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WASHINGTON — A tearful President Barack Obama said Friday he grieved first as a father about the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, declaring, "Our hearts are broken today." He called for "meaningful action" to prevent such shootings but did not say what it should be.
"The majority of those who died were children — beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old," Obama said.
At that point he had to pause for several seconds to keep his composure, and he wiped his eyes.
The scene in the White House briefing room was one of the most emotional moments of Obama's presidency. Near him, two senior aides cried and held hands as they listened to the president.
Twenty-seven people, including 20 children, were killed when a gunman opened fire inside the school. The shooter blasted his way through the building as young students cowered helplessly. The dead included the shooter.
The story jolted parents and other people across the nation, and the White House was no different.
Obama began his comments with no greeting. He ended them with words of Scripture, walking away in silence.
He recited the future milestones lost and had to pause again to gather his words.
"They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own," the president said of those who were killed.
He ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff on public grounds through Tuesday. The White House also canceled a trip Obama was planning to take Wednesday to Portland, Maine.
As the president received briefings about the shooting, his spokesman, Jay Carney, responded to questions about gun control and Obama's campaign promises on the matter by saying "I don't think today is that day" for such a discussion.
The president signaled a desire for action, but he wasn't specific.
"As a country, we have been through this too many times," Obama said. "We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."
During Obama's time in office, mass shootings have shaken communities in Wisconsin, Texas and Colorado.
The latest attack comes less than two weeks before Christmas. It appeared to be the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the 33 deaths of the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
Obama spoke from the "James S. Brady Press Briefing Room," named in 2000 in honor of the former White House press secretary, James Brady, who was shot and disabled in the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981. Brady and his wife, Sarah, have become activists for gun control.
The president and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters.
"Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter," he said. "But there are families in Connecticut who cannot do that tonight, and they need all us of right now."
The president pledged support to Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Said Obama: "He will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime."


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Last night, I curled up in bed with my little girl. She lay her head against my arm and gripped my fingers with her tiny hand and whispered, I want you to stay here, Mommy.
Yes, I said. I want you to stay here, too.
And then I rested my cheek against the crown of her head and closed my eyes and inhaled the sweet, soapy smell of baby shampoo, felt the silk of her hair, heard the whisper of her breath and I thought, I want you to stay here, like this, always, curled against me, warm, safe. And I thought, I want you to stay here, like this, for years and years to come, until the days when you and I no longer fit together in this wee bed, when you are grown and I am old and your arms are the stronger. When we will still find comfort in each other. When you will still be my baby, only grown.
I thought these things, and I looked up at the clock atop her dresser and watched as the minute hand took one deliberate click forward. I looked up at the clock and I wondered, how would it feel if I were counting these minutes? These hours? These days?
It is not possible to hold a child too close, or for too long.
A family lost a child this week. Maybe it was the famous family, the one that we are all reading about it and talking about. Or perhaps it was another family, a family unknown to us, a family in Burma or Kinshasa or the Gaza Strip or Oshawa, Ontario or Saguenay, Quebec. Perhaps it was many families; perhaps it was many children. We lose count; we stop paying attention. We stop paying attention, unless the child is lost to someone that we know, someone that we know of. Then we remember. Every hour of every day, somewhere, someone suffers what we fear most. What I fear most.
My family is losing a child. Our loss is not sudden; it will not be unexpected. It's a slow loss, but an inevitable loss; the hands of the clock tick forward slowly, deliberately, inexorably. We count on those hands ticking slowly; we measure their movements carefully, reassuring ourselves that the pace holds steady, that there is no leap forward, that this particular clock never advances an unnecessary hour, that our days hold ample daylight. It's a slow loss, but an inevitable one.
We are better off, of course, for the trickling pace of this loss. We have many days, many hours, with this child. Not near as many as we would like, but still: we have time to spend and cherish, time to postpone our goodbyes and to pretend that their place on the horizon will hold its distance. My sister can wrap her body around Tanner's and feel the beat of his heart and the warmth of his breath; she can brush her hand across his forehead and whisper in his ear and assert her love for him in the now and know, as surely as his hand tightens around hers, that he hears her, that he knows. But the clock ticks over her head – over his – and she counts these hours, these minutes, these seconds. Every movement of the minute-hand is a movement lost, a moment lost, one minute less in a cherished life that is measured by the clock.
My mother called on Christmas Eve, a thick edge to her voice, the edge of a third glass of wine, the edge of regret seeking reassurance. I miss you so much, she said. I miss Emilia, and Jasper. I'll bet Emilia's so excited for Santa. She laughed, uncertainly. I wish we could be together. I wish I could be there, I would move there in a heartbeat, but I can't be there, because I need to be here, with Tanner. A pause. He's really gone downhill. He's declining really quickly. He's not going to last more than another few years, maybe. Another pause; the clink of a glass. After he's gone…
– I know.
After he's gone…
– I know.
After Tanner is gone, time will stop, and then it will start again, without him. I don't like thinking about this. I was upset with my mother for reminding me of this on a night that I wanted to spend in thrall to the optimism of Christmas – fear not, for behold: I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people – and to the sweet prospect of waking up to tiny pajamaed children filled with glee. I wanted my own now, free of sadness, free of the prospect of death, free of fear of that black hole of timelessness opening up and swallowing us all. I wanted to not walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I resented my mother for pulling me alongside her in her stroll. And that was wrong.
It was wrong because I am so, so fortunate to be able live my life with my own children, free of the clock, free of the incessant clang of the tolling bell, free of the the hourglass, the blind sands – free, at least, in my ignorance of, my deafness to, the tick, the clang, the passage of the sands that mark the time that passes for each of us. It was wrong because I am so fortunate, and I need to remain mindful of, and grateful for, that fortune. I can hold my daughter or my son and not think, here passes one more moment, here we move one step closer to death, here is one less embrace that we will share. I have a life with them, a now with them, that is free of visible shadows. I am blessed. And I am insufficiently appreciative of this blessing.
I pay little mind to the time that passes with my own children, apart from vague reflections upon the pace of their growth and the fleeting beauty of their babyhood. I mark Tanner's time, I count it on my fingers and toes, I spend hours, awake at night, calculating how many more visits we have, how we shall spend those visits, how best we might use our time, how we might take time and wrest timelessness from it, in the form of memory. But I forget to mark the rest of time; I forget that I do not have infinite stores of time to spend with my children; I forget that the bell tolls as much for us as it does for Tanner, the only difference being that we do not know when its tolling will stop.
I do not pause often enough; I do not often enough stop and hold my children, just for the sake of holding on. I do not take as much time as I should to just hold them and listen to their hearts beat and feel their breath upon my cheek and their hands warm within my own and hear the tick of the clock – feel the tick of the clock – and be grateful for every. single. second. In ignoring time, I am doomed to lose it. I need to take time, take measure of time, give thanks for time, for whatever stocks of time that I am blessed to have. With Tanner, with Jasper, with Emilia, with all whom I love and with whom I wish to have more time, always more time.
Hug your children today; hug them, and let time stop, and then, when it starts again? Thank the heavens for it.
My sister, Chrissie, will be running, this weekend, in a marathon to raise money for Duchenne's research. There's no cure for Duchenne's, but there's always hope, and Chrissie is running, as always, for this hope. With my words, I can cheer her on, and I can ask others to cheer, and to help by cheering and to cheer by helping.
You can donate in Tanner's name HERE. It probably won't change the ending to this story, but it will help the narrative maintain a recurring theme of hope. And that, right now, is all.


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Joel Garreau and Shankar Vedantam have a nice article, "Dealing with Scary Mr. Market," in Tuesday's Washington Post about the human tendency to see human tendencies in non-humans. The inclination to anthropomorphize is, in our view, better understood as another example of the inclination to dispositionalize — a misleading bias even when directed at the human animal.
Here are some excerpts from the article.
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A rough beast prowled yesterday. If you read the business press, the market woke up with "jitters" after playing "a game of chicken." It wound up suffering from "dizziness," recoiling from a "campfire" possibly turning into a "forest fire," or a destructive "tsunami."
