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Guardian Druid Tank Spec, Builds, Talents, and Glyphs (MoP 5.4)
On this page, we present the viable talent and glyph choices for Guardian Druids in World of Warcraft MoP 5.4. We detail what each of the talents and glyphs do and in which situations they should be taken.
The other pages of our Guardian Druid guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.
This guide has been reviewed and approved by Arielle, (@ArielleEJ), a prominent Guardian Druid theorycrafter and the main author of The Inconspicuous Bear (a very respected Guardian Druid resource).
1. Talent Choices↑top
- Performance-enhancing
- Survival
- Crowd Control
- Movement
- Utility
- Situational
There is no longer such a thing as a default build. Most of the talents are now viable. They can easily be changed, thanks to Dust of Disappearance (and Tomes of the Clear Mind from level 86 to 90). You will frequently find yourself changing talents and glyphs between encounters, in order to adapt your play style to different mechanics. Therefore, it is important to understand what each of your talents does and how they affect your play style.
2. Tier 1 Talents↑top
Tier 1 talents offer a choice between 3 means of increasing your movement abilities.
- Feline Swiftness is a passive ability that increases your movement speed by 15% at all times.
- Displacer Beast is an active ability that teleports you 20 yards forward, activates Cat Form, and grants you a 50% increase in movement speed for 4 seconds.
- Wild Charge is an active ability that differs based on the
shapeshift form you are in, as follows:
- No shapeshift form: you fly to an ally's location.
- Bear Form: you charge an enemy, immobilizing them for 4 seconds.
- Cat Form: you leap behind an enemy, dazing them for 3 seconds.
- Travel Form: you leap forward 20 yards.
- Aquatic Form: your swim speed is increased by 150% for 5 seconds.
The choice here will come down to either Feline Swiftness or Wild Charge. If the benefits of Wild Charge will be needed during the encounter (charging to mobs and/or immobilizing them), then Wild Charge will be a great choice. Otherwise, Feline Swiftness will probably be the go-to choice.
Displacer Beast has some situational uses in some encounters, but keep mind that you will lose all your Vengeance when you are automatically shifted into Cat Form.
3. Tier 2 Talents↑top
Tier 2 talents offer a choice between 3 healing spells.
- Ysera's Gift is a passive spell that heals you for 5% of your maximum health every 5 seconds. If you are at maximum health, then it heals the most injured party or raid member within 100 yards.
- Renewal is a self-heal for 30% of your maximum health with a 2-minute cooldown.
- Cenarion Ward is a buff that you can place on a friendly player, lasting up to 30 seconds. When the player takes damage, Cenarion Ward activates a 6-second HoT on the player, consuming Cenarion Ward in the process.
Your choice of talent here is based on your personal preference and on what your situation calls for.
Cenarion Ward is currently the best option for this tier in terms of survival, since it has the highest healing throughput.
Ysera's Gift is entirely passive and it does not require any management.
Renewal provides an excellent self-healing cooldown, essentially a minor defensive cooldown. It scales with your health, which makes it even better, and it is off the global cooldown. It is not better than Cenarion Ward, although it is easier to use, so if you want to have an on-demand large heal, you can try this talent out.
4. Tier 3 Talents↑top
Tier 3 talents offer a choice between 3 crowd control spells.
- Faerie Swarm is a spell that replaces Faerie Fire, upgrading the latter spell to also slow the target's movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds.
- Mass Entanglement roots all enemies in an area around the target for up to 20 seconds.
- Typhoon is a spell that affects enemies in a cone in front of you, knocking them back and dazing them for 6 seconds.
The choice between these talents is entirely situational and, in any case, it is unlikely to play any part in your performance.
5. Tier 4 Talents↑top
Tier 4 offers a choice between 3 performance-enhancing talents.
- Soul of the Forest passively causes your Mangle to always generate 30% more rage, and to deal 15% more damage.
- Incarnation: Son of Ursoc reduces the cooldown of your offensive abilities and of Growl to 1.5 seconds, for 30 seconds. This ability has a 3-minute cooldown.
- Force of Nature is an active ability that summons a treant which taunts your current target and attacks it for 15 seconds. The treants have 40% of the Guardian Druid's maximum health, and 4 times their amount of armor. Force of Nature has a maximum of 3 charges, and a new a charge is added every 20 seconds. Otherwise, it has no cooldown. The treants do not taunt raid bosses.
Currently, Incarnation: Son of Ursoc is the best choice in terms of damage done and burst rage generation, but simply for rage generation, Soul of the Forest is better. Soul of the Forest has the added benefit of being entirely passive, making it easy to manage.
Force of Nature can be a useful talent in situations where there are adds that deal high amounts of damage and are generally problematic. It is also worth noting that the treants' stats update dynamically, so using Savage Defense while treants are active will increase their chance to dodge. All that said, this talent is quite lackluster when compared to the other two.
6. Tier 5 Talents↑top
Tier 5 talents offer a choice between 3 crowd control spells.
- Disorienting Roar is an AoE disorient that lasts for 3 seconds and affects all enemies in a 10 yard radius.
- Ursol's Vortex is a targeted AoE slow. When enemies first try to leave the slowing area, they are pulled back in.
- Mighty Bash is a single target 5-second stun.
The choice between these talents is entirely situational and, in any case, it is unlikely to play any part in your performance.
7. Tier 6 Talents↑top
Tier 6 talents offer a choice between 3 talents that affect your gameplay.
- Heart of the Wild increases your Stamina, Agility, and Intellect by
6% at all times. Additionally, with a 6-minute cooldown, it allows you to
viably perform roles outside of your specialisation, for 45 seconds.
- allows you to DPS in Cat Form, by increasing your Agility, Expertise, and Hit Chance;
- allows you to DPS as a caster, by increasing your Spell Damage and Hit Chance, and reducing the mana cost of all your damaging spells by 100%;
- allows you to heal efficiently, by increasing the healing of your spells by 100% and reducing the mana cost of your healing spells by 100%;
- Dream of Cenarius is a passive ability that increase the healing from Healing Touch by 20%, the Critical Strike chance of Mangle by 10%, and causes your Mangle critical strikes to have a 40% chance of making your next Healing Touch or Rebirth instant-cast, free of cost, and castable in all forms. When Healing Touch is used with this proc, it benefits from your Attack Power instead of from your Spell Power.
