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The February 23 conference commemorated the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's historic visit to Beijing and Shanghai and his meetings with Chairman Mao. It was sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, and the UCLA Confucius Institute.
Duration: 58:48
Panel I: This panel assessed the significance of President Nixon's visit at the time, in the US as well as in China. What did the historic summit symbolize about the relationship between the two powers, and how was the summit received domestically in each? What larger impact did it have on the Cold War? In retrospect, were Nixon and Mao visionaries, or would other leaders have acted similarly?
Moderator: Yunxiang Yan, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Published: Friday, March 16, 2012

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Roasted Cauliflower, Buttercup Squash, & Kale Spaghetti with Pancetta
Author Notes: I made this recipe to use up some of the amazing homemade pancetta I learned to make while participating in the February CharcutePalooza challenge. Could easily substitute spring fare like fresh peas, artichokes, or asparagus. —The Whiskey Chicken
Serves 4
- 1/2 pound whole wheat pasta
- 1 small cauliflower, divided into florets
- 1 buttercup squash, peeled, cored, and chopped
- 1/2 cup pancetta, cubed
- 1/2 small onion, minced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 bunch kale, roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup chicken or beef stock
- olive oil
- salt & pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Add pasta to salted boiling water and cook until "al dente". Drain and toss w/olive oil.
- While pasta cooks, toss cauliflower and squash w/olive oil, salt and pepper on baking sheet and bake 20 min.
- In a large skillet, cook pancetta over medium heat until browned. Remove and drain on paper towels.
- Add onions to skillet and cook until tender, about 5 min. Add garlic and cook for 30 sec. Add kale, toss, add stock. Cover.
- Toss pasta with vegetables, season with salt and pepper.
- Top with reserved pancetta.
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Hot on the heels of the Canon EOS M5 - the mirrorless camera that, finally, put Canon in contention with some of its competition - the Japanese company has announced the EOS M6. It does away with the viewfinder (leaving a hotshoe in place for an accessory... >>
Canon EOS 77D and 800D expand mid-range EOS DSLR lineup
If you're thinking of buying a feature-packed DSLR then chances are you'll be looking at a £1,000 piece of kit. Canon is looking to change that with the introduction of the EOS 77D and 800D cameras.If you're familiar with the Canon DSLR line-up you'll... >>
Canon EOS 800D preview: Mid-range made accessible
Canon is bulking out its EOS range with a number of new DSLR models, the 800D taking on a more beginner role than its also-announced step-up 77D cousin.Between the two new models, certainly in terms of specification, there's not a great deal of difference.... >>
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The Canon take on the mirrorless camera market has been interesting (you can read that as generally disappointing): having lackadaisically introduced the sub-par M-series system in a bid to - and this is how we see it - avoid undercutting its own DSLR... >>
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"It's long," Leslie Mann told Collider this summer about "This Is 40." "The first cut was really long, but now he's gotten it down to I think… two [hours] and change? But it's worth it, you want it to be that long." Now it seems the "change" for Judd Apatow's latest has added up.
The writer/producer/director's latest is preparing for its first L.A. screening at the LACMA on November 1st, and the info for the picture reveals that it will run 134 minutes. That will make it his second longest film following "Funny People," and beating the 116 and 129 minute runtimes of "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" respectively (though they both run 133 minutes on their extended DVD versions).
So is this a good or bad thing? Of course, we won't know until we actually see the movie, but the argument could be made that as Apatow's films have baggier with longer running times. 'Virgin' manages to sustain the length (let's face, who watches the theatrical cut of that one?) because it's consistently hilarious, but that isn't necessarily true for the dramedy of "Knocked Up" which does sag in either iteration. And the same certainly goes for the sprawling, but not necessarily focused "Funny People."
As we noted in our discussion recently about the movie, it will either see Apatow (hopefully) using his familiar brand and style to tell his most personal story yet (a direction he has been heading toward over the course of his films) or more of the familiar, loose and improv heavy antics with a dollop of drama to keep it grounded. The December release date might be most telling of what kind of movie to expect. But undoubtedly, as the past has shown, while we'll be getting 134 minutes at the theater, there will be even more by time it hits home video.
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Sleep time is optimum for cellular repair because there are more hours for products to sink in and fewer environmental stressors to prevent absorption, says Tina Alster, M.D., a dermatologist in Washington, D.C.
If you have dry to normal skin, after cleansing, apply a dime-sized blob of Vaseline to slightly damp skin. Rub it in until it becomes less greasy (within 30 seconds — we promise!). The petrolatum creates a seal, so moisture penetrates and plumps skin rather than evaporates.
If you have oily skin, opt for a serum that's noncomedogenic to keep from clogging pores. Try one that has skin-strengthening peptides, too, such as Kinerase C6 Peptide Intensive Treatment, $77.
Deflate puffy, tired eyes
To awaken looking rested, treat eyes before you snooze with a generous dose of a caffeine-packed eye cream (a good one: 100% Pure Caffeine Eye Cream, $19). Because the cream isn't topped by eye makeup, it can easily seep into skin to tighten and reduce bloating. Next, elevate your head with a couple of pillows before you fall asleep to prevent fluids from building up under eyes.
If your puffiness is caused by allergies — not late-night "Scrubs" reruns — consult your doctor about occasionally taking an antihistamine, such as Claritin, which could help drain excess fluid. If you still have bags in the a.m., do a facial massage around eyes to stimulate blood flow and take down any swelling.
Make drab hair dazzle
Use your downtime to get less frizzy hair with an ultra-conditioning mask. Look for products that say overnight on the label (SELF likes new L'Oréal Professionnel Liss Ultime Nuit Treatment, $35); they are less messy than an in-the-shower mask. Apply to towel-dried hair (it will slide off if hair is too wet), then help the mask penetrate by covering it with a shower cap. "The heat from your scalp will encourage oils to absorb into hair, softening each strand — it's like getting a salon treatment for eight hours straight," says Edris, owner of the Edris Salon in New York City.
When you wake up, skip the shampoo and conditioner and simply rinse. You'll rise and truly shine!
