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For the most part, my reconstructed breasts are smooth and natural. Pressing in on them, however, reveals to me small, hard masses. I only have a couple that I can find, but it did cause some alarm initially. The surgeon assured me that they were fat tissue that had hardened as a result of the transplanted tissue and were completely unrelated to any breast cancer issues. I sometimes wonder if I am completely safe though. Last week the other breast cancer blogger on HealthTalk, Suzette, wrote about her recent experience in finding a lump and undergoing a biopsy only months after breast reconstruction. The thing I admire about Suzette is her knowledge of her body and her vigilance against recurring breast cancer. I learn a lot from reading her blog posts. Thankfully, the results were negative, but it got me to thinking again about all of us with reconstructed breasts.
For one thing, how will we ever know if breast cancer begins growing on the muscle wall behind implants or transplanted flaps? I know the oncologist takes blood tests to help determine if our body is reacting to a new cancer, but how do we stay on top of this without a mammogram or other screening? It is easy to fall into a sense of security from having our breasts removed, but there can be recurrence in the muscle and wall of the chest. Oh brother. Suzette's recent adventure brought this to light for me and I plan to contact the reconstructive surgeon to ask what he suggests and also review this with my oncologist at my next visit.
We all now know that our best defense against breast cancer is to be proactive, I am glad that Suzette is a great example of what we all need to do to stay cancer-free.
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Like bad sci-fi, BrokersXpress lives on, only in a different form.
The announcement in May 2012 that owner Charles Schwab would shutter the broker-dealer was a surprise to industry watchers. Part of the OptionsXpress acquisition made by the custodial and clearing giant for $1 billion in September 2011, BrokersXpress was more difficult to integrate than its options clearing counterpart — at least that was the reason given.
The move, however, opened an opportunity for a number of other firms, one in particular being fellow Chicago-based firm TradingBlock. It naturally looked to brokersXpress alumni to help build out a similar style broker-dealer, and a number of senior staff made the leap. Gary Martino was one; he's a nine-year veteran of BrokersXpress with 30 years racked up in the industry overall.
He picked up where BrokersXpress left off, helping TradingBlock form its MoneyBlock spinoff as vice president of sales and business development, with a focus on options in the independent rep space.
"Initially there was a period of time where they were working on how they were going to integrate brokersXpress into the Schwab Advisor Services umbrella," he began by way framing the story behind the purchase and subsequent sale. "They would offer services for RIAs as well as having our own broker-dealer to service the independent reps in their own corporate RIAs, or their IARs."
Ultimately, Schwab, for whatever reason, decided to wind down the BrokerXpress model, which Martino called, "sort of a shock to folks, considering it was a profitable company and clean from a regulatory perspective, which is why most other firms typically shut down."
In doing so, Schwab gave BrokersXpress-affiliated reps and advisors 90 days to move their books of business.
"Although 90 days is a decent amount of time, it isn't necessarily a large amount of time for a broker or advisor to service their clients and go through the transition process and move those accounts," he noted. "I was asked to stay and help those reps and advisors transition their business and find firms that would be a good fit."
TradingBlock, it turned out, was one such firm. The small broker-dealer primarily serviced self-directed accounts, and had some of the same tools and features that were attractive to the reps and advisors at BrokersXpress.
"It's what I refer to as the holy trinity; features such as cost structure, options capability and technology," Martino said. "In the RIA space there are a lot of firms with similar capabilities, but in the independent rep community there wasn't really a lot out there."
Being in Chicago, TradingBlock knew about BrokersXpress, and always "sort of envied" the model. When they were approached by BrokersXpress reps about moving their business, the powers that be decided it would be a great opportunity to enter the independent space.
"The TradingBlock team reached out to us and asked us if we would be interested in helping them rebuild the model, which ultimately became MoneyBlock."
The rest, as they say, is history. However, he emphasizes it's not a carbon copy of the former firm; there are differences.
"Primarily it's the culture of the company," Martino explained. "One of the challenges we always had with BrokersXpress was the allocation of resources between it and the OptionsXpress side for development. It was always a tug-of-war. When TradingBlock decided to go in that direction, they put all of their resources into building up that MoneyBlock model. All of the development, all of our programmers, all of the resources we provide are geared towards the independent rep and advisor community.
They still have a self-directed part of the company, he hedged, but what is done at MoneyBlock "really trickles down to the TradingBlock model. That's where our emphasis is that still benefits both areas of the company."
He said he still enjoyed a good relationship with Barry Metzger, the high-profile former CEO of BrokersXpress, now COO of OptionsXpress.
"Barry came in 2006 and we always had a great relationship. I'm based in California and didn't want to move to Chicago. As the company grew, they wanted a CEO presence is Chicago. They approached me, but I didn't want to go there, so they brought in Barry. I always had a good relationship with Barry because I didn't feel threatened."
He came through 2008 at BrokersXpress, when options were lumped in (rightly or wrongly) with what Warren Buffett famously called "financial weapons of mass destruction."
"One of the things that I pride myself on is being upfront and honest with people about what we can and can't do. We have certain capabilities that we provide to reps and advisors and others we don't. So we always went through the good and the bad with reps and advisors. That way when they joined us, we knew they were joining for the right reasons."
The resulting regulation (often preceded by the word "over") is something about which Martino didn't mince words, noting it's "killing" the space.
"It's a tough industry from a regulatory perspective. I don't know of another industry that has as much oversight as the financial services community, even doctors and lawyers. When I was on the FINRA committee, one of my big pet peeves was customer complaints. I would watch T.V. and see these commercials for lawyers that said "if your broker lost you money, call us and we'll get your money back."
Fortunately, he added, brokersXpress (and now MoneyBlock) are companies that were going to do "what we think is right whether it costs money or not. There are attorneys out there, and we live in a litigious community, they just want to file a complaint no matter how frivolous it is and hope the person will settle and that just kills me. I guess that's just a necessary evil and we just have to work within those boundaries."
Martino concluded by noting the educational outreach in which MoneyBlock participates, specifically with the Options Industry Council and its hyperactive representative, Eric Cott.
"Yes, I actually know Eric well, and our firm is co-sponsoring a web seminar series with the CBOE. We've already done four or five web seminar sessions on how to use different options strategies. It's not really about MoneyBlock, per se, it's more about options education overall. The more we can educate on the use of options in different market environment, that's going to play to our strength overall."
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theCryptofishist wrote:Didn't I read that the dog can sense an attack up to two hours before it happens? I know I get a little blocked up on the playa, but two hours in the blue rooms. Not if robbidobbs herself wiped the seat, and when I was done, my ass.DoriumLux wrote:I understand that, but i didn't mean something would happen to the dog.
