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Posted By Katie Kline on Jul 22, 2010
Bearded gobies preying on jellyfish in anoxic water, conspiracies of animal warfare, sea turtle relocation in a time of environmental disaster and instances of cheating in the animal kingdom. Here are stories in ecology from the second week of July.
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Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons Coming to 'Fargo' in Season 2December 11, 2014 08:12:07
The 'Melancholia' actress and the 'Friday Night Lights' alum will play a married couple in the next installment of FX's anthology series.
Kirsten Dunst Angers Feminists With Gender Role CommentsApril 09, 2014 07:04:48
The 'Spider-Man' actress was more traditional in her view on how women and men should function.
Kirsten Dunst Set for 'Midnight Special' With Michael ShannonAugust 13, 2013 11:08:00
The Mary Jane of 'Spider-Man' will also star opposite Joel Edgerton in the Warner Bros. movie.
Kirsten Dunst on Kissing Scene With Brad Pitt: 'It Was Disgusting'March 29, 2013 04:03:00
The 'Melancholia' actress reveals that she didn't enjoy kissing Brad Pitt when they filmed 1994's movie 'Interview With the Vampire'.
Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan Go Girly for 'Bachelorette' PremiereAugust 24, 2012 03:08:29
Joined by co-star Rebel Wilson, Dunst, Fisher and Caplan steal the limelight as they hit the red carpet at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood for the special screening event.
Kirsten Dunst and Co. Are Terrible Bridesmaids in First 'Bachelorette' TrailerJuly 21, 2012 09:07:21
Along with Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan, Dunst ruins their old friend's bachelorette party, including tearing the bride-to-be's wedding gown.
Kirsten Dunst Protects Herself From Alleged French Stalker With Restraining OrderDecember 10, 2011 10:12:14
Jean Christophe Prudhon, who has been ordered to stay 100 yards away from the 'Melancholia' actress, allegedly has written dozens of letters and even traveled to the U.S. in an effort to meet her.
Gwen Stefani Stunning in Black, Nicole Richie Pretty in Pink at 2011 MOCA GalaNovember 14, 2011 02:11:36
Bringing more colors to the annual event held at at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, meanwhile, are Kirsten Dunst and Rose McGowan.
Kirsten Dunst Helps R.E.M. Bid Farewell to Fans in New Music VideoOctober 28, 2011 10:10:36
In addition to the video which sees the Mary Jane Watson of Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man' movie series, there is also a clip which features John Giorno.
Kirsten Dunst Earns German CitizenshipOctober 09, 2011 12:10:15
Having a father who is German, Dunst wants to embrace her roots and explore her acting talent in German movies.
Kirsten Dunst Is a Scruffy Bridesmaid on 'Bachelorette' SetSeptember 22, 2011 04:09:06
The 'Marie Antoinette' actress was caught on camera wearing tube dress with a stain on her chest as well as rocking a pair of different rain boots while filming her new comedy movie in New York.
Lawyers Made Kirsten Dunst Look Stupid at CourtDecember 09, 2010 10:12:40
The actress didn't like how the lawyers dragged her to court and made a spectacle out of a case of stolen purse.
Kirsten Dunst to Play Drug-Addicted Con-Artist in 'Hick'November 30, 2010 04:11:01
The 28-year-old actress is cast alongside Chloe Moretz in the coming of age road drama based on the book by Andrea Portes.

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Underneath Origin PC's custom heat spreaders are HyperX modules
Boutique system builder Origin PC has teamed up with Kingston Technology to deliver a line of its own brand memory modules offered in the company's Genesis, Millennium, and Chronos desktops. Though the DDR3 memory kits bear Origin PC's name on the low profile black heat spreaders, they're essentially rebadged Kingston HyperX modules, only they've been factory tested and approved by both Kingston and Origin PC engineers.
Capacities range from 8GB to 64GB. All kits are compatible with Intel XMP auto-overclocking settings and use carefully selected premium chips for maximum performance and overclockability, Origin PC says.
"HyperX is proud to team up with Origin PC to offer our best-selling high-performance system memory with a customized heat spreader featuring the Origin logo," said Lawrence Yang, HyperX business manager. "We built, tested and optimized our special-edition memory specifically for Origin. They are known for high performance, quality and high-end designs that cater to gamers and enthusiasts who want the best-in-class notebooks and desktops. HyperX shares many of the same qualities and we look forward to a long and successful partnership with Origin."
A rose is a rose by any other name, so the question here is, should you care whether or not Origin PC's own-brand memory is built by Kingston? Perhaps there is. Back in December, Puget Systems posted data on component failures and noted that it almost exclusively uses Kingston brand RAM these days because, for them, it's been more reliable than the competition.
