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Thanks a lot for posting this detailed guide!! I've been healing Disc since I joined the game years ago, and the guide has been helpful for me to adapt to the Cataclysm changes.
Thanks a lot for posting this detailed guide!! I've been healing Disc since I joined the game years ago, and the guide has been helpful for me to adapt to the Cataclysm changes.
Great guide and it has been a tremendous help to me. My guildies have forced me to take on a healing spec and I wouldn't have been able to perform without this guide. I am still learning but wanted to thank you.
I do have a question for you. When you have major damage to your entire 5 man group (first boss in SFK, casts asphyxiation), what is the best spells to top everyone off in the most efficient manner. I had a lot of trouble with this the other day and went OOM because we missed two of the interrupts. Please advise and thanks for the help.
Well for similar situations to what Diyaz's mentions I'll utilize one of a couple things depending on what sort of spec I'm toying with for optimization purposes.
1. Hymn makes for a pretty good 'big' top up, providing you don't need to move for the channel time
2. If your smite spec'd I like: Blow Archangel to eat your Evang stacks, then pop Focus and Prayer of Healing
3. If your not smite spec'd: Bubble someone(Tank or someone super low) (for the speed), pop focus, prayer of healing
Being able to 'pre' PoM the group before big damage like that can help so it gets max bounces, as most of that sort of damage applies over a few ticks.
Anyway that's what I'm doing at the moment, probably some room for improvement, but I'm happy to share what I can. Hope it helps.
Just want to say, on behalf of many Priests, reading this thread is informative and easy to understand without feeling like an idiot. I have been a Disco/Holy priest since start of TBC, knowing about your character's spec & essential stats is the key thing and this guide not only helps people just starting out, it also just helps some clarify some points regards to enchants gems if you are just struggling with a decision.
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If you're smite healing, even in a raid, you want the Glyph of smite. Even with a 17% miss chance and a 10 second DoT a 20% buff to, what is in effect, your efficient heal cannot be overlooked. You miss on occasion. So what? You're talking about ~16.6% more healing over long periods of time with the best-scaling efficient heal in the game. That's more +healing than any talent, and all you have to do is work one fast casting DoT into your rotation and not worry that it doesn't always hit.
Actually, looking at our talents, it's possible to pick up twisted faith and just stack enough spirit to reach 17% hit rather than leaning on the glyph of divine accuracy. If you're going full smite-atonement it could be worth it if you can figure out where to take talent points from because hit rating on holy fire is worth almost 4% towards your efficient heal which isn't bad for 2 talent points considering that it will make up more and more of your effective healing, the better geared your tank gets.
Of course, the major glyph choices are fairly slim pickings - I don't think I'd replace the mass dispel one with smite, but you might think about replacing dispel magic.
Smite is a great spell for disc priests, but remember that the spec isn't really centered around it so much as it just happens to include it as another option for healing.
Smite heal is amazingly efficient for trash packs in heroics 5 mans. And even some bosses.
It is very good if you manage to keep your stacks. I find I rarely manage to squeeze in
enough Smites after a HF to justify the glyph. Or HF which doesn't renew your stacks.
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I have found that, being new to disc, I am unable to squeeze enough Smites in to keep my Evan stacks up. Although Smite spec'd, I rarely cast it. Would you recommend I change to the non-Smite spec? Can the non-Smite spec be viable in raids? We just started on Magmaw and they are looking to me to tank heal.
Also, when is the best time to cast Pain Suppression? Is there a time or just when off cooldown.
Thanks again to all for making me a better healer. I still have a way to go but the posts here help tremendously.
I'd go with a spec that looks like this: http://wowtal.com/#k=veN3nvAm.aei.priest.
If/When you're more comfortable with mana, I'd shuffle around some points from Veiled Shadows to Inner Sanctum(for survivability) or Darkness(throughput).
As for the "how to" of tank healing:
- Keep weakened soul on the tank at all times
- Toss out PoM on cooldown, assuming you can afford to
- Penance / GH for heavier damage (obv. only use GH if penance is on cooldown)
- Heal for filler/light damage
If your tank is sitting high and good, it's always nice to toss out a PoH or two to help with raid damage.
