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Getting to 50/50 builds on what the latest research tells us: that children can thrive with two working parents and that fathers and mothers play equally important roles. It shows parents how to push back at 24/7 work demands and is filled with fresh insights from men and women who are successfully combining careers and family. I wish this book had existed when I was raising young daughters.
—Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Co-author of Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All By Sharing It All (2009) Joanna Strober has spent her career in private equity, as an attorney and as a venture capital and buyout investor. She realized that there was no need to choose between family and career and that couples everywhere were experiencing undue stress trying to find a balance. She met with her friend Sharon Meers, who at the time was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and they put their heads together to write this book. In her 16-year career at Goldman, Sharon ran several businesses and became one of the few female managing directors on the West Coast. In addition to mentoring many women, Sharon co-chaired the Women's Network in the Investment Management Division, served on the diversity committees of two of the firm's divisions and developed a mentorship program that linked high-potential women to senior male advisors. Joanna Strober's visit to CMC is sponsored by the Berger Institute for the Work, Family, and Children.
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I am an early career historian and wine studies scholar in the Department of History, School of Humanities and Social Science at The University of Newcastle. My doctoral research in History at the University of Sydney identified the framework for wine studies as a new Humanities and Social Science research field in which I have since published widely.
My post-doctoral research explores the 'wine complex' of early Australian wine production, trade and consumption within multiple historical frameworks including colonial and environmental history. I have published on the significance of wine and wine growing in the Australian colonial imaginary, Aboriginal-settler relations, social reforms to create sobriety, and notions of place.
In 2010, I held the Rydon Fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London. I have taught Australian and European History at the University of Sydney, UNSW and since 2010 at the University of Newcastle. I am a founding member of the University of Newcastle's Wine Studies Research Network.
My current project 'Vines, Wine and Identity: the Hunter Valley NSW and changing Australian taste" is an ARC Industry Linkage (LP14). The project summary is: Australia is a leader in global wine trade and tourism, and Australian drinkers are shifting from beer to wine. Yet little is known about the regional communities that make wine, how wine production has shaped their identity, and how producers have changed national culture by creating a taste for their wines. This project explores these themes through an historical sociological study of Australia's oldest wine region, the Hunter Valley NSW. It traces intra- and transnational networks of people, knowledge and wine. This will in turn reveal elements of the power nexus in wine production, trade and consumption to provide critical new insights into Australia's change to a wine making and wine drinking country". The lead investigator on the grant is Prof John Germov, University of Newcastle. The remainder of the team comprises myself; Dr David Dunstan, Monash University; Prof James Simpson, Carlos III University Madrid; Julie Baird, Newcastle Museum, and Brian McGuigan, the Hunter Valley Wine & Tourism Association.
My involvement in this project has arisen from my interest in wine as an historical lens to explore Australian themes of human desire, ambition, innovation and environmental change within global contexts. In my work, wine is defined not only as an alcoholic drink drenched in meaning arising from its role in Europe's Biblical and Classical traditions (pictured: Ancient Greek wine god Dionysus and I at the British Museum). In Australia it is also an exotic plant product, agricultural industry, subject of scientific inquiry and object of trade that exemplifies changes in agriculture, trade and consumption in the Age of European Empires and the Enlightenment.
As post-Enlightenment environmental concerns highlight questions about the impact of plant adaptation, wine studies offers a transom to the contemporary dialetic between globalisation and neo-localism. For instance, the current exoticisation of Australian wine in China, and Australian expertise in the creation of Chinese wine grape vineyards, is a fascinating expression of the connection between modernity and adaptation of the ancient European practices of wine growing, trading and drinking.
By using historical sociological methods in archives and oral historical research, I observe the interplay of agency and external forces in the wine complex of growing, trading and drinking. The wine complex of production-distribution-consumption provides an ideal framework for case studies across a range of historical themes. I have published on early Australian wine growing within colonial and imperial history, Aboriginal-settler relations, transnational exchange, knowledge flow, social policies on sobriety, and notions of place. My research has pioneered new approaches to wine studies in Australia.
In First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2012), I argue that wine growing had a significant role in visions for the making of European Australia. First Vintage was shortlisted for the 2013 NSW Premier's History Awards and the 2013 Wine Communicators of Australia Best Publication Award. It won the Gourmand Publishing Best Drinks History in Australia for 2013 and was consequently a finalist in the Gourmand International Awards for Best Wine History in the World. The book received a High Commendation in the 2013 Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards at the University of Newcastle.
Part of the research for First Vintage was completed while I held the Rydon Fellowship with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London, in 2010. This fellowship also resulted in an article in Australian Historical Studies. My research has also been published in journals such as Australian Economic History Review and the Journal of Australian Colonial History. As a founding member of The University of Newcastle's Wine Studies Research Network - my current collaborative focus is a history of wine in the Hunter Valley. This district is close to The University of Newcastle's main campus at Callaghan, and Australia's oldest continually producing wine region. On 15 May 2014 I will deliver the University's Annual John Turner Memorial History Lecture. This lecture, entitled The World in a Glass of Hunter Valley Wine, will show how the region's wine industry has been shaped by - and contributed to - the grand sweeping themes of nineteenth century global history.
I am also engaged in non-wine projects. As the Migration Heritage Historian for Port Macquarie Hastings Council, I have traced the emergence of local communities on the Mid North Coast of NSW. As a co-convenor of the Newcastle Hunter Studies research group, I aim to push the boundaries of regional research to take account of global themes. My interest multi-scalar (local/regional - national - global) approach to research has been fostered during more than a decade of unversity teaching in regional and metropolitan universities in Australian History, European History, and in Communication and Cultural Studies.
I currently convene The University of Newcastle's History Research Seminar series, History@Newcastle, which attracts world class scholars while offering graduate and postgraduate students a forum to test their ideas with peers.
I communicate my research outcomes to audiences beyond the academy in my blog The World in a Wine Glass, The Conversation, public talks and media interviews. Indeed, public interest in wine has proved to be an ideal way to spark interest in wider colonial historical themes.
