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Wabi-SabiAugust 17th, 2009 , by admin
There is something that the Japanese call 'Wabi-Sabi' and which they seem reluctant to define, particularly to 'outsiders' or Gaijin as foreigners are known over there. Wabi-Sabi is a kind of poetic quality, a nebulous feeling, sometimes melancholy, sometimes zen-like and blissful, that -they say- permeates the nature of things.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in. *
Wabi-sabi is the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional. 'Wabi' is seen in the lines of a face, the record of a lifetime of laughter or pain; the knarled trunk of a tree. 'Sabi' is literally a translation of the word patina; the polishing (or in some folks 'grinding') effect of time.I think computers can suck the Wabi-Sabi out of almost anything, since by their very nature they only allow entry to the 'expected' way, which is probably why we can't use them for very long periods of time without mental and physical health consequences.
Brian Eno once said that the problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them, and that a nerd is a human being without enough Africa in him or her.
Make sure that there is plenty of Africa and Wabi-Sabi in your life.
Each Day AnewAugust 5th, 2009 , by admin
This is the time of our lives. The past may have been better or worse on one level of another, but hey, the past is past. 'Create each day anew' wrote Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido, in the Art of Peace.
Is today going to be a success or failure? Only I can decide. However, if I carry the trials and tribulations of yesterday with me, what possible outcome can I expect? Many people have written me over the years, depressed and angry because they seem to fail again and again at following the diet.
Well, I need go no further than look at my own failures to know what at least works for me.
The trick to surviving failure is to refuse to be disillusioned by it. It is this gradual effect of disillusionment ('retreat after defeat') that saps the will and prevents us from enduring to the end in order to triumph over our challenges.
The first step in mastering this process is the least obvious. Don't make the mistake of degrading your failures by stripping them of their spiritual value. The ability to learn from mistakes and shortcomings is the most powerful stimulant to success that I know of.
It is also why most successful people are actually experts in failure.
Failures are always so much more interesting than successes from an analytical viewpoint, and it is a shame that our society encourages us to run away from them, feel embarrassed by them, or sweep them under the rug.
If you look at the origin of the word 'Aikido' it derives from the phrase 'the way of Aiki.'
Aiki is a blending and harmonizing energy, the perfect example of which is the so-called 'Tenkan Step', which is an entrance into your attacker that involves a step to the outside of his body and 180 degree turn and stepping back once again. What this does is place you shoulder-to-shoulder alongside your attacker so, for that instant in time, you both look out at the world from the same perspective and viewpoint.
Try giving a 'failure' the Tenkan step. Interesting things may happen.
The last few weeks in the clinic have continued to keep the old spark going. How much better I enjoy practicing by myself! No rush, no big administration hassles, no egos to stroke. Just patients and health problems. In prior times it seemed I'd almost forgotten why I went into this profession! In future blogs I'll spend some time detailing a few of the more interesting case histories since I do seem to be seeing quite a few interesting cases these days.
I've been joined by my friend, Dr. Ginger Nash, who has really brought a nice energy into the practice. We've decided to rename the clinic The NE Center for Personalized Medicine (from the prior 'D'Adamo Clinic') to hopefully get the message out there that this concept is bigger than any one person.
I meet this afternoon with the administration and faculty of the naturopathic college at the University of Bridgeport to lay the the groundwork for my Personalized Medicine shift in the UB Naturopathic Clinic. I'm very excited about this as I love teaching and as the UB clinic serves a somewhat underprivileged section of society, I'm psyched to put resources like SWAMI GenoType into the hands of people who really need the help.
If you are interested in becoming a patient of the Personalized Medicine Clinic Shift, contact the Health Sciences Center at UB for more information. This may be an especially good option for folks who are on a limited income as the total fees for the visit are very reasonable ($45 base charge plus $125 surcharge for all testing and materials). Of course it is a teaching environment, so you'll have students in the room, but as clients of my own clinic soon learn, much more information floats through the air when I've got to explain each and every aspect of my thoughts and plans.
I recently did an interview with the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges for their newsletter and website. Although they did excise some of my more pithy remarks, I think it is still a pretty good reflection af where my head is nowadays about health and natural medicine.
The last few weeks have been devoted to finishing up the SWAMI GenoType and SWAMI Xpress programs, working on my 1971 VW Westfalia restoration, and trying to fins time to get out and sail a bit, though the weather this spring and summer has been 'wet' to say the least.
It is a constant source of amazement that this website continues to be graced by the generous efforts of others. To all of you who have given so freely of your time, creativity and energy over these last ten years, I thank you.
Unsung SerologistAugust 2nd, 2009 , by admin
In continuing my work on developing The Individualist Wiki, again and again I come up against the greatness of one single man: William Clouser Boyd.
William C. Boyd.
Perhaps a list of his partial accomplishments will demonstrate:
- Boyd wrote the first textbook of immunology.
- Boyd discovered the blood type specificity of many lectins.
- Boyd coined the word 'lectin.'
- He was one of the first 'paleoserologists', using lectins to trace the blood type distributions of many populations around the world. Boyd was the first to document that blood group substances could be recovered intact from physical remains of graves, such as from mummies.
- With Isaac Asimov, he wrote a book for the general public which was one of the first to attack the notion that race was a scientific fact.
- He developed antibody techniques, such as precipitation and flocculation, and applied them to blood group serology.
- He was among the first researchers to recommend the use of magnesium salts in the immediate aftermath of heart attack.
- Boyd wrote some pretty good science fiction (under the name "Boyd Ellanby" ).
Every time I venture into something, be it ABO blood group immunology, lectins in foods, anthropology, and a slew of immunology techniques, this guy was there first. It's a pity nobody really knows about him.
Best serologist, ever.
IFHI 2009: Fully Booked!May 12th, 2009 , by admin
I'm just back from a site visit to the Dolce Conference Center, scene-to-be of the upcoming IFHI 2009 Conference and Certification. What a facility! If you've been to the Buttes for 2005 or 2007 prepared to get gob-smacked! The premises (a former monastery) are just gorgeous this time of year. The intimacy of the lecture halls combined with the terrific AV capabilities of the facility already have my mind running in overdrive. I think it was very smart to top the attendance at 125. This will insure that everyone feels that they are a real part of the event.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that the conference is three weeks away, I'm told that all available rooms at the Dolce Conference Center have been taken. We have a few seats still available for the day sessions, and if anyone plans to register from this point on, we can book them at the nearby Double Tree Inn and the Dolce will bus these folks back and forth.
