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Jim Pemantell has his running shoes on again. After saying last year that his appearance in the Steamtown Marathon in Scranton, Penn., was to be his last run, the soon to be 69-year-old former Jamestown police chief will return to Scranton in October. It will be his 42nd marathon.
This time he'll be raising money for the Tomorrow Fund in honor of 10-year-old Payton Watson, whom he said is the "bravest little girl I know." Payton is the daughter of Frank Watson, a sergeant with the Jamestown Police Department, and Liz Goode Watson.
Jim is out everyday on the island roads slowly increasing his distances. He has lost 23 pounds and said he is feeling better than he has in a long time.
In a letter sent out to some islanders, Jim writes that last October Payton was diagnosed with leukemia and spent four months at Hasbro Children's Hospital undergoing chemotherapy treatments. In February, she received a bone marrow transplant at Dana Farber in Boston and is now recovering at home in North Kingstown.
"In a nutshell, The Tomorrow Fund tries to make it easier for families to make it through a most difficult time, a child's cancer treatment. It is funded entirely through donations," Jim explained. A brochure states it is "the only local non-profit organization that provides daily financial and emotional support to children with cancer and their families."
The marathoner hopes to raise $5,000 and is asking for a donation of "whatever you feel you can afford." Send your check, made out to the Tomorrow Fund, to Jim at 224 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown, 02835 before Sept. 7.
"Please help me honor Payton and reach my goal," Jim said.
We couldn't say it any better than Summer Fair co-chair Joan Breakell who e-mailed: "Homemade ice cream cookie sandwiches will be just one of the treats available at St. Matthew's 76th Annual Summer Fair along with lobster rolls, burgers and dogs, tiki punch and more.
"The Thrift Shop (aka TJ Matt's) will be open during the fair with a great selection of gently used clothing and household items and the white elephant and toy sales will have something for everyone.
"Place your bids at the silent auction for treasures and vacation trips. Then relax in the shade with a delicious lunch "Under the Beech" while the kids enjoy games and cotton candy.
"See you at the fair on Saturday, July 21, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m."
News from the beach: Bar Wharton found an antique detonator while cleaning out his barn. He presented it to the Rocket Dawgz and the opening volley of the fireworks display was lit by the functioning instrument. It looks just like the ones we used to see in the old cowboy movies when someone would push down on the handles and blow up the caves. Word is that the detonator will revolve around the homes of the retired Rocket Dawgz.
There were 545 shells in the finale and eight 10-inch shells and 10 eight-inch shells were included in the display.
Donations were received from Gerald Bay of Newport Street; Susan Baccari, Rub Street; and Norma and Bud Walsh of Whittier Road.
And a special note of thanks to Mary Meagher for her thoughtful "cups of coffee."
In light of what's going on in the world, is it really worth the time and money searching for water on Mars?
At the age of 13, Lucy was slowing down. The dauchshund mix found herself unable to any longer get up the stairs to get back into the house.
So, her family, Roy and Lisa Geigen of Summit Avenue, built Lucy a handicap ramp.
Great job, guys!!
You have to watch your dog's calories as well as your own, says Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic.
"One of the most common questions pet owners ask is "how much should I feed Fluffy?" The answer is different for each pet. Mathematically pets need on average 20 to 30 calories per pound of body weight per day, but this can change drastically with age, activity level, and overall health. Most pet foods have guidelines for the amount of food to feed your pet, but realize these are not rules and obese or less active pets don't need as much food or calories. Also any treats, snacks, or table food quickly add up and may represent a sizeable portion of calories especially if you are using treats to train a new pet or teaching them new tricks. Most pet food companies now have excellent Websites and customer service lines to help you keep Fluffy in good shape and please continue to talk to your veterinarian about diets and weight management for your pets."
"To err is human, to forgive canine." - Anonymous
How about Curly, Moe and Larry as names for the three new osprey at the creek?
Hugs please for Cory Rosa who was 15 on July 10.
Beth Weibust writes: "All former sixth graders and North Meadow Farm campers will be sad to learn that our beloved Bernice, the bunny, died Friday night. She was a lucky bunny to have received love and hugs from lots of children throughout the years and died peacefully with me at her side."
RIP Bernice.
It's good to know there are still businesses out there that stand out from others. One morning last week when leaving the house to go to work we noticed a front tire on our truck that looked too soft to drive on.
We called AAA and in 20 minutes its truck was in our driveway. We were only five minutes late for work.
Joyce Hooley e-mailed to respond to the item in a previous column about the limited RIPTA service between Jamestown and Newport.
"I am a big fan of RIPTA and take it almost every day during the school year. I just thought it would be good for everyone to know that there are in fact five trips from Newport to Jamestown Monday to Saturday. Riders should consult the Number 14 as well as the 64. The 14 does not have a published stop but does come through town."
Joyce said that in defense of RIPTA, she finds it to be a very helpful and flexible system, willing to change routes and stops as needs arise. But, it is a business and needs to be sure it is worth its while.
"I have found the drivers on the routes I take to be incredibly competent and helpful. I think it is important to know that when one has a question they need only to call RIPTA and express one's concerns. It is also our job to leave the car at home and take the bus. The more demand, the more change will take place."
Thanks, Joyce.
Richard Botelho reports on an incident last Friday that shook him up a bit.
"Saw something this morning shortly after 8 a.m. that made me realize common sense is not too common. A young man, I would say in his early 30s, was riding an unregistered motorbike down Howland Avenue. Standing on the center frame of the motorbike was a very young child, no eye protection, no helmet. Let's for one minute suppose one of those invisible dogs that roam around without a leash began chasing that motorbike. The operator of the motorbike swerves to avoid the dog, SLAM hits a telephone pole. Injuries? What an end to what would have been a marvelous day. In your attempt to please, use your head."
Thanks, Richard. Common sense is a rarity these days.
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Gia Allemand, who appeared on season fourteen of the hit ABC show The Bachelor, has died at age 29 in an apparent suicide, TMZ reports.
The reality contestant, who also appeared on the Bachelor Pad, was rushed to the hospital on Monday evening (August 12) for a "serious emergency medical event," and suffered "critical loss of brain and organ function" due to her reported suicide event.
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One Killed, 12 Detained in Afghanistan Operations
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KABUL, March 31, 2009 – Afghan and coalition forces killed one person and detained four known militants and eight suspected militants during pre-dawn operations in Afghanistan's Khowst province today.
In the Besmil district, a combined assault force targeted a compound housing a militant with the Islamic Jihad Union, a group known to traffic foreign fighters through the Khowst-Gardez pass.
When the assault force arrived at the targeted compound, they called for occupants to peacefully exit. Twelve men and 14 children followed the forces' directives and left the building. One person did not comply, and Afghan and coalition forces again instructed him to come out. When he proceeded toward the force, he appeared to quickly reach for something, and his sudden movement was perceived as hostile. The force killed him with small-arms fire.
Following the incident, forces uncovered identification documents that revealed the noncompliant male was 15 years old. The elder on the compound confirmed his identity and accepted money from the force to pay for his funeral.
"We are saddened an Afghan youth was killed during this operation and regret he did not comply with Afghan and coalition forces' directives," said Army Lt. Col. Rick Helmer, U.S. Forces Afghanistan spokesman. "However, we remain steadfast in our commitment to working with Afghan partner forces to root out militants who seek to destabilize Afghanistan and prevent regional peace and prosperity."
The targeted militant and three suspects were detained without further incident.
In separate operations in Khowst's Sabari district, Afghan and coalition forces conducted operations to disrupt Haqqani network bomb-making cells. Three known militants and five suspects were detained with no shots fired. A search of one compound revealed blasting caps, a loaded machine gun and grenades, which were subsequently destroyed a safe distance from the compound. Fourteen women and 45 children were protected.
