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Ordered a Canon 6D today, upgrading from my Sony Alpha A57. My primary uses (and this is an odd combination, I know) are corporate video and personal portraits (with some lesser use for landscapes).
5D III, D800, and A99 were all out of my price range, since I had to save some $ for lenses too.
I went through all the reviews, etc. the same miserable process we've all experienced. I thought it might be of value to someone else if I shared why I ended up with 6D over D600:
- I really am someone who will use the low-light ISO, especially for portraits since I have to shoot natural light almost exclusively. I've had a some cameras that could take great pictures (Pentax K-x, Sony NEX C3, etc.), but I've always been frustrated that I could not push comfortably beyond ISO 800.
I jpeg the 6D is much better. in RAW, the D600 is a little better, but so little I would say they are equal
- Affordable lenses in the full-frame focal lengths I needed (better than Nikon for me). Even affordable used L-series lenses.
Yes, Canon has a bit of advantage, especially on the used market.
- More inexpensive MF lens options, including the very affordable non-ai Nikkors.
Those can be used on Nikon too.
- The option of the L 1.2 lenses (at least for rental).
Yeah that really is beatiful glass.
- The Canon world has a better video reputation, more resources available, and the possibility of Magic Lantern on the 6D someday is a nice thought.
Canon is clearly better at video, no question. Magic Lanter will 100% happen for the 6D, but it will never get RAW video or very high framerates compared with the 5D Mark III, becuase it lacks the hardware.
- There is a clear video upgrade route to the EOS C100. No such thing with Nikon.
Yes, if you dream of that it can be a big advantage, buy the C camera and use your great EF glass you already own. It is tempting
- Slight size / weight advantage of the 6D. The smaller the camera, the more willing I am to take it out with me.
I don't know either but hold them in the store. The D600 seemd a bit smaller to me. But really they are so close that it have 0 importance.
That's all theory right now, until it arrives. Then we'll see what the reality is!
Thanks for letting me jump on board.
It will be a great camera, that's for sure.
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Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera, Dear Frankie, etc.) adds yet another impressive and wildly different character to his arsenal of screen roles. As Leonidas, King of Sparta, Butler is, from his pigtail to his muscled, sandled feet, every inch a king; a true leader of men. His passion and intensity is matched by a splendid performance by Lena Headey as his wife, Queen Gorgo. Though a dutiful wife and a woman in an age when being such was near equal to slave status, she is, in her way, as bold and fearless as her husband/King. Dominic West is properly evil and oily as the traitor Theron and he's as nasty and duplicitous a villain as one can hope for. Rodrigo Santoro as a larger-than-life Xerxes is both comical and fearfully creepy equal parts drag queen and wanna be god. Behind all the glitzy piercings and bling, he is little more than self-inflated egotistical child.
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It's like they didn't even play the game, just looked at the civilopedia and a thesaurus, and wrote this book.
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The Internet is a promising venue for delivering smoking cessation treatment, either as a stand-alone program or as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy. However, there is little data to indicate what percent of smokers are interested in receiving online smoking cessation services or how best to recruit smokers to Internet-based programs.
Using a defined recruitment sample, this study aimed to identify the percentage of smokers who expressed interest in or enrolled in Project Quit, a tailored, online, cognitive-behavioral support program offered with adjunctive nicotine replacement therapy patches. In addition, we examined the effectiveness of several individual-level versus population-level recruitment strategies.
Members from two large health care organizations in the United States were invited to participate in Project Quit. Recruitment efforts included proactive invitation letters mailed to 34533 likely smokers and reactive population-level study advertisements targeted to all health plan members (> 560000 adults, including an estimated 98000 smokers across both health care organizations).
An estimated 1.6% and 2.5% of adult smokers from each health care organization enrolled in Project Quit. Among likely smokers who received proactive study invitations, 7% visited the Project Quit website (n = 2260) and 4% (n = 1273) were eligible and enrolled. Response rates were similar across sites, despite using different sources to assemble the invitation mailing list. Proactive individual-level recruitment was more effective than other forms of recruitment, accounting for 69% of website visitors and 68% of enrollees.
