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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 21, 2013) – Beach volleyball in the United States will get more than 20 hours of programming on NBC, NBC Sports Network and Universal Sports Network this summer when the first FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam event on U.S. soil in over 10 years and a newly created beach event collide July 22-28 at Long Beach, Calif., to form one major weekend of activity on the sand.
| Jennifer Fopma, left, blocks against Jennifer Kessy at the FIVB
Shanghai Grand Slam in April.
The ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball, recognized by USA Volleyball, will be run in conjunction with the FIVB event.
The Grand Slam tournament is the first in the United States since 2003, and will include the inaugural ASICS World Series Cup, a special competition that will feature the top U.S. men's and women's teams competing against the best teams from around the world. There will also be a beach music festival held in conjunction with the volleyball competitions.
"USA Volleyball is very pleased that an FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam Event will be returning to the United States for the first time since 2003," USA Volleyball CEO Doug Beal said. "The partnership that has been forged between the FIVB, Management Plus Enterprises and NBC Sports Group creates a dynamic showcase for beach volleyball to a global audience."
Coverage begins Thursday, July 25 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network with women's Grand Slam quarterfinal competitions, and will continue through the weekend. The World Series Cup Women's Finals will air Saturday, July 27 at 4 p.m. ET on NBC, with the Men's Finals airing Sunday, July 28 at 4:30 p.m. ET on NBC. In addition to programming on NBC and NBC Sports Network, Universal Sports Network will also provide more than 13 hours of coverage of the event.
"This event is important because it is an opportunity for our pro beach volleyball players to gain exposure by playing in the United States," said USA Volleyball Director of Beach Programs Ali Wood Lamberson. "Younger athletes will have the opportunity to watch the best pro beach volleyball players compete either in person or on television."
NBC Sports Group, the FIVB, USA Volleyball and Management Plus Enterprises are partnering on the event, which will offer more than $500,000 in total prize money.
"I know that as an athlete, I loved competing in front of my family and friends," said Sean Scott, a former beach volleyball professional who won the last two Manhattan Beach Opens. "After a lot of time on the road this season, our athletes will be excited and proud to play in the United States."
The Grand Slam will be the 10th FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour double-gender event in the USA, which includes the FIVB World Championships in Los Angeles in 1997 and the 2003 event at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Carson, Calif.
This year's FIVB World Tour Grand Slams is using a pool format. Long Beach will begin with a one-day qualification tournament to determine the final eight spots in each gender's 32-team main draw tournaments followed by round-robin pool play, where pools of four will play three matches each, with a single-elimination bracket for the final 24 teams (the top three from each pool).
Women will begin play on Monday, July 22 and conclude with medal matches on Saturday, July 27. The men's action will start on Tuesday, July 23, culminating with the men's medal matches on Sunday, July 28.


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For a new twist on your holiday party snacks and gift-giving ideas, try these super simple, delicious and addictive snack of Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels.
1 – 1 lb bag of pretzels (I found my holiday shaped pretzels at Sams Club — the giant container made 3 batches)
1/3 cup white sugar
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- In a small bowl, combine the cinnamon, sugar and oil until well combined.
- Pour pretzels into a large microwave safe bowl. Pour cinnamon/sugar mixture over pretzels and stir.
- Cook the pretzels for 1 minute on high; remove from microwave and stir. Do this step two more times.
- Line a cookie sheet with foil or parchment paper. Pour warm pretzels onto cookie sheet in a single layer. I like mine extra sweet so I sprinkled a little more cinnamon/sugar over the pretzels while they cooled.
- Once they are cool, pour into an air tight container for safe-keeping.
You can get creative with the recipe and add pecans or drizzle with chocolate. Even dried cranberries would add a nice color and texture! Mix it up however you like!
This is also a great recipe to make with the kids — no sharp knives, nothing hot to the touch and not to messy (as long as you keep the sugar on the counter).

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AS A SENIOR IN 2016 ACWPC All-America First Team ... WWPA Player of the Year ... All-WWPA First Team ... One of 16 UCSD Athletes of the Year ... San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month for April ... WWPA Player of the Week (3/7) ... Led team with 48 assists, and second with 60 goals and 58 steals ... Compiled five goals, one assist and one steal vs. Whittier (3/4) ... Dished out four assists vs. Iona (3/10) and vs. Harvard (3/13) ... Had eight steals to go along with one goal and one assist vs. San Diego State (4/22) ... Four steals, three goals and two assists vs. CSU Bakersfield (3/24) ... Scored three goals and dished out two assists in the NCAA Championship play-in game vs. Whittier (5/10) ... Produced two goals, three assists and two steals in three games at NCAA Championship hosted by UCLA ... Leaves UCSD ranked third in career goals (137) and assists (193).
AS A JUNIOR IN 2015 ACWPC All-America First Team ... All-WWPA First Team ... NCAA Championship All-Tournament Second Team ... WWPA Player of the Week (3/17) ... UCSDtritons.com Athlete of the Week (5/11) ... Finished with 68 goals, 54 assists and 64 steasl ... Led the team in goals, steals and field blocks (19) ... Her 54 assists and ejections drawn were good for second on the team ... Finished with an eighth place mark on both the UCSD single-season assists list and single-season steals list ... Scored a hat trick in back-to-back games twice in 2015 ... Scored two goals, four assists and three steals against Azusa Pacific (2/13) ... Set a career-high four goals with four steals and two ejections drawn agaisnt Hawai'i (2/21) ... Tallied four goals, two assists, one steal and one penalty drawn against Michigan (2/22) ... Recorded four goals three assists, four steals, one penalty drawn and one ejection drawn against Princeton (3/14) ... Scored four goals with three assists, three steals and three ejections drawn against Cal State East Bay (4/4) ... Had two goals, three assists and two steals in the NCAA Championship Play-In game against Whittier (5/2) ... Totaled four goals and five assists during the NCAA Championship in Stanford, earning a spot on the All-Tournament Second Team.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2014 ACWPC All-Academic ... Tallied 18 goals, 26 assists, 38 steals in her 2014 campaign ... Her 38 steals tied for third on the team ... Scored two goals, a steal and drew a penalty against UC Santa Barbara ... Dished out a career-high five assists while scoring twice and grabbing two steals against George Washington ... Grabbed a season-high four steals and had two assists against Pomona-Pitzer ... Had one goal, four assists and two steals against Monterey Bay ... Posted one goal, one assist and three steals against Sonoma State in the second round of the WWPA Championship.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2013 ACWPC All-Academic ... Tallied 132 quarters of playing time ... Scored her first career goal at the UC Santa Barbara Winter Invite against No. 17 Cal State Northridge (1/26)… Posted a single-game high three goals and two steals against Chapman (3/9) ... Scored two goals and grabbed two steals the same weekend against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (3/9) ... Finished the season with 14 goals, nine assists, 33 steals, eight ejections drawn and 10 field blocks.
HIGH SCHOOL A 2012 graduate of Dos Pueblos Senior High School in Goleta ... Made All-Channel League First Team (2011-12) ... Three-time Division I CIF championship team member with the Chargers ... Junior Olympic Platinum Division gold medalist for the 18U team as a senior (2012) ... Member of Junior Olympics Platinum Division silver medal champions 18U team as a junior (2011) ... Also on Junior Olympics Platinum Division silver medal championship 14U (2008) and 12U (2006) teams ... Member of Junior Olympics Platinum Division gold medal championship 16U team twice (2010-11) and 12U team once (2005) ... Her teams were a National Club Championships (NCC) Qualifier and NCC gold medal champion for many years (2008-12) ... Santa Barbara Aquatics Club (SBAC) Junior Olympics Qualifier (2005-12) ... Played club for SBAC during the summers between 2008-12 ... Also was a four-year member of the swim team and ran cross country as a sophomore (2009) for the Chargers.
PERSONAL Born Nov. 22, 1994 in Santa Barbara ... Parents are Stephen and Christina Kistler, who both graduated from UC Santa Barbara ... Has an older brother named Ian and a younger sister named Olivia ... Environmental systems (ecology, behavior and evolution) major at Muir College ... Rallying from a 7-2 deficit at the half to beat Newport Harbor in the CIF Division I Southern Section Finals, 9-8, as a sophomore is her most memorable moment in water polo ... Enjoys reading, geocaching with her sister and friends, surfing, boogie boarding, and sleeping in her spare time ... Wilma Rudolph, Missy Franklin, Michael Phelps, Kerri Walsh Jennings and Usain Bolt are among her favorite athletes ... Favorite movies are The Princess Bride, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Ever After: A Cinderella Story and Blades of Glory ... Has "Gravity" by Shawn McDonald and "Scar Tissue" by Red Hot Chili Peppers on her playlist ... Loves pasta ... Her greatest influences are her family and grandparents ... Her dream is to travel as a photographer for National Geographic after graduating from UCSD.


