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The exterior appearance of your home should be kept fresh and appealing at all times. It is important to keep it this way, especially in cases where you would consider re-selling the house. There are specific exterior paint colors that ensure this is easily achieved, and your home curb is made appealing.
They include:
1. Light and dark blue
Blue is a primary color that stirs up pleasant emotions and illuminates a feeling of calmness. However, if you decide to use blue color for exterior painting, it is advisable to choose either light blue or dark blue, and then you can add in elements of white and green that help it look crisp and appealing to the senses. Gray shades of blue can also do the job perfectly and help you create a mind-relaxing and peaceful environment.
2. Green and brown
These two are colors found in nature and thus great for exterior painting because they blend in easily with the surrounding environment. When using this shade of green and brown, it is considerable to make it darker. You can also tone it a little by adding more colors like gray. You can also consider adding more of red to liven up your home. Be sure to use darker colors and avoid using pure green and red colors. Toned down colors give a cool homely feeling that is pleasing to the senses.
3. White and black
This shade of black and white is usually commonly used, especially because it brings out a perfection of details in the home and helps to achieve a traditional and classic exterior. Put more emphasis on the white and add in black accents. You can also bring in elements of wood that add more charm to the black and white scheme. These three color shades are perfect to ensure that you achieve the best feeling and create an appealing atmosphere around your home.


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ALERT at the Dutch Healthcare & IT Exhibition (Zorg & ICT)
14 March 2011
From March 16 to 18 the yearly Healthcare & IT exhibition attracted some 7 500 visitors to Utrecht in the Netherlands.
The ALERT® solutions displayed in the spacious booth attracted great interest from many healthcare professionals from hospitals and other health providing institutions.
Sharing reports and images in a safe and standardized (IHE) way between ALERT's EHR and ALERT's Personal Health Record – MyALERT® – proved to be a highly appreciated novelty.
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Ancient Greek drama had a long afterlife. The comic playwright Menander worked in the court of a Hellenistic ruler in the fourth to third centuries BCE, but his popularity endured into the late antique period and beyond; there are more ancient Menander portraits in existence than portraits of any other Greek writer or thinker. His own reputed skill at naturalistic portrayals may have made him such a desirable subject; Aristophanes of Byzantium famously wrote, "Oh Menander and Life! Which of you imitated the other?" This particular medallion portrait, produced long after the playwright's death, would probably have been displayed in a Roman architectural context alongside similar portraits of Greek philosophers and playwrights. Menander, complete with dramatic scroll in the background, would have stood out for his urbane and vigorous features, and his clean-shaven chin would have contrasted with the beards of his more serious companions.
- Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.63
- Title
- Medallion Portrait of Menander
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 4th century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe
- Period
- Roman Imperial period
- Culture
- Roman
- Location
Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
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- Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 55 cm h x 48 cm w x 23 cm d (21 5/8 x 18 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Hon. James Smith Barry, Marbury Hall, Cheshire, England, (acquired 1776), by descent; to the Marbury Hall Collection, (until 1987), sold; [through Christie's, London, July 10, 1987]; [through Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1987-1991], sold and partial gift from Jerome Eisenberg; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
- Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift in part of Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Eisenberg and Purchase in part from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.63
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
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- The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
- Publication History
James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 118-119, ill.
James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 28-29
[Reproduction Only], Persephone, (Fall 2004)., p. 83.
- Exhibition History
Roman Gallery Installation (long-term), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/16/1999 - 01/20/2008
Re-View: S422 Ancient & Byzantine Art & Numismatics, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/12/2008 - 06/18/2011
32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
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S: Let's Bring Literature to Life
BC: "Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened." - Dr Seuss
FC: Welcome to your AP ENGLISH IV Research Project | Let's Bring Literature to Life!
1: GETTING STARTED Instead of a traditional research paper, which is by the way, a requirement for graduation, we will be creating author fan pages. This means you will design a website that pays tribute to an author of your choice. So, the first step is to choose your author. This should be a writer of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry whose work you have enjoyed. If you have only read one book or piece by this author, you should be prepared to sample more of his or her work.
2: Have fun with with it! In much the same way I have used art to morph literature into a new form, you will use technology to turn your research into a well developed electronic tribute.
3: I don't pretend to have all the answers, but the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke We will be using Weebly to create our websites. Be sure you are not blocked from this site. As a prewriting activity, you will be creating an acrostic from your author's name using the electronic template at Read, Write, Think. Simply type the following url into your browser and get started. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/acrostic-poems-30045.html (I will also post this in Moodle so you can cut and paste it.) Keep in mind that this tribute poem is based on your existing knowledge of your writer and his or her literature.
4: "It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts; it saves one having to bother anyone else with them." Isabel Colegatte
5: Your HOME PAGE should be well designed and state the purpose of the page, which is to pay tribute to the author about whom you have chosen to write. You may start with a pre-designed template or from a blank page. Your website will also include a PHOTO GALLERY. This must include a minimum of 6 photos or illustrations, and you must provide citation with each photo. Another element of your website will be a CONTACT PAGE. This will allow viewers (including your instructor) to email comments to you directly. You will also need to include a BIOGRAPHY PAGE. This will Include basic information such as: where and when your author was born and perhaps died; interesting facts about your author. This page must include at least 500 words of text. Photos are welcome here , too.
6: "Curiosity has its own reason for existence. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein | The next aspect of your site will be BIBLIOGRAPHY of all works by this author: A complete list of all things written by this author.
7: This will be followed by your LITERARY ANALYSIS PAGE. This basically discusses the works of your author and why you chose to pay tribute to him or her. Important: Any ideas that are not your own must be attributed to their source. This page should include five examples of what critics say about your author. This is the meat of your project. Do not take shortcuts with this section.
8: "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" E. M. Forster
9: Another element on your website will be the EXCERPTED WORKS pages. You must include a minimum of 3 excerpts, complete with citations. You should also write a few lines about why these passages are significant or representative of your author's style or subject matter. Think of this as simply offering your viewers a sip or taste of your author's writing.
10: This project will take about a month and you will have several deadlines posted in Moodle. One of the ways we will keep up with your progress is by creating a BLOG in your website. You will be required to post at least twice each week.
11: Your viewers, such as other students, will be able to post comments in your blog, too. In fact, one of the things you will be graded on is your interaction with other students by way of their blogs and contact pages. This AFFILIATION should occur at least twice each week.
12: The CONCLUDING ACTIVITY for this project will be to create a DIAMANTE. You will simply go to Read, Write, Think and use the online tool to create an original work that focuses on the things you have learned about your author as you built this website. I know you will enjoy this project and create something of which you will be proud. And most of all, let's HAVE SOME FUN!
13: You may also want to add MUSIC or VIDEO to your website. Just make sure that all content is school appropriate.


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Whether you are surfing the net or the kids are doing their homework, Valley Direct Furniture has office solutions that emphasize design and comfort. Tell your company you're working from home today! But can you really call it work when the setting is this stylish?
