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Q: What is maximum-DPS level 80 PvE Shadow Priest spell priority as of patch 4.0.1? That was then
Prior to the 4.0.1 patch, I would start boss fights like so:

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*Vampiric Touch

*Devouring Plague

*Mind Blast

*Mind Flay

*Shadow Word: Pain

This would "charge up" stacks of buffs for my Shadow Word: Pain to have maximum damage output for the rest of the fight (Shadow Word: Pain stays up whenever you cast Mind Flay).
Assuming the boss was a boring Sit There And Shoot At It fight, the rest of the fight involved spell priorities as follows:

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*Keep up Vampiric Touch

*Keep up Devouring Plague

*Mind Blast when it's available

*Mind Flay for filler

This is now
With the 4.0.1 patch, all of this appears to have totally changed.  I no longer seem to have to "charge up" my Shadow Word: Pain buff stacks, and new Shadow Orbs are flying all over the place.  It's craziness!
How do I make most effective use of these new talents and mechanics?

A: Thanks to @tzenes for an ElitistJerks link, which has some great info.  Of note is that Shadow Word: Death is much better than it used to be.
Summary:

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*No specific information on how to start the fight

*Keep up Vampiric Touch, Devouring Plague, and Shadow Word: Pain

*Shadow Word: Death when available

*Mind Blast when available

*Mind Flay for filler

One important note is that (with a Glyph) Shadow Word: Death has an instant cooldown when the boss is below 25%. This means you'll need relatively little Mind Flay filler past the 25% mark. Just don't kill yourself.
I am going to suspect that Mind Blast could eventually outperform Shadow Word: Death later on, especially with Mastery points making it more effective and Mind Spike synergy.  But according to Elitist Jerks, Mastery is pretty terrible at the moment.


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Hatch says it's 'ridiculous' for McCain to block Trump from funeral
Updated: 9:34 PM EDT May 7, 2018
Utah GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch said Monday it is "ridiculous" that ailing Sen. John McCain, also a Republican, doesn't want President Donald Trump to attend his funeral, as was reported over the weekend."I think that's ridiculous," Hatch told CNN when asked about McCain's desire to keep Trump away. "He's the President of the United States. He's a very good man. But it's up to John. I think John should have his wishes fulfilled with regard to who attends his funeral."Asked if he would encourage McCain, who has battled famously with Trump, to change his mind and ask the president to speak at his funeral, Hatch, who has been a strong supporter of Trump, said, "I would.""He would be a very interesting speaker and would do a good job for John," Hatch said before noting that he hopes McCain recovers from his brain cancer and returns to work.But Hatch, who as the most senior member of the majority party is the president pro tempore of the Senate, praised the Arizona Republican and war veteran as a "hero" who "will go down in history as a wonderful senator."He also said he expects McCain's best friend, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, to champion McCain's calls for more bipartisanship and compromise in Washington."There are a number of the rest of us who will make sure the place runs," Hatch assured.He also said there have been badly partisan times before and the country will survive."We've always had tough times here and we always had to work our way through them," Hatch said. "So it's nothing new."Asked if McCain was sending a contradictory message by preaching compromise but blocking the sitting president from eulogizing him, Hatch steered clear."I'm not going to weigh in on that," Hatch said. "He can have whatever feelings he has. And maybe he's justified in feeling that way I don't know. But I don't think so."
Utah GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch said Monday it is "ridiculous" that ailing Sen. John McCain, also a Republican, doesn't want President Donald Trump to attend his funeral, as was reported over the weekend.
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"I think that's ridiculous," Hatch told CNN when asked about McCain's desire to keep Trump away. "He's the President of the United States. He's a very good man. But it's up to John. I think John should have his wishes fulfilled with regard to who attends his funeral."
Asked if he would encourage McCain, who has battled famously with Trump, to change his mind and ask the president to speak at his funeral, Hatch, who has been a strong supporter of Trump, said, "I would."
"He would be a very interesting speaker and would do a good job for John," Hatch said before noting that he hopes McCain recovers from his brain cancer and returns to work.
But Hatch, who as the most senior member of the majority party is the president pro tempore of the Senate, praised the Arizona Republican and war veteran as a "hero" who "will go down in history as a wonderful senator."
He also said he expects McCain's best friend, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, to champion McCain's calls for more bipartisanship and compromise in Washington.
"There are a number of the rest of us who will make sure the place runs," Hatch assured.
He also said there have been badly partisan times before and the country will survive.
"We've always had tough times here and we always had to work our way through them," Hatch said. "So it's nothing new."
Asked if McCain was sending a contradictory message by preaching compromise but blocking the sitting president from eulogizing him, Hatch steered clear.
"I'm not going to weigh in on that," Hatch said. "He can have whatever feelings he has. And maybe he's justified in feeling that way I don't know. But I don't think so."

