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"U.S. Economy Screwed" — The recession-deniers having been muzzled by a horrendous last two weeks of December, the gloom-and-doomers are now out in force. Their key arguments: — Plummeting housing will now drag down the rest of the economy. — The "bad debt" problem is not just …
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From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year — MARKUS FRIND, a 29-year-old Web entrepreneur, has not read the best seller "The 4-Hour Workweek" — in fact, he had not heard of it when asked last week — but his face could go on the book's cover. He developed software for his online dating site …
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Netflix expands Internet viewing option — SAN FRANCISCO - Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections.
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The Afterlife of Cellphones — 1. Cellphones in Hell — Americans threw out just shy of three million tons of household electronics in 2006. This so-called e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the municipal waste stream and, depending on your outlook, either an enormous problem or a bonanza.
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Macworld Exhibitor tip: disable the IR port on your Macs — As you may or may not know there has been something of a dust up across the tech blogosphere regarding a prank that a certain tech blog performed during CES. The prank involved a little gizmo that turned off a number of televisions at once …
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Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs' — Hi-tech 'satellite' tagging planned in order to create more space in jails — Civil rights groups and probation officers furious at 'degrading' scheme — Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Two Views of Innovation, Colliding in Washington — AS the Senate prepares to tinker with the nation's patent laws this spring, it's worth recalling the law of unintended consequences. — From the vantage point of a half-century, for example, it's clear that the formation …
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TSA security flaws exposed users to risk of identity theft — The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee published a report Friday with details about the committee's investigation into security flaws found in the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) traveler redress website.
Joe Maller:
iTransmogrify! — iTransmogrify! is a bookmarklet for iPhone which transforms embedded Flash content into direct links to natively supported formats. That means YouTube videos and MP3s can now be played from the iPhone's Safari web browser with just a few clicks. — Seeing it work is the best explanation:
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!: iTransmogrify! Fixes Those Broken Videos On Your iPhone
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
I'm going to try live-blogging during the keynote — Have you ever sat there during a keynote and wondered what Dear Leader was really thinking even as he was restoring a sense of childlike wonder to your life? Well, I'm going to try to help you find out, by blogging here on this blog even as I'm doing the keynote.
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Tomorrow on World Environment Day, Taronga Western Plains Zoo is encouraging Dubbo residents to do something positive for the environment, no matter how big or small!It could be as simple as enjoying your daily coffee in a re-usable 'keep Cup', using re-usable shopping bags when you go to the supermarket, choosing sustainable seafood options for dinner or hang your washing on the clothes line instead of user the electric dryer. Every small change counts and will also help to encourage others and future generations to follow on with these positive changes. At Taronga Western Plains Zoo we are making positive changes around the grounds to help the environment. Soon more recycling stations will be installed around the circuit to make it easier for visitors to recycle whilst at the Zoo and we have also recently installed a new compost bin at the Education Centre.This is an opportunity for everyone to take responsibility to care for the earth but to also make changes that will benefit future generations. The United Nations' World Environment Day is celebrated to encourage global awareness and action for the environment.

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Conceptually, the budget supercar ethos the Nissan GT-R embraces is at odds with the monkey-butlers-wearing-diamond-studded-cummerbunds spending philosophy of the Middle East. Thus, the $220,000 2012 Nissan GT-R VVIP was created. It's the Goldschlager of supercars.
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(Pocket-lint) - In the land of the hot hatch RenaultSport would be king. Back in the Eighties, when this type of car truly took off, Peugeot and VW – with the 205 GTi and the Golf GTi – were the kings of transforming euro shopping trollies into cheap ways to get your automotive kicks.
But since the end of the Nineties, first with the Clio Williams and then the 172, RenaultSports has ranked high on the desirability lists for anyone with petrol in their veins, because they were typically more fun to drive. It's meant the company's products have built up quite a following - you'll see some of its past masters we gathered as part of our photo-shoot.
What's interesting is the evolutionary process the company takes. The first iteration of a given model tends not to demolish the existing class leaders immediately. Instead, year-on-year - and through "Cup" and "Trophy" models, which tend to add suspension sophistication rather than just more power – the cars improve to a point where, halfway through their model life, RenaultSport has a tendency to make new competitor models look dimwitted.
So it proves with this Megane. Having launched the Megane 250 (the number denoting its horsepower output) a couple of years back, Renault brought out a special 265 Trophy model last spring. A limited model run, once the cars were sold it put the improvements – including that uprated power output – into the regular RenaultSport Megane model, 250 becoming 265. Given that, we thought it high time we put one through a full Pocket-lint review.
If you're looking for new-school design sophistication, the Megane's probably not going to be up your street. Granted, the colour scheme of our test car didn't help, but even if you forgo the glacier white, your 265 Cup's going to come with those red pin-stripes on the grille, sill and wheel edges. How very Eighties.
And whereas previous generation RenaultSports have benefited from bespoke body panels – notably wheel arch extensions which bulged over their wider tracks - seeming to flaunt the car's "muscles", this Megane features rather obviously tacked-on wheel arch extensions, which over our week with the car had a rather nasty habit of collecting road muck in their panel gaps.
But at least you're not going to mistake the 265 for a bog-standard, shopping Megane. That full width, piano black front grille graphic and extended lower spoiler apron sees to that. Meanwhile, the roof spoiler features little aero foils and those huge, 19-inch gloss black wheels have a proper bling – not to mention "keep me away from the kerb" quality.
The three-door Megane's body shape lacks the refinement of an Astra GTCs, or the stand-alone bodyshell appeal of a Scirocco. That tight rear window and sharply rising window line also mean it's a pig to reverse. But at least it's available as a sporty three-door, something you can't get in the Focus ST, nor it should be noted, will you be able to in the forthcoming RenaultSport version of the fourth-generation Clio.
But if you're looking for uber-sophisticated design in your car, then we suggest you're probably not looking for a hot-hatch in the first place. And assuming you can get on with the looks, the Megane's got a lot to offer.
For a start, it benefits from Renault's always having pushed the Megane as a technology leader, packed full of equipment. So there's a sextet of airbags, ESP, brake-force distribution, anti-submarining seat, cruise control, speed-limiter, Bluetooth and Renault's "hands-free card" (keyless access) just for starters.
