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Aion: The Best Looking Mass Murder Simulator of 2009
Aion: Tower of Eternity
Play Experience: At the time this review was written I have leveled an Elyos Chanter to 43 (level cap is 50) and seen most of the in game zones. I have played a few hours a day since the head start began on September 20. I have gone "rifting" a few times, experienced PvP in the abyss, and participated in several fortress sieges. This review is based on the state of the game as of 11/03/2009. It is my intent to update this review once I hit level 50 and have seen the game mature a bit and given the developers some time to fix their problems.
The Summary: Aion is an east meets west mmorpg brought over from Korea by NC Soft. The graphics have a very anime look to them similar to Lineage 2. The game uses a two-faction pvp oriented model much like World of Warcraft or Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning but with a third pseudo faction in the form of the Balaur, a race of reptilian humanoids bent on world domination or destruction... or something. The presence of this third pseudo faction is designed to help balance the power on the server and often will come indirectly to the aid of the weaker faction.
Artistic Style and Graphics: 5
You will be very hard pressed to find a nicer looking mmorpg on the market today. Aion uses a version of the "Cryengine" which gives them a lot to work with and on the highest settings some of the locales are just gorgeous and you don't necessarily need a monster computer to run on high settings. On the lowest graphical settings the game still looks presentable though many of the textures look like like they belong in Everquest 2 or even Dark Age of Camelot in certain places..
The character creation tool is very powerful allowing you to create anything from the mutated and bizarre to a parody of your favorite anime character or celebrity. I saw a three foot tall Jay Leno, chin and all, running around. You can anything from a two foot tall gnome to a 9 foot tall giant and everything in between. As you can see in my pictures I went for the child serial killer look. Aion by far allows more customization to your avatar when compared to just about every other mmorpg short of Champions Online and the City of Heroes/Villains.
Class Balance: 3
The game has only been released in North America for about a month and a half, nearly a year for Asian audiences so it's a little early to comment too much on the PvP balance. In my pvp experiences the winner any given battle is almost always determined in this order:
Number of players = Average player level > Group composition > Gear quality > Player skill = Uses the most consumables.
I would like to warn anyone reading this that the order is likely to change once more players hit 50. This chart is based on my observations on the current state of the game where the majority of the population is not 50 yet.
PvP: 3
PvP in Aion occurs in two different ways. The first is rifting. A rift is a portal that if you enter, takes you to the opposite faction's parallel zone which then allows you to go pvp on the enemies turf. Nearly every zone in the game except for the the low level (25 and under) areas has a number of points where a rift can appear. Rifts can only be used a limited number of times before it closes and becomes unavailable. When the rift runs out of uses it will despawn, rifts also typically despawn after about an hour passes. The second restriction for rifting is it will only let players who fall within a certain level range through. To give an example, a hypothetical rift spawns: It can be used 100 times and will allow players between level 24 and 46 enter. No players lower than level 24 or higher than 46 will be able to use that rift to cross over.
The second way in which PvP occurs is in the abyss. The abyss is one giant multi-layer zone and is similar to wintergrasp in WoW or just about any zone on a WoW pvp server. Over all, PvP wise there's very little we haven't seen already though flight was implemented extremely well.
PvE: 1
Yeah Aion's PvE gets a 1 in my book.
Let's talk about soloing and general leveling first. The game's level cap is 50 and as you level up the game feels very well paced until about level 35. I didn't feel the amount of grinding I had to do was unreasonable and often it was for a quest or a certain item drop. For the most part, you don't run out of quests in this phase of the game nor are you ever stuck wondering where you should go next, in fact for a brief period of time it almost feels like you have too many options but this feeling fades quickly.
When you hit level 35 the game rapidly changes and by time I hit 40 I was desperately searching the land for any quest to help me reach the next level. This is where the grind began for me, fortunately Chanter is a very group friendly class which eased the pain a little bit but as I continued to advance in level barely any quests were opening up. Experience for quests at this point would get me through roughly 20% of the total experience needed to level up. Where I am now at level 43 it doesn't even look like I'll hit 20% before I finish the handful of quests that unlocked.
All of the faults I have listed so far would be forgiven if Aion had fun group content. So far I have experienced four instanced dungeons designed for a full group of six players of varying levels and while some seemed intriguing at first, only one provided a memorable experience. Instances for the most part are packed to the gills with minions and henchmen who serve no purpose but to slow down your advance to the next boss. The boss fights themselves are nothing special, generally tank and spank with group damage going out on occasion to keep the healer from falling asleep.
The one instance I've done that is memorable is called "Steel Rake". It is a skyship with a bunch of humanoid weasel, gerbil, and guinea pig pirates on board. The ship is split into several decks which are of varying difficulty levels. For a group in the low 40's each deck of the ship represents a 1-2 hour time investment however I expect this time will come down as more and more people learn the instance layout. To fully clear this place you could take upwards of 5 hours.
While "Steel Rake" is more memorable and interesting than the other instances it is still plagued with their problems. I do not know if these count as bugs or if they are intended game mechanics however it is not uncommon for a group to spend an hour or more clearing trash on the way to a boss, only to get to the boss room and find it empty... or in one particularly insulting run we made it to one of the boss rooms and inside we found a level 1 non-hostile qooqoo (Aion's version of a chicken). We one-hit killed it and discovered we had just spent an hour clearing to a boss that didn't exist.
Over all this aspect of the game is extremely poorly done. It may be an intended game mechanic but you will often run an instance and find several of the bosses are just gone without a trace. When you couple this with the fact that bosses aren't guaranteed to drop loot of any kind. The only thing worse than spending an hour clearing to a boss that hasn't spawned is spending an hour clearing to a boss that has spawned but drops nothing.