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As the Baltimore Ravens prepare to defend their AFC North championship this season, they still have issues to sort out before the start of the regular season.On defense, they will begin the season without linebacker Terrell Suggs, who suffered an injury to his Achilles tendon during the offseason.Not only did Suggs lead the team in sacks (14) in 2011, he was the emotional leader to one of the top defenses in the NFL.On offense, Joe Flacco and company will continue to try to prove they are more than just a one-dimensional team.So, with the start of the regular season a little more than a week away, here are some updates to the Ravens' depth chart:Stock UpOffenseBobbie Williams - The former Cincinnati Bengal has won the starting job at left guard after being signed by the Ravens during the offseason.Tandon Doss - The second-year wide receiver from Indiana University is second on the depth chart behind Anquan Boldin after a decent preseason. In the finale against St. Louis, Doss caught...
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Originally written on The Outside Corner | Last updated 12/1/12
The nontender deadline has come and gone, and several notable players are among the batch of players looking for work. Rays: Ben Francisco Blue Jays: Bobby Wilson Rangers: Geovany Soto, Brandon Snyder Orioles: Mark Reynolds Red Sox: Rich Hill, Ryan Sweeney Indians: Jack Hannahan, Rafael Perez Tigers: Daniel Schlereth Nationals: John Lannan, Tom Gorzelanny Cubs: Ian Stewart Mets: Andres Torres, Mike Pelfrey, Manny Acosta Braves: Jair Jurrjens, Peter Moylan Phillies: Nate Schierholtz Pirates: Jeff Karstens Giants: Brian Wilson Brewers: Manny Parra There are definitely some interesting names on this list that can help out some clubs, mostly in the bench, bullpen, and back-end of the starting rotation. None of these names really *surprise* me, but I am a little stunned that the Cubs punted on Stewart just a year after acquiring him from the Rockies, and that the Phillies are already calling it quits with Schierholtz after he was the lone major league piece they received from the Giants in the Hunter Pence trade this past summer. Also, I'm caught offguard at what exactly the Rangers are doing, cutting two of the four catchers on their 40-man roster. It seems like it's going to be Mike Napoli or bust for them. [follow]
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Anita (Mrs. Herbert) Anderson, 96, of DeWitt, Iowa, died Monday morning, January 6, 2014 at Genesis Medical Center-DeWitt.
The family will receive relatives and friends at Schultz Funeral Home, DeWitt, from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 10, 2014. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 11, 2014 at First Congregational United Church of Christ, DeWitt. The Rev. Jeff Wartgow will officiate with burial at Evergreen Cemetery, Grand Mound.
Pallbearers will be William Anderson, Steven Anderson, Seth Anderson, Kristopher Anderson, Dean Schnack, Benjamin Schnack and Kevin McCarty.
Mrs. Anderson, the former Anita Elizabeth Rusch was born August 6, 1917, on the family farm at rural Grand Mound, to William John and Augusta Catherina (Meints) Rusch. Following graduation from high school, Anita began nursing school at the University of Iowa, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in June of 1940. While there, she attended a lecture by Amelia Earhart and was privileged to visit with her at length. This was Miss Earhart's last known lecture prior to her fateful trip. While attending college, Anita met Herbert James Anderson. They later married on June 26, 1943, at Fort Leonard Army Chapel #10 in Missouri. While Herb was serving in World War II, Anita worked in the ophthalmology department at a Veteran's Hospital in Maryland. Post World War II, the couple moved back to rural Grand Mound and later DeWitt. Anita was employed as an ER Trauma Nurse at the former DeWitt Community Hospital for over 36 years until retirement. Herb preceded Anita in death on October 29, 1996.
She was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ, DeWitt and was active in numerous activities with her husband in the Masonic Lodge. Anita also was a member of PEO Sisterhood, Beta Sigma Phi, Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society, Sigma Theta Tau Sorority of Nursing, and was a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni. Anita was a very dedicated Eastlawn "Round Robin" Girl. She was a extremely loyal Hawkeye fan (being a classmate of Nile Kinnick), never missing a game on television or radio. Anita was a very kind and loving wife, mother and grandmother who was proud of her German/Danish heritage. Her hobbies included working crossword puzzles, word searches, solitaire and collecting Teddy Bears. Her fondest memories were being a grandmother and taking vacations all over the United States.
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Companies sit on their hoardsLynley Donnelly
A sluggish economy and policy uncertainty have given corporates little reason to spend their cash.
A sluggish economy and policy uncertainty have given corporates little reason to spend their cash.
The high cost of Eskom using diesel turbines to provide electricity has to be weighed against the cost of load-shedding to the economy.
As solidarity begins to fade in the currency zone, it is clear that permanence was never a guarantee.
Seven years of sacrifices and one austerity measure after another have finally brought the people of Greece to a crossroads.
Labour wants to improve the income of low-paid workers, but business has warned against instituting a minimum wage in an adverse economic climate.
The Basel III global reforms to strengthen bank supervision and regulation are kicking in, affecting how finance can operate elsewhere in Africa.
Investors have been putting their money into cash-like securities to avoid losses.