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Hanging Out With Photographers? For a Price?
As a photographer, but not a professional, I would like to be able to hang out with others who share the hobby. It is enjoyable to talk shop. Yet if we want to do that, at least in a physical space, we have to pay for the privilege. We should realize that is how it works. Our yearning to interact should prompt us to support those who facilitate it.
I once knew an investor in a sushi restaurant. He was persuaded by a market study that showed in other cultures, conveyor belt sushi, with plates that went by, from which diners could choose at their leisure, was highly successful as a mid-price meal, not fast food but not fine dining either. I asked him what his favorite raw fish was. He told me, matter of factly, that he didn't really eat the stuff. Since he was making more readily available a cuisine I enjoyed, I would be wrong to begrudge his motivation. He was a businessman.
There is an important lesson for me there. I might imagine myself as a regular patron of a dining establishment, with a relationship to the chef. Yet I also cannot escape being a customer. The enterprise is not a social club; if it does not turn a profit, it cannot continue to operate. Sometimes you have to restate the obvious. Although anybody who runs a business has that in mind, likely constantly including while asleep and dreaming, the rest of us forget it all too easily.
Throughout San Francisco, stores such as the venerable Adolf Gasser and the newer Rayko Photo Center, have struggled and closed. The Bay Area is among the most hospitable to such endeavors. More than anyplace else I have ever lived, people here are passionate about their avocation, which they subsidize through a "day job." They have disposable income.
That is not enough, because we also have become accustomed to too much that is free or "freemium" (free with a premium upgrade available). People won't part with their money when you tell them you are charging them for your company unless you are a celebrity, and even then they will be sour about it. They will do so, however, for a unique experience or for something special. If the local coffee shop said explicitly it was a quarter for the drink and ten times that much to lounge around, most of us would be reluctant about the deal. But if they bundle the cup with a bit of cachet, then we're in.
That is why I make an effort to be friendly when I visit SF Photoworks, among the very last places that develops film, and Glass Key Photo, a tiny retail storefront. I want to chat up the staff, which means I appreciate I need to patronize them. It is not right, in my book, to check out a product at a bricks-and-mortar business and then buy it online. Since you are compelled to try it, you are obliged to cover the overhead of stockpiling samples for your benefit. No owner of a studio that hawks supplies on the side is going to get rich by renting it out.
My thinking is less a matter of principle than of long-term self-interest — principle can be equivalent to long-term self-interest. When enough of us are "free riders," taking advantage of the largess of others not as devious as ourselves, we ruin it for everyone. There is an alternative. Instead of chipping in here and there in a conventional model that allocates costs to all consumers, we could form a co-operative darkroom or await an entrepreneur who in fact offer a membership for a fee in a workshop dedicated to our enthusiasm. Or perhaps the most novel, virtually insane, idea would be for friends to come together in a basement. How long, I wonder, will the notion of gathering, together in the same time and the same place, be valued, before our social bonds are weakened too much by social media. I am aware that there are still camera clubs. I doubt they are as prevalent as in days of yore, even with meet ups powered by the internet.
Photography documents the deterioration in our sociability — mine no different than the next person's, lest a reader suppose I am, in the vernacular, being "judge-y." Among the sub-genres of street photography I practice are the images of strangers staring at their smartphones, in crowds, seated next to people who are presumably family and friends, walking down the street, eating, and, essentially, while engaged in every form of human activity. They never object to me. They are always too distracted to notice.
I prefer to engage with the world. Even through a lens, it is better than projected from a screen. And I'd welcome others to join me as I join them. Even what can be performed as a solitary art can be enhanced by a community, especially with so much to be learned about technique. I hope we sustain the shops, the darkrooms, the studios, and best of the bricks-and-morter businesses that sustain our pursuit.
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Great subject and good comments. I don't know if a local camera club exists, though there is a co-op darkroom near me. It is populated by artsy types who smoke incessently, and I'm afraid I will need a tatoo to join.
Richard Alton
An interesting post, thank you. Having moved from the UK to Zambia, I appreciate meeting up with fellow photographers more than ever.
Dan Castelli
For all intents & purposes, I now live in a photographer/photo store free area. Our home is situated in a rural area of Connecticut. Our local store closed about 8 years ago (due to graft & incompetence on the part of the owner & store employees.) There's no place to gather, to tell 'lies' about the almost perfect shot and to resupply.
I use both B&H and Adorama for film & darkroom supplies, so that's not an issue. The issue is shared experiences & love of craft.
I'm not on social media, but I do have an active flickr account. That provides photo sharing and some give & take among members.
You people who have access to the face to face photo/art community are lucky. Keep it nurtured & alive.
Speaking of which, when's the next beers and cameras meet-up?
With regard to buying supplies online after checking out a real(not virtual) store, how far to the good do we take this philosophy? Were I to purchase a similar service at the expense of advice (no help from a computer screen), I would be financially better off, but no wiser. To present an example; at my local camera store, I purchased 10 rolls of Portra 400. I was advised to rate it at 200, but have it processed normally. The few pennies I would have saved buying it online were not worth the excellent advice I received from the working professional in the shop. So far, so good.
BUT – if I take work off a professional – isn't that just as reprehensible? I am not a pro, I make my living elsewhere. If I deny a pro the opportunity to put food on their table by being cheaper/more available, then as I happen to see it through my very dodgy eyes, I am as guilty as the person who checks out the merchandise and then buys online. The pro has the experience I don't have. The pro has the back up I don't have. I am not even a semi-professional, not a weekend warrior, not an uncle Bob photographing weddings. The pro is/should be someone who can supply what the customer wants – and it pays the pro's bills.
Can I justifiably deny him/her an income that day? If enough people do that, they go out of business. Like the camera store. And there is a loss to the wider community.
Argue with me?
Jim Casy
There's no magic to it. Nor is it complicated. Quite simply, if you want something to exist in the world, you must support it.
This is the second piece I've read by this writer, both on this site. Both were well written for such a compressed form. They were also intelligent, informed and pertinent. Thank you. More please.
I think I get the point you're making- if you're going to use the skills of a bricks and mortar shop, you need to help pay for it by buying stuff there. However, if you want to hand out with photographers, there are other ways to do it; find a way to do local photo walks, My friends and I use Talk Photography, which is a UK-oriented site, but there must be others suited to different parts of the world.
Like your comments and agree. The large French city where I live has an association which I joined, meets monthly (Coronavirus notwithstanding) members are both professionals and enthusiasts, people are there networking, showing their work, sharing and learning. It welcomes both digital and film. I refuse all social media and believe that far from connecting people, it's done the opposite and made people less capable of meaningful interaction. The ease of digital image creation and manipulation has cheapened and to a large extent spoiled photography, nowadays we're literally saturated with images and in a world where everyone can suddenly become a photographer all of a sudden, as the writer says, the profession of photographer is endangered. Oh, but this is 'progress' we're told, just as the profession of a taxi driver who knows a city inside and out is superseded by geo location apps. That taxi driver has built up over time specialised skills and knowledge. I refuse to use the term 'digital photography' . I've returned to film, and the darkroom after an absence of some twenty years and I realise there is an art to film, you have to put a considerable amount of effort in. You need to make a note of what you're doing at every stage. Digital, you're just pressing buttons. Sure it does away with the tedious leg work but at what cost? My interest in photography dwindled as digital took over but it's now been revived by meeting much younger people who have, paradoxically, come to film photography after starting with digital and are finding that the effort and demands it places on the photographer and the investment of self leads to an understanding of its true value.
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- AS IS TRADITION this time of year in the Smith family, as in countless other families, I'm sure, we try to guess Time's "Man of the Year," although the twist this time was "Man of the Century." Out of 16 participants, the guesses went like this: FDR, six; Churchill, three; Hitler, two; Gandhi, four; and Reagan, one. I doff my cap to the fella who picked the Great Communicator for the honor, but I don't think he quite finishes in the Top 3. In fact, while I'm sure Franklin Roosevelt will be the boring choice—if you're playing straight, come down on Churchill's side, not only for his enormous courage, brilliance and charisma, but for that famous saying that'll never be forgotten. I'm paraphrasing now, but: Winston was in a row with a straightlaced lady one night and she spat out that he was drunk. He shot back, Yes, ma'am, but in the morning I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly. It's astonishing how much Churchill accomplished given all the booze he consumed, at any time of the day.
Hitler's out because he lost. Gandhi's the Californian choice and preempts Martin Luther King, but his legacy hasn't left much of an imprint. Teddy Roosevelt was bandied about, with his rugged individualism, his internationalism and his goading the country into a new age. But there is the matter of his trust-busting, and he's really too much of a 19th-century man for consideration. Myself, I choose the fellow who invented air conditioning. Not a particularly original thought, but think about it: If a.c. didn't make life bearable in the South and Sun Belt the entire infrastructure of the United States would be different today. Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, L.A., Las Vegas and Dallas wouldn't be vast population centers; power would still reside in the Northeast.
I also think a cool choice would be Babe Ruth, for a couple of reasons. One, it would aptly lampoon the entire idea of constant list-making, and who better than Time, which started a lot of this nonsense, to make fun of themselves? Also, the Babe was truly larger than life, not a snotty braggart like, say, Donald Trump, but a man who had a bad start in life, did a stint in reform school, hit it huge in an emerging sport and lived every second of it: blasting home runs, eating and drinking and whoring like it was his last day alive, the idol of every boy and of most men in the country. Now there was an unadulterated American hero: he had nothing to do with killing people or saving their lives; didn't invent a new medicine; wasn't involved in statesmanship or politics; and wasn't a brilliant man. Just a strong kid who hit the lottery in life and made the most of it.
The ages of our group spanned from oldest brother at 57 to five-year-old MUGGER III. My boys hadn't seen their California cousins, Xela and Kira, in quite a while, though they're old buddies with Quinn and Rhys. The six youngest got along splendidly, with just a minimum of culture clash. Quite a feat, since we're talking San Luis Obispo, London and New York City. As in years past, during most of the nights after dinner there were songfests, and it was fortunate that we were the only guests on the island, so that the staff, which is paid, were the only ones who had to bear witness. An odd shift has taken place in the last five or six years, with this vacation only more pronounced because we were together for so long. After the original Smith Brothers faded out with songs from the 50s and 60s, the next generation took over, due to stamina and the ability to drink till the wee hours.
I'm biased of course, but look at the Bros. playlist, compare it to the next generation's and you decide. We started with some Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, Del Shannon, Frankie Lymon, early Stones and Animals. When Caleb belted out "Jeremiah was a bullfrog..." I felt like I was 100 years old. And it just got worse: Police hits, the Grateful Dead, possibly Billy Joel, 90s tunes I simply don't know and on and on. I took a break with my brother Gary out by the pool and we just shook our heads in disbelief, not only for the travesty inside, but for all the memories we've shared.
The next night a local reggae band was shipped in but I was too bushed from a day's activities to participate in the rapping, game of limbo and dancing. I read Junior a Dr. Seuss book as he went to sleep and I was amazed he could drop off with all the racket; as for me, it took five pages of another Kennedy book and the sound of Traie's husband impersonating Dr. Dre to do the trick.
The chefs at Necker are quite astounding. Every morning the main dining room table was laden with croissants, English muffins, bagels, platters of fruit with the best pineapple I've had in a year, star fruit, red and purple grapes, mangoes, papaya and bowls of jams and cream cheese. The heartiest among us had eggs and bacon with a side of sausage; I got my oldest brother in the doghouse when I inadvertently told his wife his white egg omelet had about a pound of cheese in it.
It was dinner when the kitchen really shined. One night it was kangaroo in a blueberry sauce with bacon on top, with lamb or red snapper as a next course; fresh mahimahi every day, conch, potato-leek soup, quail in a lime/chili vinaigrette, tuna spring rolls, beef carpaccio, tempura prawns, beef with asparagus and whipped potatoes and grilled grouper. The kids didn't do badly either, at least those who were adventurous: one night delicious baby roasted chicken, the next a quiche that was more like pizza, and then fajitas. Junior, on his usual Spartan diet, stuck to Cap'n Crunch, fries and maybe three or four bites of hamburger (not cheese, because once again, he's lactose intolerant, except for when it comes to ice cream), but MUGGER III more than made up for it with his tomato and cheese scrambled eggs, hot dogs and fried chicken, tastes of rack of lamb and the kangaroo or anything else with cheese in it.
By Saturday night, some of the group had already departed—it was 15 hours to California and 19 to London—and so our group was a little more reserved, tuckered out from so much sun, food, gab and sporting activities. However, at lunchtime, three of my brothers and I told the remaining kids about the dining habits of the Smith Family at 123 LaRue Dr. in Huntington. Randy allowed how he'd never seen lettuce except in a porcelain bowl in the kitchen. Jeff told a story about when he first started dating his wife Mary: he went over for supper one night and Mrs. Hilderman offered him some sour cream for a baked potato. Jeff, who was so used to the sour milk that was in the home fridge (a laboratory unto itself) politely declined, thinking, "Why would anyone want something that's sour on purpose?" Gary threw in the true story of how Mom's idea of a "snack" consisted of day-old bread and jelly; the only problem was that you usually had to scrape off the crust inside the Welch's jar. For my own part, I remember how for about two years each of the five boys was limited to one soda a week, and it was always a No-Cal, a precursor to diet drinks. It was poisonous stuff, but we looked forward to them just the same.
Then there was the time that Jeff, as chairman of some event at Huntington High School, brought home over 200 sandwiches leftover from the concession stand. Yellow wrapping was for tuna salad, pink for ham—and straight into the garage freezer they went until the supply dwindled down to the last dozen or so, about a year later. Now, tv dinners were a staple of the 50s, as were canned peaches, pears and vegetables, and we had plenty of this cool new convenience, especially the fried chicken and turkey options. Trouble was, Mom would save the tins and use them for her leftover meat loaf at any dreaded time.
Anyway, those are the old war stories that my brothers trot out each time the family's together, and the second generation is usually patient in putting up with the dashes of hyperbole, although I swear most of it's true. I'm still not sure if Randy was exaggerating when he claimed to write a letter of complaint to Alpo when the dog food he ate in his penniless college days was too gritty, but it sounds pretty plausible to me. We all raised toasts to the family's fortune and how no one among us, unless it's their wish, has to eat canned fruit cocktail ever again.
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namespace FOS\FacebookBundle\DependencyInjection;