Production Value: 4
Aion is an extremely well made game. From the moment I logged in it felt like driving a new car. Everything ran smoothly for me and it was obvious a high degree of attention and polish went into this game. Some areas could use a little more work though. At times it feels like the camera is working against you. I like to know what is going on around me so I often rotate my camera around to survey the area especially if I'm on the run from enemy players however on occasion my character will suddenly change course and run in the direction my camera is facing... this is extremely lethal if you have players chasing you. The camera is even more difficult to use while flying and at times it refuses to rotate at all which makes aerial awareness much more difficult.
Aside from a few minor rough edges Aion's user interface and various game mechanics fit together to provide a quality gaming experience.
Final Grade: 3.2
I really wanted to like Aion but there are too many things that just make the game unnecessarily tedious and ultimately it felt a lot more like work than a game. Lacking enough content for players to hit the level cap should never happen in a current generation mmorpg. I got the impression that somewhere during Aion's development cycle it was decided that repeatable quests that send you out to kill a large number of creatures counted as content. Playing Aion for me is a lot like eating popcorn. It tastes good but it's not very filling.
Specific things I love about Aion:
I believe I can fly! Aion's flight mechanic is probably the most interesting feature in the game. At low levels you are limited to 60 seconds of flight time, once you ran out of time you would fall to your death if you aren't near the ground. It gives you the player a large degree of mobility but keeps you grounded enough to help the game feel more populated.
Best in small doses: Aion small group pvp (2-6 players) can be a lot of fun if you can manage to find another similarly sized group to face off against. Often times winning one of these small battles is more satisfying than participating in a fortress siege because your individual contribution to the group matters quite a bit more.
Look what I can make: Raising your trade skills in Aion is relatively easy but it is also quite expensive. The difficulty when it comes to the trade skills is actually gathering the materials to create an item after you've learned the recipe. The resources needed to make an item are generally easy to farm but higher level recipes require a massive amount of these resources to create which can take a lot of time to farm or money to buy. These items require significant investment to create even if you farm your mats however in return for your investment you often will get a piece of armor/weapon/jewelry that is better than anything you can find out of dungeons or world drops.
When I grow up I want to be a spirit healer: When you are killed by an npc in Aion the real victim is your money pouch. Each death costs you a percentage of the total exp needed to reach the next level. This amount is faded out on your exp bar until you go to the spirit healer and pay her ransom for your experience. This is often brutally expensive if you are leveling up and you learn very quickly that survivability is extremely important. I'm not normally one to like a harsh death penalty but this really feels like the perfect mix of harsh and reasonable.
Specific things I hate about Aion:
I thought I could fly: Considering how often Aion's flight feature was used to advertise this game it really seems odd that more than half the zones currently in the game prohibit flight of any kind. You are able to glide short distances to speed up your travel time but no actual flying except in the areas immediately surrounding the the first city you visit in a zone. What makes this particular limitation even more frustrating is the fact that flying is pretty fun.
Sanctum's city planner needs to be put to sleep. (just to clarify, the in game one, not the real life one) Sanctum is the floating capital city of the Elyos faction and is very nice to look at however the problem of getting around becomes more annoying than it should be. The entire city is a no fly zone which wouldn't be a big deal if Sanctum's layout made sense. As it stands now there are certain parts of the city that are only accessible via a slow moving airship that moves between a dock on the primary city island out to a dock on a much smaller floating island. When I say slow I mean very slow, if you miss the trolley you might as well go make a sandwich because you've got a good 5 minutes of free time before it returns.
What's the point of being an immortal warrior who can sprout friggen wings and fly at will if you have to wait for the world's slowest air trolley to take you to a place you could have easily reached yourself? To be fair to the game, the reason why you can't fly is explained in the game but that doesn't make this any less frustrating.
You can't fight fate: Sometimes it really feels like the game is out to get you. The other night while I spent a few hours grinding on a certain kind of creature and it seemed like every 50 creature would just do a crushing amount of dps in a short period of time for no apparent reason. Sometimes the game will drop your connection and if you happen to be flying far above the ground it is very likely that your character will run out of flight time and fall to his/her death. Once I was in a group and happened to be standing near another group grinding on elite creatures for experience. I casted a single buff on my group and out of nowhere the creature the other group was fighting turns away from their tank and proceeded to rush over to me, kill me in two hits, before rushing back to the enemy tank to resume the fights.
Sometimes it just feels like the game wants me dead and because a lot of these deaths feel out of my control as a player and if you have this happen to you two or three times in a day the frustration is just compounded. Death is a part of the game to be certain and as a player I'm fully willing to accept the responsibility and cost of my mistakes but in these situations the only mistake I made was being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
I'll file this one under "should have learned from WoW". One issue that has plagued NC Soft since release has been gold farming companies logging character into the game and spamming global chat channels with advertisements for their site. This made the looking for group channel all but impossible to use and even if you ignored every bot spammer your ignore list would very quickly fill up forcing you to go through the tedious process of removing all the old, no longer used bot names from the list and starting over again. Why NC Soft didn't have a system in place to prevent it on launch day is a mystery to me, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the gold farming companies would show up to capitalize on the launch of a new highly anticipated mmorpg. To NC Soft's credit they've gotten this under control and the global chat channel spam has all but disappeared.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords. Botting was and continues to be a serious problem for Aion. As I leveled up I happened to keep pace with a batch of about 8 bots. I would see them every day killing creatures close to major settlements and towns. Every day I would report them with the in game slash command. After about two weeks of doing this I stopped wasting my time, it was apparent that NC Soft is not interested in cracking down on these accounts at this time. Recently I went rifting with an in game templar buddy of mine. Once we got situated in the asmodian zone we went hunting. We swept the countryside clean of bots and the occasional real player and eventually we had killed so many that there was effectively a never ending stream of bots flowing out of the nearby Asmodian town right back to the position we were waiting in. At one point we had so many bots fighting us simultaneously (many bots are programmed for self defense) we had to step off of the road we were camping and let a few pass or we would have been overwhelmed. This experience really put into perspective how game breaking bots really are and if NC Soft doesn't get this taken care of soon they are going to finish their leveling cycle and get sold off to people willing to pay and likely get lost in the crowd without any punishment ever being handed out.
