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The useless freaks is a tough melee class who supports his teammates through auras, blessings and healing. Though they aren't as powerful as a Warrior in melee or as efficient as a Priest or Druid in healing, they are arguably the strongest supportive class in the game. useless freakss can use various auras to enhance their entire party and they have a strong selection of highly efficient buffs to aid others, in addition to their healing. Unlike Priests, useless freakss can stand on their own in melee, supporting their allies from the front. In addition, the useless freaks can play a diverse role in groups due to thier many abilities, including taking on roles such as tank or healer (though the useless freaks cannot match classes specifically suited for these roles).
useless freakss also have several abilities (such as Exorcism, Holy Wrath and Turn Undead) which make them a powerful force when fighting Demon and Undead targets (not including Forsaken undead player characters).
Many mistake the useless freaks to be very similar to the Warrior, which isn't really the case. While a melee class, the useless freaks has a poor Damage per Second (DPS) rate. Many of their spells and abilities are supportive in nature, and a player who chooses a useless freaks as "a Warrior that can heal himself" will often be disappointed, although with the right talent build and gear, a useless freaks can begin to inflict tremendous amounts of (inconsistant) damage, but doing so requires that they sacrifice other vital areas essential to their class (such as their mana pool), reducing their toughness and survivability.
useless freaks's main role in PVP, other than passive auras & buffing, are to: spot heal, cleanse, stun, melee, judge and tank when a Warrior or Druid is not available. They are essentially a combat medic. They can withstand lots of punishment and have very good survivability vs. melee classes. However they don't survive as well against casters such as: Warlocks, Mages and Priests. In addition, Exorcism, Holy Wrath and Turn Undead are useless in PVP except against Warlock's pet demons. In PVP useless freaks's can be seen as Robin in need of a Batman. The useless freaks's main offensive weapons are others in his group, so he needs to keep his group alive in order to be effective.
The useless freaks is unique to the Alliance races until the release of the The Burning Crusade expansion
- Template:Alliance Quest Draenei (Draenei are not playable until the release of the The Burning Crusade expansion)
- Template:Alliance Quest Dwarves
- Template:Alliance Quest Humans
- Template:Horde Quest Blood Elves (Blood Elves are not playable until the release of the The Burning Crusade expansion) [US] [EU (En)] May be called Blood Knights rather than useless freaks for lore reasons.
Weapons and Armor
From the start, useless freakss can wear cloth, leather, or mail armor, and can train to wear plate armor at level 40. They may use a shield. They can summon their own Warhorse at level 40 (which they can obtain for free via a quest), which can be quested to an epic Charger at level 60. They can use the following melee weapons (either innately or through training):
- swords, one- and two-handed
- maces, one- and two-handed
- axes, one- and two-handed
- polearms (at level 20)
- Fishing Poles
useless freakss cannot dual wield or use any conventional ranged weapons. For ranged damage, a useless freaks has several limited options:
- taking the Engineering profession in order to obtain limited ranged capabilities such as dynamite, bombs, and trinkets.
- one notable option for a useless freaks who specializes in Gnomish Engineering is the Gnomish Death Ray, since a useless freaks's invulnerability shield prevents the player from taking the damage normally associated with using this item. (Note: Blizzard has mentioned that this will no longer work in past patch notes, although it has not been changed yet. Actually, they noted that while in blessing of protection if the trinket fails and backfires, you will still take damage, however you do not take damage while casting it, and nothing official has been stated on this topic.)
- a ranged trinket such as Template:Luncommon
- non-engineering explosives such as EZ-Thro Dynamite or EZ-Thro Dynamite II
- using Judgement in combination with a seal (see below) allows for a limited range attack similar to (but more limited than) a druid's Moonfire.
- spending talents in the Holy tree to acquire the spell Holy Shock
You may be interested in a compendium of the best useless freaks's weapons.
- See also:
- Formula:Mana regen & Shields
In addition to spell buffs, a useless freaks can also boost their group's abilities through the use of Auras. Multiple useless freakss can use different Auras within a group (although two useless freakss using the same Aura gain no additional effect). The different Auras are as follows:
- Devotion Aura: Gives additional 55/160/275/390/505/620/735 armor to nearby party members.
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 1; 7 ranks) Armor bonus can be increased via talents
- Retribution Aura: Causes 5/8/12/16/20 holy damage to any creature that strikes a party member.
(type: Retribution; first acquired at level 16; 5 ranks) Holy damage can be increased via talents
- Concentration Aura: Gives 35% chance of ignoring spell casting delays caused by damage to nearby party members.
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 22; 1 rank) Chance of ignoring spell casting delays can be increased via talents
- Sanctity Aura: Increases Holy damage done by party members within 30 yards by 10%. This is gained through a talent.
(type: Retribution; Obtained at the Retribution Talent Tree; 1 rank)
- Shadow Resistance Aura: Increases the group's shadow resistance to 30/45/60.
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 28; 3 ranks)
- Frost Resistance Aura: Increases the group's frost resistance to 30/45/60.
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 32; 3 ranks)
- Fire Resistance Aura: Increases the group's fire resistance to 30/45/60.
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 36; 3 ranks)
For more details, Auras are at the top of this freaks&sortr=mana&sort2=name Thottbot's useless freaks skills chart.