The market has a personality? Intentionality? A psychology? It can save us with transcendent behavior or ruin us like a demon?
What's up with the way we anthropomorphize markets — the way we tell stories about them as if they are creatures with minds of their own?
"We do it for everything. We see clouds in skies and we can't help but see patterns," says Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke and the author of "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions."
"We did a study in which we had random shapes on a computer screen bouncing around. Within two minutes, people had stories. The circle was evil and was chasing the little triangle, eating him up. Some other shape was protecting him. It's incredibly natural for us to do it," Ariely says. "We want to see causality. We want to understand the world. We want to see order. If things are just random, it's not comfortable. We find patterns when there are no patterns. We're really, really good at this. It's important to our psychological well-being. If we thought we had no control and no understanding of what's happening, it would be very tough."
Making amorphous forces into characters we can grapple with has a long history. The Greeks made the idea of wisdom into the goddess Athena. To this day, we name our storms: Hanna, Ike.
Our markets, in turn, have invisible hands, bulls and bears, even "animal spirits," as John Maynard Keynes in 1936 called the optimism or pessimism that can drive economics.
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The greater the unpredictability of a system, the more likely people are to ascribe volitional qualities to it, says Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago.
Rocks or billiard balls don't move unpredictably. But if a billiard ball were suddenly to move on its own, we no longer would have an explanation for what we are seeing and would ascribe intentionality to the ball.
Epley has also found that people are more likely to anthropomorphize when they are feeling lonely. It is as though seeing humanlike qualities in inanimate objects and systems can give us a sense of social connection.
"In the same way being deprived of food makes you hungry, and eating makes you feel better, so, too, when you are deprived of predictability and social connection, anthropomorphism can be satisfying," Epley says.
"The most impressive aspects of the human brain involve making sense of our social environment," says George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon. "It's natural when we confront the inherently incomprehensible. We often talk about countries as if they are individuals.
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In an unusual set of experiments published earlier this year in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Columbia University business school professor Michael Morris showed that up markets are more likely to be given human characteristics than crashes.
We have the Dow "fall like a brick" but "climb to a new high." You see the financial markets "drop off a cliff" — an inanimate object moving as a result of gravity — but "recovering lost ground."
"There is a lot of evidence that our brains categorize something as animate or alive to the extent it moves in ways that a physical object can't," Morris says. "One cue that something is alive is if it moves uphill. Rocks never roll uphill. If you see something rolling uphill, you make an ontological judgment that the thing is alive."
Morris found that anthropomorphizing markets has serious risks. Volunteers who heard market movements described in human terms were more likely than those given inanimate descriptions to believe that market trends were likely to continue.
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To read the entire article, click here. For a related Situationist post, see "Seeing Faces." Situationist contributors, Jon Hanson and Michael McCann argue in their forthcoming article "Situationist Torts" (downloadable here) that the tendency to dispositionalize situational characters distorts our understandings of everything from people to law and from legal theory to legal pedagogy.


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Officers in Freeland arrested 35-year-old Anthony Lescowitch on Monday night, less than two hours after he shared a wanted photo of himself and taunted police for not being able to find him, the (Wilkes-Barre) Times Leader reported Tuesday.
Lescowitch shared the wanted bulletin minutes after Freeland police posted it on the department Facebook page Monday night, authorities said. He was being sought on assault-related charges.
An officer pretending to be an attractive woman then messaged Lescowitch, according to police. Lescowitch refused the offer of a drink but eventually agreed to meet for a cigarette, and was arrested at the agreed-upon location.
After the arrest, police posted this message: "CAPTURED!!!!!! SHARES OUR STATUS ON FACEBOOK ABOUT HIMSELF, CAPTURED 45 MINUTES LATER."
Lescowitch, of Drifton, remained in the Luzerne County Jail Tuesday. Court records don't list a defense attorney for him, but show he faces a preliminary hearing Jan. 29 on charges including aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident July 14.
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This morning, Steven over at the Fire Jim Bowden blog posted his ideas for improving the fan experience at Nationals Park. Some of the ideas may not be practical, but I hope Stan Kasten takes it seriously. Some of the no-brainers include allowing fans to watch batting practice, and calling off the security guards when a fan throws back an opposing team's home run. And yes, I'd like to know what happened to that planned big baseball over the red loft.
Possibly the best and biggest no-brainer of an idea is opening up the gates after the 11th inning and during the Saturday night movies. You'd be giving something away for free without cannibalizing revenues, boost concession sales, and specifically give back and build relationships with the community immediately surrounding Nationals Park. Check it out.


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After our fun with modeling the pâte à sel we decided to make holiday decorations for our tree. We have a tiny little "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" that I picked up near the garbage bin just before Christmas when I was pregnant for Guppy. The little tree was in its cardboard box, and it looked as if it had been opened maybe once. I figured it was too good to be true, but the tree was inside, and in perfect condition (albeit tiny). I don't think it's a good idea to buy a plastic/synthetic tree, but a freebie on the side of the road, destined for a landfill, well, I call it a "rescue"!
Every holiday we've spent together married we've acquired a decoration here or there. Then, last year I decided that we should be making new decorations each year, a bit like making a memory of each holiday. This was my "crafty awakening", and the first time I had the desire to make something with meaning for myself or my family. Hannah had some cute cupcake ornaments she'd made and I decided to make some, too. Six polyester felt cupcakes later, I started feeling like I was maybe enjoying this crafty thing.
This year we opted to make salt dough ornaments, and we were sure to make enough to give as gifts as well. Perhaps a bit vieux jeu or old fashioned for some of you hip kids out there, but we had a wonderful afternoon painting together. I know I'll enjoy comparing Guppy's painting skills – and interest in different shapes and mediums – from year to year. (Note the dino, made with the cutter from Libby – thanks again Libby!).
You could do so much to decorate these – gluing glitter or sequence would be great fun I think. We used some old (and a bit skanky) finger paints (though we used brushes) and once they were dry I have them a coat of mod podge. The paint got all crinkly and antique looking which I really liked.
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Cut your decorations using cookie cutters or whatever you like, then lay them on baking sheets and in the oven they go for around 40 minutes or until they're hard, at about 100°c.
In more crafty W.I.P. endeavours, I made a few more stockings as gifts for my brother-in-law and his wife. We're spending Christmas and New Year's with them at their home near Toulouse. They are muy groovy, and I wanted to make them something special.
The fun part of this project is that my sis-in-law gave me the beautiful Christmas plaid tissue last February when we came for a little visit. I didn't yet have a sewing machine, but I told her that I was doing some hand sewing and I was hoping to score a machine in the near future. She gave me a few odds and ends from her stash, and I love that I was able to make her a gift using what she gave me. How "full circle" and all that. And they're not at all wrinkly from our 6-hour car ride…
I'm wishing you all a most fabulous 2009! I hope you're able to spend some wonderful moments with the people you love and make some beautiful memories of your own. I'll see you next year!


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My third post for Western District Families was in April last year for the 2011 ANZAC Day Blog Challenge. My contribution was the story of Arthur Leonard Holmes of Casterton, gassed in France in 1918.
Recently, while researching the Holmes family at Trove for another reason, I found a couple more items about "Lennie" and his sad death. I have since updated his post.
Well, it is April again and with ANZAC Day drawing closer it is time to start thinking about the 2012 ANZAC Day Blog Challenge.
Created by the Auckland City Libraries, the Anzac Day Blog Challenge gives us a chance to share stories of our family members who served during wartime and remember their contribution to our life in both Australia and New Zealand today.
The criteria, from the Auckland City Libraries website, is as follows:
Do you have a story to share about an ANZAC? We'd like to hear about not only their sacrifice, but the way it shaped their family history. Maybe you want to blog from the perspective of those that were left behind?
To participate:
- Write a blog post about an Australian or New Zealander serviceman or woman's family, and the impact war had on their family history
- Post a comment with the URL to your blog on the comments section of this page. Or if you don't have a blog then email us your story at firstname.lastname@example.com
- Publish your post by 25 April 2012.