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PS3, 360, and Wii U games are $60 USD before sales tax. The Wii was only $50 (well 59.99 and 49.99 really) Tax varies from state to state, county to county, city to city, etc. Where I am after tax a new game that was $60 will usually cost me $65 and some change. (8.75% sales tax).
Don't you guys have a VAT and it's just £45?


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He was there in grade 4 with his family for a holiday, which included a day in France where he visited Euro Disneyland.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
Well David Fulton the former Kent player was saying last week on Sky Sports News that the South African bowlers looked well undercooked, on what we have seen so far he was right. The odd good ball which you expect from bowlers of their class but too much wayward stuff considering how good we know they are.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't his first county stint though. Something makes me want to say Middlesex but I think that's wrong.. he'd definitely played at least one county season prior though.
EDIT: Five one dayers and three First Class games for Middlesex apparently. Score on the randomly good memory!
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Cook is calmly accumulating his runs in his usual way. He looks set for a big innings.
'Here comes the sun' clearly one of the Beatles songs written when they were under the influence
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Saint Lucia
St. Lucia participates in the regional Managing Beach Resources and Planning for Coastline Change, Caribbean Islands project (old name: Coast and Beach Stability in the Eastern Caribbean (COSALC) project). In co-operation with several national agencies, the coastal monitoring programme was continued through 1996-99. In 1996, a set of equipment for coastal monitoring was provided. Technical assistance to the coastal management programme was provided to the national agencies involved through a consultancy mission in April 1996. Analyses of the monitoring data, collected between 1990-95 and stored in the countrys computerized data base, was completed in 1996 and the corresponding report issued; a COSALC report, summarizing beach changes in 1996 (with a chapter on St. Lucia), was produced in 1997. A public awareness campaign was launched in 1997 with production and distribution to the national agencies, schools and private sector of audio-visual material on Beaches and Hurricanes: 1995 in the Eastern Caribbean Islands (including data from St. Lucia). A slide presentation illustrating the effects of Tropical Storm Iris and Hurricanes Luis and Marilyn on the islands of the eastern Caribbean in 1995, including slides on St. Lucia was put together in 1997. A cultural and socio-economic assessment of beach changes in the Eastern Caribbean (including St. Lucia) was completed and the corresponding report issued in 1996; a paper on the assessment was published in CSI papers 1. Three representatives from St. Lucia attended a regional transdisciplinary workshop (co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, IOCARIBE, and the Caribbean Development Bank) on management of beach resources in small Eastern Caribbean islands (Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, October 1996). Their contributions, along with the presentations by other countries of the region, were published as CSI Info 1 (1997): Integrated Framework for the Management of Beach Resources within the Smaller Caribbean Islands: workshop results, and Coastal Region and Small Island Papers 1 (1997): Managing Beach Resources in the Smaller Caribbean Islands: workshop papers. A practical guide for stakeholders, presenting methodology for coastal development setbacks in the Eastern Caribbean Islands was published as CSI Info 4, Planning for Coastline Change and was distributed. A consultant visited St. Lucia to determine coastal development setback guidelines in April 1998 under the Coast and Beach Stability in the Eastern Caribbean (COSALC) project and a detailed report was produced.
A representative from St. Lucia attended the sub-regional workshop in Video Production for Broadcast and Exchange held in Grenada in November 1998 in order to produce a series of video clips to bring to the living room an environmental message based on local material. St. Lucia was provided with video equipment. A second workshop, also in Grenada, was held in May 1999 in co-operation with UNESCOs Communication, Information and Informatics Sector. A representative from St. Lucia attended. A video clip on St. Lucia was shown and evaluated. In 2001 the production and broadcast of COSALC items was reviewed. Environmentalists and production staff were given hands-on training to address production shortcomings. An environmental video was produced.
A summary report Coast and Beach Stability in the Caribbean Islands. COSALC project activities 1996-97 (published as No.6 in the CSI Info series) and a report Planning for Coastline Change. COSALC project review, 1998 were submitted to the St. Lucia authorities. Public information material distributed in 1998 included: a poster The Sea at your doorstep, three articles in the Sea Grant in the Caribbean Newsletter (January-December 1998), and Coping with Beach Erosion (published as Coastal Management Sourcebook 1). A follow-up Coping with Shoreline Erosion in the Caribbean was published in Nature & Resources vol.35 no. 4 in December 1999. A summary of the COSALC project was written in September 2000.
Since April 1999 a web-based discussion on Planning for Coastal Erosion in eastern Caribbean islands (including St. Lucia) has been taking place on the CSI Wise Coastal Practices for Sustainable Human Development Forum. Other papers relating to St. Lucia were added in July and November 2002: Announcement of a trial global discussion forum for Small Islands Voice and Views on Community Enforcement.
St. Lucia participated
in the joint Caribbean Development Bank/UNESCO project on Institutional
Strengthening in Beach Management in the organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and Turks and
Caicos Islands
(October 1999-March 2001). The focus of this project was strengthening of the
on-going beach monitoring programme.
A UNESCO mission visited St. Lucia in April 2000 to evaluate ongoing activities
and to plan with local counterparts for 2000-2001. A final report on the
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published in 2003 as CSI info 15.
A resource book for schools of the Caribbean region Glimpses of the Blue Caribbean was published jointly with the Associated Schools Project, as CSI papers 5, in 2000. St. Lucia officially joined the joint CSI-Associated Schools Project Sandwatch in 2001 and local schools are now involved in beach-monitoring activities. Several teachers from St. Lucia participated in the ASPNet-CSI Sandwatch workshop in St. Lucia in May 2001. Teachers training workshops were also held in May and June 2001.
Two people from St. Lucia attended a workshop on Furthering Coastal Stewardship in Small Islands held in Dominica in July 2001. The results were published as CSI papers 11 Wise Practices for Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Small Islands. The participants from St. Lucia presented papers on Coastal Stewardship in St. Lucia and Furthering Stewardship in Small Islands. A paper on the workshop was posted on the web-based Wise Coastal Practices for Sustainable Human Development Forum in June 2002: Wise Practice Agreements: a Proposed Mechanism for Reducing Coastal Conflicts.
