Hey, has anyone on here heard of Ozoneated Gel? It's listed as a product at an online website for all-natural products. Here's a brief description:

"Ozone is one of nature’s super purifiers and protectors of the environment. Just as nature uses ozone to protect and renew life on earth, ozone gel can be applied to the skin so the body can absorb this special form of oxygen to help increase healthy oxygen levels internally as well as helping to protect against harmful microorganisms."

It's supposedly good for acne, bruises, cuts, dandruff, eczema, etc. Just wondering if anyone's used such a product before & if its legit or bogus.

TIA!

Granny's Hoarded Cookies, established April 7th, 2007 is recruiting!

We're adult (18+), casual, social, light raiding. All classes and levels are welcome. Raiding is not a requirement to join.

I run the "retro night" on Sundays where we run the vanilla and BC raids. The cookies are a friendly and helpful bunch, and if you enjoy pink tabards with a muffin, you'd fit right in!

Apply at http://grannyscookies.guildlaunch.com

One successful discovery is that you can make a lovely thick sauce out of bullion and potato starch. It adds a very sturdy flavor to most things. Roswell is in favor of it.



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I've been playing WoW since April of this year, and I've come to realize one thing. I'm a pack rat >,< I created a bank alt and opened all slots with max bags, hoping to clean the clutter and that only helped for about a week. So I'm here asking for guild signatures for a bank guild :)

Guild Name: Packrats Anonymous
Realm: Archimonde US (Alliance)
Character Name: Kirabank
Where I am: Dwarf starting area
How long will I be here: A long while. I have Math homework calling my name >.>

7 More to go :)
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Thank you
Dorfcansig
Stealthsigg
Sigforu
Minisigg
Chibisig
Signatory
Sadai
Dalring

My boyfriend is my guild's main tank and one of the best tanks on our server but there is something that people dont know about him. He plays a warrior and always complains about RSI and cysts so he makes me massage his tanking hand before he raids :( Am I the only one?

( I'm an arcane mage, here's my stuff, blah blah... )

A little off-topic to my post ... I do sometimes wish I could get into raiding, but I'm not willing to leave my guild. I've got so many friends there who I love to pieces, but they're all mostly casual players and we don't have many 80s. Have any of you experienced this sort of dilemma? How do you cope? I really don't want to leave, and to be honest, I'm not sure if they'd let me. LOL.

I'm off to bed, but I'll be replying to comments when I wake up!

My bag of brown rice wasn't sealed properly and I just picked it up to find moths in it D:

Is it all infested with moth babies now? Is there some way to tell or is it all doomed?

I'm really sad because my co-op rarely has brown rice in (because we want Australian brown rice because it's local, even though I don't think rice is an appropriate crop to be growing in Australia, and it would thus be more environmentally friendly to buy international rice from a suitable climate but whatever!). *grumble grumble*

 This morning I logged on to see four characters removed from my friends list - all of them belonging to the same person, a very close friend of mine whom would never just up and leave without saying anything. He made a big deal about asking me to tell him if I ever found another server or say goodbye if I ever decided to leave or what have you so there's no way he'd just go and delete his accounts or transfer without saying goodbye. It happened very late at night also which is unusual because he works and so doesn't really have an opportunity to come online late at night. Even if he had transferred, he would have left an alt or something to say bye if I was not online or whatever. Very, very suspicious that he's just disappeared like that. The accounts also must have been deleted because I've done an armory search on each of them and it's come up blank, unless it takes time to show it or something.

So I've opened a GM ticket. I think his account has been compromised. I'm hoping that they'll at least investigate my claims and not just dismiss them because I don't own the account. I don't mind if he has transferred or deleted his accounts without saying, I'd just like to know that his account is safe and still in his control and not at the hands of some grubby hacker. I do hope they investigate and I hope his account is ok!

I've been meaning to post these for ages.

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I know I have seen something like this, but can't seem to find it.
What I need is a macro that will allow my elem shaman to stop whatever she's casting and cast Windshear to interrupt.
I keep missing my interrupts.
Anyone know of something that will do this?
Thanks.

Why the gear score hate?

The previous methods - on my server at least - for finding a pug were "link the achievement" and "whats your dps/spellpower/unbuffed hp".

Here are my problems with those methods:

"Link the achievement" means nothing. It means you were in a group that downed the boss. Once. It doesn't mean that you performed the same role you're about to. It doesn't mean you weren't carried. It doesn't mean you didn't die 2 seconds in. It proves you have zoned in with a group that didn't suck.

The only thing Link The Achievement is good for is when you're pugging hard modes. You can get carried through a lot of Ulduar hard modes these days, but nobody is going to be carried through HM Anub Mad Skill just yet, even on 10-man.

"Whats your X" is even more fail because - especially in the case of X=DPS - you could be lying. So you still need to armory people. As a raid leader you can guess that a X spec'd player of class Y should be able to produce Z numbers, but that assumes you have a good idea what that class is capable of. And as a tank/healer it is possible to stack SP or Stamina, even though you should be stacking Haste or Int or avoidance or something else, just to inflate your "score". I saw this happen even in BC, where a Resto Shaman had stacked spellpower like mad to reach the magical 2k "good gear line", but would OOM in 2 minutes because he had little to no MP5.

Now, Im not saying Gear Score is perfect. Not by any means. A great tank will have three or more sets of gear, each with different gear scores. A DPS might pull better numbers as one spec, but have a higher GS for another spec (eg Hunters with ArPen). Im not advocating using GS as your entire proof of capability. Im not advocating ditching friends for better geared pugs, or any other dick move...

