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Anne Hathaway's Catwoman Is an Awkward Old Lady
Because so many people are snapping their own photos of the Pittsburgh production and putting them on the internet, Warner Bros. has gone ahead and released an official photo of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. And it's bad?
I mean, whatever, it's just a photo, but she's wearing old person Solar Shield sunglasses and looks really awkward on her unibike or whatever we're calling that vehicle for weirdos. Actually, the awkwardness of this photo (and these unofficial photos!) speaks to a bigger problem within Christopher Nolan's Batman world. It's so grim and serious and real-life-y (well, at least relatively speaking, compared to Tim Burton's goth circus and Joel Schumacher's drag queen funeral) that when Nolan does, by necessity, have to throw in the Batmanish elements, like weirdo unibikes for weirdos and Catwoman BluBlockers, it just looks so silly and atonal. Know what I'm sayin'?
But anyway, again, this is just one photo (or several photos) and we should not judge it and more importantly not let silly unibikes and retirement shades distract us from the fact that Anne Hathaway will make a terrible Catwoman no matter what.


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Makes 20
150g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
175g rolled oats
125g butter
100g light brown sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 tbsp water
Preheat the oven to 180oC/160oC fan/Gas mark 4. Lightly grease two baking sheets. Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl. Stir in the oats.
Place the butter, sugar, golden syrup, and 1 tbsp of water in a saucepan and heat gently, stirring until combined. Add to the dry ingredients and stir until well mixed.
Take small amounts of the dough, each about the size of a walnut, and roll into balls. Space them well apart on the baking sheets and flatten slightly.
Bake until golden, 16-18 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets for 2-3 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to five days.

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My story begins with a trip I made with my father, Ron, back in 2000. He was on his way to purchase his first ZR-1 (one of three he currently owns-two '95s and one '94 Lingenfelter 385) from H&H Corvette in Orlando, Florida. During the trip I caught the bug and purchased my own first Corvette, a Competition Yellow automatic LT1. This was to be the "gentlemen's hot rod" replacement for my '90 351ci supercharged and nitrous-injected Mustang. After a year of modifying the LT1 with readily available bolt-on parts, it was still very underpowered compared with a stock ZR-1, so the search began to upgrade to "The King of the Hill."
The decision to step up wasn't solely horsepower based; it also had much to do with the mystique, the engineering, and the history behind these vehicles. Prior to making the decision, I had read The Heart of the Beast: History of the LT5 V-8 and ZR-1 Corvette, by Anthony Young. Having spent my career as an engineering manager overseeing new-product design and manufacturing, both the mechanical and political elements behind the ZR-1 hit home, and I knew the car was something I wanted to own. In addition, I credit my father for giving me my passion for cars (I grew up not at little-league games, but at the dragstrip) and instilling in me a technical appreciation for advanced performance vehicles like the ZR-1.
In March 2002, while attending a yearly Chevy and Corvette show in Chicago, I stumbled upon a low-mile 1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 for sale. The owner was taking down names and bids with the plan of letting the car go to the highest bidder. After some lengthy discussions with both him and his wife, he agreed to end his unofficial biding early and sell me the car for a very reasonable sum (about $10K under the typical dealer asking price at the time). The car had already gone through three owners before I made the purchase. But even though it was only seven years old, it only had 4,800 miles on the odometer.
After I got the car home and started inspecting it in detail, I noticed that the underside of the chassis was signed and dated "12/23/94." Wanting to know more, I contacted the original owner to get the story. As it turns out, he was an avid car collector, and this particular ZR-1 was the sixth and final one he had added to his collection. The story, as conveyed to me, was that he and his wife attended a Bowling Green plant tour on the last day of production for '94 models, when his car was scheduled to be built. Thanks to some high-profile connections, he was able to select the seats, assist in the wheel installation, sign and date the underside in a yellow marker, and be the first to turn the key and start the car.
He went on to say that this particular car was also used in a "ZR-1s by the Years" photo shoot during a National Corvette Museum event celebrating the production of the last ZR-1. At the end of our conversation, he offered to trade me for a new '02 Pontiac Trans Am Convertible, but I knew I had a great find, so I declined.
Because of the rare nature of this ZR-1, the complexity of the LT5 engine, and the scarcity of replacement parts, my original plan was to leave the car alone and enjoy it in stock form. My resolve lasted only a few months, however, before I caught the bug to modify my new beast. It wasn't long before I realized that-aside from a few exhaust systems, air intakes, and clutches-aftermarket parts for the ZR-1 were essentially nonexistent. The low-volume nature of the vehicle meant that most manufacturers simply didn't see a viable market for such products.
Since I had experience in the engineering/product-design field, and was able to hand fabricate and machine parts, I took it upon myself to set up shop and see what I could offer myself. The plan was to design and manufacture true bolt-on performance products that I wanted for my own vehicle, and then, after testing and confirming the results on my "mobile R&D lab," offer the same products to the rest of the ZR-1 community.
In 2005 I formed Specialized Racing Products, LLC (SRP). Beginning the business with a simple offering-custom-fabricated low-temperature thermostats. I then broadened the product line to include underdrive pulleys, insulator plates, installation kits, chassis products, and more.
But the real challenge lay ahead. If I wanted to achieve substantial bolt-on horsepower, a supercharger seemed to be the logical answer. But how to design a supercharger system that would fit within the confines of the tight LT5 engine bay? I had entertained this idea since the day I purchased the car, but while blower installations had long been discussed on the various Corvette Web forums, my own conversations with knowledgeable ZR-1 enthusiasts confirmed that none had never been performed. The fact that no one had overcome this challenge was a big motivating factor for me.
The Project
After extensively researching various supercharger brands and models, I chose a Rotrex unit based on the following criteria: physical size, output (flow), step-up ratio, and oiling-system design (having a self-contained oil system was essential, as I didn't want to tap into the LT5's existing oil supply).
In January 2008, with a Rotrex supercharger head unit in hand, I set out to make my vision a reality. It quickly became evident, however, that many hurdles existed. First was the difficulty I'd face in establishing a drive pulley for the supercharger. Supercharger-drive pulleys are normally installed on the harmonic balancer and are an extension of the engine accessories' drive pulley. However, on the LT5, the rack-and-pinion unit resides directly in front of the balancer, and no room exists for an add-on pulley. Therefore, the supercharger needed to be driven inline with the engine accessories.
Second, the location most suitable for installing the head unit (the driver side) was where the power-steering pump's fluid reservoir and the traction-control adjuster assembly resided. As a result, we'd need to figure out a way to relocate these items. Third was the issue of interference caused by the AC lines and the left-side engine-coolant outlet tube. Overcoming this hurdle required the development of adapters, the fabrication of new lines, and the re-routing of the associated hoses.
Once the supercharger head unit was in place, we needed to figure out how to route and install the air filter and discharge hoses. Initially, we simply attached the filter directly to the supercharger head unit, but that positioned it directly above the driver-side exhaust manifold-not the best location for picking up cool, dense air. As for the discharge side, a collection of 90-degree aluminum pipes and silicone hoses was assembled as a temporary solution.
The car was fired up for the first time in May 2008, albeit minus the remote intake system, the intercooler, and any fuel-management unit or ECU manipulation for fuel enrichment. We literally got the car running the night before leaving for Bowling Green to attend the annual C4/ZR-1 event. The idea was to show the ZR-1 community our work-in-progress prototype.