I hope they fix that when the beta test ends. Aion has a problem with memory leakage. I personally cannot go into Sanctum on anything but the lowest video settings, if I attempt any higher the game immediately begins crashing after a few minutes. My computer is quite good, and anywhere else in the game I can bump the graphics up to the maximum setting and experience no graphical slowdown. This is a known issue but there has been no word on whether a fix is being made or if those of us with this problem are doomed to run the game in ugly mode.
Thanks for nothing. There are no alternative rule sets in Aion. Before the game had gone live the role-playing community had asked that one of the servers be labeled as such. They weren't asking for rule changes they just wanted a server with the RP tag on it so that players coming into the game would know which server they might find people of like mind on. NC Soft refused to do that but offered to help the community select an unofficial server for role players to congregate on.
While this in and of itself isn't a big deal, it showed that NC Soft was unwilling to make a small cosmetic change for a decent chunk of their player base.
Final Thoughts:
Don't come into Aion thinking it is going to be a WoW killer. There isn't a whole lot here that we haven't seen before in other games though in many cases Aion does it better than those other games. If certain aspects of this game seem interesting to you pick it up and give it a try for a month. If you are not sure wait for them to start a trial promotion and give it a try then.
If you have spotted any spelling or grammatical errors or feel something I have said here is not accurate please feel free to contact me and let me know. I strive to create a very clean, informative, and accurate reviews. Thank you.


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Soap opera-like debacles have stunned, stupefied, and dismayed our community. We have witnessed a prime minister, governors, and men of stature plummet to the depths of scandal and ignominy. Especially disconcerting and the epitome of paradox is when revered men, charged to exemplify God's Word, purportedly disgrace His Word instead. Why do great men fall?
Lord Acton famously said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men ."
Why is it that great men, predominantly, become bad men?
Research published recently in Psychological Science showed that power tends to corrupt and to promote a hypocritical tendency to hold other people to a higher standard than oneself. The research also demonstrated that powerful people not only abuse the system but also feel entitled to abuse it.
According to Professor Deborah Gruenfeld, a social psychologist at Stanford University who focuses on the study of power, "When people feel powerful, they stop trying to control themselves."
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle summed up the research as follows: People with power tend to be more oblivious to what others think, more likely to pursue the satisfaction of their own appetites, poorer judges of other people's reactions, more likely to hold stereotypes, overly optimistic and more likely to take risks.
In other words, Gruenfeld and her colleagues discovered that powerful people tend to have a heightened sensitivity to their own internal states and a reduced sensitivity to others.
Perhaps this is why the Torah's regulations for a Jewish king are so strict. For instance, a Jewish king must keep in his possession a Torah scroll (according to several meforshim it was worn as an amulet) to remind him of his subservience to the Law, "lest his heart becomes haughty over his brethren and he departs from God's commandments right or left " (Devarim 17:20).
The king was only allowed to divest himself of his personal Torah when attending to personal needs, such as using the lavatory (see Maimonides, Hilchos Melachim 3:1). The Torah scroll functioned as a perpetual admonition to the king not to abuse power, behave superciliously, or act above the law.
It seems from Sefer HaChinuch that arrogance and self-centeredness is the prime cause for turpitude in a leader's rule. The Jewish king, or leader, is commanded to place every self-interest aside and act solely in the service of the people, following the law of the Torah.
Reporters were astounded at the estimated 300,000-500,000 people who attended Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach's funeral in 1995. Most of the journalists had never heard of him. After a thorough search of encyclopedias and computerized archives for information on this heretofore uncelebrated personality, they were baffled that they came up with virtually no information.
The quintessential Jewish leader throughout the ages – whether it was Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, Maimonides, the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Akiva Eiger, the Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (or any one in the constellation of illustrious rabbinic personalities that have graced the Jewish world throughout the millennia) – was not necessarily renowned for charisma, elocution, or popularity (there is no ballot that elects a Jewish leader). Rather, it is the intense sincerity, integrity, selflessness, and, above all, infusion of Torah into their lifeblood that are responsible for the seemingly gratuitous selection and adulation of these outstanding men.
Nor does education or knowledge insure a leader's virtue, tenacious commitment to morality or lack of corruptibility. This fact is poignantly illustrated by the following accounts.
Michael Wildt of Hamburg University, in his book Generation Des Unbedingten, chronicles that the SS forces, those who ran the concentration camps, were comprised of some of the most educated people in German society. An elite of intellectuals and academics – a consortium of Ph.D.s in literature, philosophy, law, history, and science – directed the genocide.
A famous story is told about Bertrand Russell when he was professor of ethics at Harvard. Russell was engaged in eyebrow-raising sexual antics that were highly unacceptable in Boston in the early 20th century. The dean, especially irate that a professor of ethics should be acting so unethically, summoned him and excoriated him for his behavior. Russell rejoined: "I was a professor of geometry at Cambridge, but no one ever expected me to be a triangle or a square."
About the Author: Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer is a popular lecturer and educator and the author of "Search Judaism: Judaism's Answers to a Changing World" (Targum, 2009), available at SearchJudaism.com. He is also director of the Think and Care Tank (thinkandcare.org), an organization dedicated to spreading Jewish values and innovative Jewish programming.
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The Gaza flotilla has been rightfully and legally blocked by Israel's Navy, with greetings from Bibi
The president described the attack as "an act that drew on a long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, not random, but as a means of control, a way to terrorize and oppress…"
"The only [candidate] that's going to give real support to Israel is me," said the 69-year-old Trump.
And whereas at the outset the plan was that Iran would have to surrender most of its centrifuges, it will now be able to retain several thousand.