After ANZAC Day, all submissions will be listed in a summary posting on Auckland Libraries' Kintalk blog.
Time to get started, but who am I going to write about??
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April 12, 2008 at 6:11 am
Here is a very strange thing!
Human face immortalized in Cretaceous flint.
May 26, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I have one thing to say…am I the only one who see's THE STATUE OF LIBERTY"S HEAD forming there? I mean really, have there been any ufo sightings in New York? Plenty of odd shaped myterious land marks turning up in corn fields and such right here on earth..so why couldn't a ufo with martians inside, create a land mark on mars that illistrates the statue of liberty. Even more confusing…the more I look the more I see the face of jesus with the thorned crown. If there ever was life on mars who is to say that they didn't have beliefs and why would they be so far from our own. The egyptians were able to build a pyramid and even one that looks like man…so why not a martian? I know, I know sounds so far out there…but isn't it? Anything is possible at this rate…Blackholes swallowing up whole galaxies the size of our own…it has happened….so how far fetched is it to think that face is a culmintaion of something way bigger than what we know.
May 26, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Sorry, I was referring to the new picture of the face sent to earth from mars.
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Mists of Pandaria Pre-Raid Gear List For Mages
Continuing a Manalicious tradition, I present to you the following: A list of gear to get your mage (or other cloth-wearing caster) ready for raiding! The conventions of the list are described in the following paragraphs.
I haven't listed any gear from normal dungeons because normal and heroic dungeon gear has the same name and is just a lesser version of heroic gear. This is a ready for raiding list, so of course you'd prefer to have the heroic version. Use common sense; where normal dungeon gear is an upgrade for you, equip it!
In the past, I've included one quest item per slot just in case you really had trouble finding gear; unfortunately the database at Wowhead hasn't had time to catch up with all that info yet. So there were many pieces of gear as I was searching that look like good gear, but I have no idea where it comes from. It could be a quest, it could be tailoring, I don't know. I included quest rewards for the first few slots but eventually gave up. I assume everyone will quest their way to 90 to some extent, keep your eyes peeled for obvious quest rewards. You will likely replace them with gear from this list in any case.
This is not an absolutely comprehensive list although I've tried to make it as complete as possible. I still don't know exactly what's crafted from Tailoring or where there might be some juicy quest items. I have not included any PvP gear and this list is specifically for PvE purposes. The newest addition to gearing options is the Raid Finder, and Raid Finder items are listed under their own header. You still have to technically get a high enough ilevel to do Raid Finder, though – are you getting ready for pre-raiding raiding? Anyway, this is not a Best in Slot list, this is a list aimed at helping you to zero in on the best upgrades for your character from reputation, crafting, heroic dungeons and eventually RF. You can ignore the RF upgrades if you don't intend to do it. I wouldn't call it a reliable method of obtaining loot in any case because your odds of getting actual gear from it are pretty slim, at least in the Raid Finder's current incarnation.
One major change worth noting to the gearing process is that items formerly purchased with Valor or Justice Points now also require reputation in Mists. So the heading "VP/JP" items also includes a reputation along with each item. The VP cost of items was available for some things on Wowhead, for the vast majority it was not, and so I used current conventions for items of that type. (i.e. a cloak is 1250, hands are 1650, pants/chest are 2200, and so on). These may be inaccurate but hopefully they are close. Blues are purchased with JP and epic purples with VP, as is expected.
Gear is organized first by slot. Each item has a Wowhead link, followed by the location or source (if known), and then the secondary stats. Int is assumed, none of the items have spirit (a pox on your spirit) and all weapons have spellpower etc. Items are coloured with their respective rarity; only blues and purples are listed. Trinkets have a brief description of their effect or use. This time around I've added a nifty Table of Contents so you can click any link to go straight to a particular section of interest! It's beyond the scope of this list to provide appropriate enchants for each slot, I may do a post about gems/enchants a bit later on.
Table of Contents
Two-Hand Weapon
One-Hand Weapon
Disclaimer: As I said above, I've endeavored to be as comprehensive as possible with this list but inevitably there may be items I've missed or that were added after the fact. This information is compiled for my personal use, and I share it with you so that you have an easy reference, but it's not my fault if you buy pants when you should've bought a helm!
Mistborne Hood – The Sha of Hatred, Townlong Steppes (Haste/Mastery)
Hood of Alchemical Vapors – BoE Zone Drop Vale of Eternal Blossoms (Haste/Mastery/Meta Socket)
Dungeon Drop
Barovian Ritual Hood – Jandice Barov, Scholomance (Hit/Mastery/Meta Socket)
Whitemane's Embroidered Chapeau – Scarlet Monastery (Crit/Haste/Meta Socket)
Breezeswept Hood – Wing Leader Ner'onok, H Siege of Niuzao Temple (Haste/Mastery/Meta Socket)
Raid Finder
Hood of the Burning Scroll – Mogu'shan Vaults (Crit/Mastery/Tier Set)
Xaril's Hood of Intoxicating Vapors – Garalon, Heart of Fear (Haste/Mastery/Meta Socket)
Burning Necklace of the Golden Lotus, The Final Power, Vale of Eternal Blossoms – (Hit/Crit)
Dorian's Necklace of Burgeoning Dreams – BoE (Haste/Mastery)
Skymage Circle – Jewelcrafting (Haste/Mastery)
Wire of the Wakener – The Klaxxi, Revered, 1250 VP (Hit/Mastery)
Necklace of Jade Pearls – Golden Lotus, Honored, 1250 JP (Hit/Crit)
Dungeon Drop
Mindbreaker Pendant – Sha of Doubt, Temple of the Jade Serpent (Crit/Haste)
Temperature-Sensing Necklace – Flameweaver Koegler, Scarlet Monastery (Crit/Mastery)
Anarchist's Pendant – Instructor Chillheart, Scholomance (Hit/Mastery)
Raid Finder
Worldwaker Cachobon – Will of the Emperor, Mogu'Shan Vaults (Crit/Haste)
Amulet of Seven Curses – Feng The Accursed, Mogu'Shan Vaults (Hit/Crit)
Dreadspinner Amice – On The Crab, Dread Wastes (Crit/Mastery)
Mantle of the Golden Sun – Golden Crane, Revered, 1750 VP (Hit/Crit)
Dungeon Drop
Whisperwind Spaulders – Wingleader Ner'onok, Siege of Niuzao Temple (Haste/Mastery)
Forgotten Bloodmage Mantle – Thal'nos the Soulrender, H Scarlet Monastery (Crit/Mastery)
Shoulders of Engulfing Winds – Raigonn, Scarlet Monastery (Crit/Haste)
Raid Finder
Mantle of the Burning Scroll – Raid Finder Bosses (Hit/Mastery/Tier Bonus)
Shadowsummoner Spaulders – Raid Finder Bosses (Crit/Haste)
Cloak of Snow Blossoms – Shado-Pan, Revered, 1250 VP (Hit/Mastery)
Cloak of Ancient Curses – August Celestials, Honored, 1250 JP (Hit/Haste)
Dungeon Drop
Cloak of Cleansing Flame – Gekkan, Mogu'shan Palace (Crit/Mastery)
