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Chow Moo or Mulatto?
I met a woman this weekend who looks a little like Cynda Williams (in the picture below, Williams is about to kiss Billy Bob Thornton in Carl Franklin's movie One False Move):
The woman I met expressed her unhappiness at the fact that Dairy Queen is selling an ice-cream flavor called MooLatte. Now, the woman—who, like Cynda Williams, is mixed (black/white)—believes, for the purpose of making a color connection, MooLatte references mulatto. But MooLatte could also be a reference to the sound cows make in the English language. So which is it? Or is it both? And if MooLatte intentionally references mulatto, is that offensive? Who uses mulatto these days? The woman I met is into film theory.


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Those who play MicroVolts Online might be delighted for this tidbit of information: Rock Hippo has just announced the launch of the game's latest update, Winter Warfare. That's right, even in the deathly cold of winter, the battle for precious battery power ...
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Released: Jul 01st, 1994
Running Time: 84
Director: Eric Edwards
Company: Factory Home Video
Cast: Nikki Shane, Melanie Moore, Krista (V), T.T. Boy, Ron Hightower, Rebecca Wild, Mike Homer, Peter North, Mai Le, Crystal Wilder
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Feature
Mike Horner is a private eye hired by the Feds to track down a mobile home brothel that keeps crossing state lines to avoid the local police. (Hmm — not a bad idea...)
Rebecca Wild is madam Molly who keeps things moving and, who, by coincidence, hired Mike nine years earlier to get the goods on her cheating husband (not to mention an affair she has with Horner as a result).
Returning to present time, we see customer T.T. Boy picking two girls (Nikki Shane, Mai Le) for a little threeway. Afterwards, the madam and her girls relax in a six-way girl group grope, which features Crystal Wilder, Melanie Moore and Krista. Too bad the editing is only fair, and the videog-raphy ain't much better. A potentially great scene is thereby turned into a simple tangle of bodies. The following Krista/Peter North coupling turns out better, as does the tape closer with Ron Hightower and Crystal.
Another technical flub has the music occasionally drowning out the dialogue, which, with the other flaws, definitely brings this tape down at least half a point. On the other hand, a great close-up of Rebecca on the cover will garner immediate customer attention.


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When recipients cannot absorb the aid and attention they are offered, the common response is "capacity building"—as if the source of the problem is the recipient's implementation capacity. In this report, Robert D. Lamb and Kathryn Mixon present the results of their research on the sources of absorptive capacity. They find that this sort of "blaming the victim" mentality, while common, is not always justified. While it is true that many aid recipients do not have adequate capacity for implementation, it is equally true that many aid programs are designed and implemented without an adequate appreciation of local desires, resources, capabilities, and challenges. Absorptive capacity, in other words, is a byproduct of the donor-recipient relationship. The authors present a new framework for measuring absorptive capacity. This framework is intended to supplement existing planning, monitoring, and evaluation processes, offering a new way to test whether an existing approach is compatible with local conditions and a method for improving the fit.
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Tsubaki cosplaying as AJ
Miyori cosplaying as Rarity
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Tsubaki cosplaying as AJ
Miyori cosplaying as Rarity
my AJ cosplay vid [link]
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Some on spot cosplay right here!
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Probably the most realistic one I've seen so far. Really cute and nice! This looks fun...
Favorite AJ and Rarity cosplay. Well done.
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That's some pretty impressive cosplay
I like the applejack one.
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Apple jacks freckllllllleeeeesss >w<
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Rarity: ...When?
Rarity: ...When?
Where did you get your wigs?
ho my god =O
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both gorgeous!
these are both great :c
wait...is tsubaki a guy???
looks sweet
where did Tsubaki get her wig?! It's amazing!
Good job to both cosplayers. Very nice. Although I would like to see some ears for Applejack. ^_^
i can't say the Twilight cosplay was very good to me... but the AppleJack was EXCELENT!!!
Wow! Incredibly realistic! You really captured the ponies personalities in this
The rarity one was awesome! Rarity est genial!
wow, that is some awesome cosplay work!
nicely done ^_^
nicely done ^_^
Wow! Very smart! I loved it! XD
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Рарити красивая^_^
не люблю поняшек,только ее*_*
не люблю поняшек,только ее*_*
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Rocket Riot 3D
Get ready for Rocket Riot 3D, an action-packed, side-scrolling, 8-bit shooter where the rockets and the fun never stops! Experience classic levels from the 4.5 star Windows Phone 7 game and 4-star Xbox Arcade hit, Rocket Riot™. With over 100 levels and over 200 characters, blowing things up has just reached a new level of awesome! Rocket Riot™ 3D packs hundreds of zany characters, aggressive mini-bosses, tons of tough bosses and crazy visual effects into one rocket package! Obliterate your friends with multiplayer challenges, or achieve a personal best in the single player campaign. In this awesomely 8-bit styled game, blast your way through the environment or hide behind it, battling the strangest enemies you will ever encounter. Uncover wacky power-ups, navigate through completely destructible environments, or burrow into different areas of the map for surprise attacks. Destroyed objects regenerate, keeping the action fast-paced. But time doesn't heal all wounds! Ever wondered what 3D pixels would look like with some 3D glasses on? In Rocket Riot 3D you can now try for yourself! It's rocket-tastic, proper 3D-style!More
- • Engage in over 100 single-player missions, set in distinctly stylized worlds!
