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Mauri is born! Marti now has a brother and we are all very happy to welcome him in our family :-) Might the source be with you, Luke.
In the following, some updates on our lone hackerland journey:
Runaway Robot
Probably some smart people go straight to the correct solution. For me, I walked through all stages of enlightment. I first developed a maze parser in Frepascal, then got a brute force solver in place which could solve up to about maze level 120. The solver started taking long times for each new level (up to 6 hours). I am a bit out of gear right now as we moved house, lost connection to civilization for some time, and still have to reactivate the server room, which will move from pavement to cellar. I remembered that spartacusII server got burned in a similar challenge and decided to upgrade the algorithm as soon as possible. With dynamic programming I restricted a bit the solution space. A first attempt with combinations failed, I tried to debug the way I create combinations, but could not find the mistake. I rewrote the algorithm and got a working solver for levels up to 153. Then again, the solver was taking too much time. Finally, I got a sort of Zen flash and found a way to retrieve the solution, as it would be just popping out from the maze. The new solver could solve any maze in less than a second, and easily moved up to level 513. When it solved level 514 (a level noone has solved), and was waiting the one minute delay to avoid server pounding before the solution is submitted, I got very proud. Too much proud, as the server answered: "Your solution sucked, maximum level for this puzzle is 513". This site is amazing, it does not forget to teach you to be modest :-) The whole story can be seen in this graph as well.
I then decided to attack another puzzle, Mortal Coil. Adapting the parser and getting a brute force solver in place was easy, as Runaway prepared the path. But now I am stuck at level 68. I found papers on the Hamiltionian path problem, which is NP-complete and now need to think on how to divide and conquer it.
Other challenges
On the Hack Virtual Machine, I worked out the meaning of the two commands ^ and v and such knowledge lead to some progress: by analyzing the solution of Execution Style, I finally cracked Hello Small World! Also revision 34 of my Labyrinth program could solve the three mazes, though it required several submissions. In fact, the limit of 40'000 cycles is very tight. The version which solved the challenge could solve the reference maze I was using only in about 53'000 cycles. The Labyrinth program is based on a wall following algorithm published in Nievergelt's book about Algorithms and datatypes.
I found in the depths of Internet an almost complete map of the challenges and it is clear now that to achieve some breakthrough, I need to work out Spiral Bits. The encoding is a bit hard, but by printing out the spiral on a piece of A3 paper, it is possible to work it out with some patience. The pathfinder solver I developed follows the spiral but keeps staying on the side, so I have to think a way to balance it a bit. To debug the breadcrumbs left by the program, I use this magnifying glass.
On Khan Academy, I am close to the Copernicus Badge, but the Atlas Black Hole badge moved again out of range from 250 to 500 challenges...
Some other news
Unrelated to the previous topic, a deltasql patch to branch from existing tags for 1.4.1 is published here.
And do not forget to check the Wikileaks Spy Files!
Let me finally point at a news on the Voyager probes measuring Lyman-alpha radiation (here). Amazing piece of irons, the Voyager space probes!


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LiverKick Talks With Saturday's SuperKombat Headliner, Sebastian Ciobanu
- Written by Rian Scalia
SuperKombat's final World Grand Prix Qualification event of the year takes place on Saturday in Arad, Romania. The main event, however, isn't a tournament fight, it's a super fight and it pits Romania's Sebastian Ciobanu against Bosnia's Dzevad Poturak in a battle of two K-1 veterans. We got the chance to talk with Ciobanu about the fight, SuperKombat fighters being in K-1, and even his vampire persona.
LK: Morosanu, Adegbuyi and Catinas are all in K-1. How do you feel about not being included?
Sebastian Ciobanu: In my opinion, every fighter has his chance for glory and I'm not upset because I was not selected this year for the K-1 Final 16. I had my chance in 2009 and I'm sure I will have it again next year.
LK: You are coming off two good wins in a row. If you beat Dzevad Poturak, do you think you deserve a spot in K-1?
Sebastian Ciobanu: In this moment I'm thinking only about the fight with Dzevad Poturak, an opponent with a lot of experience, but after a big battle with him I'm sure I will win and gain a spot in K-1 tournaments.
LK: In 2008 you defeated Poturak's brother, Dzenan. Will this experience help you at all with the fight against Dzevad?
Sebastian Ciobanu: When I fought with Dzenan, I was at the start of my career in the heavyweight division, but now I'm much stronger and determined and I'm sure I can win this fight.
LK: How do you see the fight with Dzevad Poturak going?
Sebastian Ciobanu: Yes, I beat his brother and I hope in this fight Poturak will underestimate me. Also, I will fight in my country, in front of my fans, so I will kick him like a vampire so he can feel real pain.
LK: Tell us about your training for your upcoming fight with Poturak.
Sebastian Ciobanu: In this fight will be a better Sebastian Ciobanu than in the last battle. I will have some surprises for Poturak. He will see!
LK: SuperKombat fighters are very popular in Romania. Now you're in the main event, how does it feel to be the main attraction?
Sebastian Ciobanu: The SuperKombat brand is very popular in Romania, but also in Europe thanks to president Eduard Irimia who created a great product. Yes, I'm in the main-event after a lot of sacrifices. I worked many years to get here.
LK: What is it like to train with Catalin Morosanu? He has gotten a lot better recently.
Sebastian Ciobanu: I have a special merit with Mihai Constantin, our coach, who created us as fighters. We became very good friends thanks to him. We spar together at the highest level. We hope also to attract many youngsters whoo can become good fighters in the future.
LK: Where did you get the "Son of Dracula" name from? You seem to embrace the vampire character.
Sebastian Ciobanu: I got this nickname from Radu Pietreanu, a TV star in Romania. He is a friend of mine and also a big fan of SuperKombat and K-1. In all battles I fight until blood and I was like a vampire because when I see blood on my body I'm stimulated to beat my opponent. So I became Son of Dracula from Moldavia!
