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Its not just loss of dignity at various points throughout this process, though that definitely happened.
Loss? Perhaps not quite the right wordOne thing that maybe has carried me through transition and so much else over the last year or so is the fact that my embarrassment threshold is very low. Or maybe high.
That is: where others stay put and worry at the very idea of putting on a skirt and heading out to the shops, i just do/did. Early days, i knew, every step of the way, just how much i stood out: how every appearance was accompanied by sideways looks and comments and sometimes very unkind words.
But whilst it never had no effect, it mostly flowed past me. Probably helped also that i have been doing media stuff for years: mostly radio, a little TV. ANd before that on the stage politically and very occasionally on stage doing stand-up. That teaches you, as nothing else, what its like to be the focus of attention for a crowd that may not be actively hostile but is distinctly unamused and happy to have a go without a second thought for your feelings.
So on the scale of things, painful bowel movements and enemas and urinary issues are up there along with dying on stage and addressing the Liberal Party Conference: uncomfortable, but manageable.
Which brings me to the latest of my newfound unladylike habits.
I really am not the sort of woman who pees in the shower (partly because i am not a great fan of showers). Give me a good warm bath any day, over a splashy, messy shower.
However, i can't actually remember ever peeing in the bath either. Oh: maybe as a wide-eyed five-year-old there were odd incidents…but never since. Its just so…ugh! (A reason why i am so disapproving when the boy does it…another boy thing? or do girls do it too? Whatever: he seems more than happy to lie back and top up his bath at the least excuse).
But things change. Peeing is still highly uncomfortable, mostly because the swelling means everything runs back towards the one remaining open wound, which stings. Oh, how it stings!
Solutions advocated by the nursing staff include: taking a jug of warm water to the loo with me, peeing in the shower – or ditto in the bath.
See above. Since i don't shower much, that option really isn't on. I take the water jug, but, for now, the one and only comfortable pace to pee is – you've guessed it – the bath!
Oh, shame!
I grit my teeth and do what i must. I am sorry to admit that it is a not unpleasant experience. I trust, however, that when the need is gone, it will not be a habit that stays with me.
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So your gym is filled with state champs? Average guy I see looking to do MMA is pretty fresh. I've met two wrestlers getting in and one thai instructor, but most had no real background in anything.
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so to everyone who says that this country needs muay thai or sanda or just regular kickboxing, i like to point to the kickboxing matches they still play on ESPN 2/classic. they are AWFUL, just the worst example of two people fighting for points and not the knockout. i really think that is the reason that more complete striking competitions have not made a comeback in the US. I personally like the WCL (though in the beginning it was a little light on talent), and think something like it but slightly less cheesy in production value would be great, but i dont see it happening for another few years until people forget the days of chuch norris and bill wallace
8/11/2008 10:46pm, #43Originally Posted by MaxThunderstone
I think as far as the record thing goes, you do see some mis-matches early in people's careers - and there are a lot of MMA people who try it about 3 times and change their mind about it being for them. Anybody with less then about 3 fights vs anybody else with <3 fights is going to be a coinflip most of the time.
That's NOTHING like the grooming that goes on in boxing. The careful padding of records in boxing is pretty obvious.
8/11/2008 10:56pm, #44
This article does undermine several of the problems with modern boxing:
The insistence on having an undefeated record and the mindset that one loss will forever tarnish a fighter.
The lack of any real, modern marquee crossover stars, with maybe the exception of Mayweather (which will be touched on more below).
The loss of watching a solid fight on free TV, a major fight on Pay Cable and an Earthshaker on PPV, all the major fights are on PPV.
The weak undercards on most big ticket fights, shown on PPV which won't soften the blow of the first round blowout.
The governing bodies run the promotions and has led to underhanded dealmaking and has led to the dilution of championship and weak champions. Decent champions can and will go a year or more between title defenses.
MMA's PPV cards are overall stronger then modern boxing and features several high quality fights and will show solid cards of free TV.
With a pretty much clockwork like schedule of PPVs, MMA's major competition will come from pro-wrestling, which also has monthly PPV shows, designed to give the fans a feeling of coming away with a sense of fulfillment from dollar spent.
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What's your exposure to the sport? I don't know very many people who make it into an MMA match with no training, unless they lie about it.
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As for my exposure, I'm a jiujitsu instructor and have taught MMA before. Also got a fight.
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Fancy graphics are fine, but all gamers know in their hearts that nothing will ever top the drama of Final Fantasy VII or the pure physicality of Super Mario Bros. 3. Playboy's Retro Gaming articles look at why we love the classics and give you your nostalgia fix.
Super Metroid is remembered fondly for many things, including the way the Super Nintendo game pulled a switcheroo on '90s gamers by tricking them into playing as Samus, a female bounty hunter (scandalous!) whose identity is hidden in a space suit throughout the game. But the 1994 game also spawned an entire genre, one that would come to be known as the "Metroidvania"—and it's going strong even today.
Metroidvanias, named for the traits they share with the Metroid games and Konami's Castlevania series, feature 2D labyrinths where powering up your character with new moves, equipment and abilities is essential and exploring the environment is the key to progressing. Super Metroid and 1997's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night cemented the style's popularity, and today independent game developers are carrying its flickering torch, simply because they enjoy the genre's mechanics.
"There was a bunch of us at the studio who love what many would call Metroidvania traits," said Drinkbox Studios designer Chris McQuinn. Drinkbox's game Guacamelee! references Metroid in countless ways, including a version of Super Metroid's power-up-granting Chozo statues called "Choozo" statues. "We loved Castlevania, Metroid, but also newer titles like Cave Story and Shadow Complex," McQuinn said.
Drinkbox is just one of the many developers that have adopted the core mechanics of Metroidvanias and made them their own, sparking a genre renaissance that gamers new and old are currently enjoying.
In the aughts, Nintendo and a Texas game developer called, appropriately, Retro Studios mixed many of the elements of a classic Metroidvania with a 3D world in the Metroid Prime games. Olle Håkansson, lead programmer of 2013's Steamworld Dig, cites that series as a main inspiration. He and the other developers at studio Image & Form wanted to capture what he liked about the Prime games—where "you felt really badass with your final upgrades" and got to revisit old areas to discover new secrets—in Steamworld.
In fact, that's one of the core tenets of the genre: being able to explore more and more of the world as you unlock new powers, like more powerful jumps and new weapons. Rusty, Steamworld's Steambot hero, starts out so emaciated that he can only explore the upper crusts of his mine, and by the end of his journey he's evolved into a formidable fighter with a slew of upgrades.
"The best Metroidvanias empower the player, even if their character is weak and limited in resources," Shantae and the Pirate's Curse director Tom Hulett told me. Shantae was released in 2014 by developer Wayforward Technologies. "The player gets the sense that they are uncovering new areas," Hulett continued. "They get a real sense of growing in power and ability."
Drinkbox's Guacamelee!, a 2D brawling platformer with Mexican Day of the Dead aesthetics, has complex fighting gameplay where progression is highly dependent on player skill. The flashy Luchador-inspired combat is challenging, but it perfectly accentuates the game's carefully crafted setting. McQuinn, like the rest of these developers, is simply "fascinated with open worlds [and] exploring."
Modern video games are often criticized for "handholding"—that is, giving players too much help and not letting us experiment and discover things for ourselves, like retro games often did. Ole Ivar Rudi, an artist on a Metroidvania called Teslagrad, told me he can't stand tutorials in games. That's part of what got him interested in the Metroidvania genre: in Super Metroid, for example, there are no tutorials and hardly any explanations at all. You're simply thrust into the world and expected to figure it out.
Metroidvania games like that Super Nintendo classic "feel more immediate and uninterrupted," he said. Teslagrad has no dialogue at all, creating a real sense of loneliness.
"I like that sense of isolation," Hulett, the Shantae game director, said of the genre. He said he likes to craft stark levels without many other characters in them besides the player.
James Petruzzi, game director at Chasm developer Discord Games, remembers the first time he played Super Metroid. He was in awe of a game experience that did away with the go-in-one-direction-to-win gameplay of traditional side-scrolling platformers, like Mario, and that awe has stuck with him to this day.
"It's almost like you have to treat the environments as a character in themselves," Petruzzi told me. "You get way more absorbed in the world of the game; you can really get lost in the world itself…It's something intense that keeps you at the edge of your seat."
