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This expansion has seen a lot experimentation in endgame. Some of it has been good, and some of it has been bad. After thinking about what I liked and disliked in Wrath, here is the first part of a plan that I would love to see in Cataclysm.
1. The first Tier of raiding opens 3 months after the launch of Cataclysm.
I greatly disliked the "rush" to get to Naxxramas. Levelling, normal dungeons, and heroics, were all severely diminished by the fact that Naxx was available so early. By delaying the opening of raiding for a few months, that gives everyone time to explore all the other facets of the game at leisure. As well, normal dungeon and heroic loot won't get obsoleted so fast.
2. 5-mans only drop blue gear.
I think that dropping scarce epics was a mistake. For one thing, the one epic drop obsoletes a lot of the other blue gear that drops. For example, [Red Sword of Courage] was strictly better than all other 5-man tanking weapons. Second, it allows you to start the raid game at lower item level. Finally, I think everyone skipped past blues and into epics too fast.
3. Heroic 5-mans drop an 8-piece class set.
I miss the dungeon sets of Vanilla. Dropping an 8-piece set gives something for people to collect, a reason to run many heroics. Ideally one piece would be dropped by the end boss of each heroic instance. There would be a version for each class-role combination. The set would have 2-, 4-, and 6-piece bonuses.
As for looks, I think a good motif would be "greatest hits from Tiers 1-6". That way it's a nod to nostalgia, while reusing artwork. For example, the Ret paladin set might be "Reforged Judgement", or the Rogue set could be "Restored Bloodfang". Alternatively the set could just use the blue Cataclysm armor artwork.
4. Heroic 5-mans do not drop badges at the start.
There is no need for badges at this point in time. Later, once raiding gets underway, badges can drop.
Edit: After thinking about this a bit more, it occurs to me that Heirloom gear will still need to be purchased. Heroics could drop Valiant Badges, but the only things for sale at this point will be the Heirloom gear. I think that Badge gear fills a hole when it comes to the scarcity of raid drops, but since random heroics can be run extremely often, badge gear is not necessary for 5-mans.
5. The Daily Heroic rewards 2x Champion Badges. A maximum of 8 Champion Badges can be earned each week.
There is a weekly cap on Badges so that people do not have to log in every single day.
6. There will be a maximum of 3 epic items available from professions. No weapons. Maybe belt and bracers and a ring. Recipes for these items cost Champion Badges. As well, these recipes require an ingredient which costs Champion Badges.
Here's a little tidbit to make crafting interesting. These recipes should be highly valued, as they are pretty much the only epics in the game (other than maybe a couple epics from exalted faction reputation). I like the way Primordial Saronite has worked out, and I think it's a good model to use for professions at the start of the expansion.
7. Reputation grinds use the "Tabard" model of Wrath.
I really like this model. It's flexible and easy to understand. As well, wearing a faction's tabard really drives home the idea that you are working for that faction, or accomplishing deeds in that faction's name.
I think this model will give people a solid foundation to start raiding. They can take their time leveling, collect sets in dungeons, and will enter the first tier of raiding with mostly blues and maybe one or two epics. I think that the first point is key, though. If Cataclysm launches with raids, a vast amount of content is going to go to waste.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
A Blueprint for Endgame: Pre-Raid
This expansion has seen a lot experimentation in endgame. Some of it has been good, and some of it has been bad. After thinking about what I liked and disliked in Wrath, here is the first part of a plan that I would love to see in Cataclysm.
27 comments:
- Phelps said...
I would really like to avoid the rush to raid like this. Gating similar to Kara in BC is an option, too. It actually felt like an achievement to get into Kara, and it served a good "you must be this tall to ride" check.
- 10:49 PM, April 04, 2010
- Kurn said...
I think all I really have to say here is that I love you. Please go work for Blizzard. :)
- 11:45 PM, April 04, 2010
- NegativeZero said...
I agree, except I think that the emblem system in Wrath worked very well, and I think heroics should still continue to drop them. Going back to a model where you have to be lucky enough to have the boss you want drop the gear you want in the spec you want and then win the roll is a huge step backward - that gear, especially if there's actual sets, needs to also be available from vendors for emblems.
- 1:17 AM, April 05, 2010
- lxsli said...
All sounds great, but haven't they announced 4 raids at release already?
- 3:36 AM, April 05, 2010
- zetter said...
Blinding ideas all the way through.Because of the way I started I didnt get into Kara till mid way through BC so I really experienced all of BC.
With Wrath even my old guild was running raids quite early into Naxx and I felt compelled to keep up so I could raid. Hence I feel I really rushed Wrath to get to 80 and missed a lot of the feel of it.
I can see this happening again in Cataclysm and with such a big change it would be nice to get a few months to "savour" it before I get on the raid merry go round again.
- 5:41 AM, April 05, 2010
- Anonymous said...
I pretty much agree with everything you said but have one thing to add. Blizzard showed in Vanilla that they could make an instance available but unattainable due to difficulty (Razorgore!!!). I wish they hadn't gone to the concept making instances/raids easy from day 1. In Vanilla/BC they made instances very hard at first and slowly nerfed it to make content more accessible. It forced everyone to concentrate on ways to improve themselves. Now all everyone does is wait for the next loot pinata to open. My favorite nights in the game were when we finally were able to get into Nef's room in BWL and able to enter the Black Temple as it felt very special. It is not the same in WotLK.
I also wish they'd bring back attunement quests. I think BC's Karazhan quest or the Onyxia attunement were about perfect -- a bit of backstory and it made sure everyone had paid their dues. Bliz got a little too crazy with the SSC to BT attunements though.
- 5:51 AM, April 05, 2010
- Klepsacovic said...
It was a shame that heroics seemed to get skipped more so than in BC, until they become just badge-farming randoms.
- 7:12 AM, April 05, 2010
- Anonymous said...
I whole-heartedly agree with all of the points you've made. It would be nice to see the return of the dungeon sets.
I know im in the minority when i say it would be nice to see attunements again.
