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Local author praises 'life changing moment' at Liverpool Boat of Hope naming ceremony
Popular local children's author, Natalie Reeves Billing, has described the overwhelming sense of excitement and pride she felt when attending this week's Boat of Hope naming ceremony, at which her latest book was performed as a sea shanty.
Natalie said: "As a scouse girl through and through, seeing all three mayors bestow their blessings on our Boat of Hope, and gifting us the right to name her 'The City of Liverpool'… there aren't words to describe that moment.
"Seeing so many of the city's dignitaries and all our esteemed guests joining together in celebration and song was a life changing moment. One I will never forget. I'm so very proud."
The Boat of Hope naming ceremony (which took place at Liverpool's Maritime Museum on 26th October) was attended by a host of high-profile supporters.
Bernie Hollywood OBE, the man behind the campaign, welcomed guests including Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram; Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson, and Liverpool's Lord Mayor, Mary Rasmussen.
Natalie is the Early Years Ambassador for Bernie's Boat of Hope challenge, for which he'll row 3,000 nautical miles alone to raise £1 million for mental health charities and open up a conversation about depression.
Natalie wrote her new children's book 'Bernie and Boatie', from which she's donating all profits to the Boat of Hope's official charities, The Samaritans and Love Rowing, to support Bernie's epic quest.
The author says she was more nervous about how 'Bernie and Boatie' would be received than she would usually be during a book launch because she knows that every copy she sells will help to contribute to the Boat of Hope charities, supporting causes she's passionate about.
The book is available as an audiobook and an animated trailer, narrated by Melanie C and Doctor Who star Sacha Dhawan, and Natalie had been counting down to watching 'Bernie and Boatie' being performed as a sea shanty by Radio Merseyside's, Billy Hui and his fabulous SINGME choir.
The author said:
"To imagine being in the place where I grew up, surrounded by friends, to watch the naming ceremony and hear the words from my book being performed as a sea shanty is just overwhelming! Thinking of all those people singing something that I've helped to direct, and which I've invested so much time and love into is incredible."
"I'm passionate about reaching as many children as possible with our message, and I've found launching 'Bernie and Boatie' much more nerve wracking than launching my other books, because it's not just about me – it's about trying to raise as much money as possible to support children's mental health initiatives and reaching as many families as I can."
After the excitement of this week's launch, the author says she's very grateful to everyone who attended and to everyone who's already bought a copy of her book, which is designed to be a useful resource for families to talk openly about mental health.
'Bernie and Boatie' is available to purchase via Amazon, with all profits from the sale of the book going to charity. The book is available as a paperback for £7.99 or for Kindle for £3.49.
Websites: www.boatofhope.com & www.nataliereevesbilling.co.uk
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Welcome to my guide on how to tank with your warrior. I will take you through different talents, skills, glyphs and stats and also how you could go about tanking things with a suggestion on "rotation". This guides focus lies in being an easy access to what warrior tanking is all about, and what changes have been made in Cataclysm so that you can feel comfortable with getting started with your warrior tank right away.
If you're only interested in getting started at level 15 with some easy pointers on what to think about, you could check out my guide on that matter here.
This is an ongoing project that will be updated as changes occur. Last update on 15/6-11.
Some changes in 4.0 were to tanks in general and some to warriors specifically. Generally, all tanks have noted a significant loss in aoe-threat, and also a ramp-up time in threat-generation. That means that if you used to tank pre-patch you'll now notice a definite change in the easiness to keep aggro. It has been considerably nerfed. Pre-patch a Thunder Clap often sufficed to keep good threat for the first couple of seconds while you started spreading your threat-love around. This is no longer the case. In fact you'll probably have trouble keeping aggro even after using most of your threat-skills, especially when tanking several mobs. One-two skills per mob is not enough to hold aggro anylonger.
Single target threat has taken a blow too, but not as much as aoe-threat. Warriors have a good initial-aggro skill in Shield Slam and keep good initial threat in raids as compared to Paladins and Dk's.
All tanks have also seen the implementation of something called Vengeance. Vengeance does "Each time you take damage, you gain 5% of the damage taken as attack power, up to a maximum of 10% of your health. ". This is mostly what people are talking about when they say that tanks now have a ramp-up time for getting to their maximum output of threat. Not until you've stacked full Vengeance do you do the most threat with your skills. Warriors have less trouble with this than for example Prot Paladins, since we can use Vigilance to stack Vengeance faster (also Paladins have to stack Holy Power for optimal threat which further increases their ramp-up time).
Warriors specifically have seen their rage going through some changes. Blizzard have done a "rage normalization" which is what they call anything that changes the way you generate threat basically. Before 4.0, rage was generated based on the amount of damage you did with your weapons and the amount of damage you took from being hit by mobs. For tank warriors this didn't work very well, because the better your gear got (aka the less damage you took from being hit by mobs) the less rage you got. Post 4.0 rage instead gives a fixed amount on each auto-attack swing when you're doing damage, and an amount based on your max hp when you're taking damage. This means the better your gear becomes (aka the more hp you get) the more rage you will get from being hit. You can read more about these changes here. Overall rage works better now. We generate it easier and most importantly it doesn't seem to decay as fast.
Right now we see ourselves in a tricky position because we are still in the borderline between two playstyles. The old playstyle where threat was fairly easy and dpsers could just nuke their brains out, and the new playstyle where dpsers actually have to mind their threat. Many dpsers haven't understood what state the new threat is in, and will nuke just as before. Hopefully they will learn sooner rather than later that that is a playstyle of old and that it won't work in Cataclysm.
The differences between raid- and instance-tanking are small, the main difference being choice of gear generally. For instance-tanking you can go with dps/threat-stats a little more, for raid-tanking you'd mostly want to go with survivability-stats. Overall however, and this is especially true for heroics, survivability will be the best way to go. Things are alot tougher than they used to be. Since the talent trees have been consolidated we mostly use the same talents when leveling and in end-game as well. For more information check the "Talents" and "Glyphs" section.
To get some general pointers on how to tank an instance nice and smooth, you could check out this post I wrote on the matter.
Warriors are the only true tanks.
If you still think this, you live in the middle ages. All tank classes (dk, paladin, druid and warriors) have their strength and weaknesses, but in current content they all perform very equal. It mostly comes down to the skills of the player.
Warrior tanking needs stance dancing.
A long time ago alot of useful skills used to be available to tanking warriors only if they switched stance momentarily to either Battle or Berserker Stance. Blizzard eventually realized that this made warrior tanking unecessarily difficult, especially when compared to the other tanks and have made most useful tanking-tools available in Defensive Stance as well. One example is Charge. Nowadays, stance dancing is basically never used anymore.
Warrior tanking is the most difficult.
Whether something is difficult or easy depends alot on the player. It also depends on situation. Difficult in what area? Threat or survivability? Aoe threat or single target? Warrior tanking is probably the most complex of the four tanking classes (paladin being the easiest), but this also means there are several ways to solve a tanking situation. Some find this to make the class more dynamic and easier to use, some find it more difficult. Warriors do lack in some areas that may make tanking feel more difficult at times, most notably ranged threat.
What's so lovely about speccing a prot warrior is that you can tailor it a lot to suit your tanking style. If you prefer doing dungeons, pvp or raids, if you want more aoe or single target threat, want to focus on survivability or threat - there is a talent for you. Here is a rundown on my thoughts on each talent and what they're best used for. I've written a little more in depth about some of the interesting talent choices in the secondary talent trees here.
