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Why was last week's thread deleted!?
Here are the Power Rankings for our division for week 3:
Team Source TW/LW(change) Comment Pete Prisco
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1/1(-) They have earned this spot after their impressive performance against the Giants. Von Miller has not been missed as much as we thought. Denver ESPN.com
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2/3(+1) Denver's plus-40 point differential is tops in the league after convincing wins against the Ravens and Giants. The way the Broncos have played, hosting the Raiders Monday night doesn't seem scary. Broncos Brian Billick
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1/2(+1) Simply put ... Peyton Manning is going to have his best season since 2004, when he threw for 49 touchdowns. Maybe better.
Pete Prisco
11/18(+7) Andy Reid takes an unbeaten team back to face his former team Thursday night in Philadelphia. He does so with a defense that has really impressed. Kansas_City ESPN.com 13/20(+7) Why are the Chiefs 2-0? Start with Kansas City's defense, which leads the league with 35.4 expected points added in the Chiefs' first two games. Chiefs Brian Billick
10/17(+7) In just two weeks, the Chiefs have already matched last year's win total and Alex Smith's four passing touchdowns are already half of what the Chiefs threw for all of last season.
Pete Prisco
17/28(+11) They showed a lot by winning that game at Philadelphia on a short week. Philip Rivers was special. San_Diego ESPN.com 16/26(+10) Philip Rivers showed up in a big way Sunday. Rivers was 7-of-9 against extra rushers in the fourth quarter, including the game-winning TD to Eddie Royal. Chargers Brian Billick
16/23(+7) Mike McCoy, Ken Wisenhunt and Philip Rivers appear to have made for a good match, but Eddie Royal is going to come back down to Earth sometime soon.
Pete Prisco
28/30(+2) We move them up based on their victory against the Jaguars, but this is about as high as they will go. Then again, they could be 2-0. Oakland ESPN.com 29/31(+2) It's early, but Terrelle Pryor's 46.6 Total QBR is 21st in the league and ranks higher than Super Bowl winners Tom Brady, Eli Manning, Joe Flacco and Ben Roethlisberger. Raiders Brian Billick
31/31(-) Big deal ... they beat the Jaguars.


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Once you get to level 20 some parts of your leveling will become easier, and some will not. The first change that you are going to find is that having the ability to teleport all over the world is absolutely amazing. It's probably my favorite trait of the class overall. For that matter, it's my favorite trait of every class in the game.
One change you are going to find with your questing and such is that being able to AoE grind through your quests is going to make them fly by a whole lot faster. Some quests are not impacted by AoE grinding at all, like ones that have you bring back Mr. Mob's head, or ones where you have to deliver an item from Location A to Location B (though teleporting can help with that), and so on. But a lot of quests involve killing a certain number of specific mobs or collecting a number of items that drop from certain mobs. These are the ones where AoE grinding really shines and where your leveling process starts burning some serious fuel.
Where you level is not especially important, just try to focus questing to some degree in areas that have a lot of mobs grouped together that are melee mobs rather than ranged attackers or spell casters. My first Mage leveled through the 20's in Hillsbrad Foothills much like my Paladin did. The Mage I am leveling right now did these levels, mostly, in Ashenvale. If you want to follow my path then feel free, but as long as you are questing in an area that is level-appropriate for you then you should be just fine. Just remember to stay away from the caster mobs and ranged attackers as they are the only ones that pose any real threat; at least from an AoE standpoint. If you're going against mobs 1v1 then by all means just kill everything you see.
This post is about playing your mage and getting them leveled up to 39. I am going to talk about AoE grinding a bit, but that's not the focus of this post. That will be in the next post in this series where I discuss the particulars of grinding. If you want to find out about how to AoE with a Frost Mage then you should probably look at that post rather than this one. AoE Grinding: Frost Mage Edition
Here I am going to show you how to spend your talent points, which glyphs you should get, what spells you should cast or avoid, general rotations, etc. So the scope of this post is the mechanics of leveling a mage, not the technique of casting your spells.
Important Spells
Counterspell (level 24) This is an excellent spell that should always be somewhere on your screen. I don't necessarily recommend it be on your primary action bar, but have it somewhere that you can access it. It's great for PvE (when facing casters), and it's excellent for PvP. Check the macro section down below for this one.
Conjure Mana Gem (level 28) This spell creates a gem that you carry around in your bags that acts just like a mana potion, restoring amounts of mana that scale with your level. The gems you make early on in the game are always single use, but as you get to end game you will mage gems that have three uses. Creating a gem costs more mana than it returns, so note that it's something that should be prepared ahead of time.
Ice Block (level 30) This is your first "oh crap" button. It throws a solid block of ice around you for the duration making you immune to, well, everything. The drawback to it is that you're stuck there until it wears off or you cancel the spell. Use it when you pull too much, when you have Frostbite proc in the middle of a pull that can't be fixed, when you're about to die, when you're covered in DoTs/Poisons/Disease, when you fall off a cliff and can't find Slow Fall, or when you want to see yourself in a funny little pose since it keeps you exactly as you were when you cast it. If you have the Glyph of Ice Block, use it any time you need to reset your Frost Nova cooldown. And do not feel like you have to wait out its duration. If it's accomplished what you need it to, feel free cancel the spell early and go back to your business.
Teleport: Darnassus/Thunderbluff (level 30) At level 30 you get access to your faction's Druid city teleport. I don't know what the reasoning is for putting these off until level 30, but apparently Blizzard does.
Levels 31-39
Mage Armor (level 34) gives you Resist Magic 5 which isn't great, but not bad, and also allows you to regenerate 50% of your regular mana regen during combat. A lot of people love this spell and use it in place of Frost Armor. I rarely use it myself, but it's still a decent spell.
Teleport & Portal: Theramore (level 35) Here you are able to both teleport and open portals for your party to travel to Theramore. This portal actually sells pretty frequently for me on my Alliance server as it's an easier way for people to travel to that portion of the world. Tips for portals vary on every server, so you'll have to see for yourself how much gold you might be able to make off of it. On my Ally server this portal sells for 3-5g and I see people asking in trade chat for it every other day or so.
Portals: Stormwind, Ironforge, Exodar (level 40) You can now open portals for your party members to be teleported to these major cities. Selling portals is an easy way to make a few gold, but again it varies on each server. My Alliance server still sells all portals and these typically bring in a 10g fee each. You don't get the portal for Darnassus for a few more level yet, but that one sells for the same.
Teleport & Portal: Stonard (level 35) You are able to both teleport and open portals for your party to travel to Stonard. This portal used to sell almost constantly as it was the shortest way for you to reach Outlands for the first time since it's just north of the Dark Portal. Now that those portals exist in every major city you might as well forget the fact that this one exists. I do find an occasional request for it from groups that want to run through Sunken Temple on my old Horde server, but for the most part people just don't need it anymore.
Portals: Orgrimmar, Undercity, Silvermoon (level 40) You can now open portals for your party members to be teleported to these major cities. Selling portals is an easy way to make a few gold, but again it varies on each server. On my Horde server the only portals you ever really see people asking for are Org and TB, with an occasional ask for Undercity as well. The only time you ever see anyone ask for Silvermoon is when there's a holiday event going on. For my Horde servers you're lucky if you can get 2g for a port to any of the Horde's major cities.
Leveling 21-30
Rotation Option 1: Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Fire Blast
Rotation Option 2: Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Frostbolt
Rotation Option 3: Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Cone of Cold, Frostbolt
Explanation: This will pretty well be the rotation you use for the rest of the game for single mobs. Basically your life revolves around Frostbolt spamming and throwing out a Fire Blast or Cone of Cold to finish them off.
As you may notice, at this point Fireball is completely gone from my rotations and it will see very little, if any, use throughout the rest of my playing. The only time I go back to Fireball from this point on is when I am fighting a mob that is resistant or immune to Frost damage.
If you feel a need to throw a Frost Nova out there to stop a mob that's rushing into melee range then feel free to do so. If you like Cone of Cold more than Fire Blast then feel free to use it as well. I generally stick to using Fire Blast as my finishing move, but as you get higher in levels and mobs start having more hit points I begin to use Cone of Cold more frequently for the sake of having more chances to proc Frostbite and freezing the mob in place. Doing this gives you a chance of ending many of your fights without taking a single hit.
Remember that you have your Mana Gem for when you need to restore your mana. Unless you're in the middle of a horrible pull and already running out of mana then using the Gem by itself should give you enough to finish the fight. If you need more mana than that, then feel free to use a Mana Potion in addition to the gem.
Leveling 31-39
Rotation Option 1: Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Fire Blast
Rotation Option 2: Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Frostbolt
Rotation Option 3: Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Cone of Cold, Frostbolt
Explanation: Nothing new here.
