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Scout Pascal Tessier, 16, center left, and his Eagle Scout brother Lucien Tessier, 20 - both gay - seen here with their parents, Oliver Tessier, left, and Tracie Felker, at their home in Kensington, Md.
Published at 11:43 a.m. ET: The Boy Scouts of America said Wednesday it needed "time for a more deliberate review" of its policy banning gay Scouts and leaders, delaying a final decision on the controversial membership guidelines that have dogged the private youth organization in recent years.
"In the past two weeks, Scouting has received an outpouring of feedback from the American public. It reinforces how deeply people care about Scouting and how passionate they are about the organization," the BSA said in a statement.
"After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America's National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy."
The roughly 1,400 voting members of Scouting's national council will take action on the resolution at the national meeting in May 2013, the organization said.
The BSA said last week it was considering changing the policy, leaving local sponsoring organizations free to decide for themselves whether to admit gay Scouts.
That announcement came just seven months after the BSA said it was sticking with its ban following a confidential two-year review and spurred advocates on both sides of the issue to step up their campaigns: They'd encouraged their backers to make their voices heard through a phone-in and email deluge.
A conservative group, the Family Research Council, said that it and 41 other groups ran a newspaper ad on Monday asking the BSA not to change the policy, and some conservative religious groups have urged their supporters to join in prayer to ask the board not to accept gays.
Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted as leader of her son's Tiger Cubs den last year because she is a lesbian, said she was heartbroken over the news. She and other gay rights' advocates had hoped instead to be welcoming what they feel is an overdue change amid recent gains for the LGBT community nationwide.
The Boy Scouts of America delays until May a vote on whether to end a ban on gay members. NBC's Jay Gray reports.
"I had so much faith that they would make the right decision," Tyrrell, a mother of four from Bridgeport, Ohio, said through tears. "So many people are supportive of this. For them to make the announcement that they are going to possibly change it and then delay it, I just feel is -- it doesn't make any sense."
She added: "A Scout is supposed to be brave. What are they waiting for? They know they are on the wrong side of history. They know that."
Courtesy Jennifer Tyrrell
Jennifer Tyrrell, of Bridgeport, Ohio, and her son Cruz. Tyrrell was ousted from her role as leader of her son's Tiger Cub den last year because she is gay.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which in 2011 sponsored 421,000 youth by chartering local troops, welcomed the decision.
"The Church is following this proposed policy change very closely," a spokesman for the church, Michael Purdy, said in an email. "We believe the BSA has acted wisely in delaying its decision until all voices can be heard on this important moral issue."
A coalition of Boy Scouts councils representing some 540,000 youth -- or 20 percent of the organization's 2.6 million active Scouts -- asked the national organization on Monday to delay a decision on ending the controversial policy, saying it was concerned "about the pace at which such actions are being taken," according to a statement posted on the website of the Utah-based Great Salt Lake Council.
Roger "Sing" Oldham, spokesman for the conservative Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, said the outpouring of feedback on the issue came as no surprise to him since his group felt the BSA had not allowed opponents of the change to weigh in on the proposal. Oldham said he had spoken with some troop leaders, pastors and parents -- some who said they would leave the BSA if the new policy was implemented.
With more than two-thirds of Scouting groups affiliated with religious bodies, faith plays a large role in the private youth organization.
Oldham said Wednesday that his group was "very pleased" with the decision to wait and solicit input from all members of the Scouting family.
"We continue to be hopeful, perhaps a little bit more guardedly optimistic than we were before, that the Scouting leadership, having heard from the American public, is going to realize that yes, while it is a divisive issue, that the net loss of changing the policy may be far greater than the net gain of changing the policy," he told NBC News.
Tyrrell's ousting came a few months before California teen Ryan Andresen was denied his Eagle award because he is gay.
Both cases made national headlines, roiling the BSA. Some critics pointed to declining membership numbers as a sign that families were being turned off over the issue. The controversy also prompted a few hundred Eagle Scouts to turn in their hard-earned regalia in protest of the ban, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2000.
Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout and son of a lesbian couple who started Scouts for Equality to campaign for gays to be included, said Wednesday's action by the board was "an abdication of responsibility."
"Unfortunately, the BSA now has to answer to ... the hundreds of thousands of Scouts that had their hopes raised and then (subsequently) crushed by this announcement," he said. "It is disappointing, no doubt about it, no doubt about it."
If you are a current or former member of the Boy Scouts and would like to share your thoughts on how your troop, pack or council is handling the BSA's decision on the membership policy, you can email the reporter at firstname.lastname@example.com. We may use some comments for a follow-up story, so please specify if your remarks can be used and provide your name, hometown, age, Boy Scout affiliation and a phone number.
After years of heartache, gay Scouts and supporters react warily over proposal to lift ban
'Gravely distressed': Religion looms large over Boy Scouts decision on gays
Gay teen denied Eagle Scout: 'Change is happening' over Boy Scouts anti-gay policy


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bias against (someone or something)
A prejudice against someone or something. That teacher just seems to have a bias against me—she never calls on me in class, and she grades my papers so harshly. My father has a bias against that company because he dislikes its outspoken CEO. The bias against hiring women that exists in this company is painfully obvious.
See also: bias
bias someone against someone or something
to prejudice someone against someone or something. Please avoid biasing everyone against me. One bad experience biased all of us against that brand of sausage.
See also: bias

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BRUSSELS — The European Union approved a new common patent system on Tuesday designed to cut red tape and streamline patent procedures across much of Europe.
The European Parliament concluded the drawn-out decision-making process, backing a cluster of packages by a wide majority to end nearly four decades of fighting and negotiating over the issue.
Currently, patents are filed in individual EU nations, and ending the convoluted procedure is seen as key to reduce costs and boost innovation with cheaper patents.
"This is an historic agreement because it has taken us many decades to get here," said EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier.
On Tuesday, 25 of the EU's 27 members approved the new patent system on. But a majority of the member countries' parliaments — including Britain, France and Germany — must approve the plan for it to be implemented on Jan. 1, 2014.
Italy and Spain wanted to derail the decision right up to the last minute when they filed actions with the EU's highest court, but the advocate general told the judges on Tuesday his advice was to dismiss their pleas. The full court often follows such advice.
In a typical battle between national pride and the common objectives, the two nations insisted their languages were being discriminated against since requests at the future European Patent Office will be processed in English, German or French.
"I hope that Spain and Italy will join this new regime as soon as possible," said Barnier.
Before that, the 27 member nations had argued about where the headquarters of the patent operation should be located and finally devised an intricate system in which three cities — Paris, London and Munich — would share the spoils.
Such a complicated system is not unheard of in the EU since its legislature now regularly has an expensive commute between Brussels and Strasbourg, France, several times a year.
Still, a common patent system, despite some flaws, should hold huge advantages over the national system as it exists now. Patents protect the rights of inventors and are seen as a key to fuel creativity and innovation.
EU officials said that the current complicated EU patent approval now costs about $46,800 compared to some $2,300 in the United States and some $800 in China.
The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization highlighted on Tuesday how the EU is lagging behind on patents.
China's patent office received 526,412 applications in 2011, ahead of the United States with 503,582 filings. In contrast, the European patent office had 142,793 applications in 2011, down 5.4 percent from 2010.
"One of the reasons for this difference is without a doubt the prohibitive cost and the complexity of obtaining patent protection," he said.
Under the new rules, patenting costs could come down by up to 80 percent once the system kicks in at the beginning of 2014, said Cecilia Wikstrom, of the ALDE liberal group in the European Parliament.
"A common European patent is key to strengthening Europe's competitiveness in a globalized world. We must be able to compete with the U.S, Japan and other developed countries,"Wikstrom said.


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May all young children have BRIGHT FUTURES as they begin their first school experiences!
Welcome to Peoria County Bright Futures early childhood where all young children are respected as unique individuals with special strengths and talents. This free program is granted by the Illinois State Board of Education to qualifying children and families living in Peoria County. Parents with babies and toddlers are offered parental support with home visits and small groups. The Pre-K classrooms are offered to three and four year olds in all school districts outside the city limits of Peoria. This countywide program is a Gold Circle of Quality program offering a quality program to prepare children for future school success and to prepare families for self-sufficiency. Programs offered include: home visits, prenatal and new parent support, parent workshops, preschool classrooms, family resources and networking opportunities.
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Please note: There is a 250lb weight capacity
Please arrive 15 minutes early for bike set up and safety tips, late arrivals will not be able to participate in class. Unfortunately there are no refunds so please arrive on time and come experience fitness on a different level. This class is for all fitness levels.