Once back from this trip, the next phase of the development got underway. It took an additional 12 months to work through what seemed to be the more complex elements of the build. These included the following:
* Designing and fabricating an intercooler
* Routing the discharge hoses
* Selecting the correct blow-off valve (based on the intercooler's output volume and displacement of air)
* Determining a remote location for the air-intake system
* Fabricating the air-intake system
* Relocating the battery to accommodate the new air-filter placement
* Selecting and installing a mechanical fuel-management unit
* Installing and calibrating a data-logging system to obtain real-time information on fuel enrichment, boost, inlet temperature, impeller rpm, engine rpm, fuel pressure, and so on
The Result
The project is now nearing completion, and we'll be getting dyno and track times soon. During our around-town test runs, there's no mistaking that this ZR-1 is supercharged. The whine that emanates from the Rotrex's drive unit, magnified by the intake-system tubing, lets passersby know this isn't a stock ZR-1.
Throttle response is clean, and the timing of the vacuum-to-boost transition point seems to coordinate effectively with the car's vacuum-actuated throttle secondaries. Both "come in" at the same time, providing a feeling of throwing a switch and instantly having a substantial amount of additional horsepower at your disposal.
Although boost levels are being kept low for now (less than 4 psi due to the stock 11.0:1 compression ratio), we expect an increase of 80-100 hp at the rear wheels. Our test vehicle has already dyno'd at just less than 410 rwhp, so with the addition of the supercharger, 500 rwhp should be possible. And of course, more horsepower is on tap if we lower the compression and increase the boost.
While we won't be installing these kits in customers' cars ourselves, we're negotiating with some reputable LT5 specialty shops that have expressed interest in becoming authorized installers. If all goes as planned, we hope to offer these supercharger systems to the ZR-1 community in the near future.


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It's a small slice of the Linux demographic that will be interested, but Crux 2.5 hit the streets today. You can find the changelog here and release notes here. I'm seeding the torrent from the busted Thinkpad, which is running it as well.
Important guts include glibc 2.8, gcc 4.3.2, binutils 2.19, the 126.96.36.199 kernel and Xorg 7.4. Personally, I love the fact that there's a precompiled version of Openbox 18.104.22.168 on the ISO, as well as a few other package additions that I regularly install.
I'm using it as I type and it's working fine for me. My previous issues — upgrading to Xorg 7.4 from Crux 2.4, and the mysterious error compiling with gcc 4.3.2 — have both evaporated, most recently when bug No. 386 ( 😉 ) was swatted.
Performance is more or less identical to earlier versions of Crux, with boot times in under 15 seconds for a 1Ghz machine. I know it's not for everyone, but what I get out of this machine is a huge step beyond any other distro I've tried.
I patiently await the arrival of the i586 version, mostly so I can kick my Sotec and my Fujitsu in the rear, and see if they respond. 😉


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"Self Comes to Mind is a Big Idea book penned by a luminous thinker. . . . [A] beautifully sprawling and marvelous work." —The Dallas Morning News
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The promotion begins April 2nd, including the official M&M Star Wars web site, which provides more information on the bags and even a video segment of M&M Fett flying out of the Sarlacc.
Visit M&Ms Chocolate mPIRE Web Site [Site no longer available.]
To view the trailer: access the M&M site, click the Trailer link on the right, and chose your preferences. [Video no longer available.]
And, finally, a full checklist of every package in the line featuring Boba Fett:
#17/72: Dark Chocolate (3.14 oz)
#23/72: Dark Chocolate Peanut (3.27 oz)
#33/72: Dark Chocolate (14 oz)
#37/72: Dark Chocolate Peanut (14 oz)
#40/72: Dark Chocolate Peanut [Editor's Note: mislabeled on source] (14 oz) + #56/72 (21.3 oz)
Compiled by The Boba Fett Fan Club, for your collecting enjoyment, a web-ready checklist thanks to the source made available by M&Ms (below).
Boba Fett fans note: the coolest bags are the smallest size, #17 and #23, which are 100% Boba Fett.
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In Eugene Peterson's memoir, The Pastor, he calls his activity as an author "heuristic writing." That is, he writes to think, to sort, to wrestle… not necessarily to explain tidily or to make authoritarian decrees. "Heuristic writing" captures well what we are trying to do with this blog. Our writing is a discipline of straining to understand, a discipline of lunging forward into the fog. Every now and then, you grab hold of something in the murk that seems quite solid, beautiful and true.
Oftentimes, you have to call out in the fog to others who may be up ahead of you a spell, hoping to pick up some response and sound out a communal path. To close this series on "Younger Evangelicals & the Culture Wars," I am letting one of those voices speak, the voice of my friend Wesley Hill.
This series began when I started trying to evaluate the response to a vote against the legal possibility of same-sex marriage in North Carolina, a state in which I lived and ministered for six years. The previous posts are exercises in slogging through some of the complexities behind the reaction of younger Christians to the church's public discourse on moral issues (see below for the links). Wes has just written a theological memoir about his own journey as a gay Christian (Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality). Whether gay or straight, when it comes to discerning how the church is to engage our culture with a vision for an alternative sexual ethic, there are few voices we should prefer to hear calling back to our own from up ahead in the dark fog than Wesley Hill's. Dear readers: share this interview with folks—it is worth many ears….
Hopeful Realism: In Washed and Waiting, you recount the difficult stages of gradually confiding your sexual orientation to friends. Not only did you "come out" as gay before your friends, but you did so in what is often understood as the most inhospitable subculture for gays, that of evangelical Christianity. And now, you have produced a public account of your struggles in the form of a book! How difficult has it been to "own" your sexual orientation personally, and then to share it so openly with others?
Wesley Hill: I don't want to make it sound as though everything has been happily-ever-after since I came out, but I certainly have experienced a measure of rest and relief that comes from being truthful with myself and others. Eve Tushnet, the celibate lesbian Catholic writer, talks about how coming out can be a step towards freer, truer love of others, inasmuch as it lifts the burden of having to hide and the self-protective fear that goes along with hiding. When we're trying to hide ourselves from others, we're not able to love them well. In fact, we may be more prone to hurt others in our efforts to try to preserve our hiding place. And so, even as coming out can be a harrowing experience for many people, it can also lead to blessings.
HR: Horror stories circulate about the hostile reaction of Christians to someone struggling with homosexuality who has decided to come out before the church. In your own experience, how has the church received you in your gradual openness about your own personal struggles as a gay believer?
WH: My experience in this regard has been mostly positive, with only a few exceptions. I've been asked to speak and lead discussions in a variety of church settings, and the most frequently asked question I get, probably, is something along the lines of, "How can we do a better job of loving gay people, whether they're Christian or not?" I take that as a sign that many Christians, by and large, have an instinct for compassion. Having said that, I talk with a lot of gay Christians who have experienced significant rejection, in one form or another, from their churches. One person told me recently that when he came out to his pastor, the pastor's initial response was, "Don't tell anyone else in the congregation." I'm not sure leaders realize how much an exhortation like that can reinforce the sense of shame and guilt that many gay Christians feel simply for experiencing an unchosen same-sex attraction, regardless of what they choose to do with that attraction. Another friend shared with me his experience of being at an informal church event recently — at a mainstream evangelical church — and hearing multiple "gay jokes." "That showed me that I still can't come out to my friends," he said ruefully. And sadly, I'm not sure how uncommon my friend's experience is in the evangelical church.
HR: Heterosexual Christians are often at a loss to know how to relate to gay brothers and sisters in the faith. What are the most common myths straight Christians maintain, even if unwittingly, about homosexuality?