You don't get any new offensive spells in this range, you just get higher ranks of the ones you've already got. Refer back to the section above for specifics.
General Tactics
There is one thing in particular that I want to point out right now. As you begin gaining more levels the mobs you are fighting are going to gain more hit points which will require you to cast more spells due to the fight taking longer. The longer a fight lasts, the more likely the mobs are to close in and start attacking you. Do not be afraid to stop casting a spell in order to save yourself. It's alright to take off running half a second before your Frostbolt goes off. There's nothing wrong with that; especially if you are close to dying. It's perfectly acceptable to run away like a little girl, screaming your head off while you wait for Frost Nova's cooldown to pop so that you can freeze the mob in place and then get back to killing him. There's also nothing wrong with throwing a Frost Nova the second the mob comes within range and running away all together.
For a Frost Mage a strong offense truly is the best defense you can have. You defend yourself by attacking your enemies and slowing them down or freezing them in place. You don't have to constantly be on the move and you don't have to kite every mob that you face, but the abilities that you have give you the time and the opportunity to almost completely control the field.
I'm going to introduce now a tactic I like to call Run Through. It's most effective when using either Frost Nova or Cone of Cold (or Dragon's Breath if you're a Fire Mage). It's best represented in Rotation Option #3 up above. Assuming that you do not get a Frostbite proc from your Frostbolts, the mob is generally going to arrive near to melee range close to when your second Frostbolt is cast or in the middle of the third. I like to be aggressive on my Frost mage, so I take right to the mob's face; so if he's closing in after my second cast I don't wait for the third cast I just start running into him after the second.
As you get close to the mob cast Cone of Cold and keep right on running through them. You can then cast Blink if you want or just keep on running a ways before turning around and going back to Frostbolts to finish them off. This is going to accomplish a few things 1 you're going to deal additional damage with an instant cast, 2 you are going to put distance between yourself and the mob, and 3 you have yet another chance to proc Frostbite and freeze the target in place.
By running through a mob to do this you also open up the option of them causing a Frostbite proc from hitting you with a melee attack while you have Frost Armor on which will freeze them in place for you and make your job a whole lot easier. If you remember back in Part I, I mentioned that my hit points are just another resource for me to use, and this is what I mean by that. I'm giving away a few hit points by giving the mob a chance to hit me, but what I'm gaining out of the deal is another chance to proc Frostbite.
AoE Grinding: Frost Mage Edition
Here are your basics of AoE Grinding with a Frost Mage. For more details you will need to refer to the next post in this series which will discuss the details of AoE grinding across all levels.
Generally speaking you want to pull a group of mobs, at least 3, into a central location, Frost Nova to freeze them in place, and then move out of melee range before casting Blizzard. Now, that's a very generalized version of it, but it's essentially what it is. There are a lot of tricks that you can use to help you in this, and sometimes you have to sacrifice your cooldowns to make some of them work.
Step 1: Pull The first thing you have to do for any type of AoE grinding is pull the mobs. The easiest way to do this is to jump on your mount and ride around into all of their threat ranges.
Step 2: Corral The second thing you have to do is get them all bunched up together. If you're still on your mount then ride away, turning a bit here and there to get the mobs next to the others. It's a bit hard to explain how to do that, but practicing will help you understand. The point is to get all of the mobs close enough to each other, and to you, that a single Frost Nova will catch all of them.
Step 3: Freeze The third thing you have to do is stop them from moving. The best option for this Frost Nova, though at later levels your Water Elemental gets an ability called Freeze which is a ranged Frost Nova that works just as well if not better. Be aware that in this stage you will occasionally miss some of the mobs. It's good to have items with +Hit on them for doing this, but they aren't required. You don't miss very often and even when you do it can still be managed.
Step 4: Distance The fourth thing is putting distance between yourself and the mobs. The traditional way of doing this is to use Blink to teleport yourself a short distance away. However, Blink is not 100% reliable and can often teleport you right into another mob, or group of mobs, if you haven't been keeping an eye on your surroundings. Personally, I don't Blink at this point unless the mobs have managed to Daze me which makes you move slower. If I'm not dazed or otherwise rooted in place (nets, webs, etc) then I simply run. I run about 10 yards away and then turn around. Whatever method you choose to use for moving, be sure to turn around and face the mobs when you're done. The optimum distance is twice the size of your Blizzard's AoE circle or just slightly further. Going too far means that the mobs will be out of range for Blizzard, while not going far enough means melee mobs will be hitting you in the face while you cast.
Step 5: Blizzard Now it's time to cast your Blizzard and watch the pretty numbers fly by as they all start to die. You want to position your Blizzard so that all of the mobs (or at least all that you can manage) fall within the area of the damage. You also want the furthest edge of Blizzard's effect to be as close to you as possible. When a mob is frozen, that freeze breaks after they've taken a certain amount of damage, and Blizzard deals a lot of damage. So by keeping the area as close as possible it means that when their freeze breaks they still have to walk through the AoE damage to get to you. Since we also have at least one point in the Improved Blizzard talent (minimum level 20) your Blizzard now has a chill effect that will slow the mobs down. And since we have points in the Frostbite talent, every spell with a chill effect has the ability to freeze the target in place. And every time Blizzard deals damage it chills them, meaning that every time it hits it has a chance to proc Frostbite.
Step 6: Clean Up After you've cast your Blizzard you need to decide what's next. If the mobs are still alive then you have to finish them off. You can do that by either casting another Blizzard if they have a lot of health, or casting Arcane Explosion of Cone of Cold if they just have a little bit of health left. If the mobs are already dead, then your only form of clean up is collecting your loot.
If you are fighting caster mobs in addition to melee, then pulling them and rounding them up into a single group isn't going to be as easy. Until level 30 your only real option is to have the caster's location be where you coral all of the rest of the mobs, or to line of sight the caster and coral everyone there.
At level 30 you get an excellent spell called Ice Block. It freezes you in place and makes you immune to everything for its duration. The great thing about being immune to everything is that caster mobs will move into melee range and just start attacking the ice, as will everything else. This gives you a coral method to use when facing casters as well. If you happen to be using the Glyph of Ice Block (level 30) then every time you use Ice Block it resets/removes the cooldown on Frost Nova so that you can immediately cast Frost Nova again. If my pull has gone bad I'll use Ice Block just to let everyone come to me and start all over again.
Another thing to note about Ice Block is that it gives you a great opportunity to change the direction you're heading after a Pull. When you go to initiate your Coral you can use Ice Block to do it and then rotate your camera to take a look around the area. Find which direction is clear of mobs so that you know which way you're running, and have that be the direction you go when you pop out to initiate your Freeze. Playing with an AoE Mage was the reason I turned off the Smart Pivot option in my UI > Camera options. If you're not familiar with that, it's what causes your camera to rotate to the direction your character is facing if you rotate the camera with a click-and-drag left click. It allows me to look in any direction, for as long as I want, without having to hold down my mouse button to keep it there. If you aren't aware, the default settings allow you to hold down both the left and right mouse buttons to run, and when doing that it causes you to run whichever direction the mouse moves. So if you hold down the two mouse buttons coming out of an Ice Block you will run the direction that your camera is facing instead of the direction that your character is facing. When you do it, go ahead and shake the mouse left and right just a hair when you first come out because it's the movement of the mouse while the right button is down that forces your character to turn that way, but the turn is instant so once the character takes off running the way you want them to you can stop moving the mouse and use whatever method(s) of movement you use normally.
Because we've combined Frostbite with Improved Blizzard, we have the chance to constantly freeze the mobs in place during your Blizzard. That is why Frostbite is so essential to a good Frost leveling spec even though so many other people claim to hate it. If you find that Frostbite is messing up your pulls then the answer to that is simple, remove your Frost Armor before you pull. If you don't have Frost Armor up (or Ice Barrier after level 40) then you aren't going to freeze the mobs in place during a pull because there are not chill effects to make it happen.
I personally keep my Frost Armor spell on all the time, regardless of whether or not it might proc Frostbite and "ruin" my pulls, because I can handle the pulls that other mages apparently feel are dangerous. As I said, if my pull goes a bit bad, then I'll just Ice Block and let them mobs come to me and then Frost Nova once the Ice Block is over. The duration of Ice Block lasts longer than all of your freezing abilities, so the mobs will break free before your Ice Block wears off. If you use the Glyph of Ice Block then your Frost Nova will already be available when IB wears off so you pop your Frost Nova and then jump right back into the steps above starting at #4-Distance.
