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Developers take Mac, Linux-friendly Chrome for a spin
Well, it doesn't seem to fall over.
Half of it appears to be missing, but the half that's *there* seems not to fall over.
Intel confirms end of Psion 'netbook' legal fight
netbook. netbook. netbook. Am I in trouble now?
It's just a word, FFS. I don't care how much either party spends on lawyers, people are going to use it as they please.
In this case, my guess would be that if in five years time anyone still cares about small cheap laptops, they will all be called "netbooks".
In the same way that I call brown-bread-with-bits in "granary", even though that, too, is a copyrighted term.
I wish business would grow up.
UK2 brings support back to Blighty, culls execs
UK2 are not perfect
It certainly used to be the case that they charged a wacking great fee to transfer a domain away...
UK2 have support?!
First I heard about it.
Cobol hits fifty
Not Dead Yet
Anyone want to bet whether it will still be being used in another fifty years?
I have a nasty feeling that the answer will be "yes".
Irish Wikifiddler hoaxes worldwide journos
@"Somebody heard him say that?"
I did post a link, in fact, to the entire article. I think he probably wrote it down.
Douglas Adams had it right
Spider From Mars made the point first on this thread, but Douglas Adams said it in 1999 (http://douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html):
'Because the Internet is so new we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the web. Imagine trying to apply any of those criticisms to what you hear on the telephone. Of course you can't "trust" what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can't easily answer back — like newspapers, television or granite. Hence "carved in stone." What should concern us is not that we can't take what we read on the internet on trust — of course you can't, it's just people talking — but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV — a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no "them" out there. It's just an awful lot of "us".'
Not the problem
The fact that anyone can edit "the encyclopedia anyone can edit" is not the problem. Lazy Journalism is the problem.
Flagged Revisions aren't the solution. Journalists checking their facts, is the solution.
Home Office to keep innocent DNA samples
Today interview
Those commenters who say that the government have created a system where, once you are arrested, you are assumed guilty, will love today's BBC R4 Today interview with Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker (http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8037000/8037364.stm).
He repeatedly says that the advantage of the DNA DB is that it catches innocent people who re-offend.
No, he really says that. Twice.
Touchy Google wraps protective arm around Chrome EULA
Why do Google need an EULA anyway?
If they are supposed to be The Good Guys, why on earth have a legally dubious, unenforceable, Evil EULA in the first place?
Not drawing any conclusions here; just asking.
Boffins invent automatic net-hookup roboffinry machines
All very well and good
...but I won't be impressed until one has independently deduced the idea of rice pudding and income tax.
Texas senator wants to ban Vista purchases
At the risk of seeming to be a nerd:
Sex crime 'lie detector' pilot could prompt wider use
A much more reliable method
Just check if they weigh the same as a duck.
(Well, someone had to say it...)
Girls Aloud obscenity trial delayed
Hate SF Fans much?
About 50% of serious SF fans, in my experience, have written a story where two characters or actors in a show they like, erm, get jiggy.
As an SF fan myself I don't have to have any sort of kink to know that these things exist or that some of them get creative with the concept of "consent". (To anybody thinking "ew", at this point: quite. But it's only fiction.)
If this case goes to a guilty verdict, an awful lot of people are going to be looking nervously over their shoulders.
Companies burying themselves in IT gear
Isn't it a bit daft to assume that virtualisation will mean that you will need less hardware? Does anyone really think that?
I mean, x server-side applications will generate total load y whether they are on x different servers or one big one. So you'll still need lots of computer kit, either way...
Western Digital WD TV HDD-to-HDTV adaptor
Google "MythTV"
I bought a £25 pIII and turned it into a "media centre" using MythTV. It sounds like it would give this £100 job a run for it's money.
Okay, it helps if you're a Linux nut. And a friend donated a freeview card (about £30). But I seem to remember that Linux will read Mac discs just fine...
Microsoft preps IE 8 for the web-challenged
Who else but Microsoft
...would deliberately release a web-browser that doesn't work with a host of major websites?
And who else would get away with it, probably... ::sigh::
MPs demand investigation into unlawful police action
Needed a warrant?
The Telegraph are suggesting that the police might not need a warrant: specifically, that they don't need a warrant in cases where they have arrested the bloke in question.
I have no idea if that is true.
White space debate comes to Blighty
Everyone move up one, I want a clean frequency?
I suppose it's too simplistic to say that all the digital channels should shift up so they are closer together, then we'd have some spare frequencies at the "end"?
Nuke-nobbler raygun 747 in first full-power blast
Force fields?
Apparently (according to the picture) we have force field technology now?
New terror guidelines on photography
new legislation
Am I right in thinking that there is new legislation still in the pipeline that may make it illegal to photograph police officers? When does that come into effect?
UK.gov abandons income splitting tax law
...they've been prosecuting people who do this for a while, new law or no new law.
RISC daddy conjures Moore's Lawless parallel universe
Fascinating. And I'd love to see these new applications. But...
People will always want to write letters and add up columns of figures. So Word Processors and Spreadsheets, which Patterson dismisses, will still be needed in some form.
In fact I would guess that we will need all the current types of applications that we currently use -- however limited and annoying we find them -- for the next ten years or so.
And computers running the majority* of these applications, processor speed is no longer relevant; hasn't been for years. It's IO speed that makes things faster.
It seems to me that Moore's Law has become an excuse for an industry and so much marketing hype. The vast majority of people are today being forced to buy computers which are much more powerful than they will ever need -- except for the fact that they are running operating systems which have bloated to require that power without any real payback for the user.
But of course, I would say that. Every computer in my house is an old recycled one running Linux.
(* not video editing or animation rendering, but pretty much everything else.)
