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Indianapolis is bracing for war. It's Super Bowl week, after all. Time for the Annual Invasion of the Hookers, which promises to be as harrowing as the Ottoman Empire's advance on Crete in 1647, though with considerably more nudity.
Yes, one of America's great urban legends is again being trotted out just in time for kick-off: The notion that legions of out-of-town prostitutes descend on whichever city hosts America's Big Game.
This time around, it's Indiana's attorney general, Greg Zoeller, who's milking the hysteria for political gain.
Zoeller is riding the momentum of a hoax that's reignited before every major sporting event, be it the Super Bowl, the World Cup, the Olympics or the NBA All-Star game. Alarming figures are pulled from the mist of imagination, where extra zeros apparently come free with every purchase. Anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 hookers will be coming to town!Hide the women and children! And perhaps the more effeminate men, as well! You know, just in case!
It's a myth that's been playing to sell-out crowds for more than a decade. But there's been trouble at the box office in recent years. No one gets too excited about garden-variety prostitution anymore. As a culture-war wedge, it's so 1912.
So promoters of the panic have changed their advertising. Instead of adult harlots, the siege now consists of underage girls.
This year it's Indianapolis that's marshaling its defenses. Seven hundred cabbies have been trained to spot the victims of pimps. Nuns have been dispatched to hotels to lecture staff. Special soap -- more than 16,000 bars, reports the Indiana Statesman -- is being placed in hotel rooms, stamped with phrases like "Are You Witnessing Young Girls Being Prostituted?" In the event that the answer is yes, national hotline numbers are conveniently being stamped on bathroom walls.
Not to be left out, the Indiana legislature rammed through an emergency bill to keep the state safe for the game. Sell a child under age sixteen for sex in the Hoosier State, and you're now looking at up to fifty years.
The legislation passed unanimously in both houses. Not a single elected official questioned the need for the bill -- or asked whether it might make more sense for the state to provide money for the treatment of actual victims of underage prostitution.
In the words of the Muncie Free Press, lawmakers "managed to outlaw underage prostitution in Indiana just in time for the Super Bowl on Sunday."
Villains of America, be forewarned.
"Our information is that it's typical for an increase in demand for commercial sex at a big event," says Abby Kuzma, director of consumer protection for Zoeller's office. "Our information is that it's all about the money. They are willing to go wherever the money is."
You don't have the heart to tell her her information is wrong. Very wrong.
Said Phoenix police sergeant Tommy Thompson after the 2008 Super Bowl: "We may have had certain precincts that were going gangbusters looking for prostitutes, but they were picking up your everyday street prostitutes. They didn't notice any sort of glitch in the number of prostitution arrests leading up to the Super Bowl."
Said Tampa police spokeswoman Andrea Davis after the 2009 Super Bowl: "We didn't see a huge influx in prostitutes coming into Tampa. The arrests were not a lot higher. They were almost the same."
Last year's panic came courtesy of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Maybe he didn't have access to Google, so he didn't know any better. Or maybe -- just maybe -- he decided that a little false delirium was a small price to pay to see the two most glorious words in the English language -- "Greg Abbott" -- prominently featured in headlines for months before the Dallas Super Bowl.
Abbott organized task forces with the FBI, ICE and Homeland Security. He raised an army of volunteers from religious and women's groups. All were on deck to rescue the thousands of underage girls who'd be sold like ground chuck throughout Big D.
Word was that 100,000 hookers could arrive -- and that as many 38,000 of them would be underage. Even flight attendants were trained to spot trafficking victims -- which shouldn't have been difficult, since it would have taken 57 Boeing 747s to fly them all to town.
As politicians and activists continued to crank up the fear factor, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy had had enough. "This is urban legend that is pure pulp fiction," he said in January 2011. "I would refer you to your local law enforcement officials."
Sure enough, when it was all over, cops had managed just 105 arrests metrowide, mostly by rousting the local talent. Twelve women faced penalties no greater than those for speeding tickets. Only two arrests involved human trafficking.
Cops in Germany, Canada and South Africa offered similar testimony following the World Cup and the Olympics. But these men and women who deal with prostitution every day aren't the ones crying wolf in the first place. The hysteria most always comes from the professionals of manufactured outrage: politicians.
The federal government now spends $80 million a year to combat human trafficking. Almost none of that money actually goes to offer help to trafficking victims. Instead, former president George W. Bush created task forces in 92 cities. Each only averages about two sex cases a year.
WFAA News Dallas, TexasBy JASON WHITELYPosted on January 31, 2011 at 10:52 PMUpdated Tuesday, Feb 1 at 1:55 PM
DALLAS — For weeks now, police, politicians and non-profit agencies have warned that a wave of prostitutes will be coming to North Texas for Super Bowl festivities.But News 8 has learned there is no evidence supporting such claims."I think it will be like nothing we've ever experienced before," said Deena Graves, executive director of Traffick 911, a Fort Worth organization dedicated stopping the sale of children into sexual slavery.Graves is among those warning of an alarming increase in underage girls sold for sex during the Super Bowl."Traffickers follow the money, and there's a whole lot of money that comes with the Super Bowl," she said.Police and politicians have also issued similar statements."The Super Bowl is, unfortunately, a major draw for human trafficking," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said during a news conference on the topic at Dallas Police headquarters recently.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott gave reporters similar warnings in Arlington.But no one can answer the question, "How do you know?"since pimps and prostitutes don't register anywhere. Still, what makes the problem so much worse during the Super Bowl? Similar stories about the sex trade surround almost every major sporting event — even the Olympics and the World Cup.To investigate their validity, News 8 began checking with police departments in other cities that have also hosted the Super Bowl.Phoenix hosted the big game three years ago. Police there told News 8 they received similar warnings about an increase in prostitution and prepared for it, but never uncovered any evidence of a spike in illegal sexual activity."I think one of the things people automatically assume is that while you've got influential people in town, people with significant amounts of money and therefore a whole lot of prostitution is going to follow with that," said Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson. "We did not notice an increase or anything out of the ordinary."Tampa hosted the Super Bowl in 2009. A police spokeswoman there said officers there made 11 prostitution arrests during the entire week leading up to the game.And last year, Miami police told News 8 they arrested 14 for prostitution.
Those figures are not uncommon for large cities during a seven-day period, experts said.
Last year, Canada debunked similar hype about prostitutes around the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. British Columbia funded a study which concluded that "sex trafficking and mega-events are not linked."
A European group called The International Organization for Migration arrived at the same conclusion in Germany after rumors that 40,000 prostitutes would go to the 2006 World Cup. The estimations are "unfounded and unrealistic," the IOM reported.
Ernie Allen, director for The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said he was misquoted last year when predicting 10,000 prostitutes would show up in Miami for Super Bowl XLIV.
Allen said the Super Bowl likely doesn't attract more sex traffickers than any other large event. What's more, he also conceded there is no way to quantify the problem.
Still, he and Graves both said the issue is under-recognized and under-reported.