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Boiled peanuts (pronounced 'bowled' in Georgia where my mom is from) are awesome! I, too, love them. Anytime we go back to see my mom's family we cook up a huge batch at my Great-Aunt's house. We also bring back bags of raw peanuts to store in our freezer. Yahoo for finding some raw peanuts here! Sarah Z.ReplyDelete
I've had a couple of revelatory moments like that with family, but the food wasn't boiled peanuts. Boiled peanuts are something I have yet to experience except vicariously through you, and one other recent mofo post. I'm thinking at our next family dinner, I should set out a bowl and see what happens!ReplyDelete
This post was gave me a lovely memory of my Daddy! He didn't eat boiled peanuts, I've never heard of eating them like that, but would munch away at monkey nuts from the shell. Thank you for another dose of "nosh-talgia" :DReplyDelete
This is a great story about how you came to discover the yumminess of boiled peanuts. I am from North Carolina so I guess by default I am a lover of boiled peanuts. Now that I'm residing in Atlanta, GA I can still get boiled peanuts on the regs even at the grocery store (which isn't as good). The best is when it has a little cajun spice added to it.ReplyDelete
I've never had boiled peanuts as you describe them, I guess the nearest I've had are sprouted peanuts in a stir fry, they were pretty interesting. I absolutely love your illustration of the hokey operation with the happy vendor and top-hatted peanut decoration!ReplyDelete
I've never had boiled peanuts but am going to give them a try. Your posts are so beautiful. Can't wait to read more.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful post! I've never had boiled peanuts before, I didn't even know they existed until I stumbled across them online, but then Canada sure is a long was from North Carolina.ReplyDelete
Beautiful story.ReplyDelete
Boiled peanuts are so good, I find it surprising that they've remained almost exclusively in the South. I fell in love with boiled peanuts when we'd visit Florida when I was a child, but I've *never* seen or heard anything about them elsewhere.


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Elenora F. Dennis, 95, of Adrian passed away Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012, as the result of a fire at her home.
Born in Dundee, Mich., Dec. 12, 1916, she was the daughter of Charles and Emma (Prong) Miller. Elenora graduated from Dundee High School. In 1938, Elenora was married to Waldo Dennis, and he preceded her in death.
Elenora and Waldo worked together at their family business, Dennis Egg Farm. She also worked for J.C. Penney and as an election official for Rome Township. Elenora was a 50-year member of the Rome Grange and, for many years, volunteered for the American Red Cross. Her love of the outdoors could be seen in her beautiful flower gardens. She was an excellent cook, and enjoyed knitting.
Elenora dearly loved her children and grandchildren and will be greatly missed by those surviving, including her sons, Ronald (Judy) Dennis of Adrian and Raymond Dennis of Toledo; stepdaughters-in-law, Barbara Dennis of Florida and Irene Farrar of Dearborn; nine grandchildren, Angela Hill, Marsha Groll, and Sheila, Mark, Richard, Steve, Danny, Sharon and Jeff Dennis; many great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Also surviving are Patty Blakesslee of New York and Brandy Rosier of California, who were like granddaughters to Elenora.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two stepsons, Russell and Richard Dennis; and siblings, Ervin, Walter, Herbert and Viola Miller.
Funeral services for Elenora will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at Wagley Funeral Home, with the Rev. Lloyd Jewett officiating. Visitation will take place at the funeral home from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday and on Friday from 10 a.m. until the service.
Contributions in memory of Elenora may be made to the Lenawee County Victim's Services Unit who offered comfort and support to her family at the time of the fire, the American Red Cross, or to Elenora's family. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.WagleyFuneralHome.com.
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JayPat wrote:12 is overpaying A LOT. No way he ever gets that deal. Come on, an undersized, quick SG who isn't great on defense will not get that sort of contract. It should be below 10 million, lilke 7-8 probably. If he's offered 12, we gotta pass or that's gonna cripple our salary situation (and we might not be able to sign Andris).
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SAXONBURG, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man is facing charges for allegedly dousing a 7-year-old boy with flammable liquid and then doing nothing when his shirt caught on fire.
A preliminary hearing for 35-year-old Edward B. Myers is scheduled for Tuesday. He's from of Saxonburg, about 30 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
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Some of those meetings could include discussions about Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller who made off with nearly $54 million over nearly two decades. One such closed session was held the night she was arrested – April 17, 2012.
The Open Meetings Act requires public bodies to review minutes of executive sessions twice a year to determine whether the need for secrecy still exists. Or they can release the minutes if they no longer see the need for confidentiality.
Dixon's city attorney, Rob LeSage, acknowledged the city hadn't been reviewing its closed-session minutes until recently.
But the city has plenty of company. Sterling admits it's behind with its required reviews.
"The good thing is we only have a couple of closed sessions a year anyway," City Clerk Marie Rombouts said. "We don't have that many."
Lee County, which holds a few closed meetings each year, also hasn't had such reviews.
A few weeks ago, the Rock Falls City Council held a review and decided to keep all of its closed-session minutes secret.
Other governing bodies do open their minutes. Whiteside County recently released the closed-session minutes for three of its Public Works Committee meetings as part of its semiannual review, County Administrator Joel Horn said.
In 2011, Morrison City Council released some of its minutes, including discussions about hiring Jim Wise as city administrator. He held that job for 2 years.
Perhaps the most interesting of Dixon's closed-session minutes was on Feb. 4, 2013, when the council discussed the job description for Shawn Ortgiesen, the public works director and city engineer who often was considered the de facto city manager. Just 2 months later, Ortgiesen resigned after officials discovered he had used his city-issued credit card for personal expenses.
During the closed session, Commissioner Dennis Considine said Ortgiesen's job description should be reviewed and refined. Commissioner David Blackburn agreed.
"Mayor [Jim] Burke showed concern because of just appointing a Governmental Task Force to review all types of governments and the City of Dixon is going to possibly change Shawn's job description," the minutes state.
Lawyer: Apparent violations of law
Don Craven, an attorney for the Illinois Press Association, said some of the discussions mentioned in the closed-session minutes are not allowed under the Open Meetings Act.
In one case, Ortgiesen introduced the idea of hiring an information technology employee rather than contracting out for such services – a discussion that appeared to violate the law.
City Attorney Rob LeSage said the minutes on the IT situation don't reflect the entire discussion.
"My recollection of the conversation was about hiring a specific person," he said. "The conversation turned to the fact that the person wasn't going to work."
According to the minutes, members agreed to authorize advertising an IT position at their open meeting later that month.
That is a budgetary issue, Craven said, and shouldn't have been discussed behind closed doors.
In a Feb. 19 closed meeting, Finance Director Paula Meyer distributed salary sheets showing what nonunion personnel receive as additional benefits, such as sick bonuses, degree bonuses, holiday pay, vacation pay and clothing allowances. She said she would like to see those amounts rolled into each person's salary.
"Discussion ensued regarding the impact on pensions and the disparity of some nonunion employees receiving additional benefits while others do not," the minutes state.
According to the minutes, LeSage said the city could change its personnel policy to include the sick bonus so other nonunion employees received the benefit.
While the council can discuss issues related to specific employees behind closed doors, Craven said, it's not allowed to discuss general personnel policies in secrecy.
No exception for 'uncomfortable' topics
Last year, the attorney general issued a binding opinion that Swansea, a St. Louis suburb, violated the Open Meetings Act when it privately discussed layoffs during budget talks.
The law bars a public body from secretly talking about which employees may lose their jobs because of budgetary reasons, the attorney general said.