Smokers were interested in receiving online smoking cessation support, even though they had access to other forms of treatment through their health insurance. Uptake rates for this program were comparable to those seen when smokers are advised to quit and are referred to other forms of smoking cessation treatment. In this sample, proactive mailings were the best method for recruiting smokers to Project Quit.
In recent years there has been an explosive growth of Internet users around the world and a corresponding upsurge in interest in using the Internet to deliver online public health interventions such as smoking cessation treatment. The potential advantages of Internet-based treatment are clear. From the users' perspective, online treatment programs are convenient; content can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They also offer a greater level of anonymity than in-person or phone-based counseling, which users may find appealing. From a delivery perspective, Internet programs allow rapid, broad, and economical treatment dissemination. Programs can be highly tailored to mimic the individualization of one-to-one counseling, and the Internet has the potential to reach audiences who might not seek services otherwise due to issues of cost, accessibility, or stigma.
Whether Internet-based smoking cessation programs will be as effective as person-to-person counseling remains to be proven. To date, very few randomized efficacy trials have been conducted [1], but some promising preliminary data [2-4] suggest that well-designed online cessation programs could be effective public health interventions, particularly when combined with pharmacotherapy [5].
The ultimate impact of any public health intervention, however, is dependent on its reach, as well as its efficacy [6]. Internet-based programs have the potential to reach millions of people, but potential reach is not actual reach. Actual reach requires access, acceptability, and utilization. While ongoing research seeks to establish the efficacy of online treatment, it is equally important to evaluate the acceptability and utilization of these programs in their target audiences. This assessment is hard to do because it requires a defined recruitment population and control over individuals' exposure to program advertisements, which is not possible in most research settings. No published studies to date, that we are aware of, have recruited smokers for Internet-based cessation treatment using a well-defined population that would allow accurate estimates of treatment uptake among smokers. Our best estimates come from surveys of Internet users. According to a recent Pew survey, 7% of adult US Internet users, approximately 8 million people, reported that they have searched online for information on how to quit smoking [7], but searching for information online is not the same as enrolling in an online cessation program. Joining a program requires a higher level of commitment and effort. This could partly explain why only 5-14% of smokers follow through with treatment referrals after being advised to quit [8-10] and less than 7% of smokers in the United States enroll in clinic-based cessation programs [11]. Research is needed that will allow us to better understand the acceptability and reach of Internet-based smoking cessation treatment. Moreover, it is important to understand how best to advertise these programs to smokers to maximize treatment uptake.
In this paper we report on smokers' interest in Project Quit, an online, individually tailored, cognitive-behavioral support program with adjunctive nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) patches. Participants were recruited from two large health care organizations in the United States using a combination of individual-level and population-level recruitment strategies. Working within the health care organizations provided a defined patient population, making it possible to estimate interest in this program among likely smokers who were invited to participate and to evaluate the effectiveness of our recruitment strategies.
Project Quit is a collaborative study between the University of Michigan (UM), Group Health Cooperative (GHC), and the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS). The primary purpose of Project Quit is to evaluate the "active ingredients" of an individually tailored, online smoking cessation program. A secondary aim is to evaluate smokers' interest in Web-based cessation treatment and evaluate optimal strategies for promoting this service among smokers. Project Quit is being conducted in two independent phases, each testing slightly different treatment content. This paper reports the recruitment outcomes for the first phase.
The Project Quit Internet program was primarily designed and maintained by the Center for Health Communications Research at UM. Study participants were recruited from the memberships of GHC and the Health Alliance Plan (HAP) of HFHS. Both GHC and HFHS are not-for-profit integrated health care delivery systems. At the time of this study, GHC served more than 540000 enrollees (adults and children) in Washington State and Idaho. An estimated 200000 adults and children in the greater Detroit, Michigan area were insured through HAP and received services through HFHS. Both GHC and HFHS/HAP provide behavioral counseling and pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation as covered insurance benefits, but at the time of this study neither offered an online cessation program.
