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Michael J. Zyphur
posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 6:06 pm
Dear Profs. Muthen,
I have two questions:
1)I fitted a LGM and an identical single-class LGMM. The single-class LGMM had significantly lower AIB/BIC values and slightly different parameter estimates. Can you please tell me why? Also, if I'd like to compare a LGMM to an LGM, would it be advisable to build my initial model in a single-class LGMM to keep future model comparisons within a similar model estimation technique?
2) I have correlated errors in a censored LGM and Mplus works finely. I have correlated errors in an uncensored LGMM and Mplus works finely. However, I cannot specify correlated errors in a censored LGMM. Can you please tell me why? Also, because of this, when fitting an initial model in an LGM (for example, by looking at appropriate error structures) to move toward a LGMM, should I just forget this if I'm going to have to doff the correlated errors in my censored LGMM?
posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 6:45 pm
1. You probably have covariates in the model. LGMM is a mixture model where the likelihood is evaluated for y|x, not including the marginal x part. This difference between the LGM and LGMM approaches does not have any substantive effect. LogL and AIC/BIC values will be on different scales in the two approaches, but you get the same comparison across models within each approach. So, yes, if you to compare LGM and LGMM indices to each other, do it all in the mixture track. The parameter estimates should be exactly the same, at least if you sharpen the convergence criteria.
2. With LGMM, so doing mixture modeling, the ML estimation for censored outcomes needs to be handled by numerical integration, making the computations feasible by requiring conditional independence of the outcomes given the growth factors. Residual correlations violate that conditional independence and to take them into account, you would have to add extra dimensions of integration which would slow computations down. So that is not directly allowed. But you could add correlated residuals if you do it in a "disciplined way", for example having a single "methods factor" influencing the outcomes at all time points. Such a methods factor would correlate the residuals and add only 1 dimension of integration. If the residual correlations are important, I would not ignore them. Be sure to fix the mean of such a factor @0.
Michael J. Zyphur
posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 10:12 pm
That makes much sense, thanks for the response.
Creating a factor for every pair of error variances (e.g., 1 and 2, 2 and 3, etc.) really does ruin the computer's ability to compute a solution at any normal speed. However, how good of a solution is a single factor informed by all error variances (I know this would likely vary greatly across datasets)? I've never seen a discussion of a single-factor error solution in for LGMs, have you?
Also, aside from fixing such a factor's mean @0, is it safe to assume that fixing its variance to 1 and unfixing the first loading from 1 is a good idea?
Thanks again.
posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 6:27 pm
On second thought, the single methods factor idea for correlating residuals was probably a too hasty suggestion. It doesn't allow for correlations of different signs, doesn't allow for diminishing correlations as time distance grows, and probably competes with the intercept factor. So if you find residual correlations in the LGM, hopefully you don't have significant ones for all adjacent time points. Or you can check the sensitivity to leaving them out in the LGM. Or, add time-varying covariates that may explain away a large portion of them.
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The ABA Checklist includes ABA-area breeding species, regular visitors, and casual and accidental species from other regions that are believed to have strayed here without direct human aid, and well-established introduced species that are now part of our avifauna. Species Total: 1116
Version 8.0.6a* – December 2019
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Adds four new species: Stejneger's Scoter (Melanitta stejnegeri), Code 4; Dark-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus), Code 5; Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus), Code 5; Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri), Code 2. —Details in the ABA Checklist Committee Report >>
Incorporates taxonomic changes by the North American Classification Committee of the AOS (Chesser et al. 2019) —Details at the ABA Blog >>
*- version "a" fixes some typographic and version errors.
Version 8.0.5 – December 2018
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Incorporates AOS Taxonomic changes. Details in Birder's Guide >>
Version 8.0.4 – August 2018
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Adds Black-backed Oriole. Details at the ABA Blog >>
Version 8.0.3 – August 2018
Downloadable Formats: PDF | CSV
Mid-year update adds four new species: Great Black Hawk, Red-backed Shrike, Pied Wheatear, and Mistle Thrush. Details at the ABA Blog >>
Version 8.0.2 – May 2018
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Mid-year update adds four new species: Indian Peafowl, European Robin, Thick-billed Warbler, and River Warbler. Details at the ABA Blog >>
Version 8.0.1 – November 2017
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In version 8.0 there are 105 species added due last year's inclusion of Hawaii in the ABA Area–33 of which are ABA rarity code 6. Also added are 4 vagrants accepted by the Checklist Committee: Common Shelduck, Amethyst-throated Hummingbird, Pine Flycatcher, and Cuban Vireo, as well as one added (Cassia Crossbill) and one subtracted (Thayer's Gull) based on AOS taxonomic decisions. This results in a total number species on the checklist of 1103*.
- * Version 8.0.1 corrects some typos, formatting errors, and an omission. If you downloaded V8, please re-download this latest version.
Version 7.9.0 – July 2016
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Incorporating AOU Checklist changes in the 2016 "Check-list Supplement" by the American Ornithologists' Union's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North and Middle American Birds (NACC). Added: Red-legged Honeycreeper, Townsend's Storm-Petrel (split from Leach's Storm-Petrel); California Scrub-Jay and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Western Scrub-Jay split).
Details at the ABA Blog >>
Version 7.8.2 – May 2016
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Added: Common Scoter, Blythe's Reed-Warbler, and Pallas's Rosefinch. Removed Budgerigar.
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Version 7.8.1 – November 2015
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Various typographical and clerical errors corrected.
Version 7.8 – August 2015
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Incorporating AOU Checklist changes in the 2015 "Check-list Supplement" by the American Ornithologists' Union's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North and Middle American Birds (NACC). Details at the ABA Blog >>
Version 7.7.1 – June 2015
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Added Rufous-necked Wood-Rail.