I meant what happens if she has something happen while locked inside the port-o-lette. (IE: 8-10 seizures per month)
how is the dog going to know, or be able to do anything while the owner is locked inside. The dog might be able to alert someone near by of the danger inside, but still, 3 hours from medical services, and who knows how long the owner will be cooking inside.
I understand the dogs are well trained, I know a dog is perfectly capable of "sitting" but a week of dehydration, explosions, overheating, and 50,000 unpredictable people running around....I dunno, Superman had a well trained animal as well, and so did Sigfried, and we know how those stories go. I hardly am able to tell how a person is going to act let alone an animal who can't speak out on the playa. People should consider worse case scenarios. At the very least she should bring a human companion who is trained to help her and can communicate for her in english.
but what do I know, there may be a dog whisperer near by that can talk to he lil' guy if she needs help.
theCryptofishist wrote:You have got to be kidding. A Service Dog is well-trained enough to wait outside the blue room while bladder and bowels are releived. They don't take some random Jack Russel and give a couple of weeks training and say "you're a service dog now!" It may not be wise to take the dog, but let's not take it for solid reasons, not goofy ones.
"Up to" Isn't that just a best case scenario? I don't count on best case scenarios and I don't think people should either. Especially, in an harsh environment. I think if she is going to do this, she should at the very least also bring a human companion. She even admitted she has memory problems and anxiety.


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fashion designer Jamal Taslaq and
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of the Navy League, in particular
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and recognized the hard work that
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- POISONED BLADE: Starts with the APHEELSIK glyph, gains 40% bonus damage against poisoned monsters.
- LIGHT FOOT: Exploring the area around a monster gives the player first strike.
- SWIFT HAND: attacking a lower level monster always grants an instant kill. This will overwhelm every other status effect in the game.
Note that spaces that fall off the edge of the board count as "revealed" for the purpose of light foot, so you can gain first strike against edge-hugging monsters in this manner. The swift hands ability ignores abilities such as first strike and death protection, meaning you face no risks when attacking monsters like gorgons or animated armors as a higher-level assassin. In rare scenarios where the boss is lower than level 10, it's entirely possible to kill him with swift hands.
With an emphasis on attack damage, the human assassin Human Assassin makes for a more combat-oriented assassin. He is better at regen-fighting monsters and will be well-suited to poison antics. The downside of the human assassin is that the only class feature the Assassin has to synergize with high attack damage is his situational first strike. You'll need to find other combos to make up the difference.
One of the most powerful spellcasting combinations in the game is the elf assassin Elf Assassin. With vastly expanded mana, the elf assassin makes a potent spellcaster. The biggest difficulty that dedicated spellcasters face is that they often neglect their attack damage and have difficulty fighting lower-level monsters that should be easy. Using swift hands, this is not an issue for the assassin, allowing him to focus totally on spellcasting in a way that even the Wizard cannot. Other races can still make potent spellcaster assassins, but they won't be as good as the elf.
The goblin assassin Goblin Assassin is the ultimate class/race combo for level-up catapults. By using swift hands to kill weaker monsters and converting items and glyphs for extra experience, a goblin can gain as many as five levels over the course of a boss battle, fully regenerating his health and mana each time. Very few bosses outside of vicious difficulty can survive this sort of persistant onslaught, and since you can begin the boss battle very early with this character it's likely you'll be able to use poison antics as well. The Goblin Assassin is one of the best ways to obtain the Unstoppable, Ding Max, and Feeling Parched badges all in one go!
The Assassin is one of the game's most potent classes, and is well-suited to a wide variety of approaches. At low levels, he has a strong and reliable opener with the APHEELSIK glyph, and at high levels he can cleave through strong monsters to gain a few extra levels that can make the difference. His greatest weakness is that he has very few class features to improve his combat abilities, and capitalizing on his situational First strike is very important. Because he has no bonus to regeneration or resistances and his initial attack bonus against poisoned monsters is only 20% (net), the Assassin actually makes a sub-par regen-fighter without additional items or boons. The assassin is most similar to the Fighter in this respect, and he can build towards almost any type of character by using the right combination of bonuses.
Although at first glance it may not be apparent, the Assassin is actually a very strong class for spellcaster strategies. One of the biggest problems dedicated spellcasters face is that they neglect their attack damage, and may be easily worn down by low-level monsters. An assassin will never face this problem, even on vicious-difficulty levels, and can therefor focus all his attention on the boss.
Because the assassin can easily 1-hit-kill monsters that are lower-level than him, he should never fight a monster that is equal-level to him unless he has no other choice. There is no bonus XP given for defeating a monster of equal level to yourself, and once you gain a level you can kill him effortless. Always focus your efforts on fighting stronger monsters to earn bonus XP.
The Assassin works well with a broad range of deities due to his personal flexibility. Unless you're willing to eschew the poison glyph, you will probably want to avoid Taurog and the Glowing Guardian. Otherwise the Assassin will work flawlessly with any other deity.


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ALBANY — The Democrat-dominated state Assembly voted Wednesday to ban fracking for natural gas for at least the next two years — or until May 2015 — to allow for independent health impact studies.
ALBANY — The Democrat-dominated state Assembly voted Wednesday to ban fracking for natural gas for at least the next two years — or until May 2015 — to allow for independent health impact studies.
All four local Democrats, Kevin Cahill of Kingston, Aileen Gunther of Forestburgh, James Skoufis of Woodbury and Frank Skartados of Milton, voted for the bill. The two mid-Hudson-area Republicans, Annie Rabbitt of Greenwood Lake and Claudia Tenney of New Hartford, voted against it.
Although the state has spent more than four years examining the controversial natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, those voting for the bill feel the issue needs more time. The bill calls for a new study by the SUNY system.
"We have to protect our water. That's what this is all about," said Cahill, a bill co-sponsor, along with Skartados. "The gas is going to be there when the price is worth more. The water will be there and we want to make sure it stays clean."
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Most Assembly Republicans voted against the measure.
Rabbitt, who supports fracking, called the bill "flawed" because the moratorium includes conventional vertical wells, which is the same reason Tenney voted against it. But Skoufis spoke for most of his fellow Democrats when he said he wanted to be "100 percent" sure fracking is safe before it gets the go-ahead. "Water is too precious a resource to take a chance," he said.


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are smokers, people with other respiratory illnesses or people with weak immunes system. Smokers usually develop chronic
, a form of disease that needs ongoing treatment. The main factors that are considered to contribute to the occurrence of
are: smoking, prolonged exposure to irritants (dust, pollen, chemicals, pollutants), immunologic deficiencies, genetic predisposition to developing respiratory conditions (in the case of
chronic bronchitis
) and infection with viruses and bacteria.
can be either acute or chronic. Acute
symptoms can be very intense, but they usually ameliorate in a few days. If acute bronchitis is caused by infection with viruses, the illness usually clears on itself, without medical treatment. However, if acute
symptoms appear to intensify, it is very important to seek the advice of your doctor.
symptoms are: cough, wheezing, throat pain, difficulty breathing, chest discomfort and soreness when breathing, fatigue and headache. If these
symptoms are accompanied by sweating, high fever and nausea, it means that the illness is caused by infection with bacteria.
symptoms that might indicate an aggravation of the illness are: severe cough that contains yellowish mucus, spitting blood.
