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Unexpected EOF said...
As a warlock, I fully support your choice here. Unless the healer is terrible (and I am being terrible for not having managed my mana properly) I will never ask for a heal. And I'm not one of those people who thinks most healers are terrible. I have had two bad healers out of well over 100 random PuGs.
jay estrela said...
You must have never played a Warlock. My main was a warlock but is now a Resto Sham so I have seen it from both sides. Many healers will feel put off that a warlock will just tap after a pull instead of drinking and in response just not heal them until they take mob damage. I agree that this can be annoying but the fact is that it takes two seconds to top them back off and throw a hot or shield on the tank then start drinking yourself. By the time the tank has pulled the next mob and is taking dmg you will be back to full mana and can come back and heal the group back to full which will DRAMATICALLY increase the pace in an instance.
I don't know. The more I read this article, the angrier I get. There are other people in the raid that I need to pay attention to over your pet. I'm sorry if it gets missed on heals and buffs. And no...I do not put pet's heath bar on my unit frames. I have enough things to worry about in the raid. Your pet is your responsibility. Learn how to manage it. And for the love of all things, please learn how to read a threat meter. If you see yourself going up high, back off of the DPS. Take some responsibility of your survivability on yourself. Don't rely so much on the healers doing all the work for you.
Amen for healers. The warlock who poasted this is a jerk. As a healer, who has to drink between fights: if I'm sitting and drinking, to get mana, and you life tap you will get no heals. If I'm spending my time and vitrual gold to get mana back, you can sit your cheap, lazy ass down and do the same. Healers are not your personal mana battery. If you actually have to sit and drink between fights, too bad. All the other caster classes have to drink mana, too. Groups are NOT solo. You are now acting as a cooperative, not a single person who is pulling mutiple mobs as fast as you can to level. It is NOT ok do go into fights with half health, cause your pet will tank the mobs. Healers want to take every advantage they can get going into fights, and that menas full health for everyone. Your life tap annoys the living crap out of us. Just sit and drink. Or even better, tap once, and sit and eat and drink, so you get health and mana regen at the same time.
That being said, in raids where you run low on mana, sure, you can get health back. But be sure you are close enough to someone taking damage to get healing splash. Healers notice who takes damage, and who takes damage often. Those are the first to be ignored for heals in a tight situation. In the long run, they are not worth spending mana on to keep up. Constant use of life tap will put you on that list very fast. You become as bad as the loser that always stands in the fire. If you life tap at the wrong time, we let you die first.
Keep in mind, healers cannot kill you. But if you are stupid and take unnecessary damage, we can let the Darwinian process finish its work.
re: Yomamma's comment on pets.
I agree.
I do actually have a special bar for pets in my window, but it is strategically placed several inches below my main healing bar. It works out well for me, because if I'm spamming heals, I'll only see the players, because they are my first responsibility. When I get a chance to breath, I can take a broad look at all of the bars and will be able to toss heals towards the pets, too.
And with respect to Jay Estrela's response, I would argue that if the tank is pulling while the healer is OOM, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the run to begin with. I have been in many situations where I have to race after a tank and pray that I'll get him shielded before he dies and finally get within range when he/she is at 25% health. The faster things go do, then faster he moves, the harder it is for the healer to catch up. And having a healer who is out of range and/or out of LOS of the tank is just as bad as having one who is OOM.
I used to have a macro that cast regrowth and whispered to the lock, "Welcome to Kah's rehabilitation for locks who have been yelled at by healers. Regrowth is on you and will continue healing for 27 seconds. If you Life Tap in that time, it will be healed with no extra effort on the healers' part."
Of course, that was unwieldy and annoying after a time or two, so I reduced it to one line and try to keep track of locks who want the reminder and those who don't.
When I play my lock, I try to keep an eye on the healer. If they go out of mana faster, I Life Tap less and try to do so when a Haunt is coming back to me quickly.
I actually play a Resto Shaman...so your pets are indirectly being healed by my glyphed healing totem, and from chain heal. I just don't see a need to keep an eye on a pets health. I also play a hunter, and know that when my pet gets low on health it's time to pull him back. Why can't locks learn to do that as well?
And for throwing a HOT to a warlock lifetapping. I have no problem doing that either. My HOT's are kind of limited so you're not getting my first riptide at the start of the pull. That goes to the tank.
My beef really is with those who say HEAL ME in vent or in chat. It seemed like the Author is one of those bads.
Ratskinmahoney said...
That kind of attitude is precisely what the point of that part of the article was about. Warlocks have small mana pools compared to every other caster class, we have much greater mana costs per casts than every other caster class. You think you have to burn your gold drinking, well it would cost us four times as much to keep ourselves topped up in that way.
Sure if the group has stopped for a mana break, and a Warlock is standing around at 5% health waiting for you to finish and not eating then he/she is taking the piss, but our class is designed around the understanding that we make good use of life-tap. Also, as ISL destro, or Afflic we generate pretty awesome amounts of self-healing, so it's not like we're not helping you out at all.
Noone's expecting you to manage our pets for us, but there are limits to what we can do. I don't expect you to prioritise my pet over any member of the raid, just to be aware that he is part of the raid dps and he is giving you free spirit and intellect, unless I'm dreadful, he's not going to be asking for much. If you struggle that much with healing in that encounter, let him die first, if not you're doing yourself no favours by ignoring him.
We appreciate healers more than most, because we know that we depend on you for dps, even if we're taking no damage. We hand out healthstones, and you're always the ones to get our soulstones, just understand we need a little more love than mages :)
Wow you healers are seriously on Diva status. I play both a resto druid and a warlock and I fully understand how easy it is to heal a lock when they lifetap. The only time lifetap has been a problem is when a silly lock taps in the middle of a boss fight when they are seriously low on HP. Most of the time a couple of quick hots that regen faster for me since my gear has a butt ton of Mp5 will top off the lock without me even feeling it. I pretty much just make it standard practice to throw a hot on the lock both right before a pull, and right after we down mobs so they can lifetap.
It's important to keep in mind that if the lock you are healing dies it takes longer to run the instance anyway. The whole point is to get through as quickly as possible and deaths/drinking just slows the whole process down.
Dharmabhum said...
Thanks for addressing the interaction between my Renew button and your Life Tap! I
As a healer, my opinion is that you locks can just life tap away as you see fit, as long as you don't do it during combat just when the boss is about to do his big AoE attack. I am drowning in regen, I can spare the heals.
I will also buff your pet, even if you summon it after I've buffed everybody else. And I'll also heal it, no problem, as long as you understand the priority list in a typical 5-man is: tank, me, DPS, pets.
Just watch your threat. That's really the only problem I ever have with locks, as soon as they get some nice gear they become aggro monkeys. Just remember that you're still a clothie...
I play a tree with about 400 MP5 in (unbuffed). In heroics, as you'd expect, I generally have plenty of mana. I usually tell any warlocks "If you've got a HoT on you, feel free to lifetap". It's usually greeted with "Yay!" or similar :-). I'll then try to keep a Regrowth on the 'lock at essentially all times. Most 'locks then tap as often as they need to keep the mana bar reasonably well topped off. It keeps the group running smoothly, and everyone's happy.