Anyway, if you want to attend IFHI, even at this late point in the process, contact IFHI Conference Services and maybe they can work something out for you.
The Weekly Transfusion 1.6April 25th, 2009 , by admin
This Transfusion: Sword swallowers and sore throats | ABO in Neanderthals| Blood groups and endometriosis | Nutrigenomics and personalized diets | This News This Week
Welcome to The Weekly Transfusion, 1.6 for the week of April 26, 2009.
Sore throats more common in sword swallowers
Sword swallowers run a higher risk of injury when they are distracted or adding embellishments to their performance, but injured performers have a better prognosis than patients who suffer iatrogenic perforation....Major gastrointestinal bleeding sometimes occurs, and occasional chest pains tend to be treated without medical advice. Sword swallowers without healthcare coverage expose themselves to financial as well as physical risk.
I guess it is just that old 'occupational hazard' story, sort of like the study that discovered that woodpeckers don't seem to get headaches.
Genetic characterization of the ABO blood group in Neanderthals
The high polymorphism rate in the human ABO blood group gene seems to be related to susceptibility to different pathogens. It has been estimated that all genetic variation underlying the human ABO alleles appeared along the human lineage, after the divergence from the chimpanzee lineage. A paleogenetic analysis of the ABO blood group gene in Neandertals allows us to directly test for the presence of the ABO alleles in these extinct humans. We have analysed two male Neandertals that were retrieved under controlled conditions at the El Sidron site in Asturias (Spain) and that appeared to be almost free of modern human DNA contamination. We find a human specific diagnostic deletion for blood group O (O01 haplotype) in both Neandertal individuals. These results suggest that the genetic change responsible for the O blood group in humans predates the human and Neandertal divergence. A potential selective event associated with the emergence of the O allele may have therefore occurred after humans separated from their common ancestor with chimpanzees and before the human-Neandertal population divergence.
Certainly one of the major evolutionary advantages of being blood type O was their double-barreled antibodies; this blood type being the only one that reacts to both "A things" and "B things" in the environment. This probably provided an extra layer of protection against any number of epidemic diseases (plague, smallpox) and many endemic ones (flukes and parasites) as well. If this immune "hyper-vigilance" would go on to increase the rates of inflammation and auto-immune disease in their modern descendants, it should also be remembered that these are often diseases of later life, typically past child bearing and rearing age. Thus if it were a late-model alteration, it certainly provided a significant survival advantage. The Founder Effect can be seen in the characteristics and distribution of the genes for Rhesus Negative and O blood type among the early Mesolithic Period during the so called- 'Happy Paleo' period, which also shows some correlation with the ancestral haplogroups R1b and I. On the other hand blood type A seems to have conveyed a better chance of surviving the 'lean' period of the early Neolithic; a slightly different, perhaps better way to starve. Type A's more tolerant immune system may have given them the benefit when it came widening the diet and exploring new foods.
ABO and Rh blood groups distribution in patients with endometriosis.
The blood group A was more predominant in women with endometriosis, while blood group O was less predominant. The overall risk of women with endometriosis and A blood group was 2.89 (95%CI, 1.85-4.52). No significant difference was detected in ABO and Rh blood groups in women with endometriosis according to the severity of disease. CONCLUSION: Women with endometriosis have a 2.9-fold increased risk in the A blood group distribution. The role of blood groups in the development of endometriosis remains to be determined.
I verified the observation back in 1988, when we were observing whether increases in opposing blood group antibodies were associated with any reproductive illnesses. We observed that in our small endometriosis group, all women were type A, and all virtually had elevated antibodies to foreign blood types (in their case, blood type B ). It did seem at he time to be an area ripe for future research, but I never got back to it. It is nice to see that others have observed the same tendencies.
The antibodies in the ABO system (isoagglutinins) called anti-A and anti-B are not normally present at birth. The antibodies develop between 3-6 months of age due to the stimulation of the newborn's immune system by microbes and foods that possess antigens of an opposing blood type. In, for example, type O children, they will begin forming to type A and B red cell antigens as soon as the child starts eating food, because the A and B antigens are actually found in quite a number of plants. So, as soon as the child starts eating plant food, she'll be exposed to those antigens and start making antibodies against them.
Nutrigenomics and Personalized Diet: From Molecule to Intervention and Nutri-ethics
The relationships between food, nutrition science, and health outcomes have been intensively analyzed over the past century. Genomic variation among individuals and populations is a new factor that enriches and challenges our understanding of these complex relationships. Hence, the rapidly emerging intersection of nutritional science and genomics - nutrigenomics - was the focus of a special issue of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology in December 2008 (Part 1). The OMICS Nutrigenomics Special Issue (Part 2) February 2009 is The relationships between food, nutrition science, and health outcomes have been intensively analyzed over the past century. Genomic variation among individuals and populations is a new factor that enriches and challenges our understanding of these complex relationships. Hence, the rapidly emerging intersection of nutritional science and genomics - nutrigenomics - was the focus of a special issue of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology in December 2008 (Part 1). The OMICS Nutrigenomics Special Issue (Part 2) February 2009 is now available free online
Two entire issues on personalized nutrition with virtually no mention of any of the bio-markers that really determine individualized dietary functionality: ABO blood groups and secretor status. Maybe these bio-markers are just too low-tech for the average scientist. More likely, the nay-sayers behind the smear campaign I've had to endure over the last ten years have had their desired effects.
No matter, if you read enough history you soon realize that Billy Shakespeare had it right: 'Truth will out.'