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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
|Antonin Dolohov's curse
|Hand Movement
Slashing movement
Inflicts pain or death
- "But the Death Eater… made a sudden slashing movement with his wand from which flew a streak of what looked like purple flame. It passed right across Hermione's chest; she gave a tiny "oh!" as though of surprise and then crumpled onto the floor."
- —Antonin Dolohov casting this curse nonverbally on Hermione Granger[src]
This curse (incantation unknown) was used by the Death Eater Antonin Dolohov during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996. The curse is cast using "a sudden slashing movement with the wand," causing a streak of purple flame to strike the target.[1] Given its exclusively harmful effects, it is presumed to be Dark magic.
The effects of this Dark curse are unknown, but it is very dangerous and potentially lethal. Given that Hermione Granger had no visible marks or bleeding from her injury with this curse,[1] but exhibited soreness for some time afterward,[2] it is probable that the curse causes some kind of painful internal injury.
Known usesEdit
- "She winced slightly and put a hand to her ribs. The curse Dolohov had used on her, though less effective than it would have been had he been able to say the incantation aloud, had nevertheless caused, in Madam Pomfrey's words, "quite enough damage to be going on with." Hermione was having to take ten different types of potion every day [...] "
- —Description of Hermione Granger's recovery from a nonverbal use of this curse[src]
Antonin Dolohov used the curse twice during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, first against Hermione Granger, who was knocked unconscious but survived.[1] Dolohov might have killed Hermione if he had been able to say the incantation, but his voice was taken by Hermione's Silencing Charm earlier in the battle[1] and the nonverbal version of the curse was not as powerful as it normally would be.
Afterward, Hermione had to take no less than ten different potions daily for an extended period of time, provided by the Hogwarts nurse, Madam Pomfrey.[2]
Other uses Edit
Dolohov used the curse again against Harry Potter later in the battle, but it was blunted by Harry's use of the Shield Charm. Harry described it as a "streak across his face like a blunt knife," and the force of the curse knocked him off his feet. Dolohov also attempted to use the curse against Sirius Black while they were duelling during the battle, but Harry managed to hit him with a Full Body-Bind Curse before he could complete the spell.[1]
This may be the curse Dolohov used to kill Remus Lupin during the Battle of Hogwarts, as it is noted that Remus's body was peaceful-looking,[3] and this curse is not known to cause any visible signs of damage.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the first video game adaption of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Dolohov uses this curse against Harry during the skirmish at Luchino Caffe.
- In the film adaption of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius appears to block Dolohov's curse if the film is paused at the right moment.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 35
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 38
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 33


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Which film title ends "Planet of the ________"?
This 1968 sci-fi cult classic was co-written by Rod Serling of "The Twilight Zone" fame. In it, astronauts land on a planet ruled by apes, who consider them innately inferior.
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The Swinging '60s were an epic era for film. Some of the best movies of all time were made during this decade. Test your 1960s film knowledge with this far out HowStuffWorks quiz!
This 1968 sci-fi cult classic was co-written by Rod Serling of "The Twilight Zone" fame. In it, astronauts land on a planet ruled by apes, who consider them innately inferior.
This classic thriller is a Western-style adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai." In it, residents of a Mexican village tyrannized by bandits hire 7 American gunslingers to defend them.
This 1961 animated Disney film is childhood favorite of many. In it cute puppies attempt to escape the clutches of the evil Cruella de Vil, who wants to make them into a fur coat.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is an iconic 1961 romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn. It is loosely based on a novella by Truman Capote.
This award-winning '67 film stars a young Dustin Hoffman as a directionless college graduate finds himself in an unusual love triangle. Simon and Garfunkel's music made up most of the film's famous soundtrack.
This 1963 comedy crime film is the first of the famous series. In it, the bumbling French police inspector Jacques Clouseau attempts to stop a jewel thief from stealing the famous Pink Panther jewel.
"Easy Rider" is a 1969 film in which a pair of drug-dealing Harley-riding hippies go on a cross-country search for truth. It was directed by Dennis Hopper.
"The Dirty Dozen" is a 1967 WWII thriller directed by Robert Aldrich. In the film, a rebellious US Army major is assigned 12 death row convicts to train and lead on an assassination mission.
"Bonnie and Clyde" is a 1967 crime film. In it, a bored small-town waitress and a petty crook become a couple and go on a violent cross-country escalating crime spree.
"Mary Poppins" is a 1964 Disney film. Julie Andrews stars as Mary Poppins, a magical nanny who helps bring a family together.
This award-winning 1961 musical drama is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet involving New York street gangs. It's based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name that's music is by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim.
This 1969 American Western film is one of the most famous of its genre. The most famous outlaw duo of all time runs to Bolivia to escape the law in this award-winning flick.
This 1964 Western stars Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name, a role which made him famous. He plays both sides of a power struggle for his own benefit in a Mexican village.
This 1964 award-winning musical comedy is based on a stage musical, which was based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. It stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney working-class girl who a snobbish professor attempts to transform into a high society lady.
"Doctor Zhivago" is a 1965 British-Italian romantic drama set in Russia. It is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time in Canada and the US but was banned in the USSR for decades.
This 1968 sci-fi film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of a short story by Arthur C. Clarke.
This award-winning 1967 film is based on the novel of the same name by John Ball. In it, an African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a Mississippi town where racial tension is high.
This 1962 crime film is based on the Pulitzer-prize-winning 1960 novel by Harper Lee. Things change for kids in a sleepy Alabama town when their lawyer father defends an African-American man against false rape charges.
This 1968 indie zombie flick is widely considered to be the film that kickstarted the entire zombie genre of horror films. It was directed and co-written by George A. Romero.
This 1965 romantic musical drama is one of the highest grossing films of all time in North America. It is based on the real-life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, who were one of the most famous concert groups in the world in the years before World War II.
"Cool Hand Luke" is a 1967 drama film. It stars Paul Newman as Luke Jackson, a southern man who earns the respect of prisoners and prison employees alike with his unbreakable will.
"Lawrence of Arabia" is a 1962 historical epic based on the life of T.E. Lawrence. It won 7 Academy Awards.
"The Wild Bunch" is a gritty American Western classic. Released originally in 1969, this film revolved around aging outlaws on a final robbery, which goes violently wrong.
This 1968 Spaghetti Western was co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. Initially not hugely popular, this tale of outlaws and railroad corruption has become a cult favorite and was appreciated by critics after its release.
Many people grew up watching this 1967 Disney classic about Mowgli, a boy raised by animals in the jungle. It's based on the book by Rudyard Kipling.
This 1966 Spaghetti Western film stars Clint Eastwood. It takes place in the Southwest during the Civil War.
1967's "Dr. No" launched the entire James Bond film franchise. Based on the novel by Ian Fleming, it stars Sean Connery as James Bond.
This 1964 rock and roll comedy was the first feature film of The Beatles. This mockumentary follows an unreal day in the life of the fab four.
This dark 1962 drama stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. In it, an aging former child star and her wheelchair-bound sister plot to destroy each other in the decaying Hollywood mansion they share.
In this 1967 comedy drama, an older couple who consider themselves liberals are forced to confront their own racism when their daughter brings her fiance, a black doctor, to meet them. It stars Katherine Houghton and Sidney Poitier as the couple.
This 1962 Western was directed by John Ford and stars James Stewart and John Wayne. This movie tells through flashbacks the story of two men who stood up to the outlaw Liberty Valance.
Roman Polanski wrote and directed this critically acclaimed 1968 thriller. In it, a young wife starts to think there is something evil and otherworldly about her baby.
This 1963 WWII epic film is based on the real-life escape of British prisoners of war from a Nazi POW camp. It stars Steve McQueen.
This 1964 nuclear black comedy was directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. In the film, a crazy general sets the global stage for nuclear holocaust and a war room full of politicians and military leaders try to undo it.
This 1962 romance film tells the tale of a love triangle between two men and one impulsive woman before and during WWI. In this influential film, the trio decides to live their lives to the fullest despite the war raging around them, which ends in complication and tragedy.
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This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.
15 years ago Ishibashi, Kawai and collaborators developed non-critical string field theory, starting with the formalism of dynamical triangulations. The same construction can be repeated using causal dynamical triangulations, and in this case one can actually sum explicitly over all genera. The theory can be viewed as stochastic quantization of space, proper (world sheet) time playing the role of stochastic time.
Path integral formulations for gauge theories must start from the canonical formulation in order to obtain the correct measure. A possible avenue to derive it is to start from the reduced phase space formulation. We review this rather involved procedure in full generality. Moreover, we demonstrate that the reduced phase space path integral formulation formally agrees with the Dirac's operator constraint quantisation and, more specifically, with the Master constraint quantisation for first class constraints.
The asymptotic formula for the Ponzano-Regge model amplitude is given for non-tardis triangulations of handlebodies in the limit of large boundary spins. The formula produces a sum over all possible immersions of the boundary triangulation in three dimensional Euclidean space weighted by the cosine of the Regge action evaluated on these immersions. Furthermore the asymptotic scaling registers the existence of flexible immersions.
The scaling analysis in the large spin limit of Feynman amplitudes for the Bosonic colored group field theory are considered in any dimension starting with dimension 4. By an explicit integration of two colors, we show that the model is positive. This formulation could be useful for the constructive analysis of this type of models.
Spin foam models aim at defining non-perturbative and background independent amplitudes for quantum gravity. In this work, I argue that the dynamics and the geometric properties of spin foam models can be nicely studied using recursion relations. In 3d gravity and in the 4d Ooguri model, the topological invariance leads to recursion relations for the amplitudes. I also derive recursions from the action of holonomy operators on spin network functionals.
After implementing an effective minimal length, we will present a new class of spacetimes, describing both neutral and charged black holes. As a result, we will improve the conventional Schwarzschild and Reisner-Nordstroem spacetimes, smearing out their singularities at the origin. On the thermodynamic side, we will show how the new black holes admit a maximum temperature, followed by the ``SCRAM phase'', a thermodynamic stable shut down, characterized by a positive black hole heat capacity.
The relation between loop quantum gravity (LQG) and ordinary quantum field theory (QFT) on a fixed background spacetime still bears many obstacles. When looking at LQG and ordinary QFT from a mathematical perspective it turns out that the two frameworks are rather different: Although LQG is a true continuum theory its Hilbert space is defined in terms of certain embedded graphs which are labeled by irreducible representations of SU(2). The natural arena for ordinary QFT, on the other hand, is a Fock space which strongly uses the metric properties of the underlying continuum spacetime.
How sure are you that spacetime is continuous? One approach to quantum gravity, causal set theory, models spacetime as a discrete structure: a causal set. This talk begins with a brief introduction to causal sets, then describes a new approach to modelling a quantum scalar field on a causal set. We obtain the Feynman propagator for the field by a novel procedure starting with the Pauli-Jordan commutation function. The candidate Feynman propagator is shown to agree with the continuum result. This model opens the door to physical predictions for scalar matter on a causal set.
We review some recent results on tachyon nonperturbative solutions of the nonlocal, lowest-level, effective action of string field theory. It is shown how nonlocality is encoded in a spacetime diffusion equation and how the latter emerges from the symmteries of the full, background-independent theory.
The idea behind an intersection between loop quantum gravity and noncommutative geometry is to combine elements of unification with a setup of canonical quantum gravity. In my talk I will first review the construction of a semi-finite spectral triple build over an algebra of holonomy loops. Here, the loop algebra is a noncommutative algebra of functions over a configurations space of connections, and the interaction between the Dirac type operator and the loop algebra captures information of the kinematical part of canonical quantum gravity.


