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Definately the best fire mage guide i've found so far. Answers all existing questions, especially the mage bomb choice.
Thanks for a great guide, can't wait to see the arcane/ frost guides.
EDIT: Updated tier 6 talents - Also Frost and Arcane Guides are written. Just need the funds to buy a new HDD So i can render and upload them to youtube.
Fire mage guide Level 90
Preface: HI Tankspot: I am a new poster here who was recently motivated my Lore's recent movement to revitalize the raiding community and make this forum the "Place to Be" as a Raider. So In that spirit here is my Fire Mage guide intended for raiders at the start of MoP, this will be updated as much as possible, whenever a major update occurs you can be sure to find full explanations and a video summary of the guide's key information.
Video Overview: - Text Guide Below
A little about me: I am a Mage based in Australia who raids with the guild HOSTILE on Nagrand-US. We are a oceanic top 5 guild at the time of posting this and we aim to keep it that way. I have been playing WoW since about patch 1.2 - bu t- I was a dirty no good casual until a little ways into BC. I have been making guides for WoW since patch 4.2 and aim to deliver a consumer centred product, I don't want to be one of those lazy bastards who just records off a headset, renders in sub-par quality and doesn't know what he is talking about.
I aim to be a champ who records using Blue Yeti, edits with a copy of sony vegas I have no idea how to use outside of rendering... who doesn't know what he is talking about. **
What you can expect from me: I aim to post the best darn mage guides out there. Which will explain everything clearly and present to you everything you need to be competitive. Whether you are working on an alt or are seeking information as a progression focused raider, I want my guides to be a one fit suits all.
I also post anything (On my youtube channel) that I find amazing or interesting, such as farming spotsm 101kill 0 Death BGs or really terrible attempts at humor. Realistically, just something that I think you might enjoy or get a kick out of.
Thanks for reading and I PROMISE this is the last line you will have to read before getting to the guide.
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Thanks and Enjoy
Fire mage guide Level 90.
Introduction: Fire's Movement and sustain even with minimal gear makes it an excellent choice for any budding raider. It seems to be the most competitive spec when dealing with both "Patchwork" and "movement" fights. The playstyle is very similar to the way it was played from 4.3 onwards. However, much of the heavy RNG has been removed; it is still there, but the damage spread is far less.
Our Abilites:
- Ignite: A 4second DoT that deal damage equal to a percentage of our core abilities damage, modified my mastery.
- Fireball: Our main "Filler" Spell
- Scorch: Our main "Filler" Spell while moving
- Frostfire Bolt: Can be glpyhed to replace fireball (also has a 40% slow)
- Inferno Blast: Replaces Fire Blast; an instant spell that deals moderate damage and will always crit
- Pyroblast: Like fireball with more damage and an amazingly powerful DoT.
- Heating Up: Occurs after a critical from Fireball, Fostfire bolt, Scorch, Infernoblast and Pyroblast
- Pyroblast!: is triggered after two successive crits on the boss from any combination of Fireball, Fostfire bolt, Scorch, Infernoblast and Pyroblast. Pyroblast! allows your next Pyroblast to be an instant cast, does not stack.
- Combustion: Our Main DPS cooldown with a 45 cooldown and 10 second DoT, can be glyphed to have a 90 second cooldown nd 20 second DoT.
Stat priorities:
- Hit + Expertise to 15% (5100)*
- Haste to 12.5% (3056) [+5% from raid buff] - This assumes Glyph of Combustion OR
- Haste to 15% (4250) [+5% from raid buff] - This assumes NO Glyph of Combustion**
- - This allows for an extra tick of living bomb, pyroblast and glyph of combustion.
- Crit
- Haste
- Mastery
*4420 for Draenei
** Minus 425 from haste value for goblin [2763 and 3825 respectively)
Always using Molten Armor.
