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"This is a great day," Pence said. "It is wonderful to be in the third-fastest growing county in the United States, Elkhart County, Ind."
He called the move of Drew's headquarters from New York to Elkhart "a real success for Elkhart County, and this is a success for the state of Indiana."
Drew Industries, parent company of Lippert Components, Inc., and Kinro, is a major supplier to the recreational vehicle industry.
The company announced plans in April to invest $12.75 million to renovate four facilities in Elkhart and Goshen, two months after it announced plans to move its headquarters here from White Plains, N.Y.
The company continues to expand manufacturing operations in Goshen and Elkhart, with plans to add up to 800 new jobs by 2017.
Lippert and Kinro employ about 4,200 people in Elkhart County and another 225 in Indiana outside the county.
Drew billed its move to Elkhart County as cost effective and something that will provide closer collaboration between Drew's management team and executives across the RV and manufactured-housing industries, both heavily located here.
Pence said, "the RV market is coming back stronger than ever and it's going to be centered here in the state of Indiana for generations to come."
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He said Elkhart Mayor Dick Moore and Goshen Mayor Allan Kauffman have been supportive, and Lippert said, "I want to thank our great customers, because without them we wouldn't be where we are today." He detailed the company's growth and said, "We are the largest supplier in the RV business."
Moore said to Drew's gathered leaders and employees, "you have become one of our largest employers," and credited them for their economic impact.
Jim McKee, president of the Goshen city council, said, "We're fortunate because in Goshen and Elkhart, the train has arrived," and said Drew's companies have "been a significant asset to our community."
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Visual and Critical Studies took shape as a new academic discipline in the 1990s in response to demands for alternate models of cultural analysis. For a decade, students in CCA's program have contributed to the expansion of this field's parameters in ways that reveal the ideological infrastructures of vision, visuality, and visibility. Having completed a rigorous program of interdisciplinary study and a sustained research project, graduating students distinguish themselves by their ability to think critically through writing about the seen world.
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Module positions are placeholders in a template. They identify positions within the template and tell the Joomla! application where to place output from modules assigned to a particular position. The template designer has complete control over module positions, creating variations between templates and the respective Joomla! default positions assigned to modules in the installation sample data.
For example the module position "Left" could be used in the left side of the template to display a site navigation menu. So if a module is assigned the "Left" position, it will be displayed wherever the designer puts that "Left" module position.
templatedetails.xml file contains all the installation and core information for a template, including the module positions it utilizes and displays. Here is a brief list of the commonly used names for the various module positions.
<positons> <position>top</position> <position>left</position> <position>right</position> <position>bottom</position> <position>banner</position> <position>syndicate</position> <position>footer</position> <position>user1</position> <position>user2</position> <position>user3</position> <position>user4</position> </positions>
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As you can see, it is quite simple to create a JPlugin. It is truly as simple as creating a class that extends JPlugin and writing a method for each event you want the plugin to handle.
As you can see, it is quite simple to create a JPlugin. It is truly as simple as creating a class that extends JPlugin and writing a method for each event you want the plugin to handle.
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Joomla! 1.5 introduced the
JPlugin class. In the effort to move Joomla! toward a more efficient object-oriented framework, a new plugin system has been developed which follows the Observer pattern. Plugins are observer classes that attach to a global event dispatcher object in the Joomla! core. What does this mean in English? It means that either the Joomla! core or a third party component or module can trigger an event which causes one or more plugins to execute some code.
The implementation of the plugin system is that of an observer pattern. It has two parts, an observer class,
JPlugin, and an observable class,
/** * JPlugin Class * * @package Joomla.Platform * @subpackage Plugin * @since 11.1 */ class JPlugin extends JEvent { /** * Constructor * * @param object &$subject The object to observe * @param array $config An optional associative array of configuration settings. * Recognized key values include 'name', 'group', 'params', 'language' * (this list is not meant to be comprehensive). * * @since 11.1 */ public function __construct(&$subject, $config = array()) { // Get the parameters. if (isset($config['params'])) { if ($config['params'] instanceof JRegistry) { $this->params = $config['params']; } else { $this->params = new JRegistry; $this->params->loadString($config['params']); } } // Get the plugin name. if (isset($config['name'])) { $this->_name = $config['name']; } // Get the plugin type. if (isset($config['type'])) { $this->_type = $config['type']; } // Load the language files if needed. Note whilst this method is in the // JPlugin class it has been left out of the docs for code clarity. if ($this->autoloadLanguage) { $this->loadLanguage(); } parent::__construct($subject); } }
There are two important things that makes this class work.
One is the constructor which actually gets executed by the parent class of this class
JEvent. The following is what happens in the constructor:
// Register the observer ($this) so we can be notified $subject->attach($this); // Set the subject to observe $this->_subject = &$subject;
This attaches the
JPlugin to an observable object. In the case of plugins, they observe the
JEventDispatcher object.
The second important thing to note is the update method in the
JEvent class. The update method is passed an array from its trigger. The array contains two elements - the event and the arguments. Once the update method receives this array it extracts the event and removes it from the arguments. It then calls a method of name 'event' (passing the arguments array) and returns its response.
Third Party Usage
<?php /** * @version $Id: $ * @package * @subpackage * @copyright * @license */ jimport('joomla.plugin'); /** * Example Plugin * * @author * @package * @subpackage * @since */ class ExamplePlugin extends JPlugin { /** * This method handles the onIncrement fictional event. It takes an integer input and * increments its value. * * @param integer $input An integer to increment * * @return integer Incremented integer * * @since 3.x * @access public */ function onIncrement($input) { return $input++; } } ?>
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Antimalarial Medicines for Lupus
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Antimalarial medicines are used to treat malaria and are also prescribed for lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis.
How It Works
These medicines reduce inflammation. (They are also used to prevent or treat malaria, but there is no known relationship between lupus and malaria.)
Why It Is Used
These medicines are used to control skin rash in people who have lupus. They also may help relieve muscle and joint pain, fatigue, and fever. And they may protect organs such as the kidneys.
These medicines may be used together with anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids, or medicines that suppress the immune system. Using them may allow you to reduce the dose of other medicines to a level that causes fewer or less bothersome side effects.
How Well It Works
A review of several studies shows that antimalarials reduce overall disease activity. They may have several other effects, including reducing disease flares and protecting organs such as the kidneys.1
Antimalarial medicine is used with corticosteroid creams to control lupus skin rash, and it has long been used to control lupus-related joint pain.2 For skin rash, this treatment works best when it is combined with protecting the skin from the sun.
Hydroxychloroquine seems to help reduce fatigue and malaise (generally not feeling well). But it can take a few months to notice this effect.3
Hydroxychloroquine may protect against lupus disease flares.2
Antimalarials are likely to help joint pain and reduce inflammation of the sac around the heart and the sac around the lungs.4
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor right away if you have:
- Hives.
- Any blurred vision, problems seeing to read, or changes in vision. Your doctor may have you check your vision at least once a month using an Amsler grid, which is a chart with lines and a dot at the center that lets you monitor changes in vision. If you notice any changes in vision or changes in your view of the Amsler grid, call your doctor.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
- Diarrhea.
- Itching.
- Headache.
- Nausea or vomiting.
- Stomach cramps.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
It may take several months for these medicines to work. If antimalarial treatment doesn't seem to be helping within 6 months, your doctor may recommend that you stop taking it.
Some antimalarial medicines, such as hydroxychloroquine, can cause serious and permanent damage to the retina of the eye. When appropriate doses are given, this is rare. If it is found early, eye damage may be reversed and permanent damage may be prevented. So be sure to have an initial ophthalmic exam before you begin antimalarial therapy. Then have your eyes examined if you notice a change in vision. Your doctor may recommend visits to the ophthalmologist as often as every 3 to 12 months, depending on your vision and your doctor's level of concern about eye disease.