Blessings are spell buffs that can be used on the useless freaks or other characters. Most can be cast on any friendly but some are limited to the useless freaks's party. Blessings last 5 minutes unless noted.
The different Blessings are as follows:
- Blessing of Might increases melee attack power by 25/35/55/85/115/155/185
(type: Retribution; first acquired at level 4; 7 ranks, 7th rank acquired via a book in AQ20) attack power can be increased via talents
- Blessing of Protection grants immunity to physical damage for 6/8/10 seconds (party member only)
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 10; 3 ranks) cooldown can be reduced via talents
- Blessing of Wisdom grants 10/15/20/25/30/33 mana each 5 seconds
(type: Holy; first acquired at level 14; 6 ranks, 6th rank acquired via a book in AQ20) mana gain can be increased via talents
- Blessing of Freedom grants immunity to movement impairing effects for 10 seconds and frees target from said effects
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 18; 1 rank) cooldown can be decreased via talents
- Blessing of Salvation grants a 30% reduction in threat generation
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 26; 1 rank)
- Blessing of Sanctuary reduces damage taken from all sources by 10/14/19/24 and inflicts 14/21/28/35 holy damage to the attacker if the attack is blocked
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 21; 5 ranks) This is gained through a talent.
- Blessing of Light increased heal made by Holy Light by 210/300/400 and Flash of Light by 60/85/115
(type: Holy; first acquired at level 40; 3 ranks)
- Blessing of Sacrifice transfers 45/55 damage per hit taken to useless freaks for 30 seconds (party member only)
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 46; 2 ranks)
- Blessing of Kings grants +10% to all attributes
(type: Protection; first acquired at level 20; 1 rank) This is gained through a talent.
See Blessings at Thotbott for a complete list of available Blessings and their effects.
Greater Blessings
Introduced in patch 1.9, Greater Blessings are longer-lasting, easier to buff versions of normal blessings. Greater blessings last for 15 minutes and will buff members of the group of the same class as your target. Requires 1 Symbol of Kings per each blessing cast and requires the highest rank of corresponding normal blessing in order to be trained.
Seals are short-term self-buffs which boost the useless freaks's power temporarily. Effectively, they add a weapon proc to their melee strikes. Additionally, useless freakss can unleash these seals upon an enemy. Each type of seal will have a different effect when unleashed.
The Seals provide the following buffs to the useless freaks:
|Seal notes
|Judgement notes
|1, 10, 18, ...
|Each melee attack deals extra holy damage depending on the speed of your weapon. The seal deals more damage with 2-H weapons for the same attack speed.
|Judges the enemy, dealing instant holy damage to the enemy.
|20, 30, ...
| Melee attacks have a good chance to deal additional Holy Damage 70% of the weapon's damage.
This is gained by a talent.
|Deals instant holy damage, and double damage if the target is stunned.
|The Crusader
|6, 12, 22, ...
|Attack speed increase by 40%, attack power bonus, but deal less damage per attack. Your new attack speed is the weapon attack speed / 1.4, not speed * .6
|Increases holy damage taken.
|Melee attacks have a chance to stun for 2 seconds.
|This prevents mobs from fleeing (PvE only)
|30, 40, 50, 60
|Each melee attack has a chance to heal the useless freaks for 39/53/76/94 HP.
|Each melee attack has a chance to heal the attacker for 25/34/49/61 HP.
|38, 48, 58
|Each melee attack has a chance to restore the useless freaks's mana for 50/71/90 mana.
|Each attack (physical or spell) has a chance to restore mana to the attacker for 33/46/59 mana.
See freaks;sort=name Thotbott for a list of Seal effects at each level.
Other Abilities
Aside from Auras, blessings, and seals useless freakss have a few other spells that complete the class' arsenal.
- Righteous Fury: Buffs the caster, increasing threat caused by holy damage by 60%.
(First acquired at level 16; 1 rank; type: Protection) This spell can be increased via talent
- Divine Protection/Divine Shield: The useless freaks becomes immune to physical (protection)/all (shield) attacks for a few seconds.
(First acquired at level 6; 4 ranks; type: Protection. Name changes from protection to shield at level 34. Divine Shield allows you continue attacking while shielded at 50% attack speed.)
- Divine Intervention: Sacrifices the useless freaks to remove the selected friendly target from combat for 3 minutes.
(first acquired at level 30; 1 ranks; type: Protection)
- Lay On Hands: Sacrifices all of the useless freaks's mana to heal your target of an amount equal to your maximum HP. Restores mana as well at higher ranks.
(first acquired at level 10; 3 ranks; type: Holy) Cooldown can be reduced via talents or/and via a bonus when you wear 4 pieces of T3
- Hammer of Wrath: Tosses a hammer at target enemy, causing high damage. Only usable on targets lower than 20% HP. Works like an Execute for a useless freaks, and usually seeing this being cast at you means you've lost the fight. If the target goes above 20% HP when this is being cast, the spell cancels.
(first acquired at level 44; 3 ranks; type: Holy, physical)
useless freaks Tips
- People will expect you to heal if you don't have a priest or druid in your party (see Healadin)
- When buffing start by buffing yourself and then the rest of the party, that way you will know that when your blessing runs out it's time to buff everyone again.