A new treaty makes it more difficult for companies to take advantage of tax loopholes to avoid their financial obligations.
Independent renewable energy producers are surpassing government promises, with 40 projects already connected to the grid and 50 more in the pipeline.
Troubled mining companies want workers to buy into a social compact to "share the pain as well as the gain".
The friction between different schools of socialist thinking has produced more light than heat for South Africa.
ECB president Mario Draghi willingly giving Greece negotiating room while cash drains from the banking system has riled those who had a tougher ride.
South Africa saw a dramatic slow-down in foreign direct investment flows in 2014, mirroring the experience of the rest of the globe.
Boipatong struggles to breathe and residents say the steel mill is to blame. But ArcelorMittal says it is not responsible for their health problems.
The United States wants South Africa to make concessions on animal health rules for poultry, pork and beef before trade can resume.
The Competition Commission inquiry into the grocery retail sector goes beyond exclusive property clauses.
A government research initiative aims to tackle executives' preposterous salaries to rectify the country's skewed income distribution.
The farming sector is growing and facing major changes that increasingly require more skilled labour.
Banks have paid $150-billion collectively in fines, but critical reforms must continue, says Bank of England governor Mark Carney.


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An endoprosthesis cover may be attached to the distal end of a delivery device. The cover may be generally cylindrical in shape and may have a lumen through it. An endoprosthesis may then be covered as it is delivered to a treatment site.
1. A device for delivering an expandable prosthesis in a body lumen comprising:
an elongate body having a distal end and a lumen therethrough, the expandable prosthesis at least partially within the lumen; and
an expandable sheath releasably attached to the distal end of the body, the sheath having a distal opening and a lumen therethrough, the sheath further configured to receive the expandable prosthesis and at least a portion of the sheath surrounding the elongate body.
2. The sheath of claim 1 wherein the releasable attachment comprises an adhesive calibrated to detach from the elongate body when a sufficient expansion force is applied to the sheath by the expandable prosthesis.
3. The sheath of claim 1 wherein the releasable attachment comprises a circumferential perforation configured to detach from the elongate body when a sufficient expansion force is applied to the sheath by the expandable prosthesis.
4. The sheath of claim 1 further comprising perforations to allow blood porosity and to enhance distensability.
5. The expandable prosthesis of claim 1 comprising a stent.
6. The expandable prosthesis of claim 1 comprising a coil.
7. A detachable prosthesis cover comprising:
a tubular member;
a prosthesis located at least partially within a lumen of the tubular member; and
a generally tubular sheath having a lumen therethrough, a proximal region of the sheath circumferentially surrounding a distal end of the tubular member, and a distal region of the sheath having an opening the sheath configured to capture the prosthesis delivered from the tubular member into the lumen of the sheath and the sheath further configured to separate from the tubular member.
8. The prosthesis of claim 7 comprising a stent.
9. The prosthesis of claim 7 comprising a coil.
10. A method of delivering a prosthesis comprising:
providing a delivery system comprising a tubular member, a tubular sheath having a proximal end releasably affixed to the exterior of the tubular member and an opening at a distal end, a prosthesis at least partially positioned with the tubular member, and an actuator for deploying the prosthesis;
advancing a distal end of the tubular member through a body vessel to a position within a human body; and
deploying the prosthesis such that the sheath is positioned between the prosthesis and a vessel wall while maintaining a patent fluid path through the vessel.
11. The method of claim 10 further comprising detaching the sheath from the tubular member as the prosthesis is deployed.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the prosthesis is deployed in an aneurysm neck.
13. The method of claim 10 wherein the prosthesis is deployed in an aneurysm.
The present invention generally relates to devices implanted within the human body and further to coverings about those devices. Specifically, the present invention relates to a detachable system for covering an implantable devices as it is delivered into the human body. Those skilled in the art will recognize the benefits of applying the present invention to similar fields not discussed herein.
A variety of devices are now commercially available for implantation through minimally invasive techniques. These devices include stents and stent-grafts used to maintain patent flow in blood vessels, the endo-biliary system or the urinary system. These stents and stent grafts have several different forms. Some are in the form of coiled wires while others are made from slotted tubes. Stents are also generally self-expanding or balloon expandable. Typically, they are made from metal and have a few important characteristics. These characteristics include expanded hoop strength, expansion force, expanded and unexpanded diameter, and the amount of foreshortening during expansion. Obviously the art of stent design is to work with these conflicting characteristics in such a way as to form the ideal stent. That stent would require very little force to expand, start with a very small unexpanded diameter and reliably expand to whatever diameter desired and the stent would not foreshorten when expanded.