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Those who are commonly getting diagnosed are metal molders, grain handlers, coal miners and other dust-related occupations. These symptoms get worse with those types of jobs. When air pollutants and sulfur dioxide are increased in the atmosphere, the disease can be irritating.
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It is very important to pay attention to
symptoms. Left untreated, both
chronic bronchitis
and acute bronchitis (when caused by bacteria) can lead to serious complications. However, any form of self-medication is not advised. By taking random left-over medicines you can only cause yourself harm. If
symptoms ease up in a few days, it is a sign that the illness is caused by airborne irritants or by viruses, in which case no medical treatment is required. However, if you experience an aggravation of
symptoms, you should see a doctor right away.
When the delicate respiratory organ gets aggravated, mucus is produced excessively to prevent other irritants from entering. When the excess mucus clogs your air passage, it makes it much more difficult to breath. Coughing, wheezing and breathing difficulty are commonplace during the infection.
So, if you want to find out more about
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To be thorough, a physician will ask about your medical background including your habits. One of the most common questions asked is if you can walk up the stairs without any difficulty. The physician will listen to your chest and back. This is how the signs of
are found.
Viruses are the usual culprits behind
and will usually go away after a few days. Sometimes bacteria can be the attacker and then antibiotics are needed to clear up the body.
* Additional tests may be used ifit seems problems are creeping up. If an infection is found, cultures will be taken. When treating for bronchitis, there are several factors to look at if bacteria are not the cause. If this is the case, then removal of the obstruction is key. Bronchodilators are extensively used to treat this disease.
Mucous in the throat region Have you been suffering from mucous in the throat? Then all you need to do is to breathe in the vapours of hot water, which could be added with mint leaves or lemon juice. The vapour would dilute the mucous, which would be expelled when you cough.
symptoms are usually of moderate intensity, but they are persistent and have a recidivating character. Unlike acute bronchitis, chronic
is an infectious disease and needs specific, long-term medical treatment. It is very important not to interrupt the treatment prescribed by the doctor even if
chronic bronchitis
symptoms are considerably ameliorated. If the medical treatment is prematurely stopped, the illness will quickly reoccur and
chronic bronchitis
symptoms can become even intensify.
Cough and colds are common illnesses once a woman gets pregnant. Physicians advise pregnant women to make necessary precautions to prevent from getting cough and colds since it can lead to more serious illness such as bronchitis.??
* Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) determines the amount of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the blood. Checked by drawing blood from an artery, this procedure can be uncomfortable. This is useful if oxygen therapy is advised.
3.?????? A warm shower everyday is recommended. It was found out that taking a warm shower can help clear out mucus as well as nose stuffiness. 4.?????? When symptoms of
are evident, you need to take a lot of rest. A visit to your OB-GYNE is highly recommended.
If you have
, the best things you can do before receiving medical assistance are: drink plenty of fluids (especially if you have fever), rest, stay away from irritants (smoke, alcohol vapors, chemicals, astringent substances), maintain a warm temperature in your bedroom and use air humidifiers to keep the air moist.
When do you get affected by mucous? Most of them suffering from mucous are affected during the winter season. How to get rid of mucous the natural way?
1.?????? You need to wash your hands as often as possible. If you are outside the premises of your home or office where a washroom is not accessible, it is best to bring a hand sanitizer or alcohol.??
Where are mucous generally found? Mucous are found in the sinus area, which is near the eyes and nose,
and throat. You need to do away with the mucous in the early stages itself, as it could turn out to be highly irritating and disturb your daily routine.
1.?????? You need to drink a lot of non-caffeinated liquids. By doing so, it will help by easing your secretion. Some of the recommended liquids for pregnant women are water, fruit juices from fresh fruits, and soups.??
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are evident in you, then you or a caregiver must take necessary precautions to tamper the development of the illness so that you will not suffer from the above-mentioned effects of bronchitis to pregnant women.??
is a condition wherein the air passageway inside your lungs swells. Cough and colds are the most common symptoms of bronchitis. Hence, if you are pregnant you must keep yourself from getting coughs.??
Because the symptoms of this disease are similar to others, it makes it more difficult to diagnose.
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It is best to consult your doctor before you take such medications to prevent possible harm to you and your baby.
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Lauren Conrad's Top Tips for Charitably Cleaning Out Your Wardrobe: Get Organized and Give Back
Operation Organize: Charitable Closet Clearing
We are thrilled to share this story from LaurenConrad! The TV personality, writer, designer, and style maven started LaurenConrad.com, a social networking site that features daily posts by Lauren on all of our favorite topics — fashion, beauty, food, party planning — and Lauren will be sharing her latest fashion finds with Fab every month. This week, we talk
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If you have read my book Style then you know what I think when it comes to cleaning out your closet: if you can't see it, you won't wear it. The solution? Overhaul your closet, and get organized. (Check out Chapter 4 of Style for helpful tips on editing and arranging your closet.) So what do you do with all of the pieces you want to ditch? Pay it forward. And no, I don't mean watch the movie. Think of it this way: as your unused homecoming dress sits in the deep dark depths of your closet, there is someone out there who is looking for, or needing, that very dress. They don't say, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" for nothing. Instead of tossing or selling closet rejects, donate them — but do it wisely. Certain organizations specialize in distributing specific clothing items. To inspire you to make smarter donation decisions, I have put together a list of helpful suggestions on disposing your closet castoffs: Shoes. If you are tossing a pair of shoes, give them to someone who really needs them. I recently learned about Soles4Souls, which is an organization that collects shoes and gets them to those in need. In many countries, children cannot attend school or church unless they have a pair of shoes, and Soles4Shoes makes this possible. Prom Dresses (and special occasion dresses). Let's get real. Most of us probably won't wear our prom dresses again. Instead of leaving the destiny of your dress in the hands of moths and dust, give it a second life by donating it to someone who will really appreciate it. There are plenty of organizations that help facilitate the distribution of special occasion dresses to those in need such as Donate My Dress and Project Princess. (If you're afraid to take the financial hit that may come with donating an expensive dress, you can also sell it on eBay or Smashion.) Locally donating to St Vincent de Paul or The Salvation Army will ensure someone picks up your formal dress for a steal.