- • Unlock over 200 characters! Zombies vs. robots! Rocket-propelled bananas! Pirates vs. meese…uh…multiple moose!
- • Multiplayer challenges let you compete for ultimate Rocket Riot world domination!
- • Test your strength and aim against tons of bosses… and mini bosses too.
- • 24 all-new Windows 8 exclusive levels.
- • Classic Rocket Riot™ levels with awesome new stories, characters and visual effects.
- • 20 crazy power-ups: some helpful, some funny… all explosive.
- • Colorful 8-bit style visuals with a splash of modern artistic flair, now in stereoscopic 3D.
- • Maps constantly change by regenerating after they're destroyed. But time doesn't heal all wounds!
- • Use touch, mouse/keyboard controls, or USB Xbox Controller.
- • Outrageously fun on both Windows 8 tablets and PCs.
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One of the Best Touch Games I've Ever Played.
Incredibly fun: fly around and blow things up. Gorgeous retro graphics, intuitive controls on either touchscreen, keyboard and mouse, or Xbox controller, tons of levels and playable characters, Xbox achievements to unlock, plus a fun story. Well worth the price. Easily my favorite game on Windows RT, and possibly my favorite touch-control game of all time. I liked it so much I bought all the extra level packs. Highly recommended. Needs real-time online multiplayer, though. Played on Surface RT.More
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Its one of the best mobile gaming experience I ever had! Very unique and fun to play. In addition very addictive! Gameplay is satisfying graphics and physics are good for a mobile gaming experience too. Graphics can be improved but nothing major. Overall best game so far specially for the Surface RT.More
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Absolutely Love This Game
I enjoy playing this game more on my touchscreen desktop more so than my Surface. It is awesome in that huge landscape. Great gameplay... great graphics... and fun. Worth every penny.More
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Buying the app doesn't unlock all levels
You only get some levels and you will need to purchase other levels. This should be made clearer. Game get a bit bland after a while.More
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Loved this game on my Xbox and just as fun on my Surface RT. Touch controls are stellar, but it also supports play with an Xbox controller which is equally fun. Keep on releasing great Xbox live games for the Surface and soon I will be trading in my IPad. Love getting my achievements on the go or while someone is watching TV.More
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Unplayable in trial
Did trial of game and started with tutorial. Game went into loop where I had no control over game, and the camera just kept panning to three points on first map. Never was able to get out of loop. Could not play. Noooooo way I would risk putting down money for such a glaring bug that passed by this crew's QA. FYI, I am using Surface RT.More
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One of the main challenges in ape conservation in many parts of Africa, and particularly where the Fossey Fund works in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is the hunting of gorillas and chimpanzees. Adult animals are killed for food and the infants are kept as pets or sold into the pet trade. Because of our daily presence in the forest and outreach work with local communities, we are often the first people approached when an infant ape is discovered.
In late June, our Congo program director, Urbain Ngobobo, received information from a local conservationist that an infant chimpanzee was being held in a remote village in one of the regions where we work in Congo. Our staff then formed a team to plan a strategy for rescuing the chimp, which had apparently been caught in snares in the forest and brought by hunters to the village.
It was reported that the hunters had been influenced by recent conservation activities in the area, as well as efforts to provide alternative food opportunities (as opposed to hunting for bushmeat), and therefore decided to turn the young chimp over to conservationists for care. Fossey Fund staff organized transportation, food, water and care for the chimp, coordinating with local national park authorities (ICCN) as well as Gorilla Doctors, and the animal was brought safely to the Lwiro Primate Sanctuary (Centre de Rehabilitation des Primates Lwiro) in the south Kivu area.
When a rescued chimp arrives in this sanctuary, it is the custom to name the animal after the village it came from or the person who rescued it. In this case, the chimp reecived the name of "Wenga Lipanda." "Wenga" is the name of the village where the chimp was located and "lipanda" is a word for "independence," chosen since the rescue took place on the independence day celebrated by the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The chimp had a small wound on its hand but seemed otherwise healthy, and was estimated to be about 3 years old. We hope he will be successfully integrated with other rescued animals at the sanctuary.
An exciting new exhibit about gorillas, their habitats, and the Fossey Fund's work is now open at our Karisoke Research Center facility in Rwanda. New items are still being added, including a special new "Virtual Virungas" mountain exhibit, an immersive, three-dimensional visualization of mountain gorilla habitat, projected onto a bed of sand and operated through a variety of high-tech controls and input.
The "Virtual Virungas" uses historic mountain gorilla ranging data, plus satellite imagery and topographic maps to show how the gorillas groups have ranged during different periods of time. Visitors can even modify what is shown on the sand, through connections with their mobile phones or computers.
