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Azzedine Downes
As President and CEO, Azzedine Downes is responsible for the strategic vision that will guide IFAW's contribution to a standard for conservation and animal welfare worldwide.
Azzedine has been a leader on conservation issues over the past sixteen years. In his previous role as IFAW's Executive Vice President, Azzedine oversaw both the Programmes Team and International Operations. His coordination of these key areas led to an increased global impact on animal issues and led to the expansion of IFAW's work to the more than forty countries in which IFAW is found today.
Under Azzedine's leadership, IFAW opened its first office in the Middle East and expanded its work on global animal conservation and welfare issues. He was responsible for designing and launching IFAW's Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking (Wildlife Law Enforcement) programme, which provides ongoing training and support for law enforcement and customs officials faced with growing illegal trade issues. His leadership on international illicit trade in wildlife has resulted in the development of IFAW's Wildlife Crime and Consumer Awareness programme.
Azzedine spearheaded the expansion of IFAW's Tiger Team work into Bhutan and South Asia, expanding and strengthening protection for tigers in their range states.
Azzedine has served as Head of the Delegation to the CITES Conference of the Parties, leading campaigns to reduce and restrict negative impacts of wildlife trade. His programme teams also provide direct assistance to wildlife and domestic animals through the Animal Rescue and Companion Animals Programmes.
In 2015, Azzedine was named to Fast Company's "The 100 Most Creative People in Business," and he was invited to join the Global Tiger Forum Advisory Council and US Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee. In 2016, The NonProfit Times recognized Azzedine as one of 16 new honorees on their Top 50 Power and Influence list.
Fluent in English, French and Arabic, Azzedine is an accomplished public speaker and regularly presents IFAW's work to the media in those three languages.
Azzedine is committed to finding solutions to the problems facing wildlife and companion animals in today's complex world by combining good science, sound animal welfare concepts and culturally appropriate solutions.
Background prior to joining IFAW
Chief of Party, USAID:AMIDEAST, Morocco
Led a team financed by the United States Agency for International Development on the development of finance and education systems to improve education of girls in the national school system.
Chief of Party, USAID:AMIDEAST, Jerusalem
As part of the 1994 Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinians, led the United States Agency for International Development funded project to improve administration of Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
United States Peace Corps, Acting Regional Director for Eurasia and Middle East Region.
Named by President Clinton to lead Peace Corps efforts in the region
United States Peace Corps, Chief of Operations, Eurasia and Middle East Region
Harvard University, Master's Degree, Administration, Planning and Social Policy
Providence College, Bachelor of Arts (BA), French Language, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
University of Fribourg, Fribourg Switzerland, Certificate in French Linguistics
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Boomers are known for our desire to look and feel good. We strive to eat right and exercise to live a long, healthy and independent life. We also schedule regular medical checkups to ensure our bodies will continue to run smoothly into our golden years.
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But it's not just our health that needs regular checkups; financial planners also recommend boomers evaluate our estate planning periodically to make sure it is in line with changing laws and our life circumstances. Life doesn't stand still and neither should your estate planning. You may acquire more assets, beneficiaries may have passed away, your children have grown up or you and your spouse may have split up making some of your estate planning obsolete and in need of changes.
I had a chance to speak with Mike Piershale, ChFC, president of Piershale Financial Group in Crystal Lake, IL, and discussed the importance of baby boomers performing annual checkups on their estate plans. Here are some key tips Piershale had to offer:
Boomer: What is meant by an estate planning check up?
Piershale: Consumers interested in estate planning need to find a real financial planner who knows what they are doing. If I had a serious illness, I could go to a medical advisor or I could go to a medical doctor. If I had cancer I would go to a medical doctor because he has the license to prove to me that he knows what he is doing. In our field it works basically the same way. There are alot of people that call themselves financial advisors, but it takes a license to call yourself a financial planner. A financial planner will make sure the primary estate planning goals are going to be accomplished.
Most of the time there are three reasons people do estate planning. One is to eliminate probate which can really waste alot of money. In our opinion, probate is an outdated, unnecessary system that is being kept alive by attorneys that make alot of money off of it. The official definition of probate is the court process where your assets go through the system to demonstrate the authenticity of your legal documents and to decide who is going to get what asset. If you set up your estate planning right, probate is unnecessary. You set up a trust and make sure all of your non-retirement assets are titled into the trust. Probate can cost your heirs 6% of the gross estate. If you own a $500,000 house with a $400,000 mortgage, they are going to charge you 6% of the $500,000, or $30,000 of your $100,000 equity.
The second thing is to eliminate the death tax which can also waste alot of money if you end up paying it unnecessarily. If someone has a financial worth of $5,120,000 in 2012 and they die this year, there is no death tax. Beginning Jan.1, 2013, the federal estate exclusion will return to the 2002 level, which is $1 million. The bottom line is this, if someone has a net worth of $1.5 million and they have done no estate planning, starting next year--if that couple dies and they have kids, the first $1 million will be sheltered with that death tax deduction, but the kids will lose 43% of the last $500,000. So it is important to check on net worth with estate planning as we can save these couples hundreds of thousands of dollars on death tax.
With proper estate planning and something called a credit shelter trust, every dollar over a million and up to $2 million can be sheltered from the death tax. One of every four families I work with have more than $1 million in net worth and 2 out of 3 has no estate plan in place. It is a major national problem that you don't hear talked about alot. If Warren Buffet died tonight, he could leave his massive estate to his wife with no death tax because of the unlimited marital deduction, which means you can leave as much money as you want to your surviving spouse. But at the death of the surviving spouse is when it hits the fan and the heirs lose up to 43% of their inheritance.
The third reason is just to make sure the inheritance gets to the right people. A properly-drafted estate plan uses a QTIP, a qualified terminal interest property trust which means if I have a certain amount of money that I want to leave to my biological kids, a QTIP means that if I die first my spouse can use the income but can't touch the principle and then when she dies the principle goes to my kids.
These are a few red flags that a good financial planner will look for. Is everything titled right so they won't go through probate? If their net worth is over a $1 million, do they have a properly- drafted trust so they are not paying death tax that they shouldn't have to pay? And is that estate plan set up right so that the inheritance gets to the right people?
Boomer: Besides a good financial planner, what other professionals would you recommend being involved?
Piershale: The only other critical professional would be a good estate planning attorney. The vast majority of financial planners don't have law degrees, therefore they can't get involved in drafting legal documents like trusts or wills. While I personally believe a qualified financial planner is a much better professional to look at the larger picture and give the client what kind of documents they need in order to achieve their estate planning goals, you still need a good attorney to draft the documents. Make sure your attorney specializes in estate planning.
Boomer: What are the common estate planning mistakes people make that increase tax liability?
Piershale: In addition to the information in my first response, if you have property in other states, whatever state you draft your trust in, you have to be very careful about titling property into that trust that you own in other states. The important thing to remember is trusts are valid under state law, not federal law. So, if you draft a trust in NJ and you own a condo in Florida and you title the condo in Florida into your trust that you drafted in NJ, that trust may not work which could then subject the property to probate. The advice we give is to be sure to get an attorney in the other state you have property to be sure you are covered correctly.
Boomer: What needs to be done if your spouse dies?
Pershale: The first thing to do when a spouse dies is to get the surviving spouse into the office of a qualified financial planner as quickly as possible. They should be coached as to what they need to do in retitling their assets. A simple example would be if they have retirement accounts like IRA's or a 401(k): you really need to discuss with them what to do with that retirement account.