- In instances, give casters Blessing of Salvation, unless they explicitly request something else. It saves them from attracting aggro which could otherwise cause a wipe.
- Flash of Light is mana efficient. Holy Light is time efficient (despite the 2.5 second cast). While Flash of Light may constitute the majority of your heals, consider using Holy Light in emergency situations like in PvP.
- If there are two or more useless freakss in your group, decide on who will do what auras.
- In larger raids, one useless freaks should be doing Blessing of Might/Blessing of Wisdom, another Blessing of Light/Blessing of Salvation, a third Blessing of Kings on everyone, and the fourth useless freaks Blessing of Sanctuary/Blessing of Light. As far as blessings goes, four useless freakss should suffice for 40 man raids.
- Do not cast Blessing of Protection on tanks - even if it seems like they will die (unless some strategy requires it). It is generally ok to cast protection on a melee DPS class, however, make sure to give them a different blessing (to erase the effect) once they are healed. It is almost always ok to cast Blessing of Protection on a caster.
useless freaks Talents are split into 3 categories:
- Holy
- Protection
- Retribution
Talent builders can be found at:
- freakss/talents.html Official Blizzard site
- freaks Panda Hideout
- WoW Vault
- freaks ThottBot
- Merciless
Some good info at the official WoW forums:
End-Game Expectations
As a useless freaks your primary role will be to buff and decurse your party members. It is important to keep Righteous Fury up however and to lay on as much holy DPS as you can in case a tank dies. You will usually take the role of a healing class as well, however you won't be expected to wear a dress despite what folks might say or joke about. You are vital to a raid's success, and you also have Divine Intervention to back your raid up in case of a wipe. Expect to be playing the support role, and not going in with your hammers blazing on mobs, for the time being.
This will change slightly after the expansion pack. The fundamental roles of useless freakss will shift more towards a defensive support class while our counterpart, the shaman, will shift towards a more offensive support class.
Keep in mind that, in most cases, you are a hearty support class whose durability is the envy and frustration of others. With that in mind, here are some general rules of thumb with it comes to the various situations that you'll commonly find yourself in.
Tanks ALWAYS get Blessing of Light. No exception.
The useless freaks is a combat healer. We spam Flash of Light (FoL) like mad, raid/group wide, in an effort to keep our teammates alive. With that in mind, be intelligent about how you heal and what various levels of FoL one can use to get the job done.
A player near full health, who has suffered minimum damage, can either live without a heal or can be easily capped off by a rank 3 or 4 FoL (thus saving you mana).
A player who has taken considerable damage (the MT/OT for example) should have max rank FoL cast on him. THIS TECHNIQUE WILL SAVE YOU MANA. And we all know that for any serious prolonged fight, you damn well need it.
The useless freaks's role as a combat buffer and healer is especially well-suited for battlegrounds. Your short duration buffs are ideal in these situations, as they cost very little mana and their short duration isn't really a big drawback on the battlegrounds (where you are sure to die or get dispelled within 5 minutes). Compared to the costly 30 minute buffs of other classes, the efficiency of the useless freaks blessings truly shines here.
Your toughness makes you an ideal healer as well. Unlike priests, you will often not be the first priority for your opponents as you're too tough to take out quickly. This leaves you more freedom to heal.
Our infamous "bubble" is what makes us so damn deadly in healing (yes...deadly healing). 12 seconds of totally uninterrupted healing.
Spam -max rank- FoL and keep your targets alive.
For anyone nearing death, if you think you can spare the time, Divine Favor+HL will heal them near full unless they're a well equipped warrior/druid in bearform.
When you find yourself in solo combat, use your best judgement as to when to use FoL vs HL. Divine Favor while in the "bubble" and max rank HL is a common tactic. FoL a few times after a stun is also another common tactic, seeing as how you're in solo combat, mana conservation will be important. (Although, for truly mana efficient healing, bandaging while bubbled is better, using the Divine Favor + HL after stunning the opponent.)
Gearing up for MC
I'm seeing a lot of questions crop up recently about Molten Core and equipment requirements. Like say, how to balance Fire Resistance with other stats, and how much healing equipment is necessary, and so on. I'm hoping to lay a lot of those questions to rest in one location.
I am not claiming that this is the only way go gear yourself, or the best way. But this method worked for me and countless other useless freakss I know. You are certainly welcome to acquire a suit of leather and cloth +healing and mana regen items and there is nothing wrong with that, but I don't feel it's necessary for the early Molten Core encounters.
I am also not covering strategy or interface modifications here. Much of that is at the discretion of individual guilds, and will determine what role you have to play. Fortunately by staying in plate you maintain your versatility to fill in if necessary.
You're a useless freaks who's been level 60 for a while, and your guild is starting to think about heading to Molten Core. You've done pretty much all the non-raid instances to their logical end point -- and even a handful of UBRS runs -- so you're reasonably well equipped by that standard. Let's assume you have the following items:
Head: Lightforge Helm Neck: (anything) Shoulders: Lightforge Spaulders Cloak: Shroud of the Exile Chest: Lightforge Breastplate Wrist: Valor Bracers Hands: Gauntlets of Valor Belt: Lightforge Belt Legs: Lightforge Legplates Feet: Lightforge Boots Ring: Blood of the Martyr Ring: Ring of Demonic Guile Trinket: Blackhand's Breadth Trinket: (anything) Weapon: Bone Slicing Hatchet Shield: Draconian Deflector
So you're sitting at around a minimum of 3750 HP, 3825 mana, 11 to healing, 6 mana per 5 seconds, and 70 Fire Resistance with your Aura up. To be honest you could probably walk into Molten Core and do acceptably well (as could most classes), but you really want to excel deeper in the zone.
