Two Bosses Enter ... but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW.com's series of fantasy death matches. This season's bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.

INSECTS! We're getting close to the end of our first bracket of bosses for this season of Two Bosses Enter, One Boss Leaves, featuring five-man bosses from Wrath of the Lich King. (We're sure you can all guess who's in the last fight of the bracket, just as we're sure you can all guess by how large of a landslide he'll win.) Last week's tussle with King Dred and Jedoga Shadowseeker went down with a chomp and a gulp, leaving us with two more player favorites for the week ahead: Anub'Arak from Azjol-Nerub versus Elder Nadox of Anh'kahet: The Old Kingdom.

Remember the basic ground rules:

Assume that the opponents and their minions share similar levels, health pools and comparative overall damage output.

This deathmatch takes place in neutral territory.

All the usual minions will be available to each boss.

Don't get caught up in gameplay mechanics and what actual players might do in each encounter.

Focus on the three S's: style, story and scale.

It's minions versus minions in this buggy battle. Join us after the break to cast your vote for who you think will emerge this week's victor.

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My question is, Do we need someone to actually say - yes lets do it- throw down the checker flag so the public understands it time to start looking- OR DO WE JUST DO IT. I believe we should now, of course i am biased as a scientists who wants to be proven true with my own ideology, for what its worth it is deplorable and nerve racking to live with a possible solution as the world bickers for one.

THUS, to the american universities, sooner or later the professors or students or concerned parents are going to ask- "what are you doing in your labs?"

the time has come to weed thru all the 10,000 garage scientists with an idea- well at least the ones who give all away for free and hide nothing- such as myself with only desire to be proven true.

THUS, a challenge to American universities- The time has come to redirect your work in labs and go for what the country needs- A solution to the global energy crisis!

Since I started this, and you have to start somewhere, start with my ideology and experiments-

I performed an experiment never before in science

I took a 100 year old device invented by Nikola Tesla which makes man made lightning bolts and discharged its output into a special type of water called heavy water. Heavy for hydrogen is also bonded to a neutron- this water is already used in nuclear power planets for moderating fast neutrons. My ideology i came up with is derived from the 100 year old theories of Albert Einstein- Thus, my idea is noble in origin- my experiments which were very dangerous and I am glad to survive a one million volt experiment as I did everything alone and videoed such on youtube- all my papers and experiments are posted for free on the net since april 2007. I believe it hasn't gone anywhere to date because of the phenomenon in society described via the story  " The boy who cried wolf". society is so weary and untrusting because of the large amount of crooks in society- I dont blame them- however, when is enough enough.

I ask for no money- i have valid experiment and ideology that needs to be addressed sooner or later. Is this the 21st century upon the internet or mid evil times with horse and buggy?

Here is some of my science- think of the lightning bolt:)

Hello, my name is Solomon Azar-   I HAVE FOUND THE ROAD TO SAFE CLEAN NUCLEAR FUSION- When this is found and understood- the energy crisis will end- I have been looking at this system since 2002 and it is perfect in every way. I finished my experiments April-2007.

I have performed an experiment never done before in science- I used a Tesla coil for its use in high voltage high frequency  and apply its discharge plasma not upon the dielectric of free air- but to the dielectric of water itself- specifically I used ultrapure reagent grade water from manufacture NERL-this is to establish the high degree of insulation needed for plasma (you cannot have contaminants for conductivity)- I doped my water with heavy water from the manufacturer UNITED NUCLEAR-(however- a full concentration of heavy water is desired)- I built my 1 million volt Tesla coil entire tunable- every aspect of it- as it must be done to TUNE THE OUTPUT DISCHARGE OF THE TESLA COIL to the water itself- once the arc is stable- the voltage may be increased- I have written in my pdf file in my website of noblefuse.com that a prerequisite of 750 kv is needed as an electric field gradient about the charged particles used in fusion( in this case the hydrogen bound in the water molecule) because of voltage drops as expected as in all electrical systems upon the load (load here is the water)- a much higher voltage is needed in order to distribute the voltage gradient upon entire arc plasma length between electrodes in water- THUS- THE HIGH THE VOLTAGE- THE BETTER-  within my website you will find a link to youtube showing my primitive experiment- BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THIS- THIS IS THE FIRST TIME EVER DONE BEFORE - I propose nuclear fusion of water/heavy water- my little experiment  IS THE ROAD TO NUCLEAR FUSION- we must universally connect the dots- put two and two together- and conclude this-  MY EXPERIMENT MUST BE REPEATED ON A LARGER SCALE- my system is a direct replacement of nuclear power plants particularly of the pressurized water reactor which uses heavy water already - a vessel already built for gamma radiation and other high energy flux which will emit with the plasma arc-
Power reactor in which the heat is dissipated from the core using highly pressurized water (about 160 bar) to achieve a high temperature and avoid boiling within the core. The cooling water transfers its heat to the secondary system in a steam generator. Example: Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant in Germany with an electrical output of 1,430 MW.