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Trading FloorThe Trading Floor is a trading game available at Facebook and iOS devices. It is based on auction-styled stock trading where you trade stocks and options with your friends and family. You play this game as a stock broker with objective of buying stocks at low-price and selling at high-price, thus making most money from the trades.
Major features include:
- Create private exchanges and share them with your friends. Each exchange starts a new game every day, which can be joined by you and your friends.
- Buy and Sell Stocks, Call Options and Put Options.
- Lookup Quotes
- Browse or Search Companies
- Browse or Search Industries
- View Floor Bids
- Comment on the Games
- Players are ranked on the profit they make in trading and top players receive special badges
- News/Events
- View Portfolio, which shows cash balance, profit made and stocks/options you hold.
- View Order History
- Cancel or Edit Order
|Build Exchanges
|Join a Game
|Post Bids for Trading
|Accept Bids on the Floor
|Top Rankings
|You can join exchanges created by your friends or build your exchanges. A unique game is started for each exchange, where member players trade against other member players.
|A new game is started every-day. You can join a game currently running. When you join a game, you receive $10,000 in cash and portfolio with 10 companies. You can also define your Favorite Companies, so that your initial porfolio will pick stocks from those companies.
|You can post bid to sell companies from your portfolio or post bid to buy companies by looking up the stock quote.
|The Floor Bids show all companies available for buy or sell. You can accept the bids that other players have posted for stock/option sell or buy on the Floor Bids.
|You can watch ranking of top players who have made most money with trading. The top players for each game get special badges that are visible on their player profile.
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Industries Search
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The main goal of the firm, founded in 1990, is barrel manufacturing. Its motto is "Everything can be done, but not by everyone". Convinced that passion and mastery are not sufficient, "RUMI – MND" concentrates its efforts on discovering the"magic" that happens inside the barrels. read more »
The oak chips represents particles derived from the residue from the products used in the production of staves used for the production of barrels. The staple (the raw material) is naturally... read more »
Participation in Vinaria 2011 – in Plovdiv
Vinaria'11 was the company's 12-th consecutive participation in the yearly wine exposition held in Plovdiv. The products of RUMI MND Ltd. are well-known on the Bulgarian market and... read more »
The barrels produced by RUMI-MND are unique and have an explicit character. Their style sets standards for combining wine with the nobleness of the oak. Our range of barrels answers each one of your needs in terms of quality and price.
The products offered by the company are mainly made of over 100 years old ,fine textured oak lumber.
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We have all probably had at least one experience like the following: A friend asks you to do a favor in the near future. You are unclear on the details but it sounds easy enough, so you say yes. When the time comes to do the favor, you are overwhelmed at how time-consuming and complicated it is. You'd like to back out, but you already committed and your friend is counting on you.
Chances are good that you have experienced a situation like this, and that you don't want to put someone else in the same predicament. Now, let's put this in the context of estate planning. Have you already asked someone to be executor or a trustee? If so, did you clearly explain what their responsibilities would be?
In many cases, individuals only think to include their attorney in the estate planning process. But if you have already determined who to name as executor, it might be highly beneficial for them to spend some time getting to know what their duties will entail and to ask questions about anything they don't understand.
Remember that even if you draft an estate plan later in life, it may be years between the time that your named executor or trustee agrees to the position and the time that their duties are fulfilled. Therefore, the more knowledge they get up front, the better prepared they will be. It may also give you peace of mind to know that they can ask questions of you if they need to.
Acting as executor may not be rocket science, but it is certainly a bigger commitment than, say, picking someone up at the airport. Therefore, you may want to make sure that whoever you ask knows what they're agreeing to ahead of time.
Source: Wealth Management, "Where There's a Will, There's an Executor," Hartley Goldstone, Jan. 8, 2014


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Opportunity/Quote Entry screen modifications – Part 2: Quote Type Dashboard
- 27 June 2016
- Laura Bromhead
In addition to the customization made to the Quote Entry screen, as mentioned on the previous customization post, the user required a dashboard that gives visibility on all of the Quotes and several key pieces of information including the new custom field 'Quote Type'.
Standard Epicor Software already comes with many dashboards that show all the standard information as part of all of the modules included in the software. If we, however, wanted to display custom fields added to User Interfaces, we either need to customize existing reports/dashboards or create a new query (using the Business Activity Query tool) and/or dashboard.
A custom software solution developed by Cre8tive Technology & Design includes a new query/dashboard with the following requirements
- The dashboard must be filterable by
- Sales Person
- Customer Name
- The dashboard must include the custom 'Quote Type' field
- Additionally, the dashboard must include the following standard Quote fields
- Sales Person
- Customer ID
- Customer Name
- Quote #
- Due Date
- Expected Close Date
- Gross Value
A query was created which looks into the QuoteHed table and pulls in the necessary fields. Additionally, a simple dashboard UI has been created which displays the results of such query.
Epicor Custom Dashboard – Quote Type Dashboard Quote Type Dashboard – Clicking Refresh populates unfiltered data Quote Type Dashboard – Customer Name filter
Quote Type Dashboard – Sales Person filtered results
As part of the Opportunity / Quote Entry customization, a dashboard was created to give the user proper visibility on the custom field added to the Quote Header table. It is common that standard reports or dashboards get customized to add User Defined fields, or if the needs are very specific, a new BAQ/dashboard can be created to display all the necessary information.
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Join our Salt team // Mid-weight Graphic Designer
We're looking for a creative designer to join our team!
Here at Salt we believe the right team member is someone with the right attitude, a brilliant portfolio AND a passion for design!
Essential skills
- Tertiary qualification
- Minimum 3 years' experience
- Design experience across both print and digital platforms
- Advanced capabilities in using Adobe Creative CS – InDesign is a MUST!!! Illustrator and Photoshop close seconds!
- Ability to interpret and adhere to branding guidelines, and ensure brand consistency
- Ability to take critical, constructive feedback and learn from it
- Conceptual designer able to develop ideas into original, innovative and effective design solutions
- Foundation knowledge of WordPress and/or Social Media strategy an advantage
Who are you?
- Your portfolio consists of ideas, concepts, finished projects – most importantly, examples that show us your creative process is spot on and at the core of everything you do!
- You're obsessed with all things design including social media, digital marketing, editorial and design trends
- Attitude is everything! You have a strong work ethic with the ability to manage your own time, take initiative and drive each project
- 'Keen' is your middle name
- You ask questions – LOADS of them!
- 'Attention to detail' is NOT on your CV (why state the obvious right?)
- You LOVE!!!! typography, layout and design
- You seize every creative challenge presented by working within a team of creative designers. It's all about the project not the individual!
- You communicate your ideas and present well to any audience (eg. designers, clients, your mum, even the cat!)
- You are more demanding of yourself than we'll ever be!
- Your sense of humour is apparent (please try to laugh at our Director's puns – even when they're stinkers!)
To apply
Please don't just flick us your application and a link to Béhance. Do some research to find out who we are and whether we'd a good fit for you.
