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more detail in the "we like" sections maybe?
Since this is a wiki, I'd like to see the people who are recommending vendors/products give some reasons for why they like that software or at least sign their edits when they add vendors. There is nothing to keep vendors from coming here and adding their own software and I'd just like to make sure these recommendations come from people who actually use and like the software. Jessamyn 12:29, 8 Jul 2005 (EDT)
Good idea. I'll ask people to at least sign their recommendations. -- Meredith
I was the one who added the WBC vendors; sorry about not signing my edits. I think you're right that there should be some reasoning behind why "we like" certain vendors - but there should also be some reasoning behind why "we like" IM. I didn't see that, at least not specifically labeled as such. What I do see are 3 headings for IM and only one for WBC tools (unless you count the Jybe heading), not to mention that the blog section includes mostly people who have written articles about IM, and the specific blog posts and articles all have to do with IM. While I'm in favour of IM, I don't think it's fair to present IM alone as a best practice for virtual reference. Perhaps we'd be better off changing the headings from "Software We Like" to "Web-based chat software/vendor options" and "IM software options" (making a point to differentiate between programs/networks such as AIM/MSN/Yahoo! and client options such as Gaim/Trillian/iChat). Each software option could have its own page, which would include its features, prices (if possible/relevant), a list of libraries/consortia using that software, any literature about libraries using that software, and a space for librarians to share positive and negative feedback about the software. What do you think? Rikhei 13:33, 8 July 2005 (EDT)


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December 4, 2012
Bianca is one of three small dogs abandoned overnight at the dog park. She is a young, friendly dog about 10 months old. Bianca appears to be a "chiweenie" with the short coat of a Dachshund and the large, liquid eyes of a Chihuahua. Bianca is good with both dogs and cats. For details about this lap-size cutie, call El Dorado County Animal Services at 530-573-7925. For spay-neuter assistance and other support, call the Lake Tahoe Humane Society and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at 530-542-2857.

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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Police have 4 reported cases of Craigslist buyers paying sellers with counterfeit cash.
"Once they had a chance to actually examine the currency, they could see that it wasn't right," said Sgt. Cord Wood with the Corvallis Police Department. "They don't figure out until after the person's gone that it's counterfeit money."
Officers in Corvallis and Albany are working the cases.
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The Pharmacokinetic Study of Saquinavir New Tablet Formulation in HIV-Infected Pregnant Women.
This study has been completed.
Radboud University
Hoffmann-La Roche
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Pharmacokinetic study of Saquinavir and Ritonavir in HIV-infected pregnant women
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Saquinavir and Ritonavir
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Pharmacokinetics of SAquinavir (Invirase New Tablet Formulation) 1,000mg + Ritonavir (Norvir) 100mg q12h in HIV-Infected Pregnant Women (SARA)
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
Drug Information available for: Saquinavir Saquinavir mesylate RitonavirU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Radboud University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- pharmacokinetics at week 20 and 33 of gestation and 6 weeks post partum
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- antiviral activity
- safety
|Study Start Date:
|August 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
It is generally accepted that HIV-infected pregnant women should receive treatment to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child.The (relative) contra-indications for the NNRTIs during pregnancy make a PI based regimen the most rational choice. Based on several experiences and investigations it is expected that saquinavir will play a role as a component of tripe drug regimens for HIV-infected pregnant women. Since the bid dose regimen of 1,000mg saquinavir and 100mg ritonavir is approved by the regulatory authorities and with the availability of a new 500mg tablet formulation of saquinavir,there is a need for a well-designed pharmacokinetic trial using the new 500mg saquinavir tablet formulation in the above mentioned dose.
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV infected woman
- 18 - 40 years of age
- able and willing to sign Informed Consent
- pregnant for a maximum of 31 weeks
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- history of sensitivity/idiosyncrasy to the drug
- relevant history of interference with drug metabolism
- inability to understand trial procedures
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00145561
|University of Bonn
|Bonn, Germany, 53127
|University of Cologne
|Köln, Germany
|Rijnstate Hospital
|Arnhem, Netherlands, 6815AD
|University of Leiden
|Leiden, Netherlands, 2300RC
|Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen
|Nijmegen, Netherlands, 6500HB
|Erasmus Medical Centre
|Rotterdam, Netherlands
|University Hospital ''Germans Trias i Pujol''
|Barcelona, Spain, 08916
|Clinic Rajdumri Road Pathumwan
|Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
|United Kingdom
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|Birmingham, United Kingdom
|Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
|London, United Kingdom, SW10 9NH
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
HIV Protease Inhibitors
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If you read my comments you might recognize Maria as the neighbor I've designated as food-blogger-to-be. When she sent me these photos (we e-mail each other, even though we live next door) I immediately asked her if she would be a guest photographer for Food Porn Friday. So here are Maria's photos and descriptions of the food at Hell's Backbone. Consider this her first food blog post!
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It's been a while since I posted about my journey. I have a CT scan on Wed. to see how the Xeloda is working on the tumor. I think I'm more scanxious about this one, because Xeloda is not approved for CC treatments and nobody really knows how well it will work.
I just need it to have worked a little bit to shrink the rumor enough that I can schedule the resection AGAIN! And this time I BETTER not get sick! And I'm calling my surgeon tomorrow to let him know I'm having the scan, in case Dr. Kemeny forgets to pass along the information! They supposedly meet on Thursdays, so I'm looking forward to them talking and getting back to me with the decision they make. (I bet I hear from Dr. Fong first!!!)
My troll has been busy showing up in my dreams and munching, so I'm taking that as a good sign.
The middle of June will be the earliest I can schedule for, since chemo has to be done 3 weeks prior to the resection. And that puts me at my birthday. Now, do I push it off until after my birthday or do I spend my birthday either on the table or in the hospital room?? I know it's a silly thing to think of, but... what I really want is to have a chocolate martini for my birthday!!! Maybe I can have just one.....
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Washington and Lee law students Matthias Kaseorg '13L and Matthew Baker '12L took the top spots in the 2011-12 Business Law Practice Note competition sponsored by the Business Law Section of the Richmond Bar.
To enter the competition, students submit briefs on subjects of interest to Virginia business lawyers focusing on current legal issues, practical concerns to business lawyers or developments in the law. Topics may include corporate finance, securities law, commercial transactions, creditor's rights, business entities, contractual relationships, indemnification, business regulation and mergers and acquisitions.
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Baker was named first runner up for his note, "Class Is Back in Session: Loss Causation and Class Certification after Halliburton." The article deals with the Supreme Court case of Erica P. John Fund v. Halliburton, and Baker argues that while the court's unanimous decision has largely been seen as a victory for plaintiffs, there is a silver lining for defendants.
