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Aquarium Water Chemistry
PH Defines how acidic or alkaline the water is. It equates to the amount of hydrogen (H+) and hydroxide (OH-) ions are dissolved in a solution. The more hydrogen ions there are, the more acidic the water is and the lower the pH is. A solution that has equal concentrations of hydroxide and hydrogen is termed neutral with a pH value of 7. A higher concentration of hydroxide ions would return a value above 7 or alkaline Lake Malawi has a pH of around 8.3 (it ranges between 7.8 -8.5), it is recommended that the pH of the aquarium water be maintained between 7.0 and 8.5, it is wise to to attempt to match the aquarium water with that of the lake.
Water that is poorly buffered (low KH) will be subject to higher PH fluctuations than well-buffered water. As a general rule, hard water is usually alkaline (above 7) and well buffered, whereas soft water (below 7) is usually slightly acidic and poorly buffered. KH also has an affect on the pH.
Fluctuations in pH can be stressful and damaging to fish health also Nitrifying bacteria, essential in the conversion of ammonia to nitrate also have a pH range preference, which is between 7.5 and 8.6. Variations in pH will also have an effect on some disease treatments.
Carbonate hardness or temporary hardness. Measures the buffering capacity or the ability to absorb and neutralize added acid without major changes to PH, the nitrogen cycle in our tanks produces nitric acid (nitrate). If we don't have buffering (KH), the PH will drop over time.
General hardness (GH) refers to the dissolved concentration primarily of magnesium and calcium ions. When fish are said to prefer ``soft'' or ``hard'' water, it is HH, not KH that is being referred to. GH will not directly affect PH although "hard" water is generally alkaline due to some interaction of GH and KH.
Incorrect GH will affect the transfer of nutrients and waste products through cell membranes and can affect egg fertility, proper functioning of internal organs such as kidneys and growth. Within reason, most fish and plants can successfully adapt to local GH conditions, although breeding may be impaired.
Making Changes to the Water Chemistry
Ways to raise the PH
- Place coral gravel or limestone chips in the filter as media. (these will continually "leech" out minerals to keep the water on the alkaline side.* This will only help and will not be enough to raise the PH alone.)
- Use a commercial alkaline buffer
- Use common bicarbonate of soda (recommended)
Ways to increase kH:
- Adding sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). One teaspoon of baking soda added to 50 liters of water can raise the kH of the water by approx 4 dH without a major affect on pH.(recommended)
- Adding commercial products to increase buffering capacity
Ways to increase gH
- Adding Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulphate) will raise GH (recommended)
- Adding Malawi Salts (Mineral to replicate the Lake) will raise GH (recommended)
Home Made "Buffer Recipe"
To raise KH and PH, add Bi-Carbonate of Soda. A recommendation is 1 teaspoon
per 5 (US) gallons of water (dissolve in a jug
of warm aquarium water). This can be syphoned into the tank with a
piece of airline and preferably in the strongest flow by the
filter inlet. It is important you monitor the PH throughout this process
which will mean quite a few tests. This is where a PH
monitor comes in handy so if you've got one this process is easy.
Once you reach the 0.3 increase stop, and repeat similarly on each consecutive day until your PH reaches the required level.
Repeat this procedure for Epsom Salt, starting out with ½ teaspoon . Try to achieve a GH between 15 and 25 dgh.
The API Liquid Test Kits are Highly recommended for testing both KH and GH Both can be bought together for around £6.00
The important thing to remember is consistency should be maintained when using any of the methods used, each time water is changed additional Epsom Salts/BiCarb should be added to buffer the new water back up.


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From May to June 2013, Ms Petchrung Sukpong and Mr Louis Bourne were part of the IUCN team surveying seagrass in Kampot province, Cambodia. Ms Sukpong hails from Hua Hin in Thailand, and studied environmental planning for her Master's degree. Specialising in coastal management, she developed this academic interest whilst working on coral reef rehabilitation in Phuket. She later joined IUCN's Thailand programme to provide technical support for marine and coastal conservation. Her colleague, Mr Bourne, is a British-Thai resident of Chiang Mai in Thailand. After living in numerous countries across the world, he went on to pursue marine biology at Newcastle University in the UK. Together, they conducted fieldwork and compiled results, with the support of their team representing Department of Environment (DoE) and Department of Fisheries Administration (FiA) on the field and IUCN colleagues.
Tell us in a nutshell about the seagrass survey.
Petchrung: As part of IUCN's Building Coastal Resilience project, we were to conduct a baseline survey of seagrass in Kampot province, Cambodia. This would allow for a status update on seagrass; to understand its extent, and the impact of local development projects upon its coverage. Kampot has a long coastal belt of around 66.5 km. We divided this belt into four sections and studied them accordingly. This survey provided us with the bigger picture in relation to seagrass cover.
Louis: The previous report on seagrass was produced by United Nations Environment Programme in 2004. Using multiple methods for data collection, we will provide the latest information on seagrass cover in Kampot. We are helping to fill a ten-year long information gap.
What were your roles during the seagrass survey in Cambodia?
Petchrung: I was the team leader, so I made key decisions on-site for collecting data and studying the results. I participated in consultations with local communities to validate the area of existing seagrass and also undertook participatory mapping. Along with the team, I then compiled data from the seagrass survey using GIS (geographic information system) mapping.
Louis: I assisted in capacity building with the DoE and the FiA. I helped in conducting surveys and to work with colleagues on the field site. I also contributed to analysis of the data.
What were some key findings of the seagrass survey you conducted?
Louis: We have found a new record off the coast of Kampot. Along with our team, we located two areas where the seagrass called Estuarine spoon-grass (Halophila beccarii) is found. This specie is in the 'VULNERABLE' (VU) category of the IUCN Red List, and documenting its location will be important for conservation. By analysing past data, we also observed that the seagrass bed has reduced by more than 50% over the last ten years.
Petchrung: Together with our team, we observed that local development projects are coming up in the region, which will result in damaging the extent and coverage of seagrass. That said, we noted that the seagrass is relatively healthy in some areas. We saw that the local people depend upon seagrass for their livelihood and as a source of food. The next step for us will be to determine the economic value of seagrass in the province, particularly the monetary benefits they provide to the local community.
How do you think the results of the survey can be applied in the future?
Petchpong: The data we have collected is very detailed and informative. It can be used to plan which areas can be demarcated for protecting seagrass, for local livelihoods, and for development projects respectively. This will help to provide an understanding of how to find a balance between development projects and seagrass conservation. It will also assist in reducing conflicting interests between development and conservation activities in the region.
Louis: The data we have analysed will provide good information for residents in the area as well as for the local government in Kampot. It is not only to fulfil wider BCR objectives, but will facilitate integrated coastal zone management in the province.
A full seagrass survey report will be completed in the next few months and can be downloaded from BCR webpage.
By Ria Sen, Communications Intern

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1770 - Spanish establish Fuerte de Santa Cruz del Cibolo to protect settlers from Comanche and other American Indian raids.
1780s - The fort and surrounding area is abandoned in the face of continued Indian attacks.
1852 - The town of Helena is established.
1853 - Settlers petition to establish Karnes County with Helena as the county seat.
1854 - Polish settlers establish Panna Maria, the first Polish colony in the United States.
Early 1860s - Karnes County population grows to 2,170 people.
Mid-1880s - Large-scale agriculture is introduced to the county with the arrival of the railroads. Improved access to markets and new settlers diversify farming community.
1886 - The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway fails to pass through Helena, causing the decline and death of the town.
1890 - County population reaches 3,637 residents.
1894 - Karnes City residents petition to be named the new county seat.
1900 - Population doubles to 8,681.
1910 - Population reaches 14,942.
1920 - The number of farms grows from 265 in 1900 to 2,710.
1930 - Population tops out at 23,316.
1930 - Oil is discovered in Falls City.
1930s - The Great Depression causes many of the tenant farmers working the land in Karnes County to abandon the farms.
1940 - Population shrinks to 19,248.
1950 - Population declines to 17,139.
1954 - First commercial deposits of uranium are discovered.
1960 - Chevron opens uranium mine.
1960 - U.S. Atomic Energy Commission opens a uranium-ore buying station in Karnes County.
