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Graded Response Model
The graded response model represents a family of mathematical models that deals with ordered polytomous categories. These ordered categories include rating such as letter grading, A, B, C, D, and F, used in the evaluation of students' performance; strongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree, used in attitude surveys; or partial credit given in accordance with an examinee's degree of attainment in solving a problem.
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I'm on a roll today. The Floortime Repository: I haven't really had time to explore this website properly yet, but from what I've seen it looks good. It's a place to find out more about Floortime, share photos and videos and make friends. If you're interested in finding out more, or doing Floortime then check it out.
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A Real Boy
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I was introduced to this book when someone I know vaguely emailed me a link to this Observer article and asked whether I'd written a book with my husband. Well the answer was no, but I could see why I'd been asked. My comment on reading the article was that 'someone else is living our life'.
Having read the book, that sense of a shared life is even stronger. David – the real boy of the title – is profoundly autistic. This book is written by his parents Christopher and Nicola Stevens, and describes his life up to the age of eleven. In some ways he's quite different from Archie. Archie was the most ridiculously passive and laid back baby and toddler for example, David somewhere at the other end of the extreme. David has quite a few spoken words but his receptive language sounds as if it's limited to nouns. Archie has no words at all but his understanding of spoken language has increased enormously recently. Despite these differences every chapter of the book reached out to me in shared understanding. It seems that a little way up the M5 another family is indeed living our life.
David sings his way through life; so does Archie. Both pitch perfect. David likes the echoes in cathedrals. So does Archie. David likes heights, so does Archie. Archie doesn't insist on watching people turn the key to start their car but he will stand outside the front doors of people arriving home and refuse to budge until they've shut their front door. I showed my husband Richard the bit about David insisting on watching people start their card and we both laughed in the way you do when something is funny and familiar. The experiences of this family-living-our-life was also useful for us. We've recently bought a new car. Stupidly we made a beginner's mistake, we didn't check that the back windows could be locked from the front. They can't and so Archie winds the window down and hangs his head out. Richard wanted to put Archie in the front seat. I said he might jump out, Richard said he wouldn't. I read another chapter of the book. David tried to jump out of the front seat. Richard has now agreed; Archie stays in the back – his drives now accompanied by a chorus of 'get your head in', perhaps preferable to being permanently ready to grab him.
David's parents fear the same things we do. The constant fear that your child might escape and be run over for example. They celebrate the same things we do- a starring role in the school play; and like us, they stopped telling other people as it was never quite understood in the right way. Like David, Archie attends a school where children sometimes die; another similarity in our background that exerts and influence over the way we view life.
They also share many of our feelings. David's father writes honestly and openly about his anger at other people's reactions. His frustration that other's can't always see the value in a boy like David mirrors my own when people dismiss Archie as somehow being less worthy than a typical child. David's dad comes across as a little bolshier than me. He writes:
Nicky and I had resolved a long time ago that David was going to be included, and that anyone who didn't like that could stay at home with their curtains drawn.' I have a well developed rhino hide but I often feel as if I have to apologise for Archie's behaviour in public, and sometimes I have avoided places because of the potential for noise and shouting but I've adopted the 'Christopher Stevens" approach a little more during this half term week and it felt good. And I've decided we're going to start visiting Cathedrals again.
Of course not everything is identical. We've made different choices at various stages. Archie is gluten free for example and has responded well to some part time ABA. But parenting is always like this, different families make different choices and something that works for one child or one family isn't necessarily right for another. And those little differences don't really matter when so much of your life is so totally different from mainstream, but so familiar and shared. I read the final chapter in bed with Archie lying sideways on top of me, kicking me every now and then and shouting loudly in my ear. 'Living with David can be quite an isolating experience' NIcky writes 'Apart from Chris, myself, David's teachers and the other staff who work with him, nobody understands our son.' And I read that and thought she was wrong, because David to me was so familiar. Those of us with our very own real boys understand.
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Posted in Diet/Biomedical, Education, Sensory, Websites on May 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Archie's busy sorting out his birthday present in the photo. A karaoke machine. He may not be able to talk, but boy he can sing; pitch perfect of course. I didn't take the photo to show that though, I wanted to grab a quick shot of his t-shirt. IAN- the interactive autism network aims to put USA based researchers and parents together. It's a great site, and although people outside the US can't participate in the research side, there's plenty to read and forum to join.
Which brings me onto conferences. The t-shirt was given away free at IMFAR – the International Meeting for Autism Research. Organised by INSAR (the International Society for Autism Research), the 7th annual meeting was held in London in May. This was the first time it had been held outside the United States and was a great success. Over 1000 people attended. I was lucky enough to be able to attend for free. I was presenting a poster (if you want a copy please contact me – the poster title was either 'Interactions of children with severe autism' or 'Unexpected competencies of children with severe autism' depending on whether you read the abstract or the poster) so my department paid.
Anyway, it was a fantastic conference. Really exciting. There was a lot of emphasis on gene-environment interactions and several of the talks I attended discussed potential environmental triggers. I had a number of very interesting conversations with Dr Derrick MacFabe, Director of the Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research Group in London, Ontario. I found his research interesting indeed and potentially very relevant for Archie. I'm not going to attempt to summarise the research here but if you have a child who you think has gut problems I'd strongly advise finding out more. The Autism Canada website has a very accessible web video presentation by Dr MacFabe: ' The Self Centred Bug' along with various papers and articles that can be downloaded.
I also met Adam Feinstein over lunch (a stand up affair with sandwiches served in brown paper bags). He runs (or perhaps helps run) the AWARES series of online conferences. These are excellent. They take place once a year with additional seminars taking place during the year and allow direct communication with many autism experts. My first discussion with Donna Williams took place at an AWARES conference. Do sign yourself up. Highly recommended and the annual event has something for everyone.
IMFAR was followed by Autism One a US based conference aimed at parents. I didn't attend, and managed to completely mess up listening to it by internet radio but the conference presentations are usually made available shortly after the conference. The powerpoints can be downloaded for free with the audio or video files available to buy.
As a final comment on conferences that have finished the previously mentioned online Floortime conference and post conference workshop on sensory processing was brilliant. It was a very effective introduction to Floortime theory and practice. Apparently it will run again soon.
