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No area is risk-free. All segments of society assume some level of risk and coexist with it. Often times, those living in high-natural disaster risk areas expect, explicitly or implicitly, that the government will provide assistance if and when a disaster event occurs. However, if the frequency or cost of natural disasters increases in the future, the inter-reliant relationships among federal, state and local officials; private industry; and community members become especially critical during each phase of the disaster cycle. The workshop, "Coexisting with Risk from Natural Disasters" aims to discuss questions that become particularly pressing during or after a disaster. These questions include:
1. How effective are the current practices and policies at the national and local scales in ensuring the distribution and assumption of risk in equitable ways?
2. If disasters trend towards greater frequency or greater costs, how would current policies ensure equitable assumption and distribution of increased risk?
3. How would current policies need to be changed to allow for equitable distribution or assumption of increased risk? What, if any, new policies would be needed to ensure equitable assumption and distribution of increased risk?
To prepare for the October workshop, the DR hosted two community conversations, one in Fort Worth, Texas and the other in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. These community conversations will contribute to the October 26th workshop by ensuring that local perspectives of risk are included in discussions at the national level. The questions discussed during these community conversations include:
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least four miners died when fumes filled the shaft where they were working in Russia's main coal-producing region on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.
Searches for another four missing men had to be suspended after levels of methane in the mine in the Kuznetsk Basin reached dangerous levels, the RIA and ITAR-Tass news wires said. Sixty-nine miners managed to escape, they added.
Russia's coal mines have a poor safety record and President Vladimir Putin warned operators to improve standards as he announced a multi-billion dollar investment in the sector last year.
Moscow has ambitious plans to boost coal output despite weak world prices and competition from cheap natural gas resources from shale.
The Kuznetsk Basin in west Siberia, about 3,500 km (2,200 miles) east of Moscow, mined 192 million tons of coal in 2011, about 57 percent of Russia's total output.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Help Your Family Get Fit with "Sneaky Fitness"! (Book Review)
Missy Chase Lapine is on a mission to help parents raise healthier children. First, she published the New York Times bestseller, The Sneaky Chef, which taught parents how to incorporate healthy ingredients into kids' meals -- without them knowing it. Now, in her new book, Sneaky Fitness, she's ready to teach parents how to sneak physical fitness and exercise into their kids' lives!
How would you like for your children to…
Have more brain power?
Have higher self-esteem?
Have more (healthy) energy?
Have fewer sick days?
Sleep better?
Get better grades?
Be stronger?
Be at lower risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes?
Have fun?
Amazingly, your children have a much better chance of achieving all these things with a regular schedule of exercise!
I was very eager to see this book because I'm the first to admit that the thought of exercise fills me with dread. I hate gyms. I don't want to jog. I stay fairly active, and I'm not overweight, but I know I'm not as healthy as I can be. And I feel badly that I'm not setting a good example for my boys, whose love of video games definitely outweighs that of exercise. So, how can I change that?
Basically, Lapine and coauthor Larysa DiDio say, it's through play and activities that kids are doing already. But there are ways in which we can make these everyday activities be more effective in getting kids moving and burning calories. Sneaky Fitness is loaded with suggestions to do just that.
For example, they say, leave out a clean load of socks and let the kids take turns tossing them into the laundry basket! Keep moving the basket farther and farther away. Not only will they have to toss farther, but they'll have to run farther to retrieve the socks from the basket. When the game is over and the socks have been folded, have your children run to the dresser to put them away.
We recently did the following trick at our house: purchase an alarm clock to help your kids awaken in the morning, and place it across the room so they have to get out of bed to turn it off! If their alarm clock has a CD or MP3 player, have them wake up to a favorite song and challenge them to get their bed made before the song ends!
These are just a few of the hundreds of very easy but effective ways to help your kids to exercise more. (And you can do them, too. Make it a family event!) Part Two of Sneaky Fitness is filled with great recipes for every meal of the day. Similar to Lapine's book, The Sneaky Chef, these kid-friendly recipes show parents how to hide healthy foods into meals that kids already love, such as pancakes, cupcakes, and burgers.
Sneaky Fitness: Fun, Foolproof Ways to Slip Fitness into Your Child's Everyday Life will inspire you to help your family get off the couch, get moving, get outdoors, and get in shape! You'll find that it's easy to do and, in fact, a lot of fun! Best of all, the benefits for everyone's health are numerous and long-lasting.
I encourage you to visit www.thesneakychef.com to read more about this book. And then run (don't walk) to your nearest bookseller to pick up a copy of Sneaky Fitness! You can also purchase through Amazon and the Barnes and Noble website.
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What astronaut needs a washer and dryer when there's a natural incinerator–Earth's atmosphere–at one's disposal?
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield aired his dirty laundry on TBS' "Conan" show Monday night, revealing that astronauts on the International Space Station can't afford to spare water for washing clothes in orbit, NBC News reported.
"We just wear our clothes until they wear out," Hadfield told O'Brien.
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Hadfield, who is on the talk-show circuit promoting his new book, "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth," explained that astros throw their tattered and worn out laundry into a disposable cargo spacecraft. Once that fills up, the trash-filled spacecrafts are undocked from the station and dropped down into Earth's atmosphere, where they are incinerated.
"Wait a minute!" O'Brien told Hadfield. "You guys on the space station are throwing your dirty underwear out the window and it's raining down on us?"
Hadfield responded by having the audience visualize a bright sunbeam coming across your living room. Those little particles of dust floating around in the beam of light?
"Yeah that's my underwear," he said.
Watch Hadfield talk about his dirty undies and assess actress Sandra Bullock's sporty space underwear in the movie "Gravity."


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The NHL season hasn't even really started yet, but the Tampa Bay Lightning already have two losses. That's the same number of losses my rec league hockey team has and we didn't even have to go to the Czech Republic to earn them. (Heck, we don't even have uniforms.) The New York Rangers are the beneficiaries of this comeuppance, taking the early two game series in front of two Ranger-friendly sold out Prague crowds. Of course, they were Ranger-friendly and sold out partly because no bothered to tell the Czechs that Jaromir Jagr doesn't play for that team anymore. Meanwhile in Stockholm, Ottawa and Pittsburgh split their two games series, a 4-3 OT win to the Penguins in game one and 3-1 to Senators in the other. Dany Heatley has three goals so far for the Sens, earning him the title of Champion of European NHL Scoring. All four of those games were sold out too, making this whole European vacation a raging success—unless these teams lose 7 of their first 10 games the way the Ducks did last season after they opened in London. In which, case screw you, Earth, and your stupid rotation. But otherwise, look for many more across the pond games in coming seasons, because ... why the heck not? Hockey pucks are certainly more welcome than Robo-Jason Taylor. Now hockey fans (and yes, it may not seem like it right now, but we count ourselves among that group. The NHL just doesn't make it easy for us) must sit patiently and wait for the real season kick off on Friday. That's plenty of time to find a way to freeze over your backyard kiddie pool. • Rangers Czech in with win, [NY Daily News] • Senators: Losing their looks [Sportsnet] • NHL Capsules [AP] • Trips abroad can help forge team ties [Yahoo]
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Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion, presumably beating out both Google and Facebook. But it turns out, Google didn't want Skype. Not at all, in fact. They even went so far as to sabotage themselves from a potential deal.