A series of public information booklets on beach erosion in the Caribbean was produced in 2002 -2003 by UNESCO-CSI, the University of Puerto Ricos Sea Grant College Program and the Caribbean Development Bank. One about St. Lucia, Wise Practices for Coping with Beach Erosion - St. Lucia, was published in 2003.
The Small Islands Voice project started in January 2002. The Secretary-General for the St. Lucia National Commission for UNESCO attended the official launch of the project in the Caribbean in St. Kitts and Nevis in April 2002. The project goals are to overcome the isolation of small islands by providing their citizens, including young people, with opportunities to voice their opinions on environmental and development issues in a variety of ways: radio, television, print and Internet-based debate. In this way they will: be able to contribute to the 10-year review of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States adopted in Barbados in 1994; and play a more effective role in decision-making in their islands. St. Lucia is one of the island states involved in the project through the Small Islands Voice Internet-based global forum; correspondents from St. Lucia have directly participated in the forum.
A pupil from St. Josephs Convent, St. Lucia posted a response on the Small Islands Voice Youth Forum: Sport and Recreation in St. Lucia in October 2002.


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This year is almost over, and its sad and unfortunate that I can write a blog post about this topic, but there have been so many major examples of data loss from missing, damaged, or otherwise unusable backups this year.
The year started out with a rollover from last years JournalSpace.com disaster that resulted in full loss of all of the blogs that existed on the site and their associated postings. This was hotly talked about at the beginning of the year when the owners of JournalSpace announced that all attempts at recovery had failed, and they were not interested in trying to resurrect the site from scratch.
JournalSpace Drama: All Data Lost Without Backup, Company Deadpooled Brent Ozar - Why Backup? Ask JournalSpace
Not to long behind this at the end of January, the social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia suffered from data loss and corruption that ultimately led to its own demise.
Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline VOD-cast explaining the catastrophic nature of the data loss Lessons Startups (and Users) can Learn From Ma.gnolia's Crash Brent Ozar - Backup Fail: Ma.gnolia goes under
Just as it became apparent that the ma.gnolia crash had caused unrecoverable data loss that ended the sites first implementation, it was announced that online backup company Carbonite had filed suit against it's suppliers for the loss of customer data stored in its cloud based backup solution in 2007:
Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers' Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers (Updated) Brent Ozar - Another backup failure: Carbonite Brent Ozar - More On the Carbonite Backup Failures
Things were quiet for the most part over the summer, but then the Sidekick data loss issue occurred in October:
T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger's Servers Crashed, And They Don't Have A Backup
Then most recently online personality Jeff Atwood suffered a crash and significant data loss without a backup of his hosted virtual machines that he documented on his blog after getting it back online:
International Backup Awareness Day
A number of these were covered by Brent Ozar on his blog, but even Brent wasn't able to escape the year without his own tale of failed backups in his virtual testing environment, though Brent's scenario resulted in no actual data loss:
Brent Ozar - Bad News, Good News, Worse News
However, based on the events that transpired, Brent was able to put together a number of excellent blog posts that covered what the topic of backups:
Brent Ozar - Why Are You Backing Up? Brent Ozar - Adding Reliability to Your Infrastructure Brent Ozar - Mirrors aren't backups
The major takeaway from all of these problems is that you don't have a backup until you have tested the recovery of it, and there is no substitute for having an actual, "cold" backup of your environment that you can recover to a known point in time from. Keep in mind that testing this backup doesn't have to occur to equivalent hardware, a cheap and easy solution to testing your backups could be restoring it to a low cost commodity server, or in a worst case, desktop that has sufficient disk space to accept the restore. At least using this methodology you know that your backup will be good when you need it the most.
As a DBA, my number one priority is ensuring that I have good valid backups that support my business SLA's. I manually run a report every Monday morning that checks my servers backup information using Multi-Server Query in SSMS 2008 to ensure that my backups over the weekend completed successfully, and in the event that I find a problem, this becomes my immediate focus until the report returns valid information to me. After that I generally look into why I wasn't notified of a failed backup if that actually occurred because I have automated alerting setup that should trigger an email notification to me if the backups fail on my servers. To date I have been lucky in that I work for an employer that has understood the importance of backups. However, I have done consulting work for a handful of customers where backups just aren't the prevailing priority, despite having the risk explained to them.
Hopefully you've learned from the mistakes of this years disasters, I know that I have.
Hello Jonathan
Having backuops is fine but I hope you also test them to restore database:-))
No mention of a certain 'flat tire' incident...
I totally shouldn't giggle when I read backup horror stories, but I do, and that's why I keep posting 'em on my blog. It's amazing to me that it keeps happening.


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Chicken breasts | 3 , boned | |
Butter | 3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs) | |
Chicken livers | 7 | |
Prosciutto slices/8 thin slices cooked ham | 10 (Italian Ham) | |
Grated parmesan cheese | 2 Cup (32 tbs) | |
Flour | 1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) | |
Milk | 1 Quart, scalded | |
Heavy cream | 1 Cup (16 tbs) | |
White pepper | 1⁄4 Teaspoon | |
Salt | To Taste | |
Egg noodle dough | 1 |
1. In a skillet, saute the chicken breasts in one-quarter cup of the butter until the breasts are lightly browned.
2. Saute the chicken livers briefly in the same skillet.
3. Grind the chicken breasts, livers and prosciutto, using the finest knife of a food grinder. Add one cup of the grated Parmesan cheese and mix.
4. In the top of a double boiler melt the remaining butter, add the flour and stir with a wire whisk until blended. Add the scalded milk to the butter-flour mix-ture, stirring vigorously with the whisk. Cook over boiling water, stirring, until thickened. Add the cream to the sauce and season with white pepper and salt to taste.
5. Add about one cup of the sauce to the ground mixture and mix well.
6. Using scissors, trim the edges of the rolled egg noodle dough to make it four inches wide. Cut across the dough at four-inch intervals to form squares.
7. Cook the squares of dough immediately in a large quantity of boiling water until tender, eight to ten minutes. Drain and spread the squares on damp towels.