All participants in this study received access to a tailored, cognitive-behavioral treatment program for smoking cessation that was delivered via the Internet. Treatment varied by the type and intensity of tailoring, but all participants received a personally tailored program and a 10-week supply of NRT patches. All treatment was provided free of charge. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of each collaborating institution.
Participants were recruited through a combination of individual-level and population-level strategies. Each of the two health care organizations identified likely current smokers via either automated smoking status data collected during recent medical appointments (Organization 1) or documentation of smoking in electronic medical charts, use of an internal list of smokers collected during prior research, or lists of patients with smoking-related conditions who had previously been prescribed cessation medications (Organization 2). Thus, all invitees were known to have been recent smokers with a high probability of current smoking. Likely smokers were prescreened for minimal inclusion criteria (eg, age) and were mailed a study invitation letter. The letter content was comparable across both health care organizations, but not identical due to different IRB requirements. Both letters briefly described the Project Quit program and study eligibility criteria and invited smokers to visit the Project Quit website to learn more about the study and be screened for eligibility. Individuals could also inform study staff if they did not want to be contacted further about this research. Finally, each site allowed people to refer friends and family members to the program, as long as referred smokers were members of one of the health care organizations. Information on how to refer a friend or family member was included in the invitation letter.
After approximately three months, we determined that we needed to boost our monthly enrollment rate to reach our recruitment goal during the study time frame. In an effort to expedite progress toward our overall recruitment goal, we amended the protocol to include a reminder mailing to likely smokers. Reminders were sent to all individuals who, at that point, had not yet visited the website or opted out of further contact regarding the study. From that point forward, reminder letters were sent to all persons who, four weeks after they received the initial invitation letter, had not visited the website or opted out of contact.
We also utilized several population-level enrollment strategies. The study was advertised in each health care organization's quarterly membership newsletter and was the focus of a feature article in one newsletter issue at Organization 2. Ads appeared in three to four issues total, depending on the site. Each site also advertised through a variety of supplemental strategies. Organization 1 highlighted the program in one issue of its staff newsletter and on the "Join a Study" page of the institution's website. Organization 2 advertised the study during a local promotion of the 2004 Great American Smokeout and allowed physician and nurse referrals, though the latter was not widely promoted among staff. Participants were actively recruited from September 2004 to July 2005.
Letters were proactively mailed to 34533 likely smokers at Organization 1 (n = 18668) and Organization 2 (n = 15865). Quarterly newsletters were mailed to the entire membership of each health care organization, including approximately 563200 adults with GHC or HAP insurance coverage. Based on smoking prevalence data from automated medical records at Organization 1 and regional smoking prevalence estimates for Organization 2 [12], approximately 63180 adults at Organization 1 and 34506 adults at Organization 2 were smokers. At Organization 1, the staff newsletter ad was distributed to approximately 10000 employees, of whom 1000 were estimated to have been smokers based on internal smoking prevalence data among staff. It is not possible to estimate how many smokers were exposed to the other referral sources (eg, friend and family referrals, website posting).
Each recruitment strategy was associated with a unique referral code. Potential participants used these codes to log in to the Project Quit website. It is possible that some participants were exposed to more than one recruitment strategy (eg, invitation letter and newsletter ad); however, by using the referral codes we were able to track which promotional strategy they were responding to when they enrolled and to which health care organization they belonged. After logging into the site, individuals were able to read an overview of the study, be screened for eligibility, and provide informed consent.
Individuals were eligible to participate if (1) they had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, currently smoked at least 10 cigarettes per day, and had smoked in the past 7 days; (2) were seriously considering quitting in the next 30 days; (3) were 21 to 70 years old; (4) were a member of GHC or HFHS/HAP; (5) had home or work access to the Internet and an email account that they used at least twice weekly; (6) were not currently enrolled in another formal smoking cessation program or currently using pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation; and (7) had no medical contraindications for NRT.
