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Matthias Ulungura who as a young Tiwi Islander, captured – and disarmed – the first Japanese serviceman taken as a POW on Australian soil in 1942. This photo was taken by author and researcher Ronald Rose on Melville Island between in 1962. Photograph by Ronald Rose, courtesy AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive (AIATSIS Ref. Rose.R05.BW-N007382.09.) |
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A rare audio recording describing how an Aboriginal man captured – and disarmed – the first Japanese serviceman taken as a POW on Australian soil will join other unique and unpublished field recordings preserved and saved for future generations.
The analogue recording - held by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra - recalls the events of 19 February 1942 when Matthias Ulungura, a young Tiwi Islander, captured downed Zero pilot Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima.
The 1990 cassette recording in the Tiwi language is of Marie Assumpta Ulungura, the wife of Matthias Ulungura, who recalls the historic event when Toyoshima's Zero was hit by anti-aircraft fire during the raid on Darwin and force landed at Snake Bay on Melville Island.
The interview is just one of thousands of audio recordings currently being preserved and digitised by AIATSIS – whose audiovisual archive is the world's largest and most unique collection of Australian Indigenous culture.
AIATSIS Chairperson Professor Mick Dodson AM says that the fact that the AIATSIS collection contains numerous war related material was little known.
"The Institute's audio archive alone contains over 45,000 hours of sound recording," Professor Dodson said.
"Each item provides an invaluable link between past, present and future generations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians whether they are recordings of languages, ceremonies, music, oral history, cultural narratives, site descriptions, research seminars and important events".
Professor Dodson said that AIATSIS' Collection includes oral accounts documenting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences of war, both as servicemen and women and as civilian onlookers.
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Professor Dodson said the fact that an Aboriginal man took the first Japanese prisoner of war on Australian soil was hardly known in Australia.
He added that the book The Black Diggers by Robert A Hall and published by AIATSIS's Aboriginal Studies Press in 1997, makes reference to this capture.
The very brief account states:
"I walked after him and grabbed his wrist near gun. He got proper big fright. I take revolver from his right side near his knee. Then I walk backwards pointing gun. I say "Stick 'em up, right up, two hands, no more holding hands on head." I point revolver more close.
The account goes on to state that after capturing and disarming Toyoshima, Matthias then handed him over to the Australian Air Force aerodrome guard at Bathurst Island Mission, Corporal Moore, who from that time on employed Matthias as his personal bodyguard.
Corporal Moore explained: "Naturally I could not put him on the payroll or enlist him [Australia still forbade the enlistment of Aboriginal men or woman at that time] but I fed him and he served with me for almost the whole of 1942. He went on foot patrols with me all over Bathurst Island and on to Melville Island. He and Clement (another Aborigine) also accompanied me on patrols around the Island in a sailing craft and he helped me organize a mine laying project………"
The author then adds: "Clearly, Matthias and other Aborigines were of great assistance to the overstretched two-man RAAF guard on Bathurst Island."
This wasn't the only Japanese captured by Aborigines either for later Louie Piraptameli, another Bathurst Islander, captured five Japanese airman, the crew of a downed Japanese bomber.
Professor Dodson said while war related oral recordings and separate audiovisual material were but a small part of AIATSIS's massive audiovisual archive, they were nevertheless important.
"Unfortunately, only 25 percent of the collection has been digitised. Much of it is still endangered and time is rapidly running out to see this vital task completed."

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Yet here we were. We drove to a steep hill town above Antigua called Santa María de Jesús, an almost wholly Mayan community with fields of beans, soy, and corn carpeting the slopes. There was a long voting line near the central plaza, where a busy Sunday market offering a spectacular array of produce, weavings, and all kinds of modern goods was in full swing. Besides men in jeans, the line was full of women in handwoven skirts and blouses. Many carried babies in tzuts, woven papoose sacks worn slung over the shoulder. They'd be waiting for hours. But they were smiling. There was a festive air to the proceedings.
In the cemetery, children were flying barriletes, handmade octagonal kites, the tails tied with plastic that rattled in the wind. The Mayans fly kites in cemeteries as a way of scaring off evil spirits that might bother the dead. Perhaps they also keep away evil spirits that would want to tamper with an election. Because, despite the UN's concerns and the worries of the international press and the observadores monitoring the ballots for illicit activity, and even as keyed-up voters turned out in droves all day Sunday, there was little trouble to report. By Monday, to everyone's relief, Ríos Montt was out of the race."This is a great day for democracy," Roberto Izurieta, a George Washington University professor, was saying on CNN as Kate and I packed to leave our hotel in Antigua. "For a country with so few resources, it all went very well, and I think democracy has been strengthened."
Kate was pleased, but not quite so unabashedly optimistic about Oscar Berger, who became the new president after a runoff vote in December. "For thirty years, all the best political leaders were killed," she said. "So you're left with an impoverished political landscape." If anybody could point out the shadows to me at every pretty place on this trip, it was she. As we drove between Antigua and Panajachel, the main town on Lake Atitlán and our intended destination, Kate ignored the breathtaking views of mountains covered with colorful crops and kites fluttering merrily over the fields and kept her nose pressed into a book, Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala, by Daniel Wilkinson. It examines the country's history through the prism of a single incident: a fire set at a coffee plantation in 1983. Native workers have long been mistreated in Guatemala, which, with a population that is 60 percent Mayan, has more indigenous people than any other Central American country, even Bolivia. Their struggle to win back any kind of power has been ongoing. In the thirties, the Socialist Party began to organize workers, but then came the Cold War. In 1954, Eisenhower sent in the CIA, a covert operation that helped to depose a democratically elected president. In the eighties, the U.S. supported the Guatemalan government with training and intelligence aimed at defeating leftist guerrillas, who had by then taken refuge among the Mayans in the highlands.