"Sometimes when numbers are very high, people think it's hopeless and they may not even try to address the issue," said Becky Sykes of the Dallas Women's Foundation.
The organization has commissioned a study to research Internet ads and escort services during February. It's specifically looking for underage girls as prostitutes and hoping — for the first time — to see whether the Super Bowl really increases sex trafficking in the host city.
Critics blame some women's groups for the prostitution myth as they try to raise awareness without facts.No one disputes that trafficking is a serious and sickening problem, but whether the Super Bowl intensifies it is a prediction no one can yet prove.
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According to the media hype There was supposed to be hundreds of thousands of under age child sex slaves kidnapped and forced to have sex with super bowl fans. At the Dallas Super Bowl 2011. WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THEM????
It was all a big lie told by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, government officials, and various anti-prostitution groups: Traffick911, Not for Sale, Change-org, A Future Not A Past, Polaris Project, Salvation Army, Women's Funding Network, and the Dallas Women's Foundation, which are anti-prostitution groups that tell lies in order to get grant money from the government and charities to pay their high salaries, and get huge amounts of money into their organizations.
As proved in the link below:Top FBI agent in Dallas (Robert Casey Jr.) sees no evidence of expected spike in child sex trafficking:
"Among those preparations was an initiative to prevent an expected rise in sex trafficking and child prostitution surrounding the Super Bowl. But Robert Casey Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI's Dallas office, said he saw no evidence that the increase would happen, nor that it did.
"In my opinion, the Super Bowl does not create a spike in those crimes," he said. "The discussion gets very vague and general. People mixed up child prostitution with the term human trafficking, which are different things, and then there is just plain old prostitution."
This myth of thousands or millions of underage sex slaves tries to make every sports fan a sex criminal. No matter what the sport is, or in what country it is in.
Why does the United States Government want to continue to push this myth?


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Bronco Talk reaches a milestone as Sandy Clough abuses his 100,000th caller ("Sir, you obviously know nothing about football..."). After the Broncos pull off a last-minute playoff victory over Pittsburgh, the sagacious Mariotti suggests that "Denver just might die" after another Super Bowl loss--"if not literally, then certainly spiritually"--and argues that the "community" will be better off if the Broncos lose to Cleveland in the AFC title game. Both papers recap The Drive and The Fumble and write stories about the altitude and fan noise. The News interviews a guy named Cleveland Brown; the Post describes Browns owner Art Modell as "one of the key figures in pregame hype." The Broncos whip the Browns. SUPER! gurgles the News, recycling its 1987 front page. NEXT STOP--MONTANA, puns the Post. Fans start booking flights to Missoula.
KCNC leads off its evening news with seven minutes of Bronco celebration before noting the death of a mother and four children from carbon monoxide poisoning. The News gives up on Lou Wright and consults a tarot-card reader, who says the Broncos will win the Super Bowl by a narrow margin. Mariotti, who had previously called Elway a punk, now takes credit for the Broncos' win over Cleveland (by suggesting they should lose). He decides that the town "needed" this victory and that the Broncos have a chance to win the big one after all. Comparing his guys to the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, Reeves hints that Denver might just pull off "the second-greatest upset in sports history."
From the moment a panicky-looking Elway hurls his first wild pass into the Superdome carpet, the game is never in doubt. San Francisco 55, Denver 10.
One week after the massacre, the News publishes a story about Vance Johnson's history of domestic violence as part of a series titled "Men Who Beat Women." The reporter--not a member of the paper's sports department, which was less than eager to tackle the subject while the Broncos were driving for the Super Bowl--receives death threats.
The Post debuts a short-lived football column by a female known only as Flo. After a dismal 5-11 record in 1990, the Broncos rebound with a 12-4 season and eke out a home-field playoff win over Houston. Still licking their wounds over the 49er debacle, fans agonize over the prospect of another Super Bowl defeat; KOA's Mike Rosen denounces all the "defeatist blabber." Not to worry. David Treadwell misses three field goals in the AFC title match in Buffalo, and the Broncos pass the also-ran torch to the hapless Bills.
Woody Paige argues that the team gained national respect in the 10-7 loss, but much of the national media attention on the Broncos these days is focused on the bad actors Reeves has kept on his squad in an effort to compete with NFC levels of thuggishness. The Vance is one of several members of the 1991 Broncos charged with violent crimes against women, from assault to rape; only two spend more than a week in jail.
Reeves is booed, then booted after a lackluster 1992 season. Pat Bowlen names Wade Phillips as the new head coach after Mike Shanahan turns down the job. Unimpressed, Post columnist Mark Kiszla predicts that the New York-bound Reeves will win a Super Bowl before the Broncos do. The amiable Phillips jokes with reporters that if he doesn't win it all right away, he deserves the ax. But in Bronco country, it's no joke; the sportswriters are crabby, the fans impatient, and Bowlen is hinting around about needing a new stadium.
When Phillips takes the injury-plagued Broncos to a wild-card playoff loss against the Raiders in his first season, local pundits tout him as the best rookie coach in the league. The following year, after a 7-9 record, he's fired.
Bowlen finally has the coach he wants (Shanahan), a running back who can take the offense off Elway's aching shoulders (Terrell Davis), and the ear of the state legislature. He promises cheap tickets, affordable beer and world peace if the taxpayers cough up $180 million for a new stadium--and adds that he won't move the team if voters reject his bid for new digs. But everyone knows any possible stadium vote may hinge on the team's performance.
The hype has cooled down in recent years, thanks to the arrival of the Rockies and the Avalanche, but as the 13-3 Broncos march into the playoffs with home-field advantage, the feeding frenzy begins. Even though Elway hasn't made a Super Bowl appearance in ages other than in halftime Frito-Lay commercials, the Post's Adam Schefter declares that the entire country is rooting for his return: A NATION RALLIES BEHIND ELWAY. Mark Wolf and Bob Kravitz of the News confidently predict that the Broncos will whump the Jacksonville Jaguars by two touchdowns. (Never mind that Sports Illustrated just put Elway on its cover--usually the kiss of death for the Broncos.)
"What's to make anybody think this team, so level-headed all season, will lay an egg on the most important day of the season?" asks Kravitz, as if any recollection of the Broncos' previous playoff failures has been erased from his memory banks.