8. Spread about two tablespoons chicken filling on each square and roll tightly. Arrange the rolls of filled dough in two layers in three 12 x 7 1/2-inch buttered baking dishes. Sprinkle each layer with some of the remaining Parmesan cheese and cover with some of the reserved sauce. (This preparation may be done ahead.)
9. Dot the top of each dish with bits of additional butter and bake in a preheated moderate oven (375° F.) until the tops are lightly browned, twenty minutes or longer.


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This is a subdued selection of Mozart pieces geared for meditation. This collection has an impressive range, for a varied number of instruments and orchestra, including the softly cascading "Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major" and the contemplative "Piano Concerto No. 2." Notable performers and conductors, such as the London Symphony Orchestra and violinist Arthur Grumiaux, give this an added dose of musical sophistication one might not necessarily expect in a meditation collection.
Personnel: Maria Graf (harp); Arthur Grumiaux (violin); Irena Grafenauer (flute); Mitsuko Uchida , Alfred Brendel (piano).
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Stayed at HF Ipanema Porto for a week and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rooms are spacious and well-decorated, staff are extremely helpful and friendly and the restaurant serves very good food at moderate prices. The buffet is a different story but acceptable nonetheless.
We also made use of their events facilities and that was arranged exactly as we needed as well.
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Labiaplasty, cosmetic gynecologic surgery, female sexual function and anatomy of the female vulva
Every two months I report for on scientific manuscripts in the recent medical literature for the Journal of Sexual Medicine that pertain to female sexual function. In an anatomic study of vulvar anatomy published in the journal of the American Urogynecologic Society, scientists took a close look at the microscopic goings on of labia minora. The controversy over labiaplasty and other forms of cosmetic gynecologic surgery rages on, with proponents on both sides claiming "fair" and "foul" in equal measure.
Unless you believe in the G-Spot orgasm and are of the opinion that there is a difference between "internal/vaginal" and "external/clitoral" orgasms for women, you're probably in agreement with most physiologists and anatomists that the female orgasm emanates from the clitoris, the organ in the body with the highest density of sensory nerves and an intense erectile response to sexual stimulation. That's right, ladies. Your clitoris gets a woody every time you have an orgasm, or even get aroused. The role of labia majora and labia minora in this erectile and orgasmic function is so poorly understood it's almost criminal. Seriously – do you know how much is understood about male sexual function and role of erectile tissue in a man's sexual pleasure? They've written books about it. An entire pharmaceutical industry is making $$bajillions catering to it. Courses are taught, books are written, Medicare PAYS FOR IT (all of it) right down to the fancy shmancy-est of prosthetic penile implants.
Labia minora: high density of nerve function and blood flow
So this study took a look at the micro-anatomy of labia minora. Few studies have reported any meaningful data on labiaplasty's (surgical reduction of labia minora) impact on sexual function. There is one study by a renowned cosmetic genital surgeon who reported that out of 166 women undergoing combined labiaplasty and clitoral hood reduction, 38 reported better sexual pleasure and 9 reported a worse, or a negative impact on sexual function, from the procedure. This raises the question that it may be possible for genital cosmetic operations done to improve sexual function may actually have the opposite effect…
Being that the subjects in this particular study were all cadavers, evaluating sexual function was not possible. But the researchers did find a high density of nerve fibers on both the outer and inner surfaces of labia minora in all specimens, in addition to a high density of blood vessels, in excess of that needed to maintain the skin of the labia, indicating a high likelihood that the blood vessels of the labia minora play some role in the sexual response and possibly in the engorgement and erectile function of the clitoris, although these points remain to be proved in studies on live women.
Remember, one study does not an absolute fact make. This area of gynecologic surgery is in evolution, and this anatomy study is one important contribution to that body of literature that will permit, over time, for meaningful conclusions to be made.
Here's the summary to appear in the Journal of Sexual Medicine sometime this fall:
Ginger VAT, Cold CJ, Yang CC.
Structure and innervation of the labia minora: more than minor skin folds.
2011 Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery 17:4, 180-3.
Eight fresh cadaveric vulvar specimens were fixed and stained to report the histologic features of the labia minora with regard to female sexual function.
Labia were highly variable in appearance. Labia minora were thin in relation to majora, and in some cases fused. No labia minora contained fatty component, as do the labia majora. After fixation and histologic staining, the inner labum minus were found to be covered by a basket-weave keratin type dermis.. The substance included numerous vascular structures surrounded by connective collagen and no smooth muscle, thereby making the labia minora vascular tissue non-erectile. Elastin was abundant, as were neural elements with no difference in distribution of neural elements between the lateral and medial sides of the labia minora. There was a central core of neural elements long the length of the labia, traveling alongside vascular structures to form the neuro-anatomic substrate where sexual arousal results in labial engorgement. Neural elements were sparse with in the labia majora. Histologic images are included to illustrate these findings. The authors go on to comment on genital labioplasty done for aesthetic or functional reasons, reiterating that reports of diminished sexual responsiveness are documented in at least one series of 166 women undergoing labiaplasty and clitoral hood reduction, where 9 reported negative effect on sexual sensation in contrast to 38 reporting improved sexual sensations. They note that among reports on labia minora structure, very little mention is made of possible function. They comment that the specimens obtained for hits study were likely, but not know for certain, to be from menopausal women in which degenerative changes would have been present and that despite this, a high density of neural and vascular elements were found in the labia minora of the specimens evaluated. They finish by stating that "Biochemical and molecular studies may further elucidate (the labia minora's) role in the female sexual response,… which are specialized vascular structures with densely distributed neural elements providing anatomic substrate for changes observed during sexual arousal".


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Most recent political surveys indicate that D 'Trump is the leading potential Republican candidate for the presidency.
On foreign policy he has said simply that if we go into Libya, we'll take the oil. This is an old imperial notion that "to the victor go the spoils." He's going to place a 25% import tax on Chinese goods and return jobs from overseas. How to return jobs, D 'Trump? Oh! you know how.