The workshop on sensory processing reflected the growing awareness of sensory issues in autism. I think this is something that Stanley Greenspan who developed Floortime, has always recognised but perhaps others have been slow to really take board. The renewed interest in this area was evident at IMFAR with an invited educational symposium on sensory integration disorders and many posters considering sensory dysfunction.
And finally – a future conference. The 20008 NAS Research into practice conference will take place in London at the Novotel West on the 19th and 20th September. It does look good but it's rather pricey, even for NAS parent members.


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Sequestration Getting You Down? :(
anyone else feeling the effects of sequestration? The military is saying they will run out of money to fund their public works department by March, housing environmental. After undergrad, I had some lucrative years before the crash then getting spotty work, go back and get an MA, and now its repeating itself all over again.
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Executed contracts can't be widthdrawn. A company like CEMML, who typically gets a yearly contract renewal for year-round program management, are guaranteed to keep funding for this year's work.
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Pathways had a very small application window, perhaps to minimize competition and applicant pool size. I haven't seen any change to those postings besides closing, so we'll see what happens there.
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And BLM just got their notices for furloughs starting next month (or so I was told today during a meeting).
Pathways is a bunk program depending on the agency you apply for. Don't get me started on why Pathways is a waste of time for my agency...you don't wanna hear it! The window was small for the Forest Service on purpose. I haven't heard how sequestration will affect the Pathways program for my agency.
I spoke with someone today and they said, depending on the next few weeks, it could be likely that seasonal positions, if filled at all, won't be filled for a few months. That could change if Congress gets their act in order, but as someone who wandered my office today heard, Congress is looking to move on from what happened Friday and is now probably going to be focused on avoiding a full, complete shut down at the end of the month. Just speculation, but no one I work with was very positive today.
Edited to add: For the record I've been a student intern at the USFS for almost two years, and I can't even get a job with my own agency....I'm heading back into the private sector soon. If I sound bitter and disappointed, I am. It's been a long, ugly road!
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From what I have been hearing, there is now the potential that contractors will also be furloughed along with their civilian counterparts. That is, if their contracts are renewed at the end of their period of performance. The particular installation I am working on wants to have lights off on the furlough days. While I can see the benefits of this, renegotiating contracts to decrease hours and pay seems like a legal nightmare when contractors could work 10-hour days instead, but I am a peon at the bottom of the totem pole. Again this is speculative and hear-say but could be potentially devistating to those at the lower-end of the payscale.
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The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation congratulates this year's recipients of its prestigious research fellowships. These fellowships recognize public intellectuals in the humanities and social sciences who venture beyond the boundaries of their disciplines to find new solutions to complex issues of major importance to Canadians.
The five new fellows appointed this year conduct research on:
- assisted suicide,
- Arab-Canadian youth,
- Canada's relationship with the Indo-Pacific,
- justice as applied by armed rebels,
- and ethnobotany in support of Indigenous land claims.
In addition to receiving a total of $225,000 over the next three years, each new fellow will enjoy unique access to the rich intellectual network of researchers and practitioners who have joined the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation community before them – 58 fellows, 106 mentors, and 187 doctoral scholars over the past 13 years.
In announcing this year's fellowships, Morris Rosenberg, the Foundation's president and CEO, said: "The five 2015 Trudeau fellows work on issues that are fundamental for our society. Their research will help advance Canadian public policy by educating the public and stimulating evidence-based debate."
The 2015 Trudeau Fellows
Jocelyn Downie, Faculty of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia)
A specialist in the legal issues surrounding medically assisted dying, Professor Downie will involve the full spectrum of stakeholders to advance law and policy on palliative care, end-of-life treatments, voluntary euthanasia, and assisted suicide.
Bessma Momani, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (Ontario)
Professor Momani's research and intervention will inform public policy about ways to promote responsible citizenship among Arab-Canadian youth and engage them as citizens within a healthy multicultural society.
Cleo Paskal, Visiting Fellow at the Montreal Centre for International Studies, Université de Montréal (Quebec)
Ms. Paskal will research the forces rebalancing power from the West to the East on the world stage and suggest how political, economic, and environmental changes in the Indo-Pacific might shape Canadian foreign policy in that part of the world.
René Provost, Faculty of Law, McGill University (Quebec)
Professor Provost's research will explore the possibility of engaging with armed, non-state groups in conflict areas with a view to enlisting minimal respect for the standards of international humanitarian law.
Nancy Turner, Environmental Studies, University of Victoria (British Columbia)
A specialist in ethnobotany and ethnoecology, Professor Turner will examine how research in her area of expertise can support the rights of Indigenous peoples in British Columbia and elsewhere with respect to land occupancy and ancestral treaties.
About the Trudeau Fellowships
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellowships were established in 2003 to encourage original initiatives and innovative projects that would not necessarily receive support through traditional funding mechanisms. Nominated by their peers and selected by an independent panel, Trudeau fellows come from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, and their research deals with one or more of the Foundation's four key themes.
Each fellow proposes a collaborative project in which other Foundation fellows, mentors, and scholars participate.
The call for nominations for the 2016 fellowships is open until 27 November 2015 for regular fellowship candidates and until 11 December 2015 for candidates for a visiting fellowship.
Bessma Momani
Professor Bessma Momani is an expert on global economic governance issues, Canadian foreign policy, Arab Spring, Arab Canadians and Arab youth.
2018 Directors
Nancy Turner
Professor Nancy Turner is an ethnobotanist whose expertise spans the fields of botany, linguistics, anthropology, and law.
2015 Fellows
Jocelyn Downie
Professor Jocelyn Downie is an expert on the protection of human participants in research, end of life law and policy, and the protection and promotion of women's health.
2015 Fellows
René Provost
Professor René Provost specializes in international human rights, humanitarian law, and legal theory.
2015 Fellows
Cleo Paskal
Ms. Cléo Paskal's expertise lies in the bridging of global issues along geopolitical, geoeconomic and geophysical lines, particularly with regards to global environmental change and security.
2015 Fellows


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Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Near a tree by a river...
I've just contributed my Idiot's Guide To Nik Kershaw to the ever growing collection of Idiot's Guides over at the brilliant Jefitoblog.