- Nature's Vigil is a 90-second cooldown that increases all healing and damage done by 12% for 30 seconds. While Nature's Vigil is active, all single target healing spells also damage a nearby enemy for 25% of the healing done, and all damaging spells heal nearby allies for 25% of the damage done.
Dream of Cenarius is the best choice in this tier, provided that you can efficiently cast Healing Touch.
Heart of the Wild provides the greatest DPS boost (assuming that you do not need to be tanking and you can use it).
Nature's Vigil is easiest to use, but it is not as powerful as the other two.
8. Major Glyphs↑top
Only Major Glyphs play a relevant role in the gameplay of a Guardian Druid. Minor Glyphs are either cosmetic, or they provide meaningless, out-of-combat benefits.
In this section we discuss the relevant Major Glyphs for Guardian Druids. Note that, while useful, these glyphs do not play too great a part in your performance and you can perform quite well without them.
Glyph of Might of Ursoc makes your Might of Ursoc 20% more powerful, but it increases its cooldown by 2 minutes. If the encounter you are progressing on requires that you need an extra "edge" to survive a particularly difficult moment, this glyph can be excellent.
Glyph of Survival Instincts reduces the cooldown of Survival Instincts by 60 seconds, but also reduces its duration by 50%. In normal circumstances, this glyph will probably have limited use (which is not to say that it couldn't still be useful sometimes). However, if some boss abilities that need serious mitigation come at fixed intervals of time of less than 3 minutes, then this glyph can prove very useful.
Glyph of Stampeding Roar increases the range of Stampeding Roar by 30 yards. If using this ability is vital to your raid's strategy, this glyph is excellent.
Glyph of Rebirth is very useful if you intend to use your Rebirth, since it allows the target of your Rebirth to come back to life with full health, meaning that they do not risk instantly dying again to environmental damage.
Glyph of Faerie Fire increases the range of your Faerie Fire by 10 yards. This could occasionally be useful when you want to reach an add that recently spawned far away from you.
Glyph of Fae Silence causes your Faerie Fire to silence the target for 3 seconds, when used in Bear Form, but gives Faerie Fire a 15 second cooldown. In situations where you need to pull ranged mobs to melee range frequently (such as in Challenge Mode dungeons), this can be useful.
9. Minor Glyphs↑top
The only minor glyph worth mentioning is Glyph of Grace, which reduces the damage you take from fall damage even when you are not in Cat Form. While this is not likely to be of use often during PvE progression, it can sometimes help.
10. Changelog↑top
- 12 Sep. 2013: Patch 5.4 update.
- Updated the description of Mass Entanglement, Dream of Cenarius (completely redesigned), Nature's Vigil, and Soul of the Forest.
- Replaced Nature's Swiftness (removed from Guardian Druids) with Ysera's Gift as a Tier 2 talent.
- Updated the relative values of Tier 2, 4, and 6 talents.
- 23 May 2013: Added a few more pieces of information regarding the treants spawned by Force of Nature.
- 20 May 2013: Added a mention that Displacer Beast can have some situational uses. Updated the Force of Nature description to match the 5.3 change. Also added Glyph of Fae Silence.
- 05 Apr. 2013: Made several updates.
- Reworded the discussion of Tier 2 talents to account for the increased value of Cenarion Ward.
- Reworded the discussions of Tier 4 and 6 talents. Nothing substantial has changed, but things should now be more clear and accurate.
- Removed Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration, since it is sub-optimal and should never be used.
- Added Glyph of Grace.
- 07 Mar. 2013: Patch 5.2 update.
- Updated Displacer Beast explanation to mention the movement speed buff that it provides.
- Updated Soul of the Forest explanation to reflect that the bonus rage granted by Mangle is now 3, instead of 2.
- Updated Nature's Vigil explanation to reflect the new cooldown and the fact that the damage and healing bonus is now 10% instead of 20%.
- Introduction
- Builds, Talents, and Glyphs
- Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
- 1. Single Target Rotation
- 2. Multiple Target Rotation
- 3. Taunting
- 4. Cooldowns
- 5. Optional Read: Mastering Your Guardian Druid
- 5.1. Rage Generation
- 5.2. Vengeance
- 5.3. Mastery: Nature's Guardian
- 5.4. Detailed Cooldown Usage
- 5.5. Procs
- 6. Changelog
- Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities
- Statistics Priority and Reforging
- Gems, Enchants, and Professions
- Macros and Addons
- 1. Macros
- 2. Addons
- 2.1. Generic Addons for Druids
- 2.2. Specific Addons for Guardian Druids
- 3. Changelog
- Gearing Up and Best in Slot


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WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The warmer weather we're starting to get can lead to dangerous conditions on the rivers, especially near dams.
Bill Blasinski is from Wisconsin Public Service, which operates several dams by their hydroelectric plants. He says the late winter and this next week's warmer weather could rapidly change the water levels. "This year in particular, we've got snow melt that's going to occur. It really hasn't occurred that much up north and we're expecting that to occur over the next week or so, making the water levels a little higher than normal for this time of year."
The long lasting cold weather brings an additional hazard to people using the river. Blasinski says you will probably see more large chunks of ice floating downstream than usual. "I think we will this year, more so than in other years. Right now, a lot of our reservoirs up north still have ice cover on them, so as things warm up and flows increase, these chunks will break off and we'll be passing them through and down the river. It's something we have got to be aware of."
Dangers for boaters are both above and below the dams. Blasinski says the more distance you keep between you and the dam, the safer you will be. "Keep a safe distance away from dams. The further you are downstream, the more time you have to react, and typically, the less impact those changes will have on you. They won't be as dramatic as you get further downstream."
The late thaw means lower water temperatures, and that can mean big trouble if you fall in. "This year particularly, we've got to be concerned with hypothermia. This water is going to be exceptionally cold for this time of the year, and you know, it's not anything like last year when we had all of that nice warm weather."
Blasinski urges people not to go out on the river without a personal floatation device and a cellphone.
For the fishermen that are used to lakes but trying out rivers due to the late thaw, he reminds you rivers can be much more dangerous and conditions can change very rapidly. Do not anchor a boat below a dam, because the anchor could get caught while water is rising... and that can swamp your boat in rapidly moving water.