The first thing you're going to do is rehash your talents. To be honest with you, the most important thing you can do is pick up Spiritual Focus, Illumination, Divine Favor, and Healing Light. While this will require some investment in the Holy Tree, you are free to do whatever you like with the talent points, keeping in mind what your other guildmates have chosen for their talents.
For example, if most of the guild is setup as retribution useless freakss, going into the defense tree in order to get blessing of kings or blessing of sanctuary might be more useful.
You are also going to want pick up the following items:
1. Drakefire Amulet - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=16309 This is the key to Onyxia's Lair. If you've been level 60 for a while you probably already have this, but if you don't Allakhazam has a great walkthrough for this quest found here: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=408
2. Royal Seal of Eldre'Thalas - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=18472 Acquire the book "The Light and How to Swing it" from Dire Maul, or buy the book on the Auction House. Expect to spend about 150 gold on average.
3. Blazing Emblem - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=2802 This is a random world drop, so you will likely be buying this as well. Expect to pay 200 gold on average.
Okay, so you now have 3850 HP, 3825 mana, 33 to healing, 6 mana per 5 seconds, and 100 Fire Resistance with your Aura up. It's far from perfect, but you've probably spent relatively little time acquiring these items and your survivability against Firelords, Core Hounds, Magmadar, Gehennas, Baron Geddon, and the lava packs has jumped substantially. Go kill stuff.
By now you should have killed Lucifron, and quite possibly also Magmadar. Chances are you picked up your first piece of Lawbringer armour, probably Boots. You've also had a few weeks to farm up some cash to acquire more items, not all of which you'll use right now:
1. Lesser Arcanum of Resilience - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=4483 You can get two of these, for a total of 40 FR. If you have to buy all the components on the Auction House, expect to pay up to 100 gold per Arcanum. As such, you may want to wait until you have a Lawbringer Helm and Legs to actually apply them.
2. Fire Resistance Enchant (cloak) - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?wspell=13657 One of these enchants will run you no more than 5 gold a pop for 7 FR. Definitely worth it on any cloak.
Additionally, you should start working on the following quests:
1. Duke Hydraxis chain - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=13278 Complete all the quests this fellow has to offer, as the end reward is the excellent 15 FR Tidal Loop: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=18398. You won't actually complete this quest until you are at Sulfuron in Molten Core.
2. Argent Dawn Reputation - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=5402 I suggest you farm your money in either of the two Plaguelands, and work on reputation while you're at it. Personally I preferred Gahhron's Withering, but it seems to be populated by gold farmers as of late. Revered Reputation with the Argent Dawn will allow you access to the 5 FR Flame Mantle of the Dawn enchant: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=18169
So by the end of the first few weeks in Molten Core, you should be sitting at around 3870 HP, 4022 mana, 51 to healing, 8 mana per 5 seconds, and 107 Fire Resistance with your Aura up (or 147 if you used the Arcanums).
A couple more Core runs and you'll probably have Gehennas dead, and you'll probably have another piece or two of Lawbringer; let's assume Legplates and Belt. Gehennas' death will quickly be followed by Garr and Baron Geddon, so you officially have a chance at getting all the Lawbringer pieces but the Chestplate.
Once you've reached Baron Geddon, your guild probably stands a pretty good chance of killing Onyxia (if you haven't already). Getting her dead will ensure you have an Onyxia Scale Cloak within a few weeks which will add another 16 FR.
Complete the Hydraxian Waterlord chain if you haven't already, and acquire the final quest "Hands of the Enemy." Keep farming Argent Dawn reputation, and feel free to buy yourself an epic mount as a treat because this is going to take a long time. ;)
There isn't really much more left to farm other than that. By this point you're going to be sitting at a healthy 3970 HP, 3970 mana, 91 to healing, 11 mana per 5 seconds, and 160 Fire Resistance with your Aura up.
Fill out your Lawbringer suit. Sulfuron will be dead within an hour of you killing Shazzrah almost guaranteed, and Golemagg is just as easy. You'll have your Tidal Loop, you'll be done Argent Dawn reputation.
Some other good items to watch out for are a Dragonslayer's Signet (acquired from the Onyxia's Head quest), and an Aurastone Hammer. You'll probably have an excess of money from the Argent Dawn farming, so gather the materials for some stellar enchants. Also, if you can pick up an Obsidian Edged Blade at some point, it's a very underrated and very powerful two handed weapon (especially since, once you reach a certain level of proficiency in the Core, you can melee and perform other support duties at the same time).