Go over here to read it
As an additional bonus, here's another fantastic tune from Nik's career-best 15 Minutes:
MP3: Nik Kershaw - Made In Heaven
Buy 15 Minutes from amazon.co.uk
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Labels: Music, Nik Kershaw
Monday, 12 February 2007
It's good to love, for love is hard to find...
A Valentine's Day Playlist
Declarations of love, lost love, love that never was and love that might be. Valentine's Day may be greatly improved by giving these a spin.
MP3: Bic Runga - When I See You Smile
Buy Beautiful Collision from amazon.co.uk
MP3: A-ha - You'll Never Get Over Me
Buy Minor Earth Major Sky from amazon.co.uk
MP3: Darren Hanlon - He Misses You Too You Know
Buy Hello Stranger from Candle Records
MP3: David Gray - This Year's Love
Buy White Ladder from amazon.co.uk
MP3: David Mead - Breathe You In
Buy The Luxury of Time from amazon.co.uk
MP3: Josh Rouse - 100m Backstroke
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MP3: Rufus Wainwright - Natasha
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MP3: Split Enz - Message To My Girl
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MP3: The Divine Comedy - Everybody Knows (Except You)
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MP3: Tim Finn - In Your Sway
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Hawk HPS: Dust a decent amount, but very quiet, and good bite.
Hawk Black: Decent track pad. Noisy when cold and hiss when hot. Lots of bite and heat resistant enough for light to medium track duty in our cars.
Axxis Metalmasters: Very cheap and work well. Not as quiet as Hawk HPS but dust a little less.
I'm using Brembo OE rotors and am running the larger 92/93 GT/GT-S brakes at all 4 corners.
Roundy: A bigger pad means longer wear and slightly cooler pad temperature (friction is a function of surface area, and the larger volume will take longer to heat). Why do you want to upgrade the brakes if you just said the brakes are working fine?


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Hospital Administrator
Like most in the veterinary field Caitlin has loved animals since she was a little girl; she feels working around them every day in veterinary medicine is the best job in the world. Her role allows her to combine her love of science and veterinary care with her strong interest in teaching.
Operations Manager
Michelle used to work in a very stressful fundraising job in New York City. She didn't feel passion for her job, and recognized that working with animals could be what truly satisfied her! Michelle's background includes graphic design, marketing , advertising and fundraising. DCAH was the perfect fit to utilize all her skills.
Client Liaison
Terry's interest in animal care began when she was seven years old, growing up in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Her parents presented her with three baby ducks, and she absolutely loved caring for them and watching them grow up. Now she's worked in the veterinary field for a full 16 years!
As a kid growing up in the Bronx, Suzana saw a lot of stray cats and dogs. She knew she wanted to be their voice, speaking up for them and providing whatever care they needed. She even convinced her parents to take in many strays! To this day, Suzana loves caring for pets of all shapes and sizes.
Michele's passion and love for animals began when she was just a few months old when her parents took in a stray tabby kitten they named Peanut. Then came Maggie a Palomino rabbit rescued from a rabbit farm in upstate New York.
Michele has lived in LaGrange for her whole life and graduated from Arlington High School in 2012. After graduation she entered the retail field. But her love for animals left her longing for a job that is more meaningful and she now joins us here at Dutchess County Animal Hospital. She is hoping to make working in the veterinary field a lifelong career.
Ambrielle has always had a deep love for animals. Growing up she always tried to sneak stray kitties into her house which her parents were not too fond of. Ambrielle graduated Chapel Field Christian High School in 2015 and started working in retail and customer service. She then discovered she loved working with people. Although she enjoyed working with people she still had a yearning to express her love for animals in her daily life. Working at Dutchess County Animal Hospital has given her the opportunity to follow both passions, working with people and animals!
Licensed Veterinary Technician
Tracie's grandfather used to raise giant chinchilla rabbits, and he let Tracie feed them when she was only five years old. This early experience with animal care helped inspire Tracie to work in the animal care field full time!
Licensed Veterinary Technician
Sarah has wanted to work with animals for as long as she can remember. Her dream job has always been to work in zoo animal behavior and communication. From working with cats and dogs to spending the day at the zoo, Sarah is most at home when there are animals around.
Licensed Veterinary Technician
Tara's love for animals began when she was just 5 years old after her parents brought home her first pup, Toby. He became her inspiration when attending school for pre-veterinary medicine to work proudly in the animal care field. Tara now has 2 rescue pups of her own, Milo and Casey, who love exploring and taking up most of the space on her bed. Nothing makes her happier than being around her "kids" and helping save animals; and she definitely brakes for squirrels!
Claire grew up not too far from Poughkeepsie in Cortlandt Manor. Claire had cats and rabbits growing up and she currently has Jax, an American Bulldog/Pitbull mix that she rescued from Yonkers Animal Shelter. Claire has worked in veterinary medicine on and off for twenty years. Some of her favorite areas of the job include working with the bully breeds in the rooms with their owners, she also enjoys assisting the doctors and technicians with surgical prep. Claire has started her associates degree to become a veterinary technician and plans to continue.
Gabby has always been an animal person having grown up with dogs but her love for animals really flourished when she began horseback riding at age 11.
Michaela has loved animals since she was little. When her parents let her go pick out her very first kitten when she was about 7 years old, she ended up coming home with two kittens instead of one! Then her parents let her pick out a dog named Lily, and her love for animals just kept growing. Next, she brought in a stray cat and the family got even bigger!
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Elk in Corbin Park
The following story was published in SooNipi Magazine, Fall 2007 issue.
By Mary Comeau-Kronenwetter, Ed.D.
One hundred years ago, one could hear the bugle of a bull elk in Andover,
New Hampshire. Sixty-six years ago, two hundred men spread out across
Lempster, Washington, Goshen and Unity and took forty-six wild elk in a
two-day season. The elk, more accurately called wapiti or Cervus Canadensis
has never been a native of New Hampshire, but briefly roamed free in
the state during the first half of the 1900s. Newport-born financier
Austin Corbin imported elk into the state in the 1890s as he stocked his
private game reserve, the Blue Mountain Forest Park (known informally as
Corbin's Park). Corbin acquired between 265-373 deeds, which included over
sixty farms across the townships of Cornish, Croydon, Grantham, Newport and
Plainfield. The park was enclosed with thirty-six miles of fencing and was
stocked with wild boar, moose, bison, bighorn sheep, elk, Chinese pheasant,
and other exotic species. Wildlife conservation was Corbin's primary aim;
hunting was only permitted later to thin the population of rapidly
increasing species such as boar.