use Symfony\Component\Config\Definition\Processor;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\DependencyInjection\Extension;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\XmlFileLoader;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\Config\FileLocator;

class FOSFacebookExtension extends Extension
{
    protected $resources = array(
        'facebook' => 'facebook.xml',
        'security' => 'security.xml',
    );

    public function load(array $configs, ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        $processor = new Processor();
        $configuration = new Configuration();
        $config = $processor->processConfiguration($configuration, $configs);

        $this->loadDefaults($container);

        if (isset($config['alias'])) {
            $container->setAlias($config['alias'], 'fos_facebook.api');
        }

        foreach (array('api', 'helper', 'twig') as $attribute) {
            $container->setParameter('fos_facebook.'.$attribute.'.class', $config['class'][$attribute]);
        }

        foreach (array('app_id', 'secret', 'cookie', 'domain', 'logging', 'culture', 'permissions') as $attribute) {
            $container->setParameter('fos_facebook.'.$attribute, $config[$attribute]);
        }

        if (isset($config['file']) && $container->hasDefinition('fos_facebook.api')) {
            $facebookApi = $container->getDefinition('fos_facebook.api');
            $facebookApi->setFile($config['file']);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @codeCoverageIgnore
     */
    public function getXsdValidationBasePath()
    {
        return __DIR__ . '/../Resources/config/schema';
    }

    /**
     * @codeCoverageIgnore
     */
    public function getNamespace()
    {
        return 'http://symfony.com/schema/dic/fos_facebook';
    }

    /**
     * @codeCoverageIgnore
     */
    protected function loadDefaults($container)
    {
        $loader = new XmlFileLoader($container, new FileLocator(__DIR__.'/../Resources/config'));

        foreach ($this->resources as $resource) {
            $loader->load($resource);
        }
    }
}


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Fast and emphatic finish
Ashburton College's Abel Wilson and Penuel Pantaleon contest a missed shot against Cathedral College.
Ashburton College's A boys' basketball team thrashed Cathedral College on Tuesday night to nail a spot in the final of the Canterbury secondary schools' Thomson Trophy division two competition.
The team had home court advantage for their semi-final at the EA Networks Centre and came away with a resounding victory 102-56, with the result never really looking in doubt after a strong start saw them out to a considerable lead early on.
Ashburton College coach Brian Kerr said his side applied their full court zone press this week, and got it right.
"The pressure they created caused numerous turnovers and they raced out to an early 9-2 lead before a time out was called by Cathedral," Kerr said.
But that did nothing to stop the onslaught as the defensive intensity was relentless, and by the end of the first quarter College led 29–7.
The second quarter continued in the same vein and while finishing let the home side down at times, they were still dominant and went to halftime 51–20 ahead.
The speed of the game increased in the third and it became more open as Cathedral attempted to get back into the game, but College was able to match that challenge and extended its lead further to 77-38.
At the end of a helter-skelter fourth quarter, where both teams enjoyed the open style of play, College had well and truly sealed it, 102–56.
Kerr said his players were a lot more clinical in their approach this week.
"We'd talked about the need to get our zone press right and put on that early pressure, which we did.
"I think we'd almost taken the game away after the first quarter, however we needed to maintain that intensity with our defence, which the boys did for most of the game."
Kerr said his side's fast break was again good, and was allowed to function as a result of their defence.
"Our offensive structure worked pretty well when the break wasn't on. It allowed good options whether it was shooting from the perimeter, forcing the ball inside or driving to the basket," Kerr said.
"The whole team deserve a pat on the back. Some of the guys did a lot of grunt work defensively which allowed us to ignite our fast break."
The guard lineup of Marc Juntilla (26 points), Quinn Ritchie (22 points) and Sam Pearce (16 points) were relentless in their defensive work and created many turnovers.
Kerr said Penuel Pantaleon (9 points) was his usual livewire self, into absolutely everything, while Fotu Hala (12 points) played well, especially on the defensive end where he was able to pick off a lot of loose passes as a result of the pressure exerted up front by the guards.
Phoenix Andrew (9 points) was another to shine. Coming off the bench he took his opportunity and was particularly strong on the drive to the basket and was defensively sound.
Kerr said the game was a good confidence booster heading into next week's final against Papanui High School, who upset the favoured St Thomas' at home on Tuesday night, 81-78.
The final will be played in Christchurch, at Cowles Stadium, next Tuesday at 4pm.
– Erin Tasker