SuperKombat's World Grand Prix Fourth Qualification event takes place this Saturday, October 20 in Arad, Romania. For full fight card information, click here.

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by Rory Anderson, ChildFund's Director of External Relations
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I'm not going to make excuses as to why I haven't updated my blog in the last seven months. No one really wants to know anyhow. :-)
I'm back with a new focus on Java free software. I will be working with Java free software on the job and in other professional level projects, so there will be a lot more free software news coming from me now. I'll write about that at some other time.
Now moving right along...
The pond just got a whole lot bigger for the little folks...
I find Red Hat's leaving the consumer operating system market to concentrate on the enterprise market awesome news for the growth of Linux, but it's a bit sad. It marks the end of an era and the start of a new one for Linux. The most famous Linux distro is leaving its roots behind, maybe not in spirit, but at least in writing. :-)
The interesting thing is, this now leaves room in the consumer market for Mandrake to come back from bankruptcy. Now that the big fish has moved to other waters, suddenly there is a huge market gap to fill.
Of course, Mandrake now has even more competition than before, with Lindows and Xandros also positioning themselves in the consumer Linux market. Lindows goes for the computer newbie, while Xandros goes after the early adopter hardcore gamer that doesn't want to leave Windows games behind, doesn't know how to hack Linux either, they just want to move to this Linux thing because it's the cool new thing. I'm not sure which one has the higher market, but as Mandrake is the closer one to what Red Hat was, it may be the one to gain the top spot. I think Lindows and Xandros are positioning themselves in really narrow niche markets.
As for Fedora, I hope it turns out regular releases that compare in stability to the "old" RH Linux. I also hope it stays a volunteer-run project and doesn't go commercial. The world needs a showcase volunteer-run distro that doesn't require one to be a hard-core Linux hacker.
Disclaimer: I myself use Gentoo and Linux-From-Scratch for my development servers, so I'm not bashing hard-core distros. All I'm saying is that there are a lot more mainstream Linux users than hard-core Linux users, and I'd like Fedora to be there for the mainstream Linux users the way Red Hat's consumer Linux used to.
My best wishes to Red Hat and Fedora in the years ahead.
A little over a month has gone by since my last post. I got swamped with work from my job, and barely had any free time for hacking. Things have been back to normal for a week now.
Here's the summary:
Free Software in Puerto Rico Government
During this last month, the March 12-13 conference promoting broader free software use in the Government of Puerto Rico, was scaled way down in scope, because of lack of financial support. Now that this has passed into history, I am starting to plan a 'real' conference for some undetermined time in the future.
But first, I am exploring commercial sponsorship possibilities from the green-lizard and rouge-thing-on-the-head free-software companies, as well as the two-lettered computer hardware company and the three-lettered computer hardware company.
Mono and Gnome Hacking
I cleaned up some documentation in The Mono Handbook and began adding content to the introductions of the various ECMA standard .NET namespaces.
I am having a blast rewriting Same Gnome in Gtk# and Glade2. I didn't know Gnome2 programming could be so easy! :-) I am documenting my effort, to be included in The Mono Handbook as a case study of Gnome programming in Mono.
After I'm finished with Same Gnome, I'm converting GnomeCalc. :-p
Hacking the Linux kernel
My only solace during this last busy month was reading Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition, during my lunch break and before bedtime. I also located a copy in good condition of Linux Core Kernel Commentary (aka LCKC) with the CD-ROM, which is now out of print. Finding this last book in good condition was a waste of time, because after only a week of use, the spine broke and the pages started coming unbound, which seems to be the fate of all LCKCs in existance. :-/
Good hardware is so cheap these days, I went and built a new spare PC, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, plus the source of the last three releases of the 2.4 series kernel, some of Con Kolivas' patches and his contest benchmark. I grabbed the last three releases from the 2.5 series kernel as well, to keep track of the latest development. I also have installed LXR cross-references to all this source on my XBox Apache server.
Since I don't have the time to read the lkml every day, KernelTrap and Kernel Traffic will be my new found friends.
It seems in my overenthusiasm, I misunderstood my invitation to the free software in government conference. I was asked to 'participate', and I assumed that meant that I was asked to speak. More details later.
Hacking Gates, Da Man
I suddenly decided some weekends ago that I needed a new file server, immediately. I didn't want to wait for another pay period to buy it, so it had to be really cheap. I would be the only one using it, so it didn't have to be blindingly fast or powerful. But it had to be adequate for NFS and SAMBA file sharing, and for learning Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
So I bought a used XBox, put in a solderless modchip, bought an 80 GB IDE hard disk, and installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 with a modified 2.4.20 kernel on "Da Beast." I did not install X or sound drivers on it, and I've configured it to run headless; if / when I need to, I log in through SSH.
Cost of 733 MHz Pentium III, 64 MB RAM, 80 GB HD Linux file server? $308 US
Rise, Phoenix, from your ashes ...
Now that I have plenty of extra storage space on NFS, I can hack again on my old and long-neglected Sega Dreamcast and Broadband Adapter. :-)
I have a Sega Dreamcast with Broadband Adapter, which I bought in February 2001, to hack around with game programming on KOS. It was not getting a lot of play time lately, so I looked into other uses for it. Wonderfully, there are Dreamcast ports of eCos and RedBoot, Linux (here and here), and NetBSD. There are also two homebrew operating systems for Dreamcast: NewOS and KOS, which I already mentioned. NetBSD/Dreamcast and KOS are the most active at the moment.
I burned a CD-R with RedBoot, with which I interact through the Dreamcast's serial port. From RedBoot, I can load eCos, Linux, or NetBSD from NFS. I configured these to run without X and sound drivers. Once loaded, I interact with the OS through the serial port or through SSH.
Note: RedBoot, eCos, Linux, and NetBSD on Dreamcast can be configured to use the TV or VGA adapter output and a Dreamcast keyboard for the console, but I am not interested in that.