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This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.
Chasing Visions is chapter one (1) of the prologue campaign, Exodus of the Horde, in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
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Somewhere in the Arathi Highlands, Thrall, the young warchief of the orcish Horde, wakes from his troubling dream.
Main Quests
Find the Prophet
- Objectives
- Follow the narrator's directions
- Find The Prophet
- Description
- The troubling dreams that have awakened Thrall foretell of a dark presence. Find The Prophet to quell Thrall's worries.
Mission Fails
- Thrall has been slain.
- Move commands can also be issued by selecting your units, then RIGHT-CLICKING on their destination.
- Scrolling the screen in this manner allows you to see different parts of the map.
- You can also scroll the screen using the UP, DOWN, LEFT, and RIGHT arrow keys.
- To see a list of messages displayed during your game, CLICK on the LOG button at the top of your screen.
- LEFT-CLICK on the ground, hold down the mouse button, then drag the cursor across the units you want to select.
- Attack move commands can also be issued by selecting your troops, pressing the "A" key, then LEFT-CLICKING on their destination.
- Units that are given attack move commands will automatically engage enemy units encountered along the way.
- The Hero icon in the top-left corner of your screen blinks red when the Hero is under attack, and displays a number if that Hero has unspent Hero points.
- To pick up an item, select Thrall and RIGHT-CLICK on the Treasure Chest.
- To see what a particular item does, move your cursor over the item in your Hero's inventory.
- A unit's current/maximum mana level is found beneath the unit portrait near the bottom-left corner of your screen.
- Use the Potion of Mana by LEFT-CLICKING on its icon in Thrall's inventory.
- Units cannot see as far at night as they can during the day.
- Unexplored areas often contain secrets or surprises that can be very useful.
- Sleeping monsters wake up when they are attacked.
- To see the difficulty level of a particular monster, move your cursor over it. Monsters range in difficulty from level 1 to level 10.
- Tomes disappear after being used, freeing up inventory slots for holding other items.
Intro cinematic
- Thrall: "What kind of nightmare was that?"
- The Prophet: "It was not a nightmare, young warchief, but a vision. Follow me, and I will reveal what your future holds."
- Thrall: "I don't know what this is all about, but I'll play along."
Throughout the mission
- Thrall: "Prepare yourselves! I sense a gnoll ahead!"
- Grunt: "Warchief, we've discovered a group of murloc raiders in the nearby river!"
- Thrall: "An ogre! We'd have a fierce battle on our hands if the beast weren't sleeping!"
- Thrall: "A golem! Watch yourselves, my brethren: those creatures do not sleep at night!"
- Thrall: "Forest trolls! I still can't believe they were ever a part of the Horde."
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- The Prophet: "Greetings, son of Durotan. I knew you'd find your way.."
- Thrall: "It was you I saw in the vision. Who are you? How do you know me?"
- The Prophet: "I know many things, young warchief, about you and your people. My identity, at this time, is unimportant. What is important is that you rally your people and leave these shores immediately."
- Thrall: "Leave? What's this all about, human?"
- The Prophet: "Human? I left my humanity behind long ago. I am something... different now. Know that I have seen the future and beheld the great burning shadow that is coming to consume this world. You sense it as well, don't you?"
- Thrall: "The demons ... are returning."
- The Prophet: "Yes. And only by leading your people across the sea, to the distant lands of Kalimdor, will you have a chance to stand against them!"
- Thrall: "But how could we —"
- The Prophet: "I will answer all of your questions in time, young warchief. For now, rally your warriors and prepare to leave this land. We will speak again."
- Thrall: "None of this makes sense, but the spirits tell me... that I should trust him."
- Narrator: "First, select Thrall. To do this, LEFT-CLICK on Thrall in the main window."
- Narrator: "Excellent. You seem eager to be on your way."
- Narrator: "However, you must first learn how to give orders to Thrall."
- Narrator: "Try ordering Thrall to move down the path towards the nearby banner. To do this, CLICK the cff64ff64MOVE button in the bottom-right corner of your screen, and then CLICK on the banner."
- Narrator: "Skillfully done. However, the orc encampment is still far off. In order to reach the next banner, scroll the screen to the north by moving your mouse to the top edge of the screen."
- Narrator: "Very good. The path to the next banner leads through a black area. This black area represents terrain that has not been discovered yet."
- Narrator: "Notice how the black area shrinks as Thrall moves through it. This reflects areas you have explored."
- Narrator: "Select Thrall and order him to move to the banner in the middle of the encampment."
- Narrator: "In order to have Thrall and his troops move together, you must first select all of them."
- Narrator: "Now that your troops are all selected, order them to move to the next banner."
- Narrator: "To order Thrall's forces to defeat this foul creature, select all of your troops, CLICK on the ATTACK button and then CLICK on the gnoll."
- Narrator: "Order your troops to perform an aggressive attack move into the enemy encampment. To do this, select all of your troops, CLICK the ATTACK button, and then LEFT-CLICK on the ground in the middle of the gnoll camp."
- Narrator: "Good job. Notice that Thrall gained a level from the experience that he earned in combat. Only heroes can acquire experience, allowing them to become incredibly powerful over time."
- Narrator: "Heroes gain a hero point whenever they advance in level. These points can be used to acquire new abilities or to improve previously learned ones."
- Narrator: "To spend Thrall's hero point, select him and CLICK on the HERO ABILITIES button in the bottom-right corner of your screen."
- Narrator: "Whenever you CLICK on the HERO ABILITIES button, the bottom-right corner of your screen changes to show what abilities can be learned."
- Narrator: "To spend Thrall's hero point and learn chain lightning, CLICK on the CHAIN LIGHTNING button in the bottom-right corner of your screen."
- Narrator: "The murlocs would make excellent targets for your new chain lightning spell. To have Thrall use his new ability, CLICK on the CHAIN LIGHTNING button, and then LEFT-CLICK on one of the murlocs."
- Narrator: "Some monsters drop treasure when they are defeated. Treasure chests hold powerful magic items that can only be picked up by heroes, such as Thrall."
- Narrator: "This particular treasure chest contained a useful potion of mana. Notice that the potion now occupies one of Thrall's inventory slots near the bottom middle of your screen."
- Narrator: "Potions of mana can be used to replenish a hero's mana, the magic energies that allow the casting of spells, such as chain lightning."
- Narrator: "Thrall is currently low on mana. Use the potion of mana to refresh Thrall and provide him with sufficient mana to cast additional spells."
- Narrator: "Order Thrall's forces to explore up the river, following the banners."
- Narrator: "Excellent. Thrall has found a magic ring. Rings are very useful because they provide a constant, passive benefit as long as they are carried."
- Narrator: "Very good. That treasure chest held a magic tome that can be used to give Thrall a permanent benefit."
- Thrall <Far Seer>
- The Prophet
- 3 Gnolls
- 1 Gnoll Poacher
- 6 Murloc Tiderunners
- 1 Ogre Warrior
- 3 Stone Golems
- 1 Forest Troll
- 1 Forest Troll Trapper
- 1 Forest Troll Berserker
- 2 Scurvy Pirates
The battle
Thrall awoke and went out of his camp. He found a mysterious Prophet, who told him to meet and he will reveal the future. He set out to find the Prophet and went to an encampment of the Horde where he recruited three grunts. On his way, he found a gnoll scout and his encampment, murloc raiders, an ogre warrior, some golems, and forest trolls which caused an impression on Thrall as he couldn't believe they were part of the Horde during the Second War. Thrall finally met with the Prophet which had seen the future. He told Thrall that the Burning Legion was returning and that he had to leave to Kalimdor, so that he and his people could be saved. He wasn't sure what decision to make, but the spirits told him to trust the Prophet.[3]
- There are two Scurvy Pirates in the map, they can only be seen with Thrall's Far Sight. There is a ship which probably was the way they reached the island and are guarding a Phat Lewt. They have each different stats, one of them has the same stats as a Bandit while the other has the same stats as a Brigand.
- [Phat Lewt]
- [Potion of Healing]
- [Potion of Mana]
- Manual of Health
- ^ Only three units are given and can die, Thrall can't die.
- ^ It is possible to kill all the creeps, except the Scurvy Pirates.
- ^ "Exodus of the Horde: Chasing Visions", Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Blizzard Entertainment.