- Red: 160 Int
- Yellow: 80int 160Crit
- Blue: 80 Int 160Hit
Stat Weights*: Stat wights vary upon your gear: **WIP
Suggested Glyphs:
Glyph of Combustion: Tends to be more beneficial due to the nature of buff scaling at the start of the fight and in combination with timewarp/bloodlust.
Glyph of Fire Blast: Allows you to spread your Mage Bomb effects along with other DoTs
Suggested Talents: - Personal Opinions and "Truthiness"
Unfortunately there are some just flat out bad choices for fire.
Tier One:
Presence of Mind should only ever be taken on fights with zero movement, similarly Icy Flows should only be taken on fights with movement only every minute. This, leave us with scorch as our only real option. Scorch also has excellent synergy with fire as it also applies ignite and can trigger heating up/Pyroblast!.
Tier Two:
Blazing speed is not terribly useful in most fights, due to the fact we already have access to fast movement from blink and glyph of invisibility. therefore, ice barrier and temporal shield both of which are excellent choices remain.
I favour temporal shield in terms of allowing maximum DPS, as it is not on the global cooldown, therefore, can be macro'd in with another spell such as fireball. However, for pure mitigation of damage, I like ice barrier which is also why I favour it for progression.
Tier Three:
Pretty useless for raid encounters, however, ring of frost can be used to create a safety circle for healers to stand in and prevent adds from destroying them before tanks have a chance to pick them up. Frost jaw is also useful as a secondary ranged CC if poly-morph is on cool down
Tier Four:
All three are viable but i prefer cauterize as it allows for you to make a mistake, whist improved invisibility and cold snap rely on you actively preventing damage. Furthermore, Improved invisibility is also useful as an instant aggro dump if needed.
Tier Five:
I never use frost bomb, in terms of AoE and single target it is just on part with living bomb, however, the long cast time and haste modified cooldown makes it feel clunky. Nether tempest is just slightly behind living bomb in terms of single target damage and way behind in terms of AoE, however it has one distinct advantage, living bomb must run its full duration to be worthwhile instead of fireball, where as nether tempest only has to be allows to run for 6-8 seconds to be beneficial so on fights like Elegon where you have to nuke down adds in this period of time nether tempest is slightly better. Which leaves living bomb my go to choice for both AoE and single target damage.
Tier Six: EDIT: Invocation is almost required for certain fights: Heroic Spirit Kings in particular. SO, though I really do not like the talent, you are forced into it.
A personal choice, between rune of power and Inchater's ward. With invocation being viable in theory but not practice, there are just no fights that allow for you to stand there for 6 seconds every 40 seconds on cool down with no repercussions. Rune of power is technically the best IF you never allow it to fall off and you rarely leave to rune on the ground, however, at least in Mogushan Vaults the fights have persistent movement, which leaves inchaters ward. This spell passively grants 6% damage and has decent mitigation, and since almost every fight has very predictable damage if you use deadly boss mods and such, you can regularly proc the 30% spell damage buff.
1: Use combustion when off cool-down and there is both a pyroblast and ignite on the target. Aim to use Combustion when these dots are as large as possible without sacrificing the maximum number of times combustion could be used within the encounter, for example; If there is a 5 minute fight and you are using the glyphed version of this spell. You can only afford to wait 10 seconds between cooldowns IN TOTAL to use this ability to its maximum potential
2: Maintain your bomb spell:
- Living bomb should be refreshed either x<= 2seconds before the DoT expires or immediately after
- Nether Tempest should be refreshed as close to expiring as possible, put preferably before not after.
- Frost Orb should be used as often as possible.
3: Use Pyroblast! AKA instant Pyroblast.
*Pyroblast! does not stack
** Pyroblast! is triggered after two successive crits on the boss from any combination of Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Scorch, Inferno Blast and Pyroblast.
4: If you have the buff "Heating Up" cast Inferno Blast as your next spell is traveling towards the boss. Both Scorch and Fireball have a travel time so if you are fast and Inferno Blast is off cooldown you should regularly be able to use Pyroblast!.