Austin Corbin's son, Austin Corbin III, took over the park management after the untimely death of his father in an 1896 carriage accident. During his tenure, he donated or sold animals from the park's bison, deer and elk herds to various government and private game reserves and zoos across the United States. It is a well-known story of how Corbin Park bison helped repopulate the almost extinct bison population in the United States. The story of Corbin Park elk in New Hampshire is less known.
Ten million elk are thought to have occupied the United States before European settlement. Native Americans hunted elk for food, and used the hides, bones, antlers and teeth for practical and decorative purposes. European settlers and market hunters reduced the population almost to extinction. By the late 1800s, it is estimated that only 50,000 elk remained in the Western states.
This second largest species of deer (moose being the largest) ranges up to five feet at the shoulder, with 1,000 pounds not uncommon. Males sport magnificent antlers. Their name wapiti comes from the Shawnee term "white rump." Their habitat is primarily forest and forest edge. They graze on grasses, plants, leaves and bark, and each typically consumes ten to twenty pounds of food daily. They compete with other deer species for food; one elk consumes three times as much food as one deer. While moose prefer a solitary lifestyle and deer prefer small cliques, elk live and travel in herds. A dominant bull will defend a harem of cows that can number over twenty.
In the Smithsonian Institution's History of Corbin Preserve (1964) Richard Manville reported that sixty elk were imported into Corbin Park from Northern Minnesota in 1891 and soon became nearly as tame as cattle. They flourished overall, with numbers occasionally declining during particularly severe winters. In 1903, Austin Corbin III presented eight cows and four bulls to the State of New Hampshire. The Andover Fish & Game Club released the animals in the vicinity of Ragged Mountain.
New Hampshire Fish and Game naturalist Helenette Silver documented the history of the released elk in New Hampshire during the first half of the 1900s. In A History of New Hampshire Game and Furbearers (1957) she writes of the growth of the original group of gifted elk. By 1912, up to forty elk were seen in one herd. Farmers had begun presenting claims for damage to fields and orchards. However, it wasn't until 1915 that New Hampshire passed a law requiring payment for game damage. Property owners in Andover, Webster and other locations, took matters into their own hands and shot the elk on their property. Other elk, when they moved on to the area around Cardigan Mountain, were killed by poachers around Canaan.
In 1933, Austin Corbin III made another gift of elk. This time, two bulls and ten cows were released in Washington and Goshen into the Pillsbury Reservation. At the time, it was a state game refuge. The elk again flourished, with their population estimated to be between sixty and two hundred. The animals began expanding their territory into several surrounding towns, including Washington, Lempster, Goshen, and Unity. Again, individuals who lost gardens and crops to the voracious elk complained to state and local government officials.
In 1941, the state decided to reduce the herd through its first (and only) two-day elk hunting season. Two hundred hunters, who had paid $5 for a special license, bagged forty-six elk on December 17 and 18 of that year. Considering that the elk were shot in herds, it is fortunate that no accidents were reported. After the hunt, conservation officer Jesse Scott estimated that only thirteen elk remained in the New Hampshire woods. In1942, the first of a number of surveys was done, scouting possible locations in Northern New Hampshire where the elk might be relocated to avoid their trespass into private fields and orchards.
Claims filed for crop damages in the early 1950s spurred the State legislature to pass An Act Relative to Elk (Chapter 43). And in 1955: "The director of fish and game is hereby directed to reduce the elk herd in the state to a population that will no longer present a potential threat to agricultural interests. The reduction of this herd shall be started at once and carried to completion without unnecessary delay."
The act also contained a provision stating that proceeds from the carcasses sold go toward "the establishment of an elk herd in the northern counties of the state."
On March 16, 1955, conservation officers shot fourteen cows and two bulls in Lempster. A few days later, an irate farmer shot two bull elk. At this point, the Fish and Game Department estimated that there were perhaps between twenty and thirty free-ranging elk remaining in the state. It is commonly believed that the remaining elk were killed by farmers or poached illegally by hunters. None of the various proposals for relocating the elk to more northern or western parts of the state were ever enacted.
Although unsubstantiated reports of wild elk sightings persist, Steve Weber, Chief of New Hampshire Fish and Game's Wildlife Division, recently confirmed that there are no wild free-range elk in New Hampshire today. The only elk to be found in the state are located on a handful of livestock or game farms and at the Blue Mountain Forest Association, today a private-membership hunting club.
For a brief period in New Hampshire history, the bugle of a wild wapiti bull could be heard echoing in the mountains of central New Hampshire. Like the howl of the gray wolf, a native now extinct in New Hampshire, the sound has disappeared from the granite state wilderness. Today, according to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, there are about one million wild free-ranging elk live in the western United States: Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and from Ontario west in Canada.
end of story by Mary Comeau-Kronenwetter
click HERE to see an old 1954 article in Sports Illustrated (back before today's Politically Correct liberals made guns & hunting "evil", and hunting was considered a "sport" that could be described in SI) about the big New Hampshire elk hunt
Click HERE to go to my full "Corbin Park" page


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Washington: A novel way of converting human skin cells directly into functional brain cells is likely to revolutionise regenerative medicine and drug discovery.
Sheng Ding`s latest research from Gladstone Institutes offers new hope for tackling degenerative diseases like Alzheimer`s, as well as for the possibility of cell-replacement therapy to reduce the trauma of millions of people affected by these irreversible conditions.
Ding, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California-Los Angeles, used two genes and a microRNA to convert a skin sample from a 55-year-old woman directly into brain cells. MicroRNAs are tiny strands of genetic material that regulate almost every process in our cells.
Ding`s research extends Gladstone scientist Shinya Yamanaka`s work who offered a method for avoiding the embryonic stem cells and creating an entirely new platform for fundamental studies of human disease, reports the journal Cell Stem Cell.
Use of embryonic stem cells is controversial, which is why Yamanaka`s discovery of an alternate way to obtain human stem cells is so important, according to a Gladstone statement.