Pain Supp is an "oh shit" button. When you use it really depends on the fight. Some fights, the tanks expect me to save it for when they need an outside cooldown. Some fights, it doesn't really matter. That's something you have to figure out from the fight mechanics, trial & error, and talking with your tanks. If you don't need to save it, you can use it whenever you really need to lessen the tank damage. Maybe something went wrong and you need to help the raid healer(s) out. Maybe you're blowing through your mana and need to drink a potion of concentration. It's obviously not powerful enough to make it so that you don't have to heal the tank, but it buys you a little extra time to focus on other things.
You'll probably use smite a little less often in raids than you would in heroics just because the incoming damage is usually large enough that you'll want to use penance or greater heal, instead. However, stacking evangelism does *also* decrease the mana cost of penance, and provide you with an on-demand healing cooldown, so I wouldn't immediately discount it for all raid settings.
Again, the discipline spec is not really centered around smite so much as smite is made available as a good tool to use. If you're finding that you just don't need or want the tool, then by all means, don't pick it up.
A note about pain suppression:
Because it reduces incoming damage, you need to use it when you *know* a lot of damage will be incoming shortly. For example, on Magmaw, I'd largely save it for when a tank is being mangled - make sure they're not already using a cooldown, then put it up.
You can't really use pain suppression as an oh shit button in the same way that you could use, say, guardian spirit, in that it's ideal to use it long before they're about to die.
If a tank only has 10% health left, for example, then the damage reduction may not save their life either way.
If you're not sure when the big damage moments are going to be, then just use it any time the tank dips to about 60% or so for the sake of conserving mana while you use your more efficient heals.
By the way, the rotation and talents for discipline will be getting enough of an overhaul that I'll be making a new video when 4.0.6 comes out, as well as taking the time to update the text guide.
I'm still focused on 5-mans and 5-man Heroics, and thus have a slightly different perspective ATM than Liliyah.
- Not enough time to Smite - Only bother with Smite if you also have Atonement (and Divine Fury). Without Atonement providing heals at or near the level of your Heal spell, it makes little sense. I learned the timing of Smite casting/healing while doing solo PvE. I've also done a couple of runs as a DPSer using Smite. While I have nowhere near the output of a SPriest, the experience had the twin benefit of teaching me Smite timing while teaching my guild to trust me with Atonement healing.If you do have Atonement and aren't finding the time, the I'd suggest you look to your level of Haste. I'm currently at 1139 (8.89%) and I still want more, more, more. While Haste doesn't have as dramatic a buff on many of our abilities as it does on Renew, I personally believe that it's worth it for the slight improvement to casting times and the delivery speed of Penance. You can test if you need Haste by casting Smite while Borrowed Time is in effect. If you like the casting speeds while you're buffed, then you need more Haste.
The coming changes in PTR will help. A lot. Especially the non-Smite spec. But in the meantime, you should be comfortable casting Smite whenever you would normally be casting Heal, to much the same net effect.
- I love PS. In fact, I went Disc back in Vanilla for PS. In the current environment I recommend being fairly liberal with PS, with the following things in mind:
- PS is the only spell that we have that can be cast while stunned, if Glyph'd. This works even during cinematic stuns, allowing you to asses and correct a situation while a boss talks his/her head off.
- PS is less than 1/2 the cost of PW:S, so it's nice to drop it on a DPS'er that got in too deep.
- PS is damage MITIGATION. If you know there's a huge power or effect that's incoming that's not a % of stat, cast it.
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I can only reiterate. When you feel comfortable to use Heal you can as well use Smite. In 5 mans it is able to reach quite a lot of people. Also remember that it will reduce the CD of your Penance. Which you shouldn't use to DPS but as a super fast heal for the tank. There are times when you have to spam GH and PoH but that's when something is going wrong.
Additionaly, Smiting equates to actually doing something. When I'm on my Holy spec, I don't use Heal. I rather wait a second longer and cast a GH. Old habits(I mastered toying with the FSR) die slowly, I guess.
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Thank you so much for all of this information. It has been priceless since Cata came out. I've a question though. There is a lot of 'do this/do that', that I've heard in regards to stat priority (mostly from a holy priest I know - which I've never played). I was told that roughly 12% haste should be good and to reforge crit over into haste or mastery.
So should my priority list go something like haste>mastery>crit or crit>mastery>haste? The haste thing has me confused. Is it because we no longer reforge into haste that we don't take the haste talent in the shadow tree? (Yes, I'll probably need to respec). Also, the talent Power Infusion. In Wrath that always seemed to be a 'take it if you want it or not' talent, which I never did. Do you NEED it now?
