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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a chronic endocrine disorder in women. It is characterized by elevated levels of male hormones (androgens), infertility, obesity, insulin resistance, hair growth on face and body, and anovulation—a condition in which the ovaries produce few or no eggs.
Ovaries normally produce follicles that develop into eggs. In women with PCOS, the ovaries produce the follicles, but the eggs may not mature or leave the ovary. The immature follicles can develop into fluid-filled sacs called cysts. Most women with PCOS have cysts, but all women with ovarian cysts do not necessarily have PCOS.
The cause of PCOS is unknown, though genetics may play a role. Some evidence suggests the problem is related to insulin resistance with elevated levels of insulin. These high insulin levels may stimulate excess production of androgens from the ovaries. This could prevent ovulation and lead to enlarged, polycystic ovaries.
Treatments for PCOS include drugs to improve insulin sensitivity, as well as hormonal treatments and, when pregnancy is desired, fertility drugs.
The supplement inositol has shown some promise for PCOS. In a
double-blind, placebo-controlled
trial, 136 women were given inositol at a dose of 100 mg twice daily, while 147 were given placebo.
Over a period of 14 weeks, participants given inositol showed improvement in ovulation frequency as compared to those given placebo. Benefits were also seen in terms of weight loss and levels of HDL ("good") cholesterol.
A subsequent study of 94 PCOS patients found similar results.
However, both of the studies were performed by the same research group. Independent confirmation will be necessary before inositol could be considered an effective treatment for PCOS.
For more information, including safety issues, see the full
The supplement N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has shown some promise for treatment of
female infertility
caused by PCOS.
A double-blind, placebo controlled study evaluated the effectiveness of NAC in 150 women with PCOS who had previously failed to respond to the fertility drug
Participants were given clomiphene plus placebo or clomiphene plus 1.2 grams daily of NAC. The results indicated that combined treatment with NAC plus clomiphene was dramatically more effective than clomiphene taken with placebo. Almost 50% of the women in the combined treatment group ovulated as compared to about 1% in the clomiphene alone group. Pregnancy rate in the combined treatment group was 21%, as compared to 0% in the clomiphene alone group.
However, partially negative results were seen in another study. This trial compared NAC at a dose of 1.8 grams daily against the drug metformin in 61 infertile women with PCOS who had, as in the above study, failed to respond to clomiphine.
NAC proved
far less
effective than the drug at inducing ovulation; nonetheless, the data from this study do not rule out a possibility that NAC provided at least some slight benefit.
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full
Other Treatments
The herb
has shown some promise as a treatment for diabetes. On this basis, it has been tried in PCOS. In a very small placebo-controlled study, it appeared to improve insulin sensitivity.
The supplement
has shown also promise for improving insulin sensitivity, and on this basis, it has been tried as a treatment for PCOS. However, in a small pilot study, use of chromium at 200 mcg daily did not have a positive effect in PCOS.
A mixture of
has shown some promise for improving pregnancy rates in people with PCOS.
Green tea
has also been tried in PCOS, but the one small published study failed to show benefit of any kind.
Daily spearmint tea consumption was reported to improve patient-assessed hirsutism, as well as testosterone and other hormone levels in a small trial of women with PCOS.
Gerli S, Mignosa M, Di Renzo GC. Effects of inositol on ovarian function and metabolic factors in women with PCOS: a randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial.
Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci.
Rizk AY, Bedaiwy MA, Al-Inany HG et al. N-acetyl-cysteine is a novel adjuvant to clomiphene citrate in clomiphene citrate-resistant patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.
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J Soc Gynecol Investig
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Wang JG, Anderson RA, Chu MC, et al. The effect of cinnamon extract on insulin resistance parameters in polycystic ovary syndrome: a pilot study.
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Schachter M, Raziel A, Strassburger D, et al. Prospective randomized trial of metformin and vitamins for the reduction of plasma homocysteine in insulin-resistant polycystic ovary syndrome.
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Elnashar A, Fahmy M, Mansour A, et al. N-acetyl cysteine vs. metformin in treatment of clomiphene citrate-resistant polycystic ovary syndrome: a prospective randomized controlled study.
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Gerli S, Papaleo E, Ferrari A, et al. Randomized, double blind placebo-controlled trial: effects of myo-inositol on ovarian function and metabolic factors in women with PCOS.
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As we enter our final weeks of BEAUTY CULTURE here at the Annenberg Space for Photography, one of the most frequently asked questions from visitors who watch our feature documentary continues to be "Who is that woman in the pearls and blue dress?" The woman whose statements have left such a lasting impression on visitors is our November 17th IRIS Night lecturer, journalist and author, Alex Kuczynski.
Since Kuczynski will grace us with her presence, along with photographer (and previous IRIS Night lecturer) Susan Anderson, during our final IRIS Night lecturers during the run of BEAUTY CULTURE, it's a great time to learn more about "the woman in the pearls."