The dose of antimalarial medicine may be adjusted if you have kidney or liver disease.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments. And call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
- Ruiz-Irastorza G, et al. (2010). Clinical efficacy and side effects of antimalarials in systemic lupus erythematosus: A systematic review. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 69(1): 20–28.
- Wofsy D (2005). Therapy of systemic lupus erythematosus. In WJ Koopman, LW Moreland, eds., Arthritis and Allied Conditions: A Textbook of Rheumatology, 15th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1561–1574. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Lockshin MD (2008). Systemic lupus erythematosus. In DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., ACP Medicine, section 15, chap. 4. New York: WebMD.
- Madhok R, Wu O (2009). Systemic lupus erythematosus, search date December 2007. Online version of Clinical Evidence (7).
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Douglas Kennedy and The Big Apple
This new york novelist, whose works have been translated into eighteen languages but has long been controversial in puritanical america, is a pure product of new york, the Big Apple of our earthly paradise.
DOUGLAS KENNEDY ONCE SAID THAT CITIES ARE AS MUCH CHARACTERS IN HIS NOVELS AS THE HUMAN PROTAGONISTS… HIS CITY – NEW YORK – HAS BOTH THE QUALITIES AND THE QUIRKS OF A WRITER. It is verbose, reflective and complicated, unlike its great rival, Los Angeles, which has a more photographic, less word-based culture and could pile an entire library into an hour and a half of film, from the opening sequence to the end credits. Images are always loaded with meaning – they communicate on both a conscious and sub-conscious level. It is true that writing is the freest of the arts – it does not rely on the ever-restrictive senses, but on the imagination and its infinite resources. And an author's inspiration does not need to grapple with marble, a paint pallet, the keys of a piano or an actor's ego. But this very freedom imposes other constraints. Writers are often reproached for their cynicism, because transcribing what they see involves recreating a complicated reality, that is, forming a counterfeit world in such a way as to make it comprehensible, exaggerating features in order to make them clearer. Literature will always produce caricatures, while other disciplines produce either metaphors or selective reproductions. For a long time, Douglas Kennedy was published in eighteen languages, but not in his own country. The old reticence of American publishers towards a successful author, which is all the more surprising in that he writes in English, can undoubtedly be explained by the lack of understanding produced by his subdued Voltaire-like works, which are always ready to ridicule the prevailing bigotry. They are typical of the New York spirit, this over-thinking head of America.
Despite the paradoxical fact that Manhattan has become impoverished as it has grown wealthier, Douglas Kennedy still believes that this is a special, important place. "All the middle classes and the underground and bohemian world that lived here until the end of the last century have moved out to Williamsburg or Hoboken, on the other side of the bridges and tunnels." Manhattan is being modernised, and made banal. But it is still bursting with energy, and people still come here to become journalists, writers or directors. "I think I am more of a New Yorker than an American: my tempo is more like this quick-thinking city with a cutting sense of humour and wild ambition." He is not very happy about seeing it watch Europe over its shoulder to reinforce its sense of superiority. But having lived in Dublin, London, Paris, Berlin and in Maine, he is still surprised how much New York alters the temperaments of its visitors, and forces them to keep their distance, in spite of themselves. He used to tease his Californian friends, saying that Los Angeles was just like New Jersey, only with more sun. "I now have to admit that it has become a more serious and less superficial place – it has cinemas everywhere and some wonderful restaurants that stay open late into the night. It is not just the capital of cinema, but also of television, which has just come into its golden age thanks to the talented screenwriters who live there. Despite Hollywood, though, New York is undoubtedly the more spectacular of these two American cities. It has novelists and poets that it has been celebrating since Melville, it has Broadway music, and it has had a crucial impact on art and especially abstract art... New York doesn't need studios – it is one in its own right."
Since it was founded, New York has been continually reinventing itself, leaving memories of its previous manifestation on the streets each time it sheds its skin. "I can still remember crossing Brooklyn Bridge as a child every Sunday to visit a great aunt who lived in what was not yet considered the upmarket neighbourhood of New York, but a separate town. The neogothic ribs of this structure which literally pierces the city is a sudden return to the beginning of the industrial era. I love bridges, because they are about crossing over, and so have a lot in common with boats. Even the smallest bridges make you feel like you are hovering off the ground, like those in Paris, which offer the most breathtaking views." Douglas Kennedy grew up on the corner of 19th Street and 2nd Avenue, a middle-class neighbourhood not far from Gramercy Park, where some examples of New York's early architecture remain. "It was a fairly wealthy area. My mother even had the habit of exclaiming 'This is Gramercy Park!' about anything that was out of the ordinary for our way of life. At the weekend, my father would take me for lunch at Pete's Tavern, which must date from the time of the War of Independence." The bar here is like an old dandy fixed in stone, leaning on his mahogany stick under the vaulted ceiling of this venerable tar-fronted inn. "He ordered meatballs and spaghetti for a dollar and watched me eat while he drank a pint of beer. I felt like I had entered the world of adults."
Small shops are becoming increasingly rare in New York, as if they were a fossil fuel consumed by this huge postmodern machine. "There are hardly any real record shops left in front of New York City Ballet, or rare bookshops around the Lincoln Center. Strand Bookstore may be the one remaining outstanding bookseller in the city – with its 8 miles of book paradise spread over four floors, and an enormous collection of second-hand books, that are often out of print and sometimes impossible to find." Douglas Kennedy reckons that he completes a screenplay every eighteen months. "But my vocation is as a novelist. I don't really want to become a director – what I would like to do is work with good film-makers, as I did with Patrice Leconte or Olivier Assayas. I love cinema. When I was a teenager, New York was bursting with small independent cinemas, with an eclectic selection of films. They have now almost all gone, except for a handful of them, such as Film Forum. Going there is more than just sitting in a dark room, it's about going out to see a film." When Douglas broke off his relationship with cigarettes fifteen years ago, he really got into coffee. "They say that Balzac downed twenty cups of coffee a day. I drink six or seven espressos a day." He's still a way behind the French genius, but he has Nespresso machines in all his pads, which fuel him with Ristretto Grand Cru. He loves its intensity. "I can't start the day without two of those in the morning. That's what it takes for my world to come to life."
"When I was thirteen, I was quite intellectually conceited (not much has changed). My parents had to buy me a pretty expensive MoMA membership card for my birthday. I used to love the Film Library, it was a magical place to take a girl. But real cinema lovers go to Film Forum to watch one of the city's remaining independent screens. The Village Vanguard is just as theatrical – it remains a legendary jazz club where the shady spirit of its past still hovers. The Strand Bookstore is an island of literary treasures, while the antediluvian shell that is the fossil-like decor of Pete's Tavern is home to what may be the oldest New York inn still standing. Finally, Brooklyn Bridge is New York's most iconic structure (the poet, Hart Crane, dedicated a famous anthology to it, entitled The Bridge)."
1955 - I was born in Manhattan, back when it was still inhabited by the middle classes. It was not yet the trendy Monaco that it is becoming."
1977 - Leaves for Dublin, where he works as a theatre administrator.
1983 - Resigns to focus on writing plays and initially has little success.
1994 - Publication of his first novel The Dead Heart, which is soon adapted for the screen by Stephan Elliott, the director of the unforgettable The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
1997 - International success with his second novel, The Big Picture.
2011 - Publication of The Moment, his eleventh novel.
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Bass fishing enthusiasts will be able to hone their skills with a special series of classes from Volunteer State Community College. Bass Techniques is returning to Vol State after a seven-year break. This year's event, entitled "Bass Techniques: The Cutting Edge", will concentrate on new and proven techniques and will be taught by five of America's top anglers. The classes are held on the following evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.: Wednesday, February 13-Ken Cook, Bassmaster Classic Champion and Bass Hall of Fame inductee. Monday, February 18-Paul Elias, Bassmaster Classic winner and FLW Champion. Wednesday, February 27-George Cochran, Bass Classic winner and FLW Champion. Wednesday, March 6th-Joey Monteleone, well-known Tennessee angler and outdoorsman.