Incite: Heroic Strike isn't as important as it was before, and in instances we'd probably rather use Cleave than Heroic Strike. If you'll do instances I'd go with Blood & Thunder instead, for raiding you'll probably have better use of Incite.
Toughness: Armor has been nerfed in 4.0, making it less valuable than post 4.0. This is still a decent talent, and definitely better than the alternative (Blood & Thunder, see below).
Blood & Thunder: Whether you like this talent or not is mostly up to you. Tanking works absolutely ok without it at max level. B&T is mostly situational so that when you do need to keep aggro on a lot of mobs, this is very handy handy (as is the case in some few raid fights). I do actually recommend this talent for lower levels and for instancing in general since it deals a good amount of damage and is good aoe threat, until you eventually might decide on doing raids where aoe threat is of less importance.
Shield Specilization: Rage will probably not be an issue in raids, but can still be in heroics, so this talent is as useful as you think it is. If you have big problems with rage starving, this will be one of your best talents to solve that issue. If you don't think you have much trouble with rage, it could be worth moving some points from this talent to things that seem more worthwhile.
Shield Mastery: Shield Block and Shield Wall are among our most important tank cooldowns (Shield Wall mostly for raiding however), lowering the cooldown on these skills are definitely something we want to do. The lower the cooldowns on these skills, the more survivability you'll have (as long as you use the cooldowns of course). This means you can use Shield Wall even if you're not on the brink of death, just to ease up for the healers. The less they have to focus on you, the more they can focus on someone else. There is no such thing as too many cooldowns.
Hold the Line: Block is something of a defining property of warrior tanking, and something Blizzard always want us to use as much as possible. Before Cataclysm block was inferior because it never worked as well as pure avoidance. Blizzard have made some tweaks to how block works however, and this is a good talent since it also increases your threat somewhat after a parry.
Gag Order: A great talent for when leveling and instance-tanking. Less useful when raiding since the tank rarely is responsible for silencing anything. Reduced cooldown on Heroic Throw is nice, but also something that is used more in Instances than in Raids.
Last Stand: A good tanking cooldown, especially when combined with Enraged Regeneration (which you won't get until level 76 however).
Concussion Blow: Currently our highest threat skill, and also a prerequisite for Vigilance. Any tank should take this talent. Should be used on each cooldown when tanking bosses.
Bastion of Defense: Has replaced defense as a stat against crit immunity. This means you're not a tank without this talent.
Warbringer: Allows us to use charge, intercept and intervene in Defensive Stance and in combat. This is great for utility tanking and should be talented by all tanks.
Improved Revenge: Revenge is one of our most important threat skills and it wouldn't be half as useful or good if we didn't take this talent.
Devastate: Devastate had its glory days back in Burning Crusade. Since then its usage has dwindled from being the bread and butter skill to being a filler skill when everything else is on cooldown or you are low on rage. Honestly I think you could do just fine without it, but for one talent point it is still a fairly strong and useful talent (and it does deal more threat than Sunder Armor).
Impending Victory: More useful when raiding than when doing instances, but generally a pvp-talent. As a lowbie tank you can expect to get the killing blow occasionally, and use Victory Rush as a way to get some extra health or threat. In raids we don't switch targets as often so this talent could be our best shot at getting to use Victory Rush but even on a well-geared tank this extra health would make a minor difference and these talent points are better spent elsewhere.
Thunderstruck: Best for aoe-threat which mostly means instance-tanking. Since aoe-threat is what we're currently having issues with, we'll like anything to help us out in that area. Less useful when raiding.
Vigilance: Vigilance has seen some changes. It no longer reduces threat on the target (and it doesn't reduce damage taken anymore either) but instead mainly works as a source of Vengeance for you. It also refreshes your cooldown on taunt when your Vigilance target is being struck, which will be a nice aid for tank-switching bosses. As such it is a well spent 1 tp and should be used on a fellow tank. Some tanks are (and always have) questioned the usefulness of Vigilance, and for instances you wouldn't be wrong to move this talent point elsewhere.
Heavy Repercussions: Great for extra threat, and we can never get too much of that.
Safeguard: The situations where this is useful are rare, on the other hand when used correctly this talent can make alot of difference. The best way to use it is on a target that you know will take a big blow (mostly another tank in a raid situation). It's not very useful for instances and it's tricky to use for raids, so you have to decide for yourself if this talent will have any use for you.
Sword and Board: Works basically the same as it did pre-patch and as such it is one of our best talents for extra threat.
Shockwave: Best for instancing, but a good tanking skill overall.
War Academy: War Academy is a typical threat skill, and if you really want to boost your threat you could go for this. Personally I prefer a good mix of threat and survivability, and wouldn't choose this talent over other I think more useful.
Field Dressing: 6% extra healing taken is great, because it is a straight up buff to all and any healing received by you from someone. I'd only skip this if I knew I was in an environment where survivability really wasn't an issue, ever.
Blitz: This is a "comfy"-talent, meaning that it makes your pulls slightly more convenient and manageable in dungeons. You won't see much use for this in raids. If you like those extra rage at the start of a pull and being able to make sure a couple more mobs stand still for your initial skills, this is a great talent. It depends on how you tank, personally I like it.
Blood Craze: Blood Craze works best when you expect to take alot of blows, since it increases its uptime significantly. This means that it is less useful on slow, hardhitting bosses, but quite useful in dungeons where you can expect to be hit from several targets quite often. It actually does provide a fair amount of extra healing.
Battle Trance: The rage gain from this talent is very low, and you should only take this talent if you're desperate for more rage.
Cruelty: Also a slight threat increase, but very slight.
Deep Wounds: The extra damage from this is unfortunately quite low, only around 1-3% depending on gear (more in raids where you can expect to have higher crit). If extra threat and damage is all you're after, this will still give you some extra oomph.
For an instance spec I'd move points from Cruelty, Incite and Safeguard to Gag Order and Blood & Thunder and Thunderstruck. Could also move one point from Vigilance to Blitz.
Challenging Shout: You don't use this often, but when you do you'll be damn glad you have it.
Cleave: No longer on-swing. Works exactly like Heroic Strike but on several targets instead, and should be used accordingly (aka Cleave as rage-dump when fighting several targets, Heroic Strike when fighting one). This is your new best aoe threat skill and you will find yourself using this alot in random instances.
Devastate: Has a rather low threat in itself, but does have a chance to proc Sword And Board, which means using it will increase your threat overall. Nonetheless it's not worth using if you have Revenge or Shield Slam off cooldown and a Sunder Armor stack (or equivalent) already applied to your target (stacking sunder armor debuff is only worth doing on raid bosses). This means we don't use Devastate all that often, especially not in endgame, but it is nice to have around for when you're waiting for everything else to come off cooldown.
Heroic Strike: No longer on-swing. A rage-dump skill and also a good single-target threat skill. As soon as you find yourself with alot of rage (+60-70) you should use this. As it has its own gcd you can use it while using another skill, which is important to keep in mind.
Heroic Leap: This is a great skill to get inital aggro on a bunch of mobs (unless one of them is being ccd, in which case you should avoid this). Use this instead of Charge if it safe to do so.
Rend: Not worth using while tanking at endgame. Too slow and low threat to be worth it. At lower levels this is a decent damage dealer for when questing however and especially useful on runners. Before Revenge this is our best aor-threat.
Revenge: One of your best threat-skills, should be used every cooldown whether you're fighting one or several targets.