The ambition that would ultimately lead to Kuczynski's success as an award-winning author and reporter appears to run in the family. Her father, Pedro, was a candidate in last year's Presidential election in Peru. John Casey, The National Book Award Winner and novelist, is her maternal uncle. Kuczynski, however, isn't interested in resting on family laurels. Carving out a name for herself as a reporter for The New York Times, she took it one step further and authored an uninhibited, behind-the-scenes examination of the cosmetic surgery industry in her book, Beauty Junkies.
Beauty Junkies is a revealing view at what is now a demographic-defying $15 billion fixation on youth and physical vitality. In a recent article for Harper's Bazaar, Kuczynski sums up the obsession saying, "The pressure to stay young, and to remain young looking, is at a fever pitch in America. Those seeking the holy grail of youth are driving up the number of cosmetic procedureswith Americans getting more than 13 million of them every yearin their quest for a smooth forehead and taut cheekbones."
In her book and featured role in the BEAUTY CULTURE documentary, Kuczynski readily admits to experimenting with a few cosmetic procedures in her 20s and 30s, but ultimately realized that "Living out west [in Idaho] has made me release all the ideas I used to have about success, including the quest for that perfect age-defying forehead. In fact, I've discovered that the more I give up, the greater the reward. I stopped trying to think I could do it alland in part, I was forced to....you can't worry about your hair or your skin because the one practicing dermatologist in our town doesn't even do Botox."
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Shéhérazade enchants its audience in a slow-moving dance-like narrative which builds to a pair of linked climaxes, each preceded by an escalation of tempo. Between comes a lengthy slower passage, in which D as tonal anchorage is unexpectedly announced via a cadence so conventional that, here, it sounds wholly new. D persists as an undertone to what follows, without ever consolidating its sovereignty. Ultimately the music returns to its openings. The pitch D is balanced by the monotone A heard at the outset, yet without ever suggesting a conventional tonic–dominant relationship. No explicit programme is suggested for this luminously sculptural music, but the context of 1001 Nights, where Shéhérazade's survival depends upon keeping her new royal husband entertained, lends a subcontext of danger, like that supernatural heightening of sensory awareness heralding an expected extinction.
Tantris le Bouffon is derived from a parody of the Tristan legend by Ernst Hardt, published in 1908. In possibly conscious antithesis to Shéhérazade, who cannot escape the royal chambers, Tantris attempts to break into Isolde's quarters but is recognized by the dogs, which give the game away. The fact that Isolde is later handed over naked by the King to the lepers is perhaps more than enough (never mind its explanation) to indicate the worm-in-the-rose ambivalence of Szymanowski's aesthetic, and is of relevance here only because, rather than strictly narrating events, the composer sets out to contrast the coarsely knockabout (in an apparently ugly, rather than humorous, light) with the despairing and the helpless. Perhaps too strange to conjure pathos, this ferociously demanding music hints in its fast passages at odd melodic glimmers of Petrushka. Stravinsky was a recent discovery for Szymanowski at the time of the Masques. Their chosen title may well nod towards the commedia dell'arte tradition to which Petrushka and Russian puppeteering are more generally related.
Sérénade de Don Juan is essentially a rondo. As Alastair Wightman notes in his critical biography of Szymanowski, this is the perfect form for a piece about an egomaniac, since its recurrent theme can stand as the antihero's ongoing love affair with himself. Moreover, the solitary note D flat (much laboured in the theme) may itself represent the ego of one unwilling to let attention rest elsewhere for very long—even though the theme does appear at other pitches later in the proceedings. If humour is in short supply elsewhere in these works, it is sardonically evident in this movement. The D flat makes a meal of itself in the introduction, like someone very consciously conjuring 'an entrance'. Palmer notes a possible evocation of someone making a great kerfuffle of tuning up (although in fourths rather than fifths, affording the interesting possibility of a Don who plays double bass rather than violin). Later the music invites comparison with Debussy's Violin Sonata and, in its repeated-note evocations of flamenco tradition, with the jester figure in Alborada del gracioso, from Ravel's Miroirs. The gracelessly peremptory ending hints at a petulant flouncing out when initial attention has waned. Describing Scaramouch, an antecedent of Don Juan in English theatre (famously borrowed in music by Darius Milhaud), Brewer's Dictionary resoundingly dismissed him as 'very valiant in words, but a poltroon', a description which fits Szymanowski's feckless protagonist equally well.
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[QUOTE=OCCH;4501876]I know some Jets fans regard pessimism as a badge of honor, but I don't see why our guys have to stink just because they have good #s.
Schilens is more a question of his health than his ability. If somehow he can stay on the field, he's definitely given reason to believe he'll upgrade our WR corp.
Ganaway has at least shown an ability to succeed at an AFL level. Doesn't mean much, but is better than some guy off the street.
Hill has the potential to be GREAT. Doesn't mean he will be, but doesn't mean he won't, either.
I understand if you want to water down the kool-aid, but some people automatically assume the better the guy looks, the worse he's going to be . . .[/QUOTE]
I can honestly see your point, and agree with some of it. However.....