Hopefully this was readable, I've not posted on one of these forums before =)
The information you're getting from the holy priest is correct... for holy. Current talk in the disc community is that we need to try to balance our crit, haste and mastery. No stat is really "king", they increase our throughput synergistically. Given the way cloth healing gear looks right now, that generally means you end up reforging crit -> haste.
PI has never really been a 'take it if you want it or not' talent. For 1 point, it is amazing. Either use it for yourself during big damage phases for extra healing output or give it to a caster dps to boost their performance.
I agree with Liliyah, although I'd like to add a couple of refinements. I'm prioritizing Haste to 12% (currently at 9.62%) because of my play style. Not because we gain as much as Holys do with their HoTs. I like and need the slight edge that it gives me, since I don't have the reaction time of some other players.
As to PI, I agree with Liliyah that it should be viewed as mandatory. I macro both PI and Inner Focus (targeted to myself) to most of my main healing spells in order to ensure that I'm keeping them rolling. I have an alternative toolbar created that bypasses these selfish macros, so that I can buff another caster in a raid. But I never use it. My/our job is to keep the party up. PI is a HUGE asset in doing that job. The DPSers can take care of their own buffs... most of the time. :-)
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I've started to play around with my healing style a bit to see just how far I can stretch my mana out.
Normally when doing heroics ( I am only doing heroics atm guild is not ready to raid yet ) I would mostly smite and use greater heals if the tank needed and most of the time I would be pretty low on mana by the end of the fight sometimes even after using all my cooldowns, it but lately I have been testing out just plain old Heal and I am actually quite surprised at how well it works.
I can pretty much spam 10 or so heals pop a shield spam some more and when the shield breaks I generally gain all the mana back meaning up until the bosses start hitting harder I would be sitting pretty on 100% mana knowing that if poop hit the fan I can cast what I want to get the tank back up and not have to worry about being already through half of my mana.


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Camera Controls: Tips on SL camera controls when working with smaller prims
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Color Matching: Matching colors between objects (or different software outside SL)
Prim Positioning: Position prims precisely around a center point
Semi-Transparent Clothing Textures: Tutorial on how Alpha Channel works in Photoshop and a step-by-step guide to create a complex Alpha Channel
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Clothing Texture Templates: A discussion of SL clothing templates (Robin Wood's in particular) and how the flat template files map onto the avatar's body
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Creating Clothes with GIMP: Step-by-step tutorial on using GIMP and Robin Wood's UV templates to create clothes for Second Life
Creating Clothes with Photoshop (New PNG file): Step-by-step tutorial on using Adobe Photoshop and Robin Wood's UV templates to create clothes for Second Life using the newer PNG files
Creating Clothes with Photoshop (Original TGA file): Step-by-step tutorial on using Adobe Photoshop and Robin Wood's UV templates to create clothes for Second Life
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Flexi Skirts Part 1: Step-by-step tutorial to create flexi prim skirts using Ged Larsen's LoopRez script
Flexi Skirts Part 2: Self-adjusting skirt using AttachmentSet; create a flexi skirt that automatically adjusts its rotation when you sit, stand, walk, or run
Flexi Skirts (Old): Creating flexi prim skirts using the original Necklace Generator script
Fur Trim: Working with fur texture to create fur trims
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Semi-Transparent Clothing Textures: Tutorial on how Alpha Channel works in Photoshop and a step-by-step guide to create a complex Alpha Channel
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Sculpted Prims Pt 2: Details on Wings 3D tools and techniques for creating sculpted prims, and creating a retro hat with these techniques
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maryusdemetry wrote:Is this the end of his road? A man of his age..
At the most, he might have lost 1% VO2Max in the last year. The studies suggest that for athletes under 70, the rate is 6% per decade. "Age" cannot be blamed for his loss of form this year, although his age means he's giving a fair bit away to the younger riders... but he had a lot to start with given that he had the highest VO2Max ever measured at the AIS.
It will be interesting to see what W/kg numbers the anti-doping crowd come up with this year for Cadel, his performance has always been considered the benchmark for 'clean'.


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WASHINGTON - Nats phenom Bryce Harper and Redskins star Robert Griffin III are two of the latest cover boys for ESPN The Magazine.
