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Oklahoma County sheriff's investigators suspect Donita Roby, a town clerk for Luther, stole around $48,000.
Town Council members said an annual audit showed Roby didn't pay payroll taxes since September 2012. Authorities said a criminal investigation is underway.
"It's not only the town but the face it puts on the town," said Isaac Brown, a Luther resident. "It's, 'Here we go, Luther is back on the TV.' The negative impact it puts on the town; people are going to wonder what is happening in Luther."
The Sheriff's Office was investigating the case. The Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said he hasn't yet seen any paperwork on Roby.

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Okay to marry a co-worker?
I am in love with a colleague of mine, though he works in a different department but he is at a lower designation than me. I am not sure how would it be to have your husband working in the same office as yours.
While my family has no problems with it but my friends are saying it's not a great idea to marry a co-worker and it may lead to lot of confusion and issues at a later stage. Pls advice what should I do. Is it okay for me to just ignore what others are saying and marry this guy or should I give it more thought?


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Real estate development during the Great Recession has proven to be a very challenging endeavor. Even seasoned professionals have found themselves struggling to service debt on projects that are producing monthly net negative cash flows.
Loan modifications, while rarely discussed during times of prosperity, have become common vocabulary in the industry. In spite of these challenges, the economic downturn has produced some unique opportunities for developers who still have resources available.
If a property owner is unsuccessful in negotiating a loan modification, banks often proceed to foreclosures or note sales. In an effort to clean up their balance sheets, banks have grown more amiable to selling Notes than in days past.
When a bank sells a Note, they are selling the loan to another entity who then becomes the lender. The Note is typically secured by a Deed of Trust on the property and may include any personal guarantees that were signed. These Notes have been sold for pennies on the dollar as compared to the outstanding debt, penalties and fees.
Although buying distressed assets can be desirable, there are some inherent risks. Notes are most often sold "as-is." This means that any title encumbrances or liabilities (even lender liabilities) become the responsibility of the Note purchaser.
Thorough due diligence and underwriting are the keys to a successful transaction. For those firms with the appropriate professional skills and capital base, however, these strategies can be extremely profitable.
Note purchases and the purchase of bank owned property can be a trying process. Lenders often require incentives to approve the reduced pricing. Often these incentives include quick closing which makes it difficult for buyers to secure financing. Having access to immediate funds is a crucial negotiating component.
According to Dale Donohoe, President of Intertex Companies, now is the time to buy.
"Most of the opportunities that have presented themselves have been attractive in terms of investment potential. These deals aren't easy, but they are feasible," Donohoe said. "This type of market positioning makes it possible for commercial landlords to compete in today's tumultuous environment."
The lesson to be learned from the misfortune of many commercial landlords is to keep leverage low. A property needs to be able to service its debt when it is well below 100 percent leased and well below 100 percent of proforma income.
Although percentage-occupancy has historically been the measure of appropriate debt service, recent history has taught us that the percentage of rent payment should also be considered.
It used to be the case that tenants either paid rent or they didn't. If they paid less than full rent, they were evicted and replaced. With very limited replacement tenant opportunities, however, landlords have worked with tenants to allow partial payments, which make full debt service nearly impossible.
In some situations it is possible and preferable to form joint ventures with property owners who don't have the capital required to restructure their loan. This allows investors to participate in the potential upside of the project while utilizing the market and asset knowledge of the current owner.
Although there is frequently disparity between the owner and investor's asset valuations, there is motivation on both sides to reach an agreement. The structuring of the joint venture agreement is critical to ensure that all parties will attain their investment goals.
Even with all of the investment opportunities that are available, the pool of potential buyers is limited due to the conservative lending requirements and required resources.
Working with distressed properties is an opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade, Donohoe said. Distressed asset opportunities have been the silver lining in this market. And although a positive turn in the market has begun, times are still tough.
Darcey Oldhafer is the Development Manager for Intertex Companies. Ms. Oldhafer's column reflects her own views and not necessarily those of The Signal. Her guest column was selected to describe how many developers and builders worked creatively to survive the Great Recession. Intertex is located at 26074 Avenue Hall in Valencia and can be reached at 661-702-2222.


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Oregon's 2012 Vintage
Oregon 2012 - "the best vintage of my career." "One of three truly great vintages in my 35 years of winemaking experience." So say the winemakers.
Oregon's 2012 vintage white wines are arriving quickly, with the 2012 Pinot noirs and other reds following closely behind. Watch this page for the latest releases from the vintage people are calling "an epic harvest that could lead to one of the best vintages in the history of the 50-year-old region".
What made the difference in 2012? The quality of the fruit. "We put away the sorting table" said one winemaker. "The fruit was so perfect, there were no clusters to reject. The fruit was perfectly ripe with no flaws, making for easy fermentations and beautiful flavors."
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Erie police were called to Saint Vincent Health Center this evening after a man showed up there with a gunshot wound to the foot.
The man told police he was shot earlier today near East 24th Street and East Avenue, Lt. Tom Eberlein said. Hospital personnel called police shortly after 7 p.m.
Eberlein said that police officers went to the hospital to interview the man, who underwent X-rays to determine the extent of his injuries. Police were trying to determine, among other things, whether the man could identify the person who shot him.
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'Doctor Who' Recap: A Good Man Goes To War
S06E07 This was a fantastic episode. A+. 10/10. Everything Moffat teased and I hoped for, happened. It was glorious. It simultaneously began in the middle of action, answered major questions, gave us more questions, and then set up the series for YEARS to come. How could I give it anything less than my best?
We'll go through the highlights of the episode, first before delving into its implications. Perhaps my favorite thing about the opening is that it begins completely in media res. We've seen the Doctor rally up an army (the end of season 4 comes to mind) and the first half of this episode feels like the second half of a really good "The Doctor takes on a giant army" episode. Even the triumphant music feels like it should be at the end of an episode, not halfway through it! And perhaps that's why it's such a good episode – we expect it to be over, but then it keeps going and it gets better! From a narrative standpoint it was amazing – we've grown used to the Doctor, we expect him to come out on top, so let's see him how we expect to see him and keep going with more twists. Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Demons run, when a good man goes to war.
Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war.
Friendship dies and true love lies.
Night will fall and the dark will rise, when a good man goes to war.
Demons run but count the cost. The battle's won but the child is lost.
Right at the beginning we get two great scenes cutting back and forth. Amy starts talking to her (absolutely adorable, SO CUTE) baby, the lovely Melody Pond. She tells her that even though she's being taken away she is always loved and someone is coming after her – her father. Cut to Rory back in Roman garb. He has a question (WHERE IS MY WIFE???) and a message from the Doctor (BOOM!). Amy warns them to be braver because you do not come between a companion's daughter with the Doctor on her side. Then back to Rory being all suave and badass and shit. Now, are we still confused about who the father of this baby is? They played it up here and they made it seem questionable later on, but I thought this was settled? Oh well, I guess a little tension here and there always helps.