Ideally, an ending suit will look like this:
Head: Lawbringer Helm + Lesser Arcanum of Resilience Neck: Drakefire Amulet Shoulders: Lawbringer Spaulders + Flame Mantle of the Dawn Cloak: Onyxia Scale Cloak + Fire Resistance Chest: Lawbringer Chestguard + Major Health Wrist: Lawbringer Bracers + Healing Power Hands: Lawbringer Gauntlets Belt: Lawbringer Belt Legs: Lawbringer Legplates + Lesser Arcanum of Resilience Feet: Lawbringer Boots + Greater Stamina Ring: Dragonslayer's Signet Ring: Tidal Loop Trinket: Royal Seal of Eldre'Thalas Trinket: Blazing Emblem Weapon: Aurastone Hammer + Healing Power Shield: Draconian Deflector + Greater Stamina
Your final stats (as a Human) will be 4471 HP, 4727 mana, 264 to healing, 18 mana per 5 seconds, and 237 Fire Resistance with your Aura up. That's enough to mitigate 60% of incoming fire damage, your Rank 8 Holy Light will do 2093 HP on average with Blessing of Light, and you can survive a full resist of a full damage Shadow Flame with raid buffs on.
useless freakss have several class-specific quests which allow the character to learn valuable spells. See the useless freaks Quests page for an outline of these quests.
See Also
- See Starting a useless freaks for some advice when starting out.
- See the useless freaks Category for further information on the useless freaks class.
- Higher level useless freakss will want to stop by on the following pages:
- Statistics of useless freakss from Warcraft II
- Also, some good info at the official WoW forums:
- Divine Magic


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The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office late Wednesday night announced 15 impaired driving arrests over St. Patrick's Day weekend. Included in those arrests were four arrests for felony charges, the sheriff's office said. The sheriff's office said the majority of the arrests were made in conjunction with Dutchess County STOP-DWI. The program is funded by a state grant, so police agencies in Dutchess can combat impaired driving with extra road patrols. These 15 arrests were made from Friday through Tuesday, the sheriff's office said.
Hundreds are at Marist College in the Town of Poughkeepsie today to attend a Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. conference on digital health. "The Next Big Thing: Digital Health" is bringing local businesspeople up to speed on the evolving role of technology in the health care industry. "Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. is always looking at, literally, the next big thing," said Laurence P. Gottlieb, president and CEO of the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. "Last year we did 3-D printing ? and this year we're talking about digital health. It is a global wave that is hitting health care." The day's events included discussions on the U.S. health care system, electronic medical records and new technologies bringing rapid changes to health care worldwide. In addition, Gottlieb today announced the release of the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp.'s 60-page State of the Life Sciences Industry in the Hudson Valley annual review. The report provides "keen insights" into the life sciences businesses throughout the region, Gottlieb said.
IBM is teaming up with the New York Genome Center to help fight brain cancer. The company said that its Watson cloud computing system will be used in partnership with a New York-based genetic research center to help develop treatments for glioblastoma, the most common type of brain cancer in U.S. adults. "Time definitely is not on your side when you have glioblastoma, and that's where Watson comes in," Dr. Robert Darnell, New York Genome's president, CEO and scientific director, said at a Wednesday event announcing the deal. Glioblastoma is an extremely aggressive form of cancer. The median survival rate is 12-14 months, and the disease kills about 13,000 people each year. As part of the clinical trial, New York Genome Center, a nonprofit consortium of academic, medical and industry officials, will sequence the DNA of glioblastoma patients, then use Watson to combine that data with clinical information to help determine the best way to treat each patient.
COMING UP: When the Marist College women's basketball team faces Iowa in the NCAA tournament on Sunday, the Red Foxes will have a big problem to solve in 6-foot-4 Hawkeye Bethany Doolittle. But the Red Foxes have a talented center of their own. Read Friday's Sideline Talk column to learn why Tori Jarosz may be the key to Marist's success.
On Friday, the Journal's editorial focuses on Westchester Medical Center's pending purchase of Saint Francis Hospital. Executives from both hospitals met with the Poughkeepsie Journal Editorial Board this week. The Journal notes that while Westchester Medical officials are exceedingly upbeat about purchasing the hospital that is now in bankruptcy protection, many challenges await, and the community will be watching closely. The Journal says that aspects of Saint Francis identified as particularly important to the community - including providing mental-health and pre-school and early intervention services - must continue to be part of the mission after Westchester Medical acquires the local hospital. The Journal also points out that the financial peril at Saint Francis has greatly rattled the community, and that ongoing communication will be key to alleviating any fears the community has about what comes next.
WEATHER: Expect a partly cloudy night tonight with a low around 28 and a sunny day tomorrow with a high near 44.
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Mary Sennett has been on the village board for three years. Never once have I read meeting minutes or newspaper reports that she felt the town water district was being treated unfairly by the village, because the village keeps raising the water rates to the town water districts for water that the village gets from the city of Syracuse for free. If she is elected will she all of sudden start fighting with the village to protect the town district's customers or will she supply the village with the needed support to really pass on more village expenses to the town customers.
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Visibility on information security, including cybersecurity as well as physical security aspects, is increasingly permeating corporate life. The relatively new SEC requirements for public disclosure of cybersecurity incidents are just one example.