Yet once we got to Lake Atitlán, where less than 20 years before there had been military bombings of rural populations, even Kate couldn't help but be wholly seduced by its loveliness. We stayed up late one night drinking tequila at a thatched-roof restaurant below our hotel in Santa Catarina Palopó, a village outside Panajachel. We rode boats in the sunshine beneath towering volcanoes and greeted children who wanted to sell us pens and key chains they'd woven and beaded with alacrity. On a hike, Kate and I met a local politician who'd just lost the race for mayor of Santiago Atitlán, where 13 villagers were killed in 1990 for protesting harassment by the military. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I gave people free rice, corn, and beans and they still didn't vote for me!"
What could we do but laugh?At the quite untouristed Tuesday market in Sololá, a few miles north of Lake Atitlán, Kate bought herself a pair of the locally embroidered pants—bright hues on a field of red. We sat in the central plaza watching the great fashion show all around us. In Sololá, even the men dress traditionally. They wear plaid wool skirtsover intricately embroidered pants. But it's the women who are resplendent in the clothes they create for themselves. "Fabulous," was all I could say. Kate, who left to go home later that day in a far happier state than she'd been in when she'd arrived, had to agree. I only wish she could have been around the following morning, when, giddy with touristic acquisitiveness, I bought four panels of divinely woven and embroidered fabric—in shades of turquoise, green, and purple—and had a pair of trousers made. The $60 they cost is about the monthly salary of a weaver.
As with everything in Guatemala, there's politics in this too. Would Mayan women be weaving and wearing their huipil blouses and skirts, had they not been economically marginalized for so many centuries?Would having access to money for Levi's and Patagonia jackets have made them less oppressed, but also less well-dressed for my voyeuristic pleasure?In an article two years ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Kenneth Anderson observed that the assorted do-gooders and nonprofit organizations now working to help Guatemala have turned the Mayans into "tourist-friendly weavers and artisans." There is more than some truth to that. But the fact remains that in Guatemala women can make far more money selling woven garments than they can picking coffee beans. And without the presence of the tourists from Europe and the States, the country would be in much worse shape than it is today.
Carmen Giuliani, for instance, has a high-end shop in Antigua called the Loom Tree. A native of Modena, Italy, who fell in love with Guatemala 15 years ago, she employs 45 weavers from around the country, who come up with unique designs for refined fabrics that appeal to an international clientele—including, she says, the pope. Her workers do well. One, who makes fringe, has earned enough to build a house, send her children to college, and start her own small business.
"If you're going to be here, you'd better have a good reason," Father Greg Schaffer was saying. He has run a parish in San Lucas Tolimán since 1963 and was around when Father Stanley Rother, branded a Communist by the government, was killed in 1981 by a paramilitary death squad in nearby Santiago. In the last few years, Schaffer has started a business to help locals market the coffee they pick and roast themselves. Thanks to his efforts, San Lucas Tolimán has a health clinic and hospital, and a nondenominational, tuition-free private school. He has also purchased land, built housing on it, and given it to villagers.
"Everything starts with some land and a house," he told me over lunch in his bustling parish hall, where American volunteers were swarming. As for the election, he wasn't happy that the FRG had won in so many small towns. "But I was pleasantly surprised that there was as little violence as there was," he said. "I'm the type of person who will latch onto anything as hopeful."
And why not?Despite all the seemingly insoluble issues, it's hard not to see stirrings of hope in Guatemala today. You can see it in voting booths. You can see it in the traditional pride instilled in the population by fellow Mayan Rigoberta Menchú, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 after writing an autobiography that powerfully (and somewhat inaccurately, it turns out) depicted the atrocities her family faced. Around Quetzaltenango, meanwhile, a western highlands city, Habitat for Humanity just finished building its 15,000th house. In Antigua, El Sitio arts center works to bridge cultural gaps. "The Mayans have their own way of talking," said Ramelle Gonzales, who recently mounted an exhibition there, "and we have to listen."


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These beetles are eating some of my California giant zinnias. What are they, and how can they be stopped without harming the butterflies?