Version 7.7 – September 2014
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Added Egyptian Goose and Common Redstart.
Version 7.6 – July 2014
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Version 7.5 – December 2013
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Version 7.4 – December 2012
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5+2 Bird Species Added to ABA Checklist!
Version 7.3 – November 2011
Added: Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica)
Code: 5.
Placement: after American Coot.
Comments: A female in unworn plumage was detected at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, New Mexico, 13–18 November 2008. The bird was discovered and photographed by Sally King with Ernesto Burciaga, and identified and seen by others subsequently (Williams et al. 2009).
Version 7.2 – November 2010
Added: Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Least Bittern.
Comments: One thought to be in second-basic plumage at Bentsen–Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, from 21 December 2009 to 20 January 2010. Discovered and photographed by Rick Nirschl and Rick Snider, and observed by hundreds during its month-long stay (Nirschl and Snider 2010).
Added: Solitary Snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Jack Snipe.
Comments: One near Alexai Point, Attu Island, Alaska, on 24 May 2010. Discovered and photographed by a group from Zugunruhe Birding Tours led by John Puschock, then collected by Jack J. Withrow and David W. Sonneborn (Withrow and Sonneborn in preparation) and determined to be an adult male and thought to be of the subspecies G. s. japonica.
Added: Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Belted Kingfisher.
Comments: One female along the Rio Grande at Laredo, Webb County, Texas, from 24 January to 3 February 2010. Although the bird was stated in the documentation submitted to the TBRC to be an adult, we are not aware of the characters that were used to age the bird. Discovered and photographed by Robert Epstein and Alan Wormington, and observed by hundreds during its stay (Wormington and Epstein 2010).
Added: Gray-collared Becard (Pachyramphus major)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Fork-tailed Flycatcher.
Comments: One second-calendar-year male attaining adult plumage at Cave Creek Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, on 5 June 2009. Discovered and photographed by Anne Pellegrini, Jillian Johnston, and Ryan Davis, and observed by others later that day (Johnston et al. 2010).
Added: Brown-backed Solitaire (Myadestes occidentalis)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Townsend's Solitaire.
Comments: Two records thought to refer to the same individual. One male at Miller Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, was discovered and photographed by Benjamin Van Doren, Dave Jasper, and other participants in Camp Chiricahua on 16 July 2009 (Van Doren 2010). Presumably the same individual then traveled 2.7 miles to Ramsey Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, where it was present 18 July–1 August 2009 (Van Doren 2010). Discovered by Sandy Kunzer and Rick Romea, photographed by Joe Woodley and others, and audio-recorded by Chris Benesh and Dave Stejskal.
Added: Rufous-tailed Robin (Luscinia sibilans)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Spotted Flycatcher.
Comments: Two singles. One second-year female at West Massacre Valley, Attu Island, Alaska, on 4 June 2008. Discovered and collected by David Sonneborn and Jack Withrow, the specimen was deposited in the collection at the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAM 24600), where the identification was confirmed by Daniel Gibson (DeCicco et al. 2009). Another secondyear bird was found four days later, at Northeast Point, St. Paul Island, Alaska, on 8–9 June 2008. Discovered by Lucas DeCicco, and observed and photographed by several others the following day (DeCicco et al. 2009).
Added: Red-legged Thrush (Turdus plumbeus)
Code: 5.
Placement: after American Robin.
Comments: One adult at Maritime Hammock Sanctuary, Melbourne Beach, Brevard County, Florida, on 31 May 2010. Discovered and photographed by Marcus Ponce and not observed again (Anderson and Ponce in preparation).
Added: Mexican Whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus arizonae)
Code: 1.
Comments: split from Whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus) by the AOU in its 51st supplement to the check-list. See The Auk 127:726-744, 2010. Caprimulgus vociferus now becomes Eastern Whip-poor-will.
Added: Pacific Wren (Troglodytes pacificus)
Code: 1.
Comments: split from Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) by the AOU in its 51st supplement to the check-list. See The Auk 127:726-744, 2010. The Old World species, thought likely to form four distinct groups, becomes the Eurasian Wren (T. troglodytes) and is extralimital. Of the two newly split North American species, the eastern birds (breeding west to Alberta) remain the Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) while the species breeding from Alaska to the Pacific region (some breeding sparingly elsewhere in the mountain ranges of western North America) becomes the Pacific Wren (Troglodytes pacificus).
Version 7.1 – November 2009
Added: Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma monorhis)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Band-rumped Storm-Petrel.
Comments: One individual, thought to be a juvenile in slightly worn plumage, in the Atlantic Ocean at approximately 65 kilometers east-southeast of Hatteras Inlet, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on 2 June 2008. Discovered and well-photographed by J. Brian Patteson, Steve N. G. Howell, and others on an organized pelagic trip (Patteson et al. 2009).
Added: White-crested Elaenia (Elaenia albiceps)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Greenish Elaenia.
Comments: One calling individual at South Padre Island, Texas on 9–10 February 2008. Found by Daniel Jones and observed, photographed, and audiorecorded by Martin Reid and several others. Identified as an Elaenia by its crest and conspicuous white coronal patch, identified to species by plumage and vocalizations, and identified as the migratory subspecies E. a. chilensis by vocalizations and photographic analysis of plumage and wing formula (Reid and Jones 2009).
Added: Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher (Empidonomus aurantioatrocristatus)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Variegated Flycatcher.