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"Spurious was Jessica Lahey's vocabulary/etymology word of the day, she writes on Core Knowledge Blog.
"Spurious" describes something that is false, or inauthentic, but it comes from the Latin spurius, meaning "bastard" or "illegitimate." Spurius was related to all sorts of lovely words such as spurcitia, meaning "filthiness" or "dirt," and spurcare, "to make dirty" or "to defile." The Romans thought highly of their illegitimate children, clearly. They even turned spurius into a proper name for all those illegitimate offspring roaming around ancient Rome. If your name was Spurius, you were likely illegitimate.
That led to her cultural literacy item of the day: Edmund's first speech in Act II of King Lear.
Edmund (a.k.a Spurius) was the illegitimate son of Gloucester, close advisor to Lear. Gloucester lavishes all of his love on the legitimate son, Edgar, which drives Edmund nuts. . . . Anger drives him to deceit in the form of a tragic plot against his brother that leads to Oedipus-style eye removal, nakedness, and rampant baseness among all concerned. The fact that Edmund is, in fact, the spurious (illegitimate) son causes him to become spurious (false) and deceive his father. See that? That's just lovely, if you ask me.
In this PBS performance of King Lear, "Edmund is a hottie and does this extremely appealing L- and T- thing with his tongue on the word 'legitimate' that causes giggles among the middle school girls," Lahey writes. Here's Edmund (Spurius):
Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I 335
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact, 340
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality 345
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops
Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land.
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund 350
As to th' legitimate. Fine word- 'legitimate'!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards! 355


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The 138 guest rooms feature natural mineral water from hot springs and first-class facilities. Soak up the goodness of the region at the resort's own spa with a mineral water pool offering a variety of spa treatments.
There is also a large swimming pool for the ultimate in relaxation by day, and unwind in the comfort and ambience of the Ice Bar Music Pub Lounge for evening cocktails.
Medium-rise building in a low-rise town, the hotel affords splendid views from every one of its 138 guestrooms and suites. Large windows ensure the rooms feel light and airy and the decor uses natural materials to reflect the unspoiled environment of the region
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There are 82 Superior Rooms in the hotel, each measuring 26 square metres in area and offering views across the hotel gardens and the town. The rooms are lit by floor-to-ceiling windows with the natural light enhancing the use of natural fabrics.
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The hotel has 34 Deluxe Rooms, each measuring 26 square metres in area and offering views across the hotel gardens and the town. Floor-to-ceiling windows fill the room with natural light, enhancing the use of natural fabrics.
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There are 20 Corner Suites located throughout the hotel, each offering 31 square metres of accommodation and with windows on two sides of the room lending an extra light and bright quality. .
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One-bedroom Suites offer a separate living room and bedroom area. There are a total of four Suites in the hotel. Both the living area and the bedrooms have floor-to-ceiling windows that light the room and enhance the use of natural fabrics and muted colours.
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Cafenidee is an attractive venue on the ground floor of the hotel, with a view out across the hotel gardens. Open from 6 a.m. to 01 p.m., it can seat 108 people. There is an a la carte that features Thai, Chinese and international specialties throughout the day. A house band and singer perform nightly from 6:00 p.m. to 01:00 p.m.
Location : Ground floor
Date : Daily weekday & weekend
Time : 6:00 a.m. to 01.00 a.m.
Lobby Lounge
The Lobby Lounge is open for light refreshments and drinks from 10 am to 9 pm and serves cocktails in addition to tea and coffee. Located on the Lobby level, there is a seating capacity for 25 people.
Location : On the Lobby level
Date : Daily weekday & weekend
Time : 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tinidee Terrace
The Tinidee Terrace can seat 40 beside the hotel pool and is open during the evenings. The focus here is on fresh local seafood and a range of barbecued meats, along with a large selection of Thai, Asian and international dishes.
Location : Pool Side
Date : Daily weekday & weekend
Time : 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m
Ice Bar Music Pub
The ''Coolest'' entertainment venue in ranong. Flamboyant and colorful modern design. Introducing the very best professional music acts in ranong, And our outstandingly beautiful charming and talented DJ compare. With many attractive and glamorous hostesses, and a bar stool corner. Watch all of the best live sport, inclusive of football. Have fun playing pool on our regular size table.
Location : Main Building
Date : Daily weekday & weekend
Time :18:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
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Tinidee Hotel@Ranong, is located in the commercial district of the city of Ranong, in southwest Thailand. Close to attractions such as Laemson National Park, Nai Khai Ranong, and Victoria Point in Myanmar, the Tinidee Hotel@Ranong is just 30 minutes' drive from Ranong Airport, and a one-hour flight from Bangkok.


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One of my questions following the OSU vs. Marshall trip to the woodshed last week was whether Marshall was still "a bowl team" or had they regressed. They looked pretty good against WVU last night, so I think it is safe to say that they didn't regress to far.
I was pretty pissed off about Mike Adams getting beat a couple of times by that Marshall DE, #99 (I think Curry was his last name), but he looked a pretty serious player last night. That Marshall D-Line (which gave up nearly 300 yards to OSU) looked pretty damn decent against WVU. Kind of begs the question, how good is OSU's O-Line. After the 45-7 beat down OSU put on Marshall, I was pretty much convinced that Marshall was a 3-9 type team this year and OSU was pretty good. Now, I am thinking Marshall is probably a .500 team and OSU is amazing.
Now watching WVU play last night, they looked like shit. No way they should be in the top 25. Now, having said that, is there a single decent team in the Big LEAST this year. That conference is terrible, early losses by Pitt and Cincy to nobodies and Marshall nearly beating WVU? Maybe it truly is time for the MWC to gain AQ status at the Big East's expense. We will never see that happen, but it probably should.