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Japanese Beetles. I'm currently picking them off my pawpaw, stinging nettles, chokecherry and ornamental crabapples. I pick them off and smash their heads. When you try to grab them, they will try to drop off the plant so keeping a second hand under them foils their escape plans. I know other people that go around with a small tub of soapy water, hold it under the beetle and then get the beetle to drop into the water where it eventually dies. Don't use the bag-a-bug things unless you are just totally overrun because the attractants on the bag-a-bug attract even more beetles to your yard. |
- Posted by perennialfan273 zone 5 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 13, 11 at 16:45
These bugs are a gardener's worst nightmare come true!! Unfortunately, you're stuck with them for the next few months. Whatever you spray on your plants will only discourage the butterflies from visiting your garden. Your best bet is to just start handpicking. Grab a bucket of HOT water and put some liquid dish soap in there. They should die in a few minutes. |
I bought a Japanese Beetle Trap from Gardener Supply Co. this year and have been very pleased with it. I have used it for the past 4 weeks. I like it because I just dump it every two days and use it over and over again-rather than buying new bags each time. Compared to last year, this Beetle Trap has really helped keep the beetle population down in my yard. Last year I was in the hospital and could not keep up with the beetle population and came home and the beetles had not only eaten all of my roses but also had eaten all the leaves. I had to prune the roses down to a foot and they did recover. This summer I have seen 5-10 beetles in my yard daily and have caught up to 400 in the trap, daily. |
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- Posted by coolbutterfly 4b (My Page) on Wed, Jul 13, 11 at 19:11
yikes Betty! 400??? They aren't too bad yet. I had seen them on a couple of weeds and didn't care about those. Now that they're on the Zinnias I'm declaring WAR. Thanks for the tips KC and perennial fan. I'm going to take back my Zinnias NOW :) 20 minutes later- I hand picked them off with a bucket of soapy water underneath and it worked like a charm. I actually remember now that they were on the liatris last year. They chewed up some of the leaves, but left the flowers alone. A male monarch circled around me almost the entire time I freed the zinnias. He kept landing on our joe pye weed (gateway) which is a lot bigger this year. I wonder if it will attract any butterflies when it blooms?? (sorry, I'm losing focus) Anyhow, thankyou all for helping me. I am confident this pest damage will be kept to a minimum with a few hand pickings. Tony |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 15, 11 at 12:11
They are voracious Monster. I usually have them for a month or so at the beginning of June. There may be an occasional one over the next week or two, but not much. kay |
- Posted by coolbutterfly 4b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 15, 11 at 15:42
Hi Kay, I remember too (from last year) that they just disappeared after a while. They seem to be gone today. I am optimistic we didn't have very many. |
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I just did a wedding with centerpiece cakes on each table. There were 21 tables that seated 8-10 guests each. I made an 8 x 4 inch cake for each table. the cakes were all different flavors and fillings inside but as the bride wanted, all frosted in white buttercream. I decorated the cakes in her colors in various designs on the outside. The cakes stayed on the tables while the meal was served and then each cake was removed from the tables and placed on two large tables set up to be cake tables. It was annouced that the cakes will be moved, cut and served from the cake tables. The guests at this wedding loved having different flavors to choose from and at the end of the night there was very little cake left. I served so I got a lot of feed back on the cakes and many people said that they were glad that they did not have to go to other peoples tables to try the other flavors. The bride was very pleased and so were the guests. The charge was $25.00 per cake.
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Can I paint over popcorn ceilings? |
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Sure, but sometimes the popcorn finish will come off in sheets on your roller if they have never been painted before. It is best to spray them. If they have been previously painted, it is usually no problem, though it can be messy. |
ok, thanks. |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 11:25
In our area, you can spray over once, but any more is not advised as the weight of the paint with multiple layers can pull the popcorn,(acoustic), ceiling material down with. The moisture of the paint has a way of weakening the acoustic's grip. I always advise removal with re-texturing wether they want it re popcorned, another texture type, or a smooth finish. Always have a sample tested for asbestos if it's an older home. |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 11:30
Always have a sample tested for asbestos if it's an older home if you have it or remove it yourself. |
Hi. Good points, thanks for reminder about asbestos. These condos were built about 1980 and I'm sure the previous owners did not do any painting since then. Where would I take a sample of the ceiling popcorn to be tested? The little popcorn that I touched when I was scraping the wallpaper off the walls did fall off quickly. |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 16:28
Being 1980, there's a good chance of not containing asbestos as it was banned in the seventies, but, the problem lies in suppliers that had acoustic with asbestos in warehouses and selling it past the banned time frame. If you are in a small town, chances are you will have to go to a larger city. In the govt. section of your phone directory, it should have a listing for hazardous abatement facilities in your area. The testing is typically free of charge or a minimal fee and they generally require about a quarter sized sample. |
- Posted by scoutfinch (My Page) on Fri, Oct 10, 08 at 22:04
We just had a sample tested and it was totally painless and only cost $25 to find out that our ceiling was not asbestos. Although it was messy, removing the popcorn was a super simple task and it has made a HUGE improvement in the look of our home. The last major remodel of our new house was in 1985 and removing the popcorn took a dated series of rooms and made them look much more contemporary. The process was as easy as wetting the ceiling with a mist from the hose and letting it soak in for 10 minutes and then scraping with a 12" wide putty knife on a long stick. The only problem we encountered was the ceiling in the adition to the house which was sprayed directly on the unprimed drywall. If the popcorn was sprayed over a previously painted ceiling it will just scrape right off really easily. |
Have you looked into removing the popcorn first? Once you paint it, it becomes ridiculously hard to remove. So painting should be only for those who absolutely want to keep it. Red |
thanks for your suggestions. I'm glad to know, also, that if I paint over the popcorn it will be very hard to remove. |