RELATED: Ingredients . . . For a Perfect Fall Wardrobe Professional Clothing. If my Dress Coding series has inspired you to clear out the old and bring in the new, then this is just the tip for you. Donate your old work wear to someone in need. There are countless shelters full of women who are ready to get back into the workforce, but do not have the appropriate attire (or funds to purchase work clothing) to do so. By giving your old professional clothing to a local women's shelter or to an organization such as Dress For Success, you are providing someone with the tools for change and opportunity. The next time you decide to put your chaotic closet in check, keep these donation ideas in mind and let your clothes spread some kindness. After all, sometimes all it takes is one act of kindness to change someone else's world. So pay it forward. Do you support a clothing-related cause? Share links to you favorite local charities and shelters in the comments below. XO Lauren
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FW1350-LO/B Finewoods TV Stand in Light Oak
The Alphason Finewoods FW1350-LO/B Television Stand is a beautiful crafted television cabinet from Alphason's Finewoods Series suitable for televisions up to 65 inches. The unit comes with 3 black glass shelves, which have been toughened to BS6206A British Safety Standards, suitable for housing AV equipment such as Blu Ray Players, Game Consoles and other Home Cinema equipment.
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The Finewoods range is a solid and exciting combination featuring beautiful real wood veneers with contemporary black glass, all underpinned by a rigid steel support frame. The Finewoods range is about more than just looks however - toughened safety glass shelves sit on polymer isolation bushes to reduce resonance, and are adjustable in height to ensure you can perfectly display your AV equipment. The Finewoods stands come in a range of sizes and styles, all designed to complement today's modern equipment whilst maintaining it's beautiful look and traditional style.
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The Alphason Finewoods FW1350 Television Stand also comes featured with wood veneer rear panel which includes cable management holes allowing you to tuck away your AV cables. The unit comes supplied with carpet glide feet, which are also height adjustable to allow you to level the unit and prevent wobbling on uneven floor surfaces.
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Having just endured the train wreck that was Far Cry 3's narrative arc, now's the perfect time to look at this guide by GameFront on how to write a story for a video game.
It may look like a joke (and because it is a joke, it gets a little wonky in parts), but think about the story to a game you've played in the last five years, then see if it breaks this chart.
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The Nan Lee Roberts Scholarship is available to outstanding students participating in UMUC's Reverse Transfer Program. Reverse Transfer helps you maximize your community college credits, time and finances, by allowing you to transfer UMUC credits back to a participating community college to complete your associate's degree.
Qualified applicants must have transferred to UMUC from a Maryland community college. Recipients will be awarded $1,000 for 6 credits at UMUC.
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I certify that all of the information on this application is true and complete to the best of my knowledge, and I meet all eligibility requirements. I also certify that I understand and agree to the following terms:
- I may receive only one scholarship administered by UMUC per academic year.
- I agree to pursue and complete 6 credits and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 at UMUC during the semester for which I have applied for the scholarship. I understand that if I do not complete these requirements the scholarship may be terminated.
- I am not currently receiving 100-percent tuition assistance from my employer at this time and understand that my scholarship may be canceled if I receive 100-percent tuition benefits.
- I hereby authorize UMUC to photograph me or use my likeness and information regarding my application for public relations purposes, publicity, or other scholarship-related opportunities.
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The Ministry of Health and Social Services held its first AIDS Conference in the country on 28 November to 1 December 2016 in Swakopmund – Erongo Region.
The Minister, Honourable Bernard Haufiku said the country has achieved tremendously on HIV/AIDS and highlighted as following;
Namibian First Lady, Madam Monica Geingos was appointed UNAIDS Good Will Ambassador for young adults and adolescent girls globally.
Out of the estimated 210K people in Namibia infected by HIV, 150K are on Anti retro viral Treatment in the Public sector. If we add the private sector, which we are now busy integrating in our data, this figure will be more. This means we are already at 64% of our target.
The Ministry has adequate HIV testing facilities around the country, hence Namibians do not have excuses anymore for not testing.
Furthermore progress in our HIV response is demonstrated by the fact that only 4% of infants born to HIV positive mothers are HIV positive. Ninety six percent (96%) of these babies are born HIV negative, thanks to our Strategy of testing all Pregnant mothers and promptly starting those that are HIV positive on Mother to Child Prevention Regimens irrespective of their CD4 counts.
Not only does Namibia prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child in 96% of the cases but we have upscaled our financial resource for HIV programs. Funding 67% of our programs and having decided to allocate more than 30% of all our HIV Program funding to Combination Prevention which is remarkable by any comparison.
The Government has however demonstrated its commitment of ownership of the national response by steadily increasing the amount dedicated to its proportion of expenditures to the HIV/AIDS response over past years, which represents almost 65% of the total spending.
Other Achievements are;
The launch of the updated 2016 Treatment Guidelines that include test and treat and pre-exposure prophylaxis has also taken place.
Namibia implemented Option B plus for our Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT).
The country has signed Bilateral and Multi-lateral agreements in fast tracking HIV/AIDS prevention and saving lives. One such agreements is with US government focusing on Targeted interventions in the Hotspot areas.
The Ministry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Basic Education, Art and Culture in April this year, for a Comprehensive Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive education and Right in all Schools in Namibia.
In 2014 we developed our Combination Prevention Strategy. This approach is adaptable to local situations and focuses on achieving 'the greatest and most lasting impact on reducing HIV incidence and on improving the wellbeing of all affected communities'.


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In 2007 the Solar Oven Team partnered with Grupo Fenix, an organization from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeneria in Nicaragua that works in rural areas to increase awareness of sustainable lifestyles and research renewable energy, and Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa, a collective of women using solar technologies to offset te use of biomass fuels in their homes. In a region suffering from deforestation, solar ovens reduce the need for women to spend hours of their day gathering resources and reduce the health risks from fires. dealing specifically with a small community in Sabana Grande, the Solar Oven Team works to increase solar oven usage by creating a sustainable solution that is culturally acceptable and desirable.
Amenecer's current goals[edit | edit source]
- Test several alternative insulation materials for use in the solar cookers for utility and durability:
- wood shavings from planing wood - used presently
- rice hulls
- coffee bean husks
- fiberglass
- Develop a better mechanism for supporting the lid/reflector:
- the present wooden support rod is awkward to use and difficult to align
- Design a prefabricatable, light weight, easy to ship and assemble cooker:
- The box cookers used by Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa.. and Grupo Fenix are too heavy and cumbersome for effective shipping
- Develop a lightweight cooker that can be prefabricated from locally available materials in Sabana Grande, or other rural communities, and easily assembled at a distant site would make distribution of solar cookers much easier than present
- Research the possibility of using Fresnel or other lenses to help focus more light into a cooker, instead of or in addition to reflectors to allow more heat in the cooker.