My Dreamcast is to be used in learning operating systems programming. Before, when I only had one computer available for hacking, I took things easy because I didn't want to cripple my one and only system. After all, I have other things I want to hack on besides operating systems.
With the Dreamcast, I can experiment and break things all over the place and not worry one bit. I am keeping two copies of each operating system's root filesystem on NFS (that's why the XBox NFS server has an 80 GB hard disk, although it is still overkill). If I break something, I can just reboot from the stable copy, figure out what I did wrong and fix it.
Mono Documentation
In order to continue to contribute to the Mono documentation effort, I am writing a few Gtk# mini-applications, and I am documenting the process through which I am constructing them. This documentation will appear as case studies in the GNOME.NET section of the Mono manual.
One of the mini-applications is, surprise, surprise, a Gtk# rewrite of GNOME Calculator. :-) The version of the code which will be used for Mono's documentation will not use GNOME Calculator's fixed precision math engine. But I will eventually break out GNOME Calculator's math engine into a shared library, and interface with it from the Gtk# GUI with P/Invoke.
Learning Apache, MySQL, and PHP
I bought two O'Reilly PHP books, Programming PHP and Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL. I devoured these really fast and started to modify the code samples, scripting little test pages to my heart's content. PHP has been the easiest and most fun web server scripting language I've ever worked with. I can definitely see why there are so many PHP-based sites out there.
The purpose of this detour into PHP is two-fold: my free software projects are going to need a homepage of their own if they're going to contribute to free software world domination. I am learning PHP so I can maintain these homepages. The other purpose in learning PHP is that I am helping out a few free software organizations with the upkeep of their web sites, and some of them use PHP extensively.
In your article, you say the software is being "sold pre-installed on a web host." This description is a little vague. The correct answer to your plea for help and comments depends on the correct interpretation of how your software is being used.
1. Is the offending software used by customers of a shared or dedicated hosting provider? In that case, there is nothing you can do. This particular use falls under the "internal use" clause. As long as the binaries of the Moodle-based software are not being distributed, they are allowed to modify and host sites with this modified base all they want.
The GPL only covers distribution of source and binaries; it says absolutely nothing about the third-party use of modified code.
2. Is the offending software bundled with hardware? In that case, they are not required to provide "the original software and patches". What they are required to provide is the source for their modified version. If they are not doing so, then they are in breach of the GPL. I encourage you to contact them and inform them of their breach, and see where it leads. If they don't comply, there are many groups willing to help at least educate you about your legal options (they may not be able to help you mount a legal response, though, because of financial concerns).
Quick comment for all of us
I take this opportunity also to call for broader financial support from our community to the FSF, Linux International, EFF, and other similar organizations. Maybe I am preaching to the choir, but it may be worth repeating.
Many of us are working on free software on our free time, and do not have the financial resources necessary to defend our freedoms and property. These organizations are willing to help, because in the long run it helps defend their freedoms and property too. But these organizations need our financial support to even be able to operate their offices in any recognizable manner. Soon, maybe sooner than we think, one of them may not be able to operate continuosly any longer, to say nothing of coming to our defense.
If we all chip in just a little bit, we can accomplish the same as one single person giving a lot.
Over and out,
New Radio Free Oz :-D
Well, it seems only robocoder caught on to the joke in my diary entry last Thursday. Thanks, robo, for the comment. It was meant to be funny.
It goes like this: I was talking to someone on #kernelnewbies. The poor guy was suffering from analysis paralysis, what with so many guides and how-tos out there. And he was taking a survey to determine which guide was most recommended so he could read that one (which I think is such a waste of time; just pick one and read it, and if it doesn't help, pick out another one). He asked me which kernel guide I recommended reading just for starters. I mentioned Val's "LinuxChix Kernel Hacking Lessons".
He answered with "but that's for girls!" I thought his response was very funny, so I wrote a parody of it for my diary.
Mono documentation
I've started writing a chapter on System.Windows.Forms for the Mono documentation project. With the upcoming holiday and things going so slow at work for the next two weeks, I should be able to post it for review by next Friday, if not sooner.
More GTK+ and GNOME hacking
I am also writing lots of little GTK+, GTKMM, and GTK# test programs, to continue my learning. And I've made progress unraveling GNOME calculator. I'm thinking of revamping the GUI, for my own enlightenment at least. I just think it looks so bland compared to all the newer GNOME software out there. It clearly hasn't been touched since GNOME 1.0.
In the two weeks since my last entry, I've been having lots of fun on my copious free time, reading up on X, GTK+, GTKMM, GTK#, and GNOME component-based programming. I've written a few example programs in each of these libraries, getting a feel for how native UNIX GUI software is written.
From my 5+ years of Java experience and the smattering of Delphi and C++ Builder I did in 1997, GTK+ and its Object Oriented ilk are nothing new; only the toolkit and API is different. The overall concept is identical. So it's not going to be difficult to learn GNOME programming. It's just going to take practice and time to learn all the GNOME specific gotchas and tricks.
Halting steps
I tried looking over the code of GNOME-calculator (I thought it would be easiest), and quickly got lost. So I still have a ways to go before I can start contributing substantially to the body of free software. But I'm getting there.
I built GNOME 2.1.3 using GARNOME, to help submit bug reports towards GNOME 2.2. I know that when something fails to build, it's a GARNOME bug. But when something fails to run or crashes because it couldn't find some configuration something or other, how do I know it's a GARNOME bug or a GNOME bug?
Maybe this knowledge too will come with more experience. In the meantime I will be discussing what I find on the GARNOME mailing list, to get the help I need to file the report in the right place.
Biting more than I can chew?
In a gutsy move, I've volunteered to help write documentation for Mono (and by proxy, for GTK#). Like I said above, GTK+ programming really isn't all that difficult. It is only different from what I already know, and that never ever killed anyone.