WH: I remember giving a talk about loneliness once and a youth minister came up to me afterwards and said, "Can you help me understand the sense of lack that you feel? Why is it that you feel a deficit in your masculinity, and how can we help fill that?" This puzzled me, because I hadn't said anything in my talk about feeling a lack of male affection. But this pastor had probably heard the common origins story for male homosexuality that describes same-sex attraction as an attempt to "make up for" the distance a boy feels from his father when he's growing up. Once the boy hits puberty, that hunger for father-intimacy becomes eroticized, and that's why (many) men are gay (or so the story goes). My concern here is that we are so quick to impose one narrative that may, indeed, be helpful for some people on others for whom it isn't helpful. Among other helpful changes we could make, perhaps one of the primary things the church could do is stop pretending as if one of its favorite "origin stories" were true for all gay men, period. That story doesn't seem to illumine much of my experience, and I've heard other gay friends of mine say the same thing. We need to become better listeners and stop assuming that we can know ahead of time what counsel we need to give. We need to be willing to admit that we don't know why some people are gay, and therefore we don't know — apart from the hard work of actually cultivating genuine friendship — how we can best support and encourage and love them on their various pathways.
HR: This seems to be the testimony of some gay Christians: "Once I embraced my sexual identity and began practicing it, I then drew closer to Christ." You have chosen a different route, operating with an entirely different logic. It seems to me as though your testimony could be expressed in this way: "Once I embraced my sexual identity and surrendered any hope of practicing it, I then drew closer to Christ." Is this an accurate assessment? How would you account for the disparity in these two testimonies? Are both equally valid options?
WH: One of the things we have to face up to honestly as Christians is the fact that behaviors and choices that, on a traditional Christian account of things, are "sinful" are also, nonetheless, liberating and peace-giving for some people. Remember Psalm 73: righteousness doesn't always lead to observable flourishing! Sometimes when we seek to communicate the gospel, we feel that we need to "unmask" the peace and happiness that unbelievers say they experience before we can talk to them about Christ. "Your life is really miserable," we say, "so you need to come to Jesus." But is that right? What if the person replies, "But my life isn't miserable! On the contrary!" I wonder if Bonhoeffer's reflections on "religious blackmail" could help us here as we ponder how to speak to gay people about the historic Christian teaching on sexual ethics without attacking their own gay partnerships as just obviously "bad" for them. To someone who is in a loving partnership, that attack will either ring hollow or be profoundly hurtful or offensive. I think of a passage from Robert Jenson's Systematic Theology in which he says that we Christians ought to be able to recognize that some people who are rejecting Christian truth often live quite "healthy" lives, when you judge them by the standard of, say, the mental health profession. "Conversions to other religions or yogas or therapies may," Jenson writes, "in their own ways be describable as 'forgiveness' or 'liberation' and so on. To such possibilities the gospel's messengers can only say: 'We are not here to entice you into our religion by benefits allegedly found only in it. We are here to introduce you to the true God, for whatever he can do for you — which may well be suffering and oppression." Applying this kind of perspective to homosexuality, I'd like to say that gay partnerships may provide a measure of "liberation" for some and that following the historic Scriptural teaching on either marriage between one man and one woman or celibacy may be quite difficult and not obviously or empirically "good" for us, even though we trust that, in the long run, obeying God does enable true flourishing — and celibacy can indeed be joyful and life-enhancing, even in the meantime.
[to be continued…. Part 2 will be up on Wednesday]
Other posts on Younger Evangelicals & the Culture Wars:
At War with the Culture Wars: When it comes to high-profile moral issues, younger evangelicals seem more at odds with older evangelicals than with secular culture.
"Not Your Aunt Gertrude's Church": Are younger believers too hip to worship with "Aunt Gertrude"? (What about in heaven?).
Preview and Review of "Younger Evangelicals & the Culture Wars: What the younger generations' reactions to older generations' approaches to society/culture may be doing to our ecclesiology. Plus, what is ahead…
Sex in the City on a Hill: The most fundamental means of promoting an alternative sexual ethic is to practice one. So how are evangelicals doing when it comes to the issues of abstinence, celibacy, and sexual purity? How are Christians doing with the sacred model of heterosexual marriage?


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The first teaser poster for director Edgar Wright's The World's End has been released. The film reunites Wright with stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and acts as the third installment in the trio's "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy" after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Written by Wright and Pegg, the story centers on five childhood friends going through an epic pub crawl in order to reach the fabled pub, "The World's End". But as they make their way to the pub, they discover that the fate of humankind is on the line. This poster teases, well, the end of the world, as a devastating event looks to be headed Earth's way. Wright and Pegg previously admitted that the film's genre could be classified as "social sci-fi," so this poster certainly fits that description. I'm not sure if it hints at some otherworldly antagonist or if it's just a play on humanity's impending doom, but if the fate of the world lies in the hands of Pegg and Frost, at least we know we'll go down laughing our asses off.
Hit the jump to check out the poster. The film also stars Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz), and Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes). The World's End will be released in the UK on August 14th, 2013 and in the US on October 25th.
Poster and release date via Fandango.
Here's the official synopsis for The World's End:
20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.


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Malloy and Foley offer views on tax issues
On the volatile issue of taxes, there are a few places where Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley and Democrat Dannel Malloy agree.
If elected, each candidate would order extensive studies of state revenue and tax-collecting regulations.
Both would move to have the state adopt accounting rules used by most of the nation's businesses and the vast majority of states, thus providing a clearer picture of Connecticut's troubled finances.
Both candidates said last week that towns and cities should be allowed the freedom to raise revenue above and beyond local property taxes, such as creating occupancy taxes on hotels to pay for park improvements and such.
But when it comes to the nearly 20-year-old income tax, Malloy said he supports increasing the percentage paid by the state's wealthiest, while Foley says everyone is already paying enough.
"I want a tax structure that is fair and fairness includes progessivity," Malloy said, adding that many state residents are paying more than their share compared to much wealthier income earners.
He said the state's 6.5 percent tax on those making less than half a million dollars a year must be compared to surrounding states such as Massachusetts, which has a 5.5 percent rate but 12 percent taxes on capital gains and New Jersey's nearly 9 percent tax on incomes above $500,000.
"I want to be very clear that in all income-tax brackets we need to maintain a competitive advantage with New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts," Malloy said. "I will not give away that advantage."
Whoever wins the Nov. 2 election is going to have to come up with ways to address a projected $3.4 billion shortfall in the $19 billion budget that starts next July 1.
Foley says tweaking the income tax is not an option.
"I am not proposing changing anything in the tax structure right now except eliminating the business entity tax, which is annoying," Foley said last week.
Asked if he would support increasing the state's 6 percent sales tax, Malloy stressed the need to study every regulation and see if taxes can be taken off some things such as food.
"A broader-based sales tax could result in the elimination of taxes on things that would be regressive," Malloy said.
He added that the state could reap $155 million a year in taxes on Internet sales of clothing that are currently lost.
"My focus will not be on taxes, but getting spending in line with what's affordable today," said Foley, a millionaire private investor running for his first elective office.
"The state and local tax burden is the highest in the country. That tells me people are paying too much in taxes, not too little."
Malloy, the former 14-year Stamford mayor, cited a new study that indicates state taxpayers are second only to New Jersey in paying the highest taxes in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
One of his major goals is to reduce local property taxes.
"What I'm going to do is stop shifting the burden to local government through state mandates," he said, adding that Connecticut supports public education 17 percent less than the national average.
"A lot of what we need to do is reverse direction, particularly as the economy turns around, which it will," Malloy said.
At stake is what could be the third consecutive year that teachers are laid off across the state in 2011.
Foley said that it's the General Assembly that has put cities and towns in the current crisis.
"The state Legislature has mandated that property taxes are for all intents and purposes the only source of revenue," Foley said.
"I don't think the Legislature can tell towns and cities what to do, so they should have flexibility to raise taxes in other ways."