Another important characteristic of a stent or stent-graft is the amount of expanded stent material that comes into contact with the vessel. Having the surface of the stent in contact with the vessel is important because of in-stent restenosis. In-stent restenosis is a phenomenon where, for some reason, the vessel grows through the struts or between the coils and thereby obstructs fluid flow in the vessel. Where the stent is in direct contact with the vessel, the vessel can not impinge on the fluid flow. There is, therefore, a need for a stent which maximizes all of the characteristics above and has as close to 100% vessel contact in the area that is stented as possible.
Another type of device may generally be characterized as aneurysm repair devices. Depending upon where in the body the aneurysm is located, a ruptured aneurysm may be fatal. Typically aneurysm repair devices are used to prevent the aneurysm from getting larger and ultimately bursting. Exemplary types of aneurysm repair devices include those which protect the aneurysm from getting larger by shielding the aneurysm from fluid pressure, covering the neck of an aneurysm, or filling the aneurysm with some sort of packing material. Similar to stents, aneurysm repair devices have a variety of conflicting material characteristics which make them perform better, most notably surface contact or sealing capability. In addition, present coil-shaped repair devices have a potential for the leading edge of the coil to corkscrew into the vessel wall. There is therefore a need for an aneurysm repair device that has good sealing characteristics and one which would be less likely to corkscrew into the vessel wall.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,334,210 describes a prior art vascular occlusion assembly and is depicted in FIG. 1 of the current application. The assembly comprises a foldable material occlusion bag which is filled with a flexible filler. Because the material is not non-compliant, it must be folded and must therefore disadvantageously increase the profile of the device. This bag may be positioned in a blood vessel and is intended to stop fluid from flowing through the vessel. There is therefore no lumen in the device.
Overall there is need for a prosthesis which has nearly complete vessel wall contact while maintaining a patent fluid channel. This prosthesis and its accompanying delivery system would be highly advantageous.
The present invention overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art by providing a sheath attached to the distal end of a delivery device. The sheath may be generally cylindrical in shape and have a lumen therethrough. The sheath may be expandable such that, as an endoprosthesis is delivered into the lumen of the sheath, the sheath will take on the exterior configuration of the endoprosthesis. The endoprosthesis is thereby covered while maintaining a patent fluid lumen. The sheath may further be detachable from the delivery device and may have holes or slots to enhance blood porosity and to enhance its distensability. The endoprosthesis may include stents, coils, stent grafts, aneurysm repair devices or any other endoprosthesis known in the art.
FIG. 1 depicts a prior art device.
FIG. 2 illustrates a first embodiment of the delivery system.
FIG. 3 depicts a partially deployed coil with the delivery system.
FIG. 4 depicts a fully deployed stent in a body lumen.
FIG. 5 illustrates a second endoprosthesis.
FIG. 6 illustrates a third endoprosthesis.
FIG. 7 depicts the third endoprosthesis partially deployed.
FIG. 8 illustrates the third endoprosthesis fully deployed in an aneurysm neck.
The following detailed description should be read with reference to the drawings in which like elements in different drawing are numbered identically. The drawings, which are not necessarily to scale, depict selected embodiments and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
Examples of constructions, materials, dimensions, and manufacturing processes are provided for selected elements. All other elements employ that which is known to those skilled in the field of the invention. Those skilled in the art will recognize that many of the examples provided have suitable alternatives that may also be used.
Turning now to FIG. 2. Delivery system 15 includes tube 10. Tube 10 may be a micro-catheter, guide catheter, hypotube or any other type of tube commonly known in the art. Depending on the application, the inner diameter or tube 10 may be 0.008-0.39 inches. Tube 10 may be formed of a polymer or a combination of polymers, metal, a metal polymer composite, a combination of polymers and metallic braid (not shown). Surrounding a distal portion of tube 10 is sheath 20. Sheath 20 may preferably be made of an elastomer or other highly compliant polymer. Such polymers may include latex, styrenic block copolymers such as SBS and SEBS made by Shell under trade name of Kraton, polyether-ester block copolymers (COPE) for co-polyesters made by DuPont under the trade name of Hytrel, thermoplastic polyamide elastomers (PEBA) made by Atochem under the trade name of Pebax, and thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer (TPUR) made by Dow under the trade name Pellathane, or thermoplastic polyolefin elastomers (TPOs).
Sheath 20 may further include a proximal opening 25 and a distal opening 27. In its non-distended configuration, sheath 20 may generally form a cylinder. Sheath 20 may have a ridge (not shown) on its interior near distal opening 27 which may be configured to better capture the distal end of a prosthesis. In an alternative embodiment, sheath 20 my have slots or holes (not shown) which would enhance the porosity of sheath 20 and provide better flexibility.
Sheath 20 may be frictionally fit about the distal end of tube 10. In a preferred embodiment, an adhesive bond 30 binds sheath 20 to tube 10. Sheath 20 may detach from tube 10 in a variety of ways. Where sheath 20 is frictionally fit over tube 10, detachment may be achieved simply by overcoming the frictional forces between sheath 20 and tube 10, e.g. pushing a prosthesis out of the distal end of tube 10. Where sheath 20 is attached to tube 10 by adhesive bond 30, the adhesive may be engineered to detach at any desired force. Adhesive bond 30 may be formed with any medically approved adhesive. In an alternative embodiment, sheath 20 may have a circumferential perforation distal of adhesive bond 30 and thereby provide sheath 20 with a tear away detachment mechanism.