Cross dressing, or "How I nearly lost my virginity at a clam dig and loved it"
Many, many weeks before I started this diary, I began reading Linux kernel hacking guides. And by far, the most accessible guide and resource has been the "LinuxChix Kernel Hacking Lessons", written by Val Henson. Val and gals' kernel hacking guide is complemented by a mailing list, the cleverly named "grrls-only" mailing list.
This mailing list presented me with a conundrum: it is only meant for women, and to join I would have to write a statement of some sort certifying that I am female. Yet this grrls-only mailing list could well be a very valuable resource I could use to learn about kernel hacking. What's a guy to do?
I am obsessed with ways I could fake my way into that mailing list. For almost a month, I've been listening to Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler at work, and watch chick flicks like "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Thelma and Louise", "Notting Hill", "Three Weddings and a Funeral", "Pride and Prejudice" (Hugh Grant is just so cute) on DVD nearly every night. I hold my tea cup just so, and sigh deeply as I read old tattered copies of Ann River Siddon's novels at lunch.
But I'm afraid that when push comes to shove and I sit to write that message showing I'm female, something would slip by and I'd say something utterly masculine.
I imagine Val teaching kernel secrets to her tribe of amazons, secrets only known to her because of the keener insight of the gentler sex. Perhaps they all have their own cleverly tuned scheduler, much more clever and efficient than Ingo's O(1). Perhaps their virtual memory runs rings around FreeBSD. And alas, maybe they have crafted their own working version of Hurd. God, how I want to be in the grrls-only list!
If I ever make the attempt and get in, I probably will not have the guts to pipe up and ask any questions or reply to any posts. I will probably lurk for years, absorbing all of Val's arcane arts. And when anybody asks me anything, I'll just giggle and hold my index finger to my cheek. But I'm scared I'll freak and type the wrong emoticon.
Maybe this tribe of amazon hackers is really benign and I have nothing to be afraid of if I'm caught, and I come out of this experience without losing body parts. On the other hand, I worry about something else: for like three weeks now, I wake up every morning humming show tunes. :p
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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TRU.com has had a bad track record for... ever, really. Ever since they won that lawsuit severing their relationship with Amazon about 11 years ago, they've really been inconsistent running their own site. I've never dealt with their customer service folks though.
I'm thinking that at $100 with a large box, these aren't going to move all that fast, but it also might mean they might not get stocked in as many stores.
In other MP news, some photos have been posted of MP Sideswipe and NO THANK YOU! http://tformers.com/transformers-mp-...8732/news.html What the HELL is with that tiny height on this insane pricetag?!? It's shorter than a $20 Alternators figure! And no working scissor-wing doors, plus kibble at the tail? Seriously Takara?!? Other pics show a hollow leg design as well as color mismatched panels: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transf...12-lambor.html
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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
Chain of Fools
It was my first hunting trip to Texas, and I was an awestruck rookie.
Every morning, Rio after Rio hammered from the river bottom that coursed through the property. And each evening, hundreds of coyotes rang songs from the hills. Oh, and I'd stepped right over a coiled rattlesnake.
To add to my confusion, my host was filming the hunt, so I could only shoot a turkey if everything was perfect. No matter. It was Texas, right? Everything would come together.
And it did, sort of, one hot afternoon. We walked to a small oak grove, set up our equipment and then floated some yelps through the warm air. A muffled gobble echoed back. Cool.
But before we could react, the turkey sprinted past our setup and started strutting directly behind us. There was no way I could turn around and shoot and definitely no way to film anything. We waited, still as stones, hoping the bird would see our decoys and drift in front of us.
I didn't even dare look, so I kept abreast of the situation by whispering to the guide. He, in turn, whispered to my host, who was on the far left, hiding by his video camera and watching the turkey. Most of the conversations sounded like this.
"Psst! Blah, blah, blah turkey blah, blah, blah."
"Blah, blah, unintelligible, turkey, blah, blah, blah."
Eventually, though, the gobbler drifted to the left and then slowly eased toward our setup, well within range but behind thick mesquite. I heard my host whisper something to the guide, who then relayed the instructions to me.
"Whisper, whisper, blah, blah, unintelligible gibberish, shoot."
Had he just told me to shoot? Maybe the bird was about to bolt, or perhaps my host had good video footage. However, the gobbler was still behind the mesquite, and I thought it didn't present a decent target. Still, I felt pressured that my host/videographer apparently wanted me to fire. Perhaps he thought I actually had a shot or saw something that I didn't. Either way, the gobbler wouldn't hang around forever.
What would you have done? Post your decision below.
Click here for Lovett's decision.
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Nice app is there a way to transfer the downloaded songs & video to the music app itself.
This is just a copy of the MyTube app. Only difference is this has back/next navigation buttons.
One bug with thumbnails in downloaded videos browser, guess it's pretty easy to fix though:
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just got this app.. nice one not sure yet but it it dont give you the option yet. you should try and make it safe music files directly to the music Apple app. Its a pain in the *** having to change the music apps everytime depending on where a certain song is on!. especially when driving
I would like to have that too. There is the possibility, using MFMusicLibrary, but its not good enough to be really used yet. You need to manually patch files, reboot and sync to make it work. But I will keep updated and add the feature as soon as MFMusicLibrary.framework is become easier to implement.
@garaddon thanks, ill try to fix it.
Maxner how does this app handle login information, I ask because it's my email address & password for my email account as well.
Also for MFMusicLibrary the patching part is easy as its an XML file that needs editing so you could do that in the installation process or if not possible, then during installation using a .sh script, also set cydia to reboot the phone.
Then all you need to do is tell the user to sync with iTunes first before trying to import any media.
I'm pretty sure you could've already just used mxtube. It was already updated for iOS 5.
Nice app... but it crashes when I try to save a video. (3GS @ 4.3.3).
Try to save a video, and whoosh, back at the app screen.
Come on, it just has the mobile YouTube website embedded into it. The features he portrays in the video as features of his app are not by him, but by YouTube itself. I want a developer to make a real iOS YouTube alternative to the stock one. Until then, I'm sticking with the stock app. And downloading? That is the only feature that is Added from the YouTube mobile site.