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It looks like the NVIDIA GeForce Titan video card is getting pretty close to launching! The ASUS GeForce GTX Titan 6GB (GTXTITAN-6GD5) has been listed at a Danish retailer's website called Proshop. The GeForce GTX Titan is rumored to be the first desktop gaming graphics card to use the GK110 GPU and should become the new flagship single GPU video card for NVIDIA. No picture was shown, but the site lists that is has 6GB of GDDR5 memory, uses the PCIe 3.0 interface (duh) and has two DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort video outputs. The most interesting thing to us is that the ASUS GeForce GTX Titan 6GB video card was listed with a price of 7.276,00 kr. This puts the card at €845 or $1135, which likely doesn't mean much as the price is likely inflated. At the end of the day who knows if anything valuable was learned here, but it's fun to speculate!
The GeForce GTX Titan is a GK110-based graphics card, which is believed to feature 2688 CUDA cores (with one SMX missing from the full GK110 specification). The new flagship model will arrive with 6GB of GDDR5 memory across 384-bit interface (but this is yet to be verified).
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Atlanta Braves Executive Vice President and General Manager Frank Wren announced today at Baseball's annual Winter Meetings that Rick Slate has been promoted to the position of Director of Strength and Conditioning. He served as the Braves' Minor League Strength and Conditioning Coordinator in 2012.
Slate, who has more than 20 years of professional baseball service, will oversee all aspects of the Braves' strength and conditioning program throughout all levels of the organization.
Slate spent eight years (2003-10) as the major league strength and conditioning coordinator for the New York Mets, and prior to that he served the same role with the Florida Marlins for nine seasons (1993-2001). He began his baseball career in the Marlin's minor league system in 1992 and was the strength and conditioning coordinator at Florida State University from 1987 to 1991.


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Many years ago it was a tradition to Parade in one's Easter finery along the Avenue and meet and greet and see and be seen by one and all. Several inspired young ladies of fashion in Taylorville are recreating this tradition on Saturday, April 23 at 1:30 PM around the National Historic Registry Taylorville Square.
Note!!! This is not only for ladies of fashion but gentlemen as well. Ladies, wear your Easter Bonnet and your finery and gentleman, wear your chapeau and fine suitings as well. Don't have a chapeau or a bonnet? Go online and Google Easter Bonnet and Easter Parade and create your own. What we want is participation.
The Taylorville Square is on the National Registry of Historic Places and has buildings dating back to the late 1800″s. What a great place to meet and greet friends, both old and new.
Here are a couple of young ladies who have been hunting Easter Eggs in their beautiful attire. Did I mention Easter Egg Hunt? Yes, there will be an Easter Egg Hunt on the green of the Courthouse Square sponsored by the Taylorville Kiwanis Club. Eggs will contain various stuffings for the pleasure of the lucky who find them. You might even expect a visit from the Easter Bunny.
Beginning at 1:30 PM is the Easter Promenade and remember, "This is not all about the girls!" Men, come out and show your manhood by dressing up and parading with a finely dressed lady. Or, perhaps, "Man's Best Friend."
Of course, well behaved dogs are welcome, especially when attired in the finest of fashion.
After the Promenade, beginning at 2:30PM, there will be a wine tasting in the Shumway Room at One East Market Restaurant and Jazz Lounge. Please come and enjoy. Make a dinner reservation, go home and change and come back in your dancing shoes to enjoy the sounds of The Big Shake Daddies. You will be glad you did.
Easter is the Celebration of the Rebirth of Christ and what a great to do this. Of course, folks from Miles Around and other well known cities are invited to join in and make this celebration the success it should be. Happy Easter from the Market Street Inn Bed and Breakfast.


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Fresh Thyme and Shallot Salad Dressing
Fresh thyme, avocado oil, and a bevy of flavorful herbs and spices come together to create a surprisingly delightful topping for boring green salads.
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The Best Vegan Carrot Dog Recipe Ever
This recipe creates an extremely flavorful and surprisingly (almost shockingly) delicious carrot dog… a plant-based, gluten free, soy free, unprocessed hot dog replica that you can enjoy at summer barbecues without the expense of commercial vegan meat substitutes.
Red Onion and Garlic Salad Dressing
My friends and family know about my dislike of salads and have been known to make jokes about it. However, I now have a secret weapon to conquer my fear of salad. I love red onions, and I love garlic. So the two together created a delicious flavor explosion in my mouth that I just have to share.
Southwestern Chopped Salad with Black Beans
Salads are absolutely NOT my favorite thing to eat, but I know I need to do better. Determined to overcome my salad challenged attitude, I began looking at various recipes on the web for chopped salads, and using several as a guide (to which I added my own twist of course) I came up with this great tasting blend of fresh corn, black beans, olives, peppers and avocado.
Black Bean and Seitan Grillers – Vegan Hamburger Recipe
This is a firm textured but moist, very flavorful burger that is tender, but won't fall apart if you put it on a grill. Be warned! It has a rather shocking similarity to ground turkey – some claimed they had to "do a double-take" to make sure it wasn't meat! But rest assured that this delicious looking AND TASTING vegan hamburger recipe will have you happy and feeling great about your cruelty free choice.
Flavorful Vegan Hot Dogs (Veggie Dogs)
You don't have to be relegated to a mushroom cap or vegetables on the grill this summer, while omnivore family and friends stuff their faces and look at you with pity. Instead, you can join the party with something just as tasty, happy in your stance of cruelty free food choices. These delicious vegan hot dogs whip up fast and easy, and cost just pennies to make. Nothing to be afraid of about these veggie dogs except eating too many of them!
Test Kitchen: Homemade Vegan Cheese by Vegangela
Tweet #vegan One of the things vegans miss most when transitioning is cheese. And though most vegan cheeses aren't QUITE the same as cow or goat milk based cheeses, there are many commercial brands and some home made versions which definitely fill the void. In the Test Kitchen this week we checked out the homemade […]
Test Kitchen: Creamy Vegan Mac and Cheese
Just this week an online acquaintance forwarded me a recipe to try in The Test Kitchen for mac and cheese that she found online at Vegan Yumminess. The sender was raving about the fabulousness of this mac and cheese, which I have to admit got my attention. Here's the result of this week's Test Kitchen experiment for vegan mac and cheese.
Test Kitchen – The Vegan Zombie's Seitan Recipe
This week in The Test Kitchen we do The Vegan Zombie's seitan recipe and give it 7.5 to 8 stars. The part I didn't like was burning my oven for two hours to cook four patties of wheat meat. Dude, who is gonna pay this electricity bill? The Zombie Apocalypse probably won't happen before it's due.
Test Kitchen – Vegan Fried Chicken
In honor of National Fried Chicken Day on Sunday July 6th, I made some vegan fried chick'n from a recipe found on a popular vegan site. Unfortunately, I was not impressed.
Product Review: Veggie Ribs Meatless BBQ Rib Mix
An easy to make Veggie Ribs Meatless BBQ Rib Mix was put to the test this week. We were surprised that such a modestly priced mix passed our taste test for vegans and omnis with flying color and a five-star rating.


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The Loonie in the Penalty Box
The Bank of Canada made no change to its key interest rate this morning, and that is exactly as the markets expected. What we didn't anticipate was the central bank's change in tone toward interest rates going forward, one which resulted in a sudden plunge in the Canadian dollar. What does this mean for the currency going forward, and how can we profit from it?