Now oil independent, US no longer needs its former strategic alliances with Gulf States-or Israel
In addition to the palace's tremendous size it was home to the "hanging gardens," which were counted among the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Rather than asserting Jewish rights on Temple Mount or protecting Jewish lives Israel chooses soccer
Nothing in the NEW Paris Proposal differs much from what was offered by Olmert and rejected by Abbas
No longer will delegitimization efforts go unchallenged. That's a silence we will continue to break.
Increasingly, Sweden is becoming a country where anti-Semitism & supporting terrorism is acceptable.
Rabbi Pfeffer points out that at his site, there are no one-line answers. "We want to show the people we're interested in their questions," he says.
The problem with US treatment of Israel did not start with Obama but with birth of Jewish State
The pathetic failure of the Marianne to reach Gaza is the best thing that has happened to Israel since Hamas mis-fired a rocket on its own civilians.
Wonder why Israel has the world's most insane rules of engagement imposed on its military? Read on..
Chosen People Ministries, a Hebrew Christian missionary group, has spent $2.1 million to acquire a building and nearly $1 million more on renovations to construct an 11,000 square-foot missionary center in the heart of Flatbush. It will house a "synagogue," sefer Torah, classrooms, and a dining hall – all with the intention of attracting the general Orthodox community and particularly unaffiliated local Jews and adults at risk from frum homes who have abandoned Yiddishkeit or are on the fringe.
In our quest to be spiritual entities it is incumbent on us to learn Judaism's definition of a spiritual person.
Soap opera-like debacles have stunned, stupefied, and dismayed our community. We have witnessed a prime minister, governors, and men of stature plummet to the depths of scandal and ignominy. Especially disconcerting and the epitome of paradox is when revered men, charged to exemplify God's Word, purportedly disgrace His Word instead. Why do great men fall?
For thousands of years of Jewish history there wasn't a unique nomenclature classifying Torah-deviant Jews. Denominations like Conservative, Reform and Orthodox were non-existent. One was either more observant, less observant, or, in highly atypical cases, nonobservant.
I was apprised of the fact that a renowned rav and posek in Flatbush dedicated his Shabbos morning drasha to the plight of a young lady who was recently dismissed from her Brooklyn Bais Yaakov. It seems she vexed the administration because she asked her teacher incisive questions about the nature of Gan Eden. Thankfully, due to the intervention of this prominent rav, she was reinstated to her school.
Eliot Spitzer personified success. He had it all: health, family, wealth, career, fame – everything a person can ever dream of and hope for. Then it all unraveled. A man at the zenith of life plummeted to the nadir of existence.
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An apology to the readers of Bishop Hill
Over at Bishop Hill, the climate "skeptic" blog run by Andrew Montford, people seem to be discussing my short blog post from a couple of days ago which points out how climate change "skeptics" use the "This will harm poor Africans" gambit in their constant quest to provide justifications for doing nothing about climate change. My argument was that these people, mostly, don't give a damn about the poor, but act is if they do when the subject of climate change comes up. Appealing to our better angels as a way of distracting from the fact that we are in fact appealing to our lowest, most selfish, instincts. Read the rest of this entry »
China is poised to overtake America as the world's biggest oil importer
If I stepped into a time travel machine and turned the dial to the year 2000, made my way to the nearest energy conference, and said the following, I would have been laughed off the conference floor: China will be the world's biggest importer of oil in 15 years time.
This might have elicited laughter 15 years ago. But it is now about to come true, or it already has come true. Read the rest of this entry »
Jesse Jenkins on the land requirements of renewables
Over at the Energy Collective, Jesse Jenkins has a piece on the land requirements of renewables, arguing that they aren't a major barrier to deployment. Long-term readers will know I disagree with this as far as wind farms are concerned. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear climate change deniers, please spare me your faux concern for the poor
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God Bless America
The results are in, and it was Rational Adults 5 – Barbarians 4. The US Supreme Court has declared that gay marriage should be legal throughout America.
I feel as if I need to update my gay marriage hockey stick graph to add on Ireland and America.
When will environment journalists learn the difference between renewables capacity and generation?
I have too many pet peeves to list. But here is one that simply won't lie down: environment journalists, environmentalists, Twitter based energy experts, etc. etc. who don't know the difference between renewable capacity and actual electricity generation. Anyone paid to write about or think about the future of energy should know the difference. But do they? Read the rest of this entry »
It costs us £2.3 million to protect a GM field trial from anti-GM environmentalists
Three years ago a bunch of luddite hippies – including Jenny Jones, a one time Green Party candidate for London Mayor – attempted to destroy a trial of GM wheat in Rothamstead just north of London.
Fortunately there were enough cops to stop these pre-Enlightenment thinkers from destroying the trial.
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Plus.... I can tell how this all happened once and only once...
So here's the story:
Back in late November I started having aching low back pain and pelvic pressure when I walked. I also had some urinary symptoms: urgency, frequency, etc. At the time, we were studying women's health in school and had actually just done a case study on pelvic inflammatory disease. So immediately I was like BAM! that's what I have. But then I was busy and put off making an appointment that week. One week later, the pain was gone and things were normal again. But then I had a new symptom- my right hip hurt- a deep, achy pain that felt like it was coming from my bones. And it would be constant whether I got up and walked around or was sitting. Also, even though I wasn't particularly stressed about school, I had lost my appetite and starting feeling full earlier than expect. And the weight loss began...I was suddenly the weight that I had been in high school (when on the gymnastics team) So basically, what finally prompted me to go to the doctor were the red flags of cancer: bone pain with rest, unexplained weight loss, and the fact that I used to LOVE to eat and snacked all day. I remember sitting there on the futon at this time, doing my homework and making observations/jokes to my roommates that maybe I had cancer. We also joked that I had a tapeworm that I needed to keep in line. I knew that I needed to go to the doctor but of course this happened: with the move into the new house I lost track of some bills and ended up not sending in my December health insurance premium. How fucking ironic. I never had any health problems before. Now my coverage was inconveniently suspended in the very month that something was actually wrong with me.