Organizers bill the classes as America's premium and original bass fishing education program. Bass Techniques has been inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame for contributions to education and conservation. The enrollment fee is $99 for the entire four-week course. To enroll, call Vol State Continuing Education at 615-230-3358 or visit the website at
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Take a leaf out of alteil japans books.
Every month on a certain date players get a reward for being a member- premium account.
Not sure exactly want but for usa something like a random 3-4*or some point cards would be nice or a playset of a 2* just as an idea
Also every 6 months they have a bigger reward instead for those who have been a member atleast for the last 2/3 months to stop people just buying a small amount 1 month before.
for usa a random 5*, or playset of a 3* would be nice or 50 pt cards
I feel if you do something like above premium players will be better appreciated.
On top of that japan alteil has a lot more events and free giveaways at that.
edit The every 1 month thing will also incentise people to spend and the every 6 month will incentice higher spending. If implemented reduce premium account time for all accounts to something like 1 year as those memberships are from older companies. As compensation give extra replay slots according to how much longer premium was
Also lots of people want more file file slots- maybe make this purchasable like the theatre or make it 30 or even 50 instead of 20


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I have to agree with a lot of folks: The Juubi does not look good. Sure it's an abomination, the teeth and the bulging eye, pretty grotesque. But it's supposed to be this grand initiator of all things, the 'beginning of all chakra'
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Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today that his office will seek an immediate Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) investigation of nearly 700 missing Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P) bill payments.
"I will seek an immediate DPUC investigation of missing payments for CL&P bills and fight to assure consumers suffer no penalty or harm," Blumenthal said.
"The state must establish as soon as possible how many consumers are affected, how much money is missing and why this oversight happened.
These missing payments reinforce and renew my concerns about CL&P's customer service -- coming in the wake of the company's mishandling of billing errors and meter complaints.
"CL&P customers should check their bank statements to assure their checks were cashed. If they were not, they should contact CL&P to confirm their payment is missing and cancel their check if it is.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Five members of the Denver Broncos were named to the 2013 Pro Bowl, the National Football League announced on Wednesday.
Cornerback Champ Bailey and quarterback Peyton Manning, who are now just two of 10 players in NFL history with 12 selections, are joined by tackle Ryan Clady, defensive end Elvis Dumervil and linebacker Von Miller as the Broncos' representatives for the Pro Bowl.
The league's annual All-Star Game will be played on Sunday, Jan. 27, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu at 5 p.m. MST. The game will be televised nationally on NBC.
In addition to Denver's five selections, six other players were designated as Pro Bowl alternates: wide receiver Demaryius Thomas (1st alternate), guard Chris Kuper (2nd alternate), guard Zane Beadles (3rd alternate), special-teamer David Bruton (3rd alternate), punter Britton Colquitt (3rd alternate) and wide receiver Eric Decker (5th alternate).
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Taylor Swift took the stage on Monday night to perform I Knew You Were Trouble on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013.
But she was able to steal a kiss from One Direction sweetie Harry Styles at the stroke of midnight, a moment caught by this fan photo, which is spreading quickly on the Web.
Earlier in the night, Harry was spotted attending Jay-Z and Coldplay's New Year's Eve Concert at the Barclays Center before heading back to Manhattan to catch Taylor's performance, reports Just Jared.
At the end of the day, Harry and Taylor - or "Haylor," as fans are calling them - were spotted hand-in-hand while entering their hotel.
Meanwhile, 2013 promises to be special for Swift, who loves the number 13. She tweeted on Monday: "There are 13's EVERYWHERE. This is PERFECT."
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This Memorial Day weekend, classic war films will be seen on countless television screens across the country. At the start of Miracle at St. Anna - the startling 2008 film collaboration between writer James McBride (author of KPL's 2005 Reading Together selection The Color of Water) and director Spike Lee – the epic war film The Longest Day runs on a World War II veteran's TV set. This particular vet isn't so gung ho upon seeing John Wayne, though – his own war experience as a member of the U.S. Army's all-black 92nd Infantry Division (aka the Buffalo Soldiers) was much different than any that Hollywood was interested in portraying.
The film flashes back to the veteran's harrowing journey behind enemy lines in war-torn Italy, as he and three fellow Buffalo Soldiers attempt to keep an orphaned boy, the only survivor of a village massacre at the hands of the Nazis, from being discovered. As they travel, not only do the soldiers have to deal with the racist propaganda the enemy uses to distract them (an Axis Sally broadcast during combat, Nazi propaganda posters employing black stereotypes), they still have to endure the explicit prejudice of their commanding officers and, on leave in the deep South, the murderous hatred of ungrateful citizens. In light of all the injustices heaped upon them, their sacrifices at this journey's end seem especially heroic.
Though McBride and Lee turn the conventions of the epic war film inside-out, the look and structure of the film pay homage to many epic war films that came before. Lee is no stranger to epic filmmaking (see Malcolm X and When the Levees Broke), and though this is his first war film, it plays as though he's made a dozen. While the film doesn't glorify combat, it does recognize the unique responsibility of soldiers who put themselves on the line to defend freedoms threatened by force. That some soldiers might have been fighting for freedoms denied to them in their own country is astounding – that rare perspective makes Miracle at St. Anna a war film unlike any other.
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Charlene Knox is this week's Teacher of the Week.
Knox is a teacher in the Helping Us Grow Successfully (HUGS) program at Pitt County Schools. HUGS teachers serve children ages 3-5 who have a diagnosis of autism.
Charlene has been teaching for Pitt County Schools for four years but has worked with individuals with autism for more than 16 years. She received both her Masters degree and Birth-Kindergarten teaching license from ECU. Charlene says working with children with special needs has always been rewarding for her and that she became drawn to this field when her oldest son was born with Down Syndrome.
In addition to teaching children with autism in the school system, Charlene and her husband coach Special Olympics Basketball and Challenger League baseball. She also has another son, who is a great help with those activities.
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Hey Seth, you don't think I've gone overboard creating all those categories on births and deaths do ya? -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 12:38, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks dude!! Happy Thanksgiving by the way!!! -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 20:26, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
Your opinion
Hi, Seth. I was wandering if I could ask your opinion on something. As an Administrator? These past few weeks, I've been working on a proposition to change the Wiki's skin. It's not quite ready yet, but it soon will be. It can be viewed here [1]. What I'd like your opinion on is - is this worth the time and effort I'm putting into it, or am I going to get burned at the stake for suggesting this. Jayden Matthews 21:47, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much. I really appreciate your advice, and will try to remedy the blueness. I'm trying to go for a sort of Horcrux Cave/Potion, Avada Kedavra sort of theme. I'm also working on 3-D versions of the FA DYK headers etc. Jayden Matthews 22:05, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
Young Death EatersHey Seth. I wanted your opinion on something. Do you think it would be OK add this image to Avery, Lestrange and Mulciber? As the main image, that is? We know that they were among those boys, we just don't wich ones are which. Is it OK to add an image of muliple individuals to an infobox? Jayden Matthews 16:48, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
Rose Weasley
Unregistered registrator is on her page saying that she has a son and daughter of Scorpius Malfoy. Just if you want it to know.--Station7 15:30, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Seth. Can I ask - do you have any experiance editing the monaco.css? Jayden Matthews 17:26, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
- Not to worry. I'll persevere. It is starting to drive me slightly insane, though. Jayden Matthews 17:40, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Seth. Can I ask you what you think about this? It's a tangiable link, I know. But, surely it's canon, without contradiction from a higher source. Jayden Matthews 21:34, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
Hello Seth. you seem to be a very knowledgable wizard, i wanted to talk about the death eaters. I am fond of death eaters as a matter of fact i wish to be a death eater. i wanted to know about Professer Snape being a death eater and a half blood prince. how was he a half blood? wouldnt the half blood be harry or Lord Voldermort? harry and Voldemort are half blood arent they? 3 questions a long to know, please visit my talk page and convince me that Snape is a half blood prince.--Darkdove 8 22:20, November 29, 2009 (UTC)TerraClair aka Darkdove 8--Darkdove 8 22:20, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
The death of Tom riddle sr.