- Design and prototype small cookers for use in the Ithaca, NY area, roughly 42 degrees North Latitude, with sloped fronts (glazing) to better capture light during the winter months. Two cookers will be made for demonstrating use and function in the area.
For more information please visit our solar cooker project wiki.
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- Summer 2013: During Spring Break of 2013, 8 students and team members traveled to Sabana Grande. The team included Meghan Hilbert, Emma LeJeune, Joanna Cherches, Hayley Kantor, Kevin Keene, Chris Perrotti, Angel Martinez and Tim Bond from Cornell and Ginger Ortega from UAM in Nicaragua. We arrived in Managua at midday on Sunday March 17th, were met by Lyndsey Chapman of Grupo Fenix, bused to Sabana Grande and met our families. Each person of our team stayed with the family of a different member of Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa. Our technical exchange began Monday morning. We described our several projects in progress during the last year and Las Mujeres described their projects. We decided to build a portable oven of a new style developed by a carpenter (and the women) who volunteered with the Solar Women for several months, a new solar water distiller with a different heating plate design and a bicycle powered electricity generator which would not require modifying the bike. Members of the Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa, Jovenes Pedaleando Hacia El Futuro our team split into three groups to work on the projects.
- March 2011: The student team visited Sabana Grande during spring break to build a new large cooker with a new metal stand for use in the soon to be completed Solar Restaurant being built by Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa at their Centro Solar. We plan to Sabana Grande in March 2012 to continue our work with our friends there.
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Vaccine is the biggest whoop
The title of Lisa Provence's December 4 article is perfect. "Big whoop," indeed. Pertussis cases peak in three- to four-year cycles. Statistically speaking, we're right on cue (# Virginia cases 1996-2002: 108, 59, 56, 65, 134, 12, 88). No surprise.
Not to say that pertussis isn't a concern. How big? You decide. Every year in the US, there are about 10 reported pertussis deaths– usually among infants under six months old, among whom pre-term and low birth-weight babies, babies born to teen mothers, and Hispanic babies are most at risk.
It's important to avoid hysteria, paranoia, and misconceptions.
Provence writes, "Before a vaccine was developed, between 5,000 an 10,000 people died each year from the disease in the US." She's half-right. The highest number of reported US pertussis deaths (9,269) occurred in 1923, and vaccines were widely implemented in the late 1940s. But her assumption that the two are related is wrong.
Pertussis rates declined rapidly without vaccines. By World War II, cases were one-tenth of what they had been 40 years before. (Pre-vaccine declines in tetanus, diphtheria, measles, and polio put other vaccine triumph claims in question.)
Mortality rates did decline rapidly in the postwar period, but pertussis epidemics still occur, despite vaccines. In Cincinnati and Chicago's 1993 outbreaks, 80-90 percent of cases were fully vaccinated children.
Dare we question the vaccine's effectiveness– and its safety? Clinical research has linked the vaccine to febrile seizures, encephalopathy, asthma, hypotonic-hyporesponsive episodes (rag doll syndrome), and death.
Yes, death. According to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 85 people died from pertussis vaccines in 1995 alone. Yet, the CDC reports only 103 wild pertussis deaths in the entire decade. Do the math. The vaccine killed eight times more people than the wild virus.
True, the current acellular DTaP cocktail is less toxic than the old, whole-cell variety. But it's less effective in providing immunity (as low as 40 percent in some studies). And, it's largely untested.
Clinical literature states: "The number of subjects who have received DTaP vaccines to date has been too small to calculate the risk of extremely rare but potentially life-threatening reactions." The risk of this vaccine is assessed by a post-marketing, passive surveillance system– which is to say that your child is, in effect, a lab rat in a poor study (incidentally, pertussis toxoid is allegedly used to induce encephalitis in lab animals).
Parents who want to make educated decisions should visit the National Vaccine Information Center at 909shot.com. Or, read Fisher & Coulter's dated, though relevant, DPT: A Shot in the Dark. Or swing by the UVA stacks and read testimonies of the May 18, 1999 U.S. House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on Drug Policy.
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By now, you're probably convinced that Steve Jobs was the Second Coming of Jesus. He wasn't.
He was a demanding, mercurial perfectionist. He could be, and often was, an incredible pain in the butt. He was the first technology diva. He needed "enemies" the way a fish needs water. He was more like Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, than he was Thomas Edison.
He led the most successful turnaround in technology history. He revolutionized a gaggle of businesses: consumer electronics, software, computing, retailing, music, film.
The key to understanding Jobs was to understand he wandered in the desert like Moses, not for 40 years but for 10. This was his time after Apple, when he invented NeXT, maybe the most powerful personal computer of its time. NeXT was a technical marvel and an economic wasteland. Only the true nerds wanted one, but once they had one, they wouldn't let go.
NeXT was Jobs' ticket back to Apple, which was badly in need of ... everything. But especially an operating system, so Apple bought NeXT and got Steve--buy one, get one free! Or you may have a different interpretation--buy Steve, get a free operating system!
Jobs had been driven from the temple by the Suits, namely, John Sculley. Sculley was much more the consummate politician, but in the end he was a soda water salesman. Sculley had learned the right words, but he never had the tune right. Exit Sculley.
In comparisons with Jobs, Bill Gates is usually cited as the better businessman, and perhaps he was. But at a certain point, Gates got tired, tired of the drag of running a business, tired of the Justice Department, tired of quarterly reports. Jobs never got tired. His thing: design. Design above all. Jobs once had a little Steve fit because he didn't like the screws inside the Mac. The screws! No one was even supposed to ever see them!
Jobs was the consummate venture capitalist, even though he wasn't one. He bought Pixar for a song--$10 million--from George Lucas. He nurtured Pixar, gave it life, let it make films (Toy Story), and hired brilliant people. He was running two companies at the same time, Apple in the morning, Pixar in the afternoon. Alert the helicopter; Steve is moving! The reason Jobs was worth $8.4 billion is that his little $10 million investment in Pixar grew to $5 billion.
Henry Kissinger once asked a staffer, who had the assignment to prepare a white paper, if this was his "best work." The staffer asked for the paper back and tried again. Kissinger then repeated the question, and the staffer then went back and tried a third time, afterwards telling Kissinger it was indeed his best work. Kissinger then replied: "Now I will read it." Jobs not only hired brilliant people, but he also got their best work. No one wanted to disappoint him. Also, no one wanted to be told that "This is the worst piece of ..."
Jobs' view of his competitors: sympathy. He never could understand why any company would release products so buggy and flawed, and why anyone would actually buy them.
Apple had every Jobs strength--and many of his weaknesses. He believed that individuals created and that products, such as Macs, should help creative people learn. Jobs actually never believed in teams or groups or collaboration. So the early Apple products were weak where Jobs was weak.
