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Further Research Because of many uncertainties we were unable to draw conclusive results about whether Aumsville Wetlands should be used as salmon habitat. Because our tests were only taken once, we do not know what the range of variability throughout the year would be for our results. Although our research does not draw any conclusive evidence that the wetlands site could and would be used by salmon, it did not indicate any factors were present that would completely rule out Aumsville Wetlands from being viable salmon habitat either. The research that we have completed indicates that the large pond on the Northern end of the Aumsville Wetlands site to be used by salmon during the winter for rearing. It is for that reason that we recommend that further research be done to determine whether or not this site is viable salmon habitat.
Water Quality A habitat requirement that could be a limiting fact to salmon is the water temperature. The temperatures we recorded were at the high end of salmon's optimal range. Water temperature varies throughout the year, and would probably be too warm in the summer. Because the salmon mainly use wetlands in the winter most of the time the water temperature would not be a limiting factor. Water temperature may become a problem if it increases too quickly during the spring. "Elevated water temperatures can accelerate the onset of smoltification and shorten the smolting period and may result in seaward migration of smolts at a time when conditions are unfavorable" (Wedemeyer et.al. 1980). In order to determine if this was a factor, the water temperature at the site would need to be tested throughout the year. Future monitoring of the water quality of the site would also be needed to determine if this was viable salmon habitat. Our water quality testes were only taken only one time, and may therefore be subject to errors. Also, all of the factors we tested vary seasonally, so a full range of measurements throughout the year would be recommended. Because of our limited resources, we were not able to test the full range of depths in the pond. Testing all the different variables at a full range of depths in the middle of the pond would provide a more complete picture of the water quality at the Aumsville site. It would also bring to the surface any unknown hazards that may lurk in the depths. This information could also be used to determining the suitability of Aumsville Wetlands as habitat for many other species.
Predation Another factor, which we were not able to completely examine, is predation. The site is already known to be habitat for bullfrogs (crana catesbeiana), which often prey on salmon eggs (Marion county website). It is still unknown if there are other predators that would have an effect on salmon that would use the wetlands area.
Accessibility to Site We recommend that the passageways to the site be more thoroughly examined. The number of obstructions to salmon passage and the cost of modifying them would be a severe limiting factor to the use of this site by salmon. In order for the Salmon to have access to the pond, a barrier at the north east of the pond to the stream would have to be removed. Whether this is possible and if it would have other negative effects on other types of wildlife would have to be examined before any action could be taken.
Feasibility An important consideration is if the benefit of taking the steps to make the site salmon habitat is worth the benefits. Current populations of salmon within the Mill Creak system may be so low that the wetlands site would only be used by a small number of fish. Other species may be negatively affected by changes. Lastly, the monetary cost of any changes would have to be thoroughly researched.


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Without Borders: The Story of a Bi-national Same-sex Couple
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- Brad Mattan, RPCV, Ecuador
As each group of Peace Corps trainees boards the plane after staging, no one trainee truly knows what the next two years will bring. Indeed, the possibilities are truly endless. While most expect to gain experience in international development work or even learn more about themselves and the world, one thing that most typically do not expect is to fall in love and eventually marry a special someone from his or her country of service.
I write this as I await takeoff from Quito's International Airport. I am returning from my second trip back to Ecuador since my Close of Service in 2010. Though my visit was only a week, it was a very meaningful one for me and my partner, Raúl, as we celebrated our civil union (legal in Ecuador since 2008). Like most Peace Corps Volunteers, I did not expect to fall in love with and marry an Ecuadorian. In fact, I was generally opposed to the possibility, a sentiment shared by many of my fellow RPCVs, several of whom ended up marrying Ecuadorians! Life has a way of producing unexpected turns.
Like other bi-national couples I have had the pleasure of meeting, Raúl and I experience our share of challenges and rewards. In addition to those are the challenges and rewards that come with being a same-sex bi-national couple at the beginning of the 2010's. Among the most difficult obstacles we face is the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law that prohibits the federal government from granting the 1,138 benefits, rights and privileges bestowed by marriage to married same-sex couples. Among the rights DOMA denies to same-sex couples is the ability for a US citizen to sponsor his or her partner for a green card. Unlike many RPCVs who marry non-US citizens and begin a life together in the US, same-sex couples like Raúl and me are barred from doing so. In spite of such difficulties, Raúl and I have shared some memorable moments unique to our relationship. Such experiences have allowed us to grow ever closer and maintain hope for our future even in the face of formidable obstacles and great distances.