Raid Finder
Mindshard Drape – (Crit/Mastery)
Cloak of Overwhelming Corruption – (Haste/Mastery)
Stormwake Mistcloak – (Hit/Crit)
Spelltwister's Grand Robe – Tailoring (Haste/Mastery)
Darkened Robe – BoE (Hit/Mastery)
Vestments of Thundering Skies – Golden Lotus, 2250 VP – Revered (Hit/Haste)
Robe of Eternal Dynasty – Shado-Pan, Honored – 2250 JP (Hit/Mastery)
Robe of Quiet Meditation – Shado-Pan, Honored – 2250 JP (Haste/Mastery)
Dungeon Drop
Robes of Koegler – Scarlet Halls (Hit/Crit, Yellow Socket)
Burning Robes of the Golden Lotus – Unknown, (Hit/Haste)
Robes of Fevered Dreams – Shado-Pan Monastery (Crit/Haste)
Raid Finder
Imperial Ghostbinder's Robes – Mogu'shan Vaults (Crit/Mastery)
Robes of the Unknown Fear – Terrace of Endless Spring (Hit/Mastery)
Robes of the Burning Scroll (Tier) – Raid Finder Bosses (Crit/Haste)
Minh's Beaten Bracers – Shado-Pan, Revered, 1250 VP (Hit/Mastery)
Tranquility Bindings – Golden Lotus, Honored, 1250 JP (Crit/Haste)
Dungeon Drop
Bracers of Displaced Air – Ook-Ook, Stormstout Brewery (Haste/Mastery)
Deadwalker Bracers – Rattlegore, Scholomance (Hit/Crit)
Raid Finder
Attenuating Bracers – Imperial Vizier Zor'lok, Heart of Fear (Haste/Mastery)
Twisting Wind Bracers – Blade Lord Tay'ak, Heart of Fear (Hit/Haste)
Shining Cicada Bracers – Unknown (Hit/Crit)
Gleaming Moth Cuffs – Unknown (Crit/Haste)
Spelltwister's Gloves – Tailoring (Hit/Mastery)
Sunspeaker's Flared Gloves – The August Celestials, Revered, 1650 VP (Hit/Crit)
Krompf's Fine-Tuning Gloves – The Klaxxi, Honored, 1650 JP (Hit/Haste)
Dungeon Drop
Conflagrating Gloves – Trial of the King, Mogu'shan Palace (Hit/Haste)
Bomber's Precision Gloves – Striker Ga'Dok, Gate of the Setting Sun (Crit/Haste)
Gloves of Enraged Slaughter – Sha of Violence, Shado-Pan Monastery (Haste/Mastery)
Raid Finder
Gloves of the Burning Scroll (Tier) – (Hit/Haste)
Claws of Amethyst – Zone Drop, Mogu'shan Vaults (Crit/Mastery)
Undying Shadow Grips – The Spirit Kings, Mogu'shan Vaults (Haste/Mastery)
Klaxxi Lash of the Orator – The Klaxxi, Revered, 1650 VP (Hit/Crit)
Dungeon Drop
Girdle of Endemic Anger – Lorewalker Stonestep, Temple of the Jade Serpent (Hit/Crit)
Incineration Belt – Darkmaster Gandling, Scholomance (Hit/Mastery)
Raid Finder
Ruby-Linked Girdle – Mogu'shan Vaults (Hit/Mastery)
Orbital Belt – Elegon, Mogu'shan Vaults (Haste/Mastery)
Sorcerer's Belt of Final Winter – Terrace of Endless Spring (Crit/Haste)
Invoker's Belt of Final Winter – Terrace of Endless Spring (Hit/Mastery)
Belt of Malleable Amber – Heart of Fear (Hit/Haste)
Courinth Water-Strider's Silken Finery – BoE drop from Courinth Waterstrider, Krasarang Wilds rare (Hit/Crit)
Leggings of the Poisoned Soul – The Klaxxi, Revered, 2200 VP (Hit/Crit)
Leggings of Unfinished Conquest – The August Celestials, Honored, 2200 JP – (Hit/Crit)
Dungeon Drop
Leggings of Unleashed Anguish – Lilian Voss, Scholomance (Crit/Haste)
Leggings of the Frenzy – Commander Ri'mok, Gate of the Setting Sun (Haste/Mastery)
Raid Finder
Leggings of Shadow Infestation – Heart of Fear (Crit/Mastery)
Leggings of the Burning Scroll (Tier) – Terrace of Endless Spring (Haste/Mastery)
Dreadwoven Leggings of Failure – Terrace of Endless Spring (Hit/Haste)
Void Flame Slippers – The August Celestials, Revered, 1650 JP (Hit/Crit)
Dungeon Drop
Scarlet Sandals – Armsmaster Harlan, Scarlet Halls (Hit/Crit)
Soulbinder Treads – Xin the Weaponmaster, Mogu'shan Palace (Crit/Haste)
Raid Finder
Sandals of the Unbidden – Garalon, Heart of Fear (Hit/Mastery)
Sandals of the Blackest Night – Tsulong, Terrace of Endless Spring (Haste/Mastery)
Lionsfall Ring – Jewelcrafting (Hit/Crit)
Simple Harmonius Ring – 1250 VP, Golden Lotus – Revered (Hit/Haste)
Dungeon Drop
Alemental Seal – Yan-Zhu the Uncasked, Stormstout Brewery (Crit/Haste)
Eye of the Tornado – Master Snowdrift, Shado-Pan Monastery (Hit/Mastery)
Ring of Malice – Taran Zhu, Shado-Pan Monastery (Haste/Mastery)
Signet of the Hidden Door – Thalnos the Soulrender, Scarlet Monastery (Hit/Haste)
Triune Signet – High Inquisitor Whitemane, Scarlet Monastery (Crit/Mastery)
Raid Finder
Fragment of Fear Made Flesh – Imperial Vizier Zor'lok, Heart of Fear (Hit/Crit)
Relic of Yu'lon – Reward from Darkmoon Serpent Deck (Int with an Int proc on spell damage)
Zen Alchemist Stone – ALCHEMIST ONLY (Mastery with an Int Proc)
Ghost Iron Dragonling – Crafted by Engineers but not limited to Engineers (Three empty cogwheel sockets for +1800 in the secondary state of your choice, e.g. 1800 Crit or 1800 Haste)
Blossom of Pure Snow – Shado-Pan, Revered, 1650 VP (Int with Increased Crit on use)
Mogu Rune of Paralysis – Golden Lotus, Honored, 1650 JP (Mastery and a placed paralysis effect on a 1 min CD)
Dungeon Drop
Flashfrozen Resin Globule – Vizier Jin'Bak, Siege of Niuzao Temple (Hit with Int on use effect)
Vision of the Predator – Striker Gadok, Gate of the Setting Sun (Int with a Crit proc)
Mithril Wristwatch – Coren Direbrew, Brewfest only (Critical strike with a Spellpower proc)
Raid Finder
Jade Magistrate Figurine – [Unknown] (Int with Crit on use effect)
Light of the Cosmos – Elegon, Mogu'shan Vaults (Haste with an Int proc on periodic damage)
Essence of Terror – Sha of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring (Int with Haste proc on spell hit)
Two-Hand Weapon
Liuyang's Lovely Staff – The Arena of Annihilation, (Scenario)
Inscribed Serpent Staff – Inscription crafted BoA staff, some BoP materials involved so may not be feasible to have lower level scribes craft for your main. Cannot be traded or sold on the AH.
Amber Scythe of Klaxxi'vess – The Klaxxi, Exalted, (Cost Unknown) (Haste/Mastery)
Dungeon Drop
Greatstaff of Righteousness – High Inquisitor Whitemane, Scarlet Monastery (Crit/Mastery)
Wort Stirring Rod – Yan'zhu the Uncasked, Stormstout Brewery (Hit/Mastery)
Staff of Trembling Will – Sha of Doubt, Temple of the Jade Serpent (Crit/Haste)
Headmaster's Will – Darkmaster Gandling, Scholomance (Hit/Crit)
Raid Finder
Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker – Lei Shi, Terrace of Endless Spring (Crit/Haste)* Special: Can be socketed with a legendary gem
One-Hand Weapon
Blade of the Poisoned Mind – Unknown (Crit/Mastery)
Amber Saber of Klaxi'vess – The Klaxxi, Exalted (Haste/Mastery)
Dungeon Drop
Melted Hypnotic Blade – Flameweaver Koegler, Scarlet Halls (Crit/Mastery)
Necromantic Wand – Rattlegore, Scholomance (Haste/Mastery)
Firescribe Dagger – Xin the Weaponmaster, Mogu'shan Palace (Crit/Haste)
Raid Finder
Torch of the Celestial Spark – Elegon, Mogu'shan Vaults (Crit/Haste)
Regail's Crackling Dagger – Terrace of Endless Spring (Crit/Mastery)
Loshan, Terror Incarnate – Tsulong, Terrace of Endless Spring (Crit/Haste)* Special: Can be socketed with a legendary gem
Umbrella of Chi-Ji – Archaeology, Pandaren (Haste/Mastery)
Inscribed Jade Fan – Inscription (Hit/Mastery)
Dungeon Drop
Bottle of Potent Potables – Hopotallus, Stormstout Brewery (Haste/Mastery)
Raid Finder
Tornado-Summoning Censer – Blade Lord Ta'yak, Heart of Fear (Hit/Crit)
I hope that this list helps you to locate some worthy upgrades as we dive into a new expansion. If you have any additions, corrections, or comments, please feel free to post them here! I've gone over this thing until my eyes bleed checking for formatting or other errors. I hope nothing has escaped my notice but it's possible it has. If you see anything, I'd appreciate your letting me know.


