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Topic: boba or jango (who's better)
personally i think that jango is the better fighter. Obvioulsy they are the same person however i think jango learned more about fighting from jaster and his time with the manalorians. Also jango had better competition in the old republic, harder bounties too.
jango's kill list includes 5 jedi including komari vosa and jedi council member coleman trebor. Bobba's doesn't even begin to compare to this.
"I should shoot you just for asking about that" (Jango Fett to count dooku for mentioning Galidraan)


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The New Dead
The hungry dead have risen. They shamble down the street. They hide in back yards, car lots, shopping malls. They devour neighbors, dogs and police officers. And they are here to stay. The real question is, what are you going to do about it? How will you survive?
How will the world change when the dead begin to rise?
Stoker-award-winning author Christopher Golden has assembled an original anthology of never-before-published zombie stories from an eclectic array of today's hottest writers. Inside there are stories about military might in the wake of an outbreak, survival in a wasted wasteland, the ardor of falling in love with a zombie, and a family outing at the circus. Here is a collection of new views on death and resurrection.
With stories from Joe Hill, John Connolly, Max Brooks, Kelley Armstrong, Tad Williams, David Wellington, David Liss, Aimee Bender, Jonathan Maberry, and many others, this is a wildly diverse and entertaining collection…the Last Word on the New Dead.
"The 19 provocative, haunting, and genuinely unsettling original stories in this zombie anthology move the genre beyond its usual apocalyptic wastelands. David Liss's novelette What Maisie Knew is a stunning and gruesome meditation on the banality of capitalism and evil. Mike Carey's Second Wind is a haunting tale of an undead stockbroker who comes to question whether he ever truly lived. Lovers of more traditional zombie fare will also not be disappointed. Joe Hill's ingenious Twittering from the Circus of the Dead tells a classic slasher film story through Twitter posts, while Jonathan Maberry's heartbreaking Family Business describes a ruined America populated by kindly monks and zombie hunters. This powerful anthology shines a bright and unflinching light on the fears of death, decay, and loss that underpin America's longstanding obsession with the undead."
– Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Table of Contents
"Lazarus" by John Connolly
"What Maisie Knew" by David Liss
"Copper" by Stephen R. Bissette
"In the Dust" by Tim Lebbon
"Life Sentence" by Kelley Armstrong
"Delice" by Holly Newstein
"Closure, LTD" by Max Brooks
"The Wind Cries Mary" by Brian Keene
"Family Business" by Jonathan Maberry
"The Zombie Who Fell From the Sky" by M.B. Homler
"My Dolly" by Derek Nikitas
"Second Wind" by Mike Carey
"Among Us" by Aimee Bender
"Ghost Trap" by Rick Hautala
"The Storm Door" by Tad Williams
"Kids and Their Toys" by James A. Moore
"Shooting Pool" by Joe R. Lansdale
"Weaponized" by David Wellington
"Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" by Joe Hill
Nationwide Signing Event
On February 16th, 2010, the day The New Dead is released, the majority of the authors who have written stories for the book will be signing in various locations around the country.
Los Angeles, CA: Max Brooks and Aimee Bender
Dark Delicacies, 4213 W. Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
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Lexington, KY: Derek Nikitas
Morris Book Shop, 408 Southland Drive, Lexington, KY 40503
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Atlanta, GA: James A. Moore
Blue Elephant Book Shop, 2091 N. Decatur Rd, Decatur, GA 30033
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Baltimore, MD: Brian Keene
Barnes & Noble, 1819 Reisterstown Rd, Baltimore, MD 21208
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New York, NY: Jonathan Maberry, David Wellington, MB Homler
Borders, 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
Boston, MA (Framingham): John Connolly, Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette, Rick Hautala, and Holly Newstein 7 PM
Barnes & Noble, 1 Worcester Rd, Framingham, MA 01701
San Antonio, TX: David Liss
Barnes & Noble, 15900 La Cantera Pkwy, San Antonio, TX 78256
Please note that Joe Hill will be kicking off his signing tour for his new novel, Horns, on the same night. He'll be signing at River Run Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH, and will be happy to sign copies of The New Dead as well.


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They arrived on a flight from San Francisco, two young faces, with slightly nervous smiles. The airline escort walked them out of the plane, handed me the paper to sign, and suddenly they were mine.
Not forever mine. But for two weeks mine.
These two children, my niece and nephew, who I somehow love as deeply as my own, even though I have never spent more than two days a year with them, were finally going to hang out with my family and make some real, lifetime memories.
They were both born in Wales, the country their mama calls home. My husband's brother was wise enough to marry her, after finding her to be the lovely mix of kindness and fun. She's the perfect kind of sister to me, all the good stuff and none of the childhood sibling baggage.
When she gave birth to Tiger, just months after I'd had my fourth child, my heart literally ached to see this child. I often received photos in the mail, of a round faced cherub, and wondered if I'd ever get to know her, really know her. I signed every card and email with the words, "tell her Aunt Judy loves her…"
And then, after a couple of years, just 'tell her…'
A few years later a preschool Tiger got a brother. He was named Soul, a name that suits him perfectly. The day he was born his daddy called us from Wales, having just come home from the hospital after a long day filled with labor and birth. On the way home he had stopped by the pub for a minute, as any good Welsh would do, whether born there or just transplanted. So by the time he called us he was a flying just a bit, high on new life and magical moments.
His brother, my husband, was at work, with the time difference and all, so I was blessed to be the one who spent the next hour on the phone, hearing Soul's daddy gush about how good life was, how amazing having a son felt, and how incredibly much it made him miss his own dad.
It's a phone call I'll never forget. One of those moments frozen in time, when you know as it's happening that this is what life is all about. Ever since that day I've felt a few notches closer to this brother-in-law, because he chose to share that one special day in his life with me through a very long distance phone call.
As my niece and nephew grew up in the Welsh countryside I sent them cards and packages. Their mama sent me pictures of them camping on the beach and attending local fairs. Their little bodies grew into taller bodies and their baby faces became those of full fledged children.
Occasionally we caught up with them in New Hampshire, when they'd make a rare flight across the pond to visit grandparents and we could manage to get there ourselves on the same days. I took a zillion pictures of them, in those brief snippets of together time, knowing they would change so much before I got to see them again.
Then four years ago we got great news. The whole gang was moving to San Francisco. We lived in New York at the time. They were still three thousand miles away from us, but at least we didn't need passports to go see them anymore.
Two years ago they came to visit us in New York. We spent a few glorious days showing them our world and soaking in all the hugs we could.
Two months ago my sister-in-law called and asked if they could come stay with us in our new home state of Colorado, while she went back to Wales to see her family. I jumped at the chance. Finally an opportunity to know these two children I have adored from afar…really really know them.
Nothing makes you know a child better than being their surrogate mom for a few weeks. There's something priceless and intimate about being the one in charge of what they eat, how often they brush their teeth, and how they're doing emotionally once they start getting the homesick blues.
They are eleven and eight now. The perfect ages to be independent, but still blend in with our busy household. There are no diaper bags or naptimes. Just big kids who can hang out and find their own fun when nothing is planned, and also appreciate the times when we do take an afternoon to go exploring.
Yesterday my son Isaac and I went to the airport to pick them up. After paying our dues by standing in line at the check in desk, then making our way through security with my metal leg (that always attracts attention from the TSA officials), we found ourselves standing at the arrival gate.
And then there they were. A bit taller than the last time I'd seen them, but the faces were still so familiar. Just like any mom (or aunt), I could still see every year of their growing-up faces… the two year old face, the four year old face…mixed into their smiles.
I signed the airline paperwork and we were on our way to baggage claim. It was such a joy to see these two kids, who are so photographically familiar to me, fall in so easily with my tall teenager. They became instant siblings.
We rode the tram to the other end of the terminal and stood together, sharing jokes and stories, as we watched the baggage carousel go round and round. On the drive home we stopped for a burger and an Icee, then made our way out of a scorching Denver, up to our mountain town where the temperatures are ten degrees cooler and the heat is chased off by random mountain breezes.
The afternoon was spent trying out their new world. They jumped on a trampoline with my other kids and the assorted neighbor kids who stopped by. Soul couldn't get enough of the ninja warrior salmon ladder my older son built a few weeks ago. He also found a new use for the circular bike track my boys dug into our back yard. Forget the bikes, Soul likes to run it, hopping through each bike jump on his skinny, nimble legs.
I love their in person smiles. I love their energy. I love their stories, of life moments I missed out on but can still experience, through their lively sharing.