I haven't heard or perhaps don't recall any of his statements on Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan nor on Ryan's plan to eliminate our national safety net system, although D 'Trump thinks that Obamacare is terrible as is President Obama, an illegal alien.
Most Republicans believe that. So, a hail to D 'Trump.
D 'Trump might now direct his practical approach to debt and infrastructure, example, that 75% of the benefits from our common energy resources in this country would go to pay-down our national debt and improve our infrastructure. He hasn't said that, but to the victor or to the people go the spoils.
I believe that he once said, that we needed to apply taxes to the well-to-do as well, but that was before Ryan.
So D 'Trump is beginning to give shape to the Republican Party for 2012.
And in his script, he would be king and perhaps emperor. Hail Cesare.


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If you were in the audience, which would you rather experience: a boring recitation or a compelling conversation? No contest, right? So why do so many people lean toward "boring recitation" in their presentations?
Habit? Fear of screwing up (and thus the crutch of text-heavy slides)? Maybe they don't know better? Or they do know better, but have to give an "approved" (and deadly) presentation. No matter the reason, there's no reason why you have to be part of that group.
You know when the tone is set for a presentation? With the very first slide—even before you open your mouth, if that slide happens to be displayed before you begin. Imagine that: You're on the way to engaging your audience or turning them off before you say a single word. Sorry to be the voice of doom, but that's really the way it is.
Why? Because a. we're all wired to make snap judgments; and b. your audiences have seen too many weak, misguided, or simply bad presentations to have any grand expectations of being captivated by the next one they see (which would be yours).
What's wrong with title slides? They tend to be formal, rather than active or engaging. They typically feature the name of a product or service; something dry like "Marketing in Q1"; something generic like "New Products from XYZ Corp."; or maybe just the name of the company, followed by the words "the global leader in [insert product or service]."
Do you think any of those things are going to get your audience's mind racing? Emphatically, no!
Whether your presentation is for an internal audience, a keynote, or a selling situation, if the first thing you put in front of their eyes is anything like one of the above examples, you could be shooting yourself in the foot. And don't think you earn special points for putting your prospect's or customer's logo on the slide—they didn't take time out of their day to admire their logo.
If you really want to engage their minds from the start, put the goal—their goal—for the presentation on the first slide. You'll instantly separate your presentation from all the rest. Here's a before/after example:
Title slide. Hi, I'm Joe Schlabotnick from XYZ Corporation. I'd like to tell you about all the great products we have that can transform your business, and give you an idea of why we're the global leader in development technologies. (Audience reaction: Augh! Get me out of here!)
Goal slide. Hi, I'm Joe Schlabotnick. We're here to discuss simplifying your data integration efforts. (Audience reaction: Great! That's exactly what we're struggling with.)
See how a goal slide shapes the conversation, right at the start? You'll still get a chance to talk about your product, service, or idea, but you've given it a strong, personal context (your audience's) into which to be considered. That's a much more powerful position to be in.
Here are the keys to creating an engaging goal slide:
• Use only three to seven words.
• Lead with an active verb.
• Focus it on what they want to achieve.
That's it! Three simple parts and a reframing in your head from "title" to "goal" slide. You'll have a much stronger start than any joke, gimmick, or flashy opening you can imagine.
John Windsor is president of Creating Thunder, a Boulder, Colo.-based communications training and consulting company and the author of YouBlog, He has held executive positions in marketing, sales, and business development and has worked with companies like American Express, Reuters, Staples, and Knight-Ridder.


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byThis puts Jamie Dimon's $20 million payday in perspective: The top 10 private equity executives took home a combined $1.7 billion in dividends in 2013, as a soaring market for stocks allowed their firms to sell holdings at huge profits.
Leon Black, the chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management, earned about $369 million, according to Bloomberg News. Stephen Schwarzman, the Blackstone Group founder, is expected to net $311 million. George Roberts and Henry Kravis, namesakes of KKR, brought home $165 million and $161 million, respectively.
Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, saw his compensation rise 74 percent despite running a bank that racked up $23 billion in fines and settlements in 2013, triggering another debate about pay on Wall Street as the economic recovery limps along. President Obama used his State of the Union address in January to call for a $10.10 minimum wage, a hike from the current $7.25, which works out to $15,080 per year.
Other bank CEOs received compensation that is enormous but looks tiny next to the private equity pay: Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs got $23 million; Michael Corbat of Citigroup, $14.4 million; Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, $14 million.
Private equity had a banner year as the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index touched all-time highs. Blackstone posted record earnings in the fourth quarter, and Carlyle Group's quarterly profit more than tripled. The latter fund's three co-founders, David Rubenstein, William Conway, and Daniel D'Aniello, are expected to take home $88.4 million each for 2013.
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A Small Macroeconometric Model for the Cyprus Economy
The single most crucial weakness of current macroeconometric modeling stems from the fact that modelers 'quantify/estimate' their structural modeldirectly, ignoring the fact that behind every structural model there is a statistical model whose validity vis-a-vis the data underwrites the reliability of all inferences.
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The tally of Marvel cancellations includes The Amazing Spider-Girl and She-Hulk. Over at DC, the cuts are even deeper: say goodbye to Birds of Prey, Manhunter and the new Blue Beetle, a Latino superhero. All of these books had strong fan bases and sold well, but not well enough. Newsarama has a good postmortem here, and Karen Healey has a great post on the ramifications of the DC cuts over at Girls Read Comic Books and They're Pissed.
No doubt, we'll see some of these characters again. Spider-Girl will probably show up in The Amazing Spider-Man Family. DC is planning an Oracle mini-series, so Birds of Prey will kind of continue. She-Hulk is a consummate team player in the comic book world, not to mention that she's survived numerous cancellations in her history. And the Blue Beetle was the first co-star with Batman in the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold. But appearing in a somebody else's book or having a mini-series is not nearly as meaningful as having your title on the comic book shelf.
There has been a positive note buried in all this bad news the past few months: Marvel's new Black Panther hitting the shelves in February will be a woman - the first for that series. However, that news is not without its own controversy. Series author Reginald Hudlin has come under fire in the past for his treatment of women, including the much-beloved character of Storm. Still, the possibility that T'Challa might be an awesome woman warrior does give me some hope.
