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Mess Night
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A Mess Night is a formal stag dinner in mess by all members, or by the noncommissioned officers of a particular post or unit. Spouses do not attend. This may cause some irritation, but must cheerfully be accepted as one of the many hardships a soldier's spouse must bear. A Dining In allows for the spouse to attend. Mess nights may be held periodically, for example, to celebrate special anniversaries (such as that of a battle in which the unit has participated); to "dine out" NCOs being detached: or to honor guests from another unit, service, or country.
PLANS AND PREPARATIONS. The first step in preparing for a mess night is to designate the noncommissioned officer who will act as Vice President (or "Mr. Vice", as he is traditionally called). In some messes or organizations, the vice president is the junior staff sergeant present. However, it is good practice to rotate the job among all staff sergeants on board so that all may gain experience. In any case, the function of the vice presidentat least beforehandis to un- dertake all preliminary arrangements, i.e., guest list (to be approved by the mess president), seating diagram (also to be approved), menu and catering, music, decorations, etc. The success of the evening depends on the vice president.
Subject to local or unit customs and to facilities which are available, here are specific arrangements which should be made for a mess night.
- After approval of the guest list, invitations should be prepared and mailed or delivered at least two weeks in advance of the Mess Night. Each guest, regardless of organization or of sponsor in the host unit, is a guest of the Mess and should be so treated.
- The table is set with complete ditiner servicewine glasses, candles, and flowers. Unit or post silver and trophies should be used as ornaments on the table or in places where they will show to advantage. Naturally, they should be in a high state of polish.
- Unless the post or unit sergeant major or the president of the staff NCO mess desires to preside, a sergeant major is detailed as President of the Mess for the occasion. As stated before, a junior staff sergeant acts as Vice President.
- Uniform is dress blues (or, at tropical stations, white-blue- whites). Civilians invited to a mess night should wear black tie with miniature medals (if they rate them) or dark suit and tie with large medals (if they rate them). Noncommissioned or petty officer guests from other services should wear equivalent uniforms. Retired NCOs who are invited may either attend in uniform or wear civilian clothes with medals, as above.
- The National Color and the Marine Corps Color are placed behind the president's chair. At organizational mess nights, guidons of companies and batteries can be banked behind the top table. Drums can also be used to good effect, if pyramided up. Another idea is to place all barracks caps of those present on bandstands or a trestle, in a row or rows in rear of the vice president's place. Stacks of rifles in each corner of the room (out of the way, of course) are another touch.
- The mess president sits at the head of the table, the vice presi- dent at the foot. Other guests and members take seat by rank except that guests of honor are on the right and left of the president. A seating diagram should be posted in advance, and place cards and menu cards prepared. All preliminary arrangements are supervised by the vice president.
- If available, a three- or four-piece military string orchestra should be detailed to provide dinner music, and should know the national anthems and regimental marches of guests. If suitable "live" music is not available, a good-quality public-address system with taped or recorded selections will serve as a substitute. The musical program should be checked and timed by the vice president, and should always include Semper Fidelis and the unit song or march of each guest. If live music is available, coordinate all these and other musical arrangements with the bandmaster.
- Advance planning with the mess includes arrangements as to cost, menu (usually roast beef), wine (a good rose goes with any menu), and the 1775 rum punch which is often used as the traditional drink for the toasts. Give the mess manager at least two weeks for his own planning, based on a tentative attendance figure from you, being sure sufficient private space is available for cocktails, dinner, and drinks afterward. A week beforehand, give the mess manager a final figure on who is coming.
- The vice president should be at the mess early on the morning of the dinner with a working party to assist in final preparations. Decorations and trophies are placed, table is set, and place cards are checked against the seating diagram, which should be posted in the mess lobby or cocktail lounge. If the toasts are being drunk in traditional rum punch, the punch bowl is positioned for best service.
- The vice president should be on hand a half hour before the appointed hour for cocktails. This provides time for a last-minute check of details.
PROCEDURE. Staff NCOs and guests assemble punctually 45 minutes before dinner for cocktails. This allows time for all to arrive, but not too much time for preliminary drinks (remember, there will be a long stretch ahead). The cocktail hour should be the occasion for all SNCOs to speak to each guest and make him feel welcome; also for the mess president to welcome each guest on board individually. In addition, the younger NCOs should take this occasion to pay their respects informally on sergeants major and first sergeants and senior chief petty officers; this is much appreciated by the older men.
If possible, a section from the unit band should provide semiclassical or light musical background, but, if there is nothing better, a record player or tape recorder will do.
Dinner is announced in accordance with local custom. If a field music is available, the preferred way is to have him sound the old-time First Sergeants' Call. Then music can follow, such as Semper Fidelis or (for drum and bugle corps) Sea Soldiers. Another variation, for fife and drum, is The Roast Beef of Old England (which used to be played aboard ship as "Officers' Mess Gear" or for all hands when a holiday ration was to be served). When playing any of the foregoing, musics usually strike up in the mess proper, march through the cocktail lounge, back into the mess, around the table, and return to the lounge, where they halt and continue to play.
Depending on local ground rules, members and guests proceed informally to their places; or, where more formality is the custom, those seated at the top table enter in a body after all others are in place waiting to sit down. In any case, neither drinks nor cigarettes should be carried in from the lounge, as a courtesy to those members and guests at the dining table. When going in, each guest should be escorted by a member of the mess. Grace is said by the chaplain, if present, otherwise by the president. All hands then take seats. The ranking guest, seated at the mess president's right, is served first, then the president, and so on counterclockwise without further re- gard to seniority. Appropriate wines are served with each course (however, remember that chilled rose goes with all food combina- tions, has a light, pleasant taste, and is inexpensive; in other words, you don't have to be a wine snob to run a good mess night). There should be no smoking during dinner, and no noncommissioned officer may leave the table until after the toasts, except by permission from the president. (If for any reason, official or otherwise, you arrive late, you should express your regrets to the mess president before taking your seat.)
In some organizations, when roast beef is the entree, the head waiter rolls on the beef, halts behind the president, cuts him a small but choice piece and lays it before him on a plate. The president then tastes it and, if satisfied, pronounces, "This beef is tasty and fit for human consumption."
Dinner then proceeds. When the president and senior guests have finished, the table is cleared. The president raps for attention with gavel or spoon (but not on a glass; if crystal it might shatter), and says or obtains silence for the chaplain to say a short concluding Grace. Note for Chaplains: don't make a sermon out of Grace.)
On some occasions, port is drunk with the toasts after dinner, in the English fashion. If so, here are certain traditional rules:
Don't drink toasts bottoms-up.
Port is served from decanters passed clockwise from the president and vice president.
Never drink a toast from an empty glass, or worse, in water.
If toasts are drunk in the 1775 rum punch (see below for recipe), there are no decanters to pass, and it is up to waiters to keep glasses or punch cups charged during intervals between toasts.