Year after year after year after year there are these players who are impressing the coaches, and have mind blowing numbers....(whether it be 40 times, increased muscle mass, or bench press reps), and they equate to garbage more often than not.
Still, i see no problem whatsoever with fans being excited about these possibilities, as long as there are proven veterans that can pick up the slack if/when these phenoms fail.
In the case of the Jets, i dont see much quality depth at MANY positions, namely WR and RB.......and to some degree the OL.
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The G8 Summit this month came on the heels of an important development in Russia—the death of Chechen terrorist leader Shamil Basayev. Although the separatists have been weakened, experts say the resistance will persist.
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Chechnya has been plagued by two wars and an ongoing insurgency since the fall of the Soviet Union. In recent years, Chechen militants have escalated attacks in the North Caucasus and revived bombings in Moscow.
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Chechen separatist Shamil Basayev is one of several rebel leaders to die violently in recent years. His death leaves the future of the movement in doubt.
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WASHINGTON - She finds a place on her mat and closes her eyes, zoning in on herself and out on everyone around her. It's easier for Emily Goodstein, 29, to do at this studio than it would be at many others. No one here is interested in competition and nearly everyone is overweight.
"No one there has a perfect body. We all have something that you could wish wasn't there. We're just laying that on the table. We're not hiding anything," says yoga instructor Dena Kahn.
Kahn teaches Kripalu yoga, and welcomes any level of experience, any level of health, and any size to her class. Kahn is growing a following in the D.C. area for teaching specialized classes to specific groups, including larger individuals and those who are suffering from chronic health conditions.
All of her classes are taught like traditional yoga, with room for modifications.
"So I will use my hands to move my flesh and my skin, to shift just as I would ask them to do," Kahn says when describing how she teaches the Curvy class. "We're talking about that all openly."
Body-affirming yoga: "It's not about weight loss"
The Curvy Yoga class, which this group affectionately calls "body-affirming yoga," is growing in popularity. Goodstein attributes that to the group's focus that's placed on self-improvement rather than comparison.
"Yoga is a non-competitive practice by definition. So it's kind of funny that we have to have a special space to do a non-competitive yoga practice. But I think a lot of times studios get sort of crowded and it's really hard not to look at the downward dog of the person next to you," Goodstein says.
Goodstein has been practicing yoga for seven years. She knows how it benefits her body, calms her mind and helps her focus. But she also knows many yoga practices don't work for her. This "Curvy Yoga" class, held at lil omm yoga studio in Tenleytown, does.
"It's not about weight loss. It's definitely about pushing limits because I think at the end of the day, yoga is about breathing a millimeter beyond where you think your body can go. At the same time, it affirms exactly where your body is right now," Goodstein says.
Classmate Patty Fitzgerald agrees, saying the class is personally tailored to her fitness level unlike other mainstream yoga classes.
"There wasn't any sense of, 'Here's how you can modify the position because you're 5 feet tall and not a skinny-minnie person,'" Fitzgerald says of more competitive classes.
In the body-affirming yoga class, participants are encouraged to go at their own pace, use stability blocks for balance and straps to reach stretching positions they can't quite reach, but will benefit from.
"Somebody like me at 48, who again doesn't have the typical yoga body, I want to get out of it the same thing anyone else is ... And I'm doing positions and a practice in a way that I'm not feeling so totally stressed by what I can't do," Fitzgerald says.
Fitzgerald is pushing herself but says she's doing it within what is possible. That is exactly what she is meant to get out of it.
"It's a room of people who are regular people. Or who are people with bigger bodies. It's not a room full of the Yoga Journal cover models," Kahn says.
Regardless of participants' starting points, Kahn says they'll benefit from calming and connecting their mind and body through yoga.
"I think it's helping you live better. It's helping you live more healthfully. I think it's helping you access life more fully, because if you can move better and you can breathe better, you get to live better," Kahn says.
Gentle yoga: "A lot of students come in with vertigo, arthritis"
In a small studio in Kensington, Md., 66-year-old Penny Maza is suffering through a back spasm. They happen often to Maza, who sought out yoga as a means of coping with her arthritis. But in this gentle yoga class, she can take a minute and find the stretches she knows will relieve the pain.
"Over the last few years, I've developed very severe arthritis. In the process, I've gained a lot of weight. So, I'm not like I was when I was 30 in terms of things I could do," Maza says.
Recognizing she had to do something to improve her quality of life, Maza reached out, emailing the Allay Yoga studio near her home to find a class she could get something out of, without having to worry about injury.
"I described myself. 'I'm overweight, I'm old, I'm full of arthritis. Is there anyone who can help me?' Ya know, I just made a plea," Maza says.
She was paired with Kahn for a few individual classes until both felt Maza was ready to join a group in which she could have time for her own modifications.
"Sometimes I just really can't do what the other people do. I do chair moves and so forth. I certainly feel a lot looser and more flexible after class," Maza says.