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Two Philadelphians living in Israel must factor the Gaza conflict into their plans for starting new families.
JERUSALEM — When Yitz Lauterbach walked down the aisle to marry Maria Kharina on Aug. 21, at least 10 guests were absent from the crowd due to the renewed conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
"A bunch of people had to cancel because of it, and we have friends in the army who had emergency call-ups," said Lauterbach, a 28-year-old Northeast Philadelphia native who has been living mostly in Israel since he made aliyah in 2004.
"My grandmother almost had to cancel her flight because of it." Luckily, Bella Resnick, from Oxford Circle, ended up making it to the happy event.
The violence also made planning the wedding, which took place in view of Jerusalem's Western Wall, "insanity," Lauterbach said. Taking part in an intensive training course as a police cadet for Israel's riot unit, called "Yasam," didn't help.
"There were times when I was supposed to go home and take care of stuff for the wedding," Lauterbach said, but then his leave was canceled because his unit had to deal with riots in the West Bank.
The week of his wedding, Hamas militants fired rockets at Beersheva on Aug. 19, ending a five-day long cease-fire and putting to bed reports of an extended truce deal that had begun to circulate. On the actual day of the wedding, Israel killed three top Hamas commanders in targeted air strikes while calling up an additional 10,000 reservists.
Since then, the two sides have continued to trade rockets and missiles, and casualties have continued to mount, including the Aug. 22 death of 4-year-old Daniel Tregerman from a mortar attack outside his home near the Gaza border. On Aug. 26, a rocket struck a home in Ashkelon, injuring 28 from shards of glass and shock. A long-term cease-fire was announced later that evening.
As "frustrating" as the situation in Gaza has been, Lauterbach said, it didn't put a damper on his nuptials."
"My wedding was legendary because we decided to enjoy ourselves despite the situation," he said.
The couple also made sure that the rabbi officiating said a few words of prayer under the chupah for the 64 soldiers who have lost their lives so far during the conflict and to protect those still serving.
"We're very Zionist," Lauterbach explained. "We're getting married, but we have friends who are still in the army — it's important for us to remember them."
One of those soldiers, 31-year-old Nissim Slama from Jerusalem, received special leave from duty to attend the wedding. Slama was called up at the beginning of August in the second wave of reservists and has been serving in the southern part of the West Bank.
"I don't think when they planned the wedding they expected the army to be in full swing, but it doesn't surprise me that the conflict didn't cause them to change their plans," said Slama, who is himself engaged to be married in December.
"Their wedding sends a message:" Hamas can "shoot at us and think we're not strong, but at the end of the day we are continuing to have weddings and important life events and creating families, because this is our homeland, we don't have anywhere else."
Meanwhile, Hemi Leberman, who grew up in Merion on the Main Line and made aliyah in 2003, before joining the IDF two years later as a lone soldier, is expecting the birth of his first child, a daughter, next month.
He and his wife, Moran Chen, who is a native Israeli, are about to move from the Golan, where Leberman works as a park ranger at what is known as the Hexagon Poll in the Yehudiya nature reserve, to Moshav Mevo Beiter in central Israel to be closer to their parents.
Leberman's parents live in Jerusalem and Chen's are in Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Heh, named after 35 Haganah soldiers killed by Palestinians while trying to resupply the Gush Etzion kibbutzim during the Independence Day War in 1948. But the downside of the move, Leberman said, is that it will put them in range of the rockets.
"We had to look for a house with a proper bomb shelter," Leberman said. "Apart from that, it's been tough trying to keep Moran from watching the news all the time — that gets her stressed and that's not good for the baby."
Both Leberman and Lauterbach said last week that the collapse of the cease-fire could be a blessing in disguise because it shows that the army has more work to do in Gaza.
Both think that ground forces should re-enter the Strip to cause heavy damages to the Hamas infrastructure.
"I think about the future with a baby coming; I want Israel to go in and completely wipe out Hamas," said Leberman. "If that means that my daughter will be able to live in peace, then so be it."
Even if he is called up for reserves duty, Leberman thinks hitting Hamas is the right thing to do.
"As tough as it would be for me to go, it would be harder for me not to go," he said. "Even with everything, like me being about to become a father, how could I justify not going? Obviously I'd prefer not to, but if I'm called up then I will go, a hundred percent."


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During the weekend I spoke to a friend of mine from a Middle Eastern country. We spoke over a huge pile of Legos and the Bert-n-Ernie Garage and a full set of Thomas the Tank Engine trains (although, in all fairness, most were gifts). He was reminiscing about how he grew up with practically no toys: he and his brothers made toys out of wire and twine and cans and sticks. I spoke about my childhood – less simple, but still free for the most part of electronic gadgets. We watched a Euro 2008 match on satellite TV while we spoke, drank German beer and checked other sports score on my high-speed Internet laptop. Then my friend lamented the fact that while his mother had managed to support his whole family and grandparents on one salary, it just wasn't possible anymore.
It is. Take out the imported beer, the satellite TV, the piles of children's toys, the second car, the computers, the high-speed internet, and so on and it is. It's amazing how within the span of one generation we've added so many "extras" yet Americans are now working harder than any other industrialized nation – even more than the infamously hard-working Japanese. I may exempt the Internet from this equation, simply because what I pay for access – a $600 Toshiba laptop and a high-speed cable connection – are worth it in terms of information and learning and entertainment. Other than that, though, we have added so much to our lives that we've lost sight of the fact that we don't need most of it.
Yet at the same time America is unbearably wealthy by global standards. We have calories (not good ones, but calories nonetheless) available in almost unlimited supply. You can buy enough Cinnamon Toast Crunch to feed a family of four for a day for $10. Even the poorest people in America can afford television; and despite the recent increase in gas prices, we still have some of the cheapest gas in the world and almost no-one is too poor to afford a car.
I don't automatically assume that "having things" makes anyone unhappy, any more than I assume having things DOES make someone happy. Americans are uniquely blessed with a regulatory environment that is still wide-open by global standards, and the remnants of an entrepreneurial spirit that lives on despite 50 years of creep in governmental control. Yet at the same time a gap has opened up that shows that the materialistic society has limits. I have made no statistical studies, but I have so many acquaintances who are loaded down with material goods who are desperately unhappy and apprehensive about the future that it seems to be a trend. I'm not exaggerating, either – these people have possessions that would have convinced me, in my youth, that they were multimillionaires. So progress has been made in the material world, but something – somewhere – was lost.
I don't know what the answer is, because the Internet and cable/satellite TV and clever toys and gadgets like MP3 players have not seemed (and that's the key word) to be EVIL. I enjoy my MP3 player. Could I live without it? Of course. Does it enrich my life? It sure did today, when I listened to a fascinating interview on it. But is it part of a slow trickle of gadgets-for-money-for-time that have robbed me of the deliberate life? That's something each of us, in the wee hours, have to decide for ourselves.
photo credit: Joe Shlabotnik