Back in 2009, Google execs, CEO Eric Schmidt included, were interested in landing Skype from eBay to presumably supplement the not-yet-released Google Voice. But GV product manager Wesley Chan thought it was a bad idea. Skype's strength was peer-to-peer technology, which Chan termed old technology, and it wouldn't fit well with Google's desire to own the cloud. That's when Chan "laid the grenades" to derail the deal.
According to Chan, he and another ally went to Sergey Brin to convince the Google co-founder that buying Skype would be a big mistake. They brainstormed an idea to kill the deal in a meeting with all the top Google execs, Chan would praise Skype and then Brin would shut him down by asking questions no one could answer. Wired says:
"[Sergey] looks at me and says, 'Why would I want this risk? We have a team capable of building the carrier, we have the users, we have hundreds of millions of Gmail users, why do we need to have Skype?' And at that point, Sergey gets up and says, 'This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen.' And Eric gets up and walks out of the room, and I'm like, okay, the deal's off."
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Immediately after HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt announced plans for the
development of federal physical activity guidelines on October 27, 2006, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was assigned to support the
Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee's (PAGAC) review of the
scientific literature. Working with an advisory committee, staff of the
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) at CDC's National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion developed a
conceptual framework for the literature search. They also established a process
to systematically abstract published articles and to make these abstracts
readily accessible to PAGAC members and consultants. The product of this effort
is called the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Scientific
Database (http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/
The overall conceptual framework for this project is found in Figure
F.1. The scientific literature review for Physical Activity Guidelines for
Americans was initially organized around 8 health outcome domains of
interest: Cardiorespiratory Health, Metabolic Health, Mental Health,
Musculoskeletal Health, Functional Health, Cancer, All-Cause Mortality, and
Adverse Events. Of particular interest was the relevant scientific literature
that relates 7 characteristics of physical activity (or exposures) to these
health outcomes: intensity, frequency, duration, pattern, type, caloric
expenditure, and volume. Also of interest as related to these physical
activity "exposures" are physiologic states and adaptations to physical
activity that may be precursors to the health outcomes listed above.
At least 7 key research questions were used to guide the literature
review and the deliberations of the PAGAC. For each health outcome of
Following from the conceptual framework, 3 CDC teams were formed to
conduct the literature reviews around 3 key life stages: youth (aged 5 to 19
years), adults (aged 19 to 64 years), and older adults (aged 65 years and
older). All aspects of the literature review (i.e., search strategy development
and execution, review and triage of papers, cataloguing, retrieving, coding,
data entry, quality control, and payment of coders) were managed by the teams.
Two scientists (one senior, one junior) were appointed as co-leads for each
life-stage team, and coders were assigned to the teams based on the review
workload (e.g., more studies were available for adults than for youth). In
addition, a separate team was formed to develop and implement quality control
Phase 1 of the literature review process (October 2006 through June
2007) was carried out by conducting systematic searches of the scientific
literature on physical activity and the health outcomes described above. During
this phase, the teams held weekly meetings to discuss issues that members were
encountering and to devise solutions to move the project forward. Issues
included literature search terms, inclusion/exclusion criteria for the
literature search, study quality assessment, abstraction form and quality
control, database/systems issues, abstraction progress, qualifications required
of the coders, certification process and selection of coders, training
sessions/agenda for abstractors, certificates developed and sent to certified
abstractors, retraining issues, termination of abstractors due to production or
quality control problems, development of an operations manual, preparation for
the PAGAC meetings and materials, health outcome tables, timelines, team
reviews, database revisions, subcommittee reviews/updates, and payment of the
coders and scientific advisors.
Phase 2 of the literature review process (July 2007 through March 2008)
began after the first PAGAC meeting June 28-29, 2007, and was guided by the
needs of the PAGAC. During this phase, team members updated the Phase 1
literature review through June 2007 and worked with PAGAC members to obtain
scientific papers that were not abstracted during Phase 1. This process is
described in Appendix F.1.
Working from the literature review conceptual framework, the CDC teams
performed a standardized review of the scientific literature to provide
evidence for the deliberations of the PAGAC.
The first step of the review process was to gather studies for possible
inclusion in the database, using defined search strategies (Appendix F.2). Search terms were selected for
physical activity and for each identified health outcome: cardiovascular and
respiratory health, metabolic health, musculoskeletal health, cancer,
functional health, mental health, all-cause mortality, and injuries/adverse
Using the Ovid interface, the CDC teams searched the National Library of
Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE Database using only Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
major descriptors for the physical activity term set. They used a combination
of MeSH descriptors and text word synonyms to search for the health outcome
terms set. A listing of all MeSH headings used in the search strategies is
included in Appendix F.2.
Three searches were run, and a combination of MeSH headings and text
word synonyms were used to limit retrieval to 3 age groups: youth, adults, and
older adults. To capture any articles not indexed by age, a fourth search was
run, excluding all previous age group retrieval. A fifth search was run,
combining all age groups to capture items indexed to multiple age groups. The
search strategies for the 5 groups are included in Appendix F.2.
Each search was further limited by restricting retrieval to English
language and to articles published after 1994 that dealt with human subjects
and contained abstracts. Finally, the searches excluded 3 publication types
comments, editorials, and reviews. Search results were stored in Word
files and imported into Reference Manager Database files.
The CDC teams developed specific inclusion and exclusion criteria to
determine whether studies would be eligible for abstraction. They also
developed an inclusion/exclusion coding system that allowed them to classify
references efficiently and accurately for the abstraction process. This process
was divided into 2 phases: Certain studies of physical activity and a
diagnosable health outcome were abstracted during Phase 1; other studies of
physical activity and risk factors for the health outcomes were held for
possible abstraction at a later date (Phase 2), if requested by the PAGAC.
Articles were considered for inclusion in the review if they met certain
criteria. Similarly, articles with certain criteria were excluded from the
review. Appendix F.3 provides a detailed explanation of the inclusion and
exclusion criteria developed for this review. (Appendix F.3).