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- Posted by Wilmington_Islander 9A/Sunset 28 (My Page) on Tue, Jan 18, 05 at 8:50
Hi elle! And Welcome in advance. This query has been posted before, and there aren't any large "public" gardens here...but we all encourage you to spend time walking our lovely squares, which are gardens unto themselves...you'll also catch glimpses of the gardens in the homes of the Historic District...very, very beautiful. You may want to go tot he Bamboo Gardens at the Coastal experimental station off of HWY 17 and 204 extended ( also known as abercorn ave.) Enjoy your trip here...as for nurseries, check out Hester and Zipperer on Skidaway...others will have suggestions, I am sure. |
If you are coming the later part of March, the azaleas should be blooming well. A driving tour of the city would be a good way to start. Then if you see a particually lovely square you can get out and walk. Start at Bay street on the North, come down Bull to Forsyth Park, go east to Abercorn and then back north to Bay. This will give you a good idea of what there is to see. As far as interesting nurseries, I don't think there are any that you would find worth seeing. Hester and Zipperers is a retail outlet. PB |
One of my favorite nurseries is west on highway 80 a few miles from Savannah. It's called The Potting Shed, phone 912-965-0021. They have nice plants and lovely pots. We also have a huge nursery called Secret Gardens (I believe they are in the process of moving to a new location, their phone number is 912-233-1419). Four Seasons is out Abercorn nearly to I-95, but they are so customer oriented I go there often phone 912-925-8258. There are many others, but these are my favorites. |
Thanks to you all for replying. I am so excited about my trip, and just want to get everything out of it that I can, good food, folklore, etc. |
Check out these web sites. http://www.pbase.com/savannahga http://roadsidegeorgia.com/sitecity/Savannah PB |
- Posted by Wilmington_Islander 9A/Sunset 28 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 24, 05 at 9:28
Take a trolley tour and a ghost tour...we have been offically named the "Most Haunted City in America". |
See the historic district by carriage or foot, but leave your car behind, the streets are really narrow and their is next to no parking. |
- Posted by Wilmington_Islander 9A/Sunset 28 (My Page) on Tue, Jan 25, 05 at 13:15
No doubt, parking is a big problem here. Park your car, and then unless you can help it, keep it parked. |
Be aware. They have an unusual parking system in some parts of downtown Savannah where there is one meter for many spaces. You put your money in and you get a ticket which has to be displayed on your dashboard. That might be a common system but I had never seen it before. |
I saw that you said March, but the savanah garden expo is Friday April 8th, and Sat. April 9th. Check Savanahgardenexpo.com, some of the private gardens might still be open. |
When you visit Savannah, find a city owned parking garage (there are several) to park in. You can park all day for like $5 and you don't have to keep going back to feed the meter. If you do park by a meter, be prepared to feed it promptly and feed it often. DO NOT let it expire on you! You will get a ticket. The meter maids are very, very efficient. Savannah is a beautiful city. The time of year you are visiting is the perfect time to see it. Wear comfortable shoes, carry along some bottled water, and enjoy yourself. You can see the entire Historic District on foot if you are up to doing some walking. The local businesses will have good maps with walking trails marked on them. There are several companies that offer carriage tours which are another great way to see the city. Bring your camera, have a great visit, and remember that we do allow people to move here. Aubrey |
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Mouthpieces: Love Your Cat? Then TAG Your Cat!
In this issue, Mouthpieces helps you communicate to pet owners the importance of outfitting their precious feline companions with a collar and tag.
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It's often said in the sheltering field that a collar and identification tag are a lost pet's best chance of returning home. That's especially true for felines: Only 2 to 5 percent of the millions of homeless cats entering shelters each year are reunited with their families.
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Mouthpieces: What Would You Do if You Could Have 18 Children a Year?
This installment of Mouthpieces features a poster that is part of the extensive campaign materials developed by The HSUS in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to increase spay/neuter rates in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Get the scoop on Pets for Life New York City, an HSUS pilot program dedicated to helping people resolve problems that otherwise could lead to surrender, abandonment, or neglect of their animals.
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In hard economic times, pet food pantries supply a lifeline to struggling pet owners and their furry companions.
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Behavior Department: Making Babies? First, Make Baby-Ready Pets
For a pet who's used to being the center of attention, the arrival of a newborn child can be an upsetting experience. But some shelters are showing expectant parents how to adjust their routines beforehand to make their pets baby-ready and prevent them from being relinquished unnecessarily.
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Montana has persistent gaps in its ability to respond to health emergencies, making it one of the poorest-performing states in the nation, according to a national report released Wednesday.
In the report, the 10th annual "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism," Montana and Kansas scored the lowest, three out of 10 on key indicators of public health preparedness. Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin scored highest, eight out of 10.
Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C., scored a six or lower.
States were scored on 10 indicators, including response readiness, the state's commitment to funding public health programs, infectious-disease control, emergency management and vaccinating against whooping cough.
The report was prepared by the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to disease prevention, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest philanthropy devoted to improving American's health care.
The Trust for America's Health issues the report to provide an independent analysis of public health preparedness. The reports have found that while there has been significant progress toward improving public health preparedness over the past 10 years, particularly in core capabilities, gaps persist in the country's ability to respond to health emergencies, ranging from bioterrorist threats to serious disease outbreaks to extreme weather events.
Anna Whiting Sorrell, director of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, said significant progress has been made toward improving public health preparedness across the nation and that the same can also be said of Montana. The department, she said, is proud of its public health laboratory and its ability to staff it sufficiently in the event of a public health emergency.
Whiting Sorrell said the state Health Department's public health laboratory is also equipped to handle a wide range of tests in a timely manner.
"Several times throughout the year, DPHHS is vigilant about testing our response time to make sure we're ready to fill our role in an emergency response," Whiting Sorrell said. "Whether it's H1N1, flooding or wildfires that have impacted Montana in recent years, DPHHS has met our obligations in responding to these types of emergencies."
In the past decade, a series of significant health emergencies have emerged, including extreme weather events, a flu pandemic and foodborne outbreaks, said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health.
"But for some reason, as a country, we haven't learned that we need to bolster and maintain a consistent level of health emergency preparedness," Levi said. "Investments made after Sept. 11, the anthrax attacks and Hurricane Katrina led to dramatic improvements, but now budget cuts and complacency are the biggest threats we face."
The "Ready or Not?" report provides a snapshot of the nation's public health emergency preparedness. Its indicators were developed in consultation with leading public health experts based on data from publicly available sources or information provided by public officials.
Public health preparedness has improved leaps and bounds from where we were 10 years ago, said Paul Kuehnert, director of the public health team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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We've reached the point in the playoffs where faces become unrecognizable, and the identity of grown men has transformed completely over five weeks and two full playoff rounds. Faces that were once smooth and free of furry features are a tangled mess, with a facial jungle having now conquered the chin, and the eyeballs are its next mission. It's a life form that feeds off the energy of each playoff win, and grows even stronger with the warmth of the late May and early June sun.
The effect of the sun's rays may explain the particularly wild growth throughout the Sharks' roster. However, our team of HOTH scientists has been investigating the rapid spread of the red beard in Vancouver, and even the brightest minds remain stunned.
The continued embarrassment that is Tomas Kaberle's beard is quite easy to explain though. His genetics are wired to infuse growth that's equal to playoff point production. Kaberle is the first subject of our weekly rundown through the facial failures and successes of the 2011 NHL playoffs, and we see that his growth does indeed reflect his paltry three points.
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Kaberle was featured back in our Week 2 update, and at the time we weren't sure if he was participating in hockey's spring razor chucking tradition at all. Jump ahead three weeks and we're beginning to see some progress, although it's still far less than that one kid in every grade eight class that was the subject of genetic testing as a child.