In any case, when port decanters have made their rounds or all cups have been charged with 1775 rum punch, the president raps for silence. If a foreign military, naval, or other official guest is present, the president rises, lifts his glass, and says, "Mr. Vice, His Majesty, King _______ of _______." The vice president then rises, glass in hand, waits until all have risen, and gives the toast. "Gentlemen, His Majesty, King _______ of _______." The orchestra plays the foreign national anthem, following which all say, "King _______ of _______ ," drink, and resume seats. After about a minute, the president again raps for silence, the senior foreign officer rises, and says "Gentlemen, the President of the United States," and the orchestra plays the National Anthem. This toast is called "The Loyal Toast." If no foreign guests are present, the first toast is to the President of the United States, and in any case the concluding toast is to the Marine Corps, during which, if music is available, "The Marines' Hymn" is played. The wording of this toast should be, "Mr. Vice, Corps and Country," and the custom has grown up that the vice president replies in words taken from a Revolutionary War recruiting poster of the Continental Marines "Long live the United States, and success to the Marines!" If the guest of honor be a Marine, he may take this occasion to proceed to a few remarks. If the guest of honor is from another service, a toast to his service is in order. He may respond and speak. Before leaving the subject of toasts, note that toasts may be divided into four classes, and that they are given in the following order:
- Toasts of Protocol: Toasts to foreign governments or chiefs of state; toast to the President of the United States.
- Official Toasts: Toasts to other services, military organizations, Gov- ernment departments, agencies, or institutions.
- Traditional Toast: "Corps and Country."
- Personal Toasts: Toasts to individuals (distinguished guests, officer being dined out, etc.)
Note: To make 1775 rum punch, mix four parts dark rum; two parts lime juice; and one part pure maple syrup. Add small amount of grenadine syrup to taste. Ice generously and stir well. The maple syrup, incidentally, was originally used because of the British blockade which cut off supplies of West Indies sugar cane.
The traditional toast ends the formal part of the evening. Personal toasts and speeches may follow at a suitable interval afterward, as described below.
Following the toasts, coffee is served, the president announces, "The smoking lamp is lighted," (never say "lit"), and individual drinks or liqueurs may be ordered. At this point or whenever the orchestra is released, the president may send for the bandmaster, and offer him a drink. If speeches are planned (other than remarks associated with toasts), they are made now. In "dining out" a departing messmate, the president makes brief, usually humorous remarks, whereupon the noncommissioned officer being honored replies in the same vein. In some messes the orchestra remains and plays the regimental march of each guest, during which the individual stands. When speeches are over, the top table guests rise, following which the remainder of the party adjourn individually to the bar and anteroom, where songs are generally sung and sea stories recounted. All hands should remain until the ranking guest and the president leave, after which anyone may secure at discretion.
Circumstances will frequently not permit a mess night with all formalities as to uniform, catering, and table service that are outlined herein, or it may not be desired. This should not deter an organization from making the effort. The idea is to do the best you can with what you have, and let the spirit of the occasion take care of the rest. Do not, in particular, let yourself be overcome by the apparent formality of mess nights; the object is the pleasure and. comradeship of all hands.
As to timing, it is better not to schedule mess nights regularly. It is much preferable that people begin asking when the next one will take place. Thus a mess night will be looked forward to with anticipation and never as a burden.
Note: The costs of a mess night, like other "chip-in" Marine Corps functions, should be prorated by rank so that people who make the most, pay the most.
Information taken from the "Handbook for Marine NCOs"


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Fagbenle is now on par with Diana Caramanico '01 from Penn and Elisa Morrison '07 from Dartmouth as having been named the Ancient Eight's rookie of the week more times than anyone else in the conference's history. The London, England native has also been named player of the week twice this year, helping Harvard to set a new Ivy League standard with 18 weekly awards won this season. Christine Clark earned four player of the week honors while Victoria Lippert garnered the award twice.
Fagbenle helped the Crimson clinch its second straight WNIT berth this weekend with wins at Columbia and Cornell. The sophomore turned in a double-double in both victories, first with a 14-point, 12-rebound effort against the Lions on Friday. She added 16 points and 11 rebounds against the Big Red on Saturday, and finished the week shooting 63.2 percent from the field.
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Harvard will conclude its regular season tomorrow as it hosts Columbia at 6 p.m. in Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson currently boasts the nation's eighth-longest home winning streak and is looking to finish the year unbeaten at home for the first time since 1997-98.
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Thanks. I did what I could with available light.
I am now trying to read on how to do off camera lighting. Lighting/flash is rarely good to me, but that's due to my limited experience.
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I recently joined a group of journalists from around the world who were invited by the Consorzio Valpolicella to take part in the annual Anteprima Amarone event in Verona. This tasting is an opportunity for writers specializing in Italian wines to taste the soon-to-be-released examples of Amarone from several dozen producers; this year the featured vintage was 2008.
As in many wine districts throughout Italy, temperatures have been increasing slightly over the past several years; in the Valpolicella district, just north of Verona, this was certainly the case in 2006 and even more so in 2007. Thus a cool – read more typical – growing season with moderate temperatures that characterized 2008 in this area was a welcome change to most producers. This has resulted in wines that have very good acidity, impressive concentration and beautifully defined perfumes. Stefano Cottini, proprietor of Scriani in Fumane in the Classico zone of Valpolicella, says that 2008 was "a very easy year. Nature gave us a beautiful growing season. All we had to do was wait for the grapes to come in." Cottini believes that his 2008 Amarone will age longer than many recent vintages thanks to the ideal structure of the wine.
Tasting through more than 40 different examples of 2008 Amarone, I had mixed feelings about the wines. Indeed these wines do have very good acidity and with some of the wines, excellent structure. This is not a vintage for short-term enjoyment such as 2007, but one that demands time in the bottle; I'm guessing that many of the finest Amarone from 2008 will peak in another 12-15 years. This estimate on my part (some wines tasted here were barrel samples) means that 2008 is a middle-weight vintage, not as rich as 2006 or 2001, but one that offers better aging potential than 2007 or 2005.
A few highlights of this tasting. First and foremost are the wines of Antolini, a small estate in Marano, operated by brothers Pier Paolo and Stefano. I first tasted these wines four years ago at the Anterprima event and placed their 2004 Moropio bottling as my top wine; this was also the case this year with their 2008 version – talk about consistency! The 2008 Ca' Coato Amarone is a beautifully made wine with lovely aromas of red cherry, strawberry and red roses with excellent persistence and very good acidity, while the 2008 Moropio takes things up a notch. This offers similar aromas – there are strong notes of strawberry preserves- along with perfect harmony of all components as well as outstanding complexity. This is already an impressive wine and should turn out to be a great wine!
The Stefano Accordini "Acinatico" displayed its usual excellence; black cherry, myrtle and sage aromas are backed by excellent depth of fruit and persistence. The 2008 Bertani "Villa Arvedi" has lovely fruit and tobacco aromas with very good concentration and impressive persistence with an elegant entry on the palate. Note that this is not the traditional Bertani Amarone – that 2008 version will not be released for another three years.
The Ca' La Bionda Ravazzol is a first-rate wine with notes of cherry preserves and a hint of chocolate; there is excellent depth of fruit and persistence with very subtle oak and elegantly styled tannins. This traditional producer is one of the most underrated in this zone and after meeting proprietor Alessandro Castellani, it is easy to understand why as he prefers to talk about his land and his wine rather than awards or points. What a refreshing attitude!