You are the one who changed Tom riddle sr. death section of the article saying that in 1942, voldemort was 15 and killed his father, grandfather and grandmother, if Tom riddle sr was killed in 1943, how did voldemort kill him in 42? I was just wondering because I had changed the section to 1943, because Sr had died in 43, but you changed it to 42, could you explain? Ratneer 00:39, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
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thats no problem, I Was just confused lol. --- Ratneer (Owl me) 01:26, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
Your opinon
Could i get your opinon on something?
on the Mafalda Hopkirk page, she is listed as an ally of the death eaters, just because she assists Umbridge does that make her a death eater ally? --- Ratneer (Owl me) 01:42, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
Hey Seth
Seth quick question from my friend and i: Can the Protego Horribilis charm protect from the 3 unforgivable Curses? because the deffinition of the spell says that it protects an area from the darkest of magic.User_Talk: Ravenclawstudent (Owl Me)
Harfang Longbottom's son
In the info box the the Harfang Longbottom's son article, it lists the 7 weasley kids as First Cousins Onced Removed, but in the policy it says no (Once Removed) should be placed in the info box, should they be taken out? Thanks --- Ratneer (Owl me) 22:27, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
Hey seth, Im still editing the jake lambert page, how do i do the biographical box under the photo, I have information on him that i can use. hope you can help, cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Harry4evaneva (talk • contribs).
one more question Seth: wat was the Lumos Spell harry used to light up the Horcrux Cave right when he was attacked by inferi, i heard Lumos but i think the second part was Nacreba? Owl me it's Ravenclawstudent
Red links
Recently, I've been working on cleaning out the Wanted Pages, and I'm almost done. There area a few left in some Users' talk pages and archives, including yours, and I'd like your permission to go in a fix them. If it's simply a misdirected link, I'll fix it, and if it's a deleted article/file/template, I'll either remove the brackets or put "nowiki" around it so it isn't active. If you'd like, when I'm finished I can leave you a full account of any changes I made. Thanks. - Nick O'Demus 17:25, December 3, 2009 (UTC)
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is gilderoy lockhart a good or bad man and if he is bad how is he bad--User:Harryhe User talk:Harryhe 8:57, 3 December 2009 (UTC!) (Owl me!)


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Old Crow Medicine Show takes a Chance
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Every few years, another West Virginia musician makes it to the national stage. This time around, it's Harpers Ferry's Chance McCoy.
A few months ago, the 33-year-old former construction worker and old-time music teacher at Augusta Heritage Center at Davis & Elkins College joined Old Crow Medicine Show, a popular alternative country/Americana string band maybe best known for its song "Wagon Wheel."
The Old Crow Medicine Show began with Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua in Harrisonburg, Va. The band came up in the late 1990s, just as string band music and bluegrass began a resurgence in popular music, which was also about the time when McCoy first heard it.
McCoy began playing music in his teens, but he came to old-time music late.
"I got a guitar from my dad when I was 14 years old," he said.
He played what was popular, which was mostly grunge rock like Pearl Jam and Nirvana, as well as classic rock and punk tunes, but nothing that might be construed as bluegrass, old-time or string band music.
McCoy's father played keyboard in a couple of local rock bands and his grandfather had played the violin in a college orchestra, but he was never exposed to traditional mountain music.
He said, "There's plenty of bluegrass music around, but if your parents don't listen to it, it's something you might not ever hear."
Garage grunge, basement bluegrass
McCoy discovered bluegrass and old-time music in his early 20s through some friends. One Friday, they'd invited him to come down to a speakeasy bar started by a couple of students at Shepherd University.
"I think it was in one of their basements," he said.
On Friday nights, the club would host a fish fry, and the house band would pick around an old metal barrel.
McCoy said, "They sold beers for like a dollar out of a keg they had. It was sort of an illegal bar thing."
He gravitated toward the music, he said. It was new.
"They had a washboard bass, a couple of guitars, a fiddle, a mandolin and a ukulele. It was a real mix of folks down there -- just young people getting together, playing on the music."
They called themselves the Speakeasy Boys and played a little bit of everything, but they weren't especially serious about music for the sake of music.
"It was more about having a good time," McCoy said.
He played with them a while and became interested in the culture and history behind string band and old-time music. He went to a talk at the Harpers Ferry library given by Gerry Milnes, a fiddle instructor and the folk art coordinator at Augusta Heritage Center.
"It was exactly what I was looking for -- somebody who knew something about the music."
McCoy became a student at the center, got to know some of the prominent pickers and players, and then started visiting summer bluegrass and string band festivals.
"I had this old, beat-up 1979 Ford F-15 pickup. It was primer gray," he said. "I'd drive that thing to Clifftop, Vandalia, to Galax and to any little festival going on."
Through the acquaintances he made, McCoy began learning other instruments. With the Speakeasy Boys, he picked up the fiddle. When he met Becky Ledarsky, she taught him how to play banjo.
"I got a really crummy banjo from the Civil War," he said. "I had to refret it, get new tuners and replace many skinheads. It's not a great banjo, but I still love the way it sounds."
Breakout success at festivals
After a few years of just picking and playing, he started competing at festivals.
In 2007, he placed fourth in the fiddle competition at the Appalachian String Band Festival. That same year, he won the under-60 fiddle contest at Vandalia Gathering.
"I took the prize money and bought a dulcimer," he said.
The next year, he recorded his first record, which he still loves, but said it was never about making a living.
"It was never on a record label, never really promoted and I just give it away, but what's cool is people are always discovering it." (The record "Chance McCoy and The Appalachian String Band" is available as a free download at McCoy's website, www.wildhogintheredbrush.com.)
In 2009, he returned to Vandalia and took second place in the fiddle competition. He hadn't specifically planned to enter any other contests, but on his way back from the fiddle competition, he bumped into a friend with a banjo.
"I borrowed his banjo and won a contest."
Then McCoy borrowed a dulcimer from somebody and won that contest too.
"I was on a really lucky streak that day," he said.
Choosing music
But luck didn't pay the bills. When McCoy wasn't playing music, he mostly worked construction jobs. He wasn't even sure he wanted to try making a living as a musician.
"It seemed like a really hard way to make a living."
However, the heavy labor made it hard to play. Often he'd come home nights and his hands would be so sore and swollen that he couldn't make much sense out of his fiddle.
McCoy said, "I just realized at a certain point that if I wanted to play music, I had to become a professional musician or I just wasn't going to get the time I needed to do it. It wasn't that I was attracted to the lifestyle; I just wanted to be a creative person."
He found his way into a couple of bands. He played with Larry Keel for a year, was a founding member of The Woodshedders, and then played with the Lilly Brothers for a while.
He said he'd work those shows in on the weekend, teach music lessons during the week and sometimes fall back on construction and carpentry work to supplement his income.
"I scratched out a bare-bones kind of living," he said. "But I was happy. I wasn't making a lot of money, but I was doing exactly what I wanted to do."
Still, he said, the hours were long. A single father, McCoy said sometimes it felt like he didn't get to spend as much time as he wanted with his 5-year-old son.
"Tuesdays were the worst. I wouldn't get home until midnight."
'Would you like to audition?'
The email that came from Secor, of the Old Crow Medicine Show, arrived completely out of the blue. McCoy said he didn't know any of them.
"They were looking to replace someone who'd left the band. Ketch and Critter had gone to Augusta at some point as students -- when they were teenagers -- and they remembered the old-time music they'd learned there.
"They went to the Augusta website and looked through the teachers."
McCoy had become a teacher for the weeklong workshops held during the summer.
Impressed with his bio on the website, they said, "Hey, would you like to come audition for our band?"