Sunder Armor: Before you get Devastate, this is a good skill for single-target threat. Once you get Devastate, you have no need for Sunder Armor anymore.
Taunt: Works exactly like before, but you'll probably have to use it more often. Can also be used as a means of pulling mobs, especially before you get Warbringer. This talent can not miss any longer!
Thunder Clap: Although this has been significantly nerfed, this is still one of our most important aoe threat skills. In lower levels this used to be all you needed to use to keep aggro, basically all the way up to 80. This is no longer the fact, but when tanking several mobs this is still worth using every cooldown. Since it also reduces attack speed on the affected targets by 20%, this is good to keep up on any boss that isn't already affected by this kind of debuff.
Victory Rush: Could be counted as a survivability skill, but you'll mostly use this either when questing or when tanking as a lowbie before you've gotten any of the real threat skills. This becomes less and less useful as you level on.
Battle Shout: Has replaced Bloodrage as our out of combat rage generator, and is also a really nice buff. You should keep it up at all times (until you get Commanding Shout). For instances, depending on that buffs the rest of your group provides, Battle Shout is probably more worth keeping up than Commanding Shout.
Berserker Rage: Mostly used in the same way as before, that is as a means to remove any fears/saps or incapacitating effects that may come our way when tanking. Can also be used as a way to get some extra threat if you really find yourself needing that.
Charge/Intercept/Intervene: Although they don't do exactly the same thing, they will be used for basically the same purpose – your positioning. Your goal is to be where the action is so you can prevent people from dying, these will be your main tools to achieve that goal.
Commanding Shout: Has replaced Bloodrage as our out of combat rage generator, and is also a really nice buff. Depending on whether you want survivability or threat, you could alternate between this and Battle Shout.
Demoralizing Shout: Has never been especially good for threat (although back in Vanilla this was considered a half-decent aoe-threat skill), but provides an awesome debuff. Less important in instances where things die so quickly anyway, but in raids this should be up all the time as long as no one else in the raid already applies this buff.
Disarm: Blizzard occasionally designs bosses around the need of disarming them. Unless that is the case, disarming isn't very useful (many bosses aren't even disarmable). But it's not a wasted gcd, so if the boss is disarmable, disarming will lower his damage somewhat for a short time.
Intimidating Shout: Aka Intimate Dating Shout. Very situational since fearing is something you rarely want to do in instances/raids. Mostly used for pvp.
Heroic Throw: Best used to get threat on something standing too far away for you to hit on, or to silence a caster.
Shield Bash: Whenever you need to silence/interrupt something, Shield Bash is your way to go. A great skill for collecting casters, and should be used as often as needed. Silencing casters usually gives good threat as well.
Spell Reflect: I've always said tanks use this way too little when tanking, and I'll say it again. Pve tanks use this way too seldom when tanking. This is a great way to get initial aggro on some caster while taking care of another caster or otherwise handle hardhitting spells. Use this more often than you need just for the heck of it, just to get into the practice of using it when you really need it.
Enraged Regeneration: Because of how this works, it is best used in combination with Last Stand. It's not wasted on its own however.
Last Stand: Because of how this works it is best used in combination with Enraged Regeneration. It's not wasted on itw own however.
Shield Wall: With the proper talents, Shield Wall has a measly 2 minute cooldown and should be used any time you know you will take more damage than usual, or at every cooldown if you know you'll take about the same damage the whole fight. In raids, reducing your damage taken is never wasted. When instancing, using Shield Wall is usually a little overkill unless you just did a humongous overpull.
This means that Heroic Throw is supposed to be part of our rotation.
Use Heroic Throw on each cooldown, (unless you know there will be extra mobs coming that you want to apply a fresh stack of Sunder Armor to, in which case you might want to save this).
Demoralizing Shout and Concussion Blow can be used when needed.
Make sure you have a plan for how to handle the group without breaking cc. Here is a guide on how to do that.
As for most classes, the choices of tanking glyphs are fairly easy.
Devastate: Although we don't use this skill that much, there isn't many other prime glyphs to choose from.
Revenge: Buffing one of our best tanking skills is never a bad idea.
Shield Slam: As with Revenge, buffing another of our best tanking skills isn't a bad idea either.
The major glyphs are more situational, here we might have to make some choices.
Shockwave: Best for instancing, but also good for handling trash in raids.
Cleaving (INSTANCE): Cleave is one of our best aoe-threat skills, now that Thunder Clap really doesn't cut it anymore. Glyphing it is highly recommended if you intend to do alot of instances.
Long Charge: Some raid bosses will aggro on you before you get into normal charge range, this glyph could remedy that. It's also nice in instances to get to the mobs a little bit sooner than the dpsers.
Shield Wall (RAID): For fights where you know you're going to take big hits occasionally, and rather would want a long cooldown dealing with those properly, than a short cooldown dealing with those weakly.
Thunder Clap: (INSTANCE) Great for collecting mobs in instances. Less useful in raids.
Heroic Throw: Good starter threat, especially when raiding.
Sunder Armor (INSTANCE): Useful for when tanking instances, less useful when raiding.
Demoralizing Shout: If you're the one expected to put up this debuff, this glyph is a must have.
Berserker Rage: Because there isn't much else to choose (which means if you prefer another glyph over this, go for it).
Command: Increased area of affect is useful when raiding, although this buff will most likely be provided by someone else anyway.
Since defense was removed as a stat and we now get our beloved crit immunity through a talent instead, we're a little more free to choose stamina and avoidance stats than before. Hit and expertise too can get more love than before. So which stats are more important?
Stamina – Always a sure way to go. Stamina is by some considered the only "true" tank-stat since it helps against both magic and physical damage, whereas avoidance such as dodge/parry/block only helps against physical damage. Druids for example long worked in this way, basically only stacking stamina. Blizzard have re-designed the raid-fights alot since then, and stacking stamina high and ignoring other stats would mean a tank with easy and huge dips in hp. Still, stamina is mostly what people go for. Actually now in Cataclysm, the way Vengeance and the rage changes work have made stamina an even better stat for warriors. Still, it is worth to note that just stacking stamina isn't a good idea anymore. You definitely want to keep your avoidance and block ratings up as well.
Dodge/Parry – Not only does dodge and parry not help against magic damage, it also suffers from diminishing returns. That mean the more you have, the less valuable it becomes. It's still an important stat, but usually any amount you get from gear (and that will be more now that all defense has been converted into dodge) suffices. Note however that Dodge and Parry aren't worth equally much. Because of the talent Hold the Line, Parry is actually slightly better than Dodge. Overall it is still best to convert the one you have the most in into mastery, because that will be more affected by diminishing returns.
Block – As mentioned block is something of a trademark skill of warriors (and paladins, but to a lesser extent). Blizzard have put alot of effort into making block a valuable stat for us, but only recently have they come anywhere near making it as useful as stamina or even dodge/parry. The reason is simple. Blocking an attack often meant reducing its damage by some fixed amount, say 3000 damage. Dodging/parrying an attack meant reducing its damage by 100% (since you avoided the attack alltogether). Blocks usually occured more often than dodges/parries to compensate for this fact, but in wotlk raids where bosses often hit for 10k-40k damage, block was just way underpowered for reducing overall damage taken. Warriors have something called Critical Block however, and our mastery is even affected by it, which means you have a chance to double the amount of damage that you block making block a more viable stat for damage reduction than it used to be. This means block is a great stat, but as with dodge and parry, stamina usually turns out to be way more reliable. Block does affect our damage with Shield Slam and as such it can be counted as a threat-stat as well. Blizzard have changed how block works in Cata, so that we block for greater amounts instead of small amounts more often, making it work more like the other avoidance stats.