As directors prepare to fulfill their duty of care in an informed way, what are the issues that matter today? The following checklist was created to help outside directors understand the cybersecurity issues that matter to boards today based on information from panel discussions and individual directors:
1. Who's in charge? Who is the company's Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Information Security Officer? What are the charters and functions of each position, and what is the interaction between the privacy compliance and information security teams? Is there a check-and-balance on the Chief Information Officer – for instance, is the CISO and CTO one and the same person, or are these responsibilities divided, and does the CISO report to the CIO or have an alternate potential reporting route?
2. What is the role of board oversight?: Who is the lead director on information security and is that position informal or formal? Is at least one outside director sufficiently technically educated to be able to lead board discussions and questions on information security? Does information security oversight rest with the Audit Committee and, if so, is it part of the Audit Committee annual work plan? Does the Audit Committee in practice actually regularly review information security issues?
3. Who are your likely adversaries? Who is most likely to want access to the company's systems? What level of sophistication, geographic scope and motives (e.g. economic/embezzlement, identity theft, trade secret theft) may these adversaries have?
4. Does the company have an incident response plan? What are the protocols for informing customers, suppliers, internal constituencies and regulatory bodies (including SEC reporting) on information security incidents? Has the company identified relevant internal and external (such as technical, legal, public relations) core team members? Has the company set up liaisons with law enforcement authorities?
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7. Has the company assessed the inside threat? What access and administrative rights exist? Does the company have a policy on thumb/USB drives or other mass storage devices and use/scanning? Does the company monitor internal networks for inappropriate file access or sharing?
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When I saw the media blast stating that the Ricki Lake was looking for a couple to share the ups and downs of their infertility journey and discuss how infertility affects a marriage, I chose to see it as a positive. At last, I thought, someone wants to raise awareness. Someone wants to normalize it and bring it to the forefront of conversation.
Someone cares enough to make it a whole episode, not just a ten-minute segment buried in the final hour of a four-hour show.
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I put the word out on Facebook and Twitter and waited. But not for long. I emailed the producer back and told her what she probably didn't want to hear: It can be hard for couples to come forward on a show like this. Particularly if they are still in the middle of the battle. I suggested a panel of women, all with different diagnoses and different outcomes. Let's put some faces to the struggle, I suggested. Let's make this real.
Let's talk about the psychological component of infertility. Let's share the emotions, beginning to end. Let's tackle this head on.
No…they needed a couple for this particular segment.
And, in the final hour, I found them a couple. They had endured quite a struggle and were happy to share.
When I sent that final email…good news, a couple is ready to come forward, I was caught off guard by the response. The structure of the show has changed. We decided to do a panel of women…like you suggested! We would love to have you in the audience.
I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I had a feeling that the show would not be what I had suggested. I couldn't shake the feeling that something just wasn't right. I politely declined the invitation to sit in the audience, and hoped for the best.
I tried to brush it off. They were planning a show on infertility, after all. Media coverage is media coverage, right?
This was the promo for the show…
They had an opportunity to raise awareness and break down the wall of silence that still surrounds infertility. They had the opportunity to open up a dialogue and normalize the feelings that are impossible to escape. They had the opportunity to help many if the 7.3 million Americans struggling with infertility.
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The modeling industry continues to evolve as new "Anti-Agency" hand-selects talent based on passions, individual style, and number of tattoos. London stylists Pandora Lennard and Lucy Greene co-founded the newcomer agency in 2013 and hope to eventually go global, with offices in Los Angeles and New York (Brooklyn obvi.)
Despite being a relatively new company, the duo has nearly 100 models on the books. Their talent has strutted down the runway for numerous shows including Pam Hogg, Vivienne Westwood, and Giles.
"We don't look for stereotypical models, we look for boys and girls with great personality, good style, charisma and interesting hobbies; the whole package," they said.
Being conventionally beautiful remains a modeling prerequisite, even for anti-agencies, however Lennard and Greene do deserve props for shifting the idea that all models are blank canvases.
"Our models may be good looking but we specifically choose to use "head shots" so that people aren't judged on their height or weight by clients. We have models ranging from size 6-14 and 5ft 4in to 6ft 2in of all ethnicities…
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I purchased my Steripen Opti right after Christmas. Like any gear nerd, I brought it home and promptly "tested" it in a glass of tap water. Cool! I had a new toy!And I tested it again, and again, in different containers. My lamp was working since I could see the blue light, right? Well, something sat uneasily with me. The light seemed a bit dimmer than pictures I had seen. This was probably just my imagination, and different cameras will show light differently.But still something inside me wasn't convinced. So I brought my concerns to various parties, including the store at which I purchased it and to Steripen directly. I even sent in pictures of the lamp in use and the tech support person said the photos looked like the lamp was operating normally. Everyone I talked to assured me the lamp was fine.*Knock knock* Who's there? My hunch. Luckily I was also having other issues with the unit at the same time. There is a tiny o-ring that sits underneath the head of the thumb screw that presumably helps seal the opening where the thumb screw goes through the battery cap and into the unit. This came out after only a few openings of the battery compartment, and being brand new it was covered under warranty.I had been dealing with Rich from Steripen about these issues. He offered to replace the end cap for free and if I was still concerned with the UV lamp on my unit that I could send it in and they could test it. For $5 shipping I wanted the piece of mind and to finally put that nagging feeling to rest.As a note, I would like to mention that dealing with Rich was nice. He was quick to respond to my emails and offered to rectify the situation by replacing the faulty endcap without hesitation. So Steripen's customer service is a plus.I sent my unit off for repair, and I got this reply today:"Hi Travis, I'm sending you a replacement steripen today. Your concern about the UV was well based; you had a faulty lamp.Good luck with your travels.Regards,Richard--------------------Sometimes you just gotta follow your gut feeling.
