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NEW YORK — A stadium full of Yankees fans stood arm in arm at the bottom of the third inning in the Bronx, singing along to "Sweet Caroline," the Boston Red Sox anthem. Irony and sarcasm were absent. Sincerity was the mood of the night.
The rival teams have buried the hatchet — at least for now. Yankee fans belted out the Neil Diamond hit during a game Tuesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, showing solidarity with their neighbor to the north a day after explosions at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 170.
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"Everybody in New York knows what they're going through," said Mike Petti, 48, a Yankees fan nicknamed Yankee Mike who for 13 seasons has been a staple of the bleacher section where the most hardcore fans — those who hate Red Sox Nation the most — dwell. "When it happened here, Boston was singing 'New York, New York.'"
The Yankees' gesture Tuesday resonated with Diamond, who tweeted his appreciation.
Thank you NY Yankees for playing 'Sweet Caroline' for the people of Boston. You scored a home run in my heart. With respect, Neil #OneBoston— Neil Diamond (@NeilDiamond) April 17, 2013
Likewise, the Red Sox were touched by baseball's outpouring of support.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the outpouring of support & the playing of "Sweet Caroline" across @mlb #BostonStrong— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) April 17, 2013
"Sweet Caroline" also was played at Wrigley Field, Dodger Stadium, Marlins Park, Safeco Field, O.co Coliseum, Great American Ball Park, and at Cleveland's Progressive Field, where the Red Sox beat the Indians 7-2.
"That was a very classy touch," said Indians skipper Terry Francona, who managed the Red Sox for eight years.
The Milwaukee Brewers put a different spin on their tribute; they played the theme to the NBC television sitcom "Cheers," which was set in Boston.
The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry — which has reared its ugly head in bench-clearing brawls and fan assaults over the years — is just one difference between the cities, both among the oldest in the country and each with a rich history.
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In what city officials said was a first, the bright-blue Boston city flag flew at half-staff at New York City Hall, on the orders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who grew up in the Boston suburb of Medford.
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Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, sent out an email offering comfort to Bostonians.
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"It just brings back all the memories of 2001," he said. "I think I speak for all New Yorkers by saying our hearts are with Boston."
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"I've been getting a lot of looks, kind nods," said Boston native Christine Sanzillo, 34, wearing in a Red Sox hat alongside her husband, a New York native. "It's a positive energy here today. Once my mother had a beer poured on her head."
During a moment of silence at the start of the game, a large commemorative ribbon with logos from the two teams was shown on the electronic board atop the ballpark.
"But what's going to happen when the Knicks and Celtics square off?" Petti — "Yankee Mike" — said, referring to the upcoming playoff game between the two cities' basketball teams.
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Movement 1: Allegro moderato
Movement 2: Adagio non troppo
Movement 3: Allegro vivace
The first movement, broad in conception and deeply rooted in the classical tradition, is built from simple motifs whose gentleness conceals their innate strength. The more graceful and flowing second subject shows the composer's innocente musical character. A harmonically bold orchestral passage takes the music down into E minor, introducing a development section in which the soloist explores a wide range of tonalities and ideas. At last the oboe signals the imminent return of the opening, which however almost qualifies as another development in its own right – starting fortissimo, it follows entirely new harmonic paths, compressing and reworking the original material in a manner truly worthy of his idol Beethoven. Trumpets end the movement with a ringing restatement of the four opening notes.
The Adagio in E minor, one of the loveliest movements Moscheles ever wrote, can perhaps be seen as bridging the gap between Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony. Violas and a pizzicato bass support the opening cello melody, a reversal of roles that lends the tune a wonderful depth of feeling and a sort of innocent purity. We enter a more chromatic passage with tragic undertones, and then the horns introduce a passage in the major key filled with an almost religious tenderness. The mood swings between resolute confidence and deep sorrow until the orchestra dies away, leaving the piano to sing the opening theme on its own, before the horn and timpani guide the movement solemnly to a quiet ending.
The playful finale, which starts with an overt homage to Beethoven's C minor Concerto, has at times quite a rustic flavour, particularly in the horn writing. After a pastoral theme in the dominant, there comes a specially charming figure of falling trills which serves to unite a movement in which nothing, even the fugal passage, is intended to be taken quite seriously. At one point Sullivan comes irresistibly to mind – though not yet born, he was to be Moscheles' pupil in Leipzig. Piano and orchestra indulge in quickfire dialogue, the soloist enjoys some virtuoso fireworks, a theme returns in disguise at half-speed, and in the più mosso coda the piano completes its contribution to the proceedings with a triumphant glissando and the orchestra ends on its own.
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See poof juice. Alcoholic beverages (c. 5% alc) such as Barcadi Breezers.
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Demand response reduces overall energy usage, but the magnitude of the reduction depends on whether the technologies are developed and deployed with efficiency in mind.
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on their orientation. In most studies, potential estimates are broken down by market segment, but at times only aggregate figures are reported. Twenty years seems to be the norm for a planning horizon, but shorter-term perspectives of 5 to 10 years aren't uncommon.