News of the Week
- April 28 2009: Dr. Peter D'Adamo - Lecture at Backus Hospitalthe basics of 'Eating Right For Your Type.' Open to the general public. More information
- June 5-7 2009: Personalized Medicine in Form and Function. A weekend intensive seminar with naturopathic physician, scientist and author, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo in Norwalk, CT. This seminar provides training in personalized nutrition determination using blood grouping, secretor status, epigenetic indicators, dermatoglyphics and biometrics. Extensive overview of the latest clinical and laboratory techniques, information systems and pharmacology. Certification will also be offered. Presented by the Institute for Human Individuality. CME's may be available. More information. SEATING IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. RESERVE YOUR SEATS NOW!
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What Men Want For Valentine's Day
credit: StockbyteIt's tough to shop for guys on Valentine's Day. Socks aren't so much fun to open and chocolates are a better gift for us...or are they?
credit: StockbyteIt's tough to shop for guys on Valentine's Day. Socks aren't so much fun to open and chocolates are a better gift for us...or are they?
It's getting festive in the @4PsMarketing office @NuJon @MAINW00D @LukeVKnight pic.twitter.com/9A3dgYSLTe
— Serena W (@SerenaWWong) December 15, 2014
If you have any sort of a beard, you're in for a Christmas Miracle! Beard Baubles has launched and will turn your chin (and upper lip) into Christmas. It's mini ornaments pinned to your chinny-chin-chin and they are amazing!
The stores standing strong and staying closed for the Thanksgiving holiday are:
In just a little over two months, your life could be completely different. What is the first thing you would change if you were confident you could do it? Scientists have found that, in only 66 days, we can change our lives. Here's how:
Forget bikini season, it's time for costume season. Subway has a brilliant ad promoting healthy eating so you can fit into your Halloween costume that isn't really a costume - it's a take on a costume. If you've been to any Halloween party in the history of ever, you've noticed that most of the females in the place just add a short skirt and knee high socks to a character costume.
The wearable futon looked so ridiculous...until I realized the potential. Imagine feeling a little sleepy at work. Put on your futon and snooze under your desk. What about a cancelled flight causing you to spend the night in the airport? Two words: Wearable. Futon. See? It's genius!
For those parents who are sick of reminding the kids to actually clean up after themselves or help out every once in awhile, this dad will be your new best friend - or, quite possibly, your hero. Frustrated with his kids leaving dishes around for him to clean up, he made a video introducing the teens to a dishwasher and explaining how the process works.
Do you know who all of your Facebook friends are? Would you hang out with them? One man is changing his life for the better by setting up coffee dates with each of his 1,088 Facebook friends.
Yep, the iPhone 6 Plus bends. You can't put it in your pocket like other phones. Apple calls it a feature instead of a manufacturing defect. Instead of getting upset about it, why not buy a pre-bent case? Problem solved! This is ridiculous, is it not?!
photo credit: AMagill via photopin ccThe Lacey Fire Department was called to a house fire where the family was able to make it out safely but there was still more life inside - baby hamsters. Being the true heroes they are each and every day, the firefighters resorted to the Pet Emergency Pocket Guide and fashioned a tiny oxygen mask to save the hamsters. HOW. CUTE. IS THIS?!?
I sense a tailgate party in our future! Move aside, Nutella, it's time for spreadable beer. Yep, SPREADABLE BEER! I don't know how it tastes but imagine dipping some pretzels in this concoction! Looks like we don't have to wait long to find out what it tastes like.

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Crawford, Ellis back Billingsley as Dodgers win
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — After floundering in Boston in 2011 and playing only 31 games last year due to injuries, Carl Crawford is off to the fast start he knew he needed to have with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Crawford led off with an opposite-field homer and A.J. Ellis added a two-run shot to back Chad Billingsley's strong season debut and lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-3 victory against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night.
Crawford homered to left field on the second pitch from Eric Stults (1-1). He tripled off the left-field wall with one out in the fifth and scored on Mark Ellis' single through a drawn-in infield to make it 4-1.
"I just want to play baseball," said Crawford, who came over from the Red Sox along with Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Beckett on Aug. 25. "That's all I want to do, man. I'm not trying to prove nothing to me, you, Boston, whoever. I just want to play good baseball this year."
Crawford had reconstructive elbow surgery two days before the trade and didn't get to play for the Dodgers last year.
He's hitting .464 (13 of 28). This was Crawford's fourth consecutive game with multiple hits and his sixth in seven starts this season.
"You never know how it's going to go. You hope for the best," he said. "The last two years the way things were going for me it's kind of a surprise, but a good surprise. It's definitely fun. Even if I wouldn't have had a fast start like I'm having now, everything is just good for me right now."
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said he certainly didn't expect Crawford to hit this well at the start of the season.
"I've seen how good Carl has been in the past and the last two years have been spotty as far as injuries and things like that, but I think we pretty much knew what he could do," Mattingly said.
Billingsley (1-0) opened the season on the disabled list after bruising his right index finger during a bunting drill on March 15. He held San Diego to one run and five hits in six innings, with three strikeouts and three walks.
"It definitely felt great to be back out there," said Billingsley, who went on the disabled list Aug. 25 last year with pain in his right elbow. "C.C., the first at-bat of the game, he gets us a one-run lead and gave me a little cushion early."
Billingsley "was sharp with his fastball," San Diego's Yonder Alonso said. "He was controlling the strike zone early in the game. He was throwing to both sides and did a good job of keeping the ball down."
A.J. Ellis homered to left with one out in the second. Luis Cruz was aboard on a single.
Brandon League earned his third save in as many chances, but only after allowing two runs on three hits in the ninth. The second run that inning scored when Chris Denorfia struck out but reached on a passed ball by A.J. Ellis.
The Padres have given up 13 homers in eight games.
"Eric hung in there but they didn't miss with a couple of mistakes," Padres manager Bud Black said.
San Diego's Nick Hundley had four hits to tie his career high.
Stults allowed four runs and eight hits in five innings, struck out four and walked none. Every Dodgers regular except Adrian Gonzalez had at least one hit off Stults.
Billingsley's only rough inning was the fourth. Will Venable drew a leadoff walk and scored on an RBI double by Denorfia. Yonder Alonso walked but was erased on a double play and Alexi Amarista flied out to end the inning.
Denorfia started in place of left fielder Carlos Quentin, who was hit by a pitch on the right forearm in San Diego's 9-3 win Tuesday.