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Target's CEO is out in wake of big security breach (Update)
Target's CEO has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a breach of customer data, showing how responsibility for computer security now reaches right to the top.
Gregg Steinhafel, who was also president and chairman, stepped down nearly five months after Target disclosed a huge pre-Christmas breach in which hackers stole millions of customers' credit- and debit-card records. The theft badly damaged the store chain's reputation and profits.
Steinhafel, a 35-year veteran of the company and chief executive since 2008, also resigned from the board of directors, Target announced Monday.
"He was the public face of the breach. The company struggled to recover from it," said Cynthia Larose, chair of the privacy and security practice at the law firm Mintz Levin. "It's a new era for boards to take a proactive role in understanding what the risks are."
The departure of Steinhafel, 59, suggests the company wants a clean slate as it wrestles with the fallout. But the resignation leaves a leadership hole at a time when the 1,800-store chain is facing many other challenges.
The company, known for its trendy but affordable housewares and fashions, is struggling to maintain its cachet while competing with Wal-Mart and Amazon.com. Target is also grappling with a disappointing expansion into Canada, its first foray outside the U.S.
Experts say the breach, which highlighted the flaws in Target's security system, seemed to be the final straw.
The Target board said in a statement that after extensive discussions with Steinhafel, they both "have decided it is the right time for new leadership at Target." The board also said that he "held himself personally accountable."
"The last several months have tested Target in unprecedented ways," Steinhafel wrote in a letter to the board that was made available to The Associated Press. "From the beginning, I have been committed to ensuring Target emerges from the data breach a better company, more focused than ever on delivering for our guests."
The company's stock fell more than 3 percent, or $2.14, to close at $59.87.
Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan was named interim president and CEO.
Under Steinhafel's leadership, Target won praise for its expansion into fresh groceries and its 5 percent discount for customers who use its branded debit and credit cards. In 2009, he defended the company against a proxy fight waged by hedge fund manager William Ackman, who was pushing his own candidates for the board.
But Target, based in Minneapolis, has been criticized for reacting too slowly to the shift toward shopping on mobile devices. Target just started to let shoppers order items online and pick them up at the store, years later than some competitors.
Analysts also say Target botched its Canadian expansion by moving too aggressively. The company opened about 120 stores in the latest year and lost nearly $1 billion in the Canadian business.
On Dec. 19, Target disclosed a breach of 40 million credit and debit card accounts over a nearly three-week period before Christmas. Then on Jan. 10, the company said hackers also stole personal information—including names, phone numbers, and email and mailing addresses—from as many as 70 million customers.
"Ultimately, too much rained down on Gregg Steinhafel," said Brian Sozzi, CEO and chief equities strategist at Belus Capital Advisors. "There was no way he could escape the black vortex of news."
Target reported in February that its fourth-quarter profit fell 46 percent on a revenue decline of 5.3 percent as the breach scared off customers.
Target's sales have been recovering, but it expects to feel the effects for some time. The breach has spawned dozens of legal actions that could prove costly.
Share are down 5.8 percent since the breach was disclosed.
Its response since the theft has included free credit monitoring for affected customers and an overhaul of security systems. Two months ago, the company's chief information officer lost her job.
And last week, Target announced plans to become the first major U.S. retailer to have store credit and debit cards with chip-and-PIN security technology.
When the final tally is in, Target's breach may eclipse the biggest known data theft at a retailer, one disclosed in 2007 at the parent company of TJ Maxx that affected 90 million records.
That breach didn't directly lead to the CEO's ouster; TJX Co.'s management was already in transition at the time.
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October 23, 2008
Gmail Emoticons :-)
"The black and white days of text-based emails have had their day. Following the evolutionary path blazed by colored labels, we present, in all their technicolor glory, emoticons in your mail," says Darren Lewis from Google.
Google also added a new set of emoticons in Gmail Chat and it's strange to see that you can add much more emoticons in an email than in an IM conversation.
97 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2008 at 1:25 AM
How about shortcut key like :) :( :P?ReplyDelete
Strangely, the emoticons is not available in Google Chrome.ReplyDelete
I don't know about the most stable Google Chrome version, but emoticons are available in Chromium 0.3.155.0.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2008 at 3:52 AM
I don't find them in my mail (google apps)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2008 at 4:59 AM
They're working in Chrome 0.2.149.30ReplyDelete
I wonder when will Google release a USEFUL feature, just like a contact window in the "compose mail" page.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2008 at 6:41 AM
Yep. Emoticons are available in Chrome. I noticed the new emoticons last night and like them. I use Windows Live Mail (email-client) with Gmail POP but it's nice to see that Gmail now has emoticons.ReplyDelete
Don't see 'em.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2008 at 7:28 AM
Nice feature... but not available in either of my Google Apps accounts. Maybe the rollout is still underway?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2008 at 8:31 AM
I really hope they don't auto-paste themselves though, I want to be able to go :P without hugely ugly emoticons all over.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Great hints, yet I doubt if emotion icons are still part of necessary element of the emails. :)ReplyDelete
The emoticons are somewhat not that good-looking. Better search for sweetim and you will surely have fun using emoticons.ReplyDelete
crap - they should be more simple more flatReplyDelete
no one will understand such "renderings"
- AnonymousOctober 25, 2008 at 7:27 PM
they dont have the codes so no one can use them in chatReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM
how do u put them in chats??? i want 2 find that out!!!!!ReplyDelete
Aah sorry for the confusion, I have a much older version (0.2.149.27). I had downloaded for my workplace PC (against a firewall...) As a result, it doesnt update itself automatically.ReplyDelete
what are all of the short cut keys?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM
I need to make cool monkeys and breasts, preferably some from 25 year olds.ReplyDelete
I was wondering the shortcut keys as well...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2008 at 5:55 PM
:) :(:) :(|) ;) :P :D :* V.v.V \m/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2008 at 6:01 PM
:) = normal smile :{ = mushtache guy ;)= wink :-o = clueless guy :( = sad face :-/ = clueless guy B-)= sunglass smile :'( = crying :P = toungue :D = big smile :-x = kiss x-( = evil guy :-| = clueless guy }:-)= evil guy :(:) = pig :(|)= monkey V . v . V = crab \m/= rock or music <3= heart +/'\ = bellReplyDelete
and [:|] is robotReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 8:05 PM
i love emoticons. they are the most amazing things ever invented. but why r there so many on Gmail but only VERYYY feww on Gchat :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM
i love emoticons. they are the most amazing things ever invented. but why r there so many on Gmail but only VERYYY feww on Gchat :(ReplyDeleteReplies
If you really love smiles maybe you know what they means.Please tell me what means 2,3 and 5th smiles of gmail.Please it's important to meDelete
I think there should be more selections in Gmail Chat. There are so many in E-mail but not in the Chat!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM
They need NEW gmail chat emoticons!!!!! i mean, the pig, monkey, mustache guy, kiss girl, robot, ect....are all well and good but they need more!!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2008 at 12:20 PM
they do need more...maybe the ones on email can be used on chat too but you have to figurethem out ur self ????????? i dont kno but this is the old man >.< it usd to b wince but it looks like an old man to meReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2008 at 8:45 AM
what about the OTHER ones??? like the ones that we dont know? that can be used in chat? crab = V.v.VReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2008 at 8:24 AM
to anonymous who posted on 14, 2008 8:45 PDTReplyDelete
yo wut r others symobls like the crab=V.v.V
put up some more
- AnonymousDecember 24, 2008 at 5:55 AM
make acrab by posting V.v.V in chat mode XDReplyDelete
theres a pig aswellReplyDelete
and a frnakenstein [:|]
and a moustache man :{
heehee =P
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Omg, i can make a crab!!! V.v.VReplyDelete
Yes, be jelouse...
tee hee
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2008 at 6:40 PM
monkey is :):(ReplyDelete
awesome!! try these emotions!!ReplyDelete
[:|] }:) :(|) :(:) V.v.V
-monkey girl
- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2009 at 9:22 PM
um the monkey isn't :):(. its actually :(|)ReplyDelete
but wat eva!
i love the robot!!
duz anyone know how to make the man?