Home Office team continue work on net snooping masterplan
Law firm argues links to its website abuse its trademarks
google "jones day" lawyer
"Results 1-10 of about 360,000"
Plus Google itself, of course. That should keep them busy.
Beeb gets its rocks off in Second Life
And the point of this story is?
Was it "BBC makes themselves look really stupid with an incredibly naieve story about internet sex?
Because from here it looks as if your story says "Cooor!! Wish we'd done that story!!!"
Normally the Reg is right on the button (er, pardon me) but this time I think you forgot to write the story before posting it. Any story would have done.
Before anyone says it
No, I don't have a second life account.
Preventive policing? Don't even think about it
Call me cynical, but...
"In the end, these measures will either become an acceptable everyday part of British policing, or they will thoroughly alienate Police and public."
Or, of course, the ever popular: both.
Manuelgate's goth vampire stripper fades from MySpace
Bad taste?
My opinion is that all prank phone calls are nearly as funny as a road accident, so I'll disqualify myself from judging whether it was funny or not.
Reading the transcript of the event (or as much of it as I could be bothered to, anyway), it seems to me that what was actually said wasn't much worse than Brand and Ross normally get up to.
The difference was that they weren't just pratting about on the air -- they were talking down the phone to someone (okay, answering machine, whatever). The difference is important: it's a hell of a lot more personal. When you hear an answering machine message, it's meant just for you.
Granted, the difference is a subtle one. I guess Ross & Grant didn't see it at the time. But when you walk the edge of comedy, I think you need to pay close attention to that sort of thing.
Royal Society of Chemistry requests 'Italian Job' ending
The Benny Hill character turns up with a bus load of fat women. Next, they .... Oh, hell, you get the idea.
(And if that made no sense to you, you've forgotten the movie!)
Just saving the gold? Too easy.
Charlie jumps out. The coach crashes to it's doom, killing everyone in it. Then Charlie comes back with salvage equipment.
UK Govt claims lead in 'green motoring revolution'
"UK Govt claims lead"
so long as they don't put it back in the petrol, I suppose...
Man threatens lawsuit after negative eBay feedback
UK Libel Law
... is a *lot* more complicated than US libel law. (I believe the word "minefield" works quite nicely. Possibly "insane".)
It i *not* enough that the alleged libel is true. If he has suffered loss of business then he might well have a case. The best defense might well be that he wasn't the only one to give negative feedback.
IA, obviously, NAL, so I could have entirely the wrong end of a completely different stick. But I do know for sure that UK libel law is very, very odd.
Google Maps gets gov M-way congestion overlay
Something's not quite right...
I see no traffic in Birmingham. That seems a little unlikely. And clicking on the traffic display units toggle -- the southbound signs on the M6 are saying: "congestion ahead".
It appears that either the site is a bit selective in what jams it shows; or the traffic display units really do lie about congestion ahead on the run up to the M6 toll road....
Hoon: Not building überdatabase would be terrorist licence to kill
It's not the terrorists they'll be monitoring
It's you and me.
Because as soon as this goes live, all the tech-savvy terrorists will be communicating via twitter.
Judge Dredd smartshell shotguns to hit Iraq in '09
I'm all for it
I'm all for anything that raises the price of ammo to $25 a shot in fact.
If every shot cost $25 maybe governments would consider it too expensive to declare war on abstract concepts.
'Extreme' extreme porn law puts Scots out of kilter
No problems with enforcement?
How exactly are they planning on telling the difference between non-consensual, non-violent sex and consensual non-violent sex *just* *by* *looking* *at* *a* *picture* ?
Marketing body condemns 'draconian' Olympic law
I can't say "Summer 2012"?
That's going to be a bummer for movie distributers, to start with.
"Out now in the warm season of the year after 2011"?
Israeli hamlet plans DNA database for dog poop
@"cats too"
Forgive me if I'm being thick here, but the basic difference in cat and dog toilet behavior from my point of view is not whether or not cats bury it. It's the fact that I'm actually on the other end of a lead from my dog when he does it.
If you think I'm climbing up trees and leaping over fences in order to facilitate neighbourliness and hygene, then I think you're assuming considerably more fellow-feeling than I actually possess. Not to mention the issue of trespass...
Artemis Fowl scribe to pen sixth Hitchhiker's novel
Does anyone really think that another author can duplicate Adams' style? It seems a shoddy, ridiculous notion. (And I bet the manuscript turns up on deadline too. Pah.)
I'd like to think that the Earth will develop a slight eccentricity in its orbit due to Adams' spinning in his grave...
Vehicle spy-cam data to be held for five years
If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear
I just wanted to be the first to say that.
So that I could then say "b*ll*cks".
Ray Winstone joins Mel Gibson at the Edge of Darkness
Which role?
Am I to understand that Winstone has the Jo Don Baker role? I guess that would work. I'd rather see him scaring the crap out of people with two bits of plutonium than De Nero.
Royal Society: Schools should show creationism 'respect'
"should be examined as a legitimate point of view"
Fine by me, so long as it's not examined as a *scientific* point of view, because it isn't one.
It's perfectly legitimate to hold irrational beliefs. Lots of us have them. For example, I believe that if I keep buying those little tickets at the post office I'll one day become a millionaire. (Then again, it's also perfectly legitimate to take the mickey out of those that think their irrational beliefs are rational, too.)
It seems to me that a sensitive, reasoned discussion about why creationism isn't good science would be a perfectly good way to teach the scientific method.
Assuming that the teachers and pupils can manage that, of course.
Brit trio convicted for liquid bomb terror plot
You *can* make a liquid bomb
...at least, according to all the reports on this story that I've heard in the "proper" news media today.