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Finally gave in and treated myself to a Butiki order. Now that the wedding is done I am treating myself, especially since we had a couple family issues immediately afterward and I need a little TLC. Once my Verdant $5 off coupon is processed I will treat myself to some of their goodies as well. Anyway, for this one I shared with a coworker to make free shipping. I feel a little guilty because I know it cuts into Stacy's profit margins, but $13 shipping is tough for me. Plus I could be getting her some repeat business, right? :)
Peppermint Patty SALE!!! 1/2 ounce
Quantity: 1/2 ounce SALE! $2.25 USD 2 $4.50 USD
Caramel Vanilla Assam SALE!!!
Quantity: 1 ounce SALE $6.25 USD 2 $12.50 USD
Mi Xian Black
Quantity: 1/2 ounce (8 cups) $6.25 USD 1 $6.25 USD
Organic Ceylon
Quantity: 1 ounce (22 cups) $3.75 USD 1 $3.75 USD
Premium Taiwanese Assam
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Ruby Pie
Quantity: 1 ounce (19 cups) $5.75 USD 2 $11.50 USD
Tamarind Pop
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Zhen Qu
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Nilgiri Frost Oolong
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Raspberry Truffle
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So I finally did it..I placed my first Butiki order! I haven't bought tea in a while, or so my credit card said haha, so it was time. Going to do a few more sipdowns this week as well!
I got:
Caramel Vanilla Assam (sale) – 1 oz
Dragon Feelers – 1/2 oz
Grapefruit Dragon – 1 oz
Cantaloupe & Cream – 1/2 oz
Pineapple Cilantro Cream – 1/2 oz
Watermelon Zylophone – 1/2 oz
The Killer's Vanilla – 1 oz
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The sale on the Caramel Vanilla is why I had to finally place an order :)
Congratulations on the order! :D
The sale of Caramel Vanilla is tempting me into my first Butiki order as well, haha ;-;''
Ordering for my roommate, and I jumped in with a few samples:
Upton Tea Imports
TE30 – 125g packet: Traditional Masala Chai
x1 @ $7.40 ea.
TB15D – 250g packet: Java Blend
x1 @ $7.02 ea. Sooo cheap!!!!!!!!!!
ZY07S – 15g sample: Season's Pick Yunnan Black Snail
x1 @ $1.00 ea.
TE62S – 15g sample: Maracuja Flavored Tea
x1 @ $1.00 ea.
ZG13S – 15g sample: Season's Pick Green Snail
x1 @ $1.00 ea.
For some reason the snail teas attracted me.
An-tea-cipating another lovely batch of samples from TeaVivre:
Organic Silver Needle White Tea (Bai Hao Yin Zhen)
Organic White Peony (Bai MuDan) Tea
Jasmine Silver Needle White Tea (Mo Li Yin Zhen)
Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe) Wuyi Rock Oolong Tea Fujian
Haven't tried their whites yet, can't wait.
this is all I really want so I had to do both
52Teas: Lemon Meringue Chai, and some iced tea pouches: 2 pink lemonade, 1 rainbow sherbet
DavidsTea: 50g each of Mint Julep, Mango Fruit Punch, and Main Squeeze, and an iced tea pitcher pack of Pink Passionfruit
And I still want to order from Butiki but it must wait just a bit.
Your orders sound really good. (I want the Lemon Meringue and Mint Julep.)
I put in an order from Harney & Sons after loving most everything I have tried from them. I was going to wait for a coupon, but I got impatient.
- 4 oz tins of Black Currant, Caribe, Bangkok & Fruits d'Alsace. I have tried and loved all of these except Fruits d'Alsace, but it sounds right up my alley and I won't be ordering again anytime soon.
- Loose samples of teas I haven't tried yet: Florence, Boston, SoHo Blend, Vanilla Black, Tokyo, Vanilla Comoro, Genmaicha, Royal Wedding, Passion Fruit
- A few of their plain black 8 oz tins for storage, because they are very inexpensive. They were out of the 4 oz tins, unfortunately.
That will be the last tea order I make for some time, as my cabinet is quickly running out of room. But that's okay, I will have a lot of new things to try.
I made my first Harney & Sons order today. It is not easy to get H and S in Canada and I love their raspberry iced tea, beyond all reason. So ordered 2 (15 bag) pouches and then a bunch of samples, flavoured black teas and other fruit herbals for iced tea. Can't wait to get it! I am off work next week and hope my order arrives by then so I can enjoy some R &R and testing out my new tea!
Oooh – exciting!
I think mine will be in tomorrow! I was a bit nervous because some people had bad experiences with shipping to Canada (delays), but they seem to have figured it out. I got a shipping notice the day after I placed the order, and I can track the package with UPS!
Nice! I know, I have been on the fence for the last week, wondering about that too. But, just had to give it a try. I called Williams Sonoma today, and they said they only had Paris ( I don't like bergamot) and the hot cinnamon spice one (which I do want to try). So, that( along with raspberry iced from chapters) will have to tied me over until my order arrives. Hope you get your order soon and love it all!
I just caved and placed a Butiki order. That sale on the Caramel Vanilla Assam was too great to pass up.
Caramel Vanilla Assam 2oz
1991 Da Ye Aged Oolong 1/2oz
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…and here's my Verdant order. The beau just judged me for two orders in a week, but these are my first in months and I won't need any more for months either, so PHHHT to him. Plus he likes the new tea too. :)
Yu Lu Yan Cha Black – Amount: 2 oz.
Laoshan Black – Amount: 2 oz.
Laoshan Black Chocolate Genmaicha – Amount: 2 oz.
Silver Buds Yabao – Amount: 1 oz.
Used my $5 off coupon and still made free shipping. I already know I love the Laoshan Black but I am excited to try the Yabao and Yu Lu Yan Cha for the first time. I really wish Verdant had more black teas, hopefully they can add some more in the fall.


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The $19 evolution of Unreal Engine 4
Epic Games is attempting to entice developers by getting all of them involved in building Unreal Engine 4 itself even as they make games with it.
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Gears of War sale won't bring Epic changes to Xbox's second-best core IP
Gears of War now belongs to Microsoft. What does this mean for Epic, and for Marcus and co? You've got questions; we've got answers. Well, guesses.
Unreal: Cliff Bleszinski's dream reboot would be like Skyrim
Unreal has been absent for some time, but Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski spooled off his dream check list for an Unreal reboot during a recent Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' session.
Unreal Engine 4 demo'd, UDK hits 1.5 million installs
Lots of exciting news for fans of the tech behind games as well as the final products. Check out the next generation of Epic's ubiquitous Unreal Engine.
Epic's Unreal highlights reel shows off advanced DX11 capacity
If you are in any way interested in graphical advances, check out this amazing Unreal Engine sizzle reel from GDC 2012.
Bleszinski: Any future Gears game would be "fresh and new"
Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has said any additions to the series will have to shake up its formula, among other references to the property's future.
Korean Unreal Engine-based MMORPG announced
The Korean branch of Epic Games has signed with Alliance of Valiant Arms publisher Neowiz for an Unreal Engine 3-powered MMORPG, titled Bless.
Epic: No new Unreal game in development
Epic may have made many a gamer's dreams come true this week by delivering the latest instalment of its mammoth Gears of War franchise, but the developer isn't handing out smiles to Unreal fans after confirming that there's currently no new Unreal title in the works. Be brave, take a deep breath and read on.
Quick Quotes: "We haven't been giving [Unreal series] the attention it deserves," says Capps
"We have a couple other major franchises that we've not been paying attention to. It's been a long time since we shipped an Unreal game, and it's an awfully loved franchise that we hold pretty dear here. We haven't been giving it the attention it deserves because we've been focusing on Gears of War and […]
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Epic Games has hinted, but not confirmed, that Wii U uses Unreal Tech, if a report on Develop is any indication.
Epic's Sweeney: Better characters and environments are the next step to engagement
More realistic characters and environments are the most important graphical leaps to be made, according to Epic Games' Tim Sweeney.
GOG running nice Unreal sale until Monday
GOG.com has a sale going on until Monday, August 31 on Unreal titles. Unreal and Unreal II: The Awakening are $8.49 each, and Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004 are also being sold at the same price. Great deals there. More through the site. Thanks, Joystiq.
GameTap adds Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament: GotY, updates freebie list
GameTap will be adding Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year edition to the service today. The free game of the week is Total Overdose and the regular free library has had BloodRayne, Colin Mcrae Rally, Commandos 3, and Operation Flashpoint added to it. Fantastic. More over on the GameTap Blog. Via BigDownload.
Metaboli gets Unreal deal
Games on demand service Metaboli's now carrying the entire Unreal series, as part of a just-signed three-year deal with Epic. Included Unreal Gold, Unreal II: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, and Unreal Tournament 3 Black. Press release after the break.
Rein says story-driven Unreal will return
Epic boss Mark rein reckons there are distant plans to create another single-player Unreal. Remember them? "I'm sure that at some point in our future we will make another Unreal, single-player, story-driven game. I'm sure at some point there will be one," he told Eurogamer. However, "There are no plans to do one today." Rein […]
Unreal games hit Steam
Epic's added a good chunk of its entire oeuvre to Steam, including Unreal Gold, Unreal II: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series of games, including Unreal Tournament 3. You can buy the lot for $60, which is a bit silly, really. "Epic is a leading developer of game engine technology and has produced some […]
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Gears of War sale won't bring Epic changes to Xbox's second-best core IP
Unreal: Cliff Bleszinski's dream reboot would be like Skyrim
Epic's Unreal highlights reel shows off advanced DX11 capacity
Quick Quotes: "We haven't been giving [Unreal series] the attention it deserves," says Capps
Epic's Sweeney: Better characters and environments are the next step to engagement
GameTap adds Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament: GotY, updates freebie list


