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For the second year in a row, Liv Mitchell has come home wearing bronze.
The Top of the World student competed in the age 10 bracket at the Junior Olympic Amateur Athletic Union Diving Nationals and earned a third-place finish in the three-meter event. The nationals, which had 397 divers in the nine-to-17 age range registered for the competition, were held Aug. 1-9 at Coral Springs, Fla.
She attended the national competition with her coach, Ila Wilson, and Rich Wilson of Crown Valley Divers.
Mitchell earned bronze during a diving season that saw the local youth break her arm and miss nine weeks of training. She finished third in the three-meter preliminary rounds to advance to a finals field that included 12 divers.


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Today I'd like to talk about ebooks, and specifically their impact on the publishing world. I was just reading my (electronic!) copy of Analog, which is a contradiction in terms in and of itself, if you think about it. There is an article by Don Sakers which begins on page 102, where he writes some about ebooks, then gives reviews of several books which are available in both print and e-formats. Although his article is specifically about SF, it applies to all genres of writing. Mr. Sakers says, "Another consequence of e-books is removing traditional publishers as gatekeepers of content. This has both good and bad implications for SF. On the positive side, much more good SF will be published. The age of the mass market is fading; in a sense, we're entering the age of the niche. To be sure, some niches are larger than others. There will always be big-name authors – but now, we'll also have medium-size names, small names, tiny names, microscopic and nano-scale names all equally available to readers.
"The bad news is that the same expansion will result in enormously more bad SF. No one reader has the time to wade through thousands of unsuitable books in search of the one or two that are suitable."
I've seen this argument repeated too often to count. Go back and read that last sentence again. When he's talking about ebooks removing traditional publishers as gatekeepers, what he actually means is self-publishing of ebooks. Mr. Sakers seems to be discounting the thousands of traditionally published ebooks that are available to the reading public. The debate here is not electronic vs. print books, but traditional vs. self-publishing. His opinion is clear: self-publishing will force readers to wade through thousands of horribly written manuscripts in order to discover the one or two gems that have been written by good (i.e. traditionally published) authors.
No matter who states it, the argument is always drawn on the same lines, there will be thousands of horrible things to wade through in order to find the rare gems. I take exception to the math used by people who parrot this argument.
First, it's very difficult to tell, before purchase, whether a book is self or traditionally published.
Second, there are many authors who have been traditionally published for many years, who are now self-publishing alongside their traditionally published works. Does the fact they are now self-pubbing suddenly make their work inferior? Of course not.
It is very true that many authors, myself included, would not be published at all if not for the financially feasible options of print-on-demand and e-books. However, it is absolutely not true that there are thousands of bad self-published books to every two or three gems.
I read constantly. I cannot get to sleep at night without reading. I read self-published books. I read traditionally published books. I read long out-of-print books that have been restored and made available as e-books. In 2012 I read 410 works containing well over 45,000 pages. That's pleasure reading, not the reading I do for school classes, or for other informational purposes. It's also books, not counting magazines, blogs, and my morning cereal box.
Every once in a while I find a book that's so badly written, or so badly edited, that I can't bear to finish it. More often I find a book that has outrageously stupid mistakes in the writing or editing – things that should have been caught by either the writer or one of the many editors. I find this sort of mistake in both traditionally published and self-published books.
By and large, most of the things I read are good enough to finish the book. Many of them are good enough to re-read. Unless I have an atypical experience as a reader, I would say that the ratios presented in Mr. Sakers' article are exactly reversed. Readers of traditional and self-published books have the privilege of enjoying thousands of well-written, well-edited stories, while knowing that they will definitely come across the few horrible pieces, which are both self- and traditionally published.

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A few years ago I asked for a small tabletop paper shredder for Christmas. I originally liked the small size but found that it filled up quickly and only accepted three sheets of paper at a time. This worked well for me for many years but this year I decided to upgrade to a micro cut shredder. My Mom has one and I loved how teeny tiny the paper was after it went through the shredder. I spent hours searching online after striking out in stores and finally found the Royal MicroCut MC500 shredder for around $50. This baby shreds five sheets of paper at a time (good for my use - some people want more but I found if you keep up with your day-to-day mail this is plenty big enough) and cuts those pages into 2235 little pieces of paper. I debated whether to give you the link to the site I purchased from but I wasn't happy with how long it took to get here so I'm not comfortable sharing with my readers unless you really want it. ;)
In an effort to "Clear the Clutter" (one of my 2012 goals) I recently went through all of my old files, boxes and bags and shredded a TON of paper. I feel better knowing those papers are out of the house and even more so that there is no way anyone can try to tape them back together. Check out the difference!
Why is a garbage bag filled with teeny pieces of paper so fulfilling? Phase one of cleaning up the clutter in my tiny house is complete – as long as I keep up with my shredding.


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Here at RocketMill, we build the majority of our websites in WordPress; and though we offer one to one training for each of our clients it can sometimes be difficult to remember everything. So I propose to do a series of posts to help you with the basics.
This post is about how to add a new page and will cover the following:
- Adding a new page
- Deciding on, and adding a title
- Setting page attributes
- Adding content
- Adding an image to the content
- Setting a featured image
- Saving your changes and preview
- Publishing your creation
- Including the page in the site navigation
1. Adding a new page
The first thing to do is log into the back end of your website. Once you've reached the dashboard you'll see the WordPress navigation bar over on the left hand side, hover or click on Pages and a sub-menu will appear, click Add New.
2. Deciding on, and adding a title
Once you've arrived on the page editing screen, the first thing you need to do it choose a title. The title should be short, concise and contain a keyword if possible. Above all it must say what the page is about.
3. Setting page attributes
The page attributes are situated on the right hand side.
Parent – You can arrange your pages in hierarchies. For example, you could have an "About" page that has "Life Story" and "My Dog" pages under it. There are no limits to how many levels you can nest pages.
Template– Some themes have custom templates you can use for certain pages that might have additional features or custom layouts. If so, you'll see them in this dropdown menu.
Order – Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can choose your own order by entering a number (1 for first, etc.) in this field.
4. Adding Content
This is the key part of creating your new page. You can simple write directly into the content box, or you can copy and paste the text from Word (or similar word processing software). Note that images won't copy across from Microsoft Word, however, if you are using 2010 version and above, you can save the image into a folder by right-clicking it in Word and selecting 'Save as Picture'. Following this, you can import the image into WordPress. For more information on using the WYSIWYG editor then read Tutorial 3 – Using the Text Editor.