If the surviving spouse is above 59 1/2 there is no 10% penalty for taking money out of an IRA. We usually recommend if they are over 59 1/2 they roll their deceased spouses IRA or 401(k) over to the surviving spouses account. If they are under 59 1/2 and they need the money to live on, we may recommend they leave the money in the deceased spouses account until the surviving spouse turns 59 1/2 and the reason why is if they leave it in the deceased's IRA account, they could use it without the 10% penalty.
Along with that we look at any accounts that have beneficiaries like life insurance and CDs to make sure all of the beneficiaries listed are updated. Alot of these accounts most likely listed their surviving spouse as beneficiary, but that is not going to work anymore so they just have to do a check to update all beneficiary accounts. We would also look at retitling all non-retirement assets. For example, they might have an account that is in joint tenants with rights of survivorship, now one of those joint tenants is deceased so you want to get their name off of that account because until you do you really can't move that money or sell it or anything. Also, let's say the deceased spouse had an asset in only his/her name and it wasn't in joint tenancy, well now that asset is very likely going to go through probates. In that case we would coach our client in getting a good estate planning attorney to take them through probate as painlessly as possible.
We check life insurance and other assets that have death benefits and these would be assets in the name of the deceased spouse. For example, it's not only life insurance, you can have death benefits on annuities and you want to make sure all the death benefits are exercised so the surviving spouse gets the money, keeping in mind that death benefits on annuities are taxable as ordinary income whereas death benefits on life insurance are tax free.
Boomer: What are some of the key areas in financial planning that need review and how often?
Piershale: We look at 5 key areas that I have listed below:
1. I recommend to all of my clients they bring tax returns once a year for tax analysis. What I do is different than a CPA's role. I am not preparing their tax return, I am looking at more pro active tax strategies to help them eliminate unnecessary taxes. I also check for common errors that CPA's make. Often we look at the first page of the 1040 form, and if we see that our client has alot of taxable interest and they are in a higher taxable bracket we often recommend they reallocate some of that taxable interest and dividends to tax free income like municipal bonds. Another thing we get into is taking an intentional tax loss when stocks are down and buying them back in 31 days because you have to wait 31 days to buy them back, so that you are able to declare a loss, we call this loss harvesting, and then later in life when they really want to sell out a position permanently, they can use those losses that we created intentionally to offset capital gains.
2. The second thing we look at is estate planning, which I have already discussed to avoid probate, unnecessary death tax and make sure the assets get to the heirs as smoothly as possible.
3. Retirement planning is the third thing we look at even though the whole general area is retirement planning we have a specific specialty or subject we call retirement planning where we make sure all the beneficiaries are properly titled keeping in mind there are five different possible beneficiaries. The IRS rules are different for each beneficiary. You can have a spouse, your kids, a charity a trust and you can even have a boyfriend or girlfriend and the rules for each of these are different, so this needs to be looked at too. We also run a retirement cash flow analysis which gives our client an idea of how much money they can spend over the rest of their life, making sure they will not run out of money.
4. We analyze life insurance policies to make sure they are still appropriate for our retirees. When your assets get above a certain size it may no longer be necessary to keep paying life insurance premiums. The most common example would be having a 50K life benefit with 40K of cash benefit. At death you will not get both, so these clients are tying up 40K of their money at a very low rate of interest to keep 10K of life insurance in force that often they no longer need. We often advise to move that cash value to investments the government allows you to move it to without triggering tax so it has the potential to add a much better rate of income. In my experience the number one thing that wipes families out is going into a nursing home so we do a long term care analysis. We don't normally look at casualty insurance like homeowners, auto and umbrella liability but we do recommend that they talk to their agent every 2 years to review those coverages.
5. Lastly, we review investment planning. We recommend an analysis to make sure the portfolio is properly diversified. I believe in the stock and bond portfolio, most clients need at least 10 different investment asset classes. We want to make sure they are being rebalanced every year so they don't overweight any positions. Sometimes one investment grows faster than another and we will tell them at the end of the year to trim the bushes and maybe add more money to an asset class that didn't grow as fast because the lineup of who performs the best will change every year. We look at their tax bracket to consider certain types of tax advantage investments like tax free bonds. We discuss if clients want their portfolio to be more tactical where we use momentum indicators and other tactical research to determine when the stock market risk is too extreme and therefore we exit the stock and bond markets and go into lower risk investments such as cash equivalence.
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Domestic use of all vegetables in the United States declined by 3 percent in 2006, to 428 pounds per capita, with most of the reduction due to lower use of head lettuce and processed tomatoes, according to the latest USDA Vegetables and Melons Outlook.
The use of fresh-market vegetables — including melons, potatoes, sweet potatoes and mushrooms — totaled about 222 pounds per capita, down 1 percent from a year earlier. Fresh use rose for crops such as asparagus, snap beans, cabbage, cauliflower, bell peppers, garlic and romaine and leaf lettuce but fell for head lettuce, spinach, celery, onions, pumpkins and tomatoes.
The acreage for 11 U.S. fresh-market vegetables is forecast to decline by 3 percent to 200,700 acres this spring, with the season running from April through June. Prospective plantings are down for most crops, with the greatest percentage declines for snap beans, carrots and celery, according to the report.
Given the reduced acreage and assuming normal weather, U.S. spring-season grower/shipper prices for commercial fresh-market vegetables are expected to average about one tenth above the low levels of a year earlier.
Spring melon acreage is expected to decline by 2 percent from a year ago, with cantaloupes down 4 percent and watermelon 1 percent lower. Cantaloupe area is expected to be down 800 acres in Georgia, while Florida watermelon growers will harvest 700 fewer acres. California, which accounts for more than half of spring vegetable area, expects to harvest 3 percent fewer acres with much of this reduction due to sweet corn, carrots and head lettuce. January freeze damage to early California plantings delayed the spring harvest for several crops, but subsequent growing weather has largely been favorable.
Florida, where spring vegetable growth was slowed by cold, wet February weather, is expected to harvest nearly one-third of spring area for the 11 selected crops. Florida's area is expected to drop by 2 percent from a year ago due largely to lower area for snap beans (down 10 percent) and sweet corn (down 2 percent).
Area for tomatoes, which annually accounts for about one-third of Florida's $1.5 billion in vegetable cash receipts, is expected to fall about 2 percent to 17,200 acres, reflecting weak prices last spring. Florida, which accounts for the majority of the domestic cucumbers produced during the spring, is expected to harvest 11 percent more acreage, spurred by strong prices over the past several months.
During the first two months of 2007, the volume of fresh vegetable imports (excluding potatoes and melons) increased by 2 percent from a year earlier. Import volume declined for fresh market tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers due largely to the impact of cool, wet weather on Mexican crops.
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It seems Falcons wide receiver Roddy White has found something else to like about New Orleans.
White said earlier this week that he only liked the food in the city the Falcons will be visiting on Sunday, but that might not be entirely accurate. He also liked seeing the Saints play a lot of man coverage against the Eagles last week and hopes that the Saints have a similar defensive game plan in place as they try to hand Atlanta their first loss of the season.
"We just got to go out there and hope that we get that same coverage that they was giving Philly," White said, via NFL.com. "I was watching the Philadelphia film and I'm like, 'Wow!' These guys sit out here and play man-to-man coverage all day, oh man we're going to have a field day."
The Saints defense had its best day of the season against the Eagles, allowing just 13 points in a 28-13 win that lifted the team to a 3-5 record on the year. They did allow 447 yards, though, which isn't too far off their NFL-worst season average of 471.2 yards per game. That's almost 100 yards more than the Falcons gain on average, which should bode well for the Atlanta offense on Sunday if they continue to avoid turnovers the way they have all season.