ST. LOUIS — Jake Westbrook pitched a five-hiter and the St. Louis Cardinals backed him with four home runs Wednesday in routing the Cincinnati Reds 10-0.
Jon Jay, Carlos Beltran and Matt Adams homered in a span of seven at-bats off Homer Bailey as the Cardinals took two of three from the NL Central champions.
Matt Carpenter added a two-run homer on a four-hit day. Adams homered for the second straight game and added an RBI double and a walk.
The Cardinals have dominated the Reds at home the last decade, losing just three of 28 series with two splits.
Westbrook (1-1) threw his fourth career shutout, walking four and striking out three. It was his first shutout since Aug. 9, 2006, against the Angels with Cleveland, and his 15th career complete game. He even contributed an RBI single for St. Louis' final run.
Bailey (1-1) had gone 23 straight shutout innings — including his no-hitter against Pittsburgh last season — before the Cardinals broke open a scoreless game with four runs with two outs in the fifth.
MIAMI — Evan Gattis hit a three-run homer and Atlanta completed its second consecutive three-game sweep when it beat the reeling Miami Marlins.
Mike Minor (2-0) pitched 5 2-3 innings for the Braves, whose 8-1 record leads the majors. They're off to their best start since 1994, when they began the season 13-1.
The Marlins have the worst record in the big leagues at 1-8. They've scored just 16 runs, and with five consecutive losses they're off to their worst start since the 1998 team began the season 1-11.
Miami kept the game scoreless until the fifth, when Gattis hit his third homer in a six-run inning. The rookie also singled and is batting .391 with a slugging percentage of .826.
Juan Francisco hit a two-run homer off the facade of the upper deck in center field, Andrelton Simmons drove in two runs and Jordan Schafer had four of Atlanta's 13 hits.
For the second night in a row, the Marlins drew the smallest crowd since their park opened a year ago. Announced attendance was 13,810.
Miami went 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position and is batting .153 in those situations. Alex Sanabia (1-1) gave up six runs, all in his fifth and final inning.
SAN FRANCISCO — Buster Posey drove in three runs while NBA star Kevin Durant cheered him from the stands, Barry Zito pitched another gem and San Francisco completed a three-game sweep of Colorado.
Staked to a quick lead, Zito (2-0) won his 11th straight decision, dating to last year's postseason. San Francisco earned its 16th consecutive victory in games he has started, the longest such run by a Giants pitcher since 16 in a row by Carl Hubbell for New York in 1936, STATS said.
Zito has thrown 14 scoreless innings so far, the deepest the lefty has gone without giving up a run to start a season in his 14-year career.
Posey hit an RBI triple in the first, a run-scoring double in the second and an RBI single in the fifth. He scored twice.
The Giants won their ninth in a row overall against Colorado. They also have beaten the Rockies nine straight times at AT&T Park.
Andres Torres hit a two-run single for the Giants, who chased Jeff Francis (1-1) in the second inning for the shortest start of his career. San Francisco had a season-high 16 hits a day after getting 14.
PHOENIX — A.J. Pollock homered twice, doubled and drove in four runs as Arizona salvaged the finale of its three-game series against Pittsburgh.
Pollock began the day in an 0-for-14 rut. He also made a diving catch in center field to rob Andrew McCutchen in the first inning.
Wade Miley (2-0) allowed two runs on five hits in 6 2-3 innings.
Jonathan Sanchez (0-2) was charged with nine runs and eight hits in 3 1-3 innings. The last two of those runs came after Sanchez left and reliever Chris Leroux walked two batters, on four pitches each, with the bases loaded in the Diamondbacks' four-run fourth.
PHILADELPHIA — Domonic Brown and Chase Utley homered in a five-run first, Kyle Kendrick threw six effective innings and Philadelphia beat New York.
Pinch-hitter Laynce Nix also went deep for the Phillies, who took two straight from the Mets to earn their first series win of the year.
John Buck homered for the third straight game and Lucas Duda had two solo shots for New York. The Mets set a club record by hitting at least one homer in their first nine games.
Kendrick (1-1) allowed two runs and eight hits to become the first Philadelphia starter other than Cliff Lee to get a win.
Mets starter Jeremy Hefner (0-2) gave up five runs and six hits in three innings.
A rain delay halted the game for 27 minutes in the bottom of the fourth.
WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper homered, Ian Desmond had three extra-base hits and Washington beat Chicago to stay unbeaten at home.
In a game that began 16 minutes late because, the Nationals explained, the umpires got stuck in traffic, Washington starter Jordan Zimmermann (2-0) limited the White Sox to two runs and seven hits in seven innings. Both runs scored on groundouts.
Drew Storen pitched the eighth and Rafael Soriano earned his fourth save in five chances.
Danny Espinosa provided his first two RBIs of the season
Harper hit his fourth homer into the second deck leading off the fourth against Gavin Floyd (0-2), who allowed five runs and nine hits in 5 1-3 innings.
Desmond tripled, doubled twice and scored two runs as the reigning NL East champions improved to 5-0 at Nationals Park.
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The rotation
Luckily, combat has one of the simplest rotations around. I'm going to specifically be covering the Eviscerate-only cycle, since that will be the easiest one to get acquainted with. Your first priority as a combat rogue will be using Sinister Strike to generate combo points and then using those CP to activate Slice and Dice. Get this done as soon as possible, as SnD is very key to keeping up our DPS. You'll then want to refresh SnD any time it gets low.
My rule of thumb is about 12 seconds: If SnD has less than 12 seconds remaining, I need to start planning to use my next few CP to refresh it. After that, you'll basically be spamming Sinister Strike and using Eviscerate any time you get up to 5 or if you need to dump CP to begin working on refreshing Slice and Dice. That's really about it in terms of your major abilities: Sinister Strike, Slice and Dice and Eviscerate are really going to be your core DPS buttons.
Now, that's not to say there isn't plenty else to do. We'll want to time our CDs for the maximum benefit and focus on maximizing our uptime on the boss. I like to open with Adrenaline Rush so that I can quickly activate Slice and Dice, and then use Blade Flurry and Killing Spree right as Adrenaline Rush is fading. From then on, look for opportunities to use Blade Flurry to attack two targets, and use Adrenaline Rush any time you'll have a solid 15 seconds on the boss. Be sure to watch for secondary targets for your killing spree, as this can often be undesirable.