Two other excellent wines that are definitely worth seeking out are the 2008 Corte Sant'Alda and the 2008 Massimago. Both wines are from the eastern reaches of the Valpolicella zone near the town of Mezzane, outside of the Classico district and interestingly, both estates are managed by women. Marinella Camerani is the boss at Corte Sant'Alda and has been crafting lovely Amarone for 25 years now; her 2008 has inviting aromas of morel cherry, violets and red plum and has a generous mid-palate, excellent persistence and beautiful structure. Look for this wine to be at its best in another 12-15 years although it will probably drink well for another few years after that. Camerani did not produce a 2007 Amarone, so her selection process is strict and it shows in this wine.
Camilla Rossi Chauvenet, Massimago (Photo ©Tom Hyland)
At Masimago, 27-year old Camilla Rossi Chauvenet has made quite a name for herself in this area, even though she only started producing wines from the 2004 vintage. I was impressed by the roundness and varietal character of her 2007 Amarone, but her 2008 is a better wine, with better integrated oak as well as a longer finish and greater overall complexity. I told Camilla that I thought her 2008 was an improvement on her 2007 and she agreed with me, stating that this is undoubtedly a better Amarone. Keep an eye out for this producer, as her wines will be available in the US very soon.
Finally, high marks as well for the 2008 Amarones from Scriani, a medium-full wine with lovely balance along with the bottlings from Valentina Cubi and Santa Sofia; the former a ripe, forward style of Amarone with elegant tannins while the latter is a more subdued version that is one of the best I've tried from this long-standing estate in several years.
One final note on this tasting. There were almost two dozen of the best producers that are members of the Valpolicella Consorzio that did not participate in this event. While each winery had their reasons for not showing their wines (the wines not being "ready" was the most common I heard), it is a shame that this tasting did not represent the majority of the finest producers of Amarone. While I did taste some impressive wines at this event, I hoped for more. Let's hope this situation can be rectified for next year's anteprima.


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Probably the most visited and most photographed bridge in Venice, (Ponte di Rialto) opened in 1591.Connecting the districts of San Polo and San Marco across the Grand Canal in the heart of the city, the Rialto Bridge has always been a busy crossing over the canal.The bridge is formed by two inclined ramps covered by a portico with shops on either side. This area has long been a market place for Venetians and Tourists.
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Spartan Softball Stadium enters its 13th year of hosting Spartan softball in the spring of 2015. The facility features an enclosed playing surface with a 400 seat spectator seating down the first base line. The facility is an all skin infield with a natural grass outfield. The dugouts are poured concrete with brick facing while each dugout has field storage. The eight foot fence covered with a windscreen providing the Spartans with an optimal training and game facility. Five years ago, an inning-by-inning Daktronics scoreboard was installed in left centerfield, making the facility one of the best on the east coast.
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- This is an article about the order of deaconess. If you are looking for the wife of a deacon, see Diakonissa.
Deaconesses were an order in the primitive Christian Church. Information is sparse as to their activities at the time, though it is clear they were mostly involved with ministering to other women and girls.
It being improper for males to be physically handling women, deaconesses were commissioned to assist especially in baptism and chrismation.
It is an anachronism to say deaconesses did not perform the same liturgical role as deacons in the early church. That is imputing back in time to deacons a role which they were given considerably later in Church history.
In the early Church it is highly likely that deaconesses performed the same liturgical role as deacons, and quite likely more, because of the taboo on (male) priests touching female neophytes, or touching females requiring the sacrament of holy oil for the sick.
It is likely that the actual application of the holy oil onto the body of the women being chrismated was done by the deaconess, and not the priest. The priest did the praying and supervised, but did not touch. Deacons would not have performed this role. As there was no taboo on the priest physically applying the oil to male candidates, there was no need for deacons to be involved in this.
The Japanese Orthodox Church from its inception in the later half of the nineteenth century had some deaconesses. Japan's first bishop, St. Nicholas Kasatkin, had a number of deaconesses during his tenure.
At the same time, the Russian Orthodox Church, Japan's mother Church, had deaconesses. It seems from the scant material available that the Russian Church has always had deaconesses.
The Greek Orthodox Church has had deaconesses intermittently over the recent centuries, and appears to have usually had deaconesses in its female monasteries from time immemorial.
The Russian Orthodox Church still has deaconesses. [1]
In female monasteries the role of a deaconess seems necessary for the good order and function of the monastery church. It is more seemly than having male deacons involved there.
The question of having deaconesses perform the liturgical role of deacons in parish churches or cathedrals is a different matter and should be the subject of separate discussion.
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- "Order for the Ordination of a Woman Deacon"
- "Ordination of a Woman Deacon" offers background to the link above, both from the Euchologion of the Monastery of Saint Andrew the First Called in Manchester, England
- The Historical Orthodox Deaconess
- "Female Deacons in the Byzantine Church"
- "Prayers for the Ordination of Women Deacons as found in Georgian Manuscripts", taken from: "The Georgian Version of the Liturgy of St. James," F. C. Conybeare and Oliver Wardrop, from Revue de l'Orient Chretien, XIX, 1914 (Paris)
- Book Review: Women Deacons in the Orthodox Church: Called to Holiness and Ministry by Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald, reviewed by Deborah Malacky Belonick for St. Nina's Quarterly
- "An Interview with Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald" by Teva Regule of the St. Nina's Quarterly


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Robert O. Ragland, Prolific Film Composer, Dies at 80
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His credits include the campy 1972 horror film "The Thing With Two Heads."
Robert O. Ragland, a film composer for such 1970s cult movies as The Thing With Two Heads and Grizzly, died April 18 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 80.
Ragland was preceded in death by his wife Martha Montgomery, who married Ragland in 1972 after the death of her husband, nine-time Oscar-winning film composer Alfred Newman (The King and I).
A native of Chicago, Ragland served as a musical arranger for the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra before entering the advertising business. He then came to Hollywood in the late 1960s and wound up scoring more than 50 films.
In addition to the The Thing With Two Heads (1972), starring Ray Milland and Roosevelt Grier, and Grizzly (1976), which saw Christopher George battle an out-of-control bear in a state park, Ragland composed music for such films as Project: Kill (1976) starring Leslie Nielsen, Q (1982), 10 to Midnight (1983) with Charles Bronson, No Place to Hide (1993), The Raffle (1994), Top of the World (1997), Menahem Golan's Crime and Punishment (2002) and Downtown: A Street Tale (2004).
RAGLAND Robert O. (Roberto Oliver Ragland)
Born: 7/3/1931, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Died: 4/18/2012, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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Those stupid, annoying and utterly pointless mobile phone ringtone and screen saver adverts have found their way onto the discovery channel. Is nothing sacred?
I suppose it had to happen, the kiddie oriented mush-ic channels play the damn things several times in the same ad break. Mind you, compared to some of the pulp, the ads look good in context.
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I've read that bounties on questions move the question to the featured questions. I think this is a complete waste, bounties and featured questions should be made separate. If a bounty is not awarded the system should ask the person who made the bounty if they would like to keep the bounty available indefinitely (or until they run out of the reputation to keep the bounty in place) or not. Paying reputation for the featured questions tab which is not refunded is fine, that truly is taking up a spotlight. I don't care if an important question I have is featured, otherwise I would create a much higher bounty.
