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Corydorus Catfish: A Primer
Corydoras catfish are one of the bread and butter fishes of the aquarium hobby, and have been since the 1930's. Bewhiskered charmers, Corydoras cats are, in many minds, THE catfish to buy for your tank.
It's the winking charm and droll attitude that makes Corys so popular. In this post, I'll demystify keeping these fish, as properly kept, Corys offer years of enjoyment. Keeping Corys in groups is the thing to do, for their security and your enjoyment. A dozen of the smaller species in a 55 gallon is not too many. Double or triple that for the tiny dwarf species.
First, nomenclature. The Genus name - Corydoras, was erected in 1803 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède with the first discovered and described species; Corydoras geoffroy. At the time he thought the head of the fish was covered by bony plates (it isn't), so he called it Cory for a cuirass (a helmet) and doras for skin, which in this case was on the head. He anglicized the Greek 'Kory' for the Genus name. So Corys are literally 'helmet headed'.
Since that time over 350 species of Corydoras have been discovered, with more discovered almost monthly. Around 150 have been named to science; the others must wait their turn. Until then, they receive a 'C' number, such as C-153, meaning the 153rd discovered that does not have a scientific name.
Corys are native to leaf-strewn streams of the Amazon basin, where they hunt aquatic worms, insect larvae and small crustaceans among the leaves. In the vast majority of the time their stream mates are Apistogramma species Cichlids and swarms of small, colorful tetras. Lurking predators like the Genus Crenicichla and in some waters, Hoplias, mean that both the Cichlids and the Corydoras key on the tetras. If the tetras are acting cool and unconcerned, so then are the Apistos and Corys. If the tetras scatter en masse, the Apistos and Corys take cover. That dynamic is a clue on what to keep with your Corys to see natural behavior.
For Corys to be at their best, keep them in groups, with the more you have the better and more entertaining they'll be. They are perfect for the planted aquarium as long as they have swimming room at the front, and they are perfectly peaceful fish.; even the smallest tetra species is safe with them. Corys all prefer soft neutral to acidic water, down to pH 6.5 or lower, but are adaptable; but don't go over 7.5 and moderate hardness if you wish to keep your Corys for years instead of weeks or months. Almost all the common Cory species are farmed, thus can adapt to different water parameters, but wild caught examples MUST have soft, acidic water to live, much less thrive.
As for feeding, Corydoras never met a worm they didn't like. Frozen or live, if they are suitable size, they'll very happily eat them, and do best if they have them. Small frozen shrimp, like Mysis, are good, as well as high-quality small sinking pellets. Mine adore frozen black mosquito larvae, and live California black worms.
Another clue is the leaves; Corys must have a softer substrate. Poor water circulation and sharp stone gravel can abrade whiskers, and since Corys use them to detect food, makes them crippled for life. Rounded pea gravel is OK, but make sure your tank is well filtered. It's strongly indicated that higher levels of Nitrate sink and hug the substrate, which most cory species spend the vast majority of their time, and can also lead to whisker degradation.
Thus sandy substrates are best, or even better, covered with suitable leaves. I use the original formulae of Eco-Complete with my Corys, as it's quite sandy. All of them look best over darker substrates, especially the lighter-colored species. All will be more richly colored on a dark substrate.
So, in a well-planted, well-filtered, soft water aquarium with tetras and dwarf Cichlids, Corys feel right at home. Many, many species are available, but you can keep them all just the same.
Now, some species.
Perhaps my favorite of the family is Corydoras guapore, of the Guapore River drainage in Brazil. I see them the most, as I have a dozen of them in the 75 to my right as I write this.
Topping out a shade over two inches, C. guapore is a very yellowish, brown-speckled bronze with a black blotch on the base of the tail, reaching up to the back of the adipose fin. The yellow bronze are on the top and bottom rays of the tail, which is otherwise clear, and on the lead rays of the other fins. Eyes are a silvery yellow. The snout is petite and points rather out, instead of down like most corys.
C. guapore spend a lot of their time up in the plants cruising the leaves for tidbits, and often rest on the leaves, even rolling over on them in their sleep. Sinking food brings them down. Agile little fellows, mine pursue live Daphnia with gusto, just as fast if not faster than the tetras do.
Since they are small, live, frozen and prepared must be suitably sized. A vegetable-based pellet is strongly recommended, as it intensifies their colors.
As they are quite small, very passive fish are the rule. Mine are tanked with Lemon and Rosy tetras, marbled Hatchet fish and a dwarf Ancistrus species. They have proven to be quite durable at 77 degrees, but from my research, that's the upper limit for this species.
In breeding, the school does it en masse and the vast majority of the eggs are on fine and broad-leaved plants. The fry grow rapidly on a diet of live microworms, followed by baby brine shrimp and sifted Daphnia. Mixing the microworms with small, pelleted foods toward the end of the time with the worms usually gets the little Corys to accept prepared foods.
A cooling, perhaps five degrees below tank temperature, twenty percent water change, when there's a thunderstorm in your area about half the time triggers breeding. Filtered rainwater is best for the partial change, but distilled or reverse osmosis water can work.
The school does very little roaming at night, and most of the time sleeps in the nooks and crannies of a large piece of driftwood in the tank.
A very cute, rather colorful little fish. May take you some time to find them, and they aren't cheap since they are still mostly wild caught and in demand, but well worth seeking out if you have a suitable tank for them.
The first Cory widespread in the hobby and first commercially bred is Corydoras aeneus, the Bronze Catfish of Trinidad; an island off the coast of Venezuela.
This fish was introduced freely into the US hobby in 1933, making it the grand potentiate Cory of the aquarium. Simply a green-yellow bronze on top and on the head, with a pinky-white lower half in it's native self, the Bronze Catfish has been around long enough several man-made variations have appeared. Most common is the albino form, where the fish is a pinkish white, and a long- finned form, which hinders the fish's ability to swim.
Wild caught examples are glittering little fish, though the more naturally-colored farmed form does shine a bit in the light when properly kept.