For each scientific article, abstractors recorded the following
information: Overall study design; sample and participant characteristics;
intervention design and duration (if an intervention study); physical activity
exposure(s), including the dose of physical activity provided to participants
or in which they participated; follow-up time period; health outcome(s); and
the most advanced study results. For example, if a study presented an analysis
adjusted for age and presented the same analysis adjusted for age and body mass
index (BMI), the abstractor was instructed to record the age- and BMI-adjusted
Abstractors were hired, trained, and certified to perform all
abstracting duties, and strict quality control procedures were used throughout
the abstraction project. The quality control team checked and corrected 12.5%
of abstracted papers. Abstractors were put on probationary status if they did
not meet quality control standards. Cursory checks of abstractions were
conducted, and subsequent corrections were made by all members of the Physical
Activity Guidelines team at CDC.
A Web-based data entry system was developed to manage all abstracted
studies for this project. This system was modeled after a similar system that
CDC has used to abstract studies for the Guide to Community Preventive
Services, which provides systematic reviews of community-based
interventions. The physical activity Web-based data entry system includes
summary tables of the scientific articles abstracted as part of the literature
review for the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. The summary
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Big Jim Sullivan, 71, an acclaimed session guitarist who played on dozens of rock 'n' roll and pop hits in the 1960s and '70s, died Tuesday at his home in West Sussex, England, said his wife, Norma. He suffered from heart disease and diabetes.
Sullivan learned guitar as a teenager and turned professional when he was 16. He played with many of the biggest names in British pop at the height of the "Swinging London" era.
Along with Jimmy Page, who would later star in Led Zeppelin, Sullivan was one of the most in-demand session guitarists of his era. His website lists sessions with Tom Jones, Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie, Gerry and the Pacemakers and many others. He claimed to have played on more than 1,000 singles that entered the British charts.
Sullivan, known for his mastery of a wide variety of styles, also toured with Tom Jones' band from 1969 to '74, playing in Las Vegas casino hotels and on television shows.
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Loach and Leigh vie for Palme d'Or
Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will go head to head for one of cinema's most coveted prizes at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The veteran British directors are among 18 film-makers vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or at the annual film industry get-together in the south of France.
Loach's Jimmy's Hall is based on the true story of an Irish communist who ran a dance hall, while Leigh's Mr Turner is a biopic of the painter JMW Turner with his regular collaboratorTimothy Spall in the title role.
Both Loach and Leigh are regulars at the festival and previous winners of the Palme d'Or.
Leigh won it in 1996 for Secrets and Lies, while another of Loach's films set in Ireland - The Wind That Shakes the Barley - won a decade later.
Jimmy's Hall will be Loach's 18th film to be shown at Cannes since he made his first appearance there in 1970 with Kes.
The festival, which is held next month, opens with a Grace Kelly biopic called Grace of Monaco starring Nicole Kidman as the princess and Tim Roth as her husband, Prince Rainier.
The pair married after meeting at the festival in 1955, but the film concentrates on her life after the wedding.
Other films in the running include Tommy Lee Jones's western The Homesman starring Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank and wrestling drama Foxcatcher with Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Sienna Miller among the cast.
Michel Hazanavicius, the man behind the Oscar-winning The Artist, is also in competition with his new film The Search.
Other films being shown out of competition include Ned Benson's Eleanor Rigby, which stars Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, a David Cronenberg expose on Hollywood and Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River.
Director Jane Campion, the only woman to have won the Palme d'Or, is leading the festival's jury this year for the competition on the Riviera resort.
Tessa Ross, controller of film and drama at Channel 4 which backed both films, said: "I'm delighted that two of our most significant film-makers will premiere their latest films side by side on the Croisette.
"Ken and Mike are synonymous with great British film-making; with Jimmy's Hall and Mr Turner they return to Cannes with two wonderful films which join their extraordinary canon of work. We're privileged to have supported them both."
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Passion fills the seats at the ballpark, writes the victory songs, keeps the television on until the last out, and dials the friend's number to talk about a great play. And passion is never satisfied.
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• Support for HD. The flexibility of the Cisco Media Processor platform allowed for an easy transition to HD broadcasts, without requiring a complete overhaul of MLBAM's architecture.
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BHS homecoming activities won't include downtown parade
September 22, 2011
Baldwin High School will be celebrating its homecoming Friday, but it won't be having its annual afternoon parade that started a few years ago.
BHS officials and student council voted to discontinue the parade, which featured a float from each of the four classes and the six candidates riding in convertibles. Ending the parade was a decision made by the BHS student council and school officials agreed it was headed in the wrong direction.
"It was always a scramble to do the parade on the same day," said Natalie Schmidt-Konkel, BHS counselor and student council sponsor. "We always scrambled to get the floats ready. It's just progressively gotten to this point.
"The student council decided that about a month ago," she said. "We talked about the pros and cons of doing the floats and they decided not to do floats. We told them we can't really do a parade without floats. So then it was decided that we will do more with the football bus. We even thought about doing a march from the school to the stadium. But we had a lot of safety concerns crossing the highway, so that didn't fly. We figured this was the next best thing."
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"It's been awesome," Green said. "My partner Jake and I have been coordinating our costumes. I also like our themes this year."
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Maximizing S-priest DPS on Bosses
Easily 70% of the following, I've said before. And it's in several other places as well. But I got asked, and you know what a sucker I am for the sound of my own voice. So… gear, talents and techniques in one long post, all with one narrow, narrow focus: How do to the BEST damage to the end-level bosses.
OK, looking at that opening – BEST is not THE RULE. I'm writing for the shadowpriest who is at level 70, done pretty good, but hits the bosses in Heroics and (worse) kara and is struggling. Who hears people say an Spriest should be doing 400 dps minimum to start on kara and goes, "Huh? Nobody ever complained and I'm doing 200? What the…?" If you're level 70 and you've gotten enough time in the trenches and gear to be opening the doors of heroics and Kara… As shadow I did 300 dps with greens and one spelldamage blue. (more blues than that, but they weren't spelldamage.)
I'm going to assume you already got some spelldamage, some uber gear, a few of this and that – you're not starting from scratch. What you're doing is… tweaking. Not twinking, not yet – you're building a base from which to twink. (Twinking a level 70. snort.) So.
Number one – order, priority, everything. If you are not using 5/5 shadow focus AND have 76 hit rating, fix it. For every 16 2/3 MORE hit rating you have, you can reduce shadow focus by 1.
Look. If you've got SF5/5 but no hit rating, you're missing 7% of the time even BEFORE the bosses start using their oh-so-special loving to make your life harder. You only have to cancel 6% (there's that annoying "always 1%"). You're lucky – you've got a talent that will make the biggest chunk of your hit cap disappear. Mages… +200 or so damage rating to get to the same level. Next time you feel down about how much more useful crits are for them, remember that.