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While I see that fewer female titles are a very bad thing, I can't help but wonder if these were good titles to being with. Now as a non-reader of comics I realize I am out of the loop. I just want to know if these Superheros are worth a read, or if they're just some quick, sad attempt at the companies pandering to the female demographic.


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Microsoft has long been the standard among office suites, and Microsoft Office 2010 is no exception. As office suites go, Microsoft offers more than just a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program and e-mail client database. There is also a large library of document, spreadsheet, database and presentation templates online.
More importantly, Microsoft Office Professional maintains an intuitive user interface that makes it easy to use basic and common features and learn new tricks and capabilities. The new advancements in 2010 are a cloud capability with which you can view and edit Microsoft apps via your browser, for no extra charge, and a push toward collaboration by providing a real-time post-and-share feature with SharePoint 2010.
Office 2010 Professional Edition
Pros: Cloud computing apps; real-time collaboration with SharePoint 2010; video editing.Cons: No upgrade capabilities; Excel crashes with desktop Bluetooth add-ins; data analytics package not default.Features: A+Performance: AEase of Use: A-Value: CPrice: $500
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A good test of an office suite's ease of use is to try to build a database with its database tool. We were impressed not only with the relative ease of building a database but also, more importantly, with how easy Office 2010 makes it to coordinate activity across a network.
Microsoft has upgraded PowerPoint with a new browser version and the capability of editing video and images in PowerPoint with a basic editing tool. For still images such as JPEGs, Microsoft included a simple image-editing tool that now lets you more easily crop and select borders. I found these advancements nicer than video because 95 percent of my presentations have still images.
Microsoft also gives users the ability to launch a live sharing feature with other users on SharePoint 2010. You can essentially create a slide show in PowerPoint and share it with other people in real time as opposed to needing to check it out in a read-only format.
Office 2010 also lets you upload your documents to a cloud environment and provides security so you can determine whom you want to view, edit or change your file. Those features are universal to applicable Microsoft suites and not just limited to PowerPoint 2010, a nice plus.
This collaborative sharing works — for example, with PowerPoint — via an e-mail message that contains a link to your deck on the cloud. Once your recipients click the link, they will see the slide show version of your presentation in their browser. That feature also can be used on a mobile phone's browser, although for the purposes of data integrity and security, many enterprises might want to disable this capability.
It's important to note that the browser version of PowerPoint doesn't include the video-editing features, but most of the functionality that you would find in an older version of PowerPoint is available.
Just like PowerPoint, Excel spreadsheets can now run in the browser, and similar to PowerPoint, you can publish spreadsheets to a browser via the desktop version of the software. Despite limited features on the browser version of Excel, we noticed that the functionality to create a detailed spreadsheet is still there.
Unlike PowerPoint, Excel was buggier and crashed a couple of times. I was puzzled as to why it would open for a second or two and then crash, until I got a pop-up, "Excel experienced a serious problem with the 'Send to Bluetooth' add-in." After disabling the add-in, the spreadsheet program's performance improved dramatically.
Another problem I had with Excel 2010 is that Microsoft still has not included the Data Analysis package as a default add-in when you open the program. This package provides incredibly useful tools that set Excel apart from its competitors, such as the ability to do fast correlative analysis or regression analysis to determine the relationship among variables. This package also provides a quick ability to do descriptive statistics on a set of variables so that you can determine mean, median and range in a flash.
To access the Data Analysis package, you need to dig through the options in the File menu and select Data Analysis. On the plus side, you don't need to reboot the software after installing an add-in, which was a common trait in previous versions of Excel.
The big change with Word is that Microsoft updated the desktop version to offer a collaborative feature that allows multiple users to simultaneously edit a document. On the desktop, Word notifies all users when there are changes that need to be synced with their document. I'd like to see that feature available in the Web version because it would really put Microsoft ahead of its completion on collaboration.
The new version of Outlook 2010 now has a ribbon user interface like Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Likewise, viewing e-mail conversations has changed so that users have an easier time interpreting sent and incoming e-mails. But perhaps the most important change is the ability to preview calendars in e-mails. One of my biggest pet peeves surrounding Outlook was the inability to see what my schedule looked like when I got mail. Now it's all there in the same window.
Despite not receiving a Reviewer's Choice designation, Microsoft has made Herculean strides in reinventing the office suite into a collaboration platform. The result is a well-honed piece of software worth the steep $500 price.
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Reviews focused on a govt audience should take into account the high importance of compatibility and users' potential real costs. Do other suites have special features that are really worth spending extra money for if you have Office already or can get it for free? At my agency, for example, our enterprise license with Microsoft includes a Home Use Program where we can get personal copies of MS Office for just a $9.95 processing fee. MS Office being practically free for me offsets all the other suites' cost advantages.
It's interesting that Office is the standard that all other suites are judged by here, yet it does not get close to the highest grades. So does that mean that next year there will be a different standard, or has Microsoft basically run the table for office suite ownership?
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Pertaining to the announcement of the Windwaker HD remake.
I understand the remake thing. Great. Love it. But they pick the game that was cell shaded and cartoonish. I love Windwaker. I played the crap out of that game. GBA attached and all. Yet an HD remake of a cartoonish game is just upscaling the cartoonish effects. There is nothing more to see in that, no hidden details that were missing because of a lack of horsepower. I personally would have preferred something like an OOT remake. Look how the 3DS game turned out, that game looks fantastic. Fully rendered with the power of the 3DS made it look stellar. We could actually see Links sword strap and belt . Why not do a 3D version of Link to the past? Can you all Imagine what that world would be like rendered in 3D and in HD? Personally I feel HD remakes are to fully realize the potential of a game that was missed on the orignial product. Like a directors cut of a film. I am not one of those angry people on the net screaming at the big N. I am just disappointed in the choices they have been making recently. By recently I mean the last 7 years. Misstep after misstep has them in a terrible position that they have no right being in. This is Nintendo, the company that used to rule the world in the 80s and 90s. The company that dropped the iconic "Gameboy" name from their handhelds, the same company that refuses to put out games on IOS, the company that abandoned the hardcore dedicated player for my grandpa. The company that named its console something that sounds like a child talking about a his favorite body part. This is why, at least for now, I am not buying a Nintendo console, but sticking with the Microsoft product. Something that my 8 year old self would never have imagined doing.