Add to that the ubiquitous USB port - which worked with an iPhone 5, hooray! - on the radio fascia itself, Renault's brilliant behind the steering wheel audio/telephone control dial and reversing sensors and the ability to play Bluetooth music from Spotify and Pandora, and given this is a car that's really been built to just be driven, you might be happy enough. It feels like you've everything you do need and nothing you don't.
But where it really scores is its (£350 option) RenaultSport monitor, which has clearly been designed with the fast-driving tech-geek in mind. Through this interface, you can adjust a number of the car's important driving settings: primarily it allows access to the full 265 hp - normally the car runs in 250 hp mode. It allows you to tailor a series of modes, we preferred extreme – the most hardcore - which raises the threshold at which the change-up beep activates and loosens the ESP's grip on things. All of which turns the 265 into even more of an animal on the road than it already is.
But perhaps more amusingly for your inner-geek, or the teenage boys some of us are at heart, it allows you to record 0-60 times and shows you what G forces you've pulled in corners/under breaking. Childish? Yes. Fun? Certainly. Just be aware that, if you have the RS monitor, you can't have the optional TomTom sat nav. It's one or the other.
Lastly, given all the ferociousness this can mean out on the road, in this cup model you're pinned in place by a pair of probably the best Recaro bucket seats fitted in a car costing less than 50 grand. Mrs Pocket-lint insists we point out here that, for women in shorter skirts, and for every day popping-to the shops practicality they are – and we quote – "a royal pain in the arse". But you'll love them the first time you give the Megane some stick on a B-road.
Whereas they might never have been the last word in design sophistication, where RenaultSport's cars have always shone is on the road.
As you'll see from our pictures, over the years, creating such driver-focused cars means they've built up quite a following. The theory goes that, if you're serious about your driving, and want a hot hatch, look no further than a product from these guys.
And that's largely how it proves with the Megane 265. Put crudely, this is an utter road weapon, in which it is possible to cover ground absurdly fast.
There are a number of stand-out elements. The engine is the first. It's on the gruff side – but otherwise perfectly splits the difference between the characterful but slightly down on power Focus ST, and the peaky, gruffer, more powerful Astra VXR. There will be few times you'll crave more power and the exhaust adds a note of sporty parping, without getting tiring on the motorway. Most importantly, it's turbo-charge delivery is what might be described as muscular. The sort of hit of power where, you go to overtake one thing and then find yourself just nutting past the entire line of four cars, because you've the Megane gives you the time and space to do so.
It gets better though. The ride, while hard, is not uncomfortable and is damped extremely well for the average British road. Most importantly, it keeps the car in constant contact with the road – it doesn't float over the surface making you feel disconnected, but nor does it try to smash the surface into submission, like some big-wheeled cars can – meaning you're very aware of what's going on, but not getting tired out by the level of feedback. Considering the 19-inch wheels of our test car, we were more than happy. But the ride undoubtedly be better still on the standard 18-inch wheels, and if it were our money, that's what we'd do.
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We've saved the best until last though, which is the way this car handles. We could prattle on all day about the technicalities of why and how the Megane drives so well, but it mostly comes down to this: the mechanical limited slip differential just makes it feel other-worldly in corners. In normal cars, on damp, greasy roads, you turn into a corner, let's say a roundabout, too fast, and what typically happens is the wheels will try to plough straight on as you try to turn – the car doing what's known as understeering. That's the point you back off the gas, to try and get everything back in check.
In the Megane, understeer is hard to find in the first place, but when you do sense it's about to happen, instead of backing off as you turn into the bend, if you actually feed in more power from the accelerator, the diff "locks up", sending drive to the wheel with most grip (usually the inside one), and literally dragging the car into, and round the corner. Behind the wheel, it feels other-worldy, the sort of thing your brain just cannot understand.
Combine this with a chassis setup which when put into that extreme mode – with the ESP in sport – allows the rear end to help out by adopting various angles of slip (tipping the car into oversteer) and you've a car that, down an average British B-road, has the measure, and the pace, of just about any other car you care to mention this side of a Nissan GT-R. It goes without saying, that all of this is a huge amount of fun.
And while it's not a hugely special place to sit when you're not in a hurry, it is comfortable and perfectly up to a multi-hour motorway slog without wearing you out. All told and pound-for-pound, it's probably the best drive of any car we've reviewed in 2012.
If you like your hot hatches fast and furious, but with a blend of delicacy, the ability to flow down a road and really be on your side when you're driving like your pants are on fire, look no further. Some of the drives we had during our week with the Megane will stick in the memory for a long time – it feels like it has been designed specifically for the typical damp, badly surfaces British A and B road.
Is it as good an all-rounder as a Ford Focus ST? Probably not. Will it's image suit everyone? No. Is it as impressive a piece of design or as good looking as the Astra VXR? We'd say not. But give us the choice of any of the three and an hour of British B-road in front of us, and we'll take the Megane, thanks.
READ: Vauxhall Astra VXR review
Whether you would, or should, depends on what your priorities are. Each of the Renault, Ford, Vauxhall trio that are the key picks in this class, have a slightly different skill set and centre of gravity. The Ford's the best all rounder and the cheapest, the Astra's the most powerful and is the best designed, the Renault ultimately the best to drive and most focused – it'd be the one we'd pick if we were going to do any track days, too. That's why they each get 4.5 stars.
One final note though. We've noticed prices creeping up and up in this market. This car, with the right options on, ends up at around 27 grand. That Astra, with the body kit and wheels you'll want, is 30. Which makes BMW's recently launched M135i, at a fiver under 30 grand, look like a real bargain. With a turbocharged straight-six, it's faster than any of the three we mention above, not to mention rear-wheel drive. That BMW badge and 1-series body bring with it a very different image too, one that has a different appeal to that of a Renault, Ford or Vauxhall. We can't say whether the BMW's better right now (we'll be testing it next year), but if you're in the market for something in this category, make sure you drive all four – because right now, if you're after a hot-hatch, you really are spoilt for choice.


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Planet Fitness completes renovations
ONEIDA -- With the start of the New Year many Americans resolve to get in shape, and one gym in Oneida has already prepared for the increase in memberships by undergoing roughly $100,000 in renovations.
Planet Fitness in the Glenwood Complex started renovations in November 2012 and all of the major changes are complete.