Otherwise, the elderly living on fixed incomes are in jeopardy of losing their homes. "The property tax is a corrosive tax," Foley said. "All those things need to be looked into."
Malloy agreed with Foley that towns and cities should have local options to raise revenue through sales and use taxes, but only to broader the local tax base, not as a way to make up for lost school or infrastructure funding that is the state's responsibility.


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The guardian was revealed today, as promised. There is a lot of information about it on a number of other sites and blogs here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (forgive me if I missed one or two or half-dozen reviews). After a dearth of ooey gooey GW2 info goodness, we are blessed with a new profession and lots of answered questions about it. And still, after reading all of the reviews I could find, I (and I'm sure many of you) still have lots of questions about it.
I'm assuming you've read at least one article about the guardian by now. I'm also assuming you know what a Blue Mace Lady (BML) or Blue Mace Dude (BMD) is. If none of this is ringing a bell, please click on any of the links above and get better acquainted with the profession of Logan Thackeray.
I must say I am impressed by this new profession. There was a lot of discussion leading up to what it would ultimately be, but I like the result. I've called it paragon 2.0 and monk 2.0 in the past, but it truly has aspects of several GW professions, including ritualist. I am actually very excited about the Spirit Weapons and how much they function like GW1 spirits. A lot of people are comparing them to rit's weapon spells, but I honestly see them more as spirits or minions, at least as far as functionality is concerned.
I am also very excited about the crowd control capability of this profession. It functions a lot like a necromancer through strategic use of offensive and defensive spells that frequently do little more than upset a foe's tactics. Wards are great for this. What can I say, I like a tactical profession.
I'm not sure who won the bet on the unique quality of the guardian. Someone was talking about stances and I'd love to give him/her credit for coming the closest (to my knowledge) of predicting it. Virtues are what separate a guardian from others. I think they are great because they are natural buffs that help with solo play and they are party buffs/boons/etc that do not take up a skill slot. I think we will see that, while on paper (on screen?) these appear to be weak or have long cool downs, but in practice they will be more helpful than we think. It's like carrying a 10% mod on a weapon in GW. You equip it and it helps you in the background.
Overall, I'm happy with this new profession. It has aspects of several GW professions that I have had less experience playing, but it is also a strong melee character in its own right. I like the crowd control ability of this profession and its similarities to the GW ele/necro regarding wards, wells, and symbols. I'm also very excited to explore the two-handed melee combat possibilities and like how much this profession is a cross between melee and caster. It is a nice blend for my taste.
I'm curious about how the monk/paragon/ritualist became the guardian as far as lore is concerned. Perhaps I'll explore this idea in another post.


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Depression is different from normal sadness.
Depression is not simply feeling sad. Depression is a disorder with specific symptoms that can be diagnosed and treated. About one-fourth of cancer patients become depressed. The numbers of men and women affected are about the same.
A person diagnosed with cancer faces many stressful issues. These may include:
Sadness and grief are normal reactions to a cancer diagnosis. A person with cancer may also have:
Not everyone who is diagnosed with cancer reacts in the same way. Some cancer patients may not have depression or anxiety, while others may have high levels of both.
Signs that you have adjusted to the cancer diagnosis and treatment include being able to stay active in daily life and continue in your roles such as:
This summary is mainly about depression in adults with cancer. There is a section at the end of the summary about depression in children with cancer.
Some cancer patients may have a higher risk of depression.
There are known risk factors for depression after a cancer diagnosis. Factors that increase the risk of depression are not always related to the cancer.
Risk factors related to cancer that may cause depression include the following:
Risk factors not related to cancer that may cause depression include the following:
There are many medical conditions that can cause depression.
Medical conditions that may cause depression include the following:
Depression and anxiety are common in patients whose cancer is advanced and can no longer be treated.
Patients whose cancer can no longer be treated often feel depressed and anxious. These feelings can lower the quality of life. Terminally ill patients who are depressed report being troubled about:
Depressed terminally ill patients feel they are "being a burden" even when they don't depend very much on others.
Family members also have a risk of depression.
Anxiety and depression are also common in family members caring for loved ones with cancer. Children are affected when a parent with cancer is depressed and may have emotional and behavioral problems themselves.
Good communication helps. Family members who talk about feelings and solve problems are more likely to have lower levels of anxiety and depression.
Major depression has specific symptoms that last longer than two weeks.
It's normal to feel sad after learning you have cancer, but a diagnosis of depression depends on more than being unhappy. Symptoms of depression include the following:
Your doctor will talk with you to find out if you have symptoms of depression.
Your doctor wants to know how you are feeling and may want to discuss the following:
This information will help you and your doctor find out if you are feeling normal sadness or have a depressive disorder.
Checking for depression may be repeated at times when stress increases, such as when cancer gets worse or comes back after treatment.
Physical exams, mental exams, and lab tests are used to diagnose depression.
In addition to talking with you, your doctor may do the following to check for depression:
The decision to treat depression depends on how long it has lasted and how much it affects your life.
If you cannot adjust to the cancer diagnosis after a long time and you have lost interest in your usual activities, you may have depression that needs to be treated. Treatment of depression may include medicines, talk therapy, or both.
Treatment of major depression usually includes medicine.
It's important to use antidepressants only under the care of a doctor.
Antidepressants help relieve depression and its symptoms. When you are taking antidepressants, it's important that they are used under the care of a doctor. You may be treated with a number of medicines during your cancer care. Some anticancer medicines may not mix safely with certain antidepressants or with certain foods, herbals, or nutritional supplements. It's important to tell your healthcare providers about all the medicines, herbals, and nutritional supplements you are taking, including medicines used as patches on the skin. This can help prevent unwanted reactions.
Many antidepressants take from 3 to 6 weeks to work. Usually, you begin at a low dose that is slowly increased to find the right dose for you. This helps to avoid side effects.
Check with your doctor before you stop taking an antidepressant. You may need to slowly reduce the dose of some types of antidepressants. This is to prevent side effects you may have if you suddenly stop taking the medicine.
There are different types of antidepressants.
Most antidepressants help treat depression by changing the levels of chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain. Nerves use these chemicals to send messages to one another. Increasing the amount of these chemicals helps to improve mood. The different types of antidepressants act on these chemicals in different ways and have different side effects.
Three types of antidepressants are commonly used to treat depression in patients with cancer:
There are other types of antidepressants that may be used:
The antidepressant that is best for you depends on the following:
St. John's wort may change the way some of your other medicines work.
St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is an herbal product sold as an over-the-counter treatment for depression. St. John's wort has not been proven to be better than standard antidepressant medicines. Many studies have been done to compare St. John's wort with antidepressants, placebo (inactive) medicines, or both, and have shown mixed results.
Be sure to talk with your doctor before taking St. John's wort. It may change the way some of your other medicines work, including anticancer medicines. Also, there are no standards for companies that make St. John's wort, so the amount of active ingredient may be different in each brand.
Counseling or talk therapy helps some cancer patients with depression.
Your doctor may suggest you see a psychologist or psychiatrist for the following reasons:
Most counseling or talk therapy programs for depression are offered in both individual and small-group settings. Some of these include:
More than one type of therapy program may be right for you. Therapy programs for cancer patients teach about the following:
Patients in therapy often form a close personal bond with an understanding health care provider. Talking with a clergy member may also be helpful for some people.
It's common for cancer patients to feel hopeless at times.
Cancer patients sometimes feel hopeless. Although few cancer patients are reported to die by suicide, talk with your doctor if you feel hopeless or have thoughts of suicide. There are ways your doctor can help you. Getting treatment for major depression has been shown to lower the risk of suicide in cancer patients.
Risk factors for suicide may be related to the cancer or other conditions.