The 15th anniversary issue highlights the year's best athletes and focuses on rookies, including those who have energized the D.C. sports scene. There are four different covers for the double-issue -- including one featuring Harper, another with RG3.
They aren't regional covers. All four will be available nationwide, reports the D.C. Sports Bog.
"They're exciting, they're charismatic and they're good," Chad Millman, the magazine's editor-in-chief, told The Washington Post's Dan Steinberg about Harper and Griffin. "We're not Tebowing these guys. We don't do something about them in every issue. We do something when the moment is special, when we think the occasion matches the interest level in these guys. And certainly right now it's hard to argue against Harper being in this issue, as good as he's playing."
On Twitter, Harper announced his excitement about the cover.
So thankful and blessed to be on the cover of @espnmag 15th anniversary issue! I am so honored! #Mag15 twitter.c om/Bharper3407/st— Bryce Harper (@Bharper3407) April 29, 2013
The issue will be released Friday and includes an article about RG3.
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Will Obama Go After Legal Pot in Washington and Colorado?
History was made on Election Day. For the first time ever, a majority of voters decided at the ballot box to abolish cannabis prohibition.
In Colorado, 55 percent of voters – 4 percent more than favored President Barack Obama – decided in favor of Amendment 64, a constitutional amendment allowing for the legal possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and/or the cultivation of up to six cannabis plants in private by persons age 21 and over. Longer term, the law seeks to establish regulations regarding the licensed production and commercial sale of marijuana to adults.
In Washington, 56 percent of voters decided in favor of Initiative 502, removing criminal and civil penalties regarding the private adult possession of up to one ounce of cannabis for personal use (as well as the possession of up to 16 ounces of marijuana-infused product in solid form, and 72 ounces of marijuana-infused product in liquid form). As in Colorado, Washington's law also calls for the implementation of regulations governing the commercial production and sale of cannabis to select patrons age 21 and older.
To date, local lawmakers have expressed little, if any, resistance to these laws' implementation. In the days immediately following the election, prosecutors in some of Colorado and Washington's largest counties began voluntarily dismissing hundreds of pending marijuana possession cases ahead of the laws' official enactment. They didn't have long to wait. Outgoing Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire officially signed I-502 into law on December 6. Her signature immediately legalized, for the first time in modern history, the personal possession and use of cannabis by adults in private.
Several hundred activists celebrated the occasion by openly smoking cannabis in public at the iconic Seattle Space Needle – an act of civil disobedience that is classified under the new law as a civil violation punishable by a $100 fine, but was nonetheless ignored by local law enforcement who failed to issue a single citation. Behind the scenes, Washington state regulators are reportedly working on an expedited timetable to finalize and enact separate regulations allowing for the plant's commercial production and sale by state-authorized proprietors, an effort that newly elected Gov. Jay Inslee supports.
"My belief is Washington has worked its will," the incoming governor stated at a press conference in mid-November. "The voters have spoken. I was not supportive of the initiative but I'm going to be fully supportive of protecting, defending and implementing the will of the voter – which will essentially allow the use of recreational marijuana in our state. … This is a local decision of a local state, and we're going to do everything we can in this administration in that regard and hopefully that'll happen."
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper expressed similar sentiments on December 10 when he signed an executive order enacting Amendment 64 into law (and amending the state's constitution) several weeks earlier than anticipated. Despite the governor's previous public opposition to the measure, Hickenlooper announced: "Voters were loud and clear on Election Day. We will begin working immediately with the General Assembly and state agencies to implement Amendment 64."
As in Washington, Amendment 64's provisions providing state legal protections for adults who possess, consume or cultivate personal use amounts of cannabis in private became law upon the governor's signature. The implementation of additional provisions regarding the commercial growing and sale of cannabis by state-licensed individuals will be addressed in the coming months by state regulators and by the members of a 24-member task force.
Yet despite the national – and in some instances, international – discourse stimulated by these unprecedented states' votes, the Obama administration, so far, has remained uncharacteristically tight-lipped. Although some anonymous "senior White House and Justice Department" officials recently spoke to the New York Times regarding various possible actions the federal government may take to address the situations in Colorado and Washington, formal pronouncements have been few and far between. On the eve of the enactment of I-502, the US Attorneys Office for the Western District of Washington reiterated that cannabis remains prohibited under federal law, a fact that was never in dispute, but offered no insight as to whether the federal government – which continues to classify marijuana as a substance equally dangerous to heroin – intends to aggressively enforce that prohibition. More recently, following the initial implementation of Colorado's marijuana legalization law, the US attorney general cryptically told Bloomberg News that the administration will formally announce its intentions "relatively soon," but added no further details.