On the topic of weapons and poisons, combat has a few hard rules on how what to use. You need a slow weapon in your main hand, no matter what. You need a fast weapon in your off hand, no matter what. You need Instant Poison on your slow hand, which means your main hand. You need Deadly Poison on your fast hand, which means your off hand. So slow/fast and IP/DP becomes the optimal way to play your combat rogue, and there's really no variation or flexibility here.
To recap:
- Keep SnD up at all times
- Eviscerate as often as possible
- Use all your cooldowns as often as possible
- Don't let your energy cap
Like I said in the Mutilate 101 column, spreadsheet it! Combat specs love pretty much every DPS stat, and based on your own values and your proximity to all the various caps and balances, you will need specialized advice. Armor penetration alone makes any sort of off-the-cuff evaluation impossible. Typically you'll be gemming for a DPS stat like attack power or agility, armor penetration if you already have a lot of it on your gear, or hit and expertise if you're below a particular important cap.
Use one Nightmare Tear to meet your meta requirement, preferably in a blue socket that will grant you the item's socket bonus. Choose the item with the biggest socket bonus but that only requires one blue gem. Speaking of the meta gem, you'll be sporting the Relentless Earthsiege Diamond (RED for short). It sports another 3% increased critical strike damage which stacks with the other critical strike damage modifiers that combat has.
As with any traditional rogue spec, we glyph the big three: our CP generator, our finisher and our 51-point talent. While your glyphs will vary based on your particular cycle, I will be covering the Eviscerate-only cycle glyphs here.
- Glyph of Eviscerate I bet you saw this one coming! A nice 10% boost to Eviscerate's critical strike chance means a 10% higher chance for big numbers on your screen.
- Glyph of Sinister Strike Nothing beats a Ruthlessness proc into double Glyph of Sinister Strike procs for a quick five-point Eviscerate. While the CP gain from this can be random, your buffed crit chance will ensure you see at least a few procs on any given fight.
- Glyph of Killing Spree By lowering the cooldown on KS, it opens it up for usage on many more targets per fight. I like using to ensure high priority mobs die first, like the slimes on the Professor Putricide encounter.
Enchants for the end game
- Weapon Berserking, or Mongoose based on gear levels
- Helm Arcanum of Torment
- Cloak Major Agility or Greater Speed (or engineering / tailoring alternative)
- Shoulders Greater Inscription of the Axe (or scribe alternative)
- Chest Powerful Stats
- Bracers Greater Assault (or leatherworking alternative)
- Gloves Crusher (or engineering alternative)
- Belt Eternal Belt Buckle
- Pants Icescale Leg Armor
- Boots Cat's Swiftness (or Icewalker)
- Rings Assault (enchanter only)
- Encrypted Text - WoW.com (of course!)
- Elitist Jerks rogue forums (lurk for a bit and read the rules before posting!)
- RogueDPS (I recommend the guide section: great info and cheat sheets of common numbers)
- ShadowPanther (my favorite site for drooling over new gear)


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By Mourad Teyeb
Albawaba.com - Tunis
Tunisia FDI exceeds 1 billion dollars for the first time
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Tunisia in 2000 exceeded 1 billion US dollars for the first time reaching 1.1 million dinars - a 125-percent increase over the 488 million dinars reported in 1999, according to official statistics published in Tunis.
Manufacturing FDI was up a staggering 240 percent from 198 million dinars to 673 million dinars, while foreign investment in the service sector rose by 75 percent.
There were 2,139 wholly or partially foreign-owned companies in Tunisia at the end of 2000, up by 181 or 9.2 percent on the previous year, and the new arrivals generated 14,752 jobs.
The foreign businesses and joint ventures were massively dominated by EU member-states, with 1,833 enterprises, followed by the US and Asia.
The trade deficit was up 19.9 percent at 3.72 billion dinars in 2000, with imports of 11.73 billion dinars (up 16.5 percent), exports of 8.01 billion dinars (up 14.9 percent), and an export/import coverage ratio of 68.3 percent against 69.2 percent.
Key factors behind the increased deficit were rising cereal imports following the poor harvest of 1999, and accelerating economic growth that boosted imports of capital goods and raw materials.
Meanwhile, the tax burden is expected to rise marginally from 20.6 percent in 2000 to 20.7 percent this year in spite of the progressive elimination of import tariffs and the government's recent decision to offer a series of new tax breaks.
The tariff and tax cuts will be offset by an improved collection rate due to fiscal reforms, an increase in income tax revenue generated by planned salary increases, and higher tax receipts from oil company profits swelled by rising world petroleum prices.
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Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at an apartment complex in Leucadia Friday.
The blaze at the 18-unit building on Jupiter Street near North Coast Highway 101 was reported about 11:45 a.m., Encinitas Fire Department Division Chief Scott Henry said.
Firefighters had the fire knocked down at 12:21 p.m., Henry said.
An Encinitas lifeguard captain who was driving in the area first noticed smoke coming from a downstairs unit, Henry said.
When firefighters arrived, the unit was "completely involved in fire," Henry said.
A man who lived directly above the apartment had kicked in the front door, but the person who lives there was not home, Henry said.
The fire was contained to the one unit, but the one above it was damaged and it is possible that some of the other units may also be uninhabitable due to smoke damage, Henry said.
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As you've probably gotten a whiff of, we're pretty on top of it this year -- we know that Valentine's Day is right around the corner. While we don't like to get too gooey about it, February 14th is an undeniably great excuse to cook up something delcious, so we've got some good stuff to roll out for you in the next few days.
In the meantime, our friend Sarah Copeland of the blog Edible Living has invited some of her favorite bloggers to celebrate the release of her upcoming cookbook with a virtual Valentine's Day party and you should definitely drop by!
What does this party entail, you ask? Well, Sarah has asked her party invitees to test their favorite recipes from her gorgeously photographed book. In the days before Valentine's Day (which is to say, now!) they'll blog about the recipes as well as "toast the spirit of newlyweds" by telling their own stories about food and love. And to top it all off, each participating blogger is giving away a copy of the book courtesy of Chronicle Books.