Jobs never really viewed his competition as Sony or Motorola or Nokia. To him content and media and presentation were simply manifestations of the same creative process.
Was Jobs easy to work with? No. No. No. Clearly, the media industry and the app providers learned that lesson. But give him credit: The music industry titans always viewed the pirate copy as their enemy. Jobs pointed out that they were fighting a losing battle and he had enough clout to get these dons to sit down and support iTunes, reluctantly.
When Walt Disney proposed that his company take its characters and make them into a theme park, the company's board members opposed it. Only because Walt was Walt did they go along. When Jobs saw a market for a tablet--actually, an updated version of the ill-fated Newton--no one else did, citing the number of beached whales the rest of the industry had buried. He invented the category.
He also reinvented retailing. The Apple stores, all 345 of them, stand alone: clean, stark, no frills, no hustle/bustle.
Jobs taught us that design and execution matter, that the newcomer can clobber the incumbent with simplicity and performance, that customers will pay higher prices if a product connects with them. While paying lip service to open source, Job hated it. He believed in a closed shop, whose products work elegantly, whose designs are understated, and which forges an implicit contract with the buyer/user.
Jobs' legacy isn't Apple Inc. His legacy is that excellence can and should be rewarded. And if the Googles, Twitters, and Facebooks of the world learn and remember that, it's because their leaders have stood on the shoulders of a giant.
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A Different Susan
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
So much of Susan Sontag's life has become both mythical and familiar—her early years, fueled by quotes from André Gide and a fervent desire to escape childhood; her miserable marriage to Philip Rieff; her brilliant son who grew up sleeping on coats at New York happenings; her love affairs with women; her vaulting ambition and arrogance; her loyal circle of devotees and the detritus of bitter former devotees; her resounding critical gifts; her pretensions; her cancer; her strength; her beauty and charisma; her photographs; her sometimes unreadable novels; her hair; her genius; her sharp tongue; her Paris; her Sarajevo; her gallant, frightened death.
The peculiar intimacy cast by Sontag's celebrity has only intensified since her death in 2004 at the age of seventy-one. Obituaries, then memoirs, shared the salacious details, recited the list of cultural accomplishments, celebrated the icon of American intellectualism with her restless intelligence and streak of white hair. When the first volume of Sontag's journal, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963, was published in 2008, her legend was so firmly established that it was not very surprising to discover that Sontag was already Sontag when she was fourteen years old.
One memoir that notably escaped the celebrity shadow cast by the Sontag myth was Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir, the remarkable work of devastated love by her son, David Rieff. Now, Rieff's former girlfriend, the novelist Sigrid Nunez, has also published a memoir about Sontag. Sempre Susan was conceived as part of a collection of stories about writers and their mentors. By all logic, then, this memoir should be lurking in the deepest recesses of Sontag's mythological shade. The familiar Sontag landmarks are there, certainly, but this fresh and touching book turns out not to be about Susan Sontag, Myth, at all. Nunez's book covers the years 1976 to 1978, when she lived at 340 Riverside Drive with her boyfriend and his powerful mother. This is the story of Susan Sontag, Mother-in-Law.
It is this aspect of Nunez's experience—the boyfriend's-powerful-mother aspect (so human, so common, so belittling and overwhelming) rather than the emphasis on Sontag's literary stardom—that makes this memoir come alive. That and the gossip.
The gossip about Sontag and her son was so potent that it made its way on winged feet even to someone like me, a clueless medieval history major at Bar- nard just at the time this memoir covers. I barely knew who Susan Sontag was, yet I had heard rumors that she and her son had an incestuous relationship. Even then, it sounded like an urban myth, like the bouffant hairdo that housed a swarm of bees or the microwaved poodle. One friend, Nunez writes, "laughed and said, 'Everyone imagines the most outrageous scenarios when in fact what you've got is your classic possessive, controlling mother and…
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Arena Rating Reset
The concept of ratings is that a person has a "true skill level". Ideally, her rating accurately reflects her true skill. And as her true skill increases and decreases, so does the rating. The problem is that when a person first enters the rating system, her rating does not match her true skill, but through winning and losing many games, the two will eventually match.
As such, most rating systems treat that entry point a little differently. In chess, people are often given a "provisional" rating, which lasts for about 25 matches or so. While they have a provisional rating, rating changes are calculated differently. Microsoft's Trueskill system actually has a second value paired with the rating, which is a measure of how "confident" the system is that the rating actually reflects a player's true skill. As you play more and more games, the system becomes more and more confident that your rating is correct.
Blizzard's rating system is very unusual in that it returns everyone to that low confidence state every so often. The usual reason given is that it gives everyone a fresh start. But in reality, your true skill level doesn't change that much that quickly. All the reset does is cause people to end up playing matches against teams of wildly differing skill level. A team that should be rated 2000 is now rated 1500, and is going to steamroll most teams it will encounter at the start of the season. This happens until the ratings shake out and people are restored to their true skill levels.
I think there's a different reason Blizzard resets the ratings. The Arena rating system is meant to be a zero-sum system. If my team gains 20 points, your team loses 20 points. However, in its current incarnation, the Arena system is vulnerable to rating inflation. What happens is a low-ranked team (say 1200 rating), gets tired, dissolves, and reforms as a new team. The new team enters at 1500 points, meaning that 300 points are added into the system. They will probably eventually fall back to 1200 and the process may begin anew.
By resetting the ratings, Blizzard clears out the excess ratings added into the system and restores the system to its zero-sum balance. Unfortunately it has the side effect of ensuring that ratings don't match the true skill of the teams for a few weeks after the reset. And it causes heavy load and long queue times on the servers as the higher ranked teams seek to restore their correct rating.
It's sort of amusing, but chess actually has the same problem, only in the opposite direction. I have a friend who is heavily involved with the Chess Federation of Canada. According to him, one of the main problems with their rating system is the existence of chess schools or camps for youth. What happens is that during the summer, the kids play constantly against each other and end up being pretty good because of the practice and training (not Grandmaster-good, but better than average).
Then at the end of the summer, they will play in a couple of rated tournaments. Because their entry rating is lower than their true skill level, they end up taking a lot of rating points from the other people. However, after that summer they stop playing tournament-level chess, taking those points with them, and the chess rating system suffers from point deflation.
To combat this, the equations used by the CFC that govern rating changes have a very small bonus term, which increases the amount of rating in the system, hopefully restoring the balance and keeping the amount of rating in the system constant.
It's an amusing parallel to the situation faced because Blizzard did team-based ratings and allowed teams to be dissolved and rebuilt. A personal rating system, such as is being introduced with Season 3, tends to be more robust because it cannot be reset easily, and the system is not quite as vulnerable to inflation.