If none of those options work because something else comes along and fouls it all up, then welcome to being in a world you don't control! In this case, put your true mage skills to the test and kick the crap out of them anyway. You've got a ton of tools at your disposal to handle the mobs you're facing, so put them to use. If you need to sheep one, then do it. If you need to Cone of Cold to try to proc Frostbite for Blizzard, then do it. If you need to run around in circles while you wait for Frost Nova to cool down again, then do it. If you want to Arcane Explosion spam hoping to slay them all anyway, then do it. If you took the Glyph of Evocation at 20 as I suggested, then try to run around until Frost Nova is up again, freeze them in place, and then hit your Evocation to restore 60% of your health and mana, and then slay them all.
If the crap hits the fan, then turn the sucker on high and start flinging that crap wherever you can until you're either the last one standing or you're all alone in the graveyard. These are the moments that help you grow more confident in your ability to solo content, or that teach you what mistakes not to make again.
I love screwing up an AoE pull with way more mobs than I could take on otherwise and still pull it off without a single Blizzard being cast. I've taken out 8 mobs with nothing but Frost Novas, Cones of Cold, and Fire Blasts while running around in circles because my attempts to freeze the mobs kept missing or not freezing. It's not always easy, but it sure is fun when you come out of it still standing.
Macro Suggestions
There are a few new macros to bring to your attention at this point.
Counterspell: Cancel whatever spell you might be casting and immediately cast Counterspell.
/cast Counterspell
Ice Block: Stop whatever you're doing and cast Ice Block
/cast Ice Block
Sometimes a big spell is about to go off and it needs to not happen. If stopping that spell is potentially more important than casting the one you're on, then make the call and counter the spell. Heals and Mana Burns are the primary target for this unless you're low on health and need to stop a dps spell from killing you.
Ice Block sometimes has to be cast on the fly simply to save your life rather than to help you in your AoE grinding. When that is the case, don't bother with trying to get that one last spell off, just throw the barrier up and deal with the situation once it wears off.
Talent Points and Glyphs: Level 21-39
Starting at level 21, this is how I would suggest spending your talent points.
Ice Floes +1 (3/3) Reduces the cooldown of Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Ice Block, and Icy Veins by 20%.
Piercing Ice 3/3 +2/4/6% damage to all Frost spells.
Shatter 3/3 +17/34/50% critical strike chance against targets who are frozen.
Arctic Reach 2/3 +14/20% range to Frost Bolt, Ice Lance, Deep Freeze, and Blizzard spells and +20% radius to Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells.
Cold Snap 1/1 Resets the cooldown of all Frost Spells.
Icy Veins 1/1 +20% spell haste and reduces pushback on channeled spells by 100% for 20 seconds.
Frost Channeling 3/3 -4/7/10% Mana cost of all Frost spells and reduces threat generated by Frost spells by 4/7/10%.
Winter's Chill 3/3 Gives +3 chance to crit with Frostbolt, and a 33/66/100% chance that your Frost spells will increase your chance to crit the target by 1%, stacks up to 5 times.
Cold As Ice 2/2 Reduces the cooldown of your Cold Snap, Ice Barrier, and Summon Water Elemental spells by 10/20%.
Ice Floes is simply there to reduce the time on our cooldowns. Every spell that it effects is useful for AoE grinding as well as leveling in general, so reducing the cooldowns on those is great. Piercing Ice is just a general increase to all of our damage; the more damage you do, the few spells you have to cast. Shatter is going to increase the chance to crit when targets are frozen by 50%. That's a huge boost to our crit and since every spell you're going to use has a chance of freezing your target, that means you've got a whole lot of potential for landing crits. Shatter is the reason why we want Frostbite.
Arctic Reach helps with the range at which we can cast our spells. That means you can get off more Frostbolts before an enemy can close in on you, and it means you can cast your Blizzards from a greater distance as well. In addition to that it increases the radius of Frost Nova and Cone of Cold. The increased radius is crucial to what you do as a Frost Mage, but it's also a hard thing to judge because neither of these spells shows you visibly how large their radius is to being with. It's something you're going to have to learn on your own and just become aware of. With practice you'll start picking it up instinctively and you'll just know when you can catch someone with it and when you can't.
Cold Snap is easily one of the best talents you ever get. It completely resets all of your Frost spells and makes them available to you again. So you can blow all of your cooldowns, hit Cold Snap, and they're all right back ready to use again. Icy Veins is a great spell for two reasons: 1 the increase spell haste means all of your Blizzard damage happens in a shorter amount of time (or other spells if you're fighting single mobs), and 2 removing the effect of pushback means that you get the full bang from your mana-buck from your Blizzard even if you're getting punched in the face while you do it. I don't cast it on every Blizzard, but there's nothing wrong with using it every chance you get. The haste from Icy Veins also works on your Evocation, by the way, so if you need to refill your life/mana in a pinch that's the way to get it done.
Frost Channeling is last up on the list. The reduced mana here is the primary reason for taking the talent as Blizzard is a huge mana cost spell. The reduced threat is nice when you're running with groups though it serves no purpose at all when soloing. Winter's Chill is a stacking debuff on the target that gives you an additional 1-5% chance to crit each time you hit them with a Frost spell. The extra crit chance goes for all spells, not just Frost, but Frost spells are what stacks it from 1-5%. Cold As Ice is strictly to lower the time on your cooldowns.
Glyphs for Leveling
The only glyph slot that is going to open up for you at this level range will open up at level 30.
I recommend the Glyph of Ice Block for level 30 which resets your Frost Nova cooldown when you use Ice Block. It's great for AoE grinding so that you can make sure that your pulls go off as smoothly as possible.
Some people prefer to go with Mage Armor here instead to get mana regeneration during combat, but since I prefer using Frost Armor I don't personally recommend it. Since I can summon my own water on the fly and have mana gems I don't really care about regenerating mana during combat. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not my personal play style.
Gearing Up for Spellcasting
Your gear priorities don't change: stack Spell Power and Intellect, take Stam/Hit/Crit when you can find it, and the other things don't really matter. Hit becomes increasingly important as you level, so take it when you see it if it's not going to cost you too much Spell Power or Int.
Again, Tailoring can provide a lot of useful upgrades for you around this level so you might want to check with a Tailor if you aren't one yourself.
You are still going to be more likely to find a good staff at these levels that a one hander plus an off hand item, but just go with whichever you find that can give you better stats. A lot of the Inscription off-hand items open up during this level range which can give you additional spell power, so if you find a nice off hand go ahead and take it, but you're still more likely to find a better staff overall.
And as always, keep an eye out for good wands that provide stats. If you find that you are actually using your staff for anything other than killing off mobs that are low on health, then you're probably doing something wrong; like using Mana Shield for anything other than PvP.
Suggested Instances
I would highly suggest in your twenties that you run through either Deadmines (VC) or Shadowfang Keep (SFK) (both, if you can manage it) for good gear during those levels. You can find a staff, gloves and ring in VC, and excellent robes in SFK that will last you well into your 30's.
In your thirties, Scarlet Monastery is the place to be. You will get gear from here that will last you into your 50's. You can get inside the doors of all four sections at level 20 if you have someone run you through, or you can start joining LFG for it at level 28. For a mage you can find shoulders or an off-hand item in SM:Graveyard, a great robe and an excellent staff in SM:Library, and while SM:Armory offers very little, there are a couple of items in SM:Cathedral that can really help you out as well. Primarily SM:GY and SM:Lib are the areas for you to focus on, and both of them can be ran with a group of people around level 30 with little problem. Especially with your AoE skills.
Edit: (10/29/09) Added level listing for spending talent points.
Edit: (10/30/09) Finished Ice Block section near the spell description at the top and added Ice Block information to General Tactics section as well.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Juniors Hunter Knight and Christine Wixted swept the men's and women's 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events Saturday in the Duke swimming and diving program's regular season dual meet finale against Atlantic Coast Conference rival North Carolina. The Blue Devil men suffered a 164-128 loss to the 16th-ranked Tar Heel men, while the Duke women also fell by a score of 166-127 to the No. 16 North Carolina women at Koury Natatorium.
Overall, the Blue Devils totaled wins in nine individual events and one relay on the afternoon, highlighted by Knight and Wixted's sweeps in the breaststroke events and junior Nick McCrory's first-place finishes in the men's 1 and 3-meter springboard diving competitions.
The Duke women edged North Carolina in the first event of the afternoon, as the 200-yard medley relay team of sophomore Megan McCarroll, junior Christine Wixted, junior Lauren Weaver and freshman Chelsea Ye collected a first-place finish with a time of 1:43.61. Meanwhile junior Steven Gasparini, junior Hunter Knight, freshman Sam Skinner and senior Adam Flur teamed up for a third-place showing in the men's 200 medley relay (1:32.22).