Go to the app store and download and download managing app. They have built in browsers, and you can download YouTube videos, and it's all free. So there, save yourself a $1.49.


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Web Stories
Scholars to speak on Tibet, Nov. 6
Posted October 17, 2003; 05:08 p.m.
Tibetan scholars, Ngawang Choephel and Bhuchung Tsering, will speak on Tibet and its relationship with the Chinese government at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in McCosh 46.
Choephel, a teacher of Tibetan music and a Fulbright Scholar at Middlebury College, was arrested while visiting Tibet in 1995. He was released from a Chinese prison in 2002 after serving more than six years of an 18-year sentence on charges of espionage while filming traditional arts in Tibet.
Tsering is director of the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group dedicated to promoting human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Tibet. He is also a columnist for the Tibetan Monthly and Tibetan Review.
The lecture sponsored by the Mercer County and University chapters of Amnesty International . For more information, contact the University chapter .
Contact: Lauren Robinson-Brown (609) 258-3601


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Aquinas Football Coach Dan Coughlin retiring after 41 years
LA CROSSE, Wis. - After 41 years, Aquinas football coach Dan Coughlin tells News 8 that he is retiring.
"I love coaching, I love the kids, I do have a lot of energy, that's why I think it's the best time to retire," he said.
It's just time.
"I think one of the things that had a big affect on me was the Joe Paterno story, guys hanging on, and hanging on, and hanging on, and I just decided that that was not going to be me."
He made the decision to retire a year ago, but didn't want the 2012 football season to be all about him.
"I had been thinking about it for a year and a half, so I had already made my decision that I was going to do it."
Coughlin grew up on La Crosse's north side. He graduated Aquinas in 1968. Four years later, in 1972, Coughlin began coaching the Blugolds' JV team. 41 years and three state titles later, Coughlin has memories for a lifetime.18241876
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But that, Coughlin said, is not what he wants his legacy to be.
"If you ask me my win loss record, I couldn't tell you my win loss record," he said. "My dad worked real hard and I just tried to work real hard every day. Just tried to do everything the best that I could do it no matter what."
So what's next for Coughlin?
"I don't know . TV! I don't know.
"I'm going to miss the Friday nights, I'm going to miss the game preparation and I'm going to miss interacting with the guys. But I'll find something."
Coughlin said he will not be a part of the search committee for the school's next head coach.


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Casio's CZ series of phase-distortion digital synths make for a unique sound. After all, there are 8-stage envelopes and 2 oscillators per voice for a thicker tone. Their sound is similar to the Yamaha DX synths but is much easier to program. The CZ-5000 may be at the pinnacle of Casio's synthesizer line, and it is still a great low-cost means of getting into vintage digital synth sounds today. The CZ-5000 is not analog and has no filters. But many still find it useful where strange synth sounds are needed such as industrial and electro types of music. It has been used by The Orb and Jean-Michel Jarre.
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The Police Service of Northern Ireland has informed a Belfast-based reporter that dissident republican groups, opposed to the peace process, have issued a death threat against her, the British National Union of Journalists said this week. The threat came after the journalist published a story in a local Sunday newspaper claiming an Irish republican group was protecting two alleged pedophiles in its ranks, according to the Guardian. The National Union of Journalists has demanded the death threat to be withdrawn.


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Had a nice few days in Jersey, except for my laptop problems causing me pain and embarassment. I've decided I'm going to aim towards getting a 15" PowerBook (w/ATI gfx) for my birthday in November and struggle by with this one for now. Going to the airport in a couple of hours. Looking forward to getting home, but am feeling a bit rough after drinking all sorts with my brother and a few mates last night, so I'm not looking forward to spending the night in an economy class plane seat to Bangkok (with a connection in Dubai).
Oh, I should point out that I was completely wrong about GnuCash. It does rely on some nasty scripting (via Guile), but it is actually mostly Gtk2/Glade-based and not python-based as I suggested. I don't know where I got that idea from! I've started playing with the Gtk2 branch of GnuCash now, but it doesn't compile cleanly for me just yet.


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1. In Western Europe, the strategy won. In the early 80's there was a grave concern that Western Europe was indeed suddenly vulnerable. Thus began the build-up that brought the GLCM, the 600 ship navy, and major growth of both Army and Air Forces in Europe. If this build-up had not occurred, any war in Europe would have been over in roughly a week. This was because the US didn't have the air frames and ships to deliver a credible counter-force in less time. It was felt that the Soviets would need 7 days to move their forces into readiness while we could have a division or two .... and NO EQUIPMENT...across in the same time. We saw roughly the same thing in Gulf War I....weeks and weeks of transporting equipment. (In fact, a significant portion of the men and equipment needed for Gulf I was drawn from Europe.)
The forces are there now (much smaller forces) as a contribution to NATO and to have a place to rotate them in and out of the ME. Even that mission is declining. If I named the just the air bases that have closed in Europe in the past 20 years, you'd be amazed....RAF Fairford, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbury, RAF Bentwaters, Sembach AB, BitBurg AB, Rhein-Main AB, Hahn AB, Zweibrucken AB, Torrejon AB, one of the bases in Italy, Comiso AB, and Hellenikon AB. Every one of these (except Hellenikon) held a single wing (24 aircraft) and about 2000 people. European end strength used to be about 1,000,000. Now I'd guess it's more like 350-400,000.
2. In S. Korea there is a small force (about a division and a half) and two air wings. They serve as a trip wire that causes the N. Koreans to think twice about invading. If S. Korea were to be invaded, the US forces would contribute but end up falling back. They would serve their purpose of holding the North until we could me the rest of the force into place. It's basically the same strategy as before the Korean War except the US force is larger and remains on alert. Part of the reason that worked was that N Korea had a relatively primative land and air force. That's not so true today and folks really have their thinking caps on about this.