Raffi Torres
The timeline is lengthy here, mostly because we're at the mercy of Getty Images and Torres wasn't around for much face time late in the season because of his penchant for getting punished after illegal hits. But that's not the focus here anyway, because it's Torres' versatility to pull off multiple looks in a relatively short time span that gains our respect.
He's gone from the thin look that resembles anyone who wears an Ed Hardy shirt, to the creeping fuzz that's halfway up his cheek. Both looks have suited him well, which leaves us wondering what he'll try next.
Benn Ferriero
Starting yet another run through the Sharks' roster of beard growing freaks, second-year player Benn Ferriero introduced his beard to the hockey world when he scored the game-winning goal in Game 1 of the Western semi-finals against Detroit. His playing time has been limited this season (hence the lengthy timeline again), but the combination of his long, quasi-mullet and the beard have us looking for the Hanson Brothers to hop over the bench.
Douglas Murray
Murray leads the playoffs with 54 hits. That's appropriate given the growing size of his beard, because he's beginning to look like a man who will literally rip your face off.
Johnny Boychuk
From baby-face to burly face in just over a month, Boychuk has the most complete and scary personal transformation of the playoffs.
Henrik Zetterberg
We end with a solemn tribute to Zetterberg's beard that unfortunately met its maker this week after the Red Wings' improbable comeback against the Sharks fell one game short. He wasn't quite at Ron Burgundy status yet, but he was damn close.
Maybe next year, Henrik, maybe next year.


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Another mortality signal on the radio collar of a fisher (Martes pennanti) pulses on a wet spring morning, and fear of a repeat of the previous spring's mortalities looms in the backs of our minds. Hoopa tribal biologists scramble to recover the fisher quickly so that a necropsy can be performed to determine cause of death. The field crew reports back that the fisher is not dead but lethargic and lurching
on the ground when it attempts to seek cover from approaching biologists. A conference call among researchers, a wildlife pathologist, and a veterinary toxicologist follows to determine the next course of action. Unfortunately, the consensus is humane euthanization. Though testing is ongoing, this is likely the sixth monitored fisher in California that has died from second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide (SGAR) toxicosis since 2009.
Linking SGARs to multiple deaths of a rare forest carnivore has been an alarming discovery. Even more unsettling: We've learned that these deaths appear to be linked to illegal marijuana cultivation on community and public lands — a finding that raises serious concerns for the health of many species of wildlife including fishers, an Endangered Species Act candidate.
A Growing Concern
Beginning in 2008, full necropsies including toxicological screens — done at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory (CAHFS) — have been conducted to determine proximate and ultimate causes of mortality for fishers from the Hoopa Valley Reservation Fisher Project (HVRFP), Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project (SNAMP), and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Kings River Fisher Project (KRFP). These ongoing, long-term demographic projects encompass both tribal community forests within the HVRFP and public lands including Yosemite National Park and Sierra National Forest in the SNAMP and KRFP study areas.
Toxicology screening of 58 fishers from these community and public lands revealed that nearly 80 percent of the fishers had been exposed to anticoagulant rodenticide (AR) poisons, with 96 percent of those exposures being SGARs — results that we published recently in PLoS ONE (Gabriel et al. 2012). Concerned about this trend, we led an interdisciplinary collaboration including multiple stakeholders from the Hoopa Tribe, Integral Ecology Research Center, USFS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CAHFS, UC-Davis, SNAMP, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife, pooling together resources and expertise for a comprehensive approach to evaluate this emerging threat.
Spatial modeling suggested that fishers were exposed to SGARs ubiquitously throughout the study areas, contradicting current thought that wildlife are at greatest risk to these toxicants near agricultural, urban, or peri-urban settings, where the pesticides are legally used to eradicate or suppress rodent pest populations. However, lifetime monitoring of the California fishers showed that most of the exposed or poisoned individuals never overlapped any of those land-use types. In addition, the use of SGARs within the study areas, in adjacent timberlands, or within campgrounds would violate current state and federal regulations. As a result, our suspicions gravitated towards undiscovered illicit uses throughout the project areas. These suspicions were essentially confirmed after federal, state, and local law enforcement officers verified that the poisons were present at most marijuana cultivation sites found on public and tribal lands.
All of our documented SGAR fisher mortalities occurred from late April through early June, which is prime-time for marijuana seedling planting in California and likely the period of heaviest toxicant use to protect young plants from rodent damage. Regrettably, this is also a key time for female fishers to rear their kits. That unfortunate timing materialized when we discovered a lactating female fisher dead from SGAR poisoning in the Southern Sierra Nevadas. (California currently has two isolated native fisher populations, one within the northwestern coastal mountains, where population estimates are unknown, and another within the Southern Sierra Nevadas, where estimates suggest fewer than 300 adults [Spencer et al. 2011]). Presumably, the dead mother's kits also died due to den abandonment.
In a separate instance, a rescue attempt on an abandoned fisher kit still dependent on its mother's milk was unsuccessful, and the kit was found dead of starvation. Most disconcerting was that SGARs were detected in the kit's tissues. This unexpected finding verified a transplacental or milk transfer of a SGAR from mother to kit, raising concern about fetotoxic or bioaccumulation effects of these pesticides, which are currently unknown.
These findings underscore the need to understand not only the direct impacts of these toxicants, but other possible indirect impacts that fishers and other wildlife may face at the population level. For example, we detected an average of 1.6 different types of ARs per fisher, with some fishers testing positive for four different toxic compounds. There are no data on the possible interactions of two, three, or even four different ARs, or the effects they might have on animal health. Furthermore, we cannot yet determine whether a threshold level of exposure exists beyond which an animal cannot recover, since some fishers died with low levels of SGARs while others displayed no clinical signs even with
much higher exposures. We wonder if these toxicants at sub-lethal doses lower resistance to environmental stressors, as seen in other studies, and whether the distribution of SGARs within the landscape will limit prey availability and create sink habitats near cultivation sites. This is just the beginning of a long list of potential cascading impacts now being discussed in California.
Problem Spreading Like Weeds
Illegal marijuana growing is not just a problem for wildlife. The High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew is a nonprofit trail-maintenance crew that has spent the past seven years maintaining and cleaning trails throughout the Sierra Nevadas' national forests. In the mid-2000s, the group realized that risks associated with large-scale marijuana production throughout most, if not all, California national forests threatened backcountry use of public lands. Since then, the trail crew's Environmental Reclamation Team (ERT) has remediated more than 600 large-scale marijuana cultivation sites on public lands. The numbers are daunting, especially when considering that these 600 sites were in only two of California's 17 national forests and may constitute only a fraction of the actual marijuana cultivation sites that exist in these forests. Tommy Lanier, Director of the National Marijuana Initiative, a White House supported program, states that "60 percent to 70 percent of the national marijuana seizures come from California annually, and of those totals, about 60 percent comes from public lands."