During the 11-month recruitment period for phase one of Project Quit, 3256 people from both health care organizations visited the website; 2651 were screened for eligibility (81% of website visitors); 2011 were eligible (62% of website visitors); and 1866 enrolled (57% of website visitors).
We examined the response to each recruitment strategy by evaluating the number of people who responded to each and either visited the website to learn about Project Quit or consented and enrolled in the study (Table 1). Because the total response rate to each of the supplemental strategies (eg, friend and family referrals, website posting, staff newsletter, physician referral) was low, these strategies are combined into a single category in Table 1. Nearly 9% of study participants (n = 159) were referred by friends or family, but response to each of the other supplemental referral sources ranged from 2 to 18 enrollees.
The results suggest that the proactive invitation letters were superior to our other recruitment methods, accounting for 69% of people who visited the website and 68% of all enrollees. This finding was consistent across both health care organizations. A greater percentage of the Organization 1 sample was recruited by letter, but the response rate to the proactive letters was nearly equal in both samples. At Organization 1, 6.6% of letter recipients visited the website and 3.9% enrolled. At Organization 2, 6.5% of letter recipients visited the website and 3.4% enrolled. Of those who enrolled, 870 did so after receiving their first invitation letter and 403 did so in response to the reminder letter.
The estimated percentage of adult smokers at each health care organization who enrolled in Project Quit was 1.6% and 2.5%, respectively, for Organization 1 and 2. Although newsletter advertisements were mailed to the entire membership of each health plan, there is no guarantee that smokers saw the population-level advertisements. Thus, a more valid estimate of smokers' interest in this program is based on the sample who received proactive invitation letters (n = 34533). Using this defined sample, we can better estimate the percentage of likely smokers who were interested in the online treatment program after learning about it: 7% of people who received a study invitation letter visited the Project Quit website (n = 2260), 6% of invitees were screened and eligible (n = 2011), and 4% of the total invitees (n = 1273), or 63% of those eligible, enrolled.
In total, 651 people were found to be ineligible for this study. The primary reasons for ineligibility were not smoking enough (26%), medical contraindications for NRT (23%), already being enrolled in another smoking cessation program (16%), lack of adequate Internet/email access (14%), not currently being enrolled in a participating health plan (10%), and currently using pharmacotherapy to quit smoking (8%). Of those who were ineligible, 462 visited the website in response to an invitation letter. Compared to persons recruited through all other methods (n = 189), invitation letter recipients were less likely to be ineligible due to age (0.2% vs 2.6%, P = .03) or not being currently enrolled in a participating health plan (3.9% vs 25.9%, P < .001) and more likely to be ineligible due to current use of another smoking cessation program (11.7% vs 4.2%, P = .003) or a medical contraindication for NRT use (26.0% vs 15.3%, P = .003). These differences are consistent with our methods for identifying letter recipients.
The demographic characteristics of enrolled participants are presented in Table 2. The sample is similar to smokers who enroll in phone counseling programs in that they were ready to quit and were middle-aged, moderate-to-heavy smokers with a history of numerous quit attempts [13-15]. The subsamples differed slightly by health care organization; Organization 2 participants were less likely to be married or living with a partner (P < .001), less educated (P < .001), less likely to be White (P < .001), less comfortable using the Internet (P = .02), and smoked slightly more cigarettes per day (P < .001).
We also compared participants who were recruited by proactive invitation letter to those recruited by newsletter. Newsletter recruitees were more likely to be female (64.1% vs 58.2%, P = .03), Caucasian (88.6% vs 77.5%, P = .06), and older (47.0 vs 45.0 years, P = .001). There were no significant differences in education, marital status, motivation to quit smoking, comfort using the Internet, or the number of cigarettes smoked per day.