C. aeneus tops out at 3 inches, making it one of the larger species. They are very omnivorous, and will even eat soft algae if they find it while prowling the bottom realm. Thus, adding blanched fresh vegetables and fresh fruit will result in the best color and health for your fish. Frozen shrimp, insect larvae, worms, and live worms if available and clean, are very avidly eaten. Mine liked peach halves a lot.
Males are a touch smaller and slimmer than the females, which are wider when viewed from the top and visibly heavier-bodied than the males. Best temps for C. aeneus are 75 to 79 degrees. They do best in moderately soft water with a pH between 6.5 to 7.5.
Planted tanks with driftwood and stones are perfect for a group of Bronze Catfish. They hide somewhat under the bright light necessary for planted tanks, so floating plants over the swimming area are very helpful for proper viewing of this species.
In such tanks, Corydoras aeneus are almost ridiculously easy to breed. A cooling (perhaps five degrees below tank temperature) with filtered rainwater, distilled water or reverse osmosis water when a low pressure system is in your area will nearly always result in eggs all over your tank in the morning.
It's very worthwhile to home breed your fish, as the offspring will be healthier and much more colorful than the parents. In my culture manual section of foods for egg-laying fry, microworms are the perfect first food for your baby Corys. It's here
There are several variations in colors of wild C. aeneus, so keep your eyes out for them.
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A stunning silver-white with black and yellow-orange accents is Corydoras adolfoi, of small black-water tributaries of the Rio Negro of Brazil.
The flanks of this two and a quarter-inch fish are a shiny silvery white. A mask of black is over the eyes, and behind it, is a bright orange stripe that changes to a lemon yellow as it goes down Adolfo's Cory. A broad black stripe starts at the dorsal fin on the back of the fish, and ends at the base of the tail. Fins are accented a bit with the silver-white, but are basically clear.
On a very dark, even black substrate, C. adolfoi has no equal in looks in the Corydoras clan. They are libel to blush unseen, unless you keep them with a large school of smaller tetras, like Neons. I keep 18 of these Corys with 12 dozen Hyphessobrycon heterorhabdus, as the red, gold and black stripe of the tetras complement the Corys' markedly, and keeps these little catfish in view all the time.
As much as all Corys like worms, C. adolfoi absolutely LOVES them. No Cory species I have work live Tubifex ensconced the substrate out to eat them the way a troupe of adolfoi can. They are very happy with any live worm you can culture; white, Grindal, small red worms, California black worms - adolfoi adore them all. Even frozen substitutes are avidly eaten, as well as Mysid shrimp, mosquito larvae - anything small, meaty, alive or frozen that's insect larvae or crustacean-based are optimal food for your group of adolfoi. Two or three different small pelleted foods can be part of their diet, but for optimum health, live and/or frozen foods must be a large part of the menu.
They really need a soft, slightly to moderately acidic planted tank to thrive. Driftwood will be a favorite haunt. Filtering through peat is helpful, since these are black water fish.
About a third of Corydoras adolfoi available in the hobby are farm bred in South America and Europe; the rest are wild caught. They aren't difficult to breed, as a cooling change as described in the breeding procedure for C. aeneus works for adolfoi, though they don't scatter eggs willy-nilly like aeneus does. In this species, the female adolfoi carries four or five fertilized eggs at a time with her anal fins, and very carefully sticks them to my bleheri species sword plant leaves. About 25 to 35 eggs are deposited.
As easy as they are to breed, raising the fry isn't. If you don't know how to or don't want to culture microworms, you'll have no hope of raising the fry.
The fry tank HAS to be soft and acid; pH 6.5 and hardness between 2 and 4 is optimal, and it HAS to be kept VERY clean. Fifty-percent water changes three to five times a day is not too much. The fry will take live microworms readily, but it's the next step in foods that's the problem; they won't eat prepared foods.
To my experience, kept with other Corydoras species fry usually gets the adolfoi fry to learn to eat small prepared foods, but not always. Having live baby brine shrimp and live small Daphnia on hand just in cause is vital.
Perhaps this species, as well as the C. guapore, are the most commercially viable Cory species to breed, as they are always in very high demand.
One of the cutest of the clan are Corydoras panda, the Panda Cory of small, leaf-strewn tributaries of the Pachitea and Ucayali River systems in Peru. For reasons only known by the scientist who named them, the Panda species name refers to the Chinese mammal.
This 2-inch catfish is a pinky orange with a mask of black over the eyes, black in the dorsal fin and a black blotch at the base of the tail. These are rotund little fellows; rather high bodied; a tiny chunk of cute Cory. Though they aren't inexpensive, Panda Corys in groups of more than a dozen are a very pleasant sight. They school together more tightly than any Cory species I've kept, save for the dwarf species.
The planted aquarium is ideal for your Panda Cory group. Though they will tolerate water up to pH 7.4 and very moderate hardness, they do best and are most disease resistant in the soft and acidic water; down to pH 6.0. Plants along the back and sides, allowing a good deal of swimming room in front, and with driftwood, is the best setup for these catfish. They will retire in the evenings to the plants and wood, as they would in their native waters. Temperatures between 72 and 77 are best. Dark sandy substrates really set off the colors of these Corys.
As they do come from mountain streams, one must keep dissolved Oxygen levels at no less that 8 mg/l for the Pandas' continual health. Given sympathetic surroundings and good, varied frozen, live and prepared foods, Pandas live more than five years. My group of 25 has been with me since early 2003 and are still going strong and still breed with vigor. They breed like other Corys; a cooling change when a thunderstorm nears the area.
I've found them very hardy in my pH 6.8 softwater planted tanks, and their color is outstanding with occasional live foods.
Perhaps the second-most common species of Corys after C. aeneus is Corydoras paleatus, the Peppered Cory of all over the Amazon Basin, and is also one of the largest, at nearly four inches long.
One of the two species available in a man-made albino form, the Peppered Cory is farmed in huge numbers in Asia and Florida. I'd strongly suggest getting your Peppered Corys that were bred in Florida farms, as the Asian examples have appeared over the last five or six years with a number of mysterious ailments that makes Peppered Corys die in a few days to a few weeks after introduction.