I've been playing since vanilla and i like how they opened up the game so everyone has a chance to experience all of the content but
i am saddened by the gearscore,gogogo,give me my purples now generation of WoW.
Great post and Great ideas!
- 8:04 AM, April 05, 2010
- Phelps said...
Badge gain is already capped (two a day plus the raids.) The question isn't whether or not we have one; lockouts ensure that we do. The question is what that number should be.
- 8:16 AM, April 05, 2010
- AnToXa said...
I disagree with capping badge gain over time at such low values. I think there should be some differentiation between players that want to spend their time and effort gaining as many badges as possible and those who approach it more casualy.
If i'm willing to spend effort on getting those badges - i should be able to.
It's a fine like to tread between requiring the grind and cripping the more dedicated players and you pushed it too far into the 'screw the hardcores, there is only 1% of them anyway'.
- 8:23 AM, April 05, 2010
- Phelps said...
It's a fine like to tread between requiring the grind and cripping the more dedicated players and you pushed it too far into the 'screw the hardcores, there is only 1% of them anyway'
I'm interested in the problem with "screw the hardcores." They are only 1% and they take up a much higher percentage of resources. Given that Blizzard is a business, why wouldn't they be willing to give up 1% to double the size of the 99%?
- 8:26 AM, April 05, 2010
- What's my main Again? said...
There needs to be raid content available as soon as you hit the end game... otherwise why level at all? Leveling to the cap just to run heroics... doesn't sound exciting.
There are a lot of people who have only one level 80. They don't like leveling they don't have alts and they only play the game for raiding. I'm not one of them but at the same time there needs to be room for both.
If things went your proposed way... then the person would hit 85... and stop playing until the raid dungeon was released. Why would they farm heroics for months just to start raiding? Especially if, like in wrath, there is never anything to graduate too. I've ran the same heroics since November of last year. It isn't enjoyable anymore and hasn't been in some time.
There needs to be a fast paced end game. There is always room to take your time through content the second, third... or in my case 10th time around. In the end it all becomes boring and repetitive... do you want to make it that way right off the bat?
I do agree with slowing down how fast we outpace heroics. For instance... I don't think heroics should be available at all until after the first raid content is down. That way you can scale it appropriately and have a challenge, in addition to better rewards. Then maybe after the following tier... allow the heroics to drop emblems.
With that sort of system... the people who want to exclusively raid... can do so without ever having to step foot inside a heroic. But heroics still provide a place for new players and alts to catch up to the current raid content.
- 8:40 AM, April 05, 2010
- Anonymous said...
"the people who want to exclusively raid...can do so without ever having to step foot inside a heroic."
there lies the problem imo. skipping a clear path of progression and being able to jump right in to raiding takes away from the feeling of acheivement.
i'm not HC by any means but i'm all for putting out a little effort to progress to endgame raiding, not just hitting 80 and jumping in or being carried through content but thats just me.
- 9:38 AM, April 05, 2010
- arrowrest said...
I agree with every single one of your ideas. I too would like to see that heroics have a place again before raiding. One thing I would add to your list is the idea of making Cataclysm instances (normal and heroic) a bit more of a challenge than we saw in Wrath. Outstanding post.
- 10:25 AM, April 05, 2010
- Westin said...
I think gating the first raid somehow (e.g. AQ or SWP) would be a good compromise. It would have to be coupled with challenging pre-raid max level content, however. I liked the BC heroic model much better than Wrath. In BC it took a competent group just to get through Heroic Shattered Halls or Durnhold Keep, and the single epic that dropped at the end was as well deserved as any drop you won in KZ :) In wrath, you could finish any heroic on the day your turned 80 (with the except of HoL, maybe, if you were a holy paladin ;) ). I'd like to see a return to heroic content as a half step between regular instances and the first tier of raiding.
- 11:09 AM, April 05, 2010
- Frankerson P said...
I completely agree with #1.
On the surface, it seems strange to favor slower release of content, but it really does make the end game better in my opinion.
- 12:18 PM, April 05, 2010
- What's my main again? said...
That is what I meant... once someone gets into raiding... they should never have to back peddle into doing heroics. Sure you hit 80, you start running instances and heroics to get the gear to start raiding... but once you get into raiding that should be it for heroics.
Heroics should be challenging and lets face it... after you get a bit of raid gear there is no challenge in a heroic. Heck in wrath... heroics were never a challenge.
- 12:58 PM, April 05, 2010
- AnToXa said...
I'm interested in the problem with "screw the hardcores." They are only 1% and they take up a much higher percentage of resources. Given that Blizzard is a business, why wouldn't they be willing to give up 1% to double the size of the 99%?
Exactly because as you put it "Blizzard is a business", why would they give up paying customers?
And what doubling are you speaking of?
I don't see why they can not opt for having both (they obviously should and are doing that).
Btw, hardcores kill the bosses first, write strats, make movies, host and fill ej, etc... they do live raids at blizzcon too.
The heard of a community is hardcores mostly imho.
- 4:18 PM, April 05, 2010
- Rohan said...
I don't really see this plan as "screwing the hardcores". Hardcore people don't just want to raid. They like questing and 5-mans and leveling and lore just as much as the rest of the audience.
Raiding will come in time. This initial period just gives everyone a chance to stop and smell the roses and prepare for raiding. Plus, it will mean that the race will begin in earnest, with many possible contenders.
Sometimes, building anticipation is just as important as the rest of things.
A guild can wait for its entire raidforce to catch up, and enter the new content as a cohesive group.
- 4:25 PM, April 05, 2010
- Khrakan - Paladin, Shandris Realm said...
I agree with most of what you say, however, I like the idea of tiered epics that they currently have. You're leaving the majority of people who don't raid out of the epic loop this way. This plan satisfies the raiders nicely giving them incentive to look forward to raiding, but doesn't do anything for people who don't raid.
- 7:55 PM, April 05, 2010
- Rohan said...
Oh, maybe I didn't really make it clear, but this is just the pre-raid time period, before the first raid is launched. After the raid game starts up, things will change slightly (Heroics start dropping badges, etc.)