- AnonymousFebruary 4, 2009 at 4:18 PM
does someone have a list of the chat emoticions?ReplyDelete
i wanna see ALL of them =]
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2009 at 4:46 PM
i have like a LOT of emoticons. here are a few of my favs-ReplyDelete
monkey- :(|) hint:the line between the 2 lines is on the button above enter
piggy- :(:)
bell- +/'\
robot- [:|]
another piggy- :9
what do you think? i could give you more...
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM
does anyone know how to do the poop???? \m/ is rock onReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM
i wish that you could see what to type in so you could use them in chats and texts!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM
the poop is ~@~ReplyDelete
all emotecons in email are possible in chat.ReplyDelete
ill give u that.
on chat i wanna no how to do the sparkles!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Ya it is availible in chrome im using it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM
my friend knows the microphone and car but she wont tell me...duz anyone know them?????ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Kissy Face- :* Monkey- :(|) Piggy- :(:) Cow- 3:-o Bell- +/'\ Batting eyelasses/Pretty girl- ;;) Nerd- :-B Clown- :o)ReplyDelete
Those nerd/batting/clown don't work. I don't know if that's for Chrome, but w/e.ReplyDelete
Oh and btw this is poopReplyDelete
its funny and it shows up on chat!
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 at 1:03 PM
when r they coming out with more???ReplyDelete
- ~:) MOHaWK MANMarch 29, 2009 at 10:42 AM
What is chrome? I really want these emoticons~ i just have normal gmail >.< where/how do you get "chrome" and what is hug?ReplyDelete
- Soccerchick18April 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM
idk what hug is but another way to do the kiss is :*. and a foriegn emmoticon is -.-ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM
u all have been a lot of help THX so much!!!!!ReplyDelete
pi grf!!!!!!!!!!!
- AnonymousApril 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM
what is chrome and how do u get it? does anybody know how to make the snowman and the sun and all the other ones??ReplyDelete
how to make all of these on gmail?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 3, 2009 at 6:09 PM
aHHHH! it hurts my mind.
- AnonymousJune 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM
chrome is the new verison of google. very cool home page. you should definitely download it. just search for "google chrome" from your regular google searchReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Wonderful.. thanks for he nice suggestions...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 6, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Yo, herman, these things are fun and useful for most people. sorry to disappoint you but your apinion isnt the only one that matters. so shut it and get a life.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 10, 2009 at 9:50 AM
If you go on to compose email on normal gmail there's more emotions than the ones in the picture above but I don't know how to make them on a gmail chat message...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM
-0- is wierdReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 12, 2009 at 2:20 PM
mad guy is x-(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM
here's some stuff some peeps might not know
V.v.V it's a crab
:(|) monkey!
:(:) pig!
<3 heart
+/"\bell thingy
:* :-X kissy face
:{ mustache guy
[:|] robot guy
~@~ poo.. :P
They should come up with a hugging emoticon and a chicken!!!!ReplyDelete
How 'bout a cellphone
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
i need the hug emoticonReplyDelete
Y the heck does nobody kno wat it is?!
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2009 at 5:35 AM
It is indeed surprising tht more emoticons are available for email than chat ..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2009 at 6:16 PM
omg i really want to know what the hugging one iss, someone come up with it pleassee. :DDDReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2009 at 4:31 PM
what is the hug one??? i want to know!!! yes pleaseReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Hug is :)->:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2009 at 8:24 PM
dude I <3 the gmail emoticons they r soooooooooo cool Gotta luv it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM
\m/(B-))\m/ my mad skills :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 29, 2009 at 1:43 PM
:)->:) is not hug what is hug?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM
I know how 2 get like 90 more pages of emicons in email.ReplyDelete
u go 2 settings and then labs. Scroll 2 z bottom of Labs and ull c EXTRA EMJOI (dont ask about the name plz!) and then PRESS SAVE CHANGES!!!!! go 2 ur email and c what the lab did fer u.
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Does anyone know what the angel is? Or the wine glass.... :(|)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Plus ~@~ is the poo if anyone was wondering!ReplyDelete
@~~~~ is a flowerReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2010 at 8:10 AM
@~~~~ is not a flower. I tried it and it didn't work.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 20, 2010 at 2:49 PM
How can u do the mic?ReplyDelete
a lot of these dont work >.< is the wince </3 broken heartReplyDelete
idk does anyone know how to make all of them?ReplyDelete
Hey do u want to know how to get alot more emoticons avaliable in your email? well i will give you 4 letters LABSReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2010 at 6:08 PM
TRY THESE EMOTION! ~@~ :-* >.<ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 2, 2010 at 12:58 AM
I wish all the emoticons in email were on chat as wellReplyDelete
on iPod Touch there are heaps of ones
(I know that cause of mine)
I never tried to use emoticons in email. Just in chat!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 7, 2011 at 2:42 PM
does anyone know what the last one is?ReplyDelete
pile of manure w/ flies or ice cream w/ stars swirling
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2011 at 1:04 AM
someone sed hugging is (>^^)> <(^^<)ReplyDelete
it doesnt work i dont think but it looks at least somewhat like hugging, or a kirby
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 7:28 AM
i like chickenReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2011 at 8:21 AM
WHAT IS CHICKEN OR HUGGING SOME1 JUST POST IT!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 6:50 PM
what is the shark???ReplyDelete
- SousaphoneFebruary 17, 2012 at 5:52 AM
Hey did you know that :3 is a cat?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM
It's amazing that Google hasn't improved it's emoticons. I love Google but the emoticon design is just way down the bottom of the barrel --people can't even discern if it's a screwhead or a nail.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 6, 2012 at 5:06 PM
Anymore emoticons????????ReplyDelete


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The (Unconscious) Situation of our Consciousness – Part II
Posted by The Situationist Staff on November 20, 2007
This is the second in a series of posts summarizing the research on the hidden situation of our consciousness. This post, like Part I, draws from a 2003 article by Situationist contributors Jon Hanson and David Yosifon "The Situational Character." Part I began with Hanson and Yosifon's summary of some of the fascinating research revealing the ubiquity of "automaticity." This post picks up there with the question: "If most of what we perceive, feel, and do is driven by automatic processes, then why is it that most of us perceive most of our behavior to be the consequence of our conscious will?"
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There are several reasons. First, we are rarely conscious of the automatic – indeed, that's the point: automaticity frees up for other purposes our extremely limited capacity for conscious thinking or acting. It is as if automaticity occurs silently in the dark, whereas conscious thinking happens noisily beneath a spotlight. For the same reason that homicides seem a far more common cause of death than stomach cancer (even though the reverse is true), the conscious eclipses the automatic before our introspective eye.
Perhaps more important, when we do experience ourselves consciously willing our actions, we are often mistaken. Daniel Wegner, in his superb book, The Illusion of Conscious Will, brings together an intriguing array of direct evidence to make his case that we humans are subject to an illusion of will (which . . . we think has been circumstantially implied in evidence of the more general illusion of disposition).