Turning now to FIG. 3. Delivery system 15 is shown with a partially deployed self expanding coil 35. Coil 35 may be attached to pusher wire 40. When pusher wire 40 is moved distally relative to tube 10, the distal portion of coil 35 engages the distal portion of sheath 20. Sheath 20 then distends distally has coil 35 is advanced further out of tube 10. Once the entire coil 35 has been pushed out of tube 10, pusher wire 40 may be electrolytically detached. Methods of electrolytic detach are describe in U.S. Pat. No. 5,122,136 which is hereby incorporated by reference. It may further be appreciated that a variety of detach mechanisms are available to serve this function and furthermore that pusher wire 40 does not need to be attached to coil 35.
FIG. 4 depicts delivery system 15 in use in the vasculature. In this embodiment, a self-expanding stent 45 has been introduced into a blood vessel. Pusher 40 has been advanced such that stent 45 was forced out of tube 10 and into contact with the interior of sheath 20. After sheath 20 detached from tube 10, sheath 20 remains in place about stent 45 and prevents any incursion by the surrounding tissue into the lumen of stent 45 and thereby maintains a patent fluid lumen for blood to flow through. Another embodiment is depicted in FIG. 5 where a tulip shaped coil 50 is placed in a body lumen.
FIG. 6 illustrates yet another embodiment where wire 55 is advanced through tube 10. Wire 55 may be formed of any suitable medically approved metal such as stainless steel or alloys of nickel such as Nitinol. Wire 55 has a pre-curved shape and is only forced out of that shape by placing wire 55 into tube 10. Care should be taken to choose a material for sheath 20 which will conform to the pre-curved shape of wire 55 without deforming wire 55.
As can readily be appreciated from FIG. 7, as wire 55 emerges from tube 10 it enters sheath 20 and resumes its pre-curved shape. In this embodiment, wire 55 is pre-curved into a flat disc-like shape but could be any of a variety of shapes known in the art. As described above, further advancement of wire 55 eventually detaches sheath 20 from tube 10 and thereby delivers pre-curved wire 55 into a desired location with sheath 20 surrounding wire 55. FIG. 8 depicts a particular use of pre-curved wire 55. In this embodiment wire 55 forms into a disc-like shape suitable for covering an aneurysm neck. Wire 55 may be delivered without any other structure being placed into aneurysm 60. Alternatively, wire 55 may be delivered after particles or other embolic materials (not shown) have been deployed into aneurysm 60. In another embodiment wire 55 may be delivered into aneurysm 60 and particles may be delivered through wire 55 thereby filling aneurysm 60 and capping it with wire 55.
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Please don't be upset! I realize theres probably plenty of people that dislike WoW, or are tired of comparisons.
I have quit WoW and don't enjoy it anymore, but i did for a long time, so It's an easy baseline for me to use.
I'm a healer by heart, and i haven't been able to find a fun healing game for a long time, so I'm wondering what healing in FFXIV is like in comparison to WoW, is there anything to make it stand out, whats different, whats the same?
I'm not looking for praise or bashing on either game, just a balanced opinion preferably from someone that enjoyed both games :)
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First off, I'm not 50 yet, so I don't have all the abilities yet. That said, healing on whm is very similar to most mmos including wow. So far I have:
Cure - small heal (efficient, procs free cure 2)
Cure 2 - big heal (less efficient)
Regen - HoT
Esuna - Cleanse
Medica - AoE heal
Virus - debuff from arcanist
Healing plays as: Cure 1 until Cure 2 procs. Cure 2 if needed. Medica for AoE. Keep Regen on Tank.
Pretty standard stuff. I can't speak for scholar though.
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You should look up some posts by mtibbs. He is a raid healer and has a lot of experience healing in this game. He wrote up some stuff about it recently. If you look up his post history you should be able to find what you're looking for :)
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One thing for sure its not a button mashfest like in wow . You really have to think your next spell out as the gcd will make you think more tacticly as in what to do, should i regen the tank now or throw out that big heal. when to apply stoneskin, when to use regen and medica 2 properly as both offer hot healing. will it cause me to get aggro to a new group of mobs ect. .Its quite fun to heal as either scholar or whm. its just not a mashfest for sure.
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Originally posted by lzanon
I agree with Izanon. I have been playing a White Mage since Beta 2, and its a lot different than playing a Priest in WoW (something I did for about 6 years). In addition to everything said above, you also have to watch your mana like a hawk because you don't have many mana regen abilities and you can run out before you know it if you just blast big heals out all the time. You will find yourself throwing a lot of little heals out waiting for a proc so that your big heal costs no mana, which is a HUGE benefit when you are healing boss encounters.