But GS is as good as, if not better than, any other heuristic for determining a pugs capabilities before testing them.

So why the hate?

I attend a game every week with my friends and have ALWAYS brought goodies for everybody (totaling six people). I guess part of my love for it is the smug feeling of victory when they eat it and say it's too good, it couldn't possibly be vegan (HA!).

I've been thrown a curve-ball, though. One of the girls found out she's allergic to gluten. While I make something twice a year for my gluten intolerant aunt, I'm definitely not prepared for an every week goodie.

Do any of you have recipes for group treats that you've liked? Also, are there any flour mixtures that you use for a cupcake base - or is it a case-by-case basis? The more creative, the better! Thank you all, in advance.

I have been 'trying' to find information about this but with sites like EJ, there's just so much to look through and seems like most of it isn't kept up to date.

I was told that they're nerfing/removing armor pen(although I haven't found any information confirming this yet) next patch so I'm trying to figure out if maybe with gear upgrades if I should just start gemming for agility again. And if I should also be concerned with trying to find a replacement for my arm pen proc trinket.

So confuzzled... I just wish Blizz would make up their damn minds.

I wish there wasn't such a discrepancy between 5 man, 10 man and 25 man content.  It would be so much easier if I could grab my 4 closest WoW friends and raid without having to worry about anyone else on the server.  I like ToC.  Really.  I actually like it.  I look forward to (or looked forward to) weekends so that I can go to ToC... or I did until the asshats in my guild decided that gear suddenly mattered.( Cut to the QQ... )

With the grading period coming to a close, football kicking into playoff mode (our last regular season game is this Friday - we play for the league title after a heartbreaking last-second loss Friday), and our houseguest heading back to his own digs to continue his convalescence, this past week didn't look hold much time for reading.  So when bewcastle suggested I check out the first installment of Joseph Delaney's series The Last Apprentice, entitled Revenge of the Witch, a young adult thriller that promised to be a fun and easy read, how could I refuse?   And indeed, after the tooth-grinding that accompanied wading through Cynthia Stokes Brown's ill-executed Big History last week, I was in the mood for something light.  

I'm happy to report that Delaney's foray into the Harry Potter-esque world of young people learning a magical trade and facing all manner of supernatural challenges along the way is an engaging and well-crafted contribution to the genre, and rewards even an adult's attentions.  Set in "The County" , a mythical land with evocations of Tolkein's Shire that seems roughly like 18th-century northern England, Delaney's tale chronicles the adventures of Thomas J. Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son who, upon turning thirteen, is apprenticed by his family to Mr. Gregory, who is the County's Spook, a sort of supernatural protector who binds boggarts, lays ghosts, and deals with malevolent witches.  As the title suggests, Thomas' adventures in this first book center around the menace of a particularly nasty witch named Mother Malkin, but many of the problems Thomas faces revolve, not around the malevolent title villain, but rather around the difficulty of leaving home and the challenge of meeting the expectations of his new master, Mr. Gregory.

Delaney does a wonderful job of evoking the daily life of The County.  The characters ' speech patterns, social structures, and economic pursuits suggest northern England in the mid-18th century - a choice that certainly warmed my heart - but the emphasis is perfectly modulated to provide flavoring to the tale without burdening the reader with tedious background exposition.  You conclude Revenge of the Witch with a soldi sense of the world in which Thomas and the Spook work, but the details are still a bit vague, with the promise of more to be revealed in future volumes.

Perhaps the greatest strength of Delaney's book is the masterful balance he strikes between realism and appropriateness.  I would have no qualms about recommending this book to a precocious 7th-grader, but I'd also not hesitate to suggest it to an adult friend.  Delaney takes care to pay attention to the basic needs of his characters.  As with Tolkein, the reader is always keenly aware of the importance of food and shelter and safety in the book's world, but these concerns never overwhelm the plot.  Also, Delaney isn't afraid to tell some grim and chilling tales - Mother Malkin, for example, gets her name from her penchant for taking in young unwed mothers, and then killing both mother and chlid after the birth to use their blood in her foul magic - but he doesn't leer over the gore.  The ghosts and witches Thomas faces are evil and foul, to be sure, but we don't wallow in the blood.

I'm thoroughly looking forward to the next installment in The Last Apprentice - indeed, I think this first effort is actually superior to J.K. Rowling's first volume. I may find myself down the road saying knowlngly to young Harry Potter fans, "Well, if Rowlings is okay, but if you really want to read something compelling..."

The WoW screenshot contest is officially over and I'd like everyone to throw some confetti for origami_lion who ended up being the winning roll with ( this beautiful picture. )

Anyway, you know, there came a point where I wished I could buy everyone who entered a code. Some of the screenshots submitted blew everyone away and the entire thread is a blast to skim through. You ladies (and gents) really know how to frame a picture. I hope everyone skims over the thread. Thank you ALL for your participation -- with this contest such a success, I am hoping it means many more fun contests like this over the coming months!

( Lastly, in collage form, a few of the particularly gorgeous screenshot entries... )

hello ladies!

my boyfriends bithday is coming up and i really want to do something for him in game, i was thinking of farming a mount for him - but im not sure if there are any that are BoE. hes also really into achievements, and i would get him a few rare pets but hes more interested in mounts. sooo i was wondering if any of you had any ideas, something you might have done for your significant other, or if you could tell me of any mounts that i could farm on my toon to give to him.

thanks in advance!

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Does anyone know of a good store with a lot of variety of dried herbs? Herbs like lavendar, mint, eucalyptus, etc...

I live in Van Nuys, so somewhere semi-nearby would be great :) Thanks!