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Cool Tools for Web DevelopersPosted: Thu 11/09/2006 by seoexpert
Today Smashing Magazine published a long list of web-generators that make the lives of Web developers easier.
The list of generators is divided into sections such as color, CSS, domain names, Web forms, metatags, robots.txt, RSS, sitemaps and more.
Some of these tools are definitely worth checking out.
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More and more blogs, link directories, and other types websites tend to add the
rel="nofollow" attribute to external links to tell search engines not to follow them, meaning that the Google PageRank is not inherited by the externally linked pages.
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Search Engine DecoderPosted: Sun 10/22/2006 by seoexpert
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You can also display ownership relations and the Nielsen Netratings (percentage of all web searches) for each search engine.
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Quick Lookup is a nice new tool for Web developers based on AJAX technologies. It offers a tabbed search interface that lets users currently choose between PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS. Search is performed while typing. The results display quick reference information for functions, methods, classes, attributes, etc. For more in-depth information there is also a link to the documentation source. A great idea. Give it a try.
Website Accessibility Testing with GrayBitPosted: Sat 10/21/2006 by seoexpert
GrayBit offers a tool for converting the colors of your website to their grayscale equivalents, so you can test the visual contrast of your website. Like most other Web 2.0 application GrayBit has it's limitations and works best on websites that make use of cascading style sheets and a standardized markup. Nonetheless it's well worth trying this on your website as an additional tool to test this aspect of accessibility.


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Texas Instruments shares hit new high, analysts weigh in
The stock of Texas Instrument Inc. today traded at their highest level in nearly 13 years — one day after the company reported strong fourth-quarter financial results and first-quarter outlook but said it was laying off 1,100 people worldwide.
Shares of the Dallas-based semiconductor company reached $44.82, before declining 21 cents to close at $44.61.
Analysts think TI shares are overvalued. Morningstar Inc. analyst Brian Collelo thinks "an overly optimistic outlook for an ongoing cyclical recovery is priced into TI's stock."
Here are the highlights of reports issued today by some analysts who follow TI:
Business conditions
Tore Svanberg of Stifel Nicolaus & Co. was "encouraged" by TI's results and guidance, which suggest improving business conditions. TI noted strong analog and embedded processing growth, improved macro economic conditions and strong outlooks for industrial and automotive, he said.
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Doug Freedman of RBC Capital Markets said TI's book-to-bill (the ratio of orders received to units shipped and billed) remains low.
Svanberg noted that TI's fourth-quarter bookings declined 10 percent from the third quarter. Despite TI's upbeat outlook, he's cautious given "generally weaker demand patterns and overall subdued bookings environment," but he thinks bookings may start to recover in February or March.
Svanberg said TI's restructuring in embedded processing and in its Japan (today I wrote about that and earnings) should improve overall profitability. The embedded processing unit had operating margins of 7.5 percent in 2013, well below the roughly 26 percent for analog, he said.
Cash flow
Freedman thinks TI's latest restructuring plan is "another lever management is using to drive free cash flow, as [it] remains focused on its capital return strategy." He too thinks TI's embedded processing unit's operating margins should expand afterward.
TI's free cash flow (cash flow minus expenses) was 24 percent of revenue in the fourth quarter, Svanberg said. That was in line with the company's goal of converting 20 percent to 25 percent of revenue into free cash flow and returning all of its free cash flow (minus repayment of debt) to shareholders as dividends or share buybacks.
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Gilles Simon was the last player to make the Masters, taking advantage of Nadal's withdrawal. Roger clearly leads the head-to-head against Andy Roddick (ATP 6) 15-2, with the American winning their last match in Miami, though. Andy Murray (ATP 4) caused Roger quite some problems this year as he defeated our star two out of three times (Dubai and Madrid). The most important match - the final of the US Open - clearly went to Roger. The head-to-head is 2-3 in favour of Murray. Roger has played Gilles Simon (ATP 9) once (Toronto, last July), facing a defeat.
The Masters starts on the hard court of the Qi Zhong arena on Sunday, with the final - to be contested over three sets rather than five - on November 16. Roger holds a total of four Masters Cup titles and has played five finals in series.
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By Michele Vowell, Courier staffApril 14, 2014
In a combat zone overseas or in the back-40 of Fort Campbell, every Air Assault mission requires a support element to keep the operation going forward.
On Tuesday, Soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, conducted Operation Golden Eagle, the first brigade-sized Air Assault training mission conducted by a Screaming Eagle unit in more than a decade.
The combined-arms exercise assessed the division's ability to plan, coordinate and execute complex operations and the ability to react with speed, surprise and lethality.
While about 1,100 "Rakkasans" and "Wings of Destiny" Soldiers and more than 40 helicopters conducted dozens of sling load missions, 400 Soldiers with the 626th Brigade Support Battalion, "Assurgam," were working behind the scenes at Range 63 to get the job done.
"We work side-by-side with our aviation brothers to conduct the Air Assault mission," said Maj. Dominick Supersad, 626th BSB support operations officer-in-charge.
"There's a lot of synchronization, coordination … Throughout the Air Assault operation, our goal is to provide the right support at the right time, quickly and efficiently."
To perform efficiently, the 626th is divided into four companies which have distinct and different responsibilities.
"The sustainment part of this is huge because we provide operational reach and endurance for our combat forces," said Lt. Col. Charles P. Downie, 626th BSB commander. "They can carry only so much with them. It's critical that we're here, standing by, as soon as they call for resupply to get that out to them to sustain that combat operation."
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
From the food supply to fuel, the 626th brigade support operations section ensures the supplies are sufficient and the assets within the BSB are properly used to support 3rd BCT's operations.
The 626th BSB provides support to troops in the field in several critical commodity areas to include food and water, fuel, ammunition, medical and maintenance.
"Many times during the operation, we are tasked to provide "speedball" packages, which is quick resupply of those critical supplies that they need," Supersad said.
Class 1 is food and water.
"Class 1 starts with proper headcount, proper coordination with our DFAC to ensure our Soldier gets the proper meals, proper MREs," Supersad said. "Our goal is to feed a Soldier and make sure they are fed well in order to sustain the warfighter."
Master Sgt. Tracy Wilson oversees the Class 1 supplies.
"We make sure everyone is fed and healthy," she said. "Food is very important. You talk about motivation factor for a Soldier. You are talking about food, mail and finance."
Wilson said a hot meal, when in the field, "really goes a long way."
Class 3 is fuel.
"Fuel is critical in that the units move quickly, so the fuel has to be at the right place at the right time in the right amount," Supersad said.
Staff Sgt. Latasha Boyd monitored and forecast fuel consumption during Operation Golden Eagle.
"All of the units have resupplied as of yesterday, so actually we are prepared to go the duration, which is four days," she said. "We know about how much fuel we'll be using on a daily basis."
Class 5 is ammunition.
"We have to figure packages at the ready for our units," Supersad said. "They come in, they draw what they need and drive out."
For Golden Eagle, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Larry Hufford collected all of the ammunition inventories twice a day.
"That gives the brigade a snapshot of what we have on hand and what we're short on," he said.
Class 8 is medical supplies.
"We have Role 2 facilities here, so if a Soldier is sick, has an issue or there is an accident, they can be taken care of," Supersad said.