Our Story
Raúl and I met about halfway through my Peace Corps service through a mutual acquaintance. We shared an instant connection from the first time we met. After a couple of months of hesitation on my part, Raúl finally convinced me to accept what we both felt for each other and we began our relationship. From that time until the end of my Peace Corps service we were inseparable. He met my host family in Baños, the highland parish where I lived, and I met his family on the coast.
Of course, we kept our relationship a secret from the beginning. For both Raúl's family and Baños as a whole, we were merely "friends" albeit friends who were suspiciously often in each other's company. We're both sure that many are aware there is something more. Even in places where same-sex dating is exclusively underground, a few begin to catch on after a certain point and gossip then takes care of the rest. As an aside, my impression is that Peace Corps generally encourages volunteers not to get anywhere near that point because it could undermine the trust necessary to work safely and effectively in their communities. Fortunately, any potential rumors did not appear to damage the relationships with my counterparts at the schools and church where I provided technical assistance. In the end, Raúl and I never let doubts about gossip keep us from spending time with the people we love whether it was spending carnaval on the coast with Raúl's family or having a crab soup picnic up in the mountains with my host family in Baños.
Unfortunately, Raúl did not get the chance to meet my parents when they came to visit me during my service in Baños. I first met him in person the day after I dropped my parents off at the airport in Guayaquil. Once we started dating he would often ask me about my family and what they were like. He was always reminding me to call home.
As my service drew to a close in mid-2010, we had decided somewhat naively that I would leave the Peace Corps and join Raúl in Equatorial Guinea where he was offered work. In the meantime, we had also applied for a visa for Raúl to meet my family over the holidays. As I have written for Stop the Deportations, the visa application was rejected because of Raúl's inability to prove sufficient ties to Ecuador that would compel him to return. Heartbreaking though it was, this kind of rejection is common in developing countries such as Ecuador where visa applicants bear the burden of proving they do not intend to remain in the US. I would later learn that Raúl's being truthful about his relationship with me in his interview constituted further evidence of such "immigration intent".
When Raúl's job offer in Equatorial Guinea failed to materialize, I returned to Ecuador a few months later to work with Community Enterprise Solutions (CES). Prior to my return we bought a small café/bar in order to improve Raúl's chances on a future visa application. The eight months that I lived with Raúl in Cuenca (the major city closest to Baños) were some of the most stressful either of us have lived. Both of us, for different reasons needed to work our full-time jobs in addition to running the café/bar in the evenings. Fourteen hour days were common. My own job involved regular trips to the field, occasionally leaving Raúl to work and run the café/bar by himself on the weekends.
In spite of the stress, we learned to work out any problems respectfully and enjoy the small things in life and the rare moments we had together, even if that meant just falling asleep together in exhaustion. On top of our work responsibilities, we also began the process of applying for a tourist visa for Raúl to come and visit for my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary celebration in August, 2011 to which he was cordially invited by my grandparents (Go here for more on my grandparents and coming out to my extended family after the Peace Corps).
Thanks to the pro-bono advice of Lavi Soloway of Stop the Deportations: The DOMA Project, Raúl and I were able to put together a much stronger tourist visa application (Read the story here). Among the help we received was a Class B Referral from the Country Director of Peace Corps/Ecuador as well as a letter from US Rep. Bruce Braley. Though those letters guaranteed no particular outcome, they were helpful in getting the US Consulate to carefully consider Raúl's well-prepared application. Against the odds, the US Consulate in Guayaquil approved Raúl's visa. Upon hearing the news, I cried in relief, disbelief and sheer joy. Our hard work paid off.
The month and a half that we spent together in the US was unforgettable. Raúl was able to meet most of my dad's side of the family all of whom received him with open arms. He also attended his first baseball and football game. Raúl was able to experience life in rural Illinois as well as in Chicago and New York City. Perhaps the highlight of the visit was when we got engaged atop my apartment building in Chicago on a beautiful autumn day, overlooking Lake Michigan, the University of Chicago campus and downtown in the distance.
To this day, Raúl continues to talk about his experiences with any Ecuadorians who will listen. In a very real way, the visit fulfilled Peace Corps' second goal. However, Raúl's visit also contributed to the third goal by leaving an impact on the Americans he encountered. Whether it was the conversations he had with my parents or the woven crafts workshop he gave at the local art league, he often shared stories and traditions from his native Ecuador. As a frequent translator, I often contributed my own perspective to the conversations.