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Pop the gelatine into some cold water to soften.
Meanwhile, bring the cream and ginger wine to the boil in a medium-sized pan, stirring gently. As soon as it starts to bubble, remove from the heat. Squeeze the water from the gelatine sheets and pop them into the cream and ginger wine mixture. Stir until the gelatine is dissolved and the mixture is thickened.
Sieve into a jug and then pour into 6 pretty glasses or ramekins.
Pop in the fridge to set for at least 4 hours.
To prepare the rhubarb, heat the sugar, water and stem ginger in a small saucepan, bringing it to the boil. Add the rhubarb and cook on the high heat for 1 minute, then remove from the heat, cover the pan with cling film and set aside, leaving the rhubarb to finish cooking in the residual heat.
When ready to serve, spoon the rhubarb and juices over the panna cottas and just dive in!
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Q: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: 'Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local'.' What im trying to do:
Make a program which has a feature that will allow the user to quickly delete a cache folder at a certain location. Issue, is the username or userprofile will be different for all. Is it possible to get it to fill in the "Current User" username/userprofile so its not throwing an error.
Sorry if this makes no sense, been up all night searching about for this and just cant seem to figure it out.

A: You need to resolve the environment variables with
var path = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local");

In your case (local app data), you could even use its own environment variable:
var path = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%localappdata%");

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.environment.expandenvironmentvariables?view=netcore-3.1