The 626th Role 2 facility includes "… treatment assets, evacuation assets and an array of ancillary services -- laboratory, X-ray, dental, physical therapy -- and a patient hold section that can hold up to 20 patients for a 48 hour period," said Capt. Adam Seybert, company commander for Charlie Company, 626th Medical Company.
The facility prepares patients for medical evacuation or return to duties in the field.
Class 9 is maintenance.
"That's a big piece right now because of the weather," Supersad said.
A storm over the weekend and rain Monday resulted in muddy trenches and multitudes of puddles hindering vehicle -- and personnel -- maneuverability.
"The biggest thing we have right now is recovery missions. Everybody gets stuck in the mud," said Sgt. 1st Class Timmy Moore, who oversees brigade maintenance. "We had a [MRAP] buffalo that we recovered a couple of nights ago due to the weather, but it was nothing that we couldn't handle. We've got the right people on the job and made the mission happen. Whatever they throw at us, we're ready for it."
Alpha Company -- Distribution & Bravo Company -- Maintenance
For Alpha Company, 626th BSB, the mission is clear: ensuring the 101st Abn. Div. troops in the field have transportation, ammunition and fuel.
"We've been having a little more difficulty with the mud than we've been having since we've been out here," said Sgt. 1st Class Shane Towns, platoon sergeant for the distribution platoon. "It's just bringing a lot of havoc for us."
Heavy equipment and vehicles lodged in crevasses of mud, making transporting vehicles from Fort Campbell garrison to the field environment and back more of a challenge.
"It's the mud factor," said Staff Sgt. Jessica Vanleuven, a 626th motor transporter. "When we get stuck in the mud, we put it in low [gear] to help get us out. If we can't get out, we have to go to Bravo Company to ask for wrecker assistance."
If a truck gets stuck in the mud or breaks down in the field, the 626th BSB Bravo Company Soldiers are the ones to call for assistance.
Private 1st Class Jeffrey Perry spent a bit of Tuesday morning repairing a Field Litter Ambulance (FLA), as Pfc. Shane Thompson offered a helping hand.
"It looks like the power steering line has a problem," Perry said, as he returned to the mission at hand.
Towns said his section has seven vehicles, but "we are responsible for securing most of the vehicles for the entire brigade," he said.
An Army Veteran of 17 years, Towns said Operation Golden Eagle has helped his Soldiers to prepare for future deployments.
"This is validating our readiness for combat deployments," he said. "We are not ready like we thought we were. But I don't think we're not trained, we're just not to the level we want to be."
Charlie Company -- Medical
During training or in the field, medics and medical personnel must be prepared for any injury -- from a gunshot wound to burns to broken limbs.
"We have a lot of medics that have a lot of combat experience, so they have a list of things that they've seen over the course of four, five, even six deployments," said Capt. Adam Seybert.
"They know some of the common injuries, so we rely on them to put some realism in a scenario. Those are the injuries we try to focus on for a lot of the trauma assessments."
The 626th Medical Company Soldiers faced such a scenario Tuesday morning when treating a combat casualty who was ejected from a vehicle that ran over an improvised explosive device.
Corporal Nicholas Campbell served as the mock patient, who had two tourniquets applied to both legs when he "arrived" at the Charlie Company aid station.
During the exercise, Spc. Diana Pickard cleared his airway and his vital signs, Sgt. Raquel Holiday secured the patient's head. Time ticked away and Sgt. Joseph Langhammer, aid station NCOIC, kept one eye on the patient and one on his watch.
"The EVAC arrives in seven minutes," he shouted.
The team of five or six Soldiers used those seven minutes to correctly assess and reassess the patient's needs and attend to them promptly.
"I just make sure that they are on par with that assessment. That the life-saving interventions that need to be done are being done at the right time; that they are being done in the right way," said Langhammer, a trauma team leader with combat experience. "The timing is essential."
Pickard said training in the field is important to improve her skills.
"Doing this training over and over again makes it muscle memory," she said. "Once it's muscle memory and you see a real patient, you won't get as nervous 'cause you know what you're doing."
For some Soldiers, the injury may not be physical, but emotional or spiritual. Chap. (Capt.) Jeff Crispin, 626th BSB chaplain, addresses these stressors by acting as a sounding board for any "Assurgam" Soldiers in need.
"Everybody knows they have a mission to complete, but the mission creates stress and hardship doesn't take vacations," he said. "Babies being born, Families getting terminal diagnosis, relationship conflicts -- it's the gamut."
For additional health issues or concerns, Charlie Company also includes a behavioral health social worker, psychologist and two technicians and a preventive medicine professional.
"[Behavioral Heath] go[es] to the different company areas, check[s] out Soldiers and make[s] sure that they are doing OK out here," Seybert said. "They analyze some of the trends that we have with behavioral health issues. Really just to make sure we are taking care of our Soldiers physically and making sure we are taking care of our Soldiers minds as well."
Preventative medicine does water testing, soil testing and air testing to monitor those levels to make sure they are within the Army tolerance.
"That kind of plays into taking care of us physically," Seybert said. "As we are out here longer and longer in these conditions, we start to get the sicknesses that develop because of poor hygiene and sanitation. So, they are out here to make sure we are taken care of."
Training continues
By midday Tuesday, Downie said the interaction between aviation and ground units is critical to being mission successful. He praised his "Assurgam" troops and their work on Operation Golden Eagle.
"This is a great opportunity for this battalion, this brigade and this division to exercise this skill set and continue to refine that over time," he said. "We need to get better at it. We're doing a great job out here. My Soldiers are doing a great job. We are learning a lot of things out here. So, next time we do this, we're going to be that much better and more proficient at it."


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Richardson ISD is one of several districts to put weather-related info on its website this morning. The post tells parents not to automatically come get kids in the event of severe weather:
"In the event of a tornado warning, parents are asked not to come to school to pick up their children. Sheltering inside a school is much safer than being in a car if a tornado is in the area."
There's also an alert that there's no decision yet on early dismissal. But the district is monitoring.
Plano ISD put a link up yesterday to its standard emergency procedures. Bottom line: Check the website for live alerts, and the district will be in touch via all the methods it can.
Mesquite ISD also has a highlighted link to its standard weather plan.
Nothing I can see at the moment on the Dallas ISD site.
As for private schools, Hockaday tells me it's planning early dismissal. Shelton School says on its site that it's dismissing early. Noon for the Lower School and Middle School. 12:30 p.m. for the Upper Elementary and Upper School. St. Marks and Greenhill not. Yet.


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Enjoy the Motown Sound with Human Nature at the Venetian
And maybe all of that isn't because of their move or the new changes but more because that's just how these guys are. They love belting out the Motown hits and getting their guests to shake and rattle in their seats regardless of what Las Vegas hotel they are in. They've been celebrating Motown for over 23 years, and have perfected an exciting 90-minute production that is a fast-paced, non-stop show, which pumps out the Motown hits and dance moves with the kind of energy you won't find anywhere on the strip.
If you saw Human Nature at its former location at Imperial Palace, now the Quad, you know how amazing the show is, but not as amazing as it is with the new changes. The Aussies have said that they have changed 90 percent of the staging and 30 percent of the music, making for a completely refreshed production. While still singing a majority of Motown hits, the four Aussies have also added a little Australian flair to their lineup with their own original song. The show also features video that lets them sing along with the man who helped launch their success in Las Vegas, Smokey Robinson on "Tracks of My Tears."