The maintenance of the 1% target rate came as no surprise, but the central bank cut growth expectations for 2013 down to 2% from 2.3%. Mark Carney, the outgoing head of the Bank of Canada (and incoming chief of the Bank of England), surprised markets when he deviated from his previously hawkish stance because of softening growth and tepid inflation....388 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Tulowitzki to meet with doctor in Philadelphia
DENVER -- Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki flew to Philadelphia on Saturday to visit with noted surgeon Dr. William C. Meyers to discuss the left hip flexor strain that has him on the 15-day disabled list.
It was Meyers who performed the surgery to remove scar tissue from Tulowitzki's right groin in 2012. Meyers specializes in upper leg muscle and core injuries, and has performed sport hernia surgeries on players throughout the world of sports. Meyers' expertise is in diagnosing imbalances or other issues that could be underlying causes for various injuries.
The Rockies announced after Saturday night's 8-1 victory over the Pirates that Tulowitzki made the trip. The club noted that the Rockies' training and medical staffs often encourage players to visit with specialists. Players and their agents also are commonly known to seek specialists outside the club's doctors.
Tulowitzki, who sustained the injury last Saturday in Pittsburgh, is tied with the Astros' Jose Altuve for the Major League lead in batting (.340) and is tops in on-base percentage (.432) and OPS (1.035).
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Trowbridge mum Emily Wadds is backing our appeal on behalf of Stepping Stones, because of the essential work they do in helping disabled children.
Mrs Wadds' four-year-old daughter Lydia has a rare form of epilepsy called Lennox Gastaut Syndrome and struggles with seizures. She was referred to Stepping Stones, based in Broadcloth Lane, Trowbridge, when she was 11 months old.
Lydia, whose condition has left her with partial sight and unable to stand up unaided, attends the school two days a week.
Mrs Wadds said Stepping Stones has provided a huge help to Lydia as well as herself, husband Matthew, 36, and the couple's other daughter, five-year-old Annie.
Mrs Wadds, 42, of Eastbourne Road, said: "The initial contact I had with manager Debbie Wickham was so calming as she was so knowledgeable, and that phone call changed our lives forever."
To say thanks for the help Stepping Stones has provided her daughter, Mrs Wadds now volunteers at the centre and passes on her experience to help parents who have had their child referred to the charity.
Stepping Stones needs to raise £50,000 a year to survive, but earlier this month it lost £10,000 of vital funding from Wiltshire Council after the Government withdrew its Aiming High For Disabled Children grants.
Mrs Wadds is backing the Times' Give Us A Chance appeal, which is aiming to help make up some of the shortfall.
She said: "Stepping Stones is a wonderful community asset and I hope everyone supports this campaign and allows it to survive. It is a lifeline and without it we might have ended up having a breakdown or needing respite support for Lydia, which would have cost the council a lot more."
Later this year, to help prevent some of Lydia's seizures she will be having brain surgery and after her recovery she will be leaving Stepping Stones and starting at Larkrise School, in Trowbridge, who help children with severe learning difficulties.
Mrs Wadds said: "I have no doubt that Stepping Stones believe in Lydia and they have not written her off. We are very grateful to them and I'm sure they'll be in tears when she leaves.
"The staff have become friends and part of the reason I volunteer is to stay part of that wonderful community of people."


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Dickey preps for distance in Minors outing
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- R.A. Dickey appears ready to go the distance.
The knuckleballer threw 102 pitches over eight innings on Friday at the Blue Jays' Minor League complex in a game against Philadelphia Phillies Minor Leaguers.
The Blue Jays' right-hander is not sure of how many runs he allowed -- there was a home run hit by Delmon Young -- but Dickey was delighted with the outing and feels that it will set him up nicely as he prepares for the Opening Day start on April 2.
"It was a great day for me," Dickey said. "Great in the sense that I threw eight innings. I felt fantastic, threw 102 pitches. I got better as the game went on, felt strong in the later innings. It was a good day for me. I struggled kind of early with the feel of my knuckleball. I was able to get through that and capture a good one over the next six innings. I think I gave up a few runs in the first couple of innings and then I think I might have given up two hits in the last six innings."
On a regular day, Dickey said he would have pitched a complete game.
It was Dickey's second outing in a Minor League game since returning from a stint with Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. Former New York Mets teammate Henry Blanco has been the catcher both times, leading to speculation that he might become Dickey's personal catcher, but manager John Gibbons said on Friday that a final decision has not been made. Dickey and Blanco combined on a two-inning outing on Tuesday.
"He did fantastic today, I don't think he missed a ball," Dickey said. "We threw a guy out, picked a guy off and he threw a guy out on a delayed steal. He was great."
Dickey said the outing gave him a bit of everything, including a 24-pitch first inning that was prolonged by "an error or two."
"I got to feel what a prolonged inning felt like, which is a great exercise," Dickey said. "My last time out we hit for a long time, and so for my eighth inning I sat for a while and I got to experience what that was like. So now when it happens it won't be a surprise and my body knows what it feels like to do that. It was a great day for me on a lot of different counts. I was pleased with it."
On a scale of one to 10, Dickey said his knuckleball was about a seven.
"I can win with a seven," he said.
Larry Millson is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Cat Herding in Naxx25: Constructy Things
This is the second in a series of posts on how to arrange your healers in Naxxramas 25.
I'd highly suggest reading up on Herding Cats in general, especially if you're filling in for heal lead and aren't usually the one with the job.
Otherwise, this is just a quick overview of how and why I arrange our healers the way I have been – which isn't to say that it's the end-all, be-all of healing assignments for Naxx! Just how things have worked for us. Most fight's I'm going to assume six healers, though some I'll recommend an off-spec/hybrid healer to help out (or possibly picking up a seventh healer), and you can almost always safely substitute classes.
Yes, Naxx25 has been done with only two healers, but I'd venture to guess that those raids are experienced and not just starting out, and those new ones are the raids that this guide is primarily written for ('cause if you've got the place on farm, you don't need my piddly advice on how to set up your healers!).
This is not, in fact, a raid-wide, boss killing strategy – if you want one of those, I recommend looking at www.wowhead.com, www.wowwiki.com, and www.bosskillers.com!
Construct Wing Boss the First: Patchwerk
- Main Tank – One -Two healers
- Offtanks – Two healers each – Patchwerk's Heroic Strike can hit an offtank three times in very short succession – this is a high stress fight for healers.
- Raid Mans – no healers. They shouldn't take any damage.
Patchwerk melee's only the tank. His heroic strike hits whoever is in melee range with the highest health, so two offtanks are recommended. Each offtank should have two healers, the "easiest" healing job on this fight is the Main Tank. Ideally I try to balance a "single target" healer with a "multi target" healer on each offtank. Chain Heal shines in this situation, as does Beacon of Light.
(Construct Wing Miniboss – Frogger: No specific healing is necessary, but having a person with a res spell wait at Frogger until everyone has safely gotten through is likely a good idea, especially if Gluth's Aura of Lag is still active)
Construct Wing Boss the Second: Grobbulus
- Main Tank: Two healers: Druid and Pally/Disc Priest generally – Damage on this fight is pretty consistent, unless someone accidentally drops the cloud in the middle of melee.