Craven, who specializes in open-government law, said his office gets a lot of calls along the lines of the Swansea issue.
"There is not an exemption in the Open Meetings Act for things that are uncomfortable," Craven said.


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So, as you all see I have no helmets under my name, and I'm not thinking of myself as the god of shamans, just felt like pulling my straw to the stack Feel free to leave feedback on things that might be crazy wrong or something that can be added. I will edit spelling and grammar when noticed. TLDR? nah
Nature's Guardian. It gives you a heal when you go low(the HP you gain will not be lost when the effect ends as of 5.2), and since shamans often are the kill targets and they can't use anything when silenced or stunned (like barkskin, pain suppression, bubble) this is as good as it gets.
Second best talent would be astral shift (you can use it while silenced, and is not on the GCD) but the 2 minute CD together with the short duration makes it hard to use efficiently.
Stone bulwark is a no go for resto shamans, the absorb is dispellable and its on GCD.
Windwalk totem is probably the best choice vs most comps, especially if you're running with melees in your team. It can be used both offensively and defensivly, helping your warrior connect against a mage team or using it together with ghost wolf vs a DK around a pillar. (in 5.3 mage's pet nova wont grant the mage fingers of frost if the target is immune to root) (not on GCD)
Earthgrab totem is another option and can mess things up alot for the opposing team, and together with capacitor totem and totemic projection you can stun a lot of players quite easily.
Frozen power. 5 second root from frost shock, does not share DR with roots from druids or mages
Totemic restoration. Vs most teams the best choice, and especially vs casters and priests and ferals. Your totems will get restored up to 50% of its CD when killed, Recalled, replaced or rightclicked. Use
/cast Tremor Totem
/click TotemFrameTotem1 RightButton
To get a 34 second tremor totem. Make sure you glyph totemic encirclement so you don't remove wrong totem, for example healing tide totem.
Okey choice vs hunter teams to get more chances to ground freezing trap.
Totemic Projection, use this with earthgrab totem, capacitor totem and occasionaly spirit link totem - If you can't make it into the smokebomb in time to link your partner. Ofcourse your 2nd dps has to be in range.
Call of the elements, resets CD on totems that have shorter cooldown than 3 minutes, so SLT and Tide is not included. Decent vs teams where you'd like to have 2 freedom totems+2 healing stream totems in a row. Good choice when meeting rush down kill shaman comps like TSG (DK,Warrior,Pala)
Ancestral Swiftness. (also still called NS for nature's swiftness) Macro it with Greater healing wave for a big instant heal. Combine it with unleash elements for a huge heal. It's also usable together with hex.
Don't look on the other talents, Echo of elements might have been good vs affliction warlock team/boomkin/DK teams, if you didn't lose the 5% passive haste NS gives you.
Healing tide totem. All the way. It's like healing stream totem, but stronger and affects everyone in its range instead of just one. Use to heal massive damage, use before damage is incoming and you know you will sit a lot of CC or to heal someone who's stunned inside a smokebomb.
Unleashed Fury. Makes your unleashed elements really good. You want to use this together with your casted heals as much as possible, be it surge, GHW or HW. But most of the time you will probably use it to improve your riptide heal (only improves the first heal, not the ticks) when under pressure.
Ghost Wolf - Makes you less slowed when used
Hex - Reduces your hex cooldown by 10 seconds. Extremely effective against teams with no curse dispel or only one curse dispeller.
Healing Stream Totem – Small buff to the stream totem when meeting fire+frost mages, Ele shamans during Ascendance and Destro locks
Totemic Vigor – Makes your totem not oneshottable by a white hit. Makes it a lot harder for players that kills your healing stream totem while just running by it, that kills your SLT when your team partners is just not inside of it yet, or killing your healing tide that's too big of a cooldown to get insta gibbed.
Capacitor - Useful for teams where you can keep Totemic Projection
Those are the ones you should use, ghost wolf is probably the only one you don't want to swap before a game ever.
Gems / Enchants / Stats
Resiliance is what you want to gem and enchant, and get loads of it! With no defensive CD to use this is your defense. Many top shamans ignore almost every socket bonus to gem pure resilience.
Stats outside resilience depends on what you want. I'd say spirit>50%mastery>crit>haste. But some reforges both haste and crit to mastery. But whether you want to try more mastery or crit, haste is the stat you want to reforge to the other.
For the gear you want the mail gear with spirit on, everything. As for the set gear, get "gladiator's Ringmail" gear(resto) for head, shoulder, chest and legs. Use the "gladiator's mail" gloves, instead of legs. Haste is not something we want.
As for the meta gem, powerful primal diamond for the stun reduction is what you want, there are rogues everywhere… It also stacks with the orc racial, making orc the best shaman race, both factions. Alliance side dwarf wins, before 5.2 draeneis could use their gift of the naaru while silenced, but that was changed for indescribable reasons.
First of all, as a healer you want to bind target party 1,2 and player, and also dispel party 1,2 and player. Clicking your team is too slow. There are addons for healing like healbot or clique, or simple mouseover addons/macros, but throw them in the garbage bin as you read this. They are really good in raiding, but they do not belong in arena. You don't want to use your mouse for anything but movement. If you can't see whats going on behind you because you are clicking away a heal you've lost a big part of what's essential in arena – awareness.
Spells you use often should be binded to easy binds(examples here are my binds), riptide on 2, healing surge on F, healing stream shift 1. On the contrary stormlash totem is bound to ctrl T, water walking Y(to make DKs sad when they try to copy your spell, usually hex, with dark simulacrum), earth elemental totem shift H. Big cooldowns should if possible have a modifier so they don't as easily get misclicked.
Focus frame is something you hear a lot about as a new pvper, but don't actually really get why it's so good to use, "I can see the castbars just fine on gladius" could be one argument, but if you feel you have a 100% control over you arena frame, you're probably not even going to learn a thing from the upcoming wall of text. Focus lets you see the buffs the target has as a proc trinket or barkskin. You should have the focus frame rather centered on the screen, which improves your awareness a ton. Didn't see the Chaos Bolt from the destro lock last game? Put him on focus and you will next time. It's possible to right-click your gladius to focus a target, but it's not optimal if you get used to it. I have for example binded V, shift V and ctrl V to /focus arena1,2 and 3. It's so much smoother, and nice to know when a night elf shadow melds, or a mage uses mirror images, your focus frame on him disappears. Sometimes it bugs and no matter how many times you press focus arena2 it won't show up – focus arena1 and then back to the mage/Nelf and its back.
/target Player
/cast [@party1] Cleanse Spirit
Some use 1,2,3/ A,S,D/ f1,f2,f3 to target their party. I use the mouse wheel, and shift is the modifier to dispel. (and ctrl to target arena123, and alt for windshear123)
Scroll up is party1, click the wheel is player, and scroll down is party2.
#showtooltip Cleanse Spirit
/target [nomod] Party1
/cast [target=Party1,modifier:shift, help] Cleanse Spirit
/cast [target=Party1,modifier:shift, harm] Purge
(Purge is there to purge mind control/dominate mind)
Battlemaster macro:
/use Tyranical Gladiator's Emblem of meditation
/use healthstone
(last resort macro, bind the separately aswell)
Wind Shear 1/2/3
/cast [@arena1] Wind Shear (@arena2, @arena3)
(good for interruptning polymorphs/clones from invis/stealth)
Focus Wind Shear
/cast [@focus] Wind Shear
Focus Hex
/cast [@focus] Hex
NS Hex
#showtooltip Hex
/cast Ancestral Swiftness
/cast Hex
Trinket+Aura Mastery
/use Malevolent Gladiator's Medallion of Meditation
/cast Spiritwalker's Grace
(Should almost never be used, but with no alternatives it can sometimes save you in a solarbeam to get the spirit link totem out)
(for when you want to fake cast with spirit walker's grace up when the aura mastery effect is gone)
Healing in arena, tips to a beginner
It's been said so many times – "the most important thing for a healer is his positioning". But I feel like new players don't really get what that means . Basically, you do not want to get caught in trouble. Ever. You want to stand as far away as possible and line of sight the opposing team behind pillars so you never get charged, polymorphed, feared. Easy if you didn't have to cast heals on your partners! This is where "positioning" comes in. You want to be in LoS of your partners, but LoS the enemy. Different healers are more or less punished for their positioning. Holy paladins for example are getting very punished if they runs out at the wrong time to hammer of justice and gets caught in CC, while druids on the other hand can shapeshift polymorphs and has their HoTs ticking and their life blooms will usually bloom and heal before their fear for example has expired.