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Asthma is a disease that causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow, leading to wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.
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National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. Rockville, MD. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US Dept of Health and Human Services; 2007. NIH publication 08-4051. Available at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/asthgdln.htm. Accessed June 7, 2013.
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A friend of mine was thinking of creating some encryption feature for the ByzantineOS, the idea is to make it hebrew + crypto FS as a file under FAT/NT then all your secrets are in one file, and you boot from CD, diskless personality, as we call it.
I personally haven't tried using the ByzantineOS, but I was trying to think what ciphers should I be using for this task, I'm open to ideas. I'd rather take some standard password-protected crypto-fs that works and is peer reviewed already. question is if there's one that's both inside a FAT file and encrypted?
Another friend noted out that pgpdisk might come handy, it was used to store everything in one encrypted file. you had to mount it with their driver and it would decrypt it for you. then you could use it like a regular file system.
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We hope you will all join us this Sunday, July 15, for the annual BCGS Fun Match, BBQ and White Elephant Auction at Roy & Linda Gasselsdorfer's home in Sultan, WA! The event kicks off at 12:00 noon with lunch, followed by the fun match. The silent auction will be on-going throughout the afternoon. Visit the following link for the event flyer and contact info for directions. It's sure to be an outstanding day of bulldog fun!
Paul & Stephanie Admintchita are bringing their huge barbeque trailer, which means plenty of room for everyones food to cook at once. Bring your own meat to barbeque, or whatever other main dish you choose for yourself, and bring your own beverages. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share with everyone.
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To enter, bulldogs must be at least two months old. Classes will be broken down by gender and age. Spayed or neutered dogs are permitted. AKC champions are not permitted. Entry fee is $5 per dog. Our judge is BCGS member, Winn Ryman.
We will also have a separate Junior Showmanship class, held just prior to the regular Fun Match. The kids that have participated in the past have really enjoyed it, and always look forward to participating again next year. This is not a formal Junior Showmanship class. Instead, it's just a fun way for the kids to get involved and give showing a try. Entry fee is $5 per Junior.
Join in on this fun auction to benefit the BCGS general fund. Please donate any new or gently-used items from your home that you don't need or no longer want. Bulldog and dog-related items are preferred. One person's junk may be another person's treasure. You just never know what you might find!
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In his new, candid autobiography, British rock legend Pete Townshend tells the extraordinary story of his life in and out of the spotlight, his innovative days with The Who, his exploits of rock abandon on and off stage, his tabloid scandal and more. Here's an excerpt.
It's extraordinary, magical, surreal, watching them all dance to my feedback guitar solos; in the audience my art-school chums stand straight-backed among the slouching West and North London Mods, that army of teenagers who have arrived astride their fabulous scooters in short hair and good shoes, hopped up on pills. I can't speak for what's in the heads of my fellow bandmates, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon or John Entwistle. Usually I'd be feeling like a loner, even in the middle of the band, but tonight, in June 1964, at The Who's first show at the Railway Hotel in Harrow, West London, I am invincible.
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We're playing R&B: 'Smokestack Lightning', 'I'm a Man', 'Road Runner' and other heavy classics. I scrape the howling Rickenbacker guitar up and down my microphone stand, then flip the special switch I recently fitted so the guitar sputters and sprays the front row with bullets of sound. I violently thrust my guitar into the air – and feel a terrible shudder as the sound goes from a roar to a rattling growl; I look up to see my guitar's broken head as I pull it away from the hole I've punched in the low ceiling.
It is at this moment that I make a split-second decision — and in a mad frenzy I thrust the damaged guitar up into the ceiling over and over again. What had been a clean break becomes a splintered mess. I hold the guitar up to the crowd triumphantly. I haven't smashed it: I've sculpted it for them. I throw the shattered guitar carelessly to the ground, pick up my brand-new Rickenbacker twelve-string and continue the show.
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That Tuesday night I stumbled upon something more powerful than words, far more emotive than my white-boy attempts to play the blues. And in response I received the full-throated salute of the crowd. A week or so later, at the same venue, I ran out of guitars and toppled the stack of Marshall amplifiers. Not one to be upstaged, our drummer Keith Moon joined in by kicking over his drumkit. Roger started to scrape his microphone on Keith's cracked cymbals. Some people viewed the destruction as a gimmick, but I knew the world was changing, and a message was being conveyed. The old, conventional way of making music would never be the same.
I had no idea what the first smashing of my guitar would lead to, but I had a good idea where it all came from. As the son of a clarinettist and saxophonist in the Squadronaires, the prototypical British swing band, I had been nourished by my love for that music, a love I would betray for a new passion: rock 'n' roll, the music that came to destroy it.
I am British. I am a Londoner. I was born in West London just as the devastating Second World War came to a close. As a working artist I have been significantly shaped by these three facts, just as the lives of my grandparents and parents were shaped by the darkness of war. I was brought up in a period when war still cast shadows, though in my life the weather changed so rapidly it was impossible to know what was in store. War had been a real threat or a fact for three generations of my family.
In 1945 popular music had a serious purpose: to defy postwar depression and revitalise the romantic and hopeful aspirations of an exhausted people. My infancy was steeped in awareness of the mystery and romance of my father's music, which was so important to him and Mum that it seemed the centre of the universe. There was laughter and optimism; the war was over. The music Dad played was called Swing. It was what people wanted to hear. I was there.
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The basic contours of Mitt Romney's approach to Social Security reform are coming into focus, and the results aren't pretty.
Because Romney insists that any change include no additional revenue, his strategy is forced to rely on excessive benefit cuts that would undermine financial security for future retirees. A much better approach would mix benefit reductions and revenue increases, as we have proposed in the past, and as polls show the public prefers.
For about two-thirds of elderly Social Security beneficiaries, the payments amount to more than half their overall income. These benefits are protected against financial-market fluctuations and inflation, and they last until death. So they are a crucial form of insurance, almost impossible to purchase, and they are particularly useful during and after periods of severe economic stress, like the one we have lived through these past few years.