5: Cast fireball, or Utilize a tier one talent ability if on the move.
Alter Time:
Lastly alter time, the most ideal time to use this is during time warp, with Incanter's Ward's bonus damage and trinkets active with Pyroblast! useable, this doesn't exactly happen often. So I aim to save it for time warp with trinkets at the very least. BUT PLEASE NOTE buffs that occur in the 6 seconds after it is initially activated will be removed when triggered. This means you can cheat yourself out of timewarp and then gain the debuff... don't do that. also time warp does not reset cooldowns it merely acts to prolong buffs, and return you to the exact position and health you were when casting it.
Last edited by Judgeharm; 11-26-2012 at 07:18 AM.
Definately the best fire mage guide i've found so far. Answers all existing questions, especially the mage bomb choice.
Thanks for a great guide, can't wait to see the arcane/ frost guides.
Working on them now I am so happy you enjoyed it . Arcane will probally be the next one as it's probally the next on the "DPS chart"
Tyvm for the guide its great
Thank you for this guide. It is the clearest one I have read since the expansion has been released.
My mage has been driving me crazy especially with this Invocation business that all the other guides suggest. Exactly as you said, in theory it might be great but I could bring myself to spend six seconds NOT doing anything in a fight. So you try to ninja them between fights which is clunky and just not very much fun.
Clarifying that there are other viable options for mages was very helpful for me. Thank you.
Also, pointing out that alter time works for time warp which no other guide has mentioned and I didn't think of will no doubt be very helpful to me.
Thanks again for sharing.
Don't forget the alliance racials for hit rating!
If you're human and use a sword: 1% expertise bonus
If you're gnome and use a sword or dagger: 1% expertise bonus
On the haste rating topic, is it 3188 or 3056 as listing in your other post?
Oh, and on T2 Talents, remember that Ice barrier also prevents casting pushback while applied, which imho, makes up for it's GCD.
Last edited by drzip; 10-20-2012 at 02:01 AM.
Updated haste platues, thanks for pointing that out.
Shouldn't you let it fall off to get the explosion damage and apply after the explosion to get the most out of it? I was always under the impression that was more damage then just refreshing it.2: Maintain your bomb spell:
- Living bomb should be refreshed either x<= 2seconds before the DoT expires or immediately after
Also could you describe the addons you use or show a curse addon package with tags to all your addons?
I just used an UI like that before I went to ElvUI, but atm I feel like going back to my "own" UI again.
Last edited by GawainXL; 10-25-2012 at 02:07 AM.
Re: Living bomb: The explosion will occur if living bomb is refreshed with less than two seconds on the DoT duration.
Re: addons: I will make an addon video and upload my frost/arcane guides as soon as uni exams are finished. They are done, i jsut can't set aside the 30 hour blocks that I need to upload a ~5minute video (YAY aussie ADSL)
EDIT: I like that curse idea and will update a curse profile soonish
Need to try that in tonights raid then Cheers for the explanation and the curse profile update
Updated some things that i have learnt. GL scorching your enimies to nothing but ash.

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So patient, so passionate.
The praying mantis looked hungry last Thursday when it perched on a coneflower in the half-acre Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis.
Where's breakfast? Where's lunch? Where's dinner?
Nowhere to be found.
A few honey bees and sweat bees buzzed around the predator, but didn't land.
The praying mantis changed positions, much like a fisherman who feels "skunked" in one place will try his luck at another site.
It crawled up, down and around the flower.
Half an hour later, it slid beneath the coneflower, out of the hot sun. An umbrella for shade, a place to rest, a place to prey...
Praying mantis waits and waits. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Maybe hunting is better on the other side? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Keeping cool beneath the coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Bee Fly!
Have you ever seen a bee fly, a member of the family Bombylidae?
