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Ken Steinhardt/Orange County RegisterMaria Franco embraces son Jose Franco-Gonzalez as his father, Francisco Franco, watches after Franco-Gonzalez's release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in March 2010. Franco-Gonzalez, who is mentally disabled, pleaded guilty to assault in 2005 and was detained for five years without a hearing.
With his handcuffs briefly unlocked from his wrists while he faced a judge, Miguel Canto-Ortiz wore the familiar mark of a detainee: a bright orange shirt from the Santa Ana Jail. But unlike the thousands of others who have passed through this courtroom, Canto-Ortiz was a man without a lawyer.
On the back of his shaved head is a scar from a traumatic brain injury that rendered him unable to read, write or even remember his birthday.
It was Canto-Ortiz's deportation hearing, and U.S. District Immigration Judge David C. Anderson was testing his mental condition. The judge asked the 51-year-old detainee if he could explain what type of courtroom he was in.
"Too much problem in my head – I can't say anything," Canto-Ortiz mumbled in Spanish.
For the legal system and immigrant-rights attorneys, his case represents a frustrating problem without an easy answer: Illegal immigrants with severe mental health problems – many without criminal records – have been trapped in detention in the United States without attorneys.
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"These are people that are sitting in detention for years, not understanding what is happening to them," said Talia Inlender, an attorney with Public Counsel, a pro bono law firm representing several of the plaintiffs in a class-action suit on behalf of mentally ill detainees in California, Arizona and Washington. "They are so mentally disabled they can't participate in their own removal proceedings."
The government holds, on average, more than 30,000 illegal immigrants in detention on any given day. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials do not know how many are mentally disabled, but class-action attorneys estimate as many as 1,000 immigration detainees have a "serious mental illness."
In January 2011, Inlender and a group of pro bono law firms identified Canto-Ortiz, a native of Mexico who came to the U.S. as a child, as a potential plaintiff in the lawsuit they filed last year. It is the first class-action suit on behalf of detainees with severe mental disabilities who go through the immigration courts without access to attorneys.
The class-action lawsuit contends that by denying severely mentally ill detainees the right to court-appointed attorneys, the federal government has stripped them of due process rights and violated federal anti-discrimination laws. The Immigration and Nationality Act gives non-citizens the privilege of representation, but not at the government's expense.
On Dec. 20, Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted the suit class-action status. She concluded that there is no mechanism for evaluating whether detainees with mental disabilities are able to represent themselves.
It costs about $166 a day to house an illegal immigrant in detention, according to the National Immigration Forum, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. At just one facility, the Santa Ana Jail, the federal government pays about $15 million a year for housing illegal immigrants.
Government representatives would not comment on the lawsuit. But at a hearing in Los Angeles in March of last year, Victor M. Lawrence, principal assistant director of the Justice Department's Office of Immigration Litigation, argued that the plaintiffs had not proven "there is a significant number of people that would potentially be injured."
But pro bono attorneys say it takes time to identify mentally ill detainees who need representation – especially given communication barriers resulting from mental illness. Earlier last year, they identified several cases. Judge Gee, in her decision, found that the problems identified in the lawsuit are indeed systemic.
Man held in detention for years
The lawsuit grew out of the case of Jose Franco-Gonzalez, a mentally disabled man who pleaded guilty to assault and was detained in 2005. An immigration judge closed his deportation case because he didn't have a lawyer and was mentally incompetent to represent himself. But he remained in detention.
During those years in detention, Franco-Gonzalez did not have a hearing. In March 2010, after Public Counsel and the ACLU filed a petition asking for his release, immigration officials released Franco-Gonzalez. For more than a year, he was monitored electronically. He is now receiving intensive mental health services as he waits for his next immigration hearing.
Pro bono attorneys later added more mentally disabled plaintiffs to their class-action complaint – eight are now part of the lawsuit. Some of them are illegal immigrants; others are refugees or lawful permanent residents who faced having their legal status revoked because of criminal convictions.
Aleksandr Petrovich Khukhryanskiy, a refugee from Ukraine, is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, psychosis and major depression. He was convicted of attempted assault and robbery in 2005. He was detained in April 2010 at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash.
Without a lawyer, he represented himself in immigration court. A few months later, he was ordered deported. But with the help of the pro bono team, Khukhryanskiy appealed his case, and his deportation was canceled in April 2011. He was given a $30,000 bond but can't afford to pay it, so he remains in detention. His next hearing is in February.
Among the others:
- Maksim Piotrovich Zhalezny, a legal resident who had been arrested for misdemeanor theft, assault and disturbing the peace, is also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Because he didn't have an attorney at the Sacramento County Jail – where he was detained in April 2010 – Zhalezny's father agreed to represent him. But he backed out because he speaks little English and didn't feel qualified. In response to the pro bono team, Zhalezny was granted a bond hearing and released under certain conditions.
- Jose Chavez, who suffers from chronic paranoid schizophrenia, has been detained since 2006 and remains unrepresented. He was held in the San Pedro Service Processing Center and at Otay Mesa, in San Diego, after an arrest for battery and assault. He was ordered deported but appealed with the help of other detainees. His case is closed as he waits in detention for an asylum hearing.
- Yonas Woldemariam is a legal resident with bipolar disorder who before detention was in and out of mental institutions. He was detained in September 2010 on second-degree robbery charges and a probation violation from a prior petty theft. In March, he was transferred from the Yuba County Jail to the Sacramento County Jail, where he was in lockdown 23 hours a day and where phone calls are limited. The class-action complaint says he was transferred there because he refused to take an anti-psychotic medication. He was released last year and reunited with his family members.
- Juan Sepulveda-Perez was detained for several month months at Otay Mesa. He has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and has attempted suicide multiple times during his detention. He was released on Dec. 22.**
Mental competency policies needed, advocates say
In the past couple of years, Human Rights Watch and Texas Appleseed, a public interest law center, have issued reports identifying the lack of safeguards for mentally ill detainees, pointing to cases in which even American citizens were wrongly deported.
In May, with recommendations from the American Immigration Council and other lawyers groups, the Board of Immigration Appeals created guidelines for dealing with mentally ill detainees. The guidelines say a mentally competent detainee is someone who understands the nature of his or her case; can consult with an attorney or representative; and can examine adverse evidence, present favorable evidence and cross-examine government witnesses.
The board also said the Department of Homeland Security has an obligation to provide immigration judges with any relevant materials regarding an immigrant's mental competency.