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Oh that is Adorable! I hope it prints well on the fabric for you. We could be onto the start of a new hybrid trend here!
Oh that is Adorable! I hope it prints well on the fabric for you. We could be onto the start of a new hybrid trend here!
Can I ask - just because I'm too lazy to click on the link - but how much is a yard of the create your own fabric?!? My mom sews a lot - and makes me all of my CDs - so this could be way fun!
its pricy $16.50 a yard plus shipping... but i took the jump because i wanted what i wanted and couldnt find anything with just the right color combo and theme
i've made blankets for all the babies in the family except for mine lol, the one is for my very best friend who i grew up with since i was 3 his mom used to be our live in baby sitter, and we've been best friends ever since, he and his girlfriend are expecting their first and she's very fashion foward and so i needed to find just the right pattern, but i also wanted some cute to it, and he has always loved pandas so it was the perfect idea to marry the two ideas
SO is that going to be the top piece, and you'll have a back, and you'll quilt them together? Sorry - just trying to picture! Because - $16.50 isnt too shabby if you can make your quilt onto one yard and then just quilt it w/ a long arm or sewing maching (or by hand if you're awesome). It'd sure beat buying all the different fabric pieces and taking the time to cut them out & piece them together!
Now I want to make a quilt!! LOL!!
Wow! That's really not bad at all!
It looks fabulous, Rachel!! I cannot wait to see the finished product!!
awesome job on designing the material!!! pandas are my fav animal!!!
I can't wait to see it Rachel!! I will have to show my mamma the link too, she would love that!
You will have to let us know if the quality of the fabric is good once it arrives.
you can actually print the fabric off your printer too. Over Christmas my sis and I made my mom a blanket and printed pictures onto fabric that was made specially for it, I think it came in blocks or 8x10 but we got it at Michaels.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The criticism of Dr. Drew Pinsky spread on the Internet almost as quickly as news of Mindy McCready's death.
The country singer with the tumultuous personal life became the fifth cast member of his "Celebrity Rehab" series to die since appearing on the show and the third from Season 3. The previous deaths stirred up rumors of a curse and a debate about the show's helpfulness, and McCready's apparent suicide upped the pitch of the reaction.
While many noted that Drew took on hard cases, others rendered stark judgment. Singer Richard Marx on Twitter compared Pinsky to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the so-called suicide doctor: "Same results."
Marx backed off later Monday, saying the crack went too far. But he restated his thoughts in a way that summed up much of the reaction in the first 24 hours since the 37-year-old McCready's death Sunday afternoon in Heber Springs, Ark.
"It is, however, my opinion that what Dr. D does is exploitation and his TV track record is not good," Marx wrote.
VH1's "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" is not currently on the air. Pinsky switched his focus to non-celebrities in Season 6 last fall and changed the title to "Rehab." The show spawned two spinoffs, "Sober House" and "Sex Rehab."
Season 3, shot in 2009, featured McCready, former NBA star Dennis Rodman, actors Tom Sizemore and Mackenzie Phillips, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss and a handful of lesser known celebrity types.
"My heart is breaking. Rest in peace dear friend," Phillips said Monday on Twitter.
McCready was a sympathetic character on the show and appeared to be far less damaged than her fellow cast members, some of whom experienced fairly graphic symptoms of opiate withdrawal in front of the cameras. McCready suffered a seizure while on the show, further endearing her to Pinsky and the others.
She said in a 2010 interview with The Associated Press that she initially turned Pinsky down.
"But Dr. Drew said something to me that just mowed me over literally, just floored me," she said. "He said, 'You've been being treated for the symptoms of what's wrong with you, not the problem. And you're going to have to put your family aside for a moment, put their feelings aside for a moment and worry about you because if you don't get better, it doesn't matter what your family thinks. You're not going to be there anymore.'"
Pinsky diagnosed her with "love addiction" during the series' run and called her an "angel" in the finale. In an interview with The Associated Press several months later, he said McCready had a good shot at recovery if she remained in treatment.