General risk factors for suicide include the following:
Risk factors that are related to cancer include the following:
An assessment is done to find the reasons for hopeless feelings or thoughts of suicide.
Talking about thoughts of suicide with your doctor gives you a chance to describe your feelings and fears, and may help you feel more in control. Your doctor will try to find out what is causing your hopeless feelings, such as:
You can find out what may be done to help relieve your emotional and physical pain.
Controlling symptoms caused by cancer and cancer treatment is an important goal in preventing suicide.
Having constant discomfort or pain can cause you to feel desperate. Keeping pain and other symptoms under control will help to:
Treatment may include antidepressants. Some antidepressants take a few weeks to work. The doctor may prescribe other medicines that work quickly to relieve distress until the antidepressant begins to work. Patients usually are given only a small number of doses at a time. For your safety, it's important to have frequent contact with a health care professional and avoid being alone until your symptoms are controlled. Your health care team can help you find social support.
Losing a loved one to suicide is especially hard for the family and friends.
The shock and grief felt after the loss of a loved one to suicide is very difficult. Family members and others who loved the patient may feel like they have been left or rejected. They may feel guilty or angry or they may feel responsible for the suicide. Talking with a professional or a support group can be very helpful for family members and others who loved the patient. Support groups can:
It may help just to know that these feelings are felt by others.
Sedation may be considered for comfort.
Patients with advanced cancer or near the end of life may have:
Sedation can be given to ease these conditions. This is called palliative sedation. Deciding to use palliative sedation may be difficult for the family as well as the patient. The patient and family can get support from the health care team and mental health professionals when palliative sedation is used.
Choices about care and treatment at the end of life should be made while you are still able to make them.
Your thoughts and feelings about end-of-life sedation may depend on your own culture and beliefs. Some patients who become anxious facing the end of life may want to be sedated. Other patients may wish to have no procedures, including sedation, just before death. It is important for you to tell family members and health care providers of your wishes about sedation at the end of life. When you make your wishes about sedation known ahead of time, doctors and family members can be sure they're doing what you would want.
Most children cope well with cancer. A small number of children may have:
These problems can affect the child's cancer treatment and enjoyment of life. Children with severe late effects from cancer treatment may be more likely to have symptoms of depression. A mental health specialist can help children with depression.
Assessment for depression includes looking at the child's symptoms, behavior, and health history.
As in adults, normal sadness in children is not depression. Depression lasts longer and has specific symptoms. The doctor may assess the child for depression if a behavior problem goes on for a long time. To assess for depression, the doctor will need the following information about the child:
The doctor will talk with the child and may use a set of questions or a checklist that helps to diagnose depression in children.
A diagnosis of depression depends on the symptoms and how long they have lasted.
Children who are depressed have an unhappy mood and at least 4 of the following symptoms every day for 2 weeks or longer:
Treatment may be therapy or medicine.
Talk therapy is the main treatment for depression in children.
Individual and group talk therapy are the main treatments for depression in children. This may include play therapy for younger children. Therapy will help the child cope with feelings of depression and also understand the cancer and its treatment.
Medicines for depression may be used with care.
The doctor may prescribe antidepressants for children with severe depression and anxiety. Children taking antidepressants must be watched closely.SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are a type of antidepressant that usually have few side effects. However, in some children, teenagers, and young adults, SSRIs make depression worse or cause thoughts of suicide. The Food and Drug Administration has warned that patients younger than age 25 who are taking SSRIs should be watched closely for signs that the depression is getting worse and for suicidal thinking or behavior. This is especially important during the first 4 to 8 weeks of treatment.
See the section on Depression and Suicide in the PDQ summary on Pediatric Supportive Care for more information.
For more information from the National Cancer Institute about depression, see the following:
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The PDQ database contains summaries of the latest published information on cancer prevention, detection, genetics, treatment, supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine. Most summaries are available in two versions. The health professional versions provide detailed information written in technical language. The patient versions are written in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language. Both versions provide current and accurate cancer information.
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A clinical trial is a study to answer a scientific question, such as whether one method of treating symptoms is better than another. Trials are based on past studies and what has been learned in the laboratory. Each trial answers certain scientific questions in order to find new and better ways to help cancer patients. Some patients have symptoms caused by cancer treatment or by the cancer itself. During supportive care clinical trials, information is collected about how well new ways to treat symptoms of cancer work. The trials also study side effects of treatment and problems that come up during or after treatment. If a clinical trial shows that a new treatment is better than one currently being used, the new treatment may become "standard." Patients who have symptoms related to cancer treatment may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial.
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UK DVR maker TVonics is looking for "a small amount" of folk who own its DTR-HV250 set-top box to test its implementation of BBC iPlayer.
The DVR lacks an Ethernet port, so TVonics is looking for owners with a Wi-Fi network at home. Presumably, it'll supply a USB Wi-Fi dongle to clip into the DTR-HV250's rear-facing USB port.
TVonics' invite came in the form of a Tweet made this afternoon. Follow and respond to
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THE CHANGING PERCEPTION OF SERVICE DELIVERY Previously the NHS has been service-led, with an authoritarian, 'top–down' approach. The medical model of health care has predominated (Burke 2001). In recent years there has been a paradigm shift in the underpinning philosophy of care delivery, and the focus is now on providing […]Read more


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The Brumbies booked their place in the 2013 Super Rugby play-offs after powering past the Melbourne Rebels 39-17 at Canberra Stadium on Friday.
The hosts are now five points clear of the second-placed Reds in Australia, with Jake White's side having one game remaining against the Force.
Home scores were claimed by Scott Sio, Clyde Rathbone (2), Henry Speight, Colby Faingaa and Zac Holmes while the Rebels' five-point replies came from Tom English and Paul Alo-Emile.
Despite the Rebels being only 13-10 behind on 43 minutes, in truth this result was never really in doubt as the Brumbies' superior running game dominated proceedings, even with key playmaker Nic White being forced off after eight minutes.
Their first score arrived on three minutes when Sio barged over after metres were made by Speight down the right wing. Jesse Mogg was unsuccessful with the difficult extra two points.
The Brumbies were not done there as six minutes later wing Rathbone powered over on the left wing thanks to a fired pass from fly-half Matt Toomua.
An off-colour Jason Woodward did reply for the Rebels with three points off the kicking tee on 20 minutes to make it 10-3, which was how it stayed going into the changing rooms.
However, the Brumbies would return in scintillating form and despite English scoring following a breakout from his own try-line, it was the home side holding all the cards.
Rathbone would cross once more on 47 minutes before the try of the game arrived five minutes later when the impressive Peter Kimlin found Speight with a beautiful offload. The wing then set off 20 metres, splitting two defenders on the right en route to the uprights.
That put the Brumbies 25-10 ahead which soon became 30-10 when Faingaa scored a well-taken individual effort from 25 out, with Jake White's charges hitting their straps.
Replacement back Zac Holmes would be the Brumbies' final try-scorer just after the hour mark before Rebels replacement prop Alo-Emile went over for a consolation score.
For Brumbies:
Tries: Sio, Rathbone 2, Speight, Faingaa, Holmes
Con: Prior 3
Pen: Mogg
For Rebels:
Tries: English, Alo-Emile
Con: Woodward 2
Pen: Woodward
Brumbies: 15 Jesse Mogg, 14 Henry Speight, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Pat McCabe, 11 Clyde Rathbone, 10 Matt Toomua, 9 Nic White (c), 8 Peter Kimlin, 7 Colby Faingaa, 6 Scott Fardy, 5 Sam Carter, 4 Leon Power, 3 Dan Palmer, 2 Siliva Siliva, 1 Scott Sio.