Shamans have tremor totem and it will save you counless of times when you're in a bad spot. Important to keep your healing stream totem up before you think any CC is coming in, like a silence or stun. Difference between a good shaman and a bad is that the good can anticipate the damage and CC coming in and throw totems, riptides, earthshield on the correct target so he's being just as much a healer when he can't control his character as when he's out of CC. Tip, if you're using tremor to get your partners out of fear/MC, don't spam the macro or it might not affect them. This is also true if one of your dps has both psychic horror AND Psyfiend fear on him, the tremor will just get one of the debuffs if you remove it too quickly. Tremor is usable on fears, hibernate(you can get hibernated in ghost wolf form), lullaby(hunter crane pet CC) and mind control.
Previously shamans could use totems while silenced, but that changed in early MoP.
But we got Spirit walkers grace that acts like a auramastery with the pvp 4set. This is SO good to use vs shadow priests and mages. Start casting a heal and midcast press SWG and watch them trying to lock your cast into immunity. This is something I do almost everytime I don't want to get silenced, to increase the chances of them wasting it so I can freecast even when the 5sec aura mastery is gone.
Vs boomkins and solarbeam you can sometimes trinket the silence from the beam and use SWG, but you need to be fast! So if you want to do it, use the macro above. It isn't THAT reliable though I've noticed lately, but maybe 50/50 it works.
If you're in the resurrection business, you can spirit walkers grace mid cast and run behind a pillar or box for the most of the duration, just to peak out last second and get the ress with the enemy on the other side!
Your trinket is your best friend, but you don't really want to use it. You use this to save lifes, not to heal someone that just maybe will die. To make sure you don't trinket something you didn't have to, you HAVE to talk with your partners. Taking you play with a shadow priest, know before shit hits the fan if he's got dispersion, if he can massdispell you out of trap, grip you to a safe spot when you're kidney shot. If you finish a game without trinketing, pat yourself on the shoulder because you've managed to keep your team not only by using preemptive heals and totems, but you communicated so well that you were sure they all had something of their own when in trouble. All this comes from experience, to know what for example what a frozen orb requires to counter, or how much damage does actually a warrior do with recklessness up.
A lot of low rated players trinkets offensively, thinking that if they trinket this 5 second bash they will get the kill. To be honest, that rarely works out. And when it doesn't – you've just served a golden swap option for the other team the next 2 minutes. For a dps to do it isn't always drastically game changing, but if a healer trinkets a CC to dispel his partner so he can kill, or trinkets to get a hex, and it doesn't work out, then you've gotten yourself behind a lot!
Purge is a strong ability few classes possesses, that being said, it's also very mana expensive and can put you behind a lot in healing. "I really want to purge that fear ward off that druid so my warrior can fear him" is a thought that comes to mind. 8 purges later and the buff is still there all I've accomplished is 80k less mana and 12 seconds I did nothing to pre-hot my team. I do want to see more shamans using purge, but try to keep in mind that you don't want to apologize to your partners that they died because you wanted to clean the ret for a swap later.
Grounding totem is so good, but with the 10 second CD it has now (when insta killed with totemic restoration talented) it's easy to be reckless with it. Say you're facing a shatterplay (mage, SP, healer), spamming grounding will get you a lot of high damaging ice lances, but also a lot of cheap shadow word pains. Always use grounding for a purpose. Mage pops everything, targets and novas you and starts to cast a frostbolt, by all means, ground it and you might even ground the deep freeze. If you on the other hand just use it to get some random damage going into it, wait for it to come back from cooldown before you decide to change pillar. Note, the range of the grounding effect is reduced alot since MoP.
Ascendance is a rather difficult ability to use efficiently. It's a big cooldown that doubles your heals (50k heal turns into a 50k+50k, the second 50k is splitted to anyone whos near you) but when you really need to heal, you rarely have the time to hard cast heals and rather use instants like NS or healing tide totem. You want to use riptide as your first spell for healing split damage, and if it crits ancestral awakening gets duplicated as well. Vs DKs its really good since they have diseases all over the place and do crazy damage on anyone they look at. A comp that's not a spread pressure team like RMP it's more difficult, use it here to get extra strong riptides out before they CC everyone in your team and sets up a kill. Ascendance does not affect totems, your healing tide totem does not benefit from it. If you need to AoE heal the whole team, use one of these, not often are both needed at the same time. Using unleash elements, ascendance and NS is the biggest heal you can do.
It's important to always have an Earth Shield up somewhere, if the charges are about to expire, or you anticipate a lot of CC, renew it early. A lot of shamans who just had it on themselves and puts in on their partner forgets to put up water shield again. Think about it when you swap ES, or you will notice too late having to force your mates to peel for your drink. Some teams require more mana than others, even though they do roughly the same damage, use Mana Tide Totem early, like at 85%mana and it will be back up again when you need it.
When healing you will most often use Healing Surge as you main casted heal. It costs a lot (really a lot) but as the most output which you need in the short windows you get to cast in an arena game. But for it to be effective you need Tidal Waves to be up, two charges per riptide is what you get. It takes a bit of experience using it effectively, but one tip is to riptide yourself every one and then. Resto shamans are kill targets, and that extra HP you get from Ancestral Vigor might just be the difference between winning or losing. I often find myself using Healing wave just for that matter, renew the stack. Greater healing wave is very rarely used, but if you are low on HP and just got away behind a pillar, use that to top you up instead of surge, it's more mana efficient.
On the offensive side, shamans don't have much damage. Only thing really offensive is the Stormlash Totem. Watch your recount after the games and see how much damage it really did do. Again, communicate and see when your partners want it the most, or you will most likely just waste a great tool. It can contribute to a lot!
Earth shock is the instant ability that does the most damage if you don't count the flame shock ticks. It also reduces physical damage done by 10% for 30 seconds. If you have the time, use it on a warrior.
Wind Shear is great! If other healers had a ranged interrupt the arena floor would look totally different. And as with everything, you can use it on good things, and bad things. CC is obviously something that should be interrupted, but only if you don't get CCd. By that I mean, if you wind shear a polymorph, start running back, because in 3 seconds he will try to poly you again. Sounds obvious, but happens too many times. A tip vs mages though is that if you interrupt a polymorph, he is locked in his arcane school and can't counterspell, it's a great way to get your hex on the mage! If you feel like risking it – don't hex the millisecond after you sheared him, wait a second and you might land the hex just as he counterspells you, which will be a blanket. Interrupting a shamans heal locks his windshear and grounding totem out, and it's easier to hex him. A good tool to have in the toolbox in regarding interrupts: when the targets castbar turns red for a millisecond when you interrupted him, he faked you. If it turns green, you locked him out!