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"I don't like this teend of HD remakes, I want this HD remake." Is this really what this argument boils down to?
Well... yeah it kind of is. (Note: this was my attempt at creating my first blog post and is purely my personal opinion.) Yet, my bigger point is that Nintendo has made major missteps Since the launch of the Wii, and I feel this is yet another. After a bit of thought I suppose that my apprehension toward the Windwaker "upgrade" may have been a bit reactionary, although I still disagree with their decision of choosing Windwaker to "upgrade" (as i have been corrected for saying remake). I would have rather seen a less cartoonish game with more details to show off in HD, perhaps Majora's mask since they just did OOT for the 3DS. My overall point is that this is a symptom of a larger problem with Nintendo.


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It's funny because whenever he holds his breath, time stops. Since you hold your breath when you speak, the officer does not hear him because he stops time before he talks. Very funny and Jacob Snow is a very creative character
I have SO many f*cking questions.
Not as funny as the last one, but still hilarious.
hahaha thats so awesome!! For some reason the interrogator's voice reminds me of DiCaprio's haha! Have my stars!
If that was the case, then he shouldn't have been able to talk perfectly fine with Seymour, the lady who lost her dog, the trick-or-treaters or Death.
If you noticed, time only stops while he's holding his breathe, after the intake. Time immediately resumes on the out-breath. When one talks, they're breathing out, so time does not freeze for him while he's talking.
He has the be holding his breath for time to be frozen. If it was either the intake or out, then he would be constantly involuntarily freezing time.
The cop is just an idiot. That's why it's funny.
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I don't know Bashlok very well as a blue poster but this set of posts alone convinces me that he is a complete ass and blizz should fire him as ineffective at doing his job (which is presumably communicating with the community)Even if blizz is reluctant to change the system his attitude of, screw you it's not broken because we say it's broken even if 99% of the actual players think it's not just stupid but actually broken, is the type of hubris that makes players think blizz actively hates the users.
The reasoning for not making guild rep account wide seems flimsy at best to me. Does anyone actually go on guild runs for the rep? Or are they like me and go along because there is less bad players and more explaining if you don't know the fights?Given there "contributing" to the guild while earning rep does it really matter what character they do it on?
I think that guild tabards should be a standard rep tabard. Every other rep is farmable in some fashion, why not Guild Rep? And what about guild ranks? Im a high ranking officer in my guild, and Ive been in it for over a year, should promotions give a rep bonus? And what about really really annoying new guild members? When someone is demoted shouldn't they lose guild rep? Pre-cata standing in a guild was based on guild rank. Why doesnt that have anything to do with reputation?
I think The GM should have a certain amount of rep he can grant to other members each week for doing stuff that they feel deserves rep not normally recognised within the game.
You guys complaining about this just need to sit back and relax. Your rep and Guild XP will come with time.Try not to focus on grinding it out, just let it happen. Make sure you hit your cap as much as possibly every day, then go about your normal business.My guild is Lvl 11 and I'm revered with them, and I honestly didn't even try. Suck it up like the rest of us. Absolutely NONE of the perks are game breaking, nor do ANY of them help contribute to DPS/HPS or any other combat stat, so just stop.Edit: This system is GUILD REP. GUILD. GUILD. GUILD. You do not, and aren't supposed to, gain rep by doing things SOLO. If your guild has 10 people in it, and it takes forever, either leave that guild and join a bigger one, or suck it up as YOUR CHOICE. Again, nothing gamebreaking here. Move along.
I would like to say that I can see both sides, good and bad. I can see that it shouldn't matter what 'your' guild has and another guild has because guilds that go head to head will not be drastically different than each other because of the perks and rewards. Even if we see more guild vs. guild action, it doesn't change the game.But, we all have the mentality of "it is always greener on the other side." For example, the guild I belong to has just reached level 3 today. Our guild is self-labeled as casual. Too much so, in my opinion. We have 123 members, but I only see at the most 5 on at any one time, and I don't think I have seen more than 10 different toons on since Cata came out. So I wonder how many are alts (I myself have two alts in the guild). Anyway, we don't have any rewards because we are too casual and there is hardly enough on to do any real guild grouping. So, when I hear guilds are level 10 (as of a week ago, I don't know what they could be now) I feel like I am missing out on heirloom cloaks and such. I have that mentality. At least I recognize it, though.So is it Blizzard's job to curb our 'have now' personalities or should they stick to their guns and mandate patience? Really, why do we get so jealous when we see someone else who has a mount that we don't have? It doesn't change game play. Being about to ride faster really just means that if you are both racing to a node, that faster mount will get there first. But, for as long as I have been playing and farming (granted, only a year-and-a-half), I've been in some races with others (oh how I dislike paladins!), but what usually happens is you start leapfrogging. That'll still happen.I support how rep gain works right now, for high level toons. I reach the cap every week. And I feel that it is a mechanic that correctly portays becoming a good guild member. The way we gain rep, though, doesn't fit our idea of becoming a good guild member, but that is how rep gain has worked in this game. But what other mechanic can we use that cannot be easily taken advantage of? Should it only be gained while grouped with others of your guild? I think right now it is the best method we have. For low level toons, though, it will be a chore. I started a worgen alt and had him join the guild. He gets 1 guild rep per quest. If it wasn't for perks, there is no point for him to be a member of the guild. But I believe that activity comes at level cap and that seems what the new guild system is set for.Guild xp is another sticky wicket. Especially since there is a daily cap and if you do not reach it, it doesn't reset (if you didn't get it today, you must not work hard enough anyway). Ultimately the same thing applies here as does rep gain. But, as in my guild, I am painfully aware that it takes a group effort to get this up, or at least a lot of members leveling and doing dailies.I think Bliz is desirous to give us cool things. They put this i place for us. But, no matter how hard we try we will go where we can get the most benefit. There will be a few guilds that will be so hardcore that they will stay in their family or friend guild, but they will be a little more bitter. Large guilds will get even bigger because they will have the most to offer. Us small guilds (I don't see use being a 123 member guild, but right now only a 10 man guild or random people) will eventually disappear. But really how bad is that? What did your small guild have to offer that you will not have in a 'corporate-sized' guild? Even taking the perks and rewards out of the equation, what will be worse?I hope you are not confused by my rambling. I like the what Bliz has done, but I do believe there is some fine tuning to be had.