The problem is bounty periods do not account for more obscure subjects/topics/languages/etc and even if the s/t/l is not obscure people have a tendency to post generic answers to questions, not testing code if code is involved, etc. In example if I place a bounty on an Apache related question I wouldn't mind having it awarded six months later, it truly takes someone with striking design and development skills to understand very complex questions sometimes. By having the bounty die-off the important question is no longer appears important and the more difficult question has a greatly reduced chance of being answered. A useful answer half a year from now is better than a slim chance of an answer that is even half on-topic.
Bounties should be fully refunded if they should expire.
Featured questions should expire without being refunded to prevent questions from perpetually reappearing in the featured questions list.
Bounties and featured questions should be allowed to coexist though after the featured question period expires the bounty should remain though the question removed from the featured questions list.
Featured questions essentially work better for more popular topics which more people are likely to answer.
Long lasting bounties essentially work better for more obscure topics which will much longer before the right person with the capability to correctly answer the question.


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fma38 wrote:But what about 2 comboboxes? One for the camera, and one for the lens?
fma38 wrote:If someone find some usefull informations about these protocols, please share! There are maybe some guys who hacked them using a USB sniffer...
fma38 wrote:You may have noticed that once Papywizard is launched, the keyboard does not react in a normal way (I mean, for other applications). This is because I didn't find a correct way to bind the arrow keys to the head moves, and I'm using a workarround which is not really clean. Some other keys are also used, like Enter or ESC, but they are not really usefull.
So, I plan to remove these shortcuts. But I have to admit that the arrow keys are very helpfull, especially when you define the start/end positions for a mosaic shooting, or the reference position, with the eye behind the camera (it is not easy to press the right button on a touch screen). My first idea was to be able to use the original controller. But once Papywizard is connected, it periodically reads the position to update the GUI. So, if you try to move the head with the original controller, communication collisions can occur (there is a CS signal, but it is not respected by the original controller, so we never relied on it, and never wired it on the BT or serial interface).
To avoid that, I plan to add a button to suspend the Spy (the thread which periodically reads the head position). The current position won't be refreshed while moving, but it will be refreshed as soon as you press a set start/end position button (but the Spy will stay suspended). As soon as you launch the shooting process, the Spy will be resumed. Once you close the shoot dialog, the Spy can be either suspended again, or remain active (don't know what is best).
What do you think about?
fma38 wrote:Please, install teh latests dev. release (2.1.13): it works better then the 2.0.0.
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My daughter feeds the cats,bird and fish.She takes her degus out to play with them and helps clean out their 6 ft cage. She also has started to train our small dog. She is 8 yrs old. This is good for her because her pets the bird and fish, she pays for their food out of her weekly allowance. She does a good job of helping out.
Do your kids help take care of your pets?
Taking responsibility for an animal is a powerful learning tool for children. In what ways do your kids help take care of your family pets?
My 6year old daughter helps by carrying the cat his food, feeding and getting water for the guinea pigs as well as playing with them and helping me clean thier very big cage. She also helps me feed our two dogs. She even likes to feed the snake his defrosted frozen mice. She also helps me brush the animals. She has a chore chart that she has to get a star on at least 10 of the spots for the week to get her allowance. Feeding and taking care of the pets is one of the responsibilies that she can easily meet almost every day.
She has also learned alot about the way bodies work from our pets. She also has a better understanding of what we eat and why by feeding the pets. From the snake she learns that animals eat animals, from the cat she learns about going to the bathroom and being tidy about it, from the guinea pigs she learns about the importance of eating your veggies. From the dogs she has learned that too much chocolate can make you sick! And she understand that if we dont feed the pets healthy foods they will not be healthy. So she understands that if we dont eat healthy foods we wont be healthy either.
I have 2 daughters, one 11 year old and the other is 3. We have a cat and fish and both of them help with the pets. My eldest cleans the cats litter box and lets her out, as we live in a 2nd floor flat this means going downstairs which the little one cant do, and the little one feeds the cat and feeds the fish for me. They have learned that this is a responsible thing for them if they want to have pets, we are in the process of looking for a small dog to join our family which i feel will be good for them.
Yes! My 4 year old daughter and my step kids wanted a pet. The only condition is that they have to take care of them when they are there. We have a dog and a hamster. They have to give them fresh water, feed them, bathe them,clean up their cages/ outside and play with them. Of course since we do not have our kiddos all the time, my husband and I step in to take care of them. I think it is good for every child to have a pet. It teaches them responsibility and I think that is a great way for kids to learn. My daughter loves the hamster and she always takes him out every night she is there to play with him. My step kids love the dog, so they are rough housing with him all the time when they are there. They wanted the pets, so we decided that we could have them as long as they do the dirty work when they are there.
Well I tried. We've always had pets . Cats,fish in aquariums and fish in the pond, plus sick,hurt,homeless this and that. They've chipped in and helped here and there.
I've told them that they could have any pet they wanted -IF they gave me a plan of how they would take care of it and WHO would take care of it during vacations
I flat out won't live feed a snake, been there done that.
I think my responsibility talks turned them off.. One had hermit crabs that WOULD NOT DIE and eventually were passed down to a young cousin after 10 years. The other had a goldfish from a wedding reception table decorations {I know, it's cruel]. After 5 years it got too big for our tank-hence our pond.
So they've learned responsibility , but the only pets they have at this point are cactuses and bonsais.
My little girl feed my cats and walk the dog. And she also spends 1-2 hours playing with them. I think it she know how to take care of or love the pets, she will know how to love and take care of her family, friends and herself.
We have a pet TickleMe Plant. I consider it a great first pet as it moves like an animal when you Tickle it, yet you don't have to walk or feed it. She loved growing the pet TickleMe Plant from seeds and watching how it move when she Tickled It. See video. I think it also may make her more sensitive to nature and plants. The TickleMe Plant is a real plant and of course it does need to be cared for like any other pet but all it really needs is water and light..the kits come with soil pellets.
My 11 year-old is a big help when it comes to our pets. We have cats and he helps me a lot with them. After his Dad died a few years back Christopher wanted another cat. We already had 2 at the time, but under the circumstances I said yes. So off we went to the humane society and Christopher picked out a long-haired black & white 2 year old male cat. He has been a delight. Christopher named him Paul and he has been so much fun for everyone. He's so vocal and lets us know if something isn't the way he thinks it should be. I think animals are good for our children and a very good learning tool as well as rewarding.
changing food and water
Our family has 3 very active German Shorthaired Pointers. Molly 10, Mayple Rose 3 and Meadow Rae 2. My boys are 14 and 7. My oldest kennels them up at night and lets them up in the morning and lets them out to potty. My 7 year old feds them. And my biggest child (my husband) takes them pheasent hunting. Me, I hand out the punishments. But the kids are very helpful. They love their sisters, as they call them.
My 7 year old has been given responsibilities with the family dogs since about 3...it started with just being in charge of treats, then food, then putting them outside to do their stuff (or let them in), and now she can walk 1 of them, and I do the other 2. Last weekend she gave them their baths without my help...It is a little bit at a time. Her big dream job is to be a pet groomer, so I guess it fits in. We talk a lot about how to keep the dogs happy and healthy, and the reasons we adopted them, and what our promises were when we agreed to do that.