Replace the rod assemblies and use electrodes to conduct the Lightning bolt! High Voltage High frequency will create the magnetic pinch to slam the isotopes of hydrogen together which is bound in water- helium and oxygen are the outgassed products recaptured by expansion tanks-it is absolutely perfect!

_ I HAVE FOUND THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THE TESLA COIL- the answer was always in the lightning bolt- understanding of gamma bursts from lightning discharges have only been recently vindicated from satellite in late 90s---

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Said, R ( ) , STAR Lab, Electrical Engineering, 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
Smith, D M ( ) , Physics Department and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 United States
Lopez, L I ( ) , Astronomy Department and Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The observation of brief (<1 ms) bursts of intense γ-rays, the so-called Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs), by the BATSE γ-ray experiment was one of the most unexpected discoveries by the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.

Let me try to give another analogy to make the point. think about striking a match, if all conditions are proper , one knows that to strike a match, you must go a minimum speed- you cannot strike the match too slowly- this is understood as more speed is more friction and thus more activation energy necessary to create combustion of the match material. the same applies to this fusion system, first, imagine my system as inside a pressurized water reactor used in fission plants- the moderator is already heavy water- we shall use it as the fuel. I have said the plasma arc looks exactly like our friend the electric lightning bolt- but I talk about in my pdf file- that the so called lightning bolt must be understood in regards to high voltage and frequency- just like the minimum speed needed for the match- so it is with the combination on high voltage and frequency to not only resonate with the dielectric molecule of heavy water- but more so- to create a minimum velocity upon charged particles in the fuel water. this velocity is also exhibiting itself as a magnetic field-think of the cathode ray scope- in a snap shot instant in time for analysis, look at when the maximum energy is being applied on a per strike basis of the input cycle- or shall we say the highest amplitude of the ac signal. if for example- an input energy of one megawatt was injected into the strike of the arc- a magnetic pinch shall be directed upon the charged particles in transit of the discharge- in a thermodynamic extraction process such as this - we need at least 5 times more energy out of the system to recoup our initial energy input- and a surplus for commercial energy supply- thus- via fusion of hydrogen to helium- with each strike- a minimum voltage and frequency SHALL give the minimum activation energy required for magnetic pinching and fusion of the isotopes of hydrogen. to increase the q of the reaction in this system- a magnetic toroid may be used around the plasma arc for increased efficiency= such as used in tokamak devices. I hope this analogy helps those who question this system- THANK YOU--

Here is a thought experiment for electromagnetic fusion with Einstein in mind

Pretend you are water-you are an oxygen atom- you are stable- you are noble- 8 protons-8 neutrons-and 8 electrons- there are only 5 magic shell nuclear elements of the periodic table- oxygen is one of them- it is very stable-

Therefore- you are stable and noble- you have no need for fusion- yet it could happen- but the probability of another element such as hydrogen and its isotopes would be made to fuse together in some kind of fashion mankind tries will occur way before oxygen does- - ok-so now you are this noble one and you have outstretched in your hands a hydrogen atom and or its isotope deuteron and you hold it out to mankind as a gift-

Man understands the gift of fusion for many years and is desperately trying to do such-

I propose electromagnetic fusion- I propose the BENNET pinch used in poloidal currents used in plasmas of tokomaks- but much further-

Here we go – the thought experiment- you are this oxygen atom with two hydrogen’s and you stand amongst your friends similar in nature. You are placed in a large vessel filled of your kind-now imagine that two walls opposing in this vessel are the plates of a capacitor- who cares what is applied to the capacitor plates (electrodes of system)-for all you know as a noble oxygen and the hydrogen you have in your hands is nothing more than the electric field upon the plates-

You are composed of charged particles- thus you will interact with the applied electric field of the plates-this is common electronics and electric knowledge-

However, I speak of dielectric breakdown- I speak of the lightning bolt- let us now assume we have made the capacitor plates oscillate at 1 million volts peak to peak as way of a tesla coil

Think of the electric field- everything will be controlled by this field- a dielectric breakdown will occur- and all discharge current will begin to flow and oscillate as a function of the applied voltage-