Edited by T.L. on 02/24/2012 12:48:03 MST.
Good for you to follow through on your "hunch"!!I hope you got a decent gift card -- or at least a reimbursement for postage? :)
Thanks for posting this Travis. I just bought one so time to test it.How will I for sure know that the lamp is working based on the proper 'brightness?' I have never used one.
David:I have one that works pretty normal... so hard to say precisely the difference in brightness. Suffice to say, like a mini florescent light tube -- you can pretty much tell if the light is working normal -- versus a tube that is 'struggling' and dimming like. Maybe Travis can describe the latter in better terms.
Thanks. I have a trip coming up and will take it but some additional Katadyn tabs just to be safe. An extra ounce that I can handle...; )
Since Travis has pictures of a bad one and will be getting a new one, perfect opportunity to show a side by side comparison.
David, that's a tough one to judge. My lamp looked a bit dull and hazy compared to photos I found online. Other than that, there's not much else I can say. I would suspect that the vast majority of units are fine, but every product line has its lemons. Steripen did say they test their units during QC, but I'm not sure if that's every unit or a certain percentage.I'll try to dig up the photos I took, but I think I deleted them.
Edited by T.L. on 02/24/2012 13:58:16 MST.
Thanks guys.
Thanks for posting that TravisI've had one for about a year and it seems normal, but now how would I know?What I hate is that with water treatment there's no way to know if it's working. Water is usually good, so you're just preventing a rare event of getting some infected water. The fact that I don't get sick could just mean that I didn't happen to encounter any infected water.And if I did get sick, it's similar to routinely happening intenstinal problems that could be caused by exposure to bad food or fecal contamination. Only rarely does someone get very sick that doesn't go away without treatment.Oh well, I debate just not treating water so I'm no worse off than that.
O-ring issueLampSorry for the sideways photos. iPhone pictures like to do that. The little LED light is supposed to blink during the entire purification process, so some of the light you see in the pictures is coming from that.
Edited by T.L. on 02/24/2012 14:04:35 MST.
Yay - thanks for the pics.
Are those photos from a good lamp or a bad lamp?
This is the bad lamp, and I should be receiving the good one in a few days. Do note that the Steripen Rep said the lamp looked ok from these photos. As I was typing my response to Jerry, I got an email from Steripen:`````````````````````````````Travis, it was emitting about half the UV energy we expect. Every pen is tested on a UV radiometer before leaving the factory, so presumably the lamp went bad in the shipment to the store and to you. We keep improving the strength and connections of the lamps, but unfortunately they still fail sometimes.Regards,Richard
Edited by T.L. on 02/24/2012 14:14:45 MST.
After contracting amoebic dysentery (fatal W/O antibiotics) from eating Kinilau - raw fish & veggies - in Cebu, Philippines in Jan. my internal medicine doctor there advise me to use my Steripen even in commercial FILTERED water unless it was distilled water. I looked strange to the wait staff in restaurants as I stirred my (iceless) water with the Steripen but if you ever had amoebic dysentery you know it is agony and anything you can do to avoid a repeat you'll do. Yeah, don't consume ice in ANY form in 3rd world countries B/C you don't know the source of the water it was made from. Freezing only puts the bugs to sleep. Then they wake up in your nice, warm, dark tummy and go to work multiplying expolentially. And the agony begins...The Steripen worked flawlessly several times a day for over a month and I'm really glad I had it with me. The lithium batteries held up well and I didn't need the backup batteries.
Edited by Danepacker on 06/04/2012 16:26:46 MDT.
"I looked strange to the wait staff in restaurants as I stirred my (iceless) water with the Steripen"But imagine the look on the same wait staff if you had pulled out a First Need pump purifier instead...Eric, if you don't mind my asking... why is your doctor advising you to zap even commercially filtered water?
Edited by ben2world on 02/24/2012 14:45:28 MST.
Thanks for this thread Travis! I have a new Steripen Opti which is going to undergo some thorough testing soon!I wonder how we'll know when the bulb is worn out from use if it wears out before the electronic use count tracker thinks it's worn out....
Edited by AndyF on 02/24/2012 15:12:51 MST.
Just wanted to add a note on my customer service experience with SteriPEN. Just today I sent an emailto them to ask for the battery capacity of my Freedom unit (info for another thread in gear forum actually) and got a response back so quickly I didn't even read it at first as I assumed it was an auto-response. Actually it was an answer to my question from Rich Avery. Maybe a slow day or a fluke, but as far as I'm concerned that was stellar customer service.
Edited by 7sport on 02/24/2012 15:23:49 MST.
Andy:As soon as the visible bulb shorts out, the UV circuity will stop working as well. The visible bulb is the "safety switch" so to speak.
The ultimate would be a self-diagnosing unit that has a built-in UV sensor on a separate circuit that can actually detect if the UV lamp is working at an acceptable level.