1959-65 - The Person Field in the Edwards formation starts producing in Karnes County.
1970 - Population dips to 13,462.
1972 - Conoco opens a uranium processing mill in Falls City.
1975-81 - The Austin Chalk play booms.
1979 - Chevron opens the largest uranium mill in the state in Panna Maria.
1982 - Conoco closes Falls City uranium mill.
1980 - Population increases by 1 percent to 13,593, the first increase since 1930.
1990 - Population drops to 12,455 , an 8-percent decline.
1992 - Chevron uranium mill closes.
2000 - Population grows by 24 percent to 15,446.
2007 to present - The Eagle Ford Shale play booms.
2010 - U.S. census records a 4 percent decline in population to 14,824.
KARNES CITY - Sitting in the bank manager's office, the man turned to his wife.
"Show it to him, Mama," he said as they settled into wooden chairs across from Paul Brysch in the Karnes County National Bank.
She nodded, slid an envelope from her purse and handed it to Brysch.
A check for more than $300,000 was inside, the first royalty check from an Eagle Ford Shale well drilled on their property on the edge of Karnes County.
"Congratulations! Y'all must be thrilled!" Brysch said.
"No, no, you don't understand," the man said, furrowing his brow. "We've never had money like this before. What do we do with it?"
The question has been repeated across the Crossroads since the Eagle Ford Shale play began booming, but nowhere is it more poignant than in Karnes County. These days, the county is a lively place, the epicenter of an oil boom changing the face of South Texas and bringing wealth to people who have struggled and scraped for generations just to keep hold of their land.
But oil wealth isn't new to the people of Karnes. The rise and fall of riches that comes with an oil boom is a story they know too well - they've repeatedly ridden the boom-and-bust cycle. The Eagle Ford Shale is looked at as a blessing by some and a miracle by others, but for the people of Karnes, it is much more than that - the Eagle Ford Shale is one last chance.
The Last Picture Show
Alfred Pawelek, a former Karnes County judge, was born in 1929 and raised on a farm in Panna Maria, the oldest Polish community in the United States. One of 11 children, he worked hard on the farm to be self-sustaining during the tough times of the 1930s. He loved to attend the drive-in movie theaters in Austin, and it soon occurred to him that a man might make a good living by opening a drive-in theater in Karnes.
He opened the Midway Theater in early January 1950. The county was still on a downward slope with a steadily decreasing population, but a small oil boom had created a flurry of activity and people turned out in droves to sip beer and munch on hamburgers while Cary Grant and Myrna Loy figured out how to fall in love in "The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer" on the theater's opening night.
Pawelek loved movies, and he loved his drive-in. He saw a slight drop in business when the drought gripped the county in the late 1950s, but an oil boom fueled another giddy spurt of activity in the early 1960s.
Meanwhile, oil company men looking for signs of petroleum in the county came across uranium buried in the earth beneath. That fueled a whole new industry in the county, as government operations and companies set up mining operations, processing plants and waste sites in the county to produce the stuff that would fuel nuclear bombs.
Uranium gave the county its first source of industry, outside of agriculture. It had become increasingly difficult for single families to make a living on their farms and ranches in the wake of the economic devastation of the 1930s, but suddenly Karnes County had something for these men and women to do - they could go to work at the plant.
But, again, it didn't last. Environmental concerns in the 1970s - it turned out dumping uranium mining waste into open pits had consequences for those who lived on the land around them - and a drop in the price of uranium caused the burgeoning uranium industry to shudder to a halt. The mines closed, the processing plants shut their doors and the waste sites were covered over with clay and sod, and the money and industry that had become a lifeline to the people was summarily cut.
At the same time, a worldwide oil crisis sent prices plummeting, and the oil industry of Karnes County disappeared overnight.
The population fell to less than half of what it had been at its height in 1930. Looking at the meager number of cars rumbling into his drive-in, Pawelek knew what he had to do.
On a drizzly night in January, he waited for the music from "The Last Picture Show" to fade away during the intermission. Taking a deep breath, he got on the microphone and addressed his audience.
"I appreciate you coming this evening and I hope you are enjoying the picture as much I'm enjoying having you with us, but this truly is the last picture show. It's our 25th anniversary, and we are closing the theater for good," he said, his voice booming across the lot.
When the film was over, he closed the theater, just as he had every night for the last 25 years. Then he stopped by the barbecue restaurant he and his wife had recently opened and picked up a six-pack and went home to sip beer and mourn his movie theater.
The ups and downs continued as Pawelek and his wife worked to keep their restaurant afloat during the bad times, while enjoying the demands of the years when things were good.
Times were hard when Pawelek was elected to become county judge in the 1990s. County officials were always fighting to cover even the most basic needs of the county on a shoestring budget.
"We were kind of living in a bust all of the time in our county," he said. "We've had our ups and downs, but it's been very severe for us during the bad times."
Rooted in the land
Karnes County was never meant to be an oil town. When the first settlers arrived here in the 1850s, they had come to the edge of modern civilization looking for land.
They found good land for farming and ranching on the gently rolling plains of South Texas, and the county grew from a few hundred people in 1852, when the first county seat was founded, to more than 23,000 people in 1930. In just a few decades, Karnes County had become a busy agricultural hub known for producing cotton and cattle. As if the richness of the land were not enough, it also turned out oil ran beneath it.
The first field was discovered in Falls City in 1930. The Great Depression was just taking hold of the rest of the country, but the people of Karnes, along with the rest of the state, believed themselves to be immune to the economic crisis. A find in Falls City brought oil field men to the county in droves and money to the fortunate few who owned the tracts with oil underneath it. For others, the crops and cattle, shipped out on the railroad, provided a good living.
But the Great Depression came to town anyway as oil prices nose-dived to as little as 2 cents a barrel, effectively ending the burgeoning promise of Karnes as a land flush with the riches of cattle, crops and oil.
From then on, Karnes was a community in decline. The small farmers and ranchers never recovered from the economic devastation of the 1930s, and the basis of their lives, the sustenance of the community, would never be something any one person could make a living at.
The ties that bind
County Commissioner Pete Jauer was brought up to love the land his family worked, but he watched his father work as a horse trader and tractor salesman when the county was in a bust and as an oil field hand during the booms to make a living for his family of 17 children. The real family passion remained the land.
"The land is what tied us. The land is what holds people here," Jauer said, while his brother nodded in agreement.
The minerals beneath kept alive the promise of Karnes' rebirth. The 1930 find had played out, but another flurry of activity in the '40s put local people like Jauer's father to work in the oil field and brought some much-needed money into the county. But the plays never lasted. When they were over, Karnes residents were left to struggle to survive until the next play arrived, or they could leave.
Bumping down the rutted pavement of Highway 181, Jauer looked out at the land around him.
"Jauer Flats, this is some of the best farmland around," he said.
Jauer's grandfather bought the land in 1906. It has been passed down and broken into pieces by his descendants ever since, but it has stayed in the family.
As boys, Jauer and his older brother, Bill, dreamed of the day they would buy all the land themselves. Now the land they grew up on has been bought and paid for with royalty money from the Eagle Ford Shale.
Out of retirement
John Braudway smiled as his gleaming Cadillac pulled up to a drill site gate, lifting his hand to wave at the guard. The man paused for a second and then hit a button to open the gate.
"That's the trick, you know. I look just enough like I might be the boss that they won't dare question me. They just let me on in," Braudway said. "In 1978, I started wearing a tie, and it's gotten me in to a lot of places I wasn't supposed to be."
A flare billowed overhead, on the edge of the pad site. He stepped out of the car, staring up at it with a speculative eye, while the heat from the flare pressed on his skin.
"They're not even separating the oil out. Must be a good well then," he said, studying the flame.
Since the Eagle Ford Shale play, Braudway has been a busy man, lured out of semi-retirement as an expert consultant to some of the biggest companies in the oil industry. He keeps a small fat notebook in his shirt pocket at all times, and it is filled with names and numbers of clients and people he checks with daily to see how things are on various rigs and what that might say about the play.
Braudway grew up in Karnes County, and the longtime oil man knows every drilling site in the county. He is always impeccably dressed with spotless button-down shirts, sharply creased pants and quietly expensive leather shoes. Braudway started out as a day driller in Karnes County and worked his way to the top over the years.