Now- you are in the heart of a lightning bolt- you who are noble as a oxygen probably lost all your valence electrons due to the magnitude of such a high electric field- every charged particle in transit of the discharge current is surely ionized and talks of being a complete water molecule should be erased- the state of this plasma current is nothing more than ionized hydrogen and oxygen and a complete sea of electrons-

Let us think first of the electrons- 1896 times smaller than protons- no question it will oscillate much faster as a function to the applied voltage- remember the cathode ray scope- basic physics also will say this charged particle will also have a magnetic field about itself because of the electric field that has driven it-thus- this oscillating electron current will have an intrinsic magnetic field

Let us now think of the protons- oxygen has 8 and surrounded by 8 neutrons and is far less likely for reaction than isotopes of hydrogen for fusion- this should merely be understood by refereeing to atomic tables of elements and known theory- but this hydrogen is a singly bound proton with mass one- unless we speak of a deuteron- it will also be controlled exactly the same way as the electron is affected by the external applied voltage- however- it is opposite to the electrons motion-and much slower by its mass – however-its magnetic field will add to that of the electrons- this is standard knowledge of magnetic field generation of charged particles by way of electric fields-

Thus, in this thought experiment- within this state of dielectric breakdown- I like to say the lightning bolt- can you now see the oscillation of the charged particles by such a large magnitude of the applied voltage plates- can you now see the probability at a certain moment in time- particularly when the applied ac signal is greatest- that all magnetic fields of charged particles in transit can have the power to be magnetically pinched-

Magnetics have push and pull- it is well known that high frequency causes a constriction upon electrical currents- whether in copper lines and forcing such to the surface- or in plasma and made use to constrict it -  high frequency is known to constrict the currents- thus- do you see the forces I am referring to as this dielectric breakdown has occurred upon the most perfect fuel of the heavens- water- this oxygen atom holds the hydrogen for us- we shall apply a high voltage (high is relative- I have stated 750kv in the vicinity of the hydrogen for fusion- I come to this by way of understanding the beta decay of a free neutron- if it can disintegrate- it can come together- made into a deuteron- then made into helium)-

Thus –we make helium and oxygen is then unbound and must also be recaptured- this is easy in expansion tanks- the byproducts are helium and oxygen-truly noble-

To increase the q of this system- a simple toroidal magnet as used in tokamaks for plasma control may be used for additional pinching-

I hope this helps- however- you must always think of the applied electric field and its magnetic inducement upon the charged particles- we will stably run the Tesla coil upon the dielectric of water itself (more appropriately heavy water) and turn up the voltage for greater acceleration speeds and thus magnetic fields- we can control pressure in this vessel- we can control electrode spacing and so much more-

that is my thought experiment for you to understand it is my intention to use all input energy by way of oscillating a very large electric field which will induce the proper magnetic flux density in units of Tesla for a pinching- not established hot fusion whereby all energy input is chaotic and the probability of fusion comes by way of statistics from a gas equation- no- high voltage and high frequency in an orderly manner by the construction of a man made lightning bolt with controllable parameters inside an existing pressurized nuclear reactor- everything is off the shelf-  the world will run on steam power again globally-from trains-factories-ships-and all power plants- I offer the Watt steam engine again- not with two sticks to make fire and boil the water- but electromagnetic fusion with two electrodes to induce fusion of hydrogen isotopes to boil water and make steam- it is absolutely perfect.

To the CEO's of nuclear power plants-or pressurized coal fired- you have spare reactors in the back yards of your plants- take a 1 million volt tesla coil and do what I have said- you will measure its fusion reactions and you will conclude this - I have found the road to safe clean energy.

I speak plain science- please connect the dots and let us end this energy crisis for a world that desperately needs energy- May the light of God shine upon all our actions for the betterment of mankind

Solomon Sami Azar

noblefuse.com

CALL and or write to princeton university and encourage them to discharge a tesla coil into heavy water as per my freely disclosed papers and videos portray on my website noblefuse-the solution to the energy crisis is in your hands- it will take a third party- not the discoverer himself professing it- go ahead prove me right or wrong already- 20 months now as economy crumbles over energy and our soldiers battle for it- what will you do

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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business

First Steps

1. Build an account and immediate start using Twitter Search to listen for your name, your competitor’s names, words that relate to your space. (Listening always comes first.)
2. Add a picture. ( Shel reminds us of this.) We want to see you.
3. Talk to people about THEIR interests, too. I know this doesn’t sell more widgets, but it shows us you’re human.
4. Point out interesting things in your space, not just about you.
5. Share links to neat things in your community. ( @wholefoods does this well).
6. Don’t get stuck in the apology loop. Be helpful instead. ( @jetblue gives travel tips.)
7. Be wary of always pimping your stuff. Your fans will love it. Others will tune out.
8. Promote your employees’ outside-of-work stories. ( @TheHomeDepot does it well.)
9. Throw in a few humans, like RichardAtDELL, LionelAtDELL, etc.
10. Talk about non-business, too, like @astrout and @jstorerj from Mzinga.