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Dressing like a Pokémon trainer is only part of a good costume. You also gotta get your Pokémon pals right—and this group of cosplayers nails it.
Check out these pictures of 4 Itchy Tasty Cosplay head Brett Horn at this year's Anime Expo. He created a bunch of to-scale Pokemon puppets, modeled above by a few friends (including Michelle D'Antonio). They're fully functional, and can be moved such that they mimic the actual 'mon they're based on. Neat!
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Peggy Wolf is in a German illustrator trained in fashion design, who hand crafts sumptuous Italian leather coin purses, pouches and clutches with graphic patterns. She uses a simple construction and hand screen-prints primitive shapes and designs on the leather, developing modern handbags with bold colors. These large clutches are a perfect fashionable statement accessory made exclusively for Half Hitch Goods.


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Telstra now has 14.4 million mobile customers across Australia after adding 607,000 for its half year ending December 31, 2012.
Australia's number one telco also announced today it has sold 1.5 million 4G devices since launching 4G services in September 2011.
4G customers now make up 13 per cent of Telstra's post-paid customers and 17 per cent of mobile broadband customers and 67 per cent of Telstra customers now use a smartphone
Smartphone sales contributed to a 17.1 per cent increase in mobility hardware revenue growth to $767 million.
Telstra also added 85,000 fixed retail broadband customers, with 2.7 million now on its broadband network.
Despite this increase, the telco's fixed broadband revenue dropped 4.0 per cent to $3.7 billion, while mobile revenue increased 4.6 per cent to $4.6 billion.
The telco also added 117,000 customers to bundled plans to 1.5 million customers over the period. A total of 56 per cent of fixed broadband customers are now on bundled plans.
PSTN revenue fell by 10.8 per cent to $2.2 billion, with call revenue and basic access lines connections declining by 151,000 during the period.
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Total sales revenue for the period was $12.5 billion, a 1.0 per cent increase, while net profit after tax increased 8.8 per cent to $1.6 billion. The telco also spent $1.9 billion on capital.
Telstra recorded $176 million in payments from NBN agreements, which included $94 million worth of Commonwealth payments and $82 million which related to a TUSMA agreement to provide 'public interest services' and access to Telstra's infrastructure for the NBN.
Cloud revenue grew 25.0 per cent, while total network applications and services revenue increased 10.6 per cent to $636 million.
Telstra expects fiscal growth for 2013 to be in the low single digit total income and earnings growth.
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Dr. Isiah Warner is a distinguished scholar recognized for research in the field of analytical chemistry and creative leadership in the development of supportive environments for training students, particularly minority students, in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. He is currently Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Philip W. West Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at Louisiana State University. Dr. Warner also is a Boyd Professor of the Louisiana State University system and in 2002 was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship.
Professor Warner's research in the field of analytical separations has led to the development and application of improved methodologies (chemical, mathematical, and instrumental) for studies of complex chemical systems. He is the author of more than 250 refereed journal articles to date and has six patents issued or pending. Dr. Warner has received recognition for his research accomplishments with awards from professional organizations, including the New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the Eastern Analytical Symposium, and the American Microchemical Society. In 2002 he was elected to be a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dr. Warner's research program has provided training for graduate students and postdoctoral associates who now hold leadership positions in academic, national laboratory, and industrial settings around the world. He has worked tirelessly to establish opportunities for students to achieve excellence in all of their endeavors and as a result of his effort, Louisiana State University leads the nation in graduating African American doctoral students in chemistry. His success as a mentor of the next generation of scientists has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring; the AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award; and the American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences. The Marquette community has also benefited from his scholarship, including when he served as the Ralph Metcalfe Chair in 1988.
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From academic excellence to extraordinary leadership to contributions across the campus, Point Park honored a wide array of student accomplishments at a festive evening to cap the 2012-13 academic year.
More than 300 students and faculty, along with friends and family members, gathered April 26 at the Fairmont Pittsburgh hotel, just a few blocks from campus, for Point Park's 2013 Outstanding Student Awards dinner.
"This has been a wonderful year for academically thriving and achieving, and we want to recognize the accomplishments of faculty and students in that effort. In all of our schools, students have exceeded their expectations," Karen McIntyre, senior vice president for academic and student affairs, told those assembled.
At tables with yellow rose centerpieces and tea-light candles, the students, faculty and guests dined on baked chicken, asparagus and risotto, followed by chocolate pudding parfaits and fruit and cream tarts, all to a background soundtrack of soft jazz.
Many of the students who attended were graduating seniors. To them, Point Park President Paul Hennigan offered four simple recommendations: have confidence in yourself; work hard; set a new goal; and be lifelong learners.
"Most recent college graduates do not become the CEO of a company right out of school. Most recent college graduates don't get the lead on Broadway. Most college graduates right out of school don't get to anchor the evening news," he said. "We all had to start at the bottom and we had to work hard and work our way through to where we are today. It takes a whole lot of hard work and it takes a very good attitude."
Hennigan described his own early job experiences -- working on a paving crew, bartending, waiting tables – that helped shape his words of advice.
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The Oriental is not just a hotel but a landmark in Bangkok, an oasis of air-conditioned peace surrounded by traffic jams. It even serves afternoon tea in quarters once inhabited by the likes of Noel Coward.
A brief ferry-ride across the Chao Phraya, the river that runs through the city's heart, is the Oriental's Thai restaurant, Sala Rim Naam, which must offer the bargain of the city: a lunchtime buffet from 12 to 2 every day supervised by a splendidly didactic female chef, which costs the equivalent of about £9 per adult (£7 per child). This was without a doubt the best meal we had during our week in Thailand, and probably the best anywhere for some weeks. All served in luxurious but genuinely ethnic surroundings with the sort of effortless service you would expect. (You almost feel as though you just have to give them the word and the waiters would go and pile the food on your plate themselves.)
Intricate Thai spring rolls and small, spicy fish cakes with their subtle dipping sauces and spicy soups led on to two new favourites, gai toey, deep-fried honey chicken wrapped in pandanus leaves and pla phad khing, stir-fried fish with young ginger and spring onion. And I was very, very reluctant to say goodbye to my last mouthful of khanom bueang, sweet Siamese pancakes, and tum tim grob, an exhilarating mixture of diced water chestnut in chilled coconut syrup.
The one item that does make eating out in Thailand expensive is wine which carries a hefty ad valorem duty. However, the 2000 bottling of Syrah from the country's top producer, Chateau de Loei in the north-east of the country close to the Laos border, is excellent value at £15 on the hotel's wine list and good enough to hold its own with a number of New World wines.
This would make a fantastic introduction to Thai food for any new visitor to the country - except that they would probably end up being disappointed everywhere else. Evening dining is à la carte and includes some sort of entertainment but we had eaten so much at lunch we couldn't contemplate it.
Sala Rim Naam, The Oriental Hotel, Bangkok ( www.mandarinoriental.com )


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Friday, October 26, 2012
On to the next class....
I do my warrior first because I love tanking as a warrior, and he is and always will be my main. I level my Druid second because I have long loved Druid healing. My Paladin comes third to round out the holy trinity and give me a dps.
I choose the Paladin because I really enjoy the feel of Retribution. It is nice and involving. I like when stuff procs and you have to decide what to use. It is also nice having some decent healing skills.
My questions is........what should I level after my Paladin?