- PhD, University of Sydney, 16/10/2009
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle
Research keywords
- Australian and International Wine Studies
- Civilising processes and 'civilisation'
- Environmental History
- Migration and diasporas
- Regional identities
Research expertise
My doctoral research began to identify the framework for a new Humanities and Social Sciences research field: wine studies. As an early career researcher I have continued to build my skills and profile in this area.
As Rydon Fellow, at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London, I encountered Australian History scholars in an international environment and accessed international archives, which greatly enhanced my research expertise.
I work with a range of methodologies and research techniques. During my Honours research training I translated several years of experience as a broadcast interviewer into expertise as an oral historian. My research since then has comprised a case study approach across several History sub-disciplines using collections of business records, published works, family papers, press reports and artefacts held at a several libraries and archive depositories in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and London. More recently I have used historical sociological methodologies that are particularly salient in wine studies. Since completing my doctorate in 2009, I have extended the reach of my inquiries in terms of form, content and depth through inter-disciplinary collaboration to shape new research questions and means of addressing these inquiries.
My research publications situate early Australian wine production, trade and consumption within the frameworks of colonial, regional, national and world history and, given the contemporary approach to the history of land use in Australia: environmental history.
My research has been tested among peers in more than a dozen non-refereed conference presentations and University research seminars since 2005.
As the Migration Heritage Historian for Port Macquarie Hastings Council, I research regional culture and identity. This Migration Heritage Project extends migration studies to Aboriginal forced migration in the Mid North Coast river valleys.
- English
Fields of Research
|Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History)
Body relevant to professional practice.
- Member - Wine Communicators of Australia
Committee/Associations (relevant to research).
- Member - Australian Historical Association
- Member - Wine Industry Research Collaborative, Centre for Institutional and Organisational Studies, University of Newcastle
- Member - Oral History Association of Australia (NSW)
|Rydon Fellow
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London (United Kingdom)
|01/01/2010 - 01/06/2010
|Migration Heritage Historian
Port Macquarie Hastings Council/Migration Heritage Centre NSW (Australia)
|01/01/2012 - 01/12/2012
|Research Fellow on ARC Linkage Project "Vines, Wine & Identity: the Hunter Valley NSW and changing Australian taste"
University of Newcastle (Australia)
|University Medal
University of Newcastle (Australia)
BA (Hons First Class) History/English and Graduate speaker
|Faculty Medal
Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Awarded for History/English
Postgraduate awards.
|History Compass Postgraduate Essay Prize
History Compass Journal (Australia)
Prize included peer-reviewed journal publication
|Australian Postgraduate Award
University of Sydney (Australia)
To fund PhD research for 3.5 years
Research Award.
|Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards
University of Newcastle (Australia)
High Commendation as FEDUA candidate
Undergraduate award.
|Sarah Wheeler Prize
Humanities and Social Sciences, FEDUA, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Awarded to student with highest first year results
|The story of Ben Ean
Heritage Cairn Launch, Hunter Wine Industry Association, Australia (Invited Presenter)
|Maurice O'Shea
Unveiling of Heritage Cairn, Legends Sub-Committee, Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association, Australia (Invited Presenter)
|Douglas Vale and its First Fleet wine variety
Port Macquarie Hastings Heritage Festival, Heritage Week, Australia (Distinguished Visitor)
|"A limited number of foreigners": creating a non-British labour force for colonial wine growing
Symposium to honour Richard Waterhouse, Bicentennial Professor of Australian History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, Australia (Invited Presenter)
|From London Particular to Kaludah: the wines of colonial New South Wales
EAT History, History Week Seminar at State Library of NSW, History Council of New South Wales, Australia (Invited Presenter)
|From London Particular to Kaludah: the wines of colonial New South Wales
EAT History Regional Event, Newcastle, History Council of NSW, Australia (Invited Presenter)
|Tastes and wine production in the 19th century: "the transformative qualities"
Special presentation at Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia (Invited Presenter)
|Audrey Wilkinson's diaries
Unveiling of Heritage Cairn, Legends Sub-Committee, Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association, Australia (Invited Presenter)
|John Turner Memorial Lecture
University of Newcastle, Australia (Keynote Address)
The University of Newcastle's Wine Studies Research Network (WSRN), of which I am a key member, is Australia's only cross-faculty collaboration in humanities and social science-based wine research. Partner collaborators of the WSRN include Newcastle Museum and the Hunter Valley Wine and Tourism Association.
My research intersects with Newcastle Hunter Studies, in which I work with other scholars and the community to seed a new generation of international standard research on Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. The next Newcastle Hunter Studies event will celebrate digitisation of colonial Newcastle newspapers on Trove. This event will be held at Newcastle Art Gallery on 27 May 2014 (contact the gallery for details).
My first book A Living History of Fort Scratchley (2008) was the result of a research collaboration with Professor Erik Eklund, now based at Federation University. The book project was funded by Newcastle City Council and involved academics and students in the School of Design, Communication & IT at University of Newcastle.
A major creative work incorporating academic research for a general audience - the radio documentary Vintage Stories, commissioned by ABC Radio Newcastle and broadcast in 2009 - was co-produced by myself and Dr Phillip McIntyre, Communication & Media, University of Newcastle.
In 2012, with Gillean Shaw of the University Gallery Newcastle, I fostered the collection of work for Vintage Dupain. This exhibition that brought together for the first time all of the known photographs of the Hunter Valley wine region by leading Australian photographer Max Dupain. Vintage Dupain was a collaboration between the Wine Studies Research Network, the University Gallery and the Hunter Valley wine industry, and has since toured other galleries in New South Wales.
Administrative expertise
Julie has more than a decade of experience as a course co-ordinator in first year and upper level undergraduate courses.
She convenes the History Research Seminar series, History@Newcastle, which is held fortnightly during teaching semester in Cultural Collections, Archives, Auchmuty Library.
Teaching keywords
- Australian History
- European History
Teaching expertise
I began teaching at the University of Newcastle in 2000.