Then boom – we're off to the episodes single serving characters who conveniently explain the plot. Now the really interesting thing about this was just how on the nose Moffat made it about how dispensable these characters are. True, why bother naming them when he's the fat gay anglo preacher marine? And he's the skinny one. It was a nice unexpected comment on the series. But anyway, the girl is a little disobedient by sewing in her free time but the guards don't care. They're more interested in the headless monks. The fat one gets taken as a sacrifice and he eventually has to do something with an empty box and a head but then it cuts away before we find out what happens.
So what's the Doctor been up to this whole time? As the fat blue man points out – the eye patch lady took someone he cares about very deeply (at a very important time in her life) and that means only one thing. He's raising an army. Turns out, that's exactly what he's doing. He's calling in a bunch of old favors and debts so we get a semi-montage of all the people he's gathering up. Now, I have no idea (or desire to do the necessary research) if these people he's gathering up have been people we've seen before but does it matter to the story? Not really (actually the fat blue guy is from the New Earth episode back in season 2). The Doctor rescues people. He has a bunch of people in his debt. It just makes sense. So he gathers a (lesbian, katana wielding) Silurian, a Sontarian, a Rhino Fro-Yo-No-Go guy and probably more people that we didn't see.
And who are we fighting? Apparently the religious military that has started who has partnered with the headless monks seen earlier. They do everything they can to dispel the mythology of the Doctor that had grown over the centuries through the universe. He's not a ghost, he's not a demon, he's a man. And he can die. Well, except he's not a man. But that's a small point (kinda). What does matter are those headless monks ARE ACTUALLY HEADLESS. AND THEIR NECKS HAVE A TWIST TIE LIKE A GARBAGE BAG! PUNK ROCK! That was kinda creepy but you know what took it to the next level? The Doctor's entrance!
'Surprised?' – The Doctor
Hell yeah.
The Doctor goes off and does his thing. He disappears into the dark and makes the monks turn against the army. We almost think the army outsmarts the Doctor when they lay down their arms to regain the trust of the monks but of course the Doctor thought of that. As soon as their unarmed BOOM – the Doctor's army appears. Ahaha, the Doctor disarms them and captures them without firing a shot. Lizard lady was right – the Doctor has never risen higher.
But how could he possibly fall farther than ever? Has to do with Amy, of course. Rory makes the appropriate entrance and the new parents have their teary reunion. Sweet as it should be. However, did anyone else think Rory looked, I'm not even sure, angry when he turned around to the Doctor? Like, he should have been smiling or something when he told him to get down there. Small complaint, I know. Anyway, turns out the Doctor can speak baby and little Melody Pond (the superhero!) even thinks bow ties looks stupid. But no they don't – they're cool.
Never mind that, no matter how cute it is – why did this army want Amy and her baby? That's the question. Doctor goes off to find fat blue dude and Lizard Lady analyzing what the army had been up to with the baby but not before delivering another badass monologue. It's often said that the Doctor is never more terrifying when he's talking quietly and this was a text book example of it when he deemed the general General Runaway. But that was that. Turns out – there is a little bit of Time Lord DNA mixed in with some human DNA. Was that another red herring that the Doctor might be the father? Seriously, another? Eh, whatever. It led to some fantastic awkward dancing dialogue as the Lizard Lady asked the important question of, you know, when that baby, umm, began. The Doctor thinks back and it turns out that the first time Amy and Rory spent on the TARDIS in this time line was, oh god, on their wedding night. BOW CHIKA WOW WOW.
As they say in Jurassic Park – life (in this case: Time Lord) finds a way.
Eye Patch Lady pops up right then (timely!) and the Doctor confronts her. What does she want with the child? Well, to fight in the war. War against who? The Doctor, of course. Aha. Then she starts rubbing it in how she tricked him twice and the Doctor figures out what is wrong. Melody was a fake too! Oh noes! (A trick within the trick and we have a little Inception with the conception happening) He starts running (always with the running) back to the hangar where he had left the rest of the team. They figured out something was wrong when the lights started going out, the monks started chanting, and a force field appeared around the TARDIS. Clues, they are helpful. Rory poses up in the most awkward pose ever, Amy tells him to let everyone else die first, and the battle begins. Speaking of the monks and battling, seriously? Lightsabers? I mean, I know they were electrical swords but you cannot have a sword like weapon and put electricity on it and not compare it to lightsabers. But whatever. They were creepy.
But alas, the Doctor does not get there in time. SAD FACE. He goes off to talk to the girl who wanted nothing more than to see him one more time. They reminisce about the time they ran through the forest together before she eventually bites it. It was sweet and that was the moment River decides to show up. Why now? Because she couldn't take part in it. He finally confronts her about who she is and she finally tells him that she has been telling him. He looks at the crib that turned out to be his but instead sees the little cloth the forest girl had sewn for Amy. Like a bolt of lightning everything finally comes into focus for him and he rushes off without really saying anything (besides giggling like a little school boy who just got caught by the parents – which, turns out, he just kind of did). Amy looks confused, grabs a gun (cause that's what you do) and demands to know what she is talking about. She reminds them that the only water in the forest is the river and that the TARDIS translation stuff works slower on written stuff and when she finally turns it over –
'Hello.' – The Doctor
'Hello.' – River (or should we say Melody Pond?!?!?!)
As if it couldn't end any better: the episode they return on is called Let's Kill Hitler. Absolutely perfect.
So what does this mean? Let's take a look at everything we know, everything we can assume because of what we know now, and what that can possibly mean.
River is Amy's daughter: so that means the Doctor eventually gets the baby back. Is that why he was smiling? Possibly. Combine that with the fact that River knows the Doctor's name (and we usually assume that means she is his wife) of course he would giggle. So, was it River (or do we call her Melody now? Eh, I like River better) in the spacesuit that kills the Doctor? Maybe. And had River already escaped when they find the space suit before they were able to send her through time, creating a new timeline? Or is that wishful thinking? I guess eventually she'll regenerate into the current version of River. Ugh, that'd be annoying as a parent – always having a shapeshifting child. Also, Moffat has expressly stated that both River and the Doctor have definitely died when we see them pass. Which doesn't make sense to me since that would end the show but I'm sure there is some wiggle room (or Moffat is lying about the Doctor dying).
Does the Doctor know he's going to die? Amy told one version of him that he would die but was that the flesh? Quite possibly. So, does he go through with it? What greater purpose does it serve? Who could benefit so much from his death that he would go through with it? If it's River then there's something else we don't know about her.
As for what's to come: I'm going to guess that River will be the next companion. Matt Smith is back for another year though Karen and Arthur aren't. I'd imagine this is the year that River and Doctor go off and do their thing and it will be grand. Moffat says he has a plan (this I definitely believe) and it shall be fantastic. I deem it such.
It also explains all of last season: they were going after Amy using a classic Terminator plan. Can't get the enemy? Kill the parents. Why they didn't try sending a cyborg back through time instead of destroying all of time and space, we shall never know. All we know now is that River is definitely destined to be something important since the TARDIS basically flung the Doctor towards Amy to ensure her safety and the eventual birth of River.
But as we all know – time can be rewritten.