Like their first day in the U.S. public school system, after attending a small school in the Welsh countryside. A new president named Obama had been inaugurated the day before. Their new classmates were hopping with excitement, the word "Obama" thrown around loosely. Tiger had no idea what, or who, an Obama was. She guessed it was maybe the principal's name. When the class assignment was to write about how they felt about Obama's inauguration, she had to ask for help from her new teacher.
Or when, in their first few days in America, they went as a family to Target, to get some furniture for their empty rental house. Before the shopping trip was over Soul had become separated from his family and a full Code Adam was announced. All doors were locked, every department searched, until my four year old nephew was once again found and reunited with his family. It's a moment I'm sure Tiger will never forget.
Of course Soul's first impressions with this new country were a bit more preschool boy oriented. He clearly remembers the small frog they found, clinging to the wall of his new bedroom. What more could a boy want in this new country, but a new bedroom that included hopping wildlife?
I had good intentions of getting them to bed early, on their first night in my care. They were both operating on very little sleep, from early morning flights and insomnia inducing excitement the night before. But when darkness fell, they were not ready for sleep quite yet. After an afternoon full of jumping on a trampoline surrounded by new friends and familiar cousins, it was time for a game of night time tag.
It gets very dark around here at night. So dark that my son nearly ran over a small deer when he was 'it' and quietly stalking around the outside perimeters of our house. I sat inside, writing at the computer, surrounded by darkness myself, as every light in our house had to be off to get the most serious effect for the game. But the sound of squeals and giggles lifted me.
This is what I'd waited for, for so many years. To have these two specific children under my roof, becoming real family with my own children.
Eventually everyone settled down into beds, and I'm sure the sand man came just minutes after I'd given the last hug and left their room. It was a full day, after all.
A day full of finally knowing these children I love like my own.


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SD real estate firm cuts ties with Trulia, Zillow
A San Diego real estate brokerage has shut off access to its listings to aggregation websites like Zillow and Trulia, igniting a debate over piracy claims, questionable data and open information to potential homebuyers.
Jim Abbott, president and managing broker of ARG Abbott Realty Group, announced the immediate decision in a recent YouTube video. Abbott says the company is among at least a handful of larger brokerages in the country to sever ties with such sites but is the first to do so in San Diego. The video has been polarizing: Some real estate professionals have applauded Abbott for taking a stand against third parties while others say the move is a step back for an industry that should embrace the enormous online exposure from the likes of Trulia and Zillow.
"All listing syndicators have one thing in common," Abbott says in the widely circulated video. "They act as a middleman and put our valuable listing data alongside the contact information of other agents and brokers who rent ad space on their sites ... Usually they do this without our permission."
Abbott's main argument is that third-party websites (he calls them all syndicators) take what he calls intellectual property such as photos and home details from companies without compensating the sources, comparing Trulia and Zillow to the original file-sharing service Napster. He also takes issue with inaccurate and unreliable information displayed on the sites, from wrong square footage to incorrect pricing. Third-party sites also tend to show listings that are actually no longer active.
"This is about the long-term survival for all brokers," Abbott told the U-T San Diego on Monday. "You cannot keep giving away what amounts to be your future business."
Kris Berg, co-owner of San Diego Castles Realty, agreed with Abbott in a blog:
Further, relinquishing control of the conversation surrounding your inventory violates the most basic principle of Real Estate Career 101: The most valuable thing to a real estate agent is a stick in the ground. This is because listings breed listings, listings breed buyers, and listings build reputation. So when we "virtually" hand third party aggregators our body of work that took years and boatloads of money to cultivate, we slowly erode our own future growth potential – unless of course we pay for the opportunity to redirect the fruits of our labors back home
Spokesman Ken Shuman says San Francisco-based Trulia gets its information through various sources, from the Multiple Listing Service to brokerages themselves, via an automated system that selects the best and most complete listing to post. Shuman said the accuracy of those posts depend on the accuracy of those inputting the data: the agents.
Abbott calls that answer "lacking" because it doesn't account for the overstatement of inventory on third-party sites, especially inactive listings that are still up.
What's important to note is that these third-party real estate sites are all different, particularly in how they get and display their information.
For example, Realtor.com gets its listings directly from more than 900 Multiple Listing Services throughout the country, with permissions, said Julie Reynolds, vice president of the company. On the other hand, Trulia and Zillow get their data from a mix of sources: Multiple Listing Services, real estate brokerages and third-party syndicators.
Reps from aggregator sites along with some real estate practitioners say ARG's decision is a step back for the industry because the anti-syndicator movement will miss out on sale opportunities at popular websites such as Trulia and Zillow, where millions of consumers are already flocking. If more brokerages cut off their listing access, then potential buyers won't get a full picture of what's on the market, they argue.
Abbott, of ARG, said syndication means bad business. Some third-party sites either fail to feature the correct listing agent and show another agent, or the correct agent is not featured prominently enough to get the attention of clients, he added.
In the video, he says some consumers have been routed to call centers who link them to agents who may not know the area you're scouring well and may steer homebuyers away from the initial home.
The biggest losers in ARG's decision, aggregator officials and some real estate pros say, are those trying to sell their homes.
"Sellers hire a brokerage to market and sell their homes, a big part of which is marketing the homes to the broadest audience possible," said Amy Bohutinsky, Zillow's chief marketing officer. "In December, more than 23 million unique users visited Zillow's websites and mobile apps."
Jeffrey Douglass, owner of San Diego-based RealtyV2.com, made waves among his real estate peers with a blog called "Why ARG is wrong about listing syndication":
Choice is almost always a benefit to the consumer on where and how they want to search for real estate. Organized real estate through (Internet Data Exchange) , (virtual office website's) and syndication have let the cat out of the bag, and now some are trying to put the cat back in the bag – I don't see a benefit to the Seller who gets less exposure, or to the Buyer who needs to use the listing agent.
My goodness, it is the Internet.
Want to read more about the subject? Jay Thompson, also known as Phoenix Real Estate Guy, breaks down Abbott's video and gives a good overview of the hotly debated issue of real estate aggregators.
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A few of the last roses of the season ~
For the kitchen table I like to mix them with herbs, this time rosemary.
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Pretty, pretty. I mix herbs and flowers too. I found that dill heads are very attractive in arrangements. Love everything you post, Mary.ReplyDelete
Lovely...sad to think the roses will be a memory soon...


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So I am creating a slot machine game were it plays and then picks a random number between 1-10 and then ask the user if he wants to play again if they put in y they play again and if no it stops. So What Am I doing wrong? Sorry the problem is that I can see would you like to play again but I can actually get it to generate the numbers and then have it print out would you like to play again.
<YOUR CODE HERE> package HW10; import java.util.Scanner; public class HW10 { public static void main(String[] args) { //This header explains what the program does System.out.println("This program randomly generates a number between 1 and 10"); //Declares variables String another = "y"; int slot1; int slot2; int slot3; //Ask the use to input a yes or a no. Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in); System.out.print("Would you like to continue y or n:"); another = keyboard.toString(); //Add comments while(another.equalsIgnoreCase("y")); { slot1 = (int) (Math.random() *(10)); slot2 = (int) (Math.random() *(10)); slot3 =(int) (Math.random() *(10)); } slot1 = slot2 = slot3 = slot2; } }


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I've been out of the loop more than ever concerning WoW. First I had the guild issue, then the raiding issue, then the vacation and then the life changing disaster. When I finally crawl back up and peek over the edge of my table and onto my computer screen I notice that shit has been going on while I was gone. Who'd have guessed it? Suddenly I feel like them people who seem to have no clue whatsoever when a patch hits. I usually think "how could he not know?". Now I know how. You know, them people who go;
"Druids have chicken form now?"
"What are these Death Knights I see running around?"
Yeah, that's gonna be me during 4.3, and maybe even Mists of Pandaria if I don't get cracking on reading up on everything that was announced during Blizzcon. Or maybe, I'll just let it be a surprise this time. Maybe I'll just let myself be clueless and bedazzled, kind of like the first time I set foot in WoW.
I have been checking up on one thing though. When I left for vacation, tier 13 for priests hadn't been announced yet, to my great annoyance. I was betting they'd announce it last just to make sure I wouldn't be able to see it until I got home, although I don't actually know if it did come out last or not. Either way, I've seen it now, and I love it. I thought I loved tier 12. I realize now that that was only because I really hated tier 11. When I didn't hate tier 12 I mistook it for love, such an easy mistake. But I knew true love when I set eyes on tier 13.