What has not changed is their incredible 7-player backup band Funk Foundation with drummer, pianist, bass, guitar and three horns band and a premium sound system that highlights their voices.
Brothers Mike and Andrew Tierney and best friends Phil Burton and Toby Allen became a Las Vegas sensation when they left Australia for a two-night gig in Atlantic City. That fateful performance brought them to Smokey Robinson, who ultimately insisted they had to play on the Strip. Since then they have drawn in thousands of guests five nights a week and just in the past year, Human Nature has received national attention with a PBS special, a CD, a DVD, and a U.S. tour all before Christmas and all before settling into their new home at the Venetian.
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Favorite RoleMarie, La Sylphide, Hush and Petit Mort, is that more than one? I dont think I can pick just one...
One defining moment…The moment I cherish most is when I held my son for the first time.A native of Santa Cruz, California, Melody Mennite trained at Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre under Robert Kelley and Diane McLarty and at Pacific Northwest Ballet. She also attended summer intensive programs with Suzanne Farrell. At the age of 13, Ms. Mennite began her training with Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy and also attended three consecutive summer intensive programs with the academy. In the 2000-2001 season, she spent one year in Houston Ballet II on full scholarship and stipend. Ms. Mennite also won a scholarship award from Regional Dance America in 2000. She was invited to tour with Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre through Tansonmer, Austria. Prior to joining Houston Ballet, she performed numerous leading roles with Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre: the Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker; Kitri in Don Quixote and Odette in Swan Lake. She has performed a number of featured roles with Houston Ballet including: Olga and Tatiana in John Cranko's Onegin, Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Neopolitan Princess in Stanton Welch's Swan Lake, the Spring Fairy in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella, Swanilda and Dawn in Coppelia, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Cio-Cio San and Kate in Madame Butterfly, and Cinderella in Stanton Welch's Cinderella. Ms. Mennite has also been featured in contemporary roles including the white pas de deux in Jirí Kylián's Forgotten Land, and Petite Mort; Stanton Welch's Velocity, Indigo, Wildlife, and Brigade; Christopher Bruce's Ghost Dances, Rooster and Hush; Harald Lander's Etudes; Paul Taylor's Company B; William Forsythe's In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated; George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments and Serenade; and Mark Morris's Sandpaper Ballet.
Created the role of Marie in Stanton's Marie, Rosie in The Core, Nikya in La Bayadère, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and Spring in The Four Seasons, Divergence, Falling, Carmina Burana, Velocity; The Sylph in August Bournoville's La Sylphide; Lise in Sir Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée; Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free; Principle Roles in Balanchine's Rubies, Emeralds, and Ballo De Regina; William Forsythe The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; Principle role in Christopher Wheeldon's Carousel; Younger Daughter in Christopher Bruce's Hush, Rooster, Sergeant Early's Dream; Jiří Kylián's Falling Angels, Petit Mort; Manon in Sir Kenneth McMillan's Manon; Blue Bird in Ben Stevenson's The Sleeping Beauty. Frequently appears as a guest artist in galas and with companies nationally and internationally. Also performs in Seattle with Whim W'Him, where she originated roles in Cylindrical Shadows by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Monster by Olivier Wevers.
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Barry Lewis: Those Who Don't Attend Bethel Woods Miss Out
I'm listening to one of the world's greatest orchestras play some of the sweetest sounds imaginable at a beautiful music venue, and all I can think of are the empty seats around me.
And the vast patches of green lawn that should be covered with tushes in chairs.
Where is everyone?
How could Bethel Woods Center for the Arts be less than a third full on a warm summer Saturday night, with the New York Philharmonic echoing off the Catskill Mountains with the musical genius of Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Tchaikovsky?
And if that wasn't enough to fill up the place, there were even fireworks.
Yet most folks decided to stay home.
Fine. Their prerogative.
But for once, instead of complaining about who's not at Bethel Woods, I suggest people might consider going to see the acts that are there. Bet they won't be disappointed. I'll even go out on a limb and suggest they'll actually like what they're hearing.
A week after the Philharmonic, there were a mere 2,500 folks at the very entertaining Doo-Wop show (you really don't know what you're missing). And last month there were maybe a combined 15,000 for Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band and the Beach Boys' 50-year reunion on a Father's Day weekend. Imagine seeing Ringo, Todd Rundgren and then Brian Wilson and Mike Love in the same weekend. Is this a bad show?
I'm beginning to think that after just seven years, people have become complacent about the place.
Have we forgotten that before Bethel Woods, there was more than three decades of silence following Woodstock?
For months, I've heard how bad a season this has been at Bethel Woods. What a terrible lineup they have. Missed out on getting all the good acts. I agree. Could have been better.
Up in Albany, they got Springsteen. Down at Jones Beach, there's Neil Diamond. For two shows. And it seems you can't pry James Taylor away from Tanglewood.
Matt McNeil, senior director of programming and marketing at Bethel Woods, admits those were the names they went after. What, you don't think they tried? They knew what was expected.
"I knew the year after three sold-out Phish dates and a once-in-a-lifetime concert from Elton John would be tough to top. It's like the 'Seinfeld' moment of going out on top, but we have to do it again every year."
The Boston Pops aren't here this year. I think the sparse 3,000 who did show up last year – many of whom walked out before the end – helped sway their decision about returning.
They may never come back. And if you never got the chance to hear them play, that's a shame. But you could have. That's the point.
What makes Bethel Woods work is its diversity. Something for everyone. Jason Aldean. Ringo. Dave Matthews. It's a long list. A rare treat.
Look, you don't like the shows, don't go. Stay home. But consider who you've got playing in your backyard. And who you might never get the chance to see again.


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The Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The Metamorphoses Theme of Revenge
Revenge may well be "a dish best served cold" (as the movie Kill Bill! would put it). However, it rarely is. Revenge and justice are far from the same thing, and most of the acts of vengeance in Ovid's poem take place on the spur of the moment and are completely unfair. The most unfair type of revenge is also the most common. This usually happens when Jupiter rapes a mortal woman; then, because his wife Juno is angry about what's happened, she typically imposes horrible punishments on the victims of the rape, instead of confronting her husband. Even when the targets of revenge seem justified (say, Tereus) there is often collateral damage (say, Tereus's son). All in all, revenge in The Metamorphoses is a messy business.
Questions About Revenge
- Does Ovid usually portray revenge as justified or unjustified?
- Are the acts of revenge in Ovid's poem typically proportionate to the crime, or are they excessive?
- What does Ovid portray as the main motivations of revenge?
- According to Ovid, does revenge solve anything?
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In The Metamorphoses, revenge is typically the reaction of people who are otherwise powerless.
Most of the characters who seek vengeance in The Metamorphoses are women. This reflects the fact that women in Ovid's world are usually victims to begin with.


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Exercise May Fight Depression in Heart Failure
July 31, 2012 -- Exercise helps people with heart failure feel a bit better, physically and emotionally, a new study shows. It may also lower a person's risk of dying or winding up in the hospital.
Up to 40% of people with heart failure grapple with depression. The combination often leads to poor health outcomes. One study found seriously depressed people with heart failure were more than twice as likely to die or be hospitalized over the course of a year compared to other people with heart failure who weren't depressed.