Ideas About WHAT to Tweet

11. Instead of answering the question, “What are you doing?”, answer the question, “What has your attention?”
12. Have more than one twitterer at the company. People can quit. People take vacations. It’s nice to have a variety.
13. When promoting a blog post, ask a question or explain what’s coming next, instead of just dumping a link.
14. Ask questions. Twitter is GREAT for getting opinions.
15. Follow interesting people. If you find someone who tweets interesting things, see who she follows, and follow her.
16. Tweet about other people’s stuff. Again, doesn’t directly impact your business, but makes us feel like you’re not “that guy.”
17. When you DO talk about your stuff, make it useful. Give advice, blog posts, pictures, etc.
18. Share the human side of your company. If you’re bothering to tweet, it means you believe social media has value for human connections. Point us to pictures and other human things.
19. Don’t toot your own horn too much. (Man, I can’t believe I’m saying this. I do it all the time. - Side note: I’ve gotta stop tooting my own horn).
20. Or, if you do, try to balance it out by promoting the heck out of others, too.

Some Sanity For You

21. You don’t have to read every tweet.
22. You don’t have to reply to every @ tweet directed to you (try to reply to some, but don’t feel guilty).
23. Use direct messages for 1-to-1 conversations if you feel there’s no value to Twitter at large to hear the conversation ( got this from @pistachio).
24. Use services like Twitter Search to make sure you see if someone’s talking about you. Try to participate where it makes sense.
25. 3rd party clients like Tweetdeck and Twhirl make it a lot easier to manage Twitter.
26. If you tweet all day while your coworkers are busy, you’re going to hear about it.
27. If you’re representing clients and billing hours, and tweeting all the time, you might hear about it.
28. Learn quickly to use the URL shortening tools like TinyURL and all the variants. It helps tidy up your tweets.
29. If someone says you’re using twitter wrong, forget it. It’s an opt out society. They can unfollow if they don’t like how you use it.
30. Commenting on others’ tweets, and retweeting what others have posted is a great way to build community.

The Negatives People Will Throw At You

31. Twitter takes up time.
32. Twitter takes you away from other productive work.
33. Without a strategy, it’s just typing.
34. There are other ways to do this.
35. As Frank hears often, Twitter doesn’t replace customer service (Frank is @comcastcares and is a superhero for what he’s started.)
36. Twitter is buggy and not enterprise-ready.
37. Twitter is just for technonerds.
38. Twitter’s only a few million people. (only)
39. Twitter doesn’t replace direct email marketing.
40. Twitter opens the company up to more criticism and griping.

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Are you happy to see the government bailouts?

I know I am. It's about time the government recognized the importance of industries that are suffering & need billions of dollars to sustain their business. Where were the government bailouts when so many other worthy industries in the past were dying and struggling for their very existence?

Where were the government bailouts when the horse and buggy industry was fighting to keep up with the newly invented automobile? Where were the bailouts when the US textile industry all went east and west and every other direction but home? To my understanding, today, there is not one shirt manufactured from scratch in the US .

Remember the prosperous whaling industry just a century ago? Whales provided the oil for every lamp in every home and business. The whaling industry employed over 70,000 people. Those were real jobs, but the government refused to prop up the industry and today not a single lamp uses whale oil to light the night sky.

Look at the print industry. The newspaper and magazine are going the way of the dinosaur. Replaced by digital print. And who is there to care? And what happened to typewriters and Smith Corona? Smith Corona was a staple name just 30 years ago.

“…finance executives in challenged industries are in a precarious position. Publicly, they must tout their companies' commitment to innovation and long-term goals. Yet instead of investing in new technology, they can become enamored of their current business model—especially if it is successful. And their unrelenting focus on shareholder value can blind them to the fact that they may be facing a Waterloo moment.” cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/3786531

The typewriter probably represented American industry more than any other tool. And again, the government refused to step in to prop up the industry. And today? No more typewriters.