She's far from alone. Kahn says after experiencing an injury herself in a car accident, she understands how slowly strengthening your body with yoga can help improve confidence in your body while healing it.
It's a tip she offers to anyone looking for a yoga instructor who will help them work through an injury - find a teacher who has experienced an injury.
Gentle yoga is offered at a number of studios across town and is popular with seniors and those who are rediscovering their body with a little less movement and flexibility than they've previously known. The pace of the class is slower, allowing participants time to feel comfortable in their own bodies.
"Anybody, regardless of their conditions, whether they have arthritis, osteoporosis, joint problems, whatever the issues are, they have time to set up in the way that's best for them," Kahn says.
The classes are physically challenging, but focus on balance, strength and flexibility primarily - all of which improve participants' daily lives, Kahn says.
"They are parts of yoga that really add to your quality of life. You want to be able to move. You have safety in movement. You have safety when your body is strong. You have safety when you can balance.
For Penny Maza and her classmate Dorie Anisman, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, the balance portion of the class is especially helpful.
A few studios offer specialized yoga:
- Dena Kahn
Gentle yoga, curvy, restorative, kids
- Blue Heron Wellness
Silver Spring, Md.
Liz Butler, yoga director
Restorative Yoga, plus sized, gentle
- Lil Omm Yoga
Curvy Yoga, gentle, for cancer survivors, restorative
Tenleytown, D.C.
- Allay Yoga
Kensington, Md.
Pamela Kaufman, yoga director
Gentle yoga, prenatal
"You get to this age, you start to fear falling ... What happens to me with arthritis and other difficulties I have, I really have to plan so that I don't get hurt. That has been a real benefit for me," Maza says.
While the class moves slowly, it's challenging Maza says.
"I'm pushing the envelope for me. Other people can push their own envelope."
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Remember the night we got turned away to Max! Kitchen & Wine??? Well, we ended up at Restoran Muar right across the road. Had meant to try this place for some time back but some how never got the chance.
We sat on a huge round table since there isn't any smaller tables left... seems very promising. Behind us, there is a large group of diners chowing down and I tried to peep back, left and right before I check the simple menu. Hubby then got the lady boss to recommend us dishes.
Started off with a dish of Petai Squid and Prawn (RM16 for small). I don't really like the sambal taste of this dish. Somehow something is missing but I can't pinpoint, and I hate chewing on the large pieces of dried chilli bits. Luckily, the seafood is fresh and loved the petai bits.
Hubby originally asked for Kangkung Belachan but they ran out of kangkung, hence we opted for sweet potato shoots instead (RM6.00). Aisay, they've used the same sambal as in the Petai Squid and Prawn. Had to dig out those chilli bits, so minus points there.
Next, we have this Crispy Fried Eggs (RM5.00). 3 eggs deep fried into a lacey omelette, served with a few dashes of dark soy sauce. The simplest dish but yet the most satisfying of all!!! Loved the crispy whites coupled with the runny egg yolk... simply divine. Hubby told me that his mom used to deep fry their eggs this way, wahhh... so nice but not my mom as she usually shallow fry them.
We ended our dinner with cendol of fine shavings of ice, drizzled with gula melaka and thin coconut milk; and topped with cendol. As we dug further, red beans are abound underneath the ice. It was on a special price of RM1.00 but it's a very small bowl. Hubby asked for second. This time round, the lady boss made it herself and the ice was not shaved as finely as the Indonesian helper. A week later, we are delighted that they started to serve cendol in two sizes, big for RM2.50 and small bowl remained at RM1.00.
The sambal dishes are not to my liking but there are a few more other dishes that I would loved to try, so might go back there for them. Will comment further then. Was told that reservation is a must on weekends.
Restoran Muar
No. 6G Tengkat Tong Shin
50200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-2144 2072 or +6012 219 2199
Technorati Tags: malaysian food
21 comments:
- boo_licious said...
I like the look of the fried egg dribbled with the black sauce. Yum. Heard good things abt this place from my friends - will give it a try one day.
- 16 July 2007 14:10:00 GMT+8
- tankiasu said...
Yea I will try it too, prices are reasonable it seems.
- 16 July 2007 14:27:00 GMT+8
- wmw said...
Hmmm...looks like I'll go there and just order the egg dish and cendol??? Hee hee...Seriously though, I can get by on just eggs and rice alone!
- 16 July 2007 21:14:00 GMT+8
- Jun said...
omg i think i'm gonna drown in my pool of drool now~
- 16 July 2007 21:57:00 GMT+8
- babe_kl said...
boo_licious & daryl, do give it a go
wmw, me too!!! and maybe add in one otak-otak. havent tried that
jun, try it next time then ;-)
- 17 July 2007 08:43:00 GMT+8
- jason said...
How come no meat? :P
Maybe we should come here on one fine Monday night together.
- 17 July 2007 09:06:00 GMT+8
Wah, new template. I love this. White is my favourite colour.