"This technology should allow us to very rapidly model neurodegenerative diseases in a dish by making nerve cells from individual patients in just a matter of days rather than the months required previously," said Stuart Lipton, who collaborated with Ding in the study.
Lipton directs the Del E. Webb Neuroscience, Aging and Stem Cell Research Center at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute.


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Parents are doing more on Facebook than checking up on their friends' babies and divorces ... they're cracking into their kids' accounts and reading their emails. Security site BullGuard surveyed parents of kids 10 to 17 years old and found some pretty shady stuff. Parents admitted to all kinds of snooping on their kids, including guessing their passwords and accessing their social media and email accounts and reading messages; reading their text messages; checking their Internet history. In fact, 61 percent of parents surveyed confessed to spying on their kids -- and my question is, Why???
I don't mean why would you spy. I know why you would spy on your kids. You're worried about them. You want to know if they're being bullied or in contact with older adults who shouldn't be contacting them, or sending sexy selfies or watching porn, or any of the myriad things kids can get up to these days online.
My question is why are you spying?? Why not just TELL your kids you will be regularly checking their accounts and demand their passwords? Sure, kids can always have a secret email account somewhere, but most kids are going to use the same social media accounts and are likely not savvy enough to have secret email accounts. Even if they do, you can still watch the main ones.
I don't think this is bad. Since when should kids have online privacy? It's one thing not to read their diary -- a pedophile can't get them through a diary. He or she CAN online. There's really nothing that your 10- or 12-year-old should be saying online that you shouldn't be reading.
More From The Stir: Mom Publishes Her Daughter's Diary Online -- So What?
And I'm not saying that kids should automatically be punished for online shenanigans you'd rather they not partake in, such as looking at porn or communicating with adults in an inappropriate way. Kids are curious and often don't really have a clue how dangerous the world can be. A young girl who is posting a pic of herself in a bikini online, asking the world if she is "pretty," genuinely just wants to play dress-up. She has no idea what she could be opening herself up to.
But YOU do. You know, and it's your job to sit down with your tween and let them know what is acceptable and what is not, and take away Internet privileges if these aren't being respected.
But spying? If your kid finds out, he or she is going to feel betrayed. Besides, how can you speak with your child about stuff you may need to if you can't confess how you know what is going on? One third of parents said they were "wracked with guilt" about their spying. Well, if you'd laid down the law, you wouldn't be guilt-ridden, because your kid would know the rules.
By the time a responsible tween reaches teenhood, you can renegotiate privacy and online boundaries, but I would still hold onto passwords just in case. Call me overzealous, but letting a 10-year-old loose on the Internet is like bringing a 10-year-old to a keg party and dropping her off.
Do you spy on your kids?
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The warmth and funkiness of Sleeping Beauty and On Jupiter have long made them favourites with Sun Ra fans. Recordings for the two albums took place at New York's Variety Recording Studios on three separate dates during 1979 (sessions that also yielded the material for Strange Celestial Road), and both records are highpoints of the Arkestra's 1970s journey. On Jupiter effortlessly cruises across genre boundaries toward a rarely visited star on the deep disco funk 'UFO', while 'Seductive Fantasy' and 'On Jupiter' are timeless examples of Sun Ra's inimitable cosmo-swing sensibilities. Sleeping Beauty meanwhile is one of the most profound and compelling sets in the whole Ra discography, and the Variety Studio sound captures the Arkestra with unique clarity and depth. Recorded with an expanded 28-piece band, the album features woozy avant-ballad 'Springtime Again', the glittering future funk of 'Door to the Cosmos', and finally the stunning meditative, spiritualised groove of 'Sleeping Beauty'. On Jupiter and Sleeping Beauty: twin stars that shine brightly from deep within the myriad Sun Ra galaxies!
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Nearly 12 hours after the body of a 68-year-old woman was found inside her home near Smithsburg Wednesday morning, Washington County Sheriff's Department investigators still were searching the scene for answers.
Sgt. Mark Knight said late Wednesday that investigators were treating the death of Shirley Finfrock, of 22128 Holiday Drive, as a homicide. No arrests had been made, he said.
Knight and other investigators would not release the cause of death Wednesday.
Knight, who remained at the scene until midnight, would not say if police had any suspects.
He said there were several unknowns in the case and that investigators were "trying to leave no rock unturned."
Authorities called to the house found Finfrock dead inside her home on the quiet outskirts of Smithsburg off Md. 64 Wednesday morning, Knight said.


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I've been on the road for a week now, and yesterday was my first day off from my Helpx duties.
Since I've been very busy planning my next moves I hadn't even thought about taking time off, but my hosts encouraged me to go out for the day.
From all the possible things I could do around Alozaina, I chose to head to El Burgo to find a bathing spot by Turón River that seemed to be nice.
There isn't much public transport connecting these towns, so I had to take the only available buses to get there and come back. This means that I took the 9:15 bus from Alozaina to El Burgo.
The road is VERY winding, so when I got off at my stop (just outside El Burgo), I had to take a moment to recover from the dizziness and the strong throwing-up feeling I had.
After breathing deeply for few minutes I started walking towards the river. There is a very clear sign (the blue one on the photo) that you have to follow to get to the path.
This is the view of "El Burgo" from the main road.
Once you get to the beginning of the path, you see this sign that marks the whole hiking route. It's 18 km. in total, but the place I went to is located only 2.5 km. away.
Then you just walk (mostly under the sun) while enjoying the views and the typical architecture from Andalusia.
It was still early so it wasn't as hot as it looks.
It took me about 30 minutes to get there, but it could be done faster if you don't stop for pictures.
I finally arrived!!! And it was so early (at least for locals) that there wasn't anybody. I had the whole place for myself. Yay!!!
After walking around all the small paths that surrounded "El Dique", I decided to take a plunge in this refreshing clear-water pool.
The water was quite cold but it was just what I needed —It can get really hot during summer on this part of the map!
After swimming, I had to lay down under the sun for a bit. You can see a bit of my sarong from Bali in the photo.
And then it was time for snacks and selfies!
When it got too hot I moved under the shade and read Pearl Buck's "A Bridge For Passing" for a while… until families with children started coming and the place got too noisy.
I started to walk back and took some photos along the road. This one is from the path you have to take down the river to get to the bathing area.