Matt Devins, director of club development, said the makeover to the gym is geared to help members live a healthier life.
Those new additions include a more private setting for the tanning bed area, improvements to both the men's and women's locker rooms, and two new water massage beds.
The gym also has an abdominal workout area, a 30-minute workout area, four tanning units, nearly 40 pieces of select muscle training equipment and about 75 cardio units.
"The heated water massage beds will better control your blood circulation," Devins said. "Any massage will help relieve tension and stress. This is really good for people with any sort of sports related injuries, anyone with chronic pains in their muscles or bones."
Devins added that the changes should simulate more business as well as providing new features for currents members.
"I think it will not only bring in new members to come see us, but also the people that have been with us in the past will have more of an incentive to come check us out again," he said.
The public is invited to the next pizza night on Feb 4, and are also welcome to come see the renovations anytime during working hours.
The gym is open Monday to Thursday from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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The impact of socioeconomic status on cancer care and survival
Content Contributor: The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Reviewed: June 7, 2011
Presenter: Sandra L. Wong
Presenter's Affiliation: University of Michigan
- Race, less education, low income, unemployment, and lack of health insurance have all been found to be predictors for receipt of suboptimal health care.
- A growing body of literature has confirmed that disparities exist with regard to access to cancer screening, as well as treatment services for patients with cancer, based on these factors.
- Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a risk factor that accounts for combined effects of education, income, and employment status variables.
- Recent data has shown that low SES predicts for poor outcomes in cancer patients. Most SES research has focused on the effect of low SES on health behaviors, access to care, and mortality, but fewer studies have focused on the overall quality of care delivered.
- The goal of this study was to determine the impact of SES on the quality of cancer care delivered, as well as survival, for patients with lung, esophagus, and pancreas primary cancers.
- These cancers account for over 35% of all cancer deaths in the US annually and a large proportion of cancer costs.
- Despite minimal improvement in survival rates over time, the aggressiveness with which patients are treated and followed has increased dramatically.
- The hypothesis of the authors was that low SES predicts for lower aggressiveness of cancer care in poor prognosis cancers.
- Data was abstracted from the SEER-Medicare database, a population-based cancer registry linked with national Medicare claims. The database is limited to fee-for-service claims in patients ³ 65 years of age.
- All incident cases from 1992-2002 were included. Follow-up data was available through 2005.
- The cohort included 68,167 lung cancer patients, 4,350 esophageal cancer patients, and 12,779 pancreatic cancer patients.
- A summary measure of SES was constructed based on U.S. ZIP code data from the 2000 census. This included wealth/income level, education, and employment status (Diax-Roux, NEJM 2001).
- Each beneficiary was assigned an SES summary score based on his/her zip code of residence.
- Patients were grouped into 5 quintiles of SES with SES 1 being the lowest SES and SES 5 being the highest.
- Patients were then assigned to a hospital based on where the majority of inpatient admissions or hospital-based services were performed. If this data was not available, patients were assigned to the hospital where their primary care physician was based.
- The endpoints were treatment and 2-year survival rates.
- Similar proportions of distant disease at presentation were seen across the SES quintiles, 35% for the lung cancer cohort, 24-25% for the esophageal cancer, cohort and 45-47% for the pancreatic cancer cohort. No disparities in cancer stage were identified.
- Low SES patients were more likely to be black, require urgent/emergent hospital admission, and to be treated at a low-volume, non-teaching hospital. This trend was observed in lung, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer cohorts.
- High proportions of patients in all SES quintiles received imaging for cancer staging. The majority of the patients had CT scans for staging, and they were received by >90% in all SES quintiles.
- Specialized testing, such as PET scans, were more likely to be performed in higher SES patients in the lung cancer cohort (10% high SES vs. 5% low SES). This trend was not observed in the esophageal and pancreatic cancer patients.
- For all three cancer types, higher utilization of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy was seen in high SES patients. In other words, more cancer-directed services were utilized in the higher SES groups.
- Low SES patients were more likely to receive no cancer-directed treatment at all. No cancer-directed therapy was delivered to 45% of the low SES lung, 35% of low SES esophageal, and 60% of lowest SES pancreatic cancer patients.
- High percentages of high SES patient were also found to receive no cancer-directed treatment -- 35% for lung, 25% for esophageal, and 50% for pancreatic cancer.
- The crude hazard ratio for mortality demonstrated improved survival in higher SES patients. However, on adjusted analysis, taking into account other patient characteristics and treatment, a significant difference in survival by SES quintile was seen only in patients with lung cancer. This difference in survival in lung cancer was marginally significant (HR 1.11, 95% CI 1.08-1.15).
- The authors also sorted hospitals into low and high SES groups based on the average SES of the patient population.
- The highest SES hospitals treated a greater proportion of younger, healthier patients (assessed using the comorbidity index). They treated less black patients and had less urgent/emergent admissions. High SES hospitals tended to be teaching hospitals with high patient volume. These trends were observed in lung, esophageal, and pancreatic cohorts.
- Interestingly, low SES patients treated in a high SES hospital had outcomes similar to high SES patients. Similarly, high SES patients treated in a low SES hospital had worse outcomes. In other words, the effect of the hospital attenuated the individual SES outcomes.
Authors' Conclusions
- Variation in cancer treatment occurs across SES groups, with the lowest SES patients more likely to receive no cancer treatment.
- Despite this difference in treatment, higher SES patients do not have significantly improved survival rates for poor prognosis cancers.
- Reducing variation in treatment delivery may improve healthcare efficiency without changing patient outcomes.
- This study suggests that patients with low SES are at risk for receiving an inferior quality of cancer care. The implications are large, particularly given the current economic recession and the increasing number of patients who fall into a low SES category.
- Interestingly, this study found that distribution of stage was equivalent across all SES groups; this contrasts with other studies suggesting that patients with lower SES are more likely to present at a later stage. This finding may be due to the lack of screening studies for lung, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer, leading to less disparity in staging at the time of presentation with clinical symptoms.
- There are several notable limitations to this study:
- SEER-Medicare represents a retrospective, population-based cohort and therefore direct correlation cannot be assessed.
- The study cohort consists of Medicare beneficiaries over the age of 65 years, and the results may not be generalizable to younger patients. However, over 2/3 of patients with these three cancer diagnoses are Medicare beneficiaries.