It's about the size of some bees. It buzzes like a bee. But you can quickly tell it's not a bee by its behavior. It's a fast-moving, long-legged, fuzzylike critter that darts in and around flowers, grabbing nectar on the go, before buzzing off again.
It's curious little insect. Its long tongue (proboscis) is so long you're inclined to say "What? Is that for real?"
It is.
Like a fly, it has two wings (unlike bees, which have four).
We spotted this one pollinating the flowers behind the Lab Sciences Building at the University of California, Davis. The adults feed on nectar and pollen.
In their larval stage, bee flies parasitize the eggs and larvae of ground-nesting bees, beetles and wasps.
Says Wikipedia: "Although insect parasitoids usually are fairly host-specific, often highly host-specific, some Bombyliidae are opportunistic and will attack a variety of hosts."
Biologist Beatriz Moisset, in writing a "Pollinator of the Month" piece for the U.S. Forest Service in celebration of wildflowers, called it "A Pollinator with a Bad Reputation." She also blogs about Pollinators.
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Bee fly foraging for nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pom Squad
It was definitely a hot spot.
Honey bees foraging last week on a pomegranate tree on Hopkins Road, west of the UC Davis main campus, competed for food on hundreds of blossoms.
We counted five honey bees on one blossom alone in what amounted to a pushing/shoving match.
Most of the bees probably came from the nearby apiary at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, off Hopkins Road.
The pomegranate is an ancient fruit and the honey bee is an ancient insect. Millions of years ago, they grew up together in the Mediterranean region of southern Europe. European colonists brought the honey bee to our Eastern coast (Jamestown colony) in 1622; honey bees finally arrived in California in 1853. The pomegranate trees were introduced to California in 1769.
Together again...
Five honey bees on one pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Four honey bees on one pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two bees on one pomegranate blossom, and about to be three. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Luncheon in the Garden
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Mark your calenders!
The Honey and Pollination Center at the University of California, Davis, is planning a "Luncheon in the Garden" on Sunday, June 2 from noon to 3 p.m. in the Good Life Garden at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science on campus.
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Executive director Amina Harris says it will be a "dazzling five-course meal from appetizers to cheese and desserts. Each course features honeys from around the globe."
The luncheon, open to the public, supports and introduces the Honey and Pollination Center. Food and drink will be provided by chefs, apiaries, wineries and meaderies (think wine made from honey), and the farmers of California.
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Symphony in the Almonds
Symphony in the almond blossoms...
There's a wild almond tree planted in a field off Bee Biology Road at the University of California, Davis, that's incredibly beautiful.
Honey bees from the nearby apiary at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility reunite on the blossoms, each bee seemingly vying for the best pollen to take back to her hive.
The tree is not quite in full bloom, but don't tell that to the bees. We captured a few images of them in flight, a moving symphony performance in the almonds.
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The gorgeous and scorching Custom Telecaster® FMT HH guitar features a carved flame maple top with cream binding, set neck, two Fender humbucking pickups, string-through body hard-tail bridge, three-way switching and a pull/push coil tap.
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I was expecting a good quality instrument but my expectations were never very high. I was in for a surprise! Man, this is a great quality instrument with high end features for a fraction of the money. Crafted in Indonesia but with features that rival USA made models and an unsurpassed balance of beauty, playability, tone and performance that go way beyond expected. I own the Black Cherry Burst and am already wanting the Amber after validating its quality craftsmanship. Just can't stop playing it.
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I just couldn't be happier with my guitar! I've had it for several years and I still love it. The best thing about my guitar is that its sound fits several different music genres from hard rock to heavy and all the way to rockabilly. Great value.