Lifetapping to top off mana helps in other ways too. If I have to drop everything and keep the tank alive, I may have no GCDs (or *very* occasionally mana) to keep a spare HoT on a warlock. At that point, most 'locks have a plenty large enough mana pool to keep on nuking until the crisis is over one way or the other.
I use Dark Pact instead of Life Tap since 3.3 because it raises much more mana in less time and doesn't require healing. Obviously this only works for affliction, but that is the best spec anyway :D
What does annoy me about other healers (I have a priest too) is that they will rarely put a lock, mage or shadow priest above another dps on healing priority. Surely it stands to reason that a squishy with 18k health is more likely to die from unavoidable damage than a ret paladin with 24k? On my disc priest bubble priority goes Tank>Me>Clothies>Leather>Mail>Plate. It is not so hard!
One thing that Warlocks never realize and that annoys me as a healer (who has an 80 lock that I once raided with, so I'm not just talking out of my ass here) is that you DON'T need to be at full mana for trash. With Replenishment aplenty, you don't even need to be at HALF mana for trash.
Also...for those of you who have the Glyph for LT, put Life Tap Rank One on your bar and do THAT at the beginning of a pull.
I guess I take a proactive approach to Lifetapping 'locks since I play a Priest as a main and alt a Warlock. When I'm on my Priest, I tell the Warlock they can LT as needed and I'll heal them up. I recommend they use Rank 1 Life Tap if they're just using it as part of their rotation. I'll usually just keep Renew running on the warlock at all times, and that's enough to keep their health up. If they LT more than my Renew can handle, that's on them. With pets, I have pet frames on my VuhDo grid, and will heal and buff them as needed - I understand they're an important part of DPS and hey, more DPS helps make my job easier too.
When I play my 'lock, I do get annoyed if a healer doesn't bother tossing me a HoT or a quick heal now and then. I don't LT excessively with her, and I use Rank 1 LT in my DPS rotation. I usually keep my 'lock at about 75% mana. If it's after a hard fight and I get below that, then yeah I eat/drink - it's not a big deal. But having played both sides, and knowing how many times a Warlock should need to LT, as well as knowing how much a simple HoT can heal for, there's no reason that a healer shouldn't be able to toss a Warlock one to top them off, nor is there any reason for a Warlock to LT down to dangerous levels.
As a warlock in a guild with an excellent healer who is always on and always ready for a random dungeon, I often thank her for "healz" when she tops me up after I LT, and I remind her her "if I LT too much let me know."
Her response is usually just, "kk np," but once she said "don't LT before a boss pull." She didn't know about the GoLT. But then I didn't have a rank 1 LT hotkeyed, either. Now I do.
I never complain about late heals, nor do I even ask for heals. If I don't get a heal it's because the tank or the mage needs it more; I bandage. Or I use my HS or a potion. That's what they're for.
And I NEVER expect her to spend mana healing my pet. I get far, far more effective pet healing out of Health Funnel... and if it dies, then resummoning it costs only a shard.
In return, I make sure she always has a healthstone and a soulstone, and I'll even throw a scroll or a bandage on her if I think it's needed. (And if she goes down, I'm the first to bandage the tank, though it doesn't usually make much of a difference.)
I'm the only 80 warlock in the guild, so i certainly don't want to give the impression that warlocks are greedy for heals, or that LT is a pain for the healer. I want the warlock to be essential.
My Affliction lock will always be my mine but I've also been gearing up a Holy Paladin and I'm with you all the way.
I've never encountered anything but Destro locks running random heroics and it's about a 50-50 split between people who know when to tap and how much, and the guy who taps five or six times to get his mana back to full and his health down to 2k right as the tank pulls the first pack on the ramp after Krick & Ick in POS HC. Please don't be that guy - if the tank is taking hits from four mobs at once and the rogue is standing in the AOE, they're going to get heals before you.
That doesn't mean "the lock won't get healed because he annoys me", it just means priorities that need juggling by a single target healer (well, double with Beacon) and you should at least be very careful to not take aggro on anything while two or more players are taking damage.
Sadly those life taps often lead to a rain of fire before the Prot Warrior has a chance to build up enough aggro, and the ensuing mess is the healer's fault.
Most players who understand class mechanics understand that warlocks need to life tap to gain mana from health. You don't always need a full mana bar on every fight - better to tap once every 10-20 seconds than keep your mana topped up at the expense of your health and the healer's sanity.


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Walk Free members globally will call on the world's major corporations to work together to end modern slavery by identifying, eradicating and preventing forced labour in their operations and supply chains.
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The campaign Putting Slavery out of Business was launched in Yangon at an event led by Walk Free CEO Nick Grono, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Combat Trafficking In Persons Luis CdeBaca, Fortescue Metals Group founder and Chairman Andrew Forrest, UNICEF specialist on trafficking and migration, Dr Susu Thatun, and Free the Slaves founder Kevin Bales.
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- Calories from fat: 13%
- Fat: 6.2g
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- Monounsaturated fat: 2.5g
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- 1 to 2 tablespoons minced serrano chile
- 1 tablespoon sambal oelek (chile paste with garlic)
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 2 teaspoons low-sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cups diced cooked chicken breast
- 2 cups diced cooked shrimp (about 12 ounces)
- 3 cups cooked rice
- 1/2 cup diced cucumber
- 1/2 cup diced tomato
- Heat canola oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add shallots and chile to pan; sauté 2 minutes or until the shallots are lightly browned. Add chile paste, fish sauce, soy sauce, salt, and garlic to the pan; cook for 1 minute or until the sauce becomes fragrant. Add diced chicken, shrimp, and rice to the pan, stirring to coat with sauce. Cook for 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring occasionally. Place about 1 1/2 cups rice on each of 4 plates, and sprinkle each serving with 2 tablespoons cucumber and 2 tablespoons tomato.
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Hacker Disrupts New Zealand Election Campaign
Re:Way to go (75 comments)
Good to see things being stirred up, but I'm concerned the hacker is releasing only what will achieve his/her agenda rather than the whole truth.
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Re:Way to go (75 comments)
Good to see things being stirred up, but I'm concerned the hacker is releasing only what will achieve his/her agenda rather than the whole truth.
Re:High success rate or lots of unknowns? (256 comments)
Kevin Bacon is a terrorist!
Get the one who caused it... (800 comments)
Under no circumstances should they get away with it, even if that means taking out 3 others!
Re:I believe it (1010 comments)
Average IQ of Republicans vs Democrats?
Average IQ of believers vs non-believers?
Will I get to toast my marshmellows over the embers?
Re:I'd like to be able to switch it off at will. (961 comments)
I live in the boonies & am very tired of people burning rubber here. Burn it in your own back yard!
Re:I can confirm this (332 comments)
I've never been anywhere that quiet - can only compare it to my first few times in a dark-room.
While trying to move film from canisters to tanks for processing my eyes got sore. Took a while to realise I was scrunching them shut - trying to keep the dark out?