The offer to join the band that followed came at a good time, McCoy said. He'd been struggling for a while, and after a break from having to do construction work, he was starting to fall back into it to help pay the bills.
"Playing with Old Crow Medicine Show is amazing," he said. "It's even better than I could have imagined. They're all incredibly good musicians, and they're into the tradition of old-time music, even though they write new songs.
"There's an amazing sense of camaraderie within the band. It makes the music even better."
It also doesn't hurt that the band provides a stable income, which allows him to pursue some of his own side projects. McCoy just finished a fellowship with One Beat, a U.S. State Department cultural exchange program that puts musicians from around the world together to create, perform and build ties.
According to his website, McCoy will also return to Augusta Heritage Center this week for October Old-Time Week, where he'll be teaching fiddle classes.
McCoy hopes for a long career with Old Crow Medicine Show, but he said he hasn't completely given up playing some of the stuff he started with.
"I'm into a lot of different music. I don't really see them as having boundaries. I think you can rock out playing rock 'n' roll and you can rock out with some bluegrass."
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A fatal accident kills two children in South Georgia...and the driver in this one should not have been behind the wheel.
A 12-year-old girl was driving a truck near Ludowici in Long County, southwest of Savannah, when she lost control of the vehicle.
The truck ran off the road and flipped over, killing the girl who was driving and an 8-year-old passenger.
Three other children, one only two years old, were injured.
Investigators say the truck was owned by the 12-year-old driver's parents, and she was driving it with their permission.
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"The Rains of Castamere" is the ninth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones. It is the twenty-ninth episode of the series overall. It premiered on June 2, 2013. It was written by executive producers David Benioff & D.B. Weiss and directed by David Nutter.
Robb presents himself to Walder Frey, and Edmure meets his bride. Jon faces his harshest test yet. Bran discovers a new gift. Daario and Jorah debate how to take Yunkai. House Frey joins with House Tully.
Across the Narrow Sea
Outside the walls of Yunkai, Daenerys Targaryen and her commanders plan an attack on the city. Her newest captain, Daario Naharis, suggests a plan using a lightly defended back gate, a small group can infiltrate the city and open the main gates for the rest of the army to invade. Though Jorah Mormont is skeptical of both the plan and Daario's loyalty, Daenerys is convinced to try it when she asks Grey Worm if he trusts Daario. Upon being encouraged to speak his mind, he says he does. Daario also touches her on her hand, flirting for her favor to him. As the captains depart, Ser Barristan asks to go along, but Jorah reminds him that a Queensguard's place is at the Queen's side, regardless of his pride.
That night Ser Jorah, Daario, and Grey Worm sneak into the city and fight their way through the slave soldiers guarding Yunkai. There are far more soldiers than Daario anticipated, much to Jorah's irritation, but it seems that the three are evenly matched - barely.
A few hours later, an impatient Daenerys paces in her tent, asking Barristan how long a sacking of a city usually takes. Jorah and Grey Worm finally enter, covered in dust and gore but grinning widely: Yunkai is defeated. Daenerys is elated, but asks after Daario, who is still absent. After a suspenseful pause by Jorah, Daario strides into the room and kneels before the Queen. He presents Yunkai's torn flag and triumphantly says the city is hers.
At the Wall
North of the Wall, Samwell Tarly and Gilly continue their march south, after barely escaping an encounter with a White Walker during which Sam actually managed to kill the creature using a dragonglass dagger. Sam tells Gilly that they are a considerable distance west of Castle Black, but this isn't a problem, because this means they are close to the Nightfort, the original headquarters of the Night's Watch, which was abandoned centuries ago as the organization's numbers dwindled. Sam explains that he plans to get them across the Wall using a secret sally-port which leads right into the Nightfort. Gilly is amazed that Sam knows so much history just from reading books, insisting that he is a wizard (much to Sam's delight) and is awestruck when she finally catches a glimpse of the Wall.
Meanwhile, Bran Stark and his group have passed far enough north that they have left the Seven Kingdoms proper, and entered into the Gift: a stretch of land south of the Wall which was gifted to the Night's Watch thousands of years ago by Brandon the Builder, from which the Watch draws support for its material needs. The Reeds are puzzled, because the Gift possesses good arable land but the countryside is empty. Bran explains, to Osha's discomfort, that wildling attacks coming over or around the Wall caused most of the smallfolk to flee the Gift over the centuries. Meanwhile, the Watch's diminishing numbers mean they don't really need that much support from the Gift anymore, explaining why they haven't encountered any brothers of the Watch working the lands either. Bran's group takes shelter in an abandoned mill to get out of a thunderstorm.
Nearby in the Gift, Jon Snow and the wildling party encounter an old man who lives alone at a small farm where he breeds horses for the Night's Watch. They plan to attack him to steal his horses and gold, but Jon insists that the old man is no threat to them. Orell and Tormund Giantsbane intend to kill the man so as to stop him from alerting the Night's Watch to their presence. However, when the party attacks the farmstead, Jon surreptitiously hits a rock with his sword, alerting the old man who flees; Jon also distracts Ygritte when she tries to shoot the fleeing man with an arrow. While in the mill, Bran and Jojen Reed discuss how they plan to cross the Wall, before Meera spots the old horse breeder riding nearby. After the old man is captured by the wildlings, Hodor — scared by the thunder — begins yelling, which threatens to give away their location to the wildlings. Bran uses his warg abilities to enter Hodor's mind and cause him to pass out.
Outside, Tormund moves to kill the old man, but Orell tells him to have Jon do it instead to prove his loyalty. Jon is ultimately unable to kill the innocent man, and instead Ygritte kills the man with an arrow. Realising that Jon is still loyal to the Night's Watch, Tormund orders his men to kill Jon; Tormund restrains Ygritte to stop her trying to help Jon, and soon after Jon battles with Orell. At the urging of Jojen, Bran enters the mind of Summer, his direwolf, to aid Jon. Summer and Shaggydog kill two wildlings threatening Jon as he battles to the death with Orell and finally kills him. With the last of his strength Orell wargs into the mind of his pet eagle, which swoops down and attacks Jon, clawing him badly about the face before he beats the bird off. Jon then jumps to mount a nearby horse and escapes, leaving Ygritte and heading back to the Wall. That night Bran asks Osha to take Rickon (who if anything happens to Bran or Robb, is heir to Winterfell) to Last Hearth, the home of House Umber, while he, Meera and Jojen head through the Wall in search of the Three-eyed raven. Osha promises to look after Rickon and orders the Reed siblings to do the same with Bran before she, Rickon, and Shaggydog depart in the dead of night.
At the Twins
Robb Stark's army arrives at the Twins, the castle seat of House Frey, for his uncle Edmure's wedding. Enduring Lord Walder Frey's insults directed at him and his wife, Robb makes a public apology to Lord Frey's daughters and granddaughters for breaking his promise to marry one of them. Frey accepts the apology and offers the Starks and their men his hospitality.That night Edmure is introduced to his bride Roslin Frey, discovering much to his relief that she is a beauty. The wedding and the feast that follows it are quite celebratory and lively affairs, with all the participants in high spirits. As the celebrations reach their heights Lord Walder calls for the bedding ceremony. Robb agrees and the bride and groom are carried off to their wedding bed, Roslin carried off by the male guests and followed closely by Edmure, who is collected by the Frey women.
After they leave and the festivities begin to wind down, Catelyn becomes suspicious when she notices Black Walder Frey close the banquet hall doors and the musicians in the gallery begin playing "The Rains of Castamere"- the song commemorating House Lannister's decisive and brutal victory against the rebellious House Reyne of Castamere. Walder rises to make a toast to Robb, and Catelyn, seated beside Lord Roose Bolton, notices that the latter is wearing mail under his clothing. Realising they are in a trap, Catelyn slaps Roose across the face and screams a warning to Robb, but by then it is too late. Lord Walder signals his men to attack. In what becomes known as the infamous Red Wedding, Lothar draws a knife and repeatedly stabs the pregnant Talisa in the stomach, killing her. Before he can react, Robb is shot by the musicians with crossbows several times and falls to the ground. Numerous other Stark men are killed by the crossbow bolts or set upon by Frey soldiers.