Matt Kap, developer of 2015 game Castle in the Darkness, remembers one tiny detail from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, one of the games that cemented the Metroidvania genre. "You could throw a 1-pixel peanut in the air, and it would only heal you a small amount if you position Alucard's head under it," he reminisced. "It's that attention to detail that you usually only get in an exploration game, and I found that truly inspiring."
Kap noticed how detailed these games could be well before even the original PlayStation in the mid-'90s. "Metroidvania games have always been a part of my life, even in the days of the [original Nintendo]," he said. "I loved games like Castlevania 2, Faxanadu, Battle of Olympus, and others. The plan for Castle in the Darkness was to make a game that a younger version of me would call his favorite game, so I took a lot of inspiration from my other favorite games at that time, and most of them just happened to be Metroidvania games."
Castle in the Darkness emulates Kap's favorite games by packing in plenty of secrets, such as breakable walls that lead to dangerous, branching paths. That level of detail is an important feature of the genre; for example, Petruzzi told me that if he could, he would dedicate hours of development time to creating bioluminescent fireflies to hover around Chasm's mine level.
"I think that's what we get the most pleasure out of… thinking of the details of the world," Petruzzi explained. "All of those tiny details are what really sell the experience."
Chasm is still full of detail even without the bugs (if Petruzzi injected all of his ideas the game may have never seen the light of day), giving players a world with abundant secrets, beautifully pixelated spell effects, and environments housing deadly traps at every turn. Each Metroidvania sports a host of these enriching details; it's in the very DNA of the genre, and each fan-turned-developer is eager to add to that legacy.
Metroidvania fans are already reaping the rewards brought on by developers' new takes on the resurging genre—and Samus's entourage of peers is not only poised to become much larger, but more diverse.
"All these people are taking their influences from all the games they thought were the best and kind of doing their own spin on it," Petruzzi said. "Everybody kind of goes for their own gameplay mechanics and their own story."
Håkansson, the Steamworld Dig developer, concluded that the genre's lasting appeal and current ubiquity are simply explained: "From a developer's perspective it's just a great recipe for a game…a recipe that works, and it lets you focus on making a great game from the start."
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Kasper de Roo is an internationally renowned interpreter of the music of the 20th and 21st century. Following his studies of bassoon and conducting at the Royal Conservatory in his hometown The Hague and at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam, he initially worked as a bassoonist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra before making his debut as a conductor at the 1979 Cabrillo Music Festival, at the invitation of Dennis Russell Davies. The following year he was a prize winner at the International Competition for Conductors in Besançon.
In 1984 he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Stuttgart State Opera and in 1992 Music Director of the City of Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra and the Tyrolean State Theater. From 1988 Kasper de Roo was regularly invited by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (NSO) as guest conductor and in 1994 appointed as NSO Principal Conductor. With the NSO Kasper de Roo enjoyed very successful concert tours through Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, and numerous recordings.
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2012 has been an amazing year for WANdisco, but we still had a few more announcements for you this month, including news that we are extending our suite of service and support offerings to include the Git distributed version control system.
"Expanding our support offering to include Git is an obvious step to enable you to deploy and support the trending as well as the leading SCM tools," said James Creasy, WANdisco's Senior Director of Product Management in his 'Supporting Git to Support You' blog.
Our Git support includes:
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This news comes hot on the heels of our Big Data and Apache Hadoop announcements last month. WANdisco CEO, David Richards, and core creators of Apache Hadoop Dr. Konstantin Shvachko and Jagane Sundar recently conducted a webinar that covered how WANdisco sees the future of big data, following our acquisition of AltoStor.
This 30 minute webinar discussed:
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- How Hadoop's limitations, including HDFS's single-point of failure, are impacting the productivity of the enterprise.
- How WANdisco's replication technology will alleviate these issues by adding high-availability, data replication and data security to Hadoop.
If you missed out on the webinar, you can still find out all about WANdisco, Hadoop and Big Data by checking out the webinar slides on SlideShare.
The Subversion community also found the time for one more release before the holiday season. Subversion 1.7.8 features plenty of fixes and enhancements, including:
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A full list of everything that's new in Subversion 1.7.8 is available at the Changes file. Free binaries of Subversion 1.7.8 are available to download through the WANdisco website. Users of SmartSVN, the popular cross-platform client for Subversion can also grab an update: SmartSVN 7.5.3 features plenty of improvements and bug fixes, including:
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There's been plenty of new content at the blog this month, including the first blog from Hadoop core creator Jagane Sundar, WANdisco's new Vice President of Engineering of Big Data.
In his 'Design of the Hadoop HDFS NameNode: Part 1 – Request processing' post, Jagane demonstrates how a client RPC request to the Hadoop HDFS NameNode flows through the NameNode.
When you think of "the cloud", what comes to mind? In his first WANdisco blog, Director of Product Management James Creasy takes a fresh look at one of IT's biggest buzzwords. He argues that most of the applications used by enterprises were not originally architected for cloud infrastructures, and looks at how this problem could be overcome by "putting the cloud into a virtual eyedropper." In his second blog, 'Planned Downtime Is Still Downtime' James argues that planned outages of critical applications aren't inevitable:
Through the 20th century and into the 21st we've gritted our teeth against this inescapable cost. We've built massive failover servers, concocted elaborate master/slave replication schemes, and built businesses around High Availability and Disaster Recovery scenarios (HADR). We thought we were doing the best we can.
And we were, until recently."
You can read the 'Planned Downtime is Still Downtime' post in full at the WANdisco blog.
We also had some new team photos taken by our friend and neighbour at our Electric Works offices, Matt Lollar. We even managed to get some shots outside in the Sheffield sunshine.
Finally, to celebrate the holiday season, we had a little 'Decorate Your Desk' competition in the Sheffield office. We even had a roaring log fire!
We have plenty of exciting announcements planned for 2013, but for now we'd just like to thank everyone who has used our products, joined us for a webinar, eTraining or enterprise training session, picked us for your support needs, or provided the crucial feedback we need to make our products and services even better. And, of course, we'd like to wish you a very happy holidays from the WANdisco Team.


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I really want to take our relationship to the next levelVisitor's Question from a 13-15 year old Male
Theres a girl on my swim team who is a really good friend of mine. Her family comes over to my family's house on thanksgiving, and the fourth of July, etc. We've been friends for about 2 years now. I know she used to like me (from her friends, and just the way she acted around me), but as soon as I started to like her, it seemed to stop. I can't tell if she likes me the way she used to, or just as a friend. We go to movies all the time together, but I still can't tell. I really like this girl, and I don't know how to tell if she likes me too. Sometimes there are just awkward moments, and I don't know what causes those either. Sometimes it seems like we are really close, and others, it seems like she just doesn't feel comfortable. I really want to take our relationship to the next level, but I really don't know what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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You're great friends with her, so you should be able to open up an honest conversation with her that goes something like, "Did you ever think that you and I would end up hooking up?" all casual like, as if you weren't really concerned with the answer. See what she says and that will tell you a lot about where her head is.
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89 "Make good the promise/Second War Fund/One hundred mission dollars/May 20th-27th." features rainbow coming out of pot of gold in America connecting North America to Europe. 1 item. 11x21
90 "The War of Munitions/How Great Britain has mobilized Her industries." 1 item. 16x21
91 "Humanity Calls? Dare you refuse?" 1 to 31 War Chest. 2 items. 11x21
92 Cablegram. American expeditionary force France. quote from Pershing. United War Work Campaign. 1918 Nov 11-, 18. 1 item. 14x22
96 "Third Liberty Loan Subscriber." red, white & blue flag. Washington, D.C.: Capital Publishing. Bond. 2 items. 9x7
97 "Keep them smiling/this home is helping our boys over there/United War-Work Campaign." features sailor, soldier & officer. red, white & blue border. 2 items. 11x7
98 "The Greatest mother of the world/Join the Red Cross/-All you need is a heart and a dollar." Red Cross nurse holding child on stretcher. Red Cross. 2 items. 10x6
99 "For Our Soldiers and Sailors/November 11-19/National War Work Council." inverted orange triangle. 2 items. 10x7
100 "Third Liberty Loan." features liberty bell. Owners Emblem. triangle. color. 2 items.