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Skype for Symbian
In a recent conversation someone told me he believed there was a Skype for Symbian devices and I could not believe I missed it while looking for it.
So I did the obvious and typed in Google "Skype for Symbian" and the first sponsored link invites to download it directly from skype.com.
Great ! Not really. It does not exist. Or at least Skype is making it very hard to find :-)
Is this how ads work in the new world order ? Promote something that does not exist, hoping people might find something else they like instead of going to the competition. Bah!
This all despite the CEO promising to release a Symbian version as early as 2005 and recurring promises to release a Symbian version every X months. Should we look for another conspiracy theory here ?
skype for symbian through java
here is the link :
another skype for E71 option
you could also give Nimbuzz a try. It works fine for my E71.
skype for symbian
I use fring, which provides skype for symbian, as a well as a number of popular IM services
Hello you can download skype
Hello you can download skype from the website
iskoot is the official skype interface for mobiles phones. Three mobile is using this program on all the three phones
Sype for Symbian
Time to revisit this one.
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Legislative Impact Award
Honoree: Roy Ryals, Executive Director, Southwest Ambulance
Roy Ryals
Executive Director
Southwest Ambulance
Virtually every pre-hospital care related rule at the Arizona Department of Health Services, and every piece of related state legislation approved in the past 30 years, has something in common — Roy Ryals helped to write it.
Ryals, executive director for the Southwest region of Southwest Ambulance and Rural/Metro, is considered the pre-hospital regulatory expert and reference point. His knowledge and memory of the history behind decisions, and the far-reaching effects of every word that's written, has earned him the respect of both the industry and state regulators.
In effect, every patient in Arizona who has used an ambulance over the past 30 years has benefited from Ryals' intellect and participation in the legislative and regulatory process, whether he's at the state Capitol, in a board room, or in the back of an ambulance. Ryals has been appointed by four Arizona governors to the Emergency Medical Services Council and was named by three directors of Department of Health Services to the State Trauma Advisory Board.
He is president of the Arizona Ambulance Association and a registered lobbyist with the state. At Southwest Ambulance and Rural/Metro, Ryals is responsible for all contracts, regulatory issues and legislative oversight. He indirectly oversees all field employees through his involvement in medical protocols and regulation for field crews of both companies. He also manages Southwest's administrative leadership team and legislative consultants. Ryals began his career at Southwest Ambulance in 1987 as the executive director over Arizona medical transport.
Two years later, he was promoted to national director of EMS. In 1991, he became the regional chief operating officer overseeing system integration and regulatory compliance.
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Lifetime Achievement Award
Honoree: Joseph Rodgers, PH.D.
Joseph Rodgers, PH.D., Founder and Senior Scientist
Banner Sun Health Research Institute
Joseph Rogers, Ph.D., the motivating force behind Banner Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City, has devoted three decades to finding the cause of and cure for Alzheimer's disease. But the first work from researchers at the institute did not originate in multimillion-dollar labs or in high-tech facilities; they began their research at a card table with folding chairs.
The institute, a tribute to Rogers' tireless efforts in the field of Alzheimer's research, has created opportunities for intensive research into other age-related illnesses, including Parkinson's disease and arthritis. The discoveries already made at the institute, and those yet to come, promise to have significant benefits for millions around the world. Rogers, the institute's founder and senior scientist, was recruited in 1986 to develop the research facility.
His qualifications for this breakthrough role include a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego; a postdoctoral fellowship and service as a staff scientist at the Salk Institute; and immediately prior to his arrival in Arizona, he was at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, serving as a principal investigator within the New England Alzheimer's Disease Center at Harvard University. Rogers made the revolutionary discovery of the damage that inflammation causes to the Alzheimer's-affected brain. Initially, other scientists scoffed because conventional wisdom precluded the inflammatory process from entering the brain, but Rogers' discovery changed Alzheimer's research.
Under Rogers' leadership, the institute has attracted internationally recognized faculty and scientists, who have made their own compelling discoveries, including a direct linkage between Alzheimer's and high cholesterol, and a compound of drugs that has promise for significant benefit to those with rheumatoid arthritis. Another key to the institute's growth is its full-tissue repository, which Rogers initially developed as a brain bank soon after founding the institute.
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I like to store data in o/1 format.
eg. I need to values from 5 columns in one column.
I've parameters p1...p5... and value could be either 0 or 1.
So eg. if I want to store p1=1, p2=0,p3=1,p4=1,p5=0 ....
and I want to store these values in one column like 10110.
What datatype shd I use ???
If I use number is there way to store this type of data.


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I am using tree hash mode of Skein on a 16 core processor. Will it automatically employ parallelism using more than one cores or do I have to use multi-threading within the tree hash for parallel processing?
Also, the tree hash mode requires three parameters: leaf size encoding, fan-out encoding and tree height. Except for the last one, I am confused about the other two parameters, what are they exactly?


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by Moody Jim Rathbone
Life is often full of "unintended consequences" – consequences that aren't so unintended after all is said and done. Enter the "sad plight" of a lesbian couple that long for a child of their own, advertising for a sperm donor for "their child." In this case, a lesbian couple places an ad on Craigslist, in a effort to fill a hole in their life.
For many women, having a child seems to be a natural longing. However, this longing is often rooted in a personal lack of sufficiency rather than "hormones" or a real need. They want a person to act as their drug of choice, a little long-term "crack cocaine" to sedate their personal pain. They long to fill a void in their heart – a hole in the soul – an act that rarely works without hurting someone else. It's also an act that is no less selfish than the worst personal philandering of any rogue male.
Since homosexual relationships and single people cannot produce a child on their own, they need a little outside help to do so. What will these people do to have their personal "drug fix" of control? They will look for someone to fill the need, preferably some "Dudley Do-Right." In the end, someone will control a child and the man that provided the child. The "law" says so. The "law" will control them all, as it enriches a corporate system of plunder.
That is where people like William Marotta step in – where angels would fear to tread.
Marotta claims that if he had a nickel for every time it has been said that he's the sperm donor in the past three years, he'd have enough money to pay off the amount the state of Kansas wants in back child support.
Revolting. I'm not sure who is sicker here – the women, the man (in this case William Marotta) or the politicians that enforce immoral law that creates so much opportunity for abusive profit at taxpayer expense.
In this case, two women pretended to be open about their needs (as in an advertisement). They could have done as many single women have done, which is to lie to get what they want. All they need is to profess love to get what they want, or try a few one-night stands without birth control. There are enough willing men. The effect is the same as an advertisement and a written contract. In such a dire situation, the kind of personal drama where any man chooses to involve himself in such a way is accomplished at great personal risk.
He risks owing politicians, a corporate government and the "innocent women" that have been impregnated through an illicit web of lies. In effect, he risks his life. What's worse, in many cases, he brings what is really an unwanted child into the world, "a crack baby" of another sort, a child that will become a tool of the devil in the worst way.
Politicians have set the law up to enrich themselves under the pretense of morality and right. The state will place itself between the product of any relationship where it can benefit. In today's insane age of legal pedantics, the state of Kansas claims the right to govern all human stock, despite a contract that gave all parental rights of the child to a lesbian couple. The lesbian couple have spoke up, making a vain attempt to fight the state for their rights, but the Department of Child Services won't hear it. They told the lesbian protester that the matter was none of her business, and that she should go away – even when it involved her directly.
The state and federal government own you now – and you're pretty little offspring too.
Remember, anyone that has your sperm for any purpose (or the product of that sperm) has power or the potential of power over you – possibly until you die. That's the "law" – even if you're as "rich as Croesus" and without a lick of sense.
The system "that politicians built" holds all the cards – and the rights to all the wealth behind every child produced in the States. This is the "new morality." Your civil right is to support the state and political psychopaths. It's government exploitation at its worst. It must be stopped. What will do you about it?


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Masking tape: Duncan and Odell get tricky
When I walked into UVA's Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library to watch Monica Duncan and Lara Odell's video, Four-color Fire Pattern, my first thought was, "Oh, interesting— they've put up a still of an abstract painting between screenings." But then I noticed subtle movement within the frame and realized the vivid orange, yellow, black and brown camouflage pattern (like a hunter's jacket) was, in fact, part of Duncan and Odell's piece.
I put on the provided headphones and settled into a chair as the image changed. The colors moved out of the frame, one by one, revealing a scrubby hillside of wheat-colored grass beneath an azure sky. For several seconds, that's all there was: a hot and dry stretch of landscape, with only insects in the foreground and a slight breeze providing movement.
Abruptly, a yellow square appeared high on the hill, closely followed by a flash of orange to the right. The patches of color quickly became identifiable as two women traipsing down the hill— but just as quickly, pieces of their bodies began to disappear and re-appear. More figures spilled down the hillside, some in orange and yellow, others in brown or black, zigzagging back and forth as bits and pieces of them sliced in and out like ever-changing puzzle pieces. The scene was visually compelling but also confusing— what was going on?
Eventually, the women's torsos assembled one by one directly in front of the camera's lens, first orange and yellow, then brown and black, revealing a stencil overlay, which previously had blended seamlessly with the hillside. The overlay's flame-like cutouts were the key to the illusion of fragmentation as the women walked through its pattern while descending the hill. In addition, the filmmakers built up their footage, superimposing one image on top of another to create the impression of numerous women moving at once. Now the figures' colorful outfits, layered behind the stencil, served to create the abstract camouflage pattern I had originally encountered.
Only four and a half minutes long (watching it takes less time than reading this column), Four-color Fire Pattern works interesting magic, moving from realism to abstraction and from a monochromatic landscape to an eye-searing pattern of bright colors. Although the ambient soundtrack annoyingly blends static, insect buzzing, and wind across the microphone (de rigueur, it seems, for experimental filmmakers), the video is visually a light and tricky treat.
Monica Duncan and Lara Odell's video, Four-color Fire Pattern, is on view through June 3 at The Niche in the Fine Arts Library, located in the University of Virignia's Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library, Bayly Drive. 924-6938.


