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Man, very very very big thank you for this guide i got badge, that i want to get for about two years. Thank you
Black Magic and Pacifist
Black Magic
To achieve the Black Magic achievement, you must defeat Clemons the Deceiver, the final boss in the third zone, alone for the first time (you can't go back and defeat him). There are three parts to the battle. The first involves Clemons casting Unknown Condition, which is retrograde for a long period of time. This move is very dangerous because he can cast it multiple times, and it is an automatic attack. The next part is where he stops casting unknown condition and starts casting abilities like Collapse and Nightmare Over. This is also very dangerous. Finally, he heals, taking 200% more damage but also casting Disrupt, which drains 100 focus from you but allows you to regain 30 focus over time. This guide details how to achieve this with all three classes.
It is tough to beat Clemons Psychologically unless you use a special trick
You need:
2/2 Subversion – reverses damage and healing for 1 turn.
1/1 Overdrive – Doubles damage over time and healing over time effects, but you lose 10% of your health each turn.
4/4 High Voltage – Attacks for 300% instinct and causes the target to receive 50% more healing and receive and deal 20% more damage from all sources. Lightning defense lowered 10%
3/3 Shock Coma – Stuns the target, but they heal 12% of their maximum health for 4 rounds.
2/2 Traumatize – Stuns the target, causing them to receive 50% less damage for 2 rounds.
Dark Infusion (Passive ability)
Spend your ability points in speed and some vitality.
1 Subversion
2 Shock Coma
2 High Voltage
2 Traumatize
1 Dark Infusion
The combo is: Traumatize, High Voltage, High Voltage, Shock Coma, Shock Coma, High Voltage, Subversion… and you WIN! We just traumatize him once, and in the six-move combo, he will cast Unknown Condition on you, causing you to heal instead of take damage. If all the High Voltages hit, he will kill himself for 120% of his maximum health … BLACK MAGIC!
Hydraulics have two abilities that are useful against Clemons. These are Flash Freeze and Mind Freeze. The first stuns; the other prevents the opponent from using moves that require focus. They're both very effective against Clemons, because his non-focused attack will cause you to heal when he has Unknown Condition on you; plus, he can't cast any of his nasty shadow abilities.
You will need:
4/4 Mind Freeze – Attacks for 200% instinct and 25% of strength. Prevents the opponent from using focus for 3 turns
4/4 Flash Freeze – Attacks for 200% instinct and 25% of strength. Stuns the opponent for 2 rounds.
4/4 Ice Wall – Decreases damage received and taken by 75%, but increases healing received by 160%.
3/3 Restore – Heals yourself for 250% of your Instinct and Strength and dispels 3 negative effects.
Vapour Cannon (default)
2 Mind Freeze
2 Flash Freeze
1 Ice Wall
2 Restore
1 Vapour Cannon
The combo here is:
(you get unknown condition cast on you), Mind Freeze, Vapour Cannon, Vapour Cannon, Flash Freeze, Vapour Cannon, Vapour Cannon, Repeat. Do so until he says "I can see right through you" or stops casting Unknown Condition. Then, the combo changes to:
Flash Freeze, Vapour Cannon, Flash Freeze, Vapour Cannon, Mind Freeze, Ice Wall, Restore, Mind Freeze, Restore, Vapour Cannon, repeat.
This will be the combo until Clemons dies. Easy, but takes a while.
Finally, Biological:
You will need:
2/2 Disrupt – drains 100 focus from enemy or teammate and dispels 1 positive effect, but causes it to regain 30 focus over time.
3/3 Reform – heal 65% maximum health
2/4 Integrity – Recover 15 focus and 1% maximum health
4/4 Vicious Strike – 140% speed + 140% str. and heals 3% max health per turn for 3 turns.
4/4 Shadow Blend – 5x speed
3 Disrupt
2 Reform
1 Shadow Blend
2 Vicious Strike
Split your points between Vitality and Speed.
First, what you got to do is repeatedly Disrupt Clemons so that he has to attack using his physical attack. Disrupt, Disrupt, Disrupt, Shadow Blend, Vicious Strike, Vicious Strike, Disrupt, etc. Try to get him down to the next stage as soon as possible so you can start using Reform. Try to ration your Reforms so that you don't end up in a tough position with no Reforms. Use the Shadow Blend / Vicious Strike combo to cut down his health little by little. It'll be a long battle. Just watch out for his Disrupt near the end. Try to have a Shadow Blend ready in case this happens. If you're having trouble, try replacing reform with Crystallize / Toxicant Form.
To achieve Pacifist, you must not deal more than 2000 cumulative damage through the entire fight. This means that you must not hit them for 200 damage 11 times, for instance. You must rely entirely on your teammates.
You will need:
4/4 Dead Man's Plea – increases Damage and Healing done by your comrade both by 50% for 6 rounds (excellent here).
4/4 Ice Wall – Decreases damage received and damage done by this unit 75% for the next 3 rounds, and increasing healing received 160%
3/3 Restore – Heals a team member 250% of your Strength and Instinct and dispels 3 negative effects
1/1 Guardian Form – Increases Instinct by 30% for 6 rounds and decreases damage taken by 30% for several rounds.
4/4 Cold Neurology – Decreases maximum focus by 40 but decreases damage taken by 20%
Extra points go to Stiff Upper Lip
Pour your points into Vitality and Instinct in a 50:50 ratio. Use armor that offers high Vitality, Instinct, and Strength, and equip Roald and Veradux with the best Strength armor possible (A Sun-Struck Horrors and Black Ops/Poison Armor would be helpful for Roald, the Spark Armor and Poison Armor for Veradux for the Lightning Piercing and Strength/Vitality combo, Shandor's Darkstaff for you if you got it).
2 Dead Man's Plea
2 Ice Wall
3 Restore
1 Guardian Form
Use Dead Man's Plea on Veradux and Roald as much as possible.
When someone is running low on health, Ice Wall them, then restore them immediately later.
Keep Roald on Relentless the whole fight.
Keep Veradux on Balanced. His lightning attack can do almost 2000 damage. If you get stunned when the Hydra does his stunning ability, then put Veradux on Defensive.
You will need:
3/3 Crystallize – Stuns opponent for four rounds
4/4 Integrity – Heals 3% max health per turn and restores 25 focus per turn.
3/3 Reform – Heals a team member or yourself for 65% of your maximum health. Also gives them Stem Cells, granting them focus and health regeneration for a short time.
4/4 Shadow Blend – Increases a units speed 400%
4/4 Adrenaline – Increases unit's strength by 25% and increases healing taken 40%
Ability Bar
2 Crystallize
3 Reform
1 Animalism
2 Adrenaline
First, Crystallize the Hydra and the bottom Fire Claw. Set Veradux and Roald to Relentless. Heal them when necessary. Put Adrenaline and Animalism on them so that they will be better at attacking (it increases their strength and instinct and Adrenaline cancels Animalism's healing reduction). Once they are finished with him, keep the Hydra stunned 24/7 while they attack the bottom Fire Claw. Then, go for the Hydra. It will be a long battle, but you will come out on top.
Use the Dark Build described above, but DO NOT MAX OUT HIGH VOLTAGE. We don't want to deal damage, just use the buff. Also get 4/4 Free Will to guard. Spend skill points in Vitality and Speed(put NONE in Instinct).
You should have:
4/4 Free Will
4/4 Salvation
4/4 Destruction
2/5 Tenacity
1/4 High Voltage
3/3 Shock Coma
2/2 Retrograde
1/1 Overdrive
You should have
1 Retrograde
2 Shock Coma
2 High Voltage
1 Destruction
1 Salvation
1 Free Will
First, you must use the combo (see Clemons fight) on the Hydra, once he's down, you'll have 55 focus. Cast Destruction on Roald and Salvation on Veradux, then Free Will on the person with the least health, then Shock Coma yourself. It helps you regain focus. Your friends will take care of the rest, you're just there to issue the once-in-a-while Destruction and Salvation. The Fire Claws have terrible attacks. Good luck!