Re:I stopped using Chrome (260 comments)
and if Google apps stop working on Firefox you'll switch to Office365?
Re:How is this better than an ultralight helicopte (127 comments)
One advantage the Martin has is that the blades are enclosed. I'd have better luck getting permission to land a Martin in the carpark than a Mosquito.
30 minutes at max speed of around 60 mph : would probably be enough for me to do a return trip on one tank - if only the damn airport wasn't in the way!
(Not that I have a spare US$150k)
Re:Some things are missing (479 comments)
I thought I was old for a Slashdotter!! GDG's still exist & are still excellent.
99/365 expiry doesn't & wasn't
Re:what? (376 comments)
You get to keep a little more privacy than with the NSA version
Re:NOPE! (217 comments)
Just so long as testing takes into account the fact the the end user will probably have a much lower spec machine/screen/connection (& won't have root/admin access). It might work great on a developers machine, but be a steaming dogpile for the intended user!
Partial-word searches... (226 comments)
When I can do partial-word searches on Gmail and Drive I'll believe Google is interested in corporate customers.
Google is primarily a search company & you can't do partial-word searches on email - what's up with that?
Australian Intelligence (180 comments)
contradiction in terms?
Re:What Information? (256 comments)
Hopefully the SCADA systems have a password other than the default
Behind a firewall... (558 comments)
doesn't allow ping!
Tech can be obvious (121 comments)
but round corners can't?
Re:Misleading headlines are misleading (953 comments)
It's not always the software that is the problem - drivers connecting a $100,000 piece of equipment may not be available for current versions of the O/S.
It may net even be possible to get them written if the company no longer trades, or refuses to support older equipment.
$10,000 may well be the pointy end of the problem!
Re:Has Slashdot officially become a paid shill? (168 comments)
mid-afternoon in GNU Zealand
Re:Has Slashdot officially become a paid shill? (168 comments)
:-) 1st time accepted, 2nd or 3rd submission I think. Sad how the quality of stories seems to have declined over the last few years, but the quality of the posts & the turns they take still sometimes surprise me. Without their seasoned contributors, this site would fade away in no time. I hope the people running it recognise that.
Re:Has Slashdot officially become a paid shill? (168 comments)
I don't know about Slashdot's priorities when it comes to deciding what makes the cover, but I submitted in good faith.
I'm not a fan of HP by any means & we have truck-loads of their servers at work. The concept for this sounded interesting & maybe there is a place for it in the 'cloud'.
What we really need at work is big kick-ass servers like IBM's new Power 7 machines (IBM - please direct debit my account ASAP)
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Before the tears ensued.
It's finally heating up here in Boston, which translates quite simply to Taco Time in my brain. Seriously, as a LA-native, an addiction to delicious tacos is pretty much embedded in my genes. Then again, so is laziness when it comes to all things domestic, so luckily for me, tacos are super easy to make.
Most of the time, tacos get bogged down with a lot of the unhealthy stuff, i.e. cheese, refried beans, fatty meats, and sour cream. I love those ingredients as much as the next person, but I usually prefer light and fresh flavors when the temperature begins to skyrocket. Feel free to disagree, but before you do, try this quick and dirty 20 minute fish taco recipe. Then we'll talk.
What you'll need:
- 3/4 – 1 lb of white fish (I used cod)
- 1/2 medium red onion
- approx three limes
- one mango
- 1/2 of a bell pepper (I used an orange one for color and a slightly sweeter taste)
- 3 tbsp of cilantro
- 1 tsp of olive oil
- 1/2 dozen corn tortillas
- 1 avocado
- salt & pepper to taste
Step One:
I started with the mango slaw since chances are, your fish will cook pretty quickly. Then when I was done, I just stuck it in the fridge and began on the fish. Start out by slicing, peeling, cubing the red onion, mango, cilantro, bell pepper, and half the avocado respectively. Then simply throw it all into a bowl, mix it up, and add the juice from two of the limes. Voila, done with the slaw! See, I told you this was easy.
I don't know how to peel anything without chopping my finger off, so I had a friend do it. Don't judge me, it SAYS "undomesticated" in the title. What did you expect?
See, doesn't this look prettier than refried beans?
Step Two:
Heat up the olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Then place the fish in the pan and cook for a few minutes on each side. The exact time will depend on how thick the filet is so use a fork to check the fish. It should be milky white and flaky when done. If you overcook it, it'll dry out, so pay attention.
Okay, so this is less pretty than the slaw, but be patient!
Step Three:
Heat up six corn tortillas on the stove. Then add the fish, mango slaw, and the leftover 1/2 avocado on top of each tortilla. Sprinkle with salt and lime juice as desired. You should have half a dozen tacos ready in 20 mins or less!
Modifications: I don't like spicy things, but you can toss in a jalapeno with the slaw or chop up some shredded cabbage to add to the tacos. Whatever feels right to you!
Ta da! Trust me, they were delicious.
Want more recipes? Check out more from our Young, Broke, & Undomesticated series like the Soy-garlic Fiddleheads and the Oven-baked Elote.


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Tommy Emmanuel in Concert
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 / 7:30 pm
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center
901 15th Ave
South Milwaukee, WI
Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel is one of Australia's most respected musicians. The legendary guitarist has a professional career that spans almost five decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. A household name in his native Australia, Tommy has garnered hundreds of thousands of loyal fans worldwide. Tommy's unique style - he calls it simply "finger style" - is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist plays piano, using all ten fingers. Rather than using a whole band for melody, rhythm, bass, and drum parts, Tommy plays all that - and more - on one guitar. Guitar legend Chet Atkins was one of the first to inspire Emmanuel to try this "fingerpicker" style as a child. Decades later, Atkins himself became one of Emmanuel's biggest fans.
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Luke Bryan wins Entertainer of the Year
Congratulations to Luke...I am so happy for him..watch the acceptance..
Congratulations to Luke...I am so happy for him..watch the acceptance..
These two are going to make the ACM's HILARIOUS
We now have the power to not only vote in the Entertainer of the Year...... But we also have the power to vote in the Best New Artist..
It's Brantley Gilbert
Jana Kramer
Florida Georgia Line
My advice vote Florida Georgia line, so there is no fighting between Brantley and his fiance, Jana....lol
~~Former NFL coach/ESPN analyst Jon Gruden invited Kenny Chesney to his QB Camp feature.
Chesney, a Knoxville native and longtime UT football fan, wanted to experience QB Camp for himself.
It was a big 60th birthday party celebration for dad and they decided to suprise them with the news they were going to be grandparents...Watch mom flip out..this is priceless!
The family of a blind woman killed her healthy guide dog so it could be buried beside her. Now, they're receiving death threats.
The 68-year-old Indiana woman died of cancer last month and her son had her healthy five-year-old guide dog, Toffee, put down so it could placed in the woman's coffin to fulfill her dying wish.
Now the woman's son is receiving death threats and even suffering abuse from members of his own family.
He claims that the dog showed signs of mourning and "wandered aimlessly" for days after his mother passed away.