5. Adding an image to the content
Place your mouse cursor at the beginning of the paragraph where you wish to place the image, then click Add Media.
You can now simply drag your image from your computer straight into WordPress.
Make sure the image you wish to insert is selected.
On the right hand side you have number of settings that you can modify.
Caption – You can add a caption to your image. This will normally appear just below the picture.
Alt Text – Alt text should be a short description of the image. This will appear if for some reason, the image is unable to display. Also if a user is using a screen reader to access your site then it will read out the Alt text.
Alignment – You can align the photo left, right or center. Aligning left will place the image over to the left of the page and the text will flow around it on the right (vice versa when you align the image to the right).
Link To – This will make the image clickable. I normally set it to none but you can use custom url to link to another site or media file to link to the full size image.
Size – Here you can choose the size of the image. I normally go for medium when including the image within the main body of the content.
Now just click the blue Insert into page button.
If you wish, you can go back and edit the image by clicking on the image and then clicking the landscape icon.
Delete image by clicking the delete icon.
6. Setting a featured image
Depending on how your WordPress theme is set up you may be able to set a featured image. If this feature is compatible with your theme then it will most often be used to set a banner image for your page.
Add a featured image by clicking Set featured image
As in step 5 you can either drag in a new image or select one that is already in your media library. Then just click the blue Set featured image button, bottom right.
7. Saving your changes and preview
While creating your page you may need to take a break in order to go to the loo or attend other important business meetings. Just before you go, click the Save Draft button. This will create your page in WordPress but not publish it. You can come back at a later stage to edit it further.
Also before publishing you can see what the page looks like by clicking the Preview button.
8. Publishing your creation
Right, now you are happy with your lovely page and raring to publish it. Simply click the blue Publish button. This will make your page live so that anyone one can see it. However, depending on how your WordPress system is set up, you may have to include your new page in the navigation, if you wish people to find it.
9. Including the page in the site navigation
To add your new page into the website navigation, with your mouse go to Appearance then Menus
Your new page will be the top one in the Pages box.
Tick it and then click Add to Menu. It will now appear at the bottom of the list on the right hand side.
Simply use your mouse to drag the page into the desired order. Dragging it to the right until it indents will make the page a child of the next page, without indentation, above.
This will now appear in a drop down menu of the parent page on the front-end of your website.
The most common design for the navigation on a website is for it to run horizontally across the top of the site. So be aware when you are adding your page to the top level (not in a dropdown), that you have enough space. You can try shortening the page label by clicking on the down arrow next to the page name and editing the Navigation Label.
Don't forget, when working with the menu, that you must always click the blue Save Menu button after making any changes.
That's it you have created a new page.
This is the first post in a series of WordPress tutorials that I hope you will find beneficial. This tutorial has been carried out on WordPress version 3.5.1. If you have any questions about adding a new page to WordPress then please leave a comment.


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The Skeleton King. An icon from the Diablo franchise and much like in the Diablo games, Leoric is a hero who never stays down. His spectral presence will literally haunt his enemies, dead or undead. Played well, he can dominate fights, control the battlefield, and spooky scary skeleton your opponents into submission. Are you prepared to wear the crown?
Roles that Hero Can Fill:
Leoric is not a suitable tank for a composition that requires hard CC, such as pick comps, but in general he can tank so long as you are careful about his relatively low health pool. He's much stronger as an anti-tank bruiser because of his ability to safely solo lane and do significant damage to high health targets in team fights. He also has acceptable wave clear in the tank slot, which is always worth considering, especially with the minion changes.
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- Q; Skeletal Swing: A moderate damage, large frontal arc ability that slows by 40% for 2.5 seconds and deals double damage to all non-heroic units: Minions, mercenaries, and monsters. This is all of Leoric's wave clear potential and, since he lacks hard CC, it is also most of his peel and control in team fights outside of his Heroics.
- W; Drain Hope: A medium range skillshot that only hits heroes. If you land it, it creates a tether between you and the hero that deals 25% of their maximum HP, and heals you for 25% of your maximum HP, over 4 seconds. While the tether is active, you are slowed by 20%. If the enemy hero moves out of range, the ability is cancelled. This is essentially all of Leoric's sustain in teamfights and during laning. It is the reason he is considered an "anti-tank" bruiser: the threat of the damage is often his best zoning tool, and most of his strongest talents improve Drain Hope in some way. In most cases, any fight where you miss your W is a fight you are out of until it comes back off CD. It is critical for everything about Leoric, be it in lane or all out team fights. Ensure maximum value by using W in combination with your Q-slow, Entomb, or other CC from your team.
- E; Wraith Walk: Leoric gains Unstoppable as a ghost form and accelerates to +50% movement speed over 2.5 seconds. When Wraith Walk is canceled, his body jumps to his ghost. This functions as an all around engage, escape, and repositioning tool for him. Unlike most escape mechanics, the fact the he leaves his body behind means he can still be focused, so using it as an escape is something you have to decide very quickly. Often the best escape will be W-ing a target for the sustain and then immediately E-ing away. The range it can travel by default is roughly 3/5 of a screen width.
- Trait; Undying: When Leoric dies he becomes a ghost and regens a certain amount of health per second based on his total health and the length of his death timer. Any abilities that heal him in this form heal for half, but reduce the length of his death timer allowing him to "Cheat Death" and come back faster. While dead, Leoric becomes the ultimate scout: he can keep tabs on the enemy team, spot rotations, and check bushes and camps. His Q still slows and his W regens at half effectiveness, shortening his death timer, though he does no damage as a ghost. You have to judge when you want to come back quickly, however; sometimes if no objectives are spawning it is more valuable to stay dead and be a free invulnerable scout for your team. If you are going to resurrect in a bad spot, it is possible to use Hearthstone (B) while dead to return your ghost to your base.
Leoric's wave clear and ability to sustain and be far forward to scout and zone for his team's rotation make him very strong in lane, so he shines on maps that favor a four-man rotation, where two lanes are close together or there are only two lanes: Dragon Shire, Tomb, Towers, Shrines, Braxis, and Blackheart's. He can also be a reasonable solo laner on most maps if he is drafted as the bruiser so long as he is matched against a melee solo laner and not a ranged one, as his sustain depends largely on his W. On Dragon Shire and Garden of Terror, his W applying to the Terror and Dragon Knight gives his team a defensive advantage. The way terrain is arranged around the temples on Sky Temple makes it his strongest map because of the strength of Entomb on temple fights, particularly the top and bottom temples.