Research undertaken for this article identified nearly 100 electric CPAs completed since 2000, covering 37 states and three Canadian provinces. 2 (Actual numbers are probably higher, but not all studies were publicly available or readily accessible.) These studies also included several "meta" analyses, summarizing and comparing other study results, including an impressive effort by Carla Frisch (Frisch 2008) 3 and several reports by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), 4 Georgia Institute of Technology, and others.
Not all the main classes of conservation potential are reported—or analyzed—in all studies. Nearly all planning-oriented studies begin with technical potential, and report all classes of potential by sector.
In fact, some studies supporting utility IRPs left out economic potential because both the calculation of avoided costs—a crucial ingredient in estimating economic potential—and also the optimal qualities of conservation, were products of, rather than inputs into, the modeling process. With a few exceptions, policy-oriented studies tended to skip technical and economic potential altogether, and only reported achievable potential. These studies offered 72 estimates of achievable potential, most frequently expressed as a "maximum." Fifty-five estimates of technical and economic potential were available. A few studies with a regional scope provided estimates of potential in multiple states.
On average, technical potential is estimated at 27 percent of forecast consumption, a common measure for assessing relative magnitudes of conservation potential, across the 37 states. About 72 percent of these (21 percent of forecast consumption) is expected to be economic, on average. These studies also show achievable potential of 17 per percent, on average (Figure 1) . In many cases, achievable potential is large enough to offset projected load growth entirely, and, in several cases, lower loads to below their base-year levels.
The range of estimates seems to vary by a study's scope. Studies at the national and state levels show the highest potentials in all classes, although there were only four national studies, and only one reported economic potential (Figure 2) .
The data suggest a weak correlation between technical potential and lengths of planning horizons—which is reasonable, given that much technical potential consists of discretionary retrofit opportunities presumably available immediately and, hence in theory, independent of time. Achievable potential levels also appear to be uncorrelated with planning horizons—and that is surprising, given that the amount of achievable conservation depends on effort levels and, crucially, time. Studies with shorter time horizons should estimate a more limited efficiency potential than those over longer timeframes. This result was so for a few studies specifically considering variable planning horizons and reporting significantly higher achievable potential levels for longer periods.
The average state-level values mask large variations in estimates for all three classes of potential, and particularly for achievable potential. Estimates range between 12 percent and 43 percent for technical, and between 11 and 36 percent for


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Countdown to Christmas with these festive movies. Check back each weekday for a new holiday recommendation.
>> Movies 1 – 5 | 6 – 10 | 11 – 15 | 16 – 20 | 21 – 25
December 1st: Christmas Vacation (1989)
Christmas Vacation | 97 min | PG-13
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, Randy Quaid
In a followup to 1983's "Vacation" movie, Clark Griswold (Chase) hosts his eccentric family for some at-home holiday shenanigans. Despite his best efforts to have a perfect family Christmas life gets in the way, along with electrical issues and a wild squirrel.
Catch it on TV: Tuesday, December 3rd and Wednesday, December 4th on ABC Family
Streaming on Netflix: Yes
December 2nd: Scrooged (1988)
Scrooged | 101 min | PG-13
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Alfre Woodard, Bobcat Goldthwait
Frank Cross (Murray) is in charge of a television station planning a live performance of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" but he's more focused on the bottom dollar than the Christmas spirit. You can imagine what happens next, but you'll be surprised by the hilarious modern twists this adaptation takes.
Catch it on TV: Tuesday, December 3rd and Wednesday, December 4th on ABC Family
Streaming on Netflix: No
December 3rd: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
The Muppet Christmas Carol | 85 min | G
Starring: Michael Caine, DAve Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz
Michael Caine leads a cast of muppets in a more classical retelling of Charles Dickens' tale of second chances. Where "Scrooged" is fun for an older crowd, the whole family can enjoy this adventure into the past, present and future. Be prepared for one of the scariest Ghosts of Christmas Yet to Come and the cutest Tiny Tim ever.
Catch it on TV: Thursday, December 5th and Friday, December 6th on ABC Family
Streaming on Netflix: No
December 4th: Bad Santa (2003)
Bad Santa | 91 min | R
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly
Santa has a foul mouth and a drinking problem in this tale of two con men who rob department stores during the holidays. It's business as usual for Santa and his elf until they run into a suspicious security guard and a lonely little boy who needs their help.
Streaming on Netflix: No
December 5th: Frosty the Snowman (1969)
Frosty the Snowman | 25 min | TV G
Starring: Jackie Vernon, Billy De Wolfe, Jimmy Durante, Paul Frees
There's something about those animated TV specials that really make it feel like Christmas and "Frosty the Snowman" is one of the best! When a magical tophat brings a snowman to life he and his new friends must outrun a magician trying to ruin their fun. This classic is wonderful for the whole family.