HUG is a non-profit corporation of dam owners, hydroelectric plant operators, developers, consultants, and hydro contractors. That group and Wisconsin DNR have more safety tips: · Understand the dangers near dams
· Stay away from hazardous areas
· Obey all warning devices such as signs, lights, sirens and verbal warnings
· Wear an approved personal floatation device
· Keep your boat motor running when near a dam so you can quickly leave or maneuver
· Stay clear of the dam spill area where unpredictable water conditions make boat control difficult
· Never anchor boats below a dam because water levels can change quickly
· Do not cross buoy lines
· Bring a cell phone and call 911 in an emergency
Governor Scott Walker who has proclaimed April 29 through May 4 as Dam Safety Awareness Week in Wisconsin.

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Legislators and supporters cheer after Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill into law Thursday outside the State House that requires the labeling of GMO ingredients in many foods. It is the first law of its kind in the nation to pass without so-called trigger clauses.MONTPELIER — Before a cheering crowd of hundreds, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law a first-of-its-kind food labeling bill, even as Vermont food producers continued to voice their opposition.
The State House lawn was filled with families and consumer advocates Thursday afternoon as Shumlin signed the legislation that will require the packaging of some foods to indicate if they contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
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George S. Constantinescu
Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Faculty Research Engineer IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering
(319) 384-0630
323C Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory
Joined the College of Engineering:
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, 1997
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 1992
B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 1991
Special Fields of Knowledge:
Environmental Engineering; Fluid Mechanics; Hydraulics; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Parallel Computing
Present Research Interests:
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and applications in fluid dynamics; environmental/water resources and coastal engineering; turbulence dynamics and modeling; Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) techniques for single and multi-phase flows; Detached-Eddy Simulation (DES), algorithms for numerical simulation of complex flows on structured and unstructured meshes
Selected Publications:
- Tokyay, T. and Constantinescu, S.G. (2006), "Validation of a Large Eddy Simulation model to simulate flow in pump intakes of realistic geometry," ASCE J. of Hydr. Engr, 132(12), 1303-1315.
- McCoy, A., Constantinescu, S.G. and Weber, L. (2006), "Exchange processes in a channel with two emerged groynes," Journal of Flow, Turbulence, Combustion, 77(97-126).
- Constantinescu, S.G., Krajewski, W.F., Ozdemir, C.E. and Tokyay, T. (2006) "Simulation of flow around raingauges: Comparison of LES with RANS models," Journal of Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 30, 43-58.
- Chang, K.S., Constantinescu, S.G. and Park, S. (2006), "Analysis of the flow and mass transfer process for the incompressible flow past an open cavity with a laminar and a fully turbulent incoming boundary layer," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 561, 113-145.
- Mahesh, K., Constantinescu, S.G. and Moin, P. (2004). "A numerical method for large eddy simulation in complex geometries," J. Computational Physics, Vol. 197, No. 1, 215-240.
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
American Physical Society (APS); American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE); International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR).


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Courtesy of my pals over at Jedi News and Club Jade, there's a rumour (although classed a s a confirmation by the original site that put it out there) that our loveable old rogue Harrison Ford may be returning for Star Wars – Episode VII. Here's what Justin at Jedi News had to say:
While it has obviously been implied since the announcement of the Sequel Trilogy, Club Jade informs us of a story posted over on Latino Review that supposedly has confirmation that Harrison Ford will be reprising his role as Han Solo in Episode VII.
As with every rumor, nothing is confirmed until we hear word from an official Disney/Lucasfilm source.
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Poll Says Crop Rocks
The first folks to comment on the August Web Poll appeared cautious, saying their crops looked in the fair to poor condition range. But, when the extreme temperatures lifted a bit, so did crop expectations, especially when the pickers hit the fields. Although many respondents commented on the August question, we didn't have room to print them all. Following is a sampling of what our readers had to say:
• "I am in the Texas Panhandle near White Deer, Texas. Just give me three good weeks in October and November to get it in the gin." – Kim Lilly
• "Central Arizona: Planted after wheat-barley; late May, early June; no till into stubble. Irrigated looks good, should be close to three bales."
• "Excellent cotton crop in Central Texas. All we need is dry weather to finish the harvest. Most yields are 1,200+ on dryland."
• "Mississippi Delta: Great cotton!!! Began picking on Sept. 1. Yields on dryland picking 1,100 pounds and 1,300+ pounds on irrigated cotton."
• "South Carolina: Too much heat, too little timely rains and too much variability within every field. There are exceptions though. The dryland crop will vary from 500 lbs/acre up to 900 lbs/acre."
• "Central Valley of California: My Pima is two to three weeks behind, but with good weather through harvest, we should do fine."
• "I farm in the Missouri Bootheel. If the crop is on sand, the cotton is a little undesirable. If it is on heavier soil, the cotton looks much better."
The results of the October Web Poll will be reported in the Cotton Farming December issue.
Web Poll Results
In August, we asked: How would you rate your cotton crop at this time (Aug. 10 forward)? Please identify your location.
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Good — 55 %
Fair — 26 %
Poor — 5 %
October Web Poll Question
Do you think $1-plus cotton prices will contribute to increased cotton acres in 2011? Why or why not?
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OSBURN, Idaho -- Police arrested an Osburn woman on Wednesday for murder. Yet, court documents filed on Thursday revealed that the victim might have been dead for more than one year.
Documents stated Gregory Reed Sr. died around May 2012. Officers arrested Jackie Reed, 50, for his death. It is unclear what the relationship is between the suspect and the victim.
Local, Idaho State authorities, and the Social Security Administration are investigating the death.
Workers at the Coronor's Office said they removed Reed's remains from this Osburn trailer on Wednesday. Police surrounded the suspect's house with biohazard and crime scene tape.
Neighbors told KREM 2 News that they were surprised and thought Reed was a nice woman.
One neighbor also said that she had not seen the murder victim for a long time.
"I was absolutely stunned," said one neighbor.
Reed's neighbors wished to remain anonymous, but said they watched as local authorities and federal agents searched their neighbor's property on Wednesday.
"To me she's been very nice," said one neighbor. "We've had coffee together. She talked about her kids and what they were doing, just a normal person."
A Shoshone County judge set Reed's bond at $250,000.
Authorities said an autopsy still needs to be conducted to determine how the victim died.