Over fourteen years of lecturing and tutoring I have demonstrated a deep commitment to encouraging the development of undergraduate scholarship across several disciplines: Australian History (ranging from introductory survey courses to upper level subjects focusing on gender, war, cultural history and comparative history), European History (politics, imperial history, environmental history, society and culture), Journalism and Cultural Studies.
This commitment is reflected in consistently high evaluations of teaching from students.
I have been responsible for curriculum development as well as course delivery at University of Sydney and University of New South Wales (UNSW) as well as University of Newcastle. At each university I have enjoyed the privilege of working with key scholars' teaching teams and, in 2013, leading a team of six tutors in a large History service course. My experience extends from inner-city campuses and metropolitan student cohorts to rural and regional campuses and student groups. My teaching at University of Sydney included the role of lead tutor in classes run simultaneously in Sydney and at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) which was teleconferenced to allow students to experience cultural transmissions while studying the connections between Australian and United States histories.
Currently my teaching development is focused on encouraging History students to learn 'how to read'. That is, how to engage closely with the primary and secondary source material they are introduced to in first year History. Through guiding students to read actively and critically - to understand authorship, argument and context - I aim to build skills that complement traditional 'how to write essays' approaches. Skills in reading arm students for their History studies and beyond.
University of Newcastle courses in which I have taught are:
HIST1051 The Australian Experience
HIST1080 Europe and the World
HIST3242 Growing Up in Australia
CMNS1080 Introduction to Professional Writing
CMNS1090 Introduction to Journalism
CMNS1100 Communication & Culture
CMNS2370 Broadcast Journalism
CMNS3270 Communication & Discourse
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
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Book (2 outputs)
Chapter (1 outputs)
|McIntyre J, Germov J, 'Drinking History: Enjoying Wine in Early Colonial New South Wales', Eat history : food and drink in Australia and beyond, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013 (2013) [B1]
Co-authors: JOHN GERMOV
Journal article (7 outputs)
|McIntyre JA, Dunstan WD, 'Wine, olives, silk and fruits: The Mediterranean plant complex and agrarian visions for a 'practical economic future' in colonial Australia', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 16 29-50 (2014) [C1]
|Mcintyre J, Mitchell RJ, Boyle B, Ryan S, Ryan S, 'We Used to Get and Give a Lot of Help: Networking, Cooperation and Knowledge Flow in the Hunter Valley Wine Cluster', Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history, 53 247-267 (2013) [C1]
DOI: 10.1111/aehr.12022
Citations: Scopus - 0
Co-authors: BRENDAN BOYLE, REBECCA MITCHELL
|McIntyre JA, 'Resisting ages-old fixity as a factor in wine quality: Colonial wine tours and Australia's early wine industry as a product of movement from place to place', LOCALE : The Australasian-Pacific Journal of Regional Food Studies, - 42-64 (2011) [C1]
|McIntyre JA, 'Adam Smith and faith in the transformative qualities of wine in colonial New South Wales', Australian Historical Studies, 42 194-211 (2011) [C1]
Citations: Scopus - 1 | Web of Science - 2
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Review (2 outputs)
|McIntyre JA, 'Is History Fiction? (Book Review)', Labour History (2006) [D2]
|McIntyre JA, 'Man of Honour: John Macarthur - Duellist, Rebel, Founding Father (Book Review)', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society (2003) [D1]
Conference (2 outputs)
Creative Work (2 outputs)
|McIntyre JA, Vintage Dupain, University of Newcastle Gallery (2012)
|McIntyre JA, McIntyre P, Vintage Stories: an ABC radio documentary on NSW wine history, Newcastle, NSW Australia (2009) [J1]
Report (1 outputs)
|McIntyre JA, 'Migration: Making the Mid North Coast', Arts NSW/Migration Heritage Centre Sydney/Port Macquarie City Council, 90 (2015)
Grants and Funding
|Number of grants
|Total funding
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2015 (1 grants)
PopCAANZ (Popular Culture Association of Australian and New Zealand), Wellington New Zealand, 29 June to 1 July 2015$2,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
|Project Team
|Doctor Julie McIntyre
|Travel Grant
|Chief Investigator
|Total Amount
|Funding Start
|Funding Finish
2013 (1 grants)
Stage One: A Regional World of Wine - The Rise of the Hunter Valley$20,192
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
|Project Team
|Professor John Germov, Doctor Julie McIntyre
|Linkage Pilot Research Grant
|Total Amount
|Funding Start
|Funding Finish
2011 (1 grants)
The Australian Wine History Pilot Project$9,912
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
|Project Team
|Professor John Germov, Doctor Julie McIntyre
|Linkage Pilot Research Grant
|Total Amount
|Funding Start
|Funding Finish
Research Supervision
|Number of current supervisions
No Supervisions.
Dr Julie McIntyre
|Work Phone
|(02) 4921 7029
|(02) 4921 6933
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Dismantled (Hardcover)
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Island of Lost Girls and Promise Not to Tell returns with a chilling novel in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of friends in terrifying ways.
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Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz banded together in college to form a group they called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto"To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart"these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism and plotting elaborate, often dangerous, pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz's death and the others decide to cover it up.
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At a Glance
Why Get Tested?
To determine the likelihood that a particular antibiotic or antifungal drug will be effective in stopping the growth of the bacteria or fungi causing your infection
When to Get Tested?
As follow up to a positive bacterial or fungal culture; when you have an infection and one or more types of bacteria or fungi have been grown and isolated in a culture from a sample obtained from the site of suspected infection; when your infection is not responding to treatment
Sample Required?
A sample of a pure culture of bacteria or fungi grown and isolated from an infected body site
Test Preparation Needed?
The Test Sample
What is being tested?
Susceptibility is a term used when microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi are unable to grow in the presence of one or more antimicrobial drugs. Susceptibility testing is performed primarily on bacteria but also on fungi that have been identified with a culture as causing an individual's infection. Testing is used to determine the potential effectiveness of specific antibiotics on the bacteria and/or to determine if the bacteria have developed resistance to certain antibiotics. The results of this test can be used to help select the drug(s) that will likely be most effective in treating an infection.