Catch it on TV: Friday, December 6th and Saturday, December 14th on CBS
Streaming on Netflix: No


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2. Healing Spells
Here's a short idea of what each spell does exactly, as well as it's abbreviation (for further use)
* HW = Healing Wave: The efficient heal. Healing Wave will be your go-to spell especially in heroics because it's the cheapest spammable spell. This spell will be considered the baseline when talking about the power and efficiency of other spells.
Scales with: Nature's Blessing, Ancestral Awakening & Mastery
* GHW = Greater Healing Wave: The large heal. Not as efficient as HW, but heals from 3x as much. It has roughly the best healing power of all spammable direct healing spells. Best used for recovering from a larger spike in damage.
Scales with: Nature's Blessing, Ancestral Awakening & Mastery
* HS/LHW = Healing Surge: The fast heal. Formely known as Lesser Healing Wave, HS provides a fast cast and a moderate heal (2xHW), but is extremely inefficient. While it has a high output and the fastest cast of all spammable direct healing spells, it burns mana pools faster than Deathwing can ever dream of! Only really good for situations where GHW cast time is too slow to save someone and instant heals cannot provide enough healing. This spell also receives less (relative) HPS gain from Tidal Waves, but does proc Earthliving at the same chances the slower cast heals do!
Scales with: Nature's Blessing, Ancestral Awakening & Mastery
* UL/UE = Unleash Life: The Earthliving part of Unleash Elements. UL provides a relatively small heal and has a 15s CD, but makes up for it by increasing the next direct heal by 20% (30% if talented). While the initial is rather weak and expensive, it does provide you with an extra instant cast heal. It doesn't replace a straight up HS/GHW cast while standing still, but it's worth the extra button in mobile fights.
Scales with: Nature's Blessing, Ancestral Awakening & Mastery
* ES = Earth Shield: ES is the tank-buff Shamans get for speccing into Restoration. ES provides automatic healing on the target exactly when they need it (after a hit). Only requires an instant cast and is extremely efficient, but can take a while to unload it's complete healing power. This spell is considered a buff, not a heal and as such, is not affected by talents or abilities increasing your healing done. It does scale with the healing done/received of the target it is on.
Scales with: nothing, not even Nature's Blessing!
Extra note: ES healing scales with the caster's spellpower the moment it is cast. When macro'd together with "On Use:" SP trinkets, this can add a large bonus to ES and allows you to make the most of your trinkets.
* RT = Riptide: Riptide is the 31-pointer spell for Restoration Shamans, which is a short-CD instant heal with a Heal-over-Time component. RT is extremely efficient when you let it's HoT run it's full duration, which can be difficult if you cast Chain Heal a lot ( because it consumes it) or are assigned to heal a single tank.
Only instant part scales with Ancestral Awakening & Mastery, both instant and HoT scale with Nature's Blessing.
* CH = Chain Heal: The iconic Shaman AoE healing spell. The spell is cast on a single target, after which it will jump to nearby friendly targets, healing them for 70% of the healing done. Each jump can seperately crit or proc effects. When the initial target has a Riptide HoT, it will be consumed to increase the healing on that target by 25%. Since the Riptide buff in 4.3, a single HoT tick will virtually always provide more healing than the healing increase on Chain Heal.
Scales with: Nature's Blessing & Mastery
* HR = Healing Rain: The new blanket AoE heal. HR is an area-targetted cast which will leave a large blue circle with a small rain effect on the floor, healing all those in it for a moderate amount every 2 seconds, starting when it is cast. The healing done is lowered when more than 6 players are healed. As far as pets seem to be handled, they receive healing, but do not seem to cause the reduction in healing. Because the cooldown is the same as it's duration, you can never have more than one of these up at a time, nor can you start casting the next one while it is still up. Provides more healing per cast than CH as well as proc opportunities. Advanced information: This spell is not a healing spell as far as the game is concerned. You cast an area effect, which causes you to (directly) heal everyone inside it for a certain amount every X seconds, but that healing is not considered a spell.
Scales with Mastery
* HST = Healing Stream Totem: Although technicly not a spell, this party-healing totem can provide a LOT of healing for a single GCD, healing party members for approximately 300-400 health per second in standard heroic gear (without talents). Sadly, it does not scale with crit or haste in any way.
Scales with: Spell Power. Oh, and healing received. That's it. (Because the totem is the one casting the effective heal, talents do not work.)
* EL = Earthliving Weapon (enchant): The Restoration Shaman weapon enchant. While technicly not a healing spell, it does provide healing by giving every heal you do a 20% chance to proc a 12s HoT (Chain Heal and Healing Rain have a reduced proc chance of roughly 5%). Not that much of an increase while tank healing because it keeps refreshing itself, but extremely useful for constant AoE healing or just topping off raid members after a heal. This enchant is a no-brainer for it's +healing alone, on top of being required if you wish to use UE as a healing spell and it costs no mana or time during the fight.