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SOUTH Africa needs to be better prepared for a deeper than expected recession in parts of Europe, its largest trading region, Lionel October, director-general of the Department of Trade and Industry, said on Monday.
This, he told an economic policy dialogue in Johannesburg, meant developing and sustaining an industrial base to help avoid the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs and a decline in the local economy.
Mr October said South Africa had not been adequately prepared for the 2008 financial crisis, which led to the loss of about 1-million jobs, mainly in the manufacturing sector.
"We need to be prepared if there will be either a serious downturn or stagnation (in the euro zone)," he said. "We must have a coherent response this time so we don't suffer a knock as we did in the last round."
Parts of Europe are embroiled in high levels of indebtedness and economic uncertainty. A strong slowdown in economic activity in the euro zone could mean a fall in exports of locally manufactured goods, and thus weaker local growth.
South Africa's 2012 economic growth is already forecast to slow, to 2,8% from 3,1% in 2011.
Most of the focus in Europe is on Greece, which has just emerged from elections and was on Monday still to form a government. It is, however, expected that the new government will support bail-outs and austerity measures.
Mr October said the reason some parts of Europe were still economically sound, particularly Germany, while others such as Greece and Spain were under economic strain, lay in the differences between these countries' levels of industrialisation.
That, he said, motivated his call for an increased focus on South Africa's industrial capacity.


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'Sexual health services, and more'
The Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) recognised that the Hillfields area of Coventry had a well-established sex work scene but there were no sexual health services available to the women working on the street, in saunas or elsewhere. In response, THT developed a confidential outreach service, Sex Workers into Sexual Health (SWISH).
Now, if a sex worker is arrested she is offered a needs assessment by a SWISH representative which aims to help her break the cycle of repeat offending. She will be offered a variety of services, such as sexual health information and drug treatment. A woman who has engaged with SWISH is not fined so she doesn't need to go back to work to pay her debt. SWISH representatives also make contact with sex workers by regularly visiting massage parlours and women on the street.
Mark Graver, public relations manager, says: 'We work with a very unpopular, misunderstood group of people. They find it hard to use mainstream and voluntary services that could benefit them and in time benefit the community, but we are reaching them.'
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A charity that has built 22 secondary schools in Uganda and Zambia and educated over 8,000 youngsters...
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State police in Cumberland County are investigating a crash that claimed the life of a York County woman.
Amy Lefchak, 43, of Dillsburg, was thrown from her car after she lost control of it Wednesday night along West Lisburn Road, trooper said.
Her 11-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter were passengers and suffered minor injuries.


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The classical framework for the category of mini-notebooks (also known as netbooks) are present at the technical level in the new model Acer Aspire ONE D250-0BB. The list of characteristics and key components of the laptop will therefore be very similar if not identical, to that reported for all similar devices for the purpose, size, volume. The processor, for example, is a typical Intel Atom N270 with operation up to 1.6 GHz.
One port 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet LAN enables small Acer Aspire ONE D250-0BB to interface with other devices (including traditional notebook) as part of an internal network. The model uses an audio system with built-in stereo speakers and microphone. Compatible with the standard MS-Sound, the sound system is the type High Definition.
Only 1.11 kg of weight for the Acer Aspire ONE D250-0BB considering the addition of a battery power with 3-cells. However, if you installed a more efficient battery, 6 cells, the weight of salt to 1.27 kg. One of the features of the model lies in the choice of colors, including some new and original, as far as the outer covering: the configuration is called the Acer Aspire ONE 0BB-D250.
There is talk of a keyboard with some degree of completeness of 89% with the device type of integrated Acer Aspire ONE 0BB-D250, as well as in all the netbook with 84, 85 or 88 keys, and a hike of at least 1 , 6 mm between them. Only optional Bluetooth technology, while practice is guaranteed Protocol Wi-Fi.
In addition to the standard connections are also those of a phone, such as UMTS or HSPA and even support Quad-Band GSM frequencies of 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 Mhz. A resource to bring to light in the Acer Aspire ONE 0BB-D250 is undoubtedly the Crystal Eye digital camera with VGA resolution 0.3 megapixel Webcam that has at most functions.


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Tom Donnelly and Steve Enochian - California
Tom and Steve had a great bird hunt and they learnt that African birds are tough.In Tom's words: "Steve and I had a really great time and really enjoyed seeing the countryside, people and dogs work. Also wanted to thank you for all your hard work and hospitality…….We saw a side of life that American tourists never even know exists."
Rick and Sherlene Hoskins of California
"Awesome hunt. Everyone is so friendly and the food is the best we've ever eaten. Priceless memories! "
Tracy and Mary-Beth Wilson of Washington
"Best times!! Great food! Great hunt! Great people!"
Robert and Nancy Cody
"Truly great hunting with Chris and his team. Very fulfilling experience, much fun, much good food."Rick and Tina Wilson of Denver Colorado
"Unforgettable-the animals, the food, the stories and the late hunt with final light, last day."Lydia Swan of Denver Colorado
"Chris you are very stern, also patient. Thank you so much for the outstanding game. My memories will be warm for the days spent trudging up and down hills with you looking after me. Arnold you are a love too…Your personality is as colorful as your exotic pet. You're fun..See you all later."Ed, Cindy and Randy Gaven - California
"Chris this has been a rare experience. You are an excellent host and guide. The day with Arnold was a treat. Ed, Randy and I will cherish the memories of this African trip. Thanks and best wishes."
Hi Chris!Got in yesterday evenning, TIRED! But we can't say enough about how great the tour was! You put together a great package and I don't believe that we would have gotten anything near that with anyone else and especially not on our own! Thanks again for a lifetime of great memories!
Hi Chris,
I'm finally beginning to catch up at work. Wow, what a pile of paperwork was waiting for me when I got back. Hope all is well with you and the hunting trip went well.I just wanted to thank you for an exceptional holiday. I cannot express how much I enjoyed our 2 weeks with you. Your Country is truly amazing and you did a fantastic job of showing us so many special places. Kruger National Park will always hold a special place in my heart. The variety of wildlife we saw was unbelievable (about 28 different mammals) The tiny baby elephant and baby zebra were icing on the cake and your wonderful story about the honey badger and the little bird that leads him to the honey. Also can't forget our breakfasts of fresh papaya and macadamia nuts and the braai's (SP?) at Orpen camp.
Then Blyde River Canyon - what incredible scenery, the waterfalls and potholes and of course Louie's B&B. What a wonderful accommodation, great food and his wonderful gardens. What a character! The drive along the Orange River with all the vineyards. Augrabie Falls National Park was another wonderful experience - more wonderful scenery and the little rock dassies and lizards everywhere. I also loved the little yellow weaver birds and their nests hanging in the reeds along one of the paths.
