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Dileep Singh
Dileep Singh leads the Thermal Management efforts at Argonne's Center for Transportation Research.
|November 22, 2013
Aaron Greco
Aaron Greco is Principal Investigator on a project designed to improve the reliability of wind turbine drivetrains.
|November 22, 2013
May Wu
May Wu is the Principal Investigator for water sustainability analysis in biofuel production.
|November 22, 2013
Jennifer B. Dunn
Jennifer Dunn is a chemical engineer examining the cradle-to-grave energy and environmental implications of the production and use of transportation fuels and technologies.
|November 25, 2013
John Arrington
John Arrington joined the Medium Energy Physics group in 1998 and is interested in understanding the quark/gluon structure of matter. His experiments utilize scattering of relatively high energy particles from protons, neutrons and nuclei to study their internal structure.
|December 11, 2013
Jeffrey R. Guest
Jeffrey Guest explores electronic, magnetic, optical properties of matter on nanometer length scales using ultrahigh vacuum scanning probe microscopy and 'single particle' laser spectroscopy techniques. He also studies and develops new ways of measuring and controlling mechanical motion of nanofabricated and self-assembled nanoscale systems.
|January 27, 2014
Ralph T. Muehleisen
Ralph T. Muehleisen is the Principal Building Scientist and the technical lead of the Building Energy Decision and Technology Research (BEDTR) program.
|March 20, 2014
Sven Leyffer
Sven Leyffer is an internationally recognized leader in numerical optimization, with major accomplishments in three distinct hot-topic areas: nonlinearly constrained optimization, mixed-integer nonlinear optimization, and optimization problems with equilibrium constraints. In all three areas, he has made fundamental contributions to the theoretical foundations; developed state-of-the-art methods and robust implementations; and promoted novel applications, many of pivotal importance to the DOE.
|May 12, 2014
Mark Nutt
Dr. W. Mark Nutt is a Principal Nuclear Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory and is currently the National Technical Director of the DOE-NE's Nuclear Fuel Storage and Transportation Planning Project.
|October 21, 2014
Jason Croy
Jason R. Croy is a materials scientist in the Electrochemical Energy Storage Department of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His work focuses on the synthesis of novel cathode materials for lithium ion batteries as well as advanced characterization utilizing synchrotron radiation to elucidate atomic-scale, structure-property relationships in complex materials.
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Accommodation summary
|süleymanpaşa sokak, 34714 kadıköy istanbul, Turkey
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Central Kadıköy, close to lively and trendy Kadıköy market, fish restaurants, traditional food, cafes, movie theatres,
Very close to ferries to Eminönü (Sultanahmet area), Karaköy, Kabataş, Beşiktaş, Princess Islands
Metrobüs (10 minutes walk).
If you are looking for a place to stay both CENTRAL and LOCAL, this is the address for you.
Very close to all transportation including ferries to Eminönü (Sultanahmet area), Karaköy, Kabataş, Beşiktaş and Princess Islands - within 15 minutes walking distance. Very close to the first stop of Metrobüs (within 10 minutes walking distance).
At the same time, it locates in Central Kadıköy, close to lively and trendy Kadıköy market, full of fish restaurants, traditional food restaurants, cafes, movie theatres, boutique shops and the only opera building of the city.
A perfect accommodation for up to 5 people.
The flat is on the third floor of the building. The flat has 2 bedrooms. The main bedroom is equipped with a king-size bed. The small bedroom has a single bed and drawers.
A modern bathroom with hot water and shower
Central heating
Dishwasher, washing machine, refrigerator, cable TV, PC, Wi-fi internet, kettle, microwave, iron, ironing board, towels and linens.
All bills are included in the price
This flat belongs to a friend of my daughter. She will be around to be a help for your needs or questions. Whether you need to find a good place to eat, or do not know how to buy travelcard, you can always give me or her a call or send an SMS and we will try to make your Istanbul stay more comfortable and enjoyable.
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Reviews of this property
We had a very pleasant stay. The flat was very comfortable and welcoming.
The host was very friendly and helpful.
I would definitely go back and stay there again.
The time that we were allowed to spend in the beautifully landscaped apartment was terrific. From the beginning we have felt absolutely comfortable and were impressed by the sympathetic and very friendly reception. The apartment is spacious and makes a lot of opportunity to retreat with Bedarf.Mit 3 people we had plenty of space. The kitchen is well equipped. The bathroom entirely satisfactory. It's exciting to know the Asian part of Istanbul also one day have it in beautiful weather but also enjoyed being able to use the often-propelled ferries across the Bosphorus, this is still extremely cheap by the Istanbul card. The tip to go from the airport by taxi to the ferry Bakirköy and then over to Kadikoy is great. This one does not need the whole city. The location of the apartment is conveniently located and relatively quiet. 2 bedrooms are situated on the back, front, and my son has slept, hears of anything anyway because of his youth and sleeps like a Stein.Vielen, thanks again, I will definitely rent this apartment again and would recommend them highly.
Love from Hella from Northern Germany
Die Zeit,die wir in der wundervoll gestalteten Wohnung verbringen durften war grandios. Von Anfang an haben wir uns absolut wohl gefühlt und waren von der sympatischen und überaus freundlichen Aufnahme beeindruckt. Die Wohnung ist großzügig geschnitten und läßt viele Möglichkeit zum Rückzug bei Bedarf.Mit 3 Personen hatten wir ausreichend Platz. Die Küche ist super ausgestattet. Das Bad völlig zufriedenstellend. Wir fanden es spannend, auch einen Tag den asiatischen Teil Istanbuls kennenzulernen, haben es aber auch bei schönstem Wetter sehr genossen, die häufig fahrenden Fähren über den Bosporus nutzen zu können, die noch dazu durch die Istanbulcard supergünstig ist. Der Tip, vom Flugplatz aus per Taxi zum Fähranleger Bakirköy zu fahren und dann rüber nach Kadiköy ist toll. Dadurch braucht man nicht durch die ganze Stadt. Die Lage der Wohnung ist verkehrsgünstig und relativ ruhig gelegen. 2 Schlafzimmer liegen ruhig nach hinten, und vorne hat mein Sohn geschlafen, der wegen seiner Jugend eh nichts hört und schläft wie ein Stein.Vielen, vielen Dank nochmal- ich werde bestimmt nochmal diese Wohnung mieten und kann sie wärmstens empfehlen.