Based on data from ERT-remediated sites, at least 50 percent of them have SGARs. Beyond finding anticoagulant rodenticides, the team and other remediation groups frequently find and remove restricted and banned pesticides including organo- phosphates, organochlorines, and carbamates as well as thousands of pounds of nitrogen-rich fertilizers. Many of the discovered pesticides have been banned for use in the U.S., Canada, and the European Union, specifically certain carbamates, which gained notoriety worldwide after an explosion of public awareness about their use to kill African wildlife. Unfortunately, these same malicious uses are occurring in California, where marijuana cultivators place pourable carbamate pesticides in opened tuna or sardine cans in order to kill black bears, gray foxes, raccoons, and other carnivores that damage marijuana plants or raid food caches at grow-site encampments.
In many cases, law enforcement officers approaching grow sites observe wildlife exposed to what officers call "wildlife bombs" due to their high potential for mass wildlife killing. For example, as federal and state officers approached a grow site in Northern California, they discovered a black bear and her cubs seizing and convulsing as they slowly succumbed to the neurological effects of these pesticides. Because toxicants are usually dispersed throughout cultivation sites, it is remarkably difficult to detect and remove all pesticide threats.
Funding to document, quantify, and remediate the damage caused by illegal marijuana cultivation on public and tribal lands has been difficult to secure through state or federal agencies or even private foundations, possibly due to the common misperceptions that illegal marijuana cultivation is not an environmental but rather a social issue, and that it is not a significant threat to wildlife. Yet we propose that funding is strongly warranted to help researchers investigate toxicant exposure and implications throughout the forests' trophic levels, and to study impacts on all species of conservation concern, including fishers and the northern spotted owl.
Another common misperception is that it is the responsibility of law enforcement to not only protect our natural resources at illegal marijuana sites, but also to remove pesticides and remediate the sites. In truth, there is currently no standardized system for grow-site remediation. Recently, for example, we encountered more than 10 pounds of SGARs and 20 pounds of metaldehyde and carbamates from a single site that law enforcement officers had dismantled within fisher and northern spotted owl territories. Most of these toxicants were left untouched out of concern for the safety of the officers, who are not trained to handle and transport these highly toxic chemicals, especially in the frequent situation where these chemicals are unlabeled. Accordingly, without documentation of the environmental damage and threats from toxicants, and without funding for properly trained personnel, most poisons will continue to be left at grow sites, where they remain a catastrophic threat to wildlife.
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Effects Extend beyond Poison
Environmental threats from large-scale marijuana cultivation are certainly not limited to toxicant contamination. At most grow sites, it is standard practice to clear patches of forest within riparian corridors in order to provide enough sunlight for growing plants. The cumulative impact of these practices across the California landscape is unknown, but disheartening in its potential. Last year, at a site within the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in northern California, where 26,600 marijuana plants were removed, several acres of hardwood-conifer and alder forest had been cleared along one of the most productive Chinook and Coho salmon-bearing streams in the area. Under no circumstance would this clearing be allowed under the Tribe's management plans or current state or federal regulations established to protect habitat for the salmon.
Because growers prefer areas with a constant and abundant water supply, it is these sensitive habitats that suffer the greatest impacts from marijuana cultivation. Water diversions and pesticide-filled cisterns within streambeds feeding miles of plastic irrigation lines are all-too-familiar a sight. Human waste throughout these sites is also widespread, and because many of the sites on public and tribal lands are inhabited for several months of the year by drug-traffic organizations, extensive camp systems are set up with associated trash dumps and human latrine sites just meters away from water sources.
The camps and plantations are often guarded by armed drug traffickers, so concern for the safety of field crews, students, and biologists working on these lands is ever pressing. Wildlife professionals are fearful of unwittingly running into armed growers at active grow sites, with good reason. Recently, a federal biologist in the southern Sierra Nevadas was chased by armed growers for 40 minutes through the national forest. "When we lost radio contact at one point for 10 minutes, we feared that the biologist was captured or possibly dead," says project supervisor Jodi Tucker of Sequoia National Forest. In another incident in the 2012 field season, biologists surveying for northern spotted owls on the Hoopa Reservation were shot at by suspected illegal growers with high-caliber assault rifles. Luckily, no one was injured, but biologists avoided the survey area until the threat was addressed.
Due to heighted safety concerns and emerging patterns like these over the past several years, wildlife crews now are often composed of two individuals, whereas before, biologists worked independently in the field. The effects of these changes have not been fully ascertained, but it can be assumed that increased labor costs coupled with increased equipment and vehicle expenditures are affecting the size, duration, and thoroughness of data for many studies on California's public and tribal lands.
Because wildlife biologists are also avoiding some study areas due to safety concerns, study designs are now being altered to avoid known grow sites, thus further impacting quality and completeness of data. Research ecologist Craig Thompson from the USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station estimates that during each field season, 10 to 25 percent of the Kings River Fisher Project area becomes inaccessible due to safety concerns. In another telling example during the 2010-2011 field season, two radio-collared fishers in this study area pulsed mortality signals but could not be recovered due to their locations near known grow sites. Eventually, under escort by armed law enforcement officers, biologists recovered the collars, yet the carcasses — and any evidence of cause of death or rodenticide toxicosis — were long destroyed.
In his Science editorial "The Tragedy of the Commons," Garret Hardin lamented the loss of our public resources due to the greed and inconsid- eration of some individuals (Hardin 1968). We believe the vast and ever-growing misuse of our public and tribal forests for the financial benefit of a few individuals is an enormous threat to these resources and a deplorable tragedy of the commons. Our public and tribal land and agencies are being hit on two fronts: first by having to endure the illegal use, take, and destruction of natural resources without our permission, then having to support the financial burden of renewing these lands from the disastrous ecosystem degradation that illicit cultivation produces. Regrettably, most of this is occurring without the knowledge of the public, whose land it is. Though this is a sad story that often brings surprise, disgust, and a feeling of helplessness in those hearing it for the first time, in the words of Rachel Carson, "The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts."
Author Bios
Mourad W. Gabriel is a Doctoral Candidate at the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the University of California-Davis and President of the Integral Ecology Research Center.
Greta M. Wengert is a Wildlife Ecologist with the Integral Ecology Research Center.
J. Mark Higley is a Wildlife Biologist with Hoopa Tribal Forestry.
Shane Krogan is Executive Director of the High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew.
Warren Sargent is a Forensic Engineer with the High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew.
Deana L. Clifford, DVM, Ph.D., is a Wildlife Veterinarian with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.


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These are some tips for Canadians travelling in Australia. Sara and I are pretty much typical Canadians, though we've lived too long in Toronto, which makes us a touch more irritable about one or two things, which I'm sure will come out below.
- Oz and Canada at a glance
- customer service, ha ha
- weather
- dangerous critters (seriously!)