Then we worked our way to Springbok and the wild flowers. Wow! So much better than going to the botanical gardens. So many varieties of plants and flowers with such wonderful colors, plus the beautiful rock formations. The ruins of the old stone prison were beautiful. What craftsmanship.Clanwilliam was another wonderful stopover. Again super accommodations and meals. Our day in the Cedarburg Mountains was amazing. Such incredibly rugged country with all those wonderful rock formations, plus more icing on the cake - the Bushman cave paintings. Stupendous! I need more adjectives to describe the trip. I have been enjoying my cup of Rooibos tea every morning. Should have bought more from the factory in Clanwilliam.The west coast and Cape Town were also wonderful. Perfect weather for views of and from Table Mountain, Robben Island, peguins and whales, the old fort and of course the Springboks winning the Tri-Nations Rugby match. You know you turned us all into rugby fans.Thank you Chris for so many wonderful experiences and memories and sharing your incredible country with us. Kim and I are still sorting through photos and I'm sure Gae and Todd are too. We will get you a CD of photos soon. We'll see you at the Sportsman Show in January. I'm checking on the dates for hockey and will let you know dates soon. Must get back to work.Keep well and thank you again,Sue
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Written on: 15/09/2016 by interwall (3 reviews written)
Walkers crisps are now of a very poor quality being soft and hard in the same bag. I complained over 2 weeks ago in the belief that it was a one off multi pack I purchased but reading recent reviews it is a much larger problem. Suffice to say I have not had a reply to my complaint… Read Full Review
Written on: 11/08/2016 by Weaver463 (1 review written)
What have Walkers done to they're crisps. They used to be fresh tasting with great flavour the best crisps on the market. But now the texture is different, you wouldn' t regognise them as Walkers. As the old adage goes if it's not broke don't mend it… Read Full Review
Written on: 14/08/2016
I entirely agree...I have thought it must just be a bad batch but it's not...they are all like it. Like eating stale cardboard. Utterly devastated. Texture is unpleasant and they have rock hard bits that get stuck in your teeth like tiny bits of gravel!!!! Why oh why oh why?? Idiots.
Written on: 08/08/2016 by Keith495 (1 review written)
Recently I have tasted several different packets of crisps from different shops and i though i had just bought a bad batch. They taste so different, not as crunchy and like skimping on the potatoe in each crisp. Its really off putting and the flavours are diluted too. I know times are tough and everyone wants to make a profit, but this is ridiculous! You will be affecting your customer base enormously! Sad day when walkers have gone down the pan!… Read Full Review
Written on: 31/07/2016 by davidgiles (2 reviews written)
It has been 6 days since I put a complaint in on the Walkers website. So good with customer relations they have not answered me. Call me old fashioned, but 6 days is stupid… Read Full Review
Written on: 04/05/2016 by Wigg (1 review written)
Awful crisps now flavour boring texture hard and greasy the cheese and onion ones used to be lovely in the 90's sick of them changing the recipe even the beef and onion ones they brought back now still ain't original recipe very poor greasy crisps horrible tasting oil… Read Full Review
Written on: 13/02/2016
I have recently come to the conclusion that walkers crisp do not taste like they used to do. I always used to prefer walkers crisps as other brands were lacking in the strength of their flavours, however, recently I have been finding myself preferring other brands as the flavour in walkers crisps don't seem as good as they used to. come on walkers you are supposed to improve your products! I have always been loyal to the band of Walkers, however, I believe that a different brand is where my… Read Full Review
Written on: 10/01/2016 by Lloyd377 (1 review written)
maybe my age but Walkers are not the crisps they use to be, over priced, reduced weight in bag, taste has gone, many more well made products out there, better value… Read Full Review
Written on: 02/09/2015 by lelk13 (1 review written)
Taste stale and sickly hardly a crunch super market brands are a lot better this brand are spending more on advertising than thinking about their products… Read Full Review
Written on: 10/08/2015
More like mud sauce. I was so annoyed with the utterly bland taste in the tiny multi-pack bags that I ended using real Worcester sauce on them. The USA Firm (PepsiCo) that has owned this firm for many years now has utterly destroyed this brand. (Spent a while trying to think if I could actually taste any cheese in the C&O multi-pack, that was a no as well, utterly bland). Back to the quality crisp manufacturers for me, as Walkers is no longer one of them, there are several very good small… Read Full Review
Written on: 27/05/2015 by Power255 (1 review written)
the crisps taste different now.they are more like goden wonder they arnt as refreshing as be4 dont know whts caused this but i have noticed tht the bags themselves are alot thicker so maybe its the bags tht makes the crisps the way the way they are?… Read Full Review
Written on: 22/05/2015 by BroganMcCleary261 (1 review written)
very disappointed, over the years I have started to realise that the crisps had a stale, sour taste, even if it was 2 months before the best before - this is not acceptable and its such a shame because walkers used to be such good crisps!!… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/03/2015 by Nigelt343 (1 review written)
they are bad, thanks for the reviews!… Read Full Review
Written on: 23/02/2015 by Hernandezob387 (1 review written)
Walkers crisps used to be my favourite crisp, all round quality. Now however, they taste like cheap budget crisps, stale and sour. The quantity has reduced, it's a bag of air with a few broken crisps at the bottom. RIP OFF… Read Full Review
Written on: 31/01/2015 by VanceBallard224 (1 review written)
They used to be the best crisps you could get now they are the worst, can't even eat a pack they taste sower, and disgusting. I think I'll return the pack for a refund… Read Full Review
Written on: 07/07/2014 by philgornal (1 review written)
Just eaten a packet of Walkers Ready Salted (threw half in the bin) and what a disappointment they are. I keep expecting the quality to return to something near what it used to be, but keep getting nasty tasting, black and purple edged crisps, that used to be associated with only the cheapest crisps. Walkers are now totally dependant upon their advertising and rip-off techniques, (bigger bags with fewer crisps) to maintain their business and I believe the writing is on wall for them. The sooner… Read Full Review
Written on: 07/06/2014 by nickoooooo (1 review written)
keep getting stale crisps in multi packs, take them back to Sainsbury's and get the well it must only be that pack attitude, off my shopping list now, and for ever. When I go to Italy on my hols I buy cripes from supermarket and they are fresh and tasty , not walkers. NOT recommended Hint: Think about what you liked and didn't like about it nothing no even the lame GL adverts… Read Full Review
Written on: 02/04/2014 by AshtonGustafson1990 (1 review written)
Recently purchased some old favourites, cheese & onion and salt & vinegar flavours of these crisps and I have noticed that the quantity has been reduced from 35g per packet to only 25g for the same price. Also, the 6-packet multipacks seem to have been replaced by multipacks of only 5 packets, once again for the same price. Also, the flavour was very disappointing. They are truly bland now! This goes for both classic flavours purchased, they have a very vague distant taste, as though the… Read Full Review
Written on: 27/04/2014
Totally agree! Sadly this is the case with just about every sweet, ready meal, snack food and chocolate etc. that I once enjoyed as a kid! Then you get the typical "your taste buds have changed" line chucked at you! No, they haven't! No taste buds change that much! Proof is also in the fact that in many of these big brands, which are globally sold, the salt, fat and sugar (hence the taste) is not universally the same; for example, Lays cheese and onion crisps, who are Walkers, but for America and a lot of Europe, taste just like ours USED to! In many countries the same product contains the original levels and recipe! Kellogg's in South Africa is an example! Had the Cornflakes there, which have half the salt here now, and less sugar! I can't eat them here without adding loads of sugar and a dash of salt! Also, Nestle Lion bar in Poland is exactly how I remembered it here as a kid, yet the UK one is rubbish now! Looking at the nutrition and ingredients, I know why! Less meddling in other countries! Very hypocritical of these firms! If salt or MSG is so bad, then why aren't people in other countries having loads of health problems! Take China as an example, loads of salt and MSG, but they are healthier than here!