Hit – Hit will mostly be a stat to increase your threat-output. Since our most important skill, taunt, can't miss anylonger, hit is alot less important than it was back in wrath (same goes for expertise). Focus lies instead on survivability. Because of this you should note that hit and expertise are good stats, but only as long as you feel comfortable in your survivability. For raids you can practically not get enough stamina and avoidance. For heroics however there might actually come a time when you feel like you can survive the content to your satisfaction and might want to work on your threat instead.
Expertise – Is a good threat stat. Having a good amount of expertise also lowers your damage taken since many bosses will reset their swing-timers if your attack is parried/dodged/blocked by them which means they will hit you more often. Exactly how much expertise you should collect depends alot on the rest of your gear. Doing alot of threat is second to being able to survive the content you want to play, just as with hit above. If your expertise is low you will have to hope your group can help you out. Just as with hit, you shouldn't start looking at these threat stats until you feel you've covered your avoidance stats.
Mastery - The current say on Mastery is that it is our second best stat, second only to Stamina. Many tanks right now will convert any avoidance stat on their gear (dodge/parry) to mastery because of this, and this is even more true for hit/expertise stats. I will thanks the guys over at tankspot and Kadomi at Tank Like a Girl for valuable information in this matter!
The best reason to reforge something is to convert a less useful stat into a more useful one. What you want to remove and what you want to gain depends alot on your gear. If you've got alot of hit, but not so much expertise, it could be a good idea to reforge some of your hit into expertise, just as an example of how the system works. This also means that there is no exact way to reforge a gear, if you really want to min-max it you'll have to make small adjustments and see if you notice a difference to the better or worse, using the above priority list as a help. Like mentioned a good way to go is to stack as much mastery as possible by reforging hit/expertise into mastery. Remember that no tank-stat is useless however, so unless you're overcapped in some area or seriously lacking in another, your gear is probably good the way it is until you reach heroics. Once you reach heroics it's a good idea to reforge hit, expertise and dodge primarily into mastery.
We have a choice between Austere and Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond. Since block has become such an important part of our tanking, simulations point towards Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond being slightly better than Austere. The differences are not huge however, so either will work fine!
OptiTaunt: Addon that will notify your raid/party whenever you do something worth notifying. Like using a cooldown, missing a taunt (if that is even possible anylonger), or if your target is immune to taunt. Comes with a variety of settings and works for all tank classes.
TargetCharms: Gives all the raid marks in an easy to access bar, which makes it way easier to mark targets mid-combat than the default dropdown menu.
Tidy Plates - Threat Plates: The module Threat Plates to the name plate addon Tidy Plates gives you a very neat overview on your targets, allowing you to easily identify which targets you've got threat on, low threat on or no threat on among several targets. We all know how handy that can be when fighting 5 mobs. (You need the Tidy Plates addon first to be able to use this of course).
Here are couple of other bloggers who write about warrior tanking that are worth taking a look at if you'd like to know more. If you'd like to have a blog added to the list, give me a shout and I'll check it out.
nice guide; figure out more about mastery though.
Yeah I'll definitely do that, just have to level up my warrior!
Taunt cannot miss anymore, game mechanic has changed.
Source: EJ prot warrior thread.
I reforge all hit and expertise on my gear, running with 1% hit and indeed never missed a taunt so far.
With vengeance sky rocketing our threat on single boss fights the only reason to have expertise and hit equipped would be to interrupt, if no dps is available to do that.
Quite right! I had updated expertise on this matter, but not hit. I kind of update this post a tad here and a bit there just as I come to think of something or read about something, so it's not entirely even yet ^^ Pointers like yours does help me even it out though, but I intend to give it a complete overhaul once I've leveled my warrior to 85. This was written pre-cata as a sort of "get ready for cata tanking" post, and now needs to be rewitten partially.
Yeah some like it, some don't. I belong to those that don't. I currently tank without it and it works just fine. I don't want to use a gcd at start for rend, and I don't want rend to be up in case something has to be emergency ccd. There are some glyphs that remove dots from targets, but most people don't have them. So as long as my tanking works just as well, why should I use Blood & Thunder?
I think that most all tanks that gem stamina now are gimping themselves very hard at the moment. While stamina does give you a massive sponge for damage. I have noticed that tanks that gem straight or mostly gem straight stamina take a lot more damage than a tank that gems for all defensive stats. It does no good to have a big sponge for damage. i gem almost all defensive stats and take almost half the damage my off tank takes in fights, who is gemmed for almost all stamina. that strain makes it much more costly on healers mana and makes compensating for that extra damage taken more difficult. With the current gear that is out stamina and threat in raids is not a major issue, but the amount of damage being taken is.
Yes I agree. Unlike in Wrath where socket bonuses rarely were worth going after and tanks just stuffed themselves with pure stamina, we should consider the combination-gems alot more. Both because the bonuses are better and because like you say, a healthy mix is better now. Overall I always feel like taking a stamina+avoidance gem seems like a good idea if the socket needs it.
I'd agree on all that but 52% block is wtg before heroics then maybe a bit more but also I wouldnt worry about taunt missing if you have vigil on the other tank or a vigil on the tank with adds, so taunt is 99.9% of the time up and if it misses, well his going to get hit its going to reset the cooldown on it bam.
Great guide, but it's worth noting that parry haste was removed from all raid and heroic bosses as of Cataclysm, so expertise is no longer a must for warrior tanks. That being said, I still miss being hit and expertise capped -- it annoys me to see so many attacks miss!


Moral Monday is back for a second year. Whether it has long-term staying power, and whether it will achieve any of its goals, remains to be seen.
Moral Monday has been a fixture in and around the legislative building in Raleigh since the General Assembly convened in 2013. Charges of trespassing, failure to disperse and display of signs in violation of legislative rules were filed against 924 people in 2013. There is little chance any of them will serve jail time.
The protesters were motivated by a number of actions by the General Assembly in 2011-12, including repeal of the Racial Justice Act, abortion restrictions, tax code change, voting law changes and cuts to social programs. Their leader has been the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP.
Asheville had only a single Moral Monday gathering last year, and it was a big one. Organizers expected a crowd of 2,000, but an estimated 10,000 filled Roger McGuire Green in Pack Square Park to hear Barber and others. Another gathering is scheduled for this coming Monday.
The turnout may give a fair indication of whether Moral Monday has staying power. Will it be a force with which politicians must reckon in 2014 and beyond? Or will it be a transient phenomenon relegated to a footnote in the state's history?
Consider the relative fates of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement. The Tea Party shook the Republican Party to its roots in 2010 and 2012, though recent GOP primary results suggest it may be past its prime.
Occupy, by contrast, may have made its supporters feel good, but appears to have accomplished absolutely nothing. According to the movement's champions, this is because local governments dispersed the protesters. Maybe, but there seems to be a more important reason.
The Tea Party flourished because its members had a clear idea of what they wanted – less government – and a clear path to that goal, whereas Occupy had an unfocused distaste for economic inequality. To have staying power, any movement must champion a program that resonates with the public. It's not enough to be against things, you must be for things.