I have painted over my popcorn ceilings twice since I have lived in my townhouse. I wanted the painter to spray paint it but he did not want to. The first time, a lot of the Styrofoam popcorn came off the ceiling but the second time, not much came off. The ceiling looks so much better with a bright white ceiling than the dingy dirty tan-white that was on the ceiling. It would be too much work for me to remove the popcorn ceilings from my two floor townhouse and I actually find them pretty. |
lynn2006 - I appreciate your answer because beauty IS in the eyes of the beholder. And I can be so influenced by what others tell me is beautiful. Fwankly speaking my dear, I don't care if the ceilings are popcorn or not. I can't say whether I like them or not. I am so confused. :-) But I want to make this job as easy as possible for myself, and since the ceilings are already finished in popcorn type stuff, I was kind of hoping that I could simply paint over it. |
Cindiw2,from my experiences, you can paint over the popcorn ceiling since I have had a painter do this twice now in the 11 years I have been here. Once when I moved in and then 1.5 years ago. I was attracted to the rich ceilings that only the richer homes had 11 years ago when I bought my home. I am always surprised on HGTV when they are saying to remove the popcorn ceiling. My neighbors have all kept their popcorn ceilings. |
I removed all the popcorn ceilings in my entire house with a garden sray tank, water, and a scraper. The process was spaying water and letting it sit, spray more water and when it's really loose scrape it off with a wide scraper. Skim with dry wall mud, sand (should only have to hit it a little with the dry wall sanding paper) prime, and paint. It's hard hard work but makes all the difference in the world. Popcorn ceilings should be illegal. Getting rid of them made my ceilings look a foot higher. |
Well, after all the responses I read, although I probably would like to remove the popcorn, I think I will attempt to paint over it because at this point I don't want to put much more effort (also called strain) in this project. It is very time-consuming and stressful since I have never done anything like this before, plus did I mention that it will be very time-consuming? So thank you for your response. It does help for me to form an opinion about what I should/need to do. |
- Posted by michaelcamaret (My Page) on Mon, Oct 20, 08 at 11:08
ONLY SPRAY !!! You will have the biggest mess ever if you try to roll. If you have any questions please call Michael @ American Painting And Deck Care in Cumming Georgia for painting interior ceilings. Michael Camaret |
Here is a link that might be useful: american painting and deck care's website
After all this, I will probably bring in an experienced painter for the ceilings, if nothing else. Especially since I don't know how to use a paint sprayer, and it seems like it would be better to spray it. We'll see. I guess my next question is: how hard is it to spray paint? |
- Posted by symea(email@example.com) onMon, May 23, 11 at 12:12
I just bought a home (circa 1968) with a HUGE, i mean HUGE living room with popcorn ceilings. I'm almost sure it has asbestos. Is it still advised to paint over? They both sound like a lot of work, but i want what's best for my health. |
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2007 Titus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
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Our 2007 grape crop exhibited many high quality wine indicators as a result of the year's lower rainfall, early bloom, timely veraison and moderate temperatures. The limited amount of vine stress due to low rainfall over the winter and a solid, warm summer without a lot of heat spikes fostered even grape ripening. The cluster shapes and berry sizes looked ideal. The crop was smaller, with lighter clusters, smaller berries, and thicker skins lending a tannic bite that will yield wines with exceptional structure and age-worthiness. There was an ideal mix of well ripened and just-right berries with very little variation. We expected a short, furious harvest; however, it ended up being one of the longer ones starting September 14th and ending on October 15th.
Our family vineyard, located on the valley floor just north of St. Helena on the Silverado Trail, possesses well-drained, sandy, alluvial soils and is characterized by its ability to produce complex wines with well-defined fruit flavors, gentle acids and naturally balanced tannins. The Cabernet Sauvignon vines vary in age. They were most recently planted between the years 1996 to 2001 and are a combination of the 337 and See clones. Further north, our Ehlers Lane Vineyard consists of a stony, dry streambed and a knoll composed of thin gravelly soil over hard volcanic ash. Planted entirely to Cabernet Sauvignon these infertile soils produce low yields of grapes with concentrated flavors.
Following harvest, the grapes were de-stemmed but not crushed, allowing increased control over tannin extraction by minimizing the possibility of broken skins and split seeds. Following a 48-hour cold soak to extract color and flavor, the grapes underwent a warm, short fermentation, with pump-overs occurring twice daily. The free-run juice was transferred to oak barrels, where it underwent malolactic fermentation.
Wine Profile
Our 2007 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon has a shimmering, intense purple and ruby color. The nose is alluring and complex with aromas of black cherry, blueberry, lavender, currant, apple, sweet basil leaf and exotic notes of toasted chocolate, crème Brule and oak spice. The mouth-feel is full-bodied and rich with well integrated, fine grain tannins give way to lush, juicy flavors of blackberry and blueberry accompanied by dark chocolate, and anise. The finish is long and velvety with sweet cherry, clove spice, tobacco and pencil shavings. Recommended drinking time is five to ten years from vintage. Maximum suggested aging is fifteen years from vintage.
Detailed Wine Information
Vineyard Manager: Eric Titus
Winemaker: Phillip Titus
Appellation: Napa Valley
Blend: 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot, 6% Malbec, 1% Merlot 1% Cabernet Franc
Harvest Dates: 10/1/07 - 10/5/07
Barrel Aging: 22 months - 80% French Oak, 20% American Oak (40% new barrels)
Bottled: July 2009
Cases Produced: 4,448
Alcohol: 14.5%
Total Acidity: .60 grams/100ml
pH: 3.74
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Drugs and alcohol in the wheelhouse
Growing up in New Orleans, it was not unusual to occasionally hear about a barge tow plowing into one of several bridges over the Mississippi River between the Crescent City and Baton Rouge. Too often, when the smoke cleared, we learned that there was alcohol in the system of the person at the helm of the towboat involved in the allision.
Having generations of family members who worked on the river has provided me with more insight into how much alcohol was a part of that culture.
The U.S. Coast Guard, industry officials, and others have made a real effort to change that culture over the last two decades, and those efforts are paying off. (I think the straw that broke the camel's back was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989. The captain of the Valdez had been drinking.)