Cheers mate, really useful guide, couple of battles I found much harder than you seemed to (warden), but then again I also found zone 5 pretty easy (maby lucky?).
Only thing Id like to know, what is better for folicity, speed or strength, cause I have tried both, although not conclusively, and they seem to increase her power the same.
Anyway thanks for the guide, got my first impossible Kongregate achievment cause of it!
There seems to be a lot of luck with the difficulty of certain battles. I have found that there is a lot of luck especially with the City Council – sometimes I have a lot of difficulty; other times, not so much.
About Felicity, I am not sure about speed or strength, but if they are equal components to her attacks, then speed is more effective because it also offers a higher crit. chance. Will be looking into it…
Maybe I'll make an in-depth teammate guide that offers the best armor options for everybody as well (divided by zone) as a breakdown for each of the teammates.
Okay, I figured out the formulas for each of the teammates
For Veradux
Leading Strike – attacks for 175% strength and recovers 35 focus
Healing Move costs 15 focus – heals a friendly unit for 500% instinct and 100% strength.
Electro Bolt costs 20 focus – attacks for 280% strength and 80% instinct and attempts to dispel 1 buff from the opponent.
For Roald
Greater Purpose – Heals for 100% Strength and causes the unit to receive 40% less damage and take 40% more healing.
Impair 15 focus – attacks for 150% strength and causes target to receive 10% more damage from all sources for the next 12 turns.
Fire attack 20 focus – attacks for 300% of his strength and has a chance to stun the opponent (not sure how high the chance is).
Silence – attacks for 300% of his strength and prevents opponent from using moves that require focus.
Leading Strike – attacks for 200% strength and recovers 35 focus.
Slash 40 focus – 160% strength and 160% speed. Causes target to receive 10% less healing.
Stunning Move (it is not break) – attacks for 300% of her strength and has a chance to stun the target.
Silence – attacks for 300% of her strength and prevents the target from using moves that require focus for 2 turns.
Knife – attacks for 300% of strength and causes target's speed to be reduced by 50% and lose 10 focus per turn for 3 turns.
Planned Assault – attacks for 270% strength and causes target to lose health equal to 60% of the unit's strength for 3 turns.
Leading Strike – attacks for 170% strength and recovers 50 focus.
Blade dance – not sure, but scales with the target's speed, not Felicity's according to what I've read.
wow, a helpful set of data! I wonder about that 20% speed you speak of in Planned Assault, it might just be 250% strength. Note that most things altering speed only also have a bit of physical piercing, which also enter play as "non-critical hits deal X% more damage".
I used the Velocious (I think that's the high speed) armor in Z7 for Felicity and something from The Judge (she also has high-speed armor), and none of her armor had physical piercing (and unlike in the original Sonny, speed does not factor into base damage % increase, only critical strike chance), and even though she was landing more critical hits, she also was dealing less damage, even with critical hits. Because most armor focuses on only one stat, such as just strength or just speed, it makes abilities like slash much less valuable than Silence, Knife, or her stunning move.
hmm, you have lots of experience with Sonny 2, so you're probably right. It just looks weird, having a move with that wide range of stat dependance (245 and 20 percent) – it's mostly half-and-half, or one is scaled while the other stands the same, like cold hydro's offensive moves.
I'm sorry, I had miscalculated… Planned Assault is 270% strength.
Wtf you know all my tricks.
hee hee, you should know there are more people than yourself who can dig into the depth of Sonny 2…
EMD blade is awsome for psycho.It has +5 instinct,which is a high boost for psycho at level 4
Originally posted by kashuushian1542:EMD blade is awsome for psycho.It has +5 instinct,which is a high boost for psycho at level 4
This build does not require you to re-spec, so feel free to purchase whatever you want from the shop.
It is designed for the electric psychological build early in the game, but I don't think it's that necessary.
I consider if it's possible to do a "naked" legend run as any of the classes. This means, Sonny is allowed weapons only (or even nothing, might be worthy if weapons-only is passable), otherwise he should run in his green skin only. I believe one could do if one goes all vit and play as controller, elongating the battle to make teammates actually do some damage. Of course, in order to survive you'll have to put main set of your attribute points in vitality, resulting in pitiful damage even if you land a full ComboX :) but this might also be the source of fun, since you will finally make your allies the main damage dealers.
Psychological – Traumatize, Shock Coma, Salvation (and maybe Destruction). Keep two opponents stunned while your teammates kill the third. Tenacity and Electric Storm are necessary as well. Veradux needs high-instinct armor.
For Hydraulic, if you can make it past the Knight, Mage x2 battle, then you can use the Subversion, Ice Wall tactic –
Cold Neurology maxed
Ice Wall x2
Ice Wall, FF (if an opponent can stun), Ice Wall, MF (on the opponent that can stun), Subversion, repeat. This build is very useful against the specialist + dogs in Z5 for hydraulic because the blood Hounds kill themselves
There is also a way to "combine classes" using a glitch in the game. I assume this is not "legal" for this legend run, but because you can, here are two builds that are incredibly strong using this tactic:
Psych + Hydro
You will need Cold Neurology and Ultimatum – you won't take any damage for 20 turns. When this runs out, use Ice Wall and Free Will + Terrify and Subversion when Ice Wall runs out
Psycho + Bio
The new "ComboX" here is Insecurity, Wraith Form, Toxicant Form, Shadow Blend, Dark Echoes, and Withdrawal.
Possibly, you could use the Dark Damage-over-time build (using Epiphany, Insecurity, and Implosion), and combine it with the Hot Hydraulic Damage Over Time increase and possibly Biological's Withdrawal and Mutant Glands or Wound (because of the damage increase) and Integrity (because the 3% heal cancels some of the effects from Overdrive)
Or you could combine Traumatize, Flash Freeze, Crystallize, and Shock Coma for the stunning build.
a glitch to combine classes??? faints
yes, the main trouble will be reaching level 12, then you have crystallize or maxed coma. So if one will reach and defeat M+K+M, the game is basically won. Hm-m. And for hydro you need level 4 ice wall plus level 3 cold neurology (that's level 10, reachable IIRC at the previous battle – that's 105% damage reduction total. And you can do M+K+P with plain icewalling the mage and whacking at the priest.
if speaking about cross-class builds, you get traumatize+FF, you're done :) just don't forget to replenish focus with vapour (built-in hydro attack). No single enemy can withstand an active stun. But really that's sure cheating and I think these are illegal.
And yes, bio+hydro = lasting pain plus full poison plus Demolish plus whatever else – much pain to all enemies, that'll be real fun…
Sigh those mages in area 2 are annoying.Roald vs Mage
Roald gets blasted down to 600 HP
Mage gets damaged down to 200 HP
Mage Mega-heals
Mage gets damaged to 1500 HP
Roald gets damaged down to 200 HP
Mage gets damaged down to 1400 HP
Roald Dies
Kashuushian, you should Traumatize the Priest first and go for the Knight, not the mage in the battle with the priest.
For the Knight + Magex2 battle, Traumatize the top Priest, putting Roald on Agressive unless if someone has Doom, in which case you put him on defensive. Make sure to have Salvation 3/4 so that Veradux is still healing enough when you have Doom on. Before they go into Energy Phase, put a Traumatize in to buy some time with damage. Hope you get it soon.
i finally beat knight+2x mage :P
Energy phase almost insta-killed one of the mages when i was in wraith-form and attacked him :D
the baron is obviously stupid…he cast holy scars on himself then deep burning,which did 67000 damage to him :D
It's even better when he hits himself with Dark Echoes with Holy Scars AND Deep Burning.
The 2x armored hounds and 1x ZPCI it pretty hard.Those hounds can strike hard,both to you and your focus[they did the focus thing 5 times in a row to me! 5 Times!]But once you take 1 of them out they fall apart.Sadly by the time i achieved that veradux was almost dead and he died the next turn,which killed me and roald
Make sure that Roald has the least health in your group if you're having trouble – the Armored Hounds will buy you some time allowing you to take the top one out. If you're going to traumatize anyone, traumatize the ZPCI Elite – he hits really hard and it's nice to get him to use Auxiliary Power before you really start attacking him.