- 17 July 2007 09:21:00 GMT+8
- babe_kl said...
jason, next week???
thanks jessie
- 17 July 2007 09:29:00 GMT+8
- MeiyeN said...
da "hor bau tan" looks special! :D
- 17 July 2007 12:42:00 GMT+8
- "Joe" who is constantly craving said...
omg..the egg looks so gorgeous..my goodness me..
- 17 July 2007 13:52:00 GMT+8
- Timothy said...
Those looks soooo delicious ! Fancy having a Restoran Muar in Tengkat Tong Shin... hehe.
- 17 July 2007 15:56:00 GMT+8
- Mama BoK said...
Pretty good prices .. i have to say.. ;)
- 18 July 2007 03:04:00 GMT+8
- babe_kl said...
meiyen & joe, looks like everyone is crazy over the eggs :D
LOL tim... and Kluang Stations in mall???
yeah mamabok, faster come back and visit us!
- 18 July 2007 08:24:00 GMT+8
- jason said...
Ooh.. next week?? *yell over the room* Siapa mau join?
- 18 July 2007 09:16:00 GMT+8
- team bsg said...
for sure the color of the imitation sambal is tooo browny dark. Should have been more gloriously orangee ! Then also they shud have cutted da squids lengthwise so can longitudinally align the ying yang of smelly sambal with pungent petai for harmornious effect ( this one bsg style only ).Try Baby Seafood in Klang( along shapadu highway , see Friedchillies ) for best petai effect ( or jungles of Camerons if u dare ). safety not guaranteed
- 18 July 2007 09:24:00 GMT+8
- Paprika said...
oooh that egg dish looks deliciously comforting! guess that must be what kylie kwong's eggs are like. I can't bring myself to deep fry eggs!
- 18 July 2007 12:32:00 GMT+8
- q said...
oh i walked past this restaurant during a photowalk. looks interesting!
- 18 July 2007 12:35:00 GMT+8
- babe_kl said...
jason, you organise?
right on team BSG! the colour's too dark.
me too paprika! usually soft boil my eggs, this is totally indulgence.
yeah q, inside they have some antique displays
- 18 July 2007 14:00:00 GMT+8
- cookies_cream said...
My oh my...the deep fried eggs really looked very delish to me~! *Mouth full of saliva...slurpss*
- 18 July 2007 14:41:00 GMT+8
- babe_kl said...
yes it is cookies_cream
- 18 July 2007 18:33:00 GMT+8
jason...every monday will be close at there!!
- 19 July 2007 02:49:00 GMT+8


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Great content update, Aliena, as always.
One note: you state that
This may have recently changed, but currently, at 2/2, Veiled Shadows decreases the duration by 60 seconds.Quote:
Veiled Shadows decreases the duration of your Shadowfiend by 2 minutes
Awesome guide, Aliena!! Very helpful! I just stumbled upon it and it's really helped me to get that much better at the priest heals. I just have a question for you and anyone else who's got extensive experience with Holy heals...Do I perform up to par? :confused:
I just started priest healing and have been holy since the start of 80 raid healing. I heal for my 10man casual raiding guild and I'm the only priest we have, currently. Our last priest (someone's alt) wasn't viewed as very good by the guild in general as his hps weren't impressive, but he was also Disc which I perceive as more a damage mitigation spec then a hps spec. Compared to him, I put up much better numbers and my guild is happy with my performance, but I was curious if I'm actually performing to a respectable level given my gear? My character is in the US region, Eldre'Thalas server, Horde, Deadnluvinit. I've managed to get mostly 245 and higher gear (no T10 bonus) and I can put out 3-5k hps depending on how I'm having to heal the raid. Is that good (at this point I get the Hellscream buff which distorts my true numbers)?
Also, I seem to plow through my mana pretty quick when I actually throw out heal after heal. If I don't stop to let some mana come back, I can burn through it all in about 2mins. My combat regen with NO buffs is 685...is that low/avg/high for being a holy priest with my gear?
Sorry for the long post, but I'm usually good at being a fast learner of any class and although I've mastered Mage, Lock, DK, and Pally, the new experience of Priest healing is still a bit of a mystery to me as to why I plow through mana. Any advice from anyone would be appreciated!! :D
I am not sure if there is a forum already regarding this..if there is please redirect me.
I followed this guide through out WOTLK and it has been doing pretty well, I loved it.
But as soon, Cataclysm launched with the leveling through 80-85. The mana cost on a
majority of spells has been ridiculously increased. I cannot even rotate PWS on the tank
without having to go OOM. "Heal" ofcourse is my primary healing spell now and I barely use
Flash and Greater. But there is just so much "Heal" can do. It is a 2 sec cast even with
all my haste, it only heals around 10-12k average, and my mana pool is around 60k, that
just not seem to be good enough. What should I do? Chakra<Heal<renew?
I was just wondering what everyone else is doing to survive through this patch.