I'm going to write another post detailing how I'd like the raid game to work.
- 7:59 PM, April 05, 2010
- AtomicJesus said...
3 months with no raiding? No thank you, I'd drop the game altogether. Raiding isn't the only thing I do in game, but it is the only thing that keeps me coming back to the game. Obviously, I don't speak for everyone but I get the feeling there are some out there that do share the sentiment.
Have you thought of what this would do to lower end raiding guilds? People would take breaks from the game and come back at different times. Often, I'm sure they'd find a significant drop in playerbase, and travel to another guild. More people do the same, and you have a mass guild exodus.
I like your other ideas in improving the game and character development paths, but there's other ways to stifle progress without taking a significant portion of the game away for months at a time.
- 9:16 PM, April 05, 2010
- Ephemeron said...
You've forgotten one crucial factor: gear from previous expansion.
Why would one collect 8-piece blue sets if one could simply walk into the initial raids with ilvl277 triple-socketed epics?
- 3:57 AM, April 06, 2010
- Aaron Jackson said...
@ Ephemeron with a whole brand new stat system and a new expansion there is nothing preventing Blizzard from making the 8pc set, and bonus be worth more than someones full i277/264 set. If you cast your mind back to WoLK Naxx there were some people still using Sunwell gear in there, cast your mind a little further back to the start of BC and everyone had replaced their Naxx gear in the first couple of levels. Expect Blizzard to find an even better balance this time around.
@Rohan I think 3 months might be a little too long, remember that we are only going to be moving up 5 levels before people start running heroic instances, that will make finishing off leftover quests a piece of cake and then the exploration soon after. I think 2 months will be plenty of time.
- 5:42 AM, April 06, 2010
- Joshua said...
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- 7:17 AM, April 06, 2010
- Joshua said...
I didn't replace most of my lvl 60 Naxx40 epics until 68-70. The greens and even many of the blues didn't come close until then. I was a paladin though, and I guess it could have been different for other classes, but I thought the progression was where it should be.
Three months definitely does seem a little bit long to me, and I think the AJs do have a point about some of the more hardcore players dropping the game and Blizzard losing out. The key is to find the right time period to wait before implementing each aspect of the endgame. One strategy Bliz could use is to create world events and other such entertainment that will keep a lot of the hardcore players interested in the game, while not granting them much in the way of upgrades. This will ideally tide them over for, let's say, a month or so after they reach the level cap but before the competitive raiding is released, yet still keep them on a relatively level playing field with the explorers and slower levelers. Bliz might also do well to build up some hype approaching the release of the first raid or group of raids. The more the bulk of players care about it (or at least the more the hardcores think the masses care), the more likely the hardcores are to stick around to be the first ones to kill the big boss dragons, ogres, and liches.
Strangely, I consider myself to be an explorer, a slow leveler, and a hardcore player. I would LOVE to be able to take my time and actually read quest text without the feeling of being rushed. I really enjoy leveling and exploring the landscapes and towns, trying out the new spells and abilities in different situations, checking out the cool monster types, learning about the professions, and chatting casually with friends along the way, all - get this - without having to take a week or two off from work when the expantion comes out. When I am pressured, both by peers and by my own desire to be at the top of the game, to get to the max level as quickly as possible, I can't do any of the aforementioned fun things without sacrificing precious time toward raiding glory.
- 7:23 AM, April 06, 2010
- W said...
@Phelps ... couldn't have said it better myself.
Gating needs to return. Gating increased the feeling of accomplishment amongst everyone involved. Those people who strived long and hard to get attuned to places like Kara, SSC, TK, and even Hyjal and BT did so with pride. Gate them early with quests. They do not need to be overly difficult. Kara's key quest was challenging in the early days, but it became easier until it was removed. Gate raids and instances and then remove the gates when the time was appropriate. When they lifted the gate for SSC and TK it was appropriate, when they lifted it for Hyjal and BT it was right on. The problem was they never fully lifted Kara's, even when it didnt require the key, it still required one person to have the key.
The biggest thing I can say is, while I am not a huge fan of your concept on raid tiering. I do agree that its probably he best concept that keeps the 10/25 system. I do believe 10 man Heroic should be looked higher upon and even made more challenging and raised above the normal 25. But that is just me looking for a better challenge with my now limited resources.
The big problem with your theory is that if I have the option of going in and doing only a couple of bosses with a pug in a 10man, or a couple of bosses in a pug in a 25man, I will choose 25 all the time. Its impossible to do what you wish with things being puggable. 10man normal raids would be extremely limited to guild/friend raids with the pug people looking for 25s. Personally, I would rather just see them do the Kara/ZA vs SSC/TK system again and make nice, well tuned 10 man instances and nice and well tuned 25mans. Its impossible to tune the same bosses for both levels to a decent degree.
Lastly, the biggest thing I agree with here, is that tier should NEVER be purchasable through emblems/badges. This is one of the biggest mistakes they made in Wrath.
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Annie Mulligan / For The Herald Anah Sanchez sweeps in the front of the Garage, a new indoor skatepark opening this Saturday, March 2, in downtown Everett. Sanchez's husband, Jordan, is a professional skateboarder and is opening the park after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Professional skateboarder Jordan Sanchez clears out a stack old skateboards in his downtown Everett indoor skatepark on Thursday. The Garage will open this Saturday after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Annie Mulligan / For The Herald Anah Sanchez paints the bathroom at the Garage, a new indoor skatepark opening Saturday in downtown Everett. Sanchez's husband, Jordan, is a professional skateboarder and is opening the park after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Annie Mulligan / For The Herald Jordan Sanchez cleans up the front of his new indoor skatepark, the Garage, opening Saturday in downtown Everett. Sanchez is a professional skateboarder and has been working on the space for about six weeks. It features art from local artists including Jordan's brother, Brian Sanchez, and Kyle Schuman.
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Jordan Sanchez gathers paint supplies while his wife, Anah, sweeps in the front of their new indoor skatepark, the Garage, opening Saturday in downtown Everett. Sanchez is a professional skateboarder and has been working on the space for about six weeks.