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Bought this guitar in 2004. Not sure if there's any difference now, but none I can see. Was originally looking at buying a Les Paul for the humbuckers. Tried a couple Tele's and while I love the classic Tele sound, they just don't cut it when you 'need' the humbucker tone. Well, I saw this in the crimson red, looked amazing and was about $800 cheaper than the Paul I was looking at. I loved the fact the sound wasn't as dark as the Paul, and then what do you know, coil tap for those single coil twang and funk sounds. Still plays great and has put up with my abuse (which has claimed more than a few guitars). This is my go-to guitar. Hope to get another soon in the cherry burst. Just beautiful.
keenandavid owns this item
I got mine this past winter (December, 2013), and its just unbelievable, awesome finish (Mine's Black Cherryburst), the only improvements I would possibly make, a direct wood mounted pickups, and I wish it came with fender's F-Logo Strap Locks that were the same color as the rest of the hardware, I had to buy black Dunlop Dual-Design Strap Locks - it's not THAT big of a deal, I just think that'd be cool...
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Beautiful guitar. Extremely comfortable to play, fantastic sound, and not to mention an amazing price. This guitar literally plays and sounds like any of the standard american models (maybe even better?). I can't get over how good the Seymour Duncan pickups sound, plus with the chambered body the guitar has an amazing tone and is super light; perfect for gigging. The only thing i would change would be to have a coil tap/split for each individual pickup rather than one that splits both at the same time, just a personal opinion though. All-in-all an excellent guitar, would totally recommend to any serious guitarist young or old.
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I got a gold top, and it's very clean, and also kinda heavy for the seymour duncan. It's very playable, and is not heavy like the other models. It is more tiny and beautiful. The body is from 1 piece, it's like a relic guitar.
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I love my Strat and Tele, but I was always looking for "that" sound. Last week I picked this Tele up and plugged straight into a Blues Jr. Awesome tone!!! Plugged into a Deluxe and it screamed! Fast smooth neck, drop dead gorgeous finish, and it has plenty of "that" sound. Performed with it yesterday and what a great guitar this turned out to be. Super versatile!!!! Great tone and looks to boot. Splitting the coil is cool and gives a passable Tele sound, but not full on twang. It does lose some volume when using the single coil setting so I had to add clean boost at the same time. I highly recommend this guitar.
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Just bought this guitar last Saturday. I run it through a board with 6 effects pedals through to a vintage '65 Deluxe Reverb. While the single-coil tone is a bit thin (as it usually is compared to humbuckers), the humbuckers are tone monsters. Pushing the volume on the amp and the guitar or kicking in the TubeScreamer or distortion pedal makes this guitar sing. I absoluely love it so far. It does not sound like a traditional Telecaster so, if that's what you're looking for, this is not the guitar for you. The bridge pickup with the coil tap pulled up for single-coil operation will give you a nice, sharp country sound. I haven't tweaked the tone controls on my amp too much but I'm sure I can get it to sound just right in any configuration.
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Right out of the box this guitar looked great. The rich color, binding, Awesome. Felt pretty good as well. I plugged it in and it sounded like total poop. I took it to my tech who is a certified Fender guy and had him look into it for me. The first thing he noticed is that it sounded really brassy and harsh which is what I noticed. I left it with him for a few days and this is what all he did and what was wrong.
First he opened up the back and noticed that the color code for the Seymour Duncan's were WAY off. Not sure what the code they were using. This may be explained by the little tag and only tag on the guitar that said it had some other pickup installed but yet the Fender site and retailers all said SD. OK no big deal rewired with the Seymour Duncan Wire code and Wow sounded pretty good. A quick setup and fret filing on the edges and it was good to go.
Not sure why the wiring was jacked the way it was could be miscommunication to the people who actually made it. Oh well instead of paying to ship it back I just had it fixed. I paid my Luthier to do it.
The last thing on this is that all the "Black" is coming off the Black Chrome Hardware. Every time I whip the guitar down more just fades away. The only thing left with the full Black Chrome Hardware is the Machine heads. The pickup Surrounds, Bridge, Knobs all have lost the color. Now all that hardware looks kind of like a Zebra. It's not flaking just rubbing off and very quickly/ It's only 3 months old.