Anyways, so on my birthday (Dec 10) I marched into Seattle's Univ. FREE health clinic to check out what I initially thought was an infection. My NP there was awesome and listened to my concerns. I was feeling reassured that I just had a bad infection until she did the speculum exam. Damn that thing hurt! And it never ever had hurt before. It was this point that I knew something was wrong and I think I started crying right there. This marked the beginning of almost 2 months of agony and anxiety about what could be going on with me. She then told me that she found a 8cm mass in my ovary and that she was going to do some blood tests and send me to get an ultrasound to see if it was a simple cyst. So I left feeling somewhat ok that it could be a cyst, but the thought of cancer never left my mind. She called a few days later with results that my platelet counts were high. This freaked me out as well. Having just finished up a course on women's health, I had two gyno books at my disposal, as well as lab interpretation textbooks. Really high platelets= possible sign of bone marrow failure (and from cancer).
All of this was awful timing because I was about to go home for Xmas break. But I wanted to get the US first. So I paid for the damn thing myself and got it right before I left. That was a scary procedure as well because the technician would not let me even peek at the monitor. Very frustrating for a medical student. She spend so much time in there that I thought I had other masses. I think i was feeling a little hysterical at this point because I requested some valium from the school NP.
Well a few long days late I got the results of the US: it was a 8cm solid mass with some cystic components that may or may not be located in the ovary. Solid= bad= not cyst. There were no other malignant-like findings, but with the size and consistency the reporter could not rule out malignancy. Those were the words I took home with me for my vacation "can not rule out malignancy". As pissed as they probably are about it now, I didn't tell either my parents or my sister what was going on. I just wanted to enjoy my Xmas. Plus everyone was already so stressed out- i knew that this would make it worse, even if I meant that I had to hide my anxiety and need to tell them. I did tell some good friends at home and that helped to calm me down. I remember leaving St Louis and Urbana feeling pretty good- I had had a great time hanging out with old friends and family- probably one of the best times I've had visiting. I did sleep a lot when I was there though. I think I woke up at 2pm every afternoon for those 2 weeks. My parents did manage to fatten me up a little bit too. My hip still hurt a lot and I know my parents wondered what was going on with that.
At home I was desperate to get in to see the gyno but because of the massive snow storm and Seattle's mismanagement the clinic hadn't been open all week. I was finally able to get an appointment with my PCP who ordered an MRI, and the gyno doc. I had the MRI first which was one of the most boring things I've ever experienced. You lay down on a table and the magnets rotate around you with blaring noise. It took at least an hour and none of the music stations they had for you to listen to were working. After the MRI I picked up the films and took them to meet the gyno for the first time. She did an exam and looked at the MRI and decided that laparascopic surgery was in need to remove the mass. She originally thought that the mass was uterine in origin and we had a long discussion about how much it would suck to have to have C-sections every time I got pregnant. I had always had this desire to go natural childbirth- with no epidural just like my mom did. Having a C-section would ruin that whole experience for me... Dr Gyno changed her mind when she got the results of my CA-125 blood test. The CA-125 is an protein found in ovarian cancer cells. The usual values are from 0-35. Well mine was 420. In pre-menopausal women it is not reliable as a diagnostic or screening test for ovarian cancer, but 80% of menopausal women with high values have stage II, III, and IV ovarian cancer. There are other causes for CA-125 elevations, but the values in these causes are usually much less than my 420. So basically another test that could not rule out malignancy.
After thinking about the MRI findings, CA-125 test and the possibility of cancer, I started wondering if laparoscopic surgery wasn't the way to go. With a lap surgery, my max recovery time could be a week and so I would miss much less class and clinical. But, if they did a lap and discovered that the mass was malignant, then they would have close (to reduce risk of releasing more cells into the body) and reschedule another abdominal surgery. Rather than go though all this surgery during a busy quarter I decided to consult with UW Medical and a gyn-onc surgeon. After meeting with me, she immediately told me that she could not remove the mass laparoscopically and that the recovery time would be 4-6 wks. I was devastated at this time because that would be a ton of missed school and recovery. But I wanted that tumor out, so I schedule my surgery for January 30th at the UWMH. She told me that there was a 50-50 chance that the mass could be cancerous at this point, but was thankful that they would be able to remove it early. She also came in with forms for me to sign about what should happen if they do find malignancy. The standard in ovarian cancer is to take the other ovary, unless the woman is of childbearing age. I remember signing the form that it would be ok to take the other ovary if it would be medically unsafe or if the cancer was particularly aggressive. Then I almost signed my uterus away, but my sister had told me that I could have some of her eggs.
So after step after step of malignancy not being ruled out- I finally geared up to call my parents. I had wanted to know the definitive diagnose before i told them. but i realize that this could no longer be possible without surgery, and they need to at least know that I was getting surgery. So I called them and it was awful- lots of crying. They made arrangements to fly to Seattle for my 5 day stay. I was upset because the one time I can get them to stop overworking themselves and take a vacation, it has to be to visit their sick daughter and her abdominal incision. Too bad cause I wanted to show them around and instead was in bed for 5 days.
Well I prepared for surgery by letting my professors and clinical sites know- weird because I didn't really know the outcome of when I would be back- just that recovery maybe take up to 4 wks. The night before I had to do a bowel prep which consisted of drinking 2 entire bottles of milk of magnesia. Ughhhhh. my ass hurt after that one. I spent more time on the toilet than doing anything else the most of the night. The morning of surgery I packed my backs with lots to do knowing that i would have a 5 day stay. The UW hospital was amazing, and I was totally impressed with the care. I met with the anesthesiologist who prepped me for surgery, and my surgeon who wanted to run through the plan. She said it would take about 3 hours max, and that she didn't think there would be any need to take the other ovary. Next thing I knew, I was being wheeled out to surgery and then what felt like moments late- wheeled back into the recovery room.