I'm not even sure just exactly what's so great about it. It feels unique, interesting, cool. It feels like it perfectly suits both the caring (?) healing priest and the not so caring (?) shadow priest. It feels like the designers hit the spot about what I think about priests for the first time since tier 8 - like they managed to put what being a priest is all about into clothing. But maybe even more so since it doesn't actually yell "priest" the way some other nice priest tiers have done. Maybe I am just being delusional. Either way I love it. Now I can only hope that it looks half decent on a goblin (pff, yeah right).
But the tier 13 isn't actually what I wanted to talk about with this post. Because I've been naughty and sneak-peaked on one other thing (oh and I know pandarens will come in Mists of Pandaria). Someone told me the talent trees were getting a complete overhaul, and I initially thought "Sure, for the tenth time in a row". But this time around it actually looks like Blizzard have tried to make a complete overhaul. I know they've been trying to present us with difficult choices since they designed the very first talent tree, and it has been Blizzard wettest dream to have players choose to play different styles of the same spec. In some cases they have succeded, like discipline priests who use or don't use Atonement. But in nearly any other case there is a cookie-cutter spec, and in end game raiding there is just little to warrant using anything but whatever will give you the best chance at killing that ugly boss.
Designing fights and talents that allow for personal style must be a nightmare, frankly I get a headache just thinking about it. It is basically impossible to make two things worth equally much, so how on Azeroth do you make someone choose the lesser choice? The only answer I can see to that question is that you make the choices good enough to warrant some taking the lesser just because it is also needed in the big picture. That way you'll have some people who can do A and some who can do B, and eventhough A might be better than B if you had to choose, having both in a raid is still the best alternative of all. This seems to mean that the one-direction orientation style class specs that we've seen for the last six years are gone as we know it, and I can't say I'm very sorry. I'm usually interested in giving new things a shot. Now, we can only really talk about the class, as each player can choose freely between different style talents. It will indeed be very interesting to see if Blizzard succeed this time around.
I am sure plenty of posts have been written about the choices we can make, but no Jinxed Thoughts post has been done yet! As always most of the talents will probably change until they go into action (whenever that is), but musing about what we know is fun nonetheless.
Now remember that I jumped straight into this and probably haven't really understood it all just yet. I'll just go through the different tiers and discuss which choice would be the best or most interesting from a healing priest perspective.
Tier 1
Void Tendrils: Summons Shadowy Tendrils out of the ground, rooting all targets within 10 yards for 20 seconds. Killing the tendril will cancel the effect.
Psyfiend: Summons a Psyfiend that stands in place. The Psyfiend casts a Psychic Scream on a nearby enemy within 40 yards every 2 sec lasting for 10 sec, preferring anything attacking the priest or her friends.
Psychic Scream: The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.
None of these choices are aimed at healing, since all seem to be about crowd control (for some reason) - something healers aren't known to use very frequently in a pve setting after level 80. I could probably count the amount of times I've found fear to be useful for my healing in a raid on my left hand fingers, which means both Psychic Scream and Psyfiend don't come off as very interesting choices for the pveing healing priest. That leaves Void Tendrils, which basically is a sort of Nature's Grasp/Roots. As I know nothing about how the raid fights will be designed in MoP it's difficult to say how useful this will be, but assuming that Blizzard keeps somewhat the same style as they have for the last couple of years, it still feels like some roots could be more useful than a fear.
Pvpers are going to have a field day with these choices though, and it is also interesting to note that this means Psychic Scream won't be baseline for priests anymore.
Tier 2
Body & Soul: When you cast Power Word: Shield or Leap of Faith, you increase the target's movement speed by 60% for 4 sec.
Path of the Devout: Increases your movement speed while Levitating by 25%.
Phantasm: Anytime you fade, you remove all movement impairing effects from yourself and your movement speed will be unhindered for 3 sec.
To me, the choice lies between Body & Soul and Path of the Devout. What we really got to choose between here is whether we want to be able to give run speed or have it ourselves. Experience tells me run speed is a really nice thing, and I do like Body & Soul. Unlike PotD, Body & Soul is something we can both use ourselves and cast on other people. On the other hand, PotD is a buff that lies on for a lot longer than B&S, unless you're in a fight with continuous aoe damage (and we all know they aint that uncommon). And B&S is handy, but how often do I really use it? In all honesty I use it more often to save my own ass than anyone elses, because giving someone a 60% speed increase without them knowing it doesn't always mean it will be put to good use. In the end I think it comes down to just how many of the MoP fights are about continuous aoe damage, because otherwise I think I would prefer having that 25% runspeed for myself even more than being able to hand out some speed on occasion.
Tier 3
From Darkness, Comes Light (caster form): You have a 6% chance when you Smite, Heal, Flash Heal, Binding Heal or Greater Heal to cause your next Flash heal to be instant cast and have no mana cost.
Divine Star: Fires a Divine Star in front of you, traveling 20 yards doing damage to all enemies and healing all friendly targets in its path. After reaching its destination, it will return to you also dealing damage and healing all targets in its path.
Archangel (caster form): Consumes your Evangelism, increasing your healing done by 5% for each Evangelism consumed.
Two oldies and a newbie. I've never been a fan of Surge of Light the way it was redesigned in Cata. I realize it was perhaps a little too good in its earlier forms (especially when it was bugged to proc from other priests crits!), but nerfing it to the ground wasn't the right way to go. Blizzard have tried to repent by making it proc from more and more spells, but I am still not very satisfied with this talent. Unless they change it to proc more often I still don't feel like it is something I would want.
Throughout Cata, I've had pretty much the same feelings for Archangel. As it is now, Archangel is a nice but not very needed buff to our healing. For MoP however, Blizzard are upping the incentive with 5% extra healing per stack, making the Archangel buff 10% more effective than it is now. 25% extra healing when you need it could actually make a difference, like when say the tank is really taking a pounding and you need that extra oomph, or there is some heavy aoe damage that needs to be healed up quickly. It might just be what Archangel needs to be a real healing tool and not just for funsies. There is also the question as to how you gather Evangelism stacks in MoP, the same way as today or a completely new way? Will that suit the raiding style of MoP or not? If gathering stacks becomes too much of a hassle, it might not be worth it.
Divine Star looks really interesting, but there is no saying how useful it is (which on the other hand, goes for all the skills since we don't know how they'll work in MoP). Being a cone effect basically, it has all the drawbacks of Light of Dawn, like the paladin constantly having to reposition to get the most out of it. This makes it mostly useful for situations where there is a lot of aoe damage and the raid group is huddled. If it is weak like Sanctuary has been most of Cata, there really isn't much use to it either. I don't like LoD, but I know many paladins do, so Divine Star is a pretty open card. Looking at what I do know about these talents I'd probably initially try Divine Star, but keep a very close eye on Archangel.
Tier 4
Desperate Prayer: Instantly heals the caster for 30% of their total health.
Angelic Bulwark: Increases the effectiviness of your own shield effects on yourself by 30%.
Final Prayer: Anytime a damaging attack brings you below 30% health, you gain an absorption shield equal to 20% of your total health lasting 20 sec. This effect cannot occur more than once every 90 sec.
This seems to be the ego-tier, seeing as all talents are aimed at saving your own ass. So which will do that best? Which one equates to the most healing? Depending on how useful shields will be in MoP, seeing as they have climbed up and down the useful ladder pretty frequently the last year, I feel like Angelic Bulwark is a really interesting choice. Assuming shields will work the way they do in Cata, with a 15 sec "cooldown" in Weakened Soul, 30% is quite a lot and will add up to a pretty strong shield. I think it will be more useful than a 2 minute and 90 sec cooldown. I prefer "weak but often" over "strong but rare". "Strong but rare" is usually better for tanks, "weak but often" usually works better for everyone else.
Tier 5
Twist of Fate: Increases the damage and healing done to targets at or below 25% health.
Power Infusion: Infuses the target with power, increasing spell casting speed by 20% and reducing the mana cost of all spells by 20%.
Serendipity (caster form): When you heal with Binding Heal or Flash Heal, the cast time of your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing spell is reduced by 10%/20% and mana cost reduced by 10/20%.
To me the choice is fairly simple in this tier. I am a huge fan of Power Infusion, always have been. It is an awesome healing cooldown, or dps cooldown if you want to use it on a fellow caster (like if). Yet again, it will depend a little on how the fights work in MoP, but if these choices were given to me today I'd go with Power Infusion without hesitation. To me it seems like the best from both Twist of Fate and Serendipity, in giving that extra oomph just when I need it.