That said, keeping up the tank should look something like this: Chakra -> Heal -> Renew -> PoM
Then you just continue to cast heal on the target, renewing allies taking slight damage, and giving them a quick heal on the side if they need it. If your tank is taking massive spike damage, you can either choose to use your Holy Word: Serenity (instant cast, mana-efficient heal) on a dps that's took some damage, or on the tank itself to provide you with a chance to heal the DPS.
Prayer of Healing should be used very infrequently. I only use it when the entire party is taking damage that, if not healed through, would wipe us. I haven't really found another way to efficiently heal the party. CoH doesn't appear to be as potent as it used to be, healing for only a fraction of the group's health and having a 10-second out of chakra cooldown (8 second in).
Any other tips might be appeciated, or if I'm dead wrong... I'd like to hear about it. :)
Thanks dude, that is exactly what i was doing lol. I figured my only option would be to increase my mana up to 100k, since healers are having not much problem healing when they have a godly mana pool.
Also, don't forget to try to snag gear that aids in your regen. That'll help you out significantly.
I just read over your new guide, and while most of it is spot-on, I have to disagree with several choices.
Some of your choices are great for people who are well into the raiding content. Most of us haven't gotten there yet. I would highly recommend that while working your way through heroics and just starting to get into raiding, Holy Priests do the following:
- Glyph for Renew. The 30 second reduced cooldown on Guardian Spirit will not make as big of a difference in 5-man content or the first few raid bosses as another 10% on Renew, in my opinion.
- Max out both Mental Agility and Veiled Shadows. I've been using this spec, tweak it as you like but I believe that it's a good baseline for starting out.
Later when you are no longer scraping for every last bit of mana you can possibly find, change your spec and glyph setup a bit.
Also, please for the love of all that is Holy (see what I did there?), use consumables and enchants, even if they're green-quality or even WotLK ones. Whitecrest Gumbo and Ghost Elixirs are pretty cheap. Many of the enchants can be found for 1/4 the price of mats on the AH, simply because so many people make scrolls while leveling enchanting. If you don't have the rep for your Cata helm/shoulder enchants, use WotLK ones. Use green quality gems, etc etc.
I never heal anything without at least a 60 spirit food buff, simply because it is so cheap. Elixirs and Flasks, I wouldn't waste on a 5-man unless you're made of money, but raiding anything without a flask or elixir is pure failure when you can get 225 extra spirit for the mere cost of 2 Cinderbloom per wipe. At the very least, go grab a Pure Mojo for a few gold.
I have a spec with mental agility and veiled shadows in the guide as well as mentioned that Renew can be a decent glyph choice. I still do not recommend Renew glyph in raiding for most priests, and this is a raiding basics guide.
All I'm saying is, you could have elaborated a little bit to make this more relevant to people gearing up in heroics, which is the majority of, well, everyone at this point.
Don't get me wrong. I've done four raid bosses (five if you count the dude in Tol Baraaaahwhydon'tweeverwin), and even with that limited experience, I can see where you're coming from on most of this even if I don't agree 100%.
Wow.. What a great job once again. I can always count on tankspot to have the answer to whatever question I have. This healing guide is awesome. With all the new changes, I feel like a n00b again. I was having so much trouble keeping my mana pool but I think I have a better understanding now after reading this.
Thanks and keep the info/tips coming.
Haha, I always wondered why I was running out of mana in dungeons. Being the narcassistic person I was, I believed that Flash Heal was still low on mana cost...
After reading this guide, I have redone my talents and action bars and find healing dungeons to be less of a nightmare, I tip my hat to you Aliena for creating another impressive guide to priest healing. Now, if only my groups would understand that lightwell is amazing and worth using...
I actually snooped a few players on WoL before checking this guide because I felt like I was doing something wrong after my first few raid bosses. I was comparing myself to our resto druid and shaman and was coming well behind them. Another key marker for me was that lightwell renew was showing up as my #1 heal occasionally. In the end what I discovered is that the holy priest has really turned in to a PoH spambot. I am not saying I don't throw other spells and I am certainly proud of my shiny cereal bowl of life (which is still high on the meter) but in the end PoH is our life right now. I force myself in to the AOE chakra constantly if it falls off by tossing PoM and then get ready to start chucking PoH. I understand that things have changed but I guess I could have never imagined that PoH would be so incredibly vital. The Combination of the Chakra state, glyph, and mastery makes PoH casts the #1 priority.
My experience thus far has been:
1. drop lightwell before pull and pop chakra
2. PoM the Tank that is starting the pull
3. Wait for at least three people to get nailed in the same group and start casting PoH.
If it takes a bit of time for that initial damage to come just toss in some heals and a renew on a tank but watch the chakra state and be careful not to pop into heal chakra on accident.
As soon as lightwell comes off CD recast. Blowing SF early is actually not a bad idea (70% ish) because you should get him back at the tail end of fights when you really really need him.
I am still struggling with mana on fights such as Omnitron or Halfus but others such as Magmaw or Valiona and Theralion seem to be easier.