All I remember from the recovery room is whispering. People talking about me with concerned voices. The results of the surgery. At some point I asked for an epidural. I remember sitting against the side of the bed listening to a new resident get instruction from the doctor on how to place the catheter. It was taking way too long. From where I was I had just well assumed that she had no idea what she was doing. I remember crying here and everyone kept asking me "does it hurt?" No it didn't hurt- I am just scared because you are taking an hour to stick a massive needle in my spine and I am overhearing evidence that this may be your first placement. Finally when they got it in- I looked down at my belly and saw that the incision was twice the size that the doctor had anticipated. This was my clue that something had gone wrong. It also explained all the whispering from the nurses- I knew that she had found cancer.
A super nice resident came in later and gave me the most direct explanation of what they had found in surgery: The ovarian mass was actually 10cm, solid, indeed located in the ovary, and had pathology that showed it was malignant in nature. Therefore, the surgeon had decided to take my other ovary. Biopsies from the abdominal lining and adjacent structures were negative. However, just when they were about to close the surgeon was surprised to find a 2 cm metastasis to my para-aortic nodes. Apparently rather than spreading to adjacent tissues, the metastases spread through the blood stream and wrapped around the vena cava (makes me wonder if this would explain why I would get so light-headed when I stood up). Fortunately, the surgeon was able to remove the node and they were able to close without complications. The resident explained this all so matter-of-factly, yet had so much concern in her eyes when she told me that they took the other ovary. I asked her what my staging was and she said Stage: III (C). Basically in ovarian cancer that means that it has spread beyond one or both ovaries into the abdominal cavity or adjacent lymph nodes.
So after all that time my instincts had been right. It is so weird now- all that anxiety I had been feeling was suddenly released. I can accept cancer- apparently I just can't accept the unknown. The watching and waiting and not knowing was what was causing me so much distress. Now I actually feel a little more positive and much more relaxed.
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Don´t talk about german people if the war just was created by political groups under influence from reptilians. The people from germany have nothing to do with war or Hitler at all. Thats not the case so if anyone here has a problem with germany, he should be quiet with saying we germans are racists, because the only racism would be here in this topic, with spreading the propaganda that germany is the devil of this planet. Thats not the case. We are not the devil. The devil has fun on the moon. And he looks smiling to earth. While mankind is destroying everything after he started to make people on earth think that plus and minus exist between cultures and people on earth. Actually the devil needs to get attention, but nobody talks about him, no, people on earth rather start talking about (against) each other with hate and violence, while he smiles.
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We can blame the German people for being played like sheep.
...Kinda the same way the Americans are today.
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Herb Kohl Rumors
Negotiations are under way among the Milwaukee Bucks, city and state officials on how to pay for a $500 million new arena or face franchise relocation. The Bucks' current owners, Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, have committed $150 million, and the former owner, Herb Kohl, has committed $100 million. Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a presidential hopeful, has proposed borrowing $220 million, but his party's legislature is fighting him on it and wants the state's contribution to be closer to $150 million.
As for the arena, Lasry acknowledges its shortcomings. The Bucks' home locker room is outclassed by that of many major college programs, and their practice facility is an annexed building of a Catholic archdiocese. Lasry and Edens have pledged $100 million to build a new arena, as has former owner Herb Kohl. They are still searching for ways to fund the rest, while the location has been narrowed down to three sites. Lasry says they hope to settle on one in the next month or so, after which things should begin to move quickly. "It is a process, and it's challenging," Lasry said. "We are trying to get the best site where we can do the best for the city. For as many people who want you to do something somewhere, there are as many people who don't want you to do something somewhere."
So, it wasn't surprising that when Kohl recently sold his NBA franchise, he didn't forget about the people who worked under him. You may have read where Kohl gave gifts of $500 to employees at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, where the Bucks played their home games. What you haven't read, though, is that Kohl's generosity extended much further. He also bestowed significant financial gifts to others in the organization, from secretaries to sales personnel to basketball operations officials. The amount Kohl gave those employees varied and was based on different criterion, not the least of which was longevity with the organization. Some Bucks employees received $40,000 while others received nearly $100,000. And there were even some individuals who were given checks that one person close to the situation described as "life changing."
There was widespread chatter among Bucks officials and even some NBA executives that Kohl was livid with Hammond and, if he had maintained ownership of the team, would have fired him after the season. But Hammond, the NBA's Executive of the Year in 2009-2010, is still overseeing the basketball operations and Drew is heavily involved in draft preparations. Thursday, during an informal gathering with a group of media, Lasry and Edens expressed their support for Hammond, Drew and Morway. "I think, on the basketball side right now, John, David and Larry, at least from all the dealings we've had, they have been doing a great job," Lasry said.
The Milwaukee Bucks are officially under new ownership, as the NBA's Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale of the team Thursday from Herb Kohl to Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry. Lasry and Edens, New York-based hedge fund billionaires, agreed to purchase the franchise from Kohl for $550 million on April 16. It took nearly a month for the deal to become official, but the Bucks now are no longer under the control of Kohl for the first time in 29 years.
A source with knowledge of the sale process said Monday the sale of the Milwaukee Bucks to New York investors Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens "is moving quickly." "It's possible there will be news later this week," the source said. Former senator Herb Kohl is selling the team he has owned since 1985 to Lasry and Edens for $550 million, which includes assumed debt. In addition, Lasry and Edens have committed $100 million toward the cost of a new arena, as has Kohl.
Kohl's last day in the Senate was Jan. 2 after 24 years. His sale of the Bucks, of which he is the sole owner, still requires NBA approval. The buyers are New York City investment executives Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens. "Some people will look at it and say, 'Herb Kohl is making $550 million on this,'" Kohl told me. "I'm saying, 'Hey, that's not true.' It's a business that has risks. When I bought the team, the NBA was a very small, shaky enterprise. There were many problems in the NBA when I bought this in the middle-'80s. Some of my investments have turned out better, some worse."