Love this idea especially if Gmasters could pick a select list of items out of a predetermined list by blizzard that the guild needs...and the list could only be modified on a cooldown of so long to prevent misuse.you
My thought:Have a guild rep "soft cap", and give certain rep gains give "soft" points, and others give "hard" points.A player would accrue points until they hit the cap, then everything that awards "soft" points (random dailies and other menial nonsense) stops counting, while everything that awards "hard" points can keep adding up (guild bosskills, PvP kills in guild BGs, donations to the guild bank, etc.)I'd love to share that with a Blizz employee, but my account is down due to general disinterest in actually playing the game. If anyone likes the idea, and would like to pass it on, please feel free to take it as your own.
Without achivs there is little interest, besides you get guild-faction capped easily in 3 days out of a week , since I'm already JP capped (for good) and VP capped for the week I mostly play the game 2-3 days a week in which I cap my guild-rep/VPs doing useless dailies and HCs, I also attend more than my minimum guild raids
My biggest concern with guild rep gains is that they require you to do things that don't actually involve guild members. Daily quest grinds don't do anything to encourage guild participation and don't benefit the guild at all.
Guild XP, Guild Rep, etc should all be gated, not capped. If you fall behind, you're not punished, but everyone can only get so far so fast. It'd only cap out for big guilds daily, but smaller guilds would not be punished.For example: week 1 max xp is 1000Big Guild A hits this on sundayLittle Guild B only gets 500.The next week the gate is 2000 total.Big Guild A can only get another 1000xp during this weekLittle Guild B can get 1500, since they were short 500 the last week.It would also help curb newer guilds who start later than other guilds.
My wish list would be that I really miss achievements, I also think that Dungeons and Raids should have their own cap while Quest/Rated BG/Arena should share cap. I also think if you grouped with 3 or more guildies doing anything should give you 2x, 3x the rep. Whether it's doing Dailies, bg, arena's whatever. Back to Achievements. Maybe a commendation system should be set up just as they do for most other races. The commendations can be guild bound so that the GM can award them too a player and the player can either use them now, keep them to give to another player, or use to move up an alt wouldn't a banner of xp and rep be so nice for an alt you barely run. I figure every achievement has points use a formula to make the points give the GM a set number of commendations. Then that gm can award the commendations to officers or just divide them those they feel worthy. They could be used as guild currency or used up for rep. In future patches maybe boss kills or top rated BG/Arena awards could also give commendations. I'm sure caps would be needed on these too to make sure that guilds didn't rep too quickly.
I'm in 2 guilds, on 2 different servers. 1 guild is one of the largest in the world and we hit guild cap with in a few hours everyday. The other is just me and 1 other person and we just got our first perk. Both guilds are unconventional and are not in the 'spirit of the game'. But you know its my game, sure I get penalised for not playing the way blizzard wants me to, but who cares.Guilds are a crap idea anyway I think.
I find that I get as much, if not more, rep with the guild than I do with the faction I've tabarded when I run a Heroic 5-man dungeon in an all-guild group (not in raw numbers but in terms of speed of advancement.)I am revered with my guild right now, I've done all the quests in Cata and my dailies that I needed only for rep with the various factions. I've done enough hoerics to be exalted with almost everyone.This feels like the right place considering how much time I've put into it... what sorts of things are poeple spending enough time doing to complain about that don't count? I am confused why this is a problem because it worked fine for me.
Experience from Guild Achievements: They are still awarding experience but NOT beyond the daily cap. So this is a nice way for a relatively small guild that just fields a 10man raid or a 5man Dungengroup to get more experience for their cap than just doing quests and dailes. I know this because a while ago we tried this out - did a Guildraid with achievement and watched the bar as it jumped up. If there was a hotfix since then which has completely removed Guild XP from Achievements, then I am sorry for straying false information - I have not watched the bar since then when doing Guild Achievements (( possibly because the cap is always full when i get online nowadays ))My take on the "paradigm" of the guild being something to work for to get shiny stuff is;Guild leveling should take things into consideration that matter for the GUILD, not the individual player. When I do my 12/15/18 Tol Barad Dailies and then Therazane or Dragonmaw or whatever... I have NOT contributed a single thing to the GUILD per se, but only my very self. I grinded rep for other factions, receive tokens for me and receive gold (granted 5% of it flows to the guild past a certain level)... but with that I increase the experience bar of my guild including my standings towards it? That just feels so wrong.I am totally with you guys to have GATED experience, not capped.I favor the idea of doing a daily/repeatable quest for a turn in for professions to which I want to contribute more in detail later on from another point of view.The amount of received guild experience as well as guild reputation for low level characters is ridiculously low.Guild Groups are fine as they are... but it should not be a fixed number of persons (8/10) but rather a percent base of the actual people IN the group. Which I would say would be 75% or 80% (as it currently is). Say I want to do a retro-raid and visit Naxxramas and take like 7 guys with me, one of them not in the guild. That makes ~85% guild member coverage of the current group, thus being a guild group. It does not feel very handy in forcing 20 People to do a Hyjal Raid when 5 would do perfectly well. Encourage players for checking out old content... not shy them away.What bothers me most is that I, as a player, get the feeling that the developers often choose the easy way with mediocre/flawed solutions instead of the hard way that gives solid and stalwart results. I'd like to give examples to the situation of; "its not easy to balance stuff the players could do and not turn it to a farming game" - and if possible, I'd like to hear your guys opinions about them.


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