Hex, can be used offensively and defensively. Hex the shadow priest when his healer is just about to die to avoid letting him lifeswap, or hex the warlock just when he pops dps trinket and darksoul. Try to have a grounding totem down when you do it though, and you might just ground the spell lock or windshear. And all of a sudden "hex battles" comes to mind! It's when both you and the opposing resto shaman wants to hex the other, and you have to juke his windshears and fake his grounding totem, and vice versa. Great fun seeing who's the better hexer. If you're doing this with your focus frame while targeting your team, get used to use focus purge to remove his grounding totem. If he has grounding totem down while trying to hex you. Focus purge early on the cast and wait till late cast to interrupt him, it takes a while for the grounding buff to go away and he might just ground both your purge and shear. Good luck!
Hexing resto druids is a different story, they can shapeshift REALLY late and still immune the hex, as for shamans and grounding totems, sometimes you can land the hex even though he just put the totem down. Fake the hex, make him shift, and as you anticipate him to come out to heal, start casting and if he leaves form, you have about one second to land it. A tip if you're playing with a druid, call out that you're "trying to hex" him and that he should get ready to hibernate him. Works wonders if you're playing with a feral! Many druids leave the shapeshift form while hibernated, and you can get a DRd hex out of it. Keep spamming hex without the intention of hexing is a mind game tool you can use to keep the druid from healing, or to force the enemy out of your LoS.
I hope this helps someone! If you want to know how to really play resto shaman turn into Cdew's stream twitch.tv/cdewx
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI completed his trilogy on the life of Jesus Christ with a new book on Jesus' birth, insisting on its significance for Christians today and lamenting that God is still considered by many an obstacle to their freedom.
"Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives," hits bookstores in 50 countries on Wednesday, the third and final installment of a project the 85-year-old Benedict conceived a decade ago and began writing soon after he became pope in 2005.
The first two books, which topped the bestseller lists in Italy, dealt with Jesus' public ministry and his death, leaving just Jesus' birth to complete the series. More than 1 million copies are planned for the initial print run, just in time for Christmas.
In the book, which the Vatican presented Tuesday, Benedict blends history, theology, linguistics and even astronomy to interpret the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which describe the months just before and after Jesus' birth.
Benedict's findings: Jesus was indeed conceived immaculately to Mary and was born poor, in a stable in Bethlehem. Yet he was revered by even his first visitors who brought him gifts befitting a king — the first visitors of what would become billions of followers.
Benedict laments that despite all the evidence pointing to Jesus as the savior of mankind, he remains a contradiction today — a contradiction that in the end is directed at God.
"God himself is constantly regarded as a limitation placed on our freedom, that must be set aside if man is ever to be completely himself," Benedict writes. But he insists: "God, with his truth, stands in opposition to man's manifold lies, his self-seeking and his pride. God is love."
It's a theme Benedict has insisted on throughout his pontificate: that in today's increasingly secular world, more and more people think they can live without God. Benedict has focused much of his teaching on trying to reverse that trend, trying to revive Christianity in parts of the world where it no longer takes center stage or where it has been damaged by scandal.
In his previous Jesus books, Benedict made some sweeping proclamations, for example exonerating the Jews as a people for Christ's death in "Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection," which was published in 2011.
There are no such headline-grabbing declarations in the slim, 127-page volume, which Benedict wrote this summer during his vacation at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, while the Vatican was convulsed with the scandal over his leaked documents.
But he makes a few key points, many of them concerning the importance of Mary in the whole of Christianity, particularly her obedience in accepting to bear Jesus as a virgin.
Benedict insists on the uniqueness of Mary's "virgin birth" of Jesus, dismissing similar Egyptian and pagan Greco-Roman myths as paltry in comparison to the "profound" reality of Mary willingly accepting the word of an angel that she would bear the son of God.
"Perhaps one could say that humanity's silent and confused dreams of a new beginning came true in this event — in a reality such that only God could create," Benedict wrote.
Benedict notes the poverty into which Jesus was born, forced to come into the world in a stable because there was no room for his parents at an inn. Benedict says that alone should cause Christians to reflect, as it points to a "reversal of values" found in Jesus' figure.
"From the moment of his birth, he belongs outside the realm of what is important and powerful in worldly terms," he wrote.
Yet Jesus' first visitors were three wise men who brought him gifts for a divine king, as if they knew ahead of time the importance of this birth. Aside from the significance of their gifts, Benedict writes that the three represent the first followers who were drawn to Christ.
"Not only do they represent the people who have found the way to Christ: they represent the inner aspiration of the human spirit, the dynamism of religions and human reason toward him."
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Abandoning The Duke Victim
After the white lacrosse players watched this Black female shake her butt and private parts, in a sexually arousing fashion, did their white phalluses come to attention? Being full-blooded males, what made the phalluses come to "at ease?� In other words, what happened next? This is the answer that North Carolina is seeking to cover up.
[Column: I Write What I Like]
A recent "editorial" in the Wall Street Journal was titled "The Michael Nifong Scandal." This description defies logic.
A scandal has a moral connotation. It would apply to the pedophiles in the Catholic Church who masquerade as priests.
This term should have no relationship to a prosecutor seeking justice for a sexually abused woman of African ancestry. To be sure, a prosecutor charging white, privileged males for the sexual abuse of a Black woman is unprecedented. Thus, Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong is a traitor to the history and precepts of white supremacy.
In 400 years, no white man has ever gone to prison for raping a Black woman. Either Black women are not sexually attractive to white males or Black women find white men sexually irresistible. The former is untrue. See Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hennings. The latter is also untrue. See Melton A. McLaurin's "Celia A Slave."
On Sunday, "60 Minutes" claimed that the Duke rape case is "unraveling" before our eyes. This is also untrue. Instead, the legal system is destroying Michael Nifong before our very eyes. The North Carolina General Assembly and Congress are holding the hammers.
In only one other case, in American jurisprudence, has an attorney been destroyed amid a criminal proceeding. The New York Legislature and Congress were holding the hammers. This is a breach of the "separation of powers" doctrine.
It was People v. Sharpton wherein a grievance committee gave me the option of doing in my client, Rev. Al Sharpton or else. I chose "or else." It would have been unethical to do otherwise. The hammer was designed to undermine Sharpton's rights under the Sixth Amendment.
Only two attorneys in the history of American jurisprudence have ever sought to secure justice for Black females raped by white men. The modus operandi has been the same in both cases. In the Duke case, CBS-TV is leading the charge. In the Tawana Brawley case, CBS-TV also led the charge aided and abetted by the New York Times.
Blacks demonstrated in front of CBS headquarters for weeks while this criminal enterprise was engaging in media defamation against a fifteen-year-old girl, a victim of white terrorism and sexual abuse. It is in CBS' genes.
Pre-trial publicity is not new to American jurisprudence. It is usually designed to poison the community against the accused before trial. A potential jury, therefore, sits as junior prosecutors. In the Duke case, prejudicial, pre-trial publicity is aimed at the victim. The media took the same approach in the Brawley case. Nifong did not indict those three Duke lacrosse players. A grand jury in Durham County, North Carolina indicted them. CBS should target the grand jury and review the grand jury minutes before recruiting a lynch mob for Nifong.
Since the indictments are still in play, a judge must believe that where there is smoke there must also be fire. Otherwise, the indictments, in the Duke case would have been dismissed months ago. A judge and not a prosecutor has the authority to dismiss an indictment.
Unlike the credibility issues in the Duke rape case, there was no eyewitness testimony and no scientific evidence including DNA to connect six boys to the rape of the Central Park jogger, Patricia Meili. Nonetheless, CBS was organizing a lynch mob against innocent boys. An admission alone is always insufficient to establish any crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
Yet, five of those six boys were falsely imprisoned for years and the New York Court of Appeals upheld those baseless convictions.