If getting people together is a criterion, Moral Monday has been a success hereabouts. More than 50 sponsors are listed on the Mountain People's Assembly page. They include the YWCA of Asheville, the Mountain Area Interfaith Forum, the Self-Help Credit Union and the Stephens-Lee Alumni Association.
Five NAACP branches have formed in Western North Carolina in the past year, carrying this organization's activism into more rural areas.
A big test for Moral Monday – and for the Tea Party, for that matter – will come at the polls in November. Then we should have an indication of which movements will endure and which will fade.


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Full disclosure: the late start on Listmas and then the long gap between this year's deep diving posts wasn't because of last time's piece. It's because I've dragged my feet for two three months getting to this one.
There are multiple reasons for this. For one, keeping up with the Billboard horserace last year felt sillier than ever. Amidst everything else going on–pandemic updates, racial justice upheaval, CNN alerts when a tenth of a percentage point in an Iowan county might shift, and any personal crises that came along or were exacerbated by all of the above–nothing felt goofier than going, "Huh, I wonder if this is the week 'Levitating' cracks the top ten." And even when you did manage to tear yourself away to the charts, there were times where eyeing the Hot 100 felt emphatically not goofy. Not that you'd know anything was up by listening to "Say So" or "Savage", but in hindsight, the race between the two last spring was a competition between one song with an emerging problematic artist and her post-cancellation producer, and another song whose lead artist was later shot by another artist in the same year. That's the kind of heat 2020 had.
Another thing, too, is that pop music never really figured itself out last year. We had a mix of songs that refused to ever go away (see: "Blinding Lights," "Don't Start Now"), and a bunch of number ones that disappeared on impact; there's a one hit wonder, and then there's a song like the Travis Scott featuring Young Thug and M.I.A. joint "Franchise" that only exists for the next 30 seconds because I just reminded you it ever existed at all. Against those two extremes, 2020 was the year we dove into what TikTok could mean for pop. For instance, this song by the young man with the D-1 point guard haircut is called "Blueberry Faygo." It and a slew of songs like it–chirpy numbers that are more rap than not, but get most of their sauce from a melodic hook and dreamy instrumental flourishes–blew up because of kinda flailing if memorable enough dances on the video app, with "Blueberry Faygo" getting big enough to place at #27 on the year-ender. For the record, that's 40 places above *checks notes* Mariah Carey's 1994 hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You," and infinitely above anything Taylor Swift released, or any singles from an Ariana Grande album cycle.
But the reason I dragged my feet on this list specifically is that I…had trouble getting my bearings on this one. Even though the year involved more headphones than concerts, I could still find true north on my favorite albums and songs for 2020, because the way I engage with Gorillaz or Yves Tumor didn't fundamentally change. The same can't be said for pop music, where so much of the draw is communal; it's kind of hard to assess "The Woo" without hearing it through bar speakers as someone asks "Is that 50 Cent?" or if people at a club would actually go for "Tootsie Slide." I got there eventually, and I stand by this year's offering as much as any I've done, but it was a much longer road here for sure.
And, in the interest of navigating that distance, we're going to do an abbreviated best/worst here. This list follows the same rules as always (had to peak in 2020 [mostly], no repeats from my picks in years past, limited to the year-end Hot 100) with the added rule that "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is automatically DQ'd since the math suggests we're just going to live with it every year now. While this list is less blurb-heavy than I'd usually go, everything would appear here and in the same order as usual. Let's begin with the worst hits and a few dishonorable mentions:
On the bubble:
Drake – "Tootsie Slide"
Luke Combs – "Lovin' On You"
Kane Brown ft. Swae Lee and Khalid – "Be Like That"
Gabby Barrett ft. Charlie Puth – "I Hope"
Dishonorable Mention: 24kGoldn ft. iann dior – "Mood" (#47)
An incessantly annoying song that would have missed the cut entirely if not for the lyric "We play games of love to avoid the depression"
10. Lewis Capaldi – "Before You Go" (#21)
It's just not as deep as it thinks it is, and Capaldi's voice sounds like a tension headache. Weirdly has the opposite problem of "Someone You Loved:" that song tried to sound transcendent over a fairly routine experience, while "Before You Go" feels underthought for its subject matter of a friend's suicide.
9. Maroon 5 – "Memories" (#8)
I almost left "Memories" off the list because, hey, Maroon 5 turning in imitation brand Post Malone is like trying if you squint at it, but the mawkishness and pervasiveness of the crowd noise here is too grating.
8. JP Saxe ft. Julia Michaels – "If the World Was Ending" (#56)
"If the World Was Ending" is an uninteresting song in uninteresting ways–just a soggy, twee ballad whose drama is unearned to the point of being laughable. It's honestly a chore to listen through. Next.
7. Harry Styles – "Watermelon Sugar" (#20)
This song sounds like waiting in line at CVS. It's baffling that someone as generally affable and dynamic as Styles would fire off a single as tremendously repetitive and fucking boring as "Watermelon Sugar."
6. Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani – "Nobody by You" (#52)
How does a real life couple that's been together for years have all the chemistry of two noble gases?
5. Justin Bieber – "Yummy" (#58)
I feel like this would have been a bigger story if pop music occupied more space in the public conscious last year, but Justin Bieber's 2020 output was fucking awful. He's routinely sucked before, but at least he could broken clock his way into a "Sorry" or "Cold Water." Miserable dreck like "Yummy" is awful even before you get to the part were he sings about wanting his wife to make his toes curl.
4. Jack Harlow ft. DaBaby, Tory Lanez, and Lil Wayne – "WHAT'S POPPIN" (#13)
A pair of just fine performances from DaBaby and Lil Wayne are what hold "WHAT'S POPPIN" from climbing even higher on the list thanks to how flatly unlikable Harlow and Lanez are here. Harlow goes word for word bar for bar aping Post Malone's whole thing from "White Iverson" without any of the charm (who the hell thinks a New Balance deal is a flex?) while Lanez confuses a choppy monotone for going hard. Between those two and a dull beat, there's nothing to hold onto here.
3. Justin Bieber ft. Quavo – "Intentions" (#17)
"Intentions" actually sounds better than "Yummy," however:
"Heart full of equity, you're an asset"
"Picture perfect you don't need no filter"
"Shoutout your mom and dad for makin' you"
"Triple threat, you a boss, you a bae, you a beast"
"Don't need a sponsor, nope, you're the brand now"
"You're my rock, my Colorado"
2. Blackbear – "hot girl bummer" (#26)
In the annals of shitty pop, there are songs like "Intentions" that are awful because they're too insipid and clunky to do much else, and then there's your actually noxious stuff like "hot girl bummer." Last time he was here, Blackbear was ripping off "do rei me," and now he's upped the ante by jacking someone else's viral phrase for his own bullshit. Obviously, "hot girl bummer" wasn't recorded during the pandemic, but as a backdrop (the song peaked in the true "other shit is going on, who gives a fuck?" era of late March of last year), it underlines how full of shit Blackbear's boilerplate LA partying lyrics are. "Hot girl bummer" is the sound of "welcome to my twisted mind" if that twisted mind's only two thoughts were "fucking bitches, man" and "i'm so sad." Of course her friends hate you. Everybody hates you. She hates you.
1. Jawsh 685 and Jason "Rumtugtugger" DeRulo – "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat" (#35)
This song shouldn't exist.