"Whenever patients are more depressed, their motivation goes down. Their ability to keep up with their doctors' recommendations goes down. Their ability to get out and do basic physical activities like walking goes down," as does their health, says David A. Friedman, MD, chief of Heart Failure Services at North Shore-LIJ Plainview Hospital in New York. "It's a vicious cycle."
"This [study] ... shows a non-drug way to try to improve patients' mood and motivation. That's the best thing you can do," says Friedman, who was not involved in the research.
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For the study, which is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers assigned more than 2,322 stable heart failure patients to a program of regular aerobic exercise or usual care. Usual care consisted of information on disease management and general advice to exercise.
The exercise group started with a standard exercise prescription for patients in cardiac rehab: three 30-minute sessions on either a treadmill or stationary bike each week. After three months, they moved to unsupervised workouts at home. At home, their goal was to get 120 minutes of activity a week.
Just as happens in the real world, most exercisers fell short of their weekly goals.
Despite the fact that they weren't as active as they were supposed to be, they still had slightly better scores on a 63-point depression test than the group assigned to usual care. There was a little less than a one-point difference between the two groups. But the differences persisted even after a year, leading researchers to think the result wasn't a fluke.


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Resilient Cities 2012: 3rd World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change will focus on the following themes: urban risk and the issue of urban infrastructure as a key element in building resilient cities; resilient integrated urban design - how to optimally relate the water, food security and biodiversity sectors to build a resilient city; resilient urban renewable energy - how to ensure a clear link between the local renewables agenda and energy security and safety of urban areas; resilient urban logistics - a showcase of successful examples in ecomobility (moving people) and ecologistics (moving goods); and financing the resilient city - how climate financing for adaptation can be mobilized, leveraged and innovated for the local level. Resilient Cities 2012 will also host a session on global sustainable infrastructure finance in partnership with Global Energy Basel. Joan Clos, UN-HABITAT's Executive Director, is the patron of Resilient Cities 2011 and 2012.


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Synonyms of break in English:
4 the coffee machine has broken
stop working, break down, give out, go wrong, malfunction, crash
informal go kaput, conk out, go/be on the blink, go/be on the fritz, give up the ghost
5 traders who break the law
contravene, violate, fail to observe, fail to comply with, infringe, breach;
[Antonyms] abide by, keep
8 a pile of carpets broke his fall
cushion, soften the impact of, take the edge off
10 habits are difficult to break
give up, relinquish, drop
informal kick, shake, quit
12 her self-control finally broke
give way, crack, cave in, yield, go to pieces
16 the day broke fair and cloudless
dawn, begin, start, emerge, appear
18 the weather broke
change, alter, shift
19 waves broke against the rocks
crash, dash, beat, pound, lash
nounBack to top
1 the magazine has been published without a break since 1950
interruption, interval, gap, hiatus;
discontinuation, suspension, disruption, cutoff;
stop, stoppage, cessation
2 a break in the weather
change, alteration, variation
3 let's have a break
stop, pause;
interval, intermission
4 a weekend break
informal getaway, staycation
6 the actress got her first break in 1951
opportunity, chance, opening
break away
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break down
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- 2.1 pay negotiations broke downfail, collapse, founder, fall through, disintegrateinformal fizzle out
- 3.1 Vicky broke down, sobbing loudlyburst into tears;lose control, be overcome, go to pieces, crumble, disintegrate
break something down
break in
break someone in
break into
- 1.1 thieves broke into a house on Park Streetburgle, burglarize, rob;force one's way into
- 3.1 he broke into a songburst into, launch into
break something off
break out
break up
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#3945372 im reading druids are struggling but...
Posted spaceship on 21 September 2013 - 08:37 PM
- You should be using CW / Ironbark very frequently (probably on cooldown and usually together).
- If glyphing Efflorescence, don't worry about trying to bloom the mushroom. Just drop it on top of players preemptively. It heals for the equivalent of 3 Lifeblooms in 1 GCD.
- You don't have to use every SotF buff on casted spells. A 100% hasted Rejuvenation followed up with Genesis is a very large amount of HPS without casting a single spell (SM -> Rejuv -> Genesis).
- Aside from the scenario above, you shouldn't be using Genesis all that much. It often just leads to a lot of wasted mana and GCDs.
- When dealing specifically with warriors, you should treat them like the treant-specced feral druids of last patch. As a general rule of thumb, don't ever try to cyclone them without NS unless they're disconnected or already controlled. SotF can help you land CC (even through reflect), but good players will learn to start looking for the SotF buff before you've used it.
Maybe I'll post more thoughts later.
#3859347 Another warrior trash season?
Posted Ayrasaurus on 09 March 2013 - 01:04 PM
Am i even playing the same game? Warrior damage seems fucking insane, have you even tried bladestorm lol.
Unpeelable swiftymode which ticks for around 40-50k with mastery proccing out of the ass.
Try out stormbolt with bladestorm or just run shockwave,stormbolt and have a crap ton of annoying CC.
Yes we get tunneled but didn't we in s10/11? All it means is there might be a way to counter/beat scumcomps like KFC. I for one am very pleased with the changes though the overpower one is a little harsh we will be more than fine in 3v3 with comps like WMD/WLHealer.
Just chill with the knee jerk reactions and play some wargames with decent people and you will find you will do just fine.
Edit: Dstance for prot is still 25percent btw and prot feels great for next season flag running lol.
#3859340 Another warrior trash season?
Posted Zaephyr on 09 March 2013 - 12:39 PM
#3846034 reckful - playing rogue vs KFC
Posted Bigmoran on 07 February 2013 - 04:44 PM
#3761415 Default UI Scripts
Posted Vengeance on 06 September 2012 - 03:28 PM
Looks like:
FrameList = {"Player", "Target", "Focus"} function UpdateHealthValues(...) for i = 1, select("#", unpack(FrameList)) do local FrameName = (select(i, unpack(FrameList))) local Health = AbbreviateLargeNumbers(UnitHealth(FrameName)) local HealthMax = AbbreviateLargeNumbers(UnitHealthMax(FrameName)) local HealthPercent = (UnitHealth(FrameName)/UnitHealthMax(FrameName))*100 _G[FrameName.."FrameHealthBar"].TextString:SetText(Health.."/"..HealthMax.." ("..format("%.0f",HealthPercent).."%)") end end hooksecurefunc("TextStatusBar_UpdateTextStringWithValues", UpdateHealthValues)
And for non add-on users:
Macro 1:
/script z={"Player", "Target", "Focus"};l=AbbreviateLargeNumbers;t="TextStatusBar_UpdateTextStringWithValues";
Macro 2:
/script function a(...)for i=1,3 do f=(select(i,unpack(z)))h=UnitHealth(f)m=UnitHealthMax(f) _G[f.."FrameHealthBar"].TextString:SetText(l(h).."/"..l(m).." ("..format("%.0f",(h/m)*100).."%)")end;end hooksecurefunc(t,a)
#3759917 Looking for 5.0.4 Addons
Posted Lyamarth on 05 September 2012 - 12:19 AM
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#3759662 blizzard mistake[?]
Posted Chizzey on 04 September 2012 - 05:46 PM
#3757349 Looking for 3 Scripts! - 1 Found, 2 Left!