101 "Honor Flag of the Third Liberty Loan." The North American. 1917 Apr 7. 1 item. 9x7
102 American Flag. color. 48 stars. 1 item. 7x5 (at widest)
103 "We are pledged to buy." War Saving Stamps Campaign. blue & white. features "Torch of Liberty."1 item. 8x5
104 "Member of United States Food Administration." home card. U.S. emblem. 1 item. 9x6
105 "Member of United States Food Administration." to be hung in front window. U.S. emblem. 1 item. 9x6
106 "Help your American Red Cross Campaign (Jun 18-25)." 1 item. 9x12
107 "Flags of our Allies." Supplement to The North American. 1917 Jun 17. 1 item. 9x12
108 "Last evidence that anyone cares." YMCA. 1 item. 8x14
109 YMCA. "War-Zone home for our boys 'over there.'" National Campaign Nov 11-19 (1917?). 1 item. [miniature of Butler poster ] 8x14
111 French Officer (J. Joffrey) from Public Ledger 1917 May 6. features U.S. & French flags. colored. 1 item. 9x12
112 "Victory Girls." United War Work Campaign. features an eagle. 2 items. 12x8
113 Red Cross, white background, blue border. (1 large red cross & 5 small one pasted on). 1 item. 7x11
114 Liberty Bell. "Third Liberty Loan." blue. 2 items. ht=12
22 "Pour le Retour Souscrivez 4e. emprunt National Credit Foncier D'Algerie et de Tunisie, 43 Rue Cambon, Paris." (French) Signed R.P. 1 item. 41x28
128 "The Call to Duty: Join the Army for Home and Country" [Image] Adapted from the sculpture by Edoardo Cammilli. Published by the Recruiting Committee of the Mayor's Committee on National Defence. 1 item. 30x40
132 "Are you working with Schwab? Charles M. Schwab Director General of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation says..." Issued by Publications
Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia. Photo by C.
Haimovitz Public Ledger Philadelphia. 1 item. 22x32.
135 "We Belong- 100% Strong" American Red Cross (Lacks usual Red Cross emblem printed in center of poster) 1 item. 18x24.
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text: Jimmy Katz Take Five: A Jazz Sampler Blue Note Classics In Black And White September 14, 2009 Blue Note Records is a record label for which the visuals carry almost as much artistic cachet as the music. The label's covers tend to employ generous amounts of white space, splashes of color, prominent shading and themes evoking introspection and celebration. All of that frequently translates to the music inside.


text: Hello, I have two machines running Debian, one at the office, a laptop running Sarge, and one at home, an AMD64 Sid box running true64 Sid port. I have been doing ssh to an fro these two machines plus another machine at the office for a few months now no problem, sometimes using X forwarding sometimes not. But as far as X is concerned there should be just two machines in this world, my home machine and my work machine. Today I logged into my laptop from home and I got this /usr/bin/X11/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/cabuz/.Xauthority I did an ls -l on the .Xauthority file and I get this -rw------- 1 root root 167 2005-04-01 11:01 .Xauthority Last modified yesterday, first of april, at 11:01. I don't see why. And besides, isn't .Xauthority supposed to be owned by the user? This one seems to be owned by root. That's weird. an xauth list on the office laptop gives a bunch of entries I don't recognize, except for the first one, which corresponds to my home machine. But then in the list there are like 13 other addresses, all of the form bla.bla.abo.wanadoo.fr, the biggest ISP in France (I live in France). Since my machine at home is also getting kind of weird lately am I right to be paranoid and to assume I've been hacked? How can I check? Thanks. Alex.


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Appeals court decision could mean more rural trials
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- A decision by the Alaska Court of Appeals could result in more criminal trials being held in small towns around the Alaska Bush instead of Fairbanks or Bethel, the only places in the sprawling Fourth Judicial District that have sitting Superior Court judges. The same reasoning would apply to other regions of the state.
NextWave agrees to sell wireless licenses
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government settled its long airwaves battle with NextWave
BP's GTL plant nears completion
KENAI (AP) -- The gas-to-liquids demonstration plant British Petroleum is building in Nikiski is expected to start producing in February or March, according to Steve Fortune, engineering manager for the $86 million project.
Nov. 12, 2001 The Anchorage Daily News urges better state oversight of a valuable state asset
Add BP's own study to the pile of complaints and reports about safety, maintenance and cost cutting at the Prudhoe Bay oil field. What's most striking is that BP's work -- based on interviews with 300 workers -- largely substantiates questions raised by whistle-blowers who argue that operations aren't safe enough at North America's largest oil field. There's a pattern here that looks chillingly close to the inattention and neglect that preceded the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989.
Scientists drawing maps to outline tsunami danger zone
HOMER (AP) -- Scientists will draw new maps this winter outlining the tsunami danger zones of Homer and other Kachemak Bay communities.
Nov. 16, 2001 The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner also thinks $5 billion was just fine
To put an exact price tag on the long-term economic and environmental effect of the devastating 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill would be a difficult -- if not impossible -- task.
St. George welcomes Santa
ST. GEORGE (AP) -- Santa Claus flew 670 miles in a droning C-130 Friday to deliver toys and Christmas dinners to this dot of land in the Bering Sea. It's part of a long tradition in Alaska.
Nov. 15, 2001 Alaska Newspapers Inc. on the Exxon Valdez punitive damage decision
Exxon agrees with the decision by a federal appeals court that a $5 billion punitive damage award for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill is too much.
Boeing asks judge to limit data for families of Alaska Air crash victims
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Boeing has asked a federal judge to limit the amount of information it is required to provide relatives of those killed in the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 until formal settlement talks are finished.
Nov. 17, 2001 The Anchorage Daily News questions mix of mental illness and conceal carry law
In the fall of 1998, a clerk in an Anchorage store noticed a man who was completely soaked, with water dripping off him. The clerk asked if he needed help. Timothy Wagner replied that he needed to soak out the chemicals that had been injected into him, or else the chemicals were going to kill him. He also said a computer chip had been implanted in his head. What he didn't say was that he was carrying a concealed weapon in his briefcase.
Lobbyist indicted on federal fraud charges
KETCHIKAN (AP) -- Lobbyist Geoffrey Bullock, whose clients include the city of Ketchikan, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on five counts of wire fraud.
Troopers suspend search for missing Mountain Village man
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Alaska State Troopers said Monday they've suspended the search for a missing Mountain Village man who is believed to have driven his four-wheeler into the Yukon River.
Judge rules city, state does not have to extend benefits to gay partners
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- A Superior Court judge ruled that the city of Anchorage and the state of Alaska do not have to extend benefits to gay or lesbian partners of employees and retirees.
Higher rent closes Eagle River natural history museum
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- A rent hike is forcing a natural history museum in Eagle River to close its doors.
BP moves part of Alaska exploration duties to Houston
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. will no longer manage its more speculative Alaska oil exploration from Anchorage, moving the responsibility for those drilling decisions to Houston.
Nov. 8, 2001 The Petersburg Pilot laments passing of ebullient, beloved former teacher
The community bid farewell to Harold Bergmann last week. He died Oct. 31 at age 84.
Proposal to cut airport trees meets opposition
JUNEAU (AP) -- Airport managers in Juneau want to cut down a 60-acre patch of forest to reduce the danger of birds smashing into airplanes. But some bird experts say eliminating the trees could actually force more birds across the runway area and increase the potential problems.
Habitat changes brings moose population decrease in Kenai Peninsula
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Moose numbers are down in the Kenai Peninsula and will probably stay that way for years, according to state wildlife biologists.
Cargo jet loses wheel on takeoff
FAIRBANKS (AP) -- A wheel popped off an Air France 747 cargo plane just before the aircraft lifted off from Fairbanks International Airport Friday, but the plane was able to return and land safely. No one was injured in the landing or by the errant 600-pound wheel, which ended up on a frozen lake off the end of the runway.
Whitewater fined in worker's death
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- The Whitewater Engineering Corp. has been fined $150,000 by a state court judge and ordered to pay approximately $17,000 in costs to the family of a heavy equipment operator.
State Supreme Court sends abortion issue back to judge
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- The Alaska Supreme Court, in a very narrow ruling, has rejected a Superior Court judge's summary judgment in an abortion case.