We just finished up the February issue of WorkBoat. The News Log section of the magazine contains articles about the grounding of the Arctic-class oil rig Kulluk in Alaskan waters, the allision between the ferry Seastreak Wall Street and Pier 11 in lower Manhattan, a not-so-friendly meeting of the 750' tanker Overseas Reymar and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay, and litigation involving Foss Maritime and the state of Kentucky over last year's allision between Foss's 312' Delta Mariner and the Eggners Ferry Bridge.
Alcohol testing was performed on the principals involved after each of these accidents occurred. No alcohol was found to be a factor in any of them. (Drug testing takes longer and not all of the tests are in as yet.) Still, this is a major win for the industry. Yes, accidents happen. Yes, people make poor decisions. That's life. But taking alcohol and drugs out of the mix makes the whole industry a safer place to work.


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Yes, and after your comment I put togeather a fun list of the Planet/Element links.
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Insider Trader: Not like it used to be {WoW}
Aug 15th 2009 5:42PM Don't Crusader's Orbs, Hearts of Darkness, Runed Orbs, and Nether Vortexes all drop only in raids? In fact, I seem to recall Mother Shaharaz being described as "farm trash for weeks to get the Hearts to craft Shadow Resist gear for everyone in the raid".
Each tier of raiding after the entry level in both BC and Wrath has had boss-dropped armor crafting recipes, requiring the above reagents to craft the gear.
Frankly, I prefer the new style where at least the recipes and results are BoE over the SSC/TK style where either the recipe or the result was BoP. Given that I've raided SSC/TK/MH/BT + Ulduar for a year or so as the "designated Blacksmith", the fact that I never got a single recipe drop except via the Auction House makes me wish that there would be a guaranteed way (maybe via reputation + 100% drop rate quest item) to get these recipes, rather than the current luck-of-the-draw format.
In short: we still have raid-drop system for high-end crafting, but Blizzard has toned down some of the outrageous luck required in some cases. It's still hard to get these recipes even for dedicated raiders, though, so I don't really think it's the right direction to make these things even more exclusive.
The Queue: I like fire {WoW}
Jan 26th 2009 4:32PM I'd suggest ZOMGBuffs, which will track your self-buffs and also group buffs if you want. It also has the option to not use reagents when buffing in battlegrounds, for those of you who don't like spending the gold when they're just going to die anyway.
Totem Talk: 3.0.8, The Rise of Shamanism {WoW}
Jan 8th 2009 4:20PM The nerf to Improved Water Shield was because a number of shamans had discovered that you could get better healing throughput and better mana efficiency with with Lesser Healing Wave and some glyphs than you could with Healing Wave without Healing Way.
Ghostcrawler on long term defense changes {WoW}
Nov 25th 2008 11:40AM Actually, Defense has at least the same benefits for Paladins as for warrior tanks headed into Tier 7 (Naxxramas). It's possible that it's even more interesting and important for Paladins because of the way the class seems to have been designed to mitigate damage by blocking.
Since patch 3.0.2 brought changes to Shield Block, very few Warriors have been blocking every blow through the entire encounter. Paladins are much closer to blocking every blow once they have 540 defense, because Holy Shield adds an additional 30% block chance, leaving only about 20% chance to be hit with the current talents (40% miss/parry/dodge, 40% block). Once a Paladin reaches the point that every attack is a blocked attack, they're effectively taking smaller hits than other classes by ~700. (or whatever your shield block value is)
The "blocking all blows" argument is one of the reasons given for why Paladins have a 2k lower base health than warriors.
Checking your caps: Defense, Block, Hit, Expertise {WoW}
Nov 20th 2008 6:15PM Note that the caps that Honors posted about are aimed specifically at Paladin tanks; I suspect that no one else is going to be worried about the "Block cap" for a long time.
As several other commenters have posted, the Defense cap is "soft", in that additional defense will increase your avoidance of attacks and also help you in hitting your Block cap. Expertise is somewhat similar in that the "cap" is around 5.6%, where you've eliminated all dodges and a similar number of parries. In TBC, most bosses actually had a boosted parry rate of around 15%, so assuming that this continues to be true, additional expertise will be roughly as useful as hit rating for tanks. For DPS, additional expertise is pointless, as attacking from the back of the boss removes all parry chance.
A short rundown for each class in terms of stats which are important to "cap", but which don't provide much benefit afterwards. In general, you 9% hit for melee attacks using one weapon and special attacks, 17% hit for spells, and 28% hit when dual-wielding to "cap". Many classes have talents which provide some of this hit rating.
Hunter: Hit
Shaman(elemental): spell hit
Shaman(enhancement): special attack hit, expertise
Paladin(ret or prot): melee hit, expertise
Warior(arms, prot): melee hit, expertise
Warrior(Fury): specials hit with a 5% penalty for titan's grip; expertise
Rogue(assassination or sub): specials hit, expertise
Rogue(combat): dual-wield hit, expertise
Druid(moonkin): spell hit
Druid(feral): melee hit, expertise
Mage, Warlock, Shadow Priest: spell hit
Basically, you only need to worry about expertise if you fight in melee range. You need to worry about the 17% spell hit if you mostly cast spells from range; combat rogues are the major spec that benefits from actually hitting the 28% hit cap on melee attacks while dual-wielding.
Shifting Perspectives: Dude, where's my armor? {WoW}
Oct 7th 2008 3:41PM In terms of mana, you should be fine in terms of shifting, casting a spell, and shifting back thanks to Improved Leader of the Pack (8% of mana back when you are healed by ILotP):
If you're in feral gear, you probably won't be able to do much more than tranquility => back to cat, but I haven't really seen feral druids slinging around moonfires or the like anyway.