Team Playstyle
If Leoric is with his team, he should focus on using his Q on the wave and then immediately mount up to be a mobile ward while his team finishes the wave. On rotation maps, which are his strongest, he should focus on breaking the enemy team's rotation by dismounting them and then using his E to get back to his team. If he dies, Leoric becomes a scout. If he is the solo laner he should focus on keeping his W up to trade damage with his laning opponent and save his E in case he gets rotated on. Solo laning as Leoric is very simple because his escape is so good, the only hard part is landing the W consistently.
In team fights Leoric should usually position very aggressively and throw his W on the highest health or lowest mobility frontline target. Lacking hard CC, the best way Leoric can create space for his team is to always know where the enemy team is coming from and slow them with his Q so his team has a chance to position well for any potential flanks or engagements. If he gets into trouble, he can E out.
If there are heavy dive heroes on the enemy team, such as Greymane or The Butcher, he wants to position above or below and in front of his backline so that he can use Entomb as a wall when the engagement happens. This either splits the enemy team or catches the diver outright, allowing an easy pick off for his ranged damage. If Leoric dies, he can still peel for his team by slowing with his Q, a unique advantage among tanks. In terms of tempo, on an objective his trait means it is always worthwhile to trade your life for a higher value target because you will come back faster, and if you can ever save an ally by sacrificing yourself, it is always the right decision. It can be very difficult to judge that situation, however, and comes with practice.
Strong With:
Leoric's strong positioning and "catch" mechanics but lack of hard CC make him pair very well with heroes who have hard CC but a hard time safely engaging. Xul, Rexxar, The Butcher, Anub'Arak, Kerrigan, and Dehaka are some of the more obvious examples. Entomb counting as terrain for Diablo's Shadow Charge is a very strong synergy as well; the same applies to Auriel's Detainment Strike. When you use Entomb and Q to their full potential as zoning tools, he can also pair very well with Sgt. Hammer and Lt. Morales, but that is extremely dependent on strong positioning and awareness from your entire team. Entomb is an acceptable set up for burst damage which means he pairs very well with all the mages and Tychus, assuming they save their CDs for that one perfect Entomb.
Weak With:
Other warriors that lack stuns, Chen and Arthas being the two worst offenders. He doesn't usually pair well with Johanna, but on wave-clear centric maps you can often win just by pure lane pressure, a strategy probably best reserved for organized play. He lacks sufficient peel to pair with Sonya, Greymane, Kharazim, and other dive oriented heroes.
Strong Against:
Heroes who lack any form of terrain-bypassing escape. Entomb is a big target your entire team will understand. Additionally, warriors who are low mobility or depend on their high health pool to survive, like Artanis, Diablo, Sonya, Johanna, Cho'Gall, and Arthas are very weak against Leoric. Sonya used to be a difficult matchup for him but the recent changes to Drain Hope pushed it in Leoric's favor.
Weak Against:
Heroes with high damage skill shots or vulnerabilities because his E leaves him in a fixed position long enough for them to get full value consistently. A full Tracer combo is guaranteed to land with even average positioning and timing.If he is already low health at all, it can kill him. Same thing for Li Ming, Zagara, Tyrande, and so on.
Talent Overview
Talent Key:
The Default: This talent is usually the default pick just because of how strong it is and at best other talents at this tier are only situationally better.
Niche/Situational: One of the most common questions I get asked is when do you take certain less picked talents. They often have uses but the uses are specific to either comps or maps. These are those talents.
Must be Paired with Other talents: Often there are certain talents that, by themselves, are not very impressive but synergize so well with other talents that if you plan on taking the other talent, you should take the talents that pair well with it.
Trap: Trap Talents are either actively bad or, more usually, simply so much worse than competing talents at the same tier it doesn't make sense to ever take them.
Fun: This can be a little bit of a personal thing, but I'm going to label the talents I personally consider fun even if they are not actually worth taking in real games.
Heroic Discussion:
- Entomb: Entomb enables picks on heroes without terrain-bypassing escapes, can be used to peel for team mates, trap people against terrain, deny engages if used as a wall, turn choke points into dead ends, set up for wombo combos, create terrain for Diablo's Shadow Charge and Auriel's Detainment Strike, and has such a low cooldown that you can feel free to use it any time it will accomplish any one of these things. Entomb is one of the most versatile Heroics in the entire game, and correctly using and placing it is arguably the hardest part of playing Leoric at a very high level.
- March of the Black King: Sometimes as a solo tank against heavy melee teams, you need this Heroic simply for the sustain. The damage is almost irrelevant, it is the self heal that you are looking for value on. Try and use it after a Q to ensure you hit multiple heroes with it so they can't simply walk out of the swings.
Level 1:
- Mana Thirst: Leoric doesn't have mana issues, so this talent fixes a problem that doesn't exist.
- Block: Mitigating burst whenever you have healing over time can be worthwhile. Leoric's W is essentially a heal over time, so if you are not against heroes who eat block charges for free (Tychus, Kharazim, Tracer) and are against heroes with very strong AAs (Greymane, Thrall, The Butcher), this can be worthwhile, especially if you are against them as a solo laner. Those are fairly specific requirements.
- Hopelessness: Increasing the range of W makes it easier to get the full duration out of it, negates many disengages from getting out of it for free such Muradin's Dwarf Toss and Cho's Surging Fist, and helps ensure full value out of later talents.
- Reanimation: After the nerfs this talent is very lackluster. The only time you take this is against poke comps, you are going a full die to trade build, or you are against a tank with no mobility options like Johanna and there are few AA heroes on the enemy team so neither Block nor Hopelessness will get much value. Note: it does allow you to pick up globes when dead, but this is currently bugged and they will not count towards the stacking.
Level 4:
- Fealty Unto Death: On maps where you fight in or near lanes, this is a very strong sustain talent. The range is identical to XP soak range, and it applies to both allied and enemy minions, which means it is often 14% health and 70 mana per wave. It is half as effective during Undying, which means it can shorten your resurrection timer by quite a bit. Leoric is already strong on wave clear focused maps for his wave clear and sustain, and Fealty dramatically enhances that. It starts to lose value in the late game on every map except Tomb, so take it expecting to use it to achieve an early advantage on wave clear maps because globes and wells will be enough to make sure you never have to back allowing you to constantly be active on the map.
- Willing Vessel: Increasing the healing of Drain Hope to 30% is actually a fairly substantial increase, but it will only see real value when paired with Unyielding Despair (16) to give enormous late game sustain. Without that talent, Hardened Bones is better in most scenarios in terms of strict survivability.