But advocacy groups and attorneys are pushing for a formal process that would include their input and create specific rules. For one, the Board of Immigration Appeals did not address immigration judges' "lack of expertise in conducting competency assessments," read a statement by the American Immigration Council. The board also doesn't recommend appointing attorneys for the mentally incompetent.
The majority of detainees – roughly 60 percent – go without lawyers, according to the Department of Justice. Many are forced to represent themselves, often without adequate language skills.
"What we're trying to do is to help get practices and procedures in place so it's not left to an individual immigration judge or government attorney to determine the fate of a mentally incompetent detainee," Inlender said. "We need a system in place so every detainee is getting a fair shake."
In immigration court, Judge Anderson was visibly frustrated that Canto-Ortiz hadn't been able to find a lawyer after six hearings and was clearly unable to represent himself. He had been in detention for a year already, and no one had been able to find any of his family members. A psychological evaluation completed in March at the urging of the pro bono team diagnosed Canto-Ortiz with psychotic disorder and hallucinations and indicated that he was not taking any psychotropic medications.
After taking a few minutes to read the psychological evaluation, the judge told the court that he was unable to offer a fair hearing to Canto-Ortiz. An attorney with the Department of Homeland Security suggested the hearing be postponed to a later date.
The judge denied that option. "I've done that already five times," he said. "You've left me with no options but to terminate the proceedings."
It was a partial victory for Canto-Ortiz, who no longer faced possible deportation to Mexico but could continue to linger, in limbo, in the Santa Ana Jail.
Legal immigrant faces troubles
In another case, even holding a green card didn't shield Ever Martinez from the possibility of deportation. Martinez was born in El Salvador and is a legal permanent resident of the U.S. In 2007, he was charged with felony assault after he got in a fight with his stepfather.
Martinez started showing signs of mental illness in his early 20s, and when his mother took him to a Los Angeles psychiatric ward, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and placed on medication. He kept getting worse, and he was in and out of mental hospitals for several years. But Martinez had no history of violence, said his mother, Maria Elena Felipe.
That changed shortly after Martinez moved back in with his mother in 2007. In June of that year, while Felipe was at work, Martinez was arrested after getting into a fight with his stepfather, whom he knocked unconscious and who lay in a coma for 10 days.
Martinez was charged with a felony – a charge that can lead to deportation even for legal permanent residents. He was then transferred in late 2009 from criminal custody to the Otay Mesa detention center, a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego.
Martinez occupied one of 32 beds in the mental health ward managed by ICE's Health Service Corps, which provides medical and public health services to those in its custody. Otay Mesa – operated by the Corrections Corporation of America, a private company with more than 60 facilities in the U.S. – is one of two federal detention centers that provide care for the severely mentally disabled, said Lauren Mack, an ICE spokeswoman.
There are 240 detainees being treated for "some form of mental illness with varying levels of severity" at Otay Mesa, she said. The other center, the Krome Detention Center, is near Miami.
In recent years, the ACLU has sued the federal government for health and safety violations at Otay Mesa, including overcrowding. In response in 2008, ICE transferred more than a hundred detainees out of Otay Mesa.
In a 2007 lawsuit, the ACLU cited inadequate medical care and negligence. It said that detainees were subjected to long delays before treatment, denied necessary medication for chronic illnesses and refused referrals prescribed by medical staff.
In 2008, a federal district judge ruled against the federal government. The court found that the withholding of a medical test and delaying a biopsy for a detainee at Otay Mesa, who later died of cancer, was "beyond cruel and unusual." The lawsuit cited the cases of 11 other detainees, some whose mental illnesses went untreated and others who had to wait almost a year for surgery or for treatment for diabetes, chest pains, hypertension and abscessed teeth.
In December 2010, the federal government reached a settlement with the ACLU. ICE is required to add psychiatric staff, as well as remove existing policies that say detainees have access only to emergency medical services.
Struggles with complaint process
In general, attorneys working with detainees hear a laundry list of typical complaints.
"There's very little outdoor space, the food isn't good, the guards abuse them, they have problems contacting lawyers or their loved ones, the phone system is bad, the law library isn't good, they're stuck in their cells all day long," said Michael Kaufman, an ACLU attorney based in Los Angeles.
One of the most common complaints is that ICE or sheriffs at the jails that contract out to ICE don't respond when detainees file a complaint, Kaufman said. "Someone that's mentally ill may not even understand the complaint process," he said.
Receiving visitors takes longer when a detainee is in isolation. There are fewer visiting rooms, and transporting the detainees from their segregation units requires more manpower, said Sean Riordan, an attorney with the ACLU's San Diego branch.
Maria Felipe said that more than once, she waited 12 hours to see Ever Martinez for an hour, arriving at 8 in the morning and leaving at 8 at night. Felipe worried even more about what would happen to Martinez if he were deported – he would find no one in El Salvador to take care of him.
"All the family we have are here – there is no one back home," she said. But there was little hope without a lawyer – a cost she couldn't pay. Martinez's immigration documents stated that he was schizophrenic and on medication.
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The attorneys working on the class-action suit brought Martinez to the attention of the federal district court in August 2010. In addition to his immigration documents stating his condition, the lawyers requested an evaluation, which concluded that Martinez "is clearly not competent to represent himself. His illness precludes a capacity to conceptualize ideas and verbally advocate a defense in his removal proceedings."
In September 2010, an immigration judge ordered the termination of his deportation case and sent it to the Board of Immigration Appeals. In her decision, Judge Renee Renner said: "The current law and regulations offer little guidance as to how the court should proceed … with a mentally incompetent detainee who is representing himself in his removal proceedings."
It was relatively good news that his case was terminated, but Martinez continued to linger in detention as his case remained pending before the appeals board. Renner did not appoint him a lawyer. But with the help of the pro bono team that had identified him in detention, Martinez was able to receive a bond hearing.
In April, Felipe was anxiously waiting to see Martinez outside the detention center for the first time in two years. He had been released from Otay Mesa with a $1,500 bond on the condition that he be evaluated and placed in the care of a mental health facility.
Martinez was taken to an urgent care center in Los Angeles to receive his evaluation. A mental health professional determined that he needed to be hospitalized and found a bed for him at Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center.
Felipe had to come up with bail that same day – and it was already the afternoon – or her son would be taken back to San Diego. She scrambled to the bail office and was told that it was closed. Then the pro bono team arrived.
As she prepared to see her son, her eyes filled with tears. "I don't know what I'm going to tell him," she said. "When I saw him at the detention center, I became so sad. Now I feel my heart is a little more at peace. He is not in a detention center – he is in a different place."