I, of course, remain unconvinced, thanks to the improper Register. Ta.
How to stop worrying and enjoy paying for incoming calls
Flkawed Argument re: VOIP
The idea that incoming calls use up my bandwidth quota relies on the fact that I have one, and that it is small enough for me to care.
Ubuntu documentation in shreds
@ "demonstrates the problem"
Sorry, can't agree with you. Don't you think that the millions (?) of lines of code that go to make up a Linux distro were "hard work"? Most (not all) of that was done by people who weren't getting paid.
Or what about the millions (?) of pages of Wikipedia, for example? Were people paid for that? Granted, much of it is tosh. But much of it is not tosh. And it didn't write itself.
While I'm at it, I'd like to take issue with the idea that the Ubuntu documentation was unusable. I was certainly using it. It needed updating and improving in places, sure. But it wasn't useless. So this is not a disaster.
MSI intros cut-price Linux mini-laptop
Too expensive
I can get a laptop for £300 already, with Windows (if you count that as an advantage).
In order to get me interested you need to break the £200 barrier. I don't want high-spec, I want cheap.
BTW Linux certainly supports bluetooth.
Neo-Nazi forum hacked
@ "you're only reading this..."
[bleadon obvious]
I think the point is that the people who are deriding this are upholding the same principals of freedom and democracy that your father and his countrymen were.
The fact that you -- or I -- don't like the people that they are defending should not be relevant. Or else, who is to decide who gets justice and who doesn't? Me? You? Sort of defeats the meaning of the word "justice", surely?
[/bleadon obvious]
'Why not try nude female midgets?' says Microsoft Adcenter
Duck porn
Googling for "duck porn" gets me 93,400 matches.
Librarian of child abuse networking site jailed indefinitely
@bugs me
My point was, it may well be a crime, but it's not *the same* crime.
It may even be that one crime usually leads to the other, but that doesn't make them the same.
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FORT WAYNE – Indianapolis police leaders are under fire after the judge overseeing a reckless homicide and drunken driving trial of one officer learned that another has been emailing trial summaries to department leaders, including at least one on the witness list.
The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/1a0SbeE) that the summaries went to five Indianapolis public safety leaders. Recipients included Police Chief Rick Hite and Deputy Chief Val Cunningham.
Cunningham is a potential witness in the trial of Officer David Bisard. He's charged in a 2010 crash that killed one motorcyclist and badly injured two others.
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There are many reasons why you might want to make your own website. You might have a small (or big) business, and you want to make it known. Maybe you want to start a image sharing site, a blog, or a personal site. Whatever the reason, making a website is a fun thing to do. But Most Web Sites cost money, and not all of us have much of it, so I'll show you how to do it for free. In this Instructable, I will show you how to make your own website from start to finish in two different ways.
Step 1: What You Need:
There are a few things you need to start a website, depending on how you're doing it. If you're going to have your own server, and host it yourself, you will need:
Computer to use as server
Apache HTTP server program
Ability to configure routers
text editing program
free domain name service (co.cc, co.nr, .tk, etc.)
computer with internet access
I don't recommend you do it this way unless you are good with computers. It will also cost you money unless you happen to have an old PC around or use a VM. On the other hand, doing it this way will give you complete control over your server. If you are using a free hosting service, you will need:
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As you can see, doing it the latter way is definitely easier for the beginner. If you're brave, and want to set up your own server, read on. If not, skip to step 5.
I have used this technique before (legally of course), so I'm not just speaking of something I don't really know about. Is it likely that someone will take the time to use this on you? No. Is it possible? Absolutely. Why take the chance? Just use a public IP on your server. Most routers will allow you to do that. (Even consumer routers)
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It is politically correct talk designed to reflect the antipathy the 'enlightened' people have to the place of Christ and Christian faith in our world. Most scholars these days use the B.C.E. and C.E. designations.
Some of us hold overs have held out for using B.C. and A.D.
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You have to fight someone 1v1 on Summoner's Rift and can only use one ability at level one. Your ability does not have a cooldown nor does it have a resource (mana, energy, rage, etc) cost. Your ability also cannot be an ultimate. Which ability do you choose and why?
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Vlad's troll pool. Have fun hitting me while you drown in blood.
Either Sion or Taric. Forever stunned.
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we just have the ranged spread out, and have the melee just collapse in and dps (we find the melee are okay with taking some pain and suffering ticks and we only have 1-2 melee on this fight most times anyways).
You will always have a raging spirit up as you enter phase 2. but only 1, and it shouldn't be at 100% health (not necessarily 50% either, but somewhere between there). As phase 2 starts, aside from valkyr's you want to free up this Spirit tank asap, so you want to focus down that spirit before you switch back to the LK.
excuse me . ?
Last night my guild was trying lk10 with a 2x druid 1x shaman healer setup our healers are saying its not doable anybody tried a setup like this before , maybe 2 shamans 1 druid?
Need more info than that, what was your problem. Where tanks dieing? Was infest not getting removed fast enough because of lack of priest shields? How far into the fight were you getting, phase 1, the first transition, the valk phase?
Lots of things can contribute
Also how were you handling the plague and the adds? If you're trying to constantly heal through a lot of it you're healers will run OOM like mine did the first few times (as I had posted in the thread prior). Once you understand HOW to handle the fight, I don't see how any healing composition won't work, we got it last week with disc priest and 2x resto druid.
Full setup
Warrior prot P1= adds P2= LK
Druid feral P1= Lk Transition phase raging spirits
Druid resto
Druid resto
Shaman resto
Rogue assassination
Warrior fury
Hunter Mm
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Warlock destro
Phase 1 is fine the tanks don't die there , we just let the plague jump on the adds to kill them we only get 2 Shambling Horror summoned in phase 1 before we got to the transition phase .