Comparison Chart
Aspect | Canada | Australia |
Size | ~10 million km2 | ~7 million km2 |
Climate | Bitterly cold winters, warm summers, four seasons | Hot summers (unbelievably hot in the interior), warm winters |
Population | 31 million | 17 million |
Languages | English, French | something like English |
Cities | Toronto (<5 million), Montréal (2 million), Vancouver (1 million) | Sydney (4 million), Melbourne (3.5 million), Brisbaine (1.6 million) |
Animals | 50 thousand polar bears | 50 million kangaroos |
pests | cock-roaches (50 thousand in our building) | raccoons (50 thousand in Toronto alone) |
Other notable wildlife | many large animals, mosquitos, biting flies in summer, (rabid) mammals &possums, | bug-free (except for flies in the interior), but crawling with spiders, swarming with snakes, and flying with birds |
Music | rock &country | pop, pop, pop. |
dominant colours | white, green, blue | red, orange, brown |
hazards | hypothermia, insects, terrestrial animals that bite | spiders, bluebottle jellyfish, blue box jellyfish, sharks, crocodiles, insects, snakes |
Sports | Hockey, soccer, softball, skiing, curling | Footie, Australian-"rules" football, cricket, rally races, sport fishing, various forms of rugby, soccer, field hockey, swimming, surfing, skiing (believe it!), the list is endless. |
Light switches | Up is on, down is off | Up is off, down is on (not kidding! It's like that in Fiji and NZ, too) |
Accent | Newfie through generic American (but spoken more quickly) | Broad, quasi-British (but spoken without classist perfection) |
Gambling | 6/49, casinos (and video poker in limited places) | lotteries, casinos, horse races, video poker, on and on |
Facial hair (men) | often | never |
Toilet flushes | one speed suits all | half or full |
Driving (and escalators, revolving doors, etc) | right side | left side |
Vacation | cottage, camping | beach |
Kylie Minogue | what, the one who remade Locmotion in the mid 80's? | what, the one who sold out nine shows in Sydney in 2001? |
Customer Service
Australians aren't here to serve you, even if they're behind a counter.
We've learned the hard way that business in Australia is NOT like business back home. You have to essentially behave as if you're dealing with people who don't want your business. Because they don't! These are things you can expect:
- hidden charges: Telstra, the Aussie answer to Bell Canada (like anyone asked that question) doesn't mention the $50 hook-up fee, nor the $20 miscellany fee that come with setting up a new phone line. Just get used to it, I guess.
- are you being served?: Don't be surprised if the folks with name tags in stores would rather chat than answer questions. It's all part of the Aussie charm: remember, she'll be right, mate.
- I'll (not) get back to you: You won't get a return call from an Aussie company. In fact, you can expect busy signals, unanswered calls (voice mail is rare, here), and 'No, (s)he is not in the office' eight days in a row.
- lies: Aussie companies would rather lie and give you an easy answer than do any real work. Just be persistant. Remember, if you wanted uptight, you'dda stayed back home.
- bank hours: everything closes at 6 PM, even in large cities. Except for Thursday afternoon. At first this seems like an inconvenience, but it's surprisingly easy to get used to.
- immunity: Australians who serve the public seem to have some kind of God-granted immunity from the sink-or-swim mechanism that seems to cull the bad ones quickly throughout North America. How else could you explain this one:
girl 1: okay.
... (quarter of an hour elapses)
senior server: who wanted the chicken burger?
me: I asked for a burger, actually.
senior server: (groans, and snaps 'oh')
... (quarter of an hour elapses as a 'private' party wanders in around us and a few other confused patrons)
me: that's it. Let's go.
sara: why don't you ask that woman. I think a private party is being hosted.
me (approaching a woman who seemed to work there): Hello-
woman: you with such and such company?
me: um, no. Is this a private party?
woman: some of it is... (looking about vaguely)
me: Okay, I ordered a burger half an hour agooh, here it comes.
(a get back to the table just as the serveryet another serveris leaving. I notice that she's left no cutlery, and try to get her attention.)
me: excuse me? EXCUSE ME?
(she picks up the pace as she hurries out. I finally lunged after her and tap her on the shoulder. She looks over her shoulder as she walks away.)
me: Hi, yes! I ordered some cutlery with that burger?
girl 2: oh, try behind the bar, they might have some (walks away)
(fuming, I go to the bar)
me: Do you have cutlery?
girl 1: No.
(then I spot a male employee. I've learned that in Australia, males form all of the senior ranks.)
me: Hi. I ordered a burger with cutlery half an hour ago. The burger only just arrived, and there's no cutlery -
male: I'll get you some cutlery.
me: No, thanks, I just want my money.
male: Okay... (wanders off. I follow him, and find him fighting with the woman who'd first brought the chicken burger)>
me: Hi.
male: Hi, let's get your money.
me: Thanks.
male: (watching someone arrive with cutlery) Here's your cutlery.
Bugs &other dangerous critters
My then-girlfriend was bitten by a spider when we'd only been here a few weeks. She described the ordeal as the worst pain she'd ever experienced. This is what happened:
- Thursday night, she noticed a small bite on her stomach.
- Friday morning, and the pain had worsened to the point where she was considering staying home from work.
- Saturday: she felt awful, both in pain and sick. We went to a walk-in clinic, and they gave us a prescription for antibiotics.
- Sunday: feverish and writhing in pain, she was unable to sit up. I danced around in distress, and ran back and forth to the Chemist, getting painkillers and whatnot. The bite was a red, raised area on her stomach, with the same footprint as a mobile phone (and not a particularly small one).
- Monday: I had to go to work, as my first contract in Oz had just started. We were in constant phone communication. She stayed home except to see another doctor.
- On Tuesday, she went to work, but the bite had swollen to a big puffy red area the size of my hand! The test came back, so she went in to see the doctor: the first doctor at the clinic had put her on the wrong pills!
- The point at which the spider had bitten her had become blackened and contracted. The infection beneath was still causing puffiness, and her skin had become hard.
- On Thursday, the black cap fell off. thick green jelly began to ooze from her side. For four days!
- A month later, things had returned to normal. She remains permanently scarred.
We've done a little research, and there are A LOT of nasty things on this continent. The short list is:
- Red-backed spiders: akin to the Black Widow of North American fame, but much more toxic. Bites from this one can kill small children.
- Funnel-web spiders: these are the real killers. They're big (about 5-10cm across), and very toxic. They routinely kill people every year. (Thanks to David Hughes for pointing out that I had this entry incorrectly describing the Trap-door spiders!)
- Crocodiles: fresh- and saltwater varieties grow here. Both are quite capable of inflicting any level of damage, and the things know no fear.
- Sharks: Even Sydney Harbour is home to a dozen varieties of dangerous sharks. In our first weeks here (we arrived in Summer), there was a shark bite every week! The return of sharks to the Harbour is viewed as a good thing: it means the toxicity of the water itself is down. Sharks, by and large, do not attack people. Shark attacks are not a real problem.
- Brownsnakes: a strong contender for most lethal Australian critter. Kill you dead. Do not touch.
- Bluebottle jellyfish: tiny but capable of inflicting a lot of pain. These are called 'stingers' in the local parlance, and can cause considerable (and tell-tale) scarring due to the tendency of inflicted skin to necrotise.
- Box jellyfish: probably the deadliest thing in Australian waters. There is simply no swimming north of Cairns during the Summer months.