I think this guide is definitly on target and while it doesnt apply as much to heroics which seem to require heal chakra, I can appreciate the time and effort put in to it. Plus like she said, it's a raid guide.
You underestimate CoH a bit, It tends to crit a lot and it's Echo of light can keep a steady stream of heals going into everyone.
I have not run any math on this idea but am curious to know if possibly taking the 2 points out of Veiled Shadows and only going 2/3 in Mental Agility, and picking up 2/2 Evangelism and 1/1 Archangel would be a smarter choice. While you would have to smite to gain the buff you would gain a 15% increase to heals for 18secs and also restore 5% mana, with a CD of 30seconds. Seems over time in some of the longer encounters this could be more mana efficient and healing efficient than the 1 minute CD off of Shadowfiend dropping it to 4 minutes. Like I said I have not run the math on the numbers for this but was wandering what your thoughts on it are.


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From what ive been told blood draining enchant on a pally counteracts the argent defender proc..making it not proc if i end up getting hit hard enough to die.. but with my parry going up more i see blade ward proc less and less.. so im wondering if i should switch over to blood draining or keep blade ward.. maybe even go back to mongoose
It has synergy with the damage reduction portion of the talent.
AoE tick takes you under 35%. Blood draining heals you 2k and brings you back over 35%. Mob swings, you get the going under 35% damage reduction again. That's my logic for having it anyways.
the new ardent defender affects damage taken when you're below 35%, but it is smart now. before, say you had 30k health, 35% would be roughly 10k (it's too early for math). if you were at 11k and you got hit for 10k, none of that would be reduced. Now, with the new ardent defender, you will take the first 1k damage unmitigated. now you're at 10k. ARDENT DEFENDER RANGE! the next 9k will be reduced by 30% and become ~6k (3k reduced).
side note-I still roll with accuracy, I've heard they made some changes to blade warding to give it more up-time but I haven't tried it yet


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[b]Research on Magnetic Nanoparticles by Stanford Scientist Could Find Application in Cancer Treatments and the Computing Industry[/b]
Detecting cancer and reinventing computing are two challenges that seemingly have little, if anything, to do with each other. That is, unless you are a nanotechnologist like Shan Wang, an associate professor of materials science and engineering and of electrical engineering at Stanford. To him, the problems are two sides of the same coin, or more aptly, opposite poles of the same magnet.
"We have known for a long time that magnetism is a fundamental property of all materials and it has found wide applications in electronics and biology, like hard disk drives and magnetic resonance imaging, but there is also great potential to now apply magnetism at the nanoscale," Wang said in an interview in his office at the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials.
There Wang is tuning the characteristics of tiny magnets - on the scale of a billionth of a meter - to help address both cancer and computing. One part of his research group is developing an ultrasensitive detector of DNA and proteins, including proteins associated with cancer. With some of his students, Wang also is making key advances in "spintronics," a new computing technology that could augment or replace silicon microelectronics when progress there is no longer possible because of physical limitations.
Wang's expertise and promising results have made him an important member of two research centers announced this year. On Feb. 27, the National Cancer Institute awarded Stanford $20 million over five years to establish a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Wang co-directs with radiology Professor Sanjiv Gambhir. Then on March 9, the university joined with three University of California campuses to announce the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics, a center headquartered at UCLA and dedicated to spintronics research.
Wang's specialty in magnetism is particularly important in medical applications because a magnetic field stands out like a flare in the night sky in magnetically neutral biological settings. Magnetism stands out more than fluorescence, the current standard for signaling the detection of a cancer-related protein. That means if a cancer marker could be made to trigger a magnetic change, the result could be production of a more sensitive cancer detector. With better detectors, doctors could diagnose emerging cancers earlier and know sooner whether a particular treatment is working.
The trademarked MagArray biodetection chips Wang is building, each about half a square centimeter, are like little traps for target proteins or DNA strands. The chips are orderly arrays of "ferromagnetic spin valve" sensors, little magnetically sensitive platforms where magnetism and biology converge. Like other microarray chips, they work by exploiting a well-understood phenomenon called "biorecognition." Specific targets, such as proteins or DNA strands, will only link up with specific proteins or complementary DNA strands, respectively. In other words, one can catch a target in a blood or biopsy sample if one provides the right "bait," or probe.
Detection of a particular target with the MagArray chip first involves attaching the probes to sensors on the chip. The sensors, each less than a millionth of a meter wide, are specially designed so that their electrical resistance will change in a predictable way in the presence of a particular magnetic field. The sample is then pumped onto the chip via a system of tiny "microfluidic" pipes. Probes capture the targets. Then magnetically sensitive nanoparticles coated in a chemical that will bond to the target are pumped in. In the presence of an applied magnetic field, the nanoparticles emit their own field - the kind that would predictably change the resistance of the sensor.