He and his wife, Anah, will hold an open house at their downtown Everett business Saturday, giving skaters a chance to check out the new facility. The 3,500-square-foot space is at 2927 Rucker Ave.
Skateboarders will find a long, narrow venue, with a high ceiling and concrete floors. Sanchez, 27, said they are leasing the site from Rick Lapinski, who owns multiple properties in downtown Everett.
The Garage is filled with features, including movable ramps, designed to lure skaters in out of the rain. At one end are quarter-pipe ramps. Wall rides, ledges, hand rails and a surface covered with faux brick called a "sketchy bank," offer skateboarders the sorts of places they would find at outdoor skate parks or on property that's officially off-limits.
Jordan and Anah Sanchez also run a coffee stand, the Mocha Station, at Frontier Village in Lake Stevens. To open The Garage, they had a lot of help -- more than 100 donors.
In late December, they launched a fundraising drive on the Kickstarter website. Kickstarter, started in 2009, is a platform for people to make a pitch for funding for creative projects. Creators set funding goals and deadlines, then spread the word through friends and social media.
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Kickstarter makes its money by taking a cut. Through his "Open The Garage" page on Kickstarter, Sanchez said, $17,031 was raised by Jan. 27, far surpassing the $15,000 goal. "We ended up with $15,300," he said, adding that donations ranged from $1 into the thousands.
In his online pitch, Sanchez wrote: "My wife and I are seeking $15,000 to pay for wood, screws, paint, steel, sheet metal and labor to construct a one-of-a-kind indoor skateboarding facility."
Dan Eyler worked with Sanchez on ramp construction. "They're all hand-built, with plywood, two-by-four construction, and masonite," Sanchez said. His brother, Brian Sanchez, and Kyle Schuman painted murals. The place has a couch, music and a soda machine.
Posted on the Kickstarter page is a link to a YouTube video called "Vic's Market," which shows Sanchez's friends skateboarding on Everett streets, in parking lots, at a school and other public places, and on private property around the city. In one shot on the video, an adult is shown telling a skater, "You need to take it someplace else."
That need -- for places skateboarders are welcome to do what they love without breaking the law -- motivated Sanchez to open the indoor facility. A skateboarder for 16 years, Sanchez said he is sponsored by Manik Skateboards and BLVD, another skateboard brand.
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Alicia's attention to detail provided demonstrative proof of the high quality care she gave our daughter. While it may seem like a small deal among all the medical actions she performed, Alicia took the time to complete the "Family Information Board" in our NICU room. Having the board filled out provided us with stability by knowing the name of our nurse along with feeding times and other important information. It only took a minute to fill this out, but Alicia made sure it was completed. Her efforts did not go unnoticed. This provided an added peace of mind for our family at a traumatic time in a confusing and foreign atmosphere.
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Most importantly, Alicia was our nurse the day our daughter had her breathing tube removed. Alicia said that if all went well, my wife would be able to hold our daughter. This would be the first time she would be held by someone since she had been born. It was the end of Alicia's shift by the time our baby had her tube removed and had rested a bit. Alicia made the extra effort to put our daughter into her mother's arms before ending her shift. Alicia could have left that task to the night nurse, but she followed through with her promise to us. It was evident that our daughter had been through quite an ordeal and was in need of some solid human contact. Alicia took the time to ensure that happened. Needless to say, Alicia's compassionate care created a memory for our family that will be remembered for the rest of our lives.
While in the NICU, we also witnessed Alicia's tremendous ability to work within a team. Successful teamwork requires knowing when to rely on your team for help. When Alicia needed to move our daughter's IV needle, she immediately recognized the condition of her veins and called another nurse to assist. This demonstrated her commitment to providing high quality care through the use of successful teamwork.
Alicia's department director added:
"Alicia began her ACH career as a new graduate nurse on the 8th floor. She transitioned to the NICU four years ago," said Cindy Driscoll RN, BSN, MS, Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). "She exemplifies the service standards in her daily practice. I have seen Alicia interacting with families and am so impressed with her caring approach. She is extremely calm and quiet and actively listens to the families which helps in the formation of a good working relationship. I am fortunate to have been the person who hired Alicia and I am so proud of how she has grown in her role. She is an excellent nurse and role model for nursing."
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March 22, 2008
|Falcons Lose Series Finale
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|Laurinburg, NC---The St. Andrews Presbyterian College baseball team rallied past Conference Carolinas rival Pfeiffer University, 5-4, on Saturday afternoon. The Knights improved to 11-21 overall and 5-13 in the league. The Falcons, who maintain a 17-18 overall and 6-9 conference ledgers, were looking for the three-game series sweep after winning a doubleheader on Friday but were denied.
Pfeiffer scored two runs on three hits in the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead. Freshman Kyle McGarrity drove in the Falcons second run with an infield single that just stayed fair down the third base line. Pfeiffer added an unearned in the fourth on an RBI-groundout by junior Jodie Groce.
Kyle Norris hit a home run in the bottom of the fourth to pull the Knights within one run.
St. Andrews tied the game at 3-3 in the fifth.
After three scoreless innings, Pfeiffer broke the deadlock with an unearned run in the top of the ninth.
Michael Eastwood drilled a two-run double in the bottom of the ninth to win the game for the Knights. Pfeiffer's sophomore closer Andrew Oliver, who had a save and a win in yesterday's twin bill, looked to close the door on St. Andrews again but the rightie put the potential game-tying and game-winning runs on base with a pair of walks. Eastwood stepped foot into the batters box with two outs and the game on the line and ripped his second double of the game to the right-center fence plating two to end the game.
Sophomore Hunter Wyke led the visitors with three hits and two runs scored. Junior starter Ben Beard had six strikeouts in the no-decision for the Falcons. Oliver falls to 5-2 on the season.