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Auctions set for Saranac Lake buildings
SARANAC LAKE – A former Mexican restaurant, a commercial building downtown that used to house the Enterprise, and several other properties in this village are slated to be sold to the highest bidders in a series of auctions here over the next few weeks.
The former Casa Del Sol restaurant on Lake Flower Avenue is scheduled to be auctioned off at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the lobby of the Essex County Courthouse in Elizabethtown.
The restaurant closed its doors in December after its owner, Bryan Morgan, declared bankruptcy while facing more than $650,000 in debts. A judgment of foreclosure was issued in favor of Community Bank in March, and the property was scheduled for auction.
Another commercial building in the village, the Fowler Block at 77 Main St., is slated to be auctioned later this month, along with 60 other properties across Franklin County. Most were seized by the county for their owners' failure to pay property taxes.
The three-story Fowler Block was constructed in 1900 by W.S. Fowler and was the first of many buildings in Saranac Lake designed by architect William H. Scopes, according to the Historic Saranac Lake wiki website. It's more commonly known as the old Enterprise building, as it was home to the newspaper for 47 years, beginning in 1926. It now houses two secondhand stores run by Barbara Curtis, the Main Street Exchange and Dorsey Street Exchange, and a sign in the window advertises a bicycle repair shop to come.
Franklin County seized the property in October of last year. Its prior owner, Bruce Shapiro of Land's End Realty Corporation, owes $40,806 in back taxes dating from 2007 to this year, according to the county Treasurer's Office. Shapiro was reportedly trying to pay the taxes and get the property removed from the list, but it was still scheduled for auction as of Tuesday morning.
Historic Saranac Lake recently put a post about the building being up for sale on its Facebook page and the building's HSL wiki Web page.
"It's a beautiful building, with a great history, and it's important that it finds a good owner," said HSL Executive Director Amy Catania. "We put it on the Facebook page because we figure hopefully somebody sees the message, hears about it, goes to the auction, and it finds a good owner."
The county auction list includes two other properties in the village of Saranac Lake, and properties in the towns of Brighton, Franklin, Santa Clara and Tupper Lake. The auction will be held 11 a.m. June 26 at Mo's Pub and Grill in Malone. Information about all the properties being sold is posted at www.haroff.com and www.nysauctions.com.
That same day, the village of Saranac Lake will auction off another group of unused village-owned properties. The list, which the village board approved Monday night, includes three parcels: a small, seldom-used village parking lot at the corner of Bloomingdale Avenue and Broadway, next to the No. 1 Chinese restaurant; a vacant 2-acre lot behind the Harrietstown Housing Authority's Lake Flower high-rise on Kiwassa Road; and a vacant, 0.25-acre lot on Old Military Road.
Mayor Clyde Rabideau will conduct the auction at 4 p.m. June 26 on the front steps of the Harrietstown Town Hall. He said the winning bidder for each property will have to provide 10 percent of the purchase price, or $1,000, whichever is higher, in cash at the time of the sale.
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I checked today to see when the showings are, can't find the movie. I remember its original release date of October 2nd, I even maked it on my cell phone. So I check imdb.com and saw that its now moved to February 19th..
I like Martin Scorsese films, and I hope the move isn't a bad thing. Usually when movies are released in Jan-Feb, they really arn't that good IMO.
Anyone know anything about Shutter Island, and why it was moved to a different date?


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I'm really interested in ordering the decaf earl grey and decaf ceylon, but both are backordered. Any estimates as to when you would get some more in stock?
Maria V
Anonymous wrote:The wait on decaf is sad and I have given up and not bought from Adagio because of it. Oh well guess they dont mind people finding other paces to buy their tea


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by Anton Shilov
Since there is still no industry-wide standard for high-speed 802.11n version of Wi-Fi, enterprises are reluctant to adopt the technology so that not to run into compatibility issues with various equipment. However, smaller businesses, such as retail, real estate, warehousing and transportation are among the SMB market segments that could prove fertile ground for adoption of 802.11n equipment.
"Small businesses tend to buy small numbers of devices and trade them in more frequently than large companies. They also tend to be far less knowledgeable about technology and standards than large companies with dedicated IT personnel. The result is that small businesses are likely to buy 802.11n products while they are in draft status and deploy them immediately," said ABI Research vice president Stan Schatt.
Several characteristics specific to the retail, real estate, warehouses and transportation vertical markets make them especially likely to benefit from 802.11n's new abilities. Warehouse operators have had problems with interference using conventional 802.11g. 802.11n's MIMO technology should reduce interference and make it possible to use Wi-Fi-based RTLS software.
Retail SMB establishments could benefit from the greater coverage offered by 802.11n; and real estate, increasingly using Wi-Fi to transmit graphic images of homes, will very likely add video applications as soon as they become practical. Deploying 802.11n will provide enough bandwidth to handle these tasks.
ABI Research said that there are millions small businesses that could deploy 802.11n networks and benefit from it.
According to ABI Research, when computers are updated, the new models will include 802.11n as a standard built-in feature, which will catalyze owners to deploy Wi-Fi 802.11n networks.


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High winds propelled a wildfire through parts of Valparaiso, Chile, on April 13, 2014. It quickly became the largest fire in the history of this port city. The fire started in a forested area on April 12 and eventually reached wooden homes built on steep hills around the city. According to news reports, at least 12 people died, 2,000 homes were destroyed, and about 10,000 people evacuated as the fire moved through a section of the historic city.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this image of the fire at 11:10 am local time (14:10 UTC) on April 13. Fire detections are outlined in red in the forest south of the city, which is pale gray. A long plume of smoke stretches northwest over the Pacific Ocean, a clear indication that winds were strong and blowing the flames toward the city.
Valparaiso is the third largest city in Chile, with a population of more than 280,000 people. It was established in 1536 and developed into an important international seaport in the 19th century. The city is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- El Mercurio (2014, April 14) Bomberos: "El más grande de Chile en toda la historia." Accessed April 14, 2014.
- Fox News Latino (2014, April 14) Raging fire in Chile claims at least 12 lives, destroys hundreds of homes. Accessed April 14, 2014.
- NPR News (2014, April 14) For second night, Valparaiso fire spreads misery in Chile. Accessed April 14, 2014.
- UNESCO World Heritage Center Historic quarter of the seaport city of Valparaiso. Accessed April 14, 2014.
NASA image courtesy LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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Aaron Cohen to Carry U.S. Team Banner at the Maccabiah Games in Israel on Monday, Lindsey Durlacher Named Flagbearer
(Colorado Springs, Colo.) - Two members of the U.S. Judo Team competing at the 18th Maccabiah Games are part of a four-person contingent that was selected to represent Team USA during the Opening Ceremonies on Monday in Israel.
Three-time Senior World Team member Aaron Cohen (Buffalo Grove, Ill. / NYAC / Cohen's Judo / 90kg) was named one of three athletes to carry Team USA banner, leading more than 900 U.S. athletes into Ramat Gan Stadium.
Lindsey Durlacher (Colorado Springs, Colo. / 60kg) was named the flagbearer for Team USA. A World medalist and four-time Maccabiah Champion in wrestling, Durlacher will be competing on his first international judo team
"They held a press conference with all of the athletes in a room to announce that Lindsey and I would be walking in the whole team and it was such a great feeling to be honored like that," said Cohen who won his fifth USA Judo Senior National title in April. "I have met thousands of new friends here and so far this has been one of the best experiences of my life. I can't wait for Opening Ceremonies!"
David Sender (Arlington Heights, Ill.), a 2006 World Gymnastics Team member, and Gillian Schwartz (Evanston, Ill.), a two-time Olympian in track and field, will join Cohen in carrying the team banner.
Jason Lezak (Irvine, Calif.), a seven-time Olympic medalist in swimming, will light the torch during the Opening Ceremonies.
The Maccabiah Games are the world's third largest athletic competition, drawing more than 7,000 Jewish athletes for each quadrennial event.
Judo competition begins on July 19 with individual divisions and the 20th for the team competition in Tel Aviv.
Competition will be broadcast on Jewish Life Television in select markets throughout the United States. Visit www.jewishlifetv.com for more information.