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Quick question (I should know the answer to this): Are arena points awarded now based solely on personal ratings? I know that you must have a minimum personal rating for certain season three gear, but I think I remember reading that actual spending points are awarded based on team points.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous6:34 PM, December 12, 2007
No, they are given according to team ratings. However, items that require rating are based both on personal and team ratings.
- Anonymous12:15 AM, December 13, 2007
I feel a comparison to chess is a bit off. Arena is teambased. Chess is 1 vs 1 (and probably one of the most even playfields one can get and the factor luck is 0). Teams are subject to change (players in it, respeccs, gearchanges). I think a comparison with another teamgame (soccer, hockey, etc)would be more appropriate. But then you will notice that all teamsports (that I can think off) work with seasons and resets.ReplyDelete
If the seasons wouldnt reset automaticly every team below 1500 would probably disband/reform again at some point, even more then now.
The concept of ratings is that a person has a "true skill level". Ideally, her rating accurately reflects her true skill.
I think you kind of made it clear while PvP gear should be 'easyer available'. The only way to show true skill, is by starting every match on equal grounds. The bigger the gap in gear is for teams, the more this rating would reflect geardiffrence then skill. Everyone having the exact same choices in gear would be ideal for this (like in FPS games), however the drive to compete would be alot less if there wasn't anything shiny waiting at the end, not just a fancy title. This is where pvp'ers and pve'ers are basicly the same. Eventhough both state not to do it for the Epixx, they both still want them :)
- Anonymous8:03 AM, December 13, 2007
Do arena rankings really measure player skill? I don't think that skill (as in I'm better at pushing buttons than you) is directly measured by the ranking. Do arena rankings measure gear difference? I don't think that they measure gear ranking directly either. They obviously measure both at the same time.ReplyDelete
Now players tend to get caught up in the idea that my ranking is better than yours and use it as a comparison for power / progression / etc.... but that use by players is entirely incidental to what the arena ratings are actually used for by the game.
A basic principal of PvP is simply this: If I lose every battle I quit. Even if you reward me with a few points or some gear most people don't like the feeling of losing and will go somewhere to get that feeling of winning be it raiding, soloing, making a new alt, etc...
The arena ranking are entirely set up to make sure that in the worst case scenario I always play at the level of my own suck and that my win % is at least 50/50. The arena rankings for the lower and mid level players is a retention system.
The resets occur in my opinion because for the hardcore PvP (Just like for the hardcore raiding community) you periodically have to introduce new gear / raids --- in order to keep interest and in order to open the system up and let some people who are in the low / mid game have a chance of jumping into the big leagues. At the highest level of arena ratings you may very well be directly measuring player skill and you have to periodically reset everyone to prevent permenent advantages. PvP hardcore compete for prestige. This is why the ratings are reset. No one permenently gets the titles or rating. You have to continually stay on top and earn it out. WOW gives you the epic flyer as a long term badge but the everyday prestige is in the titles/ratings.
How does the rating reset effect the low / mid players. Usually not much. I may experience a few weeks at 0-10 wins/losses because of bad luck in drawing against the gladiators but most of us losers would just switch to the battlegrounds for a few weeks until the ratings sort out a bit. For the casual PvP player the arena plus the battlegrounds is an excellent player retention mechanism.
For those people worried about the "welfare" epics and so on you are not really looking at things from the proper perspective. You are looking at it through the eyes of a raider or PvPer which is entirely about the short term and the relative social status. The developers know that with Wrath of the Lich King all this gear is reset anyway. They only have to maintain players until then. How do you maintain casual players? You give them lots of stuff. How do you maintain hardcore PvP? You keep the battle interesting by changing the fight/rules/ratings. How do you keep the hardcore raiders? You give them new raids.
Everything in patch 2.3 was about player retention. The alts, the gearing, the ZA raid zone, and the PvP season resets and changes.
- Anonymous12:30 PM, December 13, 2007
You also have to consider that a high ranked gladiator team would only have to play 20 games total in the next season if the ratings were to remain(assuming personal ratings were set to your team rating when introduced, and are not reset in successive seasons). 20 games on the team and 20% participation is all you need. This leaves very few opportunities to actually fight that team, which may play all its games for the season in the first week and simply wait for the rewards to roll in, or play them all at the end of the season in the early morning. Granted most people at this level of PvP play would rather play more than such, but not resetting ratings leads to loopholes like above, which is probably part of the reason that ratings are reset. In particular, it would be ridiculously easy to purchase gladiator titles if ratings were not reset.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:08 PM, December 13, 2007
I find it interesting that you disagree that the comparison between ratings systems for the CFC and arena are improper because of the nature of 1v1 vs. team play. Both use what is supposed to be a 0 sum method. one suffers from good players who come in underrated, perform well, taking rating points from the people they beat, and then stop playing, effectively removing those points from the total. The other just suffers the opposite, players coming back in with 300 more points to loose after they already lost them means more points in the pot total.
As for the resetting, it is in a way a no win situation. stagnation as a result of no resets, or games where a freshly minted team gets turned into charred ground beef because they had the unlucky draw of getting last seasons Champs.
Personally I would prefer a situation where my team with 2 games to their name doesn't go against a team which will not only beat us, but do so in a very humiliating way. Maybe some system where the personal rating averages of the team members were used for the first couple of weeks in match ups as a modifier to the team rating would be a solution. (if these did not reset season to season) Or simply use last season's personal ratings at the beginning.
- Anonymous1:16 PM, December 13, 2007
damn no edit... in my above post (im tego) i advocated using the personal ratings in the first few weeks. To clarify the team rating would still reset, but by allowing the fighting to begin to work out where the "better"(higher previous ranked) teams would begin by being more likely to face each other would help reduce the number of very quick wipe games some teams face. the better teams would still have to work their way up the rankings so there would be no guaranteed win, while less experienced teams didn't get taken quite so quickly in the beginning.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:43 PM, December 13, 2007
I love reading your blogs.ReplyDelete
I can't put my thoughts into words.
daemion, from the point of view of the rating system, Arena *is* 1v1. One team with a rating vs. another team with rating. So the comparison to the ELO chess system is actually very strong.ReplyDelete
As for team sports, most sports have a fixed schedule and measure performance by win percentage. The relative skill of your opponents does not matter. So that system does not match Arena at all.
As for the 20 game requirement, if that's too low, we could increase it to 100 or so. If an Arena season is 4 months long, that's a bit more than playing the minimum games for half the Season. And if you can retain your rating after 100 games, odds are that is what your rating is meant to be.
Remember that the other purpose of rating is to match teams against teams of similar skill. It's not just 20 or 100 games, it's 20 or 100 games against teams ranked 2K+.
As for stagnation, a rating system isn't supposed to have wild swings. If you get better, your rating will steadily get better. If you get worse, your rating will steadily decrease. That's not stagnation, that's the correct situation.