Galena man holds police at bay before surrendering
GALENA (AP) -- An armed Galena man held authorities at bay for nearly 12 hours before surrendering, Alaska State Troopers and Galena police said.
Cattle roundup planned on island near Kodiak
KODIAK (AP) -- Despite protests from area ranchers, federal wildlife managers are forging ahead with plans to remove all cattle from a tiny island 175 miles southwest of Kodiak where the livestock have roamed for decades. Introduced foxes may also be eliminated in order to return Chirikof Island, part of the Alaska Maritime Wildlife Refuge, to its native species.
Barrow residents see sun for last time this year
BARROW (AP) -- The sun set on Barrow Sunday for the last time this year.
ACS gets permission to boost Anchorage phone rates
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Many local phone customers will pay 24 percent more for basic phone service and other optional features starting next Saturday under a rate increase tentatively approved by state regulators this week.
All quiet at Dalton Highway checkpoint
FAIRBANKS (AP) -- The Mile 40 Dalton Highway checkpoint is often swept by strong winds which obscure the lights that identify the recently opened checkpoint just south of the Yukon River bridge.
Fish research center clears funding hurdle
JUNEAU (AP) -- Congress has approved the final chunk of money for a new federal fisheries research center planned near Juneau. A new funding bill includes $21.1 million for the $50 million center.
Twin Cities protest Twins' contraction
MINNEAPOLIS -- Wearing her favorite Kent Hrbek-signed baseball earrings, Shirley Fisher spent Sunday standing in the rain outside the Metrodome with thousands of other Twins fans to say that Minnesota needs baseball.
Judge blocks baseball from axing Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota judge blocked major league baseball from folding the Twins, ordering the team to play its 2002 home schedule in the Metrodome.
Phillips, Conoco merging in $35 billion deal
TULSA, Okla. -- Phillips Petroleum Co. said Sunday it will buy Conoco Inc. for about $15.4 billion, creating the nation's third-largest oil and gas company.
Gordon wins fourth Winston Cup crown
HAMPTON, Ga. -- Jeff Gordon's fourth Winston Cup championship has put him in elite company.
Warner takes part in 'Women and the Badge' series
Soldotna will have a new star in 2002. Not one of the high school athletic variety, but a bona fide television personality.
Signs must go, says DOT
The message from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities was clear: business signs must go; everything else, they'll talk.
Officials skeptical of claim bin Laden out of Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -- A Taliban diplomat's claim that Osama bin Laden had left Afghanistan could be a ploy to thwart American-led efforts to find the terrorist suspect, U.S. officials said Saturday.
Bed-and-breakfast gets OK from council; lawsuit possible
A controversial bed-and-breakfast operation in an exclusive high-rent subdivision on the Kenai River received the approval of the Soldotna City Council.
First lady blasts Taliban's harsh treatment of women
CRAWFORD, Texas -- Laura Bush took the lead for the administration Saturday in the latest public effort to discredit the Taliban, decrying the ruling militia's ''brutal oppression'' of women in Afghanistan.
Bush plans to sign aviation security measure
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's signature on major aviation security legislation passed by Congress may reassure holiday travelers that the government is taking substantial steps to protect them from would-be assailants. Immediate signs of change, however, will be minimal.
Terrorists among us identified
WASHINGTON -- The largest criminal investigation in American history has exposed the rough outlines of at least a half-dozen centers of terrorist support on U.S. soil operating underground before the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, officials say.
Government can remove impediments, says top fed
Calling him "Alaska's head fed," Sen. John Torgerson, R-Kasilof, welcomed Jeffrey Staser, federal co-chair for the Denali Commission, to the Kenai Peninsula Economic Outlook Forum. Staser was the keynote speaker Friday.
Letter renews fears of yet more anthrax
WASHINGTON -- Authorities closed two Senate office buildings Saturday and awaited test results from a letter suspected of containing anthrax that was sent to a senator.
Forum looks ahead
Neither ice nor blowing snow could dampen the enthusiasm at the Kenai Peninsula 2001 Economic Outlook Forum.
Photo feature: Ongoing work
Cleanup of an oil spill in Cooper Landing is expected to continue throughout the winter and into spring. Crews from R and K Industrial, out of Kenai, are on the site removing fuel from a pond across the Sterling Highway from the Kenai River.
Murkowski: Don't 'rest on laurels'
U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski was right at home Saturday at Kenai Peninsula College, in spite of the fact that he has been forced to vacate two Washington, D.C., offices due to the threat of anthrax contamination. Murkowski, who recently announced his candidacy for governor, was the keynote speaker during the second half of the two-day Kenai Peninsula 2001 Economic Outlook Forum.
'Future' puts technology savvy to use
Those who couldn't attend the 2001 Kenai Peninsula Economic Forum Friday and Saturday at Kenai Peninsula College are still able to listen to the speakers and view the presentations via the World Wide Web at www.kpedd.org.
Former Afghan leader returns
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a convoy of vehicles with his picture plastered on the windshields, the Afghan president ousted five years ago by the Taliban returned Saturday to the capital to reclaim his post. His return raised worries over the effort to build a broad-based, post-Taliban government.
Taliban offers deal; U.S. keeps bombing
BANGI, Afghanistan -- The Taliban offered on Sunday to surrender their last northern stronghold if Arab and other foreign fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden in the city are spared, an anti-Taliban commander said. The northern alliance, meanwhile, agreed to a conference on neutral ground to plan a multiethnic government.
Tracking Taliban's last stand
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Huge plumes of smoke billowed into the air above the hilly battle lines, and commanders' radios crackled with urgent messages. It was another day on the northern front outside Mazar-e-Sharif, a Taliban-held city on the windy steppes of northern Afghanistan.
Remote schools struggle with test scores
This fall, when the Kenai Peninsula School District analyzed student test scores by school, some fell short. It was obvious some students were lagging.
Jonathan Zundel
Nikiski area resident Jonathan Zundel died Nov. 13, 2001 in Groton, Conn. He was 18.
Annie Swanson Hatch
Alaska Native Annie Swanson Hatch died Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001, at Wesley Rehabilitation and Care Center in Seward. She was 102.
Borough land sale exemplifies essence of 'American dream'
Too often, it's when things go wrong they get noticed. Let something go right, and it barely gets a nod.
Libya: U.S. friend or foe? Gadhafi seeks to change image from terrorist backer to elder statesman
TRIPOLI, Libya -- In the heart of Tripoli, off a boulevard lined with buildings from Libya's colonial past, is the building that until recently sheltered an organization led by one of the world's most notorious terrorists -- Abu Nidal.
War changes Rumsfeld's image
WASHINGTON -- For a man whose epithets are not much saltier than ''by golly,'' Donald H. Rumsfeld can tick people off, and the list of the offended grew during his first months as defense secretary.
Building post-Taliban regime in Afghanistan
The U.S. has stepped up the military tempo in Afghanistan and the advances by its proxy fighters, the Northern Alliance, have been striking. Now is the time to accelerate efforts to agree on the makeup of a post-Taliban regime.
How far should inclusion go?
If you are easily offended, please stop reading now. For those of you who may be reading this who have thin skin, faint hearts or fragile egos, go on to another page. This shouldn't bother you, but one can never be too certain. So, just skip this column altogether.
Around the Peninsula
Craft fair slatedGolden anniversary couples to be honoredLive drive-through Nativity plannedAvalanche warning workshop offered'Fibber McGee and Molly' show plannedLogo design contest announcedChristmas bazaar to be heldWRCC seeking volunteersComputer class being offered'Big brothers' neededFirewood area open
My Best Friend
Molly, a 3-year-old miniature Pinscher, belongs to Jim and Betty West of Kenai. Her favorite activity is watching for squirrels on the deck. Sometimes she even recruits the Wests' grandson Ryan Heilala to assist her.
Smashing pumpkin helps save dog's life
SPARTA, N.J. (AP) -- Neighbors tossed a pumpkin, then rocks, through the front window of a burning house so a dog trapped inside could escape.
Get stuffed safely this Thanksgiving
To stuff or not to stuff the turkey, that is often the question. Let's take a look at the safe way to get stuffed this Thanksgiving.
Fewer moms return to work a year after having a child
WASHINGTON -- The questions weigh on the minds of many mothers soon after giving birth: When should I go back to work? If I do, can I keep part-time hours, or work more from home?