My children all have chores with the dog. We all take weekly turns walking, feeding and grooming her. We all named the dog but it wasn't until the 6 yr old and the 16 yr old were watching cartoons did we find a name that "fit" the dog. My 16 yr old is the one that has to be constantly reminded about his set of responsibility with Chewie, the 7, 6, and 4 they do a wonderful job. My only problem so far has been walking her since the 4 yr old isn't old enough to hold the leash without being dragged he whines a lot about it.
Yes. My 8 yr old son scoops out the litter box three times a week, as part of his daily chores.
MY DD loves to help me feed our dachshund. She also loves to give our dog her little treats. She loves this dog but other times when she is "playing" with her, ( or so she thinks) she ends up hurting her and sometimes she gets bit. But I think she would be sad if something happened to her. ( oh and BTW, my DD is 7)
No, so I'm the mom...lol! As a blended family and the fact that I married their dad, we have the kids on every other weekend. We do the best we can!
My son who is now 7 has a fish he has been very active in taking care of, he also helps clean and play with our ferrets and kitty. He enjoys telling people about how he helps to take care of them when we go for walks with our ferrets and he hopes to upgrade his fish tank to include a frog in the next few months.
My daughter is 12 and she helps alot with our pets. She feeds and plays with the birds and chinchilla. She walks the dogs. She also helps clean the bird and chinchilla cages.
My 6 (almost 7) year old daughters only "chore" is to feed our dog. And she never remembers to to do it. We are constantly reminding her or just end up doing it ourselves. Maybe we don't enforce it enough ... i am not sure. I think that she is definately old enough for such a simple chore.
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KTLA's Sky5 news helicopter made an emergency landing yesterday afternoon when smoke stared pouring out of its engine. By some mix of skill and luck its pilot, Tim Lynn, was able to find an empty parking lot in the midst of L.A.'s rush hour chaos and set his bird down before it lost power.
Another news chopper captured the whole ordeal, although its crew didn't get sufficient closeup footage to capture the cameraman nearly shitting himself.
"God did spare my life. If it's not my time, it's not my time yet," 24-year-old Jeff Laabs told KTLA. It was his second day on the job as a helicopter cameraman.
No one was hurt except for the chopper, which appears to have suffered minor injuries from an oil leak.
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Cambridge, Mass. – For the a school record-setting fifth time, UMBC freshman guard Rodney Elliott (Baltimore, Md./John Carroll) has been named America East Conference Rookie of the Week, the league office announced today.
Elliott surpassed Chauncey Gilliam, who earned four league first-year accolades in 2009-10.
The first-year Retriever tied his season high with 26 points vs. UMass Lowell on Saturday. He also led the Retrievers with 21 points in the 68-57 victory over UNH three days earlier. Elliott is averaging 22.7 points per game and has scored 20 or more points in three consecutive games. He converted 15-of-17 free throw attempts in the two contests this week.
The 6'0, 180-lb. point guard has vaulted up to third in the conference in scoring at 15.0 points per game and is now averaging 15.7 points per game (2nd) and 4.5 rebounds per game (17th) in America East contests. He is fourth in AE in assists per game (3.6), seventh in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.0) eighth in field goal percentage (45.1%) and ninth in steals per game (1.3).
The Baltimore native is composing one of the top freshman seasons in school history. He needs just three rebounds to become the fourth UMBC Division I player to amass at least 300 points and 100 rebounds in his freshman campaign. He is 14 assists and three rebounds shy of becoming the first Retriever to record 300 points, 100 rebounds and 100 assists in his initial season.
Elliott's 359 points is ninth amongst all UMBC freshmen in single-season scoring with at least six games left on the schedule.
UMBC completes a three-game homestand by facing defending league champion Albany on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3.


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A new report finds that, between April and June, Sacramento recorded the strongest quarter of leasing activity in nearly eight-years.
Elliot Williams is with Jones Lang LaSalle – the commercial real estate firm that released the data. He says "total vacancy" is now at 20.5%. However, that's still considered high.
"The flipside to that would be if you looked at occupancy. We're about 79.5% occupied across the whole market. In Sacramento, if you go back to the 2006-2007 thresholds we were really approaching probably in the high 90s as far as occupancy…vacancy below 10%."
Williams says companies leading the demand for office space during the second quarter were mostly law firms, healthcare companies and professional services.


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Sharks of Greene County Library (ages 9-14)
From Wiki
Article in Book Groups and Category:Young Adult Fiction.
The "Sharks" of Greene County Library read these books, which except for the first one (chosen in advance for the first meeting), were picked by the guys from a slate of five choices. Click on the title to go to a page where the Sharks themselves may tell how they felt about the books.
Note: the Sharks club is composed of guys aged 10 - 14, but half of the books they read fall into the young adult category, so that's why this page is in the young adult fiction section. "The Phantom Tollbooth" is actually usually in juvenile fiction and "The Great Train Robbery" is adult fiction.
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Education of Robert Nifkin by Daniel Pinkwater
- The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
- The Extraordinary Adventure of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey


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LOS ANGELES — A building housing Animo South Los Angeles Charter High School was destroyed today by flames that spiraled 100 feet into the air, making the fire visible throughout much of the Los Angeles basin.
The blaze was reported at 2:21 p.m in the 11000 block of South Western Avenue, between West 111th Street and West Imperial Highway, according to Inspector Rick Flores of the county fire department. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries, but all were treated at the scene, Flores said.
About 20 minutes after firefighters arrived, they went into defensive mode, moving out of the building and drowning the flames from the exterior. The fire went to a second alarm at 2:42 p.m.
The building was presumed empty, although crews had been doing routine maintenance work over the summer break to ready it for the school year that begins Aug. 12, according to Gabriel Sanchez, a spokesman for Green Dot schools, which runs the charter school under Los Angeles Unified School District control.
"School is out, so there are no students or staff or teachers, principals, anyone that's on campus … so that's a silver lining in all this," he told KCAL9.
"There is some construction that is taking place, but that is something that we do normally over the summertime, when school's out. That's your normal upkeep — painting walls, making other repairs, getting ready for the new school year," he said. "So we don't know at this point the cause of the fire or if that construction is related to any of that fire."
It's too soon to say where Animo students will be going to classes in the fall, he said.
"This is of course, as you can see, an evolving situation," he said. "Of course, our mission is to prepare all students for college leadership and life and we're getting ready to celebrate our 15th year, and we've done it in sometimes adverse conditions. And kind of one of the great things about Green Dot public schools is that teachers, principals, are resilient and used to dealing with adversity, helping children overcome barriers in life.
"I know it looks terrible now, but this is the type of thing we're confident we'll be able to keep serving our students," he said.