Karnes County was a busy oil town back when he started working fresh out of high school in the early 1960s.
He has watched the Eagle Ford play like a hawk since it started. His land was leased and drilled as well, and the Braudways, like so many in Karnes, were determinedly practical when the royalty checks came rolling in.
"This is a very poor county," he said. "Anybody who has come of age around here and grown up in hard times, when they get this money, they don't want to spend it. People are holding onto it this time."
He has heard all kinds of stories - the couple that tried to cash the "small" royalty check, only to find the bank couldn't do it, because it was for $180,000. The elderly woman who had been putting the checks directly into the bank without a second thought, until a bank teller asked her if she wanted to know her account balance - and she found out she had more than $1 million in the bank.
Braudway says he believes the predictions that this play will last for 10 to 20 years, but aside from gifts to their children and grandchildren, Braudway and his wife were scrupulously practical with the money that came in. They gave a donation to their church, bought a new Cadillac and paid for cemetery plots.
"This can all go away overnight. If oil drops to less than $65 a barrel, the next morning this will all be gone," he said.
Karnes reborn
Now, it's a whole other world. Karnes County's taxable value has grown from about $270 million to more than $1.5 billion in the past three years.
"Nothing in the past has been close to this, so who knows what the future holds for us with the Eagle Ford?" former judge Pawelek said. He paused, glancing out the window at the land he knows as well as his own body.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine something like this."
For the first time in decades, there is money in the budget and it will tell much about the future of Karnes as to how the county chooses to spend it.
Barbara Shaw, the current county judge, wants to be sure officials choose wisely. The county has been so strapped for cash so long, many of the first things they'll be attending to will just be the necessities - taking care of the roads, repairing long-neglected public buildings and giving the sheriff more money to work with in his budget.
The Karnes County Courthouse is being restored, and there are plans to update the county jail.
The money has come and the money has gone in Karnes, leaving little to show for it in the past.
Shaw is determined this time things will be different. She and the rest of the county government officials have been working for months to craft a five-year plan to figure out exactly what needs to be done in the county and when they will set aside the money to do it.
"Instead of spending the money as fast as we can get it, we need to plan," she said. "Eventually this money will stop. It's not a matter of if it is going to stop, it's a matter of when."
Shaw grew up in Falls City. When past oil booms came to a halt, it was always glaringly obvious. The nicest hotels in town started to look faded and bedraggled, with the paint peeling off in strips. They would charge people $1 a day to go swimming and allow people to rent rooms for next to nothing - during the down times they cobbled together survival this way.
She knows it will end. They all do. But for right now, for the first time in decades, Karnes County is on the map, the center of attention, the land of milk and honey.
"Halliburton, Schlumberger, they've all been here before and the big buzzword is that they'll be here forever, but define forever. You can convert those yards back to farm land real quick," she said.
The showpiece
Karnes has become so well known that people are reading about it in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. When Marathon Oil executives were looking for a place to show Polish representatives the possibilities, what opening up their country to shale drilling could do for them, they brought government representatives to Karnes.
In late April, county officials filled the dining room of Polak's Sawsage Restaurant, their voices loud and buoyant as they waited for the Polish government representatives to arrive.
Shaw, a tiny woman even in a pair of three-inch heels, managed to get everyone's attention when the men arrived, along with a flock of Marathon oil men and Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman.
The smell of barbecue filled the air, but they were there to talk about oil.
Shaw, Pawelek and a handful of other officials spoke glowingly of what the Eagle Ford Shale play has done for their county. They didn't dwell on the traffic or the congestion or the certainty that this prosperity is fleeting. Right now, it was all about the promise on the horizon, what Karnes could become if the story ends differently this time. Maybe this time it'll be a different story when the oil companies pack up and leave. Maybe this time they'll be able to watch them go and not have to wonder how they'll survive until the next boom.
Shaw wants to build Karnes, to make it a place people will want to live in and raise their kids, to staunch the flow of the young people who leave and never come back.
"This is the neatest little place on Earth, so I think while we have the ability to build it, let's build it," she said. "One of these days these people are going to go away, but we'll still be here ... and I think we'll be OK."


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World's Largest Gorilla Preserved by New Art of Sculpturdermy (Jan, 1938)
I love how these people kill an animal and then talk about how they have "brought it to life". Check out the last page in this pictorial. It is really bizarre.
World's Largest Gorilla Preserved by New Art of Sculpturdermy
In the Remarkable Series of Pictures Reproduced on these Pages, You See How Sculpture and Taxidermy Were Combined To Re-Create a Rare Animal Specimen
AMAZINGLY lifelike, the mounted body of the world's largest gorilla, a 500-pound giant, is being put on exhibition at the Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia, Pa. The enormous brute, together with its mate and baby, were bagged by a recent West African expedition led by George Vanderbilt, New York sportsman and explorer. The delicate work of mounting the gorillas was accomplished at the Jonas Brothers Studios, in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. On these four pages, you find pictured the successive steps, combining sculpture and taxidermy, which "brought to life" the jungle family. As an initial step, the experts assembled the bones of the skeleton by means of wires and steel rods. On this framework, Louis Jonas modeled the body of the brute in clay. Coating this with a lubricant, he applied successive layers of plaster of Paris. After this mold was dry, it was removed in sections and into each part an assistant pressed layer after layer of wet paper which dried to form a light, tough, papier-mache body, the parts of which were glued and nailed together.
Before the skin was put in place, the papier-mache was coated with a flexible plaster containing nine secret ingredients. This material remains plastic for a considerable time and enables the taxidermists to press and pinch the skin into the wrinkles and lines which give the finished work its amazing realism. The technique which has been developed at the Mt. Vernon studios is called sculpturdermy.
Scientists who have examined the Vanderbilt gorilla estimate it is thirty-five years old. It stands six feet high and, with both arms extended, has a reach of fully nine feet. Its neck is twenty-eight inches in circumference and its chest measures sixty-eight inches, contracted, and seventy-eight, expanded. Surprisingly little is known about the life of gorillas. They are shy vegetarians, dwelling in the deep forests and soon dying in captivity.


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Roland V-Piano Evolution Update Now Available
Roland has announced the V-Piano Evolution System Program Update, which adds two new Vintage and Vanguard piano models to enhance the sonic possibilities for the V-Piano.
Soaring beyond the limits of previous sample-based instruments, the V-Piano's revolutionary Component Object Sound Modeling creates a "living" piano engine that has won acclaim from the world's finest pianists.
The V-Piano offers two distinct types of piano modeling: Vintage and Vanguard. Vintage replicates the sound of the world's finest acoustic pianos, while Vanguard allows the pianist to create new and innovative instruments beyond the limitations of the traditional acoustic piano.
The V-Piano Evolution adds two new instruments to each piano category. In the Vintage category, Vertical faithfully reproduces the warm sound of an upright piano, and V1 Impactance features a Vintage 1 piano equipped with heavier hammers for more power and energy. In the Vanguard category, Triple Large features an extended piano body and tripled copper wrapped strings on each key, while Metallic SB is based on the previous All Silver model. With a new virtual soundboard made of thin metal boards sandwiched between thin wooden boards, the Metallic SB piano sound creates a unique metallic tonal character.


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You'd be hard-pressed to find a person who doesn't think it's a good idea to stem the foreclosure crisis that helped kick off the broader financial meltdown and continues to exacerbate weakness in the economy. You'd also have a tough time getting any two groups with skin in the game to agree to the best way to do that. As the Bush Administration considers proposals for restructuring mortgages borrowers can no longer afford, the debate about what would help the most extends into the highest levels of government.
One early suggestion, floated by the FDIC, is to tap the Treasury's $700 billion bailout fund to share in lenders' losses, hopefully sparking them to do more deals. But Treasury and the White House haven't immediately hopped onboard. One concern: guarantees would incentivize lenders to let more houses slip into foreclosure. The track record of programs so far illustrates how difficult it can be to get things right. What would have to happen to make one work? Four main things:


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A new traveling exhibition looks at six months in 1961 when more than 400 courageous Americans — old and young, black and white, men and women, Northern and Southern — risked their lives to challenge segregated facilities in the South. The "Freedom Riders" exhibition combines powerful photography and news coverage of the 1961 Freedom Rides and examines the movement from many perspectives —that of the Riders, the Kennedy administration, and the international community.