And I took this one from a bit further up on the main path when I thought I was going to find another nice spot to get to the water… until I realized it was too hot for more adventures and turned around to go back to the town.
A few minutes later I ran across this little (but HUGE! fella).
Then something magical happened: a very kind couple of travelers that were passing by on their car offered me a lift to the town, where this post ends and the next one will start ;-).


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We want to make sure our guests leave Cecilia House feeling happy and content. These are a few of the comments we have received so far.
If you have stayed at Cecilia House, or have any thoughts on this website, we would love you to add a comment at the bottom of this page.
" Lovely comfortable house + outstanding village ! We loved ' The Shawl ' including play park best. "
Barrett family, N. Ireland
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Trustees have no personal authority as an individual trustee. Individual trustees do not direct college staff or programs. Trustees are servant leaders representing the common public good, not single interests or the needs of particular groups. Trusteeship is not a paid position. At the discretion of the Board, trustees may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties. Trustees do not have offices; staff support is for the whole board and its committees. Conflict of interest laws prohibit trustees from using their positions for personal economic benefit.


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Hello, and welcome to the best Fifty Shades of Grey parody you'll ever see: "Fifty Shades of Grayskull." Aw yeah, that's right! Fifty Shades + '80s cartoon classic He-Man = SOOO FUNNY. Unsurprisingly, this brilliant pop culture mash-up comes to us courtesy of Jimmy Fallon, and it makes perfect sense when you think about it. I mean, it's really not such a leap to imagine Christian Grey lifting his sword (no, really, his sword) and shouting, "I ... have ... the POWER!"
Masters of the Universe, indeed.
Who would've taken Skeletor for the baby oil type? It's actually kind of eerie how well the two, er, genres fit together. In fact ... OMG, lightbulb moment!
More from The Stir: '50 Shades of Grey' Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need to Fake It
We all know that Fifty Shades started as Twilight fan fiction, right? Clearly the time has come for Fifty Shades to inspire its own bestselling fan fiction series: The Fifty Shades of Grayskull Saga. Ka-ching!
Check this out -- you won't disagree!
"I thought it was chocolate hot fudge brownie sex that we had."
Silly He-Man!
Do you have a favorite Fifty Shades parody?
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Dr. Ravi Vemuru, Vice Chairman, APNRTS (c), and his team.
The Andhra Pradesh Non Resident Telugu society team recently visited San Jose, Calif., after completing their Canada tour. Ram Naresh Danda and Sagar Doddapaneni welcomed the team at San Jose airport. The team later visited the BIO-2016 convention at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Krishna Kishore, IRS, President of A.P. Economic Development Forum, met the team at A.P. Pavillion. – @siliconeer #siliconeer #AndhraPradesh #APNRT #APNRTS #BATA #BayAreaTelugu
The APNRTS team met with several Biotech entrepreneurs at the convention where Dr. Ravi Vemuru, has explained the opportunities available in Andhra Pradesh and the specialized industrial parks available for interested entrepreneurs.
A press meet was later held at Sakoon, in Fremont, Calif., where Dr. Vemuru explained the objectives of the APNRT society and the services provided by it for the non-resident Telugus.
Buch Ram Prasad, Chief Coordinator of APNRTS explained the Temple Visit and Documentation facilities provided by the society for the NRTs. Kanuri Seshu Babu talked about investment opportunities available in Andhra Pradesh and showcased the NRT iCon Project which is designed as a monument for the contribution of Non Resident Telugu diaspora, in the progress of the Andhra Pradesh.
Significant interest was shown by attendees and public who attended the event. Later an investment meeting was held with the members of ITServe, Bay Area Chapter where Dr. Vemuru presented various incentive options and highlighted the e-pragati opportunities of up to Rs. 3,000 crores available from Andhra Pradesh. Several participants have expressed their interest in setting up operations in the Amaravati Region.
Srinivas Devella, Tulasi Tummala and Kameshwar Vempati were among the dozens of entrepreneurs present at the meeting.


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The above item is a Pockitpal from Robert Olszewski. If you aren't familiar with the Olszewski collectibles, you are truly missing some great items. Robert Olszewski creates these wonderful miniatures that have the most amazing detail. He has even recreated Main St. The above is obviously one of the stretching portraits from the Haunted Mansion. Too cool for words.
The above shirt is actually from Lucky Brand jeans. I will be going to the Florida Mall in Orlando, so I'll be able to look for this t-shirt. Since Disney brought Oswald back home, I've been looking for any Oswald merchandise.
I'm not big on garden sculptures, but this Mickey Gnome is just too fun to pass up. I just have to find a place in the car to take him home. BTW, he is one of the merchandise offerings for the International Flower and Garden Festival at EPCOT.


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From Bill Harris of QMI:
- Canadian TV for Canadians
"How much Canadian TV actually is out there? What kind of Canadian TV do average Canadians — that is, Canadians not in the TV trade — really want?" Read more.
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Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City: Requiem
Roy Mullenix
HIGH CONCEPT: Suspended Venatori Detective
TROUBLE: Under Suspicion…
Special Weapons & Tactics
We Have The Tools, We Have The Talent
My Family is My Rock
Great + 4:
Good +3: Focus
Fair +2: Guile, Intellect
Average +1: Force, Haste
Mediocre +0: Flair
LAW ENFORCEMENT (Mundane Scale)
Police Powers (special): [ x ]
This condition is always marked, unless you are Suspended (see below). You are a member in good standing of a law enforcement agency in the mortal world. You may therefore do the following without fear of legal reprisal:
- Arrest anyone when you have probable cause to believe they have committed a serious crime.
- Detain anyone upon reasonable suspicion of their involvement in a crime, and search them for weapons.
- Access and search private property when authorized to do so by a search warrant (obtained via the Backup stunt below).
Ignore legal ramifications to stop a crime in progress, up to and including the use of deadly force when you or others are in mortal peril.
Your freedom to act is not unlimited and is subject to frequent review. If you exceed the boundaries of good conduct, you may be Warned or Suspended.
Warned (fleeting): [ x ]
Mark this condition when you egregiously flaunt your position as a law enforcement agent, act insubordinately to your superiors, or fail to report in regularly on your on-duty activities. Being Warned indicates that your superiors are closely observing you but carries few real consequences if no further transgressions are reported. You recover from being Warned at the end of the session.