Tier 6
Vow of Unity: You create a Vow of Unity with the friendly target. whenever you heal the target through spells and effects, you are also healed equal to 20% of this amount. In addition, when the target is attacked, 50% of the damage is redirected to you over 6 sec. if your target is victim to an attack greater than 30% of their total health, the Vow of Unity ends.
Void Shift: You swap health percentage with the current friendly target. After this effect ends, you are instantly healed for 25% of your total health.
Vampiric Dominance: When you deal damage or healing, 15% of the amount is healed to up to 3 low-health nearby allies.
When Blizzard talked about giving us tough choices, this is what they must've meant. Until now I've felt like the choices haven't been that difficult, but these actually all seem very useful. Vow of Unity seems really interesting, although maybe a little too dangerous to be really useful. Taking 50% of a tanks damage as healer could be devastating (like when I used Hand of Sacrifice on the tank on Baleroc just before a Decimation Blade). Would we want to use it on anything else than a tank? Difficult to say. I really like the idea of Vow of Unity, but it seems a little too much out of control to be good in pve.
Void Shift is dangerous too. Saving the tank (or someone else close to death) is a good thing to do, but it also means you instead will be close to death for a short while. How much will this be an issue? Difficult to say, but it means we won't be able to use it at leisure as with most heavy cooldowns, but have to make sure we're not using it just before a huge aoe slams down on us.
Vampiric Dominance is basically a 15% increase to our healing output, which looks insanely tasty. Eventhough both Vow of Unity and Void Shift look good, I'm not sure about their practical usefulness. 15% extra healing however, is always very useful and makes sure that we can do some aoe healing even when focusing on point healing, something priests haven't been very good at during Cata. For tier 6 I'd most likely go with Vampiric Dominance (which probably will be nerfed to 3% or something, before it goes live).
So there you have it! We can be 99% sure that the talent trees will look nothing like this in a couple of months, but I will be following the progress closely. One thing is certain: Blizzard mean serious business about making talents a real choice for us now. I really hope they succeed.


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"American Idol" is switching things around this week due to "medical issues" related to one contestant.
FOX reps announced on Tuesday morning that the Top 10 male semifinalists will now perform tonight instead of the women, a change related to dreadlocked singer, and a judges' favorite, Crystal Bowersox.
"Due to medical issues which would prevent Crystal Bowersox from performing tonight, the 10 male semifinalists will perform this evening, and the 10 female semifinalists will perform tomorrow night," the network announced on Tuesday.
No further details were available about the singer's "medical issues."
Next week, the competition is expected to return to its usual format of the woman performing on Tuesday and the men on Wednesday.
FOX also announced that on Thursday, Danny Gokey, third runner-up from Season 8, will perform his new single, "My Best Days Are Ahead of Me." The same night, four more contestants will go home – two women and two men.
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An SD reader has sent us his notification of cancellation of auto insurance from GEICO effective 1/22/13 due to the fact that "the vehicle does not meet our underwriting guidelines because it is used in conjunction with a company that deals in the weapons industry".
First Bank of America began confiscating the funds of firearms dealers, now GEICO believes it can cancel service for anyone working in the firearms industry. Who needs gun bans when the the banksters are more than willing to do the dirty work and pull strong armed corruption Chicago style stunts?
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No one tried to sell me a private plane this time, but I did get laughed out of the Lamborghini Greenwich tent. I figured I could smooth talk my way into a test drive if I wore enough seersucker. I was wrong. That wasn't much of a surprise, but something else was: I love Packards (I had no idea). On a 90-plus degree day in Greenwich it was time to celebrate American Iron. Rolling sculptures of sheetmetal were on display, ringed by vendors of $100,000-and-up European cars with a legitimate chance to make a sale. You want to recreate the vibe? Have about three beers to give yourself a pleasant, low-grade buzz, get yourself some deck shoes, a belt with whales on it, and two matching dogs on one leash, and then go stand in a sauna with The Girl From Ipanema playing in the background. That's about right. The sights and commentary are in the galleries. As always, the show started in the parking lot.
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{Photography.29.1}: Kevin Carr {peddler} Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:55:43 CDT (4 lines)
This title should be self-explanatory <http://members19.clubphoto.com/kevin752747/1590791/owner-ad37.phtml>
{Photography.29.2}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:39:40 CDT (5 lines)
Sunsets are nice too. Have you ever seen the green flash? I sure haven't, although some of my friends in the Western Pacific with a fine view of the sunset, make a point of watching for it every night--they haven't either.
{Photography.29.3}: Kevin Carr {peddler} Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:48:58 CDT (1 line)
No, I haven't. I've seen plenty of northern lights, though. :]
{Photography.29.4}: Which Hazel? {hazel2} Sat, 06 Sep 2003 23:32:13 CDT (7 lines)
Nice sunsets, Kevin. I have spent 57 years living near the Pacific Ocean, 30 of them living right on water and looking at the sun sink into the sea every single night. I have to say that I have looked and looked for this green flash and have never seen it. Not once. I'm convinced it's a myth.
{Photography.29.5}: Suzanne Griffith {sggriffith} Sun, 07 Sep 2003 03:14:28 CDT (3 lines)
I saw that in Texas once, but I know a photographer in California who said he saw it all the time. I think you need to train your eye somehow.
{Photography.29.6}: Ken Jackson {maheanuu1} Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:45:22 CDT (11 lines)
Green Flashes depend on the amount of humidity in the air. It is caused by the filtering out of all the colors of light except the green due to the fact the air is heavily compressed at sea level, and happens just as the sun disappears below the horizon. Being a sailor, I have seen it hundreds of times and living in the South Pacific also gives me an advantage as we have days with no clouds.. Many times however, the clouds build on the horizon just as the sun is dropping and you will not see the flash... For sure it is not a myth, and physics will tell you that you cannot see it if you are at higher altitudes as the air is thinner there.
{Photography.29.7}: Mike Harvey {mikeharvey} Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:53:31 CDT (3 lines)
Ken - it sounds like it's cool to be you. :^)
{Photography.29.8}: Judy Johnson {judy} Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:39:25 CDT (1 line)
Beautiful sunsets, Kevin. I especially like the framed sky shot.
{Photography.29.9}: Kevin Carr {peddler} Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:59:22 CDT (19 lines)
Thank you Judy! Hah! I finally got back into my old hosting site. Now I can show you some of those pics in a form closer to what they actually look like in my files. <http://www.imagemagician.org/images/wordphoole/sunsets/sep03sunset2.j pg> <http://www.imagemagician.org/images/wordphoole/sunsets/sep03sunset1.j pg> <http://www.imagemagician.org/images/wordphoole/sunsets/sep03sunset3.j pg> <http://www.imagemagician.org/images/wordphoole/sunsets/geesexclouds.j pg> http://www.imagemagician.org/images/wordphoole/holeinsky1.jpg
{Photography.29.10}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:15:49 CDT (3 lines)
Those geese are pretty neat. So's the last one.
{Photography.29.11}: Painted desert morning {tomcoleman} Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:06:31 CDT (HTML)
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{Photography.29.13}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:05:32 CDT (4 lines)
I like both of those. The last one looks so natural. But I've tried a few times and I know how those colors don't work worth flip when photographed.
{Photography.29.14}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:39:49 CDT (HTML)
Sunset at the mall. Sun ain't quite right, though.
{Photography.29.15}: Tom Coleman {tomcoleman} Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:47:59 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.29.16}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:54:26 CDT (1 line)
I knew there was a Painted Desert.
{Photography.29.17}: Ken Jackson {maheanuu1} Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:28:44 CDT (HTML)
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{Photography.29.19}: Ken Jackson {maheanuu1} Mon, 08 Sep 2003 23:31:57 CDT (4 lines)
Uturere Gold Summer Sunset early January 2003 Uturere Raiatea French Polynesia.... http://mah.smugmug.com/photos/731348-M.jpg
{Photography.29.20}: Kai Hagen {kai} Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:04:47 CDT (HTML)
I've been fortunate to live in some places with amazing sunset views from home or nearby, especially our place in the Bay Area.
Much as I love it where we are now, being in the middle of the forest, in a swale between two higher ridges, means sunset is something that happens to a patch in the sky straight above and some slight color through the trees to the west, maybe. Better in winter, but the ridge still makes the horizon close.
Fortunately, there are some spots not too far away that offer great sunset views, but I'm only there if I make an effort to catch a sunset.
And sometimes we all just happen to be in the right place at the right time. I took this at the end of soccer practice last fall.