Furthermore, Social Security isn't the core of our long-term fiscal problem. From now until 2050, if all benefits are paid despite the projected exhaustion of the Trust Fund, its expenditures will rise from 5 percent of gross domestic product to 6 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Over the same period, Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health expenditures are projected to rise from 5.5 percent of GDP to 12 percent.


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Shares of 3-D printing pioneers 3D Systems (DDD), The ExOne Company (XONE), and Stratasys (SSYS) all rose today following some positive notes from bulls on the industry who had paid a visit to the "Rapid 3D" trade show in Pittsburgh, which kicked off Monday and concludes today.
FBR Capital Markets's Ajay Kejriwal, who has an Outperform rating on ExOne stock, and a $50 price target, writes that in addition to the show floor itself, he sat in for meetings held by the company on site to brief the Street. He said he had company meetings with 3D technology companies, service bureaus, application developers, and users, including Stratasys, EOS, Arcam, SLM Solutions, Concept Laser, Renishaw, and General Electric (GE). Those conversations suggested demand is strong and new applications are drawing a lot of interest from users:
Key takeaways included: (1) positive commentary from several participants with regard to demand trends, with expectations of 25%–30% growth in overall 3D industry printer sales; (2) a high degree of enthusiasm with regard to metal 3D printing, with chatter around acquisition interest from the larger players in the space (the acquisition announcement by 3D Systems yesterday of Riom, France–based Phenix Systems is indicative of the high interest, and we would not be surprised to see Stratasys follow up with a deal in the space; candidates include Arcam, Concept Laser, and SLM, in our view); (3) increasing interest in the aerospace, dental, and orthopedic implant markets as new application developments help drive user demand [...] GE showcased a 3D-printed fuel nozzle that the company plans to use on its LEAP jet engine. Each engine will use about 20 nozzles to be installed in planes starting in 2015/2016, with GE likely producing 25,000 nozzles annually. Our discussions suggest GE is working on several other 3D projects including parts for gas turbines and healthcare devices.
As for ExOne, "management provided a positive update on the progress of its key initiatives, including the opening up of new PSCs, material development, and progress with its new M-flex platform. Commentary suggests ExOne has received several inquiries for the M-Flex at both RAPID and the industry event in Brazil last week, and management expects to convert several of these leads into orders."
Piper Jaffray's Troy Jensen, who maintains an Overweight rating on 3D Systems, and a $52 price target, and an Overweight rating on Stratasys and a $96 price target, observes that "Attendance at RAPID this year was up roughly 60% from the prior year to 2,400 attendees and the tone at the event was very positive."
Adds Jensen, "While metals remained the hottest topic at RAPID, it appears overall demand for systems, materials, and services has tracked above plan in Q2 and we are anticipating another favorable earnings season for the industry."
Jensen met with management of 3D Systems, which during the show announced it was acquiring 80% of privately held Phenix Systems of Riom, France, for €13 per share, which specializes in metal printing. He thinks that deal will help 3D Systems in markets such as medical, aerospace and automotive.
Jensen came away with the impression 3D Systems is prepping several new models for release:
We had the opportunity to catch up with 3D Systems CEO Avi Reichental, along with CFO Damon Gregoire. We came away with increased confidence with regards to 3D Systems' aggressive acquisition strategy, and feel the company has positioned itself more effectively across multiple verticals within the 3D content and printing space. At the event, the company unveiled the VisiJet M3 Black material, which is utilized within 3D Systems' Jetting line of printers (Projet 3500 recently refreshed). Management believes this is the most significant material announcement in recent memory (highest durability properties) and anticipates this will be a key element in driving market share gains within the jetting market. Outside of materials, the company showcased their new scan and reverse engineering software platforms, which the company acquired through their Geomagic and RapidForm acquisitions. Although channel integration appears limited through the first few months, we believe the newly acquired software products represent one of the better growth opportunities for the company and expect gradual reseller integration in the second half of 2013. Although management did not release any new systems at the event, we believe the company is preparing to announce multiple high end refreshes at their analyst day next week, specifically geared towards their legacy Stereolithography and Selective Laser Sintering machines. Given the popularity these systems generate within the service bureau vertical, we expect the refresh to drive additional sales in the second half of the year.
Shares of 3D Systems today rose 99 cents, or 2.2%, to close at $46.56. Shares of Stratasys rose $1.43, or 1.8%, to close at $83.24. And shares of ExOne closed up $3.04, or 6%, at $52.01.


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Our service specializes in complex cases that require a high level of expertise. Our doctors and nurses routinely handle heart rhythm problems in even the tiniest and most vulnerable babies. With six full-time cardiologists, nurse specialists and trained fellows, we are one of the largest electrophysiology programs in the country.
The skills and equipment for treating irregular heart rhythms are highly specialized, but must be tightly integrated with the patient's overall health and treatment for other conditions. This is an area where Boston Children's excels. Electrophysiologists partner closely with other cardiologists and other specialists to achieve the best outcomes for these complex cases.
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In 1938, Boston Children's cardiac surgeon Robert Gross, MD, performed the world's first successful surgery to correct a child's heart defect. Since that time, we have gained recognition around the globe for our leadership in pediatric cardiology and continue to make critical advances in the field. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report named Boston Children's cardiology and cardiac surgery programs the best of any pediatric hospital in the country.
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There's an old Saturday Night Live sketch — not, truth be told, one of the show's funniest moments — called "Rock & Roll Real-estate Agent." In it, Jay Mohr plays a realtor, spiffy in a gold Century 21–style jacket. And slinky leather pants. Greeting a couple of potential clients, he leaps from his desk with a lead singer's abandon. "Well, all riiiiight!! Nice ta MEETCHA!! How ya doin' out there toniiiiiiight? Wow!"