Replacements: 16 Josh Mann-Rea, 17 Ruan Smith, 18 Etienne Oosthuizen, 19 Jordan Smiler, 20 Ian Prior, 21 Robbie Coleman, 22 Zack Holmes.
Rebels: 15 Jason Woodward, 14 Tom English, 13 Mitch Inman, 12 Rory Sidey, 11 Lachlan Mitchell, 10 Bryce Hegarty, 9 Nic Stirzaker, 8 Gareth Delve, 7 Scott Fuglistaller, 6 Jordy Reid, 5 Luke Jones, 4 Cadeyrn Neville, 3 Laurie Weeks, 2 Ged Robinson, 1 Nic Henderson.
Replacements: 16 Pat Leafa, 17 Paul Alo-Emile, 18 James King, 19 Tim Davidson, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 James Hilgendorf, 22 Kimami Sitauti.
Referee: Rohan Hoffmann (Australia)
Assistant referees: Steve Walsh (Australia), Matt O'Brien (Australia)
Television match official: George Ayoub (Australia)


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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
Due to the space requirements for these intelligent and dynamic animals, we do not exhibit live whales or dolphins. Gray whales are featured in signage. The voices of gray whales can be heard in the interactive kiosk's Whales: Voices in the Sea and may also be spotted during the whale watch season on one of our whale watching trips.
Geographic Distribution
Seasonally from the Artctic's Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas, along North America's Pacific coast to Baja California, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, and Gulf of Mexico.
Gray whales require different habitats for foraging and reproduction. The water in the subtropical breeding/calving grounds of the Baja lagoons is about 4 m (13 ft) deep, temperature 15 to 20o C (50 to 68o F), hypersaline due to evaporation, and the bottom is sandy or muddy with eelgrass growth in some areas. In the Arctic feeding grounds, where 95% of the whales' food is gammarid amphipods, the bottom is muddy, the water depth under 60 m (197 ft) and the water temperature a frigid 2.8-3.9o C (37 to 39o F). The "summer residents" of northern California to southeastern Alaska inhabit a variety of temperate water habitats—muddy and sandy bottoms, rock and boulder substrates, and kelp and eelgrass beds with depths from 3 to 30 m (9.8 to 98 ft).
Physical Characteristics
Gray whales are mysticetes, baleen whales. They have a robust but slender body tapered at both ends and a small head that appears triangular when viewed from above. Their upper jaw is arched in profile and extends beyond the lower jaw. Their rostrum (top of head) is dimpled and in each of the depressions there is a single, irregular, bristly hair. These hairs are also found along the side of the lower jaw. Called vibrissae, they are tactile sensors like cat and sea lion whiskers. These whales have two to five ventral throat grooves, or creases, that are about 1.5 m (5 ft) long. Their flippers are small, paddle-shaped, and pointed at the ends. Their flukes are 3-3.6 m (10 to12 ft) in width, pointed at the tips, deeply notched in the center, and often frayed, scarred, and scraped (presumably from attacks by killer whales). Instead of a dorsal fin they have a prominent dorsal hump about two-thirds of the way down their back. This is followed by a series of 6 to 12 bumps or knuckles along the ridge of the back that create a saw-toothed appearance.
These whales have 130 to 180 overlapping, cream to whitish-yellow baleen plates that fray into fine hairs on the ends inside their mouth next to the tongue. These plates are 5 to 15 cm (2 to 10 in) in length.
As their name indicates, gray whales are gray in color but their coloration is not uniform. Younger whales are darker gray and older ones lighter. Both have gray patches, varying degrees of white mottling, and scattered encrustations of whitish barnacles and orange whale lice.
They are are 11 to 14 m (36 to 46 ft) long and weigh 16,000 to 45,000 kg (38,000 to 99,000 lbs). Their tongue is about 1.5 m (5 ft) long, can weigh 454 to 1361 kg (1000 to 3000 lb).
While several whale species feed on the bottom, the bottom feeding technique of gray whales is unique. The gray whale takes a deep inhalation of air, arches its body, throws its flukes high into the air, and dives to the muddy bottom, usually in relatively shallow water that is 10 to 15 m (30 to 50 ft) deep. On the bottom, it rolls on its side (normally the right side) and pushes its head through the top few inches of sediment. It then opens its mouth slightly, and by expanding and contracting its throat grooves and retracting its huge tongue, creates a powerful suction to suck up the food-filled sediment. It uses its tongue to force the mud and water through the baleen plates on the opposite side of its mouth. The baleen acts as a filter or strainer retaining only the food, which the whale maneuvers with its tongue so the gammarid amphipods, tube worms, mollusks, and other bottom invertebrates can be swallowed. The whale leaves a trench in the ocean floor and trails a plume of mud behind it as it surfaces.
Recent observations have dispelled the beliefs that gray whales are only bottom feeders and that they do not eat during their migrations. Opportunistic feeders, they surface-feed, gulping small schooling fish, pelagic crabs, and swarms of krill when encountered. They also forage in kelp for mysid shrimps.
Gray whales become sexually mature at 5 to 11 years of age, or when they reach 12 to 14 m (39.6 to 46 ft) in length. Mating usually occurs during the southbound migration. Courtship is complex and may involve three or more whales of mixed sexes, milling, circling, and rolling for two hours or more. Groups of three are common, usually a female and two males. At one time it was thought that the second male was an assistant, helping to keep the female close to the mating male. Researchers today believe that both males mate with the female.
Not all calves are born in the warm waters of the Baja lagoons. Females with calves are commonly seen on the southbound migration from observation points along the U.S. Pacific Coast. The calf, born after a gestation period of 12 to 13 months, is pinkish at birth, rapidly changing to dark gray to black in color, 4.5-5 m (14.9 to 16 ft) in length, and weighs about 50 to 68 kg (1100 to 1500 lb). The flukes of newborns are weak and curled under at birth with the result that the almost helpless calf usually has to be supported by the mother, using her back and flukes to get it to the surface for its first breath of air. Within about three hours the calf becomes coordinated enough to swim a steady course.
The cow's nipples are recessed in narrow folds on her belly. When the calf's mouth touches one of the folds, the mother's muscles push the nipple outward and she forcibly ejects a stream of milk into the calf's mouth. It rapidly accumulates the blubber layer that will help keep it warm by consuming about 189 l (50 gal) of milk a day that is 50-53% fat and the consistency of cottage cheese. The calf will grow about 3 m (10 ft) and double its weight before its swim north begins. It will be weaned after reaching the Alaskan feeding grounds when it is about seven to eight months of age.
Females with calves usually stay in the back shallow waters of the lagoons with their calves, away from the males and single females (who are often at the entrance to the lagoons). Very young calves may rest or ride on the back of the mother. The pair is often observed "napping" with eyes closed and blowholes at or just below the surface of the water. They surface every 8 to 10 minutes for a breath of air. As the calves grow they try to mimic the acrobatic behavior of adults. They also practice bottom feeding and are observed in the lagoons with their immature tail stocks and flukes sticking straight up in the air. Before the journey north begins, the female takes the calf to various parts of the lagoon so that it can become stronger and learn how to handle itself in strong tidal currents.
The Blow: Gray whales usually take three to five breaths 10 to 20 seconds apart, then dive for three to seven minutes, staying underwater for up to 20 minutes. When they resurface, they exhale about 378 l (100 gal) of air in a blow that is up to 4.6 m (15 ft) high. If winds are calm, the blow appears to be heart-shaped.