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Since doing those experiments, Wang and his current students and collaborators have done further work, as yet unpublished, demonstrating the efficacy of the chip with biodetection. Wang and his team now plan to test for proteins associated with breast and prostate cancers. The researchers aim to produce a handheld device that could rapidly test for a number of diseases. "Our ultimate goal is that if you are sitting in a doctor's office or an emergency room, we'll be providing the doctor with firsthand diagnostics in a time well below one hour," Wang says. "That would be the holy grail."
Meanwhile, Wang has made important progress in spintronics as well. While electronic circuits shuffle electrons around based on their charge, spintronic circuits would route electrons based on their magnetic "spin," a quantum mechanical property that can be described as pointing "up" or "down." Spintronics holds great promise as an augmentation or even a replacement for electronics, because circuit operations such as switching (the mechanism that produces the zeroes and ones of binary code) could be performed more quickly using less energy.
To make spintronics work in practice, however, engineers must build working devices, such as filters that can let electrons with one kind of spin through but block the other kind. The most desirable filters would work at room temperature rather than require the extreme cooling typical of many quantum mechanics devices.
Wang's group has indeed done just that, although not yet perfectly. In a paper accepted by the journal Physical Review Letters B, Wang and materials science and engineering doctoral student Michael G. Chapline announce the first room-temperature electron spin filter, which can block electrons of one spin and let through electrons of the other more than 75 percent of the time. Ideally, the filter would sort electrons of opposite spins with virtually 100 percent effectiveness. The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
The whole device is a sandwich of four incredibly thin (just a few nanometers) layers of exotic materials selected for their magnetic properties. On one end is a layer of iron oxide that emits electrons of a particular spin state. Then a layer of magnesium, aluminum and oxygen magnetically insulates this emitting layer from the most important layer - the one that actually does the filtering. That layer is made of cobalt, iron and oxygen. Finally, a gold layer conducts the electrons that have made it through the filter to an atomic force microscope for detection.
In addition to finding materials that will increase the filter's effectiveness, Wang wants to find materials whose magnetic properties can be rapidly switched back and forth to block different spin electrons at different times. Such a switching capability would enable the spintronic equivalent of a transistor.
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When playing on a floating map, say 50 hexes across from a fixed point, you may find it frustrating when your opponent is running and reloading his drones or plasma, or perhaps he's performing shield repairs. He's doing speed 24+1 for the whole turn, and he's keeping the range open. You'd like nothing better than to see him run into a corner from which there is no escape, but it's a big map and there's all the space he needs.
But even on a floating map, you can still corner your opponent. The map is actually a giant hexagon 100 hexes across, which means it still has corners, albeit six of them rather than the usual four on a fixed map. Thinking of the map a simply a large, but still fixed, map, is the key to this strategy.
Ships running at speed 24+1 for a whole turn will cross a 100-hex map in a mere three turns. Sooner or later he's going to have to make a decision about what to do when he reaches the map edge. Now, if your opponent is running away in a more-or-less straight line, it means that he's running approximately parallel to two of the edges of the map.
Usually, one of those two map edges will be closer than the other. The trick here is not simply to do a straight stern-chase, but to take up a position slightly to the side of your opponent's trail, on the opposite side of his ship from the nearest map edge. This way, he either has to turn towards the nearest edge of the map, in which case you simply turn and parallel his course again in the same way, or he turns towards you which allows you to close the range. The idea is that you box him in against the sides of the map, just as if it was a fixed map.
If, however, you were performing a stern chase, or were on the side of his ship closest to the nearest map edge, then all he would have to do would be to turn away from you and he would open the range again.
This means that eventually you can corner your opponent and give him what he deserves.
Another way of looking at it is that you keep your ship nearer the centre of the board than his. As long as you are on the inside of his turn, which effectively is what is happening, than you can cut him off at each corner and eventually close the range. That way he's doing all the running and, sometimes, you can even go at a lower speed thus releasing power for your weapons.
Of course, a clever opponent can complicate things by launching over-the-shoulder plasma shots, and given your high forward speed, these plasma torps will probably be powerful when they hit you. But still you are not in his primary forward arcs and the torpedo threat is not as great when you are behind him.
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Sounds more like a location map than a floating one to me, Tony, since it's a finite size. It's just bigger than a 'standard' map.
I could be wrong though, it's happened frequently on here lately.
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I meant a Location ap. Vocab dysfunction.....
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Thanks, Tony. It didn't come out quite as well as I'd like, but I guess it's nice enough all things considered.
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This page contains Angry Birds: Seasons Video Walkthroughs for Android called "Walkthrough for Hogs and Kisses 1-15" and has been posted or updated on Mar 24, 2012 by RovioMobile. Let us know what you think of this Video by thumbs voting.
- Developer: Clickgamer.com
- Publisher: Rovio Mobile
- Genre: Strategy General
- Release Date: Mar 22, 2011
- ESRB: Everyone
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Walkthrough for Hogs and Kisses 1-15
Watch this step-by-step Video Walkthrough for Angry Birds: Seasons (Android), which will help and guide you through each and every level part of this game and also assist you to find all secrets and solutions to complete this game.
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