Scales with Mastery
* SG = Spiritwalker's Grace: A special Shaman ability, allowing them to cast while moving. The buff lasts 15 seconds with a 2 minute duration and can even be activated while casting! Recognisable by the little green circle around the Shaman's feet. Great if you have to run after a tank kiting or are being chased by angry monsters trying to nomnom your face.
* SLT = Spirit Link Totem: A raid cooldown wonnabe, this totem reduces incoming damage by 10% and redistributes the health of players in range every second, so that they all have equal relative health. Unfortunately, it's 10y range is a major party-pooper, as this "raid cooldown" only works in an area as big as your Healing Rain and is placed right behind you! This spell is mostly useful in a raiding environment, where people are standing together and you can drop HR + SLT right on top of yourself. While the health distribution can not be resisted or take advantage of heal-increasing effects, it also works the other way around. This totem allows you to heal through MS-style debuffs that reduce or prevent all other healing done by transferring health from healable players to the target in question.
3. Talents & Glyphs
3.1. Talents
* Talent(Xpoints) : <max effect in plain language> <Comment on power/utility>
* Ancestral Resolve(2) : 10% damage reduction while casting. In PvE; if you're taking damage, stop casting and move out of the fire! It's not really bad, especially in heroic mode raids, but other options are usually better.
* Tidal Focus(3) : 6% cheaper healing spells. Simple & powerful talent. With the current(T11) strain on healer mana pools, this is an extremely useful talent.
* Spark of Life(3) : You do 6% extra healing & receive 15% more. Again a powerful talent. Makes you 6% better at your job and at the same time gives you a survivability bonus.
* Resurgence(3) : Returns mana whenever you crit with your main abilities. This talent effectively turns Critical Strike Rating into mp5. One of the key talents when it comes to evaluating stats on gear.
* Totemic Focus(2) : Totems are 30% cheaper and last 40% longer. Although having to spend 500 mana less at a start of a fight is always nice, the power here lies in the duration increase. The 40% works on literally all totems, including Elementals and more importantly... Mana Tide Totem! This alone makes this talent extremely potent.
* Focused Insight(3) : Using a Shock increases the next heal by 30% and returns 75% of that Shock's mana cost. While this does make Shock spells cheap and useful, it still costs quite a lot of mana compared to the gain you receive. On top of that, the tooltip is incorrect, as it only works when the Shock manages to land.
* Nature's Guardian(3) : Automatic mini-Fade & Last Stand. Again a PvP talent. The extra HP when you're dying is nice, but you should never drop low enough for this talent to save your life. The threat reduction is not only minimal, there is no realistic situation where you out-threat a tank.
* Ancestral Healing(2) : Crit heals give your target 10% less physical damage taken and increase their max HP by up to 10%. This is one of the best tank healing tools you have. Not to mention it's a pre-requisite for another great talent; Ancestral Awakening.
* Nature's Swiftness(1) : Makes your next casted Nature spell instant. Useful for fights where you can not stand still to cast, but with the additions of UE & SG on top of Riptide, this talent has seen better days. Best used in combination with Healing Rain or Greater Healing Wave (on tank) in emergency situations.
* Nature's Blessing(3) : You heal Earth Shielded players(=tanks) for 18% more. Yet another extremely powerful tank-healing talent, although it loses some of it's effectiveness if you're the only Shaman healing two tanks swapping, due to constant ES re-casting.
* Soothing Rains(2) : Your HR heals for 30% more, your HST 50% more. Perfect for those AoE fights. Both heals provide great over-time healing and these talents only make it better. The HST buff alone makes it worth it.
* Cleanse Spirit(1) : Your decurse now also removes a magic effect. Considered mandatory, as removing magic is a healer-job nowadays.
* Cleansing Waters(2) : Makes your dispell 40% cheaper and adds a small heal to it. If you dispell enough (and you should), this talent will save you a lot of mana and at the same time help you heal up the people that took a tick of whatever debuff they had. Unfortunately the heal has a 6s CD or this talent would be considered mandatory.
* Ancestral Awakening(3) : Your direct healing crits will heal a friendly in range for 30% of the healing done. This talent greatly increases the value of crits. When single-target healing any crit will heal the lowest (in %HP) person in range of you. If nobody needs healing, it will default to you. Extremely powerful because of the smart-heal component. A must-have for all but CH-spamming.
* Mana Tide Totem(1) : Grants the healers in your raid 200% of your Spirit for 12s. Also gives hybrid casters (Druids, Priests & Shamans) a LOT of hit rating. The iconic whirlpool totem grants 200% of your Spirit (excluding temporary buffs such as trinkets) to the healers in your raid. When used in conjunction with Totemic Focus, this talent is worth about 20k mana on a 3min CD. Also has a nice flush animation for RP value.
* Telluric Currents(2) : Whenever you don't need to heal, Lightning Bolt will help regen! There are mixed feelings about this talent. While casting 4-5k Lightning bolts is not the main priority of the Restoration Shaman, this talent can help regen mana whenever there is a "dry patch" in damage taken, especially as your gear improves. If you can spare the talent points, this is a great talent for burn phases, especially if the boss takes increased damage in this phase (e.g. Magmaw). A heroic geared Shaman can easily get an average 1000mp5 out of this talent.