Yet, perhaps more than anyone else, my understanding of the US, my family and my self was enriched by Raúl's visit. In Raúl's fascination with the common phrase "thank you so much" I became aware of the Midwesterner's tendency to value politeness and civility, something one tends to take for granted when growing up there. I also began to understand the usual Ecuadorian lament about Americans' carb-heavy and preservative-laden diets, something I had also taken for granted, even after 2 years of nutritious Ecuadorian fare! Naturally, these and other insights helped the two of us to learn about each other and provide a basis for mutual understanding even as we now live in different countries.
Though Raúl returned to Ecuador months ago, we continue to maintain contact as before with daily phone calls and Google video chat. Yet even with daily contact, it has been hard for us to live apart, and particularly for Raúl who now lives in what he describes as multiple worlds. In one, we are able to be open about our love for one another. In another, he must keep us and himself a secret for fear of losing his job and housing. Feeling foreign in his own country, Raúl cannot claim the US as home even though we both know it is the only place where our family, our love and our dreams for the future can be one.
Last week, Raúl and I celebrated our civil union on our two-year anniversary in Ecuador. With a small group of our Ecuadorian friends, including my host mother and aunt from my Peace Corps site, we held a short ceremony and fiesta to commemorate our special day. The simple ceremony and reception (we spend most of our ever-diminishing resources on plane tickets) was a sign of what we hope to come. We both dream of someday "officially" marrying in the United States in the company of friends and family.
Though that day may still be far off, we are optimistic in light of a constellation of recent court rulings, legislative activity, and activism that may lead to a quicker solution than we originally thought. Currently, I'm collaborating with GetEQUAL, Stop the Deportations and Out4Immigration and their "Home for the Holidays" Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to petition Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to grant humanitarian parole to same-sex bi-national couples so that we can start our lives together in the US. This initiative was launched during the holidays to call attention to couples like Raúl and me who wish to spend the holidays with our families in the US.
This Christmas, many couples, including Raúl and me, know that we will not be together. However, because of efforts like "Home for the Holidays", and the countless individuals and organizations working to bring about greater equality at all levels of government and in the private sector, next year may well be different. The two of us will certainly be counting our blessings on the 25th. Many same-sex bi-national couples have not had the opportunity to travel to the US, as we had this August. Yet, in spite of the obstacles, it has been worth every moment for Raúl and me. We both look forward to continuing to learn and grow together in the years to come.
You can learn more about the "Home for the Holidays" Campaign online and sign the petition here.
You can contact Brad Mattan at email@example.com.


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WASHINGTON - Round and round in the traffic circle you go -- and where to get off, does anybody know?
The D.C. area is filled with tricky roundabouts and traffic circles. Dupont Circle, Chevy Chase Circle and Memorial Circle are just a few.
But who has the right of way?
Circles with lights or stops signs regulate themselves, but what about the circles without signals?
Local transportation leaders spell out the rules.
"Basically, it's the traffic within the circle that has the right of way," says Bill McGuirk, traffic signal engineer with the D.C. Department of Transportation.
"If you're approaching a roundabout, you should yield to the traffic within the circulating roadway," says Cedric Ward, director of the Office of Traffic Safety with the Maryland State Highway Administration.
"There's only one place you have to look when you are approaching a roundabout, and that is to your left to make sure there is a gap. As soon as you have that gap, you have the right of way." says Randy Dittberner, traffic engineer with the Virginia Department of Transportation.
But still, many are confused by the circulating flow.
"I think people just do whatever they want," said D.C. resident Lysette Howels as she walked through Dupont Circle in the District.
Alexander Rinkus, who lives in the District, says he has had to circle around more than once inside a traffic circle because of the confusion.
"I would rather go around one more time than be the guy who is trying to cross three lanes of traffic in the span of about 15 feet," he says.
So why are there so many traffic circles in the area in the first place? A lot of them were inherited, says McGuirk.
"It goes back to the L'Enfant days. When he [Pierre Charles L'Enfant] was laying out the city, the circles basically were set up as defensive positions, and they were used to protect the White House," says McGuirk.
"They kind of radiate out from the White House."
Of course, traffic has increased since those days, and many of the city's traffic circles needed to adopt signals to handle the heavy traffic flow.