Posted Prozaak on 02 September 2012 - 05:00 AM
FrameList = {"Player", "Target", "Focus"} function UpdateHealthValues(...) for i = 1, select("#", unpack(FrameList)) do local FrameName = (select(i, unpack(FrameList))) if UnitHealth(FrameName) < 1000 then local Health = UnitHealth(FrameName) local HealthMax = UnitHealthMax(FrameName) else local Health = (UnitHealth(FrameName))/1000 local HealthMax = (UnitHealthMax(FrameName))/1000 local HealthPercent = (UnitHealth(FrameName)/UnitHealthMax(FrameName))*100 if UnitHealth(FrameName) < 1000 then _G[FrameName.."FrameHealthBar"].TextString:SetText(Health.." / "..HealthMax.." ("..format("%.0f",HealthPercent).."%)") else _G[FrameName.."FrameHealthBar"].TextString:SetText(format("%.0f",Health).."k / "..format("%.0f",HealthMax).."k ("..format("%.0f",HealthPercent).."%)") end end end end hooksecurefunc("TextStatusBar_UpdateTextStringWithValues", UpdateHealthValues)
This works as a addon, i dont have any idea how to use this on /run, hope it helps
I did a buff watcher for me, i dont know if is what u want, but u can test:
BuffFrame:ClearAllPoints();BuffFrame:SetPoint("TOP", 650, -15); ConsolidatedBuffs:SetAlpha(0); ConsolidatedBuffs:EnableMouse(false) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltip:Show() ConsolidatedBuffsTooltip:SetScale(1.5) local b = _G.ConsolidatedBuffsTooltip b:DisableDrawLayer("BACKGROUND") b:DisableDrawLayer("BORDER") ConsolidatedBuffsTooltip:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff1:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff2:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff3:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff4:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff5:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff6:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff7:EnableMouse(false);ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff8:EnableMouse(false); ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff1Label:Hide();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff2Label:Hide();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff3Label:Hide();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff4Label:Hide();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff5Label:Hide();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff6Label:Hide();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff7Label:Hide();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff8Label:Hide(); ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff1:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff1:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 506, -10) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff2:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff2:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 506, -30) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff3:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff3:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 506, -50) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff4:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff4:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 506, -70) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff5:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff5:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 527, -10) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff6:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff6:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 527, -30) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff7:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff7:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 527, -50) ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff8:ClearAllPoints();ConsolidatedBuffsTooltipBuff8:SetPoint("TOP", UIParent, "TOP", 527, -70)
It uses the new consolidate frame to watch my buffs.
#3689949 Latency in WoW
Posted Lewisxo on 21 April 2012 - 02:46 PM
#3525117 Most remembered tournament yet?
#3511598 4.3 PvP Necessary Changes
Posted Guest on 09 October 2011 - 04:46 AM
-East Coast battlegroups must have their ladders merged. The same respectively for West Coast battlegroups. The same goes for all other regions for Europe.
**The cross-battlegroup queue system was a great addition to the game. It came with many flaws, however. It waits 4-8 minutes before you can even get a team from a different battlegroup. This will also make the ladders much more interesting and many more people would queue. I doubt many would care how rank 1 would work, as long as the queues are fast.
-Bring back 5 wins a week for arena to cap points and 3 wins of RBGs to cap points.
**I have PvP'd in this game since the beginning. The idea of PvP from the start has always been of a casual nature. However, when you changed the amount of points gained from a single arena/RBG win to a static number it left me totally confused. Not only did it make it more difficult to cap when your cap was only 1350/1650; it made top arena players have to queue for multiple hours a week just for points. Why so long? The queue times are 4-8 minutes and you have to win 15 arena games on that character to cap and 7-8 RBGs. Top players will have 75% win or so, so 20 arena games with 6 minute average queues, 1 minute in the starting zone, and a 3 minute game on average is playing for over 3 hours per week just getting points. Bring back the casualness of PvPing. I have 3 alts that are all high rated, so it's impossible for me to play the 12 hours just to get points on each character.
-Bring Curse of Tongues, Necrotic Strike, Mind Numbing, etc down to a 15% or 20% reduction in cast time.
**This is a problem I have experienced since the beginning of arena in BC. Back when it was 60% cast time it was difficult to do anything as most classes. It was reduced to 30% in WotLK, but it was still really powerful then as well. Top players were able to shut down DoT classes while sacrificing huge amounts of damage (Wound/Deadly Poison for Mutilate and Curse of Agony for Warlocks). It is more of a problem now than ever, though. I will go through each one separately. Rogues generally use Wound Poison on their main hand and Crippling Poison on their off-hand. Wound poison does a high amount of damage (7-10% of your damage) and applies a 10% healing debuff. All rogues now against any caster will gladly drop that no matter what to be able to easily lockdown casters. The next class I would like to go over is Warlocks. Warlocks in the past have had to lose 15-20% of their damage to use Curse of Tongues. Now they only lose the ability to apply Curse of Elements, an 8% increase in damage. Every top Warlock now just constantly keeps tongues up on any caster in arena, healer or DPS. Death Knights are less of a problem overall than the other two, but it's still a big issue. Especially versus healers, Death Knights are able to frontload 2-3 major cooldowns and dump 10-12 Necrotic Strikes within the first 15 seconds of a match. The only healer able to survive that without using every single cooldown and massive peels from partners is a Holy Paladin. The problem with the situation is that once their cooldowns fall you are left with a 30% cast time reduction so it's almost impossible to recover (I like the idea of Necrotic Strike in general, just not the severity of the cast time reduction). The last thing I want to mention is that every class now has a damage over time effect. Introduced in WotLK, your haste affects your DoTs. Shadow Priests have the most haste of out anyone with 20-25% depending on gear. Most other classes have 13-18%. Cast time reductions also affect DoT ticks NEGATIVELY. So when I have a cast time reduction I actually have -5% haste which you can also look at as cast time slows giving you approximately -4000 haste rating. My final point on the topic is this: the game is made to have fun. PvP is supposed to be fun. Having to press Curse of Tongues and lose damage for a cast time poison is really not fun. Even worse, it's less fun when your DoTs tick less often and less times while your spells take longer to cast.
-Reset all player MMR to 1500 to start the next season.
**The game balance this season has felt solid, but the reason the arena playerbase has been slowly diminishing was because of the MMR changes made at the beginning of this season. First, some players lost 200 MMR out of the blue where others did not. Then, how MMR worked was changed completely which made exploiting near impossible. The huge downside to that change was players who never left their teams in the first place and played during the first couple weeks had a monstrous advantage. Achieving a rating above 2700 is only possible with a team of elite players, and getting up to 2800-3100 is impossible now. For me, I have 2 teams above 3030, and queuing on them is impossible with 3100 MMR. I could sit in the queue for 20 minutes and never see the queue pop. But this change isn't for the top percentage anyway. The ladder is messed up, players aren't able to queue into other teams of similar skill because some players have inflated MMRs from last season and others have a deflated MMR from playing with many different players. Please listen to the community on this one!
-Stimulate the PvP Scene by adding the ability to spectate ladder games or war games while logged into the game as a normal player.
**Many of the games I play nowadays (even very simple ones) have the amazing feature of being able to watch other players fight against each other. The game would be better than ever with the ability to just watch your friends or great players play the game. I cannot see it being a hassle transferring the Spectator UI over into the player's hands.