Rare mobs in classic, BC, and Wrath {WoW}
Aug 20th 2008 3:32PM There are at least a few Outlands rares which it can be worth killing, and have "best of kind" items sometimes. Unfortunately, their loot is usually a blue "of ...". One example that I was really lucky to find after the AH after 3-4 days of scanning Netherstorm for Chief Engineer Lorthander were Illidari Cloaks of Fire Protection and Frost Protection. Each has a good whack of stamina and about 21 of the appropriate resistance -- even at a min. level of 67, these are still an edge about level-70 green cloaks. There are no crafted resistance cloaks, so these are as good as it gets.
Itemization and the plight of the bear tank in Wrath of the Lich King {WoW}
Aug 5th 2008 5:12PM Note that the armor cap is rising at level 80 (the same way it rose at level 70). Also, with crushing blows out the picture on raid-bosses, and presuming that crits aren't an issue for tanks, the entire tanking scene will be changed.
Yes, bears take full damage from spells (bypasses armor). Spells still bypass plate armor, too, leaving only a few talents in the Paladin/Warrior protection trees to reduce this by 10% or less.
It seems like Bears will need to be able to get armor and stamina roughly equal to Warriors and Paladins in WotLK, depending on how their agility-to-avoidance works out. In TBC, Bears had massively larger armor to compensate for the fact that they would take crushing blows -- a regular hit on a Warrior for 6k would hit a druid for 5k or so. (Assuming 62% armor mitigation on the warrior and 75% mitigation on the druid). But occasionally (15% of attacks), the druid would take a crush for 7.5k. Overall, this ends up being the same level of damage, though the Druid has to absorb a few more spikes.
One positive side-effect of this change is that it may end up being more difficult for Druids to reach the armor cap -- a significant scaling problem in TBC.
I could see a Feral talent that increased your armor by your current AP if the developers discover that the current armor level of bears isn't sufficient for the new content.
One final point of comparison. Assume that a level-80 warrior or paladin (with shield) has about 24 thousand armor. A Feral would need about 5580 armor from gear to get the same effect. Assuming about 800 armor from rings, and 800 from a staff, that leaves about 4000 armor to be gained from helm, shoulders, etc. Looking at the current amount of armor on level 71-78 blues, it looks like Feral druids would be about 500 armor short at level-80, assuming level 77-80 blues.
Hybrid Theory: Healers, hit, and homogenization {WoW}
Jun 29th 2008 2:31PM You mean +hit, right? They are unifying melee and spell hit as well, I think.
This is a major boon to e.g. elemental shamans, who currently are the only casters wearing mail -- they often need to go down to boomkin leather or cloth to get spell hit on their gear.
The other difficulty is that some stats are more powerful for some casters than for others, at least traditionally. +crit for druids? Yes for Moonkin, no for Resto (HoTs can't crit). +crit for for priests? Not terrible for Holy, but lousy for Shadow. Spirit for Paladins? Not too useful, because they can't regen mana from spirit while casting, and their mana-regen model is based on chain-casting and critting a lot.
Phat Loot Phriday: Rod of the Sun King {WoW}
May 30th 2008 8:21PM Although they can't use the proc on this, the slow weapon speed and high max damage make this a nice weapon for Enhancement Shamans as well.
Sword-spec rogues (and dual-wield warriors?) get extra hits with their main-hand weapon if their off-hand weapon is a sword, so using this with sword spec could still be useful depending on what your other weapon is.
This is a terrible weapon for druids regardless as it's a one-handed with no stats or feral attack power. Might as well grab a green "of the bandit". At least you'll get some agility as well...


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Slow Cooker Blueberry Butter
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
If you're a longtime fan of 52 Kitchen Adventures, you probably remember Slow Cooker Mondays. I haven't posted any slow cooker recipes in a while, although if you're looking for more of these recipes, see all of mine on my page of Slow Cooker Recipes. Today isn't Monday, but Monday was a holiday and I usually post recipes on Sundays and Wednesdays now, so…I guess it's Slow Cooker Wednesday today.
Readers who have been around for a while may also remember when I made slow cooker blueberry lavender butter last summer. I wanted to revisit the recipe and add some different flavors. This time, I consulted The Flavor Bible and came up with with some of my favorite spices to add a little kick to the blueberry butter: cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. The flavors do go well with blueberry, but I have to admit that I think I like the lavender flavor more.
Whether it's spiced or flavored with lavender, I love this blueberry butter. Once you run the cooked blueberries through a food processor (or blender), they turn into a silky smooth spread. It's great on toast, in yogurt or smoothies, or anywhere else you'd use jam or curd. Keep an eye out for a cupcake recipe using this blueberry butter later this week!
Slow Cooker Blueberry Butter
Adapted from Slow Cooker Blueberry Lavender Butter
Yields: makes about 2 pints
- 36 oz. blueberries, pureed (around 5 cups of puree)
- 1 C sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger (optional)
- Zest of 1 lemon
Place pureed blueberries in slow cooker and turn to low. After 1 hour stir blueberry puree and prop open lid with a spatula or wooden spoon. After 4 more hours, add spices, sugar, and lemon zest. If it hasn't thickened much, remove lid and cook on high for 1 hour (note: I skipped this step and it turned out fine). Place butter in food processor or blender and process until smooth. Store in air-tight container in fridge or in processed jars (see below).