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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CORONADO'S DISAPPOINTMENT
Wherever we, Homo Sapien Sapiens, go we leave something behind. Even when we enter the hostile and the unknown, we leave behind traces of our passing, evidence of our existence, proof that our experience is not our imagination but something else. Something more tangible. Here is a case in point.
In the year 1528 the remnants of an expedition of Spaniards fought their way through the jungles and everglades of Florida. Just eighty men out of hundreds reached the West coast.
The survivors built crude barges and set sail across the Gulf of Mexico. They were heading West and no one was going to stop them.
Washing up in Mexico they were taken captive by a tribe of natives. Six years later there were only four left, Alvar Cabeza de Vaca, Dorantes, Estevan, a Moroccan Moor and Alonso Castillo. Finally through guile and luck they escaped into the wilderness.
They wandered the wilderness until they were found and adopted by another Indian tribe who took them to be shamen. They became known as 'The Children of the Sun' and their modern medical knowledge was employed to good effect as healers.
Estevan became fluent in several Indian dialects, dressed as a native and carried a medicine rattle and a feathered, beaded gourd as symbols of his magical status but it was Dorantes who was presented with the gift of the bell which was to lead to so much trouble and Coronado's disappointment. They said it came from a great city where they originally lived in the mountains North of the desert.
Believing the bell had been made by the natives who gave it to them, Dorantes assumed that the natives to the North were metal workers and probably rich in treasure and Spaniards were always interested in treasure. Many years later it was determined that the bell had in fact been made in Meixco City and traded North.
Two years later, the wanderers were rescued from their plight by Spanish slave raiders and taken to Mexico City.
While Dorantes and his fellow pilgrims were lost in the wilderness, Cortes, the conqueoror of Mexico, was replaced by Mendoza as Viceroy. Upon meeting Dorantes and hearing of his fantastic adventures and the bell, Mendoza tried to convince him to return to the wilderness and find the famed treasure of the people of the bell, but Dorantes declined and returned to Spain.
Medonza appointed a man named Coronado to be the new governor of the province in Northern Mexico around Culiacán.
De Niza, a Franciscan priest was appalled by the atrocities committed by the Spainards in the New World when he accompanied Pisarro on his conquest of Peru and became committed to protecting the natives of Mexico as best he could. De Niza left Mexico City with Coronado in the fall of 1538, but his price of passage were secret orders from Mendoza to seek the rumoured Northern empire.
Coronado established the Spanish garrison in Culiacan but De Niza and a second priest named Honorato along with the dark skinned Moor, Estevan, who, just like Jesus had spent so many years in the wilderness and had been with Dorantes and knew of the bell, walked into the desert looking for the fabled Northern Cities of gold and were joined along the way by an impressive parade of natives who considered De Niza a great emancipator because he twarted the terrible Spanish slave raiders.
Soon, Honorato fell ill and was left behind. De Niza and Estevan entered the vast Sonoran desert together.
But De Niza was slow. Too slow for Estevan who was not interested in De Niza's charitable work with the locals and forged ahead but with strict orders not to do anything or enter any cities he might find until De Niza had caught up with him.
Weeks later, Estevan sent word back of a wonderful city, Cibola, roughly another 30 days' journey North on a well defined trail but was not inclined to wait for De Niza.
De Niza hurried to catch up but was confused when he only found villages of small brush huts and one-floor, one-room structures of adobe-like material. Cibola supposedly a rich city, with permanent, multi-story buildings with turquoise jewels embedded in the doorways. There were well-watered river valleys with villages and irrigated fields as he tried to catch up to Estevan, but the Moor always remained several days ahead.
Nearly two weeks later, De Niza received word that a party of scouts he had sent to follow the coastline had determined that it turned abruptly West after running many miles North. As the changeing the direction of the coast was a matter of great importance as it might signal a new sea route back to Spain, De Niza gave up his pursuit of Estevan and went to look for himself. After exhausting himself for many weeks he found no such indication that their was a sea route North of Mexico, so he returned to the Cibola trail and his pursuit of Estevan.
In the meantime, Estevan had accumulated a large band of admirers and followers, and they encouraged him to venture into the mountainous country North of the desert. De Niza had no choice but to follow. The trail was clear and campsites well established. He grew excited. This was familiar to him. It was very like the trade routes of Peru and he anticipated finding the treasure cities of the North very soon.
Estevan began sending back wooden crosses and stories about a Northern tribe called the Zunis. The crosses grew larger and larger each day. Then De Niza had word that Estevan had arrived at Hawikuh, a Zuni pueblo. De Niza, not trusting Estevan to follow orders picked up the pace of his journey.
Early one morning De Niza found a few bloodied refugees on the trail. They told of how Estevan, imbued with a sense of power that his followers attributed to his dark complexion and his two Castillian greyhounds, entered a Zuni city. He did not realise that his medicine gourd was trimmed with owl feathers, a bird that symbolized death to the Zuni.
Estevan was seized and held captive. Many of the natives in his entourage were overcome and slaughtered.
Terrified by the news of the Zuni hostility, his native escort turned on De Niza, worried that the Zunis would hold them accountable for bringing the Spaniards North.
De Niza gave the natives what trade goods he had left and told them that it did not matter to him if they killed him because he was a Christian and would go to heaven. But that more Christians would come and kill all of them and he, De Niza, was the only one who could stop them.
De Niza wanted to turn back but could not without being sure Estevan was really dead. There had been promises made and oaths taken.
At last, two of the chiefs, seeing him determined, agreed to go on.
He continued North then found Cibola. He admitted that the houses were unlike any he had seen to date, but they had nothing of the grandeur of the Inca cities he had seen in Peru.
He wanted to recover Estevan or his body but was afraid. He rationalised to himself that if he died, he would not be able to make a report on this country.
When his native escort assured him that Cibola was just one of at least seven great cities, and that, Totonteac, the still more distant kingdom, was even richer, with so many houses and people that they could not be counted. De Niza immediately declared these seven cities the new kingdom of Saint Francis, made a large mound of stones topped with a cross before fleeing back to where he had come from assuming Estevan was dead but not verifying it. His adventure wasn't over yet.
De Niza turned up in Mexico many months later. He found that Honorato, had whipped up a frenzy with tales of the treasure city of Cibola.
So,in 1540 Coronado marched North from Compostela, Mexico, with a huge army. The army contained around 350 Spaniards, some on horseback and more on foot, and around 900 Indian allies gathered from central Mexico. They took with them herds of livestock, especially horses. Only a few women were included, among them a few of the wives of Spanish soldiers and De Niza who was forced to show him the way.
The army marched from Compostela to the last frontier outpost, the town of Culiacán, on the coast. Where they came on Diaz, who had already been dispatched to verify what De Niza had reported on the seven cities but winter snows hade stopped him before he got all the way through the mountains. He could not tell Coronado whether or not there was gold and treasure in Cibola but he said the natives believed there was a rich city, somewhere to the North.
Coronado, with 80 horsemen,30 footsoldiers, and some native allies, forged ahead. De Niza begged Coronado to take him along. He was determined to find out what happened to Estevan.
They left the main army and the livestock to come North at their own speed. De Niza led Coronado into, terra incognito along the route he pioneered the year before. He led them across a pass and then into the mountainous pobladoor a depopulated wilderness that separated Cibola from the South.
It was early July when they reached a small town called Hawikuh (HA-wee-koo) not far from Cibola. The Zunis attacked. A short fight ensued.
Coronado's men were armed with crossbows. They pushed the Zunis out of Hawikuh. There was no gold or jewels. Coronado accused De Niza of lying. Having outmarched their supplies they waited for the rest of the army to catch up to them. It took a few weeks.
While they were waiting, Coronado sent out small parties and scouts. They discovered some Hopi Pueblos and the Grand Canyon, but no gold. He also sent Diaz to find the promised naval support on the Sea of Cortes.
Diaz marched across fearsome deserts to the Colorado River and found a message left by the naval commander. He had sailed as far as he could up Colorado River, but failed to find the land army. In the meantime, Diaz gored himself in the groin with his own lance and died.
Back in Hawkikuh, facing starvation and mutiny, Coronado decided to devote his attention to the treasure of the Seven Cities.
He set out North. It was hard going. De Niza promised that the trail would be good and the terrain flat. But hills turned out to be mountains. Many animals were lost.
They reached the Valley of Corazones in May where they found people and cultivated land. The women wore dresses of deerskin. They painted their chins and eyes and were frequently seen out in the open drunk on a homebrew wine and engaged in sexual congress. The chiefs of the villages stood upon mounds and directed their people. Dotted about the villages were little shrines, bristling with many arrows sticking into them, like a porcupine. They were a sign of war and hostility to anyone who cared to pay attention.
The mainstay of the native diet were melons so large that a person could carry only one at a time and when cut into slices and dried in the sun, tasted of figs and kept for a very long time.
Coronado had yet to encounter anyone who had actually seen Cibola except the Indians who had been with Estevan. These were hungry times.
Coronado's advance guard met their first Indians from Cíbola. There were two of them, and they ran away. The advance party kept going until they spotted some Indians on a hilltop.
The Spaniards made signs of peace and offered presents to trade. Some of the natives came down and took the trade goods. With sign language and translators, the Zuni were given a cross and asked to go to their town and tell their people that Coronado was coming peacefully and wanted to be friends.
The soldiers made camp. In the dead of night the Zuni attacked. The horses ran off and the men were left on foot. Only two of the scouts remained mounted, but it was enough to save their comrades. The Zuni were afraid of the huge animals and the powerful crossbows wielded by the Spaniards.
The next morning Coronado turned up with the rest of the men. He was furious and ordered a full military assault on Cibola. When they arrived, the total Zuni population was arranged outside the city in opposition. Knowing his own men were weak and hungry, Coronado pulled up.
The soldiers, even the ranking officers, cursed Friar De Niza and his lies. Cibola was only a little, crowded village, of about 200 families. The ramshackle houses were only about three and four stories high. The disappointment was palpable.
There was smoke from many fires rising up around the town behind an intimidating array of warriors. Some were blowing horns. With typically Spanish sense of occasion, Coronada sent a representative, two friars and a notary ahead to read the warriors the Requerimiento prescribed by the King of Spain. It told the Zuni, in Spanish, that they would not be harmed, but defended in the name of God.
The Zuni approached Coronado. They completely disregarded the overtures of peace and started shooting arrows and tearing at the friar's robes, but no one was harmed.
Coronado could not risk a full engagement. He took a few mounted men, some trade articles and ordered the army to follow at a distance. The Zuni continued to shoot their arrows. Coronado held his nerve and kept advancing.
Emboldened by Coronado's passive response the Zuni ran up to his horse and fired arrows into it from only an arms length away. The arrows were crude and had little effect. When one arrow pierced one of the friars and drew blood, Coronado's patience evaporated. Coronado asked for the friar's approval to order the attack. It was given.
The impatient Spaniards loosed their leathal crossbows at the natives who fled back to the city and fortified themselves.
Coronado would not take the horses into the narrow streets but ordered well armoured foot soldiers to take the town. The few musketeers and crossbowmen began the attack but the crossbowmen broke all their strings and the musketeers had arrived so weak that they could scarcely stand on their feet.
Coronado waded in, standing out from the rest by his gilded arms and armor, and a plume on his headpiece. The Zuni knocked him to the ground twice with stones thrown from the roof, stunning him in spite of his headpiece. They hit him many times on his head, shoulders and legs. He received two small facial wounds plus an arrow wound in the right foot.
Don Garcia Lopez dragged Coronada unconscious from the danger and the town was overcome. There were no Spanish casualties and even the wounds were minor.
There were no cruelties in the aftermath of the battle. All of the Zuni were well treated, especially the women and children.
Over the next few days, the chieftain of nearby pueblos came with peace offerings of deer and cattle skins, yucca fiber blankets, and some turquoises, and a few bows and arrows, but the Zunis dispersed from Cibola and left the town to the Spaniards.
The soldiers were disgusted with Cíbola and threatened De Niza with all manner of retribution for his lying and deceit. Coronado on the other hand was interested in what exactly it was that he had come to conqueor.
He heard about and visited, Totonteac, a large group of Hopi villages, with which Zuni traded. He also ranged far enough to find the Rio Grande pueblos which had vigorous trade with plains Indians. There he found the buffalo robes and skins that De Niza had seen traded all the way into Sonora.
Coronado wanted the Zuni and the Hopi to come down from their hilltop strongholds and return to their houses with their wives and children and become Christians and recognize the King. But the Zuni and the Hopi would have none of it.
The Indians worshiped the water that made the corn grow. The women wore coils on their hair on their heads to carry jars of water. With one of these coils, a woman could carry a jar of water on her head up a ladder without touching it with her hands. It was an impressive skill.
Some brought their children to the priests but not many. When they prayed, they always faced toward the sun. They would raise their hands and rub their faces and bodies. They decorated sources of water with feathers of various colored birds. They also sprinkled ground cornmeal and other yellow powders around them. They made the same sort of offerings to the Spanish cross.
Coronado asked them to paint all the animals of their country on a buffalo hide. They made two skins for him, one with animals and the other with the birds and fishes.
Coronado sent the two painted hides, some turquoises, two earrings of the same, fifteen Indian combs, some plates decorated with turquoise, two baskets, and some hair coils back to Mexico City.
With these paltry offerings, he sent a dejected letter saying there was little chance of finding gold or silver. He had seen one or two small items, but the natives would not trade him for them and would not tell him where they came from.
The longer Coronado stayed around Cibola, the more dejected he became. He wanted someone to take the blame for his disappointment. Cíbola was not an Aztec-like city of gold, it was little more than a tawdry group of mud huts. He blamed De Niza.
In September, Coronado moved his army East to the pueblos on the Rio Grande River. He had been on this expedition less than a year and he was already exhausted and disillusioned. Wintering in the pueblos, he heard stories of an another city, Quivira, to the Northeast, but had little optimism that there was any wealth to be found there. He was broke and disgraced. He could not return to Mexico City with nothing. It was not a place to have nothing.
When spring came he marched the entire army East. Coronado and thirty horsemen rode North to find Quivira. They found nothing but endless grasslands and hostile natives. By December they were back where they started and the hopeless Coronado fell from his horse and hurt himself. It was the last straw.
He ordered a return of the army to Mexico in 1542 then resigned his governorship and retired. No Spaniard of any account returned North for another fifty years.
Threatened with death and very much out of favour with Coronado and his followers, De Niza, also made his way back to Mexico City. He never again ventured into the wilderness.
Of Estevan, who knows, but there can be little doubt, he along with Coronado and other Spaniards left behind horses which transformed the native cultures of the plains but they almost certainly also left behind some physical genetic code and a little bit of The Magic Helix.
HOME.............