-Dalaran Arena
This map should have 4 sets of stairs leading up to the higher plateform. The location of the stairs would not be at the corners of the platform, though. There would be stairs in the middle of each side leading up to the platform. This way, there will be more LoS in different locations so the fights could move around the map. Hunters would have less trouble being left on the bottom for too long as well. Also, the waterfall should not be active in an arena match at any time. It was a cool idea at the start, but it's too game-breaking with how it functions in PvP (slowly appearing over time then becoming LoS). There has also been a bug for the past few months where if you get Feared on the bottom you can walk straight through the gates and have to be teleported to the middle of the map.
-Nagrand Arena
Everything about the map is great. Just smooth the terrain out. Gnomes have a disadvantage at various spots on the map because of the uneven terrain.
-Blade's Edge Arena
Same with Nagrand with the terrain. The center under the bridge should be flat. The walls at the top of the bridge should not provide LoS (let alone be different on both sides). The holes in the bridge need to be repaired. The small pillars need to be repaired as well.
-Ring of Valor
Pets get stuck far too often on top of the pillars. I think Ring of Valor is an interesting map now that the sides have been changed, and I think the dynamic of the pillars is actually a good thing. The reason Ring of Valor was disliked at the start was the starting locations (and fire). It changes the game for a lot of comp vs comp match-ups, but it's still a keeper. Warriors also cannot use Charge on a player who is on the pillar (even when down) and cannot Charge while on the pillar when it's down.
-Ruins of Lordaeron
Please fix the tomb in the center. The random large cracks in it cause players to get stuck. The hills in the arena to the side also should be flattened as it causes unnecessary LoS. There should be small tombstones on the sides of the arena that provide LoS as well.
Death Knight:
-Remove the glyph of Anti-Magic Shell and increase the cooldown of AMS by 15 seconds.
**Death Knights have lots of survivability versus casters with the ability to IBF, Ghoul Sac, AMS every 45 seconds, Lichborne out of Fear/Charm and be immune, Strangulate, Death Strike, and pet abilities. These changes will prevent Death Knights from pretty much using AMS freely in PvP just to prevent spells from being cast on them. With a 7 second duration, there is only a 38 second window to kill a Death Knight as a caster. If you factor in their other cooldowns you have to go through their cooldowns multiple times to kill them, even solo. This will also prevent Death Knights from abusing the ability in PvE, especially as DPS. If tanks really need AMS for mitigation then there could be a Blood talent to increase the duration and/or reduce the cooldown.
-Death Knights could use a little help in survivability versus melee (only a SMALL buff would do here).
**I'm at a loss for a good change here, but without the small passive self heals and passive damage reduction (outside of armor) that other melee have with low mobility versus another melee class it's simply hard for a Death Knight to live.
-Desecration should be a 30% snare, have it's duration decreased, have an internal cooldown, or only proc off Death Strike.
**This has been in the game for far too long. The spell lasts 20 seconds on the ground. Thinking in the big picture here, this affects all parts of the game. It lagged people for a long time in Raids. In Rated Battlegrounds, you'll be running around on your mount and all of a sudden you're in Desecration (usually not just one!) after a fight is over. The duration is unbelievable and so is the delay on the duration of the snare when you are outside of it. This also affects arena a lot just because it's difficult to move around without being in desecration for a long time.
Please change the energy cost on Gnaw (Monstrous Blow, too, during Dark Transformation) to be lower than that of Claw (Sweeping Claws during Dark Transformation).
**Currently, Claw costs 40 energy and Gnaw costs 30 energy. If you try to use Gnaw at any point it most likely will not work because it will already have Claw queued up and you only have a one second window to press it. You need Auto-Claw on to keep up the high pet damage. Players have been having to turn off Auto-Claw while playing to cast Gnaw and then turn it back on to do damage once again. A small change like making Gnaw cost 20 energy or 0 energy would be enough here.
You should be able to cast Hungering Cold while moving.
**Instant cast Hungering Cold on a 1-minute cooldown was too good. However, when it was changed to a cast time players found it to be clunky and out of place as Frost's final talent. It would make much more sense for a melee class to be able to cast such a spell while moving.
-Change Predatory Swiftness ONLY to fix cyclone. I have a lot of suggestions for this, but here's my top two. Predatory Swiftness now reduces the cast time of all spells by 20% per combo point, and 10% per combo point for Cyclone. Another one is: Predatory swiftness now has a 20% chance per combo point to allow you to cast spells while in a feral form for the duration of the buff (maybe technical limitations, though).
**These changes will stop ferals from being able to abuse cyclone spam in PvP with virtually no way of stopping them. They continue to put out massive damage while being able to control a player every 10 seconds for free. On top of partners assisting that control or damage (Priest/Mage/Feral or Feral/Melee/Healer comes to mind) just makes it truly difficult to deal with. Ferals can also be really clever with those changes and still do most of what they do now, but without the ease (which is the problem).
-Nerf Wild Growth by another 5%, but in return buff the HoT on Lifebloom by 20%.
**Wild Growth has been nerfed by 20% already. I dont have all the exact numbers, but I can tell you this. Generally in 25 man raiding Wild Growth is 25-35% of your healing where Lifebloom is 8-10% of your healing. In 10 man raiding Wild Growth is usually 15-20% of your healing with Lifebloom at 13-15% of your healing. (If you don't trust the numbers there's plenty of data of World of Logs!) Another nerf to Wild Growth might be overkill, but I have reasoning for these changes. PvP druids need help. I played with the best 2 PvP druids in the world, and they both have since stopped PvPing. Simply said, Druid HoTs cannot keep up with the damage output of players in arena. Most of the reason Druids are so good in PvE is their spread healing. Their single target outside of Healing Touch and Nourish spam (unusable in PvP) is lackluster. This change would put the funnest healer to play with and against in arena back on the map.
-You should be able to shapeshift in and out of Tree of Life form while the buff is active.
**This happens nearly every game so this would be much more than a quality of life change. One of the reasons Druids were so powerful in the past is their ability to shapeshift out of snares and into Travel Form to escape danger. In Tree of Life form sure you heal for more, but if are swapped to or Mana Burned in that form you might as well not be in Tree of Life anymore. If you are swapped to you just have to stand there and tank the damage; using up a large amount of mana as well as being unable to get away.
-Please fix Typhoon.
**Typhoon currently has a major bug that affects both PvE and PvP. While aiming correctly, it will sometimes fail to do anything. I've heard A LOT of complaints about this.
-Add pushback protection baseline to the Restoration spec or any talent in the tree.
**Very often in PvP, a Restoration Druid is able to cast a spell and it will receive major pushback from a pet or a player and cause the spell to be pushed back long enough for it to not be worth casting in the first place. Please give them the 70% pushback protection that most classes had in WotLK.
The mid-tier Balance talent Owlkin Frenzy (or a new talent) should also cause you to gain a buff called Entangling Frenzy after Barkskin expires for 3/6/8 seconds. Entangling Frenzy causes melee attacks to root the target. This shares diminishing returns with other roots.
**Moonkins are a fun class in PvP when you are able to freely cast spells. However, Moonkins are the worst caster while being trained. They only have Barkskin to reduce damage taken and they can only put their normal 2 DoTs up or choose to use their weak heals, go into Bear Form for other abilities, or shift in and out of form to attempt to get away. This will give Moonkins a nice way to survive better against melee.