Healthy examples have pleasing grey and black markings on a pinky-silver ground. In exceptional fish, the dorsal sprouts to flowing magnificence in the males. As to feeding; the same as other Corys in this list, though the size of food sources will have to scale up as the fish grow. Live worms are of great benefit with Peppered Corys, as it tends to make them more active and vital.
Despite their adult size, Peppered Corys are just as fond of, and happy with, a group of their fellows as other Corys. A group of at least eight in a larger container, say a 75 gallon, is an endlessly entertaining show as they roll and tumble around.
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Nearly bulletproof hardy when established, Peppered Corys prefer bright water with a near-neutral pH and moderately soft. They are ideal catfish for the large planted aquarium, as they are more in scale in such surroundings with their adult size, and seem to enjoy the tanks. Peppered Corys are adaptable, since they are commercially bred, but extremes in hardness and pH should be avoided. They do best in temps between 75-78, to my experience.
As an aside, none other than the famed Naturalist Charles Darwin himself discovered Peppered Corys during his voyage on the 'Beagle' in the 1830's.
By far the smallest Cory species are the two dwarves - Corydoras pygmaeus and C. habrosus - of Brazil and Columbia, respectively.
Both top out at just over an inch in total length, and their propensity to school en masse in the middle third of a tank caused them to be called 'Tetra Corys' for many decades. Being so small, tankmates must be chosen with great care, lest they be eaten. Small neon-tetra-size fish are ideal, but most barb species are out, save for Cherry Barbs, as they tend to pick on the little Corys.
Like all Corys, they prefer a soft substrate, driftwood and live plants. If you scatter clean Oak leaves on top of a layer of sand, these little Corys will breed almost constantly, and as the parents eat neither eggs nor fry, a tank can quickly become filled with fry, if the parents are the only fish in the tank. They also like to breed in Java fern.
It is vitally important to keep these Corys in as large a group as you can house, as they will slowly waste away if you keep them in numbers under 8.
You can feed them just like their larger cousins, but make sure the food is small enough for them to eat. Filtering though peat moss is recommended.
C. habrosus
C. habrosus does far better in tanks with soft, acidic water and temperatures not over 77 degrees, with 74 degrees optimal for this species. The pH can not be over 7.2. A steady, moderate linear current really helps this species, as they come from swift streams and are likely to be rather lethargic without the current. They look most attractive hanging all together in the current, especially when feeding on live food like Daphnia.
They look like miniature versions of C. paleatus; black and grey markings on a silvery pink ground. Bands of medium brown are on all unpaired fins. They are a touch larger than pygmaeus at 1.25 inches and spend more time on the substrate than that species does. They do, however, rise in a school together on occasion, usually when sinking food is in the offing.
Given sympathetic surroundings and varied, good food, C. habrosus are quite hardy, and rather charming in their manner.
C. pygmaeus
This species is smaller but just as hardy, if kept in the soft-water tank at 72 to 78 degrees.
Just a skosh over an inch in total length, C. pygmaeus are distinctive by the long, black line that bisects the fish. The back is a rather translucent olive, with amber overtones. Body is a light green, and a black line traces from the pectoral fins to the anal fin. Like the former, the head is small and the eyes large.
This species must be acclimated in a soft, acidic tank, say pH 6.5 and general hardness under 4. Given proper conditions, that is a planted aquaria with soft, slightly acid water, C. pygmaeus are deceptively hardy. Far more than the former, the Pygmy Cory spends a lot of time up in the lower water column, occasionally schooling with the small tetras one must keep them with. Pygmy Corys can take water up to 7.4 in pH, but it must be soft.
They breed as a school often, and raising the fry is a delight. They can take microworms right off, despite their tiny size, and will often feed off the sponge filter in the spawning tank. Vinegar eels and Rotifers are also excellent foods for your baby Pygmy Corys. They will join their parents' school when just half grown.
One of the more common species in shops is Corydoras trilineatus, which is also common in the streams in Peru, Brazil. Ecuador. and Columbia.
Since this fish is so common in nature, the majority available are still wild caught. Thus, inducing them to spawn is more difficult than other Corys. One must have patience for their Three-Line Corys to mature to their adult size of just over 2 inches before making an attempt to breed these fish. A cooling change as described above only works about a third of the time, and that's in their preferred soft, slightly acidic water. The fry aren't difficult to raise, but as this fish is common in shops, nothing is financially gained by breeding them except the sense of accomplishment by the fish keeper and a chance to add quality fish to the aquarium.
C. trilineatus is a silvery-bodied fish with reticulated black markings on the head, black stripes on the body broken up at the lateral line with a ragged black line. Concentric black stripes are on the tail and on the adipose and anal fins. A black blotch is on the top of the dorsal.
Despite being primarily wild caught, C. trilineatus are very hardy; nearly bulletproof. Frozen and live foods are best, with quality pelleted foods as another component of the menu. Plant-based frozen and prepared foods are recommended. Trilineatus can handle water down to pH 5.8 up to 7.2, and temps down to the mid 60's up to 77 degrees.
This fish is often confused with C. julii, especially since some trilineatus forms are spotted instead of striped. C. julii is smaller, about 1.5 inches, nearly white, and has hundreds of tiny brown dots all over its body, and its center stripe is dotted, brown, not black, and is shorter in length. They are also rarely imported, so if you see a fish identified as C. julii in shops, 9 times out of 10 the actual species C. trilineatus.
There are literally dozens of Corydoras catfish species that show up in shops, so keeping an eye out for the unique of these fish is a pleasant endeavor. All do best in the soft and slightly acid planted aquaria, but many are adaptable as long as extremes of pH and hardness are avoided. I encourage you to research the species you are interested in and consider a school of Corys for your next tank.
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Another amazingly awesome primer, Dave! Thanks so much!
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Great article. The only thing I would question is the substrates section. I'm not sure eco-complete would be fine enough for the cories to sift it through their gills and quite a few species do this regularly or bury their face in the sand. Their feeding behavior really changes drastically over small-grain sand.