- SES definitions are based on area-level data instead of patient-level data, which may lead to misclassification of patient SES (i.e. a high SES patient living in a low SES zip code).
- Patient and physician preferences are not captured in the SEER-Medicare database.
- Additionally, the study captures treatments delivered in a hospital-based setting, whereas the majority of cancer treatments are now delivered in the outpatient setting. This may have greatly impacted the results and account for the surprisingly large number of low and high SES patients recorded as having received no treatment.
- Nonetheless, these compelling results generate numerous hypotheses on how SES may affect cancer care and survival, and merit further investigation.
- Finally, recognition that overall outcomes did not appear to differ based on the level of cancer-directed care delivered raises the question of whether some patients, particularly high SES patients, with aggressive cancer diagnoses, may be receiving over-treatment.


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Nufarm, the agricultural chemicals maker, expects final court approval for settlement of a class action suit relating to investors who traded its shares in 2009 and 2010 when it was accused of misstating its results and debt levels.
Nufarm has agreed to an increased settlement of A$46.6 million from the A$43.5 million announced in August to cover an expanded number of claims. It said today that the Federal Court (Victorian Registry) will be asked tomorrow to give final approval of the settlement.
"All parties have now agreed with the revised settlement and it will be considered by the court at a hearing in Melbourne tomorrow," it said.
The company had previously denied all allegations of wrongdoing and said it would vigorously defend the case. But in August, chairman Donald McGauchie said that in agreeing to settle, Nufarm's board "carefully considered risks and costs associated with a protracted litigation and demand on management's time".
The lawsuits brought had reportedly attracted hundreds of disgruntled investors who bought Nufarm shares between September 2009 and August 2010 and had been scheduled to go to trial in September 2013.
Nufarm's ASX-listed shares rose 0.6 percent to A$5.75 and have gained about 25 percent in the past year.
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Top News:
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Marcus Brauchli to step down as editor of The Washington Post — The Washington Post announced Tuesday that Martin Baron, the editor of the Boston Globe, will become its new executive editor, replacing Marcus Brauchli, who is resigning to take a new position within the company.
Discussion: Poynter, New York Magazine, CJR, The Huffington Post, @myersnews, @craigsilverman, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone and WBUR
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Marcus Brauchli steps down as Washington Post executive editor, Marty Baron takes over
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: Marcus Brauchli Finally, Officially Out As Washington Post Editor
Kira Goldenberg / CJR: Learn about Marty Baron
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: Washington Post Editor Stepping Down
Steve Myers / @myersnews: Hope @PostMartyBaron is free RT @andrewphelps: Boston loses a great editor in @GlobeMartyBaron, whose Twitter handle is now super awk.
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Interesting that Brauchli stays at the WaPo Co. as a VP.
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: In memo, Globe publisher calls Baron a "staunch advocate of the kind of accountability journalism that digs deep and serves the public."
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: WaPo, Globe staffers trading Brauchli/ Baron rumors last week: http://huff.to/W5H8uF Both newsrooms called into meetings today at same time.
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
New Top Editor at Washington Post: Marcus Brauchli to Be Replaced by Marty Baron — The Washington Post, facing steep financial challenges and striving to find profitability as readers abandon print papers for digital formats, changed its newsroom leadership Tuesday.
Discussion: FishbowlDC, NetNewsCheck Latest, Capital New York, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com and The Daily Beast
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: WaPo: Marty Baron In, Marcus Brauchli Out
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York: Marcus Brauchli gets the boot at Washington Post; Boston Globe's Marty Baron picked to replace him
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap: Marcus Brauchli Exits Washington Post as Editor, Martin Baron Steps In
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: Marcus Brauchli to Step Down from Washington Post
Donya Blaze / mediabistro.com: WaPo: Marty Baron In, Marcus Brauchli Out
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast: Washington Post Changes Editors
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Baron: 'No road map' yet for the Post — Marty Baron, who has just been named executive editor of the Washington Post, says he has "no road map" for the paper's digital future, but promises to position it for success. — "I don't have a road map. I want to spend time talking to the staff.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Brauchli leaving: Another WaPo rumor that turns out to be true
Brauchli leaving: Another WaPo rumor that turns out to be true
Discussion: City Desk
Vernon Loeb / Washington Post:
Petraeus ghostwriter 'clueless' to affair — My wife says I'm the most clueless person in America. — I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire: Guess Who's Not Getting Invited to Piers Morgan's Christmas Party
Chuck Klosterman / Grantland: I Lived a CIA Conspiracy Theory
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: 5 Reasons to Trudge Through Vernon Loeb's Unremarkable Paula Broadwell Piece
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Vernon Loeb: 'I was dumbfounded when I heard about the affair'
Dr. Mario R. Garcia / Garcia Media: The Petraeus sex scandal: a news story right out of the journalism textbooks
Carolyn Kellogg / Los Angeles Times: 'All In' and Paula Broadwell's unenviable path to biography fame
Howard Kurtz / Daily Download: Petraeus Plot Twists: Shirtless FBI Agent and Another Flirting General
Christopher John Farley / Speakeasy: Jon Stewart Takes on Paula Broadwell-David Petraeus Conspiracy Theorists
Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues: Broadwell Co-Author: "I'm Clueless"
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Vernon Loeb, Washington Post Editor And Co-Author Of Petraeus Biography, Silent On Scandal
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Lesson from Petraeus: Your emails, and Gmail, aren't that private — FBI investigators stumbled across Gen. David Petraeus' affair with Paula Broadwell by tracking harassing emails she allegedly sent to another woman, Jill Kelley. It's not clear whether those emails were sent from a Gmail account …
Discussion: Forbes, Poynter, Wired, WorldViews, @csoghoian and Hit & Run
Jon Matonis / Forbes: The General, The Biographer, And Unencrypted Email
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Who's named and who remains nameless in Petraeus affair reporting
Kim Zetter / Wired: Email Location Data Led FBI to Uncover Top Spy's Affair
Christopher Soghoian / @csoghoian: Journalists on Petraeus story: Be sure to call Google for quotes, ask if their data retention policies serve best interest of their users.
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Confirmed: ABC Denver misnames Petraeus book: "All up in my snatch" — Oh my. — A reader just sent me something that I didn't believe. Then he sent me a photo. Then he sent me a video. Then I found a comment on ABC Denver's Web site from another viewer who saw the same thing.