"Like with anybody I treat, it's really up to them," Pinsky said. "I never know. If they do the work they're supposed to do, yes (there can be success). If she does the work it will be great. It's up to her how much of that she does, how much she feels she needs to do. It seems like she's doing rather well right now so I hope she continues to do so."
Three years later, she's dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot to the head. McCready walked away from treatment several days ago after her father asked a judge to intervene. Her body was found on the front porch of a home she shared with David Wilson, the longtime boyfriend and father of her youngest son who appears to have killed himself in the same spot last month.
Pinsky wasn't immediately available for comment, his publicist said, but he issued a statement Sunday night that noted he'd spoken with McCready recently.
"She is a lovely woman who will be missed by many," the statement said. "Although I have not treated her for a few years, I had reached out to her recently upon hearing about the apparent suicide of her boyfriend and father of her younger (child). She was devastated. Although she was fearful of stigma and ridicule she agreed with me that she needed to make her health and safety a priority. Unfortunately it seems that Mindy did not sustain her treatment."
A lack of continued treatment also appears to have led to the deaths of McCready's Season 3 castmates Mike Starr, bassist for Alice in Chains, and Joey Kovar, a "Real World" participant. Los Angeles riots spark Rodney King and actor Jeff Conaway also have passed away. Starr and Kovar overdosed and King was found dead in his pool with alcohol and marijuana in his system. Conaway was initially thought to have overdosed, but died of pneumonia and an infection.


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Sturm, Ruger & Co. Headquarters: Southport, Conn. Manufacturing plants: Newport, N.H.; Prescott, Ariz. Employees: 1,200 in New Hampshire, 900 in Arizona
"We had a number of criteria for expansion, and we did not find anything in New Hampshire that we thought was suitable," Reed said.
"We feel very strongly about our commitment to our highly valued employees in New Hampshire, and plan to continue to operate that facility as it has been," Reed said. "As you might imagine, some employees are concerned about what this might portend, but we are very committed to New Hampshire. This is an expansion. We've been in a hiring mode for quite some time."
Company officials said they did not have the space to expand in New Hampshire and were already having difficulty filling existing openings.
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MORTONS GAP, Ky. (3/16/13) - A CSX train headed north between TN and IN derailed this afternoon on the single track in front of South Hopkins Elementary and Middle Schools by State Highway 41. On the scene were South Hopkins Fire Dept.(SHFD), KY State Police (KSP), KY Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), Hopkins Co. Sherriff's Dept. (HCSD), and CSX engineers assessing the situation.
SHFD Assistant Chief Blake Vaughn said the first concern was the tanker car that had turned over potentially containing hazardous sulfur chemicals. The homes in the area were immediately evacuated for safety. It was soon determined the tank was empty, however may still have had hazardous chemical residue in it that could spill over. SHFD stayed on the scene while CSX determined the cause of the derailment.
KYTC closed off State Highways 813 and 41 a mile away from the scene directing traffic to detour at the Nortonville exit 33 on the Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway. It is undetermined how long the road will be detoured. The railroad traffic has also been halted on the route due to the fact that the double track turns into a single track just where the train derailed. CSX is on scene now assessing the cause and procedures for cleanup as well as an estimated time the track and highways will be closed.
SurfKY News will keep the community posted as more information is determined.
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Laser Force Lazer Tag Zone
A 5,000 sq. ft. laser tag arena and a 2,500 sq. ft. game arcade is conveniently located by hotels and restaurants off I-64.
CITY: Caseyville
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Gateway features mini-golf, go-karts, an arcade, bumper boats, a kiddie track and Rudy's Restaurant.
CITY: Collinsville
Prairie State Games
This multi-sport, Olympic-style festival showcases the finest amateur athletic talent in Illinois each year on the last weekend in June.
CITY: Fairview Heights
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The bright lights of Vegas have nothing on the Casino Queen, home of the loosest slots! The Queen has had the loosest slots in the entire country for six years running, plus the hottest table games in town. Hungry? The Queen has you covered from fine dining to casual. The best view in town is from the Casino Queen Hotel.
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Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
CITY: Belleville
The Edge
The largest laser tag arena in the region also includes mini-golf, a big video arcade with the coolest games on the market, and food at D.S.Vespers Sports Pub and Eatery.