In order for an indictment to be dismissed, there must not only be insufficient evidence of the top count of the indictment but also the lack of evidence of lesser-included offenses. So far, the judicial system must believe that something happened. To be sure, something did happen.
Typically, there is always overcharging in the drafting of accusatory instruments. The mere fact that a count of the indictment is dismissed is not equivalent to pronouncing a suspect either legally or morally innocent. These players are certainly not choirboys and they are, at least, presumptive racists.
These players engaged in identity theft to secure the presence of two Black strippers for a KKK-type rally. They gave false names to the escort service. The escort service was never told that two Black females would have to perform before a white mob of drunken, racist hooligans. This is criminal fraud.
Strip joints employ bodyguards to protect strippers because it is well-known that a mob of drunken and unruly males will, biologically, take matters into their own hands. These females have civil claims in addition to criminal prosecutions. In addition, there is no question that these racist jocks hurled racist epithets at these women. The use of the word "nigger" to degrade a Black person is, in itself, an assault. This lewd atmosphere reeked of white terrorism and gave rise to sundry hate crimes.
The most important question in this case, based on biology, should be answered in a court of law. After the white lacrosse players watched this Black female shake her butt and private parts, in a sexually arousing fashion, did their white phalluses come to attention? Being full-blooded males, what made the phalluses come to "at ease?" In other words, what happened next? This is the answer that North Carolina is seeking to cover up.
The media and the defense lawyers in the Duke case have misled the public. In every lawsuit, there are two methods of proof: direct and circumstantial. Of the two methods of proof, circumstantial evidence is the strongest. No need exists for direct evidence in this case.
The complaining witness' purportedly inconsistent statements are a reflection of problems of class and race in this society. In 1997, before a national television audience, Eliot Spitzer actually commanded Rev. Al Sharpton to change his story by boycotting his own defamation trial.
He did except when he was ordered to appear by the plaintiff, Steven Pagones. Attorney Johnnie Cochran, an ancestor, was the host of the Court-TV program. Sharpton was behaving the way any Black person is expected to behave in a white supremacist system.
When a Black woman accuses white men of rape, all bets are off. Warfare ensues. Anyone who seeks to protect a Black female victim had better prepare for a life of poverty. Gov. Spitzer and his mentor, Robert Abrams, are of this view in New York and no self-respecting Black female should support them.
Before the Civil War, courts routinely ruled that it was legally impossible for a white man to rape a Black woman. Today, through media and politics, most Blacks still embrace pre-Civil War law. This results from brainwashing. See "The Manchurian Candidate." The only antidote to propaganda is critical thinking.
An effort is afoot to stop effective advocacy by Black lawyers. I need your support immediately to fight off impending disbarment in a protracted struggle. The federal litigation is on appeal. Please send any expression of support to UAM Legal Defense Fund, c/o Alton H. Maddox, Jr., 16 Court Street, Ste. 1901, Brooklyn, NY 11241. The struggle must continue. Asante sana.
See: Blueprint to End Police Terrorism, the December 14, 2006 Order of the U.S.D.C., E.D.N.Y., and New York Blacks Waving the White Flag at www.reinstatealtonmaddox.com. For further information call UAM at 718-834-9034.
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Other than Arthur Blank's wife, who will likely be on 'Depends' detail if this game is as close as we anticipate, the scoreboard operator fi gures to be the busiest person in Atlanta this Sunday. And for good reason: the Falcons have scored a league-best 540 points this season, including 36.6 PPG since their Week 11 bye, while the Packers are tabling over 32 PPG during their eight-game win skein. In fact, the 60.5-point opening number (and rising) is the highest total in NFL playoff history. Thus, with much more than 'Blanks' expected to be fi red from the opening kickoff, the question becomes can Matt Ryan (14 TDs, 0 INT last five) match darts with Aaron Rodgers (21 TDs, 1 INT last eight) as the high-fl ying Birds make their fi rst NFC title game appearance since 2005. Atlanta's 1-5 ATS mark versus greater-than .444 opposition as home chalk under Dan Quinn says no! As does the Falcons' 3-9 SU and 2-9-1 ATS log in the playoffs following a SU win. And remember: NFL home favorites are a worn-down 20-36-6 ATS after facing Pete Carroll's Seahawks, including 1-7 ATS from Game 14 out. That doesn't bode well against a Green Bay group that is 6-1- 2 ATS as a playoff underdog of fewer than 7 points and 5-3 SU and 7-1 ATS as playoff visitors since 2011. In addition, our NFL QB database reminds us that the visitor in Rodgers vs. Ryan rumbles is 5-1 ATS. Adding to the bizarre intrigue is the possible return of Jordy Nelson and the questionable status of Julio Jones. However, before fully taking the 'Lambeau Leap', we should point out that the Packers are 7-14 ATS versus the NFC South under Mike McCarthy. Still, we should all 'Hail' Rodgers as he improves to 7-1-1 ATS as a playoff dog while the Pack improves to 7-2 SU and 7-1-1 ATS against playoff foes this season. In the immortal words of the late, great Jerry Reed, "When you're hot, you're HOT!"
After last week's 'disappointing' 18-point win, the Patriots return to the conference title game for an unprecedented sixth straight season. However, it's this next number that has both the Pats and Steelers licking their chops: the winner goes to the Super Bowl for a record ninth time. Speaking of nine, that's how many wins Pitt has reeled off since a mid-November loss to Dallas – their fourth straight at the time – saw them drop to 4-5 on the season. Included in those defeats was a 27-16 setback to New England as 7-point HOME DOGS (of course Big Ben did not play). However, the Killer B's are back at full strength and have even added a fourth member, kicker Chris Boswell. Boswell accounted for all of Pittsburgh's points (six FGs) in last week's 18-16 win over KC. And though the Patriots' offense wasn't razor sharp in last Saturday's victory over Houston, seven trips to the red zone without a touchdown won't work tonight. Not after hearing this jaw-dropping stat: since 1981, home teams who failed in the conference championship game the previous season are 38-4 SU and 30-11-1 ATS as playoff hosts the following season. And when these same teams fi nd themselves favored by more than 4 points, they zoom to 34-1 SU and 26-8-1 ATS. Then why aren't we smiling with Tommy Veneer, who is a polished 15-3 SU at home in the playoffs, including 8-0 SU against .722 or better opposition? Especially with Brady 6-2 SU and 5-2-1 ATS in his heads-up duels with Roethlisberger, including 3-0 SU and 2-0-1 ATS in Foxborough. Simple – the Pats are just 1-6 ATS in their last seven conference title tilts while the Steelers are 7-1-1 ATS in their last nine roles as playoff road dogs… not to mention 2-0 SUATS in AFC Championship games under Mike Tomlin. Thus, the AFC's version of the white-hot Packers secures our vote to claim the ATS payout.


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Global MEMS companies to see what Carnegie Mellon researchers are doing with 'miniature machines'
PITTSBURGH, Apr 25, 2012 — MEMS Industry Group (MIG) is bringing the global micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) supply chain to Pittsburgh for its annual meeting, giving leading MEMS suppliers an opportunity to tour Carnegie Mellon's microsystems labs on May 8.
Having launched commercial successes such as MEMS microphone- maker Akustica, now owned by the Bosch Group, and BodyMedia, creator of MEMS information systems tracking calories and sleep patterns, CMU's MEMS labs remain research pioneers for the 'miniature machines' that allow consumers to experience electronic devices and the environment in new ways.