EndPlay / TheDenverChannel.com: Photoshopped book title from Paula Broadwell's Gen. David Petraeus' biography goes viral on web
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Denver ABC Station Misnames Paula Broadwell's Petraeus Book: All Up In My Snatch
John Cook / Gawker: According to This Denver TV Station, Paula Broadwell Wrote a Book Called All Up In My Snatch
Michael Roberts / The Latest Word: The resignation of CIA director David Petraeus has a Denver connection …
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
BBC news chief pleads with staff not to Tweet about 'our problems' — Fran Unsworth, the new temporary head of BBC News, has appealed to staff not to Tweet about "our problems" as she tries to sort out the mess of the Newsnight scandal. Referring to the "tumultuous and very sad events of the past few days" …
Discussion: mediabistro.com, Poynter, Daily Dot, Telegraph and BBC
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: BBC News director asks staff to keep the pedophilia crisis to itself
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph: BBC turmoil worsens as Helen Boaden and Stephen Mitchell hire lawyers to deny they willingly 'stepped aside'
New York Times:
BBC Begins Disciplinary Action After Reporting Debacle — LONDON — The British Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday that disciplinary action was beginning against unidentified news personnel linked to a scandal over reporting of child abuse that wrongly implicated a senior Conservative Party politician.
Discussion: Media Decoder
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Reporter on Newsnight film questioned by BIJ
Reporter on Newsnight film questioned by BIJ
Discussion: The Times
Brendan O'Neill / Telegraph:
This isn't the first time that Angus Stickler and Newsnight have made OTT claims about secret child abusers
This isn't the first time that Angus Stickler and Newsnight have made OTT claims about secret child abusers
Discussion: TheMediaBriefing, Guardian, National Updates and Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day
George Entwistle / National Updates: Bureau of Investigative Journalism editor resigns
Eamonn Fitzgerald / Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: The BBC is a Stickler for details. Except when it isn't.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Twitter Hires 'Broadcasting & Cable' Editor Ben Grossman To Lead Media Operations — Ben Grossman, editor-in-chief of long-lived trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable, announced this morning that he's joining Twitter as Head of Global Operations, Twitter Media. — Naturally, the announcement was made via Twitter.
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
First female editor named at Broadcasting & Cable — Melissa Grego, currently executive editor, has been named editor in chief of Broadcasting & Cable, replacing Ben Grossman, who stepped aside as editor-in-chief of Broadcasting & Cable and will join Twitter as head of global operations, Twitter Media.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC Moves to Shake Up 'Today' Leadership — NBC is completing a plan to change the leadership at the "Today" show, the longtime first-place morning show that slid to second place this year during the controversial removal of Ann Curry. — Alexandra Wallace, a senior vice president of NBC News …
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: The Today Show Finally Goes Female, With Sweeping Changes In Executive Ranks
Aly Weisman / Business Insider: 'Today' Show Shakeup: Jim Bell Out As EP, Alexandra Wallace In As First Woman Ever
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap: Alexandra Wallace to Replace Jim Bell Atop 'Today' (Report)
Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable: Alex Wallace to Replace Jim Bell at Helm of 'Today'
Chris Ariens / TVNewser: Jim Bell Leaving 'Today,' Returning to NBC Sports
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: Today Producer Behind Firing of Ann Curry Is Getting the Boot …
NBC Universal Said to Cut About 450 Jobs Across Units
NBC Universal Said to Cut About 450 Jobs Across Units
Discussion: Deadline.com
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com: More Layoffs At NBCU's TV Networks
Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:
Inside Forbes: Journalists Need to Understand the Ad Business, Not Sulk and Go Home — I can get very frustrated with editors and reporters who prefer to live in their own little world. When it happens, I do my best to remember I used to be one of them — until their stubbornness makes me incredulous all over again.
Discussion: Big News Network.com and AdAge
The Patriot-News:
Sara Ganim, who won Pulitzer Prize for Sandusky coverage, accepts job with CNN — Sara Ganim, The Patriot-News crime reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, has accepted a position as a correspondent with CNN. — Ganim started with CNN this week.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Poynter, TVNewser, The Huffington Post and @sganim
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim leaves Patriot-News to join CNN
Chris Ariens / TVNewser: Newspaper Reporter Who Broke Penn State Scandal Joins CNN
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post: CNN's Newest Face
Dominic Ponsford / PressGazette:
Sun investigations chief: Bribery Act has forced us to turn away whistleblowers — Brian Flynn addressing the Society of Editors conference in Belfast — Sun investigations editor Brian Flynn has warned that the fear of arrest is stopping journalists from pursuing public interest stories provided by public sector whistle-blowers.
Discussion: Guardian
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Sun journalists avoid stories over fear of arrest
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Bookboard tries Netflix-like model for kids' ebooks — Former Adobe executives Fang Chang and Nigel Pegg know that kids love iPads, and they wanted to offer them something more educational than YouTube or Angry Birds. So they are launching Bookboard, an iPad app that gives parents …
Discussion: AppNewser and Digital Book World
Dianna Dilworth / AppNewser: Bookboard Launches Children's eBook Subscription Service In Beta
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The GOP's media cocoon — A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self-defeating.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, TVNewser and The Huffington Post
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast: The GOP and...Pauline Kael?!
James Wolcott / Vanity Fair: The Fraudulent Factoid That Refuses to Die
Alex Weprin / TVNewser: Does a Conservative Media Cocoon Hurt Republicans?
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: Scarborough: GOP 'Lied To' By Conservative Media


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Martin wins Gamecocks debut in OT 82-75 over UWM
Aaron scores 28 for Panthers in loss
Brenton Williams scored 12 of his 14 points in overtime as South Carolina overcame a 17-point deficit in the second half to defeat Wisconsin-Milwaukee 82-75 Sunday in Frank Martin's debut as Gamecocks coach.
Most of the way, the Gamecocks (1-0) looked like the last-place Southeastern Conference team that lost 11 of its final 12 and led to Martin's hiring in March. They trailed 40-23 early in the second half. But South Carolina ended the period on a 26-12 run and tied things on two foul shots by freshman Mindaugas Kacinas to force the extra period.