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Topic: Trying to render a view from a different controller.But I get to the..
In my app, I have created a form to create new posts (Post is a model). I have a controller with the name posts. The form is located in the admins controller. The form use the form_for(@post). It post to the post controller. In this method, the post gets created successfully. But the problem is with failed submissions. In the form, I have added the code to show the errors
<% if @post.errors.any? %>

The form contains <%= pluralize(@post.errors.count, "error") %>
<% @post.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>

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<% end %>
<% end %>
But in the post controller, if there's a failed submission, I have set it to redirect_to the newpost page in the admins controller. When redirecting, I will loose the error messages.
So, I added
render 'dasharea/newpost'
localhost:3000/dasharea/newpost is the URL of the page that have the form. With this code, it say
Missing template dasharea/newpost with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :coffee]}.
But Im already in that page? Then I tried to add the controller and the action like this (note: im editing the create action of posts controller. I need to render the newpost action in admins controller) :
render 'admins/newpost'
Then, it will direct me to the posts :
But now, the form is there and I can see the errors. But I need to render the oroginal page which I have the form (dasharea/newpost)! How can I do this? What have I done wrong?


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The Project INSPIRE website provides an enormous amount of information related to individuals with disabilities. Some of the information include: instructional techniques, inclusion strategies, sport organizations, health and safety issues, and even a parent page to assist with activities in the home and community.
For more information about courses offered at TWU in adapted physical education / activity, follow the links below:
Undergraduate Teacher Certification with specialization in APE
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Branch back on chopping block
A task force's answers to money woes are for Clearwater's beach library to consolidate or close.
By MIKE DONILA
Published April 10, 2007
Public cries four years ago saved the Clearwater Beach library from closing its doors.
That might not work this time.
With state lawmakers in Tallahassee threatening to change how much money local governments can raise through property taxes, Clearwater is joining other Florida cities in already hunting for ways to cut costs.
Among the ideas proposed this month by a budget review task force composed of residents: Either consolidate the city's small beach library with the beach recreation center or shut it down entirely.
While it's just one of many suggestions made by the task force, it's one that library officials have already considered proposing.
Library director Barbara Pickell says the city should consolidate the library with the recreation center, but also share library staffs between the beach and North Greenwood branches, because those are the least used of the city's five branches.
She said those moves would save more than $200,000, but it would mean closing the beach branch during the afternoons and North Greenwood during the mornings.
But it's a way to keep the beach branch open, she said.
"It would be a smaller facility for us, but it's the only alternative to ensure a future for the library" on the beach, Pickell said. "We can't afford to buy property on the beach and build a library. But this would give us a place where we can still have a viable, attractive little library."
City leaders like Mayor Frank Hibbard say they like the plan, calling it "a win-win for everybody" if "we can service the people on the beach and reduce costs."
But city leaders know they're also going to be in for a fight.
Suzanne Boschen, who collected more than 300 signatures to save the library in 2003, when cost-cutting measures threatened the branch then, said she's ready to do it again. Beach residents have complained that particularly during tourist season, it takes too long for them to get to the mainland library branches due to traffic.
"This is insane in a community where we're paying this much in property taxes and we can't hang onto a library," said Boschen, 59, a north Clearwater Beach resident who visits the library regularly.
"I can't get over how every developer can get everything they want and the people are footing the bill for the infrastructure and Clearwater can't hang onto their little, tiny library," she said.
The current beach branch is tucked inside a pink strip mall on Mandalay Avenue that also includes an Outback Steakhouse, a few restaurants, shops and offices. The city pays $60,000 a year to lease about 3,300 square feet.
The library features two public computers, 12,000 books and hundreds of CDs and movies. In addition, it has magazines, newspapers and jigsaw puzzles.
Under a plan to consolidate the beach library with the recreation center, the city would spend about $400,000 to renovate and build an 800-square-foot expansion. The result would still be about half the space of the library's current location.
Pickell said the new, smaller location would focus on the popular items, like movies and fiction books.