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• Farmhouse is cooking up Grilled Lamb Chops with Melted Polenta (we're not sure how you melt polenta, but we're certainly willing to find out).
• E.A.T. tried his hand at Sarah's Iron-Skillet Steak with Thyme Butter.
• Mom's Kitchen Handbook, Kaitie whips up a cheesy souffle and gives a little post-children date night advice.
• Diary of a Locavore served up a simple lunch of Beet Salad with Pistachios.
• Luisa at Lucid Food cooks Seared Halibut with Coriander and Carrots.
• Crumbs on my Keyboard picked some Multigrain Pancakes with Chocolate Shavings
• CherrySpoon and her husband dug into Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding
•Maia Cheslow over at Dessertolicious (aka Sarah's hard working intern) gave Olive Oil Cake with Tangerine Marmalade a try
Whether you're looking to plan a dinner for your own special lady or gent, or need a little 'love does exist' boost, this is a party worth checking it out. Oh, and the seasonally-based recipes are pretty hard to beat.
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I go through a huge amount of headphones as I use them for loads of things such as listening to music through my phone, my mp3 player and even my laptop when I am watching a movie in bed or the train. The biggest problem that I have is that I am always misplacing them or leaving them in cafes or on train seats etc.
I have found that cheap and cheerful headphones don't exist and if you want a decent pair then you need to spend the money on them but I am forever looking for the exception.
These aren't it though. They were cheap though from sports direct and cost just under a pound down from three. I have tried the poundland ones before and they were rubbish but I hoped since these were originally a little bit more they would be better quality than those ones.
These are pretty basic looking headphones in white but at least they are in ear ones and not those ones that just sit on your outer ear and are really uncomfortable.The rubber end make them sit securely enough in the ear and they are ok comfort wise and the cable is a decent length but that's about all they have going for them.
The sound quality from them is absolutely terrible and I was actually worried that there was something wrong with my phone originally because the sound was so bad and they were making a hissing and crackling noise from them.
I tried other headphones and my phone was fine and it was just these headphones that had the problem. Straight away the hissing and crackling made them unusable for me but even if they hadn't had that problem I would still have not used them as the volume level was so low. The volume was so low even when the volume was cranked right up on my phone to it's maximum. I should really have learnt my lesson with cheap headphones because all of the ones in this price range that I've tried have been awful and these were no exception and if anything they may even have been worse than any others I have tried. Not recommended and I would definitely consider just paying a few more pounds to get a much better set from a better quality brand as you will probably regret buying these and even though they are cheap it is still just money down the drain when you can't actually use them for their intended purpose.
Like the headline says they are just usual earphones if you just want to listen normal music without isolation of bas and everything. They are really cheap because the quality is not really that good, I mean the quality is for nothing. Quality is bad design is not that good but hey for £1 is not bad it is not for trash . So if you are searching for just an earphones that you would listen on your smartphone or MP3s MP4s is not bad choice but they have their expiring date. If you drop them once twice you can say goodbye to them. But like I said for £1 it is not that bad. I personally bought this because I am short on money and I like these type of earphones not those that you need to push through ear, you just put these on and you are good to go. Cheap and nice.
I was on the lookout for a cheap and cheerful pair of little headphones that I could use while exercising, and thought I was lucky when I found these Output Designer Earphones. Reduced from £2.99 to just 99p in Sports Direct, they seemed like a bargain.
Product description: "Output accessories in-ear earphones with rubber earbuds allow for a nuanced listening experience with MP3 audio. Specially designed to meet the needs of users on the go. These rubber earbuds reduce external sound and enhance the bass impact on compressed audio tracks, giving you access to a new, more exciting sound experience. The Output Earphones let you listen to your music on the move, featuring an in ear designed for maximum comfort and quality sound delivery.
> In ear design
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The headphones are pretty standard looking with a simple design and no obvious branding or design printed on them. There were several colour options to choose from and I went for the pink ones, which have a black cord and white inner-ear pads.
I was pleased that the headphones are lightweight as I wanted to avoid anything heavy that could weigh me down or become dislodged as I'm exercising. The in-ear sections did not seem to fit me properly and I think the pads are a little on the small side. The actual design seems not as good as similar products that I've tried before as the fit of the ear pads was loose and needed readjusting often to get them into a comfortable position. Annoyingly, the cable seems to tangle immediately without any provocation, and it is impossible to keep it neatly arranged when I'm transporting the headphones around inside a bag, or even just when stored in my drawer.
The sound quality from these headphones is absolutely terrible. It turns anything and everything that I listen to into an annoying hum. The sound comes across as being very tinny, and there is a lack of clarity to the music which is down to the poor quality of the headphones. I have mainly been using them with my phone and the difference between playing a song through the speaker on my phone compared to playing a song through the headphones is remarkable - the headphones do not do my music any justice and it greatly impacts on the effect of the songs. The sound balance is also not quite right, and I have to turn the volume up really high before I can hear the songs properly. Amazingly they do not leak any sounds out, even with the increased volume level, which is nice as I know I won't be bugging people nearby with my inferior sounding music!
I have to say that I think this was a bad choice of purchase. I was suckered in by the ridiculous low price and I can see now why they are so cheap. I cannot get any enjoyment from listening to music through these headphones, although they do suit my needs in providing a cheap, lightweight set of headphones for use during exercise. I am going to keep using them for the time being but I'll be glad when the day comes that they finally break and I can justify getting a replacement set. I am definitely prepared to spend more next time and get a better quality product!


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Who Wore It Better? Menswear at the Independent Spirit Awards
I couldn't pass this one up. Ellen Page and Javier Bardem both showed up to the Independent Spirit Awards in black suits, untucked white button-downs, and skinny black ties. The only difference was in the shoes — Javier went with trainers, while Ellen rocked ballet flats. Who wore menswear better?!
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The Real Woman? Why Molly Hooper Is The One Who Counts
Molly Hooper became my hero roughly a year and a half ago, not long into the first transmission of A Study In Pink. A little sooner, perhaps, than she became a hero for everyone else, but the potential has always been there. This, I thought, is the woman. This is the woman who talks like me.