Along more rural sections of road with higher speeds, drivers are more likely to encounter traditional roundabouts. The more traditional roundabout doesn't typically allow pedestrians in the middle section, like circles might.
Dittberner sees them as a valuable tool.
"Roundabouts have a couple of good features that help make them much safer than intersections. They require all traffic to slow down on approach, so everybody is going slow and everybody is aware they have to watch out for each other," he says.
"They are beginning to be much more popular in the U.S. We are really beginning to understand the benefits of these devices," says Dittberner
Whether local pedestrians and drivers agree, that's another matter.
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You gentleman are making an assumption that there is one 'BEST' trinket (or in this scenario second best) out there. If you know anything regarding tanking you already know multiple pieces of gear are often times swapped depending on the fight.
Let's beat this dead horse more:
Magical damage = Stamina > Armor
We can stop posting that now.
There is an amazing trinket from ICC that will replace Indom/192stam scarab and this conversation will be null in 2 weeks.
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Oh, and Magical damage does not always = stamina > armor. It depends on the exact amounts of stamina, armor and magic damage you have (I'm sure you realize that already - there is no overall statement like that that's true without knowing actual values.) That's what the "new" EH formulation over on Maintankadin was designed to consider - it's an EH formula that does not assume all the damage that killed you is melee hits (although works for that too), so if you care about maximizing EH you can get an exact measure of it for the specific set of abilities that you are worried about dying to. The author of Tankpoints is adding it into his next release version of the add-on as well (alpha version has it in now).
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Magical Damage = Stamina AND Resistances
Physical Damage = Stamina AND Armor AND Avoidance.
As a side note, anybody got a pointer to physical damage which is mitigated by armor but not by avoidance? I seem to recall Patchwerk's Hateful Strike fell into that category, but not sure. I am wondering where Edgewalker is getting the idea armor mitigates things that avoidance does not avoid.
Finally, I was in an interesting Ony25 yestarday as a Holy Priest. The pally tank was adequately geared (45k buffed health), and there were 5 healers, 2 trees and 3 holy priests. Predictably, on P1, the tank was HoTted to wazoo with 2 druids as well as 3 renews, with one priest keeping up ProM. The other interesting thing was that our DPS just SUCKED. Nobody broke 4.5k, and over half were at an abyssmal sub 3k. So this resulted in a painfully long Ony run, and a very boring P1. But I actually got to *see* avoidance at work. Each swing that connected would take down the tank's health by 40-45% (40% if blocked and/or inspiration proc, 45% if not blocked). And every time, between the rolling hots, a bouncing ProM, and one of the 3 Flash Heals that was well correctly timed with respect to server latency, the health would go back up instantly. Of course, with the 40+% avoidance, this happened every 4 seconds.
What was different here was that this went on for a VERY long time due to bad DPS, and with geared healers and a tank, it became a slow and boring spam while we waited for DPS to get there. Usually, phases go so quick you rarely get the chance to stop and pay attention to it in real time. Also, the stacking of HoTs ensured that tank was never in danger even due to latency, as the HoTs kept ticking, which I don't normally see, I am used to a holy pally/disc/shaman sniping the heals with their direct heals.
As for physical effects that aren't mitigated by armor, the major thing that falls under that category is bleeds. Spinning Pain Strike from the mistresses on Jaraxxus and Big Bang on Algalon are a couple more examples.
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Oops, yeah - I misunderstood what he was asking. Another couple examples would be Gormok's impale ability (the attack that applies the DoT) and Thorim's Unbalancing Strike (although US can still miss).
There are certain times in an encounter where Blizzard wants us to take physical damage but have it be completely unavoidable.
Those are the situations that jere describes above. As such, armor is a very valuable deterrent for death in many encounters.
This is not logically correct.
Let's use the same scenario of damage and you have the choice between a trinket that gives you 2000 HP or an armor trinket that reduces physical damage by a further 5% (roughly equiv to the glyph).
Now, lets say you try the stamina trinket first, unless you find yourself below 2000 HP then the stamina trinket has not helped you one single bit (apart from say, minor things like if you use a %HP based self heal or something). Whereas if you had the armor trinket you would have reduced the damage you take in that fight by 2.5% every time.
So, an armor trinket will help you 100% of the time for a varying, but significant amount, whereas it's RNG whether that extra stamina is of much use at all. If course, i'm not saying stamina is shit, it's just that it's usefulness lies in it's overall level and not the choice between two items.