The "Virtual Virungas" was designed and created by Matt Swarts, Noah Posner, and Tony Giarrusso of the Center for GIS and Imagine Lab in the College of Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
Although we still don't know the gender of the mountain gorilla twins born in January, Fossey Fund field staff can now easily identify one twin from the other. Until they get their "official" names in this September's annual Rwandan naming ceremony (Kwita Izina), we are calling them Twin 1 and Twin 2.
Twin 1 seems to be a bit larger than Twin 2, but both nurse regularly and both ride on the back of mother Isaro, so we believe they are treated equally. To keep her energy up with all this feeding and carrying, mother Isaro is always the first in the group to start feeding during resting periods and always the last to join the others when it's time to move again.
None of the other gorillas interfere with Isaro and the twins when the group is moving, but when they are resting, their young brother Icyororo has been seen carrying one of them for playing.
Photo by Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program manager, Karisoke Research Center.
A grant from the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda has enabled the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund to expand its conservation education efforts, by adding a teacher training program, starting in 2015. A teacher training workshop brought together 30 teachers from 15 primary schools located near the national park where the gorillas live, for presentations on biodiversity, conservation issues and activities, and mountain gorilla ecology, behavior and conservation.
Also part of the program, a number of field visits for the teachers were arranged, including a gorilla trek and a golden monkey visit this month, after a climb to the top of Mt. Bisoke in December. This way, the teachers have seen the different vegetation zones as well as many of the most-endangered animals in the forest, all of which will enhance their delivery of conservation programs in their schools.
"The conservation training has impacted me positively, learning about the importance of biodiversity, and that what wildlfe needs to survive is similar to what humans need to survive," says Kabara school teacher Juvenal Ruzirakuvuka. "It will help me motivate school children to love and protect biodiversity and will help prepare them for conservation in the future."
We are grateful to the United States Embassy in Rwanda for providing funding to carry out these teacher training activities. We thank the Rwanda Developent Board (RDB) for their assistance in organizing the teacher training workshop. We also appreciate the collaboration of headmasters and teachers from all the schools that made the implementation of the different activities possible.
As the mountain gorilla twins born in January approach their sixth month of life, their increasing size means that mother Isaro now has additional challenges to face: how to handle and carry these growing infants, who are also increasingly agile and curious.
In the early months, Isaro was able to carry both of the twins against her chest with one arm, while using the other arm to walk (gorillas normally walk on all fours). But the increased weight of the growing twins is now forcing Isaro to shift their position more often while she is walking, or to provide arm support to only one of them.
B ut now even this is getting more difficult and so Isaro has to redistribute them frequently. She has also been seen carrying one infant in each arm and walking bipedally (on only two limbs) for a few meters, or using vegetation to help her maintain balance! At other times, our staff has observed her encouraging one of the infants to ride on her back, which leaves the other one with more space to cling to Isaro's chest, with occasional additional support from the mother's arm.
"This is a very important phase in their lives, to see whether Isaro will be able to invest equally in both infants," says Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program manager at the Karisoke Research Center. "We are now collecting behavioral data on each twin separately, allowing us to compare their activity types and levels. Observations show one twin is more active than the other, and we hope this is due to normal variability and not to uneven feeding."
Lead tracker Eric Kabeja has observed on several occasions that one twin has pushed away the other when feeding, although the "losing" twin then just resumes feeding on the other side. This may just be normal infant "greediness" and is the only evidence of sibling conflict that we have observed.
We are also eagerly awaiting the time when the father and group leader – dominant silverback Isabukuru – will start interacting with the infants. At the moment they are still too young for this, but Isabukuru is known for being very actively involved with youngsters in his group. He has been observed carrying infants carefully and engaging patiently in play behaviors, including having youngsters climb onto his broad chest during resting periods, where they then attempt to push each other off in a game of "king of the hill."
This behavior by Isabukuru seems to provide good stimulation for youngsters and perhaps even helps them develop their independence. He's also known for his relaxed leadership style and popularity with females, though he has not always been very tolerant of human observers.
The work of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in protecting mountain gorillas is completely dependent on the daily monitoring and protection carried out by our gorilla trackers, data technicians and researchers, in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park. Our field staff intimately know all the gorillas we monitor, as well as most other aspects of the forest and its ecosystem.
Recently, 22 of our data technicians, gorilla trackers and other field staff made trips to another forest park in Rwanda, called Nyungwe National Park, to learn about the different ecosystem there, to observe different animals and plants, and to compare aspects of the two forests.
Before arriving at Nyungwe Park, they stopped at the village of Huye, to visit the Ethnographic Museum of Rwanda. Here they learned about the early history of Rwanda, especially how ancient peoples interacted with their environment, their lifestyles and cultures. Then the staff went on a canopy walk over the Nyungwe forest, which gave them the opportunity to look at many of the plant species in this closed canopy forest, quite different from Volcanoes National Park, which has a well-developed understory of plants.