So we can see your potential, consider how you can stand out. Tell us who you are, how you design and execute ideas. What drives you? Motivates you? And most importantly, why you want to join Salt. The creativity you show us by how you apply for this position is part of the challenge! So prove to us you have read this advert and know what it takes!
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The Long Goodbye
Posted by Joel Friedlander | 1 Comment
Query: Must we continue to spend a major part of all Medicare spending on ineffective medical treatment during the last year of life? Or, asked another way: Are we doing Grandpa and Grandma a favor by keeping them marginally alive with no quality of life?
We've all heard the scenario; 85 year old Grandpa Ike has been taken to the emergency room for the 8th time in the last 6 months and after staying in the hospital for two weeks or so, has returned alive, but in a ever more weakened condition. While he was at the hospital, Ike was subjected to every sort of diagnostic test available, and through dozens of heroic medical interventions was returned home. This is an area of Medicare expenditures which hasn't been studied lately. Most of the available studies go back 10 years or so, but the study below is illustrative of the general findings:
Medical Expenditures during the Last Year of Life: Findings from the 1992–1996 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Donald R Hoover, Stephen Crystal, Rizie Kumar, Usha Sambamoorthi, and Joel C Cantor. Article citations within the text are omitted here. The numbering is mine.
1. The elderly (65 years of age and older) have consumed more than 33 percent of health care spending; 2. Their medical expenses are substantially higher in the last year of life;. 3. While only 5 percent of elderly Medicare beneficiaries have died annually, the percentage of elderly Medicare expenditures spent on persons in the last year of life fluctuates between 27 percent and 31 percent; 4. Mean annual Medicare expenditures for the last 12 months of life in the elderly rose from $1,924 in 1976 to about $23,000 in 1995, but the portion of Medicare expenditures spent on beneficiaries in the last year of life did not change during this time period.
This study is available in full at, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1464043/
Another study points out:
"Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly, spends nearly 30 percent of its budget on beneficiaries in their final year of life. Slightly more than half of Medicare dollars are spent on patients who die within two months. … 40 percent of Medicare dollars cover care for people in the last month." How Much Do We Spend On End of Life Care? http://www.thirteen.org/bid/sb-howmuch.html
I recently went to a funeral for a woman of 91, who spent the entire last year of her life in a hospital bed tied to a feeding tube and other medicine infusions; she ultimately died of multiple organ failure. Before her final hospitalization she had made endless visits to the hospital for what proved to be ineffective treatment leading ultimately to her total loss of mobility and freedom.
Should we continue doing this to the elderly? Before my father died in January, he kept begging the people at the hospital to let him go home. They kept him there until he died. They said that they were going to make him better. He was 92 years old, with almost absent kidney function, no ability to walk due to a fractured hip replacement that became infected, and moderate dementia. Were they really going to make him better? He had no life left, and ultimately died of the infection of the hip replacementIsn't it time to put the cabosh on heroics that only enrich the medical providers and impoverish the nation?
One Response to "The Long Goodbye"
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That being the case, why do we keep Cheney alive? That heart could have gone to one not quite as evil.
But the point is – who has the right to determine who should live or die? Or do we lose the right to life when we are no longer a fetus?
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Are you a local business owner? Learn more about the St. Marys Business Improvement Area (BIA), also known as the St. Marys Downtown Business Association, and how it can help you grow your business. Review minutes from the past year. Watch for workshops, networking and special events. Review membership information about marketing initiatives, communications and more. We also have a helpful list of local and area resources outside the BIA.


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Rachel Bishop is a certified physician assistant at The Spine Center of Southeast Georgia for the past seven years. She became a PA because she loves helping people. She received her undergraduate degree from Tulane University and her Masters of Physician Assistant Studies degree from the Medical College of Georgia.
Rachel was raised in Brunswick, Georgia and returned home to join The Spine Center of Southeast Georgia in April 2014. Her background in critical care helps her diagnose and treat many types of painful conditions. Rachel has extensive leadership experience having managed a team of physician assistants. Prior to joining The Spine Center, Rachel worked as a certified physician assistant at UAB Highlands ICU in Birmingham Alabama and for the Georgia Lung Associates in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rachel was born in Ohio and is married. They have an "awesome dog" (a Boxer named Axl) and nine fun nieces and nephews with a large extended family.
When she's not busy helping her patients, she enjoys art, photography, hiking, and traveling.
Here a few more facts about Rachel:
- If she wasn't a PA, she would be a travel photographer.
- Her favorite superhero is Wonder Woman "because she has an invisible jet…what else do you need in life?"
- She lived in several states including: Ohio, Arkansas, Georgia (Brunswick, St. Simons, Augusta, and Atlanta), Alabama, and Louisiana.
- The most exciting place she visited was Patagonia.
- Her favorite subject in school: Math.
- Her least favorite subject in school: History.
- Her nickname is "Rach."
- If you could change one thing about the world, she would end poverty.
- Her volunteer work includes mission trips overseas to help those less fortunate. She has several kids in Honduras whom she sponsors and tries to visit regularly.
You will be very happy under the care of Rachel Bishop because she has a big heart and enjoys working with patients.
- National Certifying Committee of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) – August 2008 -Present
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) – December 2013-2015
- Basic Life Support (BLS) – December 2013-2015
- Fundamentals Critical Care Studies (FCCS) – October 2012-2015
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Discussion in 'Droid RAZR' started by ltcalex, Feb 3, 2012.
I understand a multiple upgrade is coming from VZW for the RAZR. Anyone have some real facts?
Been running the leak of this ROM for weeks now. It's great! I also just updated from 6.12.173 to 6.12.174 which was leaked yesterday (Newer DROID RAZR 6.12.174 Update Pulled and Available for Use, Fixes Search Key Force Close – Droid Life).
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Still new at this game, so might be a stupid question here. This link refers to the Droid Razr Maxx. I'm guessing it works on the Droid Razr also, correct??
Thanks! I downlloaded it to my Droid RAZR and it looks good. Now I have a comparison - the "Brightest Flashlight Free" by Goldenshoes Technologies. Any comparison already? :icon_ lala:
If you're rooted will this update unroot you?
I think you hit the wrong thread
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No your right, it does say Maxx. I'm hearing that both phones will get this update.
They are both getting the upgrade there is no difference in the phones except battery size.
It is the exact ota for both phones. Just different pdfs. Android police posted both at bottom of page.
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Wish I knew when my area will be getting this, I unfrose everything and l can't stand the bloatware on this even though I have it hidden.
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You can possibly retain root with the VooDoo Rootkeeper app from the market...it worked flawlessly for me manually installing this update.
I planned on using rootkeeper. Just wanteda (dare I say it) eta.
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A group of outstanding anglers stepped up to encourage the legislature's Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee to expand protection of our native brook trout last Thursday.
The public hearing on LD 1136 lasted until 7 pm last Thursday night, and with the exception of the testimony against the bill by DIF&W, all of the testimony encouraged the legislative committee to step up protection of our native brook trout.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Russell Black, would speed up the process of adding waters to the Heritage list, to protect the native brook trout there. For some reason, DIF&W has been resisting this, even after native brookies have been documented in these waters.