McCarroll picked up the first individual win of the day for Duke in the women's 100 backstroke, touching in a time of 56.73, which was less than a half second off her season-best time of 56.29. Wixted followed in the next women's event with another win, besting the field in the 100 breaststroke with a mark of 1:03.53. Wixted came back to sweep the breaststroke events for the fourth time this season, taking first in the in the 200 breaststroke at 2:17.48.
Weaver picked up a win in the 50 freestyle, clocking 23.40 for first place, while fellow junior Kelly Hagerty claimed fourth in 24.26. Ye swam a solid time of 52.55 to take third in the 100 freestyle, and McCarroll added to her successful day with a third-place finish in the 200 backstroke, touching at 2:03.69.
Hunter Knight notched the first win of the day for the Duke men in the 100 breaststroke, taking first in 56.23. Senior Jim Zuponeck made it a one-two finish for the Blue Devils, grabbing second place with a time of 56.61. Knight went on to make it a sweep the breaststroke events for the fifth time this season, coming from behind to win the 200-yard distance in 2:02.90. Sophomore Ali Horn picked up a third-place finish for the Blue Devils in the women's 100 fly in a time of 57.36, and teammate Weaver took fourth in 58.36.
"Hunter Knight again winning the 100 and 200 breaststroke and coming back from behind in the 200 was really big," said head coach Dan Colella. "And anytime we can beat an ACC opponent such as UNC or Virginia in those relays is significant."
Duke's divers made strong statements on the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events in their last outing before next month's ACC Championships. McCrory won both the men's 1-meter and 3-meter diving events with season-high scores. He garnered scores of 404.70 points in the 1-meter and 416.25 in the 3-meter, both qualifying for the zone diving championships. Meanwhile, senior Jordan Long continued to shine on the 3-meter, finishing second behind teammate McCrory.
Freshman Kendall McClenney took first in the women's 1-meter event with a score of 259.35, collecting the first individual win of her collegiate career. Fellow rookie Jaimee Gundry took second on the 3-meter board.
"Jordan had a great day on the 3-meter," said diving coach Drew Johansen. "It's really grown to be his best event. Obviously Nick is coming along well. Kendall won her first dual meet as a college athlete, so that's one of the things you have to learn is how to take an opportunity and win. And then Jaimee had a nice performance on the 3-meter, with the second-place finish, so we're in a pretty good spot."
Wixted later added to her breaststroke sweep with a third-place finish in the 200 IM, clocking 2:08.32. Hunter Knight finished one place higher in the same event on the men's side, clocking 1:54.03. Senior Matt Carder also turned in a good performance in the 1,000 freestyle, finishing fourth in a season-best time of 9:44.24.
In the pool, the Blue Devils rounded out the afternoon a second-place finish in the women's 400 freestyle relay, as the team of Weaver, Ye, Hagerty and freshman Kathryn Eckhart clocked a time of 3:31.09. In the men's 400 freestyle relay, Flur, Skinner, Carder and sophomore Tyler Toren recorded at a time of 3:07.81 to come in fourth.
"We had a few highlights today, but we didn't perform the way we had hoped to come in and perform today," Colella said. "These next several weeks we need to get ourselves focused for ACC Championships."
The Duke swimmers compete next at the Cavalier Invitational, Feb. 15-16 in Charlottesville, Va.


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I'll pass on this prompt:
* March 13 — Moment of Strength: share a story where a female ancestor showed courage or strength in a difficult situation.
March 14 — Newsmakers?
Did you have a female ancestor who made the news?
Was she famous or notorious?
Did she appear in the social column?
Well, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper tops this list. There are many newspaper articles found online. Most of them deal with her military experience in the U.S. Navy. Several articles talk about her retirement. Or, more accurately Retirements.
There is one article with President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office.
Earlier articles about "Amazing" Grace spoke of her experiences with the computer, from the beginning of computers. As I mentioned earlier, she found the first Computer Bug. Wonder what she would think of the technology that we have available in 2010, only 20 years after her death.
But, I guess if you can explain and show a nano-second to a bunch of engineers, she would probably say "told you so". After all, its easier to say "I'm sorry, then to get permission". (one of her quotes)


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Audrey Hepburn's granddaughter Emma Ferrer is on the cover of Harper's Bazaar's subscription September issue.
Lady Gaga is on the cover of the version being sold on newsstands. You should be able to tell the difference.
Not only is it the 20-year-old's first magazine cover, it's her first ever magazine cover shoot, according to E! News.
Her Hollywood icon grandmother was the muse of photographer Richard Avedon, so the magazine got Avedon's grandson Michael Avedon to shoot the cover.
Hopefully the guy happened to be a photographer.
Ferrer looks like her grandmother, with dark hair, clear complexion and high cheekbones (this according to E! -- I'm not even sure where to look for a cheekbone).
Inside the magazine, Ferrer talks about being related to a film legend.
"When I watched 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', I enjoyed it the same way any young girl would," she said. "I've seen 'My Fair Lady' and 'Roman Holiday,' but I suppose my favorite is 'Funny Face.'"
The interviewer asked if Ferrer inherited anything from her grandmother. "All I can think of are her cashmere turtlenecks, which I adore and wear all throughout the winter," she said. "And a white antique stuffed teddy bear."
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Ill. GOP Chair Reiterates Support for Same-Sex Marriage
The chairman of Illinois' Republican Party has been under fire from fellow GOPers after he announced he supports marriage equality and urged the state's conservative lawmakers to do the same. The surprising revelation has some calling for his resignation, Illinois radio station WBEZ 91.5 reports.
Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady, who became the state's GOP leader in 2009 when Republican Andrew McKenna stepped down to run for governor, encouraged Republican members of the Illinois General Assembly to support the proposed same-sex marriage bill. Brady probably expected members of his party's caucus not to support him, although he may not have anticipated the antipathy expressed by some of his colleagues on his side of the aisle.
Democratic lawmakers in the Prairie State tried to legalize gay marriage already this year but encountered a setback last week when "a death in one lawmaker's family and another senator's extended trip to Israel were enough to push the issue into the next legislative session," the Associated Press reported.
After Brady released his statement backing marriage equality, conservative groups went for blood. Many demanded that he be denied state leadership of the party.
"Pat Brady is a total disgrace," Bobbie Peterson, a Republican state central committeewoman, said. "He's a pretty face for TV. He can speak well. Period. But what's coming out of his mouth is not what the Illinois Republican party is about."
State Sen. Jim Oberweis, a state committeeman, expressed being "shocked" and also asked for Brady's resignation. He added that he "did not expect that and didn't know why he would have done that."
Despite the criticism, Brady has doubled down on his stance. He acknowledges that he didn't consult with committeemembers before speaking out, but, he told WBEZ, he made his statement as a private citizen and called the gay marriage ban Illinois' "last condoned discrimination."
"If people want to throw me out because I took a stand on an issue of discrimination [as] the chairman of the Republican Party, the party founded by Abraham Lincoln, then that's up to them," Brady said in a statement. "They're free to do it. But I'm not backing down," .
Committeemember Gene Dawson, another of those calling for Brady's resignation, responded, "I can only express my disappointment in the way this has come about and the manner in which the Republican platform of Illinois has been completely disregarded."
Brady hasn't always been so keen on marriage equality, however. According to a 2010 article by the website Republican News Watch, Brady was urged to resign after he allegedly called gay writers on conservative website HillBuzz.org a "bunch of fucking faggots."
As WBEZ noted, it would take a three-fifths majority of the weighted vote from state committeemembers to vote Brady out of his leadership position. Each vote is weighted based on how many people cast ballots in congressional districts in last year's primary. Four committeemembers, or nearly half the votes needed to oust him, told the radio station they had asked Brady to step down.
Conservatives from around the country are joining the chorus of Illinois Republicans. Peter LaBarbera, who runs Illinois-based virulently anti-gay organization Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (and, some think, may be its only member), told fellow state citizens to "call or write your state representatives immediately and urge them to vote against the homosexual 'marriage' bill."
Not surprisingly, the National Organization for Marriage has jumped into the fray. "Brady has betrayed us, betrayed his party, misrepresented 'key Republican values,' and insulted conservative voters in Illinois and across America who deserve leaders who refuse to sell out on such a fundamental and crucial issue like the defense of marriage, children and family," NOM President Brian Brown said in a statement.
He went on: "The future of marriage in Illinois demands that Brady be replaced immediately with a brave pro-marriage individual who will fight back against the out-of-state liberal activists now attempting to impose gay marriage on the Land of Lincoln without the will or consent of the we the people."


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TRAINING: Ninja training with Master Roger Krahl. Wrestling with Kami Barzini. Philly jiu-jitsu (aka boxing) with Billy Padden
When and why did you start training for fighting? I don't remember the exact reason why I wanted to start fighting, but I had my first MMA fight in August of 2005.