- Offtank: One healer: Druid OR Pally OR Disc Priest – this is the tank who will be picking up the Oozes that Grobby barfs up periodically. If this tank gets Disease Injected, the MT will need to taunt the ooze off of him, and will temporarily need a bit of extra healing.
- Raid Mans: Holy Priests, Shamans, Druids – raid healing is largely single target on people that are dropping poison clouds.
Two things: DO NOT CLEANSE THE DISEASE DEBUFF. If necessary, have people remove the buttons from their bars. The other important thing is for healers to be aware that people that get the fart cloud debuff will need some bursty healing – and if two or three healers get the debuff in a row, it can get a little squirrely. Communication is key!
(Construct Wing Miniboss – The Pipe: Don't fall off the Pipe, or you'll have to go fight Frogger again. If someone falls who is notoriously bad at Frogger, send a person with a res spell back to speed things up.)
Construct Wing Boss the Third: Gluth
- Main Tank/Offtank: Two-Three healers: Druid/Pally/Disc Priest – there will be two tanks swapping back and forth every 30(ish) seconds
- Kiters: One healer, any type – Something with CC is nice, in case Zombies get a hankering for healer snax.
- Raid Mans: Holy Priests, Shamans, Druids
Raid healing is pretty insignificant in this fight… until the Decimate, when all hell breaks loose for about 30 seconds.When the Decimate happens, healers with AOE Stun/CC abilities (Earthbind Totem/Holy Wrath) will probably want to use them if the Zombie Chow get close to Gluth – if Gluth eats any Zombie Chow, this fight gets MUCH harder.
One thing that we've done that works really well for healer-aggro on the Zombie Chow is to have a kiter healer swap with a Tank healer if the Tank healer gets too many friends. Obviously this is serious communication, but once you get used to the swap, it makes it pretty easy – having a the kiter and tank healers both as Paladins can work if (when healing the Tank) they want to pop on Righteous Fury temporarily as a "decoy" so that the Zombie Chow don't run amok. Three or four Zombies on a Pally healer and they call out and swap with the kiter healer.
Construct Wing Boss the Fourth: Thaddius and Friends
- Stalagg Tank: Two-Three Single target healers (a Druid is nice if you've got an extra one around) – this guy does an enrage, and hits the tank hard, but the tank is the only one taking damage
- Feugen Tank: All your AOE heals – this guy hits EVERYONE on the right side, so will take more substantial group heals.
- Thaddius Tank: Two-Three healers on the MT, rest on the raid. Watch Polarity, and if you have too much healing, feel free to have anyone who's bored nuke a little. Extra DPS is extra DPS!
Stalagg and Feugen are going to chuck the tanks across the room every 30 seconds, so you'll have to switch to the new tank when that happens. (I'm told that the flying part makes Phase 1 of this fight a lot more fun as a tank!) These guys are like corehounds/Romulo and Julienne – have to kill them at the same time – so balancing the DPS on the two sides is pretty important (again with the communication thing).
Thaddius himself is a DPS race, and the most important thing is to PAY ATTENTION to polarity. Know which side is positive, which is negative, and pay attention in case you switch, so you don't blow yourself/everyone else up. Explosions are bad.
Also – if you have lag/framerate problems, the spell effects on this fight can be disastrous, so turn your spell effects (in your video settings) all the way down – but make sure you turn them back up for Sapphiron!
Hopefully that'll help get your raid going on Heroic Naxxramas! Obviously, these are flexible assignments, and you can adjust them to your own raid compositions as necessary. Bringing an assortment of healing classes and specs is a plus, especially in a place like Naxxramas where you'll have diseases, poisons, magic effects, and curses flying at different times in the raid. Just don't cleanse that disease from Grobbulus!
Good luck, have fun, and may the Loot-Fu be with you!
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Danny needs to buy in to this.
Anyone else expecting Jon Barry to run on the court naked?
We need Psycho T in there...
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Hibbert needs to go up strong, and show some power. Don't let Boozer pock the ball out of your hands from behind.
Do they call any fouls on the Bulls' bigs? Good god.
i'am glad he hit granger n the head with the ball....
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When we get back to Indy, it will even out, and they will be screaming bloody murder all over Chicago
Sittin on top of the world!
It's gonna be another game of us getting out in front then letting them get closer.
We're taking terrible shots on the offensive end and we're not making the open ones.
AJ price reminds me of jarret jack but i cant explain why... danny is forcing **** and that was a half *** close out on the deng three
Roy Hibbert.... It's the POWER!!!
Danny is not even trying. If he is not scoring he disengages from the game.
I am sorry but Mcbob needs to take a seat, he can't do *****
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
Rose traveled there.
We need the 10-20 Granger from last game, not the 2-19 Granger from the Minny game. Come on, if you don't have a good look, either try to drive inside or pass
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McBob has been absolutely useless so far. A couple years from now we all might be laughing at ourselves for arguing whether McBob or Hansbrough was the better player.
too bad josh is hurt. he is majorly sucking right now.
but he is playing hard, and that helps.
I like McRoberts but this level of play is showing why Tyler starts guys. It's really not close. I thought it was...
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
To be fair, on the last one, McRoberts was open but got the ball late when he was under the goal.
RealGM Bulls boardI swear... WORST Home-Court Advantage in the League.. BY FAR..
Sittin on top of the world!
Do we want to leave Hibbert in there?
Just want to make a quick note, George already has 3 steals and the Pacers already have 8. That is more assists than the Bulls have.
Offense is going south.
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
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AJ is so hot and cold. It pisses me off.
Alright Danny. Let this get you started.
Defense keep it up!
Right....this is Chicago.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
McRoberts looks like a D-league player tonight. Hansbrough, Price and George are the only guys playing with enough aggresion.
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Three Picks for 2013
I use computerized strategies based on the writings of Wall Street's best-known gurus to choose stocks, and 2012 produced several strategies that performed particularly well. The strategies of Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet and Kenneth Fisher posted returns of 33.8%, 15.1% and 15.1%, respectively, in 2012. By comparison, the S&P 500 returned 13.4% for the year. Of course, there's no guarantee that these strategies will be big winners in 2013, but they are certainly worth paying attention to.
My Graham-based strategy highlights Dolby Laboratories (DLB), which creates audio, image and voice technologies for the entertainment industry. The strategy focuses on Coach's more than $900 million in annual sales, current ratio of 6.19, zero debt and modest price-to-earnings ratio of 12.2. The company's management is financially conservative, which the Graham strategy also favors....193 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Sepik Wetlands Management Initiative
In its work with 50 communities along the Sepik River – the longest river in New Guinea – the Sepik Wetlands Management Initiative has transformed the local economy and local treatment of wetlands. The sustainable harvest of crocodile eggs from nest sites along the river has become an important source of income for local residents. Previously, crocodile nest sites were being indiscriminately destroyed by wetland fires set for hunting, agriculture, or as part of land ownership disputes. The initiative instituted a program in which local crocodile egg collectors following specified conservation guidelines would receive a guaranteed return from a commercial crocodile egg retailer. The combination of egg collection and crocodile farming to produce high-quality skins has doubled the annual income in participating communities, all while raising the awareness of wetland values and stressing the cultural importance of crocodiles.