This triggered a discussion among the staff as to whether mountain gorillas could survive in Nyungwe park, which is home to chimpanzees and other primates, but not gorillas. Luckily, the staff were able to spend a day tracking chimpanzees, observing their behaviors and comparing them to gorillas. They noted, for example, that the chimpanzees were feeding mostly on fruit, while the mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park feed mostly on leaves. Also, chimpanzees travel a lot through the trees, rather than on the ground like gorillas, and so cover longer distances and are more dispersed.
The staff felt they learned a lot about ecology and conservation on this trip, and plans are currently underway to create additional field visits for more of our trackers and other field staff.
"Our staff returned home with an increased knowledge about the biodiversity and history of Rwanda, which was the main aim of the trip," says Felix Ndagijimana, the Fossey Fund's director of Rwanda programs and our Karisoke Research Center. "I have no doubt that the knowledge gained by participating staff will be beneficial to their work with gorillas, and it was a special way for them to spend time together outside of the normal working activities as well."
"Visiting Nyungwe, which is rich in different primates species, including chimpanzees, has expanded my understanding of the complex behaviors that we see in gorillas, and I was able to better understand the link between the behavior we observe in primates with their habitats," says Jean Pierre Samedi Mucyo, Fossey Fund monitoring and protection officer for the gorilla program at Karisoke. "This visit also increased my understanding of the importance great apes in conservation of other species and their habitats. I learned that there are forests that have been saved solely because they contain chimpanzees."
In the aftermath of the tragic incident at the Cincinnati Zoo, we have received many inquiries from people wanting to know what they can do to help save gorillas and how to direct their passion for gorilla conservation at this time.
This is an important question and one that requires a multi-part answer. Successfully saving endangered gorillas in their habitat in Africa – which is the mission of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund – requires ongoing, long-term protection and monitoring in the forests every day. We do that for mountain gorillas in Rwanda and Grauer's gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with teams of dedicated trackers, anti-poachers and scientists. This is an expensive effort and we are dependent on donations to carry out this critical aspect of gorilla conservation. Your support here is crucial.
Make your voice heard
For those in the United States, ask your lawmakers to continue to support the Great Ape Conservation Fund, which provides money and access to additional funds to support a number of field projects around the world.
Recycle cell phones and electronics
There are metals mined from gorilla habitat in the Democratic Republic of Congo that are used in cell phones and other electronics. If you commit to recycling your cell phones and other electronics, this will help reduce the demand for these metals (and the hunting that often occurs due to mining camps in the forests) and thus help protect gorillas and their habitat. Eco-Cell is one recycling company that gives back to conservation groups.
Look for sustainable palm oil, wood and other eco-friendly products
Similar scenarios affect other wildlife, such as endangered orangutans, whose forest habitats in Asia are being decimated by harvesting of trees for palm oil, which is used in food and cosmetics. A good conservationist will look for products that either avoid palm oil or use palm oil from sustainable sources. Looking for products made from sustainable wood sources is also important to protect critical forests.
Learn more about wildlife and share
It is important not only to learn more about gorillas and conservation needs, but to help others become more aware as well. There is important wildlife, including endangered species, everywhere that needs our care, attention and awareness. Make sure everyone you know understands that wild animals do not make suitable pets. This will protect both animals and people, and help reduce the worldwide exotic pet trade.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund after the tragic events at the Cincinnati Zoo this past weekend. We are moved by the outpouring of grief over the loss of Harambe, and grateful for the donations to save gorillas that we have received in his honor.
Our mission, started by Dr. Dian Fossey nearly 50 years ago, is to protect critically endangered gorillas in Africa – mountain gorillas in Rwanda and Grauer's gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After being pushed almost to extinction in the 1970s and 1980s, the mountain gorilla population is currently stable at roughly 900 individuals but still faces daily threats from snares and encroachment on their habitat. The nearby Grauer's gorillas are facing a population crisis – nearly 80 percent have been killed in the last two decades and only a few thousand remain. We mourn their deaths, just as we mourn the death of Harambe, and are committed to ensuring them a future on this planet.
Thank you for caring about gorillas and for the support that has been given to help save wild gorillas in memory of Harambe.
Tara Stoinski, Ph.D., President and CEO/Chief Scientific Officer
During our daily mountain gorilla monitoring, Fossey Fund trackers and researchers often get to see interesting behaviors, all of which are recorded for our scientific database. One type of behavior that is important, since it can lead to group changes and even injuries, is an interaction between two groups.
Our trackers and research assistants take detailed notes, photographs and other information, and produce reports with moment-by-moment action like this one, from an interaction between Giraneza's group and Mafunzo's group, on March 10.
Our tracker team that follows Mafunzo's gorilla group reached them at 9:06 that morning and found the gorillas resting. But at 9:18, they saw Giraneza's group approaching, so they called the trackers of Giraneza's team, to let them know. Giraneza's trackers reached the spot at 9:37 a.m., and within a few minutes, silverback Mafunzo approached within 7 meters of silverback Giraneza, taking a strut stance (a show of aggression). However, the females of both groups remained calm and in the background.
Then the action started, as recorded by our staff:
At 9:23 a.m., Mafunzo replied (to Giraneza's strut stance) by hooting and chest beating.