Originally posted by einfach:Make sure that Roald has the least health in your group if you're having trouble – the Armored Hounds will buy you some time allowing you to take the top one out. If you're going to traumatize anyone, traumatize the ZPCI Elite – he hits really hard and it's nice to get him to use Auxiliary Power before you really start attacking him.
i just beat it.But yeah,i set roald up with 55 vitality,and both me and veradux with 62.By the time roald died[veradux kept healing him] the last hound was almost dead,and me and vera beat the ZPCI elite easily[the entire time vera was on relentless]
Plus,i got the artic version on the visor.
By the way,what goes best with Roald?The Runeblade,or his first weapon?do the piercing really matter?
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Set 1 immediately gets on my good side with a sweet 2001; Trey cranks out some nastiness in the first half, and lays back in the 2nd half so Mike can play some burbling notes. The band then knocks out a few "song" songs, all well-played to be sure, before we get to the next big highlight - a Gin that carefully makes its way into a "Classic Gin" upbeat jam that doesn't quite reach the hallowed heights of 7/29/98 or the Went but still features some joyfully sweet Trey soloing and is worth the listen for those that enjoy "bliss" jamming. I also like the Sand in this set; the band hadn't quite developed the lockstep groove of even three months later, so the jam is a bit looser and therefore more interesting to my ears, kind of like what they did with Antelope in the late 90s. So that's a thumbs-up first set right there.
Set 2 starts with Jibboo, and I'm tempted to give away the points earned by the 2001, but this version at least has some spaciness to it that helps me like it a little more than usual. But then in comes Ghost to redeem things, and halfway through the jam starts heading towards slightly darker waters, Trey really making his guitar walk and talk, the groove sharp and muscular (Mike really makes his presence felt as well), until things slow down and things get ambient and spooky. Such a delicate coda makes for a natural lead-in for Taste, and this Taste is not spectacular but features some nice band interplay. Brian and Robert serves as a breather, then comes Mike's Song, and it brings some funky guitar licks (with loops fluttering around in the background) and Page's added color on the organ as the groove stays more mellow than angry (see: 7/17/98). You will want to dance to this Mike's, believe me. Mike's leads into Simple (kinda odd it's not a ->, as it sounds a lot like every other Mike's/Simple transition ever), which is standard but leads to a pretty ending as it so often does. Train Song is next, then Weekapaug, which teases *something* early on (Trey does, I'm sure of it, but I can't tell) and is perfectly fine (the jamming chart's analysis seems a bit harsh), maybe not as massive as one would like but still full of nifty guitar playing. It's a fine way to close a pretty strong set, and La Grange is one encore song I have yet to tire of hearing (probably because it's so relatively rare).
Shows like this are why I think Fall '99 is better than December '99 - there's spaciness and thick grooves and moments of hushed beauty like the December shows, but greater consistency (at least in terms of sets, if not full shows) all around. Along with 9/14 and 9/18, this is the third part of Fall '99's Holy Trinity. Big thumbs up.

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Elvis Dumervil picks Ravens
Posted by Josh Alper on March 24, 2013, 4:47 PM EDT
It looks like the Ravens have beaten the Broncos again.
A couple of months after beating Denver in the AFC playoffs, they've reportedly beaten them out for defensive end Elvis Dumervil's services. Mike Klis of the Denver Post reports that Dumervil has agreed to a contract with the Ravens after taking most of the weekend to settle on which offer he liked best.
Dumervil's departure from Denver after it appeared he'd be taking a pay cut to stay created a quick response from Baltimore, who will likely plug Dumervil into the role vacated by Paul Kruger as a pass rusher across from Terrell Suggs. It's a move that could pay off quite well given Dumervil's ability to get after the quarterback over the course of his career.
The Broncos will have to move on to another option on the edge, with Klis reporting John Abraham as the likeliest target. Dwight Freeney would be next in line as the Broncos try to fill a hole that they never thought they'd have to fill a little more than a week ago.
UPDATE 4:51 p.m. ET: The Ravens have confirmed the agreement. He will take a physical Tuesday to make deal official.
Looks like the Ravens used Harrison as leverage to get this deal finalized:
Jeff Zrebiec @jeffzrebiecsun10m
Interesting timing. Former Steeler James Harrison was due in town tonight to visit #Ravens. But that obviously isn't a fit anymore.
Dumervil gives the Ravens a lift for their defense
Finishing well in the distance in the bidding for Dumervil's services? The Pittsburgh Steelers, who reportedly had upped their ante in recent days, throwing in an offer of a three-months supply of perogis and 10 cases of Iron City beer to go along with a league-minimum salary.


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The Colorado-based cover band, Nevermind The '90s, returns to The Snake River Saloon in Keystone tonight and Saturday. The group has been together for nearly three years, and covers songs from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Blur, Sublime, Weezer, Everclear and Cake, among others. Here Jake Goldman (guitar, vocals) gives us a few more details:
"Nevermind" is the title of the Nirvana album that changed music in the '90s, and so the phrase "Nevermind The '90s" was our idea of a nod to the apathetic culture that '90s bands were known for.
Our sound is diverse. We can be a ballad band and a heavy rock band all in the same night. Expect to hear pop songs, dance songs and even some grunge music from the '90s.
There are so many. The '90s was such a great time for music. I especially enjoy playing anything by Sublime or Third Eye Blind.
One year, we were booked to play a show in Cheyenne, Wyo. as part of the town's Christmas tree lighting ceremony. They wanted us to play in front of the tree during one of the coldest nights in December. It wound up being so cold that some of our equipment started to freeze, as well as the audience and ourselves. The show was canceled after we played just one song. We were still paid in full, so that show ended up being the most I've ever been paid per song in a night.
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This set of training aids provides an introduction to the role of water resource management schemes in spreading a number of important communicable diseases of man. It limits itself to those diseases which are transmitted by invertebrate organisms whose lifecycle, either partly or wholly, is associated with the aquatic environment. These organisms can be flying insects, in which case they are called disease vectors, or certain species of aquatic snails, known as intermediate hosts.
For practical purposes, in the accompanying text reference will be made to "vectors" on the understanding that this term includes the snail intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis. It presents a number of adverse conditions as they frequently occur in water resource development projects, followed by examples of environmental engineering measures which can be applied for their correction.
These training aids are first of all aimed at engineers, who are, or will be, responsible for the design and construction of irrigation and other hydraulic projects. However, they are also designed to serve as part of a package of educational material for the training of vector control specialists. They will hopefully contribute to a better mutual understanding and collaboration between these two groups
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PIEDMONT -- Gov. Jerry Brown and his wife, Anne Gust, ushered in the holiday season by buying a noble fir from the Piedmont Boy Scout Christmas tree lot on its opening day of business Saturday.
"For the last few years, this is where I've shopped for my Christmas trees," said Gov. Brown, who lives in the Oakland hills when he's not running the state from his Sacramento office. The governor and his wife chose a tall, fresh-cut noble that Scouts and volunteer dads trimmed to spec and loaded into the couple's SUV.
Another customer, Janet Fox, was shopping for a wreath and breathing in the fresh scent of pine from the tree lot and surrounding open space.
"Coming here makes me feel I'm in the mountains even if I'm not," said Fox, an Oakland resident.
Fox's sister, Becky Lazzarotto, of Piedmont, and her husband, Roland Lazzarotto, were also shopping at the Scout lot and bought a nine-foot noble fir.
"We always get the noble fir; it's our tradition," Becky Lazzarotto said.
She said her family has been getting their Christmas tree from the Scout lot for more than 20 years.
"We like to support the Boy Scouts, and they give very good service," Becky Lazzarotto said. "Coming here really kicks off our Christmas season."
The Scouts' Christmas tree lot has been a tradition for a lot of local families for about 50 years, according to Martin Johnson, who helps manage the tree lot. He said they sell about 1,200 trees every year, with noble firs being the most popular. The net sales from the tree lot account for roughly 30 percent of the Scouts' annual operating income.