After the news April 17 that Kohl agreed to sell the Milwaukee Bucks for $550 million, I asked him about the return on his initial 1985 investment of $18 million to $19 million. Kohl pointed out that he had spent "well over $100 million" keeping the Bucks in business and went into debt with the NBA, but would not give a specific dollar figure. "I didn't invest for the money and it doesn't take into account the money I've put in over the years to keep the team afloat during the times when the (NBA's) economic model was broken," Kohl told me. "It was well over $100 million, so you can just start subtracting from what I received here."
Herb Kohl tapped the NBA's revolving loan fund twice in 2009 and three times in 2010, according to personal financial filings from his final year in the U.S. Senate that shed light on his statement that he spent "well over $100 million" keeping the Bucks afloat. "I went into debt," Kohl told me in an interview. "The league has a credit facility and we got to the limit of what we could borrow. It turned out fine. I have no complaints on the money side."
The NBA has the right to buy back the Milwaukee Bucks from incoming owners Wesley Edens and Mark Lasry if a deal to a bring a new arena to the city is not in place by November 2017, according to sources briefed on the situation. Sources told ESPN.com that the sale agreement announced last week to transfer the Bucks from longtime owner Herb Kohl to Edens and Lasry for a purchase price of $550 million includes a provision that allows the league to buy back the team for $575 million if construction on a new building in Milwaukee is not underway by the deadline.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban considers the sale price of approximately $550 million for the Milwaukee Bucks to be a bargain, suggesting the true value of NBA franchises is north of $1 billion. Longtime Bucks owner Herb Kohl announced Wednesday that he had reached an agreement to sell the team to hedge-fund billionaires Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry, a deal subject to approval by the NBA and its board of governors. "I think they got off cheap," Cuban said. "I think that was a bargain. I think it's worth a lot more. I think it's worth a lot more than that. I think someone got a bargain. You can't look backwards. You've got to look forward. You don't value teams based off what happened in the past."
Edens said pending league approval of the purchase, he and Lasry would begin to speak with the basketball staff and others in the organization. "It's Day 1 for us," Edens said. "And it's a process. We've had a lot of experience in investing in various businesses and successful ones are run by great organizations. We're all about hiring the right people and having the right people in place. "We think there are a lot of terrific people in the organization. We haven't really spent any time assessing people in the organization in any meaningful way. We're going to figure it out." Edens said, "Obviously there's a big draft coming up and there's a talent assessment going into that." "We'll start immediately but it becomes in earnest once we have closed on the transaction."
The ownership change creates plenty of uncertainty for the Bucks management team led by general manager John Hammond and the players and coaching staff. Hammond and coach Larry Drew both have two years remaining on their contracts, and the Bucks are coming off the worst season in franchise history — a 15-67 effort that has earned the team the best chance in next month's NBA draft lottery of landing the No. 1 pick. "It's life; it's a business," Kohl said. "They understand. Whether we have new management, I would have the same choices to make (if he had remained team owner). "I hope good things happen for everybody, but you're running a business. It involves making choices. By the way, it's never come up.
Bucks owner Herb Kohl was well past retirement age and realized it was time to secure the future of the franchise. He had one big caveat for any potential investors: Keep the team in his hometown of Milwaukee. And he found a buyer. The former U.S. senator is banking on New York investment firm executives Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens to follow through after agreeing to sell them the Bucks for about $550 million. The deal is subject to approval by the NBA and its board of governors. "I wasn't going to live forever. I've approached a time in my life where I have to think about … how do we think about succession," Kohl, 79, said Wednesday at a news conference in the atrium of the BMO Harris Bradley Center. The deal was announced hours before the team was to play its final game of a dismal season.
Forbes recently listed the Bucks as the least valuable franchise in the NBA at $405 million, which means the team sold for a 36 percent premium on their valuation. The Bucks are in the smallest market with one of the worst arenas in the NBA, so why were billionaires lining up to buy the NBA's least valuable team?
The Milwaukee Bucks won't be moving any time soon. Today, Herb Kohl reportedly sold the Bucks to hedge fund billionaires Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens for $550 million. Bidding for the team has been open since December, and rumors circulated that the Seattle duo of Steve Ballmer and Chris Hansen were interested in purchasing the team. However, Kohl made a condition of the sale that the team would stay in Milwaukee.
One reason is that NBA teams have cost certainty until 2017 based on the most recent collective bargaining agreement (CBA). There is a slim chance the CBA could last until 2022. However, that is doubtful due to the NBA's upcoming new media deal driving up the valuation of small-market teams, such as the Sacramento Kings and (drum roll) the Bucks.
Brian Windhorst: New Bucks owners Wesley Edens & Marc Lasry announce they paid $550M & will invest $100M for new arena. Outgoing owner Herb Kohl giving $100M


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Experts at New York's Pregnancy Risk Network Teratogen Information Service (PRN), a non-profit that aims to educate women about all types of exposures that pose risk to pregnancy and breastfeeding, report that 160,000 babies are affected by birth defects each year in the U.S. Approximately 3 percent of the babies born each year in New York are born with birth defects, some of which can be prevented.
In honor of National Birth Defects Prevention Month, which is recognized during January of each year, the PRN is stepping up efforts to help educate the public about preventable causes of some common birth defects. Specialists at the PRN have compiled a list of a few of the preventable causes of some of the most common birth defects:
1. Neural Tube Defects and Folic Acid Supplementation
Neural tube defects are malformations of the spinal cord that are serious and can be life-threatening. Two of the most common neural tube defects are spina bifida and anencephaly, and these occur in about 1 in every 1,000 live births. Getting enough folic acid, and following recommendations to take a multivitamin with folic acid or a folic acid supplement containing at least 400 mcg daily during all of the years that a woman is capable of becoming pregnant can prevent up to 70 percent of these defects. Because the neural tube closes in the first month after conception, a time when many women do not yet realize they are pregnant, it is important for women, in addition to a healthy diet, to be taking supplements before pregnancy. That is why the recommendation is to take supplements throughout the childbearing years.