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Last week I was asking around for some tips on evaluating dps classes with World of Logs and my guildmate Jaymz was kind enough to write a post on Feral Kitties which he said I could post here (thanks!). My full guide on evaluating raiders (especially healers) with WoL can be found here.
Here are the things you should be looking for when evaluating Kitties.
Debuffs Applied
First thing you do is find out what buffs they are responsible for. If there is a Bear in the raid the Kitty would not be responsible for Faerie Fire nor Mangle since the Bear would take care of those. But if there is no Bear, a Kitty should keep up Faerie Fire.
Go to the individual player's Details page and go to the Buffs Cast tab.
Faerie Fire
This should be 99% uptime or very close to it. The only downside to Faerie Fire is that it is on the spell hit table which requires 17% hit to guarantee no misses, and no good Kitty is going to get 17% spell hit, so there are some instances where the uptime will be slightly less. You can determine if the kitty is missing or simply isn't applying by checking the Expression Editor (spell="Faerie Fire"). FF is on a 6 second cooldown so there shouldn't be too much downtime regardless. A properly specced Kitty will apply all three stacks of Faerie Fire with 1 button press and it will show in the Expression Editor as such. This debuff lasts 5 minutes with one application.
This is another debuff that should be up 95% or more of the time, if the Kitty is responsible for keeping it up. Keep in mind Arms Warriors, Sub Rogues, and Feral Bears also apply this debuff so a Kitty won't need to use Mangle if you have one of these in the raid. This should be re-applied approximately once a minute. There is no benefit to refreshing this debuff early except when you can't get behind the target. This debuff is extremely important to Kitty and overall raid dps and no bleed should ever be applied without this debuff on the boss.
You want Rake's uptime to be 90% or more (great Kitties will keep it up 95% +), provided you have proper uptime on the boss. Rake lasts 15 seconds when properly specced, thus you should see applications every 12-15 secons. Due to how often Rake ticks it is accepted and recommended to refresh it with < 3 seconds remaining on the debuff, or < 7 seconds if you've just used Tiger's Fury (see below). The first application of Rake will be without Tiger's Fury, but it should be re-applied after using Tiger's Fury the first time, and then use the rule above.
The uptime on Rip should be 90% or more. Rip should be applied with 5 combo points and you want its first application to come after your first Tiger's Fury so that it is buffed (All this can be checked using the expression editor timeline for the two spells). There are many outside factors that will affect Rip. Unlike most DoTs, Rip can not be re-applied with a less powerful Rip (judged by attack power and/or agility), you will get the error "A more powerful spell is already active" if you try, thus any buff that gives a temporary increase in Agility will cause Kitties to have to let Rip drop off before they can reapply a new one. This will affect the uptime. Rip can be extended by either Shred or Mangle. It starts off as a 16 second debuff but can and should be extended out to 22 seconds with Shred (or Mangle if you can't Shred the boss). Like Rake, Rip should be refreshed with < 3 seconds remaining on the debuff when no outside buffs prevent you from doing so.
Buffs Cast
Savage Roar
Should have at least 90% uptime. There are some fight mechanics that hurt this if there are periods of downtime off the boss or the fight is extremely short. This buff is not as important as the debuffs listed above and thus should be the first to suffer when the Kitty has to change targets or move off the boss for any length of time. You want to apply this buff with 5 combo points when you can but it is not absolutely necessary, if refreshing it early with fewer will help maintain all other buffs and debuffs by all means do so. It's the buff itself that matters not the length of the application.
Predator's Swiftness
This buff outside of the Kitty's control, but should have relatively (based on finishing moves used) good uptime and can be used very effectively if the kitty needs to Rebirth someone (The kitty should build 5 combos, use a finishing move – Rip, Savage Roar, Ferocious Bite – and then Rebirth on the next GCD, thus making the Rebirth an instant cast). This can be used for an emergency Healing Touch if the situation is extremely dire.
Primal Madness
This will proc anytime a Kitty uses Tiger's Fury or Berserk. The Kitty should use up all of their energy before this buff falls off. If they don't they are hurting themselves, because the extra energy gained disappears when the buff does.
Tiger's Fury
Tiger's Fury has a 30 secon cooldown and should be used on CD, always! Kitties want to do their best to apply and refresh bleeds (Rip and Rake) when this buff is active. They also want to use this just before they cast Berserk. Properly specced (King of the Jungle) a Kitty will regain 60 energy on top of Tiger's Fury's natural 15% damage increase. The Berserk buff itself will prevent you from using Tiger's Fury. This, combined with the energy boost, damage increase, and timing, is why you want to use TF before Berserk. Of course you don't want to use this when you're already full on energy because then the 60 energy you would gain is a waste. So target switching or downtime off the boss will have some effect on TF usage. With 4 piece T13 every time TF is used the Kitty will gain the Stampede buff (see below).
This buff makes all abilities cost half as much energy and has a 3 minute cooldown. Normally this should be used early and then again when it's available. However, certain bosses like Zon'ozz and Hagara have phases where they take extra damage and the Kitty should use Berserk at those phases, even if it results in less uses per fight. When possible using Berserk with Heroism is also advised.
Omen of Clarity procs, which make your next ability free of cost – are not controllable by the Kitty and should be used to Shred on single target or to Swipe when there are 4/5 or more targets. Some Kitties use OoC procs during Berserk and with 5 combo points on Ferocious Bite, this is perfectly acceptable and can be a dps increase as long as it doesn't affect the uptimes of any other Buffs or Debuffs.
Barkskin has a 1 minute cooldown and should be used when the Kitty is taking heavy damage. Most fights have a phase or mechanic that this is saved for. If there isn't a specific phase but there is raid-wide damage going out this should be used often.
This buff is gained after using Feral Charge (or with 4pc T13 after using Tiger's Fury). It allows the Kitty to use Ravage without stealth or positional requirements once within the next 8 seconds. This Ravage will also not cost any energy. More about Ravage! in the "Damage by Spell" section.
King of the Jungle
This will proc each time Tiger's Fury is used in Cat form or Enrage is used in Bear form – divide energy gained by 60 and it should match the usage of Tiger's Fury.
Other buffs/debuffs you might see on this tab are trinkets, weapon procs, potions, etc. If there are potions or on use trinkets listed they should be used along with other buffs like Tiger's Fury and Berserk. In general though other things listed on the Buffs Cast tab are not controlled by the Kitty themselves.
Examples: Fiery Claws (2pc T12), Fury of the Beast, Beast Fury, Devour, Matrix Restablized, Leader of the Pack, Lightning Strike, etc.
Damage by Actor
This is where you can see if the Kitty is attacking the proper target. Due to Feral Swiftness and Feral Charge a Kitty should have good uptime on targets if they are switching when appropriate. Due to the ramp up time of Feral DPS, uptime does not translate into high DPS however, especially if the new target dies fairly quickly.
Damage by Spell
Here you can see the abilities that make up the Kitty's damage. The order that the abilities will appear will depend heavily on how the player has geared and the encounter itself. Heavy mastery gearing will result in much higher bleed damage (Rip, Rake), while Haste gearing will mean much more damage from Shred and melee. Please note that neither gearing method will always make one ability be the top damage, it will simply increase the numbers those abilities do.
Rip, Rake, and Shred should always be high on this list and things like Mangle (except on fight like Ultraxion where you can't get behind the boss) and Ferocious Bite should be low.
You can see Dodges (Do), Misses (Mi), and Parries (Pa) on the far right, if they occur. As an in general rule Parries are very bad because that means the Kitty is in front of the boss, so either the Kitty or the tank are in the wrong position. Dodges and misses are less of an issue because unlike most classes Kitty Druids aren't GCD capped and many don't actively seek Hit and Expertise caps. However, if the Kitty is having issues with keeping their bleed uptimes high, a quick easy fix outside of practicing the rotation is to get more Expertise and/or Hit.