Pour into sterilized jars, leaving 1/2 inch of head space, wipe rims and screw on lids. Process in boiling water canner for 10 minutes. Store jars in cool, dark place.


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Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) are the medical terms used for the physical and emotional symptoms that some women have before their menstrual period begins. These symptoms vary from woman to woman. They can be mild to severe. The milder form of these symptoms is called premenstrual syndrome (PMS). With PMS, symptoms occur the week prior to menstruation and resolve within a week of the onset of your menses. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a severe, disabling form of PMS.
Many menstruating women have some symptoms of PMS. About 5-10% of these women have PMDD. The causes of PMS and PMDD are not clear. Symptoms of PMS and PMDD occur in the week or two weeks before your period. Physical symptoms are the same for PMS and PMDD. With PMDD, however, the emotional symptoms are much more serious. You may feel very depressed, angry and hopeless.
Diagnosis is based on symptoms, when they occur and how much they affect your life. Diagnosis may take several months of careful observation and your provider may ask you to keep a diary of your activities, mood, and physical symptoms every day for two months. Symptoms that always occur 1-2 weeks before your periods may be caused by PMS or PMDD. A diagnosis of PMDD may be made if your monthly symptoms seriously interfering with work, school, or relationships.
A wide range of therapeutic interventions have been tested in the treatment of PMS symptoms, from lifestyle changes to advanced hormonal treatment.
The symptoms of PMS usually start a few days before your menstrual period and continue until your period begins. For many women, the symptoms go away once their period begins. The symptoms change as you mature, go through childbearing years and enter menopause. During menopause PMS may go away, but you may have other symptoms caused by menopause.


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Dods' Tweeter of the Year Isn't on Twitter
Well this is embarrassing. At last night's Dods parliamentary awards, editor-in-chief Paul Waugh proudly presented the award for Tweeter of the Year to iPad-loving Labour MP Tom Harris. Dods explained that they felt Harris was a worthy winner "for his daily usage of Twitter." Just one problem: Harris isn't actually on Twitter.


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An efficient communication system is now vital in almost any business environment. However, many smaller firms find the initial development costs beyond their means. And to help small businesses with affordable communication solutions, Asahi Technologies has launched Twilio API development Services in New York.
Integrating Twilio with business processes provides businesses with plenty of advantages from security to cost efficiency. Twilio lets developers to build a cloud API for text and voice messaging that can be easily integrated into web applications. "Twilio simplifies communication for even complex requirements, web programmers can use existing code, servers and databases to develop applications" says Vinod Subbaiah, the CEO of Asahi Technologies. "At Asahi, we focus on building affordable and reliable communication channel for our clients and end users with Twilio API".
Though there are plenty of other vendors, Twilio is the most widely used Voice and Text API Spread across six continents in 40 countries along with 100,000 developers. In addition, Twilio has optimized data centers worldwide for efficiently routing VOIP traffic between customers and users.
To help businesses know more about Text and Voice API solutions, Asahi Technologies provides a free online consultation to clients letting them understand their Twilio options.
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Twilio powers the future of business communications, enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software. We take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a globally available cloud API that developers can interact with to build intelligent & complex communications systems.
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Asahi Technologies is a New York based web design and development firm that provides software consulting and Web solutions to small and medium level businesses all across North America. Asahi Technologies specializes in responsive design, cloud computing, online marketing, mobile application development and open source technologies. Under the leadership of Mr. Vinod Subbaiah, who himself started his career as a software programmer, Asahi Technologies' team comprises of experienced software professionals having extensive knowledge of technology with B2C and B2B operations. The firm's headquarters is located in New York City, NY.


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This 14 inch baby doll, with blue, blink eyes and painted blonde hair, wears a pink, with white hearts, print, bubble romper over a white knit onesie. Pink, white and green striped binding along with a white bow on the front add accents to the romper. A gathered, heart and flower, striped headband, that has a bow, completes her outfit. This baby comes with a pink sippy cup and pink Teddy.
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Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman is known for her exquisite collector dolls, which are based on everything from literary classics (Alice in Wonderland, Gone with the Wind) to special occasions (graduation, First Communion). Here, she puts her unique spin on Halloween, with a collection that includes witches, trick-or-treaters, batty ballerinas, and more.


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New Music: Rich Gang Feat. Birdman, Lil' Wayne And T.I. 'Have It Your Way'
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OK - I posted this on another site sometime back (sorry, Lou), forgot to post it here!
Jan. 2005 - A quick business trip to Orlando - had a day to do DAK and their
Behind the Scenes Safari Tour:
Follow along below - in the satellite image of Animal Kingdom.
It started just inside the gates at 8:15a, we had introductions, badges, rules (ie no photography), and stepped behind the scenery. Lots of trivia, stories, animal husbandry info and success stories. There we about 16 of us plus 2 guides, 1 trainee, and the 'cruise' director with her stopwatch at the beginning. We boarded vans and headed to the back of the park - slow driving with continued stories and pointing out interests.
We ended up at the barns that house the elephants, and white rhinos (did you know that white rhinos are not necessarily white - the ones we saw were quite muddy! - the name 'white' comes from the misinterpretation eons ago of the word 'wide' to distinguish their wide mouth from other rhinos). We spent a long time observing the trainers at both areas, and even observed some young cheetahs that were not yet on stage. The tour is very open to questions, and our group had many.