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I have have started at a new job in Toronto this year, and my first project is an e-commerce website and was tasked to use OpenCart which is the best open source e-commerce software we could find. However an issue I noticed straight away was the application is vulnerable to CSRF attacks via the POST method. Since I take no risks with security I have implemented a fix which generates a token when an admin logs in and appends it to the URL through the Url class.
I have drafted an example of the exploit, sent it to the creator of OpenCart and gave an example of how a user could be targeted with the attacker changing the PayPal email address to their own account. I did this as I didn't want to publish the exploit until a fix was implemented and a new version was released, but as the following email transcript will show, this is not going to happen anytime soon.
From: "Ben"
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:06 PM
To: < *******@opencart.com>
Subject: OpenCart – Enquiry
I recently installed OpenCart and I noticed that it is vulnerable to CSRF attacks. I have created a sample page that is capable of inserting a rouge user (the page currently prompts you but could be done silently if the attacker knows the url of the site).
Please let know that you are looking into the security issue and are going to release an update with a fix otherwise I will make the issue public.
If you need any help fixing the problem please let me know.
On 2010-01-22, at 4:50 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
Ben you seem to be very clever to come up with this. But! you need to be logged in for this to happen.
From: "Ben Maynard"
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:34 PM
To: "Daniel Kerr"
Subject: Re: OpenCart – Enquiry
HI Daniel,
That is the whole point of a CSRF attack. Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csrf for an explanation on the attack.
This can be very dangerous, for example:
I am an attacker looking at stealing money, I find a websites that are running opencart and have paypal as a payment method. I send the owner an email asking a question about a product and send a link that will perform the attack on the website. The chances of the owner being logged into their opencart admin is high since they are dealing with orders, and a rouge account is created without the user knowing (The attacker could just format the malicious page to look like a 404 not found page so it doesnt raise suspicion with the owner).
The attacker makes the script send an email when the page is hit, so he knows when to logged into the admin section. The attacker then logs in, changes the paypal email address to his own account, deletes the new account to help cover his tracks. He starts to get the money from the website and the owner of the website may not realize what has happened for a couple of days (maybe even longer)!
If someone was to do this, it would cause a major problem for the owner (and buyers who money was stolen).
I have implemented a fix on the website i am working on and dont mind sharing the fix. I create a random token when the user logs in, and in the Url class I add it to the url. There is also a check on the user auth.
On 2010-01-22, at 7:31 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
This sort of thing is down to the client. The software on a clients computer is nothing to do with opencart! There is no way that I'm responsible for a client being stupid enough to click links in emails.
Even professional banking sites have trouble with the problem you describe.
The only thing a client can take steps to do is only allowing certain IP's to access the admin via their hosting.
From: "Ben Maynard"
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:52 AM
To: "Daniel Kerr"
Subject: Re: OpenCart – Enquiry
A link in an email is not the only way for this attack to be performed, it was just an example. Its not hard to add protection and would make open cart more secure, security is not something you can take lightly.
On 2010-01-22, at 8:05 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
what protection do you recommend?
On 2010-01-22, at 8:05 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
to be honest this again is down to the client. not opencart.
the security problem is very low. seriously how is some one going to trick some one into clicking a link to a site that will them display there own web site admin?
your just wasting my time.
Now as you can see, the creator doesn't care about security which is a very dangerous thing especially when you are creating e-commerce websites. It is also not hard to find websites running OpenCart, you can just google "Powered By OpenCart" and you get thousands of results, imagine how much money could be stolen by targeting half of these websites and who says its not being done right now? This is why it makes me really angry when web developers don't take security seriously. Now I love PHP and hate it when people say bad things about the language but its true when they say PHP is like a handgun.
PHP is like a handgun. On its own, it is simply an inanimate tool that has no moral leaning. In the hands of a responsible citizen, it can be used to the benefit of society. But in the hands of someone who is untrained or mentally unstable, it can be used to commit horrible atrocities.
Whenever there's such a tragedy, other developers are quick to blame PHP. If PHP were illegal, then Yahoo! would never have happened. If we regulated PHP tightly, then there would be no Digg.
Now does anyone have any suggestions on what could be done to get the developer to acknowledge the problem and not just put his head in the sand?


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Enrollment errors cut? No so fast, say insurersBy ROBERT PEAR
The New york times | December 15,2013WASHINGTON The Obama administration said Saturday it had reduced the error rate in enrollment data sent to insurance companies under the new health care law, even as insurers said that files they had received from the government in the past few days were riddled with mistakes.
The quality of the data is important; it could affect the ability of people to get medical care and prescription drugs when they go to doctors offices and pharmacies starting next month.
More than 137,000 people selected health plans in the federal insurance marketplace in October and November, and administration officials say that more than 100,000 signed up in the first week of this month.
For each person who signs up, the government is supposed to send information electronically to an insurance company in a standard format known as an 834 enrollment transaction. In some cases, consumers selected a health plan at the federal website, Healthcare.gov, but the government did not notify the insurance company.
In other cases, insurers received duplicate files for the same person, files for one person were sent to an insurer in another state, or the relationship code was wrong so that, for example, a mans daughter was listed as his wife.
The White House said Saturday that the government was now informing insurance companies of nearly all new enrollments.
Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 5, the number of consumers for whom 834s were not produced was fewer than 15,000, said Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Since the beginning of December, missing 834s as a percentage of total enrollments has been close to zero.
Bataille said most of the problems had occurred from Oct. 1 to mid-November, as enrollment reports on some consumers were either not being generated, or had errors due to larger technical system issues.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the government sent information to insurers listing everyone who had enrolled in a health plan through the federal marketplace. Insurers are supposed to compare the information with their own records and with the daily reports they have received from the government over the past 10 weeks.
Insurers said that they had found many discrepancies and errors and that the government was overstating the improvements in Healthcare.gov.
In some cases, they said, the federal government reported that the home address for a new policyholder was outside an insurers service area. In other cases, a child was listed as the main subscriber the person responsible for paying premiums and parents were listed as dependents.
In some cases, children were enrolled in a policy by the federal government and parents were left off, or vice versa. In other cases, the government botched up the members of a family: A child or spouse was listed two or three times in the same application in late November. Such errors can have financial implications, increasing the amount of premiums that a family is required to pay.
