text:
Marine Conservation Organizations
MarineBIO is deeply committed to marine conservation and founded on the concept that, by sharing the wonders of the ocean and marine life, people will be inspired to protect it. We hope you will consider becoming a MarineBIO Conservation Society member to help us bring the ocean and the conservation message to as many people as possible.
There are many other organizations working on marine conservation and other environmental issues such as biodiversity and global warming. We list them here both as a public service and to spread the word. Please Contact us if you have any comments, changes, or suggestions.
For an objective annotated list of the organizations listed below and others, visit Mother Jones magazine's guide to environmental organizations.
By Species
By Issue
|Coral Reefs
|Global Warming (Climate Change)
|Sustainable Fishing (Overfishing)
|Polar Bears
|Sea Horses
|Threatened & Endangered Species
|Sea Lions & Seals
|Habitat Conservation
|Sea Otters
|Alien Species
|Sea Turtles
|Ocean Dumping (Pollution)
|Sharks & Rays
|Sustainable Tourism
|Whales & Dolphins
The oceans are downstream of everything. And they don't have an endless capacity to absorb waste. In fact, every year people dispose of 161 million gallons of used motor oil improperly—an amount greater than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Much of this oil ends up in waterways and the oceans, where it takes a tremendous toll on aquatic life. By being careful about oil and other substances, you can help keep ocean waters clean. – Ocean Conservancy
Global Marine Conservation
Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC): The ASOC's Southern Ocean Fisheries Campaign works on five continents to stop the Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing that is dramatically depleting toothfish stocks—the most important commercial fish in the Southern Ocean. At the same time, the long-liners are killing thousands of endangered albatrosses and other seabirds each year….
Blue Ocean Institute: a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring ocean conservation through science, art, and literature. The group is particularly interested in providing information that will help people make choices that help restore living abundance in the oceans such as a seafood consumer education initiative "From Sea to Table".
Blue Frontier Campaign: founded in 2003 by David Helvarg, author of Blue Frontier – Saving America's Living Seas and 50 Ways to Save the Ocean. Blue Frontier works to support seaweed (marine grassroots) efforts at the local, regional and national level, with an emphasis on bottom up organizing to bring the voice of citizen-activists into national decision-making that will impact our public seas.
Cetacean Alliance: is a not-for-profit network of non-governmental organizations committed to preserving marine biodiversity and reducing human impact on cetacean populations.
Conservation International: a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC and operating in more than 30 countries worldwide to apply innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's plant and animal biodiversity in major tropical wilderness areas and key marine ecosystems.
Deep Sea Conservation Coalition: "The NGOs listed in this document jointly call on the UN General Assembly to adopt a resolution declaring an immediate moratorium on high seas bottom trawling, and to simultaneously initiate a process under the auspices of the UN General Assembly to 1) assess deep sea biodiversity and ecosystems, including populations of fish species, and their vulnerability to deep sea fishing on the high seas; and 2) adopt and implement legally binding regimes to protect deep sea biodiversity from high seas bottom trawling and to conserve and manage bottom fisheries of the high seas consistent with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982), UN Fish Stocks Agreement (FSA 1995), UN FAO Compliance Agreement (1993), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 1992), and the UN FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (Code 1995)."
Environmental Defense: a non-profit organization based in New York bringing together experts in science, law and economics to tackle complex environmental issues that affect our oceans, our air, our natural resources, the livability of our man-made environment, and the species with whom we share our world.
Global Marine Litter Information Gateway: a co-operative effort of the UNEP GPA Coordination Office, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and the UN International Maritime Organization. The objective is to provide a clearing-house, a gateway, for supply and exchange of information on the global, regional and local problem of marine litter.
Greenpeace International: Greenpeace's oceans campaign focusing on three major threats to the world's oceans: overfishing, pirate fishing, whaling, and intensive shrimp aquaculture.
Institute for Ocean Conservation Science: to advance ocean conservation through science. They conduct world-class scientific research that increases knowledge about critical threats to oceans and their inhabitants, provides the foundation for smarter ocean policy, and establishes new frameworks for improved ocean conservation. The Institute's research focuses on advancing ecosystem-based fisheries management, a strategy which recognizes that the oceans' problems are interconnected and that species and habitats cannot be successfully managed in isolation; as well as on advancing knowledge about vulnerable and ecologically important marine animals that are understudied. They are dedicated to developing scientific approaches to sustainably manage forage fish, small schooling fish that are food for marine mammals and seabirds but are being depleted from our oceans.
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW): engages communities, government leaders, and like-minded organizations around the world to achieve lasting solutions to pressing animal welfare and conservation challenges-solutions that benefit both animals and people.
Lighthouse Foundation: established in Germany to promote integrated sustainable development processes and responsible behavior to protect the marine environment.
National Environmental Trust: a non-profit, non-partisan organization established in 1994 to inform citizens about environmental problems and how they affect our health and quality of life.
Nature Conservancy: Nature Conservancy's Global Marine Initiative links land and sea conservation in an effort to protect the rich array of plant and animal life and safeguard the tremendous benefits the oceans provide. Over 100 marine projects in 21 countries and 22 U.S. states….
Ocean Conservancy: serves to protect ocean ecosystems and conserve the global abundance and diversity of marine wildlife through science-based advocacy, research, and public education.
Oceana: a non-profit international advocacy organization dedicated to restoring and protecting the world's oceans through policy advocacy, science, law, and public education.
Ocean Project: an initiative to raise awareness of the importance, value, and sensitivity of the oceans through a network of aquariums, zoos, and conservation organizations.
Polar Bears International: a nonprofit organization dedicated to the worldwide conservation of the polar bear and its habitat through research, stewardship, and education. We provide scientific resources and information on polar bears and their habitat to institutions and the general public worldwide.
ReefBase: created to facilitate sustainable management of coral reefs and related coastal/marine environments, in order to benefit poor people in developing countries whose livelihoods depend on these natural resources.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society: an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization whos mission is to end the destruction of habitat and the slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas.
SeaWeb: a communications-based nonprofit organization that uses social marketing techniques to advance ocean conservation.
Shifting Baselines: a "media project" — a partnership between ocean conservation and Hollywood to help bring attention to the severity of ocean decline.
Sierra Club: helps implement legislation protecting marine resources through its National Marine Committee, as well as establishing initiatives to protect marine resources through national and regional networks.
Society for Conservation Biology (SCB): an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity. The Society's membership comprises a wide range of people interested in the conservation and study of biological diversity: resource managers, educators, government and private conservation workers, and students.
Species Survival Commission (SSC): "the world's greatest source of information about species and their conservation needs". The SSC is a network of some 7,000 volunteer members from almost every country of the world, all working to stop the loss of plants, animals, and their habitats. Members include researchers, government officials, wildlife veterinarians, zoo and botanical institute employees, marine biologists, protected area managers, and experts on plants, birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates. SSC produces the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, provides technical and scientific advice to governments, international environmental treaties, and conservation organizations, publishes species Action Plans, and policy guidelines, and implements on-ground conservation projects.
Surfrider Foundation: a non-profit organization that works to protect our oceans, waves, and beaches through its 60 chapters located along the East, West, Gulf, Puerto Rican, and Hawaiian coasts, and with its 37,000 members in the USA and International Surfrider Foundation chapters and affiliates in Japan, Brazil, Australia, France and Spain.
Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS): an international non-profit working toward the conservation and welfare of all cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) by reducing threats to cetaceans and their habitats and by raising awareness about the need to address the continuing threats to their welfare and survival.
World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA): WSPA works with more than 449 member organisations to raise the standards of animal welfare throughout the world. Our vision is a world in which the welfare of animals is understood and respected by everyone, and protected by effective legislation.
World Wildlife Fund: WWF's Endangered Seas Program works in more than 40 countries to campaign, lobby, develop and advocate solutions, commission and publish impartial data, advise, and champion the conservation of the marine environment and sustainable livelihoods.
Regional Initiatives
Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect the health and vitality of Australia's coasts and seas. AMCS provides leadership on a wide range of marine issues throughout Australia including marine parks, fisheries, threatened species and land-based pollution.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority: established to protect and encourage the wise use and understanding of the Great Barrier Reef through the care and development of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
New Zealand
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society: New Zealand's largest national conservation organisation. The Society's mission is to preserve and protect the native plants and animals and natural features of New Zealand. Active on a wide range of conservation and environmental issues. These include the protection of native forests, tussock grasslands, wetlands, coastlines and marine ecosystems, energy and resource conservation, sustainable fisheries and sustainable land management. Also involved in South Pacific rainforest conservation work and is working to ensure the protection of Antarctica from environmental damage.
Sub-Antarctic Islands
SubAntarcticIslands.com: an online educational resource for information about the habitats and species of the sub-antarctic islands. The mission of the website is: to stimulate student interest in the study of these fascinating islands, to provide photographs for students' and researchers' papers and to document ecological restoration in progress.
United Kingdom
Marine Conservation Society: the UK-based organization dedicated to protecting the marine environment by bringing issues and threats to marine wildlife and the wider marine environment to attention of the public, media, politicians, and government agencies.
Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland (MarLIN): provides information for marine environmental management, protection and education. A centre of excellence in spatially based and time-series marine biological information and for good stewardship in the marine environment.
The MarLIN programme was established in 1998 by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in collaboration with the major environmental protection agencies in the UK, together with academic institutions.
United States
Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF): a Long Beach, California based non-profit environmental organization. AMRF is dedicated to the preservation of the marine environment. With the help of its chartered research vessel, The Oceanographic Research Vessel (ORV) Alguita, AMRF is actively engaged in innovative research, education, and restoration of the marine environment.
Aquatic Network: provides information about living resources and technology relating to marine and freshwater environments. Mission: "Promote sustainable use of aquatic resources, serve as a clearinghouse for information relating to aquatic environments, and explore the use of the Internet and other new technologies to foster global communication and networking."
Blue Ocean Society: a New Hampshire-based non-profit that promotes awareness and conservation of the marine environment through research and education such as collecting research data on whale watch boats, community beach cleanups, educational programs, internships, and volunteer opportunities.
Bluewater Network: promotes policy changes in government and industry to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and eradicate other root causes of air and water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. Also leads campaigns to protect National Parks from jetskis, snowmobiles and other recreational vehicles, and to prevent environmental damage from pollution caused by ferries, cruise ships, and other large vessels.
Center for Biological Diversity: working to establish crucial protections for Pacific Ocean species and their habitats. The "high seas," or open ocean, have historically been a no-man's-land, claimed by no single country and not governed by any single body of law; and the sea has been treated as an inexhaustible resource, infinitely deep, wide, and bountiful. But the advent of large-scale commercial fishing, shipping and oil drilling has pushed many species to the brink of extinction and beyond, and the oceans' animals and natural systems are now in serious decline.
Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island (CRESLI): a group of experts in marine mammal science, environmental sciences, education and conservation. CRESLI was formed for the purposes of conducting research, providing educational experiences and promoting conservation of coastal ecosystems.
Marine Conservation Institute: a non-profit scientific and conservation advocacy organization working to protect and restore marine life on the around the United States and beyond by facilitating research in marine conservation biology, bringing scientists together to examine crucial marine conservation issues, conducting policy research to frame the marine conservation agenda, and educational activities.
National Marine Sanctuary Program: the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) program that identifies, designates, manages, and protects national marine sanctuaries.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): seeks to preserve and restore the extraordinary diversity of ocean life and the quality of coastal waters. "NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things."
National Wildlife Federation (NWF): efforts are focused on five core issues: endangered habitat, water quality, land stewardship, wetlands, and sustainable communities. NWF conducts a range of educational projects; and activist, advocacy, and litigation initiatives on these core issues.
Ocean Conservation Research is focused on understanding the scope of, and exploring solutions to the growing problem of human generated noise pollution and its impact on marine life. We use the products of our research to inform the public and provide guidance to regulators and policymakers so that we may all become better stewards of the sea.
PRBO Conservation Science: Marine Ecology Division: PRBO's Marine Ecology Division uses science to guide ocean ecosystem protection, conservation, and management. Projects focus on four key areas: 1) Ocean predators as bio-indicators of climate change and habitat quality. 2) Population dynamics, reproduction, and survival of seabird, marine mammal and white shark populations. 3) Life history characteristics: diet, feeding ecology, and energetic needs of seabirds in relation to marine fisheries and pollution. 4) Creation of Marine Protected Areas (MPA's) and Marine Reserves (MRV's) to protect ocean ecosystems.
Restore America's Estuaries: a non-profit whose mission is to preserve the nation's network of estuaries by protecting and restoring the lands and waters essential to the richness and diversity of coastal life.
Sea Watch | Dedicated to a Healthy Sea of Cortes: founded in 1993 by a small group of Americans and Mexicans disgusted with the destruction of fisheries in the Sea of Cortes. The following are their major accomplishments to date (click here).
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. – Henry Beston, 1928
Feedback & Citation
Start or join a discussion below about this page or send us an email to report any errors or submit suggestions for this page. We greatly appreciate all feedback!