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Opening Sequence
U.S. reaches 'deal in principle' with China -source
FBI probing Jersey City shootout as domestic terrorism
House committee nears vote on impeachment articles
10 former NFL players facing U.S. fraud charges
Conservative landslide in UK election: exit polls
Saudi Aramco value hits $2 tln, defying skeptics
Emiliano Zapata in heels causes stir in Mexico
World in Pictures
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Susan Dalsimer Papers
Famous Long Ago launched the literary career of Raymond Mungo with a splash, but even before the book had reached the shelves, he turned to his next project. In October 1969, Mungo began planning for a memoir of his life at the Packer Corners commune. Soon entitled Total Loss Farm, the book would become a classic in the literature of the 1960s counterculture. Signing a contract in November with E.P. Dutton, he worked with a young and sympathetic editor, Susan Stern (later Susan Dalsimer).
This small, but rich collection consists of a series of letters between Raymond Mungo and his editor at E.P. Dutton, Susan Stern, regarding his ideas on writing and life. Beginning in October 1969 with editorial commentary on Famous Long Ago and Mungo's additions, the Dalsimer Papers offer insight into the development of Total Loss Farm from concept to printed page.


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|The gravestone of George Jacobs
Danvers, Massachusetts
One month earlier the upstanding citizens Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes were executed. Two months earlier, on June 10, Bridget Bishop was hanged in Salem as the first official execution of the Salem witch trials. Over that summer, nineteen innocent lives were lost to gossip, heresy and lies.
"Because I am falsely accused. I never did it."
"I am no witch. I am innocent. I know nothing of it."
"... They told me if I would not confess I should be put down into the dungeon and would be hanged, but if I would confess I should save my life." [note: Margaret was forced to confess and to accuse her own grandfather, George Jacobs, of witchcraft]
Originally published on 19 August 2011 at the Nutfield Genealogy Blog


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Monday, December 8, 2008
Pre Naxx Moonkin Gear Guide: Part 4
Boots (search)
1. [Sandals of Crimson Fury] - Exalted Rep Reward - Wyrmrest - Getting to exalted with Wyrmrest is going to take a while, but these are by far the best boots available pre raid. I've listed them first because I also think these are better then anything you will find in Naxx 10. I would start building this rep as soon as you get to revered with Kirin Tor.
2. [Stone-Worn Footwraps] - Heroic Krik'thir - Azjol Narub - These drop of the first boss in heroic AN so they shouldn't be hard to get. They have a good amount of spell power and crit and will serve you well while your grinding rep.
3. [Silky Iceshard Boots] - BoE Crafted - Tailoring - I think the mats are a little expensive, but they have a good amount of DPS stats.
Legs (search)
1. [Woven Bracae Leggings] - Heroic Loken - Halls of Lightning - These are very good legs all around. They have high Spell Power and Crit. If you would like a haste version of these legs take a look at [Leggings of the Winged Serpent]. They drop from the last boss in heroic Drak'tharon Keep.
2. [Giant-Friend Kilt] - Revered Rep Reward - Sons of Hodir - You should be building rep with this faction already for the shoulder enchants. These are some nice legs you can pick up on the way. There are a couple of better blue options from heroics but the difference isn't huge.
3. [Black Duskweave Leggings] - BoE Crafted - Tailoring - The mats are cheap so these will be easy to get. There are better options out there but these are a good place to start.
Other notable legs: [Crenelation Leggings], [Sorrowgrave's Breeches], [Kilt of Sewn Flesh]
Belt (search)
1. [Girdle of Bane] - Heroic King Ymiron - Utgarde Pinnacle - This is a fun instance with a nice belt at the end. If your looking for hit this belt is the way to go. The last boss also dorps a very nice tanking sword so you shouldn't have to much trouble finding a tank for this instance.
2. [Sash of Blood Removal] - Heroic Gal'darah - Gundrak - It is a haste belt, but it is the best belt available if you don't need the hit. Gundrak has always gone pretty quick for me also so it shouldn't be a big time commitment.
3. [Belt of Dark Mending] - Exalted Rep Reward - Knights of the Ebon Blade - Normally I would list a rep reward higher but I believe Kirin Tor and Wyrmrest have better reward then this. Not a bad belt, but the belts above are better.
4. [Sash of the Wizened Wyrm] - Honored Rep Reward - Wyrmrest - Getting to honored with Wyrmrest is very easy, and this belt has a good amount of hit on it.
Trinkets (search)
Note: There are not a lot of good trinkets in WotLK. I used a couple of my BC trinkets up until the very end, but here are a few you may want to look at.
1. [Mark of the War Prisoner] - Heroic Cyanigosa - Violet Hold - Which trinkets you pick have more to do with which stats you need since they generally provide you with just one stat. This trinket provides you with a 25% of the hit your going to need to get to the soft hit cap. I was lucky and this dropped on my first run, but I would have farmed VH for a while to get it. This trinket gives you a lot of flexibility in your other gear.
2. [Tome of Arcane Phenomena] - Normal Eregos - Oculus - I would prefer if the on use ability wasn't haste, but it is the best Spell Power trinket available before raiding.
3. [Pendulum of Telluric Currents] - Heroic Mage-Lord Urom - Oculus - If you want haste this is your trinket. The on equip ability isn't bad also. According to WoWhead it has a 15% proc chance and a 45 second internal cooldown. Its a nice ability because you don't have to think about it, but it won't increase your DPS much.
4. [Flame Ember] - Heroic Sjonnir - Hall of Stone - You may have a tough time getting a group for this because Sjonnir is after the event and the event is tough. However, if you get a good group this isn't a bad trinket.
5. [Mercurial Alchemist Stone] - BoP Crafted - Alchemy - I don't like listing BoP crafted things in this guide but this is a really nice trinket if your an Alchemist already. DO NOT change to Alchemy to pick up this trinket it is not worth that, but it is more well rounded then any other trinket you will find. I also don't have any problem with the mats as I picked up every thing I needed as I leveled.
Well that is it for the guide and I am glad it is finally done. Sorry it took a while. I've got quite a few ideas of what to do now. I need to go back and look at the old versus posts and update them for WotLK. I also want to look at the mana regen talents, and possible do a guide on naxx gear.
To be honest though I am looking forward to writing a little fluff. As I'm sure you can imagine a lot has happened. My guild so far has 10 bosses down in Naxx25. I've cleared Naxx10 and killed Sartharion with one drake up on 10man, and we also got some attempts in on normal Malagos, but more on that later.
14 comments:
- Runycat said...
Excellent list! Because we're severely lacking in ranged DPS, I'll probably be adopting the bomb owl when dual specs are implemented. I saved a few items from the duster in Naxx, but these lists will really help me round out the set.
Thanks, yo.
- December 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- ddm said...
I know that your lists -- which are a great resource, btw -- are hardly exhaustive, but for boots, I think it's worth checking out the Tundra Wolf Boots, a BOE zone drop in Utgarde Pinnacle (normal or heroic). I found them cheap(ish) on the AH and now I don't have to worry about rolling against other casters or hoping the item will drop in the first place. I'll take slightly lesser stats for peace of mind! :P
(and sorry for the double-post -- I had some formatting issues the first time around!)
- December 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM
As far as belts go, what about the belt that comes from Kirin Tor rep, the "Ghostflicker Waistband"? I wasn't sure if this was meant to be included in the list or not. I'm big on trying to wear leather items if possible.
- December 8, 2008 at 7:18 PM
- Eric said...
Can someone explain "soft hitcap" is that the hitrating you need with +hit specced (not Faeri fire I suppose ^^)?