Where ever one goes to find something great tasting, the health nazis and nanny state are sure to follow, because heaven forbid we actually make our own choices as adults or enjoy anything! So sick of these faceless and clueless government busy bodies interfering in our lifestyle choices! Free country, my arse!
Written on: 05/03/2014 by Dravenp389 (1 review written)
Gary Lineker's pay packet is having negative affect on the amount of crisps in the bag, that's why i now make my own crisps easy and more fresh… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/02/2014 by TheExpertGuru (1 review written)
i used to love buying walkers crisps, but they have gradually decreased the quantity of crisps in their packets. Now i will find most crisp are half broken and half a packet and rest is air. Just a disappointment, as i think they make some great tasting crisps but they have become greedy and thinking about making money and not caring for their consumers anymore. I think everyone should boycott walkers. They are a complete rip-off and would not recommend anyone purchase their crisp. The only… Read Full Review
Written on: 12/11/2013
Once a well respected manufacturer of good quality, if not good value crisps. Recent changes have robbed them of even that merit and adding insult to injury they promote them through a really cynical competition with prizes such as promotion codes. Wake up and smell the… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/12/2013
I quite agree. They supposedly made them more healthy, but all they did was reduce the quality and flavour. I don't like low fat variety foods as I prefer just to eat less full fat. The competition is absolutely rubbish. I have "won" many prizes so far, but I don't call it a prize when every single one entails spending money. I haven't actually used any of the prizes yet. They are either discounts at various websites or BOGOF. Plus the £10000 giveaway on Twitter basically involves you sitting, watching Twitter all day waiting for the clue so I couldn't be bothered.
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A minister was riding down the street on his bicycle when he came upon a boy trying to sell a lawn mower.
"How much do you want for that mower?" asked the preacher.
"I just want enough money to buy a bicycle," said the boy.
After a moment of consideration, the preacher asked, "Will you take my bike in trade for your mower?"
The boy agreed and took the bike. The preacher took the mower and tried to crank it. He pulled the rope a few times with no response from the mower.
The preacher called the boy over and said, "I can't get the mower to start."
"That's because you have to cuss at it to get it started," the boy said.
"I'm a minister, and I can't cuss," The preacher said. "In fact, I've been a minister for so long I've forgotten how to cuss."
The boy just looked at him, smiled and said, "Just keep pulling on the rope and it will come back to you."
Sticks and stones
When the apostle Paul wrote to the Christians at Ephesus, "Let no evil talk come out of your mouth," he wasn't just talking about cursing. He was talking more about the destructive and unhealthy ways we sometimes talk to and about one another.
As children, if someone called us a bad name, we might have said, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me."
Well, that's not exactly true. Names, snide remarks, put-downs, gossip - all these do hurt. They wound us deeply. And if they continue on a regular basis, the wounds may linger for years.
Paul encourages us to speak truthfully and honestly to one another, but to use words that "give grace to those who hear," to speak in ways that build up instead of tear down.
"Put away from you," writes Paul, "all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together will all malice," and practice, instead, kindness and forgiveness.
Paul's advice to the Ephesians is good advice for us as well, especially in light of the current tone of public discourse around important issues facing our nation.
Slandering of those who disagree with our opinions, name-calling and attempts to silence speakers we don't agree with is not the kind of communication that offers grace nor is "useful for building up."
When words are used to hurt others or to silence, the free flow of ideas then all of us are hurt. Let us all speak not only from the heart but with the heart.
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Calvin Johnson and rookie Brandon Pettigrew will sit out the team's second consecutive exhibition game, according to head coach Jim Schwartz.
Detroit has a Saturday evening tilt with Cleveland in what has become a traditional "Great Lakes Classic."
Johnson still has swelling in his thumb, and although he's participated in practice, the Lions don't want to risk any unnecessary aggravation of the injury.
Pettigrew will likely miss at least another week of practice with a nagging quadriceps injury.
The team will, however, suit up defensive tackle Grady Jackson for his first exhibition game as a Lion, along with rookie safety Louis Delmas.
Schwartz said the injury situation is improving.
"There were a lot of guys that last week we could have pushed and they probably could have been back if had been November, but it's August," he said. "We expected to get a lot of those guys back; what we're hoping is not to get setbacks."
Others that won't participate in the game include place-kicker Jason Hanson (knee), running back Allen Ervin, and receiver Kenny Harris. Tight end Casey FitzSimmons will also remain out.


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Milwaukee police are investigating two late-night shootings; one was fatal.
Police said a 26-year-old woman was shot and killed around 10:45 p.m. near Sherman Boulevard and Capitol Drive.
About 30 minutes later, a shooting was reported near Second Street and Randolph.
Police said one person was shot but is expected to survive.
No arrests have been made in either shooting.
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With summer officially over and the rush of vacationing visitors to Six Flags now tapering off, the amusement park has found it necessary to lay off about 10 of its full-time employees.
"These are layoffs and not terminations," said Sue Carpenter, spokeswoman for Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor.
The distinction is important, Carpenter said, with layoffs always holding the chance laid off staffers could be re-hired.
"It's in the ballpark of 10 people," she said, adding she was unable to reveal if the layoffs were at Magic Mountain or Hurricane Harbor, or at both.
The park is already into its fall lineup with Fright Fest weekends set to start Oct. 8 and run until Halloween.
The popular spooky seasonal attraction is sponsored by Snickers and involves turning Magic Mountain into a Halloween playground with scary shows, electrifying street entertainment and thrilling haunted houses.
Every October, park promoters turn the "theme park" into a "scream park" featuring 12 days of "terrifying haunted mazes, roaming zombies, the scariest clowns."
On Thursday, film crews were filming a PG-rated family movie at the park, Carpenter said.


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TELE. No. (202)619-6511
Friday, May 15, 1998
Deputy Secretary Talbott's mission to Islamabad prompted foreign analysts to focus on whether Pakistan will explode its own bomb in response to India's nuclear tests--perhaps as early as this weekend, as some reports indicate. Observers conveyed U.S. pessimism that Mr. Talbott would "succeed in pulling Pakistan back from the brink." Pakistani dailies differed in their advice to their government. Articles in the centrist News and the center-right Nation urged Islamabad to wrest "cast-iron nuclear umbrella guarantees against the Indian threat" and economic benefits in "compensation" for its promise of restraint. Other editorials in the News, on the other hand, stressed "deepening" Pakistani "distrust" of the U.S. and called for a nuclear test as an answer to the "hostile nuclear triangle--Israel, India and U.S.--that engulfs the entire Muslim world." With condemnation of the Indian actions still strong in available commentary, Indian writers toned down their earlier fervent endorsements of New Delhi's nuclear move and suggested ways India could refurbish its image. The pro-economic-reforms Economic Times suggested that the tests had not improved India's strategic position, and may well have worsened it in terms of ties with China and Pakistan. While China's press was at last full of irate denunciations of New Delhi's actions, Tokyo's top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri warned that Beijing might be forced by its People's Liberation Army to take "countermeasures."