text:
As the world leader in public astronomy, Griffith Observatory has been a beloved icon of Los Angeles since 1935. It has been known as a symbol of the community coming together, working towards peace and love. Through the years Griffith has educated over 70 million visitors on the heavenly bodies of the solar system.
In 2002, Griffith Observatory decided to close its doors for a complete renovation of its facility. Due to decades of use some of the original flooring throughout the observatory was in desperate need of repair. Griffith was interested in having an exact replica of the original colorways and turned to Johnsonite for a solution.
Johnsonite's Prima Marbleized rubber flooring was the answer to Griffith's problem. Brenda Levin from Levin and Associates Architects sent pieces of the original flooring in to Johnsonite's customization specialist as reference. To her surprise, we sent her samples of tiles that matched the original flooring perfectly. Griffith was able to retain parts of the original flooring by intermixing it with Johnsonite Rubber Tiles.
"Johnsonite was able to give the observatory the opportunity to restore its original 1935 look for their grand reopening," explained Mark Pin, Deputy Executive Director of the Friends of the Observatory. "It was important to us, and to the local community, to keep in tact the heritage of this historical building. We thank Johnsonite for giving us a warm and comfortable experience."
Country: USA
City: Los Angeles, California
Type of Project: Renovation of Public Building
Installation Period: 2002
Architect: Levin and Associates Architects
Products Installed: Custom Prima Marbelized Tiles, Stair Treads

subset: commoncrawl


text: German director Fred Kelemen brings his trademark stylistic minimalism to this frightening look into the depths of the abyss. The film opens showing Anton (Wolfgang Michael) drifting around town, drunk, unwashed, and blank-faced. He is so distracted that he cannot finish shaving himself before lighting a cigarette. Anton soon returns to his apartment that he shares with his laundry woman girlfriend Leni (Verena Jasch). Though she longs to make love with him, her beau is clearly unable to perform physically. Anton's emotional distance proves to be too much for Leni, and she flees out into the cold night alone. She is seduced by a pimp, and eventually she endures the wrenching experience of prostituting herself. Meanwhile, in a moment of jealousy and pain, Anton tries to remove her tattooed initials on his hand with a penknife. From there, the film descends into a shroud of surreal barbarity. Some of the film's more memorable final sequences include Anton's chilling encounter with a crazed bell maker and a nightmarish auction of a child to a sweaty group of pederasts. This film was screened at the 1999 Venice Film Festival.~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide


text:
Regional Branch Hours:
Fairfax, VA, 22030-2514
The City of Fairfax Regional Library opened its doors on January 26, 2008, as Fairfax County Public Library's first truly urban library. Situated at the corner of North Street and Old Lee Highway, the building is considered the eastern gateway to the City of Fairfax. Its exterior and interior architecture suggest a love of history and enlightenment, from the colonial columns and dormers to the soaring yellow pine ceiling.
The oldest library branch in Fairfax, it opened in a small cinderblock building in 1940 and was moved to Chain Bridge Road in 1962. It was called Central Library and served as the library's headquarters until 1982 when it was renamed Fairfax City Regional Library.
The building is well-equipped to serve the needs of its public, with a covered two-level parking deck (Note: Vehicle height limit is 6' 8"), large meeting room and two conference rooms, wireless Internet access throughout the building, and dozens of Internet workstations. Cherry reading tables equipped with study lamps have built-in electrical outlets, and a 16-carrell quiet study room allows for individual quiet study. In addition to meeting rooms, a group study room may be reserved. The library has a collection of adult and children's books in Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese, and a large periodical collection, including titles in Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese and French.
The library includes the Virginia Room, the county's foremost collection of books, photographs, and manuscripts related to Fairfax County history, government, and genealogy. We welcome researchers and genealogists from all over.
We conduct periodic volunteer trainings for teens. Teens should call the branch for upcoming trainings.
City of Fairfax Regional Library Events
Your City of Fairfax Regional Library staff is committed to providing programs and events that appeal to all members of our community.
Branch Contacts
Branch Manager: Laura Raymond
Board Trustee Member: Suzanne S. Levy - City of Fairfax
Volunteer Coordinator: Adrian Duncan (find volunteer opportunities at City of Fairfax)
Friends of the City of Fairfax Regional Library: President Phylis Salak
Friends of the Virginia Room : President Vera Finberg
Meeting Areas
Reservations can be made for regular hours and extended hours.
(Number of chairs limited, call branch to check availability)
Meeting Room: capacity 100
Conference Room : 10-12
Group Study : capacity 6
Quiet Study Room: Yes
Available Facilities
Book Sale: Ongoing. Large book sale twice a year.
Special Collections: Korean language materials
Investment collection
Local history and genealogy in the Virginia Room
Branch Services
Internet Access: 45 internet stations with Microsoft Office plus wireless access is available.
Parking: 199 spaces (5 for handicapped)
Note: Vehicle height limit is 6' 8"
Languages Spoken
Please call the library to see when the foreign language speaker is available.
Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, French, Gujrati, Hindi, Korean, Marathi, Spanish and Urdu.
Microform Reader-Printer
Prints can be made for 25¢ or 15¢ per page (depending on the microform reader). New microform readers also allow saving data to your USB drive.
Phone Menu
Call: 703-293-6227
1: Hours and location
2: Renew, check items on hold, library account
3: Children's services, program information and sign-ups
4: Reference information or to place a hold, shelf check.
5: Meeting room reservations
6: Virginia Room and genealogy
8: Reach a specific staff member
9: Repeat menu
Library-Affiliated Organizations
Friends of the City of Fairfax Regional Library
Fairfax Bibliophiles
Fairfax County History Commission
Fairfax Genealogical Society
Fall for the Book
Chocolate Lovers Festival
The Lukmire Partnership
Memory Depot
Need to digitize old photographs, slides or VHS tapes? Sherwood Regional Library is home to one of two Memory Depot stations in the library system. Our Memory Depot allows you to take these memories, save them to a flash drive, then share them with family and friends. Sign up for an orientation so you'll get the most out of your three hour Memory Depot station!


text:
DOJ Tries To Explain How It Can Get Around Requirement To Serve Megaupload In The US
from the tapdancing dept
The filing focuses on how Megaupload had extensive operations in the US, including having many of its servers hosted here -- and even had two separate CEOs at various points who reside in the US (including Swizz Beatz, who the filing notes, has refused to cooperate). It further argues that there is no rush to serve the company, and that it can do so once the execs are extradited to the US -- or it can serve them at the office listed in Hong Kong. Admittedly, part of this fight is really about process technicalities, so I wouldn't make too big a deal of them. However, there are legitimate jurisdictional questions about what the standards are if the US can go after a company anywhere in the globe, just because it's online. That could certainly come back to haunt the US, as US companies are frequently targeted by other countries. Having a case like this could be used as justification to retaliate against US companies.
The filing also highlights something that is somewhat self-contradictory about the US's case. In an effort to argue US jurisdiction, the DOJ argues that Megaupload has been involved in civil lawsuits (on both sides) in the US. That is true... but that seems to weaken another contention in the DOJ's wider case: that it had to take the actions it did because Megaupload was somehow "unreachable" as an offshore "rogue site." The actual evidence, as noted by the DOJ itself in this filing, proves otherwise.