It's challenging for sure and you feel quite accomplished when you can save a party from death. You can also rez people in battle when you get to a certain level and that can be the difference in the fight, but it takes a long time to cast, so you have to make sure everyone is topped off before even attempting that because by the time the rez animation is done, most likely the tank will be pretty beaten up.
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I take it entry level group healing is easy for a first timer? Like lvl 15 Sastasha?
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Originally posted by Abcynth
You can also Swiftcast it, but the mana cost is still quite big.
Scholar and whm work amazingly well together.
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Originally posted by Darknessguy64
Yes, you also don't need to let the game decide for you that arcanist can't be the healer. Of course you will need to make the party yourself, but in all honesty, 3 dps and an arcanist can beat the three starter dungeons.
I know this because I was both the main tank + main healer in the last two of them.
Keep the tank up with cure and throw some dots or nukes inbetween. It's easy enough.
"Housing is standard in most mmo's."
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Originally posted by Darknessguy64
Absolutely. In early dungeons you tend to just cast cure on the tank some with very little in the way of fight mechanics to distract you from just standing there casting. Then it gets more difficult as you get higher level.
Unlike WoW (can't speak for last couple expansions, but its what I remember) where most of the leveling dungeons were very easy, then suddenly big jump of difficulty into raid content, there's more of a balanced progression here as you levelup. Once you dip into the mid range mechanics are slowly added to bosses that require more thought, with more mechanics being added as you head towards 50. Several of the high level (but sub 50) 4 man dungeons are relatively difficult compared to what people might be used to from other non max level dungeons in other games.
There's quite a few bosses in 4 man content that are comparable to raid bosses in other games in terms of amount of mechanics to deal with. After you clear the newbie dungeons there'll be very little in the way of clean tank and spank.
Game does reasonably well at easing you into it though as you go along. The main story will have you go through most of them once as quest objectives as you level up.
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Hmm ?
Later game content has fights and phases that are difficult for each role. There are healing fights, dps fights, tank fights, some fights that make things difficult and fused for all three. It's actually very well done, as a person who's secondary class is healing I can safely say it's enjoyable - and given the flexibility of the class system, you're not limited to it forever.
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If you want different then you should level Scholar. It's very different style of healing. Very active, you can add DPS by throwing out dots while not healing and you have great damage mitigation skills.
Personally i find Scholar healing much more fun than the simple WHM Cure > Cure II > Medica II spam.
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Originally posted by Agoden
I'd say it's roughly comparable but maybe slightly more difficult on average. Not a big difficulty increase but it is there. Tank healing I would say is easier (standard boss melee in this game doesn't hit tanks overly hard in many fights compared to WoW) but with more mechanics requiring healing the rest of the group on average than in WoW.
There's a large amount of boss mechanics that people really need to avoid but can be relatively difficult to actually avoid in practice at a 100% rate for the entire group. Getting these people back on their feet and/or healing them when they were hit for 90% life while maintaining the standard healing normally required anyway is where some extra challenge lies. There's a great deal of "don't stand in the fire" in this game.
Your ability to carry the group to success is probably a little higher in this game vs WoW as well when the rest of the group plays suboptimally, which can be neat.
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Originally posted by Foomerang
Thanks for the intro Foomerang :)
Where to begin... Well, lets start with WoW. I personally haven't healed in WoW since Vanilla and that was when I was a Paladin. So I don't know how to compare today's WoW to FFXIV. However! I can explain to you what it's like to play a White Mage all the way through the game (just remember this is my person experience). White Mage is currently the big single target and raid healer (AoE). So you'll want to play a White Mage if that's your style of healing.
Cure 1 - Small Heal - Able to proc a freecast of Cure 2.
Cure 2 - Large Heal - Able to proc a critical heal for Cure 3.
Cure 3 - Large Heal in a very small AOE around target player. (I don't recommend using this skill)
Benediction - Restores all of the target's HP.
Medica 1 - Small Heal in a large AOE.
Medica 2 - Very Small Heal in a Large AOE; also grants an additional HOT on all targets.
Regen - HOT
Divine Seal - Increases healing potency by 30%.
Esuna - Removes Detrimental effects.
Cleric Stance - Swaps MND for INT to deal greater damage.
Shroud of Saints - Cuts threat by half; also grants double regeneration rate of mana.
Raise - Raise a fallen ally.
Presence of Mind - Increases spell cast speed.
Protect - Increases Physical and Magical defense.
Stone Skin - Creates a barrier equal to 18% of the targets HP.
Stone 1 - Deals damage and applies a 40% slow on the target for 20 seconds.
Stone 2 - Deals greater damage than stone 1 but does not grant a slow.
Aero 1 - Instant cast DOT; great to use for tagging monsters.
Aero 2 - DOT; deals more damage than Aero 1; however it's not instant cast.