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The private-equity owners of Bargain Booze have kicked off a sale of the discount off-licence group for up to £100m.
ECI Partners has appointed the accountancy firm KPMG to run the sale process of the 600-store group and first-round bids are due around the end of September. Information memoranda were sent out earlier this month.
The group is run by franchisees and, in addition to the Bargain Booze format, includes the Bargain Booze Plus and Thorougoods chains, which offer a combination of an off-licence and a convenience store.
The retailer has benefited from the demise of rivals such as Threshers and delivered pre-tax profits of £13.2m for the year to 30 April 2010, on sales of £371m, according to its latest accounts. ECI Partners acquired Bargain Booze for £63.5m in January 2006. A Bargain Booze spokesman said the private-equity firm had appointed advisers to look at a range of options for the business, including a sale or refinancing.
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With all the negative news reports that have Sears just barely hanging on (financially), do you feel that it still makes sense to purchase their products. I've owned Kenmore for quite a few years and really have not had any major problems with them. I need to replace my old Kenmore He3t washer and would like to get another Kenmore (reviews of other washer brands have been mixed with no clear winner??) but not sure how long Sears will be in business?? Many thanks!! |
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It is a crap shoot at best. Sears has posted dismal financial performance for a long time now and many locations, including Kmart, are suffering from bare shelves and the usual lack of help. Sooner or later, Eddie Lampert is going to have to do some serious fire selling to keep the wolves at bay. Already he's dumping lands end and I could very easily see white goods get the axe next. Auto centers? Hard to say but I could see those getting "outsourced" to a 3rd party managing company paying Sears rent for the locations and the Sears name. Fact is, the investments necessary to keep the two tottering drunks on a straight line have not been forthcoming. Lampert is a fund manager, an finance guy, looking to generate returns to investors rather than value to customers. Could you get a Kenmore fixed if Sears called it quits? Absolutely as Kenmore has always been made by "someone else". Would it be as easy as now? I doubt it. Ch 11 would put your broken washer way at the bottom of the list of creditors looking to get their 10 cents on the dollar so you could be out of luck. But why waste time and perhaps money on a doubtful future and instead go with a proven Speed Queen top loader OR front loader? The company is in good shape, in fact, it is expanding to meet demand for small chassis (residential) production. That naturally tells me they are selling the dickens out of their product and have a much brighter future than Sears does at the moment. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Speed Queen in action
I had a great kenmore dw but 4-5 years ago it needed to be replaced and I foolishly bought another Kenmore. I removed it after one day, made Sears give me $100 for my trouble and won't ever buy their crap again. It was supposed to be very quiet and it was super noisy. way more noisy than the unit it replaced. and it was CHEAPLY constructed. flimsy. awful. cost over $1000 so it wasn't a bargain unit. |
Kenmore washing machines are just LG, Whirlpool, or Electrolux so getting parts is no big deal as they are variations on the OEM's line. The only worry would be getting warranty service if Sears goes belly up. But with a 1 year warranty on these items, all you'd have to do is make it 1 year. I'd not worry. But if you want to be "safe" buy the LG, Whirlpool, or Electorlux that looks just like the Kenmore. |
Thanks guys, I'll take a look at Speed Queen as it sounds very promising. |
Kenz5 I attached a link of my Speed Queen in action. If you search youtube for danmantn, he has a vid of the machine in operation with the front panel off. Look closely at the solid construction. Take note of the industry leading warranty. Gaze at the simple, easy to understand and use control panel. Then go out and make the best choice, get yourself at Speed Queen and enjoy. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Speed Queen in action
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Adel Iskandar (aka Adel Iskandar Farag) (born 15 March 1977) is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist, analyst,[1] and academic. He is the author and co-author of several works on Arab media, most prominently an analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera.[2]
Born to an Egyptian family of physicians in Edinburgh, Scotland, he grew up in Kuwait, escaping the Iraqi invasion and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. At the age of 16, he moved to Canada where he earned his degree in Social Anthropology and Biology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He later earned a masters in Communications from Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.
He proposes the concept of "contextual objectivity" as a critique of media's coverage of war.[3] He writes a regular column for Egyptian independent newspaper Almasry Alyoum, and teaches in the Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) program as well as the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University.[4]
- Author: Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution (forthcoming, 2013)
- Co-editor: Mediating the Arab Uprisings (2012) Tadween Publishing.
- Co-editor: Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (2010), ISBN 0-5202-5890-8
- Co-author: Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (2003), ISBN 0-8133-4149-3
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- Egypt Independent Columns
- From Paris to Cairo: Resistance of the Unacculturated
- Is Al-Jazeera Alternative? Mainstreaming Alterity and Assimilating Discourses of Dissent
- Lines in the Sand: Problematizing Arab Media in the Post-Taxonomic Era
- Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
- ^ Cock, Jorn de (9 July 2011). "Egyptenaren slaan rood alarm: Onvrede over militaire junta groeit". De Standaard. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ^ Boehlert, Eric (12 November 2004). "Fallujah anticlimax". Salon.com. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ^ el-Nawawy & Iskandar (Fall–Winter 2002). "The Minotaur of 'Contextual Objectivity': War coverage and the pursuit of accuracy with appeal". Transnational Broadcasting Journal 9.
- ^ Timpane, John (28 February 2011). "Twitter and other services create cracks in Gadhafi's media fortress". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
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Breakfast Topic: Where in Azeroth would you make your imaginary home? {WoW}
Mar 29th 2011 12:19PM Ahh, you provincials. Stormwind for me!! Action, intrigue, dragon and elemental invasions, the relative solitude of Elwynn Forest or Lakeshire a short horse or gryphon ride away. The fishing, the cooking expertise of Robby Flay, a short tram ride to Ironforge for skiing in Dun Morogh, the safety of not having to fight the occasional Horde invasion unless I decided to flag myself...some of those places you all want to live are pretty dicey if an opposite faction band comes charging along with a "it's red, it's dead" attitude.
So, big city life for me!
Breakfast Topic: How are your characters coping with moral dilemmas in game? {WoW}
Mar 14th 2011 6:33PM Couple things here...
First, King Wrynn didn't "abandon" his people. He was kidnapped by agents of Onyxia, when she was posing as Lady Prestor, who during his absence, used it to sew confusion and despair among the human lands, making it appear he had "abandoned" them. (All of this is covered in the WoW comic series, now collected in trade hardbacks and worth reading for any WoW lore geeks).
Second, for everyone who thinks the Forsaken should/could become their own faction, I feel that the ONLY way that could happen is if they manage to wipe everyone out with the Blight in a lightning strike...otherwise the Alliance and Horde will both try to destroy them like they did the Scourge.
Finally, I see one other possibility here...and I seem to be the ONLY one who sees it (I feel like a lone voice crying in the wilderness, and I hope I'm proven right rather than crazy). Everyone forgets that the "new" Lich King/Jailor of the Damned is a great ALLIANCE hero. Even when he took on the mantle of the Lich King, he blazed with golden light, rather than the blue light of the Scourge. I believe that IF the Forsaken get TOO far out of line, by either trying to become their own faction or by trying to take over the Horde, Bolvar (who the Lich King was unable to corrupt and who took the mantle selflessly rather than through need and coercion like Ner'zhul) will simply ally the "old", former Scourge with the Alliance...perhaps giving us Alliance players our own "undead" faction to play.