On a normal boss encounter you shouldn't see things like Ravage, Maim, Claw, or Pounce listed here unless there are unusual boss mechanics (interrupts for example). The one exception is the Ravage! that is free after using Feral Charge. This Ravage! should match the number of Stampede procs. It should be used after Tiger's Fury when possible. However, if the Kitty has 4 piece T13, this changes. Tiger's Fury will proc Stampede so the Ravage! from Feral Charge should be used before Tiger's Fury, and then the new one should be used within the damage buff increase of Tiger's Fury (6 sec duration).
There are many more ways to use World of Logs to help improve or evaluate Kitty Druids. You can use the Expression Editor to check bleed clipping and DPS CD stacking, for example. But this is the "quick" (haha) and easy way to evaluate a Kitty at a glance.
In short it's all about UPTIME, UPTIME, UPTIME!


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One spring, when my son Michael was 6, we heard the shrieks of a baby rabbit outside. I went out and grabbed it and shooed away the cat. The rabbit seemed to be in shock, so we put it in a large grocery bag with some water and a carrot.
The next morning it was dead. That night I went upstairs to say "good night" to Michael and he cried - perhaps because on that day, he learned the world was a hard, cruel place, where no quarter was given for innocence, and he grieved for a world he thought he knew, a world now lost.
At Sandy Hook, it was as if we all lost something. Another boundary crossed - now it's 6-year-old kids? But on present trends it won't be the last bloody outrage.
Some tortured soul watches the tube and sees how it's done, how you get noticed, this is how you get people to stop ignoring whatever grievance you're nursing and pretending you don't matter. Yeah, you just go kill people. Look at the coverage. That really gets noticed.
The customary bonfire over guns broke out soon after. It's understandable that people want to do something and perhaps this time something constructive will emerge. But this is about more than guns.
Mexico has strict gun laws, but guess who ended up with the weapons? Judging by news accounts, parts of the country are free-fire zones. Switzerland hasn't been free of mass public shootings, but it has a very low crime rate despite widespread gun ownership.
What does Switzerland have that Mexico doesn't? You'd think that might be a fruitful line of inquiry, along with exploring better ways to spot people who are mentally unbalanced and prone to violence. Decades ago, the laws on involuntary civil commitment were loosened and many people were deinstitutionalized. Did those changes go too far?
It's also hard to shake the feeling that some essential glue is coming unstuck in our civilization, even though violent crime has fallen overall. You get a sense of a steady fraying at the edges; the things that strike us as extreme seem progressively more extreme.
In the last century, maybe you could say this was happening to entire countries. Wars brought slaughter on a scale never before seen. Now whatever solvent is at work is down in the granular level of society, in families and relationships. Many are becoming atomized particles free of attachment.
The glue that holds us together is what scholars call social capital. It fosters families and the voluntary networks that make communities work through cooperation rather than compulsion.
But building social capital exacts a subtle cost in personal freedom. A community rich in social capital is a peaceful place, the best sort of place for people, especially children, to flourish. But it says, "I'm watching you," and the members of that community know that if they stray too far they may pay a price.
We've moved far beyond that in many ways. In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray writes that the values that once kept lower-income white families together - and buttressed America's prosperity - are dissolving, leaking from low-income America and concentrating in upscale America, where divorce has dropped and out-of-wedlock births are rare.
Among many low-income families, a perverse kind of personal freedom - freedom of the most destructive sort - is winning over restraint and commitment.
The voice that says "You don't own me, You can't tell me what to do, I'll show them, To hell with them all!" - that voice is the siren song of our age.
We all have those moments, but a few are driven to actions that remind us our primitive origins are not buried as deeply as we supposed. And yes, these agonized loners get what they want.
They get noticed. Part of any solution involves politics and policy, especially a reassessment of how we care for the mentally ill. But more broadly, it also has to do with social capital, and I don't know how you fix that solely with politics.
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"I was a field player until I was 12 or 13," said Shelton. "Our goalkeeper broke her arm. They asked for a volunteer."
She seldom left the net again.
She became known for her colorful uniform and shoe choices, as well as for her enthusiasm and sense of humor. But she can look back and say, without question, that there were times when it wasn't all that much fun to be a goalkeeper on a team that struggled for goals and wins throughout her career.
She is the new Atlantic Sun career all-time saves leader with 565 entering her final game Friday with Murray State at 6 at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. Shelton and midfielder Sara Green will be honored on "Senior" Night.
"The saves record is fantastic," said Shelton. "But if we lose it doesn't matter how many saves I have. We still lost. We win as a team. We lose as a team. I am just put in a position where individually I am going to stick out more than anyone else."
Shelton has collected more individual awards than anyone in the history of the program. But she has paid a price, playing her freshman season with a dislocated kneecap and then having to sit out a season. She was still recovering from shoulder issues when this season began.
"I had played some of last season with a shoulder problem," said Shelton. "The team did a lot better job protecting me this season. It was stated at the beginning of the season that if we wanted to win games we had to play good defense. We had some girls in the back who have stepped up this season and played like they have never played before. If it wasn't for that other teams would have hammered me for 40 shots a game."
Lady Bisons coach Jon Ireland wanted his team to not only cut down on shots, but to reduce the number of quality shots.
"Last year we gave up too many quality shots from places like 18-yards in the box that were forcing Katie to have to dive, do a full extension or have to tip it over the cross bar," said Ireland. She has not had to make a ton of tough saves this season. She has made big saves, but she hasn't had to dive all over the place. By limiting the quality shots we have allowed Katie to make the three or four spectacular saves that keep us in a game."
Ireland inherited Shelton as the goalkeeper two seasons ago when he took over the program. He realized quickly that she was a top performer at her position.
"When I saw her workout I realized she was very athletic," said Ireland. "On this level you have to have size as a keeper and have a strong enough body to withstand all of the hits that you take.
"She has all the tools she needs to be a very, very good goalkeeper. A lot of kids have athletic ability and size but what separates her is her determination and competitiveness. She hates to lose. She hates giving up goals. When she gives up a goal all you have to do is look at her face. She is going to let her defenders know that she is not happy."
As a freshman in high school she played the sweeper position. She played in goal as a sophomore at Beech High School in Hendersonville, Tenn., but she also split time at the forward spot.
As a junior she realized that her place for the rest of her high school career would be in the net. She admits she wasn't all that enamored with the prospects.
"In the beginning I was a little upset about it," said Shelton. "Our team was really good at the time. When you play for a good team, and you are the goalkeeper, you don't get to participate all that much.
"It was very difficult for me to go from being a field player to goalkeeper. I was always that person who wanted to be a part of every single play. In the beginning I was a little bitter about it."
Shelton was also a basketball player and had received several small college offers. She needed more financial help and decided being a goalkeeper was the path she needed to follow.
She received some extra incentive from a coach that told her she would never play as a goalkeeper on the NCAA Division I level.
"The coach told me I was a workhorse on the field, but I would never make it as a keeper," said Shelton. "That added fuel to the fire for me. I wanted to prove him wrong. When I graduate I want to be able to say I was Division I goalkeeper.
"It was a personal goal. Forwards that want to be the best they can be want to score goals. My job is to not allow that to happen. Lots of goals have been scored against me, but I've done the best I can do."
Shelton had a goal to be a Division I player, but Lipscomb wasn't in her plans originally.
"It was kind of a last minute decision for me to come to Lipscomb," said Shelton. "I was going to Tennessee-Martin, but Jenger Parrish (former Lady Bisons coach) came along and made me an offer.
"I wanted to be a Division I player. I realized my junior year that I had a better chance of playing goalkeeper in college than being a field player. My junior and senior years I took it fairly seriously. I trained every day, even on the days the team was off."
Before she committed to Lipscomb she talked to several of the players already on the team. They told her she would not be bored due to a lack of activity in goal.
"They told me I was going to have my work cut out for me," said Shelton. "I wanted to come in and help give us a chance to win some games. I wanted to be able to come in and turn the program around and try to make a difference."
Ireland stresses that Shelton has accomplished that goal. With Shelton between the pipes the Lady Bisons always have felt they had a chance to win.
"The pressure at her position is greater than any other," said Ireland. "It is a team game, but without question she has been a huge reason why we have gotten the results we have had this year.