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A super energy saving LED bulb from Philips, said to last over 20 years, went on sale online and in stores for $50. They will next start working on wood-burning hi-def TV's.
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Iran says it recovered data from our spy drone that went down there last year, and they're building a copy of it. It's the geo-political version of accidentally throwing your Frisbee into an old lady's yard who won't give it back.
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Experts in New Zealand say Natasha Harris' 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola consumption "probably" contributed to her death. The good news is that obviously, she had enough Coke Reward Points to pay for the whole funeral.
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"Dog Whisperer" host Cesar Millan's divorce was finalized. Cesar cited among reasons for the divorce his inability to establish himself as the alpha-male.
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"American Idol" Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks is getting his own short-term show on the Vegas Strip. He's the first winner or finalist to secure such a gig. Well, it's not exactly his show. He sings 1 song while David Copperfield cuts him in half.
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Check out Mike's alter ego, white, middle-aged suburban rapper Notorious D-A-D in his full length CD "Bumpin' in the Burbs"! http://www.notoriousdadmusic.com
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Lately I have been doing a whole bunch of hacking on Pyml. I really want to get the low-level stuff handled so that it is vagely real-world usable. After that, I can hope for someone to even care about the userland API. Mainly, this effects the parser and compiler.
I started by working on the parser which had a few known problems with determining the various PIs properly. It was based on a single fairly complicated regular expression. This was great and mostly worked -- tweaking the regex ad infinitum could have fixed it. Unfortunately, it made acurately determining and maintaining the line numbers impossible. This is very important to ever having a Pyml line debugger. I tried a lex/yacc parser but settled on a quirky mode-based buffer thing. Not pretty but it gives me lots of control.
The initial Pyml compiler simply generated Python source code and passed it to the CPython compiler. It put everything on its own line since Python is very sensative to white space. This worked but, again, the line debugger! So I started attempting to join code that would be on the same line using the ';' symbol. I found some pretty esoteric Python syntax errors this way! They could be avoided by putting everything in a line continuation inside an exec() statement. Hey, this worked but created really ugly bytecode when disassembled using the "dis" module.
About here I started thinking, "Wow, this would be so easy if I could just generate by own bytecode." Embarking on a wild goose chase I explored compile.c, the "compiler" module and the ByteCodeHacks project. To summarize many hours of gimacing at the computer and writting on little peices of paper, this is a no go -- especially if we want to support many versions of Python portably.
So here is my solution: continue to generate python source and use ';' to connect lines. But I am going to use the "compiler" module to generate an AST to determine if the code fits the strange rules Python applies in this case.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 12:49 PM GMT on April 01, 2010
Global warming has unthawed an entire race of warrior mermen and mermaids in the Arctic, scientists revealed today. At a packed press conference in Boulder, Colorado, Dr. Mark Xyzzy of the National Institute for Cryosphere Exploration and Tertiary Research on Yetis (NICETRY) revealed the details of the discovery: "We've been operating robot research submarines under the sea ice in the Chukchi Sea north of Barrow, Alaska this winter, as part of International Geophysical Year studies on the dynamics of arctic sea ice loss," commented Dr. Xyzzy. "Last week, one of our submersibles caught a remarkable video of a warrior mermaid, armed with a trident, riding past the submarine on the back of a narwhal. We were able to track the mermaid to her home--an underwater merfolk city at the bottom of the Chukchi Sea. The city had been thawed out in 2005 by warm water currents invading the Arctic due to global warming. These mermaids and mermen had been frozen into the underwater permafrost since the onset of the last ice age, 115,000 years ago. We undertook immediate efforts to establish communications with the merfolk, by sending in divers with underwater writing boards who were able to work out a simple symbol-based language. We learned that the Chukchi Sea merfolk are at war with a tribe of rival merfolk in the Greenland Sea. The two tribes have been fighting a heated underwater battle for dominance of the Arctic Ocean ever since global warming thawed out both tribes in 2005. It is the explosions from their undersea battles that have been the dominant cause of arctic sea ice loss since 2005, not global warming, as had been previously assumed. A team of experienced United Nations negotiators is now in the Arctic, attempting to broker a truce between the rivals and save the arctic sea ice from further destruction."
Figure 1. Merfolk negotiator Urgok Nzgradborkan and an exhausted U.N. diplomat take a break after a grueling all-night round of peace talks.
Critics of climate change science immediately pounced upon the news to unleash a new barrage of criticism against the National Intergovernmental and Territorial Panel to Investigate Climate Change (NITPICC). "The computer climate models used by the NITPICC utterly failed to anticipate the record loss of arctic sea ice due to underwater explosions from merfolk battles," commented spokesman Markoff Chaney of the Very Competitive Free Enterprise Institute. The Institute maintains of staff of top-notch scientists who swear that their funding from the fossil fuel industry does not affect the objectivity of their science. "This new "mermaid-gate" scandal proves that we can't trust climate models to say diddly-squat that's right about global warming, nah-nah-na-nah-nah!" taunted Chaney.
The head of NITPICC, Dr. R. J. Donteventrytopronouncemylastname, conceded that his organization had some work to do. "We're working very hard to incorporate the effect of underwater explosions from merfolk sea battles into the NITPICC models," said Dr. Donteventrytopronouncemylastname. "We've also begun to explore the impacts on sea ice should other denizens of the Arctic unthaw. For instance, the possibility exists that plesiosaurs from the time of the dinosaurs may be frozen in the underwater arctic permafrost. Should global warming thaw out these great leviathans of the deep, the turbulence from their swimming motions could cause significant cracking and breakup of the sea ice. We now have a new plesiosaur parameterization module built into our top models to account for this possibility."
Dr. Xyzzy of NICETRY commented, "I applaud NITPICC's efforts to incorporate their Underwater Merfolk Battle Module and Plesiosaur Parameterization Module into the climate models. However, I caution that they might also need to build modules to simulate the effects of astrology, thermography, ice-nine, and the warming effect of hot air coming out of Washington politicians, before critics of the NITPICC models will be satisfied."