text:
The Cobras and Spartans were scoreless through three innings, until the Spartans tacked on a run in fourth and then added three more runs in the sixth. Upstate capped the win with four runs in the ninth for an 8-0 victory.
Kyle Strickland (0-3) took the loss, allowing one run on one hit with two strikeouts.
Thomas Campbell earned the win, throwing eight strong innings, allowing just five hits with four strike outs.
Leading the Coker offense, were Ryan Schaeffer, Julio Gomez, Ty Medlin and Trey Lynch. Schaeffer was 2-for-4 on the day, while Gomez, Medlin and Lynch were each 1-for-3.
For the Spartans, Bret Hansen and Jimmy Tanner were each 3-for-5, with Hansen collecting two RBIs and Tanner driving in one.
The Cobras return to the field on Friday, as they travel to Due West, SC, to face CVAC foe


text:
Galen Rupp claims silver medal in men's 10,000 meters for United States
LONDON — On an electrifying evening in the Olympic Stadium, Galen Rupp became the first U.S. man to win a medal in the 10,000 meters since Billy Mills won at Tokyo in 1964. Rupp claimed silver, finishing right behind his training partner, Mo Farah of Great Britain.
Farah gave the home team its third gold medal of the evening.
"I'm thrilled for Mo. It's unreal," Rupp said. "Two training partners coming in first and second. I couldn't be happier. I wouldn't be where I am today without him. I'm the lucky one — I get to train with the best middle distance runner in the world."
Farah finished a thrilling race with multiple lead changes in 27 minutes, 30.42 seconds, Rupp in 27:30.9. Both train in Portland, Ore., and are coached by former marathon great Alberto Salazar.


text:
Farmers should benefit this growing season from fuel prices lower than a year ago but a lot of unknowns could still toss a wrench into the works.
Oil prices have backed off from the $70 per barrel highs that characterized much of 2006, says John Robinson, Texas A&M Associate Professor and Extension Economist.
Robinson, speaking at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans, said oil futures recently dropped into the low $50 per barrel range, lowest for "quite a few years."
He said the long-term trend for energy prices is up. But in the short term, "we've built up an inventory with a mild winter so far in the Northeast. Gasoline and diesel prices are likely to drop. Into next season, (farm fuel) prices should be lower than last year."
He said that assumption may hinge on several uncontrollable factors. "Will we have disruptive hurricanes next year? Will the winter remain mild? Will China's economic development continue at a rapid pace? We're not sure.
"Will disruptive conflicts occur in Nigeria and the Middle East? We face a lot we don't know and many factors can change fundamentals."
Still, he expects farmers to see short-term benefits from lower diesel prices.
"But if it goes up does it matter? That depends on who you are and where you are."
Robinson said energy prices affect a farmer's bottom line, but in some locations, the Mississippi Delta, for instance, the effect may be less than in other parts of the country. A 25 percent increase in energy costs in Mississippi results in a $9 per acre cost increase, with some variations (based on Mississippi State University budget umbers). "That's not a huge jump and the range may be $9 to $18 per acre."
Farmers on the Texas High Plains, however, may feel more pain because of higher irrigation demand.
Robinson said seed costs represent a large chunk of overall production expenses. "Seed prices have risen dramatically over the last 20 to 25 years," he said. "They have really spiked since 2000."
$50 per acre
Average seed costs, he said, may exceed $50 per acre, possibly $75 per acre in some locations. He said cotton farmers also tie up a lot of production costs in technology, including pest control chemistry.
"Some of those costs can't be controlled, in-season pest infestations, for instance. But variable rate application, precise sprayer calibration and other management techniques may offer savings."
Robinson also said growers should look hard at various crop mixes, production costs and farm prices to determine acreage and production systems for 2007. "Calculate the price of cotton and the program payments and compare with other crop options," he said.


text:
|Deletions are marked like this.
|Additions are marked like this.
|Line 19:
|Line 19:
|* '''Saturday 01 October at [[SeminarRoom1|Southampton University]] 10:00-16:00'''
|Line 28:
|Line 28:
| * [[http://surrey.lug.org.uk/|Surrey LUG]] Saturday 10 September, Sirius in Addlestone
* [[http://www.sclug.org.uk/|SCLUG]] Wednesday 14 September, Back of Beyond Pub, Reading
| * [[http://surrey.lug.org.uk/bab20111008|Surrey LUG]] Saturday 08 October, Nokia
* [[http://www.sclug.org.uk/|SCLUG]] Wednesday 12 October, Back of Beyond Pub, Reading
Welcome to HantsLUG!
.. otherwise known as the Hampshire Linux User Group.
We aim to encourage and support the use of Linux and other free operating systems. We do this in several ways:
MailingList - where most activity happens. You can view the list archives too
Meetings - once per month alternating between Southampton University and Nokia Farnborough. Occasionally we go to other locations, such IBM HursleyLabs or RedHat
This Wiki website - which is a collaboration of many people's work
IrcChannel (Internet Relay Chat)
There is no requirement to be in Hampshire to join, in fact about half of our members are from outside Hampshire.
Saturday 01 October at Southampton University 10:00-16:00
Most Recent
Saturday 06 August 2011 at Nokia Farnborough
Saturday 04 June IBM HursleyLabs.
Other Local Groups
Surrey LUG Saturday 08 October, Nokia
SCLUG Wednesday 12 October, Back of Beyond Pub, Reading
See MeetingRecords for a full list of prior meetings. Perhaps view the testimonials or see the talks.
There is no entrance fee to attend our meetings and no membership fee to be a member of the LUG, though we never turn down donations...
More information
HantsLUGStuff - information on HantsLUG, its members, events and communication channels.
BookReviews - various book reviews by members of the LUG on open source topics.
LinuxHints - a large collection of hints and tips.
HantsInfo - information on Hampshire, which whilst not strictly Linux related is likely to be of interest to LUG members.
You can make a donation to help out the running of the LUG, funding of equipment for meetings or in support of any of the LUG's other activities by donating through our Nochex account. Please specify if you want your donation to go to a certain aspect of the LUG's activities.
Please read the documentation, correct any formatting issues you encounter, and feel free to use the tools that MoinMoin provides to improve the quality of this site (See WikiCleanup) -- DanPope 2010-04-11 19:49:04
Machine kindly hosted by Jokers' Masquerade fancy dress


text:
Staff file
RICHMOND — A waterfront park got a few more residents with the assistance of some eager youngsters.
Eight black-crowned night herons and snowy egrets were released along the western bank of Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Park in Richmond on Wednesday afternoon. The birds, which were found injured or orphaned in urban areas around the East Bay, were rehabilitated at the International Bird Rescue's San Francisco Bay center.
The center, located in Fairfield, received a record number of herons and egrets this year — about 450, which is nearly double the amount from previous years. Andrew Harmon, a spokesman for International Bird Rescue, attributed the increase to more public awareness of the birds and how to report injured or abandoned ones.
Many of the black-crowns came from Oakland, Harmon said. For those birds, the release was the first time they ever saw natural habitat.
"They might be stumbling around a little bit, trying to figure out what to do next," Harmon said, with a note of concern, before the birds were released.
On hand to help send the birds out into the marsh were about two dozen kids between the ages of 6 and 10 from the Richmond Police Activities League, a local organization that teaches youths in West Contra Costa County through athletics, academics and art.
In groups of four, the kids carefully brought cat carrier-sized red and blue boxes to the release site, a small clearing under the shade of a sprawling eucalyptus tree. They set the boxes down under the tree and knelt next to them as Harmon instructed each group on how to open the box.
The kids, who moments earlier had been laughing, teasing one another and playing, became quiet and solemn as each opened their box.
Within seconds, all of the boxes were opened, and after a beat, the white and black birds took off to startled yells and giggles from the kids.
Some of the snowy egrets flew a couple of laps around the group before landing in the trees nearby.
"OK, now you've got to come back to the park to find your bird," quipped Marty Barillas, a spokesman for Chevron Richmond, which helped organize and support the event.
As for the young birds, all of which are around 3 months old, organizers hope the birds will stay in — or at least near — the park, where they'll be safe from the conditions that landed them at the International Bird Rescue's center in the first place.
"This is a natural habitat for them," Douglas Bell, the wildlife manager with East Bay Regional Parks, said. "And they're quite social birds and will roost colonially. If we're lucky, they might fly over to nearby Brooks Island, where they can join another large colony and increase their likelihood of survival."