Resto/Elemental Shaman
Destro Warlock
Blood DK
BM/MM Hunter
Disc Priest
Frost Mage
Assassination Rogue
Monk Brewmaster
I am currently leaning towards doing the Shaman next...after that, it is pretty much up for grabs. What do you guys/gals think?
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- SirFWALGMan said...
I am having the same discussion with myself.
Initially it was going to be my Shaman and Druid for Herbing and Mining.. but I hate farming so why the hell do that?
So now I think it is going to be my hunter... because I need a bunch of Motes for him to buy all the PVP leather and Scale gear.. and also hunters are nasty in PVP right now.. So I want to try and beat some people up... :).
However I may take my rogue up another level... just because I only need 6 motes and I can make a Dragonling pet...
Also I may bring more of my characters to Halfhill for the cooking and farming.
Oh and I still want to get rep with everyone for all the recipes and mounts and things like that on my main..
I really like this expansion!
- October 26, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Frost mage.
No reason other than it's not the same as the others.
- October 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM
- Kalven said...
If you like procs and a varied rotation, I suggest Enhance Shammy. It's a little complicated at first, but it's a rhythmic rotation without the common generate resource/spend resource paradigm, but rather a straight priority of abilities with two abilities to keep on cooldown, two 5-stack procs and one DOT and a filler that shares a cooldown with your DOT, which makes timing it interesting.
The transition from single target to AOE can be tricky sometimes, but good fight planning can let you combo Unleash Elements>Flame Shock>Magma Totem>Lava Lash>Fire Nova, which sounds complicated and time consuming, but it's awesome! I say "Fire! Fire! Fire!" in my head like Beavis whenever I do that.
- October 26, 2012 at 1:49 PM
- Fettsbounty said...
Funny. I think of Beavis and butthead saying fire as well but on my Destruction Warlock. I actually say out loud over vent "And she is on FIRE!"
- October 26, 2012 at 2:15 PM
With a full trinity at 90, it might be good to look at professions. There's a pretty good profit margin on transmutes right now; it's hard to say no to easy steady income.
- October 27, 2012 at 8:09 AM


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Squeezed between rows in what looks like a wine cellar, Chad Yakobson takes a pair of pliers and pries a nail out of an oak barrel.
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As E85 becomes more available at the pump, more people are going to want to take advantage of the performance possible from the cheap alternative to race fuel. Holley's popular 4150 Ultra HP carburetors are now available with components and calibrations making them ready for ethanol. They're available in 600-, 650-, 750-, 850-, and 950-cfm offerings, and come in the exclusive Hard Core Gray hard-anodized finish, which is the perfect barrier to ethanol's corrosive properties. The Ultra HP for E85 features specific metering blocks, a high-flow power valve, 50cc secondary accelerator pumps and secondary jet extensions, plus 0.130-in stainless needle and seats. Its all-aluminum construction will keep weight down, as well.
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If you need header-friendly spark plug wires, check out Accel's new Extreme 9000 ceramic wire kits. The Extreme 9000's ceramic boots are capable of withstanding 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Accel has a specific set for '83-'93 5.0 Mustangs, but the company also has universal-fit sets, as well. These wires have an 8mm Ferro-Spiral core with a 500-ohms/ft resistance rating, which Accel says combines excellent energy delivery to the spark plug with high levels of RFI/EMI suppression. Other features include double silicone jackets and stainless steel spark plug terminals designed for maximum spark energy to your Mustang's plugs.
Painted Defense
When playing defense in any sport, you want to be painted on the offensive player to keep them from scoring. We were able to see firsthand how 3M's Paint Defender spray-on paint protection film will protect your Mustang's finish against rock chips, bugs, sand, and other everyday driving hazards. The difference between 3M's Paint Defender system and other clear bra products is that this protection film is applied in three easy steps of masking the vehicle, waxing the paint to protect, and spraying the Paint Defender Spray Film onto the car. This system will provide protection for up to a year, and can be removed by hand at any time.
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When we recently built a Two-Valve engine there were several fasteners with inch-pound torque specs. If you plan on doing any engine work on your Mustang, it's a good idea to check out this Inch-Pound torque wrench from Summit Racing. These torque wrenches feature a click-style mechanism designed to accurately measure inch-pounds of torque. These wrenchs use a ball-bearing-mounted handle with a slide collar for calibration. Your choice of 25-250 in-lb torque wrench with a 3⁄8-inch socket drive or a 30-200 in-lb wrench with a 1⁄4-inch socket drive.
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Cervini's Auto Designs has always designed aero products with form and function in mind. This new Stalker II hood for '05-'09 and '10-'12 Mustangs is no different. This new hood force feeds cool air to your Mustang's engine compartment, while twin extractor vents expel horsepower-robbing heat from under the hood. The end result, Cervini's says, is cooler engine temperatures and fresh cool airflow that is designed to translate into more power and performance under all conditions.
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If you need new seating arrangements within your Mustang, check out Corbeau's new RRX design. The RRX is betting on you liking its looks and incredible comfort. Corbeau says it's the perfect blend of aggressive lateral bolster support, but with the comfort of a daily driver. The RRX features injection-molded foam, strategically-placed bolsters to support you in the right places, and harness belt capability. The Sportline RRX seat is available in a black vinyl with a gray carbon-fiber vinyl contrast. For you large and in charge folks, Corbeau says, as a rule of thumb, the RRX will fit up to a 38-inch waist.
The Shining
To help our Fox Mustangs continue shining the light in dark places, Ron Francis Wiring has this new complete front lighting harness for '91-'93 Mustangs (PN FH-083). These harnesses come with everything needed, including factory correct connectors, terminals, and quality crosslink automotive grade wire with high temperature covering. Ron Francis Wiring has taken great care to make sure this harness replicates that of the factory wiring for a worry-free installation.
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Dull tires can make your Mustang look neglected, and having freshly coated tires can totally redeem its look. Meguiar's new Ultimate Black Tire Coating is designed to keep your Mustang's tires looking anything but dull. It is said to provide a longer lasting coating than traditional tire shines, drying with a deep, black, wet look that will not sling all over the side of the car. Meguiar's says this new tire coating lasts over a month and creates a water and wear-resistant coating that won't peel or crack as it ages. Application is easy: simply spray onto a clean, dry tire, and you're done.
Clean Compartment
To sanitize your Shelby GT500's engine compartment, check out Moroso's dual tank designed for '07-'12 Mustang Shelby GT500s. These tanks are available in two varieties, but the separate tanks are integrated together to look like one. They bolt right in place of the factory coolant and supercharger tanks, and they are oversized to aid in cooling. Fabricated from aluminum, the dual tank may be polished, powdercoated, or left as-is for a race look. They even include a heavy-duty mounting bracket, and they can be packed with ice to help your Shelby make heavy-duty horsepower on the dyno or at the track.
Catch This
UPR Products' new catch cans for '11-'14 Mustangs features a 7-ounce billet aluminum can. The cans firmly attach to the shock tower, adding rigidity and durability. These catch cans use nickel fittings and genuine Ford connectors, which snap in place on the valve cover and intake. These cans are available in a satin, black or polished finished, while the products' black braided lines are available with either satin, polished, or gold billet aluminum ends.
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Mothers' new M-Tech line of products is available exclusively at AutoZone stores. The M-Tech line includes a wash, a synthetic wax, a spray wax, an instant detailer, a protectant, and a tire shine. Safe to say, Mothers M-Tech line has your Mustang's care covered from bumper-to-bumper, whether it be a full wash or a quick detail before hitting the streets.