Here's an example of what I mean:
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The original Eco-Complete of circa eight years ago was very, very sandy. The recent formulae is nothing like the original, as now days its quite corse. I also said that sandy substrates were best in the introductory section - sandy meaning sand, of course :)
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Bravo Dave! Another amazing primer!
Terrific article! Thanks Dave.
I'm new here and new to keeping fish, but I have three trilineatus (thought they were julii until you got me to look into it a bit more). I'd like to add to this thread that I almost made a huge mistake today. Someone had recommended to me that aquarium salt can be good for fish so I bought some when I was out earlier. Luckily I did some research before I put it in, and learned what I'm sure most of you know: that salt can be extremely harmful to corys.
Anyway, thanks again for all your hard work.
I have two salt-and-pepper cories, one julii (I think), and three pygmaeus. They're SO CUTE!I hate hearing people say "it's only a $3/$5/$1 fish/shrimp, so it's ok if it dies, I can just get another." It's still an animal! All animals should be treated like they're worth $10,000.
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It was not easy, since the german-wide decision, we had to reshuffle venue plans a couple of times.
In the end, thanks to Jan-Marek, we managed to get an excellent venue offer. Our bid consits mostly of:
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- Network: Leibniz Rechenzentrum is the operator of the Munich Research Network (MWN), the venue is connected with at least 1 GBits fibre optics, and the MWN is connected to X-Win at the same speed. This will be free as well.
- Food: We can either take up the offer from the Studentenwerk, the organisation operating the university restaurants. Of course, the quality is not like in a Michelin-star restaurant, but I have eaten there for several years during my studies and it is on par with previous Debconf offerings. Alternatively, we could look into food catering.
- Accomodation: We tend to go for hostels, similar to Edinburgh, probably 4-6 bed dorms. Munich is pretty expensive for lodging, so this is something we decided early on to keep the costs reasonable. Again, I think this is in line with previous Debconfs. Of course, hotels at a broad price range are available.
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I keep my PM box full. Use email to contact me: firstname.lastname@example.com.
The things I have seen as a positive, are the stock market going up slowly, and GM hiring back some employees, and Ford making a profit (abet a small one). I look for the economy to grow and if it does not I will have voice my opinions on that. I am not out there yelling whoopee and yahoo because I feel Obama still has a long way to go to prove himself to the American people that his economic plan will work. If it doesn't, I will be the first to cuss him up one side and down the other.
Something needs to be done about health care and that is a fact both Democrats and Republicans agree on. I do not think the Republicans want a health care bill passed with the Democrats in controll of Congress because it will not look good for them in the next election. The Republicans had a chance to put through a health care plan when Bush was in office and they had a majority in Congress for 6 years but they failed to do so. They did not even come up with a plan for the Democrats to pick apart.


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Wow... November... Gotta do better on posting updates to this thing. Well, I've got good reasons...
What can I say? It's taken about 1-1.5 years longer that it ought to have. Part of that is due to my not being quite available because of details of trying to keep a roof over my head, etc. Part of it was due to the same things bedeviling my teammates. In the end, though, I guess one could say it was worth it- at least as a learning experience. Anyhow, barring any other nasty surprises (like this last-minute one that has delayed us another 3-4 months on release...), we should be going gold with it in another couple of days now. I just zoomed the last lingering bug, something that was objectionable to us, but didn't really prevent us from shipping. Something that would have raised the minimum system requirements at least a little bit. When I say just zoomed, I mean that I've just now did the version control check-in, having verified the program working cleanly on NVidia cards, working "well" enough on ATI cards to claim that the issues are more driver ones with a plan to work the issues out with ATI shortly. It feels GOOD.
Open Embedded
Well, I'm still keen on using this, but I've yet to get a clean build out of the full Monotone checkout. So, I guess I need to spend some time trying to figure out what I need to winnow out the stuff that's causing problems and come up with a clean build set for my purposes.
Just bought an AMD64 laptop with an ATI adapter (HP Pavilion zv6000)- it was entertaining trying to get a Linux distribution onto this thing. Only distributions I know of that go on without much of a hitch is Gentoo, Slamd, and Mandriva. Of those, I've only experience with Mandriva (but suspect that Gentoo would end up working fine...)- and it's got some small issues with it's use. Every other distribution will invariably choke somewhere in the middle of the install. Mandriva has a slight problem in that there is a bug with PCMCIA support on this laptop that expresses itself with the AMD64 architechture that is fixed in version 2.6.14 of the kernel, but Mandriva ships with the 2.6.12 version. Can't fault them for that one, per se, but I wish they'd make all the little tweaks they apply a little easier to apply for oneself so that someone could do what I'm needing to do- grab the latest and greatest and fix their machine. Anyhow, I've got that mostly done and working, with me needing to sort out the Radeon setup and coming up with an RPM set (as promised) for people with this situation. Decent enough laptop for the price I paid for it (~$1000 over at Fry's...); while I would rather have had a more aggressive AMD64 laptop, $3-4k is a bit outside the budget (The budget was stretched a little bit to accomplish my current purchase...). I just wish that Broadcom would follow in the footsteps of Intersil and do the right thing with their 54g chipset- there's nothing to be gained by continuing to keep it all a secret and it's QUITE obvious that there's nothing special about the software radio stuff that merits what Broadcom's telling us (Otherwise, Intersil wouldn't have open sourced the Prism 2 stuff...).


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BOONEVILLE – Former Northeast Mississippi Community College Tiger standout Tyler Pritchard finally found the range with the University of North Alabama Lion basketball team on Thursday, February 7.
Pritchard finished the night with 10 points in an 87-73 loss to Christian Brothers University while playing 16 minutes.
During his 10-point outing, Pritchard connected on 4-for-8 shots from the floor and was 2-for-4 from the charity stripe. In addition to his double-digit night, Pritchard came away with two rebounds (one offensive and one defensive), an assist and two steals for the Lions.