Mid way the transition phase all the adds are death the just dispel it asap off me when im tanking the adds and i stun the last add and return to group that im assigned to .
But once we get to phase 2 the valkyr/defile phase the healers cant keep the tanks up we have 2 raging spirits up around this time . The say the cant do it heal the tanks and keep us topped for the infest so the claim its impossible to do with 2 druids 1 shamans that's why i asked if other people did a setup like this on there first try's .
And the healers say the didn't have any mana problems we had that in the past but we where dpsing down the shambling horrors back then now just get to phase 2 asap and we dont have mana problems .
I was just checking if other people done it with a similar raid setup i think the where just trowing in the towel to fast .
http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/ to see the buffs/debuffs you're missing. Notable ones include -damage, +damage, and haste. You're also missing fort/kings, but you can use scrolls/drums to provide those.
That said, I'm sure it's possible with your comp; it'll just be a bit tougher. The shaman should be able to keep the tanks up with some help, and druids are EXCELLENT for dealing with Infest. I don't see why Infest should ever be a problem, as long as the raid has hots on them before the Infest goes off. Are your healers watching the timer for it?
It also seems like your damage may be low. We usually end the first phase transition with one add up (somewhere around 2/3 health), and he's quickly killed before the valks come out. If you can only get one add down during that transition, then it will be tougher. Still doable, but tougher. Are you able to successfully kill the valks in time?
Here is what we did to kill LK.
In phase one, we formed three groups in a triangle, melee, range and OT. We kept a tight triangle, so there wasn't far to run. At the end of phase one the three groups moved towards the outside but in a way that no one was running in front of adds on OT.
In first transition phase, the OT stood to the far left, range in middle and melee/MT on the far right. MT picked up first 2 raging spirits, OT came over and grabbed the third. MT = Warrior, OT = DK, in our case.
Second phase, MT tanked the boss in middle and OT took over after the spirit was dead, normally right after first val'kr. Second phase took some time to learn the timing. War tank would charge val'ker right off the bat cause charge stun is not on DR, he would then concussion and shock-wave, if the add was still heading to edge then he would charge again. We had everyone crank the size of the short timer on DBM, this made missing important stuff impossible. DK would tank the boss and call out Defile targets, with target of target he can save two seconds compared to waiting on DBM to announce. The target would move away from middle and everyone else would avoid them. We also called defile at 3 seconds till cast, raid would know to scatter. There is only two times during phase 2 that he is casting defile, valker and soul reaper at same time. The warrior would taunt LK off the DK when the DK was hit with soul reaper, DK would taunt right back after the soul reaper proc'd. We stoped DPS at 43% and killed the last val'ker, while dps was on val'ker tank took LK near the side in preparation of second transition phase.
In the second transition phase, we blew heroism. There is 4 raging spirits this time, warrior picked up 1,3 and the DK grabbed 2,4.
In phase three, the warrior tanked boss on teleporter and DK tanked last spirit off to the side. The raging spirit died soon after vile spirits appeared. we used 3 range but can be down with two if you have a warrior tank. After the raging spirit was dead the DK taunted the boss, the warrior stood under vile spirits and AOE taunt when they started to descend. Tanks should have a million threat over dps by this time in the fight, warrior put vig on the DK to taunt spam the vile spirits from that point forward. This made phase three extremely easy.
Hope this helps. Also can the vile spirits be taunted in heroic mode?
First time poster, just registered here, be gental
My guild is having a hard time with Lich King in P2. We get there with no issues. P1 is perfect, both Horrors are dead going into the transition, transition phase is smooth, Sprits are dead with the 3rd around 70% or less.
The issue comes when we get the second Valk and Defile. They seem to stack on each other time wise. The 3rd is close as well. Any tips on how to handle the defile? Running out is the solution but I guess what i am looking for is a better way to determine who is getting it sooner. We are getting into the 50% range every attempt but the defile + Valk's spawning nearly at the same time is destroying us.
i don't remember if the valks come first or the defile does, but you need to make sure you handle them fast, so if it's valks first then defile, you there's a small window, so make sur eyou're stacked for valks, then the moment they spawn, spread out fast, and have the person who gets defile run quick it's doable as long as everyone is paying attention.
But say if you know you would always prefer to put defiles on Tirion or to the North on the big rune on the circle then when you are relatively grouped up for the second valkyr pickups, the targeted person can move towards one of those spots and others know that those are bad spots to go.
There's a second or so grace period where the defile doesn't register anyone in it.
DBM does say bubbles for who it's on and screams at you when you get it.
Also one thing to note, there's a very small chance that the defile hits before the Valkyr's during that second pickup. It's only happened twice out of all of our 10 and 25 normal LK's and all of our 10 and 25 heroic LK attempts. The majority of the time it's Valkyr pickups then defile, just spread as soon as you see that third valkyr drop.
Thanks for the reply's.
Our plan has been, Valk's drop I see the second one and call out "spread out" by then the third has dropped. We get them all going the same direction and Defile is called out. Maybe i need to ride the raid a bit more with them not spreading out further. Our plan is to get them to the stairs (LK tanked in the middle) or at least out of the center ring and not in the path the Valk's will go.
We had the Deflie come before the Valk's last night a few times, as well as both happen almost the exact same time (3rd Valk hadn't dropped and Defile went down). maybe some poor RNG, but I think its more people not moving quick enough.
As a warrior tank, do you shockwave (stun) the shambling horrors as soon as they're casting their enraged shockwave or after? If this is done, will that have interrupted the enraged cast, or will they still need a tranq shot?