Although viruses are microorganisms, testing for their resistance to antiviral drugs is performed differently, so this article is limited to the discussion of bacterial and fungal susceptibility testing.
Bacteria and fungi have the potential to develop resistance to antibiotics and antifungal drugs at any time. This means that antibiotics once used to kill or inhibit their growth may no longer be effective. Susceptibility testing is a way to determine if this is the case when a culture of a sample collected from the site of a suspected infection is positive for the presence of one or more pathogens. (For more about cultures, see specific articles: Blood Culture, Urine Culture, Wound Culture, AFB Smear and Culture, Fungal Tests).
During the culture process, pathogens – if present – are isolated (separated out from any other microorganisms present) and each is identified using biochemical, enzymatic, or molecular tests. Once the pathogens have been identified, a determination can be made as to whether susceptibility testing is required. Susceptibility testing is not performed on every pathogen; there are some that respond to established standard treatments. An example of this is strep throat, an infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (also known as group A streptococcus) that can be treated with penicillin.
Susceptibility testing is performed on each type of bacteria or fungi that may be clinically significant in the specimen and whose susceptibility to treatment may not be known. Each pathogen is tested individually to determine the ability of antimicrobials to inhibit its growth. This is can be measured directly by bringing the pathogen and the antibiotic together in a growing environment, such as nutrient media in a test tube or agar plate, to observe the effect of the antibiotic on the growth of the bacteria.
How is the sample collected for testing?
NOTE: If undergoing medical tests makes you or someone you care for anxious, embarrassed, or even difficult to manage, you might consider reading one or more of the following articles: Coping with Test Pain, Discomfort, and Anxiety, Tips on Blood Testing, Tips to Help Children through Their Medical Tests, and Tips to Help the Elderly through Their Medical Tests.
Another article, Follow That Sample, provides a glimpse at the collection and processing of a blood sample and throat culture.
Is any test preparation needed to ensure the quality of the sample?
No test preparation is needed.
The Test
Common Questions
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NOTE: This article is based on research that utilizes the sources cited here as well as the collective experience of the Lab Tests Online Editorial Review Board. This article is periodically reviewed by the Editorial Board and may be updated as a result of the review. Any new sources cited will be added to the list and distinguished from the original sources used.
Sources Used in Current Review
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Vorvick, L. (Updated 2013 January 22). Sensitivity analysis. MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia [On-line information]. Available online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003741.htm. Accessed August 2013.
Hazen, K. (Revised 2013 February). Susceptibility Testing. Merck Manual for Healthcare Professionals [On-line information]. Available online through http://www.merckmanuals.com. Accessed August 2013.
Street, T. and Schmidt, S. (Updated 2012 October 18) Antimicrobial Susceptibility. Medscape Reference [On-line information]. Available online at http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2103786-overview through http://emedicine.medscape.com. Accessed August 2013.
McPherson, R. and Pincus, M. (© 2011). Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods 22nd Edition: Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA. Pp 11117-1128.
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(2003 April 4). Antibiotic Resistance, A Growing Threat. US Food and Drug Administration [On-line information]. Available online at http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/anti_resist.html through http://www.fda.gov.
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Bren, L. (2003 September, Revised). The Battle of the Bugs: Fighting Antibiotic Resistance. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA Consumer magazine [On-line information]. Available online at http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/402_bugs.html through http://www.fda.gov.
Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 21st ed. McPherson RA and Pincus MR, eds. Philadelphia: 2007, Pp 1048-1057.
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Forbes, B. et. al. (© 2007). Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology, Twelfth Edition: Mosby Elsevier Press, St. Louis, Missouri. Pp 187-214.
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Barclay, L. (2008 July 3). Medscape Medical Household Antibacterial Product Use May Promote Microbial Resistance. Medscape Medical News [On-line information]. Available online at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/577055 through http://www.medscape.com. Accessed June 2009.
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Second of a three-day series about the Craven-Pamlico Animal Shelter.
He stared at me from behind the counter with huge, expressive eyes that suggested he'd been dealt some pretty bad cards of late. I walked behind the counter and took a seat (privilege of familiarity at the animal shelter; don't try this yourself) and asked the Weimaraner's name.
"Hank," I was told. I focused my camera on him and I could tell he wasn't trusting of whatever it was I was up to.
Hank did not belong in a place like this, but at 3 years old, he was just getting out of his canine "teenage" and had never been neutered, so he was pretty lively. High energy is a defining trait of this breed, anyway.
"I just can't take it anymore," his owners said as they left him at the Craven-Pamlico Animal Services Center on Airport Road, according to animal control supervisor Trinity Smith. "She had just given up."
Hank's first days at the shelter were rough. Being locked in the general run with numerous other dogs, all barking and howling, made him a nervous wreck.
"He was scared," Smith said. He wouldn't let people near him.
The shelter workers decided to try him in other environs about the shelter. Placed in the grooming room, he destroyed a doorknob, chewing it and trying to get out.
He was brought out to the front desk, then, and soon calmed down. The day after my visit, the Tarheel Weimaraner Rescue picked him up. He was wormed, neutered and placed in a foster home for assessment.
"Weimaraners are very, very active, people-oriented dogs," Toni Sweetland, intake officer with the rescue said in a phone interview. "They want to be with their person all the time. They are not the kind of dog you can get and keep in the back yard."
Then there was Buttercup.
A 3-year-old Domestic Shorthair (a dignified way of saying, "this cat is a mutt"), Buttercup was left at the shelter when her owner decided she couldn't take care of her anymore.
She was scheduled to be one of the Pets of the Week, a regular Saturday photo-feature in the Sun Journal.
She was a lover of a cat, but the shock of her change in fortunes terrified her; we actually had to dismantle her cage to pull her out, removing the litter pan, the shelving and even the bottom of the cage. My sister, visiting from Florida, volunteered to hold and calm her, and Buttercup clung to her desperately and trembled the entire time she was on her lap.
Cats have a more difficult time adapting to being in a shelter. "We don't get a lot of friendly cats, even owner turn-ins," she said. "They come in here and stress out. They're hiding in their litter box and spraying and things that are not adoptable. Cats are temperamental about change."