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moking, curing and drying have been used to preserve food supplies since prehistoric times. Before eating seasonally became a trend, it was a necessity. Game meats were only available in season, and domesticated animals were slaughtered before winter came, to save on feed and to fill the larder. So a method to preserve meat before the days of refrigeration was a vital development in culinary history. Confit is a cooking term for a variety of foods, but most commonly meats, cooked and preserved in their own fat.
Confit is the past participle of the French verb confire, "to preserve." In this method, meats are cooked in fat for a long time, sometimes days, at a low temperature. This renders tough cuts, like duck legs, more tender and palatable. The meat that has been through this cooking process is also called confit, as in duck leg confit, or confit of goose.
In the days before vacuum packing, confit meats were placed in crockery pots or jars filled with duck fat, then covered with pork fat and stored in a cool cellar. This impenetrable top protected the confit throughout the long winter and on into the spring. In the southwest region of France, Gascony, you'll still find many small jars filled with confit stored in the cellars. Since the entire small container can be used at one time, the confit isn't exposed to the outside air for long and can't spoil.
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Traveller's Haven is located in the centre of Bled's residential district, located only yards from St Martin's Church at the foot of the spectacular cliff top Bled Castle. Our hostel is in a typical Bled house from the beginning of the 20 century in the old part of Bled, just a few minutes from the bus station.
The hostel sleeps 27 people in five mixed dorms (4 bed dorm, three 5 bed dorms and a 6 bed dorm) and a double bed room. In addition to the rooms we have a fully equipped kitchen and a living room with wireless internet.
There is a shop across the road from the property where a huge variety of fresh food, supplies and toiletries can be purchased.
Check in is at 12.00 noon, but if you arrive earlier you are welcome to stay in the living room or just leave your bags with us while you go for coffee!
Check out is at 11 am.
- smoking is allowed only on the terrace or outside
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Just received the KRIS in wildflower honey. Love it!! Color is so natural - mixture of browns and highlighted beautifully. I am very pleased since I am a first time customer and color is the most important thing - it's really pretty.
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By Jerzeegirl
Just received the KRIS in wildflower honey and I am so pleased. The color is gorgeous - alittle long and blunt - I am trimming and layering and it will be perfect. So happy with color natural looking and highlighted perfectly.
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This wig is so versatile, I have parted it on the side, worn it as it comes, and also worn it in a pony tail with a clip or rubber band and color piece. I get many compliments on it because I purchased my natural hair color which is a dark brown. Just the fact you can wear your hair up or down makes people thing this is your human hair.I will try and get someone to take my picture with it in a pony tail to post.
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So who wouldn't want to look like the blonde modeling this wig?!!! Seriously, she caught the tousled look of the wig. It's light, it's fun, and if you like that look, this is the wig for you. I got color 24/14 which is the blonde I have been looking for; not a screaming blonde, more of a soft look.It does need bangs trimmed (which is good; better than being too short), and I also had my stylist shorten the length closer to shoulder length (I am 59; the length out of the box would be fine for someone younger).
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Hitten Zaveri PhD
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Epilepsy; EEG; Intracranial EEG; Brain sensors; Brain implantable devices; Brain-machine interface; Time-series analysis; Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Computer Engineering; Neurosurgery; more...
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- Dominique Duncan, Robert B. Duckrow, Steven M. Pincus, Irina Goncharova, Lawrence J. Hirsch, Dennis D. Spencer, Ronald R. Coifman, Hitten P. Zaveri, Intracranial EEG evaluation of relationship within a resting state network, Clinical Neurophysiology, 2013.
- Dominique Duncan, Ronen Talmon, Hitten P Zaveri, Ronald R Coifman, Identifying preseizure state in intracranial EEG data using diffusion kernels. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2013.
- Daniel J. Kanak, Gregory M. Rose, Hitten P. Zaveri, Peter R. Patrylo, Altered network timing in the CA3-CA1 circuit of hippocampal slices from aged mice, PLoS One, 2013.


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I have smelled Memoir Man, it is actually very nice....but I smell a similarity with Gucci Pour Homme I by Gucci (the brown liquid).
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Amouage will launch Memoir Man and Memoir Woman at the end of September:
Inspired by the decadent mien and genius of the 19th Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire and the German philosophy of the doppelganger, Amouage Creative Director Christopher Chong, embarks on a deep and inquisitive voyage to unlock the unfathomable mysteries that reside within human nature. He expresses these influences by coalescing the provoking and potent ingredient of Absinth with other floral and wood accords to evoke a sombre mood.
Incarnated from the introspective pages of Baudelaires volume of poetry Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), Chongs Memoir Man seeks to uncover his identity by seeking the underworld where he meets his other self and alter ego, the Black Swan. In this emporium of vice and damnation, the anguish, the unwanted, the dark, the haunting and the unmentionable are all beauty of the truth.
Represented as the female gender in this story, the Black Swan is Memoir Woman; she is him and he is her. Hauntingly, they come together as one representing each others past, present and future in which they mimic each others sorrow and pain. They are separated and reunited by the memoir they share, which Chong constructs in these philosophical and mesmerizing fragrances by piecing together contradictory fragments of accords.
Memoir Man ~ a leather woody fougere with notes of absinthe, wormwood, basil, mint, rose, frankincense, lavender, sandalwood, vetiver, guaiac wood, amber, vanilla, musk, oakmoss, leather and tobacco.
Memoir Woman ~ a leather animalic chypre with notes of mandarin, cardamom, absinthe, pink pepper, pepper, clove, white flowers, rose, jasmine, wood, frankincense, styrax, oakmoss, castoreum, leather, labdanum, fenugreek and musk.
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I have smelled Memoir Man, it is actually very nice....but I smell a similarity with Gucci Pour Homme I by Gucci (the brown liquid).
All those notes in the male version sound fantastic
Both male and female sound fantastic!
Amouage is trying to bankrupt me. They have already launche the three Opus this year, that I want, and now i have more two from their line to go to my wishlist. And I still want a bottle of epic him and lyric him...
Thanks for the information! I will be curious to smell them. I think Amouage is better off with the Man - Woman concept than the unisex, which I think is overall very hard to achieve masterfully without compromising beauty (e.g. Opus I).