The Indiana law states that it's legal for an owner to put a healthy dog to sleep because it is considered to be their property.
Should the family be charged or did they do the right thing?
Craig Morgan
Kip Moore
Phill Vassar
Jana Kramer
Dates and showtimes will be announced soon
And Dont forget about Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Tim Mcgraw at the Marcus Ampitheatre
A Tennessee woman took an April Fools' Day prank too far by joking she had shot and killed her husband.
She called her sister to tell her about the terrible deed, "I shot my husband, I'm cleaning up the mess, let's go bury him".
The sister didn't realize it was an April fools joke and called police.
The woman was detained, but did not get arrested.
Vera..the 100 year old rapper!
A couple watching the Diamondbacks take on the Cardinals from center field in Arizona got a lot more than they bargained for on their night out at the ballpark.
When a homerun ball came flying to their section, the boyfriend ducked out of the way - leaving the ball to head straight for his girlfriend's face. She got hit.
Even the announcers said "nice going, boyfriend" - showing that they clearly thought he should have protected her over putting himself first.
** At games, the annoucers warn patrons to look out for flying balls.
Julien's Auction House shared some rare footage of actors in the earliest years of their careers.
One of the tapes features a 15-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio in 1990 trying out for a TV series based on "The Outsiders," instead, the role went to "Mad Men's" Jay R. Ferguson.
Also up for purchase: Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr. and Keanu Reeves all trying out for 1991's "Backdraft" (the role went to William Baldwin), Gwyneth Paltrow and Helen Hunt trying out for the role Laura Dern ultimately won in 1993's "Jurassic Park" and Nicole Kidman auditioning for 1991's "Shattered"(a role that went to Greta Scacchi).
The tapes came from a casting director who wished to remain unnamed, but who had taken the footage over the past 30 years. All in all there are 12 lots of videos, with 54 auditions in all, and they hit the block from April 5-6.


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This is a good way to help the tank and healer shortage that causes long queue times for DPS.
Right now, I'm gearing my tank. But I'll be done soon. Then what? I'm done tanking heroics. My healer is already outgearing them, I only do it for the daily frost emblems, and soon I won't need those. So I'll go to a DPS alt instead and wait around to get in.
If I could transfer emblems, I'd have a big incentive to keep running on my tank and healer, because I'm getting something out of the run. That in turn means more tanks and healers for everybody in the queue, which is win all around.
It's not win all round. You're bored because you're facerolling content you've done a million times before on your main, it's not fun, it's clicking buttons until 25 minutes later you enter the queue to click more.
By running it on alts, although it's the same content, it;s more of a challenge because you're not geared AND you're learning to play your alt way better.
Answer me this - assume emblems are BOA and you run thousands of heroics on your main, then send them all to your alt.
What are you going to do with your alt then? You're geared, there's no point in running heroics now on your alt. Do raids? You can't, you've not even healed a heroic, you don't know your class. So the most likely outcome is you park said alt, get back on the main and grind more emblems for your other alt.
(of course by "you" I mean "people", I'm not being specific)


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Card 520 Reviews
Card 52: Blue Eyes
Card 52: Blue Eyes
The heavy rain crashed against the windows of the car threatening to break them. Soon the two people in the car reached their destination. The mansion stood tall and strong, unmoved by the violent wind and unaffected by the abundant heavy rain. The two people in the car quickly ran inside to escape the rain as soon as the car was parked in front of the mansion.
Just as requested, their belongings were delivered to the mansion, however everything was still in boxes, but it was a late hour of the night and neither of them felt like unpacking. What's the hurry if they had the rest of their happy lives to unpack, they planned to live here forever, but the young couple didn't know that their lives would soon be cut short and the mansion would be purchased by someone else.
"Nice place you have here," the young woman commented.
"Yeah," her husband smiled. "I inherited this place from my uncle."
The woman looked at a picture that hung on the wall. "This was your uncle?"
Her husband nodded in response.
"What happened to him?"
Her husband paused thinking about it before answering. "No one knows... the only information I was given was that he was killed by a ghost who lives here, of course there is no such a thing."
The topic of the man's uncle and the ghost who supposedly killed him was not further discussed as neither of them believed in such things. The young couple, tired from the trip, decided to get some rest. They headed upstairs to the fifth floor of the large mansion. There was an old room with a bed; the only other furniture in the room was a small table with a lamp on it. Tired from their trip, sleep came to them quickly.
xoxox xox xoxox
A loud crash of thunder was heard hours later. The woman was wakened by it and glanced at her husband after tuning the lamp on. He was still sleeping beside her. She rolled her eyes and concluded her husband slept like a rock and nothing could wake him, then turned the lights off and tried to fall asleep again. However, she couldn't fall asleep, she felt as if there was someone watching her, yet there was no one else there.
The storm continued to get worse as the wind tried to break the walls of the mansion that still stayed strong. The heavy rain pushed by the winds hit the windows with amazing force constantly. Then there was the thunder that crashed loudly without warning. She wondered if it was simply the storm that made her nervous, or if there was something more to worry about. The woman whose name was Juliet, decided that she needed to calm herself before going to sleep. Maybe some milk would help, so she headed off to the kitchen, their refrigerator should have been stoked as per the instructions.
Juliet quietly walked out of the bedroom and closed the door behind her. She turned on the lights and headed down the stairs. The storm continued to rage outside and it scared her, but she kept telling herself she wasn't a little girl and shouldn't be frightened by such things. Another crash of loud thunder landed near by, causing a short-circuit and making Juliet almost scream.
She took a deep breath and continued walking, touching the walls in hopes of not getting lost in the large mansion she has just beginning to get to know. Juliet managed to find her way in the darkness and finally reached the kitchen. The occasional thunder that crashed near by accompanied by plenty of lightning, lighted her path every now and then. She opened the refrigerator and took some milk out. The electricity had only been gone for a few minutes so the milk was still cold.
Suddenly, the wind got stronger and the rain threatened to make holes on the walls. Of course the mansion was built strong enough to withstand such storms with no problems, yet Juliet felt as if something terrible was about to happen. Forgetting about her glass of milk, she ran in the darkness back to the room she shared with her husband. She tripped several times as she wasn't paying attention to where she was going due to her hurry. She didn't understand why this panic had suddenly taken over, but she knew that there was something wrong.
She was almost back in their room when her suspensions were confirmed by a terror filled scream of agony that Juliet knew belonged to her husband. She ran as fast as she could and opened the door to their room. The electricity returned and the storm began to calm down. The light just outside their room was left on and Juliet stood at the door staring at the dead body of her husband. She turned on the lights inside the room to get a better look and screamed when she saw his expression of pure terror, as if it was fear itself that had killed him.
xoxox xox xoxox
Months later, the doctors of a mental institution where Juliet now resided, were trying their best to convince her that a ghost did not kill her husband, but there was just no way to reason with her. She kept going on and on about the spirit that spoke to her, claiming that he was only taking what was rightfully his. She had asked the spirit what it meant and the spirit said that he husband died because he claimed to own this mansion.