"With this program struggling her willingness to not ever give up and to continue no matter who we were playing or how many goals we had given up was amazing. To have that many saves you have to have something inside of you that is bigger than you athletic ability. She is willing to make a save no matter what the score or the time left in the game."
In addition to the career saves record, she is the only Lady Bisons soccer player to ever be named First Team All-Atlantic Sun. She was the Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Year in 2007. In 2006 she was ranked No. 1 nationally in saves with 206. Shelton has served as team captain for the past two seasons.
Shelton admits that she has mixed emotions about her last game.
"It will be very exciting," said Shelton. "It is the last soccer game I see myself ever playing in.
"But I am excited to see what the program is going to do and what the next goalkeeper is going to do. It is exciting to me because it is a chapter of my life that is closing."


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Hannity challenged MMFA to "print the truth" but continued to ignore evidence debunking claim Sudan offered bin Laden to Clinton
ABC Radio host Sean Hannity used his July 23 radio show to take on Media Matters for America President and CEO David Brock as well as his "liberal-media-attack-conservative website," and he continued to assert, falsely, that former President Bill Clinton refused a 1996 offer from Sudan to hand Osama bin Laden over to the United States -- a claim that the 9-11 Commission found "no reliable evidence to support."
From the July 23 broadcast of The Sean Hannity Show, which is nationally syndicated by ABC Radio Networks:
HANNITY: David Brock used to be a conservative, now he's a liberal. I -- you know, how does one go from one political point of view to another political point of view? ... And now he claims to be the-the number-one liberal media watchdog man against conservatives in the media. Well, and -- the -- there's -- now there's this website of his. OK, so they are now today attacking me for exposing this very important story [of the supposed Sudan offer].
HANNITY: Look, if Brock has changed his philosophical point of view, that's fine. I - you know that's his business, he can say anything he wants on his website, he can call me a liar all they want, when in fact we have absolutely nailed this.
Hannity was responding to a July 23 Media Matters for America item, which reported that Hannity "thrice repeated the false claim that former President Bill Clinton refused a 1996 offer from the Sudan to handover Osama bin Laden to the United States," a claim originating in an August 11, 2002, article by the right-wing website NewsMax.com that distorted a 2002 Clinton speech. Hannity also repeated the claim on the June 21 and July 22 editions of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, as Media Matters for America has previously noted.
From the July 23 broadcast of The Sean Hannity Show:
HANNITY: I distorted nothing here, and the person that agrees with me is Bill Clinton himself. And I wonder if they're gonna print the truth for you here on this little liberal web-website.
The 2002 NewsMax.com claim (credited to "Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com staff" ) is summarized in the article's headline: "Clinton Admits: I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer."
Not exactly. Here's what Clinton said before the Long Island Association on February 15, 2002:
He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan.
At no point did Clinton say that Sudan offered bin Laden to the United States.
Hannity's assertion that "the person that agrees with me is Bill Clinton himself" is an apparent reference to a July 8 interview the former president gave to CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, in which he explained that there were discussions in 1996 within the Justice Department over whether the United States had enough evidence that bin Laden "committed an offense against the United States" to justify holding him. He acknowledged in the interview that by referring to these discussions in the 2002 speech, he wrongly implied that the United States was offered bin Laden.
While Clinton's statements during his interview with Amanpour represent a first instance of his "admitting" that the speech implied an offer (as Hannity noted), it does not provide additional evidence for that claim's validity (as Hannity asserted). In fact, Clinton immediately followed his comment by stating that the implication is not "factually accurate."
From a transcript of the July 8 CNN interview with Amanpour:
CLINTON: [W]hat I said there was wrong. What I said was in error. I went back now and did all this research for my book and I said that we were told we couldn't hold him, implying that we had a chance to get him and didn't. That's not factually accurate.
The bipartisan 9-11 Commission found "no reliable evidence to support" the claim that Sudan offered bin Laden to the United States and determined that, based on Clinton's testimony, in "wrongly recounting a number of press stories he had read," Clinton had "misspoken" in his 2002 speech.
Hannity dismissed Clinton's statements in the July 8 CNN interview; in his July 23 radio broadcast, Hannity called Clinton a "known liar." Yet it is on a single comment by this "known liar" that Hannity has entirely based his claim, repeatedly ignoring the findings of the 9-11 Commission.


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ANTONIO BAUTISTA AIR BASE, Philippines -- Three MV-22B Ospreys and approximately 30 Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 conducted low-altitude flight training here Jan. 23-24, marking the Marine Corps' first Osprey training in the Republic of the Philippines.
The Marines flew routes approved by the Philippine government and used during previous flight training exercises. The flights also marked the first low-altitude training the squadron has conducted since arriving to Okinawa.
"The flights we conducted are important for our pilots and crews to maintain proficiency," said Maj. Joshua T. Fraser, the operations officer for VMM-265, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force. "The routes here provide a great venue for low-altitude training."
Philippine Air Force members accompanied Marines on the flights, providing an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the aircraft and learn about its capabilities firsthand from the pilots and crew.
"It was exciting to fly in the Osprey and experience what it can do," said Tech. Sgt. Edwin Agang, operations chief for 570th Composite Tactical Wing, PAF. "The Marines flew by the same rules and regulations the Philippine Air Force abides by and used similar routes to those flown by our aircraft."
Marines also briefed PAF personnel on the capabilities of the MV-22 Osprey and gave tours of static displays of the aircraft, emphasizing its ability to support diverse missions including combat, disaster relief and noncombatant evacuation operations.
"We appreciated the Marines coming down and taking time to discuss the Osprey with us, answer our questions, and provide us tours," said Agang. "We are glad to host them at our base and look forward to future bilateral training opportunities with the U.S. Marines."
The low-altitude training the Marines conducted is critical for the squadron's pilots and the crew, according to Fraser.
"Pilots may have to fly at low altitudes for a variety of reasons, from evading detection by enemy aircraft and radar to locating and evacuating casualties or delivering troops and supplies," said Fraser.
"The assigned mission and terrain will dictate altitudes for flight, so it is important Osprey pilots train at low altitudes."
The squadron was able to meet all its goals for its first training evolution in the Republic of the Philippines, conducting both day and night low-altitude flights. The Marines look forward to returning for future training alongside Philippine Armed Forces personnel, according to Fraser.


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Ireland add six to training squad
ESPN Staff
September 24, 2012
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Ireland have made six changes to their two-day training squad with Munster centre James Downey getting the nod.
Downey moved to Munster in the off-season from Northampton and replaces the injured Gordon D'Arcy in the squad. There are other changes with Leinster's Ian Madigan, Ulster's Paul Marshall, Connacht's Ronan Loughney, Leinster's Devin Toner and Ulster's Craig Gilroy included in the 33-man squad.
The quintet replaces Ronan O'Gara (leg), Eoin Reddan (leg), Declan Fitzpatrick (knee), Mike McCarthy (calf) and Simon Zebo (ankle) in the party.
Revised Ireland Training Squad: Rory Best (Ulster), Tommy Bowe (Ulster), Darren Cave (Ulster), Tom Court (Ulster), Sean Cronin (Leinster), James Downey (Munster), Keith Earls (Munster), Stephen Ferris (Ulster), Ronan Loughney (Connacht), Cian Healy (Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Iain Henderson (Ulster), Chris Henry (Ulster), Denis Hurley (Munster), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Conor Murray (Munster), Devin Toner (Leinster), Fergus McFadden (Leinster), Kevin McLaughlin (Leinster), David O'Callaghan (Munster), Donncha O'Callaghan (Munster), Paul O'Connell (Munster), Brian O'Driscoll (Leinster), Ian Madigan (Leinster), Peter O'Mahony (Munster), Paul Marshall (Ulster), Mike Ross (Leinster), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), Jonathan Sexton (Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ulster), Dan Tuohy (Ulster), Damien Varley (Munster), Craig Gilroy (Ulster)
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Just a note, there is SO MUCH out there about the Bachchan-Sea Link flap but none of it seems important. Well, nothing except Shotgun Sinha's comments (via @daddy'sgirlali) on the matter which, as always, are hilarious. Can we just get the guy a talk show and be done with it?