A week after Martinez's release from detention, Miguel Canto-Ortiz also was released. But without a lawyer and without family to help him, he was sent to a homeless shelter. The next day, he was nowhere to be found. The Mexican Consulate and a few pro bono attorneys continue to look for him in the streets of Santa Ana.
**Correction: This story originally reported that Juan Sepulveda-Perez remained in detention. He was released Dec. 22.


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You can try to compile tools under IRIX but you won't be able to run BT under IRIX. You might run it on a SGI though but I doubt that it will work right out of the box.
Anyone know right off hand if BT can be compiled to run in IRIX 6.5.X? Figure the pentesting tools could use the open architecture of the MIPS system to streamline ops.
You can try to compile tools under IRIX but you won't be able to run BT under IRIX. You might run it on a SGI though but I doubt that it will work right out of the box.
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I think IRIX uses a totally different architecture, which would mean a LOT of work/compiling to make it all work. right now the backtrack team is already covering 2 architectures (x86 for desktops, and ARM for the N900).
Hmm....so it sounds as though this development pathway is wide opened to some enterprising JA like me with nothing better to do than make our fav. PT tool run like the wind on some obscure platform! Lemme officially announce the active dev status of BT for IRIX. Anyone wants anything I have in the way of progress, be sure to let me know--in 2015.
Perhaps the ARM code might be a better place to start?
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Nah I don't think that there are SGI laptops around. I can remember carrying around the Octanes here. Man those were damn heavy.
Just imagine how their laptops would have been
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Oh yeah. Picture MadWIFi running in IRIS? LoL.You'll likely run into issues with things like wireless drivers.
Nope. Why would they? They were in the HPC graphics market exclusively at the time, and can you picture the boys at ILM lounging on a beach rendering Jurassic Park on a lappy, when there was no WiFi to connect it to the renderfarms? Ha!Did SGI even make laptops?
I have an O2 with the VR5000, and an Octane on the way. If your O2 is not an R5000, would you consider donating it to an un-worthy cause? I'll pay shipping....I've got an old (I guess it's all old really) O2 in my closet.
Not so sure about the "under-powered" thing. The really cool thing about MIPS is the open architecture which virtually eliminates the x86 requirement that EVERYTHING go by way of main memory and the CPU. As I'm sure you know, this system allows applications to have DIRECT access to HW FC's, so the requirement for scads of RAM and blazing hot CPU cores is neatly sidestepped. In fact, I would not be one bit surprised if research informed me that the nVidia CUDA architecture did not owe some debt of gratitude to SGI.The company I work for used to make graphics cards for them. They're pretty cool little machines, but pretty under powered for todays standards.
In terms of HPC's, sure the R5000 can't touch most of today's x86-based HPC solutions.
But in terms of a desktop system, my old 1998 O2 with 64MB of RAM and 2GB SCSI HD lays waste to my P4 with a GT 240 CUDA card. When it comes to rendering, there is just no contest. The bus bottleneck is just not there with the SGI.
Anyway, any rants are welcome, but please try to keep kudos of any kind to a minimum, as they will make me fat and lazy.
Check out this O2 laptop!
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Just as an aside, here is a bit of lore for you. I swear 2 G that this is not 'shopped.
I'd like SOME explanation, but you know, who can explain EVIL.
What are the odds someone would find this, given the fact that it came out of a machine which, in it's day, you needed $12,000 in cash just to breath on?
Fail. Busted. LoL.
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The cars offered a six-cylinder engine, while its competitors all had eight-cylinder options. In 1953, a high-end version of the Kaiser rolled out and was named the Kaiser Dragon. The exterior was given a reptilian theme trim package complete with "dragon-skin" vinyl room. Designer Carleton Spencer retooled the interior by continuing this theme in its upholstery. It featured a 14-carat gold-plated hood ornament, exterior emblem, fender script and glovebox nameplate. While it is seen as landmark car, the end of the road was near.
That same year, Kaiser merged with Willys-Overland, which was criticized by the public over its questionable military contracts. Bad press led to low car sales and the company dissolved in 1955. The Kaiser factories were closed and the production equipment was sent to Argentina in 1958, where the car production continued until 1962.


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The Garden Skink, Lampropholis guichenoti, is dark grey, with a darker stripe commencing in front of the nostril, continuing through the eye and above the ear onto the tail. A broad dark vertebral stripe commences about the level of the forelimbs and continues onto the tail. It has a snout vent length of up to 40 mm.
Garden SkinkPhotographer: Peter Robertson / Source: Wildlife Profiles Pty. Ltd.
The Garden Skink is the most common skink found in suburban gardens around Melbourne. It is found over most areas of the state except the semi arid northern and western regions. It lives in a variety of treed habitats.
Active by day, this is a sun loving species which feeds on small invertebrates. Females lay from 2-6 eggs in a communal nest which can contain up to 250 eggs. Females often produce more than one clutch per season.
Cogger, H. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Reed Books.
Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2003. Reptiles of Australia. Princeton University Press.
Hi Sylvia,
The rule of thumb with skinks seems to be: the bigger they are, the longer they live. Garden skinks have a short life span of only a few years, whereas somewhat larger varieties live six to 10 years, and the largest skinks can live 20 years or longer. The colder climate does slow their growth rate and results in a slightly longer life span.
Hi Evan, providing good habitat for your skinks is the best way to encourage them into your backyard. Giving them shelter to retreat to (such as rocks to hide under / between) and places to bask in the sun close to these retreats is ideal. They feed on invertebrates from around the garden so ensuring you don't spray too many pesticides around the garden is also important. Another factor that may help encourage skinks into your garden is to consider if there are any pets such as cats and dogs who quite enjoy chasing skinks. Keeping these animals away from the habitat you create will be important to help the skinks establish into your garden.
All the best with making a comfortable home for the local residents.
Hi Georgie, Garden skinks are very hard to tell male or female and so photos that guide you are not available. Some experienced owners suggest the following: if the base of the skink enclosure is a smooth dark coloured mat you may find clear waxy bits on it during spring. This depends on your skink being an adult and the presence of these waxy bits would mean it was a male.
Hi Jane, on the one hand, garden skinks definitely feed on earthworms and that's probably the reason the skink is living there - an almost limitless supply of food. Not to mention all the other small invertebrates that inhabit worm farms and would make equally good food. On the other hand, there's only so many earthworms a single skink of that size would be able to consume, so it may not have much impact on the overall worm numbers.