She was not of the descendants he cursed so her life was sparred if she left. The poor young woman, everyone who worked there pitied her. How she would spend hours speaking of the spirit with blue eyes. She was terrified to even go near anyone with blue eyes thinking that it was another incarnation of the ghost. She would never recover from this.
The question came as to what would happen to the mansion. The family members that would inherit it after hearing Juliet's side of the story did not want anything to do with it, so the mansion would be sold to the highest bidder. Pictures of the mansion were posted online and in magazines and many people bid when the auction came, but one particular person had taken a liking to that mansion even if he hasn't visited it. He was the one who won the auction, Seto Kaiba.
xoxox xox xoxox
Mokuba sat next to the window of Seto's private jet as they flew to see their new mansion. "Where are we going big brother?"
"To our new mansion, the one I showed you in the picture," Seto answered without taking his eyes off the laptop computer's screen.
"Isn't that where Dracula lives?" Mokuba didn't like the mansion, but Seto just couldn't understand why.
The rest of the trip went by quietly and uneventfully, until they arrived at their new mansion. Seto had ordered the place to be cleaned and filled with new furniture. He was also told of the story of the ghost when he was finishing up the paper work, but of course he did not believe it.
xoxox xox xoxox
The Kaiba brothers arrived at the mansion around mid night. Mokuba was very tired from the trip and after he managed to find his room, he decided to go to sleep. Seto's room was right next to Mokuba's, but the CEO, as always, was staying up late working. He was typing on his laptop computer when it began to rain. The wind, the heavy rain and the thunder signaled the beginning of a storm. The storm became stronger and soon the electricity was out. Seto shut down his laptop computer before its battery ran out and searched for a flashlight, the emergency generators had not yet been installed.
The loud rain, wind and thunder woke Mokuba. He covered himself completely, hoping that the covers would block out the sound, but they didn't. Mokuba somehow knew he wouldn't be able to sleep if he stayed there, so without thinking about it any longer, he ran to his brother's room.
Seto had by then found a flashlight that he placed on a small table next to his bed in case he needed to get up for whatever reason. He was currently fast asleep, hugging his blue eyes white dragon plushie. Something watched him from the shadows, slowly coming closer and it wasn't Mokuba.
At that very moment, Mokuba opened the door and the spirit quickly disappeared. He had to get the new guy when he was alone. He could sense that he was the one claiming this mansion. The younger one should live to carry out the mission that the girl hasn't completed and neither have any of the others he let escape.
Mokuba searched for Seto in the darkness of the room. Lightning suddenly came, lighting the room momentarily. Mokuba jumped at the sudden light and noise, but managed to notice that his brother was asleep. He didn't want to bother Seto simply because of the storm, so he got into bed and tried to sleep now that he felt safer being with his brother.
The spirit reappeared in Seto's room a few moments later. It was clear the young one wasn't going anywhere as he had already fallen asleep. Soon the storm began to calm and by morning it was over.
xoxox xox xoxox
When morning came, Seto woke up to find Mokuba using him as a pillow. He figured his little brother must have been frightened by last night's storm and that's why he came. Seto gently got Mokuba off and placed him on the bed without waking him. He then left the room quietly, took a quick shower and went to get some breakfast ready.
The CEO was almost to the kitchen when he heard the doorbell ring. He didn't know who could possibly be coming here, but he went to answer it anyway. Upon opening the door, he saw a young woman with messy blond hair that was badly cut as if it was done with a knife and looked like it hasn't been brushed for ages. She was wearing white pants and a white shirt with a label he didn't care to read and was covered in mud. "He told me that this place belonged to him and you have to find the owner!" She looked at his eyes and started screaming. "Blue Eyes don't kill me!" Without wasting another second, Seto slammed the door shut and locked it. He didn't know who that creepy girl was and he didn't want to find out.
He once again headed to the kitchen and almost jumped a mile when he saw that the strange girl was there. He looked at the opened window and it all became clear. "Have mercy Blue Eyes! Take away the curse! I tried to do what you said, but they won't let me. They say you don't exist. They say I made you up in my imagination after my husband died, but I saw the look of terror in his face. You killed him!" She suddenly became very angry and threw the nearest object, a cookie jar, at Seto, who quickly jumped out of the way.
"Get out!" He yelled at her, but she didn't seam to understand.
"I'll kill you spirit! I'll kill you ghost! Just like you killed him!"
Seto stepped back. He didn't want to go anywhere near this mud covered freak let alone drag her out. So he quickly devised a plan. He would run, find something to hit her on the head with, then throw it at her from a safe distance, that or just call the police. Deciding upon the second, he ran off grabbing his cell phone, which he had forgotten in the living room the night before and called the local police. The strange girl made a mess of the kitchen but nothing else happened, that was the only room that got damaged.
After that creepy girl was gone, Seto made sure to close all the windows in the entire mansion and get the security system installed as soon as possible. Hopefully, she would not return.
Mokuba came downstairs soon after, saying that he couldn't sleep with all the noise. Seto decided not to explain what really happened so Mokuba wouldn't get scared and hate the mansion even more. Regardless of all that's happened, Seto liked the mansion for some unknown reason, as if it was meant to be his. Mokuba eventually noticed the trashed kitchen but Seto simply said he had a small accident and broke a few things. Even if it sounded illogical, Mokuba never questioned his dear brother so he believed him.
The day passed by uneventfully, until the night came and once again the same storm returned as if there was something controlling the weather around the mansion. Mokuba was beginning to feel uncomfortable, but Seto assured him that the storm would pass and better weather would come soon. That night the electricity went out also and again Mokuba got scared and stayed in his brother's room.
The only difference was that this time Seto got up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water. He wasn't sure why he was suddenly so thirsty, he just knew he was. Mokuba would be okay for a few minutes and he had already secured all the windows and doors, plus some of his employees would be coming in a few days to take care of stuff around the mansion.
When Seto was gone, Mokuba woke up. He couldn't find his brother but tried to tell himself that Seto would be back soon. He felt strange, as if he was being watched. "Big brother?" There was no answer but the sound of the wind, rain and thunder. "Seto, are you there?" Mokuba knew he was alone in the room, yet wished with all his heart and soul that he would receive an answer from his brother. Unable to wait any longer, Mokuba got up and set off to find Seto, yet he felt something push him into the wall, but he didn't hit the wall face first, instead he came out at the other side, as if the wall had opened for him.
xoxox xox xoxox
Seto was heading back to his room when his flashlight's battery mysteriously died. This was silly, there was nothing to be afraid of, yet something made him fear, a strange force. He had to get back to his room immediately, something might be wrong with Mokuba. He didn't know why, but he started running.
The wind howled outside. The raindrops fell light knives against the mansion's walls. Lightning and thunder and more lightning came, lighting the way, creating shadows on the walls. The light was irregular, making the shadows look eerie. He ran; he ran as fast as he could, as if the shadows were chasing him.