- Hardened Bones: When using E as an escape mechanic it is extremely easy to focus you. This ensures you don't die. Even using it mid team fight when you have your W on a target can mitigate a lot of damage, even if all you do is come back to the exact same spot. As a tank, soaking damage is part of your job and Leoric has a relatively low health pool, and this helps patch that weakness.
- Royal Focus: The problem with this talent is when you use E as an engage mechanic, which is the only time you'll get the CD reduction, you're rarely looking for damage value from your Q. Q damage increases are valued for wave clear, CC additions are needed in team fights for peel. Using E just to clear a wave faster leaves you very exposed. But on the dual lane maps, Tomb, BHB, Shire, Towers, Shrines and post-mount speed change it is technically faster, especially with Lingering Apparition (7), to use W as a rotation mechanic between lanes and then the increased Q damage matters because of wave clear. Outside of that extremely niche scenario, this talent is not worth taking.
Level 7:
- Ghastly Reach: If you are not the main tank and are on a map where wave clear is essential, particularly Infernal Shrines, this is an incredible talent.
- Lingering Apparition: Combined with Hardened Bones (4), this is the tankiest and most mobile build that Leoric has to offer, but in general your positioning tools are already quite strong. Combining it with Royal Focus (4) leads to some interesting engage, then disengage, options as well as the double soaking strategy noted above. It isn't a bad talent and I genuinely think it has a niche for Leoric as a solo tank, though not a solo frontliner, but as a solo tank Paralyzing Rage usually creates so much space for your team that this only becomes good if the enemy team is so mobile that a 60% slow won't do anything. This is possible with heroes like Tracer, Kerrigan, and others in the game, but that is such a small unlikely niche to draft Leoric into that I don't think the situation will come up very often.
- Paralyzing Rage: Slows are your only peel as a tank outside of Entomb. A 60% slow is very strong and will create a lot of space for your team. It is honestly very difficult to recommend any other talent at this tier because, played correctly, this talent can often single handedly deny anyone getting into your back line and ensures the full value of your W consistently.
- Ossein Renewal: Essentially a specialized version of First Aid, you can use it normally while alive as well as while dead to revive faster. If you are getting heavily focused and the enemy team is essentially ignoring the rest of your team to always kill you first then you take this talent. Outside of that or niche scenarios where your entire comp is built entirely around delaying objectives to let something like an Abathur or a The Lost Vikings soak and push lanes, this isn't as good as Paralyzing Rage in most cases.
Level 13:
- Crushing Hope: With Paralyzing Rage, Entomb, and strong positioning, you should nearly always get the full duration of W in late game fights. So a free 10% of an opponent's health every time you W is basically what this talent does. Without those control options, this becomes less consistent but still very threatening. Remember, Leoric zones by the threat of damage from his W, and this enhances that no matter what.
- Drain Momentum: In the unusual scenario that there is a highly mobile team with one relatively immobile target, you can W the immobile target to allow you zone effectively for your team against the mobile enemy heroes with the speed increase. Normally you can do this anyway because of E, but sometimes that isn't enough. With more and more mobile heroes being added to the game, this scenario may become more common.
- Spell Shield: After the recent change, this is much better than previously. With his lower health pool and the heal over time from his W being his primary survival mechanic, Leoric is very vulnerable to being bursted out. Activating this at the right time can save you from that extremely well, but it is high skill floor: you need to activate when it'll save you from substantial damage, which means being aware of how much of the enemy team's damage is ability oriented and when they use it, or are likely to, when focusing you.
- Burning Rage: Between Q and this talent you have very fast wave clear. In terms of damage to heroes it usually gets over shadowed by Crushing Hope, but sometimes you end up very short on wave clear or need substantial PvE damage in general, like Shrines or Braxis.
Level 16:
- Imposing Presence: If the enemy team is very heavy on AA, or has a Tychus at all, this becomes your greatest survivability talent at this tier. After the rework the additional slow and the ability to mitigate for your entire team is also a notable asset to Leoric, who otherwise lacks any ability to save his team from focused AA.
- Unyielding Despair: Having belabored this entire guide about how important Leoric's W is, it should come as no surprise that a talent that potentially offers only 3 seconds of downtime on your W is pretty strong and is usually the top contender at this tier. If for whatever reason your Ws have consistently been getting broken very early, after only 1-2 seconds, don't take this.
- Consume Vitality: In general, this won't heal you for more than Unyielding Despair over the long haul, but it does give you a second source of healing, which sometimes allows you to sustain in a burst fight long enough to secure a kill. The key is that it must hit multiple targets consistently to have any value at all, so you can only take it on maps where that is likely. Tomb and Shrines are the best examples. If this talent were earlier, the healing would have strict laning value, but usually post-16 teams are grouping more so it drops off of as a factor.
- Renewed Swing: Very nearly the only talent that improves your peel. Combined with Paralyzing Rage (7) this can easily give you five straight seconds of a 60% slow, potentially on multiple targets. If you desperately need additional peel, this is just about your only option, though overall Imposing Presence's slow, even being lower and on a longer CD, is better in most scenarios because of the added utility. If you took Ghastly Reach (7) just for additional wave clear on a map like Shrines, this will also increase the value there.
Level 20:
- Buried Alive: The damage is laughable. If only this extended the duration, or somehow made it impassable to teleports, or anything that wasn't strictly worse than another talent at this tier, but alas.
- Death March: You want March for the sustain in most cases. This gives you sustain in spades. Your real W will stack with the untalented versions, so even on one target you can be getting two Ws. If you hit three targets, you could be getting four. Healing for 100% of your health over four seconds seems pretty good. Spectral will still be better in most cases, but against teams where you have consistently been getting multi-target Marches this talent can close out a game.
- Spectral Leech: It heals you for the amount of damage it does, which means you want to AA targets with larger health pools if you need sustain. In the late game this increases his damage to such a large degree that it is hard to recommend any other talents at this tier, but sometimes Hardened Shield is mandatory because of the combination of heavy burst and Leoric's relatively small health pool. If you've been dying to focus fire consistently all game, take Hardened Shield, otherwise take this.
- Hardened Shield: one of Leoric's only tools to deal with heavy burst damage, if you've been getting blown up in a game this is a mandatory pick up. If you're surviving long enough to get multiple AAs off, Spectral Leech will usually be better.