If a cat does not adapt, it can find itself in the euthanization room.
A lot of pets find themselves in shelters because their owners simply were not ready or willing for the responsibilities of ownership.
Animals come in "for minor, minor things," Smith said. "I had a man that brought his dog in here because he left his sandwich on the coffee table and the dog ate it. Another took a dog home for an hour and, because the dog scratched at the back door to get in, he brought it back."
Some pets, of course, are turned in for what Smith describes as good reasons.
"You've got your aggressive dogs and that kind of thing," she noted. And then there are those people who can no longer keep pets and have been unable to find anyone who can take them on, such as when the owner is going to a nursing home, when people move out of the area or when landlords will not allow animals.
"We get a lot of animals from the military," she said.
Then there are those Craig's List and Cherry Point Yard Sales orphans. People pick them up and take them home. "After a month or so, they decide, 'I can't do this,'" she explained.
Nine-month-old to 2-year-old dogs arrive "because that's when they're a teenager. He's testing his boundaries, and they can be really hard to live with. So a lot of puppies we adopt will come back at that age because he's not as cute and he's behaving badly."
While any variety of animals shows up at the shelter, there are certain kinds that predominate.
"We get mostly mixed breeds. We get a lot of hound mix, we get a lot of pit bull mix. Mostly they're going to be your 50-pound dogs or mixed breed puppies that are going to grow into 50-pound-dogs."
As to cats, it is mainly "your basic short-hair cat" that arrives. While the shelter sees its shares of Siamese mixes and others, it is rare to find a pedigree brought in.
But feral cats are the biggest feline issue.
"The majority of animals we get are cats," Smith said, "and the majority of cats are feral. We get tons of feral cats in here."
And if there's any animal almost guaranteed to be euthanized, it's feral cats, because feral cats are, quite frankly, wild.
"If you get them young enough you can get them rehabilitated," she said, "and by young enough I mean 8 weeks old. … There's a very small window where kittens have to be socialized with people."
Even if wild cats can be tamed enough to tolerate people, they don't often become loving. And people don't want that, Smith said. "They want a loving, purring-in-your-lap cat."
A few feral cats make it out alive. "We'll get cats in here you would think were completely feral but after a couple of days of being in here, being around people, they get friendly."
She added: "A person might come in and claim a feral cat saying they've been feeding it and are willing to live with its personality."
Animals also are brought in as a result of cases of abuse or cruelty. Sometimes a person who is charged with cruelty voluntarily releases the pet to the shelter. If an owner won't surrender rights, the animal control officers can petition a court to force the owner to pay for the animal's care while the case moves through the courts. "If they don't pay it, it's an automatic forfeiture of the animals," Smith said.
"We've had lots of dogs come in here with signs of fighting," she said, "but to prove that's what's going on — that's difficult."
Among the dogs, the small ones almost always go, as do puppies and kittens. Purebreds of any size have a good chance of finding a home.
"But if it's a large mixed-breed dog, it can be very difficult," Smith said. "Especially if there's nothing flashy about it; if it's all black, all brown, they tend to be overlooked."
Black cats are also slow movers. "Any black animal tends to get overlooked," Smith said.
It is the shelter's goal to move the pets into good homes.
Along with advice to adopting families, the shelter works with a number of local and regional rescue groups to move animals and at least find them a foster home until permanent adopters are found.
Smith and her fellow workers constantly update their adoption board and show their pets on numerous websites, radio stations and pet shops as well as showing them through the Sun Journal.
Every eight weeks Smith also selects four dogs to be sent to the "New Leash on Life" training program at the Craven Correctional Institution near Vanceboro. There, inmates "teach them basic obedience" in an 8-week program, after which Pals for Paws adopts them out.
Smith recently attended the 50th graduation for the program.
"It's great for the dogs. It's great for the inmates, too," she said, and related one prisoner who told her that he'd never had responsibility in his life until he was given the opportunity to train a dog.
"They learn responsibility, they learn how to empathize," she said of the animals' caretakers. "It's really kind of cool to see that."
Inevitably, some animals are euthanized. "It's not something we like to do, of course," Smith said, "but it's a reality."
Along with feral cats, any badly injured or very sick animal will probably be put down. "(A pet owner will) come in and say, 'This dog killed my neighbor's cat.' Or bitten somebody. I'm not going to put that up for adoption," Smith said.
"We ask ourselves, have we done everything we could? A lot of times, you have to ask, 'What would be more humane?' A lot of times, the animals that are in here, they're terrified. They're miserable. And that's releasing them from that terror."
The shelter also euthanizes pets at no charge, as a service to the community.
The shelter euthanizes with what Smith describes as an overdose of anesthetic. All the shelter employees are state-certified to euthanize animals.
She said that the animal will "feel the initial prick of the syringe," but nothing more. "If it's done properly, the heart will stop in seconds. It's that fast."
"This is reality," she says. "We all cry. We've all had animals here that we've thrown our bodies on and beat the bushes for a rescue group to take them or get them adopted."
She thinks a moment before she adds, "I do say it's not for everybody. I try to correct them. When they say, 'I couldn't do what you do'…I couldn't not do it. I can't imagine myself doing anything else.
Bill Hand can be reached at 252-635-5679 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I'm halfway into the first Chapter of Sam's enlightening new book The Moral Landscape. I'm a slow reader and the concepts at hand require time to digest. I need to unload some thoughts and I figured this is the best place.
Simply from the premise Sam has introduced I see the need for action. He is correct in his assertion that science can and must offer the world a superior morality and value system. If we are to introduce and ingrain this concept around the world we must begin here at home in the U.S.
To reach our population with the concept, scientific morality will have to be taught in public school classrooms. As Christopher Hitchens has taught us, religion poisons everything. Especially the mind, which is why children at young ages must be exposed to science and scientific morality before religion gets a chance to take hold. Surely we would have
less secular intellectuals in our modern society if we weren't exposed to the theory of evolution in gradeschool.