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In essence, this was swimming's version of a spring training game. No team scores were kept at the St. Thomas Relays held October 27. But that didn't mean people weren't paying attention to what happened in the pool.
Specifically, on the 3-Meter Diving board where HU freshman Dani Waskosky finished fourth in a field of 17 divers with a score of 179.80. Her junior teammate Ingrid Haugan was eighth with a score of 154.25.
It was the top finish by a Piper in the men's and women's competition that included several MIAC schools and Colorado College. In the swimming competition, HU did their best work in the 1100 "Animal" Relay race. The men finished in fifth place and the women came in sixth. The Pipers also claimed 7th place finishes in the Women's 300 Breast Relay (three freshmen -- Maddy Stauber, Ragan Sovell and Valerie Madden teamed up with Marissa Smith); Men's 300 Breast Relay (a pair of frosh -- Chris Sova and Ty Stanchfield joined up with Zach Lameyer and Jerry Daniels) and the Women's 300 Back Relay (Haugan, Jennie Dwyer, Stauber, Smith).
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Seahorses compose the fish genus Hippocampus within the family Syngnathidae, in order Syngnathiformes. Syngnathidae also includes the pipefishes. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster".[2]
There are nearly 50 species of seahorse. They are mainly found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world. They prefer to live in sheltered areas such as seagrass beds, coral reefs, or mangroves. Colonies have been found in European waters such as the Thames Estuary.[3] From North America down to South America there are approximately four species, ranging from the very small (dwarf seahorses are only about 2.5 centimeters (1 in)) to much larger specimens off the Pacific Coast of Central America (the foot-long H. ingens). H. erectus are larger seahorses that range from Nova Scotia to around Uruguay. Three species live in the Mediterranean Sea: H. hippocampus (long snout), H. brevirostris (short snout) and H. fuscus (immigrated from the Red Sea). These fish form territories, with males staying in about 1 square metre (11 sq ft) of their habitat while females range about one hundred times that area. They bob around in sea grass meadows, mangrove stands, and coral reefs where they adopt murky brown and gray patterns to camouflage themselves among the sea grass. During social moments or in unusual surroundings, seahorses turn bright colors.
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Seahorses are named for their equine profile. Although they are bony fish, they do not have scales, but rather a thin skin stretched over a series of bony plates arranged in rings throughout their body. Each species has a distinct number of rings. Seahorses swim upright, another characteristic that is not shared by their close pipefish relatives, which swim horizontally. Seahorses have a coronet on their head, which is distinct to each individual, much like a human fingerprint. They swim very poorly by using a dorsal fin, which they rapidly flutter and pectoral fins, located behind their eyes, which they use to steer. Seahorses have no caudal fin. Since they are poor swimmers, they are most likely to be found resting, with their prehensile tails wound around a stationary object. They have long snouts, which they use to suck up food, and eyes that can move independently of each other, much like a chameleon. Seahorses eat small shrimp, tiny fish, crustaceans and plankton.
Evolution and fossil record
Anatomical evidence, supported by molecular, physical, and genetic evidence, demonstrates that seahorses are highly modified pipefish. The fossil record of seahorses, however, is very sparse. The best known and best studied fossils are specimens of H. guttulatus (though literature more commonly refers to them under the synonym of H. ramulosus), from the Marecchia River Formation of Rimini Province, Italy, dating back to the Lower Pliocene, about 3 million years ago. The earliest known seahorse fossils are of two pipefish-like species, H. sarmaticus and H. slovenicus from the coprolitic horizon of Tunjice Hills, a middle Miocene lagerstätte in Slovenia dating back about 13 million years.[4] Molecular dating finds that pipefish and seahorses separated during the Late Oligocene. This has led to speculation that seahorses evolved in response to large areas of shallow-water, newly created as the result of tectonic events. The shallow water allowed the expansion of seagrass habitats that selected for the camouflage offered by the seahorses' upright posture.[5] These tectonic changes occurred in the Western Pacific Ocean suggesting an origin there with molecular data suggesting two later and separate invasions of the Atlantic Ocean.[6]
The male seahorse is equipped with a brood pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. The male carries the eggs for anywhere from 9 to 45 days until they emerge, expelling fully-developed, miniature seahorses in the water. Once the seahorse babies are released into the water, the male's role is done and he offers no further care.[7]
Before breeding, seahorses court for several days. Scientists believe the courtship behavior synchronizes the animals' movements so that the male can receive the eggs when the female is ready to deposit them. During this time they may change color, swim side by side holding tails or grip the same strand of sea grass with their tails and wheel around in unison in what is known as a "pre-dawn dance". They eventually engage in a "true courtship dance" lasting about 8 hours, during which the male pumps water through the egg pouch on his trunk which expands and opens to display its emptiness. When the female's eggs reach maturity, she and her mate let go of any anchors and snout-to-snout, drift upward out of the seagrass, often spiraling as they rise. The female inserts her ovipositor into the male's brood pouch and deposits dozens to thousands of eggs. As the female releases her eggs, her body slims while his swells. Both animals then sink back into the seagrass and she swims away.
The male releases his sperm directly into seawater where it fertilizes the eggs[8], which are then embedded in the pouch wall and become surrounded by a spongy tissue.[9] The male supplies the eggs with prolactin, the same hormone responsible for milk production in pregnant mammals. The pouch provides oxygen as well as a controlled environment incubator. The eggs then hatch in the pouch where the salinity of the water is regulated; this prepares the newborns for life in the sea.[10][11] Throughout gestation, which in most species requires two to four weeks, his mate visits him daily for "morning greetings". They interact for about 6 minutes, reminiscent of courtship. The female then swims away until the next morning, and the male returns to vacuuming up food through his snout.[10]
Research published in 2007 indicates the male releases sperm into the surrounding sea water during fertilization, and not directly into the pouch as previously thought.[12]
The number of young released by the male seahorse averages 100-200 for most species, but may be as low as 5 for the smaller species, or as high as 1,500. When the fry are ready to be born, the male expels them with muscular contractions. He typically gives birth at night and is ready for the next batch of eggs by morning when his mate returns. Like almost all other fish species, seahorses do not nurture their young after birth. Infants are susceptible to predators or ocean currents which wash them away from feeding grounds or into temperatures too extreme for their delicate bodies. Fewer than .5% of infants survive to adulthood, explaining why litters are so large. These survival rates are actually fairly high compared to other fish, because of their protected gestation, making the process worth the great cost to the father. The eggs of most other fish are abandoned immediately after fertilization.[11]
Questions surrounding reproductive roles
Reproduction is energetically costly to the male. This brings into question why the sexual role reversal even takes place. In an environment where one partner incurs more energy costs than the other, Bateman's principle suggests that the lesser contributor takes the role of the aggressor. Male seahorses are more aggressive and sometimes "fight" for female attention. According to Amanda Vincent of Project Seahorse, only males tail-wrestle and snap their heads at each other. This discovery prompted further study of energy costs. To estimate the female's direct contribution, researcher Heather D. Masonjones, associate professor of biology at the University of Tampa, chemically analyzed the energy stored in each egg. To measure the burden on the male, Masonjones measured its oxygen consumption. By the end of incubation, the male consumed almost 33% more oxygen than before mating. The study concluded that the female's energy expenditure while generating eggs is twice that of males during incubation[10] confirming the standard hypothesis.
Why the male seahorse (and other members of Syngnathidae) carries the offspring through gestation is unknown, though some researchers[citation needed] believe it allows for shorter birthing intervals, in turn resulting in more offspring. Given an unlimited number of ready and willing partners, males have the potential to produce 17 percent more offspring than females in a breeding season. Also, females have "time-outs" from the reproductive cycle that are 1.2 times longer than those of males. This seems to be based on mate choice, rather than physiology. When the female's eggs are ready, she must lay them in a few hours or eject them into the water column. Making eggs is a huge cost to her physically, since they amount to about a third of her body weight. To protect against losing a clutch, the female demands a long courtship. The daily greetings help to cement the bond between the pair.
One common misconception about seahorses is that they mate for life. Many species of seahorses form pair bonds that last through at least the breeding season. Some species show a higher level of mate fidelity than others.[13][14] However, many species readily switch mates when the opportunity arises. Hippocampus abdominalis and Hippocampus breviceps have been shown to breed in groups, showing no continuous mate preference. Many more species mating habits haven't been studied, so it is unknown how many species are actually monogamous, or how long those bonds actually last.[15]
Although monogamy within fish is not common, it does appear to exist for some. In this case, the mate guarding hypothesis may be an explanation. This hypothesis states that "males remain with a single female because of ecological factors that make male parental care and protection of offspring especially advantageous."[16] Because the rates of survival for newborn seahorses are so low, incubation is essential. Though not proven, males could have taken on this role because of the lengthy period the females require to produce their eggs. If males incubate while females prepare the next clutch (amounting to 1/3 of body weight), they can reduce the interval between clutches.
Feeding habits
Seahorses feed on small crustaceans floating in the water or crawling on the bottom. With excellent camouflage and a lot of patience, seahorses ambush prey that float within striking range. Mysid shrimp and other small crustaceans are favorites, but some seahorses have been observed eating other kinds of invertebrates and even larval fish.
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While many aquarium hobbyists keep seahorses as pets, seahorses collected from the wild tend to fare poorly in home aquaria. Many eat only live foods such as brine shrimp and are prone to stress, which damages their immune systems and makes them susceptible to disease.
In recent years, however, captive breeding has become more popular. Such seahorses survive better in captivity, and are less likely to carry diseases. They eat frozen mysidacea (crustaceans) that are readily available from aquarium stores,[17] and do not experience the stress of moving out of the wild. Although captive-bred seahorses are more expensive, they take no toll on wild populations.
Seahorses should be kept in an aquarium to themselves, or with compatible tank-mates. Seahorses are slow feeders, and fast, aggressive feeders will leave them without food.[17]
Seahorses can co-exist with many species of shrimp and other bottom-feeding creatures. Gobies also make good tank-mates. Keepers are generally advised to avoid eels, tangs, triggerfish, squid, octopus, and sea anemones.[18]
Animals sold as "freshwater seahorses" are usually the closely related pipefish, of which a few species live in the lower reaches of rivers. The supposed true "freshwater seahorse" called H. aimei was not a real species, but a name sometimes used for Barbour's and Hedgehog seahorses. The latter is a species that can be found in brackish waters, but not actually a freshwater fish.[19]