It's Irene Adler who was called the woman by Arthur Conan Doyle, of course. The one woman who could match Sherlock Holmes, who could beat him. The only woman in the entire Holmes canon who really counted.
But the second series of Sherlock changed that. Irene Adler might have been called the woman, but it was Molly Hooper who left an indelible mark. For one hundred and sixty years Irene has been the only one, and then Molly Hooper was born, created at the end of a blinking cursor. Two little scenes in The Reichenbach Fall, but they made all the difference in the world because to a hundred young girls, it was Molly Hooper who became the woman – the one woman that they absorb through their media who looks and sounds and feels like them.
There is absolutely nothing wrong, of course, with Irene Adler. I admire her immensely. She's smart and sassy and confidant, competent, enjoys sex with neither an accompanying neurosis nor shame, and is more than a match for Sherlock Holmes and his massive intellect. She's a Moffat creation in the mould of River Song and Amy Pond, women with personalities who can hold their own. Like most of the archetypes of "strong female" I come across in my media consumption, she's a character I can objectively admire and understand, but never look for in the mirror.
There is a trend in media for strong women who are outwardly so. They are witty, snarky, toned, and know how to hold a gun. The role model being pushed is that of the ultimate woman. It's progress – I wouldn't trade River Song for a hundred people from Hollywood's past – but there's a silent repercussion, a fortification of the idea that women have to be twice as accomplished to be considered half as good, to deserve this screen time at all. They are always extraordinary, always the one in a million. Importantly, there's no variety – only one mould to fit ourselves into. It's a great mould, yes, but not for everyone – because there is no such thing as a real woman, no one mould that anyone should have to squeeze themselves into if it doesn't fit.
Molly Hooper is, finally, different. Molly Hooper is kind, thoughtful, always smiling, and intelligent in a way that you don't really notice until you remember she's a pathologist. She asks after people and cares about the answers, remembers little details because everything someone says is important. She probably still remembers how Sherlock likes his coffee. Her blog is pink, covered in kittens, and uses Comic Sans. She blunders her way through speaking, has serious foot-in-mouth syndrome, and can't put on a pair of plastic gloves without making faces. She is one of the strongest women I have ever seen.
She puts up with what can only be described as "total bullshit." You might say that makes her a bit of a doormat, but for people like Molly (like me), who like kindness and hate conflict, it takes serious guts to call someone on their behaviour and say you're hurting me. It takes guts to carry that kind of unrequited love and still first and foremost be a friend, to ask what do you need? Molly Hooper makes Sherlock Holmes, a man who can barely articulate anything beyond the scientific, try to be kinder. In the end, Molly isn't the woman who counts, but the friend.
My sister is fifteen. She doesn't remember the Spice Girls, that burst of girl power which carried me, seven years older, through childhood, and then faded into a world where all prominent role models are pulled from The Only Way Is Essex or an ITV2 reality show, a world where I discovered Caitlin Moran – and consequently myself – purely by accident. But she remembers Molly, and she loves her. We can't jump from skyscrapers like River Song or point guns at CIA agents like Irene Adler, however much we admire them for it. But we can be thoughtful and we can be kind. We can choose a career we love and we can be a friend to someone who needs us. I can't hope to be Irene or River, but I can be Molly. I would rather be Molly.
Molly Hooper is important because she's not just my hero, but my sister's as well, and the hero of a hundred other girls who look at her and think, that's the woman I'd like to see in the mirror. Perhaps she's even more important to the girls – quiet, kind, stumbling over their words and wishing they could be as cool as River Song – who already see her there.
The title of this article is not meant to be exclusionary to anyone, including trans* women, those who consider themselves queer/genderqueer, or indeed anywhere under the LGBTQ* umbrella. It was designed to work in conjunction with a later point in this article – that "there is no such thing as a real woman, no one mould that anyone should have to squeeze themselves into if it doesn't fit" – something which I vehemently believe. The inclusion of cis, trans*, queer, genderqueer (and all other) women was implicit, but that isn't really clear, and this addendum is here to acknowledge that and recognise that the title could in fact reinforce exactly what it was trying to dispel. It remains here as an acknowledgement of my mistake.


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Harry Aleo's Eclipse Award champion sprinter Lost in the Fog and Darley Stable's filly Dubai Escapade are the marquee names among the nominations to the eight stakes races worth $2 million to be run on the "Summit of Speed" program at Calder Racecourse on Saturday, July 15.Lost in the Fog won the eighth of his first 10 starts career starts when he posted a 7 ¼ length romp in last year's Carry Back Stakes (gr. II) on the 2005 'Summit' card.Lost in the Fog suffered his first defeat when seventh as the favorite in the TVG Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), but the Florida-bred son of Lost Soldier was still voted Eclipse champion, and is on target to run in the $500,000 Smile Sprint Handicap (gr. II) at six furlongs.
Other prominent nominees for the Smile include owner-trainer Steve Asmussen's 5-year-old gelding Anew, whose four-race win streak includes the True North Handicap (gr. II), and Anstu Stable's 5-year-old Friendly Island, who captured the Maryland Breeders' Cup (gr. III) on Preakness Day at Pimlico for trainer Todd Pletcher.Dubai Escapade leads the list of nominees for the $500,000, six furlong Princess Rooney Handicap (gr. I), which has also attraced Susan and John Moore's Smokey Glacken and S.M. Mitchell Ranch's Leave Me Alone.A 4-year-old daughter of Awesome Again , Dubai Escapade has won all four of her starts this year since coming to trainer Eoin Harty in the U.S. She finished fifth in her only start as a 2-year-old at Nottingham in England and won her only start last year as a 3-year-old in Dubai.


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What do you make of the undocumented immigrants being flown into San Diego?
I don't want to voice my opinion. I live here. Ok wait nevermind I will voice my opinion, as a citizen of this city I have met several back of the house workers in restaurants who are Mexican decent, and they are extremely hard workers and ask no questions and I would even argue they are thee backbone of the restaurant industry in California and most of the South West.
People say they are unskilled and become criminals, I just do not see that the case at all. People say they take Americans jobs… Well they get paid the same rate if not more than citizens who are applying and seem to do a better job from what I've seen.