Outside, Arya Stark and the Hound, having arrived at the Twins in disguise, are turned away by Frey guards at the time the massacre began. Arya gives Sandor the slip and sneaks past the gate guards, only to witness Frey men kill Stark soldiers and Grey Wind, Robb's direwolf. She makes a desperate run for the castle, only to be stopped by the Hound, who tells her that it is too late and she will get herself killed. When Arya won't stop, Sandor knocks her unconscious before carrying her out of the castle to safety.
Catelyn, having been wounded by a crossbow bolt, crawls across the floor and seizes out from under Walder's table his cowering young wife, Joyeuse. Catelyn holds a knife to the girl's throat and threatens to kill her if Walder does not negotiate an end to the attack. She demands that Robb, who merely lingers despondent and heartbroken beside his wife's corpse, be allowed to leave. Walder refuses her, dismissing his wife with the comment "I'll find another" and Roose Bolton, who had fled the hall when the massacre began, seizes Robb, saying "The Lannisters send their regards", before stabbing him in the heart. Robb's last word is "Mother" and he maintains contact with her as he collapses to the floor. Mad with grief at the death of her firstborn son, Catelyn kills Walder's wife in retaliation before another Frey cuts Catelyn's throat.
- Walda Frey
- Arwaya Frey (first identified)
- Derwa Frey
- Waldra Frey
- Janeya Frey
- Neyela Frey
- Serra Frey
- Sarra Frey
- Marianne Frey
- Freya Frey
- Merry Frey
- Shirei Frey
- Frey guard
- Hog farmer
- Old man
- Wendel Manderly
- Roslin Frey
- Drummer
- Old man
- Orell
- Queen Talisa Stark
- Wendel Manderly
- Grey Wind
- King Robb Stark
- Lady Joyeuse Erenford
- Lady Catelyn Stark
Cast notes
- 11 of 27 cast members for the third season appear in this episode.
- Starring cast members Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth), Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister), Joe Dempsie (Gendry), Stephen Dillane (Stannis Baratheon), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell), Jerome Flynn (Bronn), Aidan Gillen (Petyr Baelish), Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Conleth Hill (Varys), Sibel Kekilli (Shae), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), and Carice van Houten (Melisandre) are not credited and do not appear in this episode.
- The episode is named after The Rains of Castamere, the unofficial "anthem" of House Lannister and Tywin Lannister, which refers to the destruction of House Reyne of Castamere after their rebellion against them. The song was heard in "Blackwater" and "Dark Wings, Dark Words", and its backstory was explained in the previous episode, "Second Sons".
- King's Landing and all of its associated characters and storylines do not appear in this episode, to focus primarily on events at the Twins. As a result, this is actually the first (and so far only) episode that Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) has not appeared in, breaking his previously unbroken record. The episode doesn't exclusively focus on the Twins (the way that "Blackwater" focused exclusively on King's Landing), as the Daenerys, Jon Snow, Bran-Sam, and Arya subplots make short appearances. The Dragonstone and Greyjoy storylines do not appear in this episode.
- There was a two-week break between "Second Sons" and "The Rains of Castamere", due to the Memorial Day holiday on May 26th in the United States. Episode nine of Season 2 aired over Memorial Day took a slight dip in TV ratings, so HBO opted to just take the week off for Season 3.[2]
- Author George R.R. Martin revealed that he was hoping to play one of the casualties at the Twins, but his schedule prevented him from doing so. [3]
- Jojen tells Bran that even the wargs among the wildlings beyond the Wall cannot enter into the minds of humans. This is only partially true: the books explains that it is not so much that they cannot warg into humans, but that they will not. Entering into the mind of other humans is considered to be a heinous abomination. Even so, it is very difficult for even experienced wargs to attempt to enter into the mind of another human (though they rarely if ever try to), and it is considered an impressive display of Bran's power that he is able to do so despite his youth and inexperience (though the person whose mind he entered was feeble-minded).
- Catelyn tells Roose Bolton that there was no bedding ceremony at her wedding because Eddard forbade it, saying he didn't want to have to break a man's jaw for stripping his new bride. The books explicitly state that there was indeed a bedding ceremony at Eddard and Catelyn's wedding (though it's possible that Catelyn is simply lying to Roose in the TV series out of modesty).
- George R.R. Martin found the Red Wedding (which takes place two-thirds of the way through the third volume, A Storm of Swords) to be the most difficult and upsetting scene to write in the first five novels of A Song of Ice and Fire. He wrote the chapters leading up to the wedding and then skipped it, completing the rest of the novel before going back and writing the chapter the event itself takes place in, as he could not face to write it any earlier.
- Note that Hodor reacts with sadness when Bran mentions Old Nan. Hodor is Old Nan's great-grandson and only living relative. Actress Margaret John, who played Old Nan in Season 1, died only two months before Season 1 began to air, though all of her scenes had already been completed. The character does appear during the second book, however, the writers decided to retire the character out of respect instead of recasting the role, thus in the TV series canon she quietly passed away between Seasons 1 and 2.
- This marks the first mention of Jaehaerys I Targaryen, who reigned some two centuries prior to the series. In the books, Jaehaerys II was the father of the Mad King and the son of Aegon V, making Jaehaerys II the nephew of Maester Aemon. Jaehaerys II has been removed from the TV continuity, apparently to simplify the relationship between Daenerys and Maester Aemon. Thus, in "Baelor", Maester Aemon tells Jon that Aerys II was his brother Aegon V's son. Yet if Jaehaerys II was removed from the TV continuity, this would make "Jaehaerys I" the first and only king ever to have that name.
- Dragonstone and King's Landing appear in the opening credits, but not the episode.
- This is the first episode in which the end credits play in total silence.
- This episode was nominated for two 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series.[4] It ultimately did not win.
Memorable Quotes
Walder Frey: "Your Grace, I feel I've been remiss in my duties. I've given you meat and wine and music, but I haven't shown you the hospitality you deserve. My King has married and I owe my new Queen a wedding gift."
Walder Frey: "The King in the North arises."
Catelyn Stark: "On my honor as a Tully, on my honor as a Stark, let him go or I will cut your wife's throat."
Walder Frey: "I'll find another."
Roose Bolton: "The Lannisters send their regards."
Jon Snow: "You were right all along."


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Aldo Leopold timeline
This article is part of the Aldo Leopold Collection.
1887 Aldo Leopold, born in Burlington, Iowa on January 11, eldest of four children of Carl and Clara Leopold.
1904 Attends Lawrenceville School in New Jersey from January 1904 to May, 1905, to prepare for college.
1905 Attends Sheffield Scientific School at Yale (class of 1908).
1906 Begins coursework at Yale Forest School (Master of Forestry, 1909).
1909 Joins U.S. Forest Service (established 1905). First field assignment as assistant on Apache National Forest in southeastern Arizona.
1911 Transferred to Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico as deputy supervisor, then supervisor. Founds and edits Carson Pine Cone, a U.S. Forest Service newsletter.
1912 Marries Estella Bergere of Santa Fe on October 9. Five children: Starker, 1913; Luna, 1915; Nina, 1917; Carl, 1919; Estella, 1927.
1914 Assigned to district headquarters in Albuquerque in office of grazing, then in 1915 placed in charge of new work on recreation, game and fish, and publicity.
1915 Helps found game protective associations throughout the Southwest, including the Albuquerque Game Protective Association, now known as the New Mexico Wildlife Federation.
1918 Leaves the Forest Service to accept a full-time position as secretary of the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce
1919 Rejoins the Forest Service as assistant district administrator, with responsibility for business organization, personnel, finance, roads and trails, and fire control for the twenty million acres of national forests in the Southwest.