So you're up to hit cap. Now what do you look at? Now, we look at mana regen. What, How does this do for DAMAGE? Well, we could jump straight to damage. But by serious measure of DPS for a boss fight the measure is NOT how much damage did you do while you were doing damage, it's how much damage did you do over the course of the fight? You can plan on boss fights lasting a minimum of 5 minutes – 10 being more common. If you crank out (without becoming george) 2000 dps for 2 minutes and do nothing for 8, and your dps is a whopping 200. Not enough.
As a shadow priest, you are on the same dance floor as the mages and warlocks – no OFSR for you, not for planning. Spirit gear? Some – assuming someone in your party has Improved Divine Spirit so you're getting damage and mp5 from it. But that's pretty much the only reason to get it. Frankly, you'll live by the mana potion. But – and important like logistics is to battles – the mana potion has to last you till the next one. That's two whole minutes. Mind Blast (11), no talents, is 450 mana every six seconds. 9000 mana per potion timer. Oh – and the super mana potion can give you – at best – 3000 mana. Since the range is 1800 to 3000, the average return is 2400 mana. And sometimes you're only going to get 1800.
For gear, you want a flat minimum of 100mp5 IFSR. And unlike hit rating, you should always be on the lookout for more – sometimes dropping a bit of spelldamage to get it. But I'll discuss that tradeoff after we have the basics. For now, if you're not at least 100 mp5 IFSR, you're too low.
You also HAVE TO have the following talents. In Discipline, you want Inner Focus and Meditation. Yes, IF is a cooldown thing. In a 10 minute battle you'll use it three times. That's three free spells. (yeah, crits, but we'll get to that later.) Meditation… meditation almost makes spirit worth it for the shadowpriest. Let's assume you have a 200 mp5 OFSR (you'll have more, pretty much guaranteed, despite concentrating on IFSR, but bear with me for easier math). That's 30 mp5. Over the two minute mana potion cooldown that's an additional 720 mana. You won't take – this time – Mental Agility. Not one of the 5 points. Yes, the mana savings is huge. But… it's too high in this tree, and you will sacrifice DPS to get it. Actually, if you're skilled and tricksy and what I'm saying is old hat you can actually be really effective making some sacrifices in shadow and taking this. But I'm not writing for you folk, I'm writing for the 'I'm level 70 getting 200 DPS. 400 for kara minimum? HUNH?"
In Shadow, in regard to mana, you WILL TAKE: Focused Mind 3/3; Vampiric Touch. Oh, and Improved Shadow Word: Pain. "OK," you say, "I get Vampiric Touch. 5% of damage comes back as mana. But Focused Mind? and ISW:P? Shouldn't you be waiting till you discuss damage for the Pain?" Actually, I bet most of you get the real reasons already. But did you notice I like the sound of my own voice? heh. OK, using mana more efficiently is the flipside of having more mana. I can gain 15%, or I can spend what I have 15% more efficiently, either way I get potentially 15% more spell. And ISW:P? I know how it reads – it's increasing damage by tacking on more DOTs. It is more damage if time goes on long enough – the key being long enough. Every boss fight is going to be long enough. Congratulations, your Pain Dots are 33% more mana-efficient. You're welcome. We're done with gear and talents for increased mana, though we'll come back briefly when we jump into techniques.
The last place you can bump dps with gear and talent is in actual, yep, spell damage. Finally. Gear first, and it's a simple measure. 3.5 +damage is nominally +1 DPS. If you've got your hit cap and you've got your regen floor, add spelldamage. Shoot for 300 has your floor, though I've managed with 250. Once you're at 300, continue adding. Try to bring in mp5 too, but at this point more damage does not cost you more mana. In a perfect world you're regenerating enough to go a nasty 20 minute fight (Gruul – ahem) without resorting to a pot. The world is not perfect, and besides more damage on Gruul means less time. So we've got gear and enchants and gems for damage – let's look at talents.
YOU WILL have the following talents: Mind Flay; Shadow Weave 5/5; Darkness 5/5; Shadowform; Misery. I'm going to be ambivalent about shadow power. Yes, I'll explain – haven't I been doing so? Mind Flay is obvious – another spell damage spell. What isn't obvious is how it fits for our techniques – and a hint here is that technique is probably the biggest thing you'll discover to spike your damage. Anyway… Shadowweave, darkness, shadowform and misery are going to give you increased damage to your spells measured in PERCENTAGES. All that gear you have? Bump. +35% to all your damage, and +40 for two critical keystones – SW:P and MF. Oh, and Vampiric Touch. heh. So… why not shadow power?
I have a long post on it, so I'll link and summarize. At 10% spellcrit from Int and this together, your total spellcrit – pregear – is going to be ~25%. Your net return from this will be in the vicinity of 3% more damage. The problem comes from the temptation to add to spell crit gear. Usually this requires sacrificing spelldamage or spell hit. Although you get it as an incidental (along with more mana) from Int. The thing is, it takes a fair chunk more spell crit to have the same impact as more spell damage. You also have to sacrifice some other talents – and your guild may want you to have Improved Vampiric Embrace, or you may really think silence is critical, or… you get the point. The key here is that it will add spelldamage, but in my opinion the gain is headed into … maybe zone. There's one more problem with increasing your crits. One of your critical spells is Shadow Word: Death. We'll be facing that in techniques, but here's the nasty thing. It hurts you like it hurts the other guy unless you kill him. Big Crits in this are not necessarily a good thing — though if you build a lot of stamina (armor won't do you any good here) you might be able to compensate. So for increasing spellcrit, you're forcing a hamper to your combat technique AND you're going to have to be heavier in non-damage gear. A secret? I've met some really dangerous and effective shadowpriests who use crit well. But most of the high-scorers will choose this just below, well, more agility. At least its better than strength…
OK, we've done gear and talents (with one exception), let's take on the big one. Technique.
The key to an effective technique for DPS is getting the most damage to happen in the shortest time – and anything that can happen at the same time is best of all. That's the key to the danger of warlocks, you know. It's not the one dot that does so much damage. It's the dot…dot…dot…dot… all ticking together over and over, stacked on top of each other.
We also want to decrease delay between BIG damage spells. Two 1500 point spells over 10 seconds is 300 dps. Two of them over 6 seconds is 500 dps.
And finally, we want to fill the voids. We want to be doing SOMETHING while other things are cooling down. Because everything that happens is one… more… point of pain.