CITY: Belleville
Fairmount Park Racetrack
Fairmount Park is home to live thoroughbred horse racing action. From March through September, the horses run on the one-mile oval dirt track Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
CITY: Collinsville
Gateway Grizzlies at GCS Ballpark
The Gateway Grizzlies are a professional baseball team based in Sauget, IL. The Grizzlies are a member of the West Division of the Frontier League – which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The Grizzlies played their home games during their inaugural 2001 season at Sauget Field. In 2002, GCS Ballpark, (formerly GMC Stadium) opened and has remained the club's home since. This 5,000-seat stadium, home to the Gateway Grizzlies minor league baseball team, has reserved box seats, lawn seats and a hot tub.
CITY: Sauget
Family Fun Tyme
Located in Maryville, this facility has an indoor arcade, batting cages and lots more fun for kids. Alfonzo's Restaurant is right next door for pizza lovers.
CITY: Maryville
Rivers Edge Golf Course
This nine-hole golf course has two on-site restaurants.
CITY: Granite City
Centerfield Park
Spend the day tackling go-karts, miniature golf, batting cages, bumper boats and a video arcade.
CITY: O'Fallon
Indian Mound Golf Course
Indian Mound offers an 18-hole golf course.
CITY: Fairmont City
Tri-City Speedway
Regular racing events, including UMP Late Models, UMP Modifies, Sportsman, Street Stocks and Factory Stocks, are held on the 1/4-mile oval. Special events like the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars are raced on the 1/2-mile track.
CITY: Pontoon Beach
The Legacy Golf Course
This 18-hole golf course opened in 1990.
CITY: Granite City
Acorns Golf Links
Acorns Golf Links is located in Waterloo, Illinois featuring 6,701 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 . The course rating is 72.3 and it has a slope rating of 125. You will not find subdivision golf at Acorns; just nature, beautiful scenery, challenging design, and you. Making Acorns the premier public course to test your game, have fun with good friends, or to get away from your daily hussle and bussle. Acorns features zoysia fairways, five tee boxes; matching every level of golf and large bent grass greens. Designed by William Ebeler, the Acorns golf course opened in 1997.
CITY: Waterloo
Belle Clair Speedway
Stock car races, drag races and demolition derbies are regular events at this speedway.
CITY: Belleville
Annbriar Golf Course
Ranked seventh-best golf course in the state of Illinois, Annbriar is an 18-hole, par 72 course. Photo Credit-Annibriar-Golf-Course
CITY: Waterloo
Tamarack Country Club
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Pete Dye.
CITY: Shiloh
Stonewolf Golf Course
The 18-hole, par 72 Stonewolf is one of only four Jack Nicklaus Signature courses in Illinois and Missouri.
CITY: Fairview Heights
Grand Marais Golf Course
Grand Marais includes an on-site restaurant and pro shop.
CITY: Centreville
The Orchards
The Orchards offers an 18-hole golf course.
CITY: Belleville
Yorktown Golf Course
Designed by golf legends Pete Dye and Bob Goalby, Yorktown offers an 18-hole lit par 3 golf course.
CITY: Belleville
Whitey Herzog Field
Citizens Park's 45 acres are home to some of the area's best ball diamonds. Whitey Herzog Field features a lighted baseball complex with batting cages, concessions, and grandstand seating for 300.
CITY: Belleville
Mascoutah Country Club
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A Northwest Side man accused of killing the woman he lived with by dousing their apartment with gasoline and setting it on fire knew she'd been cheating on him, a prosecutor said Sunday.
Gregorio Carmona, 35, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated arson for the death of Claudia Martinez-Rayo. Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. ordered him held without bail. Police said Carmona was her live-in boyfriend, but also said he referred to the woman as his wife.
Carmona is accused of setting fire to the couple's basement apartment in the 4800 block of North Kenneth Avenue around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
Assistant State's Attorney Brad Dickey said the fire started in a laundry room. Carmona poured gasoline throughout the apartment, according to police reports, and on Martinez-Rayo.
The woman, also 35, was found in a bedroom, and a five-gallon gasoline can was found nearby, according to the prosecutor. He said Carmona — aware of his girlfriend's affair — had noticed her taking a cellphone out of their bedroom.