The sound of the rain, the sound of the wind, the lightning, the thunder, that was all there was. "Mokuba?" There was no answer. Once again the lightning lit the room. "Mokuba!"
xoxox xox xoxox
Mokuba had been walking along a strange passage for a few minutes, after giving up on trying to go back the way he come he tried to find another way out. He could hear the echo of the storm that reflected off the walls of the small passage, making it sound ghostly and threatening. It was very dark and he didn't know where he was going.
He kept walking along the passage, following his hand on the wall, until he came to a small room. He wasn't sure in what part of the mansion he was, he hasn't explored it all and doing so was certainly better during the day light in the company of his brother, not alone in the darkness of a stormy night.
There were many old things stashed away in this room. The ones who where supposed to prepare the mansion for them must have not come here. The lightning, that became more constant, lit the room enough for Mokuba to see several objects covered in dust. He looked up at the source of the light and realized the ceiling in this section was made of glass. There didn't seem to be any doors or windows here just the passage.
Mokuba observed every object there slowly. There was a glass cup in a small table. A woman's shoes on the floor next to it. A necklace lay on the chair, There were dresses and women's clothing. A large base, a few books, one of them opened. Papers with faded words scattered on the floor. A painting, a very familiar painting. Mokuba came closer to the painting looking at it with attention every time the lighting lit the room. It was his brother, but he was younger. He was standing there next to a man he didn't know. Mokuba didn't know how this painting got there, but he knew the one in it was Seto, or was he?
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"Mokuba!" Seto called out almost to the point of panic. He had a strange feeling about this place, this storm and this night. He hated to admit it, but it felt like fear, unreasonable fear. Maybe his little brother got lost in the darkness on his way back from the bathroom or something.
That was no reason to feel such intense fear; he would find Mokuba and lead him back to his room safe and sound. Then they would both go to sleep and the next morning when they wake up, the electricity would be back, the sun would be shining, the storm would be long gone and he would laugh at himself for feeling so afraid for no reason.
"Mokuba!" He yelled again quickening his pace as he searched for his brother. "Answer me!" Seto stopped and stared into the darkness, nothing there. He felt his heartbeats getting faster and his breaths uneven. The light from the skies that came with every lightning stopped coming. There was no light at all. He blinked several times, trying to make his vision adjust to the darkness. All he saw was strange shadows dancing on the walls, as if trying to lure him closer and attack.
The shadows were surrounding him and he felt unable to move. He could not explain the strange sensation that came over him suddenly and he certainly didn't like it. The shadows seamed to circle him, to trap him. He closed his eyes and tried to calm down before continuing his search. There's nothing to be afraid of. He's never been afraid of the dark before, not even when he was little, but it was not the darkness that scared him, it was the presence he felt was hiding in it. He felt a cold breeze, but he knew all the windows were closed. The cold became more persistent; he warped his arms around himself and shivered.
Slowly, Seto lifted his head and opened his eyes, quickly closing them again and opening them once more. The thing he saw when he first opened them was gone, probably his own imagination anyway. The storm slowly settled to regular rain. The wind became calm and instead of feeling cold, Seto began to sweat. He breathed heavily, letting himself slowly fall until he was sitting on the floor. The lights suddenly came on, making him jump to his feet. Even if the electricity had returned, he had not left the light switch on so why did this happen?
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Mokuba searched the walls for any kind of secret passage now that the lights were on. He moved a large painting that was sitting against the wall behind a bunch of random items and found a tunnel. He didn't know why, but once the storm was over, he wasn't quite as afraid as before.
The strange presence that he felt in the mansion that scared him before now felt safe, as if someone was guarding and protecting him. The young Kaiba soon managed to get to the end of the tunnel, pushing a thick paper like layer of wall until it was out of the way. He wondered how no one noticed that hole on the wall covered only by thick paper like material with paint on top.
By now Seto had calmed down and was looking for his brother again, this time somehow knowing he was alright. He spotted Mokuba at the end of the hall after turning a corner. "Mokuba!"
"Big Brother!" Mokuba ran to Seto's arms and his brother picked him up.
"Where were you?" Seto asked.
"I'm not sure how, but I ended up in a secret passage and got lost, it was scary!"
Seto hugged his little brother, "It's okay now."
Mokuba took a deep breath, "Seto, I saw a picture of you... It was a painting in a room with a bunch of other stuff."
"Are you sure it was a picture of me?" Seto thought it could have been someone else, someone that used to live here long ago and that just looked like him.
"Come see it!" Mokuba lead Seto the same way he came before. They reached the hole in the wall and Mokuba crawled in.
"Where are you going?"
"It's this way!" Mokuba called from inside the tunnel.
Seto tried to go in, but the tunnel was too small. "I can't get in, come back."
Mokuba returned, "the painting is kind of big so I'm sure it won't fit in the tunnel. Maybe we can figure out where the passage in your room is and how to keep it open.
Seto couldn't deny he felt a strange curiosity about the supposed painting of him. "We'll go look in the morning, let's go back to sleep now."
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That night Seto Kaiba had a strange dream. He was only watching in this dream and could not affect the people in it in any way. "Get out boy!" A man yelled as he pushed a young boy out a large door. He recognized this place, it was the main entrance of the mansion he was in, but it looked different, as if this scene had taken place many years ago, long before he was born.
"But uncle, there's a storm outside!" The boy complained. For some reason, Seto always saw the dream from a perspective in which he couldn't look at the boy's face.
"Never call me that, you little useless brat!" The man kicked the boy. "You shall address me as sir." Seto felt sorry for the boy and had an urge kick the man.
The boy sniffled, holding back tears as he sat on the ground. "This is my house. This is papa's house."
Suddenly, things changed in the dream and Seto went from just watching to being one of the characters. The rain falling on him felt so real, as did the cold wind. "I want to go but I can't until I keep my promise, otherwise I can't rest in peace." The boy looking right at Seto, unaffected by the fact that he just appeared there. He stood up and walked toward him. "Let me tell you how it happened," the boy extended his hand.
As if he had no control over his actions, Seto took it. In a bright light both Seto and the boy disappeared. As the light came, Seto could see the boy's face clearly, he looked like him.
"This is my mother," the dream's scene changed and they found themselves in a city from many years ago, where there was a lady at a market. She had golden hair and blue eyes, just like Seto's. "That is my father," the boy pointed at two men walking down the street specifically at the younger one. The other one was about two years older. The boy's father also looked a bit like Seto, his hair was brown as were his eyes. The man beside him had brown eyes also but his hair was black. "That..." The boy spoke with anger, "is my father's brother."
The entire scene froze and no one in the dream moved. Only Seto and the boy could move. Seto listened.
"Papa and... the other man both like her, in fact, they all like her. They say she's beautiful, smart and nice, she is. They say that the most beautiful thing Mama has are her eyes." The scene slowly faded away, being replaced by that of a wedding. "She married the one who would become my father and his brother never approved of it."
The scene changed again this time to show several people in a room that looked like an office from many years ago. "My grandparents owned some lands that they wrote in their will they must be shared by their two sons, but he wanted them all." The boy was clearly referring to his uncle.