If you kill your valks fast that gives you lots of time to spread out for the incoming defile. If your group takes too long its very easy to have the new timer for the next valk 1-2 seconds within the next defile which really sucks..
That phase 2 transition after Quake is what kills a lot of groups, mine included. We are running a bear druid on LK, warrior on adds and I think the off tank is what is causing us transition issues, we need to see if we can get our guilds only paladin tank in our group instead of the warrior because at this stage it will make add control a lot easier because he can easily taunt and make sure that he has threat on those Raging Spirits when they spawn. We usually have 1 spirit left when Quake happens but there is usually a Shambling Horror still alive sometimes. I think the faster your healers spread the plague onto those horrors, and especially during that transition phase after phase 1, they should die during Quake.
if you're handling the plague properly the OT with the adds should have <2-3 adds when the transition into the raging spirits phase happens, just let him isolate to the left or right (whichever you like) and let the plagues kill off the adds, while your MT temporarily tanks the first spirit. Dispel once there's no more adds (remember he's isolated so the plague should just disappear), and then he can take over whichever adds spawn from there, and your MT can go back to being ready to pick up LK. Works everytime for us. How exactly are you guys covering the adds?
we basically tank the LK, and the adds and the range dps in the shape of a triangle, every add including horrors go to the OT while the melee/range kill LK, just continuously drop the plagues into the add packs and they'll go down with no problem. Have ranged dps help with the shambling horrors if they have too much HP and you're nearing 70%. That should do it.
Just sharing this for anyone else using varied healing setups, someone had posted saying they had 2 druids and 1 shaman I am shocked this was not working.
We use 2 raid healers for LK and it works fine. I am a tree and other is holy priest. We have almost no issue with Infest at all we both just know it is coming the moment it hits I hit WG and he hits CoH and poof infest is gone.
Our heals blanket everything quite well, I do most of the tank healing plus his overlapping heals and others as support works fine.
We 2 heal we like having 1 more dps to help push phases or bring down an extra add before phase shift. I think a key element that people should work on that took us a while to get used to was communication before pushing a phase. This is a long fight anyway and has a pretty long enrage timer, if you are stuck with 2 adds up and LK is at 73% (example) we will stop dps on LK and make sure adds are in check then suddenly push push push.
I know some of the top guilds and top players always laugh at everything about not being tough and all that but wow this fight is pretty intense. Communication is amazingly critical in this one. Doing the "defile valk dance" is crazy but as you do it gets a little smoother.
What can be tricky is when defile & valk will be hitting within 2-3 seconds of each other our raid lead warns over vent "valk inc defile right after soon as valk grabs target everyone spread out" something like that and it works.
Our setup is (for reference)
heals - tree & holy priest
tanks - pal and war
ranged - lock, arc mage, hunter, ele shaman
melee - rogue, blood dk
Our ele shaman will spam chain heals if by RNG one of our 2 healers gets grabbed by a valk or into frostmourne.
Hi, i'm posting here cause i really need help on something
First of all, sorry about my english =)
We have a setup like this:
Heals - 1 disc priest, 1 tree, 1 pally heal
DPS - pally ret, rogue, hunter, lock, shaman
Tank - Pally prot ( off tank - me ), warrior prot ( MT )
We're having some issues in the first transition ... We're forming a triangle where are ranged/heals, MT/LK/melees and OT/adds. Me as a pally off tank can dispell the necrotic plague when the infected one is near the horrors ... i can keep that on but when we reach the transition, someone dies cause of the necrotic plague.
I sometimes taunt some ghouls to do some stacks on them to hit horrors harder, but maybe some ghouls come back to the MT ( maybe it's what's going on? ). How do u keep track on which person has necrotic plague?
And in transition, me and the alives adds goes a little far away from the group so the adds can die and i can dispell myself but i can't get if i'm dispelling myself wrong or it's the ghoul thing. Is there some other way to safe dispell the plague on me without jumping to someone else?
thanks for any help =)
Necrotic Plague can and will jump off of mobs and onto players. The plague itself isn't "picky" - it jumps to any Ghoul, Horror, or Player within 6 yards. So, when all of the adds die in the first transition, the plague will jump to a player.
To get rid of the plague, you either need an add to die when it's not within 6 yards of anyone, or you need a player to run out of the raid and get dispelled 6 yards away from everything else.
Basically, you should chain dispel it until you notice it's bouncing between players. Then you should have whoever gets it run out of the raid.


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The Loo (Hindi: लू, Urdu: لو, Punjabi: ਲੂ) is a strong, hot and dry summer afternoon wind from the west which blows over the western Indo-Gangetic Plain region of North India and Pakistan.[1] It is especially strong in the months of May and June. Due to its very high temperatures (45 °C–50 °C or 115°F-120°F), exposure to it often leads to fatal heatstrokes.[1]
Since it causes extremely low humidity and high temperatures, the Loo also has a severe drying effect on vegetation leading to widespread browning in the areas affected by it during the months of May and June.[2]
Origin and ending of the Loo[edit]
The Loo mainly originates in the large desert regions of the northwestern Indian subcontinent: the Great Indian Desert, the Cholistan Desert and the desert areas of Southern Balochistan.[3]
The Loo ends in late summer, with the arrival of the Indian monsoon. In some areas of North India and Pakistan, there are brief, but violent, dust storms known as Kali Andhi (or black storms) before the monsoon sets in.[4] The arrival of monsoon clouds in any location is frequently accompanied with cloudbursts,[5] and the sudden transformation of the landscape from brown to green can seem "astonishing" as a result of the ongoing deluge and the abrupt cessation of the Loo.[6]
Dwelling adaptation to the Loo[edit]
Since the plains of North India and Pakistan are both very hot and extremely dry during this season, water evaporates quite readily. Although this leads to the drying out of many ponds and lakes, the extreme dryness of the air is also easily exploited to create evaporation-based cooling systems. Windows shielded with fiber-screens of the fragrant khas (ख़स/خس or vetiver) dry-grass that are kept damp with a simple water-pumping mechanism are quite effective as an inexpensive form of air conditioning, and have been in common use throughout the plain portions of the northern Indian subcontinent for centuries.[7] Because evaporation proceeds at a very rapid rate in the extreme dryness, the cooling effect can be quite dramatic and result in dwellings where the interior feels chilly.[8] The water in the screens evaporates very rapidly, however, so it must constantly be replenished from raised tanks or with pumps (that can sometimes be driven by the Loo itself). Any water reservoir used must also be shielded from the Loo and the sun, or it can be rapidly be depleted.