With a 10-point night against Christian Brothers University, Pritchard tallied his highest point total of the season after being red-shirted during the 2011-12 year at the University of North Alabama.
Pritchard scored eight points against Fisk on November 12 and then turned in two seven-point contests, two months apart as the Iuka native tallied seven points against Miles College and then turned the trick against Shorter College on January 17.
On the year, the University of North Alabama Lion basketball team is 16-4 and 9-3 in the Gulf South Conference.
During his sophomore season in Booneville, Pritchard either led the Tigers or was near the top in almost every statistical category.
Pritchard was second on the team in free throw percentage hitting nearly 70-percent from the charity stripe — .698 and led the team in free throws made and free throws attempted.
Pritchard's 111 free throws made was just one short of Robert Wade's 112 free throws attempted – who was second on the team behind the Tiger point guard.
During his sophomore season, Pritchard pulled down 81 rebounds for the Tigers while leading the team in both steals (71) and assists (117).
Pritchard finished third on the 2010-11 team with a 15.4 points per game average while scoring 384 points during his second season and helping the Tigers almost average 80 points per game (78.8).
Following his sophomore campaign, the Iuka native was selected to play in the annual Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) All-Star Basketball Game in Decatur.


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Good one, brother Finfang.
Good one, brother Finfang.
OK, boys ... off to the bar for the Pens game. Honoring commandments 1 & 2.
Thou shalt not steal, except rings from Robert Kraft.
Thou shalt refrain from killing......a thread before it's time.
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Players come and go, but I will always be a Miami Dolphins Fan first and foremost.
Ih8Brady ... Nice one!
D7 ... Please re-phrase: note commandment guidelines in op.
perhaps: Thou shalt refrain from murder.
BTW ... success tonight in my attempt to honor the first two commandments. I'm drunk and the Pens beat the Rangers 6-2!!!
Bumpus-ism RULES!!!
also, just realized. Wow. I have been following #1.
Re-phrase: Thou shalt steal rings from Robert Kraft.
Thou shalt urinate on the shrubbery if thou desire, no matter if public or private.


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I had another unproductive weekend. I intended to do file my taxes, but I still haven't quite done that. I'll get that done real soon though. I did some thinking on the Compressed VM design project I have in 6.033. I should probably write my report soon.
I did endup going to Bad Taste this Saturday night. Really quite good.
I also installed XFree 4.0 today. With a little bit of hacking, I managed to get the Xvideo extension to work with Video4Linux. It's really cool seeing video clipped cleanly around xeyes.


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Binghamton University to implement new Financial Aid Award Letter
BINGHAMTON, NY –– Binghamton University announced today that it will begin supplementing information and tools available to families using a standardized Financial Aid Letter from the State University of New York this fall. All of the SUNY system's 64 campuses will use the letter for the 2013-2014 academic year, as part of the SUNY Smart Track™ campaign, a commitment to expand transparency of the college financing process across all campuses.
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Daddy Oh
I am disgrac'd, impeach'd
And baffled here,
Pierc'd to the soul
With slander's venom'd spear.
— Shakespeare, Richard II, 1, 1
EVERYBODY loves a good piece of juicy gossip, a good scandal, even if it's slander, especially if it's of a sexual nature. Sexy, syrupy, salacious slander is music to the ears of the listener, and joy to the mouth of the teller.
It doesn't even matter if it's true or not, as long as it's sexy and sleazy, it's great news. But guess what, if it's true it's not slander, even though we love to use that word loosely to describe any gossip of a sexual nature that affects people, especially people of repute. That's why those tabloids sell so much, as people just love to get their noses into other people's business.
What a scandal has erupted with arguably the most powerful military man in the world, General Petraeus, a man who has had an extraordinary and exemplary military career, but suddenly brought down to earth because of his confessed infidelity. One act of indiscretion and poof, he's thrown from his horse, hoist on his own petard, disgraced and drummed out of the corps as they say in the military.
What a scandal, as we would say in Jamaica, and we all are glued to what news that keeps on being unearthed every day. But what's the big deal, it's only another sexcapade, an escapade of sex, that mankind is prone to commit, as we'll find out right after these comments replying to 'Substitute lovers'.
Hey Teerob,
I think what is missing from a substitute lover, whether it be sex toy, pooch, gambling or drinking, is the display of affection from a lover, to be touched and caressed by another human being, feeling that warm body against yours, those moist lips parting, that heaving chest... oh, got to go, something just came up.
A substitute lover is necessary when you cannot find a suitable person to fulfil your needs. Nothing is wrong with it, as we all need to feel fulfilled in our lives emotionally. Men have failed me all of my life, from my father to my countless boyfriends, so I have taken a substitute.
Oh yes, my dog has taken that place and loves me without question I do not agree with your term lover though, but prefer substitute companion. The friendship that he offers is unwavering, and he's always happy to see me come home. Lover, no, substitute for a worthless man, yes.
Men need substitutes because one woman cannot fulfil all that we want. If you try one and she doesn't work out, then move on to another model. If she fails too, then try, try, try again, until you succeed. It's simple really, and that's why we have choices.
So another great man has bitten the dust, brought to his knees by the pleasure of the flesh. But what's the fuss about? This has been going on from the dawn of time, and there are countless stories in the Bible of great men whose lives were ripped apart or they were made to pay for scandalous affairs. Nothing is new under the sun and men do old kinds of sins in new kinds of ways.
There was Samson, the world's strongest man, undefeated in battle, yet destroyed by a woman who is reputed to have cut off his hair, resulting in him losing his great strength and rendering him helpless. Trust me, it wasn't his hair that was cut, but you know that the Bible speaks in metaphors from time to time. She got close to him, slept with him, and the rest is history.
Then there was King David, who sent Uriah the Hittite, to the battlefront, hoping that he would be put in harm's way and perhaps killed, so that he could have his wife. What a plot.
Then in more modern times there was the scandal that rocked the House of Commons in England, as Lord Profumo was disgraced because of an affair with a woman of questionable repute, Christine Keeler. Even royalty wasn't exempt as King Edward lost his throne because of a scandal with a divorced woman. "Love love love alone, made King Edward lose his throne," were the words from the calypso song of the day.