- Anonymous1:08 AM, December 14, 2007
I'm not so sure one can lump the 1V1 versus teamVteam in the same boat. A person cannot drop out of the Chess system and re-enter as a new individual. Teams, however, can reform with the exact same members.ReplyDelete
Secondly, any arena team worth noting will utilize a large team cooperation effort. By resetting the arena ratings, Blizzard can really test the durability of this team unity. Imagine a middle-of-the-road team getting steamrolled 10 times and that'll really test if they have what it takes to dethrone the previous top teams. If it were just a single person, there would be no need as an individual can always have 100% say as to what he/she wants/represents.
Finally, Chess does not reward players with ever increasingly lethal pieces. Yet this is true for PvP. If there is nothing past S3 gear, I don't see why they would reset the ratings. Incidentally, this is proven to be true as each season only ends when new gear is available. If you assume that the end of a season and availability of new gear is mutually exclusive, rating resets start to make sense.
Arena rating isn't a measure a skill (well, it is, but not a long-term lifetime measure of skill.) Instead of thinking of it like a chess player's rating, think of it more like a chess tournament ranking.ReplyDelete
Everyone enters the tournament at the same level (0-0 in the case of chess, 1500 in the case of arenas.) You play the tournament/arena season, win some and lose some, and end up with a final ranking. Based on that ranking you get rewards and a new tournament starts again.
There is no equivalent chess rating in WoW. There is no calculation that takes skill and gear into account to say how "good" your team is, or what your expected rating in a particular arena tournament season will be. Everyone is assumed to be equal at the start of the season, and you'll see 1500 awesome teams going up against 1500 crappy teams in the first week.
I was a little imprecise in my definition of rating. Rating is not exactly skill. It represents "probability of defeating the other team". In most games, that's skill, but in WoW, that's skill + gear.ReplyDelete
An 1800 team is more likely to beat a 1500 team.
However, I don't think that just because a new season starts this fact changes. Both teams will get gear, but the 1800 team generally will be better geared after, and they will still have their skill. The 1800 team is still more likely to beat the 1500 team.
So if the statement is still valid, why have the reset? If the statement is not valid, teams will fall and rise in rating in the natural order of things. The reset is unnecessary and sub-optimal from an accurate rating point-of-view.
- Anonymous4:13 PM, December 18, 2007
I've a bit of ADD, so I apologize if I missed this in either the article, or the comments.ReplyDelete
I think that the rating reset is great because it gives every team the chance to go up against top tier teams. If a team that wants to improve, but only gets to play mostly against people of similar skill levels, it's a bit difficult to advance beyond that barrier; with a rating reset, you get to play top tier teams and see how they do things. Maybe it's positioning, maybe it's target swapping, maybe it's how they control your team, there's almost always something to be learned from an encounter with a gladiator team when you're non-glad team.
Plus, new gear is nice too. :D


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Today Major League Soccer launched fan voting for the 2013 AT&T MLS All-Star Game at MLSsoccer.com and via text messaging.
Philadelphia Union's nominees include: goalkeeper Zac MacMath, defender Jeff Parke, defender Amobi Okugo, defender Sheanon Williams, forward Sebastien Le Toux (League leader in assists with six) and forward Jack McInerney (League leader in goals scored with 10).
A panel of media members nominated a total of 115 players to the fan ballot. Fans may vote online at MLSsoccer.com/ballot. Fans can also vote by sending a player's last name via text message to 22442. Twitter voting will occur June 20-21.
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The 11th player – a forward – on the Fan XI will be decided after the general voting window closes on July 2, as part of the AT&T MLS All-Star 'In the Game' Challenge. Among remaining forwards on the ballot, the player with whom fans score the most goals in EA SPORTS™ FIFA Soccer 13 Ultimate Team from July 3-July 10 will be named to the Fan XI.
All-Star Head Coach Peter Vermes of Sporting Kansas City will choose the game day roster and the starting lineup against AS Roma on July 31. The first marquee MLS event to be held at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, will be broadcast live on ESPN2, UniMas, and in Canada on TSN and RDS, starting at 9 p.m. ET
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Ballot creation: A select media panel determined the field of players – six players per team – who are most deserving of consideration for this year's All-Star Game. Those players are eligible for fan voting.
Fan voting: From June 10 through July 2 at 3 p.m. ET, fans will select the "Fan XI" All-Stars. Fans can vote via any of three digital platforms:
a. At MLSsoccer.com: Vote for your starting lineup of 11 players, beginning June 10.
b. Via text message (SMS): Text an MLS player's last name to 22442.
- Each vote will count equally with those submitted online in determining the winner.
- Message and data rates may apply.
c. Via Twitter: From June 20-21; full details of Twitter voting will be released on MLSsoccer.com in the near future.
AT&T MLS All-Star 'In the Game' Challenge: From July 3 at 12 p.m. ET through July 10 at 3 p.m. ET
d. The top two forwards who have received the most votes after voting closes are removed from the eligible forward list. Voting for the AT&T MLS All-Star 'In the Game' Forward will then take place using FIFA Soccer 13 Ultimate Team. Fans will be invited to play the game and score as many goals as possible with their favorite player among the remaining eligible forwards. Each goal scored will count as one vote. The player who tallies the most goals will be named to the final spot on the Fan XI.
The first 10 players voted to the Fan XI will be announced on Sunday, July 7, on ESPN during halftime of the Chicago Fire-Sporting Kansas City regular season game that begins at 3 p.m. ET. The AT&T MLS All-Star 'In the Game' Forward will be unveiled on July 11.
Team selection: The MLS All-Star head coach will select the game day roster from the pool of eligible players, consisting of the Fan XI, MLS Commissioner Don Garber's two selections and players who received votes from at least two players.
The Commissioner selections and game day roster will be announced on Monday, July 15.
Player selections: MLS players will determine the remainder of the 32 All-Stars named annually per the CBA (known as the "inactive roster"
The final list of 32 All-Stars (four goalkeepers, eight defenders, 13 midfielders and seven forwards) will be announced on MLSsoccer.com on July 31.
2013 AT&T All-Star Game Voting Timeline
June 10: Fan voting begins
June 20-21: Fan voting Twitter window
July 2: Initial fan voting window closes
July 3: AT&T MLS All-Star 'In the Game' Challenge begins
July 7: Fan XI announced during halftime of CHI-SKC on ESPN at 3 p.m. ET
July 10: AT&T MLS All-Star 'In the Game' Challenge ends
July 11: AT&T MLS All-Star 'In the Game' Forward unveiled
July 15: Commissioner selections and game day roster announced
July 31: MLS All Stars vs. AS Roma at Sporting Park at 9 p.m. ET (ESPN2, UniMas, TSN, RDS)


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