A substrate of sand or cocopeat or a mixture of the two should be at least 5cm deep with leaf litter at one end that will encourage them to lay eggs. Most southern Australian species need a period of cool temperatures without a basking light and without feeding for them to hibernate if they are to breed. We don't know any other method to encourage breeding without a hibernation period.
Skinks generally require a specialised incubator and quite specific conditions for them to survive. Your set-up is reasonably good, but may not be exactly what they need. The best thing is to let them go in the garden as soon as they hatch.
Hi Holly!Yes, a female skink does need a male skink to reproduce. Depending on what species you have, it will usually lay eggs. Some species, however, do not lay eggs and give birth to young skinks.
Hi Pearl, many skinks have yellow bellies for at least some part of their lives, so it depends which species of skink you're referring to. For example, both sexes of the Water Skink (Eulamprus tympanum) have yellow bellies, but in other species only the male has a yellow belly and only in the breeding season. The colouring may be a warning to other males or to make them more attractive to females. If this doesn't satisfy your curiosity, send in a photo and we'll try to tell you which species you have.
Hi Katie,
Generally a yellow belly signifies a male, although in some species the belly of both male and female can be yellow. It depends which species you have. There are more than 40 skink species in New Zealand, so it is difficult for us to pin down the right one. The adult body length of the skink will also be determined by which species it is.
Skinks will eat small snails and finely diced vegetables as well as lettuce and banana. They also eat crickets and cockroaches and prefer to chase these around the enclosure.
Hi Katie, in the wild, garden skinks would generally feed every day and can be fed daily in captivity, but will also be fine if fed every second day. You're feeding it an excellent range of food, and any one of those components can be included on any particularly day (the skink doesn't need fruit and eggs and vegetables and live prey every day). It sounds like it's being well looked after.
If you're worried about the skink's health at any time, you should take it along to the vet. There are vets that specialise in reptiles and these are listed on the internet but you can also be referred to one from your local vet.
Hi Katie, at this time of year, skinks do not need much food and will easily cope for a week whilst you're away. If you are heating the enclosure, it might help to turn the heating off so the skink becomes less active (they do that during winter anyway). Make sure you don't feed the skink for a week beforehand if you turn off the heat – this will give the skink sufficient time to digest whatever food it has in its stomach before becoming inactive.
Male Common Garden Skinks do not have a yellow belly – it could be a Three-Toed Skink or McCoy's Skink.
Hi Lone - in most cases a permit is required to keep native animals depending on the species, and in all cases the animals kept in captivity should come from captive stock such as from keepers or pet suppliers rather than capturing the animal yourself.
You shouldn't capture a wild native animal and keep it as a pet for a number of reasons, so we strongly reccommend you let the skink go in the same location you found it for its best chance at survival. You can read more about wildlife permits, animal welfare considerations and regulations at the DSE website here.
Hope this helps
Hi Chloe, the fact the eggs have been laid in the enclosure suggests the adults consider the habitat you've provided to be suitable for incubation. So the best option is to leave them where they are, whilst keeping them warm and moist. Alternatively, you can remove them and place them in an incubation medium (such as vermiculite) in a shallow container, leaving about one third of the egg surfaces exposed. The container should have a lid with small holes punctured in it, the humidity should be kept high by spraying every day, and the temperature should be kept around 25 degrees celsius. The eggs will begin to shrivel if they become to dry (and also if they die). If you need more information, there are plenty of reptile discussion forums on the internet.
If the eggs hatch, you should remove the young skinks and keep them separately. They will feed on a similar diet to the adults, just much smaller quantities.
Hi Joseph, most fish in fish ponds tend to be live bearers and so the lizards won't be eating eggs. There aren't really any types of skinks in your area that would pose a threat to pond fish of any age. The Eastern Water Skink has a semi-aquatic lifestyle but they tend not to feed in the water, and Eastern Water Dragons might but they are distinctively different to skinks and not easily confused with them.
Hi Tahlia,
The answer partly depends on what type of skinks you have. Most of the smaller skinks appear quite happy living in the same enclosure, but other usually larger species will fight if males are left together. And as a general rule skinks will not be able to climb out of their enclosure, although some species can climb up the corners of glass tanks if the circumstances are right. So unless enclosure furnishings are close to the top or there is some other means of assistance, the lizards should be fairly safe without a lid.
If you do place a lid on the enclosure, you'll need to allow for UV light to enter, as all lizards require this light to remain healthy. UV light is blocked by a range of materials, including glass, so a mesh lid is preferable.
Remember too that in Victoria you must have a licence for skinks (depending on the species) and have bought them from a pet shop, otherwise it is illegal to keep them.
Hello Rachel - we checked this with our Live Exhibits team, and they've responded as follows:
The best way to stimulate the appetite of the skinks is to offer them live prey. You can either catch some yourself, and this is a good time of year to do it, or you can buy small crickets from most pet shops. You don't mention the species of skink you have, but small individuals don't need a lot of food to sustain themselves.
Once a skink becomes adult, particularly small species, it is difficult to determine their age. Particularly because their size is due more to the amount of food they consume than how long they have been alive.
Hi Brodi, read through some of the response above in regards to sexing your skink. Check out the response form the Discovery Centre on January 18th 2012, or March 23rd 2012 or June 5th 2012!
Hi Brian,
Skinks of all kinds do hibernate during winter in southern Australia. In the reptile world, the word 'brumation' is often used to describe this process, as some biologists assert the way ectothermic animals such as reptiles hibernate is different to that of mammals.
If the skink is in a bad state, the best option is to take it to a vet. There are quite a few wildlife vets in the UK, including a number that specialise in reptiles. Live insects are the best source of protein for captive skinks but you can also feed canned dog food, or dry dog food soaked in water. Skinks also need vegetable matter in the form of fresh fruits and vegetables. Protein should make up just more than half their dietary intake.
If you have a Common Garden Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti) it will be an egg-bearer, unlike many other skink species that are live-bearers. Female Garden Skinks generally produce about six eggs at a time, so if pregnant your skink will have a noticeably large belly. Other than this, there is no guaranteed way to determine if a skink is pregnant.
Hi Caitlin,
It's unlikely that the eggs would require their mother's attention, so the best option is to put them back in the ground. If you can find a piece of ground most similar to area of capeweed, and as close as possible, you can rebury them at about the same depth.
There are plenty of sites and discussion threads on the internet detailing the best way to keep skinks. Artificial light using a lamp designed for reptiles is better than just natural light, as you can ensure the skinks have the right amount of UV and you can control the temperature more accurately. Leaving the skinks near a window can mean they get too hot or too cold, depending on outside conditions. If kept too cold they are unlikely to be taking food at this time of year.