* Spirit Link Totem(1) : Unique raid cooldown, with unique meaning "requiring a strategy to get anything out of it". It slightly(10%) reduces damage and allows party/raid members close to death to steal HP from others. Mostly useful in raids, to allow members to take advantage of overhealing on other members, but due to it's short range and the facts that it is a water totem, removing HST/Mana Spring and being placed right behind your back, this talent will greatly favor larger groups such as 25man raids, BGs or large world PvP groups.
* Tidal Waves(3) : CH & RT grant you ~43% Haste(-30% cast time) or 30% Crit on resp. HW/GHW or LS. A great talent for all healing styles. This talent allows you to vary your repertoire by weaving in Riptides or Chain Heals while tank healing or spot heal that one person being low while AoE healing. Mastering this talent is what makes a good Shaman healer.
* Blessing of Eternals(2) : Healing players that are 'wounded' will guarantee (or give an increased chance on AoE heals) an Earthliving proc. More useful in Cataclysm, but still not as useful as you would want. Earthliving is better suited to top off people that do are not in danger of dying. This talent is also taking the AoE reduction ... twice! Rather than the 85% you think it should have on AoE spells, it only gets 21.25% or 1/4th of what it 'should'. Not really as useful as it appears.
* Riptide(1) : Allows you to cast Riptide (see spells). As said before, instant heal with a nice HoT after it. The most annoying part is the CH-bonus, which actually cuts into overal mana efficiency.
* Elemental Weapon(2) : Flat 212 +healing bonus & Unleash Life buff does 30% more instead of 20%. The gain in +healing is pretty nice, especially as a starter and while UL is not an amazing spell, the buff can help increase GHW efficiency or make Riptide more powerful.
* Improved Shields(3) : Your ES heals for 15% more and getting hit returns 15% more mana. While it no longer affects Imp. Water Shield (now Resurgence), it is still a great talent to buff ES with and is the best choice if you want the talents below.
* Ancestral Swiftness(2) : Instant Ghost Wolf & 15% runspeed. Very powerful talent. the runspeed will allow you to move out of fires a bit quicker, which means you can stop and cast just a bit sooner. And if it's really tight, or you just need to get to the other side of the room to fall in for a healer who d/c'd, died or OOMed, the instant Ghost Wolf will certainly help you out tons as well.
* Totemic Reach(2) : Your totems have up to 12y longer range. This talent looks great on paper, helping you buff people further away. Yet a good totem position solves half the issue and it only really becomes an issue in 25man raids where you are the only person bringing a buff to ranged DPS/healers on the other side of the room. It's most important benefit is probably making Water Totems work up to 39y away.
* Acuity(3) : 3% crit. On everything.(Except HST) Even without considering this talent mandatory, you'll pretty much find yourself picking it up anyway.
* Convection(2) : Damaging spells are 10% cheaper. Mostly used in combination with Telluric Currents and/or Focused Insight for increased mana return/saving.
* Concussion(3) : Your weak damage spells are 6% less weaker than they used to be. Excluding buffing your awesome 3k DPS, only really benefits Telluric Currents and the weakest talent to do so. You should have better options.
* Elemental Warding(3) : Reduces magic damage(read: AoE) you take with 12%. Great survival talent, but does nothing to help your raid group. Ancestral Resolve also does roughly the same for a talent point less.
* Elemental Precision(3) : 3% extra elemental damage and Spirit now also works as Hit rating. Probably the most debated talent amongst Restoration Shamans. With the amount of Spirit you (should) have, this talent basicly guarantees spells to hit. This props up the mana gained from Telluric Currents by ~50% once you start raiding, by increasing average LB damage by ~20-25%. It's only problem is it's position in the Elemental tree, making juicy Enhancement talents such as Ancestral Swiftness unavailable.
Now that you know exactly what everything does, let's build your talent tree!
First, you need to put 31 points into Restoration, like this. Note that I put all the non-essential talent points into Nature's Guardian, so you need to swap those out first with optional talents!
The choice here is totally yours. If you are not completely familiar with Restoration Shamans, you might want to consider easy/passive talents such as Telluric Currents (mana return when you don't need to heal) or Blessing of the Eternals (emergency), although there is no reason to pick up 'active' talents such as Nature's Swiftness (emergency) or Spirit Link Totem (mostly for raiding). In it's current state, Focused Insight is not worth it at all for healing and TC would provide a better "DPS while not healing" synergy.
The next choice is most likely personal one: Elemental vs Enhancement subspec.
Elemental helps you increase your non-healing spells a lot, while Enhancement helps with indirect buffs & movement issues.
As of 4.1, interrupt spells no longer miss, so the Elemental subspec has taken a hit in popularity. Regardless, it is still a viable build for players who prefer a bit of hybridism.