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If you need fast-reaction fuel injectors for your Mustang, and who doesn't, check out AFIS' new FRT injectors. These FRT injectors suit high-performance street cars and racing cars as diverse as Pro Mod to Sport Compacts. AFIS says the major advantage to these injectors is their reaction time, and says their superiority lies in the introduction of a new electronic solenoid within the injector body that controls the pintel. The diminutive pintel receives its signal from the ECU and by opening and closing faster the FRT injector delivers a crisper, more precise and better atomized charge of fuel. Precise fuel discharge, AFIS says, improves the engine's throttle response and its economy, but above all, increases its power.


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Elizabeth's Colorful & Adventurous Kitchen
The average kitchen typically has a lot of white or subtle colors throughout. It's rare to find a kitchen that is filled to the brim with bright colors, different textures and several patterns. That's exactly what you get in Elizabeth's colorful and adventurous kitchen.
One of my favorite aspects of the kitchen (and house in general) are the original wood floors. They're weathered, worn and stained — the perfect recipe for delicious and beautiful floors if you're going for a rustic vibe. Elizabeth created an interestingly gorgeous girly yet rustic kitchen.
Pink, orange and yellow are the main colors in the space which typically reminds of a Lilly Pulitzer store, but in this space I really enjoy the light it provides. To tone down the bright and girly she used industrial, restaurant quality furniture to add a bit of interest and personality. If it weren't for these differing styles of furniture, the space would just be too over the top!
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Please note, Breads Etcetera has now closed. Time Out Food editors, May 2018.
This bakery-cum-café has been going strong for the past decade, and come noon every weekend, there's a queue of up to half an hour, out the door and on to Clapham High Street, for a table. So what's the attraction? What the Danes call hygge, the Germans call Gemütlichkeit; a relaxed cosiness, created by smiling staff and toasters on the table. An enormous basket of freshly baked sourdough loaves sits on a counter-top in the middle of the room: white or wholemeal, rye or seeds, and all still wonderful despite the change of baker. The idea is to help yourself, cutting off as many different slices as you dare, and toast them at your table. This 'DIY' option costs £6.50, and as the staff point out, the only slightly dearer all-day breakfasts work out better value as you then get the bread for 'free'. Not that you'll have much room for extra toast, as the breakfast portions are huge; the 'super duper huge omelette' overflows even the large dinner plate it's served on. The vegan and vegetarian options are particularly strong, from the fruit and nut french toast to a vegan version of pyttipanna (Swedish bubble and squeak). In the evenings, the emphasis changes to an Italian menu, with – of course – sourdough-based pizzas among the options. Note: it's cash only.
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Horrible place! Horrible waiters! Everyone working there is super-unpleasant! Food? Nothing special.. Few kinds of breads with the selection of supermarket jams.. I don't know what is the big fuss about this place.. They will make you wait outside for a table. There is always a line. And it's cash only ( Hello! It's XXI century, guys!) I usually go with the TimeOut recommendations, but this place is such a disappoint! I don't know how did it happened that "Bread Etcetera" landed on this list?!?!
This place used to be good and reasonably priced. The last couple of times has been disappointing to say the least. Prices have gone up considerably - now 12 pounds just for an omelet or 13 pounds for a full english (mandatory service charge of 12.5% as well). Quality has gone down noticeably. Won't be going back.
I used to love this place, I went relatively regularly (probably more than once a month for the past two years), but recently it's really gone to the dogs.
Something has gone wrong, which is a real shame.
My last three visits:
1. The cable of the on-table toaster started sparking, and fizzing, hissing, covering my clothes with electrical sparks. the waiter didn't notice, and when I mentioned it (a little shaken up) he didn't apologise and acted as if it was nothing
2. I presume the owner/manager could be overheard having a loud and aggressive phone call with a supplier, it was really off putting to hear such aggression and near shouting-volume while I'm eating my breakfast
3. The most recent time, the butter was distinctly sour and smelled cheesy, I presume it was off
I am applying a 'three strikes and your out' policy, so won't be visiting again, which is a real shame as I used to love popping over there, either alone or with friends, for lovely fresh sourdough toast and a cup of coffee.
Came back for the first time on thursday after my first visit when they first opened up a good 5 years ago. Was truly dissapointed to say the least. Was not busy at all yet with at least 5 members of staff, including the kitchen staff I could see there was little intrest in keeping the customers happy. Seemed like half of them werent getting on and looked like they didnt want to be there! Ordered soft bolied eggs but instead the eggs were well cooked and delivered with bits of egg shells! Staff to disintrested to even come and ask if food was ok so didnt even bother to bring it up. Quickly asked for the bill after nearly burning my hand on my latte which was served in a glass...and nearkly choking after finding they had put on a service charge on my bill!!...what service?? Bring back the olden days!!!
Just another gimmicky cafe catered for local Aussies and other numpties that are still wasted from last nights drinking and need stodge to soak it all up. Fine if you want to go and spend £15 on a breakfast with the only thing good about it is the bread. The rest of the food is ropey, and well who really cares about service? It's a cafe, not a Michelin star restaurant so I won't pay for it. The only novelty about the place is the décor and the toasters that sit on the tables with toast coasting a whopping price (it should come free with the amount you spend). What's the point of it all?
Loved everything, food, concept, staff. The only thing that pull me back to go more often is the waiting queue
No stars. Crap. Baked eggs? Crap. Eggspensive. Poor selection of bread. Had to beg for our change.
Good food, nice decor and interesting concept.
However were they trip over is the service. During high traffic in weekend they are rude and make you feel like they are just waiting for you to leave so they can sit the next party. This is true for the waiters as well as management. Not a welcoming environment. Would not recommend.
Amazing cosy little cafe! Great scones and coffee! Helena was a big help for our New Years plans!
I had heard many good things about this delightfully cosy restaurant/bakery, so on deciding to visit with my partner for Saturday breakfast, my expectations were high. And I'm thrilled to say that neither of us were disappointed. The popularity of this restaurant did mean queueing for 15mins outside, however we were continually kept up to date with the progress of vacant tables and fed free samples of their divine homemade scones and muffins. These baking delights continued when encouraged to help ourselves to their sourdough breads (including two types of rye), to then take to our own personal toasters, accompanied by homemade jams. The menu was specific but varied so as to suit whichever mood you may be in - whether it 's some heart-warming porridge, or a refreshing dish named "Victoria's Breky", made up of salmon, dill mayonnaise and scrambled eggs (my personal favourite!). All coffee fans would be impressed by their own house roast, I sampled a delicious, non bitter cappuccino. And the Hot Chocolate was to die for. One of the best's I've had in London! The attention paid to us throughout our morning kept our spirits high, great customer service up until we left the restaurant. This is a little gem of a place, with a buzzing atmosphere and a completely unpretenscious environment. One which I couldn't leave without buying myself a walnut sourdough loaf to take home and feed to my friends so that they could get a taster for our experience. Very much looking forward to returning and testing out their sourdough pizzas which supposedly out do Franco Manca'!!
Fantastic breakfasts! We ordered 4 quite different options and all arrived together with each one looking impressive. I was told the flat whites were also very good by my friends My fiancé has a dairy intolerance and when she asked for an alternative to butter for the signature toast options, the kind chap popped down the road to buy her a suitable dairy free alternative! Great food, great service, great experience – Top Marks!
FAB FOOD, GREAT service... I cannot find fault even at busy times. queueing is part of it, once your in you can toast away!
came across this place by accident. Had a very nice breakfast there. baked eggs were great. Bread was great. service when we visited on both mornings was very good. Def worth a visit.