I wish I had room to publish all of the great testimony, but I've chosen, for this column, the testimony of Gary Corson of New Sharon, a lifelong advocate for native brookies who gets lots of credit for his leadership of SAM's Fishing Initiative Committee and their bill which named the brook trout our Heritage Fish and protected them in 300 ponds that had never been stocked. Gary's testimony explains the problems we all have with DIF&W's lack of action on this issue.
I'm also giving you the testimony of Emily Bastian, who led Maine Audubon's program that utilized volunteers to survey 425 remote ponds over a five year period, and who delivered passionate testimony, including the fact she quit working for Audubon when she was told to "de-emphasize the protections (for brook trout) we had promised volunteers." Emily now works for Trident Fly Fishing, which you can check out at www.tridentflyfishing.com.
Even though DIF&W Deputy Commissioner Tim Peabody spoke against the bill, he focused on the fact the agency has new people at the top of the Fisheries Division and would be stepping up its work to protect our native brook trout. Many of those in the audience were skeptical of that promise and urged the committee to act, rather than wait for the department to do something.
IFW Committee member Rep. Paul Stearns said he likes the suggestion of protecting our brook trout in law, and Peabody responded saying, "Any time you can give direction to the department, we appreciate it."
Bob Woodbury of Winslow summed up the feelings of many of us when he testified, "The state of Maine has an awesome responsibility to protect these fish."
Bob Mallard, a former fly shop owner and current national fly fishing writer, handed out detailed information on the issue including language we hope the committee will use in an amendment to the bill.
Now, here's my testimony, which focused on the economic value of our native brook trout, followed by the testimony of Gary Corson and Emily Bastian.
My Testimony
This bill will protect more of our Brook Trout and Arctic Char by including their waters in the list of Maine's Heritage Waters. Currently these native and wild (self-sustaining) populations of brook trout are protected in a list of lakes and ponds that have never been stocked or have not been stocked in twenty-five years or more. Stocking and the use of live fish as bait are prohibited to help prevent the introduction of invasive fish and disease.
The Heritage Waters list, and the initial list of nearly 300 waters where brook trout were protected, was an initiative of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine when I served SAM as its executive director and lobbyist. SAM's terrific Fishing Initiative Committee led the way on that and other important fisheries bills and acts. Then-Senator Chandler Woodcock sponsored the bill for us and DIF&W opposed it. But we overcame that opposition and eventually they joined us in supporting the legislation.
Unfortunately, they are no longer aggressively protecting native brook trout and arctic charr in other waters where they have been discovered. Starting in 2012, DIF&W, Maine Audubon, and Trout Unlimited recruited volunteers to help locate more native brook trout waters, many of which are remote hike-in ponds. We all expected the department to add these waters to the Heritage List, but they have not done that. Fewer than 40% of these newly identified waters have been added to the Heritage List and protected. That is truly unacceptable to those of us who appreciate and understand how important these trout are to not only Maine, but the entire nation. Maine is home to 97 percent of the wild brook trout waters in the Eastern United States.
In a Maine Sunday Telegram story last year, written by Deirdre Fleming, Matt Libby of Libby Camps reported, "I would say that 90 percent of our fishing business is out-of-state people looking to fish for wild or native brook trout. They won't even fish in one of our very few stocked ponds that we have in our area. People are looking for native fish." Indeed they are. Harvey Calden, who has owned, with his wife Betty, Tim Pond Camps northwest of Rangeley for 35 years, said 90 percent of his clients come for the native brook trout, and half come from out of state. "The fight on the end of the line is twice what it would be for a (hatchery) fish that is twice as big. They're really strong," Calden said.
It's the same story at the northern tip of Maine at 130-year-old Red River sporting camp, which sits within a 22,000-acre of public reserve land that is home to 17 wild brook trout waters.
"The single biggest question I get asked is: 'Are your fish native?' said Red River owner Jen Brophy. "It's just the mystique about catching a native trout, it's something wild, it's not farm-raised. There is an allure to it."
Kathy Hoerbinger of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, said she and her husband, Marty, have fished all over the world, most recently Mongolia, but their "hearts are at Libby Camps" because of the trout that are native and wild.
So yes, there is a strong economic argument for this bill as well.
This bill seeks to make the criteria for adding waters to the Heritage list, the same as what was used to create the initial lists. Specifically, while the criteria for creating the original lists was science-based and defined by the legislature, the criteria for adding waters was left to the IFW Commissioner's discretion, and allowed to be based on non-scientific criteria set by the commissioner. That turned out to be a mistake.
Gary Corson's testimony
I'd like to begin by saying I understand and share the concerns the proponents of this bill have, and I support the concept of the proposal. I've attached a portion of an email I sent to Commissioner Woodcock in July 2016 that's relevant to adding SHFW and confirms my concerns and disappointment with the process of adding waters. (See Attachment 1)
In that email I acknowledged that the Department was adding 3 new waters, I left the survey project waters to those involved with that effort (MA, TU, and the Department) and focused my comments on 4 waters that qualified in 2014 and 2015, by reaching the 25-year mark.
In addition, I recommended "Better communications between stakeholders, the public, and the Department, would go a long way in resolving some of these issues".
It's disappointing to be here today, 9 months later, and report nothing has changed except now there are 5 waters that qualify for SHFW status because of the 25-year clause.
I'm testifying NFNA because I'm not sure the bill does what needs to be done and as written, it was confusing to me. As mentioned I support the concept and I do believe that some action is needed. I'm more in support than I am opposed.
I believe we're here today as a result of the Departments decision to stall or put off adding qualified waters to the SHFW list and the email regarding the Commissioner's criteria. The following is my take on that criteria.
1. Has to be a lake or pond.
2. Cannot be stocked within the last 25 years inter/intra specific stocking
Both are relevant to the statute and appropriate criteria when adding a water to the list. I'd suggest, if a water is a BKT/BBC water and meets these 2 criteria, it should be proposed.
3. Must be a Principal Fishery – (See attachment 2 – Definition of a Principal Fishery)
This definition is subjective, it's interpreted differently between regional staff, and from what I've seen of the data regarding principal fishery status, it could be a whole lot better.
In addition, there's no way a newly survey pond could possibly meet this definition.
4. Waters need to support all life stages – New criteria, I'd need more information and a better understanding of the intent before I'd feel comfortable commenting on it.
Basically numbers 3 and 4 are an attempt to define BKT or BBC waters referenced in the SHFW statute. As written, the statute doesn't stipulate a principal fishery, or a fishery that has a presence of BKT/BBC. There can be a big difference between these 2-options. This is a matter I believe deserves some attention and at some point will need clarification.
5. Cannot be a water planned for a restoration project – This completely disregards SHFW statute. The statute prohibits stocking period. The Heritage legislation has been amended twice to allow restoration projects, both were accomplished through the legislative process. And that's as it should be. You should be aware that in one instance this Committee rejected a proposal to restore a BKT population as a result of public hearing testimony. From what I've seen, the current process works, it's proven itself to work, and should not be altered.