At 9:29 a.m., Giraneza slapped the ground at Mafunzo, who replied by hooting and chest beating.
At 9:31 a.m., Giraneza took a strut stance posture at Mafunzo, who replied at 9:33 a.m., by smashing plants.
At 9:34 a.m., Giraneza smashed plants at Mafunzo. He chest beat again at him at 9:36 a.m.
At 9:36 a.m., Mafunzo withdrew and he bit young female Ubuhamya for resting.
At 9:42 a.m., Mafunzo hooted and chest beat in 30 meters from Giraneza who replied by chest beating.
At 9:44 a.m., Mafunzo hooted and chest beat in 40 meters from Giraneza who replied at 9:47 a.m., by chest beating.
From 9:49 a.m. to 10:04 a.m., Giraneza chest beat 3 times, slapped the ground twice and smashed plants once at Mafunzo.
At 9:52 a.m., adult female Nyandwi aggressed Mafunzo.
At 9:55 a.m., Mafunzo's group started moving toward the Kupoteza area while Giraneza's group moved down to the Munoga area.
At 10:06 a.m., Mafunzo hooted and chest beat at Giraneza from 100 meters away. Giraneza responded by smashing plants.
At 10:08 a.m., Mafunzo slapped the ground at Giraneza from 100 meters away.
At 10:10 a.m., Giraneza chest beat at Mafunzo.
At 10:14 a.m., Mafunzo hooted and chest beat from 200 meters away. Giraneza replied by slapping the ground.
At 10:19 a.m., Giraneza chest beat at Mafunzo.
The interaction ended at 10:25 a.m., with the two groups separated by 200 meters. When our trackers left, the groups were separated by 1.5 kilometers. Both groups were calm and feeding. During the interaction, there were no transfers, no wounds and they moved only 20 meters. But, as seen in this report, there were many displays, all of which were carefully counted and recorded by our staff.
Two gorillas have been born recently in one of the groups monitored daily by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda. The first was born on March 21, to mother Pasika, and the second was born on April 10, to mother Kurinda. Interestingly, both mothers transferred to this group, led by silverback Giraneza, after an interaction caused the death of the leading silverback in their previous group.
Calculations suggest that both infants were conceived in the previous group, which could have posed dangers for the infants now living under a new silverback. However, enough time has passed by now to suggest that Giraneza has not been able to "do this math" and does not suspect he is not the father.
Now our staff hopes the infants survive the long cold and rainy season! The group now contains six gorillas and we wouldn't be surprised to see another birth some time soon, from the other female, Inziza.
Photo by Jean Pierre "Samedi" Mucyo
Grauer's gorillas (formerly known as eastern lowland gorillas) are found only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and recent reports suggest their population has plummeted by almost 80% in the past two decades. With perhaps as few as 3,800 Grauer's gorillas left, most of them living outside of protected areas, intense conservation on their behalf is necessary, in order to prevent their potential extinction, after years of insecurity, hunting and other threats have decimated their habitat.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has been working in the core of Grauer's gorilla habitat since 2012, and is protecting a forest that contains an estimated 100 gorillas. We are now present in this forest 365 days a year with two tracking teams successfully protecting the area. In addition, we have just added a third tracking team and are in the process of hiring a fourth team to explore additional areas where Grauer's groups may be located, so that we can double the number of Grauer's gorillas we are protecting within the next few years.
Since these gorillas are not habituated to the presence of humans, and should remain unhabituated for their own safety, Fossey Fund trackers follow them at one day's distance, using nest sites, food remains, footprints and other methods to detect their presence, numbers, travel paths, diets and other important information.
In addition to our daily protection in the forest, a key feature of the Fossey Fund's work in protecting Grauer's gorillas in Congo is the involvement of local communities, especially traditional landowners. All of our field staff are hired from local villages, and in addition to employment, community development efforts are underway, such as small-scale sustainable farm projects to help decrease malnutrition and bushmeat hunting.
It is clear that our efforts to protect Grauer's gorillas are succeeding. There have been no reports of gorilla deaths by local community members in the area we work since our programs started. Traditional landowners are working to reduce or prevent hunting on their lands, and some wildlife, such as monkeys, which had been rarely seen before, are now seen on a regular basis. As we expand our programs, we look forward to working with more communities to ensure that more gorillas, and all the biodiversity that shares their habitat, are protected.
For more than 10 years, the Thanksgiving Coffee Company has supported the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, by raising over $58,000 for our gorilla protection work. Now, they have launched a new program, donating 25% of sales of coffee when supporters use this link: Thanksgiving Coffee.
Thanksgiving Coffee began to work with the Dukunde Kawa Coffee Cooperative in Rwanda as a way to help strengthen community development after the Rwandan genocide. Working with Rwandan farmers they helped develop sustainable alternatives to logging and poaching, which are two of the largest threats facing mountain gorillas today. Since 2004, the Fossey Fund has benefitted from a partnership with Thanksgiving Coffee, through the special Gorilla Fund Coffee, a Fair Trade certified coffee from the Dukunde Kawa Cooperative. A portion of the sales from each bag of Gorilla Fund Coffee is donated to the Fossey Fund.