Anyone who has read Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me or Zinn's A Peoples History of the United States knows that public schools teach a boring, butchered, hideous, Republican form of history in our classrooms. This is shown to be true in many studies that show the more an American is educated the more likely he is to vote Democratic. Religion penetrates further into our education system than History unfortunately and Science is beaten back as well.
So how do we get Scientific Morality into the classrooms? We will need those capable of teaching it of course. The harder part would be getting into the curriculum itself. This branch of education will never be able to enter into curriculum through the Texas Board of Education, which dictates American textbooks. As many are aware the board is currently under neoconservative religious-fundamentalist domination. Atheist Texans under the Texas Constitution, Article I, Section 4 are ineligible to hold public office. Even if that law were found to be unconstitutional, Texas is generation's away from secularists being able to partake in government as a majority. So any attempts to bring Scientific Morality into American education will have to be fought at the federal level through the DoE.
That's all I've got for now. If anyone has any thoughts on this I'd love to hear them.


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Even more telling than the Bulls meek surrender in a home Super Rugby semi-final was the white flag raised by a third of the Loftus faithful, who either couldn't afford the ticket price or couldn't have been bothered once they knew that there would be no possibility of a home final.
Super Rugby's expanded series has been a spectator flop. It has been a rugby flop and it has done nothing to aid player welfare. It has however benefited the broadcaster. I am told television ratings have never been better.
There is talk of Super Rugby running its course in 2015 and New Zealand and Australia forming their own competition in 2016 and South Africa, Argentina and potentially some rugby part of Europe doing their own thing.
It can't come sooner because Super Rugby in the current guise is more a killer than a creator.
Season ticket holders were made to pay for the semi-final – and the lack of attendance was answer enough to the greed of the game's administration.
The Brumbies all week spoke of the need to silence 50 000 desperate Bulls fans. Brumbies coach and former Bok coach Jake White described Loftus as among the most difficult places for a visiting team. Clyde Rathbone, the former SA under 21 captain, said Loftus was the most hostile environment in which he had ever played.
All week the talk was of the Bulls support base, of altitude and of the Bulls attitude. It was of the Bulls aggression and of their ability to play percentages, kick penalties and accumulate points.
Pretoria was eyeing a Super Rugby final against the Crusaders, who were favourites to beat the Chiefs.
Then on Saturday morning the Chiefs won by a point and the reality dawned on the Bulls players that if they won they would have to get on a plane on Sunday to fly to New Zealand … knowing they'd take a 20 to 30 point beating. The white flag went up before kick-off.
The players will never admit to it but they played like a team that didn't want the humiliation of a visit to Hamilton. They did everything to lose the semi-final.
What a meek and distasteful surrender after seven months of toil.
Bulls captain Dewald Potgieter defended his refusal to let Morne Steyn kick at goal on three successive occasions in the period between 68 and 73 minutes. He said in hindsight the Bulls shouldn't have kicked for goal to extend the lead from one point to four with six minutes to go because he didn't think they'd get back into the Brumbies half.
He said he wanted his colleagues to have a positive mindset to the final 12 minutes. He would have had a point if the lineout jumpers had actually caught the ball and done anything with it when opting for the kick to the touchline and the lineout.
The principle of sustained pressure may have merit but the reality was a lot different because the Bulls on all three occasions never threatened the Brumbies tryline.
Potgieter got it wrong and so did the coaching staff with the selections and with the game plan. The tight five again was poor in the scrums, the lineout was a mess, the collisions belonged to the Brumbies and Francois Hougaard, at scrumhalf, was awful.
Veteran Brumbies flank George Smith was also given the keys to Loftus and allowed to come and go as he pleased.
Craig Joubert, currently considered the best of a limited bunch, was poor as a referee, but he wasn't the reason the Bulls lost. For that the Bulls only have to look at themselves.
This was a match devoid of semi-final intensity and atmosphere.
It looked like an afterthought when compared to the colossal semi-final played out between the Chiefs and Crusaders. It looked decidedly inferior in quality to anything I saw in the Heineken Cup play-offs a couple of months ago.
European Cup champions Toulon versus Super Rugby's best of 2013 in the Chiefs or Brumbies? Played at a neutral venue? The answer has more variables than would have been the case a decade ago.
White won a famous individual and team victory on every level. He outthought the opposition and then watched in amazement – and amusement – as Potgieter's mind turned to mush in the last quarter.
The Brumbies played with greater intelligence and intent. They also played with more composure and the Bulls looked like the team that had traveled 12 000 kilometres to play a semi-final.
The Bulls limp finish encapsulated South Africa's Super Rugby season. Forget the boast of having four teams in the top eight. When it comes down to the final Saturday the only South Africans in sight are those playing or coaching out of Canberra.


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Police also appealed in January this year to anyone who recognized an unusual gun which they believe was used to murder Ricardo. The gun, a British-made Webley mark six revolver, is believed to have been produced in 1924 and is in good condition. Police believe that this weapon may have been kept by someone as a keepsake for the war and may have had it taken in a burglary.
Detectives from Homicide and Serious Crime Command, who are investigating, also know that the same gun was fired during an incident on 14 September 2010 in Picton House on the Clapham Park Estate in Brixton. No one was injured in that incident but the gun was found the following day on the Clapham Manor Estate in Brixton. Forensic ballistics identified that this type of gun was used in Ricardo's murder.
Detective Chief Inspector Nick Scola from the MPS Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said:
"It is now a year since the Ricardo died and we want the people that have information to come forward. Someone out there knows exactly what happened that night, and they owe it to Ricardo's loved ones to come forward.
"Ricardo was a young man with no criminal past or connections. Despite taking statements from over 200 people who knew Ricardo or who lived near where he was killed, the motive for his murder remains unknown. A reward of up to £20,000 is still available to anyone who can help bring Ricardo's killers to justice."
There have been no arrests in the investigation.
Anyone who has information or can assist police with identifying the gun is asked to contact the incident room on 0208 7214005, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Youare all wrong. You could not understand What Islam is, until you remove your hatred and prejudice which circumscribe you, hence your failure to understand what Islam stand for. Action[s] of few among the Muslims, should not be a yardstick of equating the religion with fascism.