The man version sounds great!
Love the black bottles too , very forboding
...must find out the noses behind these.
Honestly, leather heavy scents aren't my thing but this is Amouage and they've made me need things I didn't even know I wanted in the past, so, I've got to sniff them!
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Wow, now this looks like it's going to be my first amouage. The notes sound fabulous. I don't dig the black bottle though, I liked their green(epic) and red(lyric) bottles, they looked really exotic. Well, at least I hope this read is going to have the same sort of sexy reflection.
Anybody going to do a split on those? that'd be nice.
WOW, those are my favorite bottles yet!! And a chypre for the ladies; it's about damn time! I am not sure I have ever smelled fenugreek in a perfume, but I am really eager to see how that is worked around.
Volley, where did you smell them?
To me, Gucci Pour Homme I smells like intense, freshly sharpened pencil, cedar, incense and amber. If I smell G Ph I, it has this tingling, sharp notes to the nose, very intense. Memoir Man smells like cedar and MORE incense with a touch of rose which makes it "creamier" and SMOOTHER, more elegant than Gucci Ph. I would say that comparing the two, Memoir definitely is well made and with the finest ingredients. And I am not saying this just because Memoir is more expensive. You can really tell the difference in quality from just smelling the two.
I would say that this is a fall fragrance/winter fragrance.
However, I could still see it being worn during summer, applied lightly. Then you get more "annointed" with the smell of cedar and incense. The heat makes it max out.
Surprisingly, the smell of cedar is actually quite nice.
Of the Amouage lines that I have smelled (Jub XXV, Memoir, Ciel, Gold, Dia), my favorites are Jub XXV and Memoir. I have a bottle of Jub XXV. Memoir is definitely worth owning a bottle.
Dia is just TOO weak! No projection and sillage at all.
Ciel is ordinary.
Gold is strong, very sweet, powdery floral. After a couple of hours, yes it does turn to piss.
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Memoir Man & Woman went on sale here alongside the Opus Trio 10 days ago without any fanfare. I believe this soft launch was to coincide with a planned workshop to be given by Christopher Chong which was either cancelled or postponed - there is still talk of something in October. I bought both and have been wearing Memoir Man pretty solidly for 10 days or so but work has prevented me posting anything if substance and I didn't want to just fling breathless one liners around about something that is clearly a terrific piece of artistic work - I also wanted to wait till there was an official notice from Amouage, which now seems to be the case. Will try to get my initial impressions up later today or on the weekend - work schedule is extremely intense right now
When I bought Memoir Man the only information the SA could offer was 'Absinthe – Frankincense – Tobacco'.
Memoir Man opens with a moist slightly citric green haze, very fragrant and quite bracing. It took me three days to discern the mint in amongst all this. In that sense MM does bring to mind the opening of a handful of other serious high quality fougeres where there seems to be a bit of a scramble to quickly adjust the collar and tuck the shirt in before smiling at the person in front of you. This is a good sign IMO, because it usually heralds a serious composition, altho MM is not as obviously 'new-fougere like' as Opus II, Dhofar, Invasion Barbare et al.
Along with this quite unusual and captivating opening there is a sense of a moist tobacco leaf / herbal quality and an underlying ashy frankincense.
In that sense I think the proposed three-note sketch given to the SA I spoke to is quite accurate. The green minty sparkle encompassing the absinthe, the moist bundle of tobacco leaf and certainly the frankincense are all present and accounted for. On a couple of occasions I have also picked up a glimpse of a 'Tribute' note, which threw me a bit – still does – I keep looking for it.
Then MM settles into a deep frankincense+ aura. I am no frankincense expert but I would suggest this leans more towards the rugged, outdoorsy ember like incense of Epic Man (and at a big stretch the ashiness of Serge Noire) than the more genteel cathedrals of Avignon and Encens Flamboyant and so on. It's not entirely dry to me – there is always a sense of a bundle of fragrant moist leaves hovering above smouldering charcoal.
And this is where I get lost, boys and girls, because much as I would like to wax poetic about the interplay of the leather, woods, tobacco, oakmoss and how the hint of lavender works earlier on I really perceive this as more of a mood or an atmosphere than a collection of easily discernable individual notes (this is why I don't review).
So – shifting gears somewhat, I'll put it out there that the quite poetic copy from Amouage quoted above is actually very, very apt. This is an autumnal, late afternoon soft golden light kind of scent to me, and if it is the memoir of a man who has traveled and perhaps seen more of the world (and himself) than some of us would care to, then my proposition would be that he did a lot of that traveling on foot. There is a gravitas to Memoir that I admire, it's contemplative and there is an air of mystery about it. This is perfume for grown-ups.
This is the first time for a couple of years I have worn a scent almost exclusively for a fortnight and it has given me pause to consider how I approach this whole game - it's just so easy to be dismissive and jump to conclusions based on a sample wearing.
I understand that Man was developed first and then Memoir Woman, which works perfectly in the same way that Epic Woman alludes to Epic Man and then offers a more nuanced floral take on the original. There is coherence between the two, and I did briefly compare notes with Coconut on Memoir Woman – perhaps she will post on it. The floral aspect is there, along with the underlying herbal / leathery tones, and tuberose is apparent to me but in the context of the overall composition, not as a one liner. I would rate this as more overtly floral than Epic Woman, but no less intriguing. They make a wonderful pair, just like the Lyric and Epic duos IMO.
I am sure fans of Epic, Dia and Tribute will enjoy Memoir. Personally I think I like it more than any of them, although it has pointed me back to Epic Man, a scent I may have passed by a little quickly in favour of it's sister. Looking forward to others thoughts and impressions – I'm sold! BTW, I'm thinking that as I bought the first bottle I may have 'done a Trebor' with this particular Amouage, which is sort of fun ☺
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Some info about the perfumers...
Memoir Man was developed by perfumer Karine Vinchon; Memoir Woman by perfumers Daniel Maurel and Dorothée Piot.