"Our trees come from Oregon, with the smallest trees selling for about $30 and the biggest for about $180," Johnson said. Proceeds go to the Piedmont Council of Boy Scouts and account for about 25 percent of its operating budget each year. Money goes to Scout activities, including Eagle Scout projects.
Bailey Militar, 15, is a member of Piedmont's Troop 6. It's his second year working at the tree lot, and he likes the job.
"It's fun to help people and get into the Christmas spirit," he said. "It's fun to hang out with my friends here."
However, Scouting's not just about fun for Militar.
"Scouting looks good on a college application," said the De La Salle High School student, who earned a merit badge in business. "Scouting is not just about survival skills but about success skills, too."
Militar's friend in Troop 6, Omar Abdul-Rahim, 15, loves the aspect of working with other people at the tree lot, though he admitted, "I'm not great at selling."
He says Scouting has taught him leadership skills.
"It's a boy-led organization, so we get a lot of opportunities to exercise leadership," said Abdul-Rahim, who attends Oakland Tech.
A Scout since kindergarten, Russell Rivera, 15, always gets a kick out of the Scouts' annual tree lot.
"It's good leading a new group of kids every year, and it's a great way to help people celebrate the holidays," he said. "It's also a good time to utilize our knot-tying skills!"
The Piedmont Boy Scout Christmas tree lot has noble firs, Douglas firs and silver tips, wreaths, garlands and a variety of stands. They provide fresh cuts, free netting and car loading. Deliveries are available Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends. The lot is at 890 Moraga Way, Piedmont. The lot is open on from 4-7 p.m. weekdays and from 9 a. m-7 p.m. weekends.


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APPLE VALLEY — The Burroughs JV boys basketball team is now 1-1 in early-season play, getting its first win of the season, 66-59, against Victor Valley Thursday in the Apple Valley Tournament.
The game wasn't an easy one for the Burros, who trailed 27-22 at the half, but came out on fire to open the third quarter.
The Burros scored 24 points in the third and took control of the game.
"We locked down our defense," BHS JV Coach Cody Pearce said. "We really played well everywhere. When we were on offense and got into our stuff, it worked nicely as well."
Pearce said his team is unselfish and it shows in the scoring line.
Del'Quan Brown and Darnell Prince each had 14 points. Tyron Jones had 13 points and five rebounds, while Biggie Hernandez had a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
"We're really unselfish and pass the ball extremely well," Pearce said. "It's been fun to be a part of so far."
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Demi Moore made history posing nude and heavily pregnant for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine in 1991. Moore's glistening tanned body, an outrage to many, transformed the pregnant body from desexualized and shameful into something glamorous, even sexy.
Annie Lebowitz's cover photograph of pregnant Moore ("More Demi Moore"), with the magazine sold in plastic wrapper to conceal her belly, incensed the public. But it also changed our image of the pregnant body. Lauren Berlant describes the change: "Once a transgressive revelation of a woman's sacred and shameful carnality, the pictorial display of pregnancy is now an eroticized norm in American public culture."
The skintight reflective surfaces make Moore's pregnant belly appear as yet another celebrity accessory to be glamorized and objectified. It is as if Moore is wearing her pregnant body as the latest fashion. This sentiment was made all the more poignant when Moore appears on another Vanity Fair cover a year later, with her thin post-pregnant body covered in body paint that looks like she is wearing a man's suit. In this later photo, in a strange sense echoing the first, she is literally wearing her skin.
Iris Young and other feminists writing in the 1970s and '80s may not have been able to predict what would happen when maternity and sexuality came together to create a sexy pregnancy, or what one website calls "knocked-up knock-outs," but Young's insistence that women's own experience of themselves as sexual subjects should be primary has not yet been realized within popular images of pregnancy. Discussing a bikini contest for pregnant women in New Zealand, a phenomenon that is popular around the industrial world, Robyn Longhurst identifies a paradox in the way that pregnancy has "come out of the closet": "The 'bikini babes' both subverted and affirmed hegemonic constructions of gender for pregnant women. They subverted the construction of pregnant women as modest and inwardly focused by exposing their stomachs and making a claim for being pregnant, public and proud. Paradoxically, this claim was made by way of a 'beauty' pageant."
'Out of the Closet'
Pregnancy may have "come out of the closet," but has pregnant sexuality or maternal sexuality? In Hollywood and popular media, do we see representations of women's subjective experience of their pregnant embodiment? Or, rather, do we see representations of the pregnant body as sex objects for others, or objects of what film theorist Laura Mulvey called "the male gaze"?
"Momshells," "hot mamas," "MILFs" ("mothers I'd like to fuck"), "yummy mummys," "knocked-up knock-outs," and in some way even "baby mamas," appeal to both men and women. Indeed, if the underlying values of making pregnancy sexy and desirable are family values, then they are effective only insofar as they make pregnancy look attractive to women and paternity look attractive to men. These labels and the media attention to pregnant celebrity constitute something like a new cult of motherhood.
Hollywood bad-girl become earth-mother Angelina Jolie tops most lists of hot mamas and yummy mummys; her celebrity motherhood helped spark the MILF movement. And the "Brangelina" clan has become the poster family for multicultural and therefore seemingly progressive American family values. Along with making a large family look easy, they make adoption, childbirth and having it all as beautiful as a rainbow.
But, like more traditional objectifications of the female body in art and film, recent sexy and cute images of the pregnant body are represented as "to be looked at" for visual consumption by both men and women. What is new in the representation of women's bodies as objects is that now it is not an idealized female form that is opposed to the maternal body but rather that the pregnant body itself has become desirable, if not entirely attractive. Still, it is important to consider the complicated ways in which representations of pregnancy as desirable both objectify women and promote conventional family values at the same time that they bring pregnant embodiment "out of the closet" and empower women.
Search for 'Momshells'
A reality television show is searching for "momshells," another MTV program ("16 and Pregnant") features pregnant teenagers and another re-creates and simulates young women giving birth who didn't know they were pregnant. It is noteworthy that "momshell" is a play on the notion of sexy women as "bombshells," which suggests that female sexuality, like a bomb, is dangerous; maternity becomes associated with a deadly weapon. Moreover, momshell also connotes the idea that the maternal body is a shell, a container.
MILF is an obvious sexual reference used in popular parlance by men about mothers who are hot. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was called both a MILF and a GILF ("governor I'd like to fuck"), ignoring whatever qualifications--such as they are--that she had for the job. There are even T-shirts and onesies that say "My Mother is a MILF"--what would Freud have to say about that? Insofar as the 2008 presidential election had female candidates on both sides, there were many references to these women's bodies and to their roles as mothers.
Palin was not the only candidate reduced to her reproductive, if sexy, body. Michelle Obama was referred to as "Obama's baby mama," a term that is used in popular parlance to suggest an unmarried black woman whose only relationship with a man is as the mother of his children. This term not only reduces her function to bearing a man's children but also defines the woman herself as a baby as well as a mama.
These examples from popular culture demonstrate not only our culture's obsession with the maternal body but also our culture's continued objectification of women's bodies and the reduction of those bodies to reproduction even when they have college degrees from prestigious universities and they are running for the highest offices in the country.
Excerpted from, "Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films" by Kelly Oliver. Copyright 2012 Columbia University Press. Used by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and the author of "Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to be Human" and "Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media."
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ALAMEDA -- In an uphill climb toward respectability, the Raiders direction will be decidedly downhill.
Offensive coordinator Greg Olson made it clear Wednesday during a meet-and-greet with local media that his plans for running back Darren McFadden will include the kind of gap and power blocking schemes that made him one of the NFL's most explosive running backs in 2010 and 2011.
McFadden fell to a career-low 3.3 yards per carry in 2012 under the zone scheme runs favored by offensive coordinator Greg Knapp, who was fired after the season.
"I'm not naive enough to believe it's all Greg Knapp's fault," Olson said. "Certainly there are some things I hope I can bring to the table that will allow us to have success."