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OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department's boys' winter basketball league continued this week with a full slate of games at Northside Park. The following is a quick look at some of the action:
(bullet) OC Parrotheads 26- OC/Berlin Optimists 21: Darian McKenzie scored 11 points and Dashawn Wise added eight as the Parrotheads topped the Optimists.
(bullet) Old Pro Golf 26- Dough Roller 25: One point was the difference as Old Pro topped the Dough Roller. Torrey Brittingham led the winners with 13 points while Zach Eslin added six. Craig Snyder scored eight points for Dough Roller in defeat.
(bullet) Phillips Crabhouse 16- Fresco's 9: Five players got in the scorebook for Phillips despite scoring just 16 points in the win. Justin Meekins led the way with eight points. Jimmy Edmunds scored eight of his team's nine points in the loss.
(bullet) Fager's Island 16- Delmarva Irish 14: Thomas Dibuo scored 10 points to lead Fager's over the Irish. Owen Nally led the Irish with six points in defeat.
(bullet) Old Pro Golf 25- Phillips Crabhhouse 17: Torrey Brittingham scored 12 points and Zach Eslin added eight as Old Pro down Phillips Crabhouse.
(bullet) Carousel Hotel 50- House of Pancakes 36: Sam Richter scored 16 points while Josh Windett added 11 as the Carousel topped the House of Pancakes. D.J. Johnson went off for 21 points for the House of Pancakes in defeat.
(bullet) Carousel 52- OC Lions Club 39: Sam Richter followed up an earlier big game with 26 points as the Carousel beat the Lions. Matt Tribbitt and Ethan Kleinstuber each scored seven points for the Carousel. Justin Calloway led the Lions with 15 points.
(bullet) Red Sun Apparel 26- PNC Bank 26- Holden Wingate scored 11 of his team's 26 points as the two teams played to a tie. Jesse Borradaile scored nine points and Jacob Seiders added eight for PNC Bank in the loss.
(bullet) OC Parrotheads 18- Fager's Island 5: Brett Berquist and Garrett Tinus each scored four points to lead the Parrotheads over Fager's.
(bullet) House of Pancakes 44- Bonfire Restaurant 26: Andrew Durby scored 14 points and Michael Turner pitched in 13 as the House of Pancakes prevailed over the Bonfire. Storm Miles scored 10 points for the Bonfire in defeat.
(bullet) OC Rec Boosters 37- Dough Roller 24: Elio Telo scored 15 points to lead the Boosters over Dough Roller. Montez Purnell scored 10 points and Matt LaCompte added eight in the victory. Craig Snyder led the Dough Roller with 11 points in the loss.


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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - January 2008
2008 promises to be yet another year of successes on our conservation project out in the Peruvian Amazon. Last year ended on a high with the official recognition of our on-going work with rescued animals and the completion of our GPS map covering all the trails in the reserve so we had plenty of momentum as we moved into the New Year. As usually happens around this time of year we had just a few volunteers over the holidays but as January progressed we slowly grew in numbers and by the middle of the month we were at fighting strength once again!
Nevertheless there was plenty of work being done and since the rescue program was the highlight of December I shall pick up there once again. This month saw some highs and lows in the animal release centre as we said goodbye to an old inmate, received some new ones and suffered a couple of losses that served to reinforce the difficulties we face in our struggle to rehabilitate these mistreated pets. Some of you may recall that last year we tried to release Winston our collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) but he persistently returned and so we re-housed him in his old enclosure that he used to share with Winnie, our successfully released tapir. However, over the last couple of months he was becoming increasingly aggressive to manage comfortably, an attitude that will serve him well in the wild, and we needed the enclosure for our second tapir that had quickly outgrown her nursery accommodation! So with a make-shift sling we started the arduous task of carrying a fully grown peccary out to Briollo creek the furthermost point of our reserve. This time the release was successful and he has undoubtedly already come across one of the wild packs of peccaries we so often see around the reserve. So with Winston gone our young female tapir, Isabella, was moved into his large enclosure and there continues to grow at an incredible rate.
I never get tired of seeing these animals released back into their natural habitat and Winston was no exception. Our next releases are likely to be our dusky-headed parakeets (Aratinga weddellii) that we have moved into a larger enclosure to allow them to strengthen their now regenerated flight feathers. Our latest arrivals to the centre are a tiny S. American coati baby (Nasua nasua) that is being housed in our new juvenile enclosures and two red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) a sub-adult and juvenile. Both are in good health and whilst animals as young as the coati are usually problematical due to their age I am confident that this baby will make it as coatis are very resilient animals that will feed on anything from insects to fruit and eggs. I also have high expectations for the howler monkeys which is a species we have had trouble with before. I think that here we will be okay though as usually we get these monkeys when they are very young and cannot be placed in with the other primates. These youngsters crave social contact but cannot look after themselves in a group dynamic especially with individuals of different species. In this case the two howler monkeys are big enough to share the same cage and so I am confident that the social contact will help their survival chances.
Unfortunately there have been three loses this month in the program and these always cause us concern even if some mortalities are to be expected in such a project. Two of them can be labeled as almost freakish accidents whilst the other was very mystifying indeed. Our razor-billed currasow (Crax mitu) has been with us for two years now and was in excellent shape but unfortunately one of the wild residents of the reserve chewed through its cage and attacked the animal one night. Such persistence would suggest the work of the largest marsupial in the rainforest- the common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) - a known chicken-stealer and general nuisance to farmers. This incident is unfortunate but short of electric fences on all cages (impossible for our location) something that we could not have foreseen. The second casualty was one of the scarlet macaws (Ara macao) which appeared to be stung on its face by one of the rainforest's large wasp species and the shock and/or venom was enough to cause a heart attack. Both of these occurrences are very unfortunate and also unlikely so to receive two such occurrences in one month is something we should not expect to happen again. Nonetheless, the third mortality was our baby collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) which had been with us for over three months. The youngster was very active in its cage but had hardly grown at all during its time with us. Peccaries, like all members of the pig family, are usually very quick growers and so the stunted development would suggest a genetic problem or that the baby was in fact the runt of the litter. This would have signified a swifter death in the wild but having survived for so long in captivity I had hoped that the youngster would make it. These deaths, whilst unpleasant, are only to be expected in such work and as always we would do well to remember the successful releases and the certain fate of all our residents had they not been rescued and brought to Taricaya.
To finish up with the release program news we had one of our quickest releases of all time as a lady informed us of a stranded sloth just outside the town and so we duly went and collected it before transferring it down to the lodge. It turned out to be a brown-throated three toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) and it was released immediately upon arrival as the journey down river had stressed it out immensely and it was in danger of harming itself with its razor sharp claws. Sloths are not uncommon throughout their range but their inactivity makes finding them very difficult. We have seen several sloths over the years around the reserve and I am sure that the newcomer will soon find a mate and the abundance of suitable tree species for feeding, such as the Cercropias, will guarantee its survival for many years to come.
January also saw us working hard on the pilot farm as the heavy rains and longer days, and so more sunlight, meant that the weeds grew incredibly quickly, threatening to choke our saplings and flowers. Many hands were blistered as we struggled to keep on top of the invading jungle but as usual we were up to the task and our rows of flowers, coffee and cocoa are now recognizable once again. The pilot farm project does not often get more than a mention in these monthly updates as it is a project that has been with us for many years and has taken a long time to develop. It is obviously never going to surprise us from one moment to another such as the sighting of a large cat in the reserve or arrivals to the animal release program but it is the project that we have invested most time in over the years. The potential of the project to improve the standard of living for the local inhabitants and reduce their negative impact on the ecosystem is very exciting and each year we move closer to our goal. In 2008 I think that we will finally see the true extent of our hard work and patience as many of our earlier projects will start to reach fruition and this is a very exciting prospect. The idea of this model farm is to demonstrate how poly-cultures can be successful in the rainforest and our selection of the most economically viable products has made this all the more exciting to develop over the years. We have now reached a stage where our young mahogany trees are no longer under attack from the Ipsiphila moth and the majority now reach over three meters tall; the flowers are reproducing not just for sale but well enough for re-plantation in neighbouring farms; the donkeys are now ready and trained for working; the coffee and cocoa trees are now all old enough to produce; and still much more. Therefore 2008 promises to be the year when all these smaller projects finally gel together and we can see the overall success of these last five years of effort. I am truly excited about what we can expect as the individual successes have been very rewarding but an amalgamation of all these will be better yet.
February will see our numbers increase and hence we will be able to achieve even more and I just hope the heavy rains abate as we are already suffering one of the wettest starts to a year for a long time. We hope to start our newest research program next month also with the arrival of some botany students from Arequipa. The idea is to officially identify the different habitats around the reserve and this new information will be useful as we can use it to further process the findings from our other investigations as we will be able to relate bird, mammal and herpetology distribution data to specific forest types.
Stuart Timson
3rd February, 2008
Conservation Director,
Projects Abroad