Can't finish w/o paying, so I won't.
Pomeroy has always been an athletic supporter.
Opponents have posted an effective field goal percentage of 44.5, which ranks the Gonzaga defense 42nd nationally. But that figure doesn't tell the whole story. The Bulldogs have allowed opponents to make just 38.8 percent of their 2-point attempts, which ranks ninth. And yet opponents have shot 35.8 percent on their 3-point attempts, ranking the Zags 205th.
Our Coaches and players always preach, "hard 2's" when discussing our defense.
Although Florida is going to do what they did vs a lot of teams this year. They were on track to do the same vs Duke until they fatigued in 2nd half. Also, Duke sent their bigs to guard the 3pt line giving Florida easier buckets around the rim, yet the strategy worked over 10 or 12 mins.
Stopped the bleeding from 3pt, yet giving up some penetration or mid-range shots.
Jazz did post the rest of the article, but now it's been deleted. It's not kosher to post an article from behind a paywall.
I don't get why we pay for things we pay for but don't want to pay someone for their work if it's available on the internet. I see people not paying for cable wanting to get free feeds to the games. This #### ain't free to make. Writers got to eat. Pay them for their writing.
I checked KenPom offensive stats and ranks. Zags were ranked 16th.
I know, you're right. It's my crazy Gonzaga fan side that makes me want to break the rules.
I believe you can sign up for a 7 day free trial to check it out.
Seriously people, sign up for it. I think they have an extra good deal this week. Quality is top notch and you don't have to sift through all the garbage, popup ads, etc. Vecenie is on a tear pushing the GU brand after visiting the Zags for Kraziness in the Kennel and said on his podcast today that he is preparing a long article on Rui that will come out soon.
I signed up after seeing a few "samples" via Seth Davis' twitter feed. Find it better than "The Ringer" and am considering dumping the ESPN Insider subscription. I like Vecenie too.
The trick to ESPN is to get an amazing deal on the magazine which comes with Insider subscription. I see deals all the time where you can get an annual subscription for $4-6. Once you get the first issue punch the ESN# from the address label and you are good to go. A lot of those deals let you sign up for multiple years at that price, too.
Well, compared to last years team, the D isn't going to win a lot of games. Average in man.. Zone a bit better. 111 pts put up? Not exactly a strong showing. Hope it improves.
To be fair, they held an incredible Florida offense to 29 pts in the first half and then even when the wheels came off and they hit every 3 pointer they threw up it was 78 at the end of regulation which was almost 30 below their average.
I also have a subscription with the Athletic. Many top CBB writers tranistioned over like Davis, Vecenie, & O'neil. Well worth the $$ especially when you get articles by Ken Pompery!
Should we also mention that on 2 three pters that they did miss, we got called for blocking out fouls, putting their missed 3s on the line for double bonus FTs, AND, the first 5 pt play I've seen in quite a while?
I'm standing corrected. Actually we got killed in the OT. Did ok ( considering how FL is a scoring machine) in Regulation. Dang I wish we'd have won that game. One thing is quite obvious. We have a high caliber team that could have won that tournament.
One thing is quite obvious. We have a high caliber team that could have won that tournament.
Duke is pretty good - watched them pull away late again against Michigan. Would have been fun to see how the Zags would have matched up.
Duke played Indiana. You watched UNC beat Michigan.


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Three years after beating Michael Phelps, Joseph Schooling seeking Olympic return
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Joseph Schooling addresses training and getting older (1:31)
Joseph Schooling discusses the adjustments he's had to make to his training as he keeps an eye on the Tokyo Olympics. (1:31)
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The news from Gwangju spread quickly in Singapore, and the reactions were swift. Less than three years after beating Michael Phelps to win a gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the Rio Olympics, Joseph Schooling did not qualify for the same event at the 2019 world championships in South Korea.
School's gold medal was his country's first ever at the Olympics in any sport, instantly making him a historical figure and a national hero. But as it had been two years earlier at the world championships, the men's butterfly events in Gwangju were dominated by Caeleb Dressel, Schooling's former high schoolmate in Florida, and Kristof Milak, the Hungarian teenager whose continual rise echoes that of Schooling's not so long ago. Milak and Dressel took turns to smash 10-year-old world marks in the 200 meters and 100 meters previously set by Phelps. In the latter event, Schooling was beaten by 23 other men.
Memorable moments in Singapore sports history
How tiny Singapore rocked Rio -- and shocked Phelps
Eleven months out from the Tokyo Olympics, Schooling is nowhere near the 51.96 set by FINA as the "A" qualifying mark in the 100, and there is real danger he could miss out on the 2020 Games if things don't go his way.
Could it be that at 24, an age when athletes are expected to be hitting the peak of their powers, the six-time Singapore Sportsman of the Year is washed up?
"I don't think the times reflected what physical state I was in," Schooling told ESPN.com last month. "There were a lot of things externally that were holding me back. We've gotten those things cleared up. Right now, it's all about swimming, about how to improve, how to get better.
"We've changed a couple of transitions since I've been back from Korea. I feel a lot better practice-wise, set different goals, day in and day out, so you have something work toward, so that you're not just swimming aimlessly, just because you want to work hard. That part mentally, I've definitely cleared up, and the coaches and I are all on the same page, and we have a great sense of direction right now, better than I thought this early coming back in the season."
Joseph Schooling has work left to do to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. Icon Sportswire
There was a tacit admission that his mind had not been entirely focused on swimming since Rio, but is starting to get back in order.
Readjusting to life back in Singapore after spending most of the past decade in the United States has had its share of travails. Schooling left for the Bolles School in Florida at the age of 14 and went on to the University of Texas for four years of college. Even after his Rio triumph, which cemented his national hero status, he could retreat to relative anonymity in Austin, Texas, away from constant scrutiny.
By his reckoning, it hasn't been a smooth landing since he relocated back home in February.
"The last few years, I came back to Singapore in short blocks, and you could always go back to the U.S. and live the lifestyle I was comfortable with," Schooling said. "Coming back to Singapore indefinitely was kind of a big change. Now you go out and you're under the microscope more constantly. I've never been put through that. This is kind of the first time I'm here for that amount of time. So all these things take a toll on your performance in the pool."
Joseph Schooling reflects on beating Michael Phelps
Joseph Schooling reflects on beating Michael Phelps at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Schooling admitted he's about to move out from his home, going against the Asian norm in which unmarried adults would often continue staying with their parents, especially an only child like him. But a decade in the States, particularly the four years in Austin when his parents loosened the reins, has given Schooling an appreciation of his own space.
"I'm used to living by myself, and once you do that, I think it's very hard to go back and live with your parents," he said. "Although I do love being around them and being under the same roof as them, you need your own space to recharge. I've grown accustomed to having my own space, my own friends, being on my own time schedule."
Despite being his nation's biggest draw, Schooling signed up for only the 200m at his home leg of the FINA World Cup this year, a clear. Describing his first competitive 200m individual medley for four years as a "litmus test," Schooling was pleased with the results. After clocking the fastest time of 2:03.38 in the morning heats, he went three seconds faster in the final and narrowly missed out on the podium.
A gold medalist in the 2016 Rio Games, Joseph Schooling has yet to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images for Singapore Sports Hub
Schooling has until June 29, 2020, to qualify for Tokyo.
"I can't be too comfortable," Schooling said. "Once you're too comfortable, you start losing track of what you need to do. So right now, I'm definitely out of my comfort zone, but at the same time me being out of my comfort zone has made me more motivated than I ever have been."
And the experience of having once climbed on to the top step of the Olympic podium is helping with his preparations.
"I think it's going to be the exact same thing. Experience comes into play," he said. "You know that you've gone through it once, and you can go through it again. That's something you can rely on and back yourself mentally. Feeling that way is good, it means you're ready to go, you're excited, you want it badly, so I'm counting on myself to go through that same emotions exactly.
"The lead up to this next Olympics has been completely different from the lead up to Rio, so I'm going to reflect on the things I've gone through, the work you've put in to get into this spot.
"You've got one time, one moment to shine -- and that's why you train every day to be ready for it."