I went here this morning after my while family had recommended it. Lovely atmosphere, gorgeous food, average coffee. However I was highly unimpressed at the 12.5% service charge added to my bill when I could find NOTHING in the cafe anywhere that started service charge would be automatically included on my bill. That had put me off going back.
I'm a little underwhelmed by this morning's visit to say the least. Friday morning, not v busy, plenty of staff on and yet, attracting their attention was like pulling teeth... Confused by how highly rated it is to be honest.
great place. we had amazing full english breakfast. awesome bread!:) must visit when u in london :))) note- there is always queue on doors but its worth a wait!
Brilliant food, great service, lovely ambience - best place in Clapham for breakfast.
Love this place, been recently and had no problem with the staff and it's the best place to have breakfast i've found so far in london, full english is huge plus you can top it up with as much lovely bread as you want. playing some jurassic 5 last time i was there, great vibes and very chilled if you can get there for a quiet period i.e. not weekend. going there right now for some breakfast!
tried their new pizza menu and it's very disappointing. way too much cheese, and thick stodgy base. definitely will not recommend / go again for pizzas.
I ordered the baked eggs with bacon and mushrooms. It barely contained any bacon, mostly just fat, and was swimming with water because obviously the mushrooms hadn't been fried off before cooking in the eggs so they'd leaked their fluid inside the dish. In short, horrible food with bad, scowling service. This place used to be good but the quality today was appalling. All it's got now is the toaster-on-table gimmick and that's not enough.
Weirdly we ffound the manager abrupt as well, but I think he's just keeping on top of a busy cafe... That said the bread is awsome the concept good yes it's a little expensive but for a one off good fun and very tasty. Soft boilled eggs and bacon, Salmon and scrambled eggs, loads a toast 2 teas and 2 cappacino's £26.
The perfect place to enjoy your Saturday/Sunday brunch whether you're feeling fresh or worse for wear. The staff are very attentive and friendly making you feel totally relaxed and cared for. The food is always top quality and since it's all you can eat freshly made, straight out of the oven bread you'll leave feeling completely full! I love the atmosphere - the leather booths, vintage toasters and water 'jars' really give it a warm, cosy feel. Also love the £5 pizza's in the evening :) This place deserves 5 stars!
want some great breakfast? GO THERE :) this is my favorite place ever. everything is fresh. with DIY breakfast you get unlimited bread (different kind fresh!) and every table has its own toaster :) its yummy all the way
This place has the best service, most delicious mouth watering dishes and a lovely feel to it. We come here all the time for hangover service, which always includes a knowing smile from the servants as well as large quantities of bread. A place that gives you your own toaster? A-MA-ZEBalls.
I love this place for breakfast and dinner too! Not many people know that it's there for dinner and they're really missing out. It's a totally different atmosphere to breakfast and is super warm and cosy, with delicious pizzas, salads and wine all very reasonably priced!
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I picked up this haul agesss ago but didn't get a chance to report until now! I bought the Nars Soft Touch Shadow Pencil in Aigle Noir, The Multiple in Luxor and the anniversary eyeshadow palette called Day & Night.
The anniversary palettes come in a red box:
And special red lettering!
Inside, there's a nice mix of colours to take you from – you guessed it – Day to Night! I have most of these shades but in different palettes so its nice to have them all in one place.
Names of the colours:
Most of these colours are part of DUOs. Its quite a sugary, pastely palette with the exception of Night Breed and Underworld. Is it a good palette for winter? Mmm it feels like quite a spring palette for me.
Swatches – the top row of colours are all quite light, pastely shimmers:
The eye pencil – Aigle Noir is one of the Soft Touch Eyeshadow pencils. The other two (one bronze and one an off white) were ok but this was the most stunning eye pencil of the lot:
Swatches – its a black with gold flecks. GORGEOUS!
Its pigmented, super soft but because its so soft, it definitely creases. Its great as a base – its a shame really because the colour on its own is so stunning, a cream to powder formulation would have been amazing.
The Multiple:
Luxor is a light pink highlighter – where Copacabana is a pearly white, Luxor is warmer.
The new multiples have a much much nicer texture – they are softer and easier to apply without warming up.
Having said that – this is a nice shade but not essential. If you could only take one of the highlighters, I'd say go for copacabana – its more versatile. The light pink edge to Luxor doesn't make it suit everyone skintone.
So why did I buy it despite not loving the shade completely I bought it as I collect Nars Multiples. Yep, that's what I'm calling it.
Did a quick look with the eye palette. Its a nice one if you are new to Nars, you'll get a good range of shades.
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It's not officially part of the Easter Jeep Safari, but plenty of activity will take place at Potato Salad Hill next week nonetheless.
A few thousand people traditionally gather at the site located just a stone's throw from Mill Creek to watch drivers in all kinds of vehicles roar up the hill.
The Grand County Sheriff's Office will have a presence to keep things under control and to provide assistance if needed. Sheriff Steve White said "it is pretty mellow anymore" despite some rowdy behavior at the site several years ago.
Grand County Jail Commander Veronica Bullock recalled one particularly raucous time when men urged women to lift their shirts. An accommodating lady who did so was arrested and booked into jail, Bullock said.
Those at Potato Salad Hill passed a hat for donations and quickly raised the woman's $325 bail. Bullock said authorities have cracked down on such behavior since then and similar incidents have not occurred.
"Alcohol and topless females in front of 3,000 people does not go well," she said.
However, littering is a perennial problem during the event, said Sara Melnicoff, who helped organize Common Thread's Operation Cooperation through Moab Solutions to help clean up trash at the site. Although a Salt Lake City-area Jeep organization, Rocky Mountain Extreme, provides 12 portable toilets and a Dumpster at Potato Salad Hill each year, revelers inevitably leave trash behind, she said.
Melnicoff and other Operation Cooperation volunteers gather early each morning of Jeep Safari week to pick up litter. She invites others to take part in the daily cleanup, which has included as much as 400 pounds of trash on Easter day in the past. Volunteers gather at about 7 a.m. just beyond the landfill off Sand Flats Road.
Melnicoff also has erected small rock barriers along the roads at Potato Salad Hill to discourage motorists from veering off legal trails and onto sensitive habitat.
She said she hopes such efforts encourage more people to adopt caring attitudes about the environment.
"Every part of the earth is sacred," Melnicoff said. "I believe in interacting positively with the earth."
She said there is no reason for some people who operate recreational vehicles to stray from legal trails.
"There are untold opportunities for them to explore," Melnicoff said.
The BLM recently installed cables along part of the road near Potato Salad Hill to help keep vehicles where they belong.
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He's Big Poppa Pump, the man with the largest arms in pro wrestling, and an ego to match. He's got a big match at Sunday's TNA Lockdown pay-per-view. He's Scott Steiner, and he's got a lot to say. And Triple H won't like it.
Taking the time to talk with journalists (and various other hangers-on) on Wednesday for a TNA/Spike TV conference call seemed like a mild annoyance for Steiner. Besides a hardcore workout schedule to keep his massive frame pumped to its peak, he's been living life to the max, and claims to have set a new world mark for conquests.
"About six years ago, I broke Wilt Chamberlain's record of 20,000 women," bragged Steiner. "The number's growing higher, and that's what I plan on doing for the rest of my life - pleasing my freaks."
He's content with the simple schedule working for TNA, mainly TV tapings and pay-per-views. It gives him more time for what's important to him. "In my life, women are the greatest thing ever put on this earth. I've always loved women. When I was away, I just spent more time loving women," Steiner said.