His character was the erstwhile frontman for a band called Sidewinder, and since their hit, "Lick It," had fallen off the charts, he's found steady pay in a somewhat more staid industry. Still, his passions run deep. "I got central air, three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, at $179,900, with an assumable mortgage. Yooooooowwww!!! Tell the bank you want a fixed rate at 7.35 percent, all riiiiiight?!! Owwwwwwwww!!!"
As it happens, this scenario is not as ridiculous as it may appear. The real-estate industry, with its genteel open houses and love for crunching numbers, may seem to be one of the least "rock-and-roll" careers one could pursue. But it actually agrees with the rock-and-roll lifestyle quite well.
Realtors make their own schedules, allowing them to follow their artistic pursuits as much as they desire. That means not having to worry about your dumb day-job's "synergy" meeting at 9 am while you're shredding away at 4 am. And it's a profession custom-suited to performers: after all, the very act of selling a house to a stranger requires a performance of sorts.
So it is that more and more musicians and other creative types are heeding the siren call of escrow accounts and adjustable-rate mortgages.
Bill Janovitz just released an album, Three Easy Pieces, with his band, Buffalo Tom, but by day he works among the manicured lawns of Lexington, closing millions of dollars in sales each year. He declined to be interviewed for this piece, but on his Web site, Janovitz allays one imaginary prospective buyer's fears in a fake Q&A:
I was at a nightclub last night and I saw my realtor rocking out with Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam. Should I worry?
Oh, no, no. You see, local real estate has long needed a dose of rock & roll. . . . And when I am staging your home at an open house, I don't sweat as much as I do when I am on a rock & roll stage.
And it's not just rock musicians. Although he made his name in Roxbury with the early-'80s boy-band sensation New Edition, and later, with New Jack Swingers Bell Biv DeVoe, Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr. has moved to the South and is now a king of Atlanta real estate, dealing in "prestigious and elite properties."
DeVoe still performs and records occasionally with New Edition, but real estate is clearly his calling. As one blogger wrote upon seeing DeVoe's gray-suited visage on a RE/MAX billboard in Atlanta, "A lot of people would see this picture and think, 'Wow. That sucks for him.' Not me. I bet he's much happier being a successful businessman than he would be performing 'Poison' for the one billionth time in front of a few hundred drunk horse-racing fans at Hollywood Park."
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Williams's Silver and grey series are among his most impressive from the late 1960s. Silver and grey highlights the exquisite balance he developed between spaciousness and expressive gesture, between abstraction and a recognisable evocation of the landscape.
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Futures for the Standard & Poor's 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are down about 0.4% this morning, ahead of Wednesday's bell. The S&P closed yesterday within just a couple of points of its all-time high.
Shares of Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) are tumbling, down as much as 13% in premarket action. The stock was downgraded this morning by Morgan Stanley, and its price target cut to $14 a share (it closed at $21.43 on Tuesday).
We believe Cliffs' key US iron ore business (~60% of 2012 EBITDA) will be halved in coming years as new Great Lakes supply cuts into volumes and pricing.More bad news to be priced in: CLF stock has dropped ~44% YTD on deteriorating operational outlook (especially for Bloom Lake) and a surprise dividend cut and equity/convertible preferred raise. We see further downside as two issues are not priced in by the market:1) Deteriorating US iron ore market balance: We believe that the supply-demand balance in the isolated Great Lakes pellet market will deteriorate as up to ~13 mt of new supply comes online over the next ~3 years in a ~60 mt market. As the only non-steelmaking producer in the region, we believe CLF will be most impacted. US Iron Ore segment EBITDA could halve vs. 2012 levels.2) Reserve depletion: The company's Asia-Pacific Iron Ore segment will deplete its reserves in ~6 years.
As if that wasn't bad enough, analysts at Credit Suisse lowered their target price for the stock to $10, writing:
We believe that there are structural changes taking place in CLF's key Great Lakes market that will compromise its pricing power and erode the earnings potential of the US Iron Ore business.
It wasn't all bad for Cliffs, though: Goldman Sachs raised their rating to Neutral, based largely on the stock's valuation. I've written about Cliffs before; the stock is one of the worst performers of the year, down 44% in 2013 — and that's before a likely big drop today.
Shares of Boeing (BA) are down about 0.6% ahead of the bell. A Reuters report suggests the 787 Dreamliner may face hurdles even if it passes new safety tests and is permitted to return to the sky.
Aviation experts and government officials say the Federal Aviation Administration may shorten the permitted flying time of the 787 on certain routes when it approves a revamped battery system. The plane was grounded worldwide two months ago after lithium-ion batteries overheated on two separate aircraft.
Losing extended operations, or ETOPS, would deal a blow to Boeing and its airline customers by limiting use of the fuel-saving jet, designed to lower costs on long-distance routes that don't require the capacity of the larger Boeing 777. Such a loss could even lead to cancellation of some routes.
Also falling are shares of Apollo Group (APOL), parent of the for-profit University of Phoenix, which are down 3.5%. The stock fell 2.7% yesterday and is down 40% in the past six months.


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Description ADULT MALE Has orange-red head with yellow forehead. Breast is pinkish, while rest of plumage is mainly gray and finely marked except for white belly and striking black and white vent. In flight, note striking white patch on wing. Bill is pale gray and dark-tipped. Eclipse male recalls adult female. ADULT FEMALE Mainly reddish brown, darkest on head and back, but with white belly and vent; lacks male's white wing patch. Bill is gray and dark-tipped. JUVENILE Resembles adult female.
Dimensions Length: 18-20" (46-51 cm)
Habitat A few thousand winter on Pacific coast, mainly in Washington and British Columbia.
Range Northwest, Florida, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Texas, Western Canada, California, Southeast, Eastern Canada, Alaska, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Plains
Voice Male utters evocative wheee-oo whistling call.
Discussion Robust duck. Male is colorful and distinctive. Gregarious outside breeding season. Feeds by dabbling and grazing terrestrial grassland. Sexes are dissimilar and females are hard to distinguish from female American Wigeon.