6. Social concerns – To consider social concerns as criteria when proposing a qualified water circumvents the intent of the legislation. That's not to say that social concerns couldn't or wouldn't exclude the addition of a particular water. Those concerns however should come out of the required public hearing process that follows the water being proposed.
I find it hard to believe that Commissioner Woodcock actually thinks the above criteria (3 thru 6) should play a role in adding waters to the Heritage list. To me, it sounds more like some ones criteria to keep waters off a list.
I'd remind the Committee that the SHFW legislation is about protecting some of the last wild and native brook trout (BKT) and arctic char (BBC) populations in the Country. As such, I was under in the impression the Department/commissioner were expected to propose all lakes and ponds that qualify. (ie. BKT/BBC waters that have never been stocked or haven't been stocked in the last 25-years.) Proposing waters for addition is only a part (and I would contend a small part) of the process. The public hearing process following the proposal, is where the rubber hits the road and where the final decision to add a water or not should be decided. That final decision is made by the Commissioner and the Departments Advisory Council. That's the process. To not propose qualified waters I believe: 1. circumvents the intent of the SHFW legislation, 2. limits the public's involvement in the process, and 3. has the potential to put some of the Country's last wild and native BKT/BBC waters at risk.
I'd like to close my testimony by leaving the Committee with some personal thoughts on the SHFW. I think the SHFW legislation is the best piece of legislation pertaining to the management of Maine's wild and native salmonid fisheries ever enacted. If we take care of this legislation, it will be more important 30, 40, 50, years from now, then it is today.
The first time I testified before this committee was in the 1980's, I was very active on legislative matters concerning the State's fisheries from the late 1990's through 2014. There's nothing I've been a part of in Augusta that I'm more proud of then my involvement with the SHFW legislation. I made my living off this resource, and I know how important it is. The enactment of the SHFW legislation in 2005 identified and protected some of the State's most valuable fisheries, and it could be argued that value increases with every passing day.
As much as I support and respect the Commissioner and Frances, and as much as I appreciate some of the changes in staff and structure at the Division leadership level, I remain concerned with the Departments commitment to responsibly manage these waters. The testimony I heard on LD 1018 a few weeks ago certainly didn't lessen my concerns; we still have fisheries division staff that have never bought into the SHFW legislation; the Department's history of opposition to the SHFW is well documented; and, there's no doubt in my mind, that left up to the Department, there would be no list of SHFW.
I urge the committee to stay involved with any and all changes to the SHFW legislation. And, I think it's important that you maintain an active role in the management of these waters.
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to testify.
Emily Bastian's testimony
My name is Emily Bastian, I am a degreed Ecologist. I have worked for Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, National Park Service, Audubon, Appalachian Mountain Club and currently Trident Fly Fishing. This includes spending five years working for Maine Audubon as the Project Coordinator for the joint Audubon/TU/MDIFW Brook Trout Survey Project.
Maine's State Heritage Fish Law offers the only formal, documented and legally binding protection for our self-sustaining native brook trout and Arctic char. Currently these fish are protected in a list of lakes and ponds that have never been stocked or have not been stocked in 25 years or more. The law does nothing more than prohibit IFW from doing and allowing what their own biologists have said is harmful to wild brook trout and Arctic char – stocking and the use of live minnows as bait. It does not eliminate the use of worms or change the bag or length limits on any waters.
Since 2011, hundreds of volunteer anglers have taken to the field on their own time and at their own expense to assist IFW in identifying and documenting previously-unknown populations of pond-dwelling wild native brook trout. These ponds have never been stocked and contain what are in most cases – if not all – genetically-pure brook trout. To date, more than 400 volunteers have donated nearly 8,000 cumulative hours to the project and have surveyed over 425 remote ponds – a tremendous dedication of effort and show of support for Maine's native brook trout.
From the beginning, the project partners – IFW, TU and ME Audubon – all agreed on a very simple and clear goal for the Brook Trout Pond Survey Project: "To identify previously undocumented self-sustaining native brook trout populations in remote Maine ponds and to protect brook trout in those survey waters where they are confirmed."
Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the Brook Trout Pond Survey volunteers, IFW biologists have been able to confirm 70 previously unknown self-sustaining native brook trout ponds since the project began.
The brook trout in these ponds are highly vulnerable. Many of these ponds are tiny – less than ten acres – and therefore extremely vulnerable to exploitation, invasive fish (including minnows) and competition with stocked fish. They are some of the most fragile waters in the state.
We promised that these waters would be put on the Heritage Fish List to protect them from invasive minnows and stocking. This goal was documented on our websites, our presentations to volunteers and our recruitment materials.
While volunteers worked hard to identify previously unknown wild brook trout ponds, the partners fell dangerously behind in securing the promised protections for these waters. As the years passed the problem worsened, with a larger percent of the newly discovered waters left unprotected at the end of each year. Ultimately, our identification and documentation of these waters without protecting them was doing more harm than good by removing their anonymity and failing to replace it with formal restrictions.
Of the roughly 70 ponds where volunteers identified wild native brook trout and IFW biologists confirmed their presence, only 23 of them have been added to the Heritage List to date. Approximately 10 of the ponds omitted date back to the beginning of the project, leaving them exposed and unprotected for over five years. That over two-thirds of the confirmed native brook trout ponds have been left entirely unprotected is unacceptable.
I tried to address this by working with the project partners. I suggested a change in strategy, as our ongoing meetings with IFW were not yielding the desired results. Around this time last year, I was informed by Bob Mallard that he was helping George Smith with some legislation which they hoped would address the addition of our survey waters as well as other applicable waters that IFW was failing to add the Heritage List. As Project Coordinator, I was the one who sent the volunteers into the field, and I was eager to bring closure and fulfill the promises we had made to them.
Unfortunately, TU and Audubon decided to stay the course and continue to negotiate with IFW which to date had yielded limited results rather than the support the legislation. As the months passed with no measurable progress and public pressure to address the problem increased, the project partners decided to deemphasize their promise of protection and focus primarily on identification, a decision I was not comfortable with since I had been telling the volunteers that our goal was protection not just identification.
For five years, I traveled the backwoods of Maine working with volunteers to locate and survey the last remaining unknown wild native brook trout waters in the state and possibly the country. I planned the survey trips, fed the volunteers, helped change blown-out tires deep in the woods (which volunteers were not reimbursed for) and poured through maps with compass and GPS to plot a course into these uncharted waters, blazing trails for miles so we could determine if wild native brook trout were present and gain protection for them if they were.
We all knew why we were there: There was never any doubt nor any debate. Never once did the thought of the partners failing to provide the protections they promised enter our minds. Everyone involved acted in good faith and we went where we were sent at whatever hardship the effort required. We did so in a sincere desire to protect – not simply identify – these populations of our state heritage fish.