Ecological effects of the Loo[edit]
Many birds and animals succumb to the Loo in the summer months, especially in deforested areas where the Loo blows unhindered and shelter is unavailable.[9][10] Certain insect-borne diseases, such as malaria, have historically registered dips during the Loo season as insects populations also plummet during this season. Even prior to the 1897 discovery that mosquitoes transmitted malaria, British officials in India had noticed that the Loo in the plains of Northern India naturally made the region relatively free of the disease.[11]
The Loo in popular culture[edit]
Due to the dangerous, and potentially fatal, effects of the loo on vegetation, humans and animals,[12] it is sometimes referred to as an evil wind in popular Indo-Pakistani culture.[13][14] Avoiding exposure to the Loo is strongly recommended for children and the elderly, as well as pets. Most people attempt to stay indoors as much as possible during afternoons in the Loo-affected months.[15] Heatstrokes are commonly referred to as Loo lagna (लू लगना) being stricken by the Loo [16] Certain sherbets, which are popularly believed to have a cooling effect on the body and provide some protection against Loo-caused heatstrokes, are widely consumed during the Loo-season. These include sherbets of rose, khus, shahtoot, bel and phalsa.[17] A specific Unani recipe called Rooh Afza combines several of these popularly believed cooling agents, and is sold commercially as a syrup to flavor sherbets, cold milk drinks, ices and cold desserts, such as the popular falooda.[18] Lassi, a yogurt-based drink of North India and Pakistan, is also extremely popular and believed to confer some protection against the Loo.[19] Additionally in the desert state of Rajasthan Kairi ka Panna कैरी का पन्ना (drink of raw/unripe mango) is a very popular way of remaining cool and resilient to Loo.
- ^ a b S.V.S. Rana (2007), Essentials of Ecology and Environmental Science, Prentice Hall of India, ISBN 81-203-3300-4, "... In the plains of northern India and Pakistan, sometimes a very hot and dry wind blows from the west in the months of May and June, usually in the afternoons. It is known as loo. Its temperature invariably ranges between (115°F-120°F) 45 °C and 50 °C (115°F-120°F). People, when exposed to loo ..."
- ^ Barbara Tufty (1987), 1001 Questions Answered About: Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Other Natural Air Disasters, Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-25455-0, "... This wind dries out crops and makes people fretful by its eerie singing ..."
- ^ Phani Deka (2006), Geography: Physical and Human, New Age International, ISBN 81-224-1912-7, "... In north India, the hot wind of Thar desert that blows during early summer is called Loo ..."
- ^ Andhi (Kali Andhi), WeatherOnline, retrieved 2009-06-21, "... The Kali Andhi, or black storm is a violent, squally dust storm occuring [sic] in late spring in north-western India. The Andhi heralds the imminent arrival of the monsoon ..."
- ^ Cloudburst washes away water mills in Himachal, Headlines India, 2006-07-24, retrieved 2009-06-21, "... A cloudburst in a remote Himachal Pradesh mountainous valley washed away several water-run mills, a bridge, a road and a large tract of farmland, but there were no reports of casualties ..."
- ^ John Strachey (1894), India, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, "... At last, when the heat has become greater than ever, the clouds begin to collect, and there comes down a deluge, almost always accompanied by thunder and lightning ... nothing can be more wonderful than the change which comes almost instantaneously over the whole face of nature ... within a time that may be measured by hours rather than days, the country that was like a desert begins to look like a garden. The rapidity of the progress of vegetation is astonishing ..."
- ^ Sheikh Mohamad Ikram, Thomas George Percival Spear (1955), The cultural heritage of Pakistan, Oxford University Press, "... He introduced the system of cooling water with the help of saltpetre, and invented the Khas-ki-Tatti, which has for centuries remained the Indian method of air-conditioning ..."
- ^ William Rice M. Holroyd (1873), Tashil-ul-Kalam, or Hindustani made easy, Oxford University, "... Khas, vulgarly khas-khas, a kind of grass from which screens or tattis are made, for use in the hot season. The tatti is placed in a doorway and kept perpetually wet; and the hot dry westerly wind, after being allowed to pass through it, becomes quite cold ..."
- ^ Indian summer too hot for Cheetahs from Singapore, India Gazette, 2009-05-06, retrieved 2009-06-25, "... Authorities in the Shakkarbaug Zoo ... removed a pair of Cheetahs ... from public view as the animals could not bear the intense heat wave ... have been lodged in a ... temperature-controlled environment ... As many as 30 Cheetahs brought by various zoos in India ... died as they could not adjust to the harsh Indian climate during summer months ..."
- ^ Allan McArdle, J. N. Panda (1968), A Handbook for Poultry Officers in India, UNICEF, "... bird losses because they won't go out in the sun to drink, and then die in heat waves ..."