Daniel Maurel now has his hands in 4 Amouages. He seems to be their go to man. He did Opus 1 and Lyric Woman by himself, and then collaborated for Epic Woman and Memoir Woman.
Karine Vinchon also has two Amouages to her name now, Memoir Man and Opus III.
I think the only other nose with more than one Amouage to their credit is Lucas Sieuzac who did Jubilation 25 and Reflection Man.
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Ah, right, my bad! How could I forget the esteemed Guy Robert? *blush*
I'm curious who did Dia Man and Ciel Man. Dia Man almost smells like a Duchaufour composition (and a Duchaufour looking notes list, too).
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Memoir Woman intrigues me greatly... And I generally get along better with the female and unisex Amouages.
This is a definite blind buy for me. I love this company and their whole story. Very much a class act company!!
Very nice black bottles, but the Epic bottle is still the most classy and beautiful.
To clear up any confusion....
are the bottles black/chrome/brown gemstone?
Or dark brown/chrome/brown gemstone ?
Can anyone who has seen one well lit in person verify?
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The bottles are a translucent charcoal / black. If you hold them up to the light you can see the juice inside.
And the stone seems to be black but also could be deep amethyst / purple - will check in daylight tomorrow when I get home.
There is a charcoal and gray / black feather motif on the boxes.
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Thanks for your review Mr Reasonable , it does sound right up my alley and I look forward to giving them a try .... its all your fault that I love Amouage anyway
Do you notice any stylistic similarity between Opus III and Memoir Man? Opus III is the only fragrance by Karine Spehner that I've tested so I don't know if it exhibits any trademarks she may have in her style.
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However the fact that Daniel Maurel was involved with both Epic & Memoir Woman is telling because, as I understand it, both were consciously developed only after the Man versions were completed . . . and I think the sense of continuity while extending the original idea in both is real artistry. Amouage seem to have a real knack for creating this Yin / Yang pair thing.
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I like the sound of Man
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."
--Ben Hogan
Memoir Man has some very tasty notes. I can hardly wait to sample. My hope is it's nothing like the crappy Library Collection they just released. Opus I,II, & III are so watered down, it's a disgrace to the Amouage name. Everyone knows I'm a huge Amouage fan, but shit is shit and The Opus' are definitely in that category. Mr. Chong, what the hell were you thinking when you released this garbage?
Will pass on these.
I don't think you can fault the other scents for perhaps not lasting as long as they seem to be more natural than the regular series. Besides, why is longevity and/or projection more important than the composition of the scent?
I just find it a bit ridiculous to call the Opus series shit, especially compared to 99% of the other stuff that is released.
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Fair enough thebeck. I do enjoy your opinions and insights even though we rarely agree. I guess I should be thankful that everything seems to last forever on me (although that is its own little curse, IMO!)
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For the record, Opus I lasts for DAYS on me. And it lingers on my garments forever. I rate it as the single most tenacious scent I own.
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Is it me or can you not wait to smell this. I keep checking the boutique online to place an order. It sounds amazing. The Library collection is the only thing I didnt like from Amouage so this is really getting me excited!
Christopher Chong told me that US availability is on schedule for 22 September with the marketing film debuting 27 September. I can't wait to try a sample.
I heard "beginning of October" for the bottles to arrive at my local store here.
I wonder how long it will take to order a sample on Parfumesraffy.com and luckyscent.com..
I bought a bottle of Opus I from the london amouage store when I were in London a week ago and I enjoy it just as my other amouage collections(j25, Epic women and tribute). The SA who sold me the Opus I is going to send me a sample of each Memoir. I'm looking forward to try them.
Just FYI, this Thursday is the official launch date in the UK, and the London boutique will be having a party with samples and food and wine in the PM.
Hillaire- great new avatar and a great review for Memoir too !
I spoke with Raffy from Parfums Raffy ,this afternoon and he says he should have Memoir in his store by beginning of October ( I think it depends on Amouage being slow or fast with shipment to US )
Raffy is a sweetheart BTW.
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Hillaire, please let us know what you think of Memoir Man and Woman. =)
The two stands at Lane Crawford here see a pretty well heeled cosmopolitan crowd, no idea about Tokyo. I get the impression the Memoir pair have been moving faster than the Opus trio from the SAs. I'm really looking forward to reading impressions from others familiar with the line to see where Memoir sits for you in the Amouage pantheon, parrticularly now most will be trying it in an autumn context. Memoir Man is anything but a crowd pleaser (in the mass market sense), it's quite a brooding scent and Woman seems to be a fairly complex one, the floral angle is hard for me to read.
Christopher Chong said the debut in Dubai went fantastic today. Will he be back in London Thursday? I'm anxious to hear more about others opinions after I gather my own. Luckyscent is going to have them as close to an on-time debut as possible.
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Oh oh... peppery all through... and WHERE is the leather in Memoir Woman, please???
pepper? ew, I was expecting a leathery ambery tobacco
I'm intrigued that they added wormwood. Wormwood being the psychoactive plant in absinthe. I'm wondering if it was added in addition to absinthe(if there is any) or directly. Very interesting....
-Fun fact- The name 'Artemisia absinthium' (wormwood) is derived from the ancient Greek goddess, Artemis!
Here's Some basic botanical info:
"Artemisia absinthium is the botanical name of the plant more commonly known as wormwood. Other common names for Artemisia absinthium include absinthe wormwood, absinthium, grand wormwood, green ginger, and true wormwood.
The Artemisia genus (which contains over 200 species) is part of the Asteraceae family (also called the Compositae family) of plants. Asteraceae is more commonly known as the daisy or sunflower family. It is comprised of over 1,100 genera and 20,000 species."
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Though the Chargers have made great strides in their sophomore season, players and coaches understand there's more work to do
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Marysville Getchell guard Elijah Jordan (23) smiles as he breaks away up the court as teammate Jordan Hurtado (24) laughs in the background Monday night during practice.
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Head coach Corby Schuh (center) directs practice Monday night as forward John McClinton (left) listens.
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Members of the Marysville Getchell varsity and junior varsity boys basketball teams practice in the school's gym recently.