Sepik Wetlands Management Initiative (SWMI), based in Ambunti, East Sepik Province, was formed in 1998 to address fire-related wetlands degradation in the middle regions of the Sepik River. During dry seasons, local people were burning grassland for hunting, cultivation, or as part of landowner disputes, and in the process destroying vast areas of wetlands and nesting habitats for the New Guinea Freshwater Crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae) and Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). By 1998, more than half of crocodile nesting sites surveyed had lost over half of their suitable nesting area; at a third of the sites, more than 80% of the vegetation had been lost. Since its establishment, SWMI has promoted crocodile and wetlands conservation work in the Sepik through various strategies. These have included raising community awareness of the importance of wetlands and wetland resources; the facilitation of a sustainable crocodile egg harvesting program between community members
and a commercial collector; increasing local awareness of and taking action on controlling the spread of invasive species; crocodile population monitoring; and developing community-driven wetlands and wetland resources management plans. The link between community participation in conservation and the viability of livelihood activities based on natural resource management has been at the centre of SWMI's work.
Its four main objectives are developing a community-oriented, selfhelp approach to conserve local wetlands, and in particular herbaceous habitats; halting the degradation of locally-important wetland habitats, especially crocodile nesting areas, and rehabilitating sites where possible; enhancing the conservation of local biological diversity; and strengthening the sustainable utilization of local wetlands resources. SWMI's multi-stakeholder approach to conservation has involved maintaining strong relationships with both government agencies and non-governmental actors. The latter category has included international conservation NGOs as well as the private sector. The Papua New Guinea Department of Environment and Conservation, Pacific Island Ministries, and the district-level government offices in Ambunti village have all played important roles in coordinating responses to ecosystem threats and strategies for conservation. The project has been funded and supported since 2005 by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) through its Sepik River Programme. SWMI has also partnered with Mainland Holdings Limited, a Papua New Guinea- based commercial crocodile egg collector.
The project does not have a guaranteed funding source, however, relying on grants to operate on a full-time basis. The seven staff members, made up of five men and two women, work on a voluntary basis for the majority of the time. The organisation consists of a chairman, vice-chairman, treasurer, secretary and three field officers. A technical advisory board comprises two community members – one representing village crocodile farmers, another on behalf of crocodile habitat landowners – representatives from WWF, the Papua New Guinea Department of Environment and Conservation, and a private expert.
The initiative's main activities are centered on providing adequate information to change community members' behavior, encouraging more sustainable harvesting of crocodiles and their eggs. A secondary focus has been on increasing awareness of the existence of invasive species and finding ways to minimize their expansion. SWMI's work can be categorised into five program areas. Their management of natural resources has been underpinned by initial resource mapping and planning with local communities, using a Participatory Rural Appraisal framework. This process of engaging local people is reinforced by awareness campaigns on the importance of
wetlands and their resources, and actively involving communities in minimizing their impacts on their environment. A third area of work has been monitoring populations of crocodiles. This has been carried out by crocodile night counts, aerial crocodile nest counts, and tagging of crocodile individuals. Many of these monitoring activities involve local people, while aerial counts have been carried out in conjunction with government agencies. SWMI's role in improving local livelihoods, meanwhile, has been based on its work with Mainland Holdings. The initiative oversees the relationship between this commercial collector and local people by facilitating the sustainable harvesting of crocodile eggs, and ensuring that payments are made according to a signed contract, or Tok Orait, between communities and Mainland Holdings. Finally, SWMI provides training on crocodile farming and crocodile egg harvesting techniques to improve the sustainability of these income generating activities. This has involved training on regulations to ensure that harvesting of crocodiles and their eggs do not deplete crocodile breeding stocks; other training has focused on improving the quality of crocodile skins from village farming pens, allowing farmers to generate higher profits. These work areas have involved approximately 50,000 people in the lower and upper Sepik regions. SWMI has engaged around 50 villages in these regions while conducting awareness raising, trainings, and monitoring activities. SWMI has also spent time with these communities conducting Participatory Rural Appraisal exercises. The populations of these villages range from an estimated 300 to 1,500 inhabitants.


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Topic: 2 years clear!
Hi all,
Sorry I don't get around to posting as often as I'd like to. I guess my dad might be along soon but thought I would let you all know that he has the fantastic news of another clear scan today.
A bit of background in case anyone's interested: dad (58 at the time) presented with jaundice etc in Dec 2009. He had a Whipple at St James in Leeds in Jan 2010. The surgeon (Mr Menon) had got clear margins (just) and there were 7 lymph nodes involved. He was accepted onto the chemo arm of the Bilcap trial and went through six months of Xeloda. Since then he's had six monthly scans - today he was told he will move to scheduled yearly scans.
Needless to say we are all absolutely over the moon. The oncologist told dad that now he has passed two years, his chances are greater and greater for survival. We all know just how lucky he has been and are so so grateful.
Best wishes to everyone and apologies for not being around more! I'm a bit busy myself now with two children - my whole family's life has changed such a lot since my dad's diagnosis.