- December 9, 2008 at 2:22 AM
soft hit cap is the hit rating which assures that you wont miss GIVEN than a shadow priest is in your group. It also assumes use of talents (2/2 Balance of power).
Of course having an optimal raid setup is not always possible and for these cases 262 is not enough.
Graylo has an excellent article on this:
- December 9, 2008 at 2:48 AM
- Cdin said...
@ Rankol
The Kirin Tor rep belt isn't bad, its just not as good as some of the other belts available from rep grinds. If your going for exalted with them for another reason then definately go ahead and pick that belt up.
@ Eric
As anonymous said the soft hitcap is the hit cap with Misery (spriest) or imp FF. This should be a save assumption in 25 mans, but can be a little iffy in 10mans.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:08 AM
- Alex said...
The Quest Mystery of the Infinite, Redux give by Chromie, at Dragonblight Temple at 80 after doing Mystery of the Infinite has a choice of 2 tickets, one which is the Rune of Infinite Power, which is the lesser version of Mark of the War Prisoner with 55 hit and 202 SP on Use.
- December 10, 2008 at 2:39 AM
- paul said...
You said:
"In my opinion there are currently only 3 items that a moonkin would want from emblems, and in total they only cost 90 emblems. (In case your wondering the other two items are the off hand I mentioned in part one and [Plush Sash of Guzbah])"
However, when it came to your reccomendations for belts, you did not reccomend the Sash, why is that?
Thanks, Paul
- February 2, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Very nice guide :) I was wondering what your view on the Windripper boots and leggings is? I already had my eyes on these as the mats are fairly easy to come by. Would the crit instead of haste make these a bad choice to go for?
- March 30, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Thank you very much for making this list. I've played a fire mage for about three years and wanted a change. So I rolled a druid last year. She's been Restoration forever now but since the dual speciallization option, she is now a resto/moonkin and oddly enough your post confirms for me that I need the same stuff, give or take, that I needed on my mage when she hit 80. Though, I must say you made the list much better than the one I had for the mage! Anyway. Awesome job and thank you.
- April 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
I have some of these items already, and will look at some others. I understand about itemization, but because I Doomkin tank a fair bit (no, really), I try to stick with leather - I need the base for the armor for the survivability/peace of mind on the healer.
oh, and PLEASE remove gold farmbot post up a couple above me. This is a quality site, and info - hate to see people sneak in stuff like that!
This post may not be updated, but with 3.1 out, I also think the new AC rep stuff is worth a look, and a possible look at the glyph additions/changes.
- April 21, 2009 at 11:31 AM
oh - and what would your idol choices be, in order?
I find I am STILL using my Moonfire 70 one (because I am not a SF/W rotation boom; I am hurr/Starfall/broccoli brigade/typhoon).
- April 21, 2009 at 11:34 AM
I really like Windripper Leggings and Boots. I got them crafted as soon as I hit 80 on my druid alt. Of course, I also go more for crit than haste, mostly due to my extreme lag, which makes it difficult to fully utilize haste.
- April 21, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Although perhaps not as good as the ember, the http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44013 [item]Cannoneer's Fuselighter[/item] is a pretty easy to obtain quest reward from early quests in Icecrown, might be worth adding to the trinket list
- June 19, 2009 at 2:42 AM


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Mikko Bojarsky
Spiral bound
This is the most practical, hands-on, sure-to-convey-the-lesson chemistry curriculum guide published within the Waldorf movement to date. Mikko Bojarsky isn't just another science master teacher — he is also a master at teaching teachers what they need to know in order to teach their students effectively. The straightforward clarity of his presentation takes you right into a classroom filled with lively (and not always attentive) students and gives you everything you need to make the lesson come alive in their eyes (and grab the attention of those not always committed to study).
Although written for class teachers in a school setting, these lessons can be just as effective (and just as do-able) in a homeschool setting.
Bojarsky covers:
- Introduction
- Chemistry in the Seventh Grade
- Presenting Demonstrations and Working with Chemicals includes safety, rehearsing, dangerous experiments, equipment, handling acids and bases, disclaimer, concentration of solutions, abbreviations
- Combustion Includes suggestion for opening poems, burning materials, igniting a fire with magnesium firestarter, making a bonfire, kindling temperature, burning powdered metals, colored flames, water and alcohol, dramatic combustion of alcohol, fire needs air, exploding paint can, smoke bomb, exploding mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen
- The Candle Includes: how it burns and why the wax doesn't melt the candle rim and run over the sides; experiments with the flame; igniting the vapors; a jumping flame; making sooty flame; split candle flame; charcoal; sulfur and more
- Water Includes the water cycle, water as solvent; water as catalyst; purifying salt; expanding as it freezes; evaporation and condensation; distillation
- Salts and Crystal Formation Includes examining salts, crystals from table salt; precipitation of potassium sulfate crystals; epsom salts; silicate fairy garden; crystallization of sodium acetate; growing fluffy white crystals on charcoal; growing crystals from alum
- Acids and Bases Includes tasting acids and bases; their properties; cabbage juice indicator; observing color changes; smoke is acidic; ash is basic; making bases directly
- The Lime Cycle Includes preparing carbon dioxide and carbonic acid; calcium carbonate; the lime kiln; adding carbon dioxide to limewater; adding hydrochloric acid to marble; soaking an egg in vinegar; contrasting mineral water and limewater as acid and base; making insoluable bases
- Making Salts Includes preparation of hydrochloric acid; sodium hydroxide; making sodium chloride; their reactions; neutralizing vinegar with milk of magnesia; making calcium chloride and ammonium chloride; splitting another salt into an acid and base
- The Metals
- Appendix 1: Where to obtain materials
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- Fujitsu Globally
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"Yaqu Pacha's main priority is to inform people here in Europe about our species conservation projects in South America. Using the ESPRIMO X, I am able to attract much more attention at events than I would using conventional advertising media"
Dr Lorenzo von Fersen First Chairman of Yaqu Pacha e.V.
Yaqu Pacha ("world of water") e.V. is an independent environmental and nature conservation not-for-profit organization. It was founded in 1992 by Behavioural Biologist Dr Lorenzo von Fersen and has been carrying out projects for the conservation of marine mammals in South America for 20 years. The charity's aim is to preserve aquatic mammal species such as the La Plata dolphin, the coastal otter, and the bottlenose dolphin in the rivers and coastal waters of South America. Yaqu Pacha supports local fishermen, works alongside scientists and authorities, and makes recommendations in order to prevent over-fishing and the destruction of the natural habitats of humans and animals.
Yaqu Pacha and its team of 25 volunteers and 400 members are currently active in nine projects throughout Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay. In order to fund these research projects for monitoring and recording populations of species, as well as marine protection and environmental education campaigns, Yaqu Pacha relies on long-term partnerships and donations from sponsors.
Lorenzo von Fersen's team is therefore trying to raise awareness in the northern hemisphere of Yaqu Pacha's work by using the internet and maintaining a strong presence at European trade fairs and conferences dedicated to marine and nature conservation: "I naturally want to raise awareness of Yaqu Pacha in places where we will find friends and supporters of our cause. We are urgently supporting nature conservation projects in South America because, comparatively speaking, there are already enough initiatives for the protection of seals in the North Sea. The Amazon river dolphin and the manatee off the coast of Brazil, on the other hand, have no-one fighting for their cause," states von Fersen.