Holy - AOE that deals high damage and stuns for 4 seconds.
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(Thaumaturge - 26) Swiftcast - Grants an instant cast of your next skill.
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Okay, so first of all is the leveling. It can be slow at the start but playing a healer always has its benefits. You'll have a few skills that'll help boost your damage as you're leveling: Cleric stance and Presence of Mind. By the time you hit level 15 and you're up-to-date on your story-line you'll be able to your first dungeon. This is when it's great to be a healer as you're always in high demand meaning you'll usually get instant queues.
Once you're in the early/mid 20's you'll get your chocobo which will help you get around much faster than on foot. The best part is when you hit level 30 and unlock the ability for you to use your chocobo in battle. This will help boost your damage quite a bit as you're leveling.
For the most part everything will rinse and repeat up until level 50. You'll unlock many more dungeons to do and skills that'll be extremely beneficial by the time you start raiding. Now for the raiding, the healing for raiding in my opinion is extremely fun. I've stated this before and I'm sticking with it, "there's no real rotation". The fights are quite different from one another so I cannot state that there's a global rotation for a healer to use for each fight. You really have to try the fights to understand which combination of skills to use and when to use them.
At the moment my most enjoyable fights are Titan and turns 1, 2, and 4 of the Binding Coils of Bahamut. They're great tests of coordination and skill. These fights will bring the fear into your raids eyes as they watch all of their health bars go from 100% and drop to 10-25% as you healers try to spam AoE heal frantically. I don't believe I've ever had as much of an adrenaline rush in WoW. So in my opinion, they do make healing extremely fun.
Also, if you want to see what it's like to run through a few of the end game raids. I do stream my groups fights on www.twitch.tv/csxperiment. We typically run Mondays, thursdays, and Saturdays at 10:00 PM EST. We've already cleared the first 4 turns of Binding Coil of Bahamut this week however we're trying to do progression on the final turn. So feel free to stop by and ask any additional questions.
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From a tank's perspective, healing and aggro are fairly different from what WoW is currently. It is closer to early EQ1 in how healing draws massive amounts of aggro. A tank needs to constantly do threat building skills on every non CC'd target to keep aggro off healers. Healing before the tank has established aggro on everything will result in a mob pealing off to you. This tends to put the tank behind the 8 ball because he has to build aggro on an off target to get it off you, and risks loosing the main target to a DPS.
The 2.5 sec global cooldown presents a different approach than you see in WoW for both tanks and healers.
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I have not raid healed yet, but it seems to be the pace is a bit slower and less frantic than WoW, which is nice.
Part of me loved the frenzy of spam chain healing a 25 man raid as everyone's hp was constantly dropping from 100% to 10% every other second, but it was also pretty absurd in another way.
In FFXIV, there are some fights where people will take spike damage like that, the Ifrit fight is an early example, but it's usually less random and more predictable, which is good since your heals are generally on the longer GCD - you wouldn't really be able to spray and pray heal in most cases...
Another thing I noticed is that the difficulty curve for healing is really strange in this game. The first several dungeons you do are very easy unless your group makes a major blunder...then you get to the final boss of Thousand Maws of Toto-rak, the 4th dungeon (I think) and you find yourself in a situation where you will probably need to use your limit break to win without any deaths (at least, that is my experience, it may be because I had groups that didn't know the fight well both times I did it)...then things go back to being pretty easy again for awhile. I haven't done Titan yet, and the last few dungeons I did, though they went smoothly, I can see having been challenging if I didn't have a knowledgeable/competent tank there to explain the fights beforehand. It seems like things will start getting tougher from here on (mid 30s).


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I've seen these with my own eyes, so just keep debunking.
It is what it is, whether we like it or not you see.
Here is a small list of videos along the same lines.
One would think though, if you're going to go through all the trouble to hoax the audience, you'd dot all your I's and cross all your T's and make sure (something as stupid as the phase of the Moon) won't trip you up.
Originally posted by wildtimes
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Okay, the video of it rotating once during one orbit helps. Shows that it still always has the same side facing us, whether that side is lit up or not.
Originally posted by Human_Alien
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So in summation, what are you saying? Does the dark side ever face us (which is what I am lead to believe it does).
It is a very confusing topic mainly because we need others (with telescopes) to break this down for us. Because as far as I can see by looking at the Moon, I see different areas of the Moon during the course of the month. The 'man in the Moon' is not always facing me.
Originally posted by subject x
I'm glad y'all liked the vids. It really wasn't much. It took longer to upload them to youtube than it did to make them.
Note the elapsed time between video requested and video posted. That should speak to the simplicity of the project.
Just to be clear, I'm not stating that the vid is a definite hoax or anything.
I was simply trying to explain particle emitters to the folks who aren't conversant in CGI.
If one doesn't dabble in such things, one has no idea as to just how simple it would be to do something like this.