text: Show Hide image Politics 21 March 2013 Generation X-rated owns the net: can politicians stop children watching porn? Never has it been so easy for young children to watch violent pornography. Can politicians who grew up in the analogue age do anything about it? Sign up for our weekly email * Most British children growing up in the age of the internet will never go hungry for information. They may hear older generations talk about a time before search engines and social networks, but imagining what that was like will be as hard for them as it is for their parents to picture life before electricity. They will never have a question burning in their imagination and nowhere to ask it, although that doesn't mean the answers they find will be good ones. Nor will they know solitude, in the sense of lacking contact with other people. They will still know loneliness. The value of a relationship isn't measured by the volume of messages sent. There is one subject above all where children on the cusp of adulthood have the most insatiable appetite for knowledge. It is the same subject where the profusion of content online has been greatest and where quantity correlates least with quality of information. That subject is sex. There is no reliable figure for the proportion of the internet given over to pornography. Estimates vary from 4 per cent to 40 per cent; the spread depends on how you add up web pages. But no one disputes that the briefest excursion into the digital red-light zone can expose extreme scenes of violent, degrading sexual acts. Nor is it much in doubt that children as young as ten are finding these images, either by chance or by deliberately exploring. The days when teenage kicks were eked out of tattered copies of Penthouse, exchanged like contraband in the playground, seem prelapsarian by comparison. It is normal for parents to be ignorant of the sexual subculture of teenagers and so to fear it. Meanwhile, technology vastly increases children's capacity for secrecy and their vulnerability to exploitation. The bedroom that was once an emblem of childhood sanctuary, now equipped with a laptop and wireless connection, becomes a portal to the darkest experiences that adulthood can conjure. "We spend a lot of time as parents worrying about what our children eat, what schools to get them into, how much homework they're doing. For some reason we seem to worry much less about their digital life," Claire Perry, the Conservative MP for Devizes in Wiltshire who advises David Cameron on childhood and internet safety, told me. "Some parents are in digital oblivion. They have no idea what their children are doing with computers and phones." The topic slips easily into moral panic. There is nothing new in one generation looking in terror at the changing sexual mores of its children. When the novel took off as a literary form in the 18th century, it was suspected of ruining young girls, because – unlike the theatre – its thrills could be indulged in private chambers. Parents whose stiff stoicism was fashioned by the privations of the Second World War could not understand why their children craved the raucous indulgence of rock'n'roll. Yet, given the sheer volume and intensity of trade in sex as a commodity online, it is hard to deny that something quite unprecedented is happening. It is as if the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s led us from the beach into the water and now, suddenly, the coastal shelf has fallen away and we are drowning in porn. How much of this stuff are children seeing? A much-cited YouGov survey from 2008 suggested that 27 per cent of boys aged 14-17 looked at sexual images every week and 5 per cent looked every day. A 2005 study by researchers at the London School of Economics found that one in eight children aged between nine and 19 had at some stage seen a porn site with a violent element. It is difficult to be more precise because everyone lies about their porn consumption and the definitions are slippery. When does a sex scene get degrading? Even soft porn contains pernicious signals about power, consent and respect. A more recent study for the University of Ark - ansas found that 90 per cent of mass-market video material contained elements of verbal or physical aggression towards women. I met Perry for coffee in the vast glass atrium of parliament's Portcullis House annexe. She spelled out her concern that a generation is learning about sex from sources that strip away humanity and celebrate cruelty. It is, she argues, distorting perceptions of what it means to be a woman, when girls are already subjected to intense and contradictory pressures to conform. "It is now normal for 16-year-old girls to think they shouldn't have pubic hair. That is an idea derived from porn," Perry says. "On one hand we're telling girls they have to be engineers and be empowered and on the other hand we're telling them they have to look and behave like porn stars." Girls are feeling the effects of "pornification" – the colonisation of mainstream music videos, adverts and games by the poses and attitudes of hardcore material. Researchers say young women blame the normalisation of a porn aesthetic for increases in harassment and abuse. A 2010 poll for the End Violence Against Women Coalition found that a third of girls had encountered unwanted sexual touching at school. A 2009 NSPCC study found that a quarter of girls aged 13-17 had suffered sexual violence from a boyfriend. Anti-porn groups worry about a feedback loop: we become desensitised to the quasipornographic representations of women's bodies in public space and so porn consumers chase greater extremes in the unregulated realm online. "The more pornography infiltrates our everyday lives, whether through music videos, page three or sexist adverts, the more hardcore and violent the industry has become to differentiate itself," says Sophie Bennett, of the activist organisation OBJECT. It isn't just girls who suffer. ChildLine reported that the year-on-year increase in calls from boys disturbed by pornography they had seen online was 70 per cent in 2012. Of those calls, 59 per cent came from children under the age of 15. Young men, Perry says, are growing up with a toxic understanding of their role. "If you're a 15- or 16-year-old boy now, what do you think a woman wants in bed? What do you think sex even looks like?" Last year, Perry chaired a cross-party parliamentary review of online child protection. It was not the first such investigation. In 2011 Reg Bailey, the chief executive of Mothers' Union, a Christian charity, conducted an inquiry into "the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood" for the Department for Education. In 2008, the celebrity psychologist Dr Tanya Byron reviewed the risks posed to children by the internet and video games for the Lab our government. The aggregate conclusion from all these reports is that: first, childhood is under siege from technology and commerce, which devour innocence; and second, change is inevitable but that doesn't mean governments are powerless to intervene. Perry's review recommended a system that would oblige internet service providers (ISPs) to filter by default "adult content" – a term that includes, besides porn, sites celebrating anorexia and suicide. Users would then have to "opt in", actively requesting access to the forbidden material. This approach was supported by a vigorous campaign in the Daily Mail and until late last year it appeared to enjoy the backing of the Prime Minister. But the "opt-in" model was abruptly killed off in a public consultation. The objections were both practical and ideological. Many web users felt their privacy was violated by the need to apply for porn access. Technical experts doubted that such filters could be made to work. Mobile-phone providers already have them in place – asking users to confirm their age before allowing them to view some sites – but the blocks are notoriously clumsy. Academic articles and harmless pictures containing fleshy tones get caught in the net. (The accidental filtering of innocent data in trawls for obscenity is sometimes referred to as "the Scunthorpe problem", for reasons that become clear on close inspection of the town's name.) Another concern is the blocking of legitimate sites offering sexual health advice to young people who are afraid to consult parents about their problems. Free speech campaigners are sceptical. "You will never get a perfect filter that can exercise moral and ethical judgement. It's a machine," says Padraig Reidy of Index on Censorship. "[The web] would be seriously hampered as a social space if we were to allow government or force companies to put these filters in place." The free speech argument is not that porn - ography is a sacrosanct form of expression (though a few libertarian ultras take this view). It is that politicians and corporations must not be trusted with technology that is explicitly designed to obstruct the flow of information. A dangerous precedent is set when society accepts the banning at source of whole categories of material. "There's a temptation to think that, because we can do it with technology, we should, in a way that we wouldn't even think about discussing if it meant destroying books," says Reidy. "It has to be called censorship in the end, as you are effecting a limit on what people can read or watch." Child protection campaigners are unimpressed by that argument. They worry that the balance of power online is on the side of pornographers and predators and that we need high walls around bits of the network to mark out safe spaces for children. "There is no ideological conflict with civil liberties, freedom of speech or any other freedoms," says Claire Lilley, a policy adviser covering technology at the NSPCC. "This is not