Consider the case of "phantom limbs." People who have had an arm or a leg amputated usually report that they continue to "feel" the presence of the limb long after it is gone. One pair of researchers who studied a group of three hundred World War II amputees found that ninety-eight percent experienced the phantom limb phenomenon. But there is more: Many amputees report that they can voluntarily move their phantom limbs, especially their fingers and toes. They report having the experience of consciously willing the movement of the limb despite the absence of either. This is one intriguing piece of evidence that "the intention to move can create the experience of conscious will without any action at all."
Another study provides another clue to the puzzle of conscious will. Researchers used highly sensitive electromyographical devices to study the patterns of electrical impulses generated during the performance of a "willed action." Hooked to electrodes, subjects were asked to move their fingers "at will." The researchers established a baseline electrical impulse that was witnessed in the brain shortly before the subjects moved their finger, which preceded a second impulse that was seen when the finger actually moved. This first impulse register was dubbed "readiness potential." In a recent version of the study, subjects were placed before an especially sensitive clock, and were asked to report for each finger movement the position of the clock hand at the moment that they experienced a "conscious awareness of 'wanting' to perform the finger movement." The researchers found that they were able to identify three distinct blips (to use the scientific term) in the electrical impulses of the brain throughout the course of action. The first was the "readiness potential" registered in the baseline. Sometime after the "readiness potential," however, came the experience of willing the finger. Finally, in a third distinct moment, there was an impulse associated with the actual movement of the finger. The researchers discovered that the subject's "readiness potential" occurred distinctly before the subjects themselves perceived consciously wanting to move the finger. The experience of conscious will, it appears, arises at some point after the brain has already begun the action. As the chief researcher of this study concluded:
[T]he initiation of the voluntary act appears to be an unconscious cerebral process. Clearly, free will or free choice of whether to act now could not be the initiating agent, contrary to one widely held view. This is of course also contrary to each individual's own introspective feeling that he/she consciously initiates such voluntary acts; this provides an important empirical example of the possibility that the subjective experience of a mental causality need not necessarily reflect the actual causative relationship between mental and brain events.
In another fascinating study, researchers put a series of subjects into a "transcranial magnetic stimulation" device, which has been found to cause—through a directed magnetic impulse—the involuntary movement of different parts of the human body. Without explaining the operation of the device to subjects, the experimenters asked subjects to move either their right or their left finger, whichever they chose, whenever they heard a click. The click was actually the sound of the device turning on, and forcing the movement of a particular digit. Although the magnetic impulses led the subjects to move the finger they moved, the subjects nevertheless perceived that they were choosing which finger to move, and then moving it. "When asked whether they had voluntarily chosen which finger to move, participants showed no inkling that something other than their will was creating their choice." Findings such as these suggest that the experience of conscious will may stem from an internal system that is distinct from action itself and the action's true source. Put differently, willing may be different then acting, and although the experience of both may often be coterminous, they are not necessarily causally related. Furthermore, even when some unappreciated situational force—including the business end of a transcranial magnetic stimulation device—is leading us to act in a particular way, we tend to experience our actions as volitional, willed choices. Again, we miss situation and see disposition.
Based on his review of many such studies, not to mention his own research, Wegner concludes that our minds produce the experience of conscious will through a process that is independent of the actual cause of our behavior. "[W]e must be careful to distinguish," Wegner argues, "between . . . empirical will—the causality of the person's conscious thoughts as established by . . . their covariation with the person's behavior—and the phenomenal will—the person's reported experience of will."
There are, to be sure, times when we experience that we have willed something when, in fact, we have. Foregoing a just-out-of-the-oven chocolate-chip cookie can be, when we succeed, evidence of the empirical will. But the experience of will is not reliable evidence of the empirical will. The experience of will is generated by our minds to accompany behaviors whose source may be unwilled situation. "The experience of will," as Wegner puts it, "is the way our minds portray their operations to us, not their actual operation." Wegner's diagnosis reveals the limited viability of the experience of will as a last bastion of dispositionism.
Though we perceive will, and behave and experience ourselves "as if" our will were controlling our behavior, and though we project will onto the behavior of others, these intuitive conceptions of the will are fundamentally unreliable indicators of both the reality of our will and the source of our behavior. Here again, there is more to the situation:
[T]he brain structure that provides the experience of will is separate from the brain source of action. It appears possible to produce voluntary action through brain stimulation with or without an experience of conscious will. This, in turn, suggests the interesting possibility that conscious will is an add-on, an experience that has its own origins and consequences. The experience of will may not be very firmly connected to the processes that produce action, in that whatever creates the experience of will may function in a way that is only loosely coupled with the mechanisms that yield action itself.
A final experiment suggests the extent to which our experience of will can be subject to situational influence, again without our conscious awareness. Subjects viewed a computer screen that flashed strings of letters and were asked to judge whether they saw words in what flashed. The screen would go entirely blank once each trial, either after the subject pressed the response button, or automatically after a very short time (400-650 milliseconds) if the subject failed to respond. The intervals were so quick that it was difficult for subjects to tell whether their response triggered the blank screen, or whether it had automatically gone blank. One group of subjects, however, was subliminally primed with a flash of the word "I" or "me" (subjects reported not recognizing it) just prior to the flash of letters that they could consciously see and were to evaluate. The researchers found that subjects primed with the dispositionist terms "I" or "me" were more likely to conclude that they had caused the screen to go blank than were subjects who had not been so primed. The subjects, it seems, "were influenced by the unconscious priming of self to attribute an ambiguous action to their own will." Our experience of will, then, is not only an internal illusion; it is an internal illusion that is susceptible to external situational manipulation.
The will, it turns out, rather than being the trump card in the dispositionist's deck, may be the joker in our dispositional delusion. As Wegner summarizes:
The unique human convenience of conscious thoughts that preview our actions gives us the privilege of feeling we willfully cause what we do. In fact, however, unconscious and inscrutable mechanisms create both conscious thought about action and the action, and also produce the sense of will we experience by perceiving the thought as the cause of the action. So, while our thoughts may have deep, important, and unconscious causal connections to our actions, the experience of conscious will arises from a process that interprets these connections, not from the connections themselves.
We want to emphasize again what we are not claiming, lest our actual claims be wrongly caricatured and dismissed. We have not argued here, or elsewhere in this Article, that there is "no such thing" as will, or that everything we seem to will is, to the contrary, determined for us. We do not doubt the existence of the individual human will, and we do not doubt that there is human genius rightly to be attributed to it. Our point, rather, is that our experience of will—our familiar experience that our will is responsible for our conduct—is often not a reliable indicator of the actual cause of our behavior. The felt experience of will therefore contributes greatly to our dispositionism. Where we are moved situationally, the phenomenon of will fills out our stories and helps to eclipse our vision of the situational influences that move us. When it seems that our "will" is doing the moving, it follows that we must have "chosen" our actions. And if we chose our actions, we must have had reasons or preferences for doing so. Thus, the illusion of will is a central feature of the illusion of dispositionism . How, after all, can situation be moving us, when we can "feel" the disposition?
Our point, then, is both subtle and disquieting: The experienced "will," rather than a mirror and measure of our true selves, may be a mask in the disguise that keeps us from seeing what really moves us.
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To read Hanson and Yosifon's law review article from which this excerpt is drawn, go to "The Situational Character." For a sample of previous posts discussing the role of unconscious and automatic causes of behavior, see "The Situation of Reason," "The Magnetism of Beautiful People," and "The Unconscious Genius of Baseball Players."
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3 Responses to "The (Unconscious) Situation of our Consciousness – Part II"
Brady Bellis said
I recently discovered this website. Great stuff.
I wanted to comment on the time delay, "readiness potential" research you reference above. Much of the credit for that research belongs to my wife's grandfather, Dr. Benjamin Libet.
Ben passed away this year, but he'd be thrilled to know that his work had reached you.