Breakfast Topic: What's your favorite ability in WoW? {WoW}
Mar 9th 2011 12:19PM ^^So this! RIP Bubble Hearth!
This pally who loved to wave and laugh at the futile attempts to kill me while I ported safely away SORELY misses you!
Breakfast Topic: Has Deathwing caught up with you yet? {WoW}
Mar 3rd 2011 12:35PM I was helping a new guildie who had just created a new Worgen DK. I was flying him to Honor Hold on my 2-seater recruit a friend rocket. For sheets and giggles I decided to fly back to the Dark Portal Outland side and watch the demons try to battle their way through. Then I saw something I'd NEVER seen before. It appeared that the demons had actually WON! There was a line of doomguards marching right through the portal. I thought...ok...this is new...maybe it's something phased, or new content, or foreshadowing, but I was excited. I wanted to see what happened on the Azeroth side of the portal and if the demons who marched through would be having an effect on the other side.
I ran through the portal and the sky was red, and everthing in the crater in front of the Portal was ablaze! I thought "Wow!! This IS new!! I have to see what the heck happened!" So I blithely ran into the fire to see if anyone was alive or if there would be demons locked in mortal combat with Horde and Alliance forces. And DING!! Achievement...with NO death penalty to boot (which was a sweet little break for me).
I frantically mounted up to see the big black wyrm flying off to the NW...
So I got a nice combo of little WoW thrills. Saw something BC-related I had never seen before, which led me to believe that I was subsequently seeing something non-Cata-related that got my WoW geek on, which led me to an achievement for which I got no death penalty!
All in all, a VERY satisfying WoW evening for me...and all because I'm a nice guy.
Karma's wonderful.
The anachronistic illogic of battlegrounds {WoW}
Feb 17th 2011 6:05PM This just makes so much sense, I'm surprised it hasn't been done already!
Breakfast Topic: What's your favorite piece of music in WoW? {WoW}
Feb 16th 2011 1:02PM For me, it's still the entirety of the WotLK login screen music...5 minutes of absolutely fantastic music. It was hard to hear in-game because of Sindy's roaring all the time, and it's gone from the login now, but on the Wrath soundtrack disk, it's just fantastic...from the evocative "icy/windy" keening of the voices to the last part that brings in the best moments from the Black Temple, it's just a great overture for a terrific game.
In defense of gear simulations {WoW}
Feb 4th 2011 11:02PM @Deius (and Josh) -
I stand corrected! For some reason, I missed the ENTIRE second page of the article where Josh mentions EnhSimm. However, YOU, Deius, know about Aldriana...she's not mentioned personally in Josh's article. He just mentions "certain awesome individuals". But for those of us who don't know these individuals personally, I was just saying it would be nice to be given a clue where to find them.
In defense of gear simulations {WoW}
Feb 4th 2011 7:25PM @Pyromelter. ^This.
But if as you say Josh, you "merely want to get the word out that there are legitimate mathematical reasons as to why spreadsheets are so heavily endorsed by the theorycrafting community. These are programs and applications written and designed by some very awesome individuals to help the World of Warcraft community out, and they're definitely worth checking out!"...
how bout a link to these programs and applications, for those of us who wouldn't mind USING a spreadsheet, but sure as hell don't want to MAKE one.
The sudden yet inevitable betrayal of gaming immersion {WoW}
Jan 7th 2011 8:05PM Funny pop culture references, as mentioned, are just part of the fun that is WoW, and in no way drop me out of my gaming immersion.
What does is the necessary evil of having to rely on Vent, Mumble or other voice chat in raids, and really hearing the voices behind the avatars!
Meet WoW Insider at midnight Cataclysm releases {WoW}
Dec 3rd 2010 8:27PM I just found out from THIS very post that the Best Buy in Sherman Oaks where my CE will be waiting for me is having a midnight launch party...AND that Robinemia will be there (hopefully wearing bunny ears)! I may just have to stop "Buy"!


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Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:23 PM
History will repeat itself, but I couldn't seriously think a commie like you could grasp that...
Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:46 PM
so when Obama doesn't take your guns, are you going to realize you're just a little bit overzealous here? Or are you going to decide he was just too afraid to?
so it seems that Obama isn't going to take anyones guns, but who knows, maybe he'll pull a fast one
Bruce Reed, chief of staff to guns task force leader Vice President Joe Biden, told a meeting that the proposals to be unveiled at a White House event Wednesday morning will come with three prongs: legislation to reduce gun availability and executive actions to address education and mental health. Among the areas those executive actions would address are anti-bullying measures and additional training for school counselors and mental health professionals.
According to the person in the room for Reed's presentation, Obama's gun violence prong includes universal background checks for all new gun purchases, which Reed called the most important element of Obama's entire gun violence proposal. It also calls for banning assault weapons and ammunition magazines with more than 10 rounds and an anti-trafficking law that the White House hopes will break up gun-trafficking rings, Reed told the group.
History will repeat itself, but I couldn't seriously think a commie like you could grasp that...
I am curious what exactly you think is going to be repeated in the US...?
Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:52 PM
Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:52 PM
I am curious what exactly you think is going to be repeated in the US...?
the dark days of the brady act when we were ruled by a tyrannical slick willy clinton.
Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:56 PM
Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:01 AM
I couldn't give two sh/ts if tyrant 2a haters disagree. I await your "oh noes, I no longer have the freedom of speech either?"
History will repeat itself, but I couldn't seriously think a commie like you could grasp that...
anyone who indiscriminately sprays the word "commie" around to describe anyone who disagrees with their viewpoints is by default eliminated as a cognitive source in discourse
Posted 16 January 2013 - 07:12 AM
Why not?
Posted 16 January 2013 - 08:54 AM
Obama didn't go through congress like Clinton (Democrat) did in 1994. This mother fuger will do it through executive order! Woot! fug you gun huggers!
Because of the UN disarmament agreement he signed?
Posted 16 January 2013 - 08:56 AM
So no liberals in here want a sign to put in your front yard?
Why not?
Probably for the same reason the gun owners didn't want their address published in the paper, but please continue with your adolescent argument.
Posted 16 January 2013 - 09:57 AM
Piers Morgan fact checked...
Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:09 AM
Adolescents started this little fight.
Piers Morgan fact checked...
No actually, a a guy shooting children with a gun started this little fight
Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:14 AM
Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:20 AM
If these guys aren't willing to put up a "gun free zone" in their yard why must they do it to schools?
i don't believe for a second that you don't understand the difference between a decision being made by a private property owner vs. decisions made regarding a state owned and regulated location full of young children and other vulnerable individuals.
you might as well be trying to argue that it's hypocritical to support a ban on alcohol and tobacco in schools but be unwilling to install a giant no smoking sign in your house.
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