Comments: One adult male photographed alive and then collected at Peveto Beach Woods, Cameron Parish, Louisiana on 3 June 2008. The bird was observed alive solely by Paul Conover and Buford Myers. Identified by its size; pale gray face and underparts with a yellowish tinge to the vent and undertail coverts; gray-brown back and wing coverts; blackish lores, eye patch, and auriculars separated from the blackish crown by a gray supercilium; and blackish soft parts. The specimen, prepared as a study skin (LSUMNS #180361 at Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science), was heavily worn with no molt, and had accumulated heavy fat deposits.
Added: Sinaloa Wren (Thryothorus sinaloa)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Canyon Wren.
Comments: One singing individual, presumably an adult, at an elevation of 4,000 feet at Patagonia–Sonoita Creek Preserve, Santa Cruz County, Arizona found on 25 August 2008 and present into August 2009. Discovered and photographed by Matt Brown and Robin Baxter, and observed, photographed, and audio-recorded by many others (no formal paper published through August 2009). Distinguished from other medium-sized wrens by its rich, varied, warbling song; moderate black streaking on the auriculars and neck; brown back contrasting with rusty tail; and plain underparts with gray breast. Distinguished from the similar Happy Wren (T. felix), a potential stray to the ABA Area from northwestern Mexico, by voice, barring on wing coverts, and pale (rather than buffy) underparts (Howell and Webb 1995).
Removed: Caribbean Elaenia (Elaenia martinica)
Comments: The ABA Checklist Committee accepted Caribbean Elaenia in 1985, but admitted that the identification represented a "borderline case." Although the elaenia vocalized frequently, its calls were not audio-recorded. Because the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee recently downgraded this record to "Elaenia species," the ABA Checklist Committee also reevaluated the record and decided that the lack of audio–recordings left doubt as to its specific identity. Ironically, this bird may have been a White–crested Elaenia, which was added to the ABA Checklist based on a recent Texas record.
Version 7.0 – November 2008
Added: Graylag Goose (Anser anser)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Pink-footed Goose.
Comments: one bird was found alive on a stationary ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador from spring, 2005.
Added: White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Bulwer's Petrel.
Comments: a moribund individual was discovered near Rollover Pass, Texas, in April 1986 where it was originally misidentified.
Added: Townsend's Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Manx Shearwater.
Comments: an individual from near Del Mar, California, was caught and taken to be rehabilitated in August 2007, where measurements and photographs were used for positive identification.
Added: Tristram's Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma tristrami)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Black Storm-Petrel.
Comments: an individual caught during night mist-netting from Southeast Farallon Island, California, in April, 2006. Proper identification resulted after careful measurements were taken, in addition to comparisons with museum specimens of congeners.
Added: Brown Hawk-Owl (Ninox scutulata)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Northern Saw-whet Owl.
Comments: two birds, the first from St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, from late August – early September 2007 was well-photographed and easy to identify.
Added: Loggerhead Kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Gray Kingbird.
Comments: two birds, the first from Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West, Florida, in March 2007 was added to the Checklist shortly after the species had been removed from the List due to uncertain identification difficulties.
Added: Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Lanceolated Warbler.
Comments: an individual from Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, in September 2007. Photographs ruled out look-alike congeners.
Added: Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Redwing.
Comments: an individual found at a private residence at Saint-Fulgence, Quebec, Canada, in November 2006 was photographed and identified.
Added: Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
Code: 2.
Placement: after European Starling.
Comments: now considered an established exotic in parts of Florida.
Added: Yellow-browed Bunting (Emberiza chrysophrys)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Little Bunting.
Comments: an individual was photographed at Gambell, St. Lawrenece Island, Alaska, on 15 September 2007. It was easily separated from other Old World Buntings using a series of convincing photographs.
Version 6.8 – November 2007
Added: Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Black-browed Albatross.
Comments: one adult in the Pacific Ocean at Cordell Bank, 40 miles off Point Reyes, Marin County, California, on 17 July 1994.
Added: Parkinson's Petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Bulwer's Petrel.
Comments: one individual in the Pacific Ocean near Cordell Bank, 17.6 nautical miles northwest of the Point Reyes headlands, Marin County, California, on 1 October 2005.
Added: Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Great Blue Heron.
Comments: one individual found moribund at Lear's Cove, Newfoundland & Labrador, on 11 October 1996 was sent to Salmonier Nature Park, where it died.
Added: Intermediate Egret (Mesophoyx intermedia)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Great Egret.
Comments: one recently dead adult male in nuptial plumage salvaged by Stephan Lorenz and colleagues at Buldir Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, on 30 May 2006.
Added: Swallow-tailed Gull (Creagrus furcatus)
Code: 5.
Placement: provisionally placed after Sabine's Gull.
Comments: one adult in alternate plumage discovered by Alan Baldridge at Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California, on 6-7 June 1985, then rediscovered by Ed Harper and others 15 miles north, at Jetty Road State Park, Moss Landing on 8 June 1985.
Added: European Turtle-Dove (Streptopelia turtur)
Code: 5.
Placement: placed after Oriental Turtle-Dove.
Comments: three records of singles: one photographed at Lower Matecumbe Key, Monroe County, Florida, 9-11 April 1990, a record that was relegated to the CLC's short-lived "Origin Uncertain" list; one photographed inhand at St. Pierre, St. Pierre Island, France, sometime between 15-20 May 2001; and one thought to be of the nominate race that was run over by a vehicle at Tuckernuck Island, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, on 19 July 2001.
Added: Pallas's Leaf-Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus)
Code: 5.
Placement: provisionally placed after Yellow-browed Warbler.
Comments: one of the nominate race at the "Circular Boneyard" at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, on 25-26 September 2006 was discovered and photographed by Paul Lehman and Gary Rosenberg.