While some of the problems were discovered in the past few days, insurers said that they had previously reported many of the errors to the help desk at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and that the problems remained unresolved.
Federal officials, insurers and health care providers said they were concerned about confusion and possible chaos in the early days of January, when people try to use the new insurance coverage they believe they have.
The governments overriding message to insurers is: Do whatever you have to do to maximize enrollment and to provide coverage by Jan. 1 to anyone who wants it. Federal health officials have told insurers that they can sort out the details and work out financial arrangements with the government later.
People have until Dec. 23 to sign up for coverage that begins in January, and they have until Dec. 31 to pay premiums for the first month. But the administration has encouraged insurers to relax those deadlines and to take other steps to ensure a smooth transition for people joining their health plans.
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Recession Proof Stock With Solid Upside Potential
Gaurav is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Dollar General's (NYSE: DG) stock has been under pressure lately and have corrected more than 16% over the last six months. The company recently reported strong Q3 results with year over year earnings growth of 21%. However, this strong showing has not moved its price and the company is still trading more or less in-line with its peers. Does that mean that the market is under appreciating the growth prospects and investment strategy of the company? Well, I certainly believe so. In my opinion, Dollar General is a safest bet among the Dollar Channel stores and offers a great investment opportunity at the current levels.
Dollar General has the highest consumable mix as compared to other dollar stores including Family General (NYSE: FDO) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR). Let's compare the consumables mix of Dollar General with Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and Big Lots (NYSE: BIG).
A high consumable mix remains a tailwind to margins, but it certainly brings more stability to the stock. During these times of elevated unemployment and reduced levels of discretionary income, I believe Dollar General offers good stability and thus, exhibits recession proof characteristics. A quick look at these companies' PEG ratio reveals quite a lot. Dollar General is trading at a PEG ratio of 0.88 and looks cheap with respect to its peers including Big Lots, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar. Going forward, I believe investors will view third quarter results favorably, especially given the weak performance and outlook of others in the industry, especially Big Lots and Dollar Tree, and the shares will rebound overtime.
The outlook for Dollar General looks positive and I believe that the company is only in the early innings of its operating margin enhancing initiatives. I also see potential for industry leading high-teens long-term earnings CAGR for the company. The company has opportunities to improve operating profit rates through improved category management, increased direct sourcing, expanded private labels, shrink reduction, and price optimization. Moreover, I see attractive long term growth opportunities in California and the company's nascent new store concepts, DG Market and DG Plus.
Significant Growth Potential in California
Dollar General has a limited presence in California with a total store base of just ~50 stores as compared to Big Lots' store base of around 180 and Dollar Tree's store base of around 400. However, the company believes the longer-term store opportunity in California is comparable to its current store base in Texas (where it has over 1,000 stores). While management believes the ideal store size for the California market will be larger than its typical store (which averages ~7,200 square feet), it has been pleasantly surprised by the availability of desirable real estate locations. Encouragingly, Dollar General stores in California are doing well, with store volumes higher than the average store volume and I see a significant growth potential in the region.
Gross Margin Expected to Increase; SG&A Will De-Leverage in 4Q
Due to smaller YOY LIFO charges and some improvements in distribution costs, I expect gross margins to rise in the tail end of the year. The inflation environment seems relatively benign at the moment, which reduces the likelihood of having to take margin hits on vendor price increases (although that could change next year depending on the fall out of this year's droughts). Moreover, I expect the company to post SG&A de-leverage in 4Q due to the 13 vs. 14 week comparison.
Encouraging Results at Dollar General Market
The company has opened 34 new Dollar General Market stores (a store concept which is essentially a larger version of its standard Dollar General store with additional space dedicated to fresh food and produce) so far this year. Given the encouraging returns at the current Dollar General Market locations (including the locations that were opened as part of the company's entrance into the western U.S. market), the company has plans to open an additional 20 stores in fiscal 2013. While the gross margin rate at Dollar General Market is lower relative to a standard Dollar General location (given the skew in product mix toward consumables, which are lower margin), overall margin dollars should be higher given the additional sales volume. Additionally the company has also been working on a newer concept called Dollar General Plus, which is essentially a larger core DG store – built with extra square footage and wider aisles to accommodate the heavier customer traffic and additional inventory demands that simply can't fit in a traditional ~7,200 square foot Dollar General.
Looking ahead, I believe that Dollar General can capture a larger share of its existing customers' wallets, as well as attract and retain higher income customers based on improved merchandising and in-store initiatives. Huge white space opportunities in California and promising new concepts like DG Market and DG Plus further make me optimistic about the stock. In addition, the company's recession proof characteristics limit downside risk even in case of an economic slowdown. Hence, I rate it as a buy.
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A new Twitter account has created a controversy around Rutgers University.
The @RU_Crushes twitter account allows individuals to anonymously tweet their thoughts and opinions about other students who attend the university and have it posted through the @RU_Crushes Twitter feed.
The account is used to spotlight other students using their first and last names in either a negative or a positive way.
Bruce Ongsiako and his friends pat themselves on the back because they have only used it in a positive way. Ongsiako likes to send his crushes compliments and have it posted behind the account.
However, while that might sound like it's being used in a positive way, many females think of it in a discouraging and degrading way.
Sophomore student, Michelle Bivas, who has seen the new phenomenon says, "Some of the things that people say are really graphic and totally not appropriate."
Meanwhile, some females who are more introverted look at it as a 'badge of honor'
Although the account is technically not doing anything illegal, and does not post any pictures of some sort, does this make it okay?
The account has clearly stated right on the website that it is not affiliated with Rutgers University, therefore the University made no comment on the subject.


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Sabrina the dressmakers dummy
I'd like you all to meet my dear friend Sabrina. Not only is she one gutsy broad, but she totally rules the clothes hanging in my wardrobe. Nobody messes with this mannequin!
Nah, seriously, I often get asked about my dummy, so I thought I'd tell you a bit about her. She's pretty darn old - I'd say she was a 60's or 50's model. A friend of mine spotted her in a garage sale one day. She knew I sewed, and would love a dummy, so she went over to the lady running the sale and asked how much she wanted for her. The lady said "I really just want to clear this stuff out - I'll take what you'll offer." Much to my friend's embarassment, she only had $1.65 on her, but the lady said "She's yours!" and pocketed the shrapnel, presumably happy to have a bit more space cleared more than anything.