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Local anesthesia is any technique to render part of the body insensitive to pain without affecting consciousness. Local anesthetics are drugs, which upon topical application or local injection cause reversible loss of sensory perception, especially pain, in a restricted area of the body.
1. Local anesthetic agent- this is the active ingredient in the solution eg. Lignocaine.
2. Vasoconstrictor- adrenaline reduces toxicity and confines anesthetic agent to a localized area thus increasing depth and duration of anesthesia.
3. Anti-oxidant- vasoconstrictors are unstable in solution and may oxidize, especially on a prolonged exposure to sunlight. Sodium meta-bisulfite, which competes for the available oxygen, protects solution from oxidation.
4. Preservative- methyl paraben keeps the solution in stable form.
5. Fungicide- thymol is used.
6. Vehicle- normal saline or ringer's lactate solution is used. Isotonic vehicle minimizes discomfort during injection.
1. Most commonly used local anesthetic is Lidocaine as 2% lignocaine with 1:200,000 adrenaline.
2. Lidocaine without adrenaline can be given 4.5mg/kg body weight not to exceed 300 mg.
3. With adrenaline it can be given upto 7mg/kg body weight not to exceed 500 mg.
4. The maximum dose for local anesthetic solutions is somewhere between 70 mg to 500 mg for an average 70 kg patient.
5. Of course, the maximum dose is dependent upon the age, weight and health of the patient, the type of solution used, and whether vasoconstrictor is present or not.
Various procedures in dentistry cannot be made painless without the use of a local anesthetic and also at times the patient is so anxious with the fear of pain during the dental procedure that even if there is no need of an anesthetic injection they would purposely ask for it.
The availability of various anesthetic agents has made the dental procedures almost entirely painless.
An anesthetic complication may be defined as any deviation from the normally expected pattern during or after the securing of regional analgesia.
Primary complication is one that is caused and manifested at the time of anesthesia.
Secondary complication is one that is manifested later, even though it may be caused at the time of insertion of the needle and injection of the solution.
Mild complication is one that exhibits a slight change from the normally expected pattern and reverses without any specific treatment.
Severe complication manifests itself by a pronounced deviation from the normally expected pattern and requires a definite plan of treatment.
Transient complication is one that, although severe at the time of occurrence, leaves no residual effect.
Permanent complication would leave a residual effect, even though mild in nature.
Those attributed to the solution used. This group includes those complication that result from absorption of the anesthetic solution.
Those attributed to the insertion of the needle.
Defined as hypersensitive state acquired through exposure to particular antigen, re-exposure to which brings about a heightened capacity to react.
Partial or complete loss of consciousness with interruption of awareness of oneself and ones surroundings. When the loss of consciousness is temporary and there is spontaneous recovery, it is referred to as syncope or, in nonmedical terms, Fainting.
Syncope is due to a temporary reduction in blood flow and therefore a shortage of oxygen to the brain. This leads to lightheadedness or a "black out" episode, a loss of consciousness.
Most frequent complication. This is a form of neurogenic shock and is caused by cererbral ischemia secondary to vaso-dilation or an increase in peripheral vascular bed, with a corresponding drop in blood pressure.