What ranks and titles have you held? I have held many smaller show belts in weight classes ranging from 155-185.
Do you have any heroes? My father
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It is something I have wanted to accomplish for a long time and I'm glad it's about to happen.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I went to the University of Minnesota. I am one semester away from graduating in Pre-Med (Biology)
What was your job before you started fighting? I ran an online store that sold rare collectables and video games.
If any list specific accomplishments in amateur competition? State Champion Wrestler, Wrestled D1 for the University of Minnesota
Favorite grappling technique: Guillotine
Favorite striking technique: Head kick
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A day after blocking an elaborate $10 million land swap designed to supply a critical right-of-way for the controversial Jefferson Parkway, a federal appeals court on Thursday reversed itself, lifting a short-lived injunction that will now allow the deal to proceed ahead of a Monday deadline.
A three-judge panel with the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the temporary injunction it granted Wednesday afternoon, citing its review of a brief filed Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the federal defendants in the lawsuit that seeks to stop the land deal.
The federal court now has given the plaintiffs in the case -- environmental groups WildEarth Guardians and Rocky Mountain Wild -- until noon Friday to reply.
"As you can imagine, we're pretty disappointed and not quite sure why the court flip-flopped on this," said Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians' climate and energy program director, who likened this week's quickly unfolding legal drama to a roller coaster.
"But we're going to file our reply tomorrow," he said. "We still have a chance. We'll make our case and see what happens next."
Bill Ray, interim director of the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority, said he was not surprised by the court's prompt reversal.
"We fully expected that once the appellate court became aware of what the real situation was, it would agree the real irreparable harm (in this case) doesn't come from the (land) exchange happening, but would come from this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to add significant open space to the benefit of the entire northern metro area being prohibited from proceeding," Ray said. "I find it ironic that environmental advocacy groups are actively fighting against the acquisition of open space to the benefit of the entire metro area."
The land transfer involves the trading of a 617-acre parcel near the southwestern corner of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, known as Section 16, for a 300-foot-wide transportation right-of-way on the eastern edge of the refuge that runs parallel to Indiana Avenue. The right-of-way is viewed as a critical piece of the proposed Jefferson Parkway toll road, which proponents say will nearly complete a high-speed beltway around the Denver metro area.
The deal -- which involves multiple local governments, the Colorado State Land Board and the lawsuit's primary defendants, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior -- already has been extended twice in 2012 and is facing a critical deadline at the end of the year. The Department of Justice in its brief Thursday noted that "a temporary injunction in place on Dec. 31, 2012, will likely sound the death knell for the transaction."
WildEarth Guardians and Rocky Mountain Wild filed an emergency motion seeking the injunction Wednesday after a federal judge last week dismissed the lawsuit brought by the two groups along with Superior and Golden that sought to block the land deal for reasons including the lack of a sufficient environmental assessment.
The environmental groups have appealed the dismissal of that lawsuit, but officials with those groups on Wednesday argued to the court that if the land deal is allowed to take place by the end of the year as planned, even winning that appeal would do little to stop the parkway.
The Department or Justice in its response brief countered that while there are still many things that would have to take place for the parkway to be built should the land deal take place, granting the injunction would cause "irreparable harm" to the defendants by derailing the deal altogether.
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Home owners have every right to call the police if they see individuals not curbing their dog. It is the law! If this continues then I will have to suggest that we start taking pictures of the animal and owner doing this illegal activity and anonymously submitting this information to the town in order to curb the owners who can't follow the law. It's really getting out of hand.
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Cash contributions and nonperishable food items will be accepted at both locations.
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This is a postcard of St. Michael and All Angels church at Hawkshead in Lancashire. The postcard has been used and is postmarked 20 July 1955. It was sent from Windemere to a Miss I Jones in Ossett, West Yorkshire.
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Hawkshead is the birth place of my early maternal Musgrove (Musgreave / Musgrave) ancestors, especially my 6th and 5th great grandfathers – both called Joseph. And some of my early ancestors were baptised at St. Michael and All Angels church.
The village is located in the ancient county of Lancashire but in the administrative county of Cumbria. It is just north of Esthwaite Water, in a valley to the west of Windemere and east of Coniston Water – right in the heart of the Lake District National Park.
The township was originally owned by the monks of Furness Abbey. The nearby village of Colthouse derives its name from the stables owned by the Abbey. Hawkshead grew to be an important wool market in medieval times and later as a market town after the Dissolution of the Monastries in 1532. It was granted its first market charter by King James I in 1608. The poet William Wordsworth was educated at Hawkshead grammar school.
The church was built around 1300 on the site of a Norse Chapel. The bulk of the building, as it exists today, is 16th and 17th century. It occupies a lofty position, overlooking the village with a good view of the surrounding fells.
The church website (link above) has an excellent family history resource page with a plan of the graveyard including plot numbers and names and a list of memorial inscriptions. They have also included a link to the Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project where you can find a full list of all baptism, marriage and death records for the church (including surname index) from 1568 to 1864.
I saw the snow-white church upon her hill
Sit like a throned lady sending out
A gracious look all over her domain
The Prelude (William Wordsworth)
This refers to Wordsworth's return to Hawkshead in 1788, following his first year in Cambridge. The church was painted white at the time but the view is still the same.


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DailyTech – Welcome to 2011, Year of the Hacker
In the 1990s hackers ran rampant, breaking into and compromising some of the most sensitive business and government systems worldwide. Their incredible success led to major industry adjustments. Corporate and government IT departments adjusted their policies and cracked down on security. New security-centered firms were born.
But this year there has been an explosion of high-profile system intrusions the likes of which have not been seen in a decade. And for all those fancy protections, one thing is clear — much of the "security" of modern systems appears to be an illusion.
And the web has yet again became a digital Wild West — a place where the lines between good and evil blur; a place where the strong become the weak, the weak become the strong, and the newly strong victimize the newly weak; and a place where the line between mercy and destruction rests on the personal prejudices of bands of digital bandits.
I. 2011: Year of the Hacker
On Monday, LulzSec ("Lulz Security") published a data dump of a thorough intrusion of the front end of the U.S. Senate's servers. But this is far from the first significant intrusion this year.
Let's pause to briefly recap a few of the most important hacks:
Jan. 4: Anonymous uses distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to take down Tunisian government websites.
Jan. 10: Anonymous hacks Irish centre-right party Fine Gael, defacing its website and accusing it of censorship. Over 2,000 party-member accounts are compromised.
Jan. 18: Members of griefer group Goatse Security are charged by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation for their role in exposing iPad user information.
Jan. 28: British police arrest five alleged members of Anonymous.
Jan. 28: CNET reports that Goatse Security's homepage is defaced by an ex-member. We reveal that this appears to be a publicity stunt, though for the record a spokesman for the group firmly denies this.
Feb. 3: Anonymous members uses DDoS to take down the websites of the Egyptian government during the revolution against dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Feb. 5-6: HBGary, a security contractor is hacked by Anonymous via SQL injection, social engineering, and other tactics. 68,000 emails are dumped, including ones that implicate that the Bank of America hired HBGary to try to attack Wikileaks.
Feb. 10: Chinese hackers steal information from seven oil companies in an operation dubbed "Night Dragon".
Feb. 10: White paper states that iPhone passwords can be exposed via a jailbreak-driven attack.
Feb. 17: China implicated in "unprecedented" attack on Canadian government servers.
Feb. 24: Ex-soldier hacktivist "The Jester" (th3j35t3r) takes down hate websites of the Westboro Baptist extremist Christian cult.
Feb. 27: Anonymous begins attacks on Koch Industries, Inc., an American manufacturing conglomerate who spent millions lobbying against unions and paid massive campaign contributions towards Wisconsin's "union buster" Governor Scott Walker.
Mar. 1-6: Malware forms a botnet of 260,000 Android phones, Google Inc. (GOOG) offers a tool to remove the offending rootkit.
Mar. 7: Unknown parties make off with $1.2M USD Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) via points scam.
Mar. 14: Anonymous releases grabbed documents indicating that a Bank of America property possibly committed foreclosure fraud.
Mar. 18: Security firm RSA reports that its been hacked.
April 2: Anonymous launches a DDoS attack against Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) in response to litigation against hardware hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz.
April 4: Epsilon Data Management LLC is hacked, revealing millions of users' email and contact information. Affected companies include US Bank; TiVo, Inc. (TIVO); JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM); Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ); Capital One Financial Corp. (COF); Marriott International, Inc. (MAR); the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC; Citigroup, Inc. (C); Brookstone, Inc.; McKinsey & Co., Inc.; the Kroger Comp. (KR); Walgreen Comp. (WAG); India's Jet Airways (BOM:632617); Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT); Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY); Robert Half International Inc. (RHI); and Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (AMP).