Literally, Jason Derulo took this song to release while still working with Jawsh 685 behind the scenes to clear up the rights issue because the spine of "Savage Love," is, like so many Jason DeRulo hits, a wholesale lift of a sample grafted onto absolutely shitbird nothing of a song. The two of them got things worked out, and a BTS remix bumped "Savage Love" to number 1 for a week, but at no point has this ever sounded like a completed song. Instead, "Savage Love" has the worst possible combination of sounding both grating and undercooked: that hook just clubs you over the head, the pre-chorus sticks out like a sore thumb, the bridge is a vocalized mess, and all of it is sloppy enough that you notice these things. And it's not that DeRulo is incapable of decent vocals, but this sounds slapped together. I'm not saying every song big off the Tok is bad (I couldn't find list space for it, but I mentioned "Blueberry Faygo" up top for a reason), but a lead-from-behind cash-in effort to capitalize on TikTok virality like "Savage Love" is a fitting worst hit for 2020.
And now, for a switch-up to the best hits. Here's what I got the most into from last year.
Jhene Aiko – "PU$$Y Fairy (OTW)"
Surfaces – "Sunday Best"
Surf Mesa ft. Emilee – "ily"
Honorable Mention: The Weeknd – "Heartless" (#28)
It technically peaked in 2019, so I couldn't justify putting it any higher on the list, but Metro went lights out on this beat. The stretch from about 0:47 to 1:47 is probably my most listened-to minute of pop for 2020.
10. Billie Eilish – "everything i wanted" (#18)
Another one with a delicately crafted beat, and Eilish's vocals are great. The quieter, more constructed thump of "everything i wanted" feels like a welcome reprieve after WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP…and knowing how much sad girl Spotify-core is out there, I respect the degree of difficulty in making a song like this memorable.
9. BTS – "Dynamite" (#38)
"Dynamite" is just a sturdily constructed pop song that's readily sing-alongable and has time for a key change, and sometimes that's all you really need. As our pop drifts closer to abstraction, wedding jams in the making like "Dynamite" are only going to burn brighter.
8. SAINt JHN ft. Imanbek – "Roses – Imanbek Remix" (#19)
I MISS DANCE CLUBS SO MUCH.
7. Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyonce – "Savage (Remix)" (#15)
The "Savage" remix is the rare remix that only exists to put the original song over the popularity edge that actually improves upon the OG release. Megan crackles with the triumph that comes with getting Beyonce to feature on your track, and Bey herself is no slouch here; I've seen her appearance on the "Savage" remix called her best effort since Lemonade, and I'm inclined to agree. You can't hear the hook without her ab-libs after you've spun this remix.
6. Benee ft. Gus Dapperton – "Supalonely" (#84)
Same sort of argument I made for "Dynamite" applies here, but we're praising a slick bassline and strings instead of a key change. Trust me, there's hours of pastel lo-fi YouTube detritus out there that doesn't do what "Supalonely" does nearly as well or as memorably, the actual groove and bounce here are impeccable.
5. Harry Styles – "Adore You" (#6)
Shouthout Harry Styles for doing the same year worst/best doubleheader. A song that falls a little short of Taylor Swift's "Style" but a head above 5 Seconds of Summer's "Youngblood" in the "sweaty, New Wave-tinged sex jam" hierarchy, "Adore You" feels like a rare "a-ha" moment for Styles, where everything he wants to be connects with what he is.
4. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion – "WAP" (#24)
"WAP" succeeds on a bunch of levels as a high profile rap collab, an execution of clever sampling and speaker-destroying bass, and [extremely music writer trying to sound relevant voice] an empowerment anthem for an underserved base coming from our most necessary voices. It's also just really fuckin' funny. Cardi and Megan talk great rap shit on "WAP" with cartoonishly over the top lines like "Pussy A1, just like his credit" and Megan gleefully rapping about switching her wig so her dude feels like he's cheating. Having a boxing bell punctuate "Never lost a fight but I'm looking for a beating" feels like some shit Ludacris would have done in the early '00s. I love it.
3. Juice WRLD – "Wishing Well" (#92)
"Wishing Well" is absolutely gutting. This ballad from Juice WRLD's posthumous release is impossible to separate from his untimely death and overdose ("Let's be real, if it wasn't for the pills I wouldn't be here/but if I keep taking these pills, I won't be here/I just told y'all my secret/It's tearing me to pieces" hits like a truck), and Juice sells the hell out of every single word. This is one I hadn't heard before putting the list together; it hits me like a truck every time.
2. Lady Gaga ft. Ariana Grande – "Rain On Me" (#48)
I mentioned this when I wrote about Chromatica, but I don't think any pop album got screwed by COVID like this one, because I hear this song and just imagine it soaring in a public setting. The beat is dramatic in all the right ways for a pair of pop theater kids like Gaga and Grande (I mean, look at this), and while the song's message is as old as "I Will Survive," it sounds hard-earned in their hands. Grande tends to be stiff in her collaborations, but her and Gaga have chemistry born from really becoming close during recording, and you can feel that shine through for "Rain On Me." I hope this one makes the rounds once public parties are safer.
1. The Weeknd – "Blinding Lights" (#1)
I could make any number of arguments for "Blinding Lights," so I'm going to make two quick ones. The first is that it reminds me of Billie Eilish's "bad guy" in that it sounds from the first listen like it's a song that should have always existed. The second is that I am writing this 472 days after it came out, and I'm still somehow not sick of this song. It's that good.
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A poached egg is an egg that has been cooked, outside the shell, by poaching (or sometimes steaming), as opposed to simmering or boiling. This method of preparation can yield more delicately cooked eggs than cooking at higher temperatures such as with boiling water.
An egg being slowly poured into a ring mould in a pot of simmering water
The egg is cracked into a cup or bowl of any size, and then gently slid into a pan of water at approximately 75° C (167 °F) and cooked until the egg white has mostly solidified, but the yolk remains soft. The "perfect" poached egg has a runny yolk, with a hardening crust and no raw white remaining. In countries that mandate universal salmonella vaccination for hens, eating eggs with a runny yolk is deemed safe for consumption.[1]
Broken into water at the poaching temperature, the white will cling to the yolk, resulting in cooked egg white and runny yolk.
Any given chicken egg contains some egg white that is prone to dispersing into the poaching liquid and cooking into an undesirable foam. To prevent this, the egg can be strained beforehand to remove the thinner component of the egg white.[2] A small amount of vinegar may also be added to the water, as its acidic qualities accelerate the poaching process.[3] Stirring the water vigorously to create a vortex may also reduce dispersion.[4]
The age of the eggs affects the cooking process. The whites of freshly-laid eggs are less likely to disperse. With less fresh eggs, the whites are more likely to disperse, so acidulating the water will assist in preventing excessive egg white dispersement.
The term "poaching" is often used for this cooking method but it is actually incorrect, as this method is closer to "coddling".
The egg is placed in a cup and suspended over simmering water, using a special pan called an "egg-poacher". This is usually a wide-bottomed pan with an inner lid, with holes containing several circular cups that each hold one egg, and an additional lid over the top. To cook the eggs, the pan is filled with water and brought to a simmer, or a gentle boil. The outer lid holds in the steam, ensuring that the heat surrounds the egg completely. The cups are often buttered so that the cooked eggs may be removed easily.
The resulting steamed eggs are similar to coddled eggs, although steamed eggs are often cooked longer, and hence tend to be firmer in texture. Eggs prepared this way are often served on buttered toast.