Added: Tundra Bean-Goose (Anser serrirostris)
Comments: split from Bean Goose (Anser fabalis) by the AOU in its 48th supplement to the check-list. See The Auk 124(3):1109-1115, 2007. Anser fabalis now becomes Taiga Bean-Goose.
Version 6.7 – February 2007
Added: Ringed Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma hornbyi)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel.
Comments: one individual, 2 August 2005, about 12 nautical miles off the westernmost point of San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara County, California.
Added: Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Eurasian Hobby.
Comments: one second-calendar-year (first-summer) male, 7 or 8-24 August 2004, at Katama Airfield, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts.
Added: Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus)
Code: 2.
Placement: after Dusky Grouse.
Comments: split from Blue Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) by the AOU in its 47th supplement to the check-list. See The Auk 123(3):926-936, 2006. Dendragapus obscurus now becomes Dusky Grouse.
Removed: Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri)
Comments: this species was added to the Checklist in 2002 based on the occurrence of naturalized populations in California and Florida, following the "splitting" of the Canary-winged Parakeet (B. versicolurus) into Whitewinged Parakeet (B. versicolurus) and Yellow-chevroned Parakeet. However, the Yellow-chevroned Parakeet has never been accepted by the CBRC or FOSRC.
Version 6.6.1 – December 2005
Removed: Black-backed Wagtail (Motacilla lugens)
Comments: Lumped with White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) by the AOU in its 46th supplement to the check-list. See The Auk 122(3):1026-1031, 2005.
Version 6.6 – November 2005
Added: Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus mexicanus)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush.
Comments: single adult, 27 May-29 October 2004, Pharr, Hidalgo County, Texas.
Added: Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Great Kiskadee.
Comments: single bird, 7-14 January 2005, Bentsen – Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hildago County, Texas.
Version 6.5 – May 2005
Added: Mangrove Swallow (Tachycineta albilinea)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Tree Swallow.
Comments: November 2002, Viera Wetlands, Brevard County, Florida.
Added: Cape Verde Shearwater (Calonectris edwardsii)
Code: 5.
Placement: after Cory's Shearwater.
Comments: single individual, 15 August 2004, approximately 49 kilometers southeast of Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
Added: Black-bellied Storm-Petrel (Fregetta tropica)
Code: 5.
Placement: after White-faced Storm-Petrel.
Comments: single bird, 31 May 2004, approximately 77 kilometers southeast of Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.


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This entry was originally written by Dwight A. Radford for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Population Schedules
• Indexed'1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
• Soundex'1880, 1900, 1910 (by Genealogical Forum of Oregon)
Industry and Agriculture Schedules
• 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
Mortality Schedules
• 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
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Territorial and state census records reflect the rapid growth of the Oregon country. These census enumerations were taken in 1842, 1843, 1845, 1849, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, and 1905. Only portions of some of these enumerations have survived. Most of these censuses include only the name of the head of household, although the 1895 and 1905 censuses include some information on all members of the household. The state censuses are inventoried on the Oregon State Archives website as part of its 'Oregon Historical Records Index' database. The FHL has microfilm copies of most Oregon state censuses.
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First off, i'm a fire mage with 496 ilvl - Slightly higher than the average of people attempting this.
So after getting lucky getting my invite on Wednesday (Only took 15 rare kills, thank god) I managed to make my way quickly through to the max rank without much trouble. I am currently 3/4 on rank 8 with only Disruptron left.
I am having serious problems with this fight. Avoiding most of the damage is fine, however I am having problems beating the enrage for two reasons.
I need to move a lot, I could use scorch but then I lose a big part of my dps on combust (Unless I get very lucky, which I don't want to rely on with 30 minute queues).
Second of all, the "soft enrage" mechanic appears at 25%. this makes all 4 canons in the corner and the totem in the middle shoot the discs out at the same time. I can't see any way of avoiding this without pure luck or a safe spot (Which wouldn't really work, since you need to jump over the lasers anyway.
Has anyone actually beat this yet? I've had around 80 tries on this in the past 2 days and I can't help feeling that i'm missing something.
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Broncos offensive lineman Chris Kuper has been a starter with the Broncos since 2007. He has given Denver his best effort and sacrificed his health for the team. And what does he get in return? A cut in pay. Ouch. Sure, the $1.05 million he will receive this year is guaranteed. But it's a steep decline from the $4 million he was due to make before injuries robbed him of a starting position and put his future with the team in doubt.
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Where would a Nightline viewer go for important political news? It wouldn't be the late night ABC show. This week, the program has focused on topics such as Angelina Jolie's mastectomy and the latest plastic surgery operations. Co-anchor Terry Moran saves most of the hard news for his Twitter page.
Except for a mere 28 seconds that aired at 1:05am in the early morning hours of Tuesday, the program's hosts have ignored the growing scandal involving the IRS targeting conservative groups for audits and harassment.
Yet, while Nightline focused on Prince Harry's visit to America, co-anchor Terry Moran tweeted: "It keeps getting worse: IRS office that targeted Tea Party also disclosed confidential docs from conservative groups."
This week, while Nightline profiled the TV show Duck Dynasty, Moran tweeted, "IRS says current acting commissioner learned in May 2012 that tea party groups were targeted."
While Nightline devoted a full segment to Barbara Walters retiring, Moran tweeted "More details on Benghazi talking points emerge."
On Monday night, Nightline managed 28 seconds for the IRS scandal. Moran's colleague Bill Weir briefly explained, "Today, President Obama vowed to get to reports that when it came to granting tax exempt status, the IRS gave unfair amount of scrutiny to groups with the words Tea Party or patriot in the title."