- ^ Charles Frederick Oldham (1871), What is malaria? And why is it most intense in hot climates? An enquiry into the nature and cause of the so-called marsh poison, with remarks on the principles to be observed for the preservation of health in tropical climates and malarious districts, Lewis, "... In the plains of upper India, sleeping out of doors is attended with but little danger, even for Europeans, in the dry, hot months; although, at other seasons, fever would be a probable result ... far outweigh all risk from "malaria." ..."
- ^ Ahmed Ali (1994), Twilight in Delhi, New Directions Publishing, ISBN 0-8112-1267-X, "... The temperature rose higher and higher ... the loo began to moan, blowing drearily through the hopeless streets. The leaves of the henna became sered and wan ... even birds were not immune ... many pigeons died ... Men shut themselves up inside the houses or in shops. At noon the city seemed deserted and dead ..."
- ^ Salman Rushdie (2007), Shame, Picador, ISBN 0-312-27093-3, "... I'll be fair: nobody likes the Loo, that hot afternoon breath-that-chokes. We pull down our shutters, hang damp cloths over the windows, try to sleep ... The Loo is an evil wind ..."
- ^ Manohar Malgonkar (1972), The Devil's Wind, H. Hamilton, "... A searing wind came over the white-hot desert, the wind that we call the loo, but a loo which had the special, abrasive rasp of the Devil's Wind ..."
- ^ Gopal Singh (1976), A geography of India, Atma Ram, "... The hot dusty wind known as 'Loo' may persist for a few days and make outdoor life difficult. Since the visibility becomes poor, air services are sometimes suspended ..."
- ^ Ruth S. Freed, Stanley A. Freed (1993), Ghosts: life and death in North India, American Museum of Natural History, ISBN 0-295-97303-X, "... It is also known as heat stroke and loo lagna (affected by the loo - a hot wind) ..."
- ^ C.P. Khare (2004), Indian herbal remedies, Springer, ISBN 3-540-01026-2, "... Sharbat Khas is a cooling and refreshing drink of Unani medicine ..."
- ^ H. Panda (2004), Handbook on Ayurvedic Medicines with Formulae, Processes and Their Uses, National Institute of Industrial Research, ISBN 81-86623-63-9, "... When we keep in mind the many qualities Rooh Afza's ingredients described above, it is easy to understand why it has been found to be an exceptionally appropriate summer drink ..."
- ^ Roshan Lal Anand (1933), The Milk Supply of Lahore in 1930, Board of Economic Inquiry, Lahore, Punjab, "... There are many among the lower ranks who do without milk or tea during winter, but lassi is almost the last thing a Punjabi would forego during summer ... the "national drink" of the Punjabi ..."
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Before irrigation came to Benton County, the Benton County Farm Bureau hosted a meeting for community members outlining rules for water use, liability of operations using irrigation systems and laws that are in place to protect homeowners from losses caused those irrigation systems.
Under Indiana law, small-capacity well users are protected from significant groundwater withdrawal facilities, which are defined as facilities or users that have the ability to pump 100,000 gallons of groundwater per day. If high-capacity pumping has lowered the water level in a small-capacity well so much that it affects the ability of the well to supply adequate water, the high-capacity owner can be held liable and may be required to provide those affected with an alternate water supply.
Attendees were encouraged to be proactive and have their wells measured, a free service offered by Indiana DNR, to get a baseline level before irrigation began.
"Because there was no irrigation in Benton County, we needed to find out if we could maintain a system," said Lana Wallpe, president of Benton County Farm Bureau. "Being a farmer, I see the benefits of irrigation, but we also have to be good stewards of water resources; we don't want to deplete the water supply."
The county's state representative, several local government officials, Benton County Farm Bureau members and non-members attended the meeting. Two new members were signed as a result of the meeting.
The county was one of nine counties that earned an Impact Award from Indiana Farm Bureau for its effort to inform and engage members and non-members alike. The award, which is presented annually at IFB's state convention, recognizes counties for efforts that resulted in a significant impact or an increase in political influence and clout.


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What you need to work on is unique to you. Few everyday golfers understand how to practice in a way that leads to actual improvement. You need a personalized plan that stretches your comfort zone. Only you -- and your golf teacher, if you have one -- knows what that is. Ask yourself what shots and situations make you uncomfortable and what you'd like to do well, and then devise a plan to work on those areas. If you hit your wedges close from 120 yards, start trying to hit choke-down 7-irons the same distance. If money matches make you feel edgy, it's time to bet $5 per side to get your mind more comfortable playing for cash. Find the areas where you want to improve, then focus on drills that challenge you. But remember that...
We're talking about taking a step outside your comfort zone, not a giant leap. Small-chunk it. If you've mastered basic chips from clean lies, that doesn't mean it's time to hit Phil Mickelson-style flop shots from the hardpan -- you'll just blade ball after ball and feel lost. Instead, graduate to pitches from gnarly lies, or hit three-quarter shots that run. Perhaps you have your 3-wood fade down pat but haven't hit a draw in ages. It's time to work on shaping it right to left. Your new grip and stance will feel hopelessly strange, and you'll hit many terrible shots, but it's what you must do to improve. In fact, hitting both good and bad shots -- plenty of bad -- is a sign that you're achieving deliberate practice. Seeking out what we do poorly is not most people's idea of fun, so few of us do it. But the best players find deep satisfaction in the challenge and immersion in the task.