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{Photography.29.21}: Ken Jackson {maheanuu1} Tue, 09 Sep 2003 03:50:02 CDT (4 lines)
That is fantastic Kai, you live in Minnesota I take it.... I spent some time back there when I worked for Sperry Univac in the Midway District between St. Paul and Minneapolis... Coldest place I have ever been in my life but great people...
{Photography.29.22}: Tom Coleman {tomcoleman} Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:13:19 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.29.23}: Sophie {morgane} Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:29:29 CDT (4 lines)
Well, at first I thought "Painted Desert" meant you may have painted it, but I didn't see any signs of it, Tom. I had never heard of the Painted Desert before, I guess it was named that way because of its beautiful colors?
{Photography.29.24}: Tom Coleman {tomcoleman} Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:44:40 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.29.25}: Kai Hagen {kai} Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:44:37 CDT (5 lines)
We visited the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert on our way across Arizona in '95. It lived up to the billing. http://www.webshots.com/g/33/623-nw/32922.html http://www.galenfrysinger.com/painted_desert_arizona.htm
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What is Depression?
- It is normal to feel "sad" or "blue" at times. Depression is different from these temporary feelings. Clinical depression is a biological, treatable illness that involves abnormal functioning of the brain's chemicals that affects a person's emotions, thoughts, energy, sleep, concentration and impairs how they feel about themselves and their relationships and the world.
- Globally, more than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression.
- Depression is an illness and therefore someone cannot "just get over it."
- Depression is a family illness. If one person in a family suffers from depression it affects the entire family.
- Although rare, even preschool aged children may develop symptoms of depression. By age 18, between 15 to 25% of adolescents will experience a major depressive episode.
- Peak years of onset of depression: 16-24 years old.
- After age 15, girls and women are twice as likely as boys and men to have depression.
- There are effective treatments for depression. Early identification and treatment are very important in improving outcomes.
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In Massachusetts
Organizations with hotlines
Call2Talk is a confidential mental health and emotional support call line that assists individuals and families through stressful times in their lives, helping the despondent and those who may be suicidal. When calling Call2Talk, those who are struggling with mental health concerns have a safe place to call and will be encouraged to discuss their current experience. Some callers even talk openly about their thoughts of suicide and are in search of options. By sharing their personal stories of tragedy, recovery, despair and grief, callers feel relief, comfort and hope.
Samaritans' Crisis Services are available 24 hours a day/seven days a week. If one is feeling isolated, desperate or uncertain about anything in your life, this orginization is here to hear about it – contact them anytime. The services are free, confidential, and anonymous. There are Samaritans staff on-site 24 hours a day to support those who phone, chat or text our volunteers for help. Samaritans' Crisis Services include a 24-hour befriending service and online emotional support via text and phone call.
Organizations without hotlines
Adolescent Wellness, Inc.
(877) 870-4673 (Anonymous Text Line)
Adolescent Wellness, a non-profit 501c-3 organization, was founded to simplify prevention of depression and suicide in adolescents. A primary activity is creating awareness of prevention resources from McLean Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, which are available to every school with any grade 7-12, including universal preventive intervention curricula. The newest work is in teen leadership programming on resilience and referral through supportive key adults.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance DBSA Merrimack Valley
888- 280-7773
DBSA Merrimack Valley is a peer- based self-help support group focusing on issues surrounding bipolar and depressed individuals and their families. They are affiliated with the National Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. The mission of DBSA is to improve the lives of people living with mental illness. No appointments or referrals are needed to participate in their free groups. Meetings are open to anyone who suffer from the symptoms of a mood disorder, families and friends. Due to the sensitivity of the issues discussed and the privacy of our members, participants in group must be at least 18 years of age. Weekly meeting s are held:
- Thursday 7:00-8:30pm at 1195 Varnum Avenue, Lowell MA in the Lowell First Church of The Nazarene
Depression Bipolar Support Alliance of Boston (DBSA-Boston)
DBSA-Boston (formerly known as MDDA-Boston) is a resource for people with affective disorders - and their families and friends. Affective disorders such as bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness) and clinical depression affect millions of people every year. Coping with these disorders is difficult enough, but coping alone can be even tougher.
DBSA-Boston (Depression Bipolar Support Alliance) is a nonprofit, self-help organization run by and for people with affective disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. DBSA members come together to share support and information with others in similar situations.
Elder Community Care
"Elder Community Care is a network of agencies working together to serve elders in their own homes. The organization provides comprehensive assessment and counseling services to elders and their families in Metrowest. It also provides comprehensive assessment, counseling and referral services."
Families for Depression Awareness
Families for Depression Awareness is a national nonprofit organization helping families recognize and cope with depressive disorders to get people well and prevent suicides. The site includes information from families and professionals about their experiences with depression as well as a section specifically focused on children and teens.
Gould Farm
Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental illness move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work and individual clinical care.
In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults with depression, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with a Boston-area program for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.
MassMen.org is a comprehensive resource for Massachusetts men and their loved ones, offering statewide mental health information, resources, and online self-assessments. Online self-assessments are provided for free and are available anytime through Screening for Mental Health, Inc.
School Psychiatry Program and MADI Resource Center
For Children and Adolescents: 617-726-2725
For Adults: 617-724-7792
Schoolpsychiatry.org is a joint project of the School Psychiatry Program and the Mood & Anxiety Disorders Institute (MADI) Resource Center, both of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Schoolpsychiatry.org is committed to enhancing the education and mental health of every student in every school. The Mood & Anxiety Disorders Institute (MADI) Resource Center translates the latest research advances into practical information, helping people work with their clinicians toward the most accurate diagnosis and best possible treatment results. The Center also offers resources and support to help people manage daily living with mood and anxiety disorders and cope with the disorders' effects on family relationships.
Springwell, Inc.
Springwell is a private, non-profit agency that has been creating, managing, and coordinating services for seniors, individuals with disabilities and those who help care for them for more than 30 years. Along the way, the organization has amassed a wealth of knowledge and insight about the many public and private resources available. It serves all elders, individuals with disabilities and their families regardless of financial situation or level of need. It's reputation for excellence is why more than 10,000 families turn to it each year for support.
Teenage Anxiety and Depression Solutions
The mission of TADS is to raise awareness about mental health issues in society, especially depression and anxiety, and in so doing, help to prevent suicide. TADS believes education is the key to prevention and that the best way to prevent suicide is through the early recognition and treatment of depression and other psychiatric illnesses. Therefore, TADS concentrates its efforts on advocacy, funding for school-based suicide prevention and mental health education programs, and enabling community-based services.
Outside Massachusetts
Organizations with hotlines
Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing them access to free, 24/7, emotional support and information they need via the medium they already use and trust: text. Just text "HOME" to 741741. Here's how it works:
- A teen texts into CTL anywhere, anytime.
- A live, trained specialist receives the text and responds quickly.
- The specialist helps the teen stay safe and healthy with effective, secure counseling and referrals through text message using CTL's platform.
CTL partners with existing organizations that are experienced, highly trained, and well-equipped to respond to teens in crisis: experienced crisis centers, youth-serving organizations, and experts in the youth and mental health fields. CTL also lists resources on a variety of topics with helplines or email addresses where they can learn about additional support.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments and discover a cure. DBSA's prestigious 65-member Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is comprised of the leading researchers and clinicians in the field of mood disorders. DBSA has a grassroots network of nearly 1,000 patient-run support groups across the country. DBSA has 17 state organizations and more than 400 chapters across America. DBSA publishes more than two dozen educational materials about living with mood disorders, all available free of charge.
919-832-3326 (office)
HopeLine is an organization originally founded by a group of concerned local citizens. In 1970, through local research, they determined that Wake County needed a confidential telephone service for people in crisis to call. HopeLine offers a free crisis service via phone or text and makes referrals to appripriate services. HelpLine also produces many community programs on the helpline itself as well as training on how to recognize signs of distress and appropriate services within the community. Volunteers also run a free reassurance program for senior citizens and those who are disabled consisting of telephone calls as well as crisis counseling.
Kristin Brooks Hope Center
Kristin Brooks Hope Center is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization the focuses on suicide prevention, awareness and education. This organization provides help and hope through college campus and high school events, online suicide crisis chat, suicide crisis hotlines and other educational programs. The Hope Center offers the first networked Hopeline helping to coordinate efforts of over 200 crisis centers across the country. In addition, they support IMAlive, the world's first virtual crisis center, that welcomes volunteers from all over the world. If one needs support, they can call their crisis hotline, or connect with them to chat with an experienced volunteer.