In an unintentionally funny moment, Weir suggested, "You can see Jon Karl's reporting on the topic on ABCNews.com and then weigh in on the Nightline Facebook page or tweet Nightline."
Moran also tweeted last Friday about the IRS controversy, calling it a "Nixonian abuse of power." Friday's show did not cover the scandal.
Is that the message? Go to Nightline's Twitter and Facebook page for news on the scandals plaguing the Obama White House. After all, you can't expect much from the actual program.
A transcript of the last segment from the May 13 Nightline, airing at 1:05am on May 14, follows:
BILL WEIR: Time now for tonight's closing argument. Today, President Obama vowed to get to reports that when it came to granting tax exempt status, the IRS gave unfair amount of scrutiny to Tea- groups-- with the words Tea Party or patriot in their title. With congressional hearings slated for the end of the week, what do you make of all this? You can see Jon Karl's reporting on the topic on ABCNews.com and then weigh in on the Nightline Facebook page or tweet @Nightline.
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|This article or section contains information that is out-of-date.
NOTE: This guide will be undergoing changes in the next few years to bring the calculations up-to-date with patch 2.4. All spirit-related calculations are outdated unless otherwise specifically indicated.
This guide was originally created by Dezzi of Twisting Nether (US) for the druids in his guild. After spending so much work on the guide, he decided to post it here so it could be available for everyone. This guide focuses less on technique (because skill and technique come best through experience), and more on mechanics, gear, and stats. The information in this guide is intended for level 70 raiding druids.
The calculations in this guide are based on the game mechanics of Patch 2.4
There are two cookie-cutter resto specs:
Pure PvE Tree Form
This is the basics for PvE tree raiding. Of course this spec can be altered by removing Nature's Splendor and Nature's Majesty to instead use 3 points in Replenish. This will drop the healing of a Druid but to slightly help increase raid DPS. The Major Glyphs used should be used and the minor glyphs will help. (Except for Aquatic Form, just my preference since there's nothing else.)
PvP Tree Form
You could also swap 3 points from Nature's Focus into Subtlety if you prefer. This is an acceptable raid build since you really don't lose anything except 15% spirit and a few points in Subtlety. Now that is a lot of spirit, but it's understandable if you spec this way since now you can PvP/Arena and raid without shelling out 100g a week. The loss of the spirit talent may affect your trinket choice, but we'll discuss this more later. The regen you lose from the extra spirit can be made up for with a few extra mana pots.
Dreamstate Healing Touch Spec
Some druids used a Dreamstate/Resto spec for specialized roles in BC. While it remains a strong solo spec with a hybrid of healing and dps ability, that same hybridization makes it too weak for any specific role in end game PVE play. Dreamstate/Resto is not recommended at this time.
Spirit vs. Mana/5Edit
While not in the FSR (while not casting):
- 4.5 Spirit = 1 mana per tick (every 2 sec)
- 2.5 Mp5 = 1 mana per tick
- 1.8 Spirit = 1 Mp5
However, while in the FSR:
- 15 Spirit = 1 mana per tick
- 2.5 Mp5 = 1 mana per tick
- 6 Spirit = 1 Mp5
Raid buffed you're going to have a Blessing of Kings, and spirit will stack with this, mp5 wont. Also remember that the Living Spirit talent (+15% spirit) will stack with Blessing of Kings. These two buffs will affect the mp5 to spirit conversion:
| Spirit (on a piece of gear)
Equivalent to 1 Mp5
|In FSR
|In FSR, with Kings
|In FSR, with Kings, with +15% Spirit
Innervate and YouEdit
Prior to patch 3.1.2, Innervate restored an amount of mana based on the target's spirit. Now it reads: Causes the target to regenerate mana equal to 225% of the casting Druid's base mana pool over 10 sec. Assuming a level 80 druid casts the spell, it will always restore 7866 mana.
Now, the target of an innervate should always be the raid or party member that will best benefit the group by gaining extra mana. Obviously it will be wasted on a prot pally or an enhancement shaman, but it can freely be used on any healer or caster dps as the group needs.
Innervate GuidelinesEdit
- Innervate early on very long endurance fights - Magtheridon and A'lar. About a minute into the fight, innervate someone who is at like 50-60% mana. You'll probably waste a few innervate ticks, but you'll also get your Innervate back a second time towards the end of the fight.
Maximizing Your Raid Healing (How To Beat Shamans)Edit
So, you want to know how to beat shamans on the healing meters? Well sorry to burst your bubble, but it's nearly impossible at the moment.
But here's the thing folks, healing meters are NOT the most important thing when it comes to raid healing. If you can keep people alive long enough to down a boss, then you've done your job. So why do we look at healing meters? Because meters are an indication of how WELL you're doing your job. If another druid with comparable gear is putting out 30% more healing than you, then you're not maximizing your healing potential... that is, you're not doing your job as well as it COULD be done.
So how do you maximize your healing potential?
The Golden Rule of Tree Form HealingEdit
Spend every moment of every boss fight throwing HoTs or casting Regrowth. Every second you're not in the global cooldown is a second too long. If your tank is the only one taking any damage, keep all 3 HoTs on him (LB, Rejuv, Regrowth HoT) and then escape-heal with regrowth.
Gear ImplicationsEdit
If your mana pool doesn't allow you to continuously throw HoTs and Regrowths every second of a boss fight, then you don't have enough regen or you didn't bring enough pots. It is better to have a little less +healing, but be able to heal every second of every boss fight.