A quick glance at a talent, and we'll get into some nuts and bolts. Improved Mind Blast. Reduces cooldown. Now, MB is a big damage spell, but you can't get it down to 'back to back' casting. Since you're going to have holes, what you need to do is play around with how much you'll fit and how you'll fit it and… ok, you don't want to do all that theorycrafting. I RECOMMEND (not you will, but this works best for basics) IMB 3/5. You're going to wind up with a big enough opening to do two mindflays or one MF plus a couple of other things, with the occasional lag not really being that disabling.
Here's the current 'school of thought' about how the technique is described. You set all the spells up in a priority list. Line them up in a row on your toolbar, highest to lowest, left to right. You've got five damage, plus an oddity that messes everything up but is 'high demand' from everyone else: SW:P; VT; SW:D; MB; MF. And VE. Line them up in just about that order – put VE right before VT for now. And when the battle begins, go almost robotic. Click the leftmost ready icon as soon as it's up. Exception – if you're in the middle of a mindflay, let the mindflay finish. The last tick of damage is ON the last tick of the last second – cut it early and you cut the DPS from MF by a third. You built for that fraction of a second of lag – the slower start on the next spell will be more than compensated for over time.
OK, it's not quite that simple – but it's real close. If you hit a period when it's necessary to burn the boss down – say, the last 30 seconds – and your party can afford to stop getting the heals, drop VE from the rotation. And every so often you're going to do Something Else — almost always mana related. See, told you we'd be coming back to it.
Put Inner Focus on the toolbar right above Mind Blast. Make a macro for mindblast so that on modifier (shift, maybe), it casts inner focus and then mindblast. Here, let me write it for you.
/cast [modifier:shift] Inner Focus
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Mind Blast
Yes, I stuck trinkets in there – the 13 and 14. And if they're up they'll go off, and if not they won't (just kick up an error message but WITHOUT stopping the flow). And you don't have to keep an eye on their status as well. ANYWAY… Use the shift key the first mindblast. And every time mindblast AND inner focus are up, do it again.
Second Something Else. I have all bosses mentally divided into a category I call Fiends. "Singles" and "multiples". I will use my fiend on every boss – it's more damage (simultaneous with other stuff which means MORE dps), and it's a return of mana. On a boss that's going to last, say, 5-6 minutes, I'm going to pop the fiend when I waste the least mana – that is, when all the mana he gives me goes into my somewhat empty pool, and not 'wasted'. On the other hand… like I said 10 minutes on a kara boss is not going to be uncommon. If I've got a 'multiple' boss I'll pop the fiend early – even if I'm only lightly down on mana. Early enough that I expect to use him again. At around the 1:30 minute mark of a fight with a "multiple" boss the fiend comes out. And then I watch cooldown (as well as mana status) for his next use. But remember… for 15 seconds this thing is delivering,well, before all those +damage talents and gear above it is adding about 75 dps for its duration. And this post is about damage.
A couple of trivial bits before I summarize, ok? First – yes, I stuck SW:D in there even though it's hammering you as well because it's not killing the boss. Your VE – and if you chose Improved VE even moreso – will more than fix this problem. It's a Huge, Nasty, Fast spell with its only flaw being the irreducably long cooldown. Taking it out of your rotation is going to SEVERELY hamper your dps. Live on the edge – feel like a warlock for a little bit. Second – I need to point out that Vampiric Touch is not just a mana pump. It, too, is damage. At 650 damage base it's not your big spell, but it's still going to contribute – and it's fast. You can actually cast it faster – there's no cooldown – but on a DPM basis that's… a bad idea. Add in the lost mana from not allowing the ticks to progress and, well, that's why we don't chaincast it for our damage.
OK, let's summarize, shall we?
Gear: spell hit +76, mana regen 75 ISFR, 100 preferred, spelldamage out the wazoo.
Talents, Disc: Inner Focus and Meditation, maxed.
Talents, Shadow: ISW:P 2/2; Shadow Focus 5/5; Improved Mind Blast 3/5; MindFlay; Shadow Weaving 5/5; Focused Mind 5/5; Darkness 5/5; Shadowform (which means you have to have basic Vampiric Embrace); Misery 5/5; and Vampiric Touch. Shadow Power is an option but carries risks that may be… uncomfortable.
Technique: Prioritize the spellcast order so dots stack and high damage is chosen before low damage, but letting low damage fill cooldown holes. Recommended sample order: SW:P; VE; VT; SW:D; MB; MF. Use Inner Focus and Shadowfiend and Trinkets liberally.
Hitting beats missing, and after that stack and then cram and finally increase power of attacks for max dps. That's it, really, for everybody. This post? The details are for shadow priest, the principles… are for just about everybody.
6 Responses to "Maximizing S-priest DPS on Bosses"
Solid guide. I usually start with VT tho, to ensure i don't miss a tick of SW:P. And to people out there putting down mediation because they don't need it for Lurker or whatever fight need to remember that we should be spec'ing for the progression encounters out there, not the ones that are already easy for us. That mana regen u don't think u need on Lurker or Shade or whoever, you will love when you're fighting mag, or Vashj, or some other 15+ min encounter.
[…] Shadow Priest max dps, again I'm still seeing a problem in many, many blogs and reports. I'm going to repeat, reworded, a previous message. Actually, I'm going to repeat only a small portion of the earlier post. […]
Okay, I got linked to this via a post on wow_ladies comm in LJ, and I'd like to say that MP5 is the last thing that any shadow priest thinks of. There are two stats that a shadow priest gears for:
1. spell hit to cap
2. spell damage
The more spell damage a shadow priest has, the better mana efficiency they are getting from their spells. Shadow priests will not get any MP5 on their gear until T6. That's what chain chugging mana pots, inner focus, and their shadowfiend is for. Recommending a shadow priest to gear for MP5 is just plain wrong, because they are doing themselves and their group a disservice. I've only just gotten around 100MP5 IFSR, and that's because I have 3/5 T6! Prior to that, it's normal to run with ~60MP5. MP5 is for healers, not DPSers.
If you're going for higher DPS, your trinkets should be macroed to VT, and not Mind Blast, because there are some instances when you won't want to use Mind Blast (especially on high threat situations). You'll see an increase in DPS just by doing that, because you're refreshing VT every 15 seconds, right? Right?