text:
|Thread Tools
|Display Modes
Siberian Husky Depressed?
My wife and I are concerned about our 2 year old Siberian Husky 'Bud'. He seems depressed and is acting totally out of character. Anyone who knows Siberians knows that they are independant, full of energy and always looking for a job to do.
Over the past week or so he has totally changed. We find him in places in the house where he knows he is not supposed to go, and has rarely ever gone. His usual commands go unheeded for example when we tell him to 'go to your place' (a big stuffed bed where he keeps his toys), he lays his ears back and almost cowers like he is scared. He used to be very obedient with that command (about as obedient as a Sibe can be). Also, he wont leave our side now. If we leave the room he follows us wherever we go. He never did that in the past. He knows he is not to go upstairs and has never done so in the past but he keeps trying to go there now. He knows when it's time to go to bed and where he used to go right to the door, now he runs upstairs! He doesn't play with his toys or chew on his rawhides either. Until last week that was his favorite pastime. He isn't even interested in the cat! Our usually talkative Siberian doesn't seem to want to talk anymore either.
The only thing that has changed around our house is that my wife is pregnant. Someone told me that dogs can pick up on that but would that explain the behavior?
We are worried about his health but he seems fine physically.
Does anyone have any ideas? Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks for your replies,
yup i think he is picking up on the pregnancy thing...
i'd say just lavish more attention on him...praise, a couple of extra walks etc.
he should get over it.
|Thread Tools
|Display Modes
Linear Mode


text:
Scott Brown Won't Seek Senate Seat
Former Republican Sen. Scott Brown has decided not to try to regain a Massachusetts Senate seat, giving a major boost to Democrats in the race to fill the vacancy left by Sen. John Kerry. WSJ's Tim Hanrahan reports. (Photo: AP)
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... Republican Scott Brown says he won't be wanting for the U S and an old Massachusetts will have back and mall right and right now on the New Saab good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable ... with the news on Scott Brown will Signals Tim ... Hanrahan Kansas from Washington DC ... various old boy who was the various ... ten ... why is well browned stepping down ... well it's sort of a surprise what Scott Brown is saying to use its ... energies run the Sophia's third Senate campaign in three years he he ran in two thousand ten ... the film Center ten diesel spot he he won ... the bidding to run again in two thousand twelve o one a C ... Last was with Warren ... now this news he has come up John Kerry see ... and he'd have to run against wind that in a karate kid after that all on doing so ... in looking at that even though he is expected to run and you can sort of understand why ... he might see this is a ... little too ... too many reasons into tears ... now ... you things in public service can be done ... in a better way to do we know what its next act is can it be ... I know I don't think we do know much better specs that ... they were sold ... try to to track down but it Avici and very ... well known figure unsuccessful Republican in a very Democratic state ... I'm ... don't put a defined percentage of the is lot of money ... yes the recruit a lot of interest Scott Brown unit is not the Senate ... does the Republicans married that position are very ... a weaker than expected position going into this this election ... is there anyone who can step in to fellow shows a man of many likely candidates Annie Annie strong candidates who could win ... either there are re now there's been some names and floated around a former Governor William Weld for instance to ... you as governor well I should run for Senate in Democratic Sen Last ... Amanda actually Wednesday or I can and try to run there and never made it ... awesome oversight and Governor ... Kerry Healey ... who was governor under a Mitt Romney ... also a ... he also fairly popular figure and try to run for governor previously lost to ... Deval Patrick SunTrust names of the question is do they wanna run ... and this orders he started his advantage in a very heavily Democratic state that has ... I'm ... some Democrats lined up like Ed Markey you ... are well known and ends ... seemed headed entry now ... than any of ... any knowledge of the man and monkey ... others wondered Democratic Congressman Stephen Lynch gently ... it is also in the running marquees ... better known nationally but still im very early in grades nine to eight minutes and he didn't say anything heavily Democratic stayed wet is an anti someone up ... next to all amenities have to get through law does not ... Gary Scott Brown was he retains officer a moderate on social issues ... and a more conservative on on fiscal issues ... and in cross party lines when there is demand today what he said is in the idea of going back to much more partisan Senate than even what he was an ... it ... didn't appeals and ... it's it's up to tell how are we here in the Senate that as of November person but ... it is clearly an undertone here and it's tough to be ... I'm you are moderate in and these are sometimes ... while ... that's very interesting will see how it all shakes out thank you very much Tim Hanrahan ... all the Wall Street gentle we pretend that I'm on


text:
Alfresco Announces Integration with MobileIron AppConnect
Alfresco's Integration Brings Alfresco Mobile for Android to MobileIron App Ecosystem
San Mateo, CA – April 10, 2014 – Alfresco, the open platform for business-critical content management and collaboration, today announced that it is part of the MobileIron AppConnect ecosystem. Alfresco integrated with MobileIron AppConnect ensures employees can access documents and workflows, capture content and collaborate on the go while IT has the policy controls it needs to secure and manage corporate data.
MobileIron, a leader in security and management for mobile apps, content, and devices, provides its AppConnect technology to third party mobile app developers. With MobileIron AppConnect apps, companies can give their employees the best third-party application experiences with apps that have been enabled with auto-configuration, data containerization, and secure tunneling to protect corporate data.
As the trusted innovator leading the enterprise content management (ECM) market with more than 1,300 enterprise customers, Alfresco is the only customizable content platform that lets users access the tools they need to be more productive, while at the same time provides CIOs, IT managers and business users with a consistent experience. Alfresco is extending this experience to mobile devices, providing access to document repositories, enabling collaboration through sites, allowing the capture of content, including images and videos, directly to the company's servers or in the cloud, all through the security of the MobileIron AppConnect environment.
Some of the features available in Alfresco for MobileIron for Android 1.0 are:
- Secure access to Alfresco One repository based on existing user privileges
- Full access to repository structure including collaboration sites
- Activity feed
- File exchange within the MobileIron ecosystem
- Local sync of files for offline viewing of up to date files
- Initiate or take part in workflows such as "Review and Approve"
"It was only natural for Alfresco to associate with the leader in mobile security to provide the best and most secure mobile experience to its customers." said Martin Musierowicz, VP of Worldwide Channels at Alfresco. "We hope to encourage many companies to empower their users in the field to add value to their business, safely."
"Our customers know that mobile content management is a critical part of mobilizing their businesses," said Ojas Rege, VP Strategy, MobileIron. "Alfresco supports our customers' Mobile First strategies by delivering an enterprise-grade backend for the millions of documents and processes they need to make available to their mobile users."
About MobileIron
A leader in security and management for mobile apps, content, and devices, MobileIron's mission is to enable organizations around the world to embrace mobility as their primary IT platform in order to transform their businesses and increase their competitiveness. Global companies rely on MobileIron's scalable architecture, rapid innovation, and best practices as the foundation for their Mobile First initiatives. For more information, please visit www.mobileiron.com.
About Alfresco
Alfresco empower teams to share, save and manage content on one platform across cloud, on-premise and mobile enterprises. More than 7 million people in over 180 countries use Alfresco to collaborate, process and power over 4 billion files worldwide. Whether on the go or in the office, Alfresco gives Fortune 500 companies a competitive edge to solving market challenges. Founded in 2005, Alfresco is headquartered in Maidenhead, outside of London with U.S. headquarters in San Mateo.
Clarissa Horowitz
Media Contact:
Joe Tong


text:
Tips for the Conclave of the Wind
We went after the first encounter in the Throne of the 4 Winds on Friday after we dropped Magmaw and again on Saturday and got them down. Videos on this fight helped but I noticed there were several tidbits of information that we did not get from videos. These small ideas were key to getting them down so I figured I should post about it. Go watch a video and then read this. It will make more sense that way.
This fight has 3 bosses that all need to die within 1 minute of each other. You need 2 ranged, 2 tanks, 3 heals and 3 of any other sort of DPS.
When setting this fight up I like to put raid makes on the floor of the entrance platform and have everyone stand on them and move back and forth to practice the phases of the fight. The left boss is green because he does plants and healing, the center/top boss is blue for his ice and the right boss is any color (what color is wind?). We will call the right platform yellow
One heal (preferably one that can reduce fall damage), Two ranged DPS.
One healer, one tank
One healer, one tank, 3 DPS melee or anything.
This is the configuration at the start of the fight. The fight has two alternating phase. The bosses all have an energy bar. This bar fills from 0 to 90. Ninety is full, not 100%. Don't mix up 'percent' and the energy number or your timing will be wrong. At 70+ energy people need to shift to be near the bridge they are going to use. At 80 energy people move. At 90 energy the wind bridges vanish and you have to already be moved.
At 80, all the DPS on the right/yellow platform move to center/blue. Everyone on the green platform goes to blue and everyone on blue (tank and healer) goes to green. It is important to note as you are moving there might be a boss there taking a swing at someone. Also on the blue platform there might be an ice patch you land on. Get off it fast. The healer on the right/yellow platform does not move. That person stays there until that boss dies.
Special attack phase.
At 90 the bosses do a big attack. Lasts only a short time. During that time the DPS should be burning the blue boss. As soon as the boss energy bars drop down everyone needs to be moving back. EXCEPT, the tank and the heals on the blue and green platforms. They only move once per cycle. The ice boss applies a debuff so you can't go back there right away. There will be plenty of aoe damage on the ice platform and everyone also needs to stay off the fickin ice patches and out of the spray of ice.
Now for the real tips…
Right platform, wind, yellow
This platform does not need a tank because the boss just stands there and shoots stuff at you. The big risk here is getting blown off. If the whole squad gets blown off the boss silences the raid and everyone dies. It is possible to recover from a blow off, if you did not die. So try to get back on the platform fast. There will be tornados. Don't let them hit you. The big thing is that periodically the boss will start channeling a knockback and slowly turn clockwise, sweeping the blast of wind around the platform.
-When he is doing the sweeping move he holds one hand out in the direction he is doing it
-If you are far back it is easier to see the boss's move but takes more running to get away from it
-keep your camera at max zoomed way out to see better.
-If you get blow off toward the inside of the ring of platforms, you live and get carried back to the platform. If you get blow off AWAY from the ring you die.
-Don't stack with everyone else. If one of you gets blown off it is not a wipe. If you all get blown off it is probably a wipe.
Center platform, ice, blue
-Don't stand on the ice
-Don't point the boss at your healer or anyone else on the platform
-Always be ready for you or the healer to get ice under them. Have your next movement after that planned out.
-Don't move to the bridge too early or it will get blocked up with ice.
-Don't move to the bridge too late or it will be too late. If you don't jump in time the debuff will drop you.
-If you are jumping to the other platform and you left an ice patch near the bridge, tell people in vent so they will be ready to move fast.
Right platform, life, green
The boss drops healing rings and you have to move him out of them fast.
-The INSTANT you see him casting 'soothing winds' turn and run away. He will move as soon as he is done and he will not heal up. You HAVE to keep him out of these rings.
CRITICAL: The area of healing is larger than what it looks like. WATCH the bosses health bar. If it is taking 'up' ticks move him farther away.
-Don't stand in the green yourself.
-When he casts 'nurture' adds will spawn from the flowers.
-Don't let adds stand in the green.
CRITICAL: When 3 or more adds stand together they do bursts of AOE. Tell every DPS to spread out, find some adds and tank/kill them themselves.
-Do NOT gather the adds up.
-The tank should kill the adds too, just don't turn your back on the boss.
-The adds MUST be down before the end of the cycle.
– NO DPS should be back on the boss until ALL adds are down. Communicate and let people know if there is still one up.
-The healer should stand near someone that can get adds off them. Don't run away from your people or they can't get that thing off you.
-DPS needs to spot any packs that are larger than 2 (3 or more) and pick one, hit it hard, and move it away.
-Single target DPS the adds. Don't AOE them. AOE is garbage now and you can't afford to have too many up in a pack. IF there is a pack of 3, single targeting one down fast will REALLY help the healing situation out.
-keep all adds and the boss well away from the center of the platform while killing adds. This is critical. He will drop another circle of green either on himself or an add. Be ready to move him off it. If this circle is any where even remotely near the center of the platform then the boss will take big heals during the end of cycle phase. If he is standing on a circle he will heal to full in that phase. See the picture for the areas where the boss should NOT be at the end of the cycle.
-It is ok to leave him standing in green when you jump on the bridge at 80 energy. He will teleport to the center of the pad a moment later. In fact it is GOOD to have him drop that last green patch there because you know he will not heal in the 'big move' phase.
-Killing adds fast is a critical key to this fight.
CRITICAL: Keeping that last green circle from dropping in the center is also key to winning. Don't take it lightly. When we messed it up a little we lost. When we did it right we creamed the fight. Make sure the boss is well clear of the center when energy is 50 and higher.
-At the start of the next round the green boss will be enraged. This makes him bigger so he is actually closer to any healing circle. This also makes him CREAM the next tank.
CRITICAL: The next tank needs to attack him during the 'big move' phase and apply all tanking debuffs that he has available before the boss comes out of the big move. Tanking cooldowns should be saved for this time. If the enraged hits are too hard you should apply the debuffs and then run away before he comes out of the move. This will buy you a few seconds of not getting hit. The enrage wears off fast so those few seconds are precious.
Here are my super professional pictures of the tanking on the green platform. Here the boss is green and we are about to pull. The blue arrow is the bridge to the blue platform.
Next the boss is casting his healing circle and the tank is turning to run.
Here is the new boss location well clear of the circle. Remember, the healing area is a lot bigger than the graphic of the circle.
As you are fighting the adds each time here is the area that you want to avoid.
But! If you run to the bridge at the end the boss might drop a circle as it is chasing you. So you can't drag him across that area. Also you don't want to be too far from the bridge. So THIS is the real area to avoid.
Do recap, let him drop the first circle in the center and then keep him in the upper left area for the later circles. There may be two, so leave yourself room to drop two in that white area. Boss positioning is very key on the fight but it is not totally obvious how key it is. Move fast and position the boss well.
And also… no that is pretty much it…
Oh wait… if you get on a wind bridge at the very edge of it you can get blow to kingdom come and never land on the other side. Get on bridges ONLY in the center area. Try this out before the fight. It does not kill you. See how sensitive they are so you don't screw it up in the real fight.