Hi Brinana,
In the comments above you will find lots of helpful advice on how to best provide a habitat for skinks, both in your garden and in tanks. As for the tail dropping, it is unlikely that a skink will drop its tail without being threatened as the process does cause some issues for the skink. It can affect its sense of balance, reduces its fat stores and even affects its growth and reproductive processes. Healing and regrowing the tail also takes a significant amount of energy and makes skinks more susceptible to predators as they no longer have a defence mechanism.
Hi Aden,
The best answer we can give is the one we gave to Georgie on 18 January 2012. As we said then, it's very hard to tell males from females.
Hi Izzy,
Unfortunately for your purposes it's not legal to capture native reptiles, including the Common Garden Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti), and including those in your own garden. The best option is to sit quietly in the garden on a warm day and observe them in situ.
Hi Liz
Our Live Exhibits team have responded with the following:
The most likely reason your lizard not feeding at the moment is the cooler temperatures. Reptiles tend to hibernate (brumate) in southern Australia at this time of year, or at least reduce their activities and therefore their need for food. If it's a small species of skink, it won't consume vast quantities of food even when hungry, and even less at this time of year. But if you're concerned about the lizard's health, you should take it to a veterinarian specialising in reptiles.
Hi Lara,
The Garden Skink lives in a range of habitats, including suburban gardens, and feeds on small invertebrates such as flies, ants, moths and worms - you'll find more info here in the Museum Victoria field guide.
Hi Bron, we checked this with our Live Exhibits team, who have responded as follows:
If it's a common species, it's more likely to be a Garden Skink Lampropholis guichenoti. They will also have young this time of year, and are the most common skink around Melbourne.
If the skinks are out in the garden, then they most probably just dispersed; if they were eaten then they could have been eaten by anything. In contrast, if they were together in an enclosure then she may have eaten them herself. If she doesn't have enough to eat, and with the young having nowhere to disperse to, it's entirely possible.
Hi Joy,
Unfortunately, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) states that it is not permissible to take wildlife from the wild, or keep a wild-caught specimen as a pet without the correct licence. Ideally, you should release the lizard where you found it, as translocation of individual animals can disrupt local gene pools, and contribute to the spread of disease.
In any case, our Live Exhibits team advise that two days without food is not a big deal for a skink, particularly at this time of year when the weather is cooling off and the skink would be reducing its food intake in preparation for brumation (hibernation). The skink should be fine as long as all other environmental conditions are suitable for that species, and if food is available it will feed when it feels the need.
Many lizards can go through winter without being cooled down, but if you want a more natural cycle or want the lizard to breed, you'll need to stop feeding it now, and after a week or so start cooling it down, without heat or lights. Once they enter brumation (hibernation), any food left in the stomach may become rancid and cause serious health problems, which is why you need to stop feeding well before cooling down.
Hi Wendy, have a look at the link below, this group should be able to assist you with NZ fauna.
Hi Lauren,
We have no way of knowing if it is sick or otherwise, so we cannot advise you to do anything with the lizard. To this end, we encourage you to leave it alone. Lizards are often not particularly active, especially during the colder months. It is possible that the lizard, being cold blooded, is trying to sun itself for warmth.
Hi Tom,A Garden Skink will need food every day but it may not eat every day, particularly over winter. The food should be a mix of fresh vegetables and crickets or cockroaches - the insects should be juveniles rather than adults for a small skink. Reptiles slow down over winter so if it goes into hibernation you shouldn't be feeding it at all, as the skink won't be able to digest the food. Keep in mind too, that although you may not need a licence to keep the skink, all reptiles need to be sourced from a licenced dealer rather than collected from the wild, and the wild includes your own backyard.
Hi Gail - we checked this with our Live Exhibits team, who have said you couldtry soap on the body of the skink, but try to keep the soap away from the skink's eyes and ears. Sometimes animals enter small spaces seeking food, and if they manage to find that food there they are too fat to get back out. In that case, a couple of days without food and the skink will be skinny enough to fit through. Alternatively, skinks have backward-pointing scales which sometimes means they can get into small spaces but cannot back out again. Once again, only gentle physical persuasion or a few days' starvation will enable the skink to escape.
Hi Emmalia,
That's a tricky question!
In reptiles, size is determined more by food intake than age, so it's not possible determine the age of a Garden Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti) by size. Most reptile species have an average adult size, in the case of Garden Skinks about 90mm, but again the time take to reach adult size can vary dramatically between individuals. One indication is that the colours tend to fade as the lizard ages, but the changes are small and relative to the original colours. Research shows that the shape and appearance of Garden Skinks is determined not only by the environmental conditions around the egg, but also the conditions experienced when the lizard is young. So the short answer is that it's not easy to determine the age of a Garden Skink.
Hi Imogen,
There has been no research on this topic that we are aware of, but we can say that it probably does hurt a lizard to drop its tail, as lizards are well and truly capable of feeling pain, but it probably doesn't hurt too much. The tail is designed to break off under pressure, allowing the lizard to get away from predators. Humans have collarbones that are designed to break under pressure to prevent other more important bones breaking, but although designed this way it doesn't mean that a broken collarbone doesn't hurt. The lizard's stump is also designed to heal very quickly after the tail is dropped so the pain is most likely to be short-lived.
There are follow-up problems after the tail is dropped, the most obvious being that it can't be dropped again if the lizard is attacked by another predator, so the lizard becomes more vulnerable to being eaten. Regrowing the tail requires a lot of energy, so juveniles stop growing for a while after losing a tail, and adults may stop breeding. In many species the tail is used to store excess fat earned during spring and summer, so the loss of that can be significant to some individuals. And finally, the tail is used for balance so lizards may have more trouble walking and climbing until the tail grows back or the lizard adjusts to life without a tail.
It probably does hurt a lizard to drop its tail, as lizards are well and truly capable of feeling pain, but it probably doesn't hurt too much. The tail is designed to break off under pressure, allowing the lizard to get away from predators. Humans have collarbones that are designed to break under pressure to prevent other more important bones breaking, but although designed this way it doesn't mean that a broken collarbone doesn't hurt. The lizard's stump is also designed to heal very quickly after the tail is dropped so the pain is most likely to be short-lived.