Now these folks have another tool in their kit for trying to figure out just what they're looking at in these vids.
Originally posted by RussianScientists
X's video is nice, but... the dots aren't blinking on X's video at random times for random lengths of time like they are on the moon video.
I'd say that the crafts coming from the moon are real, and that no one can debunk the video.
Originally posted by subject x
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The difference being, I don't think anyone has been injured/killed from any video hoaxes on youtube.
I could be wrong, though.
Is it wrong to yell "movie" in a crowded firehouse?


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Voluntary euthanasia is in the news again.
At last week's state election health forum, organised by The Sydney Morning Herald, we heard how 61-year-old Loredana Alessio-Mulhall, suffering from MS, intends flying to the Netherlands to end her life. This, of course, is illegal in Australia. Indeed, next month a man named David Mathers goes on trial in Sydney for the alleged murder of an old, sick friend. I cannot discuss that case for legal reasons, but there are a few facts about voluntary euthanasia worth putting on the record.
More than 80 per cent of Australians in opinion polls say they'd like to see voluntary euthanasia legalised. This issue is nearly unique because a majority of politicians, normally so keen to follow public opinion, refuse to change the law. One of the biggest arguments they use is that to do so would lead to a "slippery slope". Old people, they claim, would start to be killed because they were a burden or their relatives wanted to get their hands on their money.
This argument was often heard in 1997 when federal parliament overturned the Northern Territory's legalisation of voluntary euthanasia. Back then it was a serious argument, but there has been an important change. We now have a lot of evidence about what has happened in two parts of the world where voluntary euthanasia has been legalised. Is there really a slippery slope?
The Netherlands has effectively permitted voluntary euthanasia to a significant degree since 1973, and there has been a major study of the practice every five years since 1990. The situation was formalised in 2002 with the Euthanasia Act, which permits a doctor to end life at the request of a patient suffering unbearably and without hope of relief.
In 2009 Judith Rietjens of the Netherlands Department of Public Health and other experts published a paper evaluating what had been learned from 20 years' research in their country. They found that deaths from voluntary euthanasia, as a proportion of all deaths, were 1.9 per cent in 1990, 2.8 per cent in 2001, and 1.8 per cent in 2005.
They concluded: "Our studies show no evidence of a slippery slope. The frequency of ending of life without explicit patient request did not increase over the studied years. Also, there is no evidence for a higher frequency of euthanasia among the elderly, people with low educational status, the poor, the physically disabled or chronically ill, minors, people with psychiatric illnesses including depression, or racial or ethnic minorities, compared with background populations."
In the American state of Oregon, the Death with Dignity Act was enacted in late 1997. It allows terminally ill adults to kill themselves with barbiturates obtained with a prescription provided by their doctor. The patient must, according to two doctors, be capable of making health care decisions and diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months. If either doctor thinks the patient is suffering depression or any other psychological disorder, she must be referred for expert examination. She must make two oral requests to her doctor, separated by 15 days, and a written request witnessed by two other adults, at least one of whom is not a relative. Her doctor must explain to her the alternatives to death, such as hospice care and pain control.
From 1998 to 2010, 525 Oregonians killed themselves this way. Their median age was 71, and 81 per cent had cancer and 95 per cent died at home. On average there were 46 days between their request to die and death, five minutes between swallowing the barbiturate and unconsciousness, and another 20 minutes until life ended.
As a proportion of all deaths, those under the act were one per 1000 in 1998 and 2.9 in 2009.
Courtney Campbell is Hundere Professor in Religion and Culture at Oregon State University. He has studied the act in practice, and says this refutes some major concerns that were expressed at the time it came into effect. There is no evidence the act has put pressure on patients, especially the poor, to end their lives prematurely to save money. There has not been an increase in suicides in general. "For better or worse," he says, "the law is being used mostly by educated, middle and upper class Caucasians."
Another prediction was the practice would erode the provision of palliative care. "If anything," he says, "the law provided an incentive to the Oregon physician community and the Oregon hospices to dedicate themselves to better efforts at pain control, in order to minimise the number of patients who would need to resort to the law."
Is there any sign of the practice being extended to a wider range of patients, such as those suffering dementia? Professor Campbell says, "It's really too early to say, [because] such significant changes in social ethos take a generation or more. But the claims of opponents that such an impact would be immediate certainly have been proven baseless."
Another finding is that pain, or fear of pain, was not among the main reasons given by those wanting to kill themselves. It was nominated by only 21 per cent, compared with concern at losing autonomy (91 per cent), being less able to engage in activities that make life enjoyable (88 per cent), loss of dignity (84 per cent), losing control of bodily functions (56 per cent), and being a burden to others (35 per cent).
A final point of interest from Oregon is that 36 per cent of people who obtained a prescription did not use it. "My view," says Professor Campbell, "is that many terminal patients do not want to die prematurely, but they do want to be in control of the process."
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