Mental Health America
Office: 703-684-7722
Toll Free: 800-969-6642
Mental Health America (formerly known as the National Mental Health Association) is the nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all Americans. Their work is driven by the commitment to promote mental health as a critical part of overall wellness, including prevention services for all; early identification and intervention for those at risk; integrated care, services, and supports for those who need it; with recovery as the goal.
Postpartum Support International
"Dedicated PSI members, leaders, and friends work tirelessly across all levels to meet goals of the shared PSI mission of support, education, advocacy, and research for people living with mental illness through various activities" including a toll-free helpline, newsletters, support coordinators, and free phone calls with "experts".
Organizations without hotlines
"CAMPAIGN TO END LONELINESS" email@example.com
A coalition of organizations and individuals working together to fight elderly loneliness, elderly depression and to inspire older adults to keep connected and engaged in the UK. of elderly loneliness as well as to increase public awareness of elderly lonliness and become aware of changes in life that can cause loneliness in older age, and to reduce chronic loneliness which may lead to elderly depression. The "Campaign to End Loneliness" Program aims to increase awareness and tackle the underlying factors causing elderly loneliness. The campaign works through research, policy, campaigning and innovation to combat loneliness and inspire individuals to keep connected in older age. The campaign also recognizes the impact that access to senior transportation and senior housing has on elderly loneliness.
Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) - formerly The Anxiety Disorders Association of America - is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the prevention, treatment and cure of anxiety disorders and to improve the lives of all people who suffer from them. ADAA is dedicated to informing the public, health care professionals, and media that anxiety disorders are real, serious, and treatable. ADAA promotes professional and public awareness of anxiety and related disorders (such as PTSD, OCD, panic disorder, social anxiety) and their impact on people's lives. The organization also links people who need treatment with the health care professionals who provide it. The ADAA website also provides listings of anxiety disorder support groups offered across the United States.
Black Mental Health Alliance
"The primary mission of the BMHA is to provide a forum and promote a holistic, culturally relevant approach to the development and maintenance of optimal mental health programs and services for African Americans and other people of color. Further, BMHA promotes appropriate mental health care, service delivery, provider networks, and theoretical understanding through culturally relevant approaches and models in education and consultation". BMHA offers depression screenings, information about mental health fairs, community resource information, and referrals for behavioral health.
Blue Pages: Depression Information
BluePages provides information on treatments for depression based on the latest scientific evidence. BluePages also offers screening tests for depression and anxiety, a depression search engine, and links to other helpful resources.
Chefs with firstname.lastname@example.com
There had never been a study that looked specifically at F&B, so the Heirloom Foundation partnered with Kat Kinsman and her Chefs with Issues project. Heirloom had a PhD epidemiologist and statistician review the findings in the Chefs with Issues survey and for the first time could point to specific problems. They found higher instances of mental health issues, especially depression, anxiety, eating disorders and substance use. They found that the culture in kitchens made most people feel that they couldn't speak openly when they needed help. Those factors combined with long hours, an inability to take sick or personal leave, and minimal health benefits, were creating a hotbed for crisis. This website, and related Facebook community, provides a forum for connection to others who are struggling as well as resources that have been particularly helpful for those in the food and beverage industry.
FAMpod: Families Overcoming and Preventing firstname.lastname@example.com
The FAMpod website represents a resource developed by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital, Judge Baker Children's Center and the Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives at the Wellesley Center for Women, Wellesley College to distill what they have learned from years of research, practice and advocacy into programs that are helpful for individuals experiencing depression, as well as those living with or working with individuals experiencing depression. This effort has culiminated in the creation of 2 free programs both of which are available here. The first, Parent Talk, is a resource developed for parents facing depression within the family and the second, Family Talk, is a training course designed for clinicians helping these families.
Freedom From Fear
(718) 351-1717
Freedom From Fear is a national not-for-profit mental health advocacy association. The mission of FFF is to impact, in a positive way, the lives of all those affected by anxiety, depressive and related disorders through advocacy, education, research and community support. There is plenty of information on anxiety and depression along with self-screening tools for these conditions, referrals for support groups and mental health professionals, and resources on accessing treatment for those with and without health insurance. This website contains valuable information based on research findings on anxiety and depressive illnesses and the treatments that work.
Geriatric Mental Health Foundation
(703) 556-9222
The Geriatric Mental Health Foundation was established by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry to raise awareness of psychiatric and mental health disorders affecting the elderly, eliminate the stigma of mental illness and treatment, promote healthy aging strategies, and increase access to quality mental health care for the elderly. Explore the site for mental health information for older adults and their families, to find a geriatric psychiatrist, for news of Foundation programs and events, and much more.
Mood email@example.com
MoodGYM is an Australian website with an interactive program designed to help you:
- Identify whether you are having problems with emotions like anxiety and depression,
- Learn skills that can help you cope with these emotions.
MoodGYM is based on two programs which are successful in preventing and treating depression and anxiety. These are: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy. MoodGYM is designed to be used by people who would like to prevent mental health problems or manage problems which are troubling but not incapacitating. MoodGYM is not specifically designed for use by people with clinical levels of depression or anxiety. MoodGYM suggests that those with depression scores above 2-3 seek contact with a health professional.
The Balanced Mind Parent Network
Helpline for Resource and Referral: 800-826-3632
The Balanced Mind Parent Network (BMPN), a program of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), guides families raising children with mood disorders to the answers, support and stability they seek. BMPN is a family-focused community for parents of children with mood disorders with 24/7 access to information and support.
The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
Main Line: 646-681-4888
Toll Free: 800-829-8289
The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) is committed to alleviating the suffering of mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research. The BBR Foundation offers news on the research it funds as well as information (documents and videos) about these and other disorders in children and adults. It also provides guidance and resources for families coping with a child or parent with mental illness.


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The May Sands Montessori School is a public school, open to all children, striving to reflect the diversity of our community.
Our innovative academic program, rooted in the teachings of Dr. Maria Montessori, challenges the student, individually, in a safe and nurturing environment.
Students are guided in the development of self-discipline, self-confidence, cooperation and responsibility; and are instilled with solid foundations in intellectual growth, humanitarianism and peace.
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As a public school of choice, our Primary program offers an introduction to the Montessori learning environment for students in their Kindergarten year.
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Students in our Upper Elementary learning environments exercise their growing independence by means of increased responsibility, through peer collaboration, and by exhibiting follow-through with independent studies.
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Dr. Montessori had a vision for the Early Secondary program, and students at May Sands Montessori are guided in their academic development using the essential components of her vision.
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When reading Tahmima Anam's moving debut novel, A Golden Age, it will be helpful to keep two things close at hand: a box of tissues and the number to a really good Indian takeout.
The story of a widowed mother's fight to keep her son and daughter safe during Bangladesh's war for independence functions as both a riveting tale and a lament for the atrocities the people suffered during Pakistan's invasion in 1971. But the novel is also full of beauty, with Anam celebrating the poetry and food of her homeland. A longing for samosas and biryani is guaranteed to hit a reader by the third chapter. I'd recommend eating before continuing, because the horrors that left an estimated 3 million dead and turned 10 million more into refugees is sure to roil your stomach.
Between 1948 and 1971, Bangladesh was actually known as East Pakistan. The British attached the halves during the partition of India because they both had Muslim majorities. Unfortunately, the two sides didn't share a common geography, language, or culture. "What sense did it make, to have a country in two halves, poised on either side of India like a pair of horns?" Anam's heroine wonders at one point. Rehana Haque actually embodies the divided nature of Pakistan: An Urdu-speaking woman from the wealthier west, she's made the Bengali east her home. And years before the rest of her country, she suffers an invasion from western Pakistan. In 1959, Rehana's children are taken from her, when her brother-in-law from Lahore has the young widow declared an unfit mother in court. ("Milord, Mrs. Haque is distressed; she needs her rest," the childless man declares in a breathtaking piece of self-justification.) It takes Rehana more than a year to raise enough money to bribe the judge and bring her children home. More than a decade later, her children now university students, Rehana is still racked by guilt, and the forced separation has defined her life.
On the night of a neighbor's engagement party in March 1971, Pakistan invades after Bangladesh declares independence. While Rehana and her children eat lamb and try to navigate the horrible awkwardness arising from the fact that her son, Sohail, has been in love with the engaged young woman since both were children, soldiers target the university and the Hindi sections of Dhaka, the capital. "Oblivious, they devoured the roast lamb, smacking their lips and sucking on the bones. Later they would remark upon the crudeness of their hunger."