Note: This is an 'offensive healer' build, which is focused on pure throughput stats & gets it's mana regeneration from it's offensive part. It works pretty well in heroics and normal raid fights, but heroic fights probably won't allow too much free time to cast LBs.
Most guides will most likely advise the Enhancement subspec instead. It will provide more mobility than a boot enchant can ever give you (and allows you to enchant 50 Haste/Mastery instead) and grants 'passive' gains on the first tier.
Note: In this spec, especially while raiding, TC is not as strong. Consider the mana gain (especially in burn/dmg buff phases) vs the extra mobility & enh talent gains.
3.2. Glyphs
Prime Glyphs:
* Earth Shield: 20% extra healing done by Earth Shield
* Earthliving: 20% extra healing done by Earthliving
* Flametongue Weapon: 2% spell crit while FT is active
* Lightning Bolt: 4% extra damage done by Lightning Bolt
* Riptide: 40% longer HoT
* Water Shield: 50% extra passive regeneration on Water Shield
The Glyph of Flametongue Weapon might look interesting when you're starting out with 15% crit chance, but you should really try to avoid it. The loss in +healing alone nullifies the gain, and you won't be able to use Unleash Elements as a heal anymore. Similarly, the Glyph of Lightning Bolt does not add enough damage to advocate it's use for Telluric Currents. That leaves you with 4 options: Earth Shield, Earthliving, Riptide & Water Shield.
If you are starting out in heroics, you will almost certainly want to go for Water Shield, Earth Shield & Riptide, which will help a lot on mana regen and over-time healing. Once you are comfortable on mana, you can drop Water Shield for Earthliving or, if you need the 177mp5 in raids, drop ES (as pure raid healer) or Riptide (as pure tank healer). Generally speaking though, Earthliving, Earth Shield and Riptide will be your top 3 raiding choice.
* Chain Heal: The initial heal does 10% less, but each jump does 80,5% of the previous one (70% * 115%)
* Healing Stream Totem: HST now includes Resistance Totem (195 res to Fire, Frost & Nature)
* Healing Wave: Healing others with HW also heals you for 20% of the healing done. Scales with crits and can crit independantly on top of that!
* Totemic Recall: You now regain 75% of the initial costs on recalling totems.
Major glyphs are not so clear-cut. Obviously, you'll want GoHST to reduce AoE damage, especially in instances & 10man raids. Next to that you'll also want to take Healing Wave glyph if you're just starting out, because in current environments, you will rarely find an encounter where you take no damage at all. You can drop this once you do a lot of progress raiding and you switch more to GHW,CH, etc. So far for the 'mandatory' glyphs.
Chain Heal glyph looks really great at first sight, but remember that the jumps are not 85% (70% + 15%) but 80,5% (70% * 115%). You still get a 5,69% overall healing increase on 4 targets, but the gain on 3 targets is <1% and on 2 targets even a loss of nearly 5%. (If it was 85% per jump, you would see up to 13,22% increase) The major use of this glyph is probably increasing the lowest jump with nearly 37%, providing more survival for that person. Totemic Recall is really worth little mana over an entire fight, because any fight under 5/7min where you do not need to move, you will not even have to recall any totems, making this glyph useless!
The best runner-up is probably Glyph of Stoneclaw, which allows you to shield yourself every 20s for 16572 damage, at the cost of 1s GCD and using up your Earth Totem slot (rarely an issue in 25m raids).
You may also opt to take utility/PvPish glyphs such as Hex, Grounding Totem or Ghost Wolf, which really don't help you keep your team alive (except maybe Hex), but make your life in Azeroth a bit easier
Really does not matter what you take, no Glyph here has any impact on your healing job.
Make sure your Glyphs are complementing your talents. For example, this build is a complete movement build. It focuses on mobility, indirect heals/buffs such as Earth Shield & Riptide, and countering totem range issues. On the other hand, this alternative focuses on burning through fights. It has far more focus on direct healing output, using boss DPS phases (such as Magmaw, Maloriak, ...) to regen tons of mana through Telluric Currents. Ofcourse nobody is stopping you from speccing both specs. Don't be afraid to test some minor tweaks in your build, see what help you play your way the best!
4. Healing Styles
Although there is no more "max HPS rotation" like in WotLK (which totally disregarded mana efficiency), there are plenty of tricks to polish up your healing techniques, which can truly make the difference in the long run.
1) ALWAYS keep up Earth Shield and Riptide on a tank. If you are purely raid healing, you can let ES consume all of it's charges, but in any other situation, you'll want to make sure you get that 18% extra healing on there! And while Riptide is your most efficient heal, you also want to keep it up on your tank because the HoT procs Ancestral Healing, making Riptide the best choice in keeping up this great damage reduction buff.
2) Healing Stream Totem is the best & most efficient HoT you have. Especially glyphed & talented, HST easily provides up to 3k HPS on your party (600 per member) and roughly 15% magic damage reduction on top of that! And all it costs is a single GCD!