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Guard Elijah Jordan watches a drill during practice Monday night.
The Chargers have found more success this season: They are 4-10 and trail Oak Harbor by two games for second place in the 3A Wesco North. The Getchell players set a goal at the beginning of the season to place at least second in the North Division and while those hopes have taken a bit of beating of late, they remain alive.
"We expected to see improvements from last year, for sure," Chargers head coach Corby Schuh said. "You establishing the program last year and kind of coming up with our core values and just playing hard and being competitive, we are kind of starting to see that pay off. We've hit the weight room pretty hard and we are starting to get a little bit stronger, which has helped us. We've definitely seen some improvements, but we've still got a long ways to go."
The Chargers lack a signature victory over a state-quality team, but they do have several wins this season that prove that they are learning how to finish games. Against Lakewood just before Christmas, Getchell fell behind 20-2 early, but methodically trimmed the Cougars' lead until the Chargers had come all the way back and earned a 69-62 victory.
A week earlier, Elijah Jordan scored 31 points to lead the Chargers to an 80-74 win over Everett in double overtime. Two weeks before that, Omar Sakin-Romulus tipped in a missed shot at the buzzer to beat Granite Falls 80-78 for the Chargers' first win of the season.
All three are victories MG can build on.
"Honestly, to me, that double overtime game, winning over Everett, that's definitely the big moment," Jordan said. "That's never happened to me before -- double overtime -- that's very big."
Guard Nathen Grimm saw the victory over Granite Falls as a key moment for the Chargers.
"We only had one last year, so we didn't really think, 'Oh we got that win off our chest so now we are good,'" he said. "We thought, 'OK, this is what it feels like and we want more of it. So let's get some more.' So we got three more already and the season's not over yet."
Since the Lakewood win, times have gotten tough. The Chargers' schedule has included Mariner, Glacier Peak, Mountlake Terrace and Shorewood since earning their fourth victory, Getchell has dropped all four games.
"We've kind of come to a screeching halt after that game," Schuh said. "We hit winter break and we got some time off and then we came back and we've played some good teams since winter break. To say did (the Lakewood win) help us? I think it's still something that we can come back to as we make this push towards the end of the season and hopefully put ourselves in a position to make the playoffs. I think it is still there that we can use, but I think we have kind of hit a tough road here with some tough teams."
The fourth Marysville Getchell victory of the season lacked the drama of the other three games, but it did come against its crosstown rival, Marysville Pilchuck. The girls and boys teams for Marysville Getchell and Marysville Pilchuck face each other for a second time this season on Saturday at Marysville Getchell High School. The girls and the boys play back-to-back in a night coined "Marysville Madness."
"It's just a great opportunity to bring everyone together and have the girls play first and then the boys play after it and just have everybody here," Schuh said.
The first time the two boys teams played each other this season the game was held at Marysville Pilchuck.
For the HG players, getting pumped up to play their rival doesn't pose a challenge.
"The first time, it was a great experience," guard Zander Seymer said. "It was loud. In that big of a gym, being that loud, that's impressive. We were screaming at the top of our lungs trying to yell out a play. To come in here, in our smaller gym, I'm kind of excited and looking forward to what that's going to bring. The rivalry is good and positive. The players really aren't the ones that are being the mean ones to each other, it's mainly the fans."
Seymer played football for Marysville Getchell and his Chargers lost to Marysville Pilchuck 42-7. Getchell's victory over the Tomahawks earlier this season was Seymer's first win over rival MP in any sport.
He admits, it felt pretty good.
"I definitely felt a little bit of revenge," Seymer said. "The football game, that was kind of a little bit embarrassing. In basketball, of course we want to win every game, that game a little more because it's our rival I guess you would say. It was a big win.
"It was really nice. It was a good feeling."
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As a MENTOR Fellow from Tanzania, Lowaeli Damalu completed her bushmeat field assessment on illegal bushmeat trade in Tanzania's urban centers of Morogoro and Kilombero Districts. Lowaeli Damalu worked with MENTOR Fellow Andimile Martin on a protein alternative partnership project around Serengeti National Park. Lowaeli and Martin also working as a team on cross border issues with MENTOR Fellow Evanson Kariuki, who focused on bushmeat awareness and law enforcement in Maasai Mara, Kenya.
Lowaeli Damalu has worked with the Wildlife Division under the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism for 17 years. Within the Wildlife Division, she has worked as a law enforcement officer, licensing officer, and instructor at Pasiansi Wildlife Training Institute. She holds a first degree B.Sc. in Wildlife Conservation Science and Zoology from the University of Dar es Salaam-Tanzania. She has a Diploma and Certificate in Wildlife Management from the College of African Wildlife Management- Mweka, Tanzania. During her undergraduate studies, Lowaeli did a special project on "Trophy Hunting Sustainability in Tanzania specifically on African elephant hunting: a case of Selous Game Reserve".
Bushmeat Field Assessment:
The Illegal Bushmeat Trade in Urban Centers: Case Studies of Morogoro and Kilombero urban districts in Tanzania.
Goals of the field assessment:
To learn more about the objectives, findings, and recommendations of Lowaeli Damalu's field assessment, please view the following documents:
Bushmeat Field Assessment Fact Sheet on Tanzania's urban centers of Morogoro and Kilombero Districts
Bushmeat Field Assessment Presentation on the Illegal Bushmeat Trade in Urban Centers: Case Studies of Morogoro and Kilombero urban districts in Tanzania.
Pilot Projects:
More information to come on Lowaeli Damalu's work on cross-border initiatives between Tanzania and Kenya and protein alternative partnerships around Serengeti National Park.
Visit the Bushmeat-free East African Network (BEAN) website to learn more about the new network developed and managed by the USFWS MENTOR Fellows.
For more information on Lowaeli Damalu's work, please contact:
Ms. Lowaeli Simon Damalu
Wildlife Division
PO Box 1994
Dar Es Salaam, TANZANIA
Telephone: 255 784 660 701 (mobile)
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