Outraged by the invasion, both Sohail and his sister Maya want to join the rebels. Rehana is torn between admiration for her children's bravery and terror for their safety. "There was a part of her that wanted to allow her children anything – any whimsy, any zeal, any excess," while "another part of her wanted them to have nothing to do with it all, to keep them safe at home."
But, just as a decade earlier, they leave her behind. Maya becomes a press writer for the nationalists in Calcutta, while Sohail joins a rebel cell near home. Only this time, over the course of the novel, Rehana learns how to let them go.
As her friends hide in their homes and pretend the war doesn't exist, Rehana finds herself becoming an involuntary revolutionary. She starts by sewing blankets made from her silk saris.
Then she lets Sohail's rebel friends set up a base in her rental property – vacant since her Hindu tenants fled the persecution by the Pakistani army – and bury guns under her rosebushes.
At first, Rehana is motivated less by nationalist fervor and more by a desire to make her son happy. As his requests become more and more dangerous, Rehana is oddly delighted: "It was the most distasteful, gruesome task," she thinks when Sohail begs for another favor. "But it was also an opportunity. Her son was giving her another chance to atone. The years of slavish devotion, the mothering ... she had always known they would not be enough. She could not help welcoming the prospect of some new sacrifice."
Many comparisons have been made between Anam and Monica Ali, another highly talented Bangladeshi writer who lives in Britain. But where Ali's "Brick Lane," followed the immigrant experiences of a woman living in London, Anam focuses wholly on her native country.
"A Golden Age" is the first of a planned trilogy covering the birth of Bangladesh. Since the novel just keeps getting stronger as it progresses – building to a doozy of an ending – one can only imagine great things from the sequel.


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In the manual of this device I found out that the only way to get new firmware installed is via a Windows PC. The reason I got this box is bacause it runs XUbuntu. I use (X)Ubuntu on all my computers. No need for Windows. So I was stuned by this finding...
How can I put in new firmware in this box using Ubuntu Linux??
Every (X)Ubuntu user knows it is not wise to update to a new version by upgrading.
For those not so familiar to (X)Ubuntu, find a offical ubunto forum; xubuntu.org/help/


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Experts in plumbing and heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC). Analysis of errors and omissions, compliance with professional and trade practices, specifications, failure analysis, pipe and piping failures, and design deficiencies in utility systems. Plumbing & HVAC experts serve as expert witnesses and forensic consultants in North Dakota legal matters, and provide expert reports and testimony for judges, attorneys, lawyers, law firms, insurance companies and government agencies in Federal and state court trials and arbitrations in North Dakota.
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Ivey Engineering performs forensic engineering, building system design, testing & analysis, and provides expert witness testimony. We do not charge for airfare or travel time. The firm specializes in HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Protection & Alarm Systems, Smoke Migration, Carbon Monoxide, Refrigeration, Cost Estimating, Building Code Analysis. Contact Rush Porter for information.
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Jefferson City, TN
Roger Griffith, P.E. provides engineering design, forensic analysis, and expert witness consulting in plumbing, fuel gas systems, HVAC, and fire protection. Specialty areas include hot water systems, scalding, legionella, carbon monoxide poisoning related to venting of gas appliances, and fuel gas fires and explosions. He has provided expert witness services, including deposition and trial testimony for over fourteen years.


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Making Ends Meet
She lives in the space between the here and there.
She floats along, grasps at false hopes and tempered dreams; she places small bets on the purchase of Glocks vs. the instincts of simple prayer. And in this space, there's sometimes desolation and despair. The chafing between the haves and the have-nots.
Border town.
She sucks electricity illegally from the utility pole that's next to an Airbnb Airstream, where faint whispers of conscience of what she's doing to make ends meet are muddled with the windmill-attacking dedication to the truly downtrodden. She feeds her neighbor's dog, which is chained to a nearly dead mesquite tree, illegally over the fence. The guy she shares the fence with is probation officer; he's already called the sheriff on her three times. Yet she documents the animal's cruelty on her cell phone.
The borrowed bold cutters and calls to a no-kill shelter the next county over means she'll be moving soon. Again.
She makes $11.50 an hour waiting tables at a fancy stop on the foodie trail – a place where her own creeping morality could never afford. A novice in the ranks of the true guerrilla extremists in the food service industry, she mainly picks her nose and touches the pan-seared duck breast with fresh blueberry compote, or the date pudding with the caramelized rum sauce. She smiles as she does this, and again when she goes to ask how everything is tasting and the foodies oooohhhh and aaaaahhh and Instagram the event like it's a baptism. Blissful ignorance, yes, but it's the least she can do to help stick it to The Man – or at the very least, try and make some sense of the absurdities of life today.
It's a living. She has a calling. Misdirected as it is some days. It is an ethos.
And that's good enough for her. For the right now.
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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs is inactive against the Washington Redskins because of a torn right biceps.
Suggs' status for Sunday had been considered a game-time decision. He injured his arm in last weekend's loss to Pittsburgh. Suggs also missed the season's first six weeks with a torn Achilles tendon.
As expected, tight end Ed Dickson (knee) and linebacker Dannell Ellerbe (ankle) are inactive for the Ravens.
For the Redskins, kick returner and receiver Brandon Banks is inactive. He had not been listed as being injured.
Linebacker London Fletcher (ankle), cornerback DeAngelo Hall (ankle) and left tackle Trent Williams (thigh bruise) are active for Washington.


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AT&T has been expanding its network capabilities and increasing access to research from AT&T Labs across a range of mobile development platforms, including IBM Worklight. Part of the IBM MobileFirst Application and Data Platform, IBM Worklight is an open, comprehensive and advanced mobile app platform for mobile devices.
Now, the AT&T API Platform, featuring IBM Worklight Adapters, will enable the more than 31,000 members of the AT&T Developer Program to quickly create and securely deploy enterprise apps that improve subscriber engagement and customer loyalty. With these adapters that support AT&T's ecosystem of APIs including those for speech, SMS, device capabilities, notary management and payment, developers can quickly and securely create rich, business-ready apps across a variety of platforms including iOS, Android and Windows.
"AT&T is committed to the success of our rapidly growing developer community. By expanding our platform's reach and making our API toolkit available on an expanding number of platforms, including IBM Worklight, our developers have the information, tools and resources to continue to build great things and contribute to the mobile ecosystem in meaningful new ways," said Carlton Hill, vice president, developer services, AT&T.
The agreement between IBM and AT&T is timely as Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are faced with the challenge of providing a more personalized mobile experience for their customers and meeting rising demand for quick access to services and innovative apps. Some of the various opportunities enabled by the AT&T Worklight adapters include:
- Efficient Family Communication: Use voicemail–to-text features to transcribe family voicemails, and then post the voice notes to a centralized area for all family members to see.
- Customizable Mobile Payments: Organizations gain the flexibility to control the look and feel of how they present purchase options as well as how they deliver digital goods to the customer.
- Empowered Mobile Workforce: Teams in the field can communicate more efficiently, using SMS to communicate with customers, submit orders and check delivery status.
The AT&T APIs provide the global mobile development community with easy-to-use on-ramps that accelerate app development. The IBM developerWorks community will benefit from a single, easily accessible source of trusted mobile and telecommunications content via the AT&T Developer Program to streamline development processes. Additionally, members of the AT&T developer community using the pre-built IBM Worklight Adapters can further reduce time to market, cost and complexity of development and enable a better user experience across a variety of mobile devices.
"As the business opportunities associated with mobile technologies move beyond the device to the enterprise, we must continue to invest in tools and resources that enable developers to create apps that meet changing demands. Our partners at AT&T share this commitment to building out the mobile development ecosystem and driving more value from mobile technologies," said Phil Buckellew, vice president, mobile strategy, IBM. "With access to some of the most powerful development tools in the industry, developers will now be better able to help organizations accelerate and monetize their mobile strategies."
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As the first new technology platform for business to emerge since the World Wide Web, mobile computing represents one of the greatest opportunities for organizations to expand their business. Based on nearly 1,000 customer engagements, 10 mobile-related acquisitions in the last four years, a team of thousands of mobile experts and 270 patents in wireless innovations, IBM MobileFirst offers an array of solutions that helps businesses connect, secure, manage and develop mobile networks, infrastructures and applications.
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by Michael Markarian
— Our thanks to Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSLF), for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on his blog Animals & Politics on August 13, 2013.
Congress is on recess in August, but facing the remaining task to iron out a final Farm Bill and decide the outcome of Rep. Steve King's (R-Iowa) destructive provision seeking to nullify state rules relating to agricultural standards. In addition to repealing protections for farm animals, horses, sharks, and dogs, the King amendment could also wipe out of hundreds of state laws protecting food safety, crop protection, fire safety, and more.