At the end of WCW's run as a promotion in 2001, Steiner was one of the main men on the roster. Yet he wasn't 100% physically and knew it. He had nerve damage in his foot, suffering what is commonly called drop foot. He wouldn't get it fixed until late 2003, after his big run in WWE came to a stumbling halt.
Doctors put six screws into his foot, did a tendon transfer, and did a bone graph from his hip. "It was pretty extensive," he said.
An obsessive trainer, he worked out throughout the five months he had the cast on his foot. Everything's cool now. Just ask him. "I'm fine right now. Just look and see me on TV, I look as great as I've ever looked. Injuries are a part of sport. I've pretty much injured every body part that you can."
The time away from the ring was good for him, besides the women, of course. "I missed it. It gave me a lot of time to think," Steiner recalled. "I'm glad I'm still able to wrestle. Even though I've had a lot of injuries, I've had a long career. I'm glad I can still do it."
It also gave him a chance to mull over the many things that went wrong during his WWE stint. "I was pretty much done after WCW, then WWE offered me actually more money than I was asking for, so it was hard to turn down."
Though he claimed not to have any positive memories of his recent run there, Steiner did have some kind words for his former valet.
"Stacy Kiebler has the nicest legs in professional wrestling, and pretty much the whole world. When I walked out to the ring with her, and she bent down through the ropes, it was the best place in the house," he said. "It was awesome. I always got along with Stacy."
The same cannot be said for Triple H, whom he battled for the WWE title on two pay-per-views.
Steiner said, plain and simple, that he was held back by Triple H - and that he wasn't alone.
"Yeah, well, look what happened to everybody else. Same thing Goldberg, same thing Kevin Nash. What can you do? The guy's a very insecure man. Realistically speaking, if he wasn't banging the boss's daughter, he wouldn't have a job there right now."
Frustrations with the WWE writing crew still seem to eat at him. "Guys can't even wrestle in the ring now. When I was up in WWE, they couldn't understand why I would do push-ups in the ring. I went what? I don't f***ing understand The Spirit Squad. You know what I mean? Give me a break. Or pushing a retard? Come on! And you don't understand push-ups? Come on!"
It was only a few weeks ago that Big Poppa Pump made his return to pro wrestling, coming to the aid of his old friend Jeff Jarrett in the "King of the Mountain's" battles with Sting.
The locker room in TNA was not the same as what he experienced in WWE. "What I've noticed is that the atmosphere is a lot different. In WWE, Vince [McMahon] surrounded himself with a bunch of yes-men. When I left there, it was brutal, and it got worse backstage than it ever had."
His relationship with Jarrett goes back a long way. Steiner had survived Dick the Bruiser's WWA territory around Indianapolis, and his next stint was in Tennessee. Having both been nWo members, in the dying days of WCW, Jarrett was seen as hired muscle to protect the champion Steiner. The roles are virtually reversed in TNA, even if Jarrett is beltless at the moment.
Why TNA and why now? "It was timing. Jeff called me up, wanted me to take care of Sting. I've had issues with Sting in the past. I definitely jumped at the opportunity," Steiner said, in full hype mode for the match Sunday that pits Jarrett, Steiner and America's Most Wanted against Sting, A.J. Styles, Rhino and Ron Killings. "All these fans are behind Sting. They want him to come over and take over TNA. They're going to find out it's not going to be so easy ... Sting's no competition to Big Poppa Pump. I've got the largest arms in the world. How's he going to contend with that?"
It's tunnel-vision for Big Poppa Pump. He wants to lay a beating on Sting. "My mindset is on Sting. I've watched what TNA has been doing and they've been messing with Jeff. Everybody rolls out the red carpet for Sting like he's -- he's the champion of the rednecks and white trash. I'm going to put him in his place. His fans will be hoping that he'll make a miraculous comeback when I beat him down. It's not going to happen."
The TNA six-sided ring and the steel cage are also on Steiner's mind. "I think it's an innovative concept, I think it's pretty cool. It's definitely going to be different when I step in there. We'll see what happens," he said. "I'm just planning on grounding and pounding anyway. I don't plan on hitting the ropes or anything like that. Sting might not even make it to the ring. I might beat him up in the locker room. That octagon ain't going to be nothing. I don't know, we'll see what happens. But it'll definitely be different than four corners."


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March 8, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Although MIT opted to rest many of its qualifiers in preparation for the upcoming outdoor season, the men's track and field team still finished eighth at the ECAC Division III Championships behind a pair of NCAA-qualifying performances, an individual title and a new Institute record.
Senior Omari Stephens and sophomore Stephen Morton provided most of the thunder with a pair of season-best efforts. Stephens cleared 16'0.75" to win the pole vault with an NCAA provisional mark that was nearly one foot ahead of his previous season-best. Stephens attempted the meet record of 16'3.75", but was unable to clear the height despite a few solid attempts.
Morton was just as sensational in the triple jump. Although he finished second in the event, Morton still authored the fifth-best jump in the NCAA this season while topping a school record that had stood for 25 years. Morton covered a distance of 47'11" to move past Martin Taylor's '83 best jump of 47'7.25".
The Engineers featured several competitors in both the pole vault and triple jump. Greg Tao cleared 14'5.25" and Patrick Barragan was able to crest 13'5.25" in the vault while Anthony Teixeira placed 10th in the triple jump at 44'11.5". Freshman Mattias Flander finished 15th overall with a jump of 44'6.75".
The freshman 4x800m relay team of Richard Prevost, Paul Welle, Shawn Conrad and Kevin Kleinguetl wanted to go for the MIT freshman record of 8:05.13 set back in 1992, also at Harvard. Prevost, primarily a distance runner, led off with a fine 1:59.2 and handed the baton to Welle in third place. Welle got out well, took the lead halfway through and held on to first place by running an outstanding 1:57.6. Conrad held onto the lead for a while but could not stay with the top two runners in the final 200 meters before handing off to Kleinguetl in a distant third. Kleinguetl could not close the gap despite a 57.4 first 400 but finished with a 1:58.8 to enable the Engineers to set a new freshman record with the time of 7:57.23.
Next week Stephens and Morton will travel to Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, to compete in the NCAA Division III Championship. A live webcast will be provided and can be viewed by visiting http://www.onusports.com/NCAATrack08/index.html. If Morton qualifies in the long jump, he will compete at 1 p.m. on Friday afternoon and 10 a.m. Saturday morning in the triple jump. Stephens will compete in the pole vault at 5 p.m. on Friday.


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Five Star, Apr 2003, 26.95, 296 pp. ISBN: 0786243082 In 1945, the retreating German army destroys the bridges and ferries that enable passage across the Rhein. This virtually cuts off the Village from the Fatherland and leaves it wide open to the invading allied forces. Not long afterward, the American army enters the Village as an occupying force. Villager Lisa Forster sees a tall Yankee soldier as he parades into her hometown. He notices ...


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Flying aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center plane to his launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA affixes a crew patch sticker to the cabin wall Sept. 13 following his departure from his training base outside Moscow with his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will launch from Baikonur Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
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If you'll be in Berlin next week, I hope you'll join me and my fellow speakers for Beyond Tellerrand, the design technology conference that's quickly become a favorite locus for interesting design thinking. Equal measures of visual design and web technology always combine for an inspiring and provocative couple of days.