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I own this guitar for over a year now and I like it as much as in the beginning - even more.
it´s playability is great and you have the choice of wonderful different tones due to the coil-split!
also the colour is awesome!!
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I bought this guitar twelve months ago (almost to the the day!) with a specific brief in mind:
I wanted splittable humbuckers, lightweight body and a slim neck, stable tuning and a wide tonal palate. Basically that's exactly what I got.
I needed to play clean jazzy sounds, right through to Rock and Roll, and the occasional crunchy number, but mostly simple honest rock and blues tones. The Custom FMT gives me 99% of what I asked for.
In the interests of a balanced review, the only (very minor) niggle is that the pickups are sooo beefy that it's a little hard to get a truely clean tone sometimes (but with a Pearly Gates in the bridge I only have myself to blame :) )
The only other minor point on mine is that the volume pot stays off til about 1.5-2 and then comes in quite loud, and doesn't get that much louder over the rest of the travel (I'm wondering if the tone and vol pots were swapped during wiring)
Otherwise I love it. Comfortable, easy to play, great tone, looks great too. My go-to gig buddy :D
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I've owned this guitar for about three years, and I love it now as much as I did then. Maybe more! The neck is so slick and smooth, it makes you want to play better. The tone of the Duncan pickups is full and hot but can be rolled back, and the coil splitting capability makes this guitar good for anything, from warm smooth jams, to single-coil punk stuff, to hot and heavy rock. The price is incredible. Totally affordable but without the sense of cheapness "affordable" gives. You won't find a more reliable or more satisfying guitar.
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As a woman, I have chosen to make of my world a place where I can decide for myself. I don't reject the nature of my being, but I want to live my womanhood without it necessarily implying motherhood.
I believe I can live alternate experiences of creating and nourishing life, and I believe other women of my generation feel the same way.
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guest22 wrote:Andy may have received a WC, but he isn't in the draw they just posted on the ATP site....weird.
"Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, [being the] top-ranked American?" Roddick asked, taking a sarcastic backhand swat at whomever he deemed at fault. "Why would that happen? That makes too much sense."
How do you think you come off? Know your audience before posting.Jdev wrote:He really comes off as a whiny brat in this piece.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-delrayten01feb01,0,2994006.story?coll=sfla-sports-frontToo late now: There was no room for Roddick in the main draw here because all the wild-card spots had been awarded before the top-ranked American expressed an interest in playing. Tuesday night, after losing his first-round match to Xavier Malisse, one of Delray's wild cards said he might have considered withdrawing himself if it meant getting Roddick in.
"It's crazy," said Sargis Sargsian, who was playing his first match on tour since last summer. "I kind of felt bad having it. It's a strange situation. On Friday, I heard that Andy would play in the qualifying tournament. If somebody had approached me (about withdrawing), I would have given it consideration, but at the same time I've been working so hard and I was excited about playing."
Sargsian inadvertently found himself in the middle of a pre-tournament controversy as hometown star and No. 3-ranked Andy Roddick was unable to receive last-minute entry into the tournament because there were no more wild cards to be had.
Some thought, including wild card Mardy Fish and USTA coach Ricardo Acuna, that the 392nd-ranked Sargsian, who had retired after the U.S. Open and was basically along for the ride with Agassi, his close friend, should've surrendered his wild card.
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"I found out about it Friday, and then I thought he was going to play [qualifiers]. I think if somebody would approach me to give it up I would have sure considered it. At the same time, I've been working so hard.''
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Too much bread crumbs still even though I cut it down to cup. Patties would not stick together. Did not taste salmon at all.
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Too much bread crumbs still even though I cut it down to cup. Patties would not stick together. Did not taste salmon at all.