3) When possible, try time use Riptide/Chain Heal every 3rd or 4th cast to maximize Tidal Waves uptime.
4) Starting in heroics, use following priorities:
a) Earth Shield & Riptide HoT on the tank
b) GHW/HS tank when <50%
c) Heal(ing Wave) party members to >50% (don't forget yourself!)
d) Heal tank to >80% HP
e) If you have the mana, heal party up to ~80% with Riptides, else ...
f) Lightning Bolt!! (Don't OOM yourself if you don't have TC though)
g) /dance
Remember to allow HST, Earthliving, Riptide & Ancestral Awakening to top off everyone, any DPS that can move out of fires doesn't need to be at max HP all the time (and those that can't will most likely die anyway)
Especially Riptide is useful, because Tidal Waves will give you the lost cast time back over the next two HW/GHW you cast. Because of Riptide's efficiency, you'll want to learn to maximize this synergy.
Extra Pro Tip: Hex, Bind Elemental and/or Wind Shear can help you by reducing the damage your tank/party needs. Don't be afraid to interrupt when you can, and offer your CC should you feel the tank could use the damage reduction. Especially Bind Elemental is useful, because it can be re-cast as much as you want, interrupting any cast in the process, regardless if regular interrupts work! This tactic can in some rare & exceptional cases be used to totally prevent all damage the Elemental does, although it does prevent you from casting healing spells at the same time.
4) Raid healing is pretty similar, although you will see more use of Greater Healing Wave instead of 'normal' HW, which means Unleash Life becomes more useful on movement. And because of Earthliving, Healing Rain becomes very powerful on those grouping-up mechanics, especially in 25man raids, where the Earthliving gained from HR can do up to half the healing of what HR does itself!
5) The best job for a Restoration Shaman currently is being the filler or sniper healer. This means you generally let the Paladins & Disc Priests fill up the tank healing jobs first, let Holy Priests and Druids do the raid healing and you will simply fill in wherever needed. That leaves you with healing whatever is currently being smacked on the most. This will allow the best Tidal Waves synergy (by letting you use Riptide or Chain Heal every 3rd cast without wasting it) and still makes use of your Earth Shield and RT/AH combo.
If you are having mana issues, ask yourself; Did I have Water Shield up 100%? Did I use any GHW or HS where I could've used a HW or two instead? Could I have used Mana Tide twice in the fight if I used it earlier? Did I get the full effect out of Healing Rain and/or Chain Heal and if not, was it because the DPS was spread out while they shouldn't or should I have used single-target heals instead? Always be prepared to improve yourself and remember that as long as you have a self-reflecting and open mind, actual experience will teach you more than any guide can teach you.


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The prolonged period of capped rates in Pennsylvania—years longer than in any other state—has produced some benefits and some drawbacks. On the plus side, due largely to the rate caps, electricity...
Viewpoint: In Defense of Markets
The latest resistance to deregulation is built on a foundation of lies.
will need to be countered in its turn. The competitive reform of electricity markets eventually will be seen, in retrospect, as an historical inevitability. Until then, it is essential to stay the course.
1. For example: George Stigler, "The Theory of Economic Regulation," The Bell Journal of Economic and Management Science, Spring 1971.
2. Remarks made at CERA Executive Summit, "Restructuring at the Crossroads," March 5, 2002.
3. Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets, "Estimating the Benefits of Restructuring Electricity Markets: An Application to the PJM Region," September 2003, version 1.1.
4. For further information on the blackout and its causes, refer to: U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, Final Report on the Aug, 14, 2003, Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations, April 2004.
5. First Energy is part of the Midwest ISO, whose markets didn't commence until April 2005.
6. Larry E. Ruff, "Where California Went Wrong," unpublished paper, Jan. 27, 2001.
7. Since the failure of the initial market, and collapse of the California Power Exchange, there has been a fundamental redesign of the California electricity market.
8. The final report on the 2003 Blackout stated, "It is not clear that small control areas are financially able to provide the facilities and services needed to perform control area functions at the level needed to maintain reliability."
9. It is possible for markets with separate market and system operators to have tight integration between these functions— e.g., New Zealand. By contrast, many believe that the lack of this integration was one of the principal market design faults of the original Californian market (Ruff, op. cit.).
10. Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954.
11. Huff, op. cit.
12. Comments by Craig Glazer, VP of Government Policy, PJM Interconnection, as reported in the New York Times, Aug. 23, 2003
13. The United States has, in some regions, managed to bring about competition through regulatory means alone, e.g., PJM, New York. At the same time, however, most legislative talk at the federal level has focused on retrograde measures to roll back competition.
14. NEMMCO's operating expenses have not changed appreciably since 2002, with wholesale market costs stable for longer than this (increases in 2000/2001 were driven by the addition of responsibilities related to the retail market).
• The system is predominantly hydro…but so is Nord Pool, Brazil, New Zealand.
