogic Server Tools or Oracle GlassFish Server Tools - both 1.6
- Download GlassFish 3.0.1 standalone EE server (not the one in NetBeans) so we can create a server in Eclipse
- Use the default derby datasource
- Create EAR application
- Deploy or drop EAR on server
- Browser results
- Now we will secure GlassFish


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Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
I simply can't resist making Army of Darkness references, especially with all the WoW movie talk and everything circling Sam Rami. This also mirrors a conversation I had with a guildie the other night on the current state of Restoration Shamans and where we are after this most recent patch. For some reason it always makes me think of Army of Darkness and Bruce Campbell, each time I chain heal I feel the urge to yell "THIS. IS. MY. CHAIN HEAL!"
Patch 3.2 brought with it not only a new instance in the coliseum, but a slew of Restoration Shaman changes that helped bring our healing up a little bit. Back in May I responded to a very lengthy thread with my own thoughts on chain heal, and in truth shaman healing as a whole. A lot of people thought we were broken in a bad way and were QQing about how it was time to re-roll. I stood up for us and said, yes we need tweaking but we aren't broken. Patch 3.2 brought us that tweaking. In 3.0 and in 3.1 Shaman were given a slew of other spells to round out our healing and move us further away from the Haste / MP5 Chain heal spamming model of the Sunwell days. Blizzard did an amazing job doing that… but swung a little too far and inadvertently took Chain Heal down a few pegs to the point that we were having a very difficult time keeping up with AE damage in hard modes. Many Shaman were getting passed over to bring in other healers, that was bad news and quite frankly made me a sad Shaman. Then the man himself Ghost Crawler chimed in and said that changes were coming but they had to ride the knifes edge to not over power Chain Heal and make it the only spell we cast. Congratulations sir I dare say you guys did a fine job!
Lets take a look at what made the cut, First let's look at Chain Heal.
Chain Heal: First of all, the Range between target was increased. 12.5 yards between targets is pretty good. It's better when you consider that this is a smart heal and directs itself to a healing priority list and makes sure those who need it get it. This gets even better when you add in the Glyph of Chain Heal which lets it hit another target for a grand total of Four at a time! Now add in the change that between jumps the amount healed only is reduced by 40% (down from 50%) and you have yourself one sexy heal again.
But wait, there's more!
Chain Heal was made very attractive again, but there were some other changes that compliment this as well.
Improved Water Shield: Not only does this give mana back on crit heals from LHW, HW and Riptide, but now it includes Chain Heal! The other good thing about this, is when you gain the effect, it doesn't burn an orb. This is great news because that means it's one less GCD you have to burn, which means that much more healing. This helps fix a lot of shaman mana problems, and ensures we can hang with paladins and disc priests for that near infinite mana.
Tidal Force: Another change that included chain heal. This now gives, HW, LHW and Chain Heal 60% additional critical strike rating. This also goes well with the next change
Nature's Swiftness: The major change here is the Cool down. It's been reduced to 2 minutes down from 3. This is huge in fights where you'll need a fast chain heal or a fast healing wave more often (Hodir comes to mind). Having this available 1-2 more times a fight is a big boon to us.
Tidal Waves: Again this was changed to give a different bonus to LHW. When you cast riptide or chain heal, this bad boy procs. Before it gave a haste rating to LHW, now it gives it an additional 25% crit chance. That again is pretty huge considering everything we have that procs off of critical healing.
Healing Way:Â This change was bigger then a lot of people I believe have noticed. Prior to the patch it placed a buff on your target that increased healing from Healing Wave. No other target benefited from it except for the one with the buff. This made the spell primarily a nuking tank heal spell. Now however it adds a flat increase to the healing output of the spell. A 25% bonus is nothing to scoff at. This allows you to work it into your spell rotation and make sure everyone you hit with it gets the added bonus of the talent
Ancestral Healing: This used to add armor. Now it adds a 10% physical damage reduction on any person you critically heal. This procs off of every crit, including Earth Shield crit heals. Look at the other above changes. The increased crit rate, the talents that add crit and make your heals faster combined with this? You could be rolling that 10% reduction over almost the entire raid with some smartly placed chain heals and liberal use of your talents. This is huge because it helps take environmental damage and even it out for the rest of the healers. This means less mana consumed trying to catch up and top people off and overall greater raid survivability.
Putting it all together, you get a rather complex and complete toolkit with which to heal your raid. We solidify our position as one of the games best swing healers, we can put out some very very good AE healing, or can spot heal on the fly. We can take over tank healing duties, or simply roll between them all. The changes to the spells make sure we are competitive in hard mode raids, but aren't limited to casting a single spell over and over again. Personally I think the devs did a great job with us this patch. I feel they did a great job balancing Chain Heal out while not letting it overshadow all the other spells we have at our disposal. The synergy our class has always enjoyed is still there. Personally I've seen somewhere between a 350-450 hps increase in throughput, which puts us on par with the other healers, I've been able to keep up better with area effect damage and have been able to nuke heal a tank as needed. Healing is still challenging and fun, but I don't feel underwhelmed by the shaman's ability to keep up.
How about you? How has your healing been since the patch? Do you think they did a good job with the changes? What would you change, add or remove that the devs didn't? Do you feel confident to head into a hard mode encounter and give it your all?