I'll be talking about webfonts, and a critical framework that I've found useful in understanding their intentions and assessing their quality. And if all goes well this week, I'm hoping to have the opportunity to introduce some new features that we're developing for Cloud.typography, our second such announcement this month. —JH
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Reviewed by Paul C. (age 7)
In the song My Sister Fights With Me, it looks like they're going to have a fight because they have a line across the room! I can tell by the pictures that the sisters are angry with each other. The illustrator did a good job. I like the eyebrows because they are so ugly. The pictures do not look like what they are supposed to be. They are more like cartoons. They make us laugh a lot. I have a little brother who sometimes breaks things. In Tiny Baby Brother, the brother smashes the car phone, smears paint through the den, and flushes the remote control down the toilet! I went to camp this year. I did not eat the mystery meat! I would like to visit Camp Salmonella just to see the funny creature from the picture. It looks like a chicken with fins, duck feet, and parrot feathers. It has a spoon and a fork stuck on its head!
I recommend this book to everybody. If you like silly songs or crazy pictures, then this book is for you.


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Times Square will be given a refit after years of speculation over its future.
The regeneration is expected to attract some of the biggest names on the high street.
As part of the makeover larger store spaces will open up, and a new entrance will be built at the station-end of the building.
The owners are also weighing up whether or not to build a gym and fitness centre on the site.
Times Square manager Noel Bergmann said: "The centre has been at the heart of shopping in Sutton for more than three decades
"But if we are to attract top high street retailers and provide an attractive, enjoyable shopping experience, it needs to undergo a facelift"
Times Square is based at 100-106 High Street Sutton, and is the borough's largest retail space.
The regeneration drive was given the green light on Wednesday, June 11.
Planning committee chairman, Cllr Richard Clifton, said: "This is a high quality design that will improve an important site within our town centre, at a time when high street retailers are facing tough competition.
"The refurbishment of Times Square will bring some vacant space back into use and this will in turn generate jobs and wealth for the community."


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Apple has hired William Stasior, an Amazon executive, to run the Siri unit. At Amazon, Stasior ran the group responsible for Amazon's search and search advertising efforts, known as A9, and has previously worked at Oracle, Netcentives, and AltaVista. Given Stasior's experience in search, there are a number of reasons that he could have been brought on. All Things D has the story, and offers some guesses:
What's more intriguing is what else Stasior might find himself working on — presumably, strengthening Apple's search and search advertising technology in the wake of its increasing competition with Google.
Apple has recently tossed Google's mapping technology from its latest version of its iOS 6 operating system and could eventually remove it as a search option too on its popular smartphones and also its other computing devices and software.
Never say never, but people are searching less for the first time in history, and Apple is a future-thinking company. Simple web search is the now, what's the next?
There's no greater hint than Apple putting Stasior in charge of Siri. Siri is, at its core, an evolution of search. It searches for weather, sports, movies, your music, contacts, apps, and it searches the web. But it does so in an intermediated way, where best-of-breed information sources are lined up for specialized results, including Yelp, Wolfram Alpha, Open Table, and Google.
Stasior comes from a team at Amazon that was responsible for Amazon's cloud search abilities, and much of the work on cloud search includes scalability of the system, something Siri will need as Apple rolls out more features, and more consistent features.
Natural language may or may not be the next big thing, and Siri may or may not be the way natural language interfaces get popularized, but if they are and if Siri is, Apple needs to have it rock solid and ready.
Stasior could help make that a reality.
Source: All Things Digital


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Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., is a poet, raised in a now nearly vanished oral and ethnic tradition. She grew up in a backwoods village, population 600, near the Great Lakes. Of Mexican mestiza and Magyar heritages, she comes from immigrant and refugee families who could not read or write, or who did so haltingly. Similar to William Carlos Williams and other poets who worked in the health professions, Estés is a certified psychoanalyst who has practiced clinically for 35 years. Her doctorate is in ethno-clinical psychology, the study of the psychology of groups. She often speaks as "distinguished visiting scholar" on university campuses. She is controversial for proposing that both assimilation and holding to ethnic traditions are the way to contribute to creative culture and to a soul-based civility. She is the author of many works on the life of the soul. Her work is published in 32 languages. A post-trauma specialist, she served Columbine High Schooland community after the massacre, 1999-2003. She works with 9-11 survivor families on both coasts. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Las Primeras Award, "the first of her kind" from the Mexican American Women's foundation, Washington D.C. She is a 2006 inductee to the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
Social JusticeEdit
Estés' Guadalupe Foundation currently funds literacy projects in Queens, NY, and in Madagascar -- providing printed local folktales and healthcare and hygiene information for the people in their own language; these texts are then used for learning to read and write. Estés also testifies to state and federal legislatures on welfare reform, education, child protection, mental health, the environment, immigration, and other quality of life and soul issues.
"All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below." from the poem Abre La Puerta in Theatre of the Imagination
"Do not lose heart, we were made for these times..." from Letter To A Young Activist During Troubled Times
"The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase." from Women Who Run With the Wolves (p.14)
"Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees…" from The Dangerous Old Woman
"If logic were everything, all men would ride sidesaddle…" from Women Who Run With The Wolves
"Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary, the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most acutely armed for battle... for they care about preserving and protecting poetry, symphonic song, ideas, the elements, creatures, inventions, hopes and dreams, dances and holiness... those goodly endeavors that cannot be allowed to perish from this earth, else humanity itself would perish..." from The Dangerous Old Woman
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith… there is yet time." from Woman Who Run with the Wolves
Notable BooksEdit
- Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, (Ballantine 1992/ 1996)
- The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough (Ballantine 1993)
- The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About that Which Can Never Die (Harper 1996)
- Tales of the Brothers' Grimm; 50 page introduction by Estés (BMOC/QPB special edition)
- Hero With A Thousand Faces, Jos. Campbell. 50 page introduction by Estés (Princeton University Press, Joseph Campbell 100th anniversary edition 2004
Forthcoming BooksEdit
- The Dangerous Old Woman; forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf 2006
- La Pasionaria, A Manifesto on the Creative Fire: The Collected Poetry of Clarissa Pinkola Estés; forthcoming Alfred A. Knopf 2006
- La curandera: Healing in Two Worlds; forthcoming, Texas A & M University Press, 2006
Audio WorksEdit
Her audio works on CDs are published by Sounds True and have been broadcast over numerous National Public Radio and community public radio stations in Canada and the USA
- Warming the Stone Child: Myths & Stories About Abandonment and the Unmothered Child (Audio CDs - 1997)
- Radiant Coat: Myths & Stories About the Crossing Between Life and Death (Audio CDs - May 1993)
- The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity (Audio CDs - July 1993)
- In the House of the Riddle Mother: Common Archetypal Motifs in Women's Dreams (Audio CDs - March 1997)
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés Live: Theatre of the Imagination (13 part live series, Audio CDs - October 1999)
- How To Love A Woman: Myths and Stories about Erotic Lives of Women (Audio CDs 1996)
- Bedtime Stories; For Crossing the Threshold Between Waking and Sleep (Audio CD 2002)
- Beginner's Guide to Dream Analysis (Audio CD 2000)
- The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough (Audio CD 1993)
- The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About that Which Can Never Die (Audio CD 1996)
- Theatre of the Imagination (Audio CD 1995) - Identical to Clarissa Pinkola Estés Live
See alsoEdit
External linksEdit
- For more white papers by Estés
- For an audio catalog of the works of Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times
- The Church Beneath The Church
- Baptism: The Good Fathers / Internship: The Bad Fathers (Poetry)
- Slaughter of Innocencefr:Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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