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I made this with the following modifications, and it came out fantastic: - 12 oz salmon (because that's what came in two cans) - kosher salt to taste - added fresh dill and green onions to the salmon mixture, in addition to everything else the recipe calls for - used only 1/2 a beaten egg, but added approximately 1 heaping tbsp. light mayo to moisten the mixture. My mixture was very dry before this addition. - did not pan-fry at all; instead, just baked the cakes for 17 or so minutes - used only 1/2 c. or so bread crumbs
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First things first, it is my belief that once a term takes off, there is no getting it back. If you try, you just end up looking like a frustrated jerk. Terms, right or wrong have a life of their own. I think this is the case with the term "Vipassana Meditation" in the West.
Most Westerners are familiar with the term from going on retreats where they follow videos of S.N. Goenka. To them "Vipassana" refers to the technique Goenka calls "sweeping" ( what is the proper name? ).
Western meditation book authors and teachers also use the term "Vipassana Meditation", though they are slightly more on target as they use it to refer to Theravada Buddhist meditation techniques in general.
I know that "vipassana" is an ancient Pali word for "insight into the true nature of something" and that "meditation" in an English word that doesn't mean the same thing as "bhavana" which means "to draw out, to develop".
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Blepharitis is swelling or inflammation of the eyelids, usually where the eyelash hair follicles are located.
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One of the reasons I finished my degree in History and fell in love with genealogy is because it is a puzzle. Research is a little like being a detective as you track down the clues. I enjoy the hunt and trying to piece the puzzle together. Sometimes it keeps me up at night when I cannot shut off my brain.
One thing that my client research had not done, until last week, was to include the historical information surrounding a time, place, or event. It had been mostly looking for the family information, proving relationships, and finding documentation. My latest search allowed me to flex my historical research skills and locate documents and articles to help place a man in historical context to a specific event.
Last week I spent many hours scrolling through 1955 Gary Post-Tribune newspapers at the University of Illinois-Chicago's Daley Library looking for articles about a specific event in a town's history. My goal was to connect a specific man to this event. My search yielded a couple of articles about the event but had no reference to the man I sought. Then I re-read his obituary and felt another paper trail needed to be followed.
I had planned to visit the Calumet Regional Archives to view a set of documents just in case they contained something for this man. After I re-read his obituary I absolutely knew I could not overlook this source. Turns out I was right! This source at the Calumet Regional Archives contained several pieces of documentation that helped my client prove a theory about this man and this event.
This is a brief account of the search for this information. The results came after three weeks of discussions with my client, research on both our parts, more discussion, feelings of being on the wrong track many times, and then a gut feeling that this one source would provide most of the answers.
As you piece together a puzzle while doing your research, remember to trust your gut and follow every paper trail. You may be pleasantly surprised (or downright super excited) that your gut was right and you were able to make someone's day with what you found.
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Founded in 2005, SIM University is Singapore's only privately funded university dedicated to the educational needs of working professionals and adult learners. SIM University offers flexible, modular programs that accommodate their schedules and helps them gain the skill sets and educational degrees needed to succeed in, or change careers. Approximately 11,700 students, ranging in age from 21 to over 60, all part-time, are enrolled at the university.
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For many of SIM University's programs, online learning complements the time students spend in the classroom or lab. "Because our students can use it on their own timetable and access it from anywhere via the Internet, our learning management system is one of the most important solutions the IT department provides to students," explains Gary Teo, SIM University's director for campus IT services.
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As SIM University researched the best security solution to combat these daily attacks, it considered a number of leading security vendors and solutions. "We knew this wouldn't be our only security issue," says Teo. "Ideally, we wanted multilayered security from a vendor that could meet all of our security needs, now and down the road. It was clear that McAfee had the broadest range of security solutions available and the ability to provide a complete end-to-end solution. We also liked that McAfee was focused solely on security, unlike many of its competitors."
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After leaving the McAfee Network Security Platform in detection mode several months to establish normal versus abnormal traffic patterns and types of traffic, SIM University switched from monitor mode to preventive mode to proactively block and quarantine any suspicious traffic that makes it past the firewall, including known, zero-day, denial-ofservice (DoS), distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), SYN flood, and encrypted attacks.