That's when Williams took over. He hit consecutive layups for a 74-68 lead then kept the Gamecocks out front going 8-for-8 from the foul line.
Jordan Aaron had 28 points to lead the Panthers (1-1).
Southern Miss transfer LaShay Page led the Gamecocks with 19 points, and freshman Michael Carrera added 17 points and 15 rebounds.
The Gamecocks had cut Wisconsin-Milwaukee's lead to 63-58 with 4:32 to go when Theirno Niang hit the team's 13th 3-pointer to give them an eight-point cushion with under 4 minutes to go.
Kacinas began the final charge in regulation with an inside bucket, Carrera had a putback, and Eric Smith drove in for a layup to make it 66-64 with 1:18 to go.
After Niang missed a 3-point try, Kacinas found himself with the ball outside the 3-point line and time running down. He got fouled by Kyle Kelm on the long-range attempt and made 2-of-3 free throws to tie the game.
Carrera got things going in overtime with two foul shots as South Carolina moved in front for the first time since early in the opening half. Kacinas followed with two more foul shots before Williams took over.
Aaron made seven of the Panthers' 14 3-pointers in his first Division I game. James Haarsma had 14 points for Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which hit just 2 of 10 field goals in overtime.
South Carolina fans had been waiting for Martin's debut since he left Kansas State to take the job in March. The Gamecocks had appeared to be building in the first two seasons with ex-coach Darrin Horn - remember South Carolina's stunning upset of No. 1 Kentucky in 2010? - before things crashed the past two years.
The Gamecocks went just 2-14 in the Southeastern Conference last year, and Martin was hired to turn things back around. He got a six-year contract, and it looks like he'll need much of it steadying his young team.
The Gamecocks took a hit earlier Sunday when Martin announced the team's tallest player, 6-foot-11 freshman Laimonas Chatkevicius, was suspended for the six games because the NCAA determined he'd received impermissible benefits from his host family before enrolling at South Carolina.
Still, South Carolina took a 14-11 lead on Brenton Williams' bucket with 12:38 left in the opening half when the Panthers took off on a 21-5 run. Aaron hit a pair 3s, and Demetrius Harris had 6 points in the surge as Milwaukee led 32-19.
The Gamecocks cut things to nine points when Aaron struck again with two more 3-pointers in the final minute for a 38-23 lead at the half.
Martin and his staff dressed in formal attire and bowties. He kept his calm but showed off his famed glare. He broke it out and locked onto his point guard, Eric Smith, when Aaron was left open for a 3. "What happened?" Martin asked as Smith avoided his coach's sharp, laser-like stare.
When senior Lakeem Jackson was whistled for traveling, Martin sat in his chair hands covering his face.
In the second half, Martin furiously chewed out Williams before the junior got going in overtime.


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The San Antonio Public Library will continue its Life After Combat mental health series for military veterans on January 5, 2013 from 2:00 – 4:00pm at the Central Library Auditorium, 600 Soledad 78205. Presented by noted psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Croft, the program will discuss many of the issues connected to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and combat trauma as well as some of the ways in which veterans can deal with these issues through the R-E-C-O-V-E-R approach, detailed in his book, I Always Sit with My Back to the Wall. Written for PTSD sufferers and their families, the book was co-authored by trauma therapist, Rev. Dr. Chrys Parker, J.D. The Life After Combat series takes place the first Saturday of the month at the Central Library. Times may vary.
Free parking with a validated ticket for the first hour in the Central Library Garage.
Program inquiries may be made to Veronica Anderson, program coordinator, at 210.207.2631 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Media inquiries may be made to Joseph Marks, SAPL Public Information Officer, at 210.207.2577 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Sony Commits to Free Monthly DC Universe Online Content
"After release you can expect patches from us with new content and all kinds of fun stuff on a monthly basis," Smedley said in an interview with Eurogamer. "We'll actually be doing some patches on a weekly basis if we spot any issues. But the plans are about a month out you can start expecting major pieces of content and major new features to come in." Among those features, Smedley promises "large new raids, new end-bosses to fight, new quests, new graphics, new features," and possibly new voices.
Since players will be paying a subscription fee, the monthly content patches won't cost extra ("Absolutely not"), but Sony is leaving room for other revenue generators in the future. "We will have a microtransaction marketplace demo on here, but for actual content, no. In the future we may have expansion packs, but if you're talking about the regular monthly patches then no, we won't be charging for those," he said.
Of course, the team to produce this content needs to remain fairly large--50 to 75 members, according to Smedley's estimates. Keeping the content flowing means keeping the staff, and that will require sales and subscriptions to continue paying the employees. If DCUO underperforms, we may eventually see the plans for regular content change.


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1 Automatic payment from a BMO Harris Bank Small Business checking account is required in order to receive the 0.25% rate reduction. Additional rate reductions may be available. Please see your banker for details. The business opening the account must have …
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Well, you've come to the right place. Whether you're looking for tools like a debt calculator, worksheets to help you create a budget and track your expenses, or a guide to help understand your debt relief options, you can find it on the following pages.
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By GARY SCHARRER
Austin Bureau
For Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, it came down to this: Run for U.S. Senate or forget about watching television.
Dewhurst's wife couldn't take the screaming as he watched the nasty gridlock in the nation's capital, he said. She insisted that he run for the Senate seat (instead of governor in two years as he had planned) or turn off the TV.
"We're going into the proverbial toilet if we don't change Washington," Dewhurst said. "We will bankrupt the future of our children and grandchildren."
Widely perceived as the one to beat in the May 29 GOP primary race for U.S. Senate, Dewhurst says he's tackling this challenge just as he has done in a life that took him from from a young child who lost his father to family man and multimillionaire to public servant.
He casts himself as a conservative Republican, emphasizes that he embraced the core principles of the Tea Party, before that movement gained momentum, and bristles at suggestions that he's overly moderate.
"In politics I can understand people trying to spin, but when someone flat out lies and knows that it's a lie — as in one of the people in this race — then that speaks to their character and to their integrity," Dewhurst said, not naming which of the rival candidates he means.
He is focused instead on running to win the primary fight without a runoff. With 10 candidates on the ballot, it's a steep hill to climb. "I have climbed steep hills before," he said.