"Using the most modern technology is a must. I used to travel from one talk to another with a slide projector underarm. Today, this is just not enough. In order to reach out to our target audience, we need professional media which brings our work in South America vividly to life." In cooperation with Fujitsu, Lorenzo von Fersen found a solution to spark interest and enthusiasm for Yaqu Pacha: the ESPRIMO X913-T desktop PC.
When Lorenzo von Fersen sets up the ESPRIMO X913-T PC at his exhibition stand, it truly does become a point of interest. It immediately grabs people's attention and they stay to watch, listen and learn about the conservation of species in South America and the varied and important work carried out by Yaqu Pacha.
The ESPRIMO X PC offers an insight into the fauna of endangered marine mammals thanks to its app which offers easy and intuitive access to images, videos, text and documents. Visitors to the exhibition stands can take a closer look at how schools of dolphins are monitored in Chile and the importance of this for being able to count their population, or get a glimpse inside the daily lives of coastal fishermen at the mouth of the Rio de La Plata River in Uruguay and Argentina who perform a balancing act between earning a living and protecting the marine mammals.
"The use of modern media naturally allows me to trigger enthusiasm for our organization and our projects more quickly. This allows me to make more contacts, and meet more people who are interested in and willing to support the work done by Yaqu Pacha. For us, it is not only about getting as many donations as possible, it is also about increasing the reputation of Yaqu Pacha as we have a stronger presence than ever before. People take greater notice of us and we talk to more people, more often. It is essentially PR for us. We are receiving more attention and this is extremely important for the work done by Yaqu Pacha!" explains von Fersen.
The app runs on Windows 8 - the latest operating system for high-quality business PCs. Oliver Bittis from the Berlin-based app specialists, emotion touch, has developed (together with his team) the app for Yaqu Pacha. "After we had decided how we wanted to design the application user interface for Yaqu Pacha and what it was intended for, i.e. to link to images, videos and audio material, our aim was to build a straightforward, very user-friendly but equally interactive app. Combining the app with the high-quality features offered by the ESPRIMO X, resulted in a very striking point of interest. I see a very bright future for these systems as they allow you to strongly focus on the content and the usability when customizing the app," explains Bittis.
To gain new members and to receive donations, the environmental and nature conservation organization Yaqu Pacha uses ESPRIMO X913-T PCs which serve as a true point of interest at trade fairs and conferences to raise awareness of the charitable and sustainable work done by the organization. As the modern and functional app user interface is so intuitive, multimedia content such as videos, photos and documents can easily be used for presentations and to gain new members. Dr Lorenzo von Fersen is extremely pleased at how effective the solution developed by Fujitsu and emotion touch has been:
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Christy Award winner Angela Hunt writes for readers who have learned to expect the unexpected from this versatile author. With over three-million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is the best-selling author of more than one-hundred works ranging from picture books (The Tale of Three Trees) to novels. Now that her two children have reached their twenties, Angie and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching Turner and Hooch and The Sandlot too many times). This affinity for mastiffs has not been without its rewards-one of their dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest canine in America. Their dog received this dubious honor after an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan for the dog and the Hunts, complete with VIP air travel and a stretch limo in which they toured New York City. Afterward, the dog gave out pawtographs at the airport. Angela admits to being fascinated by animals, medicine, unexplained phenomena and "just about everything" except sports. Books, she says, have always shaped her life-in the fifth grade she learned how to flirt from reading Gone with the Wind. Her books have won the coveted Christy Award, several Angel Awards from Excellence in Media and the Gold and Silver Medallions from Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award. In 2007, her novel The Note was featured as a Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel. When she's not home writing, Angie often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers' conferences. And to talk about her dogs, of course.


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Sox suffer double whammy in loss to Jays
Making first start since 2011, Lackey suffers strained right biceps
TORONTO -- It was double-loss Saturday for the Red Sox at Rogers Centre.
The offense mustered just two hits in a 5-0 defeat to the Blue Jays, but the bigger loss was the injury to right-hander John Lackey in his first start back from Tommy John surgery.
His arm dangling, a stunned Lackey walked off the mound with two outs in the bottom of the fifth with a right biceps strain.
The severity of the injury was not immediately known, and Lackey will undergo an MRI in Boston on Sunday.
"He felt kind of a cramping sensation," said manager John Farrell. "Obviously we took him out immediately, but once he was in the clubhouse here, he iced it down. That cramping went away. The strength test, at least in the training room, showed to be positive, in terms of full strength. We're going to get him back and get a full exam likely tomorrow."
It was a cruel twist of fate for Lackey, who had spent 18 months on the rehab trail from the surgery he underwent after the 2011 season.
"It was a pretty good cramp. It's all in the biceps. It's not the elbow," said Lackey. "It's frustrating, and it was scary when it happened. It's sore, but hopefully not too serious."
After an incident-free Spring Training, Lackey got off to a good start on Saturday, striking out eight over 4 1/3 innings.
On a 2-2 pitch to Jose Reyes, Lackey immediately started shaking his arm and muttering in pain. He experienced slight discomfort on the previous pitch, flexing his arm a bit.
"I felt a little something tight on the pitch before, but it grabbed me pretty good on the last pitch," Lackey said.
The way Lackey pitched early on, it's hard to believe things would transpire the way they did. The righty had six strikeouts through the first three innings.
The Jays finally did something against him in the fourth when J.P. Arencibia drilled a two-run homer, making it a 2-0 game.
"He looked sharp," said Farrell. "He had good action to his secondary stuff. The velocity was probably the best we've seen to date. He was free and easy. He threw all his pitches for strikes. He gets a cutter up in the zone to Arencibia and we are well aware of what he can do with a pitch up in the strike zone."
A two-run deficit seemed bigger to the Red Sox on a day they did nothing offensively against Jays lefty J.A. Happ and a collection of Toronto relievers.
"He was throwing strikes, he was mixing in his changeup, he had a really good changeup today," said Arencibia. "He had a good slider, a good breaking ball and he was able to throw to both sides of the plate, and I think he really commanded his secondary stuff, which made his fastball that much better."
Jacoby Ellsbury doubled to lead off the game. Aside from that, the Boston bats were handcuffed the entire afternoon and didn't generate their next hit until Dustin Pedroia had an infield single with two outs in the ninth.
"Well, J.A. Happ did a good job of staying out of the middle of the plate," said Farrell. "Fastball, changeup, he's got deception. Swing and miss to his fastball. We saw it a number of times today. He used his changeup in key spots in the 3-2 count to Pedroia, for one, to get the popup. You couldn't sit on any one pitch in a given area. We had the one opportunity where he walked the guys in the one inning, but he made some pitches to get out of any jams."
Alfredo Aceves, who came on for Lackey, gave up a three-run homer to Colby Rasmus in the bottom of the sixth.
It could be Aceves who pitches in Lackey's next scheduled turn in the rotation, but the Red Sox aren't ready to make any decisions like that just yet.
"We've got to get through tomorrow and then factor everything in that we do get information from," said Farrell.