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Italian rail operator Trenitalia, and its partner Air Nostrum, are currently testing out Freccarossia trains along the Madrid-Barcelona high speed track before making their official debut in Spain at the end of 2022.
The ILSA rail consortium which is owned by Trenitalia (FS Italiane Group) and regional air carrier Air Nostrum will start competing with Spanish rail company Renfe and French rail service Ouigo.
ILSA has been carrying out technical trials of the Frecciarossa 1000 trains on lines between Madrid and Barcelona – the last step before the train is given final approval for use on the Spanish rail network. The company has already ordered 20 next-generation Hitachi-Bombardier trains to serve the Spanish market.
That will allow iryo, the company's commercial name, to offer passengers a new high-speed option by the end of 2022, with tickets set to go on sale between September and October. The company sees a potential target of 30 million travellers.
The trains will be used in eight cities initially
The possibility of providing high-speed connections in Spain is part of a process that began in November 2019 with the award by ADIF, the controller of Spanish railway infrastructure, of 30% of the trains on the high-speed network – that amount is second only to Renfe, the Spanish national operator.
In the first phase, iryo will join Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Malaga, Cordoba, Valencia, Alicante and Zaragoza, before expanding to include other destinations with a possible Madrid-Lisbon link in the longer term. According to the company website, iryo will propose 32 return trips along the line Barcelona-Zaragoza-Madrid. In total, iryo plans to offer up to 40 return in the Spanish market.
iryo planned network (Drawing: Iryo)
The project, by Trenitalia in Spain, is aimed at enticing a more people to choose the train to get around, in accordance with the European Union's sustainability goals. Sharing of the know-how that was developed in Italy with the high-speed system, and over ten years' experience of running Frecciarossa routes, will allow significant further development of rail transport between the major Spanish cities.
The train convoy which is carrying out the technical trials is one of the twenty new Frecciarossa 1000s built by Hitachi in Italian workshops with the same characteristics as those used in Italy. The trains can be nearly completely recycled, and that means an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions per passenger journey and, precisely for that reason, it has been awarded the EPD Environmental Product Declaration.
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The Dangers of Relying on Legal Fictions and Analogies (Social Security edition)
My latest Verdict column, "Social Security Will Be There When Today's Young People Retire," was inspired by my continuing discussions about Social Security with people in their twenties. With so much disinformation spewing from Republicans about Social Security, especially from the establishment candidates (with the front-runner's views being wrong in a different way), it is constantly necessary to debunk all of the hysterical warnings about "bankruptcy" and all that. [Update: That column has now been republished by Newsweek under the title "No, Social Security Is Not, Repeat Not, Going Bust."]
The biggest takeaway from that column is that the worst-WORST-case forecasts do not show Social Security "running out of money," as even some journalists now describe it. Even in that worst case, millennials would still receive modest but important benefits. I show, for example, that a single person whose gross salary is $40,000 per year would receive about $13,400 per year in Social Security retirement benefits under current law. This is by no means a fortune, but it would all be effectively tax free, so that a person with low-middle income during her working life would receive retirement benefits that are quite modest but would more than keep her from becoming homeless or destitute. If the economy performs better than that absolutely worst-case forecast, benefits could be as high as $18,900 per year for a lifetime $40,000 earner, under current law.
One of the long-running confusions about Social Security is the question of whether a person's payroll taxes are being deposited in some kind of personal savings account. Historical records show that President Roosevelt made a very deliberate decision to describe Social Security in exactly that way, so that each person would feel a sense of having earned her retirement benefits.
As a matter of political strategy, that was a brilliant move. It has, however, created a political opening for ideologues who try to scare people by telling them that "your money" has already been spent. Even though every bank would be a Ponzi scheme under this logic, because banks do not hold depositors' money in vaults (but instead lend it out at a profit), some people become scared and believe that there is something nefarious going on when an opportunistic politician tells them that there are no individual accounts holding their money.
Overall, I think that Roosevelt's move was a smart one. To this day, people's reactions to proposals to decrease Social Security benefits are clearly based on a sense of personal ownership, so that the long-term political stability of the system has unquestionably been enhanced by giving people the (quite accurate) sense that their payroll taxes create an obligation for the system to pay them benefits in the future.
There is, however, another fiction about the system that is also being exploited for political gain. The "running out of money" claim, after all, is a claim not about Social Security itself but about the system's trust fund, which might or might not reach a zero balance sometime within the next few decades. (The absolute worst-case scenario has the trust fund reaching zero in 2028, would result in benefit payments for a $40,000-per-year worker of $13,400 every year thereafter, as I described above.) Even if the trust fund goes to zero, therefore, the system will continue to operate and provide important benefits.
But the additional politically exploitable question is: What is "in" the trust fund, even before it reaches a zero balance? George W. Bush's answer was that the trust fund was just a bunch of worthless pieces of paper. Defenders of the system responded that the trust fund is "invested" in the safest asset known to man, Treasury securities, on which the government would default only if Republicans in Congress were ever to carry through on their threats not to increase the debt ceiling. (Back in 2005, when Bush was pushing his partial privatization plan, the debt ceiling had not yet become a political weapon. This meant that the safety of Treasuries was still seen as absolute.)
For years, I did not question the claim that Social Security's trust fund was, as an accounting matter, invested in Treasuries. In part, I did not bother to inquire further because it frankly does not matter whether that is true, as I will explain momentarily. But, at least as a matter of paper-shuffling, the picture that the system's defenders painted had Social Security buying a total of $2.7 trillion of Treasury securities during the Baby Boomers' working years, and then selling those securities on the open market during the Boomers' retirement, until the money is all gone.
It turns out that this is not true, even as a formal matter. The securities into which the trust funds are supposedly deposited are "special issues," which means that the trust fund is not competing with the general public to buy Treasuries on the open market, nor will Social Security be dumping Treasuries on the market in the coming years as it draws down the trust fund. The special issues, it turns out, are simply an accounting mechanism that Treasury uses to keep track of how much extra money Social Security has collected over time, to which it adds interest payments based on a legislated interest rate.
As I noted above, all of this is very much beside the point, as far as the actual underlying reality is concerned. However, it is easy for people to become focused on a particular security or a particular interest rate and think that large purchases and sales by the Treasury would be important in some way. In particular, during the build-up of the trust fund, the higher demand for Treasuries would seem to raise prices (which reduces rates), while Treasuries' prices would fall (and rates rise) when the trust fund is redeeming all of its holdings.
Is that bad or good? It is neither, because Social Security is not in fact buying or selling anything. The trust fund is a legal fiction, not a reality. The legal fiction does, of course, create an essential legal obligation that we must continue to honor, but Social Security is not really in the business of buying and selling Treasury securities.
What is really happening? Each year's Social Security surplus of payroll taxes over benefit payments has reduced total federal borrowing. That means that the Treasury did not need to borrow as much money from the public as it otherwise would have, which means that there were fewer Treasuries sold to the public. This held down interest rates in general, because the government's reduced borrowing needs left more money available for private borrowers, who did not have as much competition from the government for loanable funds. Now that Social Security is starting to spend more than it is taking in, overall federal borrowing will be higher for the next few decades than it otherwise would have been -- just as Reagan and Greenspan planned, back in 1983.
But wait, you say. Is that not exactly what I said was not happening, only two paragraphs above? As a matter of the system's effect on interest rates, yes it is. The reasoning, however, is meaningfully different. Based on the idea of "crowding out," which is about as orthodox an economic concept as one can find, the point of reducing federal borrowing is to leave more money on the table for private borrowers to finance productive investments. Reducing the interest rate is the whole point, so that more such investments will be worth financing. That is how the Baby Boomers pre-paid for our retirements, by building up a bigger pool of real investments that will allow the economy to support us during our golden years. As we draw down the notional balance in the trust fund, we are in fact using up the excess investments that we put in place for exactly that purpose.
In other words, even though the trust fund is not really invested in anything, reducing Treasury's borrowing needs meant that the supply of Treasuries was reduced, which had the same effect as if the trust fund had actually demanded more Treasuries on the open market. And during the draw-down phase, the effects will be again the same but in the opposite direction.
Would this have been different if we had never set up Social Security in the first place? Not at all. Imagine that we had in 1935 instead set up a system of private retirement accounts, with people making deposits into financial institutions during their working lives and then withdrawing money during their retirements. The results would have been exactly the same as they are with a Social Security setup. During Baby Boomers' working lives, funds available to banks would have risen, so that interest rates on loans to private investors would have gone down. When Boomers started to draw down their savings, rates would rise, just as they would with a Social Security system.
It is possible, of course, that Baby Boomers would have built up less money in the aggregate in those private accounts than Social Security's trust fund has accumulated. That would mean that living standards during retirement would be lower than with Social Security, which is one of the reasons that people defend Social Security. But the devotees of private accounts insist that it is possible to set up such accounts so that people are no worse off than they would be with Social Security. And because nothing in Social Security prevents people from saving more -- in fact, we actively encourage people to save via IRA's, 401(k) accounts, and so on -- an imagined world in which there are only private accounts would not have accumulated a greater net amount than the $2.7 trillion in the trust fund today. In fact, if it had, then the decline in interest rates would have been even more pronounced during the Boomers' working lives, and the future increase in rates commensurately greater.
In other words, this yet another situation in which any supposed downside of the Social Security system -- in this case, the decline in interest rates followed by the rise in interest rates -- would have been fully replicated in a system of private accounts. That is because the real issue is not how we are financing the retirements of Boomers, but simply that there was a Baby Boom at all. When an outsized cohort moves through its life cycle, any system that tries to "save" for that cohort's retirement is going to have the same impact.
This does not, however, mean that there is no downside to switching now to a system of private accounts. As I have noted before (and will surely write about again, many times), the transition to a system of private accounts would put a special burden on millennials, because they would have to honor the reliance interests of Social Security recipients while also building up their own savings accounts. Moreover, all of the administrative costs of a system of private accounts would be a net drain on the system, compared to Social Security's incredibly low overhead. And this says nothing about the difficult of dealing with people who would make bad investments and end up with nothing for their retirements.
Those issues, however, are separate from the fundamental point here. The trust fund itself has no impact at all on the financial markets, because it is not "invested" in anything nor will it need to be "spent down." Saving for the future, no matter how we do it, requires either having the government borrow less or private individuals save more. The net result is the same, on interest rates and everything else.
All of this is far beyond the political debate, of course. Still, it is fascinating to think through the many misconceptions that can arise when we rely on analogies -- payroll taxes are like bank deposits, the trust fund is investing in Treasuries -- rather than saying what is really happening. The good news is that what is really happening with Social Security as it actually exists is no worse than, and is in many ways much better than, the alternative.


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Q: I am unable to calculate the probabilities of case (i) and (ii) in the question shared below. Can someone help me calculate both with an explanation?? Two bundles of cash as a prize are HIDDEN behind the spinning wheel in consecutive slots as shown in the picture.
The image shows the front and back sides of a spinning wheel. The wheel is divided into 8 equal portions numbered from 1-8. The back of the wheel shows that the prizes are behind the numbers 6 and 7. The back side is not visible to the player.
If on the first spin, a person does not win a prize, they get to choose one of the following options:
(i) Another, last chance to spin the wheel.
(ii) Choose the contents of the NEXT slot. [Ex. choose 1, if they land on 8; or choose 4 if they land on 3]
Wilma spun the wheel and lost. Which of the following actions has a higher probability of winning the prize for Wilma?
A. Choosing option (i)
B. Choosing option (ii)
C. Choosing either options since the probability of winning, in either case, is the same.
D. Choosing either options since the given information is insufficient to make a decision.