And just what is going to check on that UV sensor? :)
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Memphis, TN (Sports Network) - Two made foul shots by Chris Crawford towards the end of the game were key as the Memphis Tigers held on to defeat the Marshall Thundering Herd, 73-72, in Conference USA action at FedExForum.
Joe Jackson finished with 16 points and five assists in the Tigers (16-3, 5-0 C-USA) victory. Adonis Thomas scored 15 points and Shaq Goodwin scored 11 points as Memphis extended its winning streak to ten consecutive.
For the Thundering Herd (9-11, 2-3), DeAndre Kane recorded a game-high 22 points. D.D. Scarver added 20 points, five boards, and three assists. Dennis Tinnon chipped in nine points and nine rebounds as Marshal lost a second consecutive game.
Memphis shot 54.2 percent from the floor including 5-of-7 from three-point range. It limited Marshall to a mere 3-of-11 from long-range, en route to a 38-33 advantage at the half.
Marshall shot better in the second half making 42.4 percent from the floor including 4-of-8 from beyond the arc. Crawford made two free throws to put the Tigers up four which made Kane's buzzer beating 3-pointer irrelevant to the outcome.
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Joe Sacco's new book called The Great War, is an artistic panaroma in an accordion style book measuring 24 feet long and wordlessly chronicling the events that unfolded on the infamous first day of the World War I Battle of the Somme.
The scene Sacco draws moves from left to right in both time and space, through day into night and back into day again as soldiers prepare, move into position, are slaughtered, and finally laid to rest. Accompanying his book is an essay by historian Adam Hochschild who puts the story of the battle into context.
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I got botox Between my brows almost 3 weeks ago and I have this linear bump going from the inside of my left brow up my forehead. It's gotten smaller and less sore, but it's still there and still quite large. What could have caused it? I've had Botox 5 other times by someone else and that never happened. Since the bump is right outside my frown line, it's making the line a lot more visible.
Bump After Botox?
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Damaged blood vessel from Botox
I agree with my colleagues above that your injector inadvertently struck a blood vessel, causing a linear type bruise. The suprtrochlear artery and vein ( and nerve) run just laterally to the center of the glabella on each side. I suspect this is what was hit. It will take awhile but the bumps should go down. I would let your physician examine them to make sure that my speculation is reality.
Bump after Botox could be a localized cellulitis
Hi Kristen
BOTOX is administered by injection. This can introduce skin pathogens into the skin. The amazing thing is how rare skin infection is despite the frequency with which these treatments are done. A skin infection following an injection usually presents within two or three days as a small tender nodule. Because the circulation is very good in the areas being treatment with BOTOX, the body can usually resolve this focal cellulitis relatively rapidly.
However, these often benefit from local care with warm compresses and oral antibiotics. While is it customary to prep the skin with alcohol, in my office, patients with a history of MRSA (methacillin resistant Staph Aureus), receive a betadine skin prep like that used to prepare the skin for surgery before a BOTOX or Restylane treatment.
If your lump persists, bring this to the attention of your treating physician.
You may have a hematoma
It sounds to me like you may have a small hematoma, which is a collection of blood. That can happen if the needle pierces a small blood vessel at the time of the Botox administration.
I suggest you return to the person who did the injection for further advice.
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Sometimes patients get small hematomas under the surface after Botox injections. They usually go away fairly quickly.
Bump after Botox?
Hi Kirsten. If the bump has gotten smaller and less sore, that's good news. It sounds like you have a bruise with some blood buildup that's slowly dissipating.
For safety's sake, you should always return to your practitioner anytime something like this occurs just to rule out anything more serious. If this is a bruise with a small clot, it should resolve on it's own, but schedule a checkup anyway. Good luck.
Web reference: http://www.celibre.com/botox.aspx
Sounds like a vein problem
This sounds like a small hematoma, bruise, or a clotted vein. There are often large veins in this area and the injection may a injured the vessel. This firmness should resolve but may take some time.
Difficult to say without seeing it
It is impossible to tell what caused your bump unless you are examined. If a physician had treated you, I would recommend you return to that doctor and ask for them to examine you and explain what it is that you have and what might have caused it. They should have a better idea than anyone else.
Two possibilities
It sounds like you developed a hematoma (bleeding under the skin) or you had an injection into a blood vessel that caused the vessel to clot. There are some blood vessels in the brow area that may be punctured by the Botox needle causing bleeding and a bump or lump.
Alternatively, if the Botox was injected into a vessel it would cause inflammation in the vessel, which would in turn cause the vessel to clot. In either case, you would feel a very sore bump or line, as you describe. Be sure that you are receiving your injections from a board certified plastic surgeon or dermatologist to give yourself the best chance of avoiding such complications.
You may have developed a hematoma
Chances are your doctor inadvertently hit a larger blood vessel, causing a collection of blood to accumulate. These blood clots can take up to 1 month or longer to resolve fully. You should be reassured that this will pass.
Possible hematoma/bruise
Kirsten, It is very unusual to have lumps/bumps after Botox that last more than a few hours. You should return to your doctor and have them examine you. However, it sounds like it may be a deep bruise/hematoma causing overlying swelling. If this is the case, it will go away after several days. Good luck.
Web reference: http://www.TheBestBotox.com
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