We found that smokers were interested in participating in Project Quit, a Web-based smoking cessation treatment program, even when they had access to other forms of comprehensive intervention through their health insurance. Of those who received a study letter and were invited to be screened for eligibility, 7% visited the website and 4% were eligible and enrolled. While these numbers may appear low, they are comparable to follow-through rates (5-14%) for referrals to other forms of cessation counseling [8-10]. Moreover, nearly two-thirds of those eligible (63%) agreed to enroll.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to document the level of interest in an online smoking cessation treatment program. We believe this is an important finding. Online cessation programs are becoming more prevalent on the Web. Whether or not they will be as efficacious as person-to-person counseling remains to be proven, yet no matter how efficacious an Internet cessation program is, its effectiveness will ultimately be dependent on its acceptability and utilization. These findings suggest that online cessation treatment can have comparable appeal to other forms of behavioral counseling, especially when part of a comprehensive intervention that combines cognitive behavioral counseling with pharmacotherapy, as is the best practice recommendation for tobacco dependence treatment [11].
While the uptake rate for Project Quit is comparable to that of other forms of therapy, these results may not generalize to other online cessation programs. Based on participants' self-report at follow-up, we know that a substantial portion of smokers were interested in receiving NRT. Online programs that do not offer the option of pharmacotherapy may be less appealing to smokers, at least to those with adequate health care coverage and other treatment options. Furthermore, our enrollment rate may have been limited by the eligibility criteria of our study. We selected adult smokers, with access to the Internet, who were ready to quit smoking and had no contraindications for NRT use. Higher enrollment may be seen for programs with less restrictive inclusion criteria. Finally, responses rates may differ in populations with different base rates of smoking. Our primary take rate (4%) is based on the percentage of likely smokers who received a proactive letter announcing the program. We selected people to receive these invitation letters based on internal data documenting their recent smoking. Unfortunately, population-level annual quit rates are fairly low in the United States. Each year, only about 2.5% of smokers successfully quit smoking permanently [16]. Thus, we have reasonable confidence that the majority of individuals contacted were still smoking when they received the letters, but we cannot confirm the exact percentage who were smoking at contact. Less treatment interest may be found in future populations if the base rate of smoking is lower than in this study, and vice versa.
As a secondary outcome we examined the success of our various recruitment strategies and found that proactive, individual outreach was a more effective recruitment strategy than mass advertising. More study participants visited the website and enrolled in response to proactive invitation letters than to all other forms of recruitment. This finding may not be surprising. While our population-level advertisements had the potential to reach a greater number of people (> 560000 adults), there was no guarantee that they were actually seen by their intended audience of smokers (approximately 98000 adults). Consequently, we cannot directly compare the draw of the newsletter ads to our invitation letters or other referral strategies, but we can comment broadly on the effectiveness of each strategy as a means of outreach for this study. In addition, we cannot assume that people were not exposed to more than one recruitment strategy or that multiple exposures did not have some impact, but using our unique referral codes, we can state with confidence which promotional strategy participants were responding to when they visited the Project Quit website. Nearly 70% of all visitors responded to the invitation letters proactively mailed to likely smokers. This finding has implications for future research, as well as community-based treatment dissemination efforts. Proactive contact was possible in this trial because of our access to automated data and other internal indicators of smoking status, but a similar outreach strategy could be implemented in the community using commercially available mailing lists of smokers or mailing lists from state or national smoking quit lines of likely smokers. More widespread recruitment could be achieved via commercially available email address lists. Even if it were not possible to limit email distribution to likely smokers, the cost per recipient would be low enough to make this a cost-effective recruitment strategy.
The results of this study add to the small but growing literature on Internet-based smoking cessation treatment and suggest that online intervention can be as appealing to smokers as other forms of treatment, but utilization may be dependent on the overall program content and effective promotional outreach. Future research should continue to evaluate smokers' interest in using online services, among both insured and uninsured individuals. Additional methods for promoting utilization of online programs should also be explored. A greater understanding of these issues will be important for effectively delivering efficacious online cessation services in the future.