Interesting to read that a clieric says Wilder's head should be cut off. Is this the way young kids are taught to solve their differences or is this normal for the religion of peace?
don't agree? see what happend to Lebanon when from predominantly christian it was transformed to muslim country, ask people who live there and they will agree that islam is just like fascism


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - For the second time this season, the Pfeiffer women's volleyball team (8-21, 5-11 CC) defeated Mount Olive (13-14, 9-7) in five sets. Junior Kelly Lancellot slammed home the decisive point to secure the fifth set victory, 16-14.
Three Falcons finished in double-digits in the kills category, led by 14 from sophomore Brianna Jones. Freshman Shelby Younger added 13 while sophomore Kelsey Blauser chipped in 10 for Pfeiffer whose .254 hitting percentage was their second highest total on the season. Blauser's .421 hitting percentage was the highest in the match and Lancellot hit .368.
Emily Wall handed out 29 assists, while Haley Denny had a team-high 14 digs. Blauser contributed seven total blocks and Denny finished with four aces.
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The visitors took the first two points and four times pushed the lead to two points. Trailing 9-7, Pfeiffer rallied to score three straight and take the lead. The Trojans responded with back-to-back points to regain the upper hand. The teams' alternated points until Mount Olive held a 14-13 lead. Younger's kill tied the game and then a service ace from Lauren Carman moved the game to match point, setting the stage for Lancellot's winner.
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Re:Missing option: In Real-Time (Score:2, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17, 2013 @07:16PM (#42931235)
My massive brain prompts me to put bookmarks in folders, so the same is true for me, even though I use a Mozilla browser.
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Why bother with bookmarks? (Score:5, Interesting)by Quinn_Inuit (760445) <(Quinn_Inuit) (at) (yahoo.com)> on Sunday February 17, 2013 @08:57PM (#42931707)The "Awesome Bar" or whatever they're calling it now in Firefox generally knows what I want in a few keystrokes, and I can hotkey up there and never have to take my hands from the keyboard while I click through bookmark menus with the mouse. Same with Chrome. I have some old bookmarks sitting around that I haven't gotten rid of, but neither do I maintain them.
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Yeah I find bookmarks pretty useless as well.
I primarily use url auto completion.
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Bookmarks can't beat 4 keystrokes I can do faster than even if Slashdot was on a bookmarks bar.
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BURLINGTON, N.C. - All nine Flying Fleet batters had at least one hit as sixth-seeded Erskine College toppled fifth-seeded Pfeiffer University, 9-5, in an elimination game during the 2013 Conference Carolinas Baseball Tournament at Burlington Athletic Stadium on Friday. Erskine (27-23) tallied 16 total base knocks including six extra-base hits to advance to another elimination game on Saturday at 3 p.m. The Flying Fleets opponent will be determined later after Fridays other two games are played. The Falcons (18-32) end their season losing eight straight contests.
After being held to just one hit in its tourney opener against top-seeded Mount Olive, Erskines bats quickly heated up a day later against Pfeiffer. The Flying Fleet had three hits and a pair of runs scored just five batters into play. Junior center fielder Chase Corn led off the game with the first of his two doubles down the right field line. Senior first baseman Drew Willingham drove in Corn with a single up the middle before stealing second and scoring on a double down the left line by junior left fielder Will Huff.
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Erskine extended its lead to 5-1 with a trio of runs in the top of the second that included Corns second double in as many innings. Corn took another pitch down the right field line that knocked in the first run just before freshman shortstop Connor Gibson plated the final two runs with a triple to the right-center field fence.
A sacrifice fly by senior shortstop Aarin Sharpe and an RBI double off the bat of junior third baseman Tyler Summers cut the Falcons deficit in half, 5-3, in the fourth but Erskine quickly regained its four-run cushion with a pair of tallies in the top of the fifth. After Pfeiffer committed its second error of the game to keep the inning going for the Fleet, third baseman sophomore Brandon Wooten plated both runs with a double.
Pfeiffer scored one run in both the sixth and seventh but the designated visitors continued to lead with another multi-run inning sandwiched between the Falcons runs. Sophomore catcher Dalton Lindley provided the Falcons with an RBI single in the sixth but run-producing base knocks by junior second baseman Teddy Heiser and senior cater Phillip Herring.
Gray, a First Team All-Conference outfielder, accounted for the Falcons final run when he led off the top of the seventh with a solo blast to left. Gray moved into the league lead with 12 home runs on the season.
Senior closer Kit Carter tossed the final three innings without allowing a hit to preserve the Erskine win for classmate Taylor Wall. Carter earned his seventh save of the season while Wall (4-1) had four strikeouts in six innings of work in the start.
Corn and Willingham both First Team All-Conference honorees in 2013 had three hits apiece for the Fleet.
The Falcons recorded a dozen hits for a second straight playoff game but once again came out on the short end of the run total. Gray, Summers and junior Kyle Hackney accounted for half of Pfeiffers hit parade with two base knocks each.
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A Thousand Words on Healing in Raids
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- Typhoonandrew said...
Not a great deal that can be done there - and I feel for the healers. Hopefully nobody bitched.
- 12:55 AM, September 10, 2009
- Elladrion said...
healers ned to pick up or gtfo, they had easily .04 seconds to toss a life saving heal and they couldn't even be counted on to do that. Ditch those scrubs IMHO
- 1:06 AM, September 10, 2009
- Shamus said...
Where's that data coming from? Is that an addon or a combatlog analysis site?
- 1:46 AM, September 10, 2009
- Rohan said...
It's the addon Recount. If you click someone on the Deaths list, it will show you the last few things that happened to them.
It's quite useful for figuring out exactly what went wrong.
- 1:50 AM, September 10, 2009
- Shy said...
PW:S ftw? >_<
Yah, this is really a no win situation for those poor healers :(
- 2:07 AM, September 10, 2009
- Nils said...
You really need a cooldown rotation after 6 or so stacks. Sucks when your raidleader yells at you for letting the tank die, but unless you start using CDs before Impales, it will happen.