Olson becomes the Raiders' third offensive coordinator in three seasons. Head coach Hue Jackson served as the play-caller in 2011, but Knapp was hired after general manager Reggie McKenzie fired Jackson.
The Olson offense will look a lot more like the one Jackson installed as offensive coordinator in 2010.
"Coming in a year ago, they made a switch to a zone system," Olson said. "I don't know if you ever want to pigeonhole yourself that way and say, 'That's what we do.' You may not be able to do that based on the players you have."
Regarding McFadden, Olson said, "Maybe a year ago, they weren't sure about that zone scheme. Now, after a year of having to look at it, maybe he is a downhill runner. So we'll get back to some of the gap schemes and things he does well."
Olson is also intrigued by fullback Marcel Reece. He sees Reece as versatile enough to be a third-down back and operate in a single-back offense and as a player to utilize for favorable matchups.
"I was pleasantly surprised watching the tape to see that in a lot of the downhill lead plays where you need a fullback in there, he wasn't a big thumper type but he did go willingly and block some of those linebackers," Olson said.
"There has to be competition," Olson said. "I don't ever think you hand anyone a position from season to season."
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With more than 40 entries in this year's Community Art Show, 5 year-old Taylor Einspahr took away the Best in Show ribbon. The Friends of Historic Boonville hosted the Hain House event during Boonville's Heritage Days. Entries from all age groups were seen and voted on.
"Anyone from pre-kindergarten through their adult years can enter in one of several categories," said Melissa Strawhun, Executive Director of Friends of Historic Boonville.
The art show saw its largest number of entries in the amateur division. Drawings, paintings, photography and mixed media were allowed. Local artist, Charlie Stegner, was responsible for judging most of the events, save Best in Show, which was voted on by attendees.
"We have hosted this event in the past, but didn't last year. This year we hoped to re-establish it as part of our schedule of events during Heritage Days," said Strawhun.
In addition to art show judge, Charlie Stegner, Friends of Historic Boonville wish to thank Judy Shields, Tim Nadeau and Glenn Langston for helping to organize the event and display entrants' artwork. Ribbon-awardees are listed below. Congratulations to everyone!
Pre-K to 2nd Grade:
1st place: Taylor Einspahr
2nd place: Bently Turner
3rd place: Bently Turner
3rd to 5th Grade:
1st place: Marina Firman
2nd place: Olivia Reynolds
3rd place: Emma Gerling
6th to 8th Grade:
1st place: Patience Dorman
2nd place: Emma Goff
High School
1st place: Dalton Swope
2nd place: Raven Stone
3rd place: Dalton Swope
1st place: Victoria Terrell
2nd place: Victoria Terrell
3rd place: Victoria Terrell
Adult Amateur:
1st place: Donna Gerling
2nd place: Pat Sweeney
3rd place: Iris Campbell
1st place: Chris Fletcher
2nd place: Patrick Hanna
3rd place: Sara Fletcher
Amateur: Don Hanna - 1st
Child: Alisa Newbold - 1st and 2nd
Best in show:
Pink Giraffe: Taylor Einspaur
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Move over, Olivia Pope. There's a new fixer covert scandal manager in Washington, D.C.
In a new video for Funny or Die, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson rocks Kerry Washington's signature white coat to parody her hit TV series, Scandal. In the promo for Scandalous, Hudson plays Lydia Cole, a scandal manager who just can't seem to find any real scandals worth managing. Rather, all of her new clients' problems are easily solved by the Affordable Care Act!
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Even the male politician who knocked up his mistress boasts about amicably splitting with his wife and how his constituents fully approve. Where's a real scandal when you need one?! If only the issues facing Olivia's clients were so easily resolved, then she might have time to handle her own personal problems.
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Thanks to Kevin for this reference. Several groups California seem to be opting out of the third party payers hegemony.
Dr. Harold Sox in the Dec 4,2007 issue of the Annals of Internal medicine gives a brief history of the medical "guild" ending with this sentence:
"...by the mid-1960s the [medical] profession has become increasing subservient to the principal purchasers of health care;business and government."
In somewhat understated prose he nails it.
However, later he suggests that the third party payers have made an effort to make make medicine more lean and evidence based and he cajoles the internist readers of the Annals to meet "our partners"at least halfway. As expected he makes the obligatory genuflect to the concept of of the medical profession's obligation to work to conserve finite medical resources. For physicians to live up to the tenets of professionalism as defined by the ACP and the Annals folks private practice docs have to cooperate fully ( or at least halfway) with the altruistic efforts of third party payers to conserve resources and practice evidence based medicine.
The docs in California realize meeting them half way is worse than impossible it is probably suicidal.
Dylan wrote
"Well, he hands you a nickel ,he hands you a dime
he asks you with a grim if you're having a good time"
Many internists in private practice and their patients have long since stopped enjoying a good time.
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St. James High School will be providing pep buses for students to attend the Lady Tigers' Missouri Class 3 State Tournament Semifinal game against Cameron on Thursday at the Mizzou Arena in Columbia.
The pep bus(es) will be leaving St. James High School at 2 p.m. on Thursday. Classes at St. James schools from K-high school will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. The Lady Tigers' semifinal game is scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday.
There is no cost for the pep bus, but students will need to pay the $8 sessions pass for entry.
Also, starting this afternoon St. James High School has 250 session passes to the state tournament games that can be pre-purchased by students on a cash-only basis. The passes can by purchased at the St. James Athletic Director's Office.
At 5:30 p.m. today community members will be holding a dinner for Lady Tiger players, family and fans in the high school commons area. The community is invited to the dinner.
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Target Security Assessor Denies Bank Claims
Trustwave Holdings, the computer security company that audited Target's protection of payment card data two months before the retailer's high-profile breach, is denying part of a lawsuit filed against the company in federal court.
Two U.S. banks sued Trustwave this week, accusing the firm of negligence in its work for Target. The banks said in addition to conducting a September audit for the retailer, Trustwave performed around-the-clock monitoring and other cybersecurity services.
This would make Trustwave liable in the breach, the banks argue. The banks also sued Target.
The Chicago security firm countered that it's relationship with Target was limited.
"These claims against Trustwave are without merit, and that we look forward to vigorously defending ourselves in court against these baseless allegations," said Robert McCullen, Trustwave's president and chief executive, in a statement posted Saturday.
"Contrary to the misstated allegations in the plaintiffs' complaints, Target did not outsource its data security or IT obligations to Trustwave. Trustwave did not monitor Target's network, nor did Trustwave process cardholder data for Target."
Trustwave isn't disputing that it conducted a formal audit of Target's system last September to make sure it was in compliance with credit card industry security standards.
Hackers breached Target in November.


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Saban piece to appear on '60 Minutes' in the fall
Published: Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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The CBS Network's primetime television news program, "60 Mintues," plans to air a feature on University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban in the fall, according to a producer for the program.
Responding to a question about Saban on Twitter that asked if "60 Minutes" ever profiled Saban, Pete Radovich wrote, "It's been in the works for a while. Will air in the fall."
It won't be the first time the four-time national championship winning coach has been on the show. He was interviewed by "60 Minutes" reporter Armen Keteyian in November 2012 in a piece entitled "Bringing Mental Focus to the Game," which highlighted Saban's philosophy of not letting external factors control how his players play.
Saban, who has also been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in September 2008, is the first coach in the Bowl Championship Series era to win back-to-back national championships.
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FRENCH CAMP - The California Highway Patrol arrested a man Wednesday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run collision that occurred last week in Manteca.
Herminio Ayala Ponce, 60, was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run resulting in death or injury and vehicular manslaughter, said Officer James Smith, a spokesman for the Highway Patrol. The suspect is being held at the San Joaquin County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail and is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday, according to jail records.
Ponce was driving a 1991 International two-axle tank truck west on French Camp Road just west of Highway 99 at 6:38 a.m. Jan. 13 when he made a left turn onto West Frontage Road, the CHP said. Ponce turned directly into the path of a 24-year-old motorcycle rider, who sustained fatal injuries when he struck the truck's rear axle, officers said. The victim was also struck by a second vehicle traveling east on French Camp Road, the CHP said.