Hi Josh - we referred this to our expert staff in the Live Exhibits team here at the Museum, and they've replied as follows:
Sexing skinks can be easy or very difficult, depending on the species (mostly difficult). As a general rule, the body of the male is bigger than that of the female, and males have bigger jaws, broader heads and are thicker at the base of the tail. The body of the female is not only smaller, but more round. In some skinks the female is larger but as a general rule these distinctions occur across most skink species, but in many individual species the male may have colouring on the chest when mature, usually yellow or red, again depending on the species.
Hi Michael,
The best thing for an injured skink is to take it to a vet, preferably a vet that specialises in reptiles (of which there are many available these days). Bites by cats and dogs can cause infection in lizards that will kill it even if the injury is minor. Many vets treat native wildlife with no or minimal fee to the person that brings it in. Veterinary treatment will usually hasten the lizard's recovery and get it back to the wild quicker, which can be important for its rehabilitation. Under state laws it's illegal to collect and hold native wildlife other than for the purposes of taking it to the vet, even if the animal is collected from your own property. Your care of the lizard may be adequate, but it will get the best treatment from a reptile vet.
Hi Izzy,Garden skinks will regrow a tail at a rate depending on availability of food and a safe habitat. They eat ants and other small insects in leaf-litter, grass and rock piles. If you are caring for the skink there is a book that may help - "Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia" by Harold Cogger. On page 13 of this book is the following, "Regenerated tails may differ greatly from the original tails". Your lizard's tail therefore may not grow back the way it was.
Hi Jaysen,
We have been asked this question before, if you scroll through the Discovery Centre responses above you will find the answer! All the best.
It depends partly on the species of skink, but in general skinks grow larger with food rather than time. A healthy, well-fed skink will grow faster than a skink from the same clutch of eggs that doesn't receive as much food or is kept in a less-than-perfect environment. Sexually mature adults can usually be distinguished from juveniles, again depending on the species, so this is one measure of age. Most skink species mature at 8-12 months of age, and it's only when skinks reach a great age that signs of wear and tear become obvious. Whether a skink is male or female may also affect its growth rate and size at maturity.
Skink eggs are white and opaque, whereas the eggs of snails and slugs are much smaller and transparent (or at least translucent), usually clump together in a large group and could be very accurately described as cooked tapioca. So it appears you have the eggs of introduced snails or slugs.
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Jarred CornfieldClass: R-Junior
Height: 5-11
Previous School: Corning West H.S.
Hometown: Corning, N.Y.
Cross Country Personal Bests
Sept. 28, 2013 – Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational
Earlysville, Va.
Nov. 15, 2013 - NCAA Southeast Regional Championship
Earlysville, Va.
Big South Cross Country Championship (8K)
2010 (Blacksburg, Va.): 25th place, 26:34.53
2011 (Conway, S.C.): 43rd place, 26:37
2013 (Buena Vista, Va.): 13th place, 27:05.00
NCAA Southeast Regional Championship (10K)
2013 (Earlysville, Va.): 135th place, 32:03.0
Top Track Times at Liberty
800: 1:54.47
1,500: 3:55.45
Mile: 4:15.33
2013 Outdoor Track & Field (Jr.)
• Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Competed in the Big South 1,500 final for the third year in a row, finishing seventh
• Season-best 1,500 time of 3:56.96 came at the Raleigh Relays
2012-13 Indoor Track & Field (R-So.)
• Dropped his mile personal best to 4:15.33 (No. 8 in program history) at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup and placed fourth in the event at the Big South meet
• Finished sixth in the IC4A 1,000-meter final, with a season-best time of 2:26.39
• Recorded victories in the 1,000 at the Liberty Kickoff and Liberty Open
• Ran the 1,200-meter leadoff leg for the distance medley relay at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup and Big South Championship
• The Flames' time of 10:01.85 at the Sykes-Sabock meet was the second-fastest indoor distance medley relay clocking in program history
• Helped Liberty come in third in the Big South distance medley relay final
2012 Cross Country (Jr.)
• Did not compete in any races for Liberty and was redshirted
2012 Outdoor Track & Field (So.)
• Earned a place on the Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Placed fourth in the Big South men's 1,500 final for the second straight year, clocking a personal-best time of 3:55.45
• At the Liberty Collegiate Invitational, finished second in the 1,500 and third in the 800
2011-12 Indoor Track & Field (So.)
• Did not compete in any races for Liberty and was redshirted
2011 Cross Country (So.)
• Came in eighth at the season-opening Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational
• Raced to an 8K personal-best time of 26:00 at the Coastal Carolina Invitational/Big South Preview
• Placed 43rd overall and eighth among the champion Flames at the Big South meet
2011 Outdoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Made the Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Earned a fourth-place finish in the Big South men's 1,500 final
• Ran a season-best 800 time of 1:54.47 at the Radford Invitational
• Season-best 1,500-meter clocking of 3:56.33 came at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier
2010-11 Indoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Raced to a 1,000-meter time of 2:25.94 at the IC4A Championship, placing 10th in the preliminaries and ranking No. 2 in program history
• Anchored Liberty's distance medley relay quartet to a runner-up finish at the Big South meet
• Recorded a season-best 4:18.12 mile at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup
2010 Cross Country (Fr.)
• Served as Liberty's No. 9 runner and the 25th overall finisher at the Big South meet
• Came in 11th of 63 entrants at the Coastal Carolina Invitational
• Graduated from Corning West High School
• Placed fifth in the mile at the 2010 National Scholastic Indoor Championships
• At the New Balance Outdoor Nationals, came in seventh in the 2K steeplechase final in 2010 and ninth in 2009
• As a senior, posted a fourth-place finish in the New York State Indoor Track & Field Championships 1K race
• High school personal best times were 1:54 (800), 4:16 (1,600), 9:23 (3,200), 6:08 (2K steeplechase) and 9:37 (3K steeplechase)
• Son of Douglas and Jackie Cornfield
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This is the wireless video monitor system that delivered the longest range, the clearest images, and offered the most convenient features in testing by The Hammacher Schlemmer Institute. The camera's 2.4 GHz wireless signal reached an unobstructed monitor 550' away--more than twice as far as lesser models with a 250' range. Unlike other monitors that lost video and audio quality when positioned further away from a subject, The Best Monitor consistently displayed crisp 320 x 240 pixel images on a 3 1/2" color TFT display (and black and white night vision) without interference from other household electronics. The only monitor that allows remote viewing from an iPhone or iPad via Skype, The Best Monitor also functions as a wireless intercom, and displays the room temperature. It can automatically record video onto a microSD card up to 32 GB (1 GB card included) allowing footage to be viewed on the monitor or downloaded to a computer. Camera plugs into AC; monitor has a rechargeable battery for up to four hours of untethered use from a six-hour charge in its AC charging dock. Monitor 3" H x 5" W x 1" D. (5 oz.) Camera 6" H x 3 1/2" W x 2 3/4" D. (6 oz.)