That's it for today, Until next time Happy Healing
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WASHINGTON—Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Vice President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) joined with Catholic bishops from Europe and Canada in issuing a communiqué called "The Courage to Achieve Peace in the Holy Land" on behalf of the Coordination of Episcopal Conferences in Support of the Church in the Holy Land. This communiqué was issued at a January 14 press conference at the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, at the end of the Coordination's tenth annual visit to the Holy Land.
In the communiqué, the bishops said: "We urge all people to support public officials who take courageous initiatives for a just resolution of the conflict—a two-state solution with security and recognition for Israel, and a viable and independent state for Palestinians. For us, this is not merely about politics; it is an issue of basic human rights."
One issue that was brought to the fore has been the growing distance between Israelis and Palestinians where a lack of human contact undermines trust and dialogue. In visits to parishes across the West Bank, Bethlehem University, the seminary at Beit Sahour the bishops heard the stories of everyday life. There were also presentations from Israeli, Palestinian and international commentators about the current situation. Despite the lack of progress in securing a two-state solution for all, the bishops believe progress is possible with determination and international support.
The Holy Land Coordination represents Catholic bishops' conferences of Europe and North America. It was formed in Jerusalem in 1998 at the request of the Holy See. The bishops meet with Church leaders in the Holy Land every year and through prayer, encouraging pilgrimage and political persuasion seek to demonstrate solidarity with the local Church in the difficult socio-political climate. This year the focus was on the crucial situation in East Jerusalem of property confiscations and evictions.
The full text of the communiqué follows:
January 14, 2010
At our tenth meeting in the Holy Land, Patriarch Fouad Twal reflected on the pilgrimage of Pope Benedict XVI in May 2009. In union with our Holy Father we call for justice and peace for all of the peoples of this land. We make his departing appeal our own:
No friend of the Israelis and the Palestinians can fail to be saddened by the continuing tension between your two peoples. No friend can fail to weep at the suffering and loss of life that both peoples have endured over the last six decades. Allow me to make this appeal to all the people of these lands: No more bloodshed! No more fighting! No more terrorism! No more war! Instead let us break the vicious circle of violence. Let there be lasting peace based on justice, let there be genuine reconciliation and healing. Let it be universally recognized that the State of Israel has the right to exist, and to enjoy peace and security within internationally agreed borders. Let it be likewise acknowledged that the Palestinian people have a right to a sovereign independent homeland, to live with dignity and to travel freely. Let the two-state solution become a reality, not remain a dream. And let peace spread outwards from these lands, let them serve as a "light to the nations" (Isaiah 42:6), bringing hope to the many other regions that are affected by conflict. (May 15, 2009)
Eight months later a two-state solution does not seem any closer. Many express a desire for peace, but what is needed is a commitment to justice that secures peace. The solutions are well known to leaders, but what is needed is political will and courage.
Jerusalem, a city holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims, offers a special place where different peoples and different religions could come together in dialogue and respect; sadly it is the volatile core of the conflict. There is a growing distance between Israelis and Palestinians—a lack of human contact that undermines trust and dialogue. Violence, insecurity, home demolitions, permit and visa problems, the route of the wall, expropriation of lands and other policies threaten both a two-state solution and the Christian presence. Furthermore, we encourage the full implementation of the Fundamental Agreement and the facilitation of visas for pastoral workers to enable the Church to fulfill its mission.
The deteriorating situation is not good for Israelis, Palestinians, the region and the world. Through our efforts we hope to focus the eyes of Catholics around the world on what happens here. We call upon the faithful in our nations to pray for the Church in the Holy Land, for a just peace, and for the success of the forthcoming Synod on the Middle East which is important for the whole region and the world.
We encourage our people to learn about the situation and to come on pilgrimage to witness the vibrant faith of the "living stones" of the local Church—the "Fifth Gospel". We urge them to support public officials who take courageous initiatives for a just resolution of the conflict—a two-state solution with security and recognition for Israel, and a viable and independent state for Palestinians. For us, this is not merely about politics; it is an issue of basic human rights.
In the current situation, it is difficult to sustain hope, but as Christians we were all born with Jesus Christ in Bethlehem; we all died and rise to new life in Jerusalem. Despite the wounds of this land, love and hope are alive. Peace with justice is within reach, but political leaders and all people of goodwill need courage to achieve it.
Bishop Stephan Ackermann
Bishop of Trier, President, Commission for Justice and Peace, German Bishops' Conference
Bishop Peter Bürcher
Bishop of Reykjavik, Nordic Bishops' Conference
Bishop Michel Dubost
Bishop of Evry, French Bishops' Conference
Archbishop Riccardo Fontana
Archbishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italian Bishops' Conference
Bishop William Kenney CP
Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, Catholic Bishops' Conference of England & Wales
Representative of the Commission of Episcopal Conferences of the European Union
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas
Bishop of Tucson, Vice President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Bishop Pierre Morissette
Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB)
Bishop Joan-Enric Vives Sicilia
Bishop of Urgell and Co-Prince of Andorra, Spanish Bishops' Conference
Keywords: Holy Land, Israel, Palestine, Bishop Gerald Kicanas, USCCB, peace, two-state solution, Jerusalem
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