We next walked to the veterinary facility, also has main administration and education classrooms. Saw a few labs and surgical rooms, talked to some technicians, and eventually took a break. They herded us in a classroom, and had another person do show/tell with a chinchilla, talked heavily about the environment and endangered species, and saw brief video on husbandry techniques that we would not see on the tour (after hours, etc). Had snacks and drinks, and walked over to the nutrition building where they were preparing all the foods for all the animals for the next day. Everything was being carefully measured, weighed, sealed and labeled. All the fruits, vegetables, and majority of ingredients all come from the same warehouse and same source as the foods in all the Disney restaurants! Unfortunately we didn't get any free samples. There were also supplies of rodents, live crickets, etc.
We found the vans again, and headed back around the park to just behind the African village. After wandering upstream again the crowds, we boarded one of the Safari vehicles (no waiting!) and rode the Safari with the narration of our tour guide and not the standard script. He pointed out the animals from the stories earlier, and those that we had seen backstage that were now out on the safari, etc. We eventually ended back in the village, more tips and trivia, and fill out a survey. It was supposed to be 3 hours, but with all of our (mostly my) questions, it was about 3h 45m.
The rest of the day we finished up Animal Kingdom, hit all the highlights at Magic Kingdom and watched the fireworks, and ended with a huge late dinner at the California Grill. We tried to slip out before the bill came ($$$$), but no luck! (However it was a business expense - right boss?)
Can't wait to go back, and would definitely do the tour again given the chance.


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The MAR Leadership Program is operated by a 4 people who are committed to nature conservation, each with different backgrounds and skills. This team is familiar with the environmental problems facing the Mesoamerican Reef System (MAR) and has the contacts and networks on local, regional, and international levels that allow the program to operate successfully.
Maria Eugenia Arreola is the Director of the MAR Leadership Program. She has more than 15 years of experience designing and coordinating capacity-building programs in environmental topics. Prior to joining FMCN, she worked for 8 years in the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)), of which 5 years were spent in UNEP's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (in Mexico City), and 3 years at UNEP's Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. In UNEP, Maria Eugenia coordinated the development of integrated environmental assessments (GEO) in 8 countries and more than 25 cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)and participated in the development of virtual training tools which allowed her to travel and get to know the LAC region as well as various countries in Africa. Maria Eugenia received her BS in International Relations from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and holds a master's degree in Environmental Management Systems. She also studied diploma courses in different topics: environmental law, new learning technologies, and climate change. She currently collaborates with the Kanan Kay Alliance as Capacity-Building Strategy Coordinator for Alliance partners.
Thalia Medina earned her bachelor's degree in Institutional Management at Universidad Panamericana, and she has a multidisciplinary background that has allowed her to develop in both public and private institutions. She has collaborated with IMPULSA JA Worldwide, organizing and coordinating educational programs for children and youth. She developed and implemented the Kids in the Kitchen program for Junior League Mexico. In the public sector, she optimized the Administrative Resources and Services Administration of External Consultation at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, as well as monitoring and measuring productivity of doctors and residents. At the National Institute of Pediatrics, she designed the Hygienic Management and Microbiology Program in the food and dining area. She has experience developing operational plans, critical paths and doing cost and inventory control. She is the executive assistant of FMCN's CEO and simultaneously fills the role of administrative assistant for the MAR Leadership Program. We prize Thalia's ability to solve problems so that the program runs smoothly, as well as her attention to detail.
Elisa López García is the Project Officer at the MAR Leadership Program . She studied her career in oceanography at the University of Vigo , Spain and at the Arctic University of Norway , Norway, and she got a MSc in Marine Sciences and Limnology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
After some years travelling and enrrolled in oceanographic campaigns , Elisa has spent the last four years teaching and researching the Mesoamerican Reef. She went through academic institutions, private organizations and NGOs. During her MSc in coral ecophysiology, she made an academic stay at The Symbiosis Ecology and Evolution Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University. She worked for The School for Field Studies (SFS) in the Turks and Caicos islands and Global Vision International (GVI) in Mahahual , Mexico . Before joining FMCN she was volunteer coordinator at the the Coastal Ecosystems Program of the Akumal Ecological Center (CEA). Elisa is a specialist in reef monitoring, has extensive experience in management and training groups of volunteers and students and is a certified Dive Master.
Alejandra Íñigo takes photographs; manages the social networks and webpage for the MAR Leadership Program. Since she was young, Alejandra has been curious about the world around her and passionate about learning. Because of this, she has had academic and work experiences of all types. Alejandra has been a chef at an Italian restaurant in Toronto; worked as an assistant to the director of marketing at Latinstock Mexico, a stock photography and publicity company; written Digital Learning content for the SEP; and finally, given her enterprising character, co-founded the company Glia Learning Center, where she currently helps with the management of communication strategies. Alejandra drew from her studies of arts and sciences at the University of Manitoba and her experience giving private classes since she was 17 years old to found Glia. This summer, Alejandra will be interning at the CINVESTAV Department of Cellular Biology, a step towards her dream of completing a doctorate in Neuroscience. Alejandra's passion is to share knowledge and learning, so her work with the MAR Leadership team has been very rewarding.


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NOIDA: A man and one of his family members were allegedly assaulted in a case of road rage on the DND flyway here, police said on Thursday.
The victim Kaushal alleged that he was stopped and assaulted by some unidentified persons near the DND toll plaza on Wednesday evening, they said.
The accused also tried to molest one of the female co-passengers, he alleged.
An FIR has been lodged in this regard and CCTV footages of the spot are being examined to identify the accused, police said.
"It was road rage and molestation attempt. We have lodged the FIR and are trying to identify the accused through CCTV footage," a police officer said.
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