April Fools!
Internet radio appearance today
I'll be appearing with San Francisco-based wunderground meteorologists Shaun Tanner and Tim Roche on The Daily Downpour Internet radio show at 4:20 pm EDT today, to talk about weather, hurricanes, and climate change. There will not be the opportunity to call in today. No foolin'!
Jeff Masters
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From 1915 to 1946, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz wrote over 5,000 letters to one another. Their correspondence captures the passion, conflict and deep lobe of art that permeated their lives together as acquaintances, lovers, and eventually man and wife. Hear the intimate words of these seminal American artists brought to life by actors Carolyn McCormick and Bryon Jennings. part of The Hyde's "My Summer Place" programming. Tickets are $40.


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Cold Creek Gundogs
The more I'm on the internet the more I love my dogs.
"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48
Raven - Moneybird's Black Magic Marker***
(Esprit's Power Play x Trumarc's Lean Cuisine)
Mick - Moneybird's Jumpin' Jack Flash***
(Clubmead's Road Warrior x Oakdale Whitewater Devil Dog)
Peerless - Moneybird's Sole Survivor
(Two River's Lucky Willie x Moneybird's Black Magic Marker)
The intent of the O/H Q is for the the person that has one or two dogs that they own, weather AM trained or pro trained to have the opportunity to run thier dogs in a more level field. Not against the pro with a truck load of dog to pick from. The O/H Q is to help encourage people to start competing in field trial stakes, and running against the pro who does this type of under handed activity is under mining the propurse of this trial. Just to make him or herself look better, this person adds nothing to the sport of field trialing in my view.
The pros that do are not good sports men or ambassadors to the field trialing games.
Cold Creek Gundogs
The more I'm on the internet the more I love my dogs.
Then here's an idea I'm a fair handler and I've never been paid to train a dog in my life.
Maybe I'll sign on with a good Feild Trial Pro, have him trian me to be a great handler and I'll in turn travel with him and run his client dogs in the AM when ever the client is unavailable. This should give me about 10 shots at the line.
There's nothing under handed about that is there.........
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Cold Creek Gundogs
The more I'm on the internet the more I love my dogs.
Our last Q had almost half the dogs run by four differnt Professionals. 1st, 2nd went to Amateurs. A few years ago I judged a O/H Q that was run in conjunction with a HT. Again we had about 4 pros running dogs they own or co-own. Again 1st 2nd and 3rd went to Amateurs. Just don't see this as an issue.


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lecture on "Vital Voices: A Global Partnership for Women" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, in 16 Robertson Hall.
The speaker will be Theresa Loar, president of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an organization dedicated to promoting women's roles in building strong democracies and vibrant economies around the world.
A former diplomat with extensive foreign policy experience, Loar was the principal adviser to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on international women's issues. She co-founded and directed the President's Interagency Council on Women, a task force to develop programs and policies for women and their families as a follow-up to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She directed the U.S. government policy planning and participation in the Beijing conference, and led U.S. delegations to a number of international conferences on women and democracy.
Through the President's Council on Women, Loar helped to create a number of programs including the Vital Voices Democracy Initiative, a private-public partnership which generated more than $20 million in projects to support women as democracy builders. She also developed the U.S. government's campaign to combat trafficking in women and children.
As the senior coordinator for International Women's Issues at the Department of State, Loar led the effort to integrate the advancement of women into U.S. foreign policy. She began her work on women's human rights at the State Department just a few days after the Taliban took control in Afghanistan in October 1996. She has been a forceful advocate for U.S. policy to promote and protect the human rights of Afghan women and girls. She also has served in diplomatic posts in Mexico and South Korea.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Gender and Policy Development Network .
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The Center For Advancement of Learning philosophy is based on research showing that strategic learning can be beneficial to post-secondary students who are either learning disabled or academically at risk of failure. Harris and Pressley (1991) emphasize the objective of strategy instruction directed towards developing students' ability to become self-regulated learners. Educators who have already demonstrated their proficiency in a linguistically-biased system often assume learners have strategies available to oversee the learning processes of self-monitoring, rehearsing, encoding, and retrieving. University students are presumed to be proficient learners who instinctively know how and when to use efficient strategies (Naour and Torello, 1991). Unfortunately, these assumptions aren't always valid and each learner is different as is each learning situation.
Strategy instruction offered by professional learning consultants can impact the full range of student learning, and strategy implementation is appropriate across the continuum of learners, from those already experiencing success to the less successful student. Every student will benefit from developing an awareness for and a sense of control over their own learning. Professional learners automatically and unconsciously use a wide variety of beneficial strategies in an effective manner (Naour and Torello, 1991).
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The primary goal of post-secondary service providers is to foster success through increased self-reliance during and beyond the University years. Evidence indicates a strong relationship between student autonomy and continued success in areas of employment (Shaw, et al., 1991). Strategy instruction in a small University environment where students, faculty, and staff work together can aid discovery of individual learning strengths and weaknesses. As confidence within academic areas grows, and students develop the ability to create and apply a variety of strategies to differing situations, autonomy is increased. Students will move out of the structured support environment towards self-direction and greater acceptance of responsibility for managing lifetime learning.
The purpose of the Muskingum University Center for Advancement of Learning is to aid students in making a successful transition to the post-secondary environment. The small University atmosphere is an ideal setting in which a team of professionals can assist students obtain and perfect strategies necessary for successful lifetime learning. Developing metacognitive skills, facilitating external and internal connections, and increasing autonomy and self-determination are valuable components of success in University and can be generalized to life after the University.
Many learning disabled students have experienced prior academic and social failures but have the potential to pursue and successfully complete University-level work. Student success is of primary importance in an academic support program. The necessary ingredients to achieve this success involve a comfortable atmosphere, supportive peer groups, and a support staff who will model, encourage, and direct the student towards increased self-awareness, autonomy, and confidence. A concern of learning-disabled students and parents is the potential for success upon entering the employment world where support may not be readily available. To address this transitional need, PLUS students participating in Maintenance-level services are encouraged to continue to perfect self-direction and self-monitoring strategies during weekly sessions with Program staff. The data collected thus far on Muskingum PLUS students indicate that learning disabled students can and do continue their success after graduation.