So Sabrina, as I named her, came to live with me (I tried to pay my friend the $1.65 back but she wouldn't hear of it!) As funky as Sabrina looks, she's not really in good enough condition to be used as a true dressmakers mannequin. Most of her parts don't slot together very well, and last time I tried to adjust her, the bolt I was twisting broke clean off in my hand. So I mostly just use her for photos, or for letting garment pieces hang until I am ready to sew them again. She wears the cover (spencer I believe somebody called it yesterday) because it keeps her insides warm. Nah, I think it is to give a smooth line over her moving parts. She's definitely not like the new models where everything fits together perfectly!
So that's Sabrina. She's pretty old, and fairly useless as a dummy, but I wouldn't be without her. Besides she's always good for a photoshoot, or to even insert as a character in those daft stories I can't help myself from writing. If you were after a good adjustable dress form, though, the Diana models are very good. Tessuti Fabrics sells them, and will be more than happy to order in a size for you if so required.
I'm feeling bad that poor old Sabrina is sitting up there all naked. This is a family-friendly blog - I can't be having any nudey rudeys sitting about! Better put something on her quick smart...
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Ka-beep replacing ka-ching at the checkout counterBy ANNE DINNOCENZIO
TheAssociated Press | March 24,2013AP Photo
A sales staff member at Barneys New York uses an iPod Touch to ring up a customers purchase in New York City.NEW YORK Ka-ching! The cash register may be on its final sale.
Stores across the country are ditching the old-fashioned, clunky machines and having salespeople and even shoppers themselves ring up sales on smartphones and tablet computers.
Barneys New York, a luxury retailer, this year plans to use iPads or iPod Touch devices for credit and debit card purchases in seven of its nearly two dozen regular-price stores. Urban Outfitters, a teen clothing chain, ordered its last traditional register last fall and plans to go completely mobile one day. And Wal-Mart, the worlds largest retailer, is testing a Scan & Go app that lets customers scan their items as they shop.
The traditional cash register is heading toward obsolescence, said Danielle Vitale, chief operating officer of Barneys New York.
That the cash register is getting the boot is no surprise. The writing has been on the wall for a long time for the iconic machine, which was created in the late 1800s. The register was essential in nearly every retail location by 1915, but it now seems outdated in a world in which smartphones and tablets increasingly are replacing everything from books to ATMs to cameras.
Stores like smartphones and tablets because they take up less floor space than registers and free up cashiers to help customers instead of being tethered to one spot. They also are cheaper: For instance, Apple Inc.s iPads with accessories like credit card readers can cost a store $1,500, compared with $4,000 for a register. And Americans increasingly want the same speedy service in physical stores that they get from shopping online.
Consumers want the retailer to bring the register to them, said Lori Schafer, executive adviser at SAS Institute Inc., which creates software for major retailers.
J.C. Penney, a mid-price department-store chain, said the response by customers has been great since it started rolling out iPod Touch devices late last year in its 1,100 stores. The goal is to have one in the hands of every salesperson by May. The company said that about a quarter of purchases at its stores nationwide now come from an iPod Touch.
On a recent Thursday afternoon at a Penney store in the Manhattan borough of New York City, Debbie Guastella, 55, marveled after a saleswoman rang up three shirts she was buying on an iPod Touch.
I think its great, said Guastella, who lives in Huntington, N.Y. The faster the better.
Its been a long fall for the cash register, which innovated retail as we know it. The first register was invented following the Civil War by a little known saloon owner. Before then, most store owners were in the dark about whether or not they were making a profit, and many suffered since it was easy for sales clerks to steal from the cash drawer unnoticed. But by 1915, cash registers were ubiquitous in stores across the country, with more than 1.5 million sold by then.
More recently, stores have been looking for ways to modernize checkout. Since 2003, self-checkout areas that enable customers to scan and bag their own merchandise have become commonplace in grocery and other stores. But recently, theres been a push to go further.
As a result, companies that make traditional cash registers are racing to come up new solutions. NCR Corp., formerly known as the National Cash Register Co., was the first to manufacturer the cash register on a large scale.
Last year, the company that also makes ATMS, self-service checkout machines and airport check-in kiosks, launched a program that merges its software with the iPad. This allows store clerks to detach the iPad from the keyboard at the counter and use it as a mobile checkout device
Retailers have more flexibility and more opportunities to change the shopping experience, said Mark Self, NCRs vice president of retail solutions marketing.
Stores themselves are also taking their cues from the success of Apple Inc. The nations most profitable retailer moved to mobile checkout in its stores in 2006.
Take upscale handbag maker Coach, which is using iPod Touch devices at half of its 189 factory outlet stores. The company also is testing them in a handful of its 350 regular stores.
The move has enabled Coach to start slimming down its registers to the size of small podiums, leaving extra space that is equivalent to three days of product and a display table for the average store, said Francine Della Badia, Coachs executive vice president of merchandising.
Badia, who says the additional space will be used for new shoe salons and other purposes, said most importantly, the mobile devices allow store staff to build a more intimate connection with the customer.
Some retailers have decided to go completely mobile. Urban Outfitters, which operates more than 400 stores under its namesake brand, Anthropologie and Free People, announced in late September that all sales eventually will be rung up on iPods and iPads on swivels located at counters. The company didnt give a timeframe for when it would go completely mobile.
Urban Outfitters had given iPod Touch devices to its sales staff two years ago and the move has been very well received by shoppers, said Calvin Hollinger, the companys chief information officer in his address to investors.
Nordstrom, an upscale department-store chain thats considered within the retail industry to be the gold standard in customer service, also plans to get rid of registers altogether.
The company handed out iPod Touch devices to its staff at its 117 department stores nationwide in 2011. And by late last year, it did the same for its 110 Nordstrom Rack stores that sell lower-priced merchandise. Nordstrom, which already has removed some of the registers at its Rack stores, said it aims to phase out registers by next year.
Colin Johnson, a Nordstrom spokeswoman, said its too early to draw any conclusions on how mobile checkout has influenced buying, but the company is learning about which technologies work best.
We see the future as essentially mobile, Johnson said. We dont see departments in our store as being defined by a big clunky cash register.
Not every retailer is quick to ditch registers, though. After all, there are still logistics to figure out. For instance, no retailer yet is accepting cash payments on mobile devices. But if they start to do so, where will they put the cash that would normally go into a register?