Fast-forward to just a few months ago, when Jerry Sandusky of USA Penn State fame was sent to prison for sex scandals. His was allegedly with young boys, but a scandal knows no gender. The head of the BBC is also under question for alleged sexual indiscretions. Even Elmo from Sesame Street was under the microscope for allegedly having sex with an underage boy.
The man who's the voice of Elmo is a self-confessed gay, and admits to having sex with his accuser, but insists that the lad was of legal age and it was consensual. The accuser has since recanted his story and Elmo is smiling again. But as you can see, even Sesame Street is not exempt from sexcapades.
But this modern-day sexcapade with the general is something else to behold, as fiction is indeed stranger than fact, and no movie couldn't match this scenario. I recently saw Skyfall, the new James Bond movie, which, as all Bond movies are, is full of action, intrigue, mayhem and passion. But even Ian Fleming, the author of those James Bond epics, could not have come up with the sexcapade that is now rocking the world, even as the participants had their world rocked.
This great general admitted to having an affair with this woman who was also in the army at one time, rising to the rank of Lt Colonel. She wrote his biography and so became very close to him. Very close. Not only that, but she's married to a doctor and has two young children with him. The whole story buss out because she e-mailed threatening messages to another lady who she thought the general was just too close to.
Sketel behaviour from a woman who is bright and educated and with a military background too. The aggrieved lady reported this harassment to the FBI which conducted their investigation to find the source, and the whole can of worms opened up. To compound this, the same FBI agent who she approached for help, is alleged to have had the hots for her too, and sent her topless photos of himself.
Then to add to the mix, this other four-star general and said lady, exchanged over 20,000 pages of e-mails between them and are being investigated also. You can't make up stuff like this, and because of CNN, BBC and other world news organisations, it's brought right into our living rooms.
Reactions vary to this current sexcapade, ranging from disgust by some ladies, to contempt, but sympathy and approval by some men. "Man, when you see the man's wife, then see his mistress, you can't blame him," said one man. "Imagine, she leave her two young kids and nice doctor husband at home and give him bun with the soldier," said another.
Some ladies had sympathy for the wife, "Imagine how his poor wife must feel after so many years of marriage," said some women. One guy cynically said, "He's married for 37 years and his mistress is 37 years old, the man is a military/mathematical genius."
But let's not get our knickers is a twist. It goes with the territory and is part of the trappings of power. Many great men fall prey to this, as even US President JFK had his fair share of dalliances, and more recently, Bill Clinton was almost impeached because of his roving eye. Both presidents are still loved by the American people.
Let's not forget US governor Spitzer who was also caught in a sexcapade but went on to have his own TV programme. Closer home, we have had our fair share of prime ministers and other politicians who have had their gamut of sexcapades. They are the most loved and respected. Go figure.
People love people who have sexcapades. In the broad scheme of things, it ain't no big thing, and goes with the territory. In fact, it's almost expected. My my, how remiss of me, how could I forget to mention Tiger Woods, who is alleged to have shot more holes in not only ones, but twos, threes and up to over 120. He couldn't keep his putter in his pants, they say.
Some people may condemn, even as others approve, and I was very surprised to hear the comments made by some ladies following the Petraeus scandal. One told me, "What's the big deal, women love power, and this man had power, so allow him his fling." Another one said, "All people like President Obama should have all five wives or more to satisfy him and take away the hypocrisy of society." Wow, all this from women too.
Maybe that's why some societies and cultures allow great men to have multiple women. Kings, sultans and emperors of old had their harems, and even in modern times, many Africans, Moslems and some sects in the USA allow polygamy to be practised. By doing so, the element of hypocrisy is eliminated, and there is no scandal, no sleaze, no sexcapade. If that was practised, then General Petraeus would not be in the pickle that he's in now, and lose his work.
Imagine, after all his military campaigns, his genius, his brilliance, he's brought to book and stripped because of a little dalliance. The man is a warrior and a lover. Can you imagine if the world's historically great leaders were fired because of their sexcapades? Ghenghis Khan, Attilla the Hun, Marco Polo, Shaka Zulu, General McArthur, all stripped of their positions because of a likkle p.. p..m?
But still, we love to read about it, watch it on TV as it unfolds, and either cast judgement or approve. Many men secretly wish that it was them, when they saw the accused mistress, saying, "Man, she hot." Many women would love to have a piece of the power, if they could get away with it. Hey, it's just a storm in a teacup, and it will pass, until the next sexcapade jolts us and rocks our world. More time.
Footnote: They say that you should make your words soft and sweet, in case you have to eat them. I had to eat mine, as I had protested against the inclusion of women to the Annual KC Old Boys Dinner. I was so wrong. Their inclusion was a Godsend, as the overflowing attendance was extraordinary. I took my wife and she enjoyed it thoroughly, as did the other ladies present. So nuff apologies to organisers HG Helps and Charlie Grant, with whom I argued strongly against this change. It was the best Dinner ever.
When is it too early to educate children about sex and sexuality? Many old school persons are still resistant to the idea of teaching children sex education and will chide schools for attempting to do so. But the experts advise otherwise. As we can see, children nowadays are more exposed because of cable TV and the iInternet, but what they're digesting is not necessarily the right thing. The rest of the information they get from their peers and on the street.
Many adults take advantage of this, and of the children. Gone are the days when you should only protect your daughters, now your sons are also at risk from predators. Parents, speak to your young children, tell them about sex, what's right and what's wrong. They're never too young to learn.


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Family: Plethodontidae, Lungless Salamanders view all from this family
Description Narrow head and body. Black-brown, with brownish/yellow or reddish band across back. 4 toes on each small foot. 18-22 coastal grooves.
Dimensions 7.6-14cm (3-5 1/2")
Breeding Fall to early winter. Up to 21 eggs laid under rocks or logs. Larvae hatch in spring.