Harris, K. & Pressley, M. (1991). The nature of cognitive strategy instruction: Interactive strategy construction. Exceptional Children, 57 , 392-404.
Naour, P. J. and Torello, M. W. (1991). Neuroscience tools for educators. In M. L. Languis, D. J. Martin, P. J. Naour, & J. J. Buffer (Eds.), Cognitive science: Contributions to educational practice , 15-21. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.
Pressley, M. & Levin, J. (1987). Elaborative learning strategies for the inefficient learner. In S. J. Ceci (Ed.), Handbook of cognitive, social, and neurophysical aspects of learning disabilities, Volume 2, 175-212. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Shaw, S. F., Brinckerhoff, L. C., Kistler, J. K., and McGuire, J. M. (1991). Preparing students with learning disabilities for post-secondary education: Issues and future needs. Learning Disabilities , 2, 21-26.


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CHAMBER MUSIC BY GIDEON KLEIN AND VIKTOR ULLMANN MUSIC FROM THERESIENSTADT (1941-1945) This compact disc recording is dedicated to the unique creative spirit of the composers incarcerated in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. Their music is one of the most moving chapters of the spiritual resistance in the history of the Holocaust. Located sixty kilometers north of Prague, Terezin was built in 1780 as a garrison town by Emperor Josef II. With the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis in 1939, this fortress town was to become the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Theresienstadt was designed to serve two purposes: 1. a way station to the gas chambers of Auschwitz; and 2. an ideal vehicle of deception to mask the existence of the death camps, ultimately disguising the annihilation of the Jews. It was on November 24, 1941 that the first Jewish prisoners arrived in Terezin. Musical instruments were smuggled into Theresienstadt with the arrival of the second transport. Concerts, at first, were held secretly in the attics and basements of the barracks. Upon discovery of these secret performances, the Nazis realized the great importance of culture to the lives of the prisoners in Theresienstadt. They immediately sanctioned these cultural activities, believing that it would be easier to keep the prisoners under control.......
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HAWTHORNE STRING QUARTET Founded in 1986, the Hawthorne String Quartet is comprised of four members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Ronan Lefkowitz and Si Jing Huang, violinists, Mark Ludwig, violist and cellist Sato Knudsen. Recently, the Hawthorne String Quartet has recorded two compact discs of chamber music by Arthur Foote and Samuel Cooleridge-Taylor with Virginia Eskin and Harold Wright. At the request of Gideon Klein's sister, the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation is recording his chamber compositions. A portion of the proceeds from this recording go to the continued research of the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation. VIRGINIA ESKIN Virginia Eskin has performed with a number of major American orchestras including the San Francisco, Baltimore, and Utah Symphony Orchestra. In addition she has given recitals throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel. Widely known as a specialist in American Music and Women Composers, Ms. Eskin lectures at colleges and universities. She has made over a dozen chamber and solo recordings
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Family: Paridae, Chickadees and Titmice view all from this family
Description ADULT Has a gray-buff back and mostly dark wings, but with whitish edges to inner flight feathers and greater coverts, forming a pale panel. Head has prominent black cap, extending narrowly down nape, and neatly defined black throat and bib. White on face covers cheeks and extends to sides of nape. Underparts are otherwise pale with buffy pinkish wash to rear of flanks. Tail is dark with pale fringes to feathers. Legs are gray and short, stubby bill is dark. JUVENILE Similar to adult.
Dimensions Length: 4 3/4-5 3/4" (12-15 cm)
Habitat Widespread and common resident in a wide range of wooded habitats, including gardens and urban parks.
Observation Tips Usually extremely easy to see.
Range Western Canada, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Great Lakes, Southwest, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Alaska, New England, Mid-Atlantic, California, Southeast
Voice Song is a whistled, disyllabic fee-bee; calls its name: chika-dee-dee-dee.
Discussion Regular visitor to bird feeders and typically indifferent to people, especially ones who provide food. Nests in tree holes, but readily occupies nest boxes. Feeds on invertebrates and seeds, according to season, and joins roving mixed species flocks outside breeding season. Sexes are similar.


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Two-time former champion Eleni Daniilidou has been handed the final wildcard for the upcoming ASB Classic tennis tournament.
The world No 100 has been a regular in Auckland throughout her career, winning the title in 2003 and 2004, and joins former world No 2 Vera Zvonareva in being handed a wildcard.
Tournament director Karl Budge had also been in talks with 2011 champion Greta Arn but felt handing one to the Greek player was an obvious choice for her loyalty to the ASB Classic, her popularity with fans and the fact she is a former champion.
World No 4 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland headlines the field that contains six top-30 players and two former world No 2s. Marina Erakovic (67) will be the sole Kiwi presence, although Budge is expected to heed calls for 15-year-old Paige Hourigan to receive a wildcard into qualifying which gets under way next weekend.


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Canon EOS 650D/Rebel T4i In-Depth Review
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The Canon EOD 650D / Rebel T4i is the company's latest addition to its novice-oriented 'Rebel' series. With more than two decades of continuous success in its film and digital incarnations, these little SLRs have been improved and refined to the point that Canon's biggest challenge is finding new ways to distinguish its updated models. Place the new EOS 650D / Rebel T4i alongside its predecessor, the EOS 600D / Rebel T3i, and the similarity in design and specifications may suggest nothing more than a nominal upgrade.
Indeed the headline specifications - 18MP CMOS sensor, 9-point AF sensor, 3:2 flip-out 1.04m dot screen are all familiar from the 600D. Look a bit closer, however, and each of these has been significantly improved, with an eye both to more seasoned users who demand SLR performance and compact camera upgraders who want a familiar feeling interface. The 650D also gains significance because it forms the basis of the Canon EOS M, the company's long-awaited entry into the mirrorless interchangeable lens market.