"Our members are going to see what's coming down the pipeline at one of the world's leading engineering institutions," said Karen Lightman, managing director of MEMS Industry Group and a CMU alumna. "During their tour of CMU's MEMS labs, MIG members will have the opportunity to interact with faculty and graduate students to experience the cross-pollination between the commercial business sector and academia, where R&D work often generates new products and technologies for the betterment of society. This is a unique experience, and we are honored and proud to have our members be part of it."
CMU's Maarten de Boer, an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and Gary Fedder, director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) and a professor of the Robotics Institute, will host MIG members as they tour a cache of labs involving micro-nanofabrication, micro-nanorobotics, micro-fluidics and other technologies.
"These lab tours and demos are designed to help important industry leaders see some of our leading-edge work involving development of ultra-reliable technologies and to explore new device concepts applicable to many industry sectors from electronics to biomedical engineering," said De Boer.
Each year, MEMS devices are shipped globally in a variety of consumer products, including mobile phones, tablets, laptops, video games and cameras. They are also embedded in biomedical devices and quality of life applications, automotive safety systems and smart industrial systems. By 2015, industry analysts predict that the MEMS industry will grow to nearly $12 billion.(1) In fact, MEMS products are so ubiquitous that their growth now outpaces growth of other segments of the electronics industry.
"We are experiencing steady and sustained market acceptance in our industry," said Lightman. "With all of our success, I strongly believe that we have barely scratched the surface of what we can achieve with MEMS. It is through the research and development being conducted at academic institutions like CMU that we will continue to tap the potential of MEMS in the future."
About Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon ( http://www.cmu.edu ) is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia, Europe and Mexico. The university is in the midst of "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.
About MEMS Industry Group: MEMS Industry Group (MIG) is the trade association advancing MEMS across global markets. Close to 140 companies and industry partners comprise MIG, including Analog Devices, Applied Materials, Belgian Government, Bluechiip, BodyMedia, Flanders Investment & Trade Office, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Freescale Semiconductor, GE, Hillcrest Labs, Honeywell, HP, Intel, InvenSense, N&K Technology, Nokia, Qualcomm, Silicon Resources, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, VTI Technologies, and WiSpry. For more information, visit http://www.memsindustrygroup.org .


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Cossack hats are head accessories worn by the Cossacks living in the south of Ukraine as well as along the banks of rivers Don, Kuban, and Terek located in Russia and Georgia. Common misconception is that ushanka or trapper hats belong to the same family. However, the reality is that the Cossacks have never used winter hats with ear flaps. A genuine Cossack hat must be of certain shape and made of either Persian lamb (Astrakhan fur, Karakul) or sheepskin.
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Building your forensics toolkit
Forensic tools can be costly, but even with these expensive tools it is often necessary to supplement your forensics toolkit with other utilities. The purpose of this paper is an effort to list free utilities that will be a useful addition to any forensics toolkit.
The most important things in forensic investigation is preservation and handling of the evidence. It is important to understand the laws in your country relating to evidence as well as take every effort to non-intrusively examine that evidence. Informational links provided in this document pertain to United States law. Also note that most of these tools pertain to Microsoft operating systems. If you are using a nix environment you will want to check out the Coroners Tool Kit at www.fish.com/forensics
At http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ you will find the latest edition of "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations" as well as links to a variety of other information relating to computer crime. I highly recommend that anyone performing forensics read this document, and browse the information at this site.
The United States Code in searchable format is available at http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm
I would also recommend that you read the FBI's "Handbook of Forensic Services" located at
Best practices dictate that you make a copy of the evidence hard drive. This copy is then used to conduct your analysis while keeping the original evidence untouched. It is difficult to find free software that will enable you to accomplish this task neatly but you can do it using the information and free software available here:
Note that software like this could touch dates and other information on the hard drive and you should be prepared to explain how that happens.
Equally important when making the copy of the data is ensuring that you have no left over information on the drive you are making the copy to. You will want to make sure that the drive is clean and has no left over residue from a previous use. You can do this using one of these free utilities.
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/ (my personal favorite)
Now that you have made an exact copy of the data you will want to start your investigation. If you made an exact copy you can attempt to salvage any deleted files using (free of course):
http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html (Floppy disk deleted file recovery)
You may need to examine the drive at the sector level, which can be done using this free tool:
In many cases, you will be looking for images on the suspect drive. I like to use IrfanView for this task because it enables you to thumbnail browse, supports several formats, does not touch the time and date on the file, can fit on a floppy disk, and most importantly does not require installation on the target machine. IrfanView can be found here:
I recently discovered Jpegger at http://www.vallen.de/freeware/index.html but have not had a lot of time to fully experiment with it. This company also has a free ZIP program and a CD file compare utility, which I have not had the opportunity to look at in detail.
Now onto sites that offer multiple tools of interest to the Forensics examiner. Because each of these sites offer a wide range of tools I can not fit them into any one category. I will point out a few tools that are of special interest, but will leave it up to you to look through the list and determine which would be useful to you.
www.foundstone.com/knowledge/free_tools.html has a forensic toolkit which includes a utility to quickly find hidden files and another that will identify files with hidden streams.
www.dmares.com/maresware/freesoftware.htm has many tools for file level examination including CRC and Hash checking.
www.atstake.com Mostly Unix based tools for forensic analysis. Many include the source code.
http://sysinternals.com/ Contains a wide range of utilities for all MS operating systems. Note that not all of the utilities here are free.
www.forensics-intl.com/download.html Forensics International also offers a suite of tools for sale besides the free ones listed here.
www.forensics-intl.com/suite7.html I wanted to point out this suite at Forensics International that is free for law enforcement. If you qualify it would be worth your time to get it.
www.all.net This site has many articles that are worth reading. I am currently playing with the Deception toolkit. Although this isn't exactly forensics related, it is a utility that is worth looking at if you are in the security field.
www.incident-response.org/tools.html Windows, Nix, and response tools. Mostly older stuff, but may be just what you need.
www.digital-detective.co.uk HTML file viewer, cookie viewer, hash utility, date and time decoder and much more. The MS Access password decoder works great. He also has an AOL Instant Messenger password decoder, which is free to qualified law enforcement. Net Analysis is not free, but is a nice tool for investigating Internet activity on a suspect computer.
If you find that you need to get into a Windows NT or 2K systems and can only do so by breaking into it you might find this free tool useful. Be aware that this tool can cause damage to the system and is only recommended as a last resort. ome.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd
That's all for now, I have included links to the free utilities that are most useful to me in forensic examinations and hope that it will provide a starting point for anyone beginning to build their own forensics toolkit.


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One pound of honey is about 1-1/3 cups. A 3-pound container holds about 4 cups honey.
Honey can be used in many ways. It makes a good spread for breads, muffins and biscuits and a tasty sandwich filling when mixed with dried fruits, peanut butter or cottage cheese. Honey can be used as a sweetener for fruits and beverages. It also can be used in any food that is sweetened, including frozen desserts, baked products, meat glazes, custards, frostings, pie fillings, cobblers, puddings, candied vegetables and salad dressings.
Some recipes use honey as the main sweetener; others use sugar. Honey can be used to replace some of the sugar called for in many recipes. Use these guidelines for cakes and cookies.
CakesOne-half of the sugar in a cake recipe can be replaced with honey. For every 1 cup of sugar replaced, leave out 1/4 cup of liquid.
CookiesThe amount of sugar that can be replaced with honey varies with the kind of cookie being made. For brownies, half of the sugar can be replaced. For fruit bars, honey can replace two-thirds of the sugar called for in the recipe. Only one-third of the sugar can be replaced in gingersnaps.
When making either cakes or cookies, first mix the honey with the fat or the liquid. Then mix it thoroughly with the other ingredients. If this is not done, a soggy layer will form on the top of the baked product.