text:
An overview of other healers: Druids
As with previous posts in this series, this is just an overview. And I hope for and expect several experienced druid healers to correct and expand my remarks. When you do so, however, please remember this blog is for the priests who may have no clue what thisweirdname spell might be — be gentle, please. That said, off to the humiliation. [And having received corrections, edits can be found throughout.]
The druid is a frequent substitute for the priest in the healer role. For the "big three" (HoT, quick and small, big but slow) spells we can make some generalities: The druid's spells take a bit longer to do the same thing yours do, but they heal just a little bit better when they're finished. Over time, then, you'll cast more frequently but be about even for total heals — if, of course, you were just racing for delivering healpoints instead of concentrating on heals. Just like you, the healing druid can use talents to improve speed and mana efficiency. Staying strictly in the big three area, the Druid's got one more advantage — much better damage mitigation. He can wear better armor, and if things get really bad he can shape-shift to bear form. Worth pointing out here is that while shifted he cannot heal — but then, you can't heal well when you're George, either. Now for a few details.
Healing Touch is the Greater Heal equivalent. It takes 3.5 seconds base (vs 3.0), uses a bit more mana, and does a bit more healing.
Regrowth is the Flash Heal equivalent, but it's got a twist. It takes 2 seconds to cast a really dinky heal, but it immediately continues with a 21 second (7 tick) HoT. By the time it's done it again is a bit more mana for a bit more healing.
Rejuvenation is a basic HoT. One less tick, a bit less mana, a bit less health. It's slightly worse health per mana than ours, but each tick is a bit more than any single tick from a roughly equivalent renew.
The Druid also has three healer-related/supportive spells of which you should be aware so as to work in what you can and can't do. First, there's the Druid's AoE heal — Tranquility. Nice spell in terms of actual health and mana, it's got two real problems. First, it's a channeling spell. Second, it's got a ten minute cooldown. If EVERYBODY needs big heals NOW, this is great — but somebody has to keep the druid from being George.
Another spell – one that's going to have you being old pal old buddy to your nature lover – is innervate.
For 20 seconds your mana recovery is 100% while casting, and if you're dancing the five second waltz it's at 400%. [In comments I'm told this is wrong, but as of now there are disagreements to small details. Basically, however, it's AT LEAST 400% during casting, maybe 500% – I'll clarify when the druids get done discussing it below.] I do not know if this stacks with meditation — allegedly they (and other mana regen tools) were made ineligible for stacking, but some testers are reporting stack-type effects for some combinations. Even if it doesn't, however… 400% of your mana regeneration is very, very nice. The downside? Six minute cooldown. On a long bossfight you might see it twice. Or you might not – it depends on who the Druid thinks needs more mana.
The final spell I think you the priest need to know is Rebirth. Quite simply, it's a resurrection spell. The nifty part? It can be cast during combat. (hmmmm). The downside? 30 minute cooldown.
[And I just thought it was the last spell. Two more were mentioned. Lifebloom, which is a HoT that ends with a burst, but can be stacked with each stack continuing the ticking. And then there's the talent swiftmend, which basically causes the HoTs to be used as instants. That is, Rejuv and Regrowth do all their healing RIGHT NOW. The only downside is it's a 15 second cooldown and uses a decent chunk of mana.]
That's it in a nutshell. Generally if you're working with druids, you're faster, and you've got lots better AoE heals. Their spells are more powerful, and they have a couple of supplements that will help you out.
And with that, I'll let the druids take it away with corrections and addendums.
10 Responses to "An overview of other healers: Druids"
Don't forgot about our lifebloom:
Heals the target for 273 over 7 sec. When Lifebloom completes its duration or is dispelled, the target instantly heals themself for 600. This effect can stack up to 3 times on the same target.
Stacking HoT that we can keep rolling forever for very little mana cost, or let "bloom" for a smallish heal (that gives its aggro to the target instead of the druid.)
(on Innervate)
For 20 seconds your mana recovery is 100% while casting, and if you're dancing the five second waltz it's at 400%.
Read the tooltip closely! It increases your total regen by 400%, and 100% of your regen works while casting (so you receive 400% additional mana regen the whole time). That means that the 5 second rule does not matter. You can spam casts all you want and you will still gain the same amount of mana from innervate as if you were in the 5 second rule 🙂 you are just using it up while casting, so obviously you may not notice the ACTUAL mana gain.
(I'm not just basing this off the tooltip – I am a druid healer myself :))
Hell yeah, you can't overlook Lifebloom. It's the mainstay of the post-BC druid healer. I cast that more than any other spell when i'm pretending to be a healer for 5-mans as a feral druid.
It rocks for three reasons:
1) high +healing coefficient. it's something over 40% for the HoT part and 95% if you allow it to bloom.
2) low mana cost. for 220 mana (if i remember correctly) (even less in tree form), it can be kept ticking for a low cost or allowed to bloom. With +1200 healing, that's approximately 2000 healing for 220 mana. It takes 7 seconds to happen, but in the meantime you can keep casting other heals.
3) that part about threat being applied to the healee rather than the healer is no slouch, much like Frisbee.
One interesting side-note is that a druid has Lifebloom and Rejuvenation as instant-cast spells, and he also can spec to get Nature's Swiftness for an instant-cast, max-rank Healing Touch once every few minutes. This is good news for fights that require a lot of mobility.
Honestly, i'm levelling my priest alt instead of my other alts because i want a healer, but i'd rather play my druid as one, and i just can't because my guild really needs him as a tank. I cherish those moments during which i do get to heal… or i would if i could actually use any loot from those instances that i can heal as a feral druid.
I'd like to respond more in depth to this comparison, but I'm on the way out of the door. Real quickly, however, I wanted to make an important correction to your description of Innervate, a misconception that seems surprisingly common among Priests. Regardless of whether or not you are in the 5SR, you will get 500% of your mana regeneration (100% base + 400% more) for the duration of the spell. That's none too shabby! =)
Melnayo and Roramoon make excellent comments about Lifebloom, truly our sexiest Heal spell. I also wanted to mention Swiftmend, our 31-point talent which converts a running Heal over Time into a burst of healing (12 seconds of Rejuvenation or 18 seconds of Regrowth). This is a really great tool for Restoration Druids since it reduces our reliance upon a) a critical Regrowth (if talented), b) waiting for our HoTs to elapse or Bloom, or c) a 3-3.5 second cast Healing Touch (O.o). It's sort of our "Lookitmelookitme! I'm like a direct healer!" ability that can be used once every 15 seconds and helps supplement a sometimes ungainly method of returning HPs. Swiftmend is the #1 reason I've never been able to try out Dreamstate healing (a popular style which requires a heavy investment into Balance and prevents Druids from picking up Swiftmend).
Yea, I also gotta say that HT cannot be cast whilst in tree form. So most druids dont uase and stay tree if they are 61 resto
More information about how the druid tree form affects their healing would be appreciated.