I did what the project partners told me to do. I worked tirelessly to recruit and train volunteers, and I sent them into the woods with the promise that the waters they discovered would be protected. The volunteers did their part as well, taking time from their busy schedules and working for free to help protect this invaluable resource. They gave their blood to the hordes of blackflies and their sweat to the damp hot woods. They did so because they believed in the mission, and they believed in us. They believed we would keep our promises.
The volunteers came from all walks of life. From rich to poor, from urban to rural, from old to young. While most were from Maine, some came from out-of-state because they felt so strongly about what we were doing. But no matter where they came from or who they were, they were all license-buying anglers with one thing in common: A love for Maine's native brook trout and a belief that these special fish need and are deserving of protection.
The partners made a promise to me. I made a promise to the volunteers. And the partners reiterated that promise to the volunteers. But we failed to keep that promise, and for that we should be ashamed.
When it became apparent that IFW was not going to hold up their end of the bargain, rather than embrace a new plan of action, the other partners opted to change the emphasis of the project so we would not make promises we could not – or more accurately would not – keep. I was instructed to change my presentation and website to de-emphasize protection and focus on identification. "We need to be careful what we say about protection," I was told by one project partner.
I poured my heart and soul into the joint Audubon/TU/IFW Brook Trout Survey Project for five years of my life. Even when I knew we were falling behind and failing to deliver on our promises, I stuck with it and tried to find a way to address our failings because I believed in the mission and was unwilling to abandon the volunteers or our wild native brook trout. I was willing to do whatever it took to protect these fish and I refused to let the volunteers down.
When I was directed to change my presentation and website to de-emphasize the protections we had promised the volunteers, I refused to accept it or be part of it. I was stunned and disappointed that the project partners were willing to change the format of the project, and renege on their promise to the volunteers rather than stand up for what was right. I was unwilling to deceive my volunteers, and I resigned rather than compromise my beliefs.
Resigning from Audubon and walking away from the Brook Trout Survey Project was a gut-wrenching decision. It was as much a calling as it was a job, and something I truly believed in. I did it for the fish, not the money. Only when it became abundantly clear that we had changed directions and there was nothing I could do to change that did I act.
I lost my job and my place in the Maine trout conservation community trying to protect these ponds and honor our promise to the volunteers. I am here today pleading with you to uphold those promises, so we can continue the important work that was started in 2005 when a group of concerned anglers fought for the passage of the State Heritage Fish Law to gain some much-needed protections for our wild native brook trout and Arctic char.
The only way we will gain the protections promised to the volunteers and prevent this from happening again is to amend the law to require, not suggest, that IFW add the newly discovered never-stocked native brook trout ponds and other applicable waters to the Heritage list.
There is absolutely no biological reason why the rules for adding new waters to the Heritage list should be different than the criteria for establishing the initial lists. The bill before you today seek to make the criteria for adding waters to the Heritage list the same as that used to create the initial lists. How can we view creating the lists differently than we do maintaining them going forward?
The legislature unanimously passed the State Heritage Fish Law in 2005. No one involved believed that it was intended to be static. The precedent has been set as the law has been amended in 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2014.
It is fair to say, and the facts support the position, that IFW has never supported the Heritage Fish law. They went back to turn-of-the-century federal stocking reports of questionable reliability to keep waters off the list because they had been stocked. They interjected the theory of "indirectly stocked" to omit waters without doing any research to confirm whether stocked fish from a secondary source had – or even could – migrate into the target water. They have failed to add waters that meet the 25-years-since-last-stocking threshold, and refused to add the waters the volunteers worked so hard to identify.
If we all agree that change is warranted, we should document that change via amendment so it is binding and so it is implemented as quickly as possible. While "agreements" can be undone with minimal effort, amendments are legally binding and not easily undone. Amending the State Heritage Fish Law assures that these changes cannot be reversed without legislative approval in the future.
I do not believe that anyone in this rooms disagrees that we have a problem that needs to be addressed. The only question is how to address it. This isn't about turf or avoiding hurting anyone's feelings – it's about protecting wild native brook trout and living up to the promises we have made to volunteers who went where we sent them and did what we told them to do in the name of protecting our native brook trout.
IFW will likely tell you that they will address our concerns through internal processes and that a law is not necessary. But one must ask: Why did IFW not do this before now when we had to come here and when there was nothing to prevent them from doing so? And why did they not act when the other project partners asked them to?
There is no reason to delay this and many reasons not to. An exhaustive, time-consuming analysis as IFW may suggest is necessary is wasteful and will only serve to delay the outcome and compromise the result. We have lost much in a relatively short time, and delay only threatens the resource even further.
In 1993, Maine had 432 never-stocked native brook trout ponds. When the State Heritage Fish Law was passed in 2005, we were down to less than 300: That constitutes a loss of roughly 35% in just over a decade. At the rate we were going, we were on track to lose all our never-stocked brook trout lakes and ponds in my lifetime. And that is something that I am unwilling to accept.
The situation regarding invasive minnow infestations is no better. In the last decade, we have lost two of twelve rare Arctic char populations and numerous wild brook trout populations to invasive smelts and shiners. Bald Mountain Pond, also home to rare Arctic char, recently succumbed to invasive smelts. By most definitions, Maine is experiencing the worst invasive fish infestation epidemic in the nation.
Maine has been designated the last stronghold for wild native brook trout, and is home to the only populations of Arctic char left in the lower 48. We have a responsibility to protect and preserve this irreplaceable and valuable ecological resource. We owe it to the hundreds of volunteers who donated thousands of hours surveying remote waters across the state to make good on our promise, and we owe it to the people of Maine to protect our state Heritage Fish now and into the future.
Legislation is not only the most effective way to ensure that our wild native State Heritage Fish will receive protection from stocking and the use of live fish as bait, as history has proven, it is the only way. All other efforts to gain these protections have failed.
Failing to amend the law will result in a partial solution and a delayed and incomplete implementation. Legislative action acknowledges the hard work of those who brought this to the table, and the volunteers we sent into the field to find these waters, while requiring that IFW do what they are supposed to do–protect the resource. As members of the State Legislature, you have the power to act. You can bring closure to what has taken five years to bring to the table.
Please support LD 1236: An Act to Improve Maine's Heritage Fish List. Thank you for your time and careful consideration.


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Three and a half minutes?
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Filling speaking time has never been a challenge for me. The art of Brevity, on the other hand, is my white whale that I am forever trying to capture. This is why I prefer to use Twitter over Facebook: the 140-character limit forces me to use words economically. When I first started this blog, my goal for each post was 500 words or less. Through a concession to current realities, that ceiling has been pushed up to 750-1,000 words, because brevity…
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Now, this tale has been told and retold for millennia, with many renditions of it over the years spanning not only documentary-style investigations of the account and Biblical commentaries, but also novels, films, and even comics ! As such, this will not be an exhaustive look at the account, but rather a refresher concerning some of the finer details of the matter, though even within this somewhat abridged look we may yet find some aspects that have long been overlooked…
Jericho was an impressive ancient metropolis. Identified by some scholars as being directly associated with the foregone Bet Yerah, "the House of the Moon God," we can ascertain from archaeology some intriguing details. Though some researchers have made the claim that it was quite limited in size, others suspect, based on other remains, that it may have been as large as 50 acres in size; an outpost of a larger developed area. It possessed great defensive walls, strengthened with rectangular towers, built in three parallel and connecting runs, standing some 25 feet high, and possessing a southern gate made of basalt!¹
This impressive city was the capital of Amorites, and it was the strongest of seven nations occupying the Promised Land. Think back to Genesis 15, in which God gives to Abraham and his descendants the Promised Land. As Abraham is put into a deep and supernatural sleep, God makes His covenant with him, in the process revealing a prophesy:
"And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. (Genesis 15:12-16)"
While much ground is covered there within the context of His covenant, the point relevant to this particular discussion is found there in the last line: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. You see, the Amorites were in the land then, during Abraham's time, but the full extent of their depravity had not yet blossomed, but later, in Joshua's time, Abraham's descendants would see fully the extent of their vileness.