Generic HoT CyclesEdit
Now, here's some basic HoT cycles I like to use (depending on the situation). I have to give credit to Gian from elistjerks.com who helped me improve my game by showing me some effective HoT Cycles. This is all situational, there is no "cookie-cutter" rotation that will work for everything. Your skill as a healer is your ability to adapt and adjust quickly to changing situations... but these are some general rules:
High-Damage Boss Fights (Single Tank)
On certain "high-octane" boss fights (like Bear in ZA, or Phase 2 Prince in Kara) you'll want to be focusing your entire attention on the tank. Keep every HoT you can on them... LB stacks, Rejuv, and the Regrowth HoT and then have your finger hovering over the Swiftmend Button. You should also be "escape-healing" with Regrowth. This means you let a Regrowth charge up, and then hit ESCAPE right before it goes off IF the tank doesn't need the heal. This way if the tank gets hit with a huge amount of burst damage your heal is already on its way. Keep in mind that the FSR doesn't start until a cast has actually finished, by escape-healing keeps you out of the FSR and saves mana.
Raid Spot Healing (1 MT) - 6 second cycle
If you're assigned to spot heal, then you STILL want to keep an LB triple stack up on the tank at all times (this is just too much healing to ignore). There are exceptions (times when you just have to spend all your time healing the raid), but mostly you want to use a rotation like this:
- LB on Main Tank
- Rejuv/LB on raid target (LB if ~2400 health or less, Rejuv if ~3000 health or more)
- Rejuv/LB on raid target
- Rejuv/LB on raid target
- --- New Cycle ---
- LB on Main Tank
- etc...
2 Main Tanks
With two main tanks you should easily be able to keep LB stacks and Rejuv on both of them for the duration of the fight (and have some in-between time to raid heal if you so choose). Here's a cookie-cutter rotation:
LB Tank 1, LB Tank 2, Rejuv Tank 1, (downtime), LB Tank 1, LB Tank 2, Rejuv Tank 2, (downtime), etc...
3 Main Tanks
If you have a perfect connection, you should be able to keep LB on all 3 tanks, and Rejuv on 2 of them. Here's how you do it:
LB 1, LB 2, LB 3, Rejuv 1, LB 1, LB 2, LB 3, Rejuv 2, repeat
With a less-than-perfect connection, you can still keep LB triple-stacks on all three tanks without any trouble.
4 Main Tanks
Keep LB stacks on all 4 tanks (if your latency is good enough).
Macros can really help out in boss fights where you have to heal multiple tanks during certain phases (Hydross and Kael come to mind). An interesting idea is to use targeting macros on hotkeys F1-F4 for those phases. A macro like this works well:
/target TankName /cast [modifier:shift] Rejuvenation ; Lifebloom
If you hold shift while pressing this hotkey, you will cast Rejuv, otherwise you will cast LB. Be sure to test that this macro works before you try to use it in raids. For example, if you bind this macro to F1, you also need to make sure that Shift+F1 is not bound to anything else (otherwise the modifier won't work).
Once again, if find that your mana pool doesn't allow you to continuously throw HoTs every second of a boss fight, then you're only gimping yourself in terms of your maximum healing capabilities. You need more regen gear (or you need to spend more money on pots).
How Latency Affects Maximum Healing PotentialEdit
Latency plays a huge role in determining how effectively you can heal and what your maximum healing potential is. Consider this, if you are spamming heals with a 1.5 sec cast time, then you could potentially make 40 heals per minute. However, add in 100 ms of latency, and suddenly your cast time becomes 1.6 sec. In this case, you can only cast 37 times a minute.
Now this may not seem like a huge difference but look at it this way. With 300 ms (therefore a 1.8 average cast time), you could cast 33 times in 1 minute, which means that you could have suffered a 17.5% loss in your maximum healing potential. The subtleties of latency are intricate and so perhaps I am overstating the facts a bit, but any way you run the numbers you are still gimped in your healing ability depending on your latency.
Take another example. If 300 ms translates into 0.3 sec of extra cast time, then there would be no way I could keep LB stacks on 4 targets at once.
1.5 x 4 = 6.0 sec
1.6 x 4 = 6.4 sec
1.7 x 4 = 6.8 sec
1.8 x 4 = 7.2 sec
Each cycle now exceeds 7 sec (the time of LB) and therefore keeping 4 stacks on 4 targets would now prove impossible. That being said, it's probably possible to make a 4-target cycle work with latency over 300 ms just because of the intricacies of latency (which I don't understand thoroughly enough to give comment or direction). But for our purposes, we're going to assume that 300 ms of latency translates into 0.3 extra seconds of cast time.
How This Information Affects Trinket Selection
The main thing I want to use this information for, is to discuss the way certain trinkets proc if they have a standard chance per cast to proc. For example, if a trinket has a proc rate of 2% per cast, then we assume that it will proc once every 50 casts. With absolutely no latency, this translates into 1 proc every 75 seconds (50 x 1.5 = 75). However, with 300 ms of latency, this changes the proc rate significantly to (potentially) 1 proc every 90 seconds (50 x 1.8 = 90). This can significantly change the value of that particular trinket, so when choosing which trinkets are right for you, please be conscious of your average latency, and how it will affect that trinket's performance.
General Gear RecommendationsEdit
I'm not gonna list every last piece of gear that you could possibly get and rate it to tell you how good it is. Because, in reality, you should be looking more at your total stats than each individual piece of gear. These are just general pieces of advice:
General Rules of Tree GearEdit
- Regen is the arguably most important stat for you to work on first. It will serve you better in both high-octane fights and endurance fights (in the situations where healers get strained). Regen saves you money on mana pots on farm-status bosses, and will serve you better on new content (because you can afford to heal more aggressively). This doesn't mean you should completely ignore other stats, it just means you should work on getting a high Regen FIRST (and then you can min/max other stats). If you have sufficient regen to heal every second of every boss fight, then by all means start stacking +healing. +Healing is your power, regen is your endurance. After you have enough endurance, then you can start adding more power... but endurance is that baseline you want to start on first. In reality you will want two gear sets: one which focuses on regen for long engagements and one which focuses on +healing. My advice for every new druid is focus on their regen sets first, and then you can start to swap out +healing pieces.