4-H girl talks turkey at the Ninilchik State Fair
When we first got our turkeys at the end of March, they looked exactly like baby chickens do. But boy did they turn out different.
Around the Peninsula
Independent Blind meets tonightGobbles the turkey to be weighed TuesdayPhillips to speak at Kenai chamberCommunity Thanksgiving service plannedImmunization clinic canceled ThursdayKenai Peninsula SPCA seeks assistanceCanine Good Citizen test planned
Holidays especially meaningful for those who overcome obstacles
Second family brings challenges, contentmentNurse finds inspiration in service.
Ask a Trooper
Question: Who's the new guy?
Peninsula People
Table tennis winners announcedKenai grad advances in Army
Tyonek school awarded Challenger scholarshipHomer Community Schools announcements
Frost, Stuart wed in July
Jodi Frost and Lucas Stuart, both of Happy Valley, were married Saturday, July 7, 2001, at 3 p.m. at the Soldotna Church of God. The Rev. Alan Humphries officiated.
Smith, Hollers plan December wedding
Kristina Trylene Smith and Levi Don Hollers will be married Friday, Dec. 21, 2001, in an evening ceremony in Lawrenceville, Ga.
Community News
CARTS director elected president
Soldotna takes region rumble
The Soldotna wrestling team scored 141 points to win the Region III rumble Saturday in Homer.
Pitino returns to college
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Rick Pitino's debut as Louisville's coach was noisy and colorful.
Colorado avalanches over Devils' scoring
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Patrick Roy recorded his career-best third consecutive shutout, and the Colorado Avalanche defeated the slumping New Jersey Devils 2-0 on Sunday in a rematch of last season's Stanley Cup finals.
Three Eagles suspended
PHILADELPHIA -- Eagles leading rusher Correll Buckhalter and teammates Terrence Carroll and Darrel Crutchfield were suspended for Sunday's game after Carroll was arrested on marijuana charges, a source familiar with the players said Saturday.
Stars provide own streaky display
Stargazers looking to enjoy the shooting Stars of Saturday night's Leonids got a preview Friday as the Soldotna High School hockey team defeated Lathrop 6-0 in the Peninsula Ice Challenge hockey tournament at the Soldotna Sports Center.
LPGA Championship caught up in Webb
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Karrie Webb played the final 12 holes without a bogey, making back-to-back birdies late in the round that gave her a 1-over 73 and allowed her to regain control Saturday in the LPGA Tour Championship.
No. 1 Connecticut triumphs over No. 3 Vanderbilt in Women's NIT finals
STORRS, Conn. -- Swin Cash had 19 points and 10 rebounds as No. 1 Connecticut beat No. 3 Vanderbilt 69-50 Sunday to win the preseason Women's National Invitation Tournament.
Hawks survive Celtics' barrage
ATLANTA -- Shareef Abdur-Rahim scored 29 points and the Atlanta Hawks beat Boston 112-103 Saturday night, despite an NBA-record 10 3-pointers by the Celtics in the third quarter.
Iowa State downs Golden Eagles
MILWAUKEE -- Lindsay Wilson scored 21 points, and Angie Welle added 15 to lead No. 8 Iowa State to a 68-50 victory over Marquette on Saturday in the season opener for both teams.
Webb, Sorenstam take top honors at LPGA Tour Championships
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Karrie Webb and Annika Sorenstam were the big winners Sunday in the season-ending LPGA Tour Championship.
Florida State's run in ACC comes to an end
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Maryland and The Fridge slammed the door on Florida State's nine-year run as Atlantic Coast Conference champions Saturday night.
L.A. clips the Knicks
LOS ANGELES -- Elton Brand scored 20 points and had eight rebounds, and reserve Quentin Richardson added 20 points on 9-of-10 shooting as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New York Knicks 99-86 Sunday.
Bulldogs tie Homer
A tie game ending with no score could have been attributed to shoddy offensive play, but this was not the case when Homer's hockey team faced off against Nikiski Saturday at the Soldotna Sports Center. With 52 combined shots on goal, fierce defense held the score at 0-0.
Virginia soars over East Tennessee
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Adam Hall scored 19 points and No. 11 Virginia pulled away to beat East Tennessee State 85-62 Sunday.
Knight certainly not restrained in return to college basketball
LUBBOCK, Texas -- In the first three minutes of his first game at Texas Tech, Bob Knight smacked his players on the behind, chewed out his point guard and questioned calls by officials.
Miami is near perfect
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Miami coach Larry Coker thought his top-ranked Hurricanes played a near-perfect game against then-No. 14 Syracuse. After reviewing the tape Sunday, he realized he was right.
Huskies enjoy calm before Miami's storm
SEATTLE -- Washington usually has more than a month to savor a win over Washington State in the Apple Cup.
Maryland coasts past American
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Lonny Baxter scored 25 points and Juan Dixon had 22 as No. 2 Maryland opened its 47th and final season at Cole Field House with an 83-53 rout of American University on Saturday.
Garcia rallies 'Niners to cardiac comeback
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)-- Jeff Garcia threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Terrell Owens and made a 2-point conversion with 1 second left in regulation. Then the quarterback helped set up Jose Cortez's 26-yard field goal Sunday that lifted San Francisco to a 25-22 win over the Carolina Panthers.
Flyers conquer slipping Devils
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Simon Gagne scored the go-ahead goal 41 seconds into the third period as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the slumping New Jersey Devils 3-1 Saturday.
Sports Briefs
UAF skaters fall to Ferris St.St. Cloud State tops UAAHewitt wins tour finale to enhance his No. 1 spot
Lewis makes Rahman noodle
LAS VEGAS -- Lennox Lewis kept his anger bottled up until it exploded with a tremendous right-hand punch that made him heavyweight champion again.
SoHi claims Challenge championship
The Soldotna High School hockey team defeated Kenai Central on the strength of hat tricks from two players to claim the championship of the Peninsula Ice Challenge hockey tournament Saturday at the Soldotna Sports Center.
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I've been thinking about this for a while, especially when contemplating where to move outside of New York and observing the different subcultures I've come across in my travels. While growing up on Long Island, my introverted nature turned me into something of a recluse, too proud of my individualism to run with the herd and participate in the myriad of strange cliques that surrounded me. I was always the fish who swam the other way.
It made me wonder though: was I really such an anomaly, or were there others like me who only behaved the way they did, not because they were being true to themselves, but so they could fit in and not risk being alone?
When I traveled, in all the places I visited it seemed like everyone was like everyone else. In places like Seattle, everyone was a hippie and a liberal. In the Bible Belt, everyone was a conservative, church going Christian. So if I wanted to be with people that were like me, it would just be a matter of going where they were, and I'd be happy right?
But I started getting uncomfortable with the thought that people only evolved to become who they were not out of individual choice, but because that was the culture they grew up in. If you were born and raised in Utah, you likely became Mormon. If you were born and raised in California, you likely became a surfer dude. If you were born and raised in Wyoming, you became a cowboy (or at the very least, not a city slicker.)
So that's it? We're nothing more than the environment we wind up living in? What if my parents had been Muslims instead of Christians, would I have grown up to be a Muslim too? Are the convictions I hold in life really based on the choices I make, or did I simply inherit them?
That's when I started to realize what was bothering me about some of the places I've visited, particularly the south. Despite people who had the same political leanings and Christian beliefs I did, something was off. And it occurred to me that despite the appearances of camaraderie, I still had nothing in common with them, because their livelihoods and Christianity were not borne out of conviction, but out of social expediency. Their culture was steeped in conservative, Baptist tradition, and yet the Bible Belt culture did very little to change the true nature of man. That's why there was the paradox of encountering people who quote Bible verses while, for example, cooking meth. It was part of the culture they grew up in, but it didn't change who they were. They were just schools of fish, swimming the same way. The monolithic culture was a facade.
That's why I tend to regard people who "profess" the name of Christ with a heavy degree of suspicion. Do they really believe that, or was that simply how they were brought up? It's easier to believe one is a Christian living in an Islamic country than if they were living in Alabama, because despite the enormous collective pressure to be Muslim, they rebuffed it, often at the risk of their very lives. They didn't go along to get along, they specifically chose a different path. Those are the kind of people I think I have the most in common with, the ones who are true to themselves.