It is largely because of the rise of large sensor mirrorless models that in today's market an entry-level DSLR must offer more than just high image quality to entice compact camera upgraders. In the age of YouTube, quick and easy access to video recording capability is a must. And for users that are far more familiar with composing via an LCD screen than a viewfinder, live view performance is of no small concern. Of course the camera must still offer users a path to a more traditional DSLR-like experience, without which, they would be hard pressed to resist the temptation of a physically smaller 'mirrorless' camera.
The EOS 650D is Canon's attempt to meet these challenges head on, with new features aimed at improving its live view and video performance. It becomes Canon's first DSLR to offer continuous AF tracking while recording movies.
This is made possible by Canon's new 'Hybrid CMOS' sensor that now includes pixels dedicated to phase detection autofocus. The Hybrid AF system uses these to quickly set the lens to roughly the correct distance, then uses contrast detection AF to fine-tune focus. In theory, this should provide faster and more certain focusing for live view and video shooting compared to previous Canon models which rely on CDAF alone. You can read a more detailed explanation of this technology and see it in action on the AF performance page of this review.
The EOS 650D also becomes the first SLR from any manufacturer to feature a touchscreen. This is of the capacitive (contact sensitive) rather than resistive (pressure sensitive) type, behaving like that of a typical smartphone. In Live View and Movie modes the screen can be used to specify the point of focus and (optionally) release the shutter. It also supports iPhone-like multi-touch and gestures. The rear screen has been redesigned with no air gap between the display and cover glass in an attempt to reduce reflections and improve visibility in bright light. There's also an anti-smudge coating which aims to reduce the impact of its newfound touch-sensitivity.
Canon EOS 650D / Rebel T4i key features
- 18MP APS-C 'Hybrid CMOS' sensor
- Phase detection AF from imaging sensor for Live View and Video
- Continuous autofocus in movie mode with subject tracking
- 14-bit DIGIC 5 processor
- ISO 100-12800 standard, 25600 expanded
- 5 fps continuous shooting
- 9 point AF system, all sensors cross type, central sensor F2.8 (from 60D)
- 63 zone iFCL metering
- 1080p30 video recording with built-in stereo mics
- 1.04m dot 3:2 touch-sensitive vari-angle ClearView II LCD (capacitive type, multi-touch support)
Additional improvements
The EOS 650D uses Canon's DIGIC 5 processor (as seen in the S100 and G1 X compacts), which helps enable a boost in the sensitivity range to ISO 12,800 (25,600 extended), and allows lens-specific corrections for chromatic aberration and vignetting in the camera's JPEG processing. The 'conventional' autofocus system for eye-level shooting is borrowed from the EOS 60D, and uses nine focus points which are now all cross-type, with the center point offering additional accuracy with fast lenses.
The camera also gains a built-in stereo microphone to provide sound for video, while retaining its predecessor's external microphone input. There are a couple of new scene modes, 'HDR Backlight' and 'Handheld Night Scene', both of which combine multiple exposures to give a final processed image. A four-exposure 'Multi Shot Noise Reduction' setting is also available in the PASM modes.
As is Canon's way, the EOS 650D doesn't directly replace the EOS 600D in the overall lineup. Instead the older model will remain in the line and effectively drop down a notch to the position currently occupied by the EOS 550D / Rebel T2i, which will be discontinued.
'STM' lenses: EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS and EF 40mm f/2.8 pancake
|Canon EOS 650D with EF 40mm f/2.8 STM (mounted) and EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
Alongside the EOS 650D, Canon has introduced the 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM zoom and EF 40mm f/2.8 STM pancake lens. These two optics both use linear stepper motors for autofocus, hence their 'STM' designation. This type of motor is commonly used in lenses for mirrorless cameras as it offers the potential for fast, silent focusing during video recording, and is especially well-suited to working with contrast detection AF. However, this marks the first time this particular technology has been used in a conventional SLR system. Both lenses feature 'focus-by-wire' manual focus - as opposed to mechanically-coupled focus rings - and allow for full-time manual focus when the lens is set to AF mode, although only while the shutter button is held in the 'half-press' position.
The 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM is an EF-S lens for APS-C cameras that also features 'Dynamic IS' image stabilization, designed to compensate for the different patterns of camera movement encountered when shooting video (for example when walking with the camera). It is one of the EOS 650D's 'kit' lenses, along with the cheaper EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS II. It's a little smaller than Canon's existing EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens, and adds a helpful switch to lock the zoom at 18mm and prevent it from extending under its own weight when you're carrying it around. It's close-focus distance is also reduced to a pretty reasonable 39cm. Most significantly - for video shooters at least - this is the only kit lens option that is actually silent while focusing.
The EF 40mm f/2.8 STM pancake, meanwhile, becomes comfortably the smallest lens Canon makes, at about half the thickness of the EF 50mm f/1.8 II. It will also be sold as a kit with the EOS 650D in some regions (where it offers a slightly unconventional 64mm equivalent field of view), but Canon says it's aimed at least as much at EOS 5D Mark III owners. Indeed we can see it becoming a firm favorite with full-frame users, for whom it will offer a slightly wider than normal angle of view. One thing we dislike about its operation is that you can't retract the lens from an extended position without putting it on a powered-up camera, and the lens doesn't retract when the camera is turned off.
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Is anyone else concerned about the oil field personnel kidnapped in Algeria....or is everyone that concerned about whether or not Manti T'eo had a real GF or some imaginary one
Why is this not dominating the news...is it also a hoax ?
Is anyone else concerned about the oil field personnel kidnapped in Algeria....or is everyone that concerned about whether or not Manti T'eo had a real GF or some imaginary one
Why is this not dominating the news...is it also a hoax ?
That's what I was talking about when I told Sarge to turn on the news...
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Honestly, I think long gone are the days when being an American made one somewhat bulletproof, so now when people knowingly take jobs in troubled parts of the world, the risk is just part of it and they can't really expect the govt to sweep in and save them.
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
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Seems Hillary stated that it was very tiring to have to continually deal with these "relentless" terrorists. Ironic, that wasn't the tune that they were playing during the campaign?
It was noted on Townhall, that Romney's mention of Mali in the Presidential debate was because the foreign affairs briefings had lots of mention of the situation of Mali ... totally skipped over by the incumbent administration.