Additionally, sales staff walking around stores armed with mobile devices could turn off shoppers who would prefer to be left alone in aisles. To remedy that, some retailers are training their salespeople on when to approach shoppers and when not to.
For its part, Wal-Mart is putting checkout in the hands of the shoppers themselves.
The retailer is testing its Scan & Go app, which can be used on Apple devices such as iPads, in more than 200 of its more than 4,000 stores nationwide.
The app, which is aimed at reducing long checkout lines, requires that shoppers pay at self-checkout areas. So as it tests the app, Wal-Mart also is expanding the number of self-checkout areas in its stores.
Our goal is to give choices to all of our customers however they want to shop, said Gibu Thomas, senior vice president of mobile and digital initiatives at Wal-Marts global e-commerce division.MORE IN National / World BusinessNEW YORK Worries about the outlook for growth in China and a slide in the price of oil pushed... Full StoryWASHINGTON Fewer Americans bought homes in August, as investors retreated from real estate and... Full StoryMONTPELIER Lets not call this a beer run. That has such a Friday night frat boy connotation. Full Story
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- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: On this day in 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev arrives in U.S. for historic 13-day visit; in 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign nuclear reduction agreement.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is back on the road talking about offshore energy exploration.
McCrory was scheduled to attend Tuesday the annual meeting of the Southern States Energy Board along the coast of Gulf of Mexico in Biloxi, Miss. He's supposed to participate in a morning forum with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant to discuss developing oil and natural gas exploration within the Outer-Continental Shelf.
McCrory wants President Obama's administration to expand offshore leasing. He and other offshore energy boosters say it will make the country more energy independent while creating thousands of industry jobs and generating government revenues.
The governor signed a bill this year approved by the General Assembly that urges him to negotiate with South Carolina and Virginia to create a regional offshore strategy compact.
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Paperback | $16.95 Short | £11.95 | ISBN: 9780262562157 | 176 pp. | 6 x 9 in | 48 illus.| September 2005
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Imitation of Life
As computers and the tasks they perform become increasingly complex, researchers are looking to nature—as model and as metaphor—for inspiration. The organization and behavior of biological organisms present scientists with an invitation to reinvent computing for the complex tasks of the future. In Imitation of Life, Nancy Forbes surveys the emerging field of biologically inspired computing, looking at some of the most impressive and influential examples of this fertile synergy.
Forbes points out that the influence of biology on computing goes back to the early days of computer science—John von Neumann, the architect of the first digital computer, used the human brain as the model for his design. Inspired by von Neumann and other early visionaries, as well as by her work on the "Ultrascale Computing" project at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Forbes describes the exciting potential of these revolutionary new technologies. She identifies three strains of biologically inspired computing: the use of biology as a metaphor or inspiration for the development of algorithms; the construction of information processing systems that use biological materials or are modeled on biological processes, or both; and the effort to understand how biological organisms "compute," or process information.
Forbes then shows us how current researchers are using these approaches. In successive chapters, she looks at artificial neural networks; evolutionary and genetic algorithms, which search for the "fittest" among a generation of solutions; cellular automata; artificial life—not just a simulation, but "alive" in the internal ecosystem of the computer; DNA computation, which uses the encoding capability of DNA to devise algorithms; self-assembly and its potential use in nanotechnology; amorphous computing, modeled on the kind of cooperation seen in a colony of cells or a swarm of bees; computer immune systems; bio-hardware and how bioelectronics compares to silicon; and the "computational" properties of cells.
About the Author
Nancy Forbes works as a science and technology analyst for the federal government. She has advanced degrees both in physics and the humanities, and has served as a contributing editor for The Industrial Physicist and Computing in Science and Engineering.
"...A whirlwind history, richer even than its subtitle suggests.", John Doyle and Marie Csete, Nature
"...Forbes [is] an expert guide to the hottest research in a potentially revolutionary area of technology.", Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
"Though the text is clearly written, it offers a lot of technical information. Recommended...", Susan B. Hagloch, Library Journal


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"Konnichiwa" and "Kite kurete arigato" were the words of the day last Monday when 17 tweens arrived at the Grandview Branch. In their program Journey to Japan, they perfected their origami folding, practiced with chopsticks, and made (and ate) candy sushi.
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In September, we began the original Naruto anime series. Join us in March as we follow the continuing adventures of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.
Come join us as we watch this outstanding anime serial, Naruto, Volume 6, Episodes 21-24.
When was the last time that you went a day without using your iPod, cell phone, computer, or television? You can't remember a time like that? Yeah, that's what we thought. Okay, not just us-- that's what the American Library Association thought when they launched Teen Tech Week.
Um, if you're already using electronic devices, why would you need a week to remind you to do that? You don't. You might enjoy seeing how the library can work with you to make your online experience richer.
This week, March 6-12, is Teen Tech Week. Many teens don't know about the non-print resources available to them at their libraries and on their libraries websites. This week is aimed at getting that information out to the teens. Here is what the ALA (American Library Association) says about Teen Tech Week:
Working at the library has opened my mind to so many new resources. Being a senior in high school, I've been busy writing papers all year long. I was writing a research paper for school earlier this semester, and my topic was "the negative effects of texting on society." While chatting with some of my co-workers, they brought up the Research Databases that the library has to offer online.
Why are you you here tonight?
I thought it would be fun!
What kind of things do you check out from the library?
What's your favorite teen program?
Anime Movie Night
What's your favorite candy?
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Who are you? Trevor
Where do you go to school? Park Hill South
What types of books do you check out? Books about building robots because I'm interested in that, but also because I'm using them for design ideas for the new sculptures I've been making.
When did you first start doing art? I started building stuff when I was two. I am now really into photography and sculpture. (I got a new camera for Christmas; it's a Nikon L110, and it's incredible.)
Come and be a part of our Anime Movie Night for teens!
Antioch Branch, May 9 at 6:30 p.m.
In September, we began the original Naruto anime series. Join us in May as we follow the continuing adventures of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.
With the tragedies happening in Japan, I wonder if you know that you can learn how to speak Japanese through the Japanese Language Club at our Antioch Branch. Each session covers conversational phrases and reading. Often textbooks are based on what is being written or what "should" be said. This group will focus on what actually "is" said! Join us, whether you are a complete beginner or advanced speaker. The effects of the earthquake and the subsequent tragedies are going to be felt for a long time.