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Well even if armor works on every hit individually, that doesn't make it better. Whichever of the two gives more EH will technically still win. Sure if you never use that 2000 HP it was useless. But if you took a tank in a situation where 2000 HP would be useless and switched his gear so that he lost the 2k health and got the armor, then if the EH from the armor was less than the EH from the HP, then the damage reduction, though used every hit, would still be useless because it was never needed in the first place. The tank would have survived the same streak of hits without the damage reduction in place.
It's clear that the stam trinket provides more EH, but as you cannot rely on EH only, and needs mitigation as well, the choice remains very uncertain as armor is mainly a mitigation stat, and the Glyph of Indominability provides a lot of avoidance as well.
It's all about balancing EH vs mitigation and if there's a solution to that, it has to be one balancing corresponding to each encounter. For my part I would prefer the armor trinket in most physical situation and the stam trinket in most magical cases. Still I would eventually prefer the stam trinket for some extremely hard hitting bosses because of the spikes dmg. But the frontier remains uncertain.
^^ What Reev said.
The point of this calculation was to illustrate that in terms of physical that can be mitigated, you can actually directly correlate the value of health and armor depending on how much of each you already have.
In other words, if you're trying to get the best "Effective Health" you want to know how much more your health is worth when you add more armor, and how much your current armor will increase each additional spot of health you add.
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I know mitigation is part of EH, of course.
But when I'm thinking about my global mitigation (including fixed or absolute mitigation : armor & stance etc, and statistical or variable mitigation : avoidance, block and other variables), I'm considering whether I will require more a less heal at equal damages taken per second. On the other hand, when I'm thinking about EH, I'm considering how big would be the stronger hit(s) I can survive in one, two, or may be three times in a raw, before any heal can reach me. It's definetely two different ways of thinking, two different considerations.
That's what I meant in my precedent post. The stam trinket is ubber in term of EH for most tanks, that's a fact, and at same ilvl it's likely it would always be like that between a stam and an armor trinket. But if you're considering mitigation, then it's evident that the armor one is better. And now if you're considering the EH logic and the mitigation logic, trying to find a balance, then there is a conciliation to make, and the solution will depend on the fight you're thinking of, whether you've already got the EH virtual cap for the fight or not. Isn't it ?
Anyway it was worth doing the maths. And if I agree with it, it's not because it's that evident but because I checked that too (with Tankpoints and Rawr, not being myself godlike in maths lol).
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Protein needs vary from person to person. Heavy resistance exercise and physical activity stimulates muscle hypertrophy (growth) as well as protein metabolism. Through stimulating myofibrillar protein synthesis (resistance training), and mitochondrial protein synthesis (endurance training), significant quantities of amino acids are oxidized during each type of exercise.
Recent data concerning the protein needs for athletes and exercise enthusiasts has found that dietary protein intake of 1.2-1.8kg body weight (1lb.= 2.2 kg) per day is likely needed for individuals participating in regular strength or endurance exercise to achieve optimal muscle growth. New information has increased that to even 2.4g/kg for intense training athletes. To increase muscle size and strength it is crucial that you consume enough high quality protein to put your body into a state of positive nitrogen balance. Each scoop of Metabolic Whey provides 22g of a unique protein blend of undenatured and easily digested and highly absorbable small peptides.
Metabolic whey is the perfect protein supplement for reduced carbohydrates diets. It ONLY has 2g of Carbohydrates per serving with ZERO ADDED SUGARS (NO fructose nor sucrose). The carbohydrates are naturally occurring from the whey protein as well as the flavors.
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|Amount Per Serving
|Calories 114
|Calories from Fat 18
|% Daily Value
|Total Fat
|Saturated Fat
|Total Carbohydrate
|Dietary Fiber
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
AA profile per serving
Alanine 1104 mg
Arginine 574 mg
Aspartic Acid 2272 mg
Cysteine 404mg
Glutamine and Precursors 4266 mg
Histidine 382 mg
Lysine 1933 mg
Methionine 425mg
Phenylalanine 658 mg
Proline 1275 mg
Serine 1125 mg
Threonine 1465 mg
Tryptophan 361 mg
Tyrosine 595 mg
Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs)
Over 5g BCAAs per serving:
Isoleucine 1572 mg
Leucine 2400 mg
Valine 1189 mg
Use this product as a food supplement. Do not use for weight reduction
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Sweetener: Sucralose
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