Some info I read tied this group in Algeria to the group in Mali. US is transporting French troops into Mali, BTW. Mali isn't that far away from Algeria.
Guess the Algerians don't like to be messed with. They sent in special forces after about 24 hrs. because the insurgents were "intransigent" about negotiations. One commentator noted that 24 hrs was not a very long time to come to the conclusion of "intransigence". Guess the Algerians are not the patient sort. The Algerians allowed the US to only assist in evacuations.
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(Rick Hickman / American Press)
Last Modified: Sunday, December 09, 2012 8:02 PM
By Warren Arceneaux / American Press
NEW ORLEANS — Archbishop Rummel slowed things early and dominated late, scoring three fourth quarter touchdowns in a 35-14 win over Barbe in the Class 5A state championship game.
The win caps a perfect season and gives Rummel (14-0) its first state championship. Barbe ends the season at 13-2.
Raider running back Keith Fulton scored three short rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter after Barbe took a 14-13 lead after three quarters.
Fulton scored on a 3-yard run on the first play of the quarter to give the Raiders the lead for good, and added a pair of 4-yard scores to blow the game open.
Rummel quarterback Damian Williams completed 11 of 13 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns. Fulton finished the game with 132 yards on 22 carries.
Rummel controlled the pace in the first half, slowing the game to a crawl when they had the ball by letting the play clock tick down to a few seconds before snapping the ball.
The Raiders had little trouble moving the ball, driving 99 yards in 13 plays for the game's first score, a 12-yard touchdown pass from Williams to Steven Dunbar to take a 7-0 lead with a minute remaining in the first quarter. The Raiders used up more than 8 minutes of game time on the drive.
Barbe responded with a touchdown drive of its own, going 74 yards.
Bucs quarterback Kennon Fontenot converted four third-down conversion on the drive, twice running to move the chains, then eluding several defenders before throwing a 28-yard strike to Desean Smith to set the Bucs up at the Rummell 28.
Three plays later, Fontenot connected with Smith for a 25-yard touchdown catch in which Smith got behind the defense and made a nifty catch near the back of the end zone.
Rummel came right back with another clock-eating drive, going 82 yards on 10 plays before Williams threw another 12-yard touchdown pass, this time to Cethan Carter, with 1:33 remaining. The extra point hit the upright and fell away harmlessly to give the Raiders a 13-7 lead.
The Bucs appeared to have tied the game on the last play of the half when Smith hauled in a deflected pass in the end zone as time expired, but both teams were flagged on the play, Barbe for holding, Rummel for a personal foul.
The down was replayed and Fontenot scrambled for a harmless 31-yard gain.
"That took that momentum, we could have went into the half up or tied," said Barbe head coach Mike Cutrera. "We come out in the second half and make a stop. If we could have scored after that, it would have been huge, but they called the offsetting penalties and it did not work out."
The Bucs forced a stop on the first possession of the second half and drove 55 yards for a touchdown to take a 14-13 lead.
Fontenot and Smith connected again on the touchdown, a 23-yard strike that Smith brought down near the right corner of the end zone.
On the ensuing possession, Williams fumbled when sacked by Bucs defensive back Callen Smith. Thomas Richard recovered at the Raider 29-yard line, but the offense lost 6yards on its drive, which ended on a missed 45-yard field attempt.
"If we could punched that in it would have been a different ballgame," said Cutrera. "It just wasn't meant to be."
Rummel controlled the game thereafter, marching 80 yards for a touchdown, the first of Fulton's trio of touchdowns.
The Raider defense intercepted Fontenot twice in the fourth quarter, while the offense scored on every possession but the final one, when they took a knee twice to run the clock out.
Cutrera said his team's offense could never find a rhythm.
"They did a good job of clock management in the first half, limiting our amount of posessions," he said. "They played great defense, are fundamentally sound. Most of the time they were playing defense on offense. In the first half they limited us to two possessions really. They did a great job all around. They were never out of place."
Roth said the Raiders stressed not letting the Bucs receivers get behind them.
"We had pressure on him, we did a good job covering, it was a pretty good job on the defensive end," he said. "We had two possessions in the first half, that was the game plan. Our best defense was our offense keeping our defense off the field."
Smith was named Barbe's Most Outstanding Player, finished with 4 catches for 85 yards and two touchdowns.
"We fought until the end and gave it everything we had," he said. "It is an honor just being here. "
Fontenot finished with 167 passing yards and 97 rushing yards.
Cutrera said the sour ending won't stain his team's season.
"They gave it their all, we have no regrets," he said. "We did not get the win, but if you would have told me at the beginning of August that we would go 13-2, I would have said you were crazy. But not these guys, they have heart."


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According to Variety online, Martin Scorsese's recent mega-hit, Oscar-nominated film The Wolf of Wall Street, has more instances of "the F-word" than any film in history. With 506 utterances in three hours, it easily tops the previous record-holder, Spike Lee's Summer of Sam (with 435). Variety also describes The Wolf as being "all about excess," including sex and drug abuse scenarios which I won't go into here.
What Jesus said matters far more than any commentary I could write about the state of the "Hollyweird" movie industry and more than any academic perspective I could tell my blog readers and my mass communication students. If I but compare the set of values presented in The Wolf of Wall Street to the values Jesus presented from His world to ours daily, always living faithfully what He preached, I could efficiently end this blog with the following quote from the Lord, point supremely being made:
33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. 35 The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil. 36 But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it inthe day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." (Matthew 12:33-37, NASB)
Writing through inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul also warns against using bad language in his letter to the Ephesians (e.g., Ephesians 4:29 ).
What's the academic perspective?
In their intriguing study, Nabi and Clark (2008) found that "negatively reinforced behaviors on TV may be modeled anyway" (p. 407), that is, despite, and perhaps even because they are negatively modeled. And a plethora of mass communication research on everything from sitcoms to movies to TV ads and even the so-called reality of news violence has bolstered our understanding over the decades that there is something inherently attractive and, unfortunately, more memorable about negative portrayals than positive ones (be it strong/suggestive dialogue, anti-social behavior, immoral lifestyles, physical conflict/injury, and even damage to property).