Steamed eggs are often made in a home environment in place of poached eggs, as it is easier to obtain consistent results with this alternative method. However, poached eggs remain the preference of professional kitchens as it is easier to cook larger quantities, and no additional equipment or appliance is needed to do so.
Dishes with poached eggs
A runny poached egg on bread, cut in half
Poached eggs are used in the traditional American breakfast dish Eggs Benedict, and similar dishes such as Eggs Florentine and Eggs Mornay.
Eggs Benedict, a dish often served for breakfast or brunch.
Poached eggs are the basis for many dishes in Louisiana Creole cuisine, such as Eggs Sardou, Eggs Portuguese, Eggs Hussarde and Eggs St. Charles. Creole poached egg dishes are typically served for brunches.[5]
A garnished poached egg in broth
Several cuisines include eggs poached in soup or broth and served in the soup. In parts of central Colombia, for instance, a popular breakfast item is eggs poached in a scallion/coriander broth with milk, known as changua or simply caldo de huevo ("egg soup").
The North African dish shakshouka consists of eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce.
In Italy, poached eggs are typically seasoned with grated parmigiano reggiano and butter or olive oil.
In Portugal, poached eggs are known as ovos escalfados and are typically done with boiled peas and chouriço.
In Korean cuisine, poached eggs are known as suran (수란) and are topped with a variety of garnishes such as chili threads, rock tripe threads, and scallion threads.
The Turkish dish çılbır consists of poached eggs, yogurt sauce with garlic and butter with red peppers.
In Bulgaria, poached eggs are served on a bed of yogurt and often sirene, topped with butter and paprika. The dish is called Panagyurishte-style eggs (sometimes "eggs Panagyurian" depending on the translation), and is similar to the Turkish çılbır.
In India, fried eggs are most commonly called "poached". They are sometimes also known as bullseyes, a reference to "bullseye" targets, or "half-boil" in Southern India, indicating that they are partly cooked. These eggs are "poached" in name only and so do not share the same preparation method as poached eggs in other countries.
In Indonesia, poached eggs are a common addition to instant noodle dishes. Eggs are boiled together with the instant noodles, and after cooking, they are mixed with the seasoning from the instant noodle package.
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^ "How to Poach Eggs, the Foolproof Method (Really!)".
^ "everybody likes sandwiches: how to make the perfect poached egg". Retrieved 2009-08-02.
^ "how to poach an egg, smitten kitchen-style". smitten kitchen. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
^ John D. Folse, The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine, Chef John Folse & Company Publishing, December 2004, ISBN 0-9704457-1-7
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Earlier with week, I updated my Google Chrome browser with its newest stable release 26.0.1410.43m; like many others when this release was put in the stable channel on March 26th. This was a pretty normal activity for me and a best practice to keep all of my browsers current.
The only problem was that this version of Chrome broke some of our cascading style sheet (CSS) programming that we use on our home page and all section-home pages!
This is such a common occurrence, we are used to it … but we still don't like it.
It is also telling that it happen to us. We use a well thought-out CSS, programmed using known best practices. Also, we do in-depth cross-browser testing on the most commonly used browsers: Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and Opera Software's Opera, including all of the back versions still in popular usage. Collectively, our test set covers 99% of all of the browser versions currently in use in the marketplace.
We put a lot of code into our CSS to cope with the way different browsers render pages.
In case you are wondering, yes, this too is a best practice. We have a philosophy of letting the user make their own decisions about what browser they wish to use and our site simply works with whatever choices they make. I recommend that all webmasters adopt a similar philosophy.
However, it isn't easy. You have to use best practices in programming and then test the as-planned code in an as-render-with-real-word-browsers environment. Then, you have to continually keep an eye on changes made in new browsers releases.
This case is a textbook example.
I just released a design and technology refresh of the whole TransformingTheChurch.org website: public site and all password-protected facets of our large site; all communities and all courses. This was a major refresh where we also threw away our old CSS and built an entirely new one from scratch. Our old site design was several years old and continuously updated and patched over the years. Occasionally, it is a good idea to start over with a completely new and fresh CSS.
We completed this design and technology refresh on Match 14th.
As a standard operating procedure, our new design was tested in our cross-browser testing suite extensively. I did a lot of the work myself, including the testing with all of the current Chrome versions!
Then, less than two weeks later, a popular browser is updated and …. wham …. we've got a new issue with broken and incorrectly-rendered pages.
What worked well on the previous releases of Chrome now presented a problem in the newest release on one browser. What was still working well in all other browsers only presented a problem with only the newest version of one particular browser.
It took a little bit of time to even notice the problem. Fortunately, we didn't have any trouble reports from users in the field. I also had no reports from any of our staff. I found the problem myself by accident (and that itself was a bit unsettling.) I had also updated my Internet Explorer 10 at the same time as Chrome and was doing some side-by-side comparison just as a quick check. After checking out IE, I popped into Chrome just to use in the comparison with IE. That's when I noticed the problem in the way Chrome rendered our home page.
I then checked all other browsers. Yes, I keep the current versions of all five browsers on my desktop for this purpose.
The problem didn't show up in other browsers and the pages in question continued to be rendered as designed in all past and current versions of other browsers. They also rendered correctly in all past versions of Chrome; only the newest release of Chrome presented a problem.
Once I noticed the problem, I located and fixed the issue in the CSS code in just a couple of minutes. It wasn't a big deal to fix but the impact of the issue produced a big problem on very important pages in our site.
Note that I don't blame Google Chrome. These things happen all of the time on all browsers. It was just Chrome's time to be the cause. The is why we have to continually test … all of the time!
The take-away from this experience is that no webmaster can rest on their laurels for very long without changes beginning to make an impact, sometimes unpleasantly.
Differences in browsers are the bane of any webmaster's existence. It is just part of the realities of our technical life.
About the only thing one can do is occasional mutter through clinched teeth, "Grrr … browsers!" In case you are wondering, it is a pejorative phrase.


The Long Island Association of Professional Geologists (LIAPG) is a not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to the professional and business needs of geologists located in the Long Island / Metro New York area.
Provide a forum for geologists in the Long Island area to address professional, legal, economic, and social aspects of geological practice.
Solicit opinions, professional and financial support, public action, and other measures deemed necessary by LIAPG to foster the interests of geologists and the public, and to provide input to Federal, State, and local government agencies engaged in the regulation of the practice of geology or professional services affecting the geological professions.
Support geologic education in primary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities in LIAPG's coverage area.
Create continuing education opportunities for professional geologists.
Assist geologists in establishing professionally recognized qualifications by supporting professional licensing and certification, professional education and development, and by supporting the standards of professional practice of recognized national and local geologist organizations (including AIPG, NYSCPG, AEG, etc.).
Develop cooperation and communication with national and state geological organizations, supporting mutual goals, joint meetings, professional development, and legislative initiatives.


A common concern for those interested in receiving dental implants is the amount of bone volume within the jaw. A proper amount of bone must be present in order to successfully place a dental implant within the jaw, but it is oftentimes lost due to missing teeth or gum disease. Since the bone will not grow back on its own, we offer effective bone grafting treatments to help patients return to a healthy oral state. Bone grafting is commonly performed in preparation for dental implants or immediately following a tooth extraction. After the bone volume has been restored with bone grafting, our doctors can perform other necessary treatments to restore your mouth.