text:
By Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown is the author of New Heavens and a New Earth; The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought. He writes on science, medicine and the Talmud at Talmudology.com
As we approach the end of Masechet Yevamot in the Daf Yomi cycle, it seems appropriate to reflect on a legendary story in the annals of Jewish bibliography. This story involves King Henry VIII, the laws of Yevamot, and the greatest private Jewish library in the world.
About thirty years ago, while a medical student in London, I had the good fortune of visiting the Valmadonna Trust Library, that greatest of private Jewish libraries. (How I got there is another story for another time). And while there, I held the Talmud that certainly once belonged to Westminster Abbey. It may also have been owned by Henry VIII, who had brought a Bomberg Talmud from Venice in order to help him end his marriage to Catherineof Aragon, the first of his many wives. The story of Henry VIII's purchase of the Bomberg Talmud - the first complete printed Talmud - actually hinges on Yevamot, and whether the rules of levirate marriage, or yibum, applied to him.
Catherine of Aragon was actually a widow, having first been married to Henry's younger brother Arthur. About six months after Catherine married Arthur he died childless, and in 1509 his older brother Prince Henry married his widow. One more thing to know: Catherine claimed that her marriage to Arthur had never been consummated; this is important later in the story. (And here is an interesting historic footnote: it was Catherine's parents, Ferdinand and Isabella who had expelled the Jews from Spain.)
By 1525, Prince Henry had become King Henry VIII, and has had one daughter with Catherine. He wanted a son, and now wished to marry Ann Boleyn. There was, however, a problem: what was he to do with Catherine, his existing wife? Divorce, remember, was tricky for this Catholic King. And here is where the Talmud comes in.
Henry argued that his marriage to Catherine should be dissolved since it was biblically forbidden for a man to marry his sister-in-law. (Henry claimed years earlier that he could marry her because the marriage to his brother had not been consummated. See, I told you that was important information...)
But as we from Masechet Yevamot, the Bible commands a man to marry his widowed sister-in-law if his brother died without children. Since Arthur died childless, it could be argued that Henry was now fulfilling the biblical requirement of levirate marriage - known as yibum. If that was the case, the marriage was kosher and could not be dissolved
How was this conundrum to be resolved? Let's have Jack Lunzer, the custodian of the library, tell the story. (You can also see the video here. Sorry about the ads. They are beyond our control.)
As Lunzer tells us, the Talmud was obtained from Venice to help King Henry VIII find a way to divorce his wife (and former sister-in-law) Catherine, and so be free to marry Ann Boleyn. In fact, it's a little bit more complicated than that. Behind the scenes were Christian scholars who struggled to reconcile the injunction against a man marrying his sister-in-law found in one part of the Bible, with the command to do so under specific circumstances, found in another. In fact the legality of Henry's marriage had been in doubt for many years, which is why Henry had obtained the Pope's special permission to marry.
John Stokesley, who later became Bishop of London, argued that the Pope had no authority to override the word of God that forbade a man from marrying his brother's wife. As a result the dispensation the Pope had given was meaningless, and Henry's marriage was null and void. In this way, Henry was free to marry. But what did Stokesley do with the passages in Deuteronomy that require yibum? He differentiated between them. The laws in Leviticus, he claimed, were both the word of God and founded on natural reason. In this way they were moral laws; hence they applied to both Jew and Christian. In contrast, the laws found in Deuteronomy, were judicial laws, which were ordained by God to govern (and punish) the Jews - and the Jews alone. They were never intended to apply to any other people, and so Henry's Christian levirate marriage to Catherine was of no legal standing. There was therefore no impediment for Henry to marry Ann. As you can imagine, this rather pleased the king.
It remains unclear whether the Valmadonna Library Bomberg Talmud is indeed the very same one that Henry had imported from Venice. According to Sotheby's and at least one academic, it actually came from the library of an Oxford professor of Hebrew, who bequeathed it to the Abbey. In any event, a Bomberg Talmud lay undisturbed at Westminster Abbey for the next four hundred years. How Lunzer obtained it for his library is possibly the greatest story in the annals of Jewish book collecting. In the 1950s there was an exhibition in London to commemorate the readmission of the Jews to England under Cromwell. Lunzer noted that one of the books on display, from the collection of Westminster Abbey, was improperly labeled, and was in fact a volume of a Bomberg Talmud. Lunzer called the Abbey the next day, told them of his discovery, and suggested that he send some workers to clean the rest of the undisturbed volumes. They discovered a complete Bomberg Talmud in pristine condition, and Lunzer wanted it. But despite years of negotiations with the Abbey, Lunzer's attempts to buy the Talmud were rebuffed.
Then in April 1980, Lunzer's luck changed. He read in a brief newspaper article that the original 1065 Charter of Westminster Abbey had been purchased by an American at auction, but because of its cultural significance the British Government was refusing to grant an export license. Lunzer called the Abbey, was invited for tea, and a gentleman's agreement was reached. He purchased the Charter from the American, presented it to the Abbey, and at a ceremony in the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey the nine volumes of Bomberg's Babylonian Talmud were presented to the Valmadonna Trust. It's a glorious story, and it's so much better when Lunzer himself tells it, as he does here: (You can also see the video here,and end it at 14.35. We continue to apologize for those ads.)
The Valmadonna Trust Library - all of its 13,000 books and manuscripts, including the Westminster Abbey Talmud, is now on sale at Sotheby's in New York. It can be yours for about $35 million. But if you buy it, you must agree to two conditions set by Lunzer: that the Library remain whole, and that it be made available to scholars. In that way, just as I once held that magical Talmud, others may continue to do so.


text:
Rita Ipolitiby Paul Motter | Board Moderator
Rita Ippoliti became addicted to cruising, quite by accident, in March 2004. An attendee at a writer's conference onboard Holland America's ms Rotterdam, she only set foot on a cruise ship because that happened to be where the conference was being held. But it didn't take more than an hour for her to fall in love with the whole idea of sailing the high seas. Before the end of the week, Rita had booked two more Holland America cruises, a back-to-back on the Zuiderdam for August and a 30-day Hawaii/South Pacific Voyage on the Amsterdam the following January.
Rita has also cruised the Sun and the Island Princess, as well as Celebrity's Zenith.
A resident of Philadelphia all her life, today Rita prefers cruising to warm weather destinations, especially during those long cold winters in the Northeast. She loves cruising solo, and prefers longer voyages to short cruises because of all the days at sea that provide the best opportunities to meet fellow voyagers.
When she's not cruising, Rita is an IT professional by trade, as well as a freelance writer. Her writing has appeared on both OnlineLegalReview.com, where she was a senior editor, and on SkyXtreme.com, a website devoted to skydiving enthusiasts, of which Rita was one for over five years. Her first full-length book, "Falling Into Place" detailed her long and often humorous road to becoming a skydiver at the "tender" age of 42. Her book is available at Amazon.com as well as other retail outlets.


text:
Cassidy Cressoine of Thibodaux will turn 6 on April 26. She told her parents she has everything she could want and rejected all birthday gift ideas from them and family friends.
Cassidy Cressoine of Thibodaux will turn 6 on April 26. She told her parents she has everything she could want and rejected all birthday gift ideas from them and family friends.
Instead, she wants a pair of shoes for each child in the MacDonell Children's Services home in Houma. The home for school-age children escaping abuse or neglect now has nine residents.
"I don't want anything for my birthday. After I saw a little girl on the TV getting shoes for poor kids in Africa, I just wanted to give everybody shoes in Louisiana," said Cassidy, a kindergartener at St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic School in Houma.
Her mom, Lacey, said the idea came one evening when the family was watching a segment on the Disney Channel where children are spotlighted for important work they're doing.
"That was in January. Right after we watched it she asked me when her birthday was. I thought she was going to say there was something she wanted, but she said she wanted to do what the little girl had done," Lacey said. "I asked if she wanted to give to less fortunate kids here in town, and she said, 'Do we have some here?' I told her yes, and she confirmed that's what she wanted to do."
About a month later, Lacey said, when people would ask Cassidy what she wanted for her birthday, she reminded them of her plan.
"A few weeks ago I asked what kind of party she wanted, and she mentioned a pony because she loves horses. So I said OK and asked what gifts she wanted," Lacey said. "She said, 'Nothing mommy. Remember? I want shoes for poor kids.' She's being very selfless."
The family is also asking people to donate money and other items to the shelter.
Cassidy's family said her decision to help those less fortunate came as no surprise, as her teachers rave about her always helping her peers. And as the oldest of three daughters, her mom said she definitely stands out as a caring leader and protector, even at only 5 years old.
Her efforts will also benefit the Louis Infant Crisis Center in Houma, a shelter for younger children from abusive homes.
The MacDonell home needs dressy shoes and casual shoes such as sneakers and sandals. The Infant Crisis Center children are in need of sandals.
Cassidy's sixth birthday party, planned for April 21, will celebrate her young life as well as serve as a drive to collect the donations from family, friends, neighbors and anyone else interested in supporting the cause.
Her big day will include a bounce house, food and pony rides.
When persuaded to choose a gift for herself, Cassidy reluctantly said she'd like a Furby and a new bike.
To support Cassidy's wish, email email@example.com.