an issue of censorship, it's about choice. Effective filtering provides freedom of choice." The ISPs hate the "opt-in" idea. They see themselves primarily as pipeline companies, selling access to infrastructure down which others transmit content. They don't want any change in the law that implies open-ended responsibility for what is travelling down those pipes. Yet the industry also recognises growing political pressure to act against the profusion of porn and a commercial opportunity to appeal to anxious parents with products that promise to sanitise the web. "The argument tends to get polarised between people who say 'all porn is evil' and those who demand a completely free internet as part of the common good," says Dido Harding, the chief executive of the telecoms group TalkTalk. "The truth is going to be somewhere in between." In March last year, TalkTalk became the first broadband provider to prompt customers with "an unavoidable" choice to block adult content – a simple yes or no question, posed when the service is first activated. About a third say yes, which, the company surmises, equals roughly the proportion of households with dependent children. Harding sees fellow ISPs as having a moral obligation to provide parents with the tools to protect children, but she warns that filters are no substitute for engaged parenting. "It's not good enough to say technology can keep children safe. When an 11-year-old goes out of the front door you ask where she is going. Online, it's too easy not to ask the same question." According to research by the London School of Economics, 52 per cent of 11-to-16- year-olds have internet access in their own bedroom. A survey carried out for the Bailey review found that, among children who went online regularly, 56 per cent of 12-to-15-yearolds were unsupervised, as were 29 per cent of eight-to-11-year-olds and 12 per cent of five-to-seven-year-olds. Yet children watching porn passively is quickly becoming the least of parents' worries. Teenagers now share explicit images taken on their mobile phones in private or are bullied into providing them. This material can then be maliciously passed around the playground or posted on the web. There is no law that can control the kind of sadistic impulse behind much of what appears online, but that doesn't mean governments can surrender. Having lost the battle for "optin" filters, Perry is determined to construct a regulatory regime that will be, in her words, "as near as damn it". It is a position that earns her intense and profane abuse online. The community of digital free speech crusaders seems to overlap with a fraternity of vituperative, woman-hating sociopaths, which rather supports the view that web culture is infected with a virus of violent misogyny. A Labour government would show no greater deference to pornographic freedoms. Helen Goodman, the shadow minister for media reform, has conducted her own focus groups of schoolgirls and come away persuaded that the ubiquity of internet porn and the "wallpaper effect" of heavily sexualised imagery in public is corroding the confidence of young women and making them vulnerable. "The problem is that the normal and the acceptable has only shifted in one direction," she says. "What we're trying to do is replicate online the standards we have in the real world. We have a public space that, with a few exceptions, is acceptable for children and that can't be said about the internet. It is not reasonable to put all of the responsibility for dealing with that on to parents all of the time." Parents cannot police everything that their children do online. Teenagers will always have more energy to put into concealment and subterfuge than adults can muster to investigate them. That imbalance becomes even more pronounced where one generation has a native understanding of the digital world, having grown up there, while their elders struggle with the disorientations and language barriers of digital immigration. Many children of migrants see misty-eyed parental nostalgia for the old country as disqualification from commenting on the habits and lifestyles of the new one. The same must surely be true of those who were born in the internet age, hearing the moralising angst of those who were thrust into it as adults. Those of us who cannot even begin to imagine why anyone would post pictures of debauched private antics in a public space struggle to transmit that bafflement to those who do it without a second thought – as if the event cannot be said to have happened fully if it hasn't been recorded on Facebook. That doesn't mean there aren't tech-savvy parents. There are thousands of adults who squander hours online as dissolutely as their children. But they have the memory of growing up analogue. They know about letterwriting and keeping 10p for a payphone – the psychological relics of a childhood on a lost continent. For the children of the New World there is no obvious distinction between analogue and digital being. The space online is part of the fabric of their lives, which makes it impossible to imagine how a porn-busting algorithm or patch of code could protect them from abuse. That does not diminish the need for some kind of intervention. The crucial leap is in recognising that the internet is more than a method of communication; it is a place for being. That means the civil libertarians are right when they say we must be careful how much control we hand over to private corporations and state managers. It also means that politicians are right to see it as an area where governments can reasonably claim jurisdiction. We can teach our children to beware predators and to stand up to bullies online. Just as urgently, we need to teach them to engage in the analogue politics around the internet. The best people to design regulations in a community are probably the ones who live there full-time. Rafael Behr is political columnist at the Guardian and former political editor of the New Statesman Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 18 March 2013 issue of the New Statesman, The German Problem More


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Aliso Viejo
Music Matters Concert
A live performance by Denny White. 7 p.m. Aliso Viejo Conference Center, 31 Santa Barbara Drive. Advanced online: $15; at door: $20 cash. 949-425-2556.
Anaheim Cemetery Memorial Day Program
11 a.m., 1400 E. Sycamore St., Anaheim. Free. 949-951-9102.
Buena Park
32nd Annual Remembrance Service and Luncheon
This annual Memorial Day remembrance is to honor the men and women who have served our country. Pancake breakfast: 8-9:30 a.m.; service: 10 a.m. George Bellis Park, 7171 8th St., Buena Park. Breakfast: $4; service: free. 714-562-3500.
Costa Mesa
Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park
Free ceremony. 11 a.m.-I p.m. Harbor Lawn and Mt. Olive Memorial Park and Mortuary, 1625 Gisler Ave., Costa Mesa. Free. 714-540-5554.
75th Memorial Day Commemoration "Avenue of Flags"
10 a.m. Loma Vista Memorial Park, 701 E. Bastanchury Road, Fullerton. Free. 714-525-1575.
Huntington Beach
Memorial Day Ceremony
This annual Memorial Day Ceremony, hosted by the American Legion, VFW and the Jewish War Veterans, features a 21-gun salute, flag-raising and playing of taps. 11 a.m. Huntington Beach Pier Plaza, One Main St., Huntington Beach. Free.
Memorial Day Ceremony
The community is invited to honor our nation's fallen and pay special homage to local service members, both at home and abroad. Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial Inc. will host an evening ceremony with candle lighting; bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating. 10-11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Morning ceremony at Bill Barber Community Park, Harvard Ave and San Juan, Irvine. Evening: Northwood Community Park, 4531 Bryan Ave. 949-724-6606.
Laguna Hills
Memorial Day Half-Marathon, 5K, 10K and Kids Run
Come out and run the half-marathon, 5K, 10K or Kids Run and stay for the Community Expo, which will feature entertainment, local merchants and food. 7 a.m. Laguna Hills Mall, 24155 Laguna Hills Mall. Half marathon: $75; 5k: $33; 10k: $38; kids run: $19; kids diaper dash: $12. 949-975-1812.
La Palma
Memorial Day Ceremony
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Lake Forest
Memorial Day Program
The Memorial Day address will be given by Richard Kelley, commander, VFW Post 6024. The program will include the Saddleback Master Chorale, color guards from local veterans' organizations, a wreath laying ceremony and firing salute by VFW Post 6024. 11 a.m.-noon. El Toro Memorial Park, 25751 Trabuco Road, Lake Forest. Free. 949-951-8244.
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Memorial Day Observance
The ceremony will include a color guard and buglers; a rifle salute from VFW Post 6024; and a performance by Dawn Wright. 8:30-10:30 a.m. Civic Center Park, 200 Civic Center, Mission Viejo. Free. 949-470-3061.
San Clemente
Memorial Day Observance
All public and local organizations are invited to participate in the wreath and floral presentation. 11 a.m.-noon. San Clemente Community Center, 100 N. Calle Seville, San Clemente. Free. 949-361-8264.
Santa Ana
Cemetery Program
The program includes salutes by civil war cannons and veteran honor squad parade of flags, memorial wreaths, music and speeches. 10 a.m. Santa Ana Cemetery, 1919 Santa Clara Ave., Santa Ana. Free. 949-951-9102.
Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary Holiday Memorial
This Memorial Day event is a tribute to those who gave their lives in service to our country and a celebration of those who currently serve or have served our nation. The event features live entertainment and patriotic speakers. 10:30 a.m. Fairhaven Memorial Park, 1702 Fairhaven Ave., Santa Ana. Free. 714-633-1442.