April 17-19: PlayStation Network is hacked, 77 million records compromised. Anonymous is later implicated by Sony in the hack, but most believe that the greater collective was not involved. Sony Online Entertainment is also breached, 24 million records lost.
April 19: Hacker threatens to breach U.S. wind facility, showing limited access information. Attack is later ruled harmless.
April 26: Sony announces that the PSN was hacked.
May 2: SOE announces that its customer database was breached.
May 7: Sony sweepstakes site is hacked via a simple Google Search, 2,500 records lost.
May 7: FOX's X-Factor TV show contestant database leaked in SQL injection attack by LulzSec.
May 10: LulzSec leaks FOX's website admin accounts, employee passwords, and a sales database.
May 15: LulzSec leaks a database of UK ATM information, including who owns machines, where they're located, etc.
May 17: Android authentication tokens compromised due to insecure API.
May 20: Sony is found to be hosting a phishing page on its servers, courtesy of hackers.
May 20: Employees at several Apple, Inc. (AAPL) Genius Bar locations report (according to Ars Technica) that 1 in 20 Mac computers is infected with the MacDefender trojan, Apple orders its techs to feign ignorance on the topic.
May 21: Unknown parties steal $1,220 in virtual currency from 128 accounts on a Sony-owned internet services provider (ISP).
May 21: Hacker "k4L0ng666" defaces Sony Music Indonesia website via SQL injection.
May 22: Hacker "b4d_vipera" defaces Sony BMG Greece website, takes 8,500 records via SQL injection.
May 23: LulzSec leaks contents of Sony's Japanese websites (no user records) via an SQL injection attack.
May 24: Sony Canada loses 2,000 some records in an SQL injection attack by Lebanese hacker group Idahc.
May 25: Sony promises affected customers a year of free identity theft protection.
May 29: PBS is hacked by LulzSec after the hackers take issue with its coverage of Wikileaks. Hackers post fake news stories and deface its page, and wreak havoc on its servers.
May 30: Information from RSA hack is used to penetrate Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) servers, Chinese connection is suspected.
June 2: LulzSec uses SQL injection to scoop a reported 1 million records off a Sony Pictures sweepstakes website. Sony claims the actual number is only 38,000 accounts compromised.
June 2: Sony BMG Netherlands and Belgium have 1 million records exposed via SQL injection from unknown parties. Records include user names and plaintext passwords.
June 2: Gmail accounts are hacked, Chinese government is fingered, as accounts belonged to Chinese dissidents; advocacy groups.
June 2-3: In a spat over a particular user LulzSec DDoSs popular hacker magazine 2600's IRC chat servers and proxy servers. The dispute is eventually resolved after members and publication admins have a chat.
June 3: Names, photos, and email addresses of 120 developers lost in a SQL injection attack on Sony Europe database.
June 3: FBI affiliate Infragard is hacked by LulzSec, emails and more released.
June 3: LulzSec warns Japanese game maker Nintendo (TYO:7974) of gaping hole in its online security.
June 5: Anonymous publishes the names, passwords, and email addresses of several prominent Middle Eastern politicians.
June 5: Sony Pictures Russia is breached via SQL injection, user records from several databases are dumped to Pastebin.
June 6: Sony BMG's internal network is mapped by LulzSec in new breach; SCE developer code is also taken.
June 8: SQL injection attack drops yet more records from Sony Music Portugal, Idahc claims responsibility.
June 8: LulzSec hacks "unhackable" webpage from security firm Black & Berg Cybersecurity Consulting, LLC and refuses cash prize, saying they "did it for the lulz."
June 9: Using Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) DDoS attacks, Anonymous targets Turkey for "censorship".
June 10: LulzSec posts admins records, accounts of government officials purloined from databases of pornographic websites.
June 10: A group calling themselves "Anonymous India" attacks the Indian army website with DDoS attacks.
June 12: LulzSec publishes a thorough network intrusion of Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Media that includes source code, network mappings, and more. Group doesn't publish user information because it says "[W]e actually like this company."
June 12: U.S. Senate servers are hacked by LulzSec, though classified servers are not penetrated.
June 12: Spanish police arrest three alleged members of Anonymous. Anonymous responds with a DDoS takedown of Spanish police websites.
June 14: "Titanic Takeover Tuesday" is launched by LulzSec. The group strikes gaming magazine The Escapist, the servers of EVE Online, the site of government contractor software firm Finfisher, servers for Minecraft, and servers for League of Legends, a MMORPG.
June 14: Anonymous targets U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, via a post on their ops site. It is unclear whether any attacks materialized.
June 14: Turkey arrests 32 alleged members of Anonymous, group vows revenge.
June 14: In a Pastebin posting Anonymous condemns the attacks on the Indian government, saying they were perpetrated by an "imposter".
(Thanks to Wikipedia and Attrition.org for listings of and links to detailed information on some of these hacks.)
Vital Stats on Major Hacks:
Number of Attacks on Sony: 19
Number of Hacks by LulzSec: 18+
Number of Hacks by Idahc: 2+
Number of Hacks by Anonymous: 11+
Number of Hacks suspect to have originated in China: 4+
Number of Hacks on U.S. Gov't or Contractors: 4+
II. Profile: Recent Anonymous Activity
One of the largest and most active hacker collectives is Anonymous. Known as a group where inexperienced hackers can get their hands dirty, the collective has a large worldwide presence. Anonymous is loosely affiliated with the image-board site 4Chan. The group does not have official leaders — any member can act as an organizer at any given time, trying to convinced members to do attacks or "operations" as they typically call them.
Most communication among members is accomplished via secured IRC chats.
Very active members sometime serve as "spokespeople" for the group, to spread information about its activities for those who don't troll IRC channels daily. Obviously these spokespeople don't speak for all members, but they offer a decent perspective (typically) on the group's thoughts and actions. The site AnonNews.org is the group's primary site for press releases. The group also maintains a Twitter account.
In recent weeks Anonymous's attention has been split between the Middle East and Sony. Though ostensibly Anonymous as a whole is not attacking Sony any more, some individual members or groups of members are believed to be.
Three members of the group were arrested last Friday in Spain because the Spanish government believed they were key organizers of the group. Anonymous engaged in a war of DDoS attacks and semantics with the Spanish government. But at the end of the day it's unclear whether or not the men taken into custody truly organized any attacks with the group.
Last weekend the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was hacked, just days after Anonymous tweeted "#OperationGreece: Target: http://www.imf.org" and the IMF issued a statement that it was prepared for the attacks. The IMF is a group responsible for global finances.
It appears someone — perhaps China — beat Anonymous to the punch. The IMF says its servers were hacked over the weekend by an attacker who appeared to be a sophisticated "nation state" aiming to establish a "digital insider presence".
The attack showcases a growing issue — the fact that it's often very unclear who has attacked a particular entity. This is the case as often the same entity is the subject of cyber-aggression from multiple parties. Furthermore, publicized attack plans can be cleverly exploited by those who wish to obfuscate their presence. In that sense groups like Anonymous may find themselves increasingly "framed" by true attackers, given their propensity to sound off online.
This was seen yet again in last Friday's attacks on the Indian military and government from a group calling themselves "Anonymous India". The "real" Anonymous condemned these attacks saying it played no part in them. Yet many articles were published that fingered Anonymous itself for the attack. In short it appears Anonymous's name was was (ab)used in a politically motivated attacks.
Anonymous still appears very active, as evidenced by its recent leak of emails and passwords of officials in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco.
The group's membership is believed to be large. Some members are ostensibly non-hackers, but just enjoy participating in the group's eye-catching public demonstrations, in which actors don Guy Fawkes masks.
III. Profile: Recent LulzSec Activity
LulzSec exploded onto the scene in May with a series of high-profile intrusions, most noticeably focused at Sony. The group maintains an active PR website, a calling board, and an active Twitter presence. However, it is thought to be a smaller, more elite group than Anonymous. LulzSec does not bear any official affiliation with Anonymous, though they share some common enemies. Like Anonymous, LulzSec is thought to be a group without a leader.
The group appears to be increasingly flaunting its abilities against the U.S. government.
After targeting an FBI affiliate earlier this month, the group targeted several government officials in its recent porn database breach. Some of these entries appear to be joke user names (for example "flag" with password "karlmarx") from people who aren't actually in ownership of government emails.
Others — like U.S. Army soldiers James Ben Hopkins and Aaron C. Sewell and U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Wade Quigley — appear like real people. Of course, someone could have used those emails as a prank against those individuals.