Acrobatics: Although they are not as noted for their acrobatic behaviors as humpback whales, grays still manage to be "showy". Why the whales display is not known. Their acrobatics include: breaching: throwing as much as ¾ of the body out of the water and landing on the surface belly down or on the side with a huge splash. Is this to get rid of parasites, communicate with other whales, a courtship display, a temper tantrum, or just for fun? spyhopping:lifting the head out of the water vertically, usually clearing the eyes above the water surface to scan for about 30 seconds, then slowly sinking down. Why look around? Perhaps, to see who is in the area, where obstacles are, to navigate, or just out of curiousity. sailing: lifting flukes and tailstock into the air to catch a strong gust of air and "sail" downwind with the breeze (a lagoon behavior). snorkeling: a rise to the surface to inhale air without a blow, (exhalation is underwater). This behavior is believed to be unique to gray whales. It may be a reaction to boat noises and traffic or a desire to be "hidden".
The Migration: Eastern Pacific gray whales have one of the longest migrations of any animal. They travel 16,000 to 23,530 km (10,000 to 14,000 mi) round trip during their journey from Arctic summer feeding grounds to winter breeding and calving grounds in Baja lagoons and the Gulf of California. The total distance is dependent on the exact starting and turn-around points.
When freeze-up starts and food supplies dwindle in the western Beaufort, Chukchi, and northern and Bering seas, something tells the whales to start swimming south. After feeding for about 20 hours a day, they have managed to gain back a good deal of the weight lost during their migration. Pregnant females leave first in late September to early October, then sexually mature males and females, and last, the immature of both sexes. The peak southern migration off southern California is mid- February. Most of the whales stop in the Baja lagoons while a small number go as far as Cabo San Lucas and an even smaller number, the Sea of Cortez.
By the time these whales start their migration back to the Arctic two to three months later; they are lean and hungry, having lost 15-30% of their weight and not having had a good meal since they left the Arctic four to six months earlier. Impregnated females leave Baja first starting north as early as late January. The peak of the southern migration along the southern California coast is late February so north and south bound whales are often seen. Cow-calf pairs usually do not leave Baja until April so as to give the calf a maximum time to strengthen and put on blubber. The female stays close to the coast in an effort to protect the calf from transient killer whales. The trip north is slow for the cow-calf pair because of stops for nursing and the occasional meal of mysid shrimp or other food encountered.
Not all gray whales make the entire migration back north. For several years a small number of whales have been regularly observed throughout the spring-summer-fall feeding in northern California waters in the Gulf of the Farallones and Point Reyes Headland, central Oregon, Washington, along the outer coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska. Formerly called summer residents, these "short distance" travelers who don't swim all the way to the Arctic feeding grounds are now called the Pacific Coast Aggregation Group. They join the southbound migration in the late fall.
Gray whales feed in icy-cold Arctic waters for as long as 20 hours a day without becoming hypothermic, despite loss of heat through their cavernous mouths. How do they maintain body heat while taking in gallons of frigid water? They have a number of "countercurrent heat exchangers" scattered throughout the tongue consisting of a single central artery encircled by a network of veins. As the blood circulates, heat is transferred from the warm arterial blood to the cooler venous blood. Scientific observations indicate that a whale loses more heat through its body-encasing blubber than through its not-too-well insulated tongue. It appears that the development of these tongue heat exchangers was as important in the evolution of gray whales as the development of its filtering baleen.
These whales are believed to have a life span of 30 to 70 years.
At one time three populations of gray whales could be found in the coastal waters of the north Atlantic and north Pacific Oceans. The north Atlantic population became extinct 300 years ago. The western Pacific gray is critically endangered and scientists believe it may become extinct. In contrast, the remarkably resilient eastern Pacific gray whale has twice made a recovery from near extinction to today's population of about 26,000, equal to what has been estimated to be the pre-whaling number.
In 1971 the Mexican government established Scammon's Lagoon as a Whale Sanctuary, the first in the world. Subsequent decrees strengthened protection laws and also made San Ignacio, Guerrero Negro, and Manuela Lagoons whale sanctuaries. In addition they were declared Maritime Attraction Zones. The primary calving area in San Ignacio Lagoon was made off-limits to tourism. Eastern Pacific gray whales were removed from the United States Endangered Species List in 1995; however, they are still protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The IUCN Red List rating is LR/CD (lower risk/conservation dependent).
Conservation of gray whales means addressing threats resulting mostly from human activities. These include collisions with vessels, especially in the crowded shipping lanes along the California coast; entanglement in fishing gear, (gill nets, long lines, and lobster pot buoys); reduced food sources due to global climate change in the Arctic; behavior alterations along migratory routes and in the lagoons caused by increasing numbers of whale watching boats and tourists; noise pollution (ship traffic, Navy sonar testing, oil and gas exploration and operations) interfering with their communication; industrial activities and resort development in Magdalena Bay, a calving ground; establishment of LNG facilities in the Baja Peninsula; and the pressures by some countries for resumption of commercial whaling. Also to be considered is whether the available feeding grounds are adequate to support the food needs of the growing population.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) lists gray whales as a category "sustained management stock permitting". Under this listing, IWC has permitted taking 620 gray whales for aboriginal subsistence in the period 2003-2007 with no more than 140 to be killed per year. Five per year have been allocated to the Makah Native Americans who live on Washington's Olympic Peninsula and the rest to Siberian aboriginals. Legal action has halted hunting by the Makah who have now asked for exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act so as to be able to continue their hunts.
Special Notes
Gray or grey?: In the United States the spelling of the color is "gray". In other parts of the world it is spelled "grey". The international community has accepted the American spelling for the whale's common name so it is the gray whale with an "a", not an "e".
Whale harvesting to whale watching: In the early 1870's a popular weekend outing was a trip to shore whaling stations along California's coast to picnic and watch whalers bring in gray whales for rendering. Over the years this changed to watching the annual migration of the "California" gray whales from shore. The December 31, 1956 edition of a San Diego newspaper reported that 10,000 people watched 42 grays swim by on their way to the Baja lagoons. The gray whales were approaching extinction when commercial whale watching from boats started in 1955-56 in either San Diego or San Pedro, California. Today, whale watching is not just a southern California industry, it has spread to 87 countries generating more than a billion dollars annually. Right whales in Patagonia; humpbacks in Hawaii, the Caribbean, and Australia; sperm whales in the Azores; finbacks, humpbacks, minke, and pilot whales in the Sea of Cortez; friendly gray whales in Baja lagoons; blue and humpback whales in California's Santa Barbara Channel—it all started in Southern California with "California" gray whales as the attraction.
A whale of many names: The gray whale's scientific genus name Eschrichtius refers to a Danish zoology professor Daniel Eschricht and the species name, robustus means strong or oaken in Latin. Then there are the common names: devilfish for its ferocity and violent defensive behavior; mussel-digger for its bottom feeding behavior: scrag whale, the name used by Nantucket whalers, and California gray whale when California laid claim to the species. The latter was replaced with Pacific gray whale because of the objections of the states of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska plus the Canadian province of British Columbia, and Mexico. Today's common usage is eastern Pacific or eastern gray whale, and western Pacific, or western gray whale to distinguish the two populations. Some governmental agencies use eastern North Pacific and western North Pacific whales.
Gray whale cleaner fish: When the whales are in the Baja lagoons, topsmelt, silvery schooling fish, serve as cleaning fish for the whales. Normally feeding on marine plants and tiny shrimp, these fish pick at the whale's barnacles and whale lice as an alternate food source.