“In November 1992, the company's (Smith Corona ) CEO, G. Lee Thompson, told the Wall Street Transcript, "Many people believe that the typewriter and word-processor business is a buggy-whip industry, which is far from true. There is still a strong market for our products in the United States and the world." When asked what new products and services the company planned to introduce, he replied, "Nothing right now.” cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/3786531

But who needs industry and factories any way? Right? Our wealth is measured in our 401K plans and our homes. And for the really dirty work we just import cheap labor from south of the border. I'll tell you another dying industry that needs desperately government help. Have you noticed the lack of public pay phones today? Well, there aren't any and this fact is a crying shame. Lots of jobs for coin collectors no longer exist. A tragedy.

But, seriously. Getting back to the horse and buggy issue.

So now, thankfully, we are at last finally seeing our government learning to support institutions that have failed. The financial institutions that created this mess are being bailed out and propped up to make even more mistakes down the road. Plenty of time for them to fail again. But maybe now that the government has learned to stabilize dying industries perhaps they could revive the most important industry we need to see rise again. Yes, the horse and buggy industry must be brought back and nationalized. As the oil supply declines what better and proven transportation device can replace the oil guzzling automobile?

Blacksmithing, wheel wrights, wagoneers, stagecoach drivers… These were real jobs and real payrolls supporting generations of workers. And because the government failed to help with even a single dollar all these professions disappeared into the dustbin of history.

This important national industry disappeared 80 years ago. In the 1890s, the Alliance Carriage Company of Cincinnati made more than 10,000 horse & buggy carriages a year.

The Studebaker Carriage Company manufactured more than 10,000 horse buggy vehicles in 1873 and they tripled this number to 30,000 a mere ten years later. And by 1900 this single transportation company was producing 100,000 carriages a year. In 1910 the Durant-Dort Carriage Company produced 56,000 vehicles. This past industry was creating real jobs and helping to support the economy of a nation.

The automobile could have been merely a passing fad had the U.S. government had the wisdom to keep the horse and buggy industry afloat.

And back to reality. Can you now relate to the humble working class who go into the grocery store and debate whether to buy a half gallon or a full gallon of milk? Can you empathize with those families who are struggling to make ends meet and fighting each day rising prices and a shrinking paycheck? Or maybe even no paycheck.

The growing disparity between the rich and the poor. Between those struggling financially to overcome too small a paycheck and that other class with money flowing out their ears. Today as never before a growing gulf exits between the haves and the have nots.

This financial meltdown has revealed just how fragile many households were. Lots of folks who thought they were doing pretty well in just a short moment of time watched their hard earned retirement savings plummet to the ground. Many portfolios are down over 60%. And house valuations are down by as much as 50% in some areas of the country. How many over the past 20 years have come to measure their wealth in the rising appraisal of their home and the increasing value of their stock portfolio? Yet, in just a quick breath all this disappears in a heartbeat. These are the times that try a soul. These are the times when you fall easily between the cracks and struggle to hold on by a thread.

The vast majority have been indoctrinated for over 20 years that debt is OK and that asset prices can only go in one direction. Up. And because of that impaired thinking so many are “up side” down with their mortgage loans, bank accounts and personal finances. This is the land of perpetual & unlimited prosperity. Unlimited opportunity. Enough to go around for all. Just max your credit. The middle class is finding its “class” to be quickly dying. I think we are closer to another French Revolution than we realize.

But the brainwashing continues. I watched Larry Kudlow and other money gurus take hold of the recent stock market rallies this past week or so and wipe their brow. Happy that the bad times are over and the economy is climbing back to strong health. I don't think so. The hedge funds continue selling every asset class to raise cash. Over 50 trillion dollars worth! Washington is trying to save the economy in its usual convoluted way. Support the failures and ignore the winners.

Washington is now pumping billions of dollars into institutions that have clearly failed. These collapsing institutions haven't invested in America . If these banking, insurance and brokerage companies were adding so much value to our economy then where are the jobs? Where is the new industry? Where are the new factories? Successful investment is that which brings real growth to an economy. Not just an inflated stock portfolio whose value can disappear over night.

Our financial community sure hasn't been bullish on America . Just every where else. The bullishness focused on greed and complicated financial instruments that only generated more paper. It's interesting. GM made the decision years ago to concentrate more on the loan business than making cars. And now they are close to bankruptcy.

But hold onto your gold and silver. The worst is still ahead down the road waiting.

David Vaughn
David4054@charter.net

The future legacy of the United States will be the refined art of financial leverage.

© Copyright 2008, Gold Letter Inc.

“The Worldwatch Institute, an organization that focuses on environmental, social and economic trends, says the current rate of global demand for resources is unsustainable.”  

Last, again, I would like to thank all my listeners and friends on BlogTalkRadio.  You guys are the best.  Happy Halloween.....