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When people talk to me about the act of picking a deity, what they usually find themselves concerned about is if their pantheon is going to be a good match for them. When I hear these concerns I pass on to them the wisdom my mentors passed on to me, look at "how that pantheon treats death" and see how they feel about that system of afterlife. What I find myself not mentioning is to look at the story of creation that comes from their pantheon because "creation stories" are something that every "system" of religion or "culture" has and while they are beautiful are full of allegories metaphors and are very "un-scientific". I like the Bible's creation story, though I really hated the "garden of Eden" myth, I love the Hindu creation story, the Greek creation story, the Persians, the Sumerians, and the list goes on and on. These stories all have similar elements but tell the story so differently. My logical mind argues that these stories are man/woman told to explain things that cannot be explained and I feel this is probably true; but I have always liked a good tall tale; and I read constantly so I will never stop reading or listening to "creation myths".
However, when any culture starts to establish myths or spiritual learning stories as truth you have a problem. Here in the south, we live with this problem (issue) even in our public school systems and it does not seem to be something we can escape. On the other hand though, I am a Pagan parent and a HPS and what really seems to "burn my biscuits" is how many Pagans do not know their own creation stories! Or even if they do, they seem to have difficulty deriving from the stories what it is they are supposed to glean. It is very important if you are on this path, that you read and learn and re-acquaint yourself regularly with your path's "creation story" there are pearls of wisdom embedded in them so deep that you could grow a whole orchard of magickal breakthroughs if you are patient enough, and still enough to listen.
Today, I am going to try to share with you my version of the Tamerian-Egyptian creation story since this is my path; and then attempt to give you a few things you can instantly pick up and apply to your personal practice. I love this story! Remember, this is my version of it from gleaning through many many mythology texts, so if you will give me the gift of your time...I would appreciate it!
"In a time before time when the universe as we know it did not exist; before my Goddess Isis breathed there was nothing but Chaos. Everything was a watery void without true structure or form. All the elements mingled together in a big dark watery marsh, and so it was for eons and eons. The name of that primordial mass was NUN, yes later he would exist as a God but before he became he existed only as the potentiality of all things.
From this watery blob a lotus flower raised its head, it was strong, its fragrance was pure, its petals were abundant, and it was filled with life. From its roots eight frogs croaked and sang while the God Ra, manifested as his first form ATUM the beautiful divine child sitting in the heart of the lotus flower. When he was born, the universe was greeted with light for the very first time (and this is how light came into being). The frogs sang a beautiful song for his appearance and in return Atum-Ra named them and thus divided all the elements (with the naming of something it changes from chaos to be-ing). Hehu and Hehut were the first, they were fire and life. Kerh and Kerhet were named, and they were night and chaos. The final pair of frogs took on the nature of Atum-Ra and became NUN, the primordial force which had given Ra his existence, and for this reason NUN is the parent of the great sun-god even though it was Atum-Ra who gave him form and named him. The last frog was named ANUM who became part of the soul of Ra, and though he can take on many shapes, it is in this aspect that Ra rules supreme. Anum once named, gives birth to the Moon Khonsu, the vainest of the Gods.
Now you must understand, heaven did not exist yet, and the earth had not come into being either so when the divine child Atum wanted to step down from his lotus flower there was no where for him to go. So Atum-Ra transformed himself into a new aspect Khepera, the scarab beetle. When he did this, he worked "his greatest spell yet" (The Pyramid Texts) which granted him the power of creation itself and Khepera "knew that this was right" (Pyramid texts), and in this rightness he was granted and given the spirit-form of the Goddess MAAT, who is justice and honor, correct thought and behaviors. It is through speaking, his own secret name, that Ra created the Universe.
So, Ra in the form of Khepera began to utilize the power of the Scarab and he gathered the watery mass and spoke over it and created new things, everything he spoke became form. After he had done this, he returned once again to the form of the Atum Ra took his manhood in his hand and emitted two further gods from his semen which lay upon the marsh. These became the God SHU who is air, and the Goddess TEFNUT who is moisture. When Atum-Ra took in all that he had done, he saw beauty all around him and he was moved so much that he began to cry. From his tears were born reptiles, and all creeping things, then animals, fish and birds, until at last men and women came into being. Some texts say that at this point Ra had filled all of creation with his presence and forms of light and life…but he was not done, he transformed once again! He became KHNUM.
As the form of KHNUM Ra made the bodies of women and men upon a potter's wheel. As Ra manifested himself more and more, his voice became a separate entity and manifested as the God THOTH, the measurer of time, the teacher and mentor of the Gods and Goddesses, who is responsible for many births of divinity. THOTH became the minister to RA and through using the magickal name of RA that he commanded all that needed to be done, he regulated the seasons, he numbered the days, it is from him we have the concept of time and calendars. Then he transformed to a Baboon and on that night he invented the art of writing, and became the first master of the magic arts and the teacher of the mystics.
The tasks of creation began to be taken over by PTAH, the divine architect and personification of the face of RA, and the ram-headed KHNUM. PTAH formed the solid beneath us, and the vaporous above while KHNUM at the potter's wheel, formed all the animals and the birds that lived between them. Because of his task, KHNUM became regarded as the source of life and was worshipped at the waters of the sacred Nile. After a while, KHNUM became exhausted by his work of molding the physical bodies of each and every living creature and got frustrated calling out for help. THOTH, being ever wise, suggested that he include inside every female creature a miniature potters wheel in her belly so that they could reproduce themselves without KHNUM having to go to the trouble of completing this task for them. So he did. Thus women, posses the same power as the God himself….the power of creation.
Apparently while Ra had been off busy creating the Universe, Shu and Tefnut had been busy "getting it on" because once they had bodies they found that there was something that came with it…lust, and the law of nature that dictates that bodies must mingle and produce offspring. Their children were GEB, god of the solid earth and NUT, goddess of the sky. However, when Ra found out that Shu had mated with Tefnut he was infuriated because apparently he had wanted the lady for himself and while he was out working they had acted upon their mutual desire. So, he decided to separate them by having SHU trample his own son GEB until he became all the land masses in the world, the contours of his body formed the hills, valleys, mountain ranges, deserts and fertile pastures. NUT was sent soaring upwards to cover the sky, and she became the deity that formed the firmament and provided rain. Stars adorn her body, her fingers support her arched body in the east, and the tips of her toes dwell in the west, and even now she remains above us still as a celestial body (now called the atmosphere).