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Easy Spicer Ball Joint Swap
One Part Number To Rule Them All
If you are like us, there is nothing you hate more than multiple trips to the parts store to complete one project. So we were tickled when we learned that Dana now offers a kit (PN 2020314) for '99 and later Ford Super Duty front axles that includes not only upper and lower ball joints but also all the related seals that tend to get hashed during installation.
We grabbed a kit and headed to High Rollin Customs to install new ball joints on a lifted F-250 with 38-inch Toyo Open Country M/Ts on 22-inch BMF rims. Add a heavy 7.3L diesel engine to the large tire and wheel combination, and ball joints don't last very long in this truck. Symptoms of worn ball joints can include vague steering, cupped tires, and even the dreaded death wobble.
High Rollin Customs services trucks like this on a regular basis. With all of the parts on hand from Dana, lead tech Joe Magliano was able to complete the installation in half a day without having to make any trips to the parts store, or to Ford for the dealer-only axle seals.


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Is Paris Burning?Opinion December 4, 2018
At the recent G-20 conference in Brazil, the European Union nations kept trying to get our
President Trump to reverse his course of taking America out of the Paris climate accords and
sign back on like a good fellow, and do the right thing, help save the planet.
Trump didn't and he won't and in fact, he scoffed at the preposterous notion of man-made global
climate change or of imposing onerous taxes on Americans for no logical reason. The whole
scheme is a wealth transfer scam that demands of the wealthy nations of the industrial world to
pony up their 'fair share' of financial support for the poorer nations of the world. Mind you,
The United States already has reduced its carbon emissions footprint far below the levels of any
other country in the world, yet we are still held out as the biggest offenders and they wonder
why we won't comply. I don't believe Trump is finished yet! Let's hear from China and India first.
Already the US spends more money on foreign policy matters much of which it seems ends up
in the private bank accounts of petite dictators. It's not hard to recognize a scam when we see
it. We give them money and they still vote against us in the UN. Their goal, of course, is worldwide
socialism and they expect we should pay for it. We can thank Democrats for that, and
especially that Obama creature. If Democrats are returned to power, we will.
How are silly schemes like the Paris climate accords, where each nation pledges (not promises)
to reduce greenhouse gases get funded? Easy, by each country enforcing compliance through
increased fuel taxes or, really, the taxing of all carbon producing products, i.e.: fossil fuels.
Well, the once popular young President of France, Manny Macron, did just that. He imposed a
carbon tax on motor fuel and set the streets of Paris on fire. At a stroke, he created a massive
civil protest that has turned deadly violent and quickly went viral with citizens setting fires to anything
on the streets of central Paris. "Is Paris Burning?" You bet it is and the Parisians haven't
had this much fun since the IFF helped drive out the Nazi's in WW2.
The French riots over the fuel tax have been going on for three weeks now. Why don't we hear
about it here? Because the Leftist media won't report on it. These riots have turned deadly and
ABC, NBC, and CNN refuse to mention the cause of the rioting was directly attributable to
Macrons carbon tax They mislead viewers by calling the riots a "simple fuel tax" or, as ABC's
World News Tonight anchor David Muir, called it, "rising living costs." ABC gave the story an
informative full twenty-one seconds air time. On NBC's website it was reported that Macron said
the increased fuel taxes was part of his effort "to combat climate change,"
However, CBS Evening News did reveal the real intentions of Macrons "fuel tax." Macron was
'booed' as he toured the damaged riot areas. Macron had vowed he "wouldn't back down on his
fuel taxes aimed at cutting carbon emissions," Well, guess what, he backed down!
I suspect we don't hear about the French riots because our homegrown Liberals want a carbon
tax like that too, but are now afraid of igniting similar riotous consequences. Democrats must, at
all costs, protect their plans to impose socialism on America. Everybody agrees to clean air and
water. Who can argue against that? But, if imposed, the Climate Agenda will push America's
middle class into complete penury and the poor will be crushed totally. We wouldn't even have
enough loose change left in our pockets to buy the ammunition we'll need to dissuade the
socialist from their evil plans. Embracing carbon taxes is a fools errand. Don't do it!
Remember, Liberty is the goal, the Constitution is the way, now, go get 'em! (04Dec18)


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A game for 2 people using a pack of cards Turn over 2 cards and try to make an odd number or a multiple of 3.
A game for 2 or more players with a pack of cards. Practise your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to hit the target score.
A game played with a standard pack of cards.
A simple game of patience which often comes out. Can you explain why?
All you need for this game is a pack of cards. While you play the game, think about strategies that will increase your chances of winning.
A magician took a suit of thirteen cards and held them in his hand face down. Every card he revealed had the same value as the one he had just finished spelling. How did this work?


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Samardzija dinged by Pirates as Cubs fall 4-0
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jeff Samardzija has some advice his pitching brethren when it comes to facing streaking Andrew McCutchen.
The way the Chicago Cubs' ace looks at it, trying to get the Pittsburgh Pirates' star out at the moment only opens yourself up for disaster.
"The next team that comes in here is probably better off pitching around him and letting him go to first base," Samardzija said.
Samardzija tried — and failed — to deal with the scorching McCutchen in Pittsburgh's 4-0 win on Thursday night. The reigning National League MVP doubled twice and drove in two runs as the Pirates cruised.
"I'm sure Jeff would to have those pitches back but McCutchen is also a good hitter and he's not missing right now," Chicago manager Rick Renteria said.
Not by a long shot.
McCutchen broke it open with a two-run double in the fifth off Samardzija (2-6) and is batting .428 (18 of 42) with 15 extra-base hits in June.
"I'm seeing the ball and I get a pitch to hit and I hit it and it's finding the gaps and that's basically what's happening right now for me," McCutchen said. "Things are just working out right now and I want to continue to stay where I'm at."
Russell Martin also doubled twice for the Pirates and rookie Gregory Polanco got a hit in the third straight game since his call-up. The Pirates had seven doubles in all, their highest total since a win over Houston in July 2010. Edinson Volquez (4-5) pitched seven effective innings to win for the third time in his last five starts.
Luis Valbuena had two doubles for the Cubs, who went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position to fall for the fourth time in five games. The Cubs have scored two runs or fewer in nine of Samardzija's 14 starts.
Chicago's troubles weren't just on offense on a night the worst road team in baseball fell to 0-9-3 in series played away from Wrigley Field this year. Samardzija struggled against a team that seems to be rounding into form behind its star center fielder.
"I felt I had good command and they didn't let me get away with any mistakes," said Samardzija, who gave up four runs on nine hits in six-plus innings, walking two and striking out seven. "I put a couple of cutters out over the plate to McCutchen and he made me pay."
McCutchen extended his hitting streak to eight straight by doubling with one out in the fourth before coming around to score when Martin smacked a ball off the wall in right field. Ike Davis scored two batters later on a sacrifice fly by Jordy Mercer to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead.
Pittsburgh made it 4-0 in the fifth when Polanco — batting leadoff for the first time — and Starling Marte hit consecutive singles followed by drive by McCutchen to the notch in left-center. McCutchen slid into the third on the play before making a rare mental miscue when he stepped off the base after popping up, allowing him to get tagged out in the process.
It hardly mattered. The Cubs were too busy wasting chances to get to Volquez, who has suddenly emerged as a constant on Pittsburgh's injury muddled pitching staff. After a bumpy patch in early May, Volquez is 3-1 with a 2.48 ERA in his last five starts.
He wasn't crisp against the Cubs but managed to avoid major trouble, wiggling out of two-on jams in the third, fifth and sixth innings. Volquez finished with two walks and five strikeouts while lowering his ERA to 3.89.
"(Volquez) was commanding the zone like he does when he is in a good place and we were on the other side of it," Renteria said.
NOTES: Chicago CF Emilio Bonifacio left in the first inning with a rib injury and did not return. ... The Cubs signed free agent C Yorvit Torrealba to a minor league deal Thursday. Torrealba, who played for Colorado last season, will report to Chicago's training complex in Mesa, Arizona. ... The Cubs continue a 10-game road trip on Friday in Philadelphia. Jake Arrieta (1-1, 2.50) starts for the Cubs against Roberto Hernandez (2-4, 4.35). ... The game was delayed twice by rain, 21 minutes before the first pitch and again for 1:14 in the bottom of the seventh.
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Google Wave was a pretty big step up from email – and maybe it was a bit too much of a step leap away from the email messaging we are all used to using for it to gain traction in the marketplace. What could be bridging that gap is Buzz, and it is on its way to all Gmail account owners right now.
In true Google fashion, they haven't built a new network, instead they've built a framework to facilitate the content from other networks into their own platform. To start with there is connections to pull in content from Twitter, Flickr, Picasa and Google Reader. I'd expect some kind of Facebook connection to be on its way soon enough. Then once you have connected your accounts all the content from them is aggregated within your Gmail account.
The killer feature of Buzz is something that should have the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla squirming – on iPhone and Android phones the Buzz mobile site can detect your location and tag your Buzz posts with your location, show nearby Buzz activity and also provide you with location relevant data from Google Maps. What's even more impressive is that its all done within a mobile site, not an app!