Ponce momentarily stopped but then continued south on West Frontage Road, authorities said. Construction workers in the area called 911 and followed Ponce, helping authorities locate him, the CHP said.
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SANTA CLARA — Aldon Smith is expected recover in time for the 49ers' training camp after undergoing recent shoulder surgery on a torn labrum.
"I had surgery a couple weeks ago on my shoulder. I'm just rehabbing and healing up," , Smith told KNBR 680-AM on Wednesday.
Coach Jim Harbaugh, speaking at the NFL owners meetings in Arizona, said Smith should be ready for training camp in late-July, according to CSN Bay Area.
Smith didn't miss a game last season and totaled a franchise-record 19½ sacks last season. The 49ers' first-round draft pick in 2011, he had a 14-sack output as a rookie.
Smith initially said last month that his shoulder injury traced to a "bad stinger" from a Nov. 19 win over the Chicago Bears. It turned out Smith had a torn labrum which isn't believed to have occurred from his Feb. 15 foray into mixed-martial-arts training.
"I was dead serious about it. It was something I always wanted to do," Smith told KNBR of his MMA stint. "I figured why not try it. I think I'm pretty good. I'm definitely not going to get beat up."
Smith didn't produce any sacks in his final six games, and although he admitted Justin Smith's triceps injury had "a little bit to do with it," Smith said there were "a lot of factors."
Smith was slated to present a $99,432 check Wednesday to the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the Peninsula, as a result of his pledge stemming from his 19½ sacks last season.


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Driving "Back to the Future": Flex-Fuel Vehicle Awareness
The 1908 Model-T Ford was the first vehicle designed to run on ethanol, which Henry Ford termed "the fuel of the future." Today, about 8 million flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) on our roads are capable of running on either gasoline or gasoline blended with up to 85% ethanol (E85). By using E85, these flex fuel vehicles help to decrease our reliance on imported oil and reduce carbon pollution. The "Big Three" U.S. auto makers (Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler) recently announced that half of the vehicles in their entire 2012 vehicle line will be FFVs, including the hybrid-electric plug-in Chevrolet Volt.
Today's ethanol, essentially a non-drinkable grain alcohol, is made from corn or sugar cane. Researchers have been developing processes to convert the cellulose in agricultural wastes like corn stalks, waste woods, and other non-food biomass into ethanol. This biofuel, known as "cellulosic ethanol," will further reduce carbon pollution and is expected to enter the U.S. market in significant amounts in the near future. See the Energy Blog post.


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Can block some files from being accessed by windows users. This is useful for .DS_Store files. I haven't found how to block the 'Icon^M' files though.
NB: files can also be hidden (via the hidden attribute) instead of being blocked.
More info in this book: 'Using Samba'.
Haven't been able to get it working under 10.5.1, nor can I get Leopard's sharing to work with my PC network, so I miss it!
Will have to try 10.5.2 I guess.
WOW! it's been a year I was searching a tool like that and finally here it is !
Man! This is as simple as it can be. Thank you.
yes complicated. i tried clicking as little as possible though and guess what? I created share points that XBMC can see!
Massive kudos for the idea and for making this a freeware application but the interface is way too complicated for my liking - i'm back at editing config files.


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Topic: A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime
I wanted to share a note that I received from a fellow cc friend that I met on this board, several months ago. A very dear gal that lost her husband to cc a couple years back. She doesn't post here anymore, but was a strong support to me the last couple months. She was quoting someone else as she wrote the following. I am grateful to have met her here, along with so many other thoughtful, caring, sharing & hurting people....
"People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
REASON: it is usually to meet a need you have expressed, guidance through a difficult time and support, to aid you physically, emontionally or spiritually. They are there for a reason, then without any wrong doing on your part, the relationship ends. Sometime they walk away, or sometime they die. They answered the prayer you needed at the time and now it is time to move on.
SEASON: some people come into your life for a season, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh, teaching you something you have never done, but only for a season.
LIFETIME: relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. It is your job to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for letting me be part of your life, whether I was a reason, a season or a lifetime."


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Spring arrived one to two weeks late in most of Canada, which delayed some migrants. In British Columbia, most wintering ducks have now departed and have been replaced by breeders such as cinnamon and blue-winged teal. Although late to arrive in the Western Boreal Forest, early breeders are taking advantage of good conditions. Conditions are even better in Prairie Region, where the breeding season is in full swing and farmers are behind schedule. In Eastern Canada, record flood events have taken place in Ontario, migration is almost finished in Québec and peak hatch should occur soon in Atlantic Canada.
Throughout the province, the extended winter meant spring got off to a slow start. However, a recent spell of warm weather has compensated some what for a delayed breeding season. Along the coast, the mountain snow packs are rapidly melting, feeding lots of water into local streams and ponds. While snowpacks on the north and central coast were a bit low this past winter (~80 percent of average), they were near the long-term average on the south coast and island. This promises a steady supply of water through the spring and summer, and breeding conditions look to be good for the year. Local farmers have been busy preparing their fields and planting along the coast, and
the first crops are starting to grow fast.
Most of the wintering ducks such as northern pintail, northern shoveler and American wigeon have departed, with only a few stragglers remaining. They have been replaced by breeders such as cinnamon and blue-winged teal. Year-round residents such as mallard and wood duck are incubating, and the first Canada goose goslings have hatched. Precipitation was variable in the northern and southern Interior, and habitat conditions reflect this. Overall, these regions are still relatively dry, and many isolated basins (lacking stream connections) did not fill.
All expected breeders are present and accounted for, and Canada goose broods have been out for a couple of weeks in the south. Late-winter precipitation was good in the Peace region, and early conditions have recovered from a relatively dry 2012.
Spring runoff and observations of breeding effort suggest that brood production will be good.
Boreal Yukon
Like elsewhere in the western boreal region, it's been a very long winter, and spring weather is just starting to reach parts of the territory. For the last 30 days, temperatures have been below normal. As a result, the snowpack is above normal for this time of year. There are, however, some early breeders like mallards and goldeneyes taking advantage of what open water they can find along the wetland margins. Migration and breeding will be in full swing soon.
Given the good habitat conditions that will greet the birds, it should be another average to above - average year.
Northwest Territories
It has been one of the latest springs in recent memory. As a result, the return of migrating waterfowl has been delayed. However, geese, cranes, mallards and canvasbacks have been observed in the Yellowknife area. The larger lakes are still frozen, but smaller wetlands are opening quickly thanks to a recent warm spell, and waterfowl are taking advantage of them. Habitat conditions are generally good.
Boreal British Columbia
Spring appears to be more advanced compared to other areas of the western boreal forest. Recent warmer
weather has helped advance the breeding season. Canada geese and some early-nesting ducks like mallards are now nesting. Habitat conditions should be average.
Boreal Alberta
After experiencing one of the coldest Aprils on record, May has been rather warm. Despite the heavy snowfall over the winter, sublimation and lack of spring rain have resulted in lower-than-expected habitat conditions.
The province is under extreme fire danger due to the recent above-average temperatures and high winds. Despite the recent weather, wetlands remain in good condition but will rapidly deteriorate if moisture is not received soon. Early reports indicate that all waterfowl species have returned and many are either currently laying eggs or in the early stages of incubation.
Boreal Saskatchewan
Spring arrived late, and heavy snow received this winter slowly disappeared over the month of May.
Breeding waterfowl also arrived late but the breeding season is in full swing. Wetlands are open and are in good to very good condition.
Boreal Manitoba
Despite above-average snow fall this winter, current water levels are lower than expected, which is probably due to a long, cool spring. However, wetlands still remain in very good condition for breeding waterfowl.
All species have returned to their boreal breeding areas, and early nesters are either in the laying or early incubation stages.
Spring arrived slowly, with cool temperatures and periods of snow into mid-April. Monthly average temperatures were 2-5 C below average for March and April. Overall, spring has been progressing about two weeks behind normal.