Habitat Foothills and coastal mountain ranges. Also grasslands and redwood forest.
Range Oregon through to California along the coast.
Discussion One of the 'lungless'. Breathes through its skin. Due to its slender build it can burrow through subterranean tunnels easily. This also gives it an advantage when hunting for prey. Diet includes smaller invertebrates and insects.


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Performance poet Taylor Mali, four-time winner of the national poetry slam championship, will speak to freshmen at the new student convocation Thursday, August 26, in the Osterhout Concert Theater in the Anderson Center.
A professional spoken word artist known for his appearances on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Mali is a strong advocate for the teaching profession. A former teacher himself, he received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2001 to develop "Teacher! Teacher!" a one-man show about poetry and teaching that won the best one-man show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival that year. He hopes to cause one thousand people to become teachers by the year 2006.
Students will also hear from President Lois B. DeFleur at the program, which begins at 5:30 p.m. and ends at 7 p.m.


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Crime is a fact of life at colleges and universities around the United States. That should come as no surprise considering that 18 to 25 year-olds commit more crimes in our country than any other age group.
Parents and students shouldn't hesitate to question the school's crime statistics. This information as well as the following tips can help keep your child from becoming a victim:
- Your child should always travel in groups or use a campus escort service after dark or early in the morning. He or she should never take short-cuts, jog or walk alone at night.
- Encourage your child to share his or her class schedule and phone list with you and other friends.
- Help your child study the area around the campus and the college neighborhood. Identify potentially dangerous areas and where the campus emergency phones are located.
- First-year students should decline having any photos or personal information published for distribution around the campus. This type of publication has been used to target freshmen.
- Check out the social scene by driving through the "fraternity row" on a Friday or Saturday night. Stroll through other places where students gather. How are the students behaving? Are they abusing alcohol or drugs? The less contact your student has with alcohol and drugs and the people who abuse them, the safer he or she will be.
Tips for Students Living in Dorm Rooms:
- Dormitories should use "key cards" rather than the standard metal lock and key system. This makes it much easier to make a lock change when a key card is lost or a roommate moves out.
- All dorms should have good window and door locks. Entry doors should have "peep holes". Remind your child that he or she should always lock doors and windows at night.
- At night, dormitories should lock all outside doors. There should be a central lobby or common entrance where access is closely monitored. It should have an outside telephone that requires visitors to call a resident for access.
- Dormitories should have security patrols to check for doors that are not completely closed or have been propped open.
- Remind your child not to leave valuables such as wallets, laptops or ATM cards in plain sight.
- Help your child to program his or her telephone with emergency phone numbers including police, fire, family and friends.
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Most confirmed celebrities are from STAR TREK (Please don't hate me; I AM a bigger SW fan than Trek.). We are trying to add a Star Wars track to the schedule. However, I can't promise because most SW celebs are either way out of our budget or unavailable.
I would like to invite you to visit the website and sign up for the newsletter so that you can receive updates, etc. Jackson is a great city in a great state. The Telcom Center is brand new and state of the art.
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Attacks on the Press | Colombia
One Province Illustrates Colombia's Struggle with Impunity
The inability to solve journalist murders in Arauca feeds an atmosphere of hostility and intimidation for the media there. By John Otis
Attacks on the Press | Colombia
The inability to solve journalist murders in Arauca feeds an atmosphere of hostility and intimidation for the media there. By John Otis
Colombian journalist Élida Parra Alonso, who was kidnapped on July 24, 2012, by a local guerrilla group in the northeastern state of Arauca, was released on August 13, 2012, according to news reports. Parra hosts a program for Sarare Estéreo radio station and does community outreach work for Oleoducto Bicentenario, a company constructing an oil pipeline that it says will be the largest in the country, news reports said.
New York, July 26, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the kidnapping of a Colombian journalist and calls on authorities to secure her safe return. Élida Parra Alonso, who covers children's rights and hosts a program for Sarare Estéreo radio station, was abducted from her home on Tuesday, according to news reports.
By John Otis/CPJ Andean Representative
Although a long-running army offensive has improved security in much of Colombia, the oil-rich eastern province of Arauca remains a hot zone--for both combatants and journalists. This week, for example, the National Liberation Army (ELN), the smaller of the country's two guerrilla groups, called a transportation strike, effectively shutting down traffic and commerce throughout the province and making any vehicles on the highways fair game--no small event.
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Description Underside of tail is white with one dark band. Subspecies vary from grayish brown to cinnamon. Fur is longer and grayer in winter.
Dimensions 188-239mm, 42-87mm, 96-117g
Habitat Deserts, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Canyons & caves
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Leaders Brighton will hope to keep hold of the top spot at Leicester this weekend, while nearest rivals Southampton host Birmingham on Sunday.
At the other end of the table, rock-bottom Doncaster Rovers travel to fellow strugglers Reading, while Nottingham Forest host local rivals Derby in what should be an entertaining East Midlands derby.
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Guy Poyet's Brighton have made a superb start to the season and are undefeated with five wins from their opening six games, a run promotion hopefuls Leicester will be looking to end at the King Power Stadium.
Third-placed Middlesbrough are the only other side still unbeaten and will hope to keep that record intact when they make the trip to Crystal Palace, currently eighth following their defeat at Leeds last time out.
In-form Southampton could leapfrog Brighton into pole position if they secure a good result at home to Birmingham in Sunday's only match. The Blues sit mid-table with a game in hand having beaten Millwall last weekend.
West Ham have recovered from their opening day defeat to remain unbeaten in their last five encounters and will be keen to keep up that momentum when they make the short trip to London rivals Millwall, who will still be stinging from their defeat at St Andrew's.
After a storming start to the season, Derby have suffered back-to-back defeats in their last two games and will be desperate to avoid a third in their local derby against Nottingham Forest, who sit on the edge of the drop zone.
Lowly Doncaster visit second-bottom Reading still seeking their first win of the season, while the Royals have suffered four consecutive defeats.
Bristol City have suffered a similarly torrid start to the season and will be keen to breathe life into their campaign when they travel to Elland Road to take on Leeds.