Products made with honey brown faster than foods made with other sweeteners. So when you bake products made with honey, set the oven temperature 25 degrees Fahrenheit lower than what is indicated in the recipe.
Honey keeps best in a dry place at a cool temperature between 50 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep it in a tightly covered container so it does not absorb moisture or odors from the air.
Honey will start to form crystals as it gets older or if it is refrigerated. To make it liquid again, place the honey in an open container in a pan of warm water until it is clear. Do not have the honey in a plastic container when you set it in the warm water.
Honey provides energy to the body. The amounts of nutrients in honey, however, are small when the number of calories in honey are considered.
Honey cannot be used as a substitute for cane or beet sugar in a sugar-restricted diet. Honey is composed of the same basic parts as regular sugar, and the body uses it in the same way.
Honey and products made with honey must not be fed to infants younger than one year, because honey can cause "infant botulism." Spores of the bacteria that cause botulism are present in honey. When these spores get into the intestinal tract of an infant, they grow and produce a toxin that results in serious illness and death. Remember that these spores in honey are not destroyed by regular cooking or baking methods.
Spread diced cooked turkey in a shallow pan, season with salt and pepper. Mix honey, prepared mustard, curry powder and turkey drippings. Blend into turkey. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) for about 30 minutes, stirring once or twice. Spoon over cooked rice.
Makes 8 servings.
NoteWonderful as a marinade for uncooked chicken pieces. When used in this fashion, omit turkey drippings. Chicken will require approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes to bake.
Pare oranges, cut crosswise into thin slices and place in serving bowl. Peel bananas and cut thin slices into the bowl with the oranges. Toss fruits. Blend orange juice and honey and pour over fruits. Sprinkle with coconut.
Cut cabbage in wedges and remove core. Chop cabbage into bite-size pieces. Melt butter in large Dutch oven or saucepan. Add onion and garlic and sauté. Add cabbage and stir-fry about 5 minutes. Add apple slices, vinegar, water, caraway seeds and honey. Stir gently to mix well. Cover and cook over very low heat 1 to 1-1/4 hours.
Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Combine with raisins, nutmeats and whole bran cereal. Beat eggs until very thick. Then beat in honey, a small amount at a time. Add flour mixture and beat well. Spread batter about 1/2-inch thick in greased 9- by 9- by 2-inch pan. Bake in moderate oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit) about 25 minutes. Cut into bars while warm and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, if desired.
Makes 18 bars.
Dip chicken pieces into mixture of flour, salt, pepper and paprika. Melt butter in a shallow baking pan in a hot oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit). Remove baking pan from oven. As pieces of floured chicken are placed in pan, turn to coat with butter, then bake skin side down in a single layer. Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit) for 30 minutes. Turn chicken. Pour honey butter sauce over chicken. If chicken cannot be served at once, reduce oven heat and brush chicken again with the sauce.
Melt butter in a saucepan. Add honey and lemon juice. Stir. Glaze chicken after it has baked for 30 minutes. (Recipe above).
Blend softened butter with honey. Refrigerate and use as desired. For variation, add the fresh orange or lemon juice and the grated citrus peel, or add the cinnamon to make cinnamon honey butter.
Mix rice, milk and honey. Add the eggs. Stir in the chopped raisins. Bake in a well-greased baking dish at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 1 hour.
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Want To Unplug For Your Vacation?
Well how about this, imagine a town where there is no WIFI, TV, radio or cell phones. No it's not fiction, It's reality in Green Bank, West Virginia. Green Bank lies in the National Radio Quiet Zone and electronic transmitters are strictly regulated.
Some kind of social statement? No, it is home to the Green Bank Telescope, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, which is operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Everything is banned so satellites can gather information from space and some have been flocking to the small town to escape what they believe to be the dangerous electronic wavelengths.
**FYI: Green Bank population is 149 (and they have no way of knowing that we are talking about them.)


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Orlando mayor hands out gifts to 300 children
Orlando mayor hands out gifts to 300 children
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer added Santa's Helper to his list of titles on Thursday.
Dyer, along with community volunteers, handed out holiday gifts to 300 students at Rock Lake Elementary School.
The event was sponsored by two local community philanthropists, Jennifer Quigley and Ford Kiene, who got involved helping the school last year after the national CBS news show "60 Minutes" aired a piece about homeless children in central Florida.
Quigly and Kiene sponsored a food program at Rock Lake Elementary that provides nutritional food to students at the school in response to the program.
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John Marovich joined the Valparaiso University coaching staff as an assistant coach prior to the 2002 season, and, in January of 2008 was named the third head coach in the history of the Valparaiso University women's soccer program. Marovich served as an assistant coach for the Crusaders for his first three seasons, before he was promoted to associate head coach, where he assumed a full-time role prior to the 2005 season.
In 2007, Marovich was a member of the Valpo coaching staff as the Crusaders moved into the Horizon League for the first time. During the first season in the new conference, he helped Valpo post a 10-9 record, finishing fifth in the highly competitive league. The Crusaders also had three student-athletes earn All-Horizon League honors, with two Second Team picks and an All-Newcomer Team selection.
Marovich was instrumental in the Crusaders' success in both 2005 and 2006. The Brown and Gold won both the Mid-Continent Conference regular season and tournament titles in 2005, setting a new school record for victories with 12, as well as posting the best winning percentage at the time in the program's history. Valpo earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament for the first time, traveling to Notre Dame, a school Marovich spent time assisting prior to arriving at Valpo.
The next season, 2006, Marovich was a part of the Crusaders first outright regular season Mid-Continent Conference title in school history, as Valpo again won 12 matches, while also setting a new mark for winning percentage in a season at .711.
In his first five seasons on the bench for the Brown and Gold, Valpo earned four Mid-Continent Conference Tournament berths, advancing to the title match in 2004 in addition to winning the championship in 2005.
Marovich arrived at Valpo after spending the 2001 season as a women's volunteer assistant coach at the University of Notre Dame, helping lead the Fighting Irish to the Big East regular season and tournament championships. During Marovich's stay, Notre Dame also advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Before moving to the collegiate field, Marovich was the head girls' coach at Andrean High School, where he led the 59ers to the state title match in 1999. In his seven seasons at Andrean, he won two conference titles and three sectional championships, as well as a regional and semi-state title. Marovich was named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's Indiana private/parochial school state Coach of the Year in 1999.
Marovich has earned his United States Soccer Federation "A" License. He played his collegiate soccer at Purdue-Calumet, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in construction technology in 1994. He also serves as an Olympic Development Program age group head coach in the state of Indiana and is also a staff coach for Region II.
John and his wife, Susan, have been married since 1995 and have two children, Mackenzie, born in 1999, and Kacey, born in 2003.
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- Overall Length:7.875"
- Blade Length:3.375"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:14C28N
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Hollow
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:4.50"
- Handle Thickness:0.47"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Black, Green Camo
- Frame/Liner:Stainless Steel
- Weight:3.98 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Down, Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Spring Assisted
- Opener:Thumb Stud
- Lock Type:Liner Lock
- Brand:Kershaw
- Model:Blur
- Model Number:1670CAMO
- Designer:Ken Onion
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Tactical
- Product Type:Knife
The 1670CAMO Blur features a tactical black finished blade with a plain edge and a camo aluminum handle with Trac-Tek inserts for superior gripping power in all conditions. Black reversible pocket clip for tip-up or down carry.
The Kershaw Blur is a favorite among knife enthusiasts. The Blur has the build and performance of a great general purpose knife with everyday carry friendly attributes as well. The Ken Onion designed Blur is an assisted opening knife, just give the blade a push with the ambidextrous thumb-stud and the Speed Safe technology finishes opening the blade! To close, just slide the liner lock to release the blade.