Being a true individual I think carries with it the burden of being a stranger in a strange land, and if my goal was to move only to find people who were like-minded as me, I would never be happy. Instead, I find contentment in accepting who I am, and that I will always be the square peg who can never fit in with the circle of the world. Once I learned to accept that, I realized my happiness doesn't have to rely on being surrounded by people who shared the same convictions and beliefs I did.


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Samsung Gear VR now compatible with WebVR API
Open draft standard in progress, but looks promising
On April 1st, Samsung announced it will now support the cutting-edge WebVR API on its Gear VR headset, now giving Samsung customers the ability to browse the web with all the immersion of a full VR experience.
Samsung getting iris scanners
Are you looking at me?
It is looking certain that Samsung phones are getting Iris security scanners.
Samsung expects big profit jump
S7 success even surprises Samsung
Samsung hinted that it is expecting a 10 percent jump in quarterly profit, thanks to early sales for its new Galaxy S7 smartphones.
Samsung gets patent for smart contacts
You control it by blinking
Samsung has come up with contact lenses which are a little more discreet than Google glass and run by the power of blinking.
Samsung starts mass production of 10nm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM
Improved data and power rates
Samsung has started mass production of "the industry's first 10nm, 8-Gb DDR4 DRAM chips," and memory modules based upon them.
Asustek and Acer see LCD monitor sales growing
Asustek has 30 percent growth in EU
Asustek Computer and Acer are doing rather well flogging their LCD monitors.
Samsung has got its mojo back
Galaxy S7 selling better than expected
It looks like Samsung is back on track with its Galaxy S7 and selling more than expected, just as its main rival Apple appears to be stuck in neutral.
Intel inside Samsung devices
Slowly edging its way back into mobile
Chipzilla famously missed the mobile boom, but it appears the outfit is slowly edging its way back. Not only is it counting Asus as its chum it seems to be making friends with Samsung.
iPhone 7 will not be a major redesign
Apple delays key release until next year
Fruity cargo cult Apple is not going to release a "new" iPhone until next year, according to Wall Street analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Samsung also unveils value-oriented CM871a OEM SSD
PM871a as well
Samsung unveiled quite a few new OEM-based SSDs at the Samsung 2016 SSD Forum in Japan, including new SATA-based 2.5-inch CM871a and PM871a value-oriented SSD based on the new MAIA controller.


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Pumpkin Truffles
- 4 packages Golden Oreos
- 4oz Cream Cheese
- ½ cup Pumpkin puree
- 3 ½ cups Powdered Sugar
- 2 Tbsp. Pumpkin Spice
- White Chocolate to dip
- Pumpkin Spice for garnish
Using the Roubocoupe, blend the golden Oreos until they are finely ground. Add to small mixer. Microwave the cream cheese until soft and slowly add to the cookies. Add the pumpkin puree and the spices.
Using the metal truffle scoop, scoop the truffles for size, and then freeze until firm. Dip the truffles in white chocolate, and before they are set, sprinkle with a pinch of pumpkin spice. Freeze covered until ready to use.


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Here are a few photos from a weekend camping trip along the Oregon coast:
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March 14, 2011
Here are a few photos from a weekend camping trip along the Oregon coast:
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I love how you photographed the Canon Beach. It seems as if the sand is also waving like the sea water.
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I just recently went to the Oregon coast. The vast amount of natural beauty there is astounding! Anyone who loves to go camping and hiking would find it to be paradise.
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Eng. Agríc. vol.32 no.2 Jaboticabal Mar./Apr. 2012
Several regulations in gravity table in quality of tobacco seeds
Diferentes regulagens da mesa densimétrica na qualidade de sementes de tabaco
Gizele I. GadottiI; Leopoldo BaudetII; Francisco A. VillelaIII
IDoutoranda em Ciência e Tecnologia de Sementes no Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Sementes da Universidade Federal de Pelotas
IIProfessor Titular, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Faculdade de Agronomia Eliseu Maciel, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Sementes
IIIProfessor Associado, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Faculdade de Agronomia Eliseu Maciel, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Sementes
The use of gravity table can result in improved quality of seeds of several species, demonstrating the superiority of the quality attributes of seeds collected in the top positions in relation to the lower positions of the discharge zone of the gravity table. The availability of information on tobacco seeds, particularly on the action of gravity table, has not been addressed in the literature. The present study was to evaluate the influence of different regulations in the gravity table on the quality of tobacco seeds. The terminal edge of the machine of 50 cm width was divided into four parts plus the outlet for stones. The treatments were in the following fractions: original seed (obtained in the feed hopper), heavy seed (at the top), middle high, intermediate, and light seed (lower part), and the stones outlet of the gravity table. Each combination of regulation was in an independent adjustment with a total of seven adjusts. The gravity table, in the adjustments with high oscillation, was efficient in improving the physiological quality of seed lots of tobacco, by removing the fraction of light seeds discharged at the bottom of the terminal edge.
Keywords: Nicotiana tabacum, processing, vigor, sanity.
O uso da mesa densimétrica pode resultar no aprimoramento da qualidade de sementes de diversas espécies, evidenciando superioridade dos atributos de qualidade das sementes coletadas nas posições superiores em relação às posições inferiores da zona de descarga da mesa densimétrica. A disponibilidade de informações sobre sementes de tabaco, particularmente sobre a ação da mesa densimétrica, não tem sido contemplada na literatura. O presente trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de avaliar a influência de diferentes regulagens na mesa densimétrica sobre a qualidade de sementes de tabaco. O eixo terminal de descarga da mesa densimétrica, com largura de 50 cm, foi dividido em quatro partes mais a bica de saída de pedra. Os tratamentos constituíram-se nas frações semente original (obtida no depósito da alimentação) e sementes pesadas, (parte alta), intermediária alta, intermediária baixa e semente leve (baixa) e bica de saída de pedras da zona de descarga da mesa densimétrica. Cada combinação de regulagens constitui-se em um ajuste independente, totalizando sete ajustes. A mesa densimétrica, nos ajustes com mais alta oscilação, apresenta eficiência no aprimoramento da qualidade fisiológica de lotes de sementes de tabaco, pela remoção da fração descarregada na parte baixa da zona de descarga.
Palavras-chave: Nicotiana tabacum, beneficiamento, vigor, sanidade.
The production of tobacco seed in the world focused for several decades in the United States of America, due to be governmental research based on universities centers. Later these seeds were distributed throughout the world and producing fertile cultivars, the producers in their own countries, have multiplied them. From the anti-smoking law in the United States of America, the state funding of these researches were vetoed becoming to be sustained by the own private companies related to the tobacco industry, that could retain the right to multiply the varieties which were financed by them.
Currently there is a company that owns much of the production of tobacco seed in the world. In Brazil there are three companies that produce tobacco seed two linked to the offshoot of cigarettes and an independent one. According to SINDITABACO (2011), in 2009/10 harvest 402,000 hectares were cultivated with seedlings; it was used 1.2 tons of tobacco seeds.
Fungi can cause different types of damage to the seeds, with significant reduction in physiological quality. These damages are usually from the process of seed formation, resulting in seeds empty, wrinkled and of smaller size and weight. It is noteworthy that such differences allow that seeds attacked by fungi can be eliminated from the batch, enabling not only the improvement of health quality, as well as the physiological quality of the seed lot (GADOTTI, 2006).
Seeds in different stages of maturation, attacked by insects and / or infected by microorganisms may differ in specific gravity. The separation is possible in the seed processing using the gravity table, a finishing machine for which the principle of separation is based on separate materials that differ in specific gravity (ARAUJO et al., 2009). In a batch, the seeds of lower specific gravity, usually of inferior quality, are discharged in the lower zone of discharge gravity table, a fact verified by BAUDET & MISRA (1991) in hybrid corn seeds, BUITRAGO et al. (1991) and FANTINATTI et al. (2002) in bean seeds, INFANTINI et al. (1992) in seeds of birdsfoot trefoil, NASCIMENTO (1994) in pea seeds, BICCA et al. (1998) in rice seeds, AHRENS & KRZYZANOWSKI (1998) in seeds of lupine, ALEXANDER & SILVA (2001) in seeds of common vetch, GIOMO et al. (2004) in coffee seeds and GADOTTI et al. (2006) in seeds of broccoli sprouts.