text:
Custom Cut 4 You is The #1 Creator of Unbeatable Designs for Custom Wall & Yard Décor, The Official store for Gymnastics Medal Holders, Wrestling and Running Medals Displays, Personalized Trophy Shelf and Medals Display combo with Name and Sport Images For Soccer, Baseball, Football and all sports, Plaques Personalized with custom quotes, Personalized Baseball and Softball Bat Holders and Trophy Displays that can be customized and ordered from 24" to 48".... Get your orders in early!!! Plan ahead for shipping and or weather delays in advance!!!!...
Size shown 6'' x 30''
Color shown: Blue/ Green washed Patina
Natural Patina Color Variations occur from product to product
We offer hundreds of design combinations for Military, All Sports, Silly People, Parents, Grandparents, Family Names, Single Parents, Beach house and Cabin owners, Masons, Country and Ranch Living, For the Kitchen, Address, Last Name, Garden and Welcome Plaques that can be ordered in a variety of styles, sizes and finishes, all can be personalized with a Theme, Name, Family Name or Favorite Quote
All Orders Ship 2 Day Priority


text:
STATE CROSS COUNTRY - The state cross country championships will be in Sheridan Saturday at the VA medical center Sheridan high school Activities Director Don Julian says it's great to have the event back in Sheridan.
Sheridan high school Head coach Art Bauers says it's nice for the Broncs and Lady Broncs to run on their home course.
And he says the course is fair to all types of runners.
The Lady Broncs freshmen played in their state tournament Saturday, October 19th, in Cheyenne. The Lady Broncs went into the tournament as the number 2 seed from the north. The played the number 3 seed from the south, Rock Springs. Sheridan won the first set easily, lost the second set, and won the third set to advance to the semifinals where they would play Gillette.
They won this in straight sets to advance to the championship match. They would end up playing the number one seed, Kelly Walsh.
STATE X-COUNTRY - The state cross country championships will be in Sheridan Saturday at the VA medical center, the boys 4-A race will start the competition at 10:30.
REGIONAL VOLLEYBALL - The Lady Bronc volleyball will head to Cheyenne Friday for their regional tournament at East high school they open with the host team at 11:00 Friday morning.
The Tongue River Lady Eagles and Big Horn Lady Rams will be in Wright for the 2-A East regional starting Friday. The Lady Eagles play Burns at noon the Lady Rams play Saratoga at 2:00.
BRONC FOOTBALL - The mistake prone Sheridan Broncs fell at home against Natrona county Friday night 38-20 Head coach Don Julian.
The Broncs close out the regular season at home Friday night against Cheyenne South. It's senior night with the presentation of seniors starting at 6:00 the game will kickoff at 7:00.
You can hear the game live on KWYO and 87.7 FM ESPN radio.
RAMS - The Big Horn Rams as expected blew out Moorcroft Friday Ron Richter has the wrap up.
The Bison football team came close to getting their first win of the season at home last Friday, but ultimately fell to the Torrington Trailblazers 17-16. They are now 0-7 for the season and will travel to Rawlins this week to play the Outlaws and their season is done.
The Big Horn Rams football team hosted the Moorcroft Wolves Friday afternoon in Big Horn. The Rams uptempo offense was almost unstoppable at times as they beat Moorcroft 55-20.
Rams Senior Quarterback Connor McCafferty threw four touchdown passes and ran for another. The defense helped out the offense as well, as Miles Novak and Colter Carzoli each had an interception returned for a touchdown. Rams Head Coach Michael McGuire comments on the win.
Check out all the action LIVE on 1410AM, or 87.7FM or via the online streams.
Broncs Stream
Tongue River Stream
Check out all the action LIVE on 1410AM, 87.7FM or via the online stream


text:
New Alabama laws affect Scottsboro Boys
MONTGOMERY, AL (AP) — Though the Alabama Legislature has cleared the way for posthumous pardons of the Scottsboro Boys, much work — from legal documents to public hearings — remains before the names of the nine black teens wrongly convicted more than 80 years ago are officially cleared.
The Scottsboro Boys were convicted by all-white juries of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931. All but the youngest were sentenced to death, even though one of the women recanted her story. All eventually got out of prison. Only one received a pardon before he died.
The case became a symbol of the tragedies wrought by racial injustice. It inspired songs, books and films. A Broadway musical was staged in 2010, the same year a museum opened that was dedicated to the case. The Scottsboro Boys' appeals resulted in U.S. Supreme Court decisions that criminal defendants are entitled to effective counsel and that blacks can't be systematically excluded from criminal juries.
In April, the state Legislature passed a bill to allow posthumous pardons in the case, and Gov. Robert Bentley signed it into law. But before the pardons are officially issued, the state Board of Pardons and Paroles must receive applications for them from a circuit judge or district attorney in one of the counties where the Scottsboro Boys' original trials occurred. The applications must show that pardons would remedy social injustices associated with racial discrimination. Then the board would have to hold a public hearing and vote to grant the pardons, Assistant Executive Director Eddie Cook Jr. said.
"No one has sent in anything yet," he said of the needed paperwork.
Sheila Washington, founder of the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center in northeast Alabama, said that will happen soon. "Trust me. It is not going away after we got it this far," she said.
When Washington started a campaign for pardons in the case, she discovered state law did not permit them for dead defendants. She worked with Republican state Sen. Arthur Orr of Decatur to get the new legislation passed in April. It permits the parole board to issue posthumous pardons in cases at least 80 years old. "It's time to right this wrong," Bentley said at the signing.
Washington said she took a break after the law passed, but added that now is the time to get back to work and get them issued. She said she will have help from researchers at the University of Alabama in compiling the necessary information.
Orr agreed with Washington that the paperwork will be completed and the applications filed, likely by an official in Jackson County where the first trial occurred. The work will likely take a few weeks.
To support their paperwork, they can use a resolution championed by Democratic Rep. John Robinson of Scottsboro that also became law last month. It says the nine "were the victims of gross injustice" and are considered formally exonerated.
Cook said the parole board can't start the pardon process until it gets the paperwork. "The groundwork to do this is on someone else's shoulders," he said.
But he said it will be a fascinating case to handle once the paperwork is filed. "This case is taught in most law schools in the country," he said.
Once the pardons are granted, Washington's work won't be done. She said she hopes public attention about the pardons will help her solve one mystery about the case: The burial sites of five of the Scottsboro boys remain unknown.
Most of Scottsboro Boys faded from public view after being released by the state. Only one had a relative attend a ceremony at the Scottsboro museum when the governor signed the pardon legislation.
Washington said her goal is to for all the graves to be marked with tombstones noting the Scottsboro Boys' place in American history.


text:
Buggy Style Pontoon Bimini Top Sunbrella Acrylic 1 Standard Frame 90-96 Wide
Curved frame for a modern look
Premium long-lasting Sunbrella Acrylic
Standard frame with front tension straps
Free matching storage boot
6-year warranty
Shademate Bimini Tops have been updated with curved frames to match the contemporary lines of today's boats.
Built tough with marine-grade materials, these sleek-looking pontoon bimini tops come with a Sunbrella Acrylic fabric top. Long-lasting 100% Sunbrella Acrylic is a premium 9.25 oz. per sq. yd. material that's solution-dyed for excellent fade and weather resistance. Strong, water-repellent, and mildew-resistant, Sunbrella is world renowned for prolonged protection against sun rot due to ultraviolet rays. Sewn with Profilen Extra thread that's guaranteed to last as long as the fabric. Comes with a 6-year warranty.
The well-built anodized aluminum frame is made with 1" square tubing to match your pontoon railing. Pontoon tops are 8' long. Standing height: 75". Each pontoon bimini top comes with wiring and cutout for navigation light and a FREE matching storage boot.
• Buggy style bimini top
• Sunbrella Acrylic fabric with 6-year warranty
• Standard frame with front tension straps
• 1" square frame
• 90"-96" wide
• 8' long
• 75" standing height
Shademate Bimini Tops have been updated with curved frames to match the contemporary lines of today's boats.