With the exception of the southern Prairie, snow melt was slow, with pockets of snow lingering into late April. This spring has also been windy. In late April and early May, temperatures warmed into the mid 20s C, and combined with strong winds increased evaporative losses. In spite of the good snow cover in late winter and early spring, the protracted melt did not result in the runoff anticipated in many areas. The majority of the southern Prairie was snow free by early March. Moisture from March and April snow storms largely evaporated or soaked into the ground.
Habitat conditions are generally fair, with some pockets rated as poor or good. In the northern Prairie, conditions are generally good to very good, which is not as favorable as expected, particularly in the west.
Most wetland projects are full. Precipitation totals since April 1 have been less than 50 percent of normal to near normal in the Prairie.
Spring runoff was one of the latest ever across the majority of the province. Snow and ice dominated the landscape into late April, and subsequently delayed waterfowl migration by 10-14 days. Average April temperatures were some of the coldest on record.
The above-average snowpack and sudden increase in temperatures in early May then provided the perfect conditions for an extraordinary runoff in most areas.
Western and central areas experienced flooding conditions, with numerous towns and municipalities declaring states of emergency with homes, farms, roads and highways under water. There are, however, a few areas of southern Saskatchewan that went into winter with dry soil conditions and no frost seal, which allowed a lot of the runoff to be soaked up, leaving temporary and seasonal wetlands low or even dry.
However, in most of the province, all classes of wetlands are full or spilling beyond their basins. With that, breeding ducks are returning to some of the best habitat conditions in decades. Nesting has now begun (one to two weeks late), with mallard and pintail nests being discovered and numerous lone drakes being observed.
Arctic geese are still staging across their traditional areas, taking advantage of flooded fields. Canada geese are incubating nests. Farmers are also behind schedule, with seeding just getting going in many areas, which is one to two weeks later than normal.
Spring arrived very late on the Canadian prairies, which significantly delayed the arrival of all waterfowl. The slow melt, coupled with the dry soil conditions from last year, hastened any major flooding events but the good snowpack resulted in favorable wetland conditions for arriving birds.
Once arrived, the birds quickly settled and transitioned to territorial behavior, and nesting quickly followed. Although significantly delayed, mallards quickly showed signs of nesting by May 2. The observation of small bachelor groups soon followed, indicating a widespread initiation. Late-nesting birds such as blue-winged teal initiated nests around the third week in May.
Resident Canada goose nesting was also significantly delayed, and their hatch is expected to be approximately two weeks later than usual. Wetland conditions are favorable throughout the southwest breeding range, but areas lacking spring precipitation are feeling the effects of those dry soil conditions.
Most ephemeral and seasonal wetland basins are now dry. Temporary and semi-permanent basins are full, and wetlands located in larger watersheds are flooded just beyond the cattails. Additional rainfall will be required to maintain these conditions for renesting and brood-rearing birds.
Upland conditions are changing rapidly with the recent above-seasonal-warm trend. Grasslands are quickly responding to this change, which will result in good cover for later-nesting birds. If haying is not delayed, this could have an impact on nesting birds affected by the late spring.
Crop seeding has also been delayed but the favorable late-May conditions have allowed producers to get a quick jump on seeding.
This spring (especially April) has been colder and wetter than normal. In fact, record flooding events occurred throughout the far north, as well as in south central Ontario. Significant snowfall amounts also fell throughout the north including the Hudson's and James Bay lowlands. Due to relatively cool temperatures and significant precipitation events, most inland wetlands are near their maximum water-holding capacities, providing good overall spring breeding conditions for waterfowl.
Last year, Great Lakes water levels were at record lows, which was cause for significant concern. Currently, lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior are still significantly lower than normal (by 1 foot on average) while lakes Erie and Ontario have rebounded to near-normal water levels. Migration of Canada geese and duck species has been typical, and local breeding populations of Canada geese have produced a strong number of goslings. With relatively good breeding and brood-rearing habitats across most of the province, waterfowl production will be strong.
The spring season arrived at the beginning of May, with exceptional temperatures of over 25 C over five consecutive days. In general, average temperatures have been about 1 C higher than normal. Total precipitation levels continue to be slightly lower than normal for all regions, especially in the west, which received approximately 50 percent less precipitation than usual.
Generally, the province hasn't experienced a very high rise of the St. Lawrence River this year. However, habitats remain plentiful and in good shape, despite the limited precipitation and snow accumulations during the winter.
The average St. Lawrence water level at Sorel station was lower than normal (by 20 cm) earlier in May, but has been rising. The spring migration is almost finished, and has been normal with lots of greater snow geese and Canada geese.
Pairs of Canada geese, mallards and American black ducks are establishing breeding territories on available wetlands on the St. Peter Lake region. All the usual duck species have been observed including northern pintails, northern shovelers, canvasbacks, blue-winged and green-winged teal. In Saguenay region, a large number of nest boxes are occupied by common goldeneyes.
Overall, habitat conditions look better than expected, especially in the north and west. The outlook for brood production should be good.
Overall, it has been a relatively dry spring, with the only exception being Newfoundland where precipitation has been variable throughout the province. Forest fire indexes climbed in early May, resulting in many fires, including a large forest fire in southern New Brunswick.
The forest fire indexes have since dropped and risks remain low. Lately, temperatures are fluctuating from the low 20s C to below zero on recent nights. Environment Canada is predicting normal temperatures and normal precipitation for all of Atlantic Canada (June-August), so it should be an average summer.
The breeding season is in full swing, and all dabbler species are pairing up or have already paired. Earlier nesters, such as Canada geese and American black ducks, are beginning to emerge with young broods. Peak hatch is expected to occur in late May or early June. Although water levels in brooks and rivers are lower than average, wetlands are operating at normal levels. Based on long-term weather forecasts, water levels should remain average throughout the summer.
Currently, habitat conditions are good throughout Atlantic Canada.
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The apartment isn't bad, but it's impossible to stay in 6 persons, max 5.
The clear isn' good. So it's very strategic position in the town.
the apartment is really well placed, right in the centre of Prague; you need just a minute to reach the old town square by walk, passing through one of the most turistic street of the city.
The guys at the reception did a good job, letting us enter our rooms some hours before the check-in time.
The apartment was really nice and well furnished, with everything necessary (i think more than necessary!!) for the trip: tiny but complete kitchen, living room with big tv, internet connection and so on...
We just had some troubles to sleep at night dued to some drunk hooligans lodged in our building that passed whole nights ringing every door bell in the palace, shouting, slamming doors and elevator cabin, from 4 to 6 a.m.; unfortunately non-smart people is everywhere...but this has nothing to do with the accomodation that has been really comfortable.
Nice little house with everything you need. There's a sandbeach nearby, you can walk to it in 5 minutes. With the cab or bus it's easy to go to the city of Zadar. The host was very sweet and willing to arrange anything. We had a good time!
I chose the appartment because of low price and good location. I payed the amount of 160€ for 3 nights which was on the receipt I got from windu. After that I realized that the flat was sold by a company called interhome which sent me a second receipt for a cleaning few of 58€. So the inital low price increased by 35%.
I could have seen this clicking on an extra button in the description in advance. Very poor strategy to make money, sorry guys....
The flat itself was very good, clean and recomendable.
The apartment on the Carree Moscou is perfect for a stay in Barcelona with a real top location! The apartment offers everything that is needed, glorious natural light with a fantastic view of the city and above all very clean! Thank you for the fantastic days and will always recommend especially the landlady!
Die Wohnung im Carree Moscou ist perfekt für einen Aufenthalt in Barcelona mit einer wirklichen Top Lage! Das Apartment bietet alles, was nötig ist, herrlich licht durchflutet mit einem fantastischen Blick auf die Stadt und vor allem sehr sauber! Wir bedanken uns für die fantastischen Tage und werden vor allem die Vermieterin stets weiter empfehlen!