Funding for this study was provided by the National Cancer Institute (P50 CA101451, V Strecher, Principal Investigator), with additional support from (K07 CA84603, J McClure, Principal Investigator), the University of Michigan, and Group Health Cooperative. Nicotine replacement patches were donated by GlaxoSmithKline. This project was conducted in affiliation with the National Cancer Institute–funded Cancer Research Network (2 U19 CA079689, E Wagner, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator), which consists of 12 integrated health care delivery systems that use their populations, delivery systems, and automated data resources to conduct collaborative research to transform cancer prevention and care. The authors wish to thank Roy Pardee, Marissa Brooks, Julia Anderson, Janine Konkel, Carola Carlier, Mike Nowak, Ed Saunders, and Ron Davis for their assistance with this project.
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Dr. Strecher is a shareholder in HealthMedia Inc, a company that builds and disseminates computer-tailored smoking cessation programs. He has also undertaken consultancy and research for, and received travel funds from, manufacturers of smoking cessation products, including GlaxoSmithKline.


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Priest in Peril is the first quest to take place in Morytania, and is required to enter the region. At the command of King Roald, you must head to the temple of Paterdomus to aid the monk Drezel with recovering the temple.
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|Speak to King Roald in the Varrock Palace.
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|Recently contact has been lost with the temple to Saradomin on Misthalins' Eastern border. King Roald would be very interested to know what has caused this lack of communication, and seeks an adventurer willing to report back to him on the situation.
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Beginning the QuestEdit
Items required: Combat equipment and a Varrock teleport (optional, but recommended).
Start this quest at Varrock Palace by talking to King Roald. He tells you that contact has been lost with the temple and wants you to go and check it out for him.
The temple is located east of Varrock. Go through the wooden gate northeast of the east exit. Then, follow the path to the temple. Knock on the door, someone will ask what you want and who you are. Tell them you are sent by King Roald. After some whispering they will ask you to kill a dog, agree to it.
The DungeonEdit
Climb down the dungeon entrance north of the temple, then kill the level 30 Temple Guardian. You cannot use Magic.
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Note: You can swap any one of the golden monuments with the regular version of that item. --This cannot be done after completing the quest--
Returning to Temple DoorEdit
Items required: None.
Go back and knock on the temple door again. You will hear the voice from earlier laughing and suggesting that you tell King Roald of your guardian dog slaying.
Head back to Varrock Palace, using a Varrock teleport (optional) and talk to King Roald again. King Roald becomes enraged, and "explains" that the dog was guarding the palace from attack. He instructs you to go back and fix it right away.
Back to the TempleEdit
Items required: 50 un-noted rune or pure essence, an empty bucket, Runecrafting pouches (optional), combat gear, 1 inventory space, and Varrock teleports (optional).
Note: due to your inventory only having a capacity of 28 spaces, you will most likely have to do this part in 2 trips, unless you have Runecrafting pouches. It is suggested to bring 23 essence the first trip along with the other necessary items, then banking and returning with a full inventory of essence.
Travel east, and knock on the temple door again. This time, the door swings open. Kill one of the level 30 Monks of Zamorak to get a golden key. Note: these monks can hit hard with their Magic(though they can be safe spotted using the church pews). It may be wise to use prayers to assist your fight, as there is an altar in the room you can recharge with. After receiving the key, go to the top floor using the flight of stairs, then climbing the ladder in the southwest corner, and use the talk-through option found on the cell door to talk to Drezel. Ask him to tell you about the holy river.
Next, go down the trap door into the dungeon. With the golden key in your inventory, you can pass through the gate in the Temple Dungeon where the guardian was located earlier. After traversing the path, you will see some monuments. Study them; you will notice one of them has an iron key in it. Use the golden key on it to swap keys. After obtaining the iron key, use your bucket on the well to fill it with murky water.