EightyThree said
Wow! Conscious will is basically rationalisation or confabulation to explain our actions (all of which turn out to be involuntary).
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NEW ORLEANS — It's expensive to be a tourist in a town that's hosting two of the biggest events of the new year — Mardi Gras and the NFL Super Bowl — but New Orleans has plenty of free things to do.
The nearly 300-year-old French city has walkable neighborhoods and scenic public parks dotted with centuries-old oak trees draped in Spanish moss, along with a free ferry and historic market.
MARDI GRAS AND BOURBON STREET: New Orleans is perhaps best-known for hosting one of the biggest free parties in the world: Mardi Gras. The Carnival season includes parades with costumed riders, marching bands and decorated floats, but it only lasts a few weeks. But visitors can get a taste of the madness and revelry of Carnival any time of year on Bourbon Street, the city's most famous thoroughfare, where scantily clad women beckon patrons from strip club doorways and beads are flung from balconies to revelers down below year-round. It's also a hot spot for live music, which spills out onto the street from clubs with doors and windows flung open. Bourbon Street is also the one place where a costume can be flaunted any time of year.
JACKSON SQUARE: Artists painting on canvas, clowns making balloon animals, street performers and jazz musicians are among the free entertainment to be found in Jackson Square, a one-block section of the French Quarter anchored by a lush green space with benches set amid gardens and grand oak trees. The square is bordered by pedestrian-only walkways with restaurants, storefronts and upper-level balconies boasting decorative ironwork. Benches allow visitors to take in the architecture of the square's historic buildings, including the Cabildo and Pontalba Apartments, believed to be among the oldest apartment buildings in the country.
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Algiers Point, established in 1719, boasts a trove of historic Victorian-style homes, magnolia tree-lined streets with several parks, cafes, historic churches and bars with live music. But perhaps its best feature is its unobstructed view of the city skyline and river traffic, from enormous cargo vessels to the city's iconic Natchez paddlewheel boat. Visitors can also enjoy a free self-guided tour of the Algiers Point neighborhood with the help of an online brochure from the Algiers Historical Society, algiershistoricalsociety.org/walking-tours.html .
FRENCH MARKET: The smell of sweet pralines and freshly brewed coffee wafts through the air of the New Orleans French Market. The centuries-old commercial hub stretches for several city blocks along the banks of the Mississippi River in the French Quarter and includes Cafe du Monde, home of the deep-fried, sugar-coated beignet, a popular New Orleans pastry. The market is a mix of open-air retail spaces dotted with produce stands and enclosed stores carrying specialty clothing and jewelry. It's an ideal destination for window-shopping and people-watching.
Visitors can watch candy-makers mix up batches of pralines, a New Orleans treat made with brown sugar and pecans, or stop by an open-air flea market where eye-catching jewelry, accessories and handmade crafts are sold. Newer vendor spaces have ceiling fans and full kitchens where cooks prepare meals using fresh Louisiana produce and seafood. The French Market dates to 1791 and was originally the site of a Native American trading post. European immigrants traded there, as did African-Americans selling coffee, pralines and calas, a rice fritter popular in 19th century New Orleans. Choctaw Indians from north of Lake Pontchartrain sold herbs, spices and handmade crafts. Many such items are sold in the market today, frenchmarket.org/ .


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Tiramisu, one of my favorite. Mmmmmmmm……….yummy. I can imagine it with a hint of a fresh juicy orange flavor.
Better late than never. Yes, life does have a way of getting in the way sometimes. Thanks for sharing. <3
Unfortunately I can't eat Tiramisu because of my dairy allergy. This looks so good. I love orange and that would taste perfect together.
Chocolate orange, perfect together :-) It looks beautiful, too!
Amazing looking tiramisu. I'm not a huge fan of the dessert but you have won me over the orange flavor.
Beautiful job! Sorry about the marscapone…it seems that was the difficult portion of the challenge for most people. I couldn't even get mine up to temperature! Great job!
I can relate with you so much about always having great ideas for storys and never writing them. I do that all the time! Thats why I started my blog a few days ago so i can get into that habit of writng before college in september!
youve also inspired me to attempt the tirarmisu cupcakes I keep putting off. :)
Beautiful Tiramisu! I'm not sure I would have the patience to make all the components, but it sounds so good! And I love that you make friendship bracelets. I used to make them all the time years ago, but I haven't thought about it in so long. After reading this, I want to go pull out all my stuff and make one!
Congratulations on your Bloggie Award tonight! Well deserved!
Looks fabulous! Congrats on your award!!
Congratulations on your Best Teen Weblog award! Well deserved. That Tiramisu is worthy of any 5 star restaurant I've been to!
Wow! that looks SO good! keep baking delicious things :)
Congrats on the award. You are awesome!
orange and espresso are sensational combination. looks delicious and well done on the award!
Amazing lady's fingers! I will have to try them. The pictures are beautiful, and I'm so impressed that you made every component! Awesome
Writing is the one area where I don't have an issue with writing down stories. My problem is keeping my brain focused on one instead of ten. Then again, it's kind of fun working on all of the stories at relatively the same time.
The tiramisu looks worth every time-consuming step, a perfect project to brighten up a dreary, drizzly day. But I'm REALLY excited about your weblog award – no question about it, you are an award-winner in so many life categories!
Ur 17?!
Ur baking and photography are far beyond ur age!
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Wow, that looks amazing. I've never made tiramisu myself, don't have the guts. Heh.
Bravo, Elissa! I had problems with mine too, although not the same problems. My mascarpone set up nicely but my pastry cream was a disaster. I think I misread the recipe this time around and made creme anglaise instead.
Anyway, loved the context of the friendship bracelets. Whatever you're learning in your fiction class is bleeding over.
I made the lady fingers today, which I adore. The tiramisu looks divine, but I didn't have all the ingredients and snowed in so that wasn't happening. Spring break is next week and I'm definitely looking forward to catch up on all my baking/cooking and this is going on the list. Thanks!
Looks great as usual, and very low cal.. lol.. gotta try it.
That is amazing!! I've always been afraid to try making tiramisu but you just inspired me to try it! Wonderful pictures, it looks so yummy.
The tiramisu looks gorgeous! Great job :)
That looks really wonderful. I love the combination Elissa. Your photography is really impressive. I'd really love to guide foodista readers to your site. Just add your choice of Foodista widget at the end of this blog post and you're all set. Thanks!
Your tiramisu looks absolutely stunning! Your pictures are amazing. I always love reading your blog because your posts are so inspiring. :)
You have a lovely "voice" and I hope you continue your pursuit of writing :). While I think I get more frazzled than most when my baking doesn't go according to plan, I find great joy in it and would also never consider quitting halfway. Creamsicle Tiramisu sounds like absolute heaven. A week well spent, I say!
This looks absolutely perfect. Love the addition of orange too. very italian.
I made the LadyFingers and the texture was great! It looks great! ..the only thing is that it tastes like egg.. :/
[continuing on my previous comment] After the Ladyfingers rested for a while, they stopped tasting like egg.. on the next morning they tasted good! :]
Yes! letting them rest for a day made it better! :D On the second day, they were gone so quickly! hahaa :p
I'm making this again today!
My first Tiramisu Recipe was sweet, simple and light…seeing your beautiful work has motivated me to get creative!!!I
Ahhh, i love tiramisu!
I've made it several times, although everytime its the original espresso one
yours looks beautiful!.
I've never tried lady making the fingers so I may try out your recipe!
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I just discovered your blog through thekitchn who was featuring your flag cake. Your pictures are mesmerizing and your writing is beautiful. I cannot wait to tackle this recipe. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to following. Take care :)
For the Orange Zabaglione, the directions say to also add vanilla extract, and lemon zest, but the recipe doesn't state the amount? I looked online for other recipes of orange zabaglione but none had vanilla extract or lemon zest in the ingredients. >.<??
That looks amazing, Tiramisu is by far my favorite dessert. Many thanks for the share, will definitely give it a try over the weekend.
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