As a third layer of security, SIM University deployed McAfee Web Gateway in front of its application servers, including the learning management system server, to prevent unwanted incoming Internet traffic from clogging bandwidth—or worse. "[McAfee] Web Gateway, like the other McAfee solutions, was easy to deploy and easy to administer," states Teo.
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Before the McAfee deployment, a virus attack shut down a number of SIM University systems. SIM University's IT department spent 24 hours remediating the situation. Since implementing the three-tiered McAfee solution, however, SIM University's network has not experienced a single major security incident or virus attack. "There's no doubt that the number of security incidents we have had to deal with has dropped significantly," says Teo.
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With McAfee Firewall Enterprise, McAfee Network Security Platform, and McAfee Web Gateway protecting SIM University's network, the university's critical learning management system's availability is above 99.9 percent. "Thanks to the McAfee solutions, our students no longer encounter performance issues with the learning management system, and they can count on it being available when they need it," says Teo. "Reduced network traffic and vastly improved system stability mean less work for IT administration too."
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SIM University is considering adding McAfee Vulnerability Manager to its security arsenal to proactively assess vulnerabilities of all the systems on its network. Integration of the McAfee Vulnerability Manager with McAfee Network Security Platform would allow SIM University to have vulnerability scan data automatically correlated with intrusion event data to help quickly determine event relevancy. SIM University administrators could also initiate ondemand scans of a single IP address or group of IP addresses directly from within the McAfee Network Security Platform alert console—thus providing a simple way to access near real-time updates of host vulnerability details.
"With McAfee, we can continue to add to and modify our security resources as our needs evolve," concludes Teo. "Ultimately, our goal is to enable the highest quality of network services for SIM University students and staff. McAfee provides the forward-looking security to help us attain that goal."


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The powerful minuet contrasts a strenuous forte statement with a plaintive piano answer which Mozart perhaps remembered in the minuet of his G minor String Quintet. In the second half Haydn prolongs and intensifies the forte statement and enhances the poignancy of the piano reply with a surprise harmonic deflection. After this almost unrelieved emphasis on F minor, the F major trio brings harmonic balm, though with its irregular phrase lengths it is not quite so innocent as it may first seem. F major returns in the limpid Adagio, whose guileless siciliano theme is freely varied with quasi-improvisatory arabesques from the first violin. Of the three fugal finales in Op 20, No 5's double fugue, based on a common tag used by Handel in Messiah ('And with his stripes we are healed') and Mozart in the Kyrie of the Requiem, is the most austerely Baroque in flavour—though a Baroque fugue in F minor would not have modulated as far afield as A flat minor. Haydn here displays every contrapuntal trick of the trade: inversion, stretto (i.e. with thematic entries piling in on top of each other) and, near the end, a climactic fortissimo canon between first violin and cello, all the more dramatic after so much tense sotto voce.
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WASHINGTON - Lawyers for three Fairfax County high school students arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography are disputing the allegations and say the teens were involved in consensual sex.
Rod Leffler, defense attorney for the youngest West Springfield High School boy charged, says one of the boys merely used his smartphone camera to videotape friends having consensual sex at a party.
"They were all foolish," Leffler tells WUSA 9.
Leffler says the videos don't show that the girls were incapacitated or passed out.
"The girls are speaking directly to the cellphone camera," says Leffler.
He says one girl, seen nude from the waist up, sings a song.
"The other one is facing the camera, talking to the camera, while she's engaged in fondling with a boy," Leffler tells WUSA.
The attorneys for the three boys, whose ages range from 14 to 16, say the videos were shared among friends but never uploaded to the Internet.
"I can see why the girls would want to say they didn't know they were being filmed," Leffler says, "but the evidence so far is that they do."
Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Morrogh has said the girls involved would not be charged.
See more in the video below from WUSA 9.
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