In addition to calling out porn users with government emails, LulzSec completed a major breach of the U.S. Senate's servers this Sunday.
Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms, said on Monday to Reuters, "We were responding to their allegations. Basically what we're saying that the server they got into is for public access and is in the public side. Although this intrusion is inconvenient, it does not compromise the security of the Senate's network, its members or staff. Specifically, there is no individual user account information on the server supporting senate.gov that could have been compromised."
This makes sense. Despite the U.S. governments lack of savvy in cybersecurity, it should know enough to air gap public accessible systems from classified ones. In that regard the LulzSec breach may do little other than to irritate the government.
States Stewart Baker, a former cyber official at the Department of Homeland Security and current employee of security contractor Steptoe and Johnson, "The hackers may have done the equivalent of burglarizing the Senate and bragging because they managed to steal a bunch of souvenirs from the gift shop."
LulzSec though, never claimed the hack to be a major one. It said it was "just for fun". The published documents show mostly processes running on one of the servers, images hosted on the Senate's various pages, and code from some of the pages. There's no "smoking guns" in the archive so to speak.
Ultimately, the hack should serve as an interesting test, though. To date, LulzSec has disguised their identities, ostensibly using proxies, Tor, and other assets. But the question remains whether they will be able to remain anonymous if the FBI, U.S. law enforcement community, and private security contractors bear down on them.
If the U.S. can't catch LulzSec now, it's unlikely they ever will.
Paying little mind to such matters, LulzSec's "Titanic Takeover Tuesday" proceeded neatly, with the group striking Minecraft, EVE Online, and League of Legends. The DDoS attacks brought down the games' login servers. EVE Online took all their servers, including their website offline as a precaution to protect users, though they said no data was lost. Likewise servers of gaming magazine The Escapist were slammed, making access to the site intermittent on Tuesday.
The group's motivation for the attack appears to be to mock online gamers. States the group via Twitter:
Now accepting calls from true lulz fans – let's all laugh together at butthurt gamers.
The only "serious" attack appears to be attack Finfisher, which LulzSec says it targeted for "because apparently they sell monitoring software to the government or some shit like that."
LulzSec's targets appear to be primarily gaming firms, the government, media sites, and most of all Sony. Expect more attacks in coming weeks as the group likely has become emboldened by their successes thus far.
IV. The Road Ahead
Both LulzSec and Anonymous can be construed as principled griefers, in a sense. If their members like you, they may deliver the news that your network security is pathetic in a bit more gentle fashion. If you're their enemy, though, they can be merciless.
It's unclear why 2011 has been such a remarkable year in terms of system intrusions. Anonymization services like Tor and proxy services have certainly played a role — but Tor has been around since 2002. Likewise, international turmoil in the Middle East and China has stirred the pot, but there have been plenty of other unrest-filled years over the last decade.
What is clear is that 2011 appears to be the year of the hacker.
As long as some companies:
1. Conduct themselves in a belligerent fashion towards tech-savvy members of the online community
2. Store passwords in plaintext
3. Fail to protect against SQL injection attacks
4. Keep stale data online
5. Fall victim to obvious social engineering plots
…and as long as some users:
1. Use short passwords
2. Use dictionary word passwords
3. Use the same password for multiple sites
4. Fall victim to phishing
5. Use work emails for site registration
…these kinds of attacks should continue to regularly occur. You see, the web may be the Wild West — but the problem is less the outlaws' smarts — it's their targets lack thereof.
For individuals, remember: if you avoid the above traps, companies may lose your data, but your overall online presence and identity should be safe.
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EDMONTON - When I give my son money, he throws it away.
It doesn't seem to matter how much I hand over, or the value of the coin. I place the money in my little boy's hand, he smiles, then tosses it into his favourite water fountain.
Money's still a plaything to a two-year-old. It makes noise, it sparkles, it might even taste good.
But it doesn't take a child long to figure out the power of cash (beyond a fountain splash). And in an era of overspending and frightening household debt levels, it seems a parent's duty to teach children good money sense, to prepare them for battle against the material temptations and personal-line-of-credit offers to come.
Deborah Kerbel and her father Gordon Pape bore the weight of that responsibility in mind as they wrote Money Savvy Kids (Penguin Canada). The slim volume, released in January 2013, offers practical advice to Canadian parents on how to raise money-smart kids.
Kerbel, a mother of two school-aged children, was in the perfect stage of parenting to do the research for the book. Her then-five-year-old had been nagging her for an allowance "and I didn't know how to answer to him," Kerbel told me from her home in greater Toronto. "I kept putting it off, wondering, is this a good idea or not?"
Her first reaction was to say no for selfish reasons. "As a parent, I thought, what do I need another responsibility for, making sure I have the money every week, remembering to give it to them, having to take them to the store to buy things. And then all that extra junk coming into the house that I'm going to have to deal with."
I get that. I mean, sure I want my son to learn how money works, but I really want him to spend it wisely, not waste it on dollar-store doodads or some horribly messy treat that will end up all over the walls.
But the importance of giving children allowances — so they can spend, save and screw up — is a key message in Money Savvy Kids. "They need a little bit in their own hands to learn, and to make some mistakes," Kerbel said. "Maybe I spent it all on candy when I really wanted to save up for a bicycle." It's vital children learn that "if I blow it all, there's no one who's going to appear to save me."
The book recommends children start receiving an allowance at the age of seven. But kids can learn even earlier what money is, and how it works. "(Age) five or six is the beginning," she said. "They understand numbers and they can count, and they're trying to figure out the ins and outs of the world."
Money Savvy Kids meshes together the daughter-dad duo's financial, literary and parenting expertise. Kerbel writes fiction for young adults; Pape is one of the country's leading personal finance experts, author of several books on the subject.
"It was nice working with my dad," Kerbel said. The pair split up the work according to their strengths. "I'm not a financial expert and I wouldn't want to pretend to be," she noted.
Kerbel sings the praises of virtual allowance trackers in our increasingly cashless society. Not only can kids check their balance on an iPad app, it saves parents the hassle of handing out coins/bills every week. Websites like FirstKidBank.com offer parents and a child a way of tracking savings and spending.
Allowance amounts are added to the virtual balance and then, if the child wants a chocolate bar, the parent pays for it and deducts the cost from the virtual account. (That's not to say a child can't save up in a piggy bank anymore, although with the death of the Canadian penny, it will become increasingly difficult to teach them the value of one cent.)
The big question, for me, was this: how does a parent teach her kid good money sense in a society with terrible money sense? Canadians' consumer debt is at a record high. Just this month, credit agency TransUnion reported that the average Canuck has more than $27,000 in personal debt (not including a mortgage).
How, in this climate, can a child comprehend the importance of sticking to the budget, saving for a rainy day and living within one's means? How does a little boy or girl appreciate the need to delay gratification (i.e. save up for the bicycle) when his mom and dad pay with credit cards, get lines of credit and make minimum payments?
Money Savvy Kids raises that issue right off the bat, Kerbel said. Parents, of course, ought to lead by example. The book has readers take a survey to test their own financial knowledge (and recognize their own flaws) as they embark on the quest to teach a child good money sense.
"Kids DO watch their parents. You may not think they're watching, but they do watch. You need to get your own financial house in order so you can have a solid foundation," she said. "Hopefully, we can start this new generation off on the right foot, understanding how not to get yourself into debt, how to only buy things you have the money for."


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Educators trying to boost interest in STEM fields
03/01/2013 6:30amYou hear it a lot — the hot, high-paying jobs are all in science, technology, math and engineering. Utah educators are working to help boys and girls be more interested in those fields.
Ask a Cop: Tips for that dreaded traffic stop
03/01/2013 8:16amHave you ever wanted to ask a cop a question but have been too afraid or had warrants? Well now is your chance. Ask away and I will attempt to answer. Today I talk about traffic stops: how you should act and what to expect.
Gas leak fixed, U of U dorm residents return
03/01/2013 8:36amUniversity of Utah dorm residents returned home after being displaced overnight when a gas line broke.
Hogle Zoo sees first successful gibbon birth in zoo history
03/01/2013 8:56amThe first gibbon successfully born at the Hogle Zoo has been reunited with his family.
Wyo. man charged in 1980s child abuse case
03/01/2013 10:37amA Wyoming man has been arrested in a child abuse case from nearly three decades ago.
2 arrested in 6-month Provo crime spree
03/01/2013 10:59amPolice have arrested two men in connection with a string of residential burglaries in south-west Provo.
Man convicted of 2007 revenge murder
03/01/2013 12:21pmA man accused of shooting and killing another man for testifying against his friend in 2007 was found guilty of murder Thursday.