By using the gravity table in the processing of beans, LOLLATTO & SILVA (1984) and BUITRAGO et al (1991) found a higher incidence of fungi in the seeds discharged at the bottom of the table. Similarly, AHRENS & KRZYZANOWSKI (1998) in seeds of lupine and ALEXANDRE & SILVA (2001) in seeds of common vetch found a tendency for the concentration of seeds infected by fungi in the lower parts of the unloading area, but with dependent incidence on the fungus in question.
According to MARTINS et al. (2005) seeds stratified in the gravity table corresponding to heavy and intermediate classes show high germination and high vigor, and can be used for the composition of marketable lots of papaya seeds. Although FERREIRA & SÁ (2010) describe that the processing promotes improvement in the quality of corn seeds and the seeds obtained after gravity table and ready for bagging have better performance.
In general, the researches conducted highlighted the efficiency of the gravity table in improving the quality of seed lots of different species, demonstrating the superiority of physical, physiological and sanitary seed discharged in the top positions in relation to the lower of the unloading area.
Therefore, taking into account the limited availability of information about the processing of small seeds, especially tobacco, and also the uniformity of maturation that can directly affect the specific weight of the tobacco seeds, it is important to evaluate the use influence of the gravity table separation of seeds according to their physical and maturation, in the performance of lots. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of different regulations in the gravity table on the quality of tobacco seeds.
It was used seeds of tobacco cultivar Gavurkoy, coming from the unit of the company Souza Cruz S.A., established in Rio Negro - PR, Brazil. The seeds first cleaned in air machine, brand Seed Processing Model STS - MC3, reached physical purity of 99% and further were benefited by the gravity table, model 4605.00.00.
The discharged terminal axis of the gravity table of 50 cm width was divided into five parts: low with 9 cm, medium low of 13 cm, high intermediate with 13 cm and high with 15 cm and besides the outlet nozzle of the stones with 3 cm wide. The treatments were in six fractions, one collected in the feed hopper (original seed), four discharged in the high, medium high, low and intermediate low part and one collected in the outlet nozzle of the stones.
The regulations set out in Table 1 resulted from preliminary tests. The equipment allowed inclination regulations in lateral and longitudinal directions, which is on a scale in centimeters. For the feeding, the machine allows two regulations with a vibration in Hertz range, which influences the input stream of seeds and another in the entrance to the table. Each regulations combination formed in an independent adjustment, as shown in Table 1.
For each regulation combination samples were collected in the feeding, in the high, medium high, medium low and low parts and in the outlet nozzle of the stones of the discharge zone of the gravity table.
The sampling consisted of four samples of each treatment, which is comprised of four replicates, with average weight of 2 g, taken at regular intervals time of 15 min. The samples were packed in paper bags and kept in a cold room (temperature of 5 ºC and RH 35%), until the implementation of the following assessments:
Germination - conducted with 400 seeds (four replicates of 100 seeds) distributed in boxes type gearbox, on two sheets of towel paper type germibox® moistened with water equivalent to 2.5 times the weight of the dry substrate and maintained in germination at a temperature of 20-30 ºC. Evaluations were performed on the seventh (first count) and sixteenth days after sowing, according to the Rules for Seed Analysis - RAS (BRAZIL, 2009) and the results expressed as a percentage (normal seedling or seeds with emitted roots).
Sanity test - performed by the filter paper using 400 seed arranged in a gearbox container, previously sterilized with sodium hypochlorite solution on two sheets of blotting paper moistened with sterile distilled water. The seeds were kept in an incubation chamber at a temperature of 23 ºC ± 2 ºC under alternating 12 hours light and 12 hours dark for a period of seven days according to the RAS (BRAZIL, 2009). For the identification of the micro flora, the seeds were tested individually with the aid of a stereoscope microscope and, when necessary, an optical microscope and the incidence results were expressed as percentage of seeds infested by fungi.
Volumetric weight - performed with four replicates, being the seeds introduced by graduated volume of 40 mL and measured in accurate balance of 0.0001 g.
Content of water - measured with three grams of seed, by the oven method at 105 ± 3 ºC according to RAS ( BRAZIL, 2009).
Weight of 1000 seeds - measured by the use of eight replications of 100 seeds, according to RAS (BRAZIL, 2009).
Statistical procedure - the experimental design was completely randomized with six treatments (six fractions, one collected in a hopper (original seed), four discharged in the high, medium high, low and intermediate low part and one collected in the outlet nozzle of the stones) and four replications, separately for each regulation combination of the gravity table. The treatment means were compared by Tukey test at a probability level of 5%.
The results of the tests to evaluate the physiological quality of tobacco seeds (Table 2) show that in some regulations it was possible to obtain higher quality of seeds from the upper and the middle high part of the gravity table discharge zone in relation to the lower parts both for germination and for the vigor, in agreement with that found by BAUDET & MISRA (1991) in hybrid corn seeds, BUITRAGO et al. (1991) and FANTINATTI et al. (2002) in bean seeds, INFANTINI et al. (1992) in seeds of birdsfoot trefoil, NASCIMENTO (1994) in pea seeds, BICCA et al. (1998) in rice seeds, AHRENS & KRZYZANOWSKI (1998) in seeds of lupine, ALEXANDRE & SILVA (2001) in seeds of common vetch, GIOMO et al. (2004) in coffee seeds and GADOTTI et al. (2006) in seeds of broccoli sprouts. The results showed reduction in germination according the uses of the seeds collected from the upper to the lower discharge zone of the gravity table.
In the adjustment 1 (null lateral and longitudinal inclination) and 4 (high air flows, feeding and oscillation) there are no significant differences between fractions in the germination and first count (Table 2), do not allowing the separation of seeds of lower quality of the rest of the lot, by specified regulations of the adjustments.
The regulations carried out on adjustment 5 (high flows of air, of feeding and of oscillation) did not cause significant variations in the first count testing, because the fraction discharged at the bottom part showed superior performance to the fraction collected in the feed hopper.
In the adjustment 2 and 3, there was the separation of the seed lot with lower quality, except in a few nozzle. In the adjustment 6, the fraction collected in the feed hopper had, in general, low physiological quality compared with other fractions.
The regulation combination used in the adjustment 6 and 7 allowed the stratification of fractions for the physiological quality of the upper part to the lower part of the discharge zone of the gravity table and this is seen in Table 2 by evaluating among the different regulations.
It is worth emphasizing that the removal of the fraction discharged at the bottom of the discharge zone could result in high physiological quality seed lots of tobacco, depending on the proper regulation of the gravity table.
In evaluating the physical quality (Table 3) was possible to detect that there was no unidirectional trend between the fractions and the regulations and there is only a tendency in some regulations in obtaining smaller results in the nozzle located in the lower parts.
In the adjustments 6 and 7, there was an increase in the volumetric weight and in the 1000 seeds of the discharged fraction from the upper part and in the outlet nozzle of stones in relation with the discharged at the bottom part.
Adjustments 6 and 7, who held the highest oscillations were those who obtained the highest indexes of physiological quality at the upper portions of the equipment, agreeing with the authors cited above. Other adjustments were not efficient in separating the lot.
In Table 4, the adjustments 6 and 7 enabled the stratification of the fractions on the efficiency of the discharge and utilization, considering that the discharge would be accomplished by the removal of the fraction discharged at the bottom of the unloading area and utilization of the discharged parts from the upper part and in the outlet nozzle of the stones.
The sanity test (Table 5) made possible the detection of the seven fungus species, which can be grouped into storage fungi (Aspergillus spp. and Penicillium spp.), weak pathogens or potentially pathogenic (Fusarium spp. and Alternaria spp.) and opportunistics (Bipolaris sp., Cladosporium sp. and Phoma sp.), however, only Fusarium spp. was found in all adjustments, and other fungi were sporadic. The low incidence of fungi is due to the fact that the plot has remained stored in temperature and water content relative low.
Studies BY LOLLATO & SILVA (1984) and BUITRAGO et al. (1991), with the seeds of bean, showed that the incidence of fungi such as Alternaria spp., Fusarium spp. and Macrophonia sp. were higher in the seeds discharged into the lower zone of the gravity table.
Overall, the results obtained in this study have revealed that the gravity table shows efficiency in improvement of the physiological attributes of tobacco seed lots. The use of the regulation described in the adjustment 7, determines the removal of inferior seeds of the discharged fraction in the lower part of the discharge zone.