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Best baby moniter ever!!
By New Mom
from Kalispell, MT
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Superb night vision and the range it picks up is amazingly far! Picks up sound great too! Just the best baby moniter we could have asked for!!!
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This a very good product, it meets all of my expectations.
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Though he holds a prominent place in South Carolina's modern history as one of three individuals whose admission desegregated the University in 1963, Robert Anderson spent most of his life far away from his native state and the alma mater he left 43 years ago.
"He was a spirit lifter, a generous soul who would give you everything."
But his death earlier this year has prompted an outpouring of remembrances, shining a fresh light on the quiet man who spent his life helping some of society's most downtrodden individuals.
"He was a spirit lifter, a generous soul who would give you everything," says Susan Raskin, a social worker in New York City and Anderson's companion for the past 22 years. "We met while working at the Bowery Shelter--which was kind of a strange place to fall in love--and I was always struck by his calmness.
"He could get through to people who were crazy and talking out their heads. He was drawn to helping those that most people are afraid of."
Anderson's early life was marked by a series of challenges: his father's untimely death; his experiences as a student at South Carolina, which included many acts of racism; and combat service in Vietnam.
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Students at the University of South Carolina are taking some of the things they find valuable at USC and making them more broadly available to the public.
A good example of this community engagement and service learning trend is Carolina Science Outreach, which lets South Carolina Honors College students and others from the university make science education more accessible to community organizations and middle and high schools throughout the state.
"I'm thrilled with it," said Ed Munn Sanchez, an Honors College associate dean and faculty adviser of the program. Through Carolina Science Outreach students make presentations on a variety of science topics to community groups, while also visiting middle and high schools where they encourage their younger counterparts to pursue science majors and careers.
The organization began four years ago when Honors College students Jim Talbert and Reggie Bain began talking about outreach efforts, and discussed the idea with faculty members in the college. They applied for and received university Magellan and Leadership grants to create the infrastructure of the student organization, which includes a website.
The grants have worked "terrifically," said Sanchez, adding that they've done exactly what they were intended to do because "they've generated a lot of service and a good bit of student research resulting in 10 to 15 presentations with more on the way."
About 40 students are involved in the club, most of whom are STEM majors. The current co-directors are Connor Bain, a second-year Honors College student majoring in computer science and math, and Kali Esancy, a senior Honors College biology and French major.
"The whole idea is to make science and science education much more visible, with the key idea being that science is too much of a mystery to the general public and to the youngsters who might wish to study it," Sanchez said. "They're trying to demystify it."
Included in the group's presentations have been a talk on wind power by Talbert; an appearance by Arthur T. Benjamin from Harvey Mudd College, who is best known as the Math Magician; and remarks by Bain on leadership in science that included an Einstein wig and a German accent.
"I think what has most impressed me and what is the most important is that these are among our best science students," Sanchez said. "They're almost all on their way to careers in research, but they are also developing an early and deep commitment to science education.
"They also were smart about quickly connecting with South Carolina science standards at different levels so that when they talked to teachers they knew what would fit into the standard curriculum. That made them both more attractive and clearly appear much more serious," Sanchez said. "They knew what they were talking about."
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freshface saidhttp://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html
Apple products, etc. and then wait for the author to show the license.
Theres actually a fine line read the end part there
jonathan01 said
so you already moved to Aussy land Jarel?
If so change your country flag… yur slackin manJonathan
I'm still here, but I haven't officially moved here yet. I'm just waiting on my visa. I'll keep it just a tad bit longer…
OrganicBeeMedia said
jremick saidDo we need to add you to the robot list as well?(ask Ivor aka the machine)
KingDog saidHaha! I actually accidentally overslept and managed 6!
What was that Jarel, 4 hours of sleep? You must be going easy on yourself in Melbourne
Haha, a friend of mine calls be Robot Bob already.
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freshface saidhttp://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html Theres actually a fine line read the end part there
Apple products, etc. and then wait for the author to show the license.
Nice link man. So you either photograph the product yourself or acquire a written permission from Apple to use their own photos. And then you also need to follow those other guidelines which kinda makes sense only for responsive items where you showcase your item running on multiple Apple products. Or not. It's a fine line, like you said.
Hey everybody
Just wanted to jump in here and make sure we're all on the same page about a few things. First up, we hear your feedback I'll explain more later what we're taking on board for the future.
As Jarel said, we recently did a review of the site templates category in ThemeForest, and authors were notified well in advance through Notes and on the author dashboards. Sheesh! Don't forget all the Notes posts on properly license assets and respecting copyright/intellectual property!Let me clarify why and when an author's account might be disabled (temporarily, or permanently, depending on the circumstances):
- The author's items receive multiple DMCA complaints from copyright owners over time.
- The author's items receive multiple copyright or intellectual property (IP) complaints from others, like the public, or over time we notice multiple issues (eg in the review process).
- After Envato does a category review. During a category review, we disable items where we can see obvious IP issues. But we also make a call on whether to disable an author's account until they actively confirm to us that they've read the KnowledgeBase information about IP, and that they're going to review their whole portfolio. Essentially, we ask the author to confirm that they are taking accountability for copyright issues in their portfolio.
Of course, many authors are being proactive and checking all the assets used in previews and in downloaded items. So thank you to everyone who's been doing that! And again, I'm not making comments on any specific authors, I'm just answering the questions asked about why accounts are sometimes temporarily disabled.
We've heard your feedback on this and in any future reviews, we will consider whether to give authors with disabled items a little while to confirm to us what their plans are to review their whole portfolio. Better still, hopefully all authors out there will no longer need Envato to tell them to review their portfolios.
So, spread the word – and repeat after me – "I love copyright! I'm off to review all the assets used in my entire portfolio now!"
Oh yeah – and nice soliloquy Jarel (I had to look it up on Google to get the spelling right – I haven't used that word since writing essays in school!).
Seriously though – respect to him, he really does work like 18 hours a day, 7 days a week.
freshface said
And I also think that reviewers should be officially ordered to just reject items with obvious copyright infringements such as images with Angelina Jolie, Apple products, etc. and then wait for the author to show the license.
For the record, that's what we do now. Almost all recent files are clean. It's the slightly older files that are the problem—ones submitted when we didn't need to come down with an iron hammer on infringing items.