Pointing to Social Cognitive theory (SCT), Nabi and Clark remind us that "vicarious learning" (p. 409) is indeed prevalent among TV audiences. Echoing Kellner's (1980) work, in which he warns that "[TV's] imagery is. . . prescriptive as well as descriptive," (p. 5), Nabi and Clark's research help us understand that what we view may ultimately become a guide for our own behavior thereafter.
What's the take away for mass comm students?
Our students need to OWN the task soon to be set before them. Some of the most intelligent writing for film and television has been provocative, not because it body slams our libidos or cattle prods our visceral instincts, but because it makes us think–think about the noble, the possible, the enriching. It takes little imagination or skill to ambush the senses by flinging expletives like hand grenades.
Our students MUST do better when they enter the industry than continue to "slop the hogs" in feeding hungry audiences.
Our students simply MUST do better.
Again, Paul's letter to the Ephesians makes it clear as to what lifestyle is pleasing to God and what is not, the latter including coarse speech, greed, and immorality (Ephesians 5:1-12). Scorsese's latest box office success is rife with everything loved by the world, but not by the Almighty. Read what the Spirit inspired James to write also on this very subject! (James 4:1-10, NASB)
And He [Jesus] was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides." (Mark 4:24, NASB)


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We all know the stats from the genetics school book on how color is inherited Yellow x Black (yellow carrier) = 50% Black-%50 Yellow, Brown x Black (brown carrier)= 50%-50%. Black(yellow carrier)x Black (yellow carrier) = 75% black, 25% yellow. Simple right? Same with the Chocolates. We'll as I've been watching a few litters this year, toying with the idea of trying a new color, but not yet insane enough to eliminate a black parent completely . I've found they are nowhere close to schoolbook. So I thought it might be fun to get some real world stats based on color breeding from personal experience, see if we can get them to balance out to 50%.
So here goes this year so far
Yellow x black ( Y carrier) = 8 black 3 yellow
Chocolate x black (coco carrier) = 5 black 1 chocolate
Black(Y carrier) x black (y-carrier) = 7 black
So far all signs pointing to me staying with black


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Alternate name: Carpet Foxtail Cactus
Family: Cactaceae, Cactus view all from this family
Description This small, rare cactus, whose dense spines make the stem look cobwebbed, may comprise up to 100 stems in a single mounded plant.
Habit: succulent native perennial shrub.
Height: to 6 in (15 cm) tall.
Stem: spherical to cylindrical, grooved when mature, 0.6-3 in (15-75 mm) tall, 0.4-1 in (10-25 mm) diameter.
Leaf: tiny spine, white or cream with brown tip, becoming gray, held close to stem, 0.05-0.1 in (1-2.5 mm) long; 30-90 radial spines per areole, central spines often absent.
Flower: brownish-pink funnel, to 0.6 in (15 mm) wide, to 0.5 in (12 mm) tall; opening in the morning, .
Fruit: small berry, cylindrical to club-shaped, about 0.5 in (12 mm) long, green or red.
Endangered Status The Lee Pincushion Cactus is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as threatened in New Mexico. This plant has been the victim of poaching in the Guadalupe Mountains where it lives. Despite its spines, this cactus is a highly prized plant, often taken from its desert habitat by rare-plant collectors. A second threat to the species, which has now been addressed, came from maintenance of nearby Carlsbad National Park.
Flower March to June.
Habitat Chihuahuan desert scrub to conifer woodlands, rock outcrops (rarely alluvial rubble), usually narrowly confined to cracks in limestone; 2000-8500 ft (600-2600 m); also cultivated as an ornamental.
Range Found only in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, near Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Discussion Some authorities list this plant at the species level as Coryphantha sneedii, Escobaria sneeedii or Escobaria leei. Also known as Lee's pincushion cactus. A federal threatened plant; listed as endangered in New Mexico.


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RALEIGH, N.C. – In horseshoes it would have been a heck of an outing, but only being close to William & Mary's best hitters wasn't enough to boost a struggling offense.
Ole Miss right-hander Sam Smith had two strikes in the count three times when the Tribe got its biggest hits, and William & Mary, the No. 2 team from the Colonial Athletic Association, defeated the Rebels for the second time in three days, eliminating them from the Raleigh Regional with a 4-1 win before 2,175 fans at Doak Field on Sunday afternoon.
Ole Miss, the No. 2 seed, concludes its season with a 38-24 record after a 1-2 NCAA tournament experience.
A two-run fourth was enough to propel the No. 3 seed Tribe into the championship game against No. 1 seed North Carolina State later Sunday.
It was a blow of lethal proportion as Ole Miss struggled mightily against Brett Koehler, a right-hander who was much less effective in last week's CAA tournament.
The Rebels managed just seven hits, all singles. Half of them came in a third inning that still did not produce a run. They loaded the bases with no outs in the fourth, scoring their only run when Preston Overbey hit into a double play.
As Ole Miss let opportunity slip away in the fourth, the Tribe pounced with two runs in the bottom of the frame.
Ole Miss was 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position Sunday, 2-for-22 for the regional.
Koehler had given up nine runs over his last two starts, but on Sunday he pitched his third complete game of the season.
"They just played better than us. They got all the big hits, especially in the top of the lineup," Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said.
Where they weren't
Ole Miss went down quickly in the top of the first, and Smith had the Tribe (39-23) headed in the same direction with a 1-2 count on three-hole hitter Michael Katz. That's when Katz got some lift on a fastball and placed it perfectly in the right-center gap where neither Auston Bousfield nor Will Jamison could run it down.
Smith, who has pitched through a blister the last couple of weeks, was then 0-2 on Ryan Lindemuth, who battled back to a 2-2 count and doubled down the left field line to score the run.
"I did a good job of getting ahead of a lot of people, but I couldn't put them away," Smith said. "They battled, put balls in play, fought off hard pitches."
An ineffective slider was part of the problem for Smith.
"His slider didn't have a lot of depth. He says the blister didn't affect him. It may have affected him. He just couldn't get enough depth on his slider today. Those were two great at-bats, and we couldn't put them away," Bianco said.