-There needs to be a Minor or Major Glyph of Scatter Shot reading: Your Scatter Shot ability now removes all DoT effects from the target.
**Hunters really need PvP love right now. They have high burst and frontload cooldown damage, but for years their control has always been really difficult to deal with. Traps being affected by spell penetration was a good start, but this is definitely a necessity for Hunters.
-Entrapment should also also cause Wing Clip to root the target for 4 seconds, but still be subject to diminishing returns on the other Entrapment effects.
**Hunters have deadzone issues in PvP. When faced with a melee in their face they are unable to do much when they are low on cooldowns. Hunters have low survability in general so having a melee stick to you for more than a few seconds is deadly.
-Freezing Trap and Scatter Shot should only break on damage, but similar to how Fear works with about half the cap.
**Freezing Trap is unreliable in PvP. It can be taken by other players, it can miss completely, and it can break to any DoT (including Snake Trap!). This will help Hunters land their CC much easier.
-The 4-piece Hunter PvP bonus should reduce the cast time of Steady Shot and Cobra Shot by 0.2 seconds.
**Again, Hunters have trouble with focus regeneration and deadzone in PvP. They can't get much out of these two abilities without lowering the cast time a bit.
-Redesign Raptor Strike. I'm sure there will be better suggestions, but for now include this statement in the description: Successfully landing a Raptor Strike increases your dodge chance by 20% for 6 seconds.
**This ability has little to no use anymore. It's attack power scaling is way off and there is little a Hunter can do in close melee range. This will give them some help while being trained by melee.
-Ice Lance should deal 20% less damage to frozen targets or while Fingers of Frost is up.
**Out of all the DPS classes, or any class in general right now, Mages are the number one class to be complained about; not only from other classes, but the Mages themselves. Their damage in PvP is completely centered around Ice Lance with the occasional Frostbolt now. I've had hundreds of arena games versus mages where they cast 5 Frostbolts, but 80+ Ice Lances where Cone of Cold and Frost Nova did more damage than Frostbolt. This nerf is just the beginning of multiple changes that I would like to better the game, life for other classes, and life for Frost Mages.
-Frostbolt should deal 20% more damage to targets that are not frozen, but the same damage still to targets that are frozen.
**Players have the most fun when they successfully cast a spell, and it means something. Right now, casting Frostbolt generally doesn't mean much in terms of the damage done aside from procs and snares. This would increase Mage consistancy while freecasting, as well as make the game a lot more enjoyable for all players. I'm not entirely sure if the numbers for Ice Lance and Frostbolt would be correct, but I can check the numbers out in current gear to give you an idea of what it's like.
-Frost Nova should last 4 seconds as well as the pet nova "Freeze". However, Frost Nova should no longer be dispellable. The Cone of Cold root should also last 2 seconds and be undispellable. Each root would only share diminishing returns with itself.
**This may be a good change for a future expansion, but there has been a lot of talk about this change between the top arena players. Not only did Mages enjoy the change, but healers, casters, and even melee alike wanted this. This would allow Mages to have guarenteed control with their novas and bring less annoyance to healers and melee dealing with the novas. The melee know that it's only 4 seconds and the healer knows they don't have to spend 3-4 dispels trying to get the annoyed melee out of the nova. The Mage can also stop complaining about people chain dispelling their novas with no dispel protection.
-The cast time on Polymorph should be reduced back down to 1.3 seconds, down from 1.7 seconds.
**One goal of PvP in Cataclysm was to reduce the control that Mages and Warlocks had over other players with quick casted spammable control abilities. Fear got hit with the same nerf, but with the ability to easily cover your Fears with DoTs the cast time did virtually nothing to them outside of losing a large amount of haste from WotLK to cata (Fear is in a good spot basically). However, Polymorph got hit too hard. With every healer now having dispel it's very difficult to Polymorph anyone besides the healer. Even then it's very easy to interrupt, line of sight, or Shadow Word: Death. One big oversight of the change is that Mages had 30-40% haste in WotLK. With haste now being the worst DPS stat for mages, they barely ever even get to cast the spell unless it's with Improved Counterspell or Deep Freeze.
-The cooldown on Cold Snap should be reduced to 6 minutes, down from 8 minutes.
**Rogues got this same treatment for a reason. The class is too reliant on major cooldowns, and with such a strong cooldown being on such a long cooldown it's difficult to consistently have any cooldowns up.
-The cooldown on Summon Water Elemental should be reduced to 2 minutes, down from 3 minutes.
**Frost Mages have issues with some players targetting their Water Elemental in PvP. It dies pretty fast, and causes them to lose damage, control, and survivability. With such a long cooldown it's hard to get back up and running.
-Add a talent past tier 2 in the fire tree, Fiery Reversal. Fiery Reversal would read: Whenever you take damage equal to or greater than 10% of your total health, you have a 100% chance for your next Pyroblast cast within 15 seconds to be instant cast and cost no mana.
**Fire Mages could use some help in PvP. They have some decent burst and Combustion is really powerful. They could use something to help while being trained. They have plenty of tools in other areas of PvP such as Rated Battlegrounds, but there isn't much you can do outside of tank a lot of damage when trained.
-Please lower Retribution Paladin's ABILITY to frontload cooldowns in bursty melee cleaves or triple DPS setups.
**Now, I realize Paladins are a class that is changed heavily with every patch, but a common theme throughout the expansion has been Retribution Paladins rushing in using every cooldown and trying to essentially win instantly or lose after a couple minutes. Nobody really wants the spec to be like that. Outside of that I don't see any changes necessary to the two other specs.
-Mind Blast damage should be reduced 15% in exchange for a 6% damage buff to Vampiric Touch, Shadow Word: Pain, and Devouring Plague.
**I did some thorough calculation on this change and it would barely even tough Shadow in PvE in terms of damage spread on various fights. There aren't too many fights where you benefit from this change except for fights with only 2-3 mobs or a bunch of mobs that aren't grouped. Regardless, this change will also bring back Shadow Priests using Mind Blast only with an orb instead of on cooldown in PvE, which is a quality of life kind of change. Quite often you have to make the choice between Mind Blasting and letting your Empowered Orbs buff fall off before your next Mind Blast for a small damage increase. Anyway onto the reasoning behind a change like this. Shadow Priests hit much too hard currently in PvP with Mind Blast. For some numbers, I can crit people for upwards of 40-50k with 3 Orbs and an on use trinket. Players have 130k health so hitting them for 40% of their health in Cataclysm is pretty unacceptable. The DoT damage change is to bring back multi-dotting being good in PvP. It takes a lot of effort to get full Empowered Orbs'd DoTs on two players, but currently the damage it does for that effort feels lackluster. The main point of this change is the Mind Blast damage, however.
-Shadow should do approximately 20% less healing with all spells (shields too), however that can be arranged.
**Holy and Discipline in PvE and PvP will be in great spots in 4.3. However, Shadow in arena has benefitted too much from the healing trees. It is possible to heal your teammates for 15k Flash Heals where Discipline with 3 stacks of Grace only heals for 22k.
-The armor reduction modifier on Find Weakness should be changed to 50%, down from 70%
**In PvP right now, Rogues just simply do too much damage with Find Weakness active. Outside of that their damage is balanced.