"He couldn't legally keep them all, so he gave my father a small portion and kept the best lands for himself. The lands my father got were not fertile, it was impossible to grow anything there. My father suspected there was something about the soil, so he dug deep until he discovered the cause of the land's infertility, oil."
The scene changed once more, to the place where the mansion was but it was still being built. "My parents became rich and built this mansion here. I was not born until later. My mother died when she gave birth to me, my father used to tell me about her all the time and even if I had not met her, I missed her and now more so since I've gained the ability to looking into the past and future of my family."
All this time Seto quietly listened to the boy's narration.
"One day, my father mysteriously died. I suspected and now know that it was him, his brother wanted the fortune. I was still young and he was the first option to take care of me. He was always mean. He accused me of taking away my mother's life for myself." Tears came from the boy's eyes. "If I could stop existing to make her live I would. The night after the wedding, the night when I was born, the night when my parents moved here and the night when he was told of what my father found in the land, it was raining hard, there was wind lightning and thunder, it was also like that the night my father was killed. He got angry at those memories when the weather was like that and threw me out. One day, I didn't come back."
The boy changed, he grew up until he looked around Seto's age. Seto couldn't help it but to stare, they could be twins. "I lived my life as well as I could." Many scenes appeared, changing every second, showing a summary of his life. He grew older with each scene, changing until it all stopped when he was an adult. "It came to a point when my family was not doing so well." The scene turned into and old house. There was the older Seto look alike, a woman and a little girl, by the looks of it their daughter.
The spirit that had been showing Seto all of this left, but Seto was not paying attention to him, but at the other version of the spirit, the man in the illusion. The parents took the little girl upstairs and Seto followed.
The dream Seto who was invisible to the other people in the dream, he followed the family upstairs where the put the girl in her bed. After they left, the girl opened her eyes and looked at Seto and he realized he was once again a character of the dream.
"Papa?" She asked unsure. He looked like her father, but he was younger and dressed differently. Who ever he was, the girl's fever and headache didn't allow her to think too much of it. "Papa my head hurts, please make it stop." Tears started running down her face.
To watch such a young sweet child in pain was just wrong. Before Seto could say anything, the scene changed once again and he found himself in his room, awake. He got out of bed, yet his body remained there, as if his spirit was detached.
"This way," a ghostly shadow with glowing blue eyes spoke. They were those same hypnotic eyes that could cause enough fear to kill, but now he felt no fear. Seto followed the spirit, the wall opened as he pushed it. "It doesn't open the other way, so don't try this when you return to your vessel, the only other way out is too small." Seto and the ghost went inside the tunnel that led to the room Mokuba had found. There Seto saw the painting. It was the spirit while he was still a boy, standing next to his father. "My mother's things were kept in this room," the ghost searched for a specific item.
The spirit took a base from under other random things and placed it on the small table. "My mother grew a special kind of flower that cured illnesses, much like that of my daughter. The last one was kept in this room; I used to come here when I was younger. The entrance used to be normal sized, but it was sealed because my uncle didn't want to look at any of these items. I needed the flower to cure her so I returned to recover it and recover my mansion and fortune to give my family a better life. I couldn't let that murderer keep it any longer."
"When I came, he stayed out of my way. I was no longer a little kid he could pick on. I would give him what he deserved soon enough, but first I needed to take that flower back. He snuck up on me and killed me. Angered by all that happened, with my last seconds of life I vowed to take revenge, to curse his family and return this place to mine. The fortune is long gone, but the mansion still remains."
"I somehow turned into a ghost and was able to bring the flower back to my wife. After that was accomplished, I was returned here where I was trapped. As a ghost, I was limited to being in this mansion until I finished my last unfinished business. I didn't know if my daughter survived, but now I'm sure she did, because she was your great grandmother."
Seto was surprised by the entire story. He felt like the spirit was telling the truth. "Two holes are dug with a curse; I dug myself into being trapped here, guarding the mansion until my descendant reclaimed it. Now that this mansion has been returned to whom it rightfully belongs, I have no more unfinished business and I can finally rest in peace." The ghost disappeared in a flash of blue light and Seto's spirit was returned to his vessel.
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The rose and Seto got up. The dream was still clear in his mind, but even if he felt like it was true, being Seto Kaiba, he ignored it as just another dream and carried on with his life as if it never happened. Juliet mysteriously recovered her health and was able to go on with her life. The Kaiba brothers lived peacefully in the mansion and the ghost was never seen or heard of again.
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These kids today and their crazy, uh, promposals. Yes, that's a combination of the words "prom" and "proposal," and it's the latest teen trend: Going to extreme and elaborate measures to ask someone to the prom. Like the high school guys in this viral video, who staged a super funny (if mildly disturbing) childbirth skit which ends with the "newborn" dude going straight to the object of affection and "promposing."
It's all very creative and sweet and entertaining, which is to say NOTHING like the typically underwhelming invitations extended in my day: Some guy mumbling "So if you're not going with anybody I guess we might as well go together" while you pull your books out of your locker or that other guy passing you a note in science class reading, simply, "Yo. Prom?"
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You rented a limo with your two best friends (everybody chipped in $50!) and felt all kinds of glamorous.
Your kid rents a blinged-out "party bus" with 20 other people that looks suspiciously like Poison's tour bus from 1986.
You got a key chain printed with that year's theme song ("Heaven" by Bryan Adams) for prom favors.
Your kid gets a swag bag filled with a champagne flute, glittery picture frame, sunglasses, bubbles, a necklace and individually wrapped mints printed with this year's theme song ("Pants on the Ground" by That Guy Who Sings "Pants on the Ground").
You had a strapless prom dress.
Your kid has a middle-less prom dress.
You had the same DJ who played at your Grandma's 80th birthday party as prom entertainment.
Your kid has pole dancers, a 3D laser light show and fog machines.
You went to an after-prom party in some kid's basement whose parents were out of town.
Your kid goes to an after-prom party in a hotel penthouse.
Sigh. Just wait til you get a load of this promposal business:
My prom was lame because it was prom.
I went to prom a few years ago. It was in the top floor of our local bank... So like 10th floor. I live on the beach so it had a pretty cool view (if I wasn't afraid of heights) A wedding reception was down the hall and honestly, my prom was lame. Sure we danced and laughed, but really it just wasn't anything special... and those bags with all the cool stuff in them? like $150 for one of those... I ws not about to spend money on a dress, shoes, tickets, and a bag full of crap I was going to lose anyway.. I don't even remember the theme of it... I remember my bangs were pink though lol
That was funny. Prom is still lame, but at least they are having fun asking each other out. Her hair is awesome.


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The 25-year-old has been in superb form for Everton, which has helped the Merseyside club fight for a European spot this season. With eight goals in 16 appearances, Marouane Fellaini is the top goal scorer for Everton in the Premier League.
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Please read. I hope people stop asking this question!! :D
Thank you! :)
Please read. I hope people stop asking this question!! :D
Thank you! Haha, I do like it better with pictures, too! But they just take way too long to make compared to these simple ones! :p
Heh, not anymore! :(
Thank you!