Thanks vahid, that makes all clear
One thing, how IP complaints or DMCA works? Someone sends you info that author uses illegal files or stolen code – do you verify it or just assume that person is right and you take steps (like soft-disabling item) immediately, and than you wait for author's response?
purethemes saidreally? I have no words
Thanks vahid, that makes all clear
vahid said
Essentially, we ask the author to confirm that they are taking accountability for copyright issues in their portfolio.
didn't we already took responsibility when we accepted the term and conditions when we create our account as authors on envato? and also when we check the box under the "message to reviewer" area, before hitting the upload button on the item upload page?
If there is something to sign please send me the link because I don't want my account getting disabled while you wait for confirmation from me.
vahid said
And so we've been forced to find ways to get authors to be proactive and take accountability.
Get some of those elite accounts, ask them to fix some small issue, then after a while disable their account. Then wait for them to protest on forums. then inform the community that they need to take their accountability for their portfolio. Perfect plan.
vahid said
We've heard your feedback on this and in any future reviews, we will consider whether to give authors with disabled items a little while to confirm to us what their plans are to review their whole portfolio.
No need, if the author have elite status disable the account directly. I'm sure he is a bad guy who will never take accountability for their portfolio so no need to give them time to fix a simple small issue.
Sorry vahid, I DO NOT AGREE . At all.
1) Is 4 days "well in advance"? 2) "actively confirm to us that they've read the KnowledgeBase information" > there was no word about this in the soft disablement notification, it was just the info that the item was soft disabled, and nothing about any active confirmation. I can post these emails here if you want me to. 3) The account deletion was NOT described as "temporarily". It was SUDDENLY and unpredictable and like "forever, forget it dude". You switched off the lights, just so. 4) I wanted to just delete the soft disabled item but there was no possible way for me to do so. Also, in the notification there was no word about where to edit the item or that not editing it would lead to deleting my account.
All in all, this was the worst communication and worst treatment I ever had to experience with ANY of my online partnerships.
Why is it so hard sayiing: "Sorry, we've made a terrible mistake?" If you or other staff members keep writing thousands of words why you were right and the disabled authors were wrong, it will only make things worse.
This was one of the worst weeks in my life, thanks to your treatment. Made me aware that I cannot sustainably rely on you. It's like sitting on a catapult seat.
purethemes said
One thing, how IP complaints or DMCA works? Someone sends you info that author uses illegal files or stolen code – do you verify it or just assume that person is right and you take steps (like soft-disabling item) immediately, and than you wait for author's response?
the answer is here:http://support.envato.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/115/64/a-dmca-takedown-notice-has-been-issued-against-my-item
despite reading all written explanation from staff and managers, i still can't get it… it still sounds so ridiculous to me, disabling an account permanently just because an author uses an actress's photo in a theme demo, which he shows off on his own public domain… It has nothing to do with Envato… But even if it's still an issue, why dont you just remove that theme from the marketplace for good for ever, but leave the author's account free? There are hundereds to thousands of people here just working here by releasing themes for a living. How comes that you can close an author's account that easily? Remember that you have grown from a bunch of authors to this level. So please, respect the authors who brought you to your place you are in today. respect the authors that you've earned millions over their hard work ( yea you are working hard too for a good marketplace, but we would not be same, without each other… neither you nor us )
if that's so easy, you have to disable around a hundered account right now, just because of using ipad, iphone, imac photos in their preview images and themes… all those screen images belong to apple… do you have courage to disable hundereds of accounts in a row?


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Right-Wing Media Quote-Cropping Tactics On Display At Hagel Confirmation Hearing
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After former Sen. Chuck Hagel was nominated as defense secretary, right-wing media outlets attacked him with distorted quotes, and similarly deceptive uses of those quotes surfaced at Hagel's hearing on Thursday.
During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) highlighted a statement that Hagel made in a 2006 speech about the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that was occurring in Lebanon at the time. Cruz claimed that Hagel had accused Israel of committing a "sickening slaughter."
But as Slate's Dave Weigel pointed out, this echoes a distortion promoted by The Weekly Standard. In reality, Hagel said that the "sickening slaughter on both sides must end" (emphasis added). As Weigel explains, Hagel "described the conflict that way -- a sickening slaughter was occurring -- blaming both sides, and quickly following up by criticizing Iran and invoking the 'special relationship'" between Israel and the United States.
Cruz also showed video of Hagel answering questions on an Al-Jazeera show in 2009. One of the questions Hagel fielded on the show was an email that asked:
Can the rest of the world be persuaded to give up their arsenal when the image of the U.S. is that of the world's bully? Don't we indeed need to change the perception and the reality before asking folks to lay down their arms (nuclear or otherwise)?
On the program, Hagel responded, "Well, her observation is a good one, and it's relevant. Yes to her question."
According to Cruz, the clip showed Hagel "explicitly" agreeing that the United States is "the world's bully." This echoes the take of the Washington Free Beacon, which discussed this exchange in a January 9 post misleadingly headlined "Hagel Agrees that America is 'the World's Bully.' " But as is clear from the question itself, Hagel agreed that there is an image of the U.S. as a bully that needs to be corrected.
Both BuzzFeed and NBC's First Read blog noted that Cruz adopted the same distortion during the hearing. They also noted that Hagel went on to blame that perception on Bush administration policies.
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2013 Playing Together for a Brighter Beginning
Brighter Beginnings
Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM (PDT)
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Event Details
Tennis, Golf, Happy Hour and Dinner Celebration
to raise funds for our Teen Pregnancy Prevention outreach
This year our 6th annual event, "Playing Together for a Brighter Beginning" will be better than ever! We have doubled the amount of tennis by adding an additional venue at St. Mary's College in addition to the courts at Moraga Country Club for our team tennis competition. Or one can play golf as a member of our 9 hole golf tournament. Both events will be followed by happy hour with a complimentary specialty cocktail bar sponsored by Belvedere Vodka or a selection of beer and wine with live music.
Team Tennis Format: All levels of play including open available
Team Golf Format: 9 hole, four person scramble
The schedule for the event:
2:00 PM Check-in (You will be notified of assigned venue - either St. Mary's or MCC in advance)
2:30 PM Play
5:30 PM Happy Hour Back at Moraga Country Club
6:15 PM Raffle Winners Announced
6:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Program and Live Auction
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If you would like to register for a sponsorship with a check via mail, please use the form attached here.
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Moraga Country Club and St. Mary's College
1600 St Andrews Dr
Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM (PDT)
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