Ocean going hitchhikers: Gray whales are one of the most heavily parasitized of all cetaceans. The barnacle species that they host, Cryptolepas rhacianecti, is unique to these whales. The larvae are water-borne through several moltings until they attach to the whales, usually at the time of the sixth molting to become hitchhikers. They burrow into the skin of a whale, especially around the head, back, flippers, and flukes, where they live the rest of their life. When they finally fall off or are scraped off, they leave behind a whitish patch. As the whale grows, barnacles do also—forming large, solid, whitish-brown clusters. Filter feeders, the water column is the source of their food, not the whale itself. The whale just provides a free ride.
There are three species of whale lice that prey on these whales, two of which parasitize only gray whales. Each species occupies a different area of the whale's body in folds and slits of skin and around the barnacle clusters where there is damaged tissue. Whale lice are not actually lice. They are small crustaceans 1.8-2.54 cm (0.5-1 in) long that act like lice. The whales first acquire them by physical contact with an infected whale. Once attached, new lice emerge from the brood patch on their parents as miniature adults, immediately dig into the whale's skin with sharp corkscrew-like legs, and proceed to dine on the whale's flesh.
Aboriginals and the gray whale: Siberia's Chukotka and Koryak peoples, Alaska's Inuit and Tlingit, Vancouver Island's Tse-shahts, Washington's Olympic Peninsula's Makah, and the Chumash of California and Baja Mexico—all knew the gray whale. Many hunted them from canoes, ate the meat, rendered the blubber to use as oil for cooking, turned the baleen into combs and brushes, constructed roof and door supports from the bones, and used the vertebrae as stools. Rituals were conducted in honor of the whales—dances to invoke the whale's spirit and ask for forgiveness for hunting it and songs sung at festivals about its greatness. Some tribes believed that Whale People lived in underground dwellings as men, turning into gray whales when they emerged from beneath the sea. The Chukotka built memorials to the whales that still exist in an area of the Kuril Islands called Whale Alley. The Makah called the gray whale "the ruler of the sea". California's Chumash, who believed the whale was the guardian of the sea, are not believed to have been whale hunters, eating the meat and using the bones only of beached, dead animals.


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Pakistan's prime minister has assured Kashmiri people living in the Indian-administered part of the divided region that he supports them in their struggle for self-determination.
Imran Khan condemned New Delhi's August 5 decision to downgrade Kashmir's status, as he began celebrations marking Pakistan's independence day.
He is marking the day in Pakistan's part of Kashmir to express solidarity with Kashmiris on the Indian-controlled side.
In a speech in its Legislative Assembly, he warned India against any attack on Pakistan-administered Kashmir to divert attention from human rights violations in the Indian-controlled portion of the Himalayan region.
He said his country has credible intelligence that India could launch an attack and that Pakistan is "fully prepared to respond".
Pakistan has strongly condemned India's recent downgrading of Kashmir's status from a state with some autonomy to two territories.
India has imposed an unprecedented security lock-down to try to prevent any violent reaction in Kashmir to its downgraded status. Protests and clashes have occurred daily, though the curfew and communications blackout have meant the reaction is largely subdued.
Mr Khan told the Assembly that he will step up diplomatic efforts to highlight the issue of Kashmir and Indian actions there.
India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947 when British colonialists left the subcontinent. The next year, they fought the first of two wars over control of Kashmir, which ended with the region divided between them, although both claim it entirely.
Pakistan has called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council, saying the move by India's Hindu nationalist-led government threatens international peace and could lead to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Poland holds the council presidency this month and foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz said members would discuss the issue.


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Coming to a cellphone near you in 2012: campaign contributions on the fly, at a moment's notice.
California is the first state in the nation to adopt new rules which allow a phone user to simply text a campaign donation. It's the same idea as texting a donation to a favored charity or a disaster relief organization. The amount pledged goes into the phone bill, then is pass on to the campaign.
It reminds me of what was then considered another groundbreaking political maneuver in 1992. That's when Jerry Brown, making his third and final run for the White House, obtained a toll-free phone number which he used to raise campaign cash.
U.S. & World
That 800 number (which Brown still uses, by the way) was attached to all his campaign appearances and literature. It was considered a novel and cutting-edge move at the time. And it helped Brown not only to raise money, but to create buzz about his use of technology..such as it was.
The new texting rules were approved by California's Fair Political Practices Commission earlier this year. Commission Chair Ann Ravel thinks the move will engage more people in the political process. And she believes other states will eventually get behind the idea.
"It would be great to have lots of states across the country allow text messaging of political contributions so there will be enough interest and pressure to encourage phone companies to participate," Ravel said in a prepared statement.
But how quickly will campaign professionals get on board?
Republican strategist Rob Stutzman, a former communications director to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, says the change is inevitable.
"I don't think it's a game-changer, but I think it's a natural evolution of using technology appropriately," Stutzman tells Prop Zero.
"It makes fundraising more efficient, gets away from mail and the cost associated with that."
Stutzman says larger campaigns will be best positioned and suited to cash in on the technique, but it'll have to be marketed. Expect that text code to show up on campaign literature and on TV ads.
Just like Jerry Brown's old 800 number.


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I feel like I've been gone for so long and yet I've gone absolutely nowhere at all. I've been here, working hard.
With Robert's crazy-long hours at work this time of year, I often revert back to my single gal meals. Soup, soup, and more soup. These gluten-free waffles, a fried egg (he's not a fan of breakfast for dinner so I eat it a lot when he's not around), and green juice. Roasted salmon and sweet potato. Not exactly exciting.
BUT. This salad got me excited about experimenting in the kitchen all over again. It came at a time when I had had it with soft food. I have eaten all of the soups, stews, and slow cooker meals I can possibly handle for a good, long while. I just can't take it any more. I want light, crisp, and juicy! Food that requires molars!
The only problem? It's still not warm enough to feel satisfied on raw veggies. That's why this salad was exactly what I needed. The shredded brussels are sautéed, but still maintain a bit of crunch. Toasted almonds? More crunch. Pomegranate seeds? Crunchy and juicy. I made this salad with my absolute favorite vinegar that I discovered on our honeymoon: Fustini's fig balsamic vinegar. I've gone through two big bottles since September and find a way to put it on everything. However, I've also made this salad with regular balsamic vinegar and it's still totally delish.
I haven't made an all Trader Joe's recipe in a while and this is definitely one (not to worry– you can still find all of the ingredients even if you don't live near a TJ's.) I love the packages of pre-shredded brussels sprouts and pomegranate seeds, which make this a super-quick, superfood-packed easy weeknight (or any night) salad.
Sauteed Shredded Brussels Sprout Salad
- Olive oil
- 1 small shallot, minced
- 10 oz shredded brussels sprouts (about 3 cups)
- Salt & pepper
- 2 Tbsp fig balsamic vinegar or regular balsamic vinegar (feel free to taste & add more as you like)
- 1/3 cup raw slivered almonds, toasted
- 1 cup pomegranate seeds
Heat 1 Tbsp olive oil over medium-high heat. Add shallot and sautee about 1 minute. Add brussels sprouts, season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, 5 to 7 minutes, until leaves turn bright green and are slightly softened. Add vinegar and toss to coat. Remove brussels sprouts to a bowl. Allow them to cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Add almonds and pomegranate seeds.


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I think the sheer lack of stuff early next year is the drag in the line that started in '08 (Hasbro said in one Q&A that collector purchases are down 30-40% - wow) finally catching up. They're pulling way back, reorganizing, and coming back in the fall. It's somewhat similar to what happened in early 2000 after the collapse of the EP1 line, except nowhere near as catastrophic. Also, the CW line is going strong.
Umm, WTF do all those Hasbro employees plan to do for the first part of 2009? Sit around and play Tetris? Are you guys putting ANYTHING out?
I certainly think that the 60% rise in the price of a basic figure since 2005 has a lot to do with the 30% - 40% decline in sales.
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