Very nice apartment with great sea views Apartment very well arranged it lacks absolutely nothing. We had a pleasant stay. Thank you
Appartement très sympa avec super vue sur la mer. Appartement très bien agencé il ne manque absolument rien. Nous avons passé un agréable séjour. Merci
Appart nice and well located, quiet
Appart sympa et bien situé, calme
very well located. uncomplicated contact. large.
kitchen: furniture shaky, cleanliness harness enough. bathroom: shower curtain too old.
Conclusion: price for four star. performance for three stars.
sehr gut gelegen. unkomplizierter kontakt. gross.
küche: möbel wackelig, sauberkeit geschirr genügend. bad: duschvorhang zu alt.
fazit: preis für vier sterne. leistung für drei sterne.
Very welcome. Quiet. Near shops and transport. Apartment clean. I definitely recommend!
Très bon accueil. Quartier calme. Commerces et transports proches. Appartement propre. Je recommande sans hésiter !
Beautifully renovated old building in center of Meta, close to train station and beach.
Too bad you on the site gives the impression of a room with a terrace and you get a cellar-like room that was cold and clammy (in May). Clean but very sparse furnishings, not very atmospheric. Wifi only works on courtyard. Nice host.
Mooi verbouwd oud gebouw in centrum van Meta, niet ver van station en strand.
Jammer dat je op de site de indruk krijgt van een kamer met dakterras en je dan een kelderachtige kamer krijgt die koud en klam is (in mei). Netjes maar erg karig ingericht, niet heel sfeervol. Wifi werkt enkel op binnenplaats. Aardige host.
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Not content with simply stealing a delivery guy's car, a Hartford man decided to make some extra pocket money by finishing up the driver's route.
The driver, who works for the Black Bamboo Chinese restaurant, told police he had left his car idling outside a local school while he ran inside to deliver an order. Upon exiting the school he saw that his car had been stolen, and phoned his manager to let him know that customers would not be getting their food.
But much to his surprise, his employer later called him back to say that at least one customer reported receiving their order on time. "And that's when it clicked to me that somebody was making deliveries with my car at first I thought it was a practical joke then it turned out it was real," the unidentified driver said.
The restaurant gave Hartford police the remaining delivery addresses, and officers were able to catch up with the perp as he was making his next dropoff.
45-year-old Keith Hinds was arrested and charged with larceny as well as a number of drug charges relating to a crack pipe and some marijuana in his possession. He was also found to be carrying anti-psychotic medication in a bag for which he was charged with failure to keep drugs in the original container.
He is currently being held on $5,000; his first court appearance is scheduled for today.
[H/T: Eater, mug shot via Hartford Courant]


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NEW ORLEANS -- Film study for the 49ers defense hasn't been all about the Baltimore Ravens. The 49ers also have seen highlights of turnovers that swayed recent Super Bowls.
To further emphasize the need of forcing turnovers Sunday, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio showed his players a graphic listing turnover differentials and Super Bowl results.
"I think one of them said if you were plus-three, there was a 100 percent rate of victory," defensive tackle Justin Smith said.
Over the past 10 Super Bowls, only one team has won without a winning turnover differential: the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers. Three teams in the past 10 Super Bowls had at least a plus-3 turnover ratio, and all won: the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (plus-4), 2004 New England Patriots (plus-3) and 2010 Green Bay Packers (plus-3).
"We've got to get that ball, simply," said safety Dashon Goldson, who had three interceptions and two fumble recoveries in the regular season.
Defensive players began receiving rubber wristbands two months ago for creating turnovers. Most defenders wear those pseudo-trophies daily.
Secondary coach Ed Donatell ordered 150 bracelets after borrowing the concept from former 49ers assistant Dan Quinn, now the Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator. Linebacker NaVorro Bowman provided the bracelets' inscription: "To It = See It = Get It."
"I don't know if it helps, but it makes a sticky message for players," Donatell said. "It was big for us last game."
The 49ers came up with two second-half turnovers to rally from a 17-0 deficit and beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24 in the NFC Championship game. Even though Chris Culliver had an interception and Aldon Smith a fumble recovery, all defensive players received a wristband.
"We felt everyone deserved one because of the character and courage we showed to overcome that deficit," Bowman said. "The whole defense showed that, instead of just one or two players who got turnovers."
"No matter what goes on, I'll be happy that I gave him this opportunity to experience this," Ginn Jr. told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "It's a dream come true for him."
The 49ers discretely allowed Ginn to visited his father a couple times during the season. "I was very, very afraid of losing him," Ginn added. "It was really tough knowing I couldn't get there, couldn't be there for him every day. That was the scary part."
The elder Ginn has been a longtime and highly successful coach at Cleveland's Glenville High. Safety Donte Whitner played for him and credits him as a driving influence. "Ever since we were kids, Ted pushed us to get to where we are right now -- from Glenville to Ohio State to now," Whitner told the Plain Dealer. "And to have him here with us after everything that he's been through this year makes it all the more special."
The 49ers worked out for 80 minutes at the Saints' indoor facility, completing their drills 15 minutes early.
"We got everything done we normally do,'' coach Jim Harbaugh said.
The only Super Bowl starting quarterbacks who entered with fewer career starts than Kaepernick's nine are the New York Giants' Jeff Hostetler (six in 1991, defeated the Buffalo Bills) and the Los Angeles Rams' Vince Ferragamo (seven in 1980, lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers).
Here is the Super Bowl champions' turnover differential over the past 10 years:
(Season, winner (opponent), turnover differential)
2002: Buccaneers
(vs. Raiders) +4
2003: Patriots (vs. Panthers) 0
2004: Patriots (vs. Eagles) +3
2005: Steelers
(vs. Seahawks) -1
2006: Colts (vs. Bears) +2
2007: Giants (vs. Patriots) 0
2008: Steelers
(vs. Cardinals) +1
2009: Saints (vs. Colts) +1
2010: Packers
(vs. Steelers) +3
2011: Giants (vs. Patriots) +1


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Who was the best player to ever play high school basketball. I remember watching Eddie Griffen and he had so much talent at Roman Catholic. It seemed like he did everything so easy and would wind up with 27 points and 16 rebounds. In addition his teammates got better looks at college for playing alongside him. Any other great high school players that were just busts afterwards?
I was just looking at some NBA draft history. Shaun Livingston was drafter 4th overall by the clippers in 2004. He went to Peoria Central high in Illinios. He is currently averaging 2 points per game with the MIami Heat. Interesting side note, Dwight Howard was the first overall pick by the Magic and he came right out of high school. Looks like these two careers have gone different paths.
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Yea those two paths are very different. Yet, Llivingston had that horrible injury over 2 years ago with the clippers but everyone was saying he was going to be the next Magic Johnson a 6'9 PG now Chris Quinn and Mario Chalmers are playing over him. Another bust would have to be Kwame Brown. Fact.
Its a shame that these kids left high school to ply in the NBA, these kids just arent ready for that jump. Look at TIm Duncan, went all fours years at Wake and now he will go down as an all time great player.
Well now they have the new rule where they must go to one year of college. But with the Brandon Jennings experiment overseas making millions i wonder how mnay kids will follow his path.
it might be better for them. Its a training ground on making millions and those teams play a different style so it help expand you game. Also alot of those leagues are better than the college game.
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I think it's a toss-up between Schea Cotton and Felipe Lopez...both featured in SI before playing a single HS game...both never lived up to the hype.
I remember Felipe Lopez going to St Johns and having a brief NBA career with i think the Utah Jazz. Andre Barrett is another name that comes off the top of my head....
how bout Ed O'Bannon from the national champ '94 UCLA squad. I think he played a couple years in the league. I thought he was going to be real good.
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Omar Cook do your homework...he went straight to the league and then busts...another guard who never lived up to the hype
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How to Draw Fashion-Ready Legs
Draw the front view of female fashion legs.
The front view is the most basic, but it's often effective.
Draw the figure's lower torso with leg holes.
For the thigh, start with a straight line that connects to a circle for the knee. For the lower leg, add a slightly curved line that connects to a small triangle for the foot.
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