Bill would allow concealed weapons to be carried without permit
03/01/2013 3:00pmThe so-called 'constitutional carry' gun bill that allows weapons to be concealed without a permit passed the House Friday after being changed so a round can no longer be in the chamber.
Man charged with 3 counts of aggravated murder in Midvale homicide
03/01/2013 3:35pmA man arrested in connection with a triple homicide in Midvale was charged Friday with three counts of aggravated murder.
300 East, public safety building closed for 2 months due to improvements
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Man runs car into building after mistakenly pressing gas pedal
03/01/2013 6:03pmA man ran his car into a convenience store at a Draper gas station Friday morning.
'I'd call it chaotic,' says mother of year-old quadruplets
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Under bill, teachers who conceal carry required to tell principal, inquiring parents
03/01/2013 6:12pmA Utah lawmaker is pushing legislation that would give parents the ability to find out if their kids' teachers are packing heat.
Sandy police to reward good drivers with movie tickets during March
03/01/2013 6:46pmUsually when a police officer pulls over a driver, it's bad news. That's not necessarily the case for motorists who get ticketed in Sandy during March. The Sandy Police Department is handing out movie tickets to motorists who drive safely.
Hospital security guard gives away toy cars to young patients
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Police report details alleged sexual abuse of minor by Utah swim coach
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Spending cuts loom; impact includes Hill Air Force Base, legal system
03/01/2013 10:07pmAutomatic government spending cuts were set to kick in Friday, but, "It's not going to be 'the sky is falling,'" said Gov. Herbert.
Radon bill will not make it through the legislature
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Scientist uses 3-D animation to study cells, viruses
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Huskers Tied for Sixth in El Paso
El Paso, Texas - The Nebraska men's golf team is tied for sixth after 18 holes at the Price's Give 'Em Five Invitational after play was suspended due to darkness on Friday.
The Huskers shot 297 in Monday's first round and are tied with Weber State and Northern Colorado. The trio of teams is 16 shots off the team lead, which is set by Utah. The second round was suspended due to darkness at 7:40 p.m. (CT). Only four teams (UT Arlington, UTEP, Northern Colorado and San Jose State) completed the second round on Friday.
Kolton Lapa, who won Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week honors on Wednesday, led the Huskers on Friday with a 72. The freshman is tied for 12th with 36 holes to play. Lapa made two bogeys on the front nine and two birdies on the back nine for his even par total.
Matt Record is tied for 21st at the Price's Give 'Em Five Invitational. The junior fired a 1-over-par 73 in the first round. Record made six birdies, six pars, five bogeys and one double bogey on Friday.
Neil Dufford shot a 3-over-par 75 in Friday's opening round. Playing as the only senior in the NU lineup, Dufford made four birdies, two bogeys, one double bogey and one triple bogey. Dufford is tied for 36th.
Sophomore Ross Dickson is tied for 50th after 18 holes at the Price's Give 'Em Five Invitational. He shot a 5-over-par 77 on Friday. Dickson made four birdies, six bogeys and a triple bogey in the first round.
Manuel Lavin posted a 9-over-par 81 on Friday. The junior made one birdie, six bogeys and two double bogeys in the first round. He is tied for 64th.
The second round is set to resume at 8:30 a.m. (CT). The final round is slated for a shotgun start at 9:15 a.m.
Price's Give 'Em Five Invitational
Oct. 26-27, 2012
Butterfield Trail Golf Course, El Paso, Texas
Par 72 - 7,307 yards
Nebraska Scores
T-12. Kolton Lapa - 72
T-21. Matt Record - 73
T-36. Neil Dufford - 75
T-50. Ross Dickson - 77
T-64. Manuel Lavin - 81


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Healthy nails should be semi-transparent, light pink, and intact, possibly with a white lunula ("little moon") just above the cuticle. According to everydayhealth.com, individual nails may on occasion get small white lines or dots, called leukonychia (nothing to worry about), or maybe an infection by bacteria, virus, or fungus (all of which should get treated), an underlying illness somewhere else in your body can also cause changes in nail health and their appearance. Nail care includes watching out for key changes like these:
Decoding Nail Color Changes:
White nail syndrome. The whole nail will appear cloudy or white. This change in nail health could indicate heart disease, renal failure, liver cirrhosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes, or rheumatoid arthritis.
Terry's nails. The nail will look mostly white and grainy with a pink or perhaps red strip at the top because of an increase in connective tissue and a decrease in blood supply in the nail bed. This change in nail health can be found in 80 percent of patients with liver cirrhosis, as well as in patients with congestive heart failure, hyperthyroidism, malnutrition, diabetes, or HIV.
Muehrcke's nails. Abnormal blood flow in the nail bed will make the nails appear as if they have horizontal (often paired) white lines, most often in the second, third, and fourth fingers. The lines disappear if the nail is pressed and blood is squeezed out of the nail bed blood vessels. Because this problem occurs in the nail bed, it will not progress up as the nail grows. Problems associated with this are hypoalbuminemia, liver disease, malnutrition, and nephrotic syndrome; it is also a side effect of chemotherapy.


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GS: Where are you from?
TC: Birmingham, AL
GS: What degree will you receive and when?
TC: I will receive a PhD in Epidemiology some time later this year…
GS: How long have you been at UAB?
TC: I've been at UAB since 2003. I completed my MPH here in 2005 and began working as a research study coordinator. I began the doctoral program in 2007.
GS: What is your research?
TC: I am interested in cultural and psychosocial determinants of weight-related behaviors in women. Specifically, my dissertation is examining the association between weight and quality of life in women.
GS: Why did you choose UAB for your graduate studies?
TC: It was really a no-brainer for me. Birmingham is home and UAB's SOPH is one of the best. Further, there were several faculty members at UAB working on things that were interesting to me.
GS: Have you received any awards or honors?
TC: I was recently notified that I was selected for the Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellowship from National Institutes of Health, which is a great honor for me. I was also selected for Golden Key International Honor Society and Who's Who in America in 2009.
GS: What has been your most rewarding experience at UAB?
TC: It's hard to pinpoint a particular experience because the experience overall has been rewarding. Having the guidance and support of so many neat people at every level—faculty, students and staff—has been truly great. During my time here, I have learned about many different cultures and I have also learned a lot about myself. It has truly been a time of personal and spiritual growth for me.
GS: Who was your greatest influence here at UAB and why?
TC: That is a hard question because I have really had the opportunity to work with a lot of great people. However, if I must choose one it is Dr. Jamy Ard, associate professor in the School of Health Professions. He was the first person who gave me a chance when I was a fledgling intern finishing up my master's degree. He mentored me and taught me how to apply what I learned in the classroom to the real world of research. He showed me that a person like me could be a successful researcher and that my area of interest was important. He strongly encouraged me to go back for my PhD, was the first person to start calling me Dr. Cox, and was even ready to press send on my application when I was hesitant about doing it. I can truly say that had I not had the intern experience with Dr. Ard, my education and career path would have probably turned out very differently.
GS: What is your motivation in your academics/research?
TC: I think I am motivated because I truly love what I do. It is who I am. I am very passionate about my area of research because it is something I truly want to understand at a deeper level so that I can help improve public health. I interact with a lot of study participants and I see how much they really want help so they certainly motivate me to keep moving forward. Finally, I have worked with a lot of successful people who have invested a lot time and resources into me, including my current mentors/employers Dr. Olivia Affuso and Dr. David Allison. Seeing the success of these people and seeing their belief in me motivates me to continue to strive for excellence.
GS: What are your plans after graduating and for the future?
TC: I plan to continue training and research in academia.
Tiffany's advice for other graduate students:
The best advice that I can give to any graduate student is to work hard and align yourself with the right people—those who have similar research interests and a desire to help students. With a little hard work and the support of the right people, good things will happen for you.


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Linked by Howard Fosdick on Mon 13th Dec 2010 23:11 UTC
It's hard to predict the future because we humans prefer to think in terms of familiar paradigms. Even the most brilliant of our species are subject to this flaw. Now, Microsoft faces its turn. The owner of the operating system that likely runs your personal computer, the company that achieved monopoly with Windows and ducked the Department of Justice's scythe to keep it, faces a midlife crisis as the world goes gaga over portable consumer devices. This is the story of what's happening to Microsoft in the handheld operating system markets -- and how it parallels the earlier, similar journeys of IBM Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. Can Microsoft achieve dominance on mobile devices?
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After the first 36 holes of the 72 hole Iowa Conference Championship, Luther is in second place trailing tournament leader Central by 13 strokes. The Norse shot a two round total of 639, while Central carded a 626.
Individually, Andrew Peter is tied for medalist honors shooting rounds of 80-73-153. Justin Livingston of Central also shot 153 posting rounds of 82-71.
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