1922 Submits formal proposal for administration of Gila National Forest as a wilderness area (administratively designated by Forest Service on June 3, 1924).
1923 Completes Watershed Handbook, synthesizing insights from inspection tours of national forests around the Southwest.
1924 Accepts transfer to U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin as assistant (later associate) director.
1928 Leaves Forest Service Products Laboratory and Forest Service to conduct game surveys of Midwestern states as a private consultant.
1933 Textbook Game Management published in May, and Leopold delivers "The Conservation Ethic" for the John Wesley Powell Lecture at the annual meeting of the Southwest division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In July, accepts appointment to a new chair of game management in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Wisconsin.
1934 In October, accepts an invitation from Robert Marshall to become a founding member of The Wilderness Society.
1935 In April, acquires the Wisconsin River farm (the shack) that would be the setting for many of the essays in A Sand County Almanac. During the fall, he travels to Germany through a fellowship program to study forestry and wildlife management
1936 In September, makes the first of two pack trips to the Rio Gavilan in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1939 Becomes chair of a new Department of Wildlife Management at the University of Wisconsin.
1941 Develops initial plans for a volume of ecological essays.
1947 In December, submits revised book manuscript titled "Great Possessions" to Oxford University Press (OUP), which notifies him of acceptance on April 14, 1948.
1948 Stricken by heart attack and dies on April 21 while helping to fight a grass fire on a neighbor's farm near the Shack. Burial in Burlington, Iowa.
1949 "Great Possessions" final editing overseen by Leopold's son Luna B. Leopold. The manuscript is published primarily as Leopold left it, though it is published under a new title - A Sand County Almanac.
1953 OUP issues excerpts from Leopold's hunting journals and other manuscripts, edited by Luna B. Leopold, in Round River.
1966 OUP issues a new version of A Sand County Almanac, re-organized with essays from Round River (A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation From Round River ).
1968 OUP issues the classic 1949 version of A Sand County Almanac in paperback for the first time.
1970 Sierra Club/Ballantine Books issues OUP's 1966 hardcover A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation From Round River in paperback.
1974 Thinking Like A Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves and Forests, the first book-length scholarship about Aldo Leopold's life, is published.
1978 Posthumously honored with the John Burroughs Medal, awarded for distinguished books of natural history.
1982 The five children of Aldo and Estella Leopold establish the Aldo Leopold Foundation in response to growing interest in their father's legacy and to support long-term conservation efforts at the Leopold shack and farm.
2004 Governor James Doyle signs legislation making the first weekend in March Aldo Leopold Weekend across Wisconsin.
This timeline is adapted by the Aldo Leopold Foundation from a chronology written by Leopold biographer Susan Flader and published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold. Posthumous events have been summarized by the Aldo Leopold Foundation.


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Habitat fragmentation
Central Namibian habitat fragmented by roads
and urbanisation. Source: C.Michael Hogan
Habitat fragmentation involves alteration of habitat resulting in spatial separation of habitat units from a previous state of greater continuity.
|Figure 1. Aerial photograph of dry forest scrub in southern Zambia, fragmented by agricultural land conversion. 2008. Source: C.Michael Hogan
This phenomenon occurs naturally on a geologic time-scale or in unusual and catastrophic events: however, since the Holocene era, humans have produced dramatic and swift transformation of landscapes throughout the world, resulting in a level of habitat fragmentation that has induced worldwide reduction in biodiversity and interuption of sustainable yields of natural resources.
Humans produce habitat fragmentation chiefly from agricultural land conversion, urbanization, pollution, deforestation and introduction of alien species; ironically, both human caused wildfires as well as the systematic practice of fire suppression can also create habitat fragmentation. Prior to the dominance of mankind, long term changes engendered by geologic processes or climate oscillations contributed to habitat fragmentation.
Geometric factors
|Figure 2. The Great Wall of China has existed for two millennia as one of the largest man-made habitat fragmentation constructs. Source: C.Michael Hogan
Habitat fragmentation can manifest in an endless array of geometries, depending on the shape and extent of the separation zone.
It is important to note that the separation distance required for effecting fragmentation may vary considerably depending upon the dynamics of reproduction of key species involved. These factors include such spatially related parameters as distance typically traveled for faunal mating, seed dispersal radii, seasonal migration patterns and diurnal faunal foraging. In general, the smallest of these characteristic distances must be regarded as the controlling factor in order to respect the integrity of the ecosystem.
There is a sizeable suite of geometric measures that can be useful in describing the patch geometry of a fragmented habitat[1]; some of these major factors are patch area, number of patches, ratio of patch size distribution and the patch edge length to area ratio. Fundamentally, the risk of extinction from habitat fragmentation generally increases with terrestrial animal size, since home range and migration needs are largest; however, small terrestrial fauna and plants with compact seed dispersal patterns are vulnerable to very small separations of habitat patches.
Natural processes of fragmentation
|Figure 3. Colorado River viewed from Dead Horse Point, Utah. The canyon depth here is approximately 600 meters, where the river has gradually cut a wide separation of the original continuous habitat of the Colorado Plateau. Source: C. Michael Hogan
The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation. Each of these actions has the potential to create irreversible effective isolation of previously connected habitat units; note that, for example, climate oscillations or minor glacial advances lasting only a few centuries have a reasonable probability that the landscape will revert, since mass extinctions are not necessarily produced from natural oscillatory functions having an effective time scale this small, especially since regional refugia can mitigate losses of such scale.
Major glacial advances may have taken tens or hundreds of thousands of years, such that the resulting habitat fragmentation is likely to have translated into new speciation as well as extinction of populations that were driven below minimum viable population size. One notable example of long timescale fragmentation on a large scale is the Andean uplift in the Amazon Basin. In this pre-Pleistocene epoch topographic change occurred so slowly that the uplift engendered further speciation and actually enhanced biodiversity.[2]
Biodiversity implications
Habitat fragmentation is a significant cause of biodiversity destruction.[3] Research has demonstrated that fragmentation characteristically reduces species richness and taxon diversity, and may reduce the efficacy of ecosystem functioning. Fragmentation not only reduces the amount of functional habitat, but it may isolate a species population into subpopulations, that may be sufficiently near the minimum viable population size to risk local extinction from successive demographic processes or catastrophic events. The mechanics of these impacts often relate to the alteration of relationships among species. In some cases the population of certain species may actually increase within the fragmented habitat complex; however, these few increases are typically already dominant or keystone species, and such increases are usually at the expense of reducing populations of (if not elimination of) other species. With an original habitat becoming fragmented, some species have insufficient dispersal robustness to travel among the fragmented patches. In these cases such taxa may suffer from genetic drift or inbreeding due to restricted gene flow, and may have difficulty in re-colonizing[4] or rescuing a subpopulation from local extirpation. Even if a given species has dispersal strength, it may suffer from insufficient dispersal and survival of taxa with which it interacts.
Considerable research has been conducted on species impacts to vertebrates, being macroscopically observable in the landscape, and on flora, since they are somewhat stationary whilst being analyzed. Notably there is a lack of data on arthropods, which comprise most of the extant biomass of our planet. Furthermore, the position of arthropods within an ecosystem place them in a role of considerable influence on the entirety of ecosystem services. Conservation biologists have developed the concept of habitat corridors as partial mitigation for the adverse impacts of habitat fragmentation.
The adverse biodiversity impacts can be extended in time consequence. For, example Lovejoy and Hannah note that the massive pre-1850 New Zealand and Australian deforestation by aborigines and Europeans continues to express and magnify its adverse manifestation on the landscape.[5] The same authors make the interesting conjecture that the presently extant species which have successfully survived the dramatic climate fluctuations of the Quaternary (with attendant large swings in species populations) may be somewhat immunized to future climate oscillations.