Spell priority should be:
1. VT (your job is mana regen for your group, this must always be up)
2. SW:P (best DoT in the game, and where 25% of your damage will come from)
3. VE (will mostly be overheal, and this is something to drop first on aggro sensitive encounters)
4. SW:D (this spell has the best DPM of all our spells)
5. MB (if you cast SW:D first, the VE healing from MB afterwards will heal you back up)
6. MF (bread and butter spell once everything else is up or on CD; it will constitute ~25% of your DPS)
OK I have a question, I've just respec'd to shadow after an extended and frankly unwelcome stint of healery, and went into Kara for the first time as shadow this weekend. My DPS was pretty dispointing – around 415 last night. Admittedly I'm a bit rusty at playing shadow, and some of the trash (up to Aran) is immune to spell dmg, but i was expecting more than that. My bonus shadow dmg is sitting about 720 at the moment. I did some prep beforehand so i'm pretty confident my spell rotation is ok : VT, SW:P, (VE if needed), MF, SW:D, MB, MF, MF, MB, MF etc
Should i be expecting more DPS? I know I'm contributing to the RAID with mana\health regen, and no-on is scomplaining about my DPS (apart from me!) – but I can't help but feel I should be doing more! I'm used to playing a BM hunter where I'm usually knocking out 700+ and my gear is probably better, or at least comparable, on my Spriest! If I'm out grinding I'm putting out around 600dps, which i more like what i would hope to be doing in Kara. Anything you can suggest? Maybe improving spell hit for instance? I can't tell you what my +hit is at the moment as I can't get to armory etc from work.
Would appreciate any suggestions.
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@ Kirk, thanks for the reply and ok, fair point. When i get home i'll post my build and gear – if you could take a quick look and see if there's anything obvious that I'm missing I'd really appreciate it.


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accounting literature but also in newspapers and financial magazines. We hear this controversy discussed among our business associates,
our educators, and our legislators.
All the reasons for this heightened interest in corporate financial reporting are not clear. I believe that it is the natural result of the high level of business activity, with the consequent increase in the number of users of financial statements. But, more specifically, this added interest may be attributable to the rise in merger activity, which has tended to focus attention on differences in reporting practices; and to publicity concerning methods of reporting used by companies that have found themselves in financial difficulties. Other contributing factors may be the continued emphasis on comparing companies and operating periods on the basis of earnings per share, return on investment, and other statistical
measures of corporate earning power; and increased investor interest in corporate affairs, as evident in questions raised at meetings of shareholders of publicly owned companies.
Professional accountants have a particular interest in this controversy
because, for the most part, the conflict arises out of the questions of what should constitute generally accepted accounting principles and what body or bodies should be responsible for their development.
Much of the recent criticism of generally accepted accounting principles,
in their present form, has been advanced by a few members of our profession through public expressions of dissatisfaction with the progress being made in developing accounting principles and in narrowing
differences in practice. Not surprisingly, some segments of the public
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the third of the three "core" occupational fields within the overall Geospatial Technology industry.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the technology that uses specialized computer systems to work with, interrelate, and analyze virtually all forms of spatial data. Typically, a GIS consists of three major components:
GIS analysts turn geographic data into maps and decision-making tools. They create large databases of geographic information and use them to solve problems. GIS analysts often specialize in one of three major activities:
In addition to their computer applications and databases, GIS analysts use other specialized tools in their work, including multi-dimensional graphic display devices and equipment.
GIS analysts - like other Geospatial Technology professionals - can be found working in various local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as in a wide-range of related scientific and technical fields, such as agriculture and soils; archeology; biology; cartography; ecology; environmental sciences; forestry and range; geodesy; geography; geology; hydrology and water resources; land appraisal and real estate; medicine; transportation; urban planning and development, and more.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).
The following Web sites offer a sampling of the broad range of job and career possibilities within the Geospatial Technology industry, including those for Geographic Information Specialists:


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Tim Rogerson
Tim Rogerson Bio
A prolific artist with his own unique painting style, Tim Rogerson imbues his artwork with an obvious energy and dynamism, conveying his creative passion and technical skill with whimsical imagery and radiant colors that both bring his paintings to life and instantly connect with enthusiasts from all walks of life who celebrate his works featured in galleries all over the world. In...
Tim Rogerson Bio
A prolific artist with his own unique painting style, Tim Rogerson imbues his artwork with an obvious energy and dynamism, conveying his creative passion and technical skill with whimsical imagery and radiant colors that both bring his paintings to life and instantly connect with enthusiasts from all walks of life who celebrate his works featured in galleries all over the world. Influenced by the classic works of masters from Picasso to Matisse to Liepke, the North Carolina native quickly emerged as a star in the art world, having embarked on a journey that has taken him from Degas to Disney to darling of the industry.
Born in Kissimmee, Florida, Rogerson grew up very close to Disney World - where his father was employed as Show Director in charge of managing and maintaining all of the performances in the park—before relocating with his family to North Carolina at the age of four due to family health concerns. Even so, his father made every day a magical adventure for the budding artist, even though they no longer had the safety umbrella of Disney. Rogerson had a typically idyllic childhood, playing outside with friends, exploring nature, and "hanging out." However, his artistic drive to express himself was always present, compelling him to commit the pictures and images in his head to paper and canvas. Every child has a dream. For Rogerson, it was to be an artist as well as satisfying his desire to return to his home state, to the magical kingdom from which he came. Of course, being surrounded by the fanciful images of Disney characters, even after his family had moved to North Carolina, (his father was an avid Disney collector and supporter) didn't help curb his appetite for the Sunshine State. In fact, it was these images that helped inform some of Rogerson's style, which has earned him enormous critical acclaim.
Rogerson eventually relocated back to Florida once he was accepted as a student at the prestigious Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, where he majored in Illustration. "I was a very traditional art student and explored all the works from the old masters to modern art," says Rogerson about his art school education. "My influences include Degas and John Singer Sargent, with his perfect, confident brushstrokes…their work has allowed me to push the envelope with my own abstraction of life." It was while studying at Ringling that Rogerson gained the reputation as a rising artist and influence in his own right. His singular style was first officially acknowledged when he was awarded the 2003 Best Painter Award from Ringling, followed by 2003 and 2004 Best of Ringling Award. In particular, one of his acclaimed works was an emotionally powerful portrait of "Mr. Lincoln." Favoring the medium of oil paints, Rogerson says that he concentrates on communicating with his audience, capturing people in social settings. "My goal in painting is simple, to tell a great story in the most visually exciting way. When working with highly recognizable imagery, I enjoy breaking the image apart and reassembling those parts into a jigsaw puzzle of elaborate shapes and vibrant colors. This allows me to break away from the usual and become free to create whatever comes to be."