By working together we are able to support Rwandan farmers as they develop sustainable alternatives to logging and poaching, raise additional funds for gorilla conservation, and support the economic development of Rwanda.
"The Fossey Fund believes that supporting the development of a sustainable economy in Rwanda is a good basis for protecting gorillas and their habitat," says Dr. Tara Stoinski, president and CEO of the Fossey Fund. Support of the Dukunde Kawa Cooperative is one way to provide this help.
This cooperative was formed in 2003, with help from the Rwandan government and the USAID-funded PEARL Project (Partnership to Enhance Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages). Since then, Thanksgiving Coffee has worked with Dukunde Kawa on a variety of social, economic and environmental projects aimed at improving the quality of the farmers' coffee, and strengthening the Cooperative and the benefits it offers to its members. Thanksgiving gives a 20-cent per pound Fair Trade premium directly to the Coop for development of community benefit projects, with no strings attached.


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Conventions | Early estimates place attendance three-day attendance at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at 34,000, up from 27,500 at last year's inaugural event. "Last year was disappointing," said Eric Thornton, manager of Chicago Comics. "But now you definitely see this starting to take hold." [Chicago Tribune]
Retailing | Borders Group has announced it will close an additional 28 stores, bringing the total to 228. The bookseller, which filed for bankruptcy protection on Feb. 16, had used the possibility of as many as 75 closings as leverage to negotiate lease concessions. This latest wave will bring the chain's remaining store total to about 400. [Media Decoder]
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Creators | Several creators, including Garth Ennis, Matt Fraction, Gene Ha and Jill Thompson, talk about the first comic book they really loved. [The A.V. Club Chicago]
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I think they're severely underestimating the attendance to C2E2. We shall see….
So nothing sells more than 100,000 copies and yet 34,000 attended a local comics con? I think that one of these numbers is a lot more telling than the other, but I don't know which.
I'm inclined to say those numbers aren't really comparable on the same scale. The sales numbers we get from Diamond indicate that 5+ million new single issues are stocked in a given month (and most of them probably go to consumers), and that doesn't count other products like back issues or trade paperbacks.
Thanks for noticing the interview, and the others you've linked to recently. Since Journalista went down, I rely on ComicsAM to keep up with comics news.
btw – you've got a typo – an extra 'i' in Malki
Thanks for linking the Toronto Star Sacco piece. In connection with his visit to Toronto, he did a few other media interviews. One with Canadian comics website Sequential, one with radio show Inkstuds, and a forthcoming video interview/program of his lecture for Strombo.
Sequential: http://sequential.spiltink.org/?p=7080 (Part 1, more coming soon)
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CASTRES, France -- A fistfight nearly broke out around the Rabobank team bus Friday morning as reporters jostled to hear what the Tour de France's overall leader had to say.
Moments later, police formed a human chain around Danish rider Michael Rasmussen as he slowly, stoically pedaled along underneath the stately trees in the central plaza on his way to the official sign-in ceremony in the southern French city of Montpellier, pursued by a small mob of media.
And that was just the beginning of Rasmussen's day, in which he kept the race lead but may have lost considerable ground in the public eye as a growing oil slick of allegations and suspicious actions spread on the road ahead of him.
The first spill came late Thursday night when Danish media outlets reported that the Danish cycling federation was excluding Rasmussen from the team that will compete in the World Championships in Germany this fall, and from next year's Olympic squad. Federation officials cited Rasmussen's failure to file paperwork specifying his whereabouts for anti-doping authorities, who require the notification to perform unannounced tests.
Theo de Rooij, manager of the Netherlands-based Rabobank team, told Dutch reporters team management knew about the warnings and had been keeping close tabs on Rasmussen. Tour president Patrice Clerc said he wondered about Rasmussen's "spikes in performance," the most recent of which came in the Tour's first uphill finish last Sunday in the Alps -- a solo breakaway that put Rasmussen in the lead.
And a former friend and training partner of Rasmussen's decided to go public after five years of silence, telling VeloNews.com on Friday that the rider tried to trick him into smuggling a blood doping product from Colorado to Europe in a shoe box in 2002. Rasmussen acknowledged he knew the name of his accuser, one-time amateur mountain biker Whitney Richards, who now lives in Italy, but Rasmussen added he "cannot confirm" details of the story.
All of this news came in the absence of a positive doping test, and much of it raised more questions than it answered.
In other words, it was business as usual at the Tour de France. Tie a yellow jersey around the old oak tree. The dream of a Tour free of doping controversies hasn't come home yet.
Despite the hubbub around him Friday morning, Rasmussen told reporters he felt "calm and relaxed," and called the missed paperwork deadlines "a minor deal" and an "administrative error" for which he took responsibility. "I feel this has been blown out of proportion," he said. "I have not missed any doping test and that's it."