Martinez-Rayo was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood following the blaze, where she died at 5:58 a.m. Thursday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The couple had a 6-year-old daughter, and Dickey said Carmona did not leave her behind in the burning apartment. The girl wasn't injured, he said. She was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital for an evaluation, Chicago police said, before being turned over to a relative.
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Can Interest Rates Go Lower? Yes, They Can.
After the Wall Street bailouts, the debt of the United States is off the charts, although the United States debt situation looks great compared to Greece and some other countries in Europe.
The Wall Street Journal quotes economist Carmen Reinhart in asserting that it takes seven years, on average, to unwind debt. Reinhart said, "The issue with debt is that you can't get rid of it quickly and can't rid of it nicely."
I had a conversation last year with Pete Mahurin, the Bowling Green, Ky. stockbroker, banker and financial guru. I asked him if interest rates were going to spike upward soon.
He reminded me that interest rates dropped during the Great Depression and stayed that way for 20 years.
The Wall Street Journal's article backs up Pete's observation. They quote former World Bank official, Liaquat Ahamed, who said that the Federal Reserve cut the discount rate below two percent in 1934 and it held at those levels until the mid-1950s.
Even more relevant, Ahamed notes that rates in Japan dropped to near zero in 1995 and have stayed that way ever since.
Mahurin had other thoughts on interest rates. He said that "Generals are often accused of fighting the last war instead of the one in front of them." Pete said that the baby boom generation grew up in a unique, high interest rate period of the 1970s, when inflation was insane and mortgages were near 20 percent interest rates.
You didn't see that spike before or after that post-Vietnam, post-Great Society, post-Watergate period.
I'm like the rest of the baby boomers. I've been waiting since 1981 for the rates to go back to 20 percent again.
Now I am starting to wonder if they will ever come back up.
Mahurin told me that he grew up around people who had lived through the Great Depression. Many of them lived their lives waiting for deflation to return and were burned by the high inflation in the 1970s.
We have to look at all possibilities.
I started in the structured settlement annuity business in late 1982, when the rate of return on annuities was about 17 percent.
During my nearly 30 years in business, I have met people who won't commit to an annuity because they are "waiting for interest rates to go back up."
I can understand some hesitancy. Immediate annuities are designed for the long-term and, usually, to last for a person's lifetime.
Dr. Richard Thaler, a professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago, wrote an excellent New York Times piece titled, "The Annuity Puzzle for Retirement Investing."
Thaler said that, given a choice between taking a lifetime annuity for retirement or trying to invest a lump sum, most would be better off with an annuity, but most take the lump sum.
Dr. Thaler calls this "the annuity puzzle." He gives a lot of explanations based on behavioral science, but one is obvious: Retirees don't want to commit to long-term annuities. They think interest rates are going to go up.
People have been betting on higher interest rates for over 25 years. And for over 25 years, they have been wrong.
Could they be wrong again?
In the 1980s, I had a client who purchased large blocks of annuities to fund insurance claims. He was getting ready to purchase a million dollar block when interest rates went from 10 percent to 9.9 percent. He stopped buying, saying he would wait "until interest rates got back to 10 percent again."
He's been waiting over 20 years. Interest rates have not been back to 10 percent since that day. He finally made his move when they got to about 8 percent. He missed the chance at 9.9 percent, but locking in at 8 percent has worked out well compared to other alternatives.
In a few years, will people be saying the same thing about locking in at three or four percent?
Ahamed had an interesting perspective in the Wall Street Journal piece: "History shows that when people have borrowed too much, they stop borrowing and interest rates stay very low for a very long time."
The common assumption is that interest rates are going to go higher.
Sometimes we have to consider the inconsiderable.
Like the possibility of lower interest rates.
Don McNay, who lives in Richmond, Ky., is an award-winning financial columnist for Huffington Post Contributor. You can learn more about him at www.donmcnay.com.
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He is the Chairman of the Board for the McNay Settlement Group (www.mcnay.com) which provides structured settlement consulting for injury victims, lottery winners, and the families of special needs children.
McNay founded Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, which assists attorneys in as conservators and setting up guardianship's. It is nationally recognized as an administrator of Qualified Settlement (468b) funds.
Don has appeared on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and over 100 radio and television programs.
McNay has Master's Degrees from Vanderbilt and the American College and is in the Eastern Kentucky University Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Don is a Quarter Century member of the Million Dollar Round Table and has four professional designations in the financial services field.