One of the most widely studied examples of habitat fragmentation is in the Central Amazon Conservation Complex of Brazil, where a number of controlled studies were conducted in the 1980s. Due to pressures of an expanding human population and associated economic pressures, the Brazilian government embarked on a permissive policy of systematic and large scale forest destruction. In one study north of Manaus these residual patches were variously created in one, ten and 100 hectare sizes.[6] Resident bird species, both frugivores and insectivores, were studied over a seven year period post-clearing. Results showed that bird densities declined in residual patches, with the smaller patches suffering the greatest species loss, even though initial response of small patches showed fewer initial losses as measured by bird density. An even larger long time scale loss of species richness was evident from the century long trend of deforestation in the area, since many of the plots cleared from 100 years ago were enjoying no economic use, but did not effectively rebound with complete forest cover; in a certain number of cases reasonable regrowth of secondary forest occurred. The conclusion drawn is that the ecological damage from long term deforestation and resulting habitat fragmentation has been disproportionately related to the actual economic taking of forest.
Two classical examples of habitat fragmentation from the continent of Asia. A-B. The Himalayas and C-D. The Sunderbans have been massively impacted due to habitat fragmentation both due to natural geological causes as well anthropogenic factors severely interfering into the life cycle of local flora and fauna. Source: Saikat Basu, own work
A small scale example of grassland fragmentation has yielded considerable evidence of biodiversity change. While dominant grass species were not severely altered, there were significant changes in arthropod and other faunal characteristics.[7] The target location were calcareous grasslands in central Europe, that are high in species richness. This class of European grasslands often include considerable hectarage that have been partially cultivated by humans, are which are, in fact, effective refugia for grass and forb taxa that might otherwise have become extinct. Ongoing threats to further fragmentation are over-fertilisation and ironically reforestation and abandonment. That is to say, these human induced constructs contain many species that are now dependent on man's continued tending as these units co-evolved with the advent of agriculture in the early Holocene. Braschler found that butterfly species richness declined in the face of habitat fragmentation. While populations of certain dominant ant species (notably Lasius paralienus) as well as certain aphid taxa increased, these increases came at the expense of population losses of numerous rarer taxa. The implications of abetting an already dominant arthropod taxon at the diminution of a plethora of other species suggests adverse impacts of habitat fragmentation upon biodiversity..
The Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River represents the largest scale anthropomorphic intrusion into freshwater habitat in history. This aquatic barrier is a threat to the survival of numerous fish species and other aquatic biota. Besides the obvious impact to migratory species that utilize river reaches above and below the dam, there are extensive impacts to turbidity and hydrological characteristics that alter the natural habitat of hundreds of species.[8] There were 162 endemic fish species recorded prior to dam development, 44 of which are endemic to the Yangtze Basin. Severing the upstream and downstream portions of the river by dam construction is expected to threaten the survival of 20 fish species, with six of them having a high probability of extinction. In addition to severing the aquatic habitat, the dam construction also severs the riparian zone on both sides of the river with dam anchorages and other industrial infrastructure, leading to fragmentation of that terrestrial habitat.
- ^Virginia H. Dale and Scott Pearson. 1997. Quantifying Habitat Fragmentation Due to Land Use Change in Amazonia. In "Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities", eds William F. Laurance, Richard O. Bierregaard, University of Chicago Press, 1997 ISBN: 0226468992
- ^J.L. Patton, M.N.F. Da Silva and J.R. Malcolm. 2000. Mammals of the Rio Jurua and the evolutionary and ecological diversication of Amazonia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 244
- ^D. Simberloff. 2000. What do we really know about habitat fragmentation. Tex. J. Sci. 52 (Suppl.):5-22
- ^A. Kruess and T. Tscharntke. 1994. Habitat fragmentation, species loss and biological control, Science 264:1581-1584
- ^Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Jay Hannah. Climate Change and Biodiversity,Yale University Press, 2006 ISBN: 0300119801
- ^Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr. and Philip C. Stouffer. 1997. Understory Birds and Dynamic Habitat Mosaics in Amazonian Rainforests. In "Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities", eds William F. Laurance, Richard O. Bierregaard, University of Chicago Press, 1997 ISBN: 0226468992
- ^Brigitte Michele Braschler. 2005. Effects of experimental small-scale grassland fragmentation on the population dynamics of invertebrates. Doctoral Dissertation. Universitat Basel
- ^Young-Seuk Park, Jianbo Chang, Sovan Lek, Wenxuan Cao and Sebastien Brosse. 2003. Conservation Strategies for Endemic Fish Species Threatened by the Three Gorges Dam, Interscience-Wiley


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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Cool Dudes Cool Frames
A great pair of shades look cool no matter how old you are. Don't be afraid to bring back an eye wear trend, as long as you wear it with confidence, like the guys above.
Posted by Ari at 12:33 AM
6 comments:
- Mordechai said...
great title for a great posting, just cool dudes. not hip cats or funny frames
- June 18, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- Stephanie C. said...
those yellow wayfarers, so cheeky and cool!
- June 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Alexandra said...
Is it me or is that second fellow (yellow frames) kind of hot? haha! Whoot!
Awsome blog, what a great idea!
- June 19, 2009 at 5:36 PM
- Rosina said...
Now the dude in the yellow frames, second one down looks like my kinda guy! What a FABULOUS blog this is. I recently included a mention of the most wonderful lady in her 80s who dresses to kill every day of her life. Your blog is a true inspiration and a whole lotta fun!
- July 2, 2009 at 8:25 PM
- Rosina said...
LOL, well, I should have read the post from Alexandra... Looks like I'm not the only one who thinks the guy in the yellow is rather yummy!
- July 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Patty Skypants said...
Again, I'm in LOVE! xxoo P
- August 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM
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We've had quite an influx of new users in the past week, and where there are BEGINNERS, there are BEGINNERS' PACKS. Beginners' packs are cheap card packs that give you a lot of new cards and multiple copies of each, an easy, efficient choice for your first purchase. It's 45 cards for 500 gran, that's almost as cheap as the lottery, except you're going to get 2-3 copies of each card! I'll put them up tomorrow morning, and post the contents. (Although it will be nearly identical to the last one.)
Beginner's Pack Card List:
Elite Folrart Acolyte
Blessed Armor Knight
Folrart Guardian
Novice Folrart Acolyte
Priest of the Holy Word
Over Soul
Magic Bolt
Skeleton Warrior
Lycanthrope [Legion]
Broken Priest
Night Soul
Crest Halberd Soldier
Flesh Recycle
Exchange of Souls
Rifleman Knight
Man-eating Tiger
Devouring Lizard
Gaia Gem Monk
Blitz Soldier
Ball of Flame
Boulder Drop
Carrier [Singer of Friendship]
Sea Claw
Rapidly Flying Apprentice
Giant Ancient Tortoise
Mermaid Archer
Deep Sleep
Lost Tome


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Hundreds of FSCJ students who were told they were erroneously awarded federal financial aid are now off the hook for repaying that money.
Tuesday, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to retire debt owed by students related to ineligible federal financial aid awards.
As of September, FSCJ said an audit had uncovered that there were about 1600 invalid appeals, students who were given federal financial aid despite not providing proper documentation. FSCJ said it resulted in overpayments of $4.2 million in Pell Grants and $0.8 million in ineligible loans. It's money many students said they shouldn't have to pay back.
Randy Durden, a Culinary Arts student, formed a Facebook Group and anonline petition to hold FSCJ responsible.
He was told about a month ago that he had to repay about $1600 in Pell Grant money. Tuesday night he was elated to learn that debt has been erased.
"The decision was to retire the debt from all of the studentswho were falsely given these Pell Grants, so pretty much anybody who has actual money owed from the Pell Grant no longer owes that money to the school," explained Durden. "I'm excited and happy that something I actually started on behalf of all of these students actually went through without getting nasty."
FSCJ said students will be notified in writing. The college also said the funds that will be used to cover the debt come from existing $6.5 million quasi-endowment funds accumulated from auxiliary operations like vending machines and book bookstores. The money willnot comefrom taxpayer funds or student tuition and fees according to FSCJ.


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