-The duration of the vanish stealth immunity should be reduced to 1.0 seconds, down from 3.0 seconds.
**This change will prevent Rogues from using Vanish as an easy getaway tool. They can vanish and sprint to be literally 100 yards away from you in 3 seconds with multiple DoT effects on them. As short as one second is, it's more than enough time to get behind your target in time without it being too easy or too difficult to do. Using Vanish to run is fine, but using it to get out of a fight completely is not fine.
-Thunderstorm should return 10% of maximum mana, up from 8%.
**Elemental Shamans have no mana issues in PvE, so this is a helpful buff to Elemental Shamans in PvP. For most classes in the expansion, mana is infinite with correct cooldown and ability management over the course of a long game. For Elemental Shamans, though, it's very difficult to play a game longer than 5-10 minutes as your mana is deleted to 0 over and over between Thunderstorms.
-Spirit Link Totem should reduce damage taken by 20%. The totem should only exchange health up to a maximum of 15% of the Shaman's healthpool every second for the 6 seconds and also have 13,000 health instead of 5.
**Sorry if the wording is hard to understand, but the point is this. Spirit Link Totem is too good in PvP, and slightly too weak in PvE. Even if you were to kill Spirit Link Totem as soon as it was dropped on a teammate, they are already at 50-60% and out of kill range once again. Even though the totem just exchanges health, it is really hard to deal with a healer that has all of that utility with 2 major life-saving cooldowns. This change will give the totem a more dynamic role. It will no longer exchange all of the health instantly, but slowly as the 6 seconds occur. The totem will have additional health so players MUST kill the totem to prevent the exchange of health from coming. Good players will be able to kill the totem quickly, while good shamans can drop Stoneclaw and give the totem basically 21,000 health to prevent it's death. Even if the totem is killed quickly, the opponents will have to waste 21k damage killing the totem instead of the player, all the while taking 20% reduced damage. The 20% reduced damage is also a PvE change. Shamans need more utility in PvE.
-Reduce the buff to Riptide down to 20%, and in exchange increase the healing done by Chain Heal by 20%.
**A buff to Riptide of a 40% magnitude would really break PvP. Shamans already rarely have to cast and this is more reason not to cast. Riptide will tick for 3500 which means it will crit for 7k. On targets with large healing modifiers such as their buddies Warlocks this expansion, it will tick for nearly 5k. Fun fact: Lifebloom ticks for 2200 with 3 stacks.
The cooldown of Tremor Totem should be increased to 90 seconds, up from 60. You should also no longer be able to drop Tremor Totem while feared.
**Tremor Totem is currently too powerful versus Warlocks, way too powerful versus Priests, and just a counter to the only AoE CC Warriors have. Shamans will still have their incredibly powerful tool, just on a longer cooldown. The final part of the change would add more skill to the class. You could drop the totem preemptively when a Priest or Warlock is chasing you trying to get a Fear.
-Demon Armor should increase healing taken by 10%, down from 20%.
**Demon Armor in conjunction with Demonic Aegis make the combo too strong in PvP while being trained as a Warlock. Taking 30% more healing as a caster class is unfair for everyone. Even with the choice between the two armors and swapping it requiring skill and vision, it's still too good.
-Demonic Rebirth should have a 3 minute cooldown, up from 2 minutes.
**Killing pets used to be too good, and too viable. Nowadays, in Cataclysm, you could kill 5 pets within a few minutes and Warlocks are still able to chain summon them instant cast. Their pet class buddies, Hunters and Frost Mages, would like to know why it's THAT simple to get another pet out when you already have a casted one to boot.
-The cooldown on Demonic Portal: Teleport should be increased to 40 seconds, up from 30 seconds.
**With the PvP gloves and the glyph it is 23 seconds right now. Not many use the glyph, so this change will bring the spell from 25 seconds to 35 seconds. As said in a previous change, Warlock survivability is too high. On multiple maps, players can abuse the teleport and run laps around the map while they are dying and make them near impossible to kill. This was help to prevent them from prolonging their death while their healer is unable to heal them.
-Jinx should no longer stand you up while drinking.
**When you receive the Jinx debuff after previously not having it you still stand up from drinking. Please fix this!
Add a talent deep in the Arms tree, Die by the Shield. Die by the Shield reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflect by 5/10 seconds, the cooldown of Revenge by 2/4 seconds, increases the block chance on Shield Block by 38%/75%, and increases the amount of damage blocked while Shield Block is active by an additional 15%/30%.
**Yes, this talent looks like it would do a lot. However, Arms Warriors lost their main defensive utilites versus casters and melee alike moving into this expansion. Spell Reflect should be 15 seconds for Arms. They are left helpless too often when at ranged against casters. The Shield Block and Revenge changes are to make Shield Block useful for Arms. Previously, you could go into Defensive Stance and block all normal attacks from melee classes and about half of most special abilities. Right now, it's barely worth using because it only blocks 30% of the time and when it does block it blocks nothing. Warriors are supposed to be the best toe-to-toe melee class and right now they just are not.
Enraged Regeneration should no longer require an Enraged effect to use. Instead, Enraged Regeneration should cost 30 Rage to use.
**The requirement for the ability is an archaic mechanic. You should not be punished for using Berserker Rage to break a Fear or an Incapacitate then not be able to use your defensive cooldown.
#3373117 Gladius - 4.3 [Working]
Posted KaelenaXOXO on 16 July 2011 - 06:02 PM
Just download, extract the zip file and copy the Gladius folder to your World of Warcraft directory, the DR timers from this download are working for me, and for others i know
Jus' passin' on the love
Edit: Clarification; I didn't make this, I didn't edit this, I didn't develop this, I'm merely passing it on - just the middle man
Edit: Working for 4.3 - Updated as of 24/2/12. Props to Lilija for the update.
#2740419 Remove Blizzards new Raid UI!
Posted Ckasper on 21 October 2010 - 03:12 PM
/run CompactRaidFrameManager:UnregisterAllEvents() CompactRaidFrameManager:Hide() CompactRaidFrameContainer:UnregisterAllEvents() CompactRaidFrameContainer:Hide()
Havent used it myself since i use Xperl, but it should work.
#2718393 Anything similar to Veev's TabBinder?
Posted Celade on 15 October 2010 - 11:43 PM
chewychewbacca said:
His addon doesn't work anymore and since he quit wow i'm pretty sure he isn't going to update it.
It's useful for when you want to PVE and don't want to be bothered changing your keybinds so you can target the mobs.
I hate tabbing onto a pet in arena.
I don't know if there's anything similar, but I managed to fix it myself after browsing the official UI forums a bit.
So, to make it work do the following:
1. Open TabBinder.lua with notepad
2. Change lines 1 to 6 into the following:
function TabBinder_onload(self) self:RegisterEvent("ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA"); self:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED"); self:RegisterEvent("DUEL_REQUESTED"); self:RegisterEvent("DUEL_FINISHED"); self:RegisterEvent("CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM");
3. Open TabBinder.xml with notepad (right click -> Edit, if it tries to use IE to open)
4. Change line 7 into the following:
5. If you want it to appear up to date in your addon list, then open TabBinder.toc
6. Change line 1 into the following:
## Interface: 40000
That should be all. Took me some messing about to find the solution, but it's not all that hard to do the above even if you don't understand anything about how addons work internally.
+rep if it helped. ;)
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