When federal animal welfare laws are proposed in the Congress, such as legislation to make it a federal offense to bring a child to a dogfight, King often proclaims that the federal government should back out and leave such matters to the states. However, in the case of King's Farm Bill amendment, he's made it clear that he doesn't want the states to have a say on these issues either. His sweeping amendment is so broad and overreaching that hundreds of state laws that have nothing to do with animals are also on King's chopping block.
That's a primary reason the National Conference of State Legislatures sent a letter to House and Senate committee leaders urging them to strip King's dangerous provision from the Farm Bill. In the bipartisan letter, New Hampshire Speaker of the House Terie Norelli (D-N.H.) and Oregon State Sen. Bruce Starr (R-Ore.)—the president and president-elect, respectively, of NCSL—write that the King amendment "would preempt vital state agricultural policies designed to protect the safety and well being of our farmland, waterways, forests and most importantly, our constituents." They add that the King amendment "would also have significant economic effects across the states" and would target "state laws that were approved by state legislatures for the purpose of protecting the health and safety of consumers and the viability of our precious farmland and forests."
Members of Congress are also speaking out and standing up against this political power grab. In the last few days, 23 members of the U.S. Senate signed a group letter led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and 166 members of the House signed either a Democratic letter led by Reps. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) or a Republican letter led by Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) sent to the leaders of their chamber's Agriculture Committee expressing strong opposition to the King amendment.
This morning at the NCSL annual conference in Atlanta, state lawmakers are holding a press conference to highlight the assault on states' rights the King amendment poses, and to call on their federal counterparts in Washington to nix this radical and dangerous provision from the final Farm Bill. And you can tell them the same. Now is the time to contact your U.S. Representative and two U.S. Senators to let them know that the King amendment to the Farm Bill has got to go.


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Thank you for your interest in Forest Plan Revision. Forest Plan Revision on the Salmon-Challis began in January 2017. In September 2019, Forest Supervisor Chuck Mark announced the Salmon-Challis National Forest would evaluate the 1988 Salmon Forest Plan and the 1987 Challis Forest Plan separately. We are in the process of reviewing and analyzing direction in these existing plans, and we welcome your thoughts during this time.
The purpose of this reading room is to make available comments and information received by the Salmon-Challis National Forest on Forest Plan Revision. Allowing the public to read comments sent to the Forest Service gives an opportunity for exposure to a variety of viewpoints, perspectives, and values regarding management of the Salmon-Challis National Forest.
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Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney Had Two of Top Tours of 2013
Once again, Taylor Swift and Kenny Chesney had two of the top-selling tours of the year.
Swift and Chesney are road warriors and touring is a massive part of each of their businesses, so they almost always wind up on year-end top tour lists for their efforts.
Swift's Red Tour was No. 8 on the list of Top 20 Worldwide Tours of 2013 as reported by Pollstar. The singer will continue the trek across the pond in 2014, as she has sold out multiple nights in England already, causing her to add more dates.
Chesney, who already announced that he will not hit the road in 2014 in order to focus on making a new album, landed at No. 15 with his No Shoes Nation Tour.
We must point out that these nods also speak to the dedication of country fans, who show up and support their favorite acts on tour, buying the tickets and the merchandise. So in essence, these accolades are shared with the fans!
The list was topped by rockers Bon Jovi. Check out this graphic, which outlines the biggest touring grosses of 2013.
Congrats to all the top touring acts of 2013, but extra special congrats to Swift and Chesney!


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"The Amazing Spider-Man" has launched a site called Mark of the Spider, and YouTube channel of the same, which just delivered its first clip from the film.
It's a showdown of the most unlikely sort, as Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) tries to get past the doorman (John Scurti of "Rescue Me" fame) standing between him and Gwen Stacy's apartment.
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Scurti's rapid-fire delivery, with which he assaulted Denis Leary (who stars in the film as Stacy's father) for years on "Rescue Me," is again in full comedic effect, giving us a taste of how director Marc Webb has changed the tone of the franchise.
As much as we enjoyed the Sam Raimi era (well, the start of it), we're happy to see that Webb is bringing back the humor that made Spider-Man such an engaging and unique super hero.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" opens July 3.


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Monday, March 25: Main Streets and Back Roads/Massachusetts Hilltowns
Tonight, Shayna Seymour enjoys an early spring journey through the Massachusetts hilltowns, the area found west of Northampton and east of Pittsfield. She gets a taste of maple sugaring in Ashfield, dairy farming in Williamsburg, and drops in on a most unique store in Goshen. Plus, she tells us about a general store with a Katrina connection, and sees how a New York theater professional pursues a second life making furniture in the Bay State.
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South Face Farm is a great place to see and sample maple sugaring season in Massachusetts. On weekends the sugarhouse restaurant serves homemade pancakes, waffles, corn fritters, and many other special maple goodies.
Ashfield, MA
Elmer's Store was revived by owner Nan Parati when she relocated from New Orleans to Massachusetts after Hurricane Katrina. The store offers great food (Yankee Magazine loved their pancakes) and all kinds of community events. Nan also runs an inn across the street, The Inn at Norton Hill.
Ashfield, MA
Jeffrey Dreisbach is a New York casting director who makes tree art at his second home in Massachusetts.
RusticForRest Tree Art Furniture
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Snow Farm is the home of The New England Craft Program
Williamsburg, MA
Good Time Stove Company is a family run business that sells and restores the world's finest antique stoves. In the back of the store is an eight acre retreat called Three Sisters Sanctuary which contains gardens, sculpture and art, and is available for weddings and special events.
Goshen, MA
Stump Sprouts Guest Lodge and Cross Country Ski Area offers cross country skiing and other outdoor activities, and is a favored place for family reunions.
West Hawley, MA
Springfield Ski Club is celebrating 75 years of running the Blandford Ski Area
Blandford, MA
Chester Railway Station Museum is a peek into the region's railroad history.
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This approach has the potential to drastically reduce the cost of space telescopes, because it's easier to build many small mirrors than it is to construct one big one. It's also a lot more convenient to pack, launch, and deploy a swarm of devices than it is to blast an enormous structure—the James Webb Space Telescope, for example—off Earth.
The Orbiting Rainbows concept has rapidly developed since 1979, and it's currently in Phase II development under NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. In other words, it has been greenlit by NIAC for experimentation, and so far, the results are promising.
For example, a recent experiment led by Orbiting Rainbows co-investigator Grover Swartzlander revealed that the "speckle effect"—the chaotic light distortion inherent to a swarm-style telescope—could be mitigated by using multiple exposures.
Results of Swartzlander's Orbiting Rainbows tests. Credit: NASA/JPL/YouTube.
"This is a major achievement," Quadrelli said, regarding Swartzlander's study. "This demonstrates a highly controlled experiment in which we were able to do imaging in the visible light spectrum."
Orbiting Rainbows is still in the early days of development, and has several more empirical hoops to jump before it's cleared for takeoff. But the mere idea of this wildly creative approach to studying the universe is enough to buoy on space dreamers for the moment. After all, to reiterate, this thing is a rainbow cloud of space glitter, hewn by laser beams, that can image distant alien worlds. NASA, you have truly outdone yourself with this brain gem.
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I am delighted to announce the final release (GM) version of Adobe Configurator 4. Adobe Configurator lets you create your own custom panels for Photoshop and InDesign and now supports Photoshop CC. The latest release supports the new Adobe Exchange. To distribute and share panels you create in Configurator with other Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 users. The Configurator 4 release offers these new features:
- SUPPORT FOR CREATIVE CLOUD: With this release, you can create panels for Photoshop CC, as well as for Photoshop CS6 and InDesign CS6.
- AUTOMATIC CONVERSION: The automatic conversion feature has been extended, so that if you open a CS5.x panel for Photoshop, you can convert it to either the CS6 or CC version.
- OPEN EXTENSIONS FROM A PANEL: A new widget allows your user to open other Adobe Application Extensions from your panel. You must provide the ID of the extension to open.
- NEW SCRIPTING FUNCTIONALITY: The HTML widget now has enhanced scripting capabilities that allow you to open other extensions and call into the ExtendScript DOM of the host application.
- HI DPI SUPPORT: You can create panels that will run in high resolution on Apple Retina™ Displays.
- NEW SAMPLES: See what's possible or just customize what has already been created with the sample panels available on the Welcome screen and File menu. We've created new HTML Sample Panels and a new Photoshop CC features sample.
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