- Haste rating needs to be mentioned here for level 80 healing. It is very important to the soft cap.
- +Healing is the second most important stat for you. Some people could argue that +healing is MORE important, but it depends on your role in your guild and your progression level. With the addition of so many free pots and so much free gold, chain chugging pots isn't an issue any more. Once you have enough regen/potions to maintain your mana pool then by all means start stacking the +healing. I still say you should focus on a regen set FIRST and then take care of +healing. The last thing you want is to go OOM halfway through pot timers, and too many healers neglect regen completely. Don't be one of them.
- Mp5 is generally preferable to spirit. I discussed this point ad nauseam already... but know your conversions (2.83 Spirit per Mp5 or 2.46 Spirit per Mp5) and develop a plan that gives you a good chunk of both. You should pretty much spend all your time in the FSR, and as such Mp5 is usually better than Spirit. Once again, though, know your conversions!
- Every druid should have three weapons with different enchants. See the Enchants section below for a more detailed explanation of why you want to do this:
- A primary weapon (your best weapon) with [Enchant Weapon - Major Healing]
- A secondary weapon with [Enchant Weapon - Spellsurge]
- A spirit weapon with [Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spirit] for use while Innervating. (No longer true, Innervate is not affected by Spirit)
- Cloth gear is sometimes better for you than leather gear... remember to consider cloth gear when searching for upgrades.
PS - [Idol of the Emerald Queen] or [Idol of the Raven Goddess] are the ONLY idols you should be using for PvE... period.
Spell CoefficientsEdit
I assume that you all know what spell coefficients are. If not, go here and read up.
All of this data is taken from the WoWWiki page: Spell power coefficients.
- Healing Touch = 100%
- Rejuvenate = 80%
- Regrowth Direct Heal = ~30%
- Regrowth HoT = 70%
- Lifebloom HoT = 51.8%
- Lifebloom Final Heal = 34.29%
- Tranquility = 73%
How do talents like "Empowered Rejuvenation" Affect Coefficients?
The Empowered Rejuvenation talent reads: Increases the bonus healing of your heal over time effects by 20%
What this means is that for all HoT effects, you take your current +healing and add 20%. So if you had 1000 +healing, your HoTs would act as though you had 1200 +healing.
Gift of Nature increases the effect of all healing spells by 10%. Does this stack with +healing?
For example, if your healing touch would normally heal for 2800, and you had a 1000 +healing, then here's what this talent would do for you:
(2800 + 1000) x 110% = 4180
With Empowered Touch (+20% Bonus Healing on Healing Touch) and Gift of Nature, here's how the math works out:
[2800 + (1000 x 120%)] x 110% = (2800 + 1200) x 110% = 4400
These are the best gems for a resto druid at the moment (using patch 2.3 mechanics). I am not including Black Temple gems because I figure if you're at that point in your game, you know enough to make decisions for yourself.
Remember, heroic gems will not be unique-equip in 2.4, so stock up!
Updated with WotLK gems on 19-05-2009.
Blue & Red Sockets:
[Royal Shadow Draenite]
[Royal Nightseye]
[Royal Tanzanite] - Heroic Slave Pens
[Royal Shadow Crystal] (WotLK)
[Perfect Royal Shadow Crystal] (WotLK)
[Royal Twilight Opal] (WotLK)
Red Sockets:
If you already have tons of regen you could skip regen completely and go for straight +healing gems. I prefer gems that give +healing and regen to straight +healing gems, but there's no award at the end of a fight for how much mana you have left. If you have enough regen, then these are viable options:
[Teardrop Blood Garnet]
[Teardrop Living Ruby]
[Runed Bloodstone] (WotLK)
[Perfect Runed Bloodstone] (WotLK)
[Runed Scarlet Ruby] (WotLK)
[Runed Stormjewel] (WotLK)- rare find inside Daily Fishing quest reward, [Bag of Fishing Treasures]
Yellow & Blue Sockets:
[Dazzling Deep Peridot]
[Dazzling Talasite]
[Dazzling Chrysoprase] - Heroic Durnholde
[Dazzling Dark Jade] (WotLK)
[Perfect Dazzling Dark Jade] (WotLK)
[Dazzling Forest Emerald] (WotLK)
Yellow & Red Sockets:
[Luminous Flame Spessarite]
[Luminous Noble Topaz]
[Luminous Fire Opal] - Heroic Shattered Halls
[Luminous Huge Citrine] (WotLK)
[Perfect Luminous Huge Citrine] (WotLK)
[Luminous Monarch Topaz] (WotLK)
Yellow Sockets:
These gems add purely intellect and primarily increase your mana pool. Intellect also increases spell critical strike and as of patch 2.4, increases Spirit regen as well.
[Brilliant Golden Draenite]
[Brilliant Dawnstone]
[Brilliant Sun Crystal] (WotLK)
[Perfect Brilliant Sun Crystal](WotLK)
[Brilliant Autumn's Glow] (WotLK)
[Brilliant Stormjewel] (WotLK) - rare find inside Daily Fishing quest reward, [Bag of Fishing Treasures]
Blue Sockets:
Gems for Spirit. Generally useless, as you should be going for MP5 rather than Spirit.