2. Heart Defects and Maternal Obesity
Heart defects are some of the most common malformations. The various types of errors in the formation of the heart may occur in as many as 1 in 100 live births. Mothers who are obese at the time they become pregnant (Body Mass Index >30) seem to have an increased chance of having a baby with several kinds of birth defects, including heart defects. If mothers can reduce body weight by making healthy lifestyle changes prior to becoming pregnant, this can help prevent heart and other defects in their baby.
3. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Maternal Drinking
"Alcohol is the most common recognizable environmental cause of birth defects associated with mental retardation," says Luther K Robinson MD, founder of the Pregnancy Risk Network. Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are born small, have problems with learning and behavior, and may have other birth defects. "It's completely preventable by avoiding alcohol during pregnancy," Dr. Robinson says. This means that women who have the potential to become pregnant can prevent having a child affected by alcohol by modifying their alcohol drinking habits prior to becoming pregnant. Once a woman knows she is pregnant, she can prevent later effects of alcohol on the baby's growing brain by avoiding alcohol through the remainder of the pregnancy and during breastfeeding.
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It's Time To Kill Head Start.
Actually, we should have killed Head Start a long time ago. Even a heavily massaged report by the Department of Health and Human Services admits that the program is essentially a waste of time:
In sum, this report finds that providing access to Head Start has benefits for both 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds in the cognitive, health, and parenting domains, and for 3-year-olds in the social-emotional domain. However, the benefits of access to Head Start at age four are largely absent by 1st grade for the program population as a whole. For 3-year-olds, there are few sustained benefits, although access to the program may lead to improved parent-child relationships through 1st grade…
We've spent 100 billion dollars on Head Start since 1965 and we're seeing some tiny improvement that lasts from age 4 to 1st grade? Is it any wonder this country is bankrupt and living on credit from China?
So, we have: an : enormously expensive program that doesn't work;: can it get any worse? We're talking about the government here, so OF COURSE it can get worse. It turns out that Head Start is riddled with fraud:
An undercover investigation into the federal government's Head Start program has found enough enrollment abuses to generate a report to President Obama and a major damage-control effort by the agency that runs the program.
At a hearing Tuesday, members of the House Education and Labor Committee heard dramatic audio clips of fraud being taken by Government Accountability Office (GAO) agents. In one clip, a New Jersey Head Start worker handed back a $23,000 pay stub to two agents who were pretending to enroll their children in the preschool program.
"Now you see it, now you don't," the Head Start worker said.
…In testimony presented to the House panel Tuesday, GAO special investigations official Gregory D. Kutz said that in at least eight cases, Head Start employees "manipulated" information to admit ineligible children.
Enrollment rules were so lax, he warned, that Head Start workers could easily "doctor" enrollment applications, and families could enter the program with "bogus" documents created at home.
…Head Start, created 45 years ago as a "war on poverty" program, receives $7 billion a year. Last year, it received an extra $2 billion under the stimulus bill, and the Obama administration has requested another $1 billion for it for 2011.
Head Start's main purpose is to narrow the school-readiness gap by giving poor preschoolers free educational, medical, nutritional and social services.
Early studies have showed that Head Start services pay off when the children start school.
But in January, a massive, 10-year study found that by the time Head Start children finish first grade, they score no better than non-Head Start children on most of 112 measures.
So, everyone knows the program doesn't work and it's run behind-the-scenes with ACORN-style ethics rules. Yet, we were spending 7 billion dollars a year on it when Obama came : into office and he borrowed another 3 billion dollars for a non-functional program. It's time to stop wasting our money. It's time for the Head Start program to die.
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2003 Buick LeSabre Question: Is it usual for intake manifold gasket replacement to last only 26,787 miles.
Yhe miles were incurred in a period of 4 years equaling 6,696 miles per year. Thanks for your advice. - Punim
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There is no usual or unusual for the intake and or gaskets on this 3.8 L engine. I think that is the eng. that is in this car, 4 years since the repair, that would be around 2008 so that means you only got 1 MORE year out of the FACTORY gaskets! Gaskets have been improved since that replacement was done. Have intake manifold checked and new gaskets installed IF that is where the leak is! Also dont put DexCool back in it, use the good old green stuff. That is better anyway i have found! Have the installer check bolt torque after a couple of weeks of driving. Now, water in oil /external leak? Or vacuum leak. - pushrod
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|All purpose flour
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Canned chicken broth/1.75 cups chicken broth
|13 3⁄4 Ounce, undiluted
|2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
|Diced cooked chicken
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Canned english peas
|8 1⁄2 Ounce, drained
|Canned mixed vegetables
|16 Ounce, drained
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|3 (Biscuit Topping For Garnishing)
Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat; add flour, stirring until smooth.
Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Gradually add chicken broth and milk, cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened and bubbly.
Stir in chicken, peas, vegetables, salt, and pepper; heat thoroughly.
Pour mixture into a greased 8-inch square pan, cover with biscuit topping.
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When we last checked in with Danny Espinosa's huge beard, it was signing autographs for kids and spreading Holiday cheer. Update: Espinosa's beard is alive and well, judging by the the photo above in which Danny Espinosa and his girlfriend posed with Espinosa's Beard at Ryan Zimmerman's wedding a few weeks ago in D.C. Indeed, Espinosa's Beard seems poised to give Brian Wilson's a run for its money. (Photo by @SaraBethMosher. We first saw it earlier this morning in a Tweet by Nats super-Tweeter @JackoBeam.) Befriend Nats Enquirer on Facebook. Follow on Twitter.
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