Every evening as RA assumes the form of ATUM as the setting sun, Nut swallows him whole and he spends the night within her body only to be re-born as KHEPERA from her womb every morning. Thus Nut is sometimes thought or called the "true mother of Ra". Even after all of this Ra's jealousy remained, and so he cursed NUT saying that even though Geb had filled her womb with life that she would be unable to bear children upon any day or night of the year. The Goddess was full, ripe, and ready to burst…but there was no relief to be had. She was in perpetual labor, and her cries were heard throughout the universe and all of the Gods knew of her cruel punishment and were scared of Ra. Except for THOTH, who in all his wisdom thought long and hard upon the matter……………..(TO BE CONTINUED NEXT BLOG)
FACTS and TIPS:
1. Ra is a sun deity, He has many titles, but when you start at the beginning it is easier to learn where he got them from, and why! Order, Order, Order, would be the word that is associated with RA. (Though I am sure he would help you organize a closet he would probably be happier helping you with a BIG project!)
2. The Lotus is a sacred flower to the Egyptians and a symbol of the sun. Every night the lotus flower closes and sinks underwater, and every morning it rises and opens up again. In Egyptian mythology the color of the lotus flower is mentioned often, when reading Egyptian stories look to see what color they tell you the flower is to add some more layers of spirit reading to your learning house!
3. When you are starting a creative endeavor Ra would be a great God to work with! ATUM Ra, would be the title you would use when you just are at the very "I have an idea!" phase. Remember he is a divine child in this phase think of it as like working with your inner child, yet smarter!
4. Frogs are sacred in Egypt,(study the symbolism of the frog to get a bit more in depth here) Hehu is the Element of fire , Hehut is life (many times you give the gift of a frog to a mother for a newborn baby as a good omen, I love giving egyptian frogs to babies at wiccanings!) Kerh is night and Kerhet represents chaos. Nun is the potentiality of all things, and Anum is the soul of Ra. From all of these facts you can gather information about Egyptian religion, how form and creating is so much more important than potentiality and chaos and how you have a body and a soul and yes they believe they are separate. How essential it is to realize that chaos exists it is not BAD, per se...but Gods and Goddesses in this path constantly battle, and re-form it to conform to their will. (Sounds alot like the Wiccan definition of witch does it not?)
5. Khonsu is the God of the moon. So it seems not all moons are divinely feminine? Does this image worry you that of the moon being male? Did you know that we can still find bits and pieces of dark moon rituals to Khonsu? I still haven't figured out if the Egyptian women participated in blood magick with the moon invoking Khonsu; if you know shoot me an email!
6. Ra/Khepera is the scarab beetle image, it has a name! KHEPERA, it is said over and over that the personality of this beetle is to work, and create something from what appears to be nothing! I bet KHEPERA would make a killing on Etsy!
7. SHU is the God of the Air. TEFNUT is the Goddess of Moisture or water. So now you have two deities you invoke in the quarters of your circle if you want! Or you could ask them to teach you about the mysteries of these elements, or if you are having an issue in one of these elements...guess who you invoke?
8. MAAT is the Goddess of justice and honor these things are associated with correct thoughts and behaviour to the Egyptians! So before you do that revenge spell, or go out to "defend yourself" from those mean evil witches one town over...maybe you should evoke MAAT!
9. THOTH measures time, well in modern terms we would say he was a historian or archivist, or possibly someone in archeology? Hey if you are interested in any of these fields guess who would be really happy if you chose to invoke him? His personality is that of a teacher and mentor, he created writing! Wow it seems he could help you if you need help writing blogs, papers, publishing a book! He can help you uncode myths, because he teaches them! He is the master of Magick, he commands it and knows all secrets of it...as long as he has existed I bet he knows some doozies of what you SHOULD and SHOULD NOT do! He is also wise, funny and clever and very sympathetic to your human feelings and emotions (but this is the subject you will figure out in the second part of the blog) I bet he can think of creative ways to approach a spell...huh, now this GOD seems like a must know for any Egyptian Pagan student, or witch!
10. KHNUM has the head of a ram and is the God of creation, or people who make pottery! He also has to do with reproduction it seems! There are stories in other texts that claim he also can repair you when you feel broken or shattered...so if you have gone through some rough stuff...call out to KHNUM, he is the God who can show you how the light shines better through all your cracks!
11. PTAH is the divine architect and the face of RA. Do you think that means that the Golden statue you have of RA is really PTAH? Hmmmmmmm. I bet if you study architecture or possibly the universe as a physicist PTAH would be the God you would really jive with! I invoke him as one of the Memphis triad Gods in the middle of my circles!
12. GEB is the name of the earth in the Egyptian pantheon not Gaia! The earth is male to the Egyptians, so the energy is completely different than most Wiccan paths, so when you ground and draw up energy in this path remember you are drawing up male energy not female, talk to him feel his pores, listen to him, love him well! NUT is the Sky, the celestial heavens, always stretched over you like an umbrella of protection. The sky in the Egyptian path (and in our real world) is always changing, shifting, and giving birth to new things...thus it must be female! So the next time you look up at the starry sky say Hi Nut! I know she would like that.
REFERENCES: An Egyptian Book of Shadows by Jocelyn Almond, Egyptian Mythology by Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian Gods and Goddesses by Henry Barker, Circle of Isis by Ellen Canon Reed, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by R. O. Faulkner, The Egyptian Coffin Texts by James P. Allen.


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_____Moses Elkanah Herzog has ex-wives named Daisy and Madeleine, children named Marco and June, brothers named Shura and Willie, a sister named Helen, an arch-enemy named Valentine Gersbach, a psychiatrist named Dr. Edvig, a lawyer named Sandor Himmelstein, a physician named Dr. Emmerich, and girlfriends named Wanda, Zinka, Libbie, Ramona, and Sono. And when we first meet him he is deciding that if he's going crazy, it's all right.
When we begin, he is in the house he owns in the Berkshires, eating beans from the can and sleeping on a bare mattress. He is also writing letters that he carries around with him in a valise: "He had carried this valise from New York to Martha's Vineyard, but returned from the Vineyard immediately; two days later he flew to Chicago, and from Chicago he went to a village in western Massachusetts." And there he is questioning whether the rumor spread by Madeleine and Valentine that "his sanity had collapsed" is true.
We flash back to spring, when he is giving lectures on "The Roots of Romanticism" to night-school adult-education classes in New York City. But sometimes he interrupts his lectures to write things down as his class waits in silence for as long as five minutes.
At first there was no pattern to the notes he made. They were fragments -- nonsense syllables, exclamations, twisted proverbs and quotations or, in the Yiddish of his long-dead mother, Trepverter -- retorts that came too late, when you were already on your way down the stairs.(Trepverter, literally "staircase words," is also known as esprit de l'escalier, or staircase wit.) Herzog's terse little notes make me imagine what he might be like in the age of Twitter. He fears that they are "a symptom of disintegration."