After graduating from Ringling in 2004, Rogerson fulfilled his other dream, embarking on a career as a professional artist. He has contributed his artistic sensibilities to Disney and SS Designs in Florida. He was involved in in creating imagery for the popular Disney Fine Art portfolio and launched Tim Rogerson's Cosmopolitan POP: A Series of Paintings About Everyday Life and the Games People Play (a series of collections of works that showcase the lighter side of life). True to form, at the heart of Rogerson's style is his compulsion to reinvent it: "I want my paintings to celebrate life and stay fresh... I try to stay away from the basic routine and technique because my joy for painting comes from the challenge of creating something entirely new," says the artist about Cosmopolitan POP. Even in preview, the series won critical acclaim by the trade and his peers. His modern cubist twist to classic Disney and unique interpretations has won praise from critics and his peers. "My personal style has emerged and I break down the composition into simple shapes, with each shape having its own palette – it's a jigsaw puzzle of color to form an image," Rogerson explained. "I keep the backgrounds simple so as not detract from the main focus and so I can concentrate on the details of the central image."
Rogerson's art continues to garner deserved critical admiration and honors, and his works are featured in galleries all over the world. Beyond his commercial success, he also earned much desired acclaim in the form of an official title. Named an Official Artist of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Winter Team, Rogerson is one of only a handful of to be named Official Olympic Artists. He obtained this designation by working with An Official Licensee of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Fine Art Ltd. Rogerson's piece titled "US Olympic Winter Team 2006" was conceived of an tribute to the Americans who competed peacefully in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games during such a volatile time in history. From the elegance of the ice skaters to the audaciousness of the bobsled and grit of each downhill skier, Rogerson endeavored to represent the passion and grace with which the U.S. Olympic Team aspired to bring home the gold while donning the Red, White and Blue. The piece was released as both a limited edition giclée in an edition of 250 and an open edition poster. His contribution helped support the U.S. Olympic Winter Team. When asked about the painting, Rogerson said, he wanted the painting "to be an ode to the men and women who are competing; from the graceful glide of the ice skater to the speed of the bobsled to the determination of the downhill skier."
In 2009, Rogerson was named Official Artist for Disney's first ever D23 Expo where he created his most ambitious work to date, "In The Company of Legends," which now sits in the Disney vault as a piece of Disney history. Rogerson has also served as the Official Artist of Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. He continues to spend his time creating works of Disney Fine Art. The pieces are a balanced mixture of his varied style and the timeless Characters of Disney. Still dedicated to painting a better canvas for the art world one brush stroke at a time, Rogerson currently lives in Orlando, FL with his wife, Kerrin, and daughter, Lilly.
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Truckee wrestling | Tyler Curtis second at regionals
Truckee senior Tyler Curtis wrestled to a second-place finish at 182 pounds in the Northern Division I-A regional championships at the Winnemucca Events Center this past weekend.
Curtis will now compete in the Division I-A state championships at the Reno Livestock Events Center on Friday and Saturday as the North's No. 2 seed.
At regionals, Curtis opened the tournament with a pin against Daniel Loyola of South Tahoe and a pin against Jed Johnson of Lowry in the semifinal round.
That set up a regional championship match between Curtis and Fernley's Erik Wilson, who also pinned his first two opponents. Wilson earned the regional title and top Northern seed with a 4-0 decision in the final match.
Also competing for Truckee was Dylan Clifton, who finished sixth in the 126-pound weight class.
Curtis is scheduled to begin the state championship tournament against Paul Menard of Clark on Friday at 4:30 p.m. Check the NIAA website (www.niaa.com) for a full bracket.


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If you're the kind of person who likes to make money, like me, and you run a blog, like me, and you've considered the possibilities of doing the two at the same time — or at least having one lead to the other* — like me, then you've probably run across one of those internet advice columns that tells you that what you have to do is define yourself as a brand.
It's only in this way, they say — only if you can clearly say, this is what I'm about, and consistently and constantly reflect that in your blog and your tweets and your Facebook page — that you will gain a loyal following who will read your content regularly and maybe even click on an ad or two, or buy whatever it is you hope to sell (music, books, your soul).
Author Maureen Johnson had a thing or two to say about that. In a Manifesto that was going around the internet**, she spoke out against that whole crusade with the statement that she is not a brand. She doesn't want to be held to one idea that defines her, nor does she want to be dehumanized in that idea. She's a person and she's multifaceted and she'll write about whatever she wants.
It's a bit of an interesting debate. On the one hand, it's true that I'd like to attract an audience of loyal followers, people who might eventually give me money, spread word of my writing, etc. But I don't just have one thing to say. I don't want to be restricted in what I can write about. That's not why I started a blog. It's certainly not why I became a writer. That way lies madness!
I had the same conflict a couple weeks ago. A few somewhat-high-profile people/groups have started following me on Twitter over the last few weeks, I guess based on a couple of my more popular posts. And I felt like I had a duty to them to make their following me worthwhile, to tweet and blog about Important Issues. But I came to basically the same conclusion as Maureen Johnson. Yes, I started a blog partially to find an audience, and I started tweeting to help do the same. But I'm not going to restrict what I write about for that.
It just wouldn't be honest, for one thing. It would be saying "This is Lucas" of one facet of me, and I wouldn't be able to express any other facet for fear of losing my audience.
So, maybe it won't help me find a larger audience. Maybe I'll be stuck with a small few readers a day for a long time — until, say, my first book comes out one day. But those readers will see that I'm a real person with many facets. They'll know that I'm interested in writing, education, being gay, YA, speculative fiction, publishing, transmedia, music, geekery, and everything else that makes me me.
*Not that I know how making money might lead to writing a blog, specifically.
**Which is to say, I saw it linked to more than once in the internet circles I frequent.


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YUMMY xP
*runs to the kitchen and starts to look for strawberries and chocolate* Well..I have chocolate but no Strawberry T_T...Great draw 5/5
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just came back from the kitchen after looking at your pic..its so realiatic!
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Face it, you're a nerd (you are reading Gizmodo, aren't you?). Nerds and sports have traditionally been mutually exclusive, but that's no longer the case. Technology is your friend. Here are six tools to make you a champ.
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Finis Swimsense Monitor In swimming, the quality of your stroke is everything. The Finis Swimsense is loaded with magnetometers and accelerometers which can tell you your stroke count, stroke rate and distance-per-stroke for the four major stroke (freestyle, back, breast, butterfly). You can then upload that data to your computer where you can analyse your cumulative data and find out where you need to improve. $US200.
Keiser Air300 Runner The preferred training tool of future football Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson, the Air300 Runner trains the lower body to improve acceleration and power to make football players more explosive from a standstill. Our own Andrew Tarantola explains how it works:
Users lean forward at a 45-degree angle against the front shoulder pads and place their feet in the pedal stirrups. These are connected to swing arms that use externally compressed air as resistance. This allows the machine to precisely match the user's exertion and provide the perfect amount of drag-anywhere from 10 to 345 pounds worth. The compressed air also prevents the need to have 300+ pounds of weight stacks slinging through the air, always a good thing.