Use in Chinese medicine
Seahorse populations are thought to have been endangered in recent years by overfishing and habitat destruction. The seahorse is used in traditional Chinese herbology, and as many as 20 million seahorses may be caught each year and sold for this purpose.[20] Medicinal seahorses are not readily bred in captivity as they are susceptible to disease and have somewhat different energetics from aquarium seahorses. Seahorses are also used as medicines by the Indonesians, the Central Filipinos, and many other ethnic groups around the world.
Import and export of seahorses has been controlled under CITES since May 15, 2004. However, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, and South Korea have chosen to opt out of the trade rules set by CITES.
The problem may be exacerbated by the growth of pills and capsules as the preferred method of ingesting medication as they are cheaper and more available than traditional, individually tailored prescriptions of raw medicinals but the contents are harder to track. Seahorses once had to be of a certain size and quality before they were accepted by TCM practitioners and consumers. But declining availability of the preferred large, pale and smooth seahorses has been offset by the shift towards prepackaged medicines, which make it possible for TCM merchants to sell previously unused juvenile, spiny and dark-coloured animals. Today almost a third of the seahorses sold in China are prepackaged. This adds to the pressure on the species.[21]
- Genus Hippocampus
- Big-belly seahorse, H. abdominalis Lesson, 1827 (New Zealand and south and east Australia)
- Winged seahorse, H. alatus Kuiter, 2001
- West African seahorse, H. algiricus Kaup, 1856
- Narrow-bellied seahorse, H. angustus Günther, 1870
- Barbour's seahorse, H. barbouri Jordan & Richardson, 1908
- Pygmy seahorse, H. bargibanti Whitley, 1970 West Pacific area (Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, etc.)
- False-eyed seahorse, H. biocellatus Kuiter, 2001
- Réunion seahorse, H. borboniensis Duméril, 1870
- Short-head seahorse or knobby seahorse, H. breviceps Peters, 1869 (south and east Australia)
- Giraffe seahorse, H. camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854
- Knysna seahorse, H. capensis Boulenger, 1900
- H. colemani Kuiter, 2003
- Tiger tail seahorse, H. comes Cantor, 1850
- Crowned seahorse, H. coronatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850
- Denise's pygmy seahorse, H. denise Lourie & Randall, 2003
- Lined seahorse, H. erectus Perry, 1810 (east coast of the Americas, between Nova Scotia and Uruguay)
- Fisher's seahorse, H. fisheri Jordan & Evermann, 1903
- Sea pony, H. fuscus Rüppell, 1838 (Indian Ocean)
- Big-head seahorse, H. grandiceps Kuiter, 2001
- Long-snouted seahorse, H. guttulatus Cuvier, 1829
- Eastern spiny seahorse, H. hendriki Kuiter, 2001
- Short-snouted seahorse, H. hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean)
- Thorny seahorse, H. histrix Kaup, 1856 (Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and the Far East)
- Pacific seahorse, H. ingens Girard, 1858 (Pacific coast of North, Central and South America)
- Jayakar's seahorse, H. jayakari Boulenger, 1900
- Collared seahorse, H. jugumus Kuiter, 2001
- Great seahorse, H. kelloggi Jordan & Snyder, 1901
- Common seahorse, H. kuda Bleeker, 1852
- Lichtenstein's seahorse, H. lichtensteinii Kaup, 1856
- Bullneck seahorse, H. minotaur Gomon, 1997
- Japanese seahorse, H. mohnikei Bleeker, 1854
- Monte Bello seahorse, H. montebelloensis Kuiter, 2001
- Northern spiny seahorse, H. multispinus Kuiter, 2001
- H. pontohi Lourie and Kuiter, 2008
- High-crown seahorse, H. procerus Kuiter, 2001
- Queensland seahorse, H. queenslandicus Horne, 2001
- Longsnout seahorse, H. reidi Ginsburg, 1933 (Caribbean coral reefs)
- Satomi's pygmy seahorse, H. satomiae Lourie and Kuiter, 2008
- Half-spined seahorse, H. semispinosus Kuiter, 2001
- H. severnsi Lourie and Kuiter, 2008
- Shiho's seahorse, H. sindonis Jordan & Snyder, 1901
- Hedgehog seahorse, H. spinosissimus Weber, 1913
- West Australian seahorse, H. subelongatus Castelnau, 1873
- Longnose seahorse, H. trimaculatus Leach, 1814
- White's seahorse, H. whitei Bleeker, 1855 (east Australia)
- Zebra seahorse, H. zebra Whitley, 1964
- Dwarf seahorse, H. zosterae Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 (Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean)
Pygmy seahorses
Pygmy Seahorses are less than 15 millimeters (0.6 in) tall and 17 millimeters (0.7 in) wide members of the genus. Previously the term was applied exclusively to the species H. bargibanti but since 1997, discoveries have made this term obsolete. The species H. minotaur, H. denise, H. colemani, H. pontohi, H. severnsi and H. satomiae have been described. Other species that are believed to be unclassified have also been reported in books, dive magazines and on the Internet. They can be distinguished from other species of seahorse by their 12 trunk rings, low number of tail rings (26–29), the location in which young are brooded in the trunk region of males and their extremely small size.[22] Molecular analysis (of ribosomal RNA) of 32 Hippocampus species found that H. bargibanti belongs in a separate clade from other members of the genus and therefore that the species diverged from the other species in the "ancient" past.[23]
Most pygmy seahorses are well camouflaged and live in close association with other organisms including colonial hydrozoans (Lytocarpus and Antennellopsis), coralline algae (Halimeda) sea fans (Muricella, Annella, Acanthogorgia). This combined with their small size accounts for why most species have only been noticed in recent years.[22]
Cultural references
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- In heraldry, a seahorse is depicted as a creature with the foreparts of a horse and the hindparts of a fish.
Threats & Future
Most seahorse species are data deficient. This means that there is not enough data or information to make a proper assessment about their risk of extinction to seahorses. Because seahorse population is unknown, there is a greater risk of losing more seahorses because of the lack of information about how many are dying each year, how many are being born, how many are used for souvenirs etc. Seahorse habitats are in great danger though. Coral reefs and sea grass beds are deteriorating, meaning seahorses have fewer places to live. Also as stated above, seahorses are used to Chinese Medicine and as souvenirs, which definitely cuts their population down significantly each year. [24]
- ^ Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810, WoRMS
- ^ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippocampus Hippocampus at Wiktionary
- ^ "Rare seahorses breeding in Thames". BBC News. 2008-04-07. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7333980.stm. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Žalohar J., Hitij T., Križnar M. (2009). "Two new species of seahorses (Syngnathidae, Hippocampus) from the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) Coprolitic Horizon in Tunjice Hills, Slovenia: The oldest fossil record of seahorses". Annales de Paléontologie 95 (2): 71–96. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2009.03.002.
- ^ Teske PR, Beheregaray LB (2009). "Evolution of seahorses' upright posture was linked to Oligocene expansion of seagrass habitats". Biol Lett. 5 (4): 521–3. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0152. PMID 19451164.
- ^ Teske PR, Cherry MI, Matthee CA (2004). "The evolutionary history of seahorses (Syngnathidae: Hippocampus): molecular data suggest a West Pacific origin and two invasions of the Atlantic Ocean". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 30 (2): 273–86. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00214-8. PMID 14715220.
- ^ Foster S.J, Vincent C.J. (2004). "Life history and ecology of seahorses: implications for conservation and management". Journal of Fish Biology 65: 1–61. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2004.00429.x. http://www.seaturtle.org/PDF/Foster_2004_JFishBiol.pdf.
- ^ Sex and the seahorse
- ^ "The biology of seahorses: Reproduction". The Seahorse Project. http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/biology5.html. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
- ^ a b c Milius, Susan (2000). "Pregnant—and Still Macho - seahorses | Science News | Find Articles at BNET.com". Findarticles.com. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_11_157/ai_61291647/pg_1. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ a b "Seahorse Fathers Take Reins in Childbirth". News.nationalgeographic.com. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0614_seahorse_recov.html. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Connor, Steve (2007-01-19). "Sex and the seahorse - Science, News - Independent.co.uk". London: News.independent.co.uk. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2165477.ece. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Kvarnemo C, Moore G.I, Jones A.G, Nelson W.S, Avise J.C. (2000). "Monogamous pair bonds and mate switching in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus subelongatus". J. Evol. Biol. 13 (6): 882–8. doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00228.x. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119188977/PDFSTART.
- ^ Vincent C.J, Sadler L.M (1995). "Faithful pair bonds in wild seahorses, Hippocampus whitei'". Anim. Behav. 50: 1557–1569. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80011-5. http://courses.umass.edu/wfcon470/Vincent%20and%20Sadler%2095.pdf.
- ^ "What's Love Got to Do With It? The Truth About Seahorse Monogamy". fusedjaw.com. http://www.fusedjaw.com/biology/seahorse-monogamy/. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
- ^ Alcock, John. Animal Behavior (8th ed.). Massachusetts: Sinauer. pp. 370–1.
- ^ a b "Seahorse and Pipefish Foods | Tami Weiss". Fusedjaw.com. 2005-06-25. http://www.fusedjaw.com/food-and-nutrition/seahorse-foods-and-feeding/. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Seahorse Tankmates | Will Wooten". Fusedjaw.com. 2004-06-25. http://www.fusedjaw.com/aquariumcare/seahorse-tankmates-whats-safe-whats-not/. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Hippocampus spinosissimus". Fishbase. http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=25974&genusname=Hippocampus&speciesname=spinosissimus. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Seahorse Crusader Amanda Vincent" on Nova television show
- ^ New Scientist, January 1995 "Can we tame wild medicine"?
- ^ a b Lourie, Sara; Rudie Kuiter (2008). "Three new pygmy seahorse species from Indonesia (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus)". Zootaxa (Magnolia Press) 1963: 54–68. ISSN 1175-5334. http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/pubs/2008/Lourie_and_Kuiter2008.pdf. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
- ^ Teske, Peter; Michael Cherry and Conrad Matthee (February 2004). "The evolutionary history of seahorses (Syngnathidae: Hippocampus): molecular data suggest a West Pacific origin and two invasions of the Atlantic Ocean". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30 (2): 273–286. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00214-8. PMID 14715220.
- ^ Lourie, Sarah A., Sarah J. Foster, Ernest W.T. Cooper, and Amanda C.J. Vincent. "A Guide to the Identification of Seahorses." Project Seahorse Advancing Marine Conservation (2004): 1-120. Print.
Further reading
- Amanda C.J. Vincent and Laila M. Sadler (1995). "Faithful pair bonds in wild seahorse, Hippocampus whitei". Animal Behaviour 50: 1557–69. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80011-5.
- Amanda C.J. Vincent (1995). "A role for daily greetings in maintaining seahorse pair bonds". Animal Behaviour 49: 258–260. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80178-2.
- Amanda C.J. Vincent (1990). "A seahorse father makes a good mother". Natural History 12: 34–43.
- Amanda C.J. Vincent and Rosie Woodroffe (1994). "Mothers little helpers: patterns of male care in mammals". Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 294–7. doi:10.1016/0169-5347(94)90033-7.
- John Sparks (1999). Battle of the Sexes: The Natural History of Sex. London: BBC Books. ISBN 0563371455.
- Sara A. Lourie, Amanda C.J. Vincent and Heather J. Hall (1999). Seahorses: An Identification Guide to the World's Species and their Conversation. London: Project Seahorse.
- Teske P. R., Hamilton H., Matthee C. A. & Barker N. P. (2007). "Signatures of seaway closures and founder dispersal in the phylogeny of a circumglobally distributed seahorse lineage". BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 138. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-138. PMID 17697373. PMC 1978501. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/138.