EDITORS: Mildred Sola Neely, Kathleen J. Brahney and Gail Hamer Burke
INDIA: "Repairing The Damage"
According to an editorial (5/15) in the centrist Hindu: "The first imperative is to immediately restrain the jingoistic euphoria that is being whipped up by the BJP and its leading representatives....
It is...inexplicably provocative for the government and its spokespersons to link the tests to the need to increase India's security against Pakistan and China. Not only will the result of such posturings plunge the region into tremendous instability, but it will increase India's vulnerability on several fronts. The years of painstaking diplomacy by predecessor governments...to repair fragile ties with China and Pakistan are likely to be unravelled by such irresponsible and confrontationist responses.... If India were to adopt a creative diplomatic course...offering to sign the CTBT, to take a fresh look at the proposal for a fissile material cut-off treaty and to propose the implementation of nuclear and non-nuclear confidence building measures with Pakistan, India can turn this moment into an opportunity for increased leverage on the world stage."
"India's Strategic Position Has Worsened"
The pro-economic-reforms Economic Times' editorial held (5/15), "India's strategic position has not improved, and may just have deteriorated. As long as India and Pakistan had only conventional weapons, India had a huge superiority. But now that both countries have gone nuclear (Pakistan is bound to conduct tests soon), the two countries are on par.... Any nuclear war will mean the destruction of both countries."
"The Market Will Extract Its Price"
An editorial (5/15) in the pro-economic-reforms Economic Times warned: "Sanctions against India...are just the tip of the iceberg.... What is clear beyond doubt is that the market will extract a price far beyond what the sanctions alone will."
PAKISTAN: "Ask U.S. To Clearly Spell Out Its Prescription For Guarantees"
An editorial in the centrist, national News said (5/15), "How far the international sanctions announced so far will really hurt the Indian economy is open to question. On the face of it, the United States has adopted a tough posture.... Reading between the lines, one can discern from their pronouncements the apprehension that the BJP is all set to use the nuclear card to derive maximum political mileage at home.... Meanwhile, the Americans should be asked to clearly spell out their prescription for guaranteeing Pakistan's national security in the wake of India becoming a declared nuclear-weapons state."
"Deepening Of Pakistan's Distrust Of West, U.S."
An op-ed by Maleeha Lodhi in the centrist, national News stressed (5/15), "Islamabad's sense of being let down by an international community that failed to heed its warnings is exacerbated by the fact that Washington not only failed to detect India's preparations for five nuclear tests, but this monumental intelligence failure was matched by a policy blunder--in totally misreading the intentions of the BJP government.... The magnitude of this double blunder has also fueled considerable official suspicion of possible U.S. acquiescence in the Indian strategic design. Whatever the validity of this view, its effect has been to deepen Islamabad's distrust of the Western community, especially the United States."
In the editorial view of the center-right, national Nation (5/15), "compensation for Pakistan"
could "include...cast-iron nuclear umbrella guarantees against the Indian threat, recognition of Pakistan's nuclear capability irrespective of whether it tests or not, with no further sanctions to be imposed to Pakistan in recognition of its legitimate right of self-defense, debt write off or at the very least reduction, previous sanctions imposed on Pakistan to be waived in the light of the new situation, economic support and investment, etc.... Our American friends would be well advised to ponder these facts with due seriousness before advising restraint to Pakistan, which now lies directly in the path of a tangible nuclear threat."
"The Case For A Pakistani Nuclear Explosion"
Under the headline above, an op-ed by Nasim Zehra in the centrist, national News (5/15) urged a quick nuclear response by Islamabad and declared, "The Indian nuclear explosions drive home the three state hostile nuclear triangle--Israel, India and United States--that engulfs the entire Muslim world. A nuclear- armed Pakistan remains the sole hope for a self-reliant Southwest Asian security arrangement."
"U.S. Dominated Order Does Not Seem To Work"
Official government Rossiyskaya Gazeta (5/15) published this comment by Vladimir Kucherenko: "Now what do we do? We don't want confrontation with the West. Nor do we want to quarrel with India. The reason is that, apart from being a large high-tech and arms market, India, along with China, is our strategic partner in Southeast Asia.... The world is entering an unstable post-Soviet era. A new U.S.-dominated world order does not seem to work. So new forces keep searching for a cheap answer to the rich West's arsenals, mindful of the latest instances of the United States' dealing with 'bad guys,' including the air raids against the Bosnian and Krajina Serbs in 1995."
"Doomsday Not Fantasy"
Vladimir Dunayev held in reformist Russkiy Telegraf (5/15): "Doomsday predictions do not sound fantastic any more. Weapons of mass destruction have slipped out of the five nuclear powers' control.... The Russian president's press secretary Sergei Yastrzhembsky has acknowledged that the spread of weapons of mass destruction is a 'real threat to Russia.' In his opinion, Moscow must tighten export control over nuclear and rocket technologies. But that might prove late, since several countries already have components necessary to build a nuclear bomb."
BRITAIN: "Little Confidence Talbott Mission Will Succeed"
The conservative Daily Telegraph noted (5/15): "There is little confidence in Washington that the (Talbott) emergency mission will succeed in pulling Pakistan back from the brink."
"Why Should India Listen To U.S.?"
The conservative Daily Mail's editorial pointed out (5/15): "Of course, nobody in his right senses wants to see an arms race in Asia. But why should India listen to the Americans when there is so little progress in disarmament between the West and Russia? There would be more hope of a sane outcome if Washington, Moscow and Beijing led by example."
"The Risks Of Escalation"
Pierre Beylau wrote in right-of-center weekly Le Point (5/15): "The move made by India is extremely dangerous, because that particular regional checkerboard is one of the most unstable.... New Delhi wants to reposition itself on the regional level and compete with China for first place. Rightly or wrongly, India feels encircled.... Most of all, it feels that the United
States has deliberately chosen China as its privileged partner, thus reenforcing China's old dream of dominance.... Strictly speaking, India has not violated any international treaty.... The danger is not so much of seeing New Delhi misuse its nuclear weapon, it is rather one of contagion in a crucially strategic region."
ITALY: "A Sign From Birmingham"
A report from Eisenach in centrist, influential La Stampa (5/15) by Andrea di Robilant held: "On the eve of the G-8 summit, Bill Clinton is getting ready to take another 'slap,' this time by Pakistan. Despite his strong pressure on Islamabad, the U.S. president fears that a series of nuclear tests will nonetheless be carried out over the next few days in response to Indian tests.... The mood of President Clinton, who took India's defiance as a personal offense, continues to be terrible.... It is clear at this point that the G- 8 summit will be dominated by the nuclear crisis.... The United States may not obtain the tough condemnation of India it is seeking. One thing is certain: the Pakistani government will follow with attention the Birmingham talks, and a soft and split reaction by G-8 nations may become a decisive element in encouraging Pakistan to follow the road taken by India."