• There are complex inter-state and state/federal issues…as in Australia, ISO New England, PJM.
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It's the latest incarnation of a distinctive and classic Fender bass hit introduced more than 40 years ago, and it now sings, snarls, grooves and growls more powerfully than ever.
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This instrument is a nice surprise, very good playability, nice tone, very nice neck. I have hard time switching back to a fretted bass after playing this bass for some time. The thing came with strings that might need a change, but that is a personal thing. As a whole, it looks good, sounds good, it is good. It is somewhat hard to make an accurate rating, but it is more five stars than four.
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The jazz bass has always been my go to bass for both recording and live. I own p basses as well but the tonal variety of the jazz is unbeatable. I have other brand basses that I have paid more for and I never use them. My most recent purchase was a 2012 american standard jazz and even with one pup soloed the bass is quiet. These custom shop 60s pups are quiet, in a good way. I play in a indie prog rock band with two guitarists and a heavy handed drummer and I am easily heard and felt through the mix. What ever fender has been doing for the past 50 years they should keep doing.
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I think the Fender Jazz Bass is possibly the singular best electric bass on the market. It has inspired many similar, if not flat out copies from other makers. I do feel that different neck shapes / profiles could be offered. The original is still the best & most versatile bass available. Don't leave home w/o it!
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This fretless bass is beautiful and delivers an almost perfect sound. Unfortunately, it feels a little bit cheap ; the satin finish on the neck is too thick making it seem like plastic and not very fast to play. Still a magnificent instrument to play with, that gives a lot of pleasure and lets create a variety of gorgeous sounds.
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|Model Name:
|American Standard Jazz Bass® Fretless, Rosewood Fingerboard, Black
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|Satin Urethane Finish on Back of Neck with Gloss Urethane Headstock Face
|Neck Shape:
|Modern "C"
|Scale Length:
|34" (864 mm)
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Academy manager Brian McClair admits it will take United time to adapt to the new Barclays Premier League youth shake-up, particularly the logistics involved in the new set-up.
The Reds announced fixtures for the Under-21 and Under-18 teams recently but the administration involved has proved difficult with trips to organise to as far north as Newcastle on Tyneside and Southampton on the South Coast. The plans were pushed forward in time for the 2012/2013 campaign and will clearly impact on the youth system at Carrington.
"One thing when there are new rules is that they take a little while for people to comprehend what's gone on," McClair explained in an exclusive interview with ManUtd.com. "I think a lot of things happen in the off-season when most people are having a break so, when we start coming towards the start of the games programme, people pay a bit more attention to what the rules are now.
"It's been decided to have an interim programme for the Under-16s, Under-18s and Under-21s because all the youth development systems in England are going through new categorisation, which involves independent auditing of the clubs. There were 23 who applied for Category One status but the audit is not going to be finished until the end of September. Therefore, they came up with the idea of having an interim games programme including all the clubs who applied.
"So, for this year, 23 clubs have applied for Category One and the games programme for those age-groups, 18s and 21s are compulsory, but the 16s was voluntary, so the Premier League decided they would have three groups and there was a draw made and that's why there are games all over England.
"I think the travel is one of the things people are only starting to realise in the last couple of weeks. People are appreciating the logistics of it when we have Southampton in our group and also have Sunderland and Newcastle, as well as Spurs and Watford."
The new plan can perhaps be considered as a work-in-progress with more input expected from the clubs as experience is gained and lessons learned over the course of the season.
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Gas alone will not alleviate the baseload challenge we will face in the coming years. And even though nuclear will play an increasing role, any contribution impact will not be felt for decades. Coal plants will be an integral part of the generation solution for many years to come and remain a significant source of value for their owners. Despite increasing social and political pressures against legacy fuels and power production methods, coal is simply too cheap and readily available to ignore.
There are several reasons for this. First, starting with the first Clean Air Act in the early 1970s, the United States has grandfathered existing power plants with respect to any environmental legislation. Second, the U.S. coal generation fleet is quite young, with an average age of 35 out of a typical asset life of 50 years. Replacing these plants with more environmentally friendly technologies in a very short period, say 10 to 15 years, would be prohibitively expensive for ratepayers. Third, stripping coal out of the generation mix would push other options—nuclear and natural gas—beyond their sustainable limits. Switching completely from coal to nuclear would add 300 nuclear units to the current 104. Current projections only show plans for up to 40 new nuclear units. While this represents a major addition to our current nuclear fleet, it is a far cry from the number required to replace coal. And finally, the underlying fundamental coal to gas spread (see Figure 1) is likely to persist and possibly even increase. GHG emissions prices would need to be prohibitively high in order to reverse this fuel spread.
Thus, regardless of ultimate GHG emission standards, coal is unlikely to be eliminated, or significantly diminished, even in the case of a nuclear renaissance. We will, however, see acceleration in the development of advanced clean-coal technologies, including, but by no means limited to, carbon capture and sequestration (which is 20-plus years away).
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– Winn Davis Brown,
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