We now learn that he is -- or thinks himself to be -- "a formerly handsome man," and that he wrote a brilliant Ph.D. thesis on The State of Nature in 17th and 18th Century English and French Political Philosophy and a book, Romanticism and Christianity. He feels guilt over his treatment of his first wife, Daisy, though "Madeleine, his second, had tried to do him in." He is "a loving but bad father" to his children, "an ungrateful child" to his parents, "affectionate but remote" to his siblings. "With his friends, an egotist. With love, lazy. With brightness, dull. With power, passive. With his own soul, evasive." He is, in short, a mess.
And one of his chief problems is that he lost Madeleine to Valentine Gersbach, a radio announcer with "a thick chin, flaming copper hair that literally gushed from his head" and "a wooden leg" on which he walks "gracefully bending and straightening like a gondolier." Herzog had worked to please her, quitting an academic position, using the twenty thousand dollars he inherited from his father to buy a house in the apparently fictional Berkshire town of Ludeyville, and then closing it up and moving to Chicago where he even found a job for Valentine. And then she decided she wanted a divorce after all.
Madeleine is evidently no prize:
Only a week before she demanded a divorce, she had his things cleaned and pressed, but on the day he left the house, she flung them all into a carton which she then dumped down the cellar stairs. She said she needed more closet space.She presents her demand for a divorce with "a certain theatrical genius," which she evidently inherited from her father, "a famous impresario -- sometimes called the American Stanislavsky," whom she hated. But Herzog's relationship with her was peculiarly masochistic: "There was a flavor of subjugation in his love for Madeleine. Since she was domineering, and since he loved her, he had to accept the flavor he was given." She informs him that she is humiliated "to admit defeat in this marriage. I've put all I had into it. I'm crushed by this?" And he thinks, "Crushed? She had never looked more glorious."
"Dr. Edvig, the Chicago psychiatrist who treated both Herzogs, agreed that perhaps it was best for Moses to leave town," so he borrows money from his brother Shura and goes to Europe, where he lectures in Copenhagen, Warsaw, Cracow, Berlin, Belgrade, Istanbul, and Jerusalem. In Poland he has an affair with a woman named Wanda, but also contracts a disease that he thinks is gonorrhea, but isn't. When he returns to Chicago, Madeleine regards his behavior as "so strange and to her mind so menacing" that she sends word through Gersbach for him to stay away, and gives a picture of him to the police with instructions that he should be arrested if he shows up in the neighborhood.
Herzog now wonders "what might have happened if instead of listening so intensely and thoughtfully" on the day she announced she wanted a divorce, "he had hit Madeleine in the face." But he rejects "this mental violence, sighing. He was afraid he was really given in secret to this sort of brutality." She had also told him she had seen a lawyer, who turns out to be Herzog's friend, Sandor Himmelstein. "He says you can stay with him until you make your new arrangements."
And so he spends his time writing letters, for example:
Dear Mr. President, Internal Revenue regulations will turn us into a nation of bookkeepers. The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.He also writes Daisy explaining that he won't be seeing Marco at camp on Parents' Day because the boy apparently blames him for breaking up with Madeleine and deserting his half-sister. He also claims to have been sick and under a doctor's care. "Herzog did not care for his own personality, and at the moment there was apparently nothing he could do about its impulses."
In June, "when the general revival of life troubles many people, the new roses, even in shop windows, reminding them of their own failures, of sterility and death, Herzog went to have a medical checkup." Dr. Emmerich, "an elderly refugee," tells him his health is fine. "He had been hoping for some definite sickness which would send him to a hospital for a while. He would not have to look after himself." His brothers and his sister, Helen, would take care of him. But even the infection he contracted in Poland had turned out to be easily curable.
Dr. Emmerich, who treated "the truly weak, the desperately sick, stricken women, dying men," is puzzled by Herzog's reaction to the news that he is all right. He offers him Miltown, a tranquilizer much prescribed in the 1950s, or snakeroot, the source of reserpine, an anti-anxiety drug, and offers to refer him to a psychiatrist. Herzog shrugs off the suggestions, and the doctor continues to ask him about "the big fellow with red hair, with the wooden leg" and to commiserate about Herzog's divorce. In turn, Herzog tries to get the doctor to talk about Madeleine, who had been his patient too, but the doctor deflects the questions, even after Herzog says, "She's a violent, hysterical woman." He suggests that Herzog see other women: "Do you have to eat dinner alone tonight?"
So Herzog thinks of Ramona Donsell, a woman in her thirties who had been a student in his class. She owns a flower shop on Lexington Avenue. "She come from Buenos Aires. Her background was international -- Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, and Jewish. She had gone to school in Switzerland and still spoke with a slight accent, full of charm." She has firm breasts, which matters to Herzog greatly. On the other hand, "She was thirty-seven or thirty-eight years of age, he shrewdly reckoned, and this mean that she was looking for a husband."
So he decides on a trip to the Vineyard and gets in touch with "his friend Libbie Vane (Libbie Vane-Erikson-Sissler; she had just married for the third time and the house in the Haven belonged to her husband, an industrial chemist)." She invites him to stay with them and he accepts, then goes shopping for clothes "after shaving more closely than usual and brushing his hair (could he bear to see himself in the brilliant triple mirrors of a clothing store?)." But he is afraid that he will look ridiculous in the "reckless and gaudy" new styles.
So Herzog buys "a coat of crimson and white stripes" in a Fifth Avenue shop. But he gets crosswise with the salesman, who has "dog's breath" and when Herzog tells him his waist is thirty-four says, "Don't boast." And the triple mirror still intimidates him, especially when he recalls Madeleine standing nude in front of the bathroom mirror: "'Still young,' she said, taking inventory, 'young, beautiful, full of life. Why should I waste it all on you.'"
Undoubtedly Valentine Gersbach, who had beat him out with Madeleine, surmounting the handicap of a wooden leg, could wear those handsome brilliant candy stripes. Valentine was a dandy. He had a thick face and heavy jaws; Moses thought he somewhat resembled Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler's own pianist. But Gersbach had a pair of extraordinary eyes for a red-haired man, brown, deep, hot eyes, full of life. The lashes, too, were vital, ruddy-dark, long and childlike. And that hair was bearishly thick. Valentine, furthermore, was exquisitely confident of his appearance. You could see it. He knew he was a terribly handsome man. He expected women -- all women -- to be mad about him. And many were, weren't they? Including the second Mrs. Herzog.