CHINA: "Seeking Hegemony A Threat To Neighboring Countries"
The official, Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao, 5/15) declared, "Regardless of the fundamental interests of its people, India risked universal condemnation to develop its nuclear weapons.... Seeking authority over South Asia is an obvious threat to neighboring countries."
"India's Absolute Lie On China"
Chen Xiaofang insisted in intellectually-oriented Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao, 5/15), "India using the Pakistani threat as an excuse for its nuclear tests is unconvincing.... The 'Chinese nuclear threat theory' which has fabricated by India is an absolute lie."
JAPAN: "India's Nuclear Testing Deals Blow To China"
Top circulation, moderate Yomiuri's Beijing correspondent filed (5/15), "Beijing's rather slow reaction to India's nuclear testings demonstrates its apprehensions that China's omni-directional diplomacy, intended to preserve a peaceful environment for its economic development, is now crumbling.... Chinese President Jiang's state visit to India in 1996 was an attempt to secure a safer southern border.... If Pakistan conducts 'retaliatory' nuclear tests and India takes further steps to develop nuclear weapons, it would be certain that the People's Liberation Army will call for (China to adopt) counter-measures. The Chinese leadership may even be forced to review its ongoing plan to cut back its armed forces."
ISRAEL: "India's Terrible Example"
The independent Jerusalem Post said in its lead editorial (5/15): "The failure of the West to set an example by moving towards radical nuclear disarmament does not excuse India's move in the opposite direction. Two wrongs, especially when nuclear-tipped, do not make a right.... India is more likely to be a victim of its own step up the nuclear ladder, than a beneficiary. India's tests will not only make Pakistani tests likely, it encourages the mind-set that nuclear weapons contribute to national greatness.... To be effective, the nuclear powers must lead the disarmament process by example, and be willing to make minimal economic sacrifices for global security."
TUNISIA: "Why Didn't U.S. React The Same With Israel?"
Senior editor Mohsen Zoghlami asked in independent, Arabic-language As-Sabah (5/15): "Why did the United States react angrily to India's nuclear test?... Why didn't they react the same way at least with Israel, a country which continues to ignore the peace process agreement...commit crimes and overturn all the rules?... All this has been overlooked by United States, whose support to this 'friendly state' which possesses 'only' 350 nuclear warheads, remains unconditional!"
SOUTH AFRICA: "By What Moral Authority Does U.S. Condemn India?"
The black, independent Sowetan (5/15) commented: "More disturbing is the dangerous prospect of an arms race.... Questions must also be asked about the political wisdom which informed the Indian government's decision to invest such massive resources in a nuclear weapons program. In a country as poor as India, one would expect that government to prioritize socio-economic development rather than nuclear proliferation.... China and Pakistan too must share in the responsibility for what happened in the past week.... At the same time, the question must be asked: By what moral authority does the United States condemn India's errant conduct?... The United States must lead by example and start by dismantling its own nuclear arsenal."


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While LoBiondo was winning for the first time, Democrat Robert E. Andrews won a third term by demolishing his Republican opponent, Gloucester County Sheriff James N. Hogan.
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If the Big East's current working expansion plan becomes its final plan - and the plan is "congealing" pretty fast, according to one league source - the chants from Temple's student section won't be pretty when Villanova visits the Liacouras Center for a hoops game in December.
According to several Big East sources, after another conference call Thursday, the league is moving closer to an expansion plan that has many, many moving parts, based on schools both coming and going. Right now the top working model includes adding Temple for football only, and no move-up to the Big East for Villanova football.


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She's one of the world's top pop stars, but even Beyoncé has her occasional moments of self-doubt.
"People see celebrities and they have money and fame, but I'm a human being. I cry, I get scared, I get nervous just like everyone else," the singer, 31, admits in a newly released trailer for her upcoming HBO documentary, Life Is But a Dream, airing Feb. 16.
That's just one of many confessions she has. Knowles, who welcomed her first daughter Blue Ivy with husband Jay-Z last January, also shares the sonogram and reveals how she found out she was pregnant.
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Many sponges are colorful, easy to keep when healthy and correctly transplanted, readily available and inexpensive – so it's a wonder more marine hobbyists don't keep them. And while they may not do much in aquaria compared with active swimmers – sponges can certainly accentuate an aquarium reef with a much-needed splash of color.
There are more than 5,500 recognized species of sponges worldwide but just a handful are kept with success. Most are not suitable for aquaria: some come from deep-water locales, others can cause painful skin reactions in humans, still others will attack and eat or kill corals and some grow so slowly that it would be akin to harvesting a redwood tree (scientific estimates peg the upward ages of the largest Caribbean barrel sponges, Xestospongia muta, which are big enough for scuba divers to disappear into, at more than 2,000 years).
When you are able to transplant a healthy specimen, it's like anchoring a "living lung" onto the live rock in your tank. The porous body structure, aka the aquiferous system, of sponges allows them to "inhale" huge volumes of tank water, while removing nearly microscopic bits of organic food particles as well as oxygen. The water is then "exhaled" along with carbon dioxide and other waste products. Another amazing property of these animals is their ability to regenerate themselves, much like the metallic cop in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, because of specialized regenerative cells.
Sponges can move prodigious amounts of water through their bodies every day and are often recognized as wonderful natural filters. According to one study, a 10-centimeter-long Leucandria sponge, with the diameter of a drinking straw, is able to process more than 5 gallons of water daily.
Sponges that are especially tough and adaptable to life in aquaria, perfect for beginner marine aquarists to try their hand at, are the lavender tube sponge (Callyspongia vaginalis), chicken liver sponge (Chondrilla nucula), red boring sponge (Cliona delitrix), orange ball sponge (Cinachyra kuekenthali) and orange fan sponge (Axinella bookhouti). • Axinella bookhouti is an Indo-Pacific sponge that is reef-safe, orange in color and has a stalk with fan-shaped top. It makes a very pretty addition to someone's reef aquarium.• Callyspongia vaginalis looks like a cluster of gray, blue or purple smokestacks. These make very attractive additions, too.• Chondrilla nucula is toxic to fish and should not be kept with reef fishes that have a penchant for grazing on sponges, such as many angelfishes, parrotfishes, trunkfishes and filefishes. This green to brown encrusting sponge is relative easy to keep; however, it isn't especially attractive. • Cinachyra kuekenthali is orange and ball-shaped, or it has a stalk with a knobbed protuberance on top.• Cliona delitrix is a red encrusting sponge that usually kills any corals it overgrows. This species often has the appearance of being covered in white dots, which are a commensal species of zoanthid (Parazoanthus parasiticus).
"Airing" on the Side of CautionOne of the keys to being able to successfully keep these and other sponges is to make sure you initially acquire a healthy, properly harvested specimen. Since sponges possess the ability to reproduce asexually (i.e., fragging and budding) like corals, one of the best sources of a healthy sponge is from other hobbyists who have healthy sponges.