Among the crowded primary field, Dewhurst will face GOP rival Ted Cruz, former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert, and retired NFL player Craig James in the fight to succeed Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
The loss of his father seems to have shaped his determination, as it did his struggles as a child.
Dewhurst was 3 when his father was killed in a car accident involving a drunken driver.
He believes the trauma from the loss caused him to develop a serious stutter, which he worked to overcome by joining the high school debate team. "I figured I was either going to die of humiliation or get better, and I got better," he said.
He played basketball at Houston 's Lamar High School and earned a bachelor's degree in English and history from the University of Arizona, where he also played basketball for two years before he was cut.
Later, he learned to speak Spanish while in Bolivia as a CIA agent in the early 1970s — a time in between his days as an Air Force officer and his business career.
He was elected land commissioner in 1998 and first won the lieutenant governor's seat in 2002. He's been re-elected twice to the post.
He has supported tougher sentences for child sex predators and stricter voter ID requirements, and chaired Gov. Rick Perry's Homeland Security Commission to evaluate the state's vulnerabilities after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Dewhurst made his fortune in the energy business. He is the founder of Falcon Seaboard, a Houston-based energy and investments company, which flourished with more than 100 employees until the 1980s oil bust reduced it to just him and a part-time secretary, Ann Melamed.
It's Melamed whom he credits with the seed for a multimillion-dollar idea to "co-generate" two energy forms from natural gas turbines and sell the electricity and steam that's produced.
If elected, Dewhurst could become the wealthiest of the 100 U.S. senators. Financial disclosures indicate he is worth at least $200 million.
"I don't think of myself as wealthy," he said. "I'm still the same David Dewhurst that grew up and didn't have two nickels to rub together, when I started my business."
Criticism of his nine years as lieutenant governor comes easily from Democratic leadership who see Dewhurst as soft on his own issues.
Retired state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, served under legendary Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock, Perry and Dewhurst.
Dewhurst displayed compassion, Shapleigh said, but too often "caved to extremists" like then-House Speaker Tom Craddick, when Craddick pushed to cut health insurance to more than 200,000 children of working and low-income families, or like Perry, who oversaw sweeping cuts for public education.
Dewhurst's own priorities were side issues, such as insisting on steroid testing for high school student athletes or pushing the death sentence for mentally retarded Texans who committed capital murders, Shapleigh said, noting that both issues have since been dropped or overturned.
He faults Dewhurst for showing insufficient leadership in addressing the big issues facing Texas as it transitions to a majority Hispanic state, where Hispanics are expected to become the state's largest population group as soon as 2015.
"Dewhurst is what the Republican Party of today is, ever more extreme without real solutions to what faces real Texans" Shapleigh said.
By contrast, Bullock focused on the state's future, and senators who wanted his help in moving legislation had to pledge their support for critical statewide issues, he said. With Bullock, it was "get us to yes or get out of the way."
Dewhurst often resists draconian measures, which Shapleigh said is "worth something" but contends he did not take on the real challenges that will make or break Texas in the future.
Bruce Gibson, a former legislator and chief of staff for Dewhurst and Bullock, said Dewhurst strives for balance.
"The right gets very frustrated with David," Gibson said, "because they think he does too much."
Dewhurst's personality quirks — his knack for figures, chronic tardiness and what some describe as social awkwardness — have also become part of his profile at the Capitol.
He's known to bring a calculator to meetings, where he crunches big numbers.
"He thrives on numbers," Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, said. "If he gives you facts and figures, you can go to the bank with them."
Dewhurst recently flubbed an easy number. At a Republican Jewish Coalition meeting, he was asked his age. "I'm 65," he said.
He will be 67 in August.
"He's worked really hard to loosen up, and he has loosened up a lot," Gibson promises. "He has a really big, kind heart, and you won't find anyone who knows him well who won't tell you that. He hears a sad story and he just starts writing checks."
Dewhurst's 2009-11 tax records show that he gave $4 million to charity for those three years.
He's also easily sidetracked, according to friends and colleagues, who blame this for making him late.
Dewhurst insists he's trying to improve.
"I try to crowd too much into a time slot. I have gotten a lot more realistic about what I can get accomplished time-wise. For anyone who I ever showed up late, I apologize," he said, "and I owe you a cup of coffee."


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So, yeah. I'm a complete noob, holidays throwing me off, thinking I had one more day to get my post out. Well, yeah, I don't. Curse you three-day weekends and your screwing with my internal calendar!
So, because I spent most of last week baking (getting bread+1 achievements IRL) and this weekend… kinda not thinking about anything, you all are getting a recycled PM.
Yes, the P in PM stands for private. I ain't telling you who it's to, or giving any specifics or the like. Let's just say that a couple weeks ago, I was asked in-game for some advice on prepping and cleaning up in hopes of apping to a raiding guild in the future as a holy priest. And we've not had one of those for a while, so you're getting MY take.
First off– Hai! And welcome to Jov's Guide to Getting Ready to App to a Raid Guild 101. You might want to take a peek at Seri/Qiani's guide here, too. I hope I don't make your eyes glaze over with my tl;dr.
Secondly– What I mentioned earlier still applies: this applies to 25-mans, so keep in mind the stuff I'm saying is in regards to that. If what you have works for 5/10s, that's awesome and totally not what this is about. 😉
Third– Where do you usually go for information? Elitist Jerks? WoW forums? Other healers? I'm just gonna toss something into the mix, in case you've not seen it before: PlusHeal is a all-healer forum full of good information for people at all levels of progression and all classes. Caveat: I am a mod there. But the Priest section is particularly active, and there's a lot of good information to be had.
Okay, on to the nitty gritty. Based on what you told me earlier (you like AOE healing) I'm going to first point you at (armory link redacted) (a/n: I don't want to send everyone over to oogle someone else's armory without warning). She's a good bit ahead of you on the gear curve, but she's someone who's got the same "job" you would have as a holy priest. I'm not asking you to mimic her exactly, by any means, I'm only using her as an example of things like stat priorities and talents/glyphs.
So, what's important to a holy priest? Essentially, your job as a holy priest is going to get as much strong AOE healing out as quick as possible, and have the mana pool/regen to support it. What does that mean specifically? You want to boost your PoH, CoH, and ProM as much as possible, since you'll essentially be using CoH and ProM every cooldown. You'll use a good bit of Flash, both as a filler spell, and as a way to boost your PoH, and avoid using too much renew and shields.