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This guest post is by Gab Goldenberg of The Advanced SEO Book.
In the last instalment of the Blog Design for ROI series, I discussed the importance of showering attention on your community using design elements.
The fourth commandment of blog design for ROI is to make your posts easy to read. This ensures that your message gets across even to first-time skimmers, which helps turn them into loyal readers (and post-sharers).
There are several elements that impact on the ease with which a post is read. The primary elements we'll cover here are:
- a clear starting point and end point
- the number of words per line
- inline sidebars, pull quotes, blockquotes and image captions
- tables of contents (useful mainly for long posts)
- author credits.
Each individual blog post should have clear start and end points
The web 2.0 design trend contributed positively to web design practices in this regard, as it led many people to show rounded-corner graphics at the tops and bottoms of blog posts.
In itself, the roundness or squareness of the corners doesn't matter. It's the presence of the corner graphics that matters, because they indicate the beginning and end of the post.
You can see bottom-corner graphics in this old design of SEOBook.com's blog:
In contrast to the above, it's hard to distinguish where posts in WordPress's Toolbox theme start and end, for lack of such graphic hints. Toolbox Theme, pictured below, uses large-font blue text links to show that a new post is starting.
If you didn't know the site was a blog, though, you wouldn't necessarily know that the links were the start of new posts, as I discovered in usability testing. Also, the blog's name is only a little larger than the post titles. Using corner graphics clearly makes it easier to know when a post starts and ends.
That being said, the date, post categories and tags do help to distinguish the start and ends of posts. (And kudos to this theme's designers for avoiding the calendar date icons, which are just distracting graphics.)
I'm not saying Toolbox is bad, it's just that there's an important improvement possible here. The flip-side is that the Toolbox theme gets some advantages from this light use of graphics, like fast loading times.
Line length and font size
Just as some forms of print are easier to read, so too it's easier to read some particular text layouts online. For blogs, this means somewhere between 12-16 words per line, with about 12-point type.
Obviously this will vary a bit if you choose to accomodate older readers who typically prefer larger type (13 point of 14-point font sizes), but this rule is a good starting point.
Look at the legibility of my SEO blog's design in terms of the number of words per line, in the next image. There are a lot of words—20-22 words in each line!
In contrast, you'll find that Problogger has 12-15 words per line.
These shorter lines are a lot more manageable and mentally rewarding, as readers feel that they are making progress more quickly.
It's similar when kids choose a book with a large font and wide margins for their book report, so they can have done their homework (reading the book) in less time.
Besides your default post width and font size, which will determine post design, certain graphic elements also help readers speed through posts—and enjoy and understand them more…
Post-embedded sidebars, blockquotes, pull quotes, and image captions
Our blog posts need to be visually appealing not for the sake of art, but to help break up large sections of text into more manageable, bite-size pieces.
Pull quotes and blockquotes
Pull quotes and blockquotes, as well as post-embedded sidebars, help shorten some of the lines in your posts. This helps the reader feel like they'll get through the post quickly.
Pull quotes are those quotes that appear on the side of a main block of text, and highlight an important quotation. (This also makes them a text tidbit, which I'll discuss more below.)
In this, pull quotes are different from blockquotes, because blockquotes are typically complete paragraphs that are part of the main column of text. Smashing Magazine does a good job explaining the details of different quote types.
Blockquotes shorten a line by being indented, as you can see with the yellow line to the left of the content below.
Post-embedded sidebars
Here's what a post-embedded sidebar looks like (see the right-hand side of this picture), for those who haven't yet seen one.
Do you see how the sidebar makes the main body of text narrower? This lets people to get through each line faster. It's important also that the sidebar has a distinct appearance thanks to its grey background color. (You could use a border instead.)
Note: A post-embedded sidebar is different from the blog's main sidebar.
The post-embedded sidebar offers information related to a specific post, such as biographical information on a person being interviewed, or background context on a story. The main sidebar is unrelated to a specific post and offers general information and navigation for the site overall.
Text tidbits: subheaders, bullets and image captions
I call these elements "text tidbits," as they're the little bits that get read most—they're read by regular readers but also by skimmers who may skip other content, so that these tidbits are worth spending time on.
Since image captions are very highly read text tidbits, it's important that blog themes include a caption element—even the basic grey background that is the default in WordPress.
In my personal experience, custom theme designs often forget to include a caption element. Words typed into the caption area of WordPress' image uploader appear out of place, if they appear at all. This means visitors read fewer words, lowering the chances that they will become loyal readers.
Tables of contents
If you're writing a long post with many sections, readers will find it useful to preview what the sections are. This way they can pick and choose what interests them.
Wikipedia of course, is the master of this technique:
The question of whether to follow Wikipedia's approach of placing the table of contents as its own unique paragraph in the main body of text (as opposed to having the text wrap around it), is debatable.
On the one hand, this placement achieves the introduction's goal, telling us what is to come. And this placement's visual weight promotes use of the table of contents. On the other hand, a table of contents around which the main text wraps may prove less obtrusive while still communicating its point.
The answer to this question depends in part on the rest of your design, and so informal usability testing is the best way to choose which alignment option to choose.
Author profile information
It's debatable where post authors should get credit for the post, but this matters both for new blogs and for blogs looking to encourage guest posting. On the one hand, leaving the bio to the end of the post rewards authors less—not every reader will read to the end. But placing too much content at the start of a post can be annoying for readers.
I'm in favour of a balanced approach: reward authors by showing the author's photo and a one- or two- sentence bio with links at the start of a post. Then place a more expansive bio at the end for people who really must find out more.
The Fanciest Author Box plugin is an elegant way to create the more expansive bio:
The balanced approach benefits both the post author and the blog owner. When visitors see a respected, familiar face at the start of a post, they're more likely to stay and read. And as I mentioned before, the use of images (regardless of what exactly they are) lightens a post and makes it more readable.
Blog post design pointers
When choosing graphic design options for your post, always aim to facilitate a quick read that will fully express your message. The more they absorb your message, the better for you and your blog's ROI.
- Ensure people know where one post ends and the next starts, so that readers scanning homepages and archive pages can easily choose a post to read.
- Keep the line length down to 12-15 words to help visitors read more. Occasionally, make lines even shorter with some attractive pull quotes, sidebars, and blockquotes, as this helps move readers through your post.
- When writing long posts, offer a content preview in the form of a table of contents. That way people know if they'll read something of interest from the very beginning.
- Post author credits are an important reward for encouraging guest posts, so share some love at the start—but save the whole personal bio for the end.
How does your blog post design stack up against these guidelines? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Gab Goldenberg wrote The Advanced SEO Book – and you can get a free chapter here. Gab and Internet Marketing Ninjas, the folks behind the Blog Design for ROI series here on Problogger, are offering to mail you a free print copy of the Blog Design for ROI guide as a small book. Get your free copy from seoroi.com/blog-design-for-roi.


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Daily 5:
|I looked up from my guided reading group and saw that he had taken the paper for the alphabet font sorting and was using it for his puzzle. What a great idea!
|Added a writing piece that the students MUST finish sometime that week for work on writing. I like how it makes the students accountable in this area. I write each student's name on the top so I know exactly who hasn't finished.
I saw lots of bloggers with amazing labeling lessons (especially for their apple unit) so we made and labeled our pumpkins!


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|Wayne Anderson
It's safe to say Vandal Athletics has been a significant part of Wayne Anderson's life. He played football and baseball for the Vandals; was the head coach in baseball and basketball, and an assistant in football, and was an assistant athletic director. He was chosen the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year for baseball in 1965-66.