The best performers repeat their practice at stultifying length. Sam Snead hit balls all day, then practiced by his car's headlights at night. Ted Williams hit baseballs until his hands bled. Pete Maravich shot baskets in the school gym from dawn to dusk. We've all heard that practice makes perfect. Now brain science reveals why high-volume repetition is critical. When Sean Foley was asked how his client, Justin Rose, had improved his long irons, he responded, "Myelin." Many saw that remark as evidence of Foley's supposed quirkiness, but he was right. Myelin is a substance in the brain that builds up around certain circuits, much like insulation around an electrical wire. Performing a motor activity repeatedly sends signals through a highly-specific brain circuit -- say, the "high-3-iron-with-slight-draw" circuit -- that builds myelin, creating what some call muscle memory. The great performers have myelin in exactly the right places. For you and me, years of poor practice have built up so much myelin around the "huge-honkin'-slice-off-the-tee" circuit that it's practically armorplated. Of course, repetition is vital, but it isn't enough. That's because...
We all have blind spots, so we need a coach -- or, failing that, sound feedback. Whether you want to become the next Tiger Woods or Itzhak Perlman, the research in various fields strongly suggests that you can't improve if you don't know how you're doing. In golf, we see how each shot turns out, but we don't see ourselves hitting it, and thus we don't know why it turned out the way it did. What's worse, we often think we know why it turned out that way -- but are wrong. A good teacher is the ideal solution; another option is watching and analyzing video of yourself. From your flying right elbow to your swaying left hip, expert feedback corrects mistakes that you may not know you're committing. Without it, progress is virtually impossible.
I've mentioned Tiger Woods several times. When considering the idea of deliberate practice, the behavior of the world's greatest golfer is instructive. In his book The Big Miss, Hank Haney, Woods's coach from 2004 to 2010, observed that on the range Woods would rarely hit more than 25 balls before taking a seat in his cart, where he would stare silently and think about what he was doing. Haney wrote: "To me, it was an example of a great performer doing... 'deliberate practice.' " In his own way (again, it's highly personalized), Woods was engaged in the hard mental work of fixing a weakness. "A lot of players hit a lot of balls but focus only on their strengths," Haney continued. "The great improvers are willing to get uncomfortable and make the mental and physical effort to correct a flaw."
And yet, some people don't buy this. I've given seminars on this topic around the world, and often someone will say, "Hold on. You can't tell me that Tiger Woods didn't come into this world with an incredible natural gift!" To which I say, "He did come into this world with an incredible gift: Earl Woods." Thanks in large part to his father, Woods had 19 years and, by my estimation, some 12,000 hours of deliberate practice under his belt by the time he won the Masters in 1997, at age 21.
For bogey golfers like us, the message is liberating: Hard, smart practice can lead to huge improvement. More good news? Other golf studies show that you don't need anywhere near 10,000 hours to see great results. Even a few hours per week can lead to better shots and lower scores.
Deliberate practice is a bit uncomfortable. It will take time. But now you can choose to walk the same well-lit path that other masters have traversed, whether you want to win your club championship in 2014 or the U.S. Open in 2024.
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How Deep Must A Cut Be For Hiv
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cuts:how deep is your loveif i touch a woman's vagina and i have a healing cut that is no longer bleeding but still slightly painful am i likely to get aids?(i used a towel jus in case)...
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University of Cincinnati, College of MedicineIt all depends on whether the woman has HIV, if the cut is still open and how much virus is there. Using a towel afterward isn't going to help.... Read more »
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Action Alert: Tell Congress NO on Cuts to Medicaid!Action Alert: Tell Congress NO on Cuts to Medicaid!"> Medicaid could be a target for deep cuts when the "super committee" begins meeting this week. The "super committee" is the group of Congressional members charged with reducing the federal... Read more »
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Posted by Anonymous, 4 RepliesHELLO PEOPLE,
I have been STRESSING out BIGTIME over the last month over a possible exposure in January (3rd to be exact).
I cut my finger with glass the night before this incident and it resulted in a very deep cut. The cut stopped bleeding the... Read more »
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Posted by ind234567, 2 Repliesi am 26 yr old male from India. 48 hours back i had protected sex with a girl whom i later 100% suspect of being HIV infected. during the sex, we had deep hard kissing for 5 minutes or so and it resulted in my lips getting minor cuts and scratches.... Read more »
So is hiv from surface cut to cut more theoretical than what really happens?
Posted by AZT, 1 ReplyI've also found a doc who thinks that hiv is possible from deep tissuse wounds and not surface wounds?
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China's super-maglev train could shatter speed records
Japan's LO maglev train, currently clocked at around 311 miles per hour, has garnered news for years as the world's fastest train. By the time the LO begins service in 2027, however, another maglev project may be well on its way to shattering that speed record. At Southwest Jiaotong University, in the central Chinese province of Sichuan, Dr. Deng Zigang has been working on something called a high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation train, or a super-maglev for short.
The single-car super-maglev prototype, sitting upon its domed test track, looks a bit like an over-sized child's plaything. But it's no plaything. In fact, the bitty little train and its enclosed track are designed to keep the maglev track at just the right temperature, ensuring the best possible test results. The tunnel also allows Dr. Zigang to remove the air, and therefore the air resistance, from the train's path.
Tests so far have progressed slowly, with simulations showing that the super-maglev will eventually be capable of speeds of at least 373 miles per hour. In itself, that top speed would be 62 miles per hour faster than Japan's best efforts, but Dr. Zigang isn't through yet. Given an ideal setting, a "perfect world" if you will, the super-maglev could eventually reach a massive top speed of 621 miles per hour.
The only train concept that has even mentioned being capable of reaching speeds higher than that is Elon Musk's Hyperloop moonshot. Seeing as how Dr. Zigang has been working on his version of the tech for a few years now, we're betting that China will beat Mr. Musk to building these insanely fast future trains.
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