The Amorites, their greatest stronghold being found within the high walls of Jericho, were a wicked nation. Sexual perversion was thick in every aspect of their lives, and they were obsessively immoral in their culture. They sacrificed their children to their demonic gods, shedding innocent blood before idols, and casting screaming infants into raging furnaces. They were a wicked, wicked people, and their gods represented the epitome of this wickedness and vileness. On the whole, most these people, sadly, were too entrenched in their despicable ways to ever be able to crawl out.² Rahab and her family, as is often the case in these matter (consider Genesis 18 and how it seems to indicate that Lot and his family may have been the only righteous people in Sodom), may have been the only people living in that city that were decent enough, morally and even genetically, that were capable of being sparred.
One other aspect of their existence often goes unconsidered. The Amorites, like many of the occupiers of the Promised Land, were not purely human, but rather the descendants of their gods; they were the remnants of the Antediluvian giants, those hybrid creatures spawned from the unholy union of human women and fallen angels! Consider the words of Amos 2:9-10:
"Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite."
You see, it wasn't just that these people wouldn't turn against their wicked ways if given the opportunity, it was more than that. Their corruption ran as deep as their own genes. They were evil on a level that was unavoidable and ultimately unforgivable. The fullness of the Amorites, just as God had long prior told Abraham, had come into its fullness, and now it was time to cut those giants down to size!
The city of Jericho knew that the Israelites were waiting in the wings, preparing an assault against them, thus they had the city on lockdown, the gates shut tightly and not a soul was allowed to move into or out of the settlement. The Lord came to Joshua declaring "…See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour." Now, I'd like to point out here the phrase "mighty men of valour." Sound familiar? It should if you have read Genesis 6, for this phrase in the original Hebrew [Gibbowr: Strong's Number H1368 – גִּבּוֹר] is the same use in Genesis 6:4 (There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.), and it was very often a direct reference to those antediluvian giants, those hybrid creatures that were behind so much of the trouble in the early days of our world. Considering the words of Amos in regard to this, we are left with little alternative but to accept that the Amorites were large and inhuman creatures. Anyway, that aside, we can now move on…
The Lord continued with Joshua, giving him very specific instructions for how to take Jericho. He told him to take all of his warriors and march around the city one a day for six days, and with them following behind the warriors, was to go the Ark of the Covenant. Behind them all were to be seven priests armed with ram-horn trumpets. This was to go on for six days, a march around the whole of the city, with the warriors remaining quiet and without a word, and the trailing priests blowing continuously on their trumpets. The seventh day, though, was to be different.
Joshua was told by the Lord that on the seventh day he was to lead his people on a march around the City of Jericho not once but seven times now! Utter silence was to be kept for the first six circuits, but at the close of the seventh march, as the priests blew their trumpets Joshua told to his warriors that they were to shout along with them, and he told his people of how the Lord has cursed the whole city, and all in it, except for Rahab and her family because of their help. He told them not to take a thing for themselves as possessions, but only the silver and gold for it was consecrated as the Lord's. With that, as the trumpets blew the final time, they listed to Joshua's words: "…Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city. (Joshua 6:16)"
Amidst the blare of the horns and the shouts of the men, a new sound of crumbling stone and rumbling earth stretched across the land as the great walls of Jericho collapsed! The warriors rushed in, destroying all within that accursed place, killing with swords and burning with fire all that resided there, save for the Harlot and her family, whom were spared because of their good deeds towards the Israelites.
Some have attributed this stunning victory to a providential earthquake, a shattering, if regional, tremor that upset the foundations of those impressive fortifications. God set it in motion long before, they claim, and Joshua and his forces were in just the right time at just the right moment for this to occur as necessary. I see no reason why that could not be so, but given the timely appearance of the Stranger in the Night, that Captain of the Host of the Lord, who no doubt heralded the arrival of a great contingent of celestial warriors, who is to say that they were not the ones who took down those walls, an invisible army of powerful beings fighting on the side of the Israelites, delivering into their hands the imposing Amorites? However it happened, God was certainly behind it, and it was a conquest that was to be remembered forever!
- Negev, Avraham, ed. (2001), "Beth Yerah," Archaeological encyclopedia of the Holy Land. pp. 88–89
- "The Fall of the Moon City," Dr. David Livingston, davelivingston.com
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 sebagai pengembangan versi sebelumnya, bukan hanya dari berbedanya para pemain dalam sebuah klub sebelumnya tetapi juga dari fitur-fitur yang terbaru. Tidak lagi akan AI dibantu intervensi selama pertandingan, pengguna sekarang akan perlu untuk merasakan dan bereaksi terhadap ancaman intuitif sebagai lawan untuk mengejar bola dan melewati tidak akan secara otomatis mencapai pemain terdekat. Sebaliknya, rutinitas memfasilitasi kontrol penuh kedua pemain dan tindakan mereka dipilih dalam segala hal untuk memberikan kontrol pada setiap pemain atas setiap gerakan.
* Total Control: The PES Production team has enhanced the 360-degree passing ratio, offering unprecedented levels of control over every pass, shot, headed ball, throw-in and through ball. This allows users to pass the ball into space, and move their play with total freedom. Players must precisely weight their passes and second-guess the runs of their teammates and exploit their movement, while lofted through-balls have accuracy.
* Shot Stamina Gauge: In addition to the generic power gauge, the Shot Stamina meter details the player's exact level of fitness. Constantly sprinting will affect the player's movements and will have an adverse affect on his stats, with passes going awry and a loss of pace.
* Defender AI: Players now also hold their positions naturally, no longer chasing any ball that enters their area; preferring to close down the attacker and force them into a mistake.
* Animation and Player Physics: The PES Production team has totally reworked every element of in-game animation. These additions will become clear before even kick-off, with the players enjoying fluid, natural movements, with more realistic acceleration and inertia than ever before. The physicality between players is also improved, which was a priority requested in PES forums. Jostling and blocking now looks stunning, while there is a larger variety of convincing tackling styles. Ambient animation also adds to the in-game atmosphere, as players adapt their running and movement styles in line with play.