Of course, you'll always want to quarantine any new specimen you bring home prior to introducing it into your own tank. The water conditions in the quarantine tank as well as the eventual tank the sponge will be introduced into should closely replicate the aquarist or local fish store tank you originally got it from.
One of the lead causes of sponge mortality is that they are exposed to air prior to the end of the supply chain – your tank. When removed from the water and exposed to the air, a sponge's unique "water-moving" physiology sucks in air that cannot be removed once it becomes trapped internally in the sponge. The air kills the sponge from within. It is almost like drowning but in reverse.
And while you can't be there when a specimen is taken from its home waters, you can certainly purchase sponges (as well as all other aquarium animals) only from reputable dealers who ensure that their animals receive the best treatment possible at every step of the supply chain.
Unhealthy sponges have a mushy feel as well as white or gray dead spots. Some sponges naturally have a mottled appearance; as a result, it is recommended that aquarists new to keeping sponges go with more uniformly colored species. In this way, first-time spongekeepers will be better able to pick up on the telltale clues as to a sponge's overall health.
Sponges should be attached to a small piece of live rock. Likewise specimens must be retrieved, bagged and transplanted underwater in order for them to have a chance to do well. Although there are photosynthetic sponges, those mentioned in this blog are all small-particle filter feeders. These sponges also typically come from shallow, sun-bathed reefs with tidal exchanges and constant wave action. Similar conditions in the aquarium, good lighting and moderate water flow, will help these unique animals to thrive in captivity.
Many tropical reef sponges live from 20 to 100 years in the wild, and there's no reason yours can't live for several years in your setup as well.
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Len, I found Axinella bookhouti at a couple of places online. You'll have to inquire about the others on the forums, and I suspect most would need to be special ordered. However, during my search, I did find lots of other sponges that can be ordered online. Good luck.
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They may be easy for some to keep, but good Lord if I can't keep a Condy Anemone alive I don't know.
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Ilya Bryzgalov's Canada – Russia take is the best take
Admit it: you miss Ilya Bryzgalov.
Saturday presented the latest reminder that hockey's just a little less fun thanks to the absence of Mr. Universe, as Bryzgalov regaled ESPN's Craig Custance with his impeccable analysis of the drubbing Russia received from Canada during the 2010 Olympics.
You see, Breezy initially described Canada's start "like gorillas out of a cage," but upon further reflection …
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"Not gorillas," Bryzgalov said. "More like Orcs from 'The Hobbit.' You watch that movie, right? Big. Mean. Scary."
Now, it's possible that Bryzgalov meant "Lord of the Rings" rather than "The Hobbit," but both series featured "Big. Mean. Scary" orcs, so who knows:
Really though, it paints quite the picture. Imagine, for a moment, Shea Weber or Brent Burns decked out like that one especially big, mean and scary orc. One can only imagine the Photoshop masterpieces that may sprout up thanks to the vivid story Bryzgalov told.
Now, there are some great bits leading up to Saturday's Canada – Russia semifinal. PHT should have more to come tonight.
Sportsnet looked back at a moment in which a seemingly sure-thing Canadian team hit a brick wall in a Russian opponent. NHL.com provided a fascinating look at Mike Babcock and his quest for control. TSN captures a moment of sorts for Steven Stamkos.
There's a lot of great stuff out there, but Bryzgalov's takes are truly one of a kind, and they've been truly missed.
Bruins' Vatrano to miss three months with foot injury
Frank Vatrano is supposed to be one of the young players the Boston Bruins will be counting on this season to help replace some of the offense they lost when Loui Eriksson signed a free agent contract with the Vancouver Canucks.
Unfortunately for the Bruins they will have to wait a few months before he gets an opportunity to make an impact.
The team announced on Saturday that Vatrano is going to require surgery to repair torn ligaments in his foot and is expected to miss at least three months.
General manager Don Sweeney said that Vatrano was injured in his training in preparation for the team's training camp.
Vatrano appeared in 39 games for the Bruins in 2015-16 season and scored eight goals, including a hat trick in an early season win against the Pittsburgh Penguins. He spent the rest of his season playing for Providence of the American Hockey League where he scored a league leading 36 goals in only 36 games. Just for some perspective on that goal total, only one other player in the league scored 30 goals for the entire season, and that was Chris Bourque who scored 30 in 72 games.
Star-crossed: Cody Eakin to miss about six weeks
The Dallas Stars' run of injuries hasn't ended even with the World Cup of Hockey winding down.
Training camps are starting up, so that's a new way that the team can encounter bad luck, and it didn't take much time for the hits to keep coming. Cody Eakin suffered a lower-body injury that's apparently bad enough to sideline him for six weeks, according to the team.
That same announcement revealed that Devin Shore will miss "some time."
Before that bad Eakin news leaked through, head coach Lindy Ruff tried to spin the injuries as positively as possible, as the Dallas Morning News noted.
"We've got a little bit of the injury bug hitting us, but you've got to get through it," Ruff said. "I'd rather have it now than three or four weeks from now."
In case you're wondering, Ruff didn't pass around bubble wrap to everyone in the Stars' locker room after making that statement.
Eakin has only missed four games over the last four seasons, so this injury bug is becoming quite the epidemic for the Stars.
Maple Leafs seem giddy about Auston Matthews
TORONTO (AP) Brooks Laich has seen top draft picks blossom in the NHL.
With the Washington Capitals, he watched Alex Ovechkin burst onto the scene in 2005. Now with the Toronto Maple Leafs some 11 years later, he has a ringside seat for Auston Matthews' debut.
The 19-year-old forward, the No. 1 overall pick this summer, turned heads at the World Cup of Hockey on a Team North American line with Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele.
"It puts a big smile on your face," Laich, a 12-year veteran, said about watching Matthews. "I see a lot of little things in his game, habits that you don't generally see in young players."
Those include his positioning, the way he competes for the puck and his shot release. From Scottsdale, Arizona, Matthews played last season in Switzerland.
Leafs center Nazem Kadri has also seen Matthews play from the Air Canada Centre stands.
"(He's) obviously high-level skill," he said. "(He) can skate, he's big. So he's only going to get better. Obviously, with that 82-game season, it's going to be a little difficult but I think he's going to be more than ready for it."
Leafs management already likes what it sees.
"There's no question he has a bright future," GM Lou Lamoriello said. "It's just exciting to see him play. But I think the most exciting thing is to know he's ours."
Laich reminded reporters asking about Matthews that the team comes first.
"This isn't an individual sport," he said. "This isn't a tennis or a golf where everything comes down to one person. Auston's a great player from what I've seen. But there's also going to be 22 other great players in this room.
"So as a young guy, he's got enough pressure on himself. He puts, I'm sure, enough pressure on himself. You don't get to be where he is already without having an internal drive like that. So we don't need to put anything else on him. We want to make him a member of the team, we want to treat him like the other 22 guys."
"The logo comes first. I'm sure Auston will tell you that."
The Leafs begin on-ice activities at training camp Friday in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


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