Clerc said late Friday that event organizers had no justification at this point to throw Rasmussen out of the race. Last year, when several top riders including Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso were linked -- correctly, as it turned out -- to the Operacion Puerto doping investigation in Spain in the days leading up to the race, it was not the Tour which banned them from the start line, but their own teams.
However, Clerc and race director Christian Prudhomme both spoke forcefully about the timing of the revelations.
Rasmussen is said to have received several warnings from Danish cycling officials and from the UCI, cycling's governing body. The World Anti-Doping Agency specifies that an athlete who receives three warnings from the same body will be sanctioned as if he had a positive test, and the UCI had put him on notice that he could not afford another warning.
The two-time winner of the Tour's polka-dot King of the Mountains jersey is married to a Mexican citizen, and had been training in that country at altitude this spring. Rasmussen claimed Friday his latest paperwork violation was due to a letter he sent that was never received, and added that he has been out of touch while at the race because he does not bring along a computer.
Prudhomme spoke before the stage start in a tent in the mobile start village, where a hundred reporters crammed into an area about the size of a living room, and curious fans hung on the chain-link fence outside. One person climbed up and tried to dangle a camera into the interview area by its strap and banged five-time Tour champion Bernard Hinault in the head. Hinault swatted the camera away angrily.
"Why now?" Prudhomme dramatically declared in a prepared statement. "Why wait until the 19th of July when Rasmussen has the yellow jersey on his shoulders to give all these details? Why not talk before the start of the Tour? Why speak now for events that will take place at the end of September for the World Championships, and next year for the Olympics? Who profits from the crime?"
He then left without taking questions.
There are a variety of subtexts beneath the surface of Rasmussen's troubles. One is his history of feuding with the Danish federation. Another is the UCI's infighting with Amaury Sports Organisation, the parent company that owns the Tour.
Both Clerc and Prudhomme strongly implied that there might be an effort afoot to damage the Tour's already weakened credibility. This is the second incident of curious timing regarding a doping-related issue during this year's race.
Earlier this week, the T-Mobile team was informed that German rider Patrik Sinkewitz had an A sample test positive for testosterone on June 8 in an unannounced test by his country's national anti-doping agency. Team officials did not know why the test took six weeks to process, but under T-Mobile's code of conduct, had they known before the Tour, Sinkewitz would have been suspended rather than taking part in the race. Sinkewitz's positive has not yet been confirmed by the B sample analysis.
Rasmussen has undergone at least three blood tests in the last three weeks. One was June 30, when he competed in the Danish national road championships. Two more, on July 5 and July 17, were screenings conducted at the Tour that measure hematocrit, or red blood cell levels, but are not anti-doping tests per se. He passed all of them.
Prudhomme said Friday morning that Rasmussen had been subjected to urine tests on each of the four days he has been in the yellow jersey. He would have been tested again Friday night, since he kept the lead. No positive results have been reported to Tour officials.
The Tour director said he wanted to know whether there were "other elements, other circumstances" known to Danish officials that would have prompted their decision to bump Rasmussen from two prestigious international competitions.
Rasmussen appeared briefly before reporters again Friday evening and was asked if the cloud of suspicion was distracting him on the eve of the first long individual time trial, an event in which the self-described "pure climber" has embarrassed himself in the past.
"About this much," he said, smiling and holding his thumb and index finger about an inch apart.
Yet it seems unlikely that fielding all these questions could be performance-enhancing.
Bonnie DeSimone is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com.


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President Barack Obama lampooned the just-completed Republican National Convention as better-suited to an era of black-and-white TV and " trickle-down, you're on your own" economics Saturday, and declared that Mitt Romney "did not offer a single new idea" to fix the economy.
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#194 Sep 3, 2012
Go Blue,
I'm sure there was a point to be made here, but it might cut both ways.
Rs and Ds, and their supporters need to stop with the negative and start spreading the positive factors of their guy.
Go Blue, you start, tell us Obama's positive efforts in Afghanistan.
And, Afghanistan was mentioned 4 times during the convention.
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How many times has Obama attended D-Day ceremonies at the National D-Day Memorial?
#197 Sep 3, 2012
So now that U.S. commanders have stood down U.S. troops involved in training the ANA is the mission over ?
Will Obama bring them home now ?
They are supposed to train the ANA until 2014 but do to the continued assassination of U.S. troops that has been stopped.
Will Obama visit the troops before the election ?
When was the last time Obama , the CIC , paid his respects to the troops being assassinated in A-stan by visiting them ?
Who wants to be the last KIA in A-stan ?
#198 Sep 3, 2012
Yesterday, Obama and the Joint Chiefs decided to discontinue our troops training Afghan police....about time....
#199 Sep 3, 2012
How many times did Romney/Ryan thank or even mention, our troops serving in Afghanistan, during their RNC?....ZERO.....3-4 hours of rambling speeches, and not one word....unforgivable to me....
#200 Sep 3, 2012
Obama addressed the troops, yesterday....
#201 Sep 3, 2012
Thanks to Romney and Ryan, there might be jobs for the troops when they get home, instead of handing work visas to a couple of million illegal aliens.