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I am considering splitting the OTTI in general.
Create something called something such as JTTI under OTTI, pronounced jatti and standing for Japanese Tea Tasting Initiative. Then we could offer one JTTI round per month as a goal that would include teas like sencha, gyokuro, matcha, karigane/kukicha, guricha, etc. And seasonal offerings like a sakura tasting.
Then all other teas would still be under OTTI and we would shoot for one of these per month.
This would give all the other teas more of an opportunity instead of competing so to speak with Japanese teas.
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Now Scott123 may likely laugh at this because I am wrong, but for the all broiling technique I personally have had success with the thin stone you see pictured.
I was looking at your photos and can't seem to locate the thermostat probe? When you jam the foil in the sides, are you covering the probe? What kind of stone surface stone temps are you seeing with this?
My results have been poor when the top stone surface climbs above 825°F or so. I generally load and cook pizzas when the stone is at 725°F to 775°F. My cooking times are closer to 2:15ish at the lower end and 1:50ish on the higher end of that range. --K
I am making my pizza using my home oven that gets up to 550, and I know using straight Caputo 00 will not do well in this type of oven and I have been using bread flour. What are the thoughts of maybe mixing in bread flour with the 00? If yes what percentage should be the 00 and what % should the bread flour be. I am thinking 75-25 bread to 00.
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"I've run 8:03 for the 3K," he says. "My PR in the 5K is 14:10, and in the 10K I think it's 29:05."
He is probably best known for qualifying for the past three Olympic Marathon Trials, and his other exploits on the roads as one of the original members of Team USA Minnesota, an elite training group that has included Olympian Carrie Tollefson.
But as Lundstrom, 36, of Minneapolis, continually seeks to learn from running, he has turned his focus to the trails. He ran his first trail race—the Superior 50K—in 2009 as part of his marathon training, and wound up with a course record (he won the race for the third time May 19).
"I went out really casually and there's probably a good move on that course," he says.
He has since notched two top-seven finishes at the San Francisco The North Face 50-Mile Championship—where he was third in 2010—and finished fourth at the American River 50-mile in April. In other words, Lundstrom is making the case that top-flight road talent can quickly transition successfully to trails and the ultra distances.
With his first child on the way, the PhD student in Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota says he doesn't have immediate racing plans. "I'm sure I'll be out there again," he says. "Most likely I'll be more focused on trails than the roads."
What is your running background?
I ran at Northfield High School [in Northfield, Minnesota]. I actually went out for cross country as an eighth grader. It was kind of the standard story—I went out to get in shape for basketball, but I just found I had a love of running. Plus I found I was much better at running than basketball.
I went to state sophomore through senior years and did pretty well, but was never a state champion. The highest I placed was third.
Then, I ran for four years at Stanford and definitely had even fewer accolades out there. We had a really good team, and won nationals twice when I was there. It was cool to be a part of, but I wasn't one of the stars.
What did you do as a runner after college?
I stayed in the Bay Area for close to a year and ran a little bit. I was working temp jobs and finally joined up with a club team out there and did a bunch of cross country. In the Bay Area they have a team circuit for cross country.
The rest of the year there's a similar road-racing circuit, which got me into the longer stuff. I did my first half marathon, and that went well.
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Suma Tharu, a girl from Nepal, was sold into indentured servitude (Kamlari) at the age of six and braved another six years of forced labor and physical abuse, before a teacher took her under his wing. With the help of an NGO called Room to Read, whose work is supported by the State Department, Suma joined a local school and is close to graduating from high school. She plans to become a health educator and advocate for girls' education and ending the Kamlari system that entrapped her.
Suma's grit and determination to change the grim reality of the life into which she was born is truly remarkable. Her story was featured, along with those of girls from Haiti, India, Afghanistan, and other countries, in the inspirational documentary Girl Rising, which was previewed at a recent panel on girls' education here at the State Department. Their stories are evidence of the power of education to transform lives, and how educating girls benefits entire families, communities, and societies.
Studies show that over 60 percent of illiterate youth globally are girls and that women and girls make up the majority of the world's poor; they also show that just an extra year of schooling increases women's wages by up to 20 percent later in life. Educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment in the developing world (what the World Bank calls the "Girl Effect Dividend") and leads to better results in health, nutrition, reduction in poverty and population growth, and economic growth.
Promoting equality for women and girls is one of our key priorities, and I am proud to be part of our government's concerted effort to advance the social, economic, and political position of women and girls not only in Nepal, but across the region. In just two years, our partner organization Room to Read has trained over 1,500 girls and 5,000 teachers in four SCA countries. The State Department's range of programs, including our popular English Access Micro-Scholarship programs assisting children from disadvantaged communities; student and professional exchange programs; sport and tech camps; and our two high-profile initiatives in South and Central Asia to advance female entrepreneurship and political inclusion -- reflect our conviction that investing in educating girls and women and equipping them with the skills they need to succeed in life is smart foreign policy.