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Pain Management
Neck, Arm, and Hands
I have pain in my neck,arms,and hands. I have had 2 steroid epidural shots done in the last year, the first was in c4 c5 that lasted only a week, the other was done in c5 c6 that lasted about a month, the doctor ia wanting me to have a pain shot into my neck again just to see if i need surgery. Do i need this done just to see if i need to have surgery or do i need to see another doctor?
Without the benefits of examining you and reviewing your records and imaging studies, and from the information in your note, it appears that you are experiencing significant discomfort and also weakness from the neck that has only responded transiently to epidural blocks.
Surgery in the neck is usually more successful than for the low back and may be indicated in patients with progressive weakness and refractory pain. Seeking a second opinion may be a good idea. There are also medications that can help the arm pain.
Salim M Hayek, MD, PhD
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A good place to start here is a comprehensive article:
Traditional definitions of the term dhamma
By John Ross Carter
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Pali commentaries give four main meanings of the word 'dhamma':
gu.na - moral quality or action;
desanaa - preaching & instruction;
pariyatti - 9-fold collection of Buddhist scriptures;
nissatta, nijjiiva -- three aruupa-khandhaa: vedanaa, sa~n~naa,
sa'nkhaara (which constitute citta).
Dhammaati gu.na-desanaa-pariyatti-nissattanijjiivavasena cattaaro dhammaa naama.
Tesu- "Na hi dhammo adhammo ca, ubho samavipaakino; adhammo niraya.m neti, dhammo paapeti suggatin"ti. (theragaa. 304; jaa. 1.15.386)- Aya.m gu.nadhammo naama.
"Dhamma.m vo, bhikkhave, desessaami aadikalyaa.nan"ti (ma. ni. 3.420) aya.m desanaadhammo naama.
"Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacce kulaputtaa dhamma.m pariyaapu.nanti sutta.m geyyan"ti (ma. ni. 1.239) aya.m pariyattidhammo naama.
"Tasmi.m kho pana samaye dhammaa honti, khandhaa hontii"ti (dha. sa. 121) aya.m nissattadhammo naama, nijjiivadhammotipi eso eva. Tesu imasmi.m .thaane nissattanijjiivadhammo adhippeto. So atthato tayo aruupino khandhaa vedanaakkhandho sa~n~naakkhandho sa'nkhaarakkhandhoti.
Dhammapada-Atthakatha 1.22
Mr. Rhys-Davids also mentions these four in his , yet the fourth meaning remains unclear. Yet according to the commentaries, this is the meaning associated with the fourth frame of reference.
Mr. Rhys-Davids writes that it is (4) nissatta-nijiivataa, or "the phenomenal" as opposed to "the substantial", "the noumenal", "animistic entity". What does it mean in the context of fourth frame of reference?
In the third frame of reference the practitioner explores the states of mind as a whole, but in the fourth frame of reference he explores the internal dynamics of the constituent parts of the mind, rise and fall of particular mental factors and phenomena.
Therefore in my opinion the translation 'internal processes of the mind' would be to the point.
Another option is 'mental qualities', since in the context of the fourth frame of reference "dhamma" refers first and foremost to the seven
factors of awakening and five hindrances. In most authoritative Vibhanga 199 only these seven plus five are mentioned in the Dhammaanupassanaaniddeso.
In my opinion calling these factors and hindrances "states" isn't correct, since they can be present simultaneously, and can be manifested only in specific occasions. A person with greed doesn't walk around in a "state" of greed: greed is manifested in specific occasions.
Secondly, calling these "mind-objects" is too wide a definition, since here we are talking exactly about factors of Awakening and hindrances.
Even when we read the fourth tetrad of Anapanasati sutta, dealing with the fourth frame of reference, there is again a clear connection with abandoning greed and distress through equanimity, which also can be classified as hindrances and factors of Awakening.
Metta, Dmytro


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Notre Dame is paying Charlie Weis a lot of money to not be its football coach.
Weis, now the head coach at Kansas, has received more than $10 million as part of a buyout agreement reached after his firing in 2009, according to federal tax documents the university provided the Chicago Tribune. The full buyout amount could reach $18.9 million by the time the installment payment is made in December 2015, based on information contained in the documents. Sporting News reported in 2009 that Weis' buyout, along with buyouts for his assistants, would total $19 million.
The Tribune also obtained salary and compensation figures for other high-profile athletic department personnel, for the period from July 2011 to June 2012:
Current football coach Brian Kelly: Total compensation of $1,088,179; $672,608 in base pay, $289,741 in "bonus and incentive compensation," plus other other compensation and benefits. The Tribune speculated that Kelly likely received outside income, with university consent, that did not have to be reported on the tax forms.
Men's basketball coach Mike Brey: $1,407,509 in total compensation; $687,509 in base pay, bonuses, benefits and other income, plus $720,000 from Notre Dame Sports Properties.
Women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw: $1,145,411 in total compensation; $900,441 in compensation from the university, $245,000 from Notre Dame Sports Properties.
Athletic director Jack Swarbrick: $1,085,260 in total compensation.


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IF I was manager of a football club, I would always go for substance over style.
You want players with good attitudes, especially when you have a team ethic like Burnley's, because attitudes – good or bad – rub off on people, especially when you work closely with them.
What has been apparent at Turf Moor over the last 12 months is that the players that Sean Dyche brings in blend in and have this harmony.
What's more, those attributes encourage them to play as a team.
The manager has them all playing for each other. No-one is classed as better than they other, they all do their bit, and that's the way he likes it.
Anyone coming in is going to have to be on board with that and follow suit. You've got to have the right people to build a team.
It was encouraging to see that chief executive Lee Hoos has spoken along similar lines himself this week.
As much as Burnley want quality as they prepare to make the step up to the Premier League, it won't come at the risk of attracting bad apples and upsetting a happy camp.
I'm not one for naming names, but to be fair even if I was I can't ever recall an instance when I was involved with a team which had anyone disruptive in it.
I played for five clubs – four in England – and all the players I was involved with at any one time seemed to get on well.
It's very unusual to get a bad character in football because they wouldn't last long anyway.
It is, of course, possible to transform difficult characters. Keith Treacy is probably the best recent example at Burnley.
The winger lost his way under Eddie Howe, the manager who signed him from Preston, and his future at the club looked bleak, if not short. But Dyche did something that offered him a lifeline, and managed to get the best out of him.
Unfortunately it could not be sustained on a regular basis, which is why he has not been offered a new deal at the end of his contract. Not yet anyway. The offer of a return in pre-season has been tabled on a trial basis, so I guess it's up to Keith to prove how much he wants it.
He is surely not going to get a better offer of a chance at the top flight.
That's canny man-management by the Burnley boss, who, by the way, should not have come away empty handed from the LMA awards.
His record with the Clarets has been exceptional this year and deserving of the manager of the year award. He could not have done any more. He's certainly a worthy winner in our eyes.


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'"When you look at (Kotalik), he's very skilled," Sabres leading scorer Miroslav Satan said. "And he's 220 pounds, which is tough to get off the puck. He's got everything. He's got all the tools. Now all he needs probably is experience. You can see it in him – he has the potential to be a very good player."'
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