Furthermore, it is important to emphasize that the seeds discharged into the lower discharge zone of the gravity table have lower volumetric weight resulting from the presence of immature seeds, damaged or infected by fungus, which can be removed from the tobacco seed lots.
The gravity table, properly regulated, improves the physiological quality of tobacco seed lots, by discarding the fraction discharged at the bottom part of the unloading area. The adjustments 6 and 7, with higher oscillations, are more efficient in improving the physiological quality, collecting seeds with higher volumetric weight and of 1000 seeds.
AHRENS, D.C.; KRZYZANOWSKI, F.C. Efeito do beneficiamento de sementes de tremoço azul sobre suas qualidades física, fisiológica e sanitária. Scientia Agrícola, Piracicaba, v.55, n.2, 1998. [ Links ]
ALEXANDRE, A.D.; SILVA, W.R. Mesa gravitacional e qualidade fisiológica e sanitária de sementes de ervilhaca-comum. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.23, n.1, p.167- 174, 2001. [ Links ]
ARAUJO, E.F.; VIGGIANO, J.; SILVA, R.F.; Beneficiamento de sementes de hortaliças. In: NASCIMENTO, W.M. (Ed.) Tecnologia de sementes de hortaliças. Brasilia: EMBRAPA Hortaliças, 2009. p.105-134. [ Links ]
BAUDET, L.; MISRA, M. Atributos da qualidade de sementes de milho beneficiadas em mesa de gravidade. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.13, n.2, p.91-97, 1991. [ Links ]
BICCA, F.M.; BAUDET, L.; ZIMMER, G.J. Separação de sementes manchadas de lotes de sementes de arroz, utilizando a mesa de gravidade e sua influência na qualidade sanitária. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.20, n.1, p.106-111, 1998. [ Links ]
BRASIL. Ministério da Agricultura, do Abastecimento e da Reforma Agrária. Regras para Análise de Sementes. Brasília: SNDA/CGAL, 2009. 399 p. [ Links ]
BUITRAGO, I.C.; VILLELA, F.A.; TILLMANN, M.A.A.; SILVA, J.B. Perdas e qualidade de sementes de feijão beneficiadas em máquina de ventiladores e peneira e mesa de gravidade. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.13, n.2, p.97-101, 1991. [ Links ]
FANTINATTI, J.B.; HONÓRIO, S.L.; RAZERA, L.F. Qualidade de sementes de feijão de diversas densidades obtidas na mesa gravitacional. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.24, n.1, p.24-32, 2002. [ Links ]
FERREIRA, R. L.; SÁ, M.E.. Contribuição de etapas do beneficiamento na qualidade fisiológica de sementes de dois híbridos de milho. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.32, n.4 p.99-110, 2010. [ Links ]
GADOTTI, G. I. Beneficiamento em mesa densimétrica e desempenho de sementes de tabaco. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciência e Tecnologia de Sementes) - Faculdade de Agronomia Eliseu Maciel, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, 2006, p.12. [ Links ]
GADOTTI, G.I.; CORRÊA, C.L.; LUCCA FILHO, O.; VILLELA, F. A. Qualidade de sementes de couve brócolis beneficiadas em mesa densimétrica. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.28, n.2, p.123-127, 2006. [ Links ]
GIOMO, G.S.; RAZERA, L.F.; GALLO, P.B. Beneficiamento e qualidade de sementes de café arábica. Bragantia, Campinas, v.63, n.2, p.291-297, 2004. [ Links ]
INFANTINI, A.S.G.; IRIGON, D.L.; MELLO, V.D.C.; SANTOS, D.S.B.; ZONTA, E.P. Qualidade física e fisiológica de sementes de cornichão beneficiadas na máquina de ar e peneira e na mesa de gravidade. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília v.14, n.2, p.131-134, 1992. [ Links ]
LOLLATO, M.A.; SILVA, W.R. Efeitos da utilização da mesa gravitacional na qualidade de sementes de feijão. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, Brasília. v.19, n.2, p.1483-1496. 1984. [ Links ]
MARTINS, G. N.; SILVA, R.F. da; ARAÚJO, E.F.; PEREIRA, M. G.; VIEIRA, H.D.; VIANA, A.P. Influência do tipo de fruto, peso específico das sementes e período de armazenamento na qualidade fisiológica de sementes de mamão do grupo formosa. Revista Brasileira de Sementes, Brasília, v.27, n.2, p.12-17, 2005. [ Links ]
NASCIMENTO, W.M. Efeito do beneficiamento na qualidade de sementes de ervilha (Pisum sativum L.). Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, Brasília, v.29, n.2, p.309-313,1994. [ Links ]
SINDITABACO. Tabaco no Sul do Brasil: uma cultura sustentável. Santa Cruz do Sul, 2011. 13 p. <http://www.sindifumo.com.br/ ?link=publicacoes>. Acessado: 10 nov. 2011. [ Links ]
Recebido pelo Conselho Editorial em: 10-2-2011
Aprovado pelo Conselho Editorial em: 21-11-2011


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The business secretary Vince Cable has signalled that he remains in favour of breaking up British banks, despite likely recommendations from an independent commission to the contrary.
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Cable was speaking at a meeting in London of bankers and regulators, organised by the consumer group, Which?. He told the meeting there had been a "disengagement of senior management" in the big five banks, resulting in a "weakness in relationship management between banks and SMEs."
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Paul Chisnall from the British Bankers Association rejected the idea of a portable account number for consumers, claiming it was too expensive. He also disagreed with Mr. Cable on whether the banks should be broken up. He told the meeting, "If it's essential to break up the banks then how come it's only in the UK that we are having this discussion?"
The chair of Hermes Focus asset management, David Pitt Watson, told the meeting that he agreed there needed to be further action, claiming that 80 per cent of people within the banking industry thought there was still a risk of another major financial crisis. However he warned against greater competition for its own sake. He said the energy and pensions industries now had "thousands of products" but were often impossible for consumers to understand.
The Chief Executive of Which?, Peter Vicary-Smith, told the meeting he favoured attempting a ring-fence model first, and only consider breaking up the banks if the ring-fence model didn't work. He said the success of a ring-fence model would be judged on whether it led to an effective and stable system.
He said, "Unless the ICB is brave in its recommendations, and the government brave in its responses, we will all have missed a unique opportunity."


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You are cordially invited to our 3rd YRA Racer Social to be held on November 14 at the Corinthian Yacht Club. Our 3rd social will focus on sail trim and rig setup and will include presentations by Kame Richards of Pineapple Sails, Seadon Wijsen of North Sails, and Will Paxton of Quantum Sails.
We all, skippers and crew, continually work on trying to make our boats as fast as possible. Here's your chance to hear a set of renowned sail-makers talk about how to get the most out of your sails and make your boat faster. Sail trim is an enormous topic and so this first time around we'll concentrate on main and jib trim, and also look at how rig tune effects sails and therefore boat speed.
We hope these new Racer Socials will add new vigor to the racing community by providing a series of events where racers and their crew can gather to hear interesting presentations about racing. We want to provide an opportunity for racers to rub shoulders with each other and talk about their passion for racing and sailing. Skippers, please invite your crew, family members, friends, or anyone who helps in your racing endeavors. They are all important members of the racing community, and we value their participation in the Racer Socials.
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Regularly, the section between the Portfield roundabout and the junction with the A285 at Halnaker sees water on the road.
Sometimes the inside lane is closed and on rare occasions the whole eastbound carriageway is shut.
Everytime water is on the A27, it means that seven businesses just next to the A27 at Maudlin Farm are mostly underwater.
Ryan Westwood, of the Westwood Furniture Co, based at the farm, said the problem started when ditches that used to run south from Westhampnett to the Pagham Rife were cut off by the A27.
Since then, water pools north of the carriageway, affecting businesses and two homes.
With especially heavy rainfall, the water overflows and blocks the A27, needing to be pumped away by Highways Agency contractors.
There is a pond south of the A27, with a nine-inch pipe connecting it to where water collects on the northern side.
However, Mr Westwood said there was no outlet for the water there and it frequently backed up.
For an in-depth look at the problem and the hundreds of drivers it affects, pick up a copy of next Thursday's Observer (January 30).