This is considered the cookie cutter Holy Raid Healing build/glyphing. There's definitely some room for wiggle room, but a lot of the talents are simply too good to pass up.
Must-have talents in the Discipline tree:
Twin Disciplines, Improved Inner Fire, Improved Fortitude, Meditation
Optional talents for the Discipline tree:
Inner Focus
Must-have talents in the Holy tree:
Holy Specialization, Divine Fury, Inspiration, Holy Reach, Healing Prayers, Spirit of Redemption, Spiritual Guidance, Surge of Light, Spiritual Healing, Holy Concentration, Serendipity, Circle of Healing, Divine Providence, Guardian Spirit
Optional talents for the Holy tree:
Healing Focus, Improved Renew, Improved Healing, Blessed Resilience, Empowered Healing, Empowered Renew (1/3), Test of Faith
So, I'm telling you to avoid too much renew, but I'm including renew talents in the cookie-cutter spec… What's up with that? Well, Improved Renew is really filler, just as a way to get down a tier. 1/3 Empowered Renew, however… *grin* Empowered Renew… doesn't really do much. But what it DOES is allow you to take advantage of another talent (there's a lot of that in the holy tree). The tiny little boost you get from Empowered Renew is tiny, but it's a tiny instant heal. This means it can crit, and in critting, can proc Surge of Light, giving you a free Flash or Smite. What's so great about that? Even if it's free, that Flash triggers your first hit of Serendipity. What's Serendipity good for? PoH! (Or Greater, I suppose, but you'll likely not be using that much) A 3-stack (so 3 casts of Flash, be they free from Surge of Light, or regular casts) gives you 12% off the cast time of PoH, which is a reduction of 1/3 second. May not sound like much, but it's that much faster you can be doing something else.
So moving on from there, what should you be aiming for as far as stats go? There are only four things you care about as a holy priest: Spellpower, Crit, Haste, and Regen.
Spellpower is your most direct and obvious throughput stat. Want to heal more? add more spellpower. Hitting 2k is really your first priority as a holy priest. Spellpower is affected by your spirit using the talent Spiritual Guidance, giving you 25% of your spirit as spellpower (which is itself modified by Spirit of Redemption, which gives you a flat 5% increase to spirit)
Next up, Regen, specifically the in-combat kind. Your next priority should be getting that up to the 250-300 mark. Holy in general is a mana-hog spec, so more regen is never a bad thing. How do you get there? The talent Meditation gives you 50% of your OOC regen (based on spirit) as in-combat regen. Spirit cannot be ignored (also, see Spellpower note above) however, in a 25-man raid environment, your primary regen stat is going to be Intellect. (Wait, what?!) If you're a numbers cruncher and enjoy that sort of thing, there's a thread devoted to it on PlusHeal (Priest Regen for Dummies), which was written prior to 3.2 and the replenishment changes, but the final word is still on page 2:
Updated. As an optimal 'balance' between spirit and intellect, I now promote 1000 spirit + 1300 intellect raidbuffed for lower levels or 1300 spirit + 1500 intellect raidbuffed for higher levels. As before, this is not 'exact'. One can easily take more intellect or less, depending on flavor, without feeling a big hit in the regen.
It must be noted, however, that stacking more intellect is fine but requires better use of manaregen cooldowns such as the fiend and hymn of hope. Spirit is a little less demanding but requires a tid bit of crit to work. MP5 is now a strong regen stat and even outperforms spirit up to high gear levels! However, the SP bonus from spirit may make spirit a more favorable stat. Spirit still gives more bang for your buck but not in regen only. For disc priests, intellect > mp5 reigns supreme for all reasonable gear levels. Spirit isn't bad for high end Disc raiders but weaker than mp5.
Finally, there's the balancing act between crit and haste. Crit nets you free heals through Surge of Light (which can proc off any of your heals if you use 1/3 Empowered Renew) and spirit-based Regen through Holy Concentration. Haste lets you pump out more heals faster. For the most part, which you favor is a matter of personal preference. Generally speaking, you'll want to aim for 10% haste, 18-20% holy crit as unbuffed minimums before you start focusing on either one.
And before I close this here, a general note on gemming practices. You'll want to use gems which deal with the stats mentioned above for the most part. Your (only) options are:
Red: Runed (red, spellpower), Purified (purple, spellpower/spirit), Luminous (orange, spellpower/int), Potent (orange, spellpower/crit), Reckless (orange, spellpower/haste)
Yellow: Brilliant (yellow, intellect), Quick (yellow, haste), Smooth (yellow, crit), Luminous (orange, spellpower/int), Potent (orange, spellpower/crit), Reckless (orange, spellpower/haste), Intricate (green, haste/spirit), Misty (crit/spirit), Seer's (int/spirit)
Blue: Purified (purple, spellpower/spirit), Intricate (green, haste/spirit), Misty (crit/spirit), Seer's (int/spirit)
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My personal preference is Red : Runed or Luminous, Yellow : Brilliant, Blue : Seer's. Again, however, that's personal preference, since gems are the quickest way to make up any stats that you may be missing.
Also, I didn't touch much on your current gear/spec specifically, since I wanted this to be more of a general guide than me picking you apart. If you would like me to go over where you are currently with a fine-toothed comb and give you specific gear lists, etc, I'd be happy to do that as well. Just let me know.


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'Twas you who made our online adventure in the Caribbean a truly epic one!' Oh really? If that is so, then why are you ending it? I sure want to continue...
And it's gone...
So what happened towards the end? I got disconnected a few times today and noticed some servers go Ideal while Abassa went Quiet at times.
I did trying logging in at 3:16 pm EST but it ran into an error as expected when I barely caught those words: This site is closed for maintenance.
It went until 2:30 Central time and then this:
I was surprised there wasn't a system message - it just went from normal to done.
I am in central time too..
lol nothing new with that message. I was expecting the Admin notification to kick in at the top of the hour to start the countdown. That did not happen of course.
Anyway, its over. They are glad to get rid of their games. Make no mistake about it. I certainly took after their lead myself when I saw some of their ads in my email for Infinity and some Duck Tales mobile app... I removed them. I simply clicked on that lovely link to unsubscribe. I'm done with Disney.
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