- 2:24 AM, September 10, 2009
- Ulv said...
This feature of recount is great - saves a lot of time when trying to work out if a wipe was
a) easily avoidable;
b) avoidable but unlucky;
c) the shit that happens just happend.
No point when I'm leading a raid holding an inquest into a tank death if it was unavoidable.
- 2:39 AM, September 10, 2009
- Vulpinor said...
At least you can be comforted by the fact that your tank's name indicates he has read the super-sweet series of novels by Stephen Erikson. Although, I had trouble understanding why a mage would have 46k health...
- 4:22 AM, September 10, 2009
- Reinder said...
DBM tells you about impale over a second before it hits. A disc priest could have tossed a shield and pain suppression. A holy priest could have cast Guardian spirit. Pom would have skimmed a bit of that first hit aswell. All healers could have chosen a different cast when they noticed the impale comming up, all in all this was just bad luck i think, one heal landing only half a second later would have changed that situation. All things you can do about it rely on knowing when an impale will hit though. If you get an unlucky combo you'll see the tank drop like that. No way to respond with reactive healing unless trough pure luck.
- 5:27 AM, September 10, 2009
- Valdesta said...
Wow! Sounds like there's some more quick-reaction cooldown rotations to go on between Healers for this one.
I haven't seen Northrend Beasts on Heroic in 25 yet, but I heard it's crazy! :)
I'll keep this in mind for healing assignments when the time comes, however!
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- 5:50 AM, September 10, 2009
- SolidState said...
I disagree with the "CD rotation" comment. This is not the right tactic.
Since Impale hits so hard you should have dedicated rogues who should be worrying about keeping him disarmed all the time. No weapon - no Impale - no crazy damage.
Looking at the damage number in the Recount pic , that's a pretty crazy number. Assuming your tank mitigated 60% of the original blow, that would have placed the incoming damage at 92k. 105k if your tank mitigation is at 65% - Ouch!
I know my guild managed to take Gormok down a week ago (but wiped on the worms) but I wasn't there so I don't know what kind of damage our tanks were taking and there is no combat log parse. Should be interesting to look at WMO or a similar site at parses of other Gormok fights to see the numbers other guilds are seeing.
- 6:02 AM, September 10, 2009
- Kring said...
Sucks if it takes you 0.28s to realize your actually dead. :-)
- 6:50 AM, September 10, 2009
- Argon said...
"No weapon - no Impale - no crazy damage."
I believe that disarm doesn't work in Heroic. My guess is they were working on Heroic, as we had many similar tank deaths when we tried it. We were seeing similar kinds of damage even switching at 2 stacks.
- 7:20 AM, September 10, 2009
- Rohan said...
To be fair, at that point we didn't have a priest or shaman healing the tanks. I think if we had the Inspiration (-15% physical damage) buff up, the tank would have survived.
- 10:56 AM, September 10, 2009
- Nils said...
You cannot disarm him on heroic difficulty, so you either leave it up to the RNG gods, or you start using cooldowns. Inspiration is only 10% physical damage reduction, but it helps a lot here.
Inspiration won't do the work alone, since you also risk his regular swing timer hitting at the same time. 35k+ Impale, 15k+ bleed and 25k+ regular swing means your tank will die no matter what.
- 3:08 PM, September 10, 2009
- Anonymous said...
In H-ToC-25, we run it with three tanks switching each two stacks. As I am merely doing damage, I don't listen much but I am hearing holy priests wings being tossed as well as divine protection for the worm tanks when they are done.
Here is our WoL (on damage taken of all our 14 attempts): http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/k6MeaguGy98rHiOs/sum/damageTaken/?enc=bosses&boss=34796
- 3:21 PM, September 10, 2009
- Calinaomil said...
For our guild, we use 2 tanks. Each of them eat 4 stacks and we just heal through it. I'll usually Sacred Shield the first tank, then myself when I tank the boss, to try to soften the blow a little bit.
- 8:05 PM, September 10, 2009
- Kris said...
Bit of an undergeared tank issue eh?
- 1:30 PM, September 11, 2009
- Anonymous said...
Not for nothing, but you guys should try Demo Roar, Demo Shout, or Curse of Weakness.
- 2:36 PM, September 11, 2009
- Rohan said...
The mob was fully debuffed. We aren't that silly.
- 2:41 PM, September 11, 2009
- Firespirit said...
Holey Moley!
That is crazy damage. WOW!
This is why I feel for the healers. Back when ulduar was "pre nerf" I saw all the damage, and kept thinking, how the hell are they doing it?
Good lord, when is healing going to go from "throw all the damage you can everywhere, including the tanks" to something more fun? I have dual spec holy set, and I pretty much only heal heroics and the occasional naxx run. I don't know how my ulduar healers do it, honestly.
- 2:49 PM, September 11, 2009
- Anonymous said...
"The mob was fully debuffed. We aren't that silly."
You verify that on the logs?
- 2:54 PM, September 11, 2009
- Rohan said...
Yup. Plus I run the Utopia mod, and we had at least 2 Ret paladins running Vindication.
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+"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing,
you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
+"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you." - Dr. W. Dyer
Azzaro Pour Homme Elixir by Azzaro
SotE -
Gendarme by Gendarme
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each!" - Henry David Thoreau
Cool Water Davidoff.
Strange Invisible Perfumes Magazine Street
'...And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist...'
Arpège pour Homme by Lanvin
Vetiver by Guerlain
As if everyone, all over the world, had his daily visually artistic task; the task of being an image for others. Peter Handke
I'm surprised to see all of these posts, as I've been getting a Database Error since mid evening yesterday and it's still coming up with it on and off now, so this was the only new post I can see at the moment
SOTD is Nio by Xerjoff
Don't panic. Just stay calm, and reload....
Burberry London again
Gucci Envy for Men
Allure Homme Edition Blanche
Current Top 5
1. Creed Aventus
2. A*Men Pure Malt
3. L'instant Extreme
4. Nasomatto Duro
5. CDG - Kyoto
Nobile by Gucci
10 Corso Como.
KOUROS by YSL