Sinha, who is apparently not on good terms with Bachchan despite the two working together in many a box office hits like Dostana, Kala Pathar, Shaan, and Naseeb, said "it is not a national duty of Amitabh Bachchan to propagate and promote, become brand ambassador right from digestive pill to hair oil or opening Bandra-Kurla sealink express.
* You know what story I'm all over, though: the one where Arshad Warsi does stuff! He talks about his upcoming film.
"My next step will be direction. I am working on a script," said Arshad. "The film will be a quirky, action comedy. It will be a Guy Ritchie kind of film with effective one-liners and stuff."
Dude, I have so many ideas for this - all excellent, of course, you know I have great taste - so hit me up!
Also, apparently Shortkut 2 is go. I can only hope that it's better than Shortkut 1, which was abysmal. I couldn't even finish watching it and I'm probably as big a fan as they come. Also, I could never finish Goal.
* See, this is why I loathe most critics: they hated Ranbir's Youngistan Ka Wow commercials! Who could hate this?
Thankfully not the public, who embraced Youngistan and now Ranbir is doing a super-pricy Pepsi ad which we all already knew about but it's still fun to see "Youngistan Ka WOW"!
Indian ads really are the best.
* Mumbai's gay community applauds Ricky Martin's decision to come out of the closet.
Make-up artiste Cherag Bambboat agrees. "I see so many people in the entertainment industry who are gay, but secretive. Though, now, things are changing. This gives Ricky so much dignity and self-respect, I am sure he would be more at peace now," he said.
* Shahid Kapoor travels back in time with school memories!
Remember any girls from your school days?
Yes. There was a girl in my school when I was in Standard 8 whom I had a crush on and I used to go to tuition class only because she went there but she was also keen on another guy and dhokha happened!
* Deepika Padukone is trying a new acting style in Housefull and believe me, I am excited to see it. Also, how did I miss that Housefull opens April 30th and not this weekend like I thought it did.
Clearly, I am in need of a professional scheduler. Any takers? I can't pay much (or anything) but I promise you that most of my life revolves around knowing things like when the new Akshay Kumar film opens.
* I love this story from Gurrinder Chadha:
"Sendhil flew to London and we had lunch," informs Chadha. "He said he was determined to be in one of my films and happily he was perfect for the role; a good-looking out of towner who has not been in touch with Roopie and her family for a while. Sendhil was great on set, extremely disciplined and conscientious, and he made many a female heart flutter when he did a take - and some guys too!" she laughs.
And read an interview with Sendhil!
How's your on-screen interaction been with Shabana Azmi?
I didn't have too many scenes on camera with Shabana. The only dialogues that we have were limited to me saying, 'Hello Aunty' and she saying, 'Hello Raj'. Off-screen, we had a good time. When I was in Mumbai to shoot Shor [note from FG-Ekta Kapoor's film], we had exchanged text messages. Someday, I'd want to do another film and even, a play with Shabana.
* Bebo is going to be playing a role based on the Marilyn Monore in Madhur Bhandarkar's next film. If I trust anybody to get the tragic life of Marilyn right, it's Bebo. Well, Kangana, too, but Bebo is a great choice.
* Jacqueline Fernandez didn't want to dub for herself in JKSAH.
"I am new to Hindi and this is why I was relieved when someone else dubbed for me in my debut flick ALADIN. For obvious reasons, I was always under the impression that same would be repeated in JAANE KAHAN SE AAYI HAI as well since my Hindi still hadn't reached perfection while I was shooting for the film."
But if she's an alien, then her Hindi wouldn't have to be perfect! Score! Maybe all aliens sound like they are from Sri Lanka... I mean, we can't say for sure that they don't...
* Bipasha Basu threw a temper tantrum at a promotional event and it sounds pretty bad. I wonder what happened to make Bips so upset...
The source adds that because Bipasha had come in late, she could only meet half the contest winners. The event had started without her, She refused to wait for an hour saying she was in a hurry and had to leave. The event managers and the brand folk refused. The actress got up, almost rudely ticking them off and stomped out to her car. In fact, she was so upset that she even left her managers behind before anyone could even react!
* Ranvir Shorey is going to be in a new movie!! Hooray!
The story talks about a group of people who find themselves in various situations that threaten their survival and when they try to get out of their respective mess, their greed and karma takes over them. The mixture of funny yet real life gives you a full dose of entertainment and comedy.
And one man who can easily handle a mixture of 'funny yet real life' is Ranvir Shorey!
Speaking of the man, I wish WISH I could go see his new play.
Based on "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" (the book recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders; patients who have lost their memories) by Oliver Sacks, the play saw temperatures soaring inside a city auditorium, even as Kolkata experienced thunder showers on Saturday evening.
* Oh, I love Miss Thing! Katrina is only going to do solo-heroine films from now on.
"I am not saying I won't do films with other leading ladies, but for now, I'm happy in the space I am. Why should I unnecessarily rock the boat? And yes, I am finally about to lock the deal to produce my film. It's a fabulous role and I've been angling for the remake rights for quite some time. I'd like to get down to it as soon as possible."
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Kevin McClatchy, for 11 years the head of the Pirates' ownership group and team CEO (and for 13 years part of the ownership group), came out publicly in a New York Times profile that's on newsstands today. In the piece, McClatchy explains why he came out to his family when he did:
He first began to accept that he was gay in his mid-20s. But he didn't tell anyone in his immediate family until just before his purchase of the Pirates, and did so then, he said, only because someone displeased with the deal threatened to go public with a rumor of McClatchy's sexual orientation unless he backed out. He correctly gambled that the threat was a bluff, but alerted his sister in case it wasn't.
This probably isn't the only time a team sale has nearly been scuttled by blackmail. Corporate espionage tries to turn up exactly this sort of stuff, and we only know about McClatchy's experience because he decided to talk about it 16 years later. The cliche that all these deals take place in closed-off back rooms choked with cigar smoke is likely wrong—even in 1996, when McClatchy's group bought the Pirates, it was probably a pristine glass-walled office with prospective buyers video-conferencing from Hong Kong or Paris—but there's still bound to be melodrama when you make an enormous purchase that enters you into a complicated public/private partnership. We probably don't hear the half of it.
McClatchy's situation is illustrative in the context of the Times article because of the nature of the rumor, but it's also fun to imagine what someone would try to blackmail you with if you ever had enough money to buy a team. For me...probably that internet video where I have sex in a Yankee stadium bathroom.


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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons golf team remains in 10th place after the second day of the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Tuesday at the Venetian Bay Golf Club in New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
The Lady Bisons have a team score of 683 (352, 331).
Katie Pursell, who has pared 24 holes in two rounds, leads the Lady Bisons for the second day. She is tied for 30th with a score of 156 (80, 76).
Mary Leigh Baker is 38th with a two-round total of 159 (84, 75).
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Thunderbirds creator Anderson dies at 83
GERRY Anderson, best known as the creator of Thunderbirds, has died at the age of 83.
The film and television producer, whose credits also included the puppet shows Captain Scarlet and Joe 90, had suffered for several years with mixed dementia and died in his sleep, his son announced on Wednesday.
The news came on his son Jamie Anderson's website. He wrote: ''I'm very sad to announce the death of my father, Thunderbirds creator, Gerry Anderson. He died peacefully in his sleep at midday today [December 26], having suffered with mixed dementia for the past few years.''
He requested that fans wishing to make donations in honour of his father should contribute to the Alzheimer's Society.
His website also included a tribute written by Anderson's fan club, known as Fanderson. Nick Williams, the chairman of the club, said: ''To those who met him, Gerry was a quiet, unassuming but determined man. Gerry's legacy is that he inspired so many people and continues to bring so much joy to so many millions of people around the world.''
Gerald Alexander Anderson - famous for the use of ''supermarionation'', or the use of modified puppets - was born in 1929 in Hampstead, north London, and began his career as a film trainee at the Ministry of Information before starting work at Gainsborough Pictures. He later set up AP Films with some friends.
With commissions thin on the ground Anderson and his team were eager to produce their first puppet show, The Adventures of Twizzle. Others including Torchy The Battery Boy, and Supercar followed. Success continued with Fireball XL5 and Stingray.
But it was Thunderbirds, filmed on the Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire, west of London, and first broadcast in 1965 that made his name. With the catchphrase ''Thunderbirds are go!'', the program revolved around International Rescue, a secret emergency service run by the Tracy family aided by London agent Lady Penelope and her butler, Parker.