Hull City have enjoyed back-to-back successes from their last two games and will hope to maintain that winning streak when they entertain Portsmouth, who are without a win in three.
Ian Holloway's Blackpool will be looking to overtake fellow promotion hopefuls Cardiff when they host the Bluebirds at Bloomfield Road, with the two sides currently level on points and the Tangerines sitting just outside the play-off places.
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U.S. stock futures followed European and Asian equities lower on Monday after the World Bank cut its expectations for Chinese growth, and European finance ministers got ready to meet in Luxembourg to talk bailouts.
"Ahead of another European Finance Minister coffee talk today, eyes are on the pressure the Spanish government will likely get to stop playing games on the day the Europeans are supposed to roll out their new bailout toy, the ESM," wrote Miller Tabak analyst Peter Boockvar.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to Greece tomorrow — what are they doing with all that bailout cash? Quick, everyone look busy!
Friday's aborted rally didn't give the market much momentum heading into the weekend and futures are sluggish. Monday's Columbus Day holiday (Treasury markets are closed) means the action may not pick up today.
Dow futures fell 43 points; S&P 500 futures fell 5.3 points.
Big banks were trading lower, with Bank of America (BAC) down 1.7%. Citigroup (C) was off by 1.3%.
UnitedHealth Group (UNH) said it will buy 90% of Brazilian insurer Amil Participacoes SA for $4.3 billion in cash. Amil is the biggest managed care company in Brazil. UNH shares rose 1% in pre-market action.
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This came to me in an email. I'm not sure if it's true. There was a meeting in DC for discussion of immigration. Elbert Guillory mentioned it in his video.
---------------cont'dWe know DickLamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularlypoignant. Last week there was an immigrationoverpopulation conference in Washington,DC , filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen-Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia", explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D.Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America.
The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.ArnoldToynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.
"Here is how they do it," Lamm said.
"First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, SeymourLipset, put it this way: The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, Corsicans and Muslims."
Lamm went on:
"Second, to destroy America , invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanicdropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds."
"Third, we could make the United States an 'HispanicQuebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As BenjaminSchwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrcityand what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.' Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this secondunderclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."
"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority placation."


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Upcoming "Wizard of Oz" stirs twister of controversy
Parkland officials criticized for hiring professionals for high school show
SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - Parkland High School's spring musical production of "The Wizard of Oz" is stirring a Kansas twister of controversy.
Grassroots opposition is springing up to plans by the high school's theater staff to hire professionals to fill the positions of lighting designer, sound designer and sound board operator --positions petitioners argue usually are held by students.
They maintain students are being denied of an opportunity to learn.
But school district spokesman Nicole McGalla said it is common to bring in professionals to help with high school productions -- not just at Parkland but at other schools as well.
"It's a learning experience, so students can learn from the professionals," said McGalla.
An online petition opposing hiring professionals has been started by Kristy McKeever, a 2009 Parkland High graduate who was part of the stage crew.
"When I was there, we did everything ourselves," said McKeever. "We built the set, we designed the lights, we designed the sound and we were more than capable of doing those things.
"We want to make sure future generations of these stage crew kids have the same opportunities we had. You have to learn this sort of skill set by doing."
McKeever said she started the petition Wednesday night.
"Within 24 hours we had over 500 supporters signed up, which was pretty amazing," she said.
By late Friday afternoon, she had more than 700 online signatures. "I'm going to leave it up until I hear something has changed."
McKeever hopes the school board will intercede.
She has no objection to professionals being brought in as advisers, "but I want to make sure the creative decisions are left to the students."
In a joint statement released Friday, district officials said: "Our students will work alongside industry professionals and gain valuable knowledge, which will only enhance their theater capabilities for future performances.
"Contrary to what is being reported in social media, students have numerous opportunities to create, participate and learn in this year's production."
That statement was from Richard Sniscak, the district's superintendent; Jim Moniz, Parkland High's principal; Mark Stutz, the district's visual and performing arts director, and Frank Anonia, the choral director.
The statement from the four men stresses in past years the high school's theater department occasionally has hired industry professionals "to offer guidance, leadership and training for our students so they may learn to master ambitious technology and production methods."
McGalla said the decision to bring in professionals for "The Wizard of Oz" is based on needs to ensure the show's success, as determined by the technical director and show director, rather than just to enhance the quality of the production.
For safety reasons, McKeever said she has no issue with hiring a flyng stunt coordinator. But she said the other two professionals Parkland intends to hire -- technical director for lighting and sound consultant -- will be doing jobs that should be done by students.
"No contracts have been signed yet," said McGalla. 'We are not hiring any more professionals than we have ever done before. No student is being replaced by a professional."
Does having professionals work on productions give some high schools an edge in winning Freddy Awards in the annual ceremony at the State Theatre in Easton?
"This has nothing to do with the Freddys," said McGalla.
Shelley Brown, State Theatre's president and CEO, could not predict whether using professionals in those areas would impact the ability of a school's production to win awards for stage crew and lighting. She said it would have to be determined how those professional were used, such as whether the students were working with them or for them.
Brown said high school orchestras have used professional members, but they must have a certain percentage of students to qualify for a Freddy nomination.
Five performances of "The Wizard of Oz" are scheduled at Parkland High between April 9 and April 13.
Said the school officials in their statement: "We look forward to a week of wonderfully entertaining shows for all of our guests."
Tickets for the show are $10, $8 for students, seniors and children.
McGalla said the cost of all Parkland High musicals, including hiring professionals, is fully funded by ticket sales, not school district tax dollars.
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Music video site Vevo has totaled 1.1 billion views since its launch on Dec. 8, with 1.02 billion of those views coming via YouTube and approximately 88 million views coming via Vevo.com, according to a report by video tracking firm TubeMogul. As of Feb. 22, Vevo features more than 16,000 videos, including content from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. EMI Music Group agreed to a licensing deal in December, but its content is not yet featured. Warner Music Group is the only major label not to reach an agreement with Vevo. (2/24)