Suspended (sticky): [ x ]
Mark this condition when you are observed flagrantly breaking the law in the pursuit of your duties, coming into open conflict with your organization, or acting in a way that would have you Warned and that condition is already marked. While Suspended is marked, you may not use Police Powers and are subject to the same consequences as a civilian for your actions. Moreover, if you are already Suspended and caught doing something that would result in marking Suspended, you may be fired, especially if taken out in a conflict related to your job status. (If you are discharged, take a new mantle at the next available milestone.) Recover this condition when you have made sufficient restitution to your superiors in a manner the GM prescribes, or at the end of the scenario, whichever comes first.
While in good standing with your organization, once per session you can request backup, equipment, access, or protection (either political or physical) from your organization. This aid takes the form of a minor NPC to help in a scene, free success at an overcome roll, or an advantage with two invokes. At the GM's discretion, you may use this stunt an additional time per session and mark Warned.
Firearms Training (Focus):
Pick one of your approaches. When you attack with a firearm using that approach, gain +1.
Piecing together clues is what you do. Gain +2 when you use Focus to create an advantage from studying a crime scene or to overcome an obstacle that requires you to study a crime scene.
Tactical Training:
You are a master strategist. When you use Intellect to create an advantage related to formulating a battle plan, gain an extra invoke on the aspect.
In Peril (sticky): [ 4 ]
You may mark the In Peril condition whenever you are hit by an attack. Negate up to four shifts of damage from the attack and then create an aspect that describes how the attack causes damage not easily shaken off (such as a Broken Leg or Shattered Reputation). Whoever inflicted the condition is awarded a free invoke on that aspect. Recover from In Peril when you act deliberately to resolve the peril: medical attention for an injury, a bribe to erase the slight on your reputation. This typically entails overcoming an obstacle against an opposition of Great (+4) or higher.
Doomed (lasting): [ 6 ]
You may mark the Doomed condition whenever you are hit by an attack. Negate up to six shifts of damage from the attack and then create an aspect that describes how the attack has rendered you almost helpless, such as Bleeding Out or Ready to Embrace the Dark Side. Whoever inflicted the condition is awarded a free invoke on that aspect. Recover from Doomed when you act deliberately to resolve the doom: emergency medical attention, the intervention of a White Council healer skilled in mental magic, or something similar. This typically entails overcoming an obstacle against an opposition of Great (+4) or higher. Clear out Doomed at the end of the next session after you've started recovery. If Doomed is checked and you are taken out (page 189), death is one of the possible outcomes.
Spent Refresh: 1
Phase I (Where did you come from?)
Born and raised in the Seattle area, Roy's whole family has in areas of public service for the past 2 generations when his Grandfather Etienne came home from World War II with the Congressional Medal of Honor. Most of them have been in Law Enforcement. The Mullenixes are characterized by their love of firearms, especially Roy's father who was an outspoken Libertarian opponent of the 1994 Federal Weapons Ban and his great grandfather who opened a Gun Shop in downtown Seattle. In Highschool Roy wasn't thinking about becoming a cop, then he met Sid Routman at a career fair and everything changed.
Roy's career was illustrious at first, a Tour in Army Special Forces(where he met Woof on a couple of Ops), Top of his class at the Academy, Seattle S.W.A.T., high arrest record, Medals for Valor. Roy married his Highschool sweetheart Vanessa, an Internet Security Consultant(She does Penetration Tests from home) and has 3 kids, Twins Michael and Megan(21) and Jonathon (18). They have a house in Lower Queen Anne, his kids go to Seattle Waldorf High School. Roy's first mark of distinction and brush with the Paranormal was at the 1999 WTO Riots, where he busted a fair number of unusual perps using the Riot as cover and seemed to be feeding on the rage of the crowd and at the same time spurring them on.
What people didn't know was that Roy's career for years was one tale of weirdness after another. He kept getting weird cases and weirder SWAT situations but thought nothing of it.
Phase II (What Shaped You?)
One day a few years ago, Roy helped raid what they thought was a massive drug deal, but in reality it turned out to be a meeting between The Vampire Courts and several other unsavory elements. Several officers went down, a few went comatose. Roy wanted to report what he saw, but he knew that they would just laugh at him. His friend Greg BigEagle convinced him to tell the truth, but leave the monster stuff out. Roy took the fall for it and his reputation disappeared. His family helped him to get back to work and fight for his job…and got suspended. On the brink of a breakdown, a man name Ronald Parker approached Roy. He told Roy the truth about the Supernatural and offered him a chance to get his job back and fight monsters. Roy initially refused, he didn't believe a word of it. Then John Youngblood jr., a Wizard of the White Council, used a ritual to revive the comatose officers back to consciousness.
Roy's name got cleared(though his reputation was still dead in the water and it didn't restore his rank) and became a member of the Venatori Umbrorum, a Secret Society that uses moratl legal systems to fight the Monsters that prey on humans. They made up a story to justify his absence for Venatori Training. Roy came back with a vengeance and got back into the department's good graces one case at a time. He learned the ins and out of bureaucracy and set the department record for most traffic tickets and parking citations written in a week, a month and a year.
Then Ronald Montgomery made Police Commissioner and assigned Roy to Special Investigations. At least when Lord Montague killed his career, he gave Roy his old rank back. S.I. seems to be the place where Montague placed anyone in the department with any clue about the supernatural. This does does double duty of both utterly discrediting anyone clued-in at the Department and best utilizing those who are clued-in.
Roy's Senior Partner, Jessi is unaware that the Supernatural actually exists, but is firm in her understanding of Lore(As in the skill). Albeit, most of her Lore skill is garbage connecting the Romans who killed Christ with John Wilkes Booth and the Kennedy Assassination.
Phase III (Your First Adventure) Broken Shield
When a Retired Cop is murdered inside his own home by something from the spooky side, Roy must find the killer. But will he succeed when the Killer's trail leads to a hired gun for the Vampire Courts?
Guest Starred: Zeb Ainar
Phase IV (Guest Starring): Surprise Cadence
When Jason Durant ends up in Roy's Car with a monster on his tail at just the right time, the unlikely pair have a little fun…
Phase V: (Also Guest Starring) Trick of The Light
When a string of grisly murders hits Seattle, Roy finds him self crossing path with the White Council yet again. But will a mischievous youth he's busted in the past be his ally or ruin the investigation?