[Sparkling Azure Moonstone]
[Sparkling Star of Elune]
[Sparkling Chalcedony] (WotLK)
[Perfect Sparkling Chalcedony] (WotLK)
[Sparkling Sky Sapphire] (WotLK)
[Sparkling Stormjewel] (WotLK)- rare find inside Daily Fishing quest reward, [Bag of Fishing Treasures]
Any Socket:
These prismatic gems require you to have Jewelcrafting as a profession and have at least 350 skill points in the profession. You can only equip gear with a total of three of these gems at any one time, but you can have more of them socketed on gear in your inventory.
[Brilliant Dragon's Eye](WotLK) - mana pool
[Runed Dragon's Eye](WotLK) - +Healing
[Lustrous Dragon's Eye] (WotLK) - MP5
[Sparkling Dragon's Eye](WotLK) - Spirit
Meta Sockets:
[Insightful Earthstorm Diamond]
Requires 2 Gems of Each Color
This is the best meta gem for a ToL druid... period. Has a 2% chance on spellcast to restore 300 mana. If you're spamming instacasts (which you should be) that's the equivalent of 20 mp5. Although, in reality, it will be a little less than this, that's still a LOT of regen.
[Bracing Earthstorm Diamond]
Requires More Red Gems than Blue Gems
There are only two reasons to take this gem over the Insightful Earthstorm Diamond: you already have plenty of regen, or you can't meet the gem requirements to get the other gem. Otherwise I would definitely take the regen... just because it's much easier to replace +26 healing than it is to replace 20 mp5.
I didn't list Glyphs/Inscriptions/Leg Enchants here because those should just be obvious...
Chest: [Enchant Chest - Restore Mana Prime], or [Enchant Chest - Major Spirit]
Major Spirit gives you more regen only if you have the +15% spirit talent and kings. Otherwise Restore Mana Prime is better for regen.
Cloak: [Enchant Cloak - Subtlety], or [Enchant Cloak - Greater Shadow Resistance]
Shadow resist can be useful in raids situationally, but it gives a small chance to resist fears (a small chance, but a chance none-the-less). Subtlety is better in 5-mans, but SR is the enchant used by a lot of high-end raiders (because an amazing number of debuffs are shadow based... and because they're in BT).
Wrist: [Enchant Bracer - Restore Mana Prime], or [Enchant Bracer - Superior Healing]
This is one of the few times I'll say to take Healing in place of Mp5. It's just because 30 healing is a LOT of healing when compared to 6 mp5. Take whichever you need more of.
Gloves: [Enchant Gloves - Major Healing]
Boots: [Enchant Boots - Vitality]
Every good druid will have three weapons that they swap between while healing:
- A primary weapon (your best weapon) with [Enchant Weapon - Major Healing]
- A secondary weapon with [Enchant Weapon - Spellsurge]
- A spirit weapon with [Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spirit] for use while Innervating. (This is no longer true, spirit does not affect Innervate)
Let me explain:
You see Spellsurge gives you (and your group) a lot of regen, and currently it has a fairly high chance to proc. However, Spellsurge also has a hidden cooldown (it's 45 or 50 sec) during which it cannot proc again. So what you want to do is swap your weapons. Start with Spellsurge, as soon as it procs switch to your 81 Healing weapon, and then switch back to spellsurge after 45 seconds have passed. With this rotation you will spend about 45 sec every minute with your primary weapon, and about 10-15 sec with your spellsurge weapon; thus, you want your best weapon to have the 81 healing enchant.
There is a mod called CasterWeaponSwapper that will swap for you automatically:
Because this mod is so buggy, I've written a guide on how to use it (with a link to the latest version) here: How to use CasterWeaponSwapper.


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Rob T necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 56 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
We need two new logos for a couple of our sites which are being completely redesigned. The first site is FreeWii.com, which is an incentive-based website that gives away Nintendo Wii consoles, games, and accessories. The second logo will be for QuikPrizes.com, which we are currently in the process of launching.
QuikPrizes and FreeWii
Desired Color Scheme:
open to ideas on color, need both white/black backgrounds, FreeWii logo should use a similar blue/white color scheme as the device
Desired Style:
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Accepted File Formats:
png, psd, gif, jpg and as many other formats as you can provide it in.
QuikPrizes.com will be our incentive site network, similar to FreePay. Most of our other freebie sites will be branded as "QuickPrizes" sites. FreeWii will be part of the QuikPrizes network, but due to it's branding potential, we want it to have a separate logo/design that is unique to the site, but matches with the rest of the QuikPrizes network.
The QuikPrizes logo should signify the two parts of it's name - we give away free prizes, and we do it Quick! This logo should be clean, use bold colors, and should look good on a black or white background, both of which are needed. Please plan to provide the logo in as many file formats as possible (png, psd, gif, jpg, etc). I would like the original to be high-res, approx. 1200 x 300 pixels or larger. Exact dimensions are not terribly important, but it should be a long rectangle.
The FreeWii logo will need to be themed similarly to the QuickPrizes logo, but customized for the FreeWii.com site. We have not yet begun the redesign of this site, so we will likely redesign the site around the colors and theme of the logo. I'd like this logo to incoporate some 'Wii' colors - primarily White and light blue (see current site for ideas), but feel free to use other colors as well. We will want the dimensions and resolution of the logo graphic for FreeWii to be roughly the same as the specs for QuikPrizes given above.
I'm also considering having a third graphic created that will link FreeWii with QuikPrizes - i.e. 'FreeWii - a member of the QuikPrizes Network' or something like that that would be displayed elsewhere on the page - submissions including that third graphic incorporating will be given more consideration, since it will take more work off my back when we are incorporating the rest of the designs.
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