#202 Sep 3, 2012
In west Texas not A-stan.
#203 Sep 3, 2012
Tried and true economic principals stand the test of time. We don't need new ideas. We need to apply the principals of success. Obammy don't know anything about economics. He never has and he never will. He was totally unqualified to be an executive when elected and he is still inequalities. He is the biggest failure in our nations history.
#204 Sep 3, 2012
Nationally, Retail Sales up 6%, last month....for all those economists on here....
#205 Sep 3, 2012
Yup, my gas went up from $3.15 a gal to $3.59 a gal that's a 14% increase.
Beef hit an all time high.
Airline fares were raised the 4-5th time this year.
Plus the drought hit the overall grocery shelf.
Are you sure you want to brag about it ?
#206 Sep 3, 2012
"Retail trade sales were up 0.8 percent (±0. 5%) from June 2012 and 3.7 percent (±0.7%) above last year."
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#207 Sep 3, 2012
Go Blue,
Holiday weekend and you found stats that August sales were up 6%?
I know facts are being confused with opinion and will probably be confused with fiction soon enough without your help.
If you really believe Obama should be reelected, do him a favor and stop trying to help him.
Next thing you know Marine Corp Pat will drum you out of the corp.
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For the investors & those investing in 401K funds for pension:
#209 Sep 3, 2012
58% of all "recovery" jobs are low pating. Welcome to Burger King, college grads.
#210 Sep 3, 2012
"Paying" not "pating"
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#212 Sep 4, 2012
Forgot the dought that has virtually decimated the corn crops?
Of course meat, or anything related to corn, will skyrocket - nature beat the hell out of the farmers this year.
This is somehow Obama's fault?
Man, you guys now blame shitty weather on Obama?
This Comedy Channel is getting funnier by the day!
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#213 Sep 4, 2012
These low wage jobs have been staedily on the rise since the beginning of the century - or did you not even read your link? I did - here's an excerpt;
"Employment in low-wage jobs has been expanding since the start of the century, rising 8.7% since the beginning of 2001. Mid-wage employment, meanwhile, dropped 7.3%. High-wage staffing rose by 6.6%.
"The economy has fewer good jobs now than it did at the start of the 21st century," said Bernhardt."
#214 Sep 4, 2012
It wasn't me bragging about retail sales up 6% but some LEFTY.
I just pointed out some realites the LEFTY was bragging about.
Was the increase really a positive ? Yes ? No ?
#216 Sep 4, 2012
Woodrow Wilson once said the President "is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can." In his re-election bid, President Obama is determined to be as small as he can be.
He's gone from vaporous uplift in 2008 to dreary minutiae in 2012. Listening to him on the stump, you would have no idea that the economy is sunk in a subpar recovery and the nation's balance sheet is deep in the red, let alone that the welfare state is in crisis throughout the Western world. The President's approach amounts to fiddling while Athens burns, or at least defaults.
There is no signature proposal for his second term, no discernible agenda. It's all day-to-day political jabbing and microinitiatives, often with specific constituencies in mind. He is running Bill Clinton's relentlessly small-ball 1996 re-election campaign, except without the centrism or the peace and prosperity.
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The state of the country denies him the incumbent's preferred tack of running on a successful record. Top Obama adviser David Axelrod gave this away on a Sunday show recently when he said the President had to be re-elected because we couldn't afford to stay on our current course. Did Axelrod miss the past 3 years, when his boss occupied the most powerful office in the land? "Change you can believe in" isn't a recyclable theme. Once, the wag said, is enough. Twice is once too much.
Obama is reduced to deploying the piddling in the service of the petty. He has put the full weight of his office behind a proposal meant mainly to highlight the personal wealth of his opponent. This is the famous Buffett rule. It would ensure that the very wealthy (like Mitt Romney) no longer benefit from the favorable tax treatment of capital gains and investment (like Mitt Romney) to pay a lower federal income tax rate than middle-income taxpayers (like you know who).
This is very clever--and very silly. The deficit last year was $1.3 trillion. With the Buffett rule in place, it would have been $1.295 trillion. Last year the tax credit for energy-efficient improvements to homes cost almost as much as the Buffett rule will raise annually ($4.7 billion on average). The President's proposal for keeping a low interest rate on some college loans, at $6 billion next year, costs more. The Buffett rule is government by catchphrase.
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In the same vein, the President recently vowed to hunt down and stop energy "speculators," lest they "reap millions while millions of American families get the short end of the stick." Good luck with that. No one seriously believes--surely not even Obama--that speculation is responsible for this year's rise in oil prices, now beginning to recede. The President is sending the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on a make-believe mission after nonexistent villains because it sounds good. On the election's most central issue, the economy, Obama is stuck in a minor key. He offers no major reforms in taxes or entitlements, no new stimulus, no departures whatsoever. He is obsessed with the marginalia of green energy, which is less than 10% of the energy sector and is prone to a bust unless the subsidies keep on rolling. He is content to watch his party's majority in the Senate desperately maneuver to avoid the pain of even voting on Green energy plans.
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