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Here are two more editorial cartoon that ran on Sunday. The first is my Wisconsin Olympics editorial cartoon.
These are always fun. I like creating imaginary events, and I think these work particularly well. The only problem is, I really don't draw as well when I squish the drawing to fit into this four-panel format. I really like having the whole page to work with, but I guess if I ever want to become a bona-fide stripper (comics you perv), I have to figure out a way to make it work.
The other cartoon is from Sunday's Tampa Tribune.
School has started but parents don't know how to get their kids to school. In order to save money the Hillsborough school district revamped their bus service, which in and of itself is just fine. The problem is they did a lousy job of informing parents and the individual schools of the changes, leaving parents frantically trying to figure how to get their kids to school.
I didn't capture the perspective accurately in this cartoon but that isn't particularly important. I do, however, love the expression on the kids face, and I always enjoy drawing cars flying through the air.


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Inspecting Carol
By Daniel Sullivan
February 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 – 7:30 P.M.
February 11, 18, 25 – 2:00 P.M.
A madcap comedy, Inspecting Carol creates a theater experience that is anything but show business as usual. The play is about a group of dysfunctional theater people who take themselves very seriously. This struggling theater company is set to open their annual production of A Christmas Carol when they find out their funding is being held up until they pass an undercover inspection. When an impossibly bad actor is mistakenly identified as the inspector, the troupe does everything to accommodate his craziest wishes. As the impending opening night draws closer, it seems only a Christmas miracle will save this production.
Take a seat for a laugh out loud razzle dazzle of funny characters in this hilarious farce!
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Cage - Canarie - Pet Parrot - Song Bird
Parrots are wonderful pets. You will quickly find that these birds extremely smart and their ability to learn make them fun to train. Keep in mind that any animal that shows signs of high intelligence can easily get bored, so your job is to train your pet parrot and spend the time it takes to make your bird into a wonderful pet. It takes time and patience to train a parrot, but with the proper training, your parrot will provide you with many years of friendship. You can train your parrot wh........ Read More
Essential Guide To Buying The Best Pet Parrot !!
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The St. Lawrence Market is the kind of place that you go on a sunny summer morning, or a rich autumn afternoon, or a crisp winter one. And you sit and eat an amazing peameal bacon sandwich from Carousel Bakery, or a cream filled Portuguese pastry, or some ginger beef. And you drink a perfect coffee or Italian soda. And then you sit outside at one of the communal picnic tables and savor your finds while a busker plays the Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" and the moment is golden.
This is a place to wander and wonder. Give yourself time to check out the stalls and the kitschy Canadiana. You will be astonished at the great kitchen gadgets and goodies tucked away here.
Yes, there will be tourists. But hey, haven't you heard? Toronto is the most diverse city in the world according to the United Nations. So really, everyone is from somewhere else and home at the same time. So roll with that. You will be so happy you did.


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Cabin Fever
|Cabin Fever
|Requires Membership
|Start Point
|Bill Teach in Port Phasmatys.
|Skill Requirements
|50 Smithing, 45 Crafting, 42 Agility, 40 Ranged.
|Quest Requirements
|Pirate's Treasure, Rum Deal
|Item Requirements
|Ghostspeak Amulet and 2 ecto-tokens if you haven't done Ghosts Ahoy.
|Skill Recommendations
|Combat to protect yourself from Pirates that are level 57.
|Quest Recommendations
|Ghosts Ahoy, Restless Ghost.
|Item Recommendations
|Armour, food to protect from Pirates.
[edit] 'Arr I Be Ready
Talk to Bill Teach and tell him that you want to be a pirate, agree to help him. Head to the docks to the east and go on the large ship, speak to Bill Teach again and say your ready to begin. Go downstairs, search the repair locker for two ropes, take a tinderbox from the floor and search the gun locker to get a fuse.
[edit] Enemy Ship
Go up and climb the net. Use the rope on the sails, you will now be on the enemy ship. Use the fuse on the barrel thats next to the cannon then use the tinderbox on it. Climb back onto Bill's ship the way you came. Talk to Bill again.
[edit] Working The Decks
He will tell you to fix the leaks in the ship. Go down below the deck and get a hammer, 30 tacks, 3 swamp paste and 6 repair planks. Now you need to fix 3 leaks. use a plank then the swamp paste on each leak you are going to fix. Once you have fixed the leaks go and talk to Bill again. He will tell you to loot the other ship. Get 2 ropes from the repair locker below deck and go back to the pirates ship the same way you did last time. Head below their deck and keep searching the barrel chest and box until you have 10 pieces of the plunder. Go across to your ship again then put the plunder in Bill's chest below the deck.
[edit] Attacking the Enemies
Speak with Bill and he will ask you to fix the cannon. Go and get a barrel from the gun locker then use it on the cannon. Speak to Bill again to find out how to fire the cannon. It is very important you follow these steps exactly else it won't work, when i did the quest, firing the cannon led me to over an hour of annoyance and cursing.
- Get a ramrod, fuse and cannister from the gun locker, then go back upstairs to the cannon.
- Pick up some gunpowder and use it on the cannon.
- Tamp the cannon with the ramrod.
- Use the cannister on the cannon.
- Use the fuse on the cannon.
- Light the fuse with a tinderbox to fire the cannon.
- Use the ramrod with the cannon to clean it.
Talk to Bill again to receive three cannonballs, then go downstairs and get 3 fuses. Use the instructions exactly except skip the first step and replace the cannister with a cannonball:
- Pick up some gunpowder and use it on the cannon.
- Tamp the cannon with the ramrod.
- Use the cannonball on the cannon.
- Use the fuse on the cannon.
- Light the fuse with a tinderbox to fire the cannon.
- Use the ramrod with the cannon to clean it.
Repeat this three times in total, these must all be correct obviously, if they aren't then you will have to get more cannonballs and fuses. After you have done this successfully the enemy ship will be sunk and the quest is complete.
[edit] Rewards
- Book Of Piracy.
- Ability to access Mos Le'Harmless.
- 7K Smithing experience.
- 7K Crafting experience.
- 7k Agility experience.
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