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PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Dennis Daugaard has declared June as "Dairy Month" in South Dakota. The state has more than 370 dairy producers with 91,000 cows that provide quality dairy products for consumers to enjoy every day.
"Our dairy farms here in South Dakota produce over 1.8 billion pounds of milk per year," said Lucas Lentsch, South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture. "The dairy industry is very important to our state's rural and urban economies."
Each dairy cow in the state has a $14,042 economic impact on the local economy. The dairy industry as a whole has an annual economic impact of more than $1.27 billion in South Dakota.
The Governor's proclamation also notes that people are recommended to consume three servings of dairy products every day.
Agriculture is South Dakota's No. 1 industry, generating over $21 billion in annual economic activity and employing more than 122,000 South Dakotans. The South Dakota Department of Agriculture's mission is to promote, protect, preserve and improve this industry for today and tomorrow. Visit us online at http://sdda.sd.gov or find us on Facebook and Twitter.


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President Obama tried to rally his most loyal supporters to continue talking up the new health care law over the holidays, urging them to fight against "misinformation" and not let "naysayers" and "setbacks" get them down.
"There's been a lot of misinformation out there and problems with the website that have fed a lot of this misinformation," Obama told supporters on a conference call facilitated by Organizing for Action (OFA), the nonprofit group that sprung from his presidential campaign committee.
"But because of you the insurance market has the strongest consumer protections the world has ever known," he continued, noting that young people are allowed to stay on their parents' plans, hundreds of thousands of people are getting free mammograms and young people who don't currently have insurance are able to obtain it for the "cost of a cell phone or cable bill"
OFA organizers said nearly 200,000 people had joined the call. Obama and the organizers asked everyone listening in to help them push forward with a new initiative called "Health Care for the Holidays" in which they encouraged the supporters to talk to uninsured relatives or those doubting the merits of the law over the dinner table and at holiday parties over the next month and a half.
"This holiday season we've got to, when we're at Christmas parties at our churches and synagogues, we've got to remind everybody about the positive benefits the law has already achieved," he said.
"We've got to remind people that that they're not going to run up against lifetime caps on coverage. They're not going to be denied coverage for preexisting conditions," he continued.
Acknowledging the failures of the website and its problem-riddled rollout, Obama said he has taken responsibility for fixing it and stressed that there is still time for "everybody who wants to be enrolled to get enrolled."
"This isn't a one-day sale," he said. "The prices aren't going to change – we've just got to go and get it done."
He repeatedly thanked his supporters for helping inspire him even during the last few weeks when critics were hammering him over the website failures.
"Despite all the noise out there – all the criticism and all the setbacks," he said, "I've never lost faith that we can get this done – you have lifted me up every stage of the way. I appreciate you."
Before signing off, Obama asked his supporters to help put pressure on Senate Republicans, who blocked another key White House judicial nominee Monday evening.
Senate Republicans filibustered Robert Wilkins' nomination to fill one of three vacant seats on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. His nomination fell six votes shy of the 60 needed to overcome a GOP filibuster.
Obama expressed frustration, noting that it was the fourth time Senate Republicans held up one of his nominations for the D.C. circuit court of appeals and said "this type of obstruction is completely unprecedented."
"It's time for Senate Republicans to stop playing partisan politics with our courts," he said. "Our system needs these judicial vacancies filled."


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FARMINGTON — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico dismissed charges against one of the six people charged Dec. 12 in connection to a woman's slaying.
Prosecutors dismissed all charges against Joni Eaglefeather on Dec. 16, saying in a motion it was in the interest of justice, according to court documents.
Eaglefeather has been released from custody, according to the documents.
Patrick Benally, Justin Benally, Lasheena Jacquez, Mariah Benally, Scott Thompson and Eaglefeather were all charged this month with murder, kidnapping and aiding and abetting in connection to a woman's death. The FBI recovered the body Dec. 10 near County Road 7100 southeast of Farmington.
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Semilogarithmic plot
h = semilogx(...)
semilogx plot data as logarithmic scales for the x-axis.
semilogx(Y) creates a plot using a base 10 logarithmic scale for the x-axis and a linear scale for the y-axis. It plots the columns of Y versus their index if Y contains real numbers. semilogx(Y) is equivalent to semilogx(real(Y), imag(Y)) if Y contains complex numbers. semilogx ignores the imaginary component in all other uses of this function.
semilogx(X1,Y1,...) plots all Yn versus Xn pairs. If only one of Xn or Yn is a matrix, semilogx plots the vector argument versus the rows or columns of the matrix, along the dimension of the matrix whose length matches the length of the vector. If the matrix is square, its columns plot against the vector if their lengths match.
semilogx(X1,Y1,LineSpec,...) plots all lines defined by the Xn,Yn,LineSpec triples. LineSpec determines line style, marker symbol, and color of the plotted lines.
semilogx(...,'PropertyName',PropertyValue,...) sets property values for all lineseries properties graphics objects created by semilogx.
h = semilogx(...) return a vector of handles to lineseries graphics objects, one handle per line.
Create a plot with a logarithmic scale for the x-axis and a linear scale for the y-axis.
x = 0:1000; y = log(x); figure semilogx(x,y)
If you do not specify a color when plotting more than one line, semilogx automatically cycle through the colors and line styles in the order specified by the current axes ColorOrder and LineStyleOrder properties.
You can mix Xn,Yn pairs with Xn,Yn,LineSpec triples; for example,
If you attempt to add a loglog, semilogx, or semilogy plot to a linear axis mode graph with hold on, the axis mode remains as it is and the new data plots as linear.
The OpenGL® renderer does not support logarithmic-scale axes. MATLAB® automatically selects a different renderer when using logarithmic scaling. If you set the figure Renderer property to opengl, axis scales become linear. See the figure Renderer property for more information on renderers.


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Cancer: A Communication Failure
The genetic changes involved in cancer result in altered proteins that disrupt the cell's communication network. In cancer, altered proteins along many different pathways cause signals to be garbled, intercepted, amplified, or misdirected. These changes hijack what was once normal communication and use it to achieve uncontrolled tumor growth. Here are some examples of how cancer disrupts normal cellular pathways.