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* Improved Goalkeepers: In keeping with the basis of total freedom of movement, players now have more control over their 'keeper. This greater control allows for quick roll-outs, instinctive saves, pinpoint accuracy with goal kicks, and precision ball distribution to make quicker breaks or playing down the clock easier.
* Over 100 hours of motion captured footage. Every aspect of player movement has been reworked, with more organic runs, turns, throw-ins, tackles, and interaction. The way players speed up and slow down is also more natural; while replays display elements of motion blur that bring your saved goals to vivid life.
* Tactics and Strategy: The PES Production team has implemented a 'Drag and Drop' mechanism that can be used in every aspect of team management, not just substitutions or formation changes. These settings are also animated to promote better understanding of the plays that have been altered.
* Feint Settings: The Game allows users to map key skills to a specific control area, making them available via the second stick or via specific button presses, making them more accessible than ever before. Master League Online: Master League will offer a real challenge, as users are invited to try their hand against other managers online. PES 2011 will mark the online debut for its much-loved Master League element, with players bidding against each other for the world's best players, and attempting to build a squad that can compete with the best against online peers all over the globe.
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Windows XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7 Intel Pentium IV 2.4GHz or equivalent processor 1GB RAM 8GB free hard disk space 4x DVD-ROM Drive DirectX 9.0c compatible video card. 128MB Pixel Shader 3.0 (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or AMD/ATI Radeon x1300 video card) DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card DirectX 9.0c or higher (included on Disc) Multiplayer: TCP/IP 192 kbps or higher Windows compatible keyboard 800 x 600 monitor resolution
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Lowdown: Yet another sophisticated casino heist.
The 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven was a film that created a bit of an echo out there. It was an effective thriller but also an effective comedy, it had style and it had a mighty cast of A list celebrities. To me it felt like that film took the "let's rob a bank" genre a step forward. Then came Ocean's Twelve in 2004, a film that took the genre to Europe but also took the excitement factor out of the frame and frankly bored me. And now we got to watch Ocean's Thirteen, a 2007 release I didn't bother watching upon release due to sequel fatigue syndrome. Should I have waited so long?
Ocean's Thirteen features the same gang and the same formula, only that we're back to Vegas. Al Pacino wants to rule Vegas so he builds this even harder to ignore casino while stepping on the toes of Elliot Gould. Gould's friends, including the Ocean gang led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt, take offense and decide the best way to avenge Gould's shame is to ensure Pacino's casino loses as much money as possible on its opening night; we're talking hundreds of millions on the Ocean scale.
So they go about scheming and devising ways of beating the casino at its own game. Money is not an object for them, distances mean nothing to them, and technologies that don't exist yet are readily available to our guys. Will they make it? Well, ask a silly question. More to the point, though, my main grip with Ocean's Thirteen is that it really doesn't have any thrill in the "will they make it or will they get caught" department that is so crucial to the bank robbery genre; sure, they have a difficulty here and there and there is the unexpected, but it's all too smooth and too predictable. Too sequely is probably the best phrase here.
So what are we left with? Lots of style. It's not just in the acting, it's not just in the Vegas aura of artificial glamor, it's in the way the film is directed: mostly the use of high contrast, highly saturated shots throughout. Ocean's Thirteen has a very distinct look and feel to it that nicely supplements the sophistication of the robbery and the overall nice comedy taking place in front of us.
Representative scene:
Our gang's Matt Damon wears a sophisticated bit of material on his face that seduces a woman so much she falls for him and lets him go ahead with a major part of a robbery. Well, if such material really existed, it would probably be the best selling item in the world, wouldn't it?
My point is simple. Ocean's Thirteen stretches the credibility barrier a bit too much. Sure, they've done it before, but in Ocean's Eleven we probably didn't notice it as much because the entire premises were new; now we're more sharp eyed on one hand while on the other the film producers feel they need to go even more over the top than before.
Now, going over the top in the context of what is, after all, a comedy is not necessarily bad. But when we're expected to believe our heroes can bring the device that dug the British Tunnel into Vegas and use it directly under Pacino's hotel without being noticed – twice! – then there is obviously a severe over the top issue at hand.
Overall: Fun to watch, but really nothing special. Nothing like the first Ocean, that is. 3 out of 5 stars.


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Angel Di Maria, Marcos Rojo and Sergio Aguero were all on target as Argentina booked their place in the Copa America final after thrashing Paraguay 6-1.
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Oak Clinic Group is focusing on women's issues such as infertility treatment, artificial insemination⁄in vitro fertilization.
Home > Infertility > Testicular Sperm Extraction(TESE)
〔Sumiyoshi〕Testicular Sperm Extraction(TESE)
For the special technique in the case of male infertility, there is the method called "testicular sperm extraction" (TESE).
This is the method of taking the sperm directly from the tissue of the testis in azoospermia when sperm cannot be found in the ejaculated semen. Anesthesia will be used and a very small incision will be made and the tissue will be collected. This is a very simple procedure which can be completed in little time, and at our clinic, we are in alliance with the doctor of urology and we will perform it arranged to the OPU day.
When the cut open testicle is looked at with a magnifying glass, the places where there is sperm will appear as white. The method used to take tissue while looking through the magnifying glass is called, "Micro TESE". Since we can choose the portion where there seems to be sperm, it is less invasive to the testicles and it has a high success rate. At our clinic, all cases will undergo Micro TESE.
The presence of sperm in the collected tissue will be checked for underneath the microscope and the sperm will be recovered and used for microinsemination or will undergo cryopreservation.
In addition, a portion of the tissue will be used for pathology testing. The tissue will be dyed and depending on the observation, we will know about the internal structure of the testicles. We will check for things such as the presence of sperm and cells that will be the origin of sperm, the developmental stage, and the cells that send nutrients to the sperm (sertoli cell), and then undergo the evaluation by means of Jonsen's Score Count.
|Jonsen's Score Count
TESE Classification Results
|Complete spermogenesis and the sperm cell layer are thickly and properly arranged and in the lumen there acknowledged to have a many number of sperm.
|There is an acknowledged numerous sperm, the sperm cell array is irregular and the lumen is narrow.
|There is around 5~10 sperm found in the seminiferous tubule.
|Sperm is not found, and a number of sperm cells are found.
|Sperm is not found, and about 5~10 sperm cells are present.
|Sperm, sperm cells are not found, and a number of spermatocytes are found.
|Sperm, sperm cells are not found, and some spermatocytes found.
|Only spermatogonia are found.
|Sperm cells are not found, only sertoli cells are found.
|Only fiber components and no cellular tissue.
At our clinic, we will culture a portion of the tissue retrieved by TESE, and we will try to attempt to induce the sperm in vitro.
Oak Medical Group has been from the time we opened, supporting the many issues of women's health, building performance and trust, and not only here in Osaka, but centering in Kansai we are receiving patients from across Japan.
Especially with our infertility treatment, we are widely covering the various tests to IVF/ICSI's Advanced Reproductive Technologies. Depending on the cause of the infertility, we are handling the treatment of each patient one by one. If you have some concerns, please don't hesitate to consult with us.
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