text:
Woodstock, Colorado - Miners RunPosted in Events on June 1, 2010
When he was a boy his daddy told him many times not to be anywhere near Woodstock, Colorado, after dark on March 10 of any year. His daddy was a trapper who lived in the mountains for most of his life, and the stories he told were never believed by anyone.
Now the boy had grown into an old man, but some of his father's stories still burned in his mind and demanded to be freed. Here he was, camped in waist deep snow at the edge of what was once a railroad track to the Alpine Tunnel. It was March 10, 1984, exactly 100 years since the town of Woodstock was wiped off the face of the earth.
The man huddled in his tent trying to stay warm against the howling winds and blinding snow that pounded the walls. His snowmobile was nearly buried outside the tent in fresh snow. His lantern was all that kept the inside of the tent above freezing. Suddenly, he felt the ground moving under him. It was a vibration that was quickly followed by the sound of steel wheels against a steel track. But that was not possible. The rails for the track had been removed many years ago. He stepped outside the tent and moved to the center of what was once the path of the train. The sound grew louder and louder.
Suddenly a whistle blew and a glow from lanterns appeared before him. The ghostly image of a train lurched out of the darkness and passed right through him in less than a second. The sound of the train began to fade but was replaced by a roar of something coming down the mountain and getting closer by the second. The sound of trees being cracked like toothpicks and the rumble of rocks and boulders being pushed ahead of the white death filled the air.
The old man squinted his eyes against the raging wind and the blowing snow, trying to see what could not be there. He saw ghostly images of several buildings including a telegraph office and a boarding house. Then from out of the darkness, the white death appeared. It was an avalanche bigger than anything he ever imagined. He heard screams coming from the boarding house as the snow engulfed it. The water tank disintegrated with an explosion that sent water and ice into the air. The old man stared in disbelief, unable to move, as the avalanche came over top of him.
Then, it was gone. No avalanche. No buildings. No water tank. It just disappeared, replaced only by the howling winds and blowing snow that preceded the incident. Surprised he was still alive, the old man limped back to his tent. He would never again be in Woodstock, Colorado, on March 10 of any year.
On the other hand, the ghost story is based on the fact that on March 10, 1884, Woodstock, Colorado, was leveled by an avalanche and was never rebuilt. Six children died in the boarding house and seven others lost their lives to the white death. It was only guessed that the rumble of the train or the whistle broke the snow loose from high above and sent it down the mountain.
Our trip through Woodstock was in the middle of the summer. We were on the second half of our journey around Miners Run (see "Miners Run, Part I: Colorado Wagon Roads and Ghost Towns," May 2010). We stopped long enough to read the historic marker and comment on the horrors of the white death. There was nothing left of the ghost town and we were not run over by any trains. Our main objective on that day was to visit the Alpine Tunnel. Lone Writer wanted to see how much progress had been made in restoring the structures. A volunteer organization has been working on it for years.
During the 1800s, railroads were pushing across the wilderness on a direct course for California. The end of the track changed daily until they found themselves faced with the challenge of getting across the Continental Divide. The Alpine tunnel was the first hole punched through the mountain range providing a route trains could use to connect the western slope of the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast. It originally held the title as the highest railroad tunnel in the world at 11,605 feet.
It took two years to build the Alpine Tunnel and cost more than double the original budget. A crew of 350 to 400 men worked on it year around for a whopping $3.50 a day plus a bonus for those who worked with explosives. It was difficult to keep them on the job, turning over about 10,000 workers during the two-year period. Blinding snow made it difficult to find the bunkhouse at the end of the shift, extreme cold threatened their lives, and digging through crumbling granite held a constant fear of cave-ins.
The tunnel was worked from both ends. It was built on a curve and was more than a third of a mile long. When the two ends came together, they were only fractions of an inch apart. It is amazing that engineers and surveyors had the ability to accomplish such a feat in the 1880s.
The first train passed through in 1881 and the last one was in 1910. The telegraph office has been restored and its walls are lined with great stories and facts about the Alpine Tunnel. The boarding house fell many years ago and is a pile of rubble. Passing trains stopped at the boarding house for a 45-minute meal.
After spending some time at the tunnel, we continued our journey around the Miners Run loop. We passed over Hancock Pass at an elevation of 12,140 feet. The route is very rocky and requires a 4x4 with low-range. The views from the top of the pass provide photo moments in both directions. Tomichi Pass is in full view to the south and going down the north slope returns to St. Elmo. It is also possible to visit the Alpine Tunnel on the east slope but includes a very long hike. The road has been closed to motorized traffic.
This navigation begins at Cumberland, which is the point where we left off in Part I of this article ("Miner's Run, Part I: Colorado Wagon Roads and Ghost Towns," May 2010).
Trip Meter - Latitude North - Longitude West - Comments
0.0 - N38 41.3638 - W106 29.0413 - Cumberland Pass. 12,015 feet.
0.1 - N38 41.2882 - W106 29.0842 - Take the left fork off the main road onto the original road.
0.7 - N38 40.9410 - W106 29.6496 - Cross the main road and stay on the original road.
1.5 - N38 40.8981 - W106 29.0818 - Turn right onto the main road. The original road is no longer available.
6.7 - N38 37.4980 - W106 28.5526 - Turn left toward the Alpine Tunnel. There are National Forest Campgrounds in this area for those who have reached the end of the day.
14.2 - N38 36.8245 - W106 23.3994 - At Sherrod Loop, the road splits. Stay left on the main road to visit the Alpine Tunnel. Come back to this intersection and take the right fork to continue along the Miners Run loop.
16.3 - N38 38.2890 - W106 24.4857 - Parking for the Alpine Tunnel. An outhouse is available. When finished visiting, return to the Hancock Pass Intersection and reset your trip meter to zero.
0.6 - N38 36.6848 - W106 22.7102 - Take the left fork. The right fork goes over Tomichi Pass and eventually connects to Highway 50.
1.6 - N38 37.2548 - W106 22.4849 - This is Hancock Pass. 12,140 feet in elevation.
3.8 - N38 38.3632 - W106 21.7054 - The 4x4 road becomes a graded road at the point where it connects back to the railroad grade, where the town of Hancock once flourished. This is also the parking area for the hike to the east entrance to the Alpine Tunnel.
9.0 - N38 42.3597 - W106 20.4123 - Turn left for St. Elmo. Turn right if you would rather soak in the waters of the Mt. Princeton Hot Springs or connect to Highway 285.
1.9 - N38 43.554 - W106 28.789 - Stay right, which is straight.
2.3 - N38 43.1230 - W106 28.9221 - Right turn switchback.
3.0 - N38 43.0318 - W106 29.2693 - Turn left at the buildings. Then to get through town, stay right at the next intersections and go on the right side of a larger building on the left. At that building stay right. At the next intersection take a left, which goes between two buildings and up a slight hill.
3.7 - N38 42.8465 - W106 28.7411 - Right fork.
3.9 - N38 42.7227 - W106 28.7503 - The road continues uphill to some buildings. Stay left past the buildings. Right at the next intersection past buildings.
4.0 - N38 42.720 - W106 28.728 - Right. Stay on the main road.
5.0 - N38 41.9080 - W106 28.6350 - Right. Left goes to a hill climb which is for experienced four-wheelers only.
5.8 - N38 41.3638 - W106 29.0413 - Cumberland Pass. 12,015 ft.


text:
Aart Staartjes (b. 1938) is an Amsterdam-born actor, director, and presenter who plays Meneer Aart on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. Aart is a businessman who always walks around in a brown suit with a couple of medals on his chest, and enormous glasses on his nose. He thinks of himself as the most important neighbor on Sesamstraat, which is why he prefers to be called Meneer Aart (Mr. Aart). He is a bit of a know-it-all, and a bit of a grouch. He can even be a little mean at times - but usually, the other Sesamstraat inhabitants manage to outsmart him. Nevertheless, Aart is a well loved person on the street. He interacts well with children, reading them stories at the end of the show.
Rik is Aart's nephew.
Concerning Aart's role on Sesamstraat, it's often said that "Aart is the snake in the paradise named Sesamstraat." The early episodes of Sesamstraat had no grumpy character, which made the street scenes a little dull and preachy at times. One of the writers suggested a man named Buurman Bol (Neighbor Bol) who hated everything, but he never made it because he was too negative.
Aart made his debut on the show in 1984, when the script called for a gentleman who was looking for Frank. During his search, Aart met Pino, whom he treated very arrogantly; and a new character was born.
Staartjes is also involved behind the scenes of Sesamstraat, fulfilling important duties in the staff and the production team. One of the most important things he achieved was changing the number of writers, from a couple to a whole group. He also serves as advisor and location director.
Staartjes has a history of creating and performing in quite a few innovative Dutch children's shows, including the live broadcasts of Saint Nicholas' arrival which he hosted for quite a few years. He was also a regular voice on the puppet series De Fabeltjeskrant as Rocus de Vrije Vogel, and worked on Disney dubs, supervising translation of Bambi and dubbing Bernard (voiced in English by Bob Newhart) in The Rescuers.
Staartjes' biography, Meneer Aart, was published in 2002. That same year, the actor stepped down from his other children's shows; Sesamstraat is the only series he is still involved with. Nevertheless, a new grumpy neighbor known as Buurman Baasje was added to the street that year. Aart has become a bit more tame on the show, sometimes playing the part of the grandfather character.
On April 10, 2009, Staartjes announced that he would quit his role after the current season of Sesamstraat. Due to repeatedly changing of broadcasting time, the number of viewers dropped from 500,000 to a mere 35,000 in recent years. This, along with differing opinions of Staartjes and NPO (the joint Dutch broadcasting organizations) about the time of broadcasting, made him come to his decision.


text:
Items needed:
- Sliced bread of your choice.
- Sandwich filling, such as cheese, lunch meat, peanut butter
- Foods to decorate with, depending on the filling of the sandwich.
- For Peanut Butter - use banana slices, raisins, carrots, celery
- For cheese, meats - use red peppers, celery, carrots, olives, cheese
- Use two slices of bread for each sandwich. Cut the basic shape of a face for the Reindeer. Cut the shape of Santa's head, including the beard. Cut two round holes for the Reindeer eyes or you can use raisins or olives later.
- Fill sandwich with desired filling. Add top slice.
- For Santa's hat, cut another shape to form hat and set above Santa's head.
- Use desired foods to make antlers, ears, etc as shown, or kids can just be creative. Remember that this is supposed to be fun so if they want to make a christmas tree or present, let them have fun doing so.


text:
Fairline Squadron 65. Launched approximately 2002. GRP construction. Twin 1100HP MAN engines delivering 20 knots cruise speed. Full headroom, 4 double cabins and 2 crew cabins. Aft cockpit. spacious saloon, galley to starboard, full-beam owners stateroom. Comprehensive electronics. The ultimate in luxury afloat. Immaculately maintained and presented ……Deceased estate trustees advise present all offers.
Gulf Harbour
New Zealand


text:
6:00 pm
PBS NewsHour NULL
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
Need to Know SCOTT SIMON ANCHORS. On this week's Need to Know, Karla Murthy reports from California about one family dealing with the emotional and financial stresses of caring for a chronically ill parent. Anchor Scott Simon interviews Robyn Stone, former Deputy Asst. D
8:00 pm
Dialogue "Behind The Scenes at POV" Host Marcia Franklin interviews Simon Kilmurry, executive director and producer of the documentary film series POV, during his recent visit to Idaho. They discuss how films are chosen for the series and the state of independent non-fiction film.G
8:30 pm
Reggie Perrin The Perrins clash at a wedding as they deal with the revelation of Nicola's affair with David. Reggie needs to devise a plan to stop the chairman from selling Groomtech, and considers the alternative solution of disappearing for good.G
9:00 pm
American Masters "Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance" Discover the story of the first quintessentially American dance company. The Joffrey Ballet founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino pioneered a new dance philosophy by daringly combining modern and traditional techniques, art with social statement, and integrating pop and rock music scores. Tracing the struggles and triumphs of the Company from 1956 to the present, the film features interviews with former and current Joffrey dancers, the breakthroughs of choreographers Twyla Tharp, Laura Dean and Margo Sappington, and rare archival performance footage, including excerpts from signature works "Astarte," "Trinity," and "Billboards. D
10:30 pm
Downton Abbey Revisited This special presents some favorite scenes from the series' seasons 1 and 2 to savor before Season 3 begins in January. Key actors and creative staff tell their stories of the depiction of life on an English country estate from 1912 into the 1920s. There are also behind-the-scenes footage and a sneak peak at what is yet to come.G
11:00 pm
Charlie Rose NULL