They are quick in the kitchen, they learn fast, they take the heat, they wash the dishes they don't talk back. These are classic hard working human beings who hustle hard. Hell they don't live out of their means either.
Here is a great quote by one of my friends and ex coworker. "Why you stress cabrone? Me? I don't have time to stress, always looking for work, always looking for the money. Stress is for lazy people cabrone."
I won't deny the fact though that the recent news seems to be a bit chaotic and they seem to be coming through the borders swiftly. Why hasn't there been a filter system for even the poor citizens of Mexico to apply for a Visa? I hear it's near impossible to qualify.
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Naru the miracle monkey
Naru, the orangutan who has overcome amazing odds and cheated death several times, is finally being released into the wild. After being separated from his mother, Naru was taken to a rehabilitation center, where he was struck by two bouts of life-threatening malaria. The ape endured six months in quarantine away from the other orphaned orangutans, leaving him feverish and lonely. But the determined ape once again fought back from the brink to be released into a rain forest reserve in North Borneo.


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We consider the problem of testing the homogeneity hypothesis in an RxC contingency table when the data are spatially autocorrelated. We show that familiar asymptotic results are invalid under these circumstances and we propose a simple adjustment to the standard [chi]2 statistic that allows for spatial dependence.
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A jewellery maker has raised nearly £100 by selling bracelets to honour her friend who lost her battle to cancer.
Jane Bowman, of Flitcham, is making bracelets in memory of Rosie Amos, who died last year aged 43.
The money will go to the Red Wellies charity, raising money for the Lisa Wiles Brain Tumour Support Fund.
Jane's bracelets, which are adorned with the Red Wellies logo, have so far raised £98 and more is expected.
She will be manning a stall in the Sainsbury's Hardwick store throughout today.
Red Wellies treasurer Mervyn Wiles said: "These are really nice and are popular with youngsters. It's nice to be raising money with handmade jewellery."
The charity, which was set up in the days after Lisa's death in October 2011 to raise awareness of brain tumours and money for research, has been boosted by a series of donations.
The Martin Folkes Masonic Lodge in Hunstanton has given £200 while Keith Upjohn has donated £417.50.
Mars Foods has donated £190 while £100 has also been received from Kevin and Christine Wilson of East Winch. It also received a total of £96.23 thanks to collections and donations from the Highways Garden Centre, near Norwich.
The Maipop Farm Shop at Walsoken has also raised £16.20 from a bucket collection.


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Your Horoscope: Week of May 15-21, 2013
By Denise Guzzardo
Week of May 15-21, 2013
This Week: Quiet resolutions become evident after last week's new moon eclipse. Hidden influences, as well as hidden benefits, come to light and open doors for new opportunities. A high-charged positive alignment will arrive with the lunar eclipse in Sag at the end of this month, May 25. We can all breathe a welcomed sigh of relief between now and the end of the month. Enjoy.
Aries (March 21 to April 19) — The past really does need to be left in the past now. You have other pressing issues to deal with. Try not to worry about the health of a female family member, and remember just how much control you really have over a situation (in the grand scheme of things, not much) and that everything has its time and place.
Taurus (April 20 to May 20) — Try not to obsess about a certain situation or feeling you have. Your gut intuition may be playing tricks on you a bit. As more information becomes available, you will have the direct approach to solve this conflict. Try to help another focus on the positive aspects of their life. If they cannot see the benefits of this, cut them loose.
Gemini (May 21 to June 20) — You may need to set a very strong boundary with a family member this week. Although this may be difficult, it is imperative for your own happy home life. Another may be trying to create a conflict because they are unhappy with their present situation. This is not your problem — only they can be responsible for their own happiness.
Cancer (June 21 to July 22) — Be very cautious that another is not trying to alienate you from your significant other. This may not be intentional, but the damage can be just as real all the same. Protect your environment from emotional intruders, and all will go well. Finances take a turn for the better this week. New business opportunities present themselves in an extremely positive light.
Leo (July 23 to Aug. 22) — Actions speak louder than words. So, at this point, don't pressure the words out of another. Look at their actions. Have they been there for you? The eyes are the windows to the soul. What do you see? As you move forward in this situation, everything will fall into place in time. Don't question this now.
Virgo (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) — Romance is finally knocking at your door. Conflicting schedules, stress or fatigue may have played a role in a dry spell. Now, you're about to light up like a slot machine and pay off in silver dollars. Financial aspects are improving as well. A family situation will be in place to heal at this time. Make an effort.
Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) — You may need to dig deep in your past memory to help someone out with a current situation. Although at first you may have difficulty recalling this, it will come to you as the story unfolds. The information is very important and will heal up an old, long-standing problem. You are evolving into a new space emotionally now. Expansion with business and property is favorable at this time.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) — It's time to protect what's rightfully yours. Do not allow another to invade your turf. Emotionally or physically, the bad behavior of another cannot become your problem now. You're entitled to some happiness, so now is a really good time to remove some of the "drama." Next week brings some positive elements with your financial status. Enjoy.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) — Take some time out to look at your long-term goals this week. Even though you may not be living the conventional life, you're making progress with your own personal agenda now. You will be in a position to connect with the perfect outlet for your creative talent this month. This can also lead to a romantic encounter.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) — Another has been "poking" at you for quite some time now, and this week you may just flat-out "deck them." Choose your words carefully, but at the same time, set your boundary loud and clear. If you do not clarify your feelings, this will continue until permanent damage is done. At that point, you do not want to be in a position to have any regrets. At the same time, you're not a doormat.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) — You're in a really good place with business this week. It appears you're at the right place at the right time. Connections you make now will have long-term positive effects throughout the spring and summer. A business opportunity should be considered strongly now. You will benefit financially as well as emotionally.
Pisces (Feb. 19 to March 20) — The past has come up in a big way this week. This is an opportunity for you to heal up all past aspects, one by one. Try not to fear this encounter; instead, embrace it. The knowledge that comes out of this situation is astounding. Most of all, your emotional growth is the best gift you get from this.
For an extended astrological forecast or psychic consultation, contact Denise at (815) 398-3983.
From the May 15-21, 2013, issue