Submissions will be opened sometime next month, so look out for it! I don't know how long I will leave it open.. guess we'll see how many submission I get! :)
I haven't lost it, but I do get really happy when I read the happy ones (and when people include a story), and I hurt a little when I read the sad ones!
I do like it with the photos, but it's just so much faster to make not having to look up a new photo! So I'm just going to try this out right now, and see how it goes! (At least the upside of the plain backgrounds is that there are more stories to read!)
Thanks for your opinion! :)
Please read.
Haha, I made a bunch of these posts already - so there are a lot of colors later on! But thanks for your opinion!
That's what I was going for! ;) Thank you!
The non-pictures? I'm glad you do cause it's staying like that (with different colors) for the next 1,000+ posts or so! :p
A big thank you to all my followers who read, follow, and submit to this blog. I couldn't have done it without you guys! :)
The 1000th post is my own six word love story - "Don't want anyone else but you." Some of you guys wanted that as a post, so there you go!
Because I want to queue more posts a day, I have decided to start making these posts without pictures. (It's not for the haters, promise! It's because it takes more time to look for pictures, etc.) This way, I can queue almost double the amount, so I won't be super swamped with submissions. Sorry if you don't like the style.. I already made the next 1,000 posts, so bare with me! (By the way, whew, it feels so good to have a cleared inbox!)
If you submitted your love story before I closed submissions on January 23rd, and I used it as a post, it will show up during March and April. Any submissions through the ask after the submissions were closed were automatically deleted.
And I will open up submissions sometime in March! I'll be announcing when that is, so look out for it. (So please stop asking!!) I'm excited to see more submissions! Originally, I said it was okay to submit more than one love story, but since some people totally abuse that and submit like 10 stories.. I have decided that it's only fair for everyone to submit only one story. (I mean, the challenge is to sum up your love in six words.. not 30+)
Please remember to follow the rules! People are still submitting less than or more than 6 words. People are still combining words together to make one word. People are still using cuss words. Just follow the rules and your submission most likely will not get deleted!
Side note about submissions: Submissions like "I love him, he loves her" or "He/She saved me from my demons" or "You and me. Always and forever" are all being thrown out. I've done them before, and it's just going to get repetitive since people keep submitting those. Sorry if I do have a repeat once in a while.. there's so many submissions, I can't possibly keep track of every single one.
So 20 posts a day + submissions opening up.. March is going to be a good month!
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In the time it has taken me to register Zooby has pretty much said all I wanted to add. Ibelk, I too thank you for good advice. It does seem to me an outline of CT. I appreciate a cautious nature in approaching any drugs, and must note that many I've seen saying how helped they are by the drugs do not see themselves from the outside where they appear just not to care anymore. I would submit that in some this lack of caring goes too far, thus the thoughts of suicide cautioned about in the med info. I would also like to submit that all depression in the end is neurological. It may self right or be long term, but it touches the roots of our being. While drugs can be found that suit an individual, it is wrong to ignore that in tests placebos often help as much, and exercise more. In the interim, the root question here, we do have some choices we can make. Ibelk outlines them. The fact that many have come to the same conclusions underlines that we can influence our bodies through the behaviours we choose. There may be an interim to that too. And that interim may need drugs. There definitely is a time to care less.
The article on math vs memory on this site is not quite a tangent. There is an inverse relationship in brain activity regarding them. For me, I cannot often go to sleep, even with drugs, without quieting my mind by doing some kind of nonverbal activity, ie sudoku or tanagrams. - a matter of focus.
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Currently, the nation's blood banks are experiencing a shortage in supply and have issued an urgent appeal for donations. What does it mean to donate blood?
First of all, there are four types of blood donation, all of which are considered invaluable by the medical community. The first and most common type of donation is red blood cell donation. Red blood cell donations are used for transfusions for accident victims, surgery patients and people who suffer from chronic anemia. O-negative and O-positive blood type donors are the most highly sought after because they help the greatest number of people. People with O blood types are considered universal donors because their blood can work in anybody.
The procedure for giving red blood cells lasts approximately 10 minutes and is considered relatively painless. A nurse or technician draws a pint of blood from the arm with a needle. Common side effects from giving blood include light headedness, nausea and fatigue.
Doctors and nurses advise red blood cell donors and other types of donors to relax for the rest of the day after donating. Givers are limited to donating only once every 56 days because a low red blood cell count may result in anemia.
Another type of giving is plasma donation. An essential part of one's body, plasma constitutes 55 percent of the blood. Plasma is needed in the bloodstream for transporting cells and for clotting. For this reason, plasma is especially important for hemophiliac emergencies. Like red blood cells, though, plasma is also crucial in times of accidents and severe blood loss. The universal type for plasma is AB-positive, so these donors are often asked to donate plasma rather than red blood cells.
Donating plasma takes three times as long as donating red blood cells. Donors are allowed to give plasma once a month because ones body creates plasma much more quickly than red blood cells. Some people may find centers that pay for plasma donations, although plasma donors are usually volunteers.
The third kind of donation, platelet donation, is used for purposes similar to plasma donation. Platelets are essential for the prevention of blood clotting. Normally platelets are produced by bone marrow. When a person lacks marrow or his or her marrow is unable to produce platelets (like in leukemia or aplastic anemia), a platelet transfusion is used to make clotting possible. Like plasma donation, platelet donation requires the use of an apheresis machine. The process, however, lasts nearly two hours.
The last and least common method of donation is marrow donation. In this painful and lengthy process, donors receive anesthesia and marrow is removed from the hip area. Unfortunately, finding marrow donor matches is sometimes an arduous task and has a lower success rate than other donation methods.
To be eligible to donate blood, one must complete a questionnaire consisting of over 40 questions. Then, the potential donor must interview with a technician to determine if he or she can donate blood safely. Weight restrictions, recent illnesses and tattoos are the most typical reasons for ineligibility.
Once a donor has given blood, the blood is tested for several conditions including HIV and Hepatitis B and C. These tests ensure that the donated blood is safe for recipients and that donors are informed of any viruses they may have. Once tested, the results will be sent confidentially by mail.
Blood donation is a quick way to help others in need. According to the Blue Cross, on most days in the United States 32,000 pints of blood are used for medical purposes. Because blood has a shelf life of about 30 days, chances are good that the blood one donates will be used shortly after it is given.
St. Olafs very own Blue Key Honor Society sponsors two blood drives each year, one in the fall and one in the spring. "We've always really happy with the turnout of the people who are willing to donate blood at St. Olaf," Amy Legreid '03 said. "I think it's a great cause because it's always important to help others in need."
Although the thought of a needle being held in ones arm may not be the most appealing idea, it is important to think about how the 10 minutes of discomfort could end up saving another persons life. The majority of Americans will either know someone who needs a transfusion in a time of emergency or may need one themselves.
While citizens across the country reflect upon what they can do to contribute to society, blood donation remains an invaluable way to benefit others lives. Donating blood is more than braving pain and giving time it is giving the gift of life.
Information gathered from www.bluecross.com