Adidas AdiZero Crazy Lights Basketball Shoes Nike are the ones who normally get the cred for having the techiest shoes on the market, but its actually Adidas who currently make the lightest available basketball shoe. Weighing just 278g apiece, it owes much of its lightness to SprintWeb, a super light mesh material which covers most of the shoe and lets your foot breathe. In basketball, a quick first step can be lethal and a light shoe never hurt. $US130.
Tiger Woods: My Swing iPhone App When it comes to Golf, form is everything. Putting your weight on the wrong foot or not twisting your hips enough can be the difference between getting on the green and getting lost in the trees. The Tiger Woods: My Swing iPhone app can record video of your swing and tell you all the ways you're terrible at golf. If you still have the resolve to improve after that, you'll know how. $10.49.
Prince Synthetic Gut Tennis Racket Strings Preferred choice of serious tennis players when it comes to their rackets. Made of an ultra soft material taken from a cow's stomach, Gut minimises impact shock (thus preventing tennis elbow) while allowing players to maintaining power and control. But it's expensive. The most expensive. However, synthetic gut provides most of the same advantages while being dramatically cheaper. $US5-$US15.


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Quietwoods RV, Wisconsin's No. 1 dealer in 2011 as reported by Statistical Surveys Inc., has officially signed with Redwood RV and will be carrying product at its Sturgeon Bay and Neenah locations.
With the addition of QuietWoods, Redwood management said in a press release that the towable builder "has closed the state of Wisconsin to new dealers."
"Redwood RV's philosophy is to offer exclusive partnerships with two dealers in each of the 50 states," said Tom Montague, general manager for the Topeka, Ind.-based company. He noted that the arrangement allows Redwood RV to "create meaningful dealer relationships" as well as provide each dealer with significantly larger territories compared to industry averages.
"We are very excited to welcome Quietwoods RV to the Redwood family," Montague added. "This is one of those win-win cases where our product just fits with their current lineup, and we can't wait to work with them on a daily basis."


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Even before India's central bank opened the door to an influx of new competitors, State Bank of India began rethinking its future. Continuing to focus on its large and profitable customer base, those in the 45-plus-age bracket, without proactively addressing the growing youth population could threaten its leadership position. SBI needed to expand its base and embrace the millennial generation, creating a new and relevant banking environment for the young and growing share of India's population.
For the country's hyper-connected, highly informed, value-driven young customers expecting immediate services and real-time responses, queuing at bank branches for teller-controlled transactions seemed archaic. To entice and attract this demanding target segment, SBI created a digital banking program to remake the branch environment and remodel customer engagement.
"India is in the midst of a major demographic transition and we recognize that our customers increasingly expect digital services to help them manage their financial needs," said Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairman of State Bank of India.
Unable to wait through a two-year transformation, the bank set a timeline for building seven fully digital branches in just 14 weeks—and opening them on July 1, SBI's Bank Day 2014. Clearly a partner would be needed to support such a firm and ambitious schedule for strategy creation, brand development, branch design and build, technology implementation and employee enablement. From a host of vendors, SBI chose Accenture as its single vendor, confident in Accenture's ability to deliver on all phases of the program—from solidifying a vision and strategy, to developing digital capabilities, to building the physical branch, to aligning people in order to create a striking and enduring customer experience.
Accenture and SBI launched the project with a week-long effort to finalize the vision and shape a new sub-brand for this target market— SBI InTouch—that reflected the differentiated service experience that the branches would deliver to the nation's digitally proficient youth. With the vision in place, Accenture immediately brought together a team from around the globe to open the seven new branches in less than four months—a team that included professionals with deep experience in banking as well as strategy, digital, technology and operations. With thirty years of experience running complex multidisciplinary projects, Accenture applied its proven, repeatable methods for on-time delivery as it led several teams working simultaneously across multiple centers in India and in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.
The work progressed in four parallel tracks to bring the vision to life on time:
Design the customer experience - The digital customer is a more demanding customer. Accenture worked with SBI to define these "digi-zens" and meet their demands with new processes and engaging, interactive technology. The design principle was simple: digitalize processes to attract and delight customers with instant gratification and a superior customer experience while reducing costs.
Build the physical branch - Demonstrating the broad utility of its delivery methods, Accenture worked with its partners internationally and locally to design and construct the seven new branches, which are strategically located in malls or high street areas in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.
Develop digital capabilities - Accenture deployed leading edge digital devices at the branches to create the on-demand touch experience for catering to the millennial generation, including interactive wall and table displays, tablets, multi-function kiosks, smart ATMs and instant account opening with debit card kiosk. These front-end devices, several available to customers for the first time in India, offer a range of advanced digital banking capabilities, including:
Instant account opening with an instant, personalized debit card
Remote expert financial advisors that can be reached instantly via high definition video-conferencing
A more integrated buying experience starting from a customer's lifestyle needs rather than just financial needs
Accenture also integrated the bank's back-end technology to meet customer demands for real-time interactions and introduced the integrated power of analytics, customer relationship management, social media and mobility that would serve the bank as a whole in its growth towards the future.
Enable Employees - Accenture advised SBI on the operating model and supporting resources needed for the digital branches. The two organizations then worked together recruiting and selecting resources from internal staff followed by training and on boarding.
The vision for the new digital experience called for a set of behaviors not seen among traditional branch staff. With customers able to self-serve for activities that once required a teller, the employees needed to learn how to approach and interact with customers moving through the digitally rich banking environment. Accenture's experience and leadership position in providing innovative talent and HR solutions helped SBI to build and shape a highly customer-centric workforce, eager to help customers help themselves.
For the first time in India, a bank has developed a sub-brand targeting the digitally proficient population. And the target segment is thrilled. From the first day of the opening, retail shoppers have visited the new branches in phenomenally high numbers. The buzz on social media captures the excitement and positive emotional response that visitors experience, with postings such as:
Really amazing innovative step ahead of contemporary banking technology (Twitter)
Awesome video…totally excited :) Have look…Watch this video to see the journey (Facebook).
This is my bank!! a proud moment for all SBIans...(YouTube)
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley joined in at the launch: "@sbiintouch a powerful initiative with the vision to serve young & aspirational India with ultra-modern Technology. Hope to see at many more places." The Reserve Bank of India governor, Raghuram Rajan, was equally enthusiastic on a recent visit to the Mumbai branch: "This is a tremendous concept. It's a nice way to get the power of information to the person who is asking for it."
With Accenture's help throughout the whirlwind process of strategy development, sub-brand creation, customer journey definition, branch design, technology integration, branch build and employee enablement, SBI has undergone a revolutionary change in the way it serves customers. The success of this seven-branch launch is propelling SBI forward with the digital bank program, and a roadmap is in place to continue building these branches.