The most common forms of bone grafting are socket preservation and ridge augmentation. Socket preservation bone grafting is commonly performed immediately following a tooth extraction to fill the now empty socket with bone material. This will prevent bone loss and preserve the area so a dental implant can be placed in the future. Ridge augmentation bone grafting is used when jaw bone volume has been lost due to trauma, disease or deterioration. We will place bone grafting material over the receded location to restore the volume and even out the jaw. This also allows for dental implants to be placed if necessary.
We are skilled in performing advanced sinus lift bone grafting treatments in-office for those who are interested in replacing missing teeth in the back upper molar region with dental implants. When teeth have been lost in this region, the bone is often very thin due to the sinus cavity that resides above, and implants do not have the required amount of bone to be held in place successfully. With a sinus lift bone grafting procedure, our experienced doctors can gently access the cavity to raise the sinus membrane and pack the area with bone graft material. Sinus lifts require experience, precision and care to not harm the sinus membrane and restore adequate bone. After the sinus lift graft heals, you can restore the jaw with dental implants successfully.
When you choose Gloucester Dental, you will benefit from our experienced doctors and board certified oral maxillofacial surgeon team during your bone grafting treatment. We are a multi-disciplinary practice that offers comprehensive dental care under one roof. We care about our patients and our community, treating everyone just how we would want to be treated ourselves. To help our patients get the bone grafting dental care they need, we offer sedation options for pain-free, relaxed care. After bone grafting treatment and dental implants, patients often enjoy a significant improvement in their quality of life with their newly restored smile.
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In this state-of-the-art quantum-chemical investigation we report structures, thermochemical stabilities, Born-Fajans-Haber cycles as well as vibrational data of heterodimeric and homodimeric radical cations of the series [F2O₂]⁺, [F₂Cl₂]⁺, [Cl₂O₂]⁺, [F₄]⁺, and [Cl₄]⁺. The so far experimentally unknown species [F₄]⁺, [F₂O₂]⁺ and [F₂Cl₂]⁺ are predicted to be thermochemically stable and could be possible targets for gas-phase or matrix-isolation experiments. Furthermore, their stabilities as homodimeric [X₄]⁺ or heterodimeric [X₂Y₂]⁺ radical cation salts in the solid state have been estimated by Born-Fajans-Haber cycles.


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The beautiful art in our game was created from inception to production by a talented group of art students from San Jose State University, including Sabrina Salazar, Evan Stanley, Mimi Nguyen, and Kevin Si. Last but not least, our music and sound effects were done by the talented Nate Palermo and Dmitry Akhchin.
We've also had help from a lot of other artists from SJSU as well as music schools and from other countries!
A great and special thanks to all the other people who have helped and supported us in this process, especially our program professors Michael John and Erin Robinson-Swink.


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La Borda d'Anselles és una borda del terme municipal de Tremp, a l'antic terme ribagorçà d'Espluga de Serra, al Pallars Jussà. És al nord de l'enclavament d'Enrens i Trepadús, al nord-est d'on hi ha les restes del Castell d'Enrens i al nord de la Borda de Ferrer.

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Today's photo is of me. Recently, as our things were being packed up, I came across an old photo of myself. A photo that I could easily date to spring/summer of 2004. Things were simpler then. I was happy, had a good job and was just enjoying life and being young. When I saw that photo I noticed more than just how skinny I was. I saw into the eyes of a past me that was full of life. It's hard to believe that I was just barely into my 20's...that almost 10 years have passed. Life is harder now, but I am so glad that 20 year old me didn't know what was to come. Because if she did, I wouldn't have these wonderful pictures and memories to look back on.


This embroidery kit is based on charming hand illustrations by North Carolina-based artist Liz Stiglets of cozyblue. Her popular designs are inspired by home, family, nature, and life's simple wonders. This charming lady with swirls of hair pulled into a bun, makes a lovely pair with her nautical husband, the Sea Captain.


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Dell posts lower 4Q profit, sales climb but miss expectations
Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit dropped 6.4 percent and fell short of Wall Street expectations, and the personal computer maker cautioned that more cautious spending by customers and higher costs could hurt its business.
The Round Rock, Texas-based company said it earned $679 million, or 31 cents per share in the quarter ended Feb. 1, down from $726 million, or 32 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had predicted a profit of 36 cents per share.
Sales at the world's No. 2 PC maker jumped 10.5 percent to $15.99 billion, but that was below the $16.27 billion that analysts had expected.
Dell shares rose 10 cents, to $20.87, before the report was released. In extended trading, they were down 87 cents, or 4 percent.
Chief Financial Officer Donald Carty said in an interview that the company had restored growth in key areas, including notebook computers and emerging markets. But he acknowledged that Dell "saw a little slowing down" in its big U.S. accounts, particularly financial-services customers.
Dell built its business by selling computers directly to companies and consumers, but has recently started selling through retailers including Best Buy Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Staples Inc.
Carty said Dell gained share in the consumer market even though some deals, such as Best Buy, occurred too late to add much to fourth-quarter sales. He said the benefits would be more obvious in the current quarter, which ends in April.
Dell sells desktop and notebook computers in more than 10,000 stores. Hewlett-Packard Co., which eclipsed Dell to become the world's largest PC maker in 2006, sells in 80,000 stores.
Dell is also trying to lure consumers by adding colors such as flamingo pink to its laptop lineup. Founder Michael Dell, who returned as CEO in January 2007 after the company's growth slowed, has said that as innovation slows in PCs, style grows more important to consumers.
Dell announced this month that it would cut 1,200 jobs, mostly at a call center in Canada. Carty said the company would continue to cut costs, with a goal of eventually cutting annual spending by $3 billion to $4 billion.
Dell stock slumped late last year, falling nearly 35 percent during the fourth quarter. Its shares have moved down over the past three years, while Hewlett-Packard's have gained.
For the fiscal year that just ended, Dell earned $2.95 billion, up $2.58 billion from the year before. Revenue rose 6.5 percent, to $61.13 billion.


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029-2012 Low - Class II Produced Without Benefit of Inspection
Thu, 05/17/2012 - Tue, 05/28/2013
Texas Firm Recalls Beef Samosa Products Due To Lack of Federal Inspection
Editor's Note: (May 17, 2012): This Recall Notification Report was issued May 16, 2012. On May 17, 2012, FSIS determined a change in status from a Class III to a Class II recall was warranted because a meat ingredient did not receive federal inspection. Although no new products were included, FSIS issued a news release on May 17, 2012, to reflect this change.
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 - Raj Foods LLC., a Houston, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 3,300 pounds of Halal beef samosa products because a meat ingredient used in the product may have been produced in a facility that is not federally inspected, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. These products were previously recalled in an FSIS Recall Notification Report. Today's recall reflects a determination by FSIS that a change in status from a Class III to a Class II recall was warranted because a meat ingredient did not receive federal inspection. No new products are included in today's action.
The following products are subject to recall:
12-oz. bags of "Raj Foods Halal Beef Samosa(s)," containing 12, 1-oz. beef samosas per bag
The product subject to recall bears the establishment number "EST. 44163" inside the USDA mark of inspection. This product was produced between Aug. 9, 2011, and April 23, 2012, and was sold to supermarkets and restaurants in Texas.
The problem was discovered by FSIS during a routine food safety assessment. FSIS has received no reports of illness due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks (including at restaurants) to verify that recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and to ensure that steps are taken to ensure that the product is no longer available to consumers.
Consumers and reporters seeking more information about this recall should contact Ammar Abuwala, a company representative, at (832) 593-7272.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. "Ask Karen" live chat services are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day