Gerry Anderson leaves three children from former marriages, Joy, Linda and Gerry jnr, his son Jamie and wife Mary.
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Summary and Context
Today I will engage my students in a close reading of a narrative that we will focus on throughout this unit. The narrative has a complex storyline. I will be asking text-dependent questions to help the students go back to the text for the answers. Text-dependent are questions that can only be answered with evidence from the text. So I will review with them the word "evidence," again. This is the first reading of the story so the questions will be based on what the text explicitly says. Later lessons will dive in deeper into the author's craft and structure and then evaluation and analysis of the text. Also, the story is 24 pages long so reading the whole story in one day would be too much for them. That is why I am dividing the first reading in two days/lessons. Today we will read the first half of it.
The Common Core State Standards want students to read increasingly complex text. But students cannot be reading text on their own that is too difficult or that frustrates them. They need guidance to access the text on a deeper level, and that is the reason why I see the role of the teacher in the beginning as a bigger role. As the year goes on, students needs to take a bigger role accessing the different layers of meaning on their own.
As I read with my students, I am practicing the comprehension strategy of clarifying and asking questions. Also, we are practicing the vocabulary strategies of context clues, word structure (word parts: prefix, suffix, related words), and apposition (where the definition is given after the word) to guide them in figuring our the meaning of unfamiliar word.
After we read the text, I will engage my students in Socratic Seminar to explore more deeply questions what happened in the text based on evidence. After, my students will have a chance to respond in their journals and then share with each other their learning.
Lesson Opening:
I start with my students on the rug and share the student friendly objective: I can ask and answer questions to understand a text. I engage my students in a conversation about what words they understand in the standard and what they don't. I feel it is important to teach students the language of the standards. In this way we teaching to be aware of what they are doing.
I will review the Comprehension Strategies and the Vocabulary Strategies. I have taught my students both of these strategies before, so I invite you to teach these strategies separately, before using them both at the same time. I feel it could overwhelm the students to do all of it in one day if you have not covered these topics before.
At their desks, I ask my students to locate the narrative in their Table of Contents first. This practice helps them to internalize how to use a Table of Contents.
To help us keep track of our time, I rely on my timer. The students can clearly see how much time we have for this section and how fast time goes if they start to behave silly.
For the reading, I use the following reading techniques: cloze reading, (I read and leave a word out for them to read chorally), whisper reading, and silent reading. The whisper reading strategy helps them to transition to silent reading. With this narrative, they will do most of the reading because, by this time in the year, I know they can do it. I do the cloze reading to get us started and I will use it if I need to speed up the flow of the lesson.
For the text dependent questions, I will be asking the follow-up questions: "How do you know? Where in the text does it say that or show that?" The intention here is to train my students to go back into the text for the evidence.
Todays' focus in asking the text dependent questions is for my students to understand the action/events in the story. My expectation as I read with them that they are ready to answer with evidence from the story.
As we read, I will be making a list of the vocabulary words that they have a question about. We will use the different strategies we have learned to figure out complex vocabulary, including using context clues.
To have them understand the strategy of clarifying/clarification, I ask them, what did you find that was confusing in that part? Here with the word, cot, one of my students shares his confusion. This conversation helps the rest of the students comprehend the living conditions Tomas' family experienced as farm workers.
I gather my students back on the rug. I tell them to bring their anthologies and to sit on the edges of the rug. To help them move quickly to the carpet, I start to sing the song:
Meet me at the Golden Gate
If you're late don't wait
This song gets them to where they need to be quickly.
I start by letting them know why we are gathering on the rug. Though we have learned about Socratic Seminar expectations previously, I review the rules before we begin. I also share the Handing-Off discussion starters. I let them know this will help them to participate in the discussion independently.
Additionally, I reiterate that that in case someone disagrees with them, it has nothing to do with not being liked but it means the person has a different way of thinking about what we are discussing. I am looking for them to sit with their books open, to volunteer using the discussion starters, and to be polite with one another.
Today's discussion is about what we have learned about Tomas and his family.
I am also looking for them to answer with complete sentences and to provide text support for what they are saying.
I am attaching a document that explains more in depth how I implement Socratic Seminar in my classroom in case you are curious!
The students will end the lesson by working in their response journals to synthesize what they have learned today. They will be responding to the questions:
In answering these questions on their own, the students will need to provide evidence from the text to support their claims.
Here are some of their work samples:
As they work, I walk around and provide support with where they can find the evidence. I will guide them to the pages, though I will not read it for them.


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I am concerned about sustainable economic development. In Canada, the seal hunt is tightly regulated and sustainable: the Harp seal's population roughly increased from 2 million animals to 10 million in the space of 40 years. As of today, the natural balance of the Atlantic Coast's ecosystem is at risk because of the reduction in hunting, the threat of abolition and the recent overpopulation of the Harp seal.
In 2009, experts have come together to propose a code of ethics that guarantees sustainable seal hunt. As such, I invite you to consult the Universal Declaration on the Ethical Harvest of Seals. A document that is endorsed by the Governments of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and the Northwest Territories.
Regarding the control of animal species, the United States is currently considering repealing the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act to establish a new law called the Controlled Seal Population Plan (CSPP). This law would allow hunters to partake in a seal hunt to control the West Coast's booming sea lion population. In Canada, seal hunters value utilizing this resource to its full potential demonstrating their communities' full commitment to respecting nature.
Regarding the market for seal products, demand still exists for such products. Such is the case of chefs who serve seal meat in their restaurants in Quebec. Furthermore, the French Press Agency reported on February 28th 2012 that Russia was considering allowing the sale of canned seal meat in an attempt to control the seal population while providing food to its citizens.
Finally, I urge you to speak out against the looming extinction of the Mediterranean Monk Seal (total population 150-200 animals). This species has never been publicly defended by animal rights organization opposed to the sustainable Canadian seal hunt. Just like the European Union, the United States, Mexico and Russia.


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May 16, 2005-On any Sunday
On any Sunday in Hong Kong you will find crowds flocking to the outer islands.
Actually, on any Sunday in Hong Kong you will find crowds flocking everywhere. That is because there are around 7 million people living in Hong Kong, most of them work six days a week, and on Sundays they need to get out. There is an exodus from the city to the countryside. Often the WINGS crew is part of it.
We like to go sailing and in the Hong Kong area there is always an island to visit. If there is a bit of wind blowing we'll set sail and see which island the wind points us toward. For me, the best part is when the sails first fill and we sheet everything home and the boat heels to the power of the wind. But after I get my sailing fix, then we start to think about where to go. Recently we've been to Lamma, Peng Chau, and the Sokos.
Lamma was delightful, but really crowded. On any nice sunny Sunday it is like a country fair on Lamma Island: brimming with visitors, all the tourist shops are jammed, and the beaches and sidewalks are packed. Still, we took several friends and had a great time. We had a nice lunch at a good restaurant, did some shopping, and took a walk, and I shot some photos.
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We wrote about Peng Chau not long ago. That is the closest island to our home base at Discovery Bay, but it remains a favorite. Peng Chau Plaza And most recently we sailed to the Soko's.
The Soko's
We had a great sail to the Soko's, setting out in a nice ten knot breeze, south past the coast of Lantau, and past some of the outer islands, almost out of Hong Kong waters. The wind freshened as we skirted along the edge of the South China Sea, and on the approach to the Soko's we eased the sheets and romped along in a nice breeze and a boisterous ocean swell. We found our way into the channel between North and South Soko, poked our bow up into the wind, and dropped our hook in a pretty bay with a nice beach.
It is wonderful to have Wings rolling gently at anchor surrounded by beautiful sights such as these.
For an editorial comment on the future of the Soko's, see Sailor's Rants
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Hong Kong


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- An old cellphone charger with a proprietary connector that won't fit into anything standard.
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Phase 1: Rip open that cellphone charger connector's head and get to the two wires that will give you a 5v current (you can check that with your handy multimeter).
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- If you're not lucky: You have more than two wire and have to find the right two using your multimeter.
- If you're really not lucky: You have more than 5v and will have use that 5v current regulator.
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