Putzi Hanfstaengl
He buys swim trunks and a straw hat, which makes him look like "his father's cousin Elias Herzog, the flour salesman who had entered the northern Indiana territory for General Mills in the twenties." And he is off on a memory trip, recalling when he was eight years old and in the hospital in Montreal, where a Christian woman read aloud to him from the Bible.
"Where do you live, little boy?"He now packs his new summer clothes and makes "his getaway from Ramona." He also packs "the plastic container of Furadantin tablets." (Generic nitrofurantoin, an antibiotic for urinary tract infections.) Although he is cured of the infection he caught in Poland, he still "took an occasional pill just to be on the safe side." And he remembers the disapproving British doctor who treated him in Cracow. He thinks of writing in French to Wanda: "Every third-, fourth-, tenth-rate man of the world knew how to woo a woman in French, and so did Herzog. Though he was not the type. The feelings he wanted to express were genuine." She had insisted on his meeting her husband, "a poor, reproachful-looking man, with heart disease." Wanda had been Herzog's guide in Poland.
"On Napoleon Street."
Where the Jews live.
"What does your father do?"
My father is a bootlegger. He has a still in Point-St. Charles. The spotters are after him. He has no money.
Only of course Moses would never have told her any of this. Even at five he would have known better. His mother had instructed him. "You must never say."
Still, he had been continually aware of drab Poland, in all directions freezing, drab, and ruddy gray; the stones still smellling of war-time murders. He thought he scented blood. He went many times to visit the ruins of the ghetto.He regrets telling her about the infection, and now wants to write that he is cured: "Guéri de cette peite maladie. He ought not to have mentioned it to Wanda, for she was simply shocked and hurt.... He had made her cry."


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* Q3 profit 3.65 bln rupees vs. est. 9.12 bln rupees
* U.S. sales fall 35 pct
* Profit hit by one-time deferred tax adjustment (Adds details)
Feb 14 (Reuters) - India's largest drugmaker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd reported a 75 percent plunge in third-quarter net profit on Wednesday as pricing pressures in the United States, its biggest market, hit sales.
Sun Pharma, along with other Indian pharmaceutical companies, has been battling increased competition in the generics market and greater pricing scrutiny in the United States.
The drugmaker has also struggled as some of its products were banned from sale in the United States because the factories that made them did not meet U.S. quality standards. It was also hit by adjustments for U.S. tax reforms in the third quarter.
Its net profit of 3.65 billion rupees ($57 million) for the October-December quarter was its smallest profit in over two and a half years, and well below analysts forecasts of 9.12 billion rupees in a Reuters poll.
The company said its U.S. sales slumped 35 percent to $328 million in the quarter, hurt by lower sales of generic versions of cancer drug imatinib and olmesartan, which is used in the treatment of high blood pressure.
U.S. sales accounted for nearly a third of the company's total sales, which fell 14 percent to 65.9 billion rupees.
The company said its profit was also hit by a one-off deferred tax adjustment of 5.13 billion rupees on account of tax reforms in the United States. ($1 = 64.0800 Indian rupees)
Reporting by Jessica Kuruthukulangara in Bengaluru; Editing by Edmund Blair and Susan Fenton


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Ford Motor Company recently did a study that shows that driving distractions are significantly reduced when drivers use the SYNC system. With a group of 25 participants, Ford conducted a driving simulator and had them do several tasks, including dialing a cell phone, selecting a song and sending a text message, with and without the use of SYNC. The results showed that drivers spend an average of 25 seconds selecting a song on an MP3 player without using SYNC, and about two seconds with it, which obviously equates to more time with their eyes on the road. The study also showed that in 30 percent of the trials, drivers wandered from their lanes when using a handheld device or phone to search for songs or phonebook contacts. However, when using SYNC's voice interface to do these same tasks, the percentage of lane meandering was reduced to zero. These test results, coupled with SYNC's new "911 Assist" feature, proved that Ford vehicles outfitted with SYNC can drastically improve driving safety for not only the occupants in the car, but also for other drivers on the road.


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The Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) scheme was conceived as a means to regulate the use of roads and manage traffic conditions in Singapore. This objective is achieved by drivers paying tolls when traffic is heavier than usual. In order to not cause more problems than it solves, the ERP system does not require the use of toll booths; instead, payments are deducted wirelessly without any further action required from drivers.
As a testament to its robustness, the ERP system has been substantially expanded to a network consisting of more than 80 distinctive gantries (which are road signs) since it was first implemented in 1998.
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There are two components that make the ERP system work. The first is an In-Vehicle Unit (IU) affixed to the front windscreen on the driver's side. The original IU accepts the CashCard stored value card, while a second-generation "dual-mode" IU adds support for a couple of stored value cards such as contactless cards, for example the NETS FlashPay Card (PDF) and the EZ-Link card for the deduction of a payment.Second, each ERP gantry (Figure A) consists of two sets of sensors: A dedicated short-range wireless system to communicate with the IU, and cameras that are used to capture (if necessary) the rear license plates of vehicle as they pass by. The cameras allow the authorities to identify the drivers in situations of insufficient funds in the stored payment card or an absent stored value card. A letter demanding payment is sent out to the registered owner of the vehicle caught on camera not paying the toll.
ERP gantry in Singapore (Photo credit: Land Transport Authority of Singapore)
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I say nothing. It is only a plastic 12 inch ruler. Despite your fear, I notice you are still presenting your breasts to me.
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You allow yourself to slip back into your position, breasts pressing into the desk, bottom sticking out. The vibrations in your pussy have taken you close to orgasm.
You feel a finger at your anus and it pushes in. You wriggle and it comes out. Your master sighs. "Maybe a couple of strokes of the cane will help."
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I don't want you to keep still. I want you wriggling like crazy with my stiff cock inside you. But I know what you mean.
Again you feel a finger touching your little opening. This time you accept it and it pushes in. It's easier than you expect. Maybe what's been happening to your cunt has helped. You then feel the tip of his cock pushing in. He is stiffer than you have ever known. You know his cock gets so hard when he spanks you, but never like this. Soon he is right up inside you and you feel his hands slide up your body and his hands grasp each breast. You feel his prick slide out slightly and then it pushes back in. He quickly establishes a rhythm and his cock pushes in and out as he squeezes your tits. By now, you are really into it. You've always liked it when a man holds your breasts and somehow, his cock inside you has added to the feelings inside your cunt. You have now lost all control. "oh...oh..oh...fuck me...fuck...fuck...
come on...ah...mmmph...fuck your cock up me..."
And I come. You feel my seed spurting into you. I slump down on you, sated.
You know you needn't call me Master now. "Oh Daniel...I do love you."
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