Go back to the top floor of the temple, and use the iron key on the cell door. Then, go inside, and talk to Drezel. You will find out that the water is not blessed. He will then bless the bucket of water that you filled earlier and give it back to you. Use it on the coffin to seal the vampire. Talk to Drezel again and he will tell you to meet him in the dungeon.
Return to the dungeon's monument room, and then go through the gate past it. You will find Drezel there. Talk to him. He tells you he will need 50 rune essence or pure essence. Note that Drezel will not take noted essence! When you bring the un-noted essence, talk to him again, and give them to him. You can use more than one trip to bring Drezel the 50 essence.
When you have given Drezel all 50 essence, the quest is complete!
Note: You need to talk to Drezel one more time to be able to pass the portal to Morytania.
- 1 Quest point
- 1,406 Prayer experience
- Access to Morytania
- Wolfbane dagger (when fighting werewolves in Morytania, this will stop them from changing into their more powerful werewolf form if the dagger is equipped).
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Completion of Priest in Peril is required for the following:
- Animal Magnetism
- Desert Treasure
- Ghosts Ahoy
- Haunted Mine
- Making History
- Nature Spirit
- Recipe for Disaster - Freeing the Lumbridge Sage
- Shades of Mort'ton
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- Creature of Fenkenstrain
- Drezel will appear in the Mausoleum before he escapes his cell, but is unreachable until he is freed.


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I'm a hetero woman currently in a physical relationship with the hottest guy I've ever dated. Sex (intercourse) is great, but he is not full-service. He doesn't kiss or give oral sex. Yes, he's hot and he makes me laugh, but I'm not sure if I should try to address the issue or dump him. What should I do?
— Hungry for a Kiss
Dear Hungry,
Yes, of course, absolutely dump him for a problem you haven't brought to his attention. What kind of bullshit prima donna crap is that?
What if you're the problem? What if he doesn't kiss you because your breath is so bad he loses his short-term memory? What if he won't go down on you because the odor is so strong it actually has a texture?
Then you'd have the distinction of being the only woman I know who could say, "I broke up with him because I smell like Friday's leftovers."
Girl, you fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. And that tree's higher than it looks, too. See, I'm not buying that crap about the sex being so great. In all probability he's avoiding the kisses and the down-unders because he doesn't like it, not because of any odors. Bad smells are an easy fix.
Preferences are not.
Which leads us to your sketchy judgment. You think sex is great with a guy who doesn't like to kiss, doesn't like to go down on you — in essence, a guy who has no interest in pleasuring you? How many ways can you spell "OMG?"
Let me tell you what a great lover is. It's the guy who gets pleasure from giving it. It's the guy who senses what you want and gives it to you. And if he can't sense it, he ASKS.
What you have described is not a great lover, but a great dildo. You're making love to a selfish prick and labeling him a caring, sensitive swain. Methinks the lack of tongue has impaired your judgment.
If you want to make this work, you need to have a chat with him. The rule in a conversation about sex is to ask for more of what you want, not what you don't.
In your case that means not complaining about the lack of kissing but to explain how much you like it when it happens. And that you want more of it.
If he explains that he simply doesn't like it, you need to explain — in calm, loving terms — how important it is to you. And then follow it up with this question: "How can I help you like it more?"
Make no mistake, a no-kiss policy is a dumpable offense. Natural historian Ernest Crawley, who did extensive research on the origin of kissing, tells us that since the ancient Greeks and Romans, it's been a universal expression of love and affection. He once described kissing as "the mother of the senses."
One interesting factoid Crawley discovered: Kissing was rare among the "lower and semi-civilized races," but was "fully established as instinctive in the higher societies." In other words, your boyfriend is low-rent.
Still, after all my nattering negativity about your boy toy, I do think he's worth trying to salvage. You owe it to him — and yourself — to bring up the subject.
Another historian, Christopher Nyrop, describes romantic kissing as an "exultant message of the longing of love, love eternally young, the burning prayer of hot desire, which is born on the lovers' lips, and rises up to the blue sky from the green plains like a tender, trembling thank-offering."
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