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Family: Motacillidae, Wagtails and Pipits view all from this family
Description Breeding birds are striking (male especially) with brick-red face, throat, and breast. Fall birds lack this color, but have striking streaking.
Dimensions Length: 6" (15 cm)
Range Alaska, California
Voice Call is thin and high-pitched.
Discussion Breeds in Siberia and occurs as scarce migrant in western Alaska in spring and fall; rare vagrant further south on West coast, mainly in fall, favoring short grassland.


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--The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat.
Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food (literally) speaks for itself.
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that the Hitchhiker's Guide deleted the term "Future Perfect" from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
"What's such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams' sardonically silly eyes."
--Detroit Free Press
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When all questions of space, time and matter have been resolved, only one question remains - 'where shall we have dinner?' This novel provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.About the Author:
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and educated at Cambridge. He was the author of five books in the Hitchhiker's Trilogy, including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ; and Mostly Harmless . His other works include Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd); and Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine). His last book was the bestselling collection, The Salmon of Doubt, published posthumously in May 2002.
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Dble Haul,
An even sleeker version of this fly that is one of my favorite trout flies for late evening in either stream or lake is the Royce Dam Rabbit Leech.
Hook: Loop Up Eye Salmon in #6- #10
Weight: Black nymph bead or cone pushed up over the hook return, use a quality hood that has the return loop finely tapered to do this. You can also use lead barbells, if so wrap the body over them or lead wire under the front 1/3rd of the body. The bead is faster and easier.
Tail: Red or Chartreuse Marabou, short, can use 2 strands of Krystal Flash or Flashabou in pearl if desired. I usually don't add the flash material.
Body: Black rug yarn or very fussy yarn
Rib: Oval Silver
Wing: Black bunny strip tied Matuka Style (held down against the body with the ribbing.
Hackle: Long, Soft and Black. I like to use dyed black pheasant rump.
Purple body with the black wing and hackle and a claret or burgendy body with the black wing and hackle are also very effective; however, black on black with red marabou tail is my favorite.
This fly swims beautifully (very similar to a real leech) with a slight jigging motion as you strip the fly back in short 4-6" strips with rather long pauses in between. The weight at the head of the fly with the black bead really helps to give it the proper motion. Fish it on a longish leader and have fun. This is also an excellent fly for bass and crappie.
Tight lines and good feather bending.
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Bunny leech
Hook: Size 4-8 (here, a 4XL size 6)
Thread: color to match pattern
Tail: Zonker strip
Flash (optional): Any suitable flash material (here, pearl Flashabou)
Body: Cross-cut zonker strip wrapped forward
I use 3/0 thread for this pattern because it allows me to really crank down and secure the zonker strips. I'm showing basic black and basic white, but there are other useful colors (maroon, peach for carcass or flesh fly, etc.)
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Republic of Congo: Aid workers help thousands hit by arms depot blasts
15 March, 2012
The UN and its partners are helping to clear up unexploded ammunition scattered by the arms depot explosions that killed more than 200 people in Brazzaville earlier this month, amid concerns over the dangers it poses to life and health.
A UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team is now in Congo assessing the situation and determining any possible exposure to contamination and unexploded ordnance.
The team is working with the UN Mine Action Service to coordinate mine action work and ways to secure the area. So far, 244 items weighing up to 1,520 kilograms have been removed. Unexploded ordnance typically includes landmines, grenades and other explosive ammunition.
"We need to factor these environmental hazards into humanitarian response efforts as early as possible to prevent unnecessary harm or deaths, and to allow for a return to normalcy as soon as possible," said Alain Pasche, an environmental expert who heads the UNDAC team in the country. "We are working closely with the Congolese authorities and helping them respond to this tragic event."
Another environmental expert has joined the team to collect samples to be analysed in Switzerland for potential soil and water contamination. Structural engineers from the UN and the European Union are on the ground to assess the extent of the damage on schools, hospitals and other buildings.
More than 200 people were killed and 3,000 injured in the explosions on 4 March, and about 15,000 remain homeless. Hospitals are overcrowded and many people have sought refuge in churches and sports stadiums.
OCHA is helping to coordinate the humanitarian response through UN aid workers who have arrived from Senegal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN agencies and non-governmental organizations are working closely with the Government to provide aid to the affected communities.
The UN Refugee Agency has distributed tents, plastic sheeting, mats, blankets, mosquito nets, soap and cooking utensils to thousands of people, and will register displaced people and manage encampments.
The World Food Programme is distributing food to hospitals and displaced people. The World Health Organization continues to provide medical emergency services, and the UN Children's Fund has shipped in school kits to help children whose schools have been damaged.
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Deadline for residential college design competition is March 10
Posted March 8, 2002; 12:23 a.m.
The deadline for a design competition for Princeton's sixth residential college is Sunday, March 10.
In fall 2000, a group of students formed Prospects, an organization that sponsored a design competition seeking creative ideas about the future of spaces and social life on Prospect Avenue. This spring, the group is sponsoring a second competition focusing on the new Whitman College.
All students, young alumni and other members of the University community are invited to submit ideas.
"The success of the four-year program at Whitman College depends on the creation of innovative spaces, visionary programming and far-reaching objectives aimed at integrating new opportunities into campus life," the group, called Prospects02, says in a statement on its Web site . "Participants in the competition are encouraged to think broadly about the design and function of the sixth college; they are also welcome to focus on aspects of special interest."
Entries will be judged primarily on the quality of their ideas, and less on their graphic presentation. By promoting a public dialogue about the project, the group hopes to enable members of the University community to help shape the plans and inspirations for the new residential college.
Initial submissions, which can include any combination of text and images, must be on one 11-by-17-inch sheet of paper. They should be delivered to the Frist Campus Center Welcome Desk by midnight Sunday.
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Life Without Legs
Image courtesy of SD Biju
Legless amphibians
Student Exploration
You're Looking For What?
Many people have heard about the worldwide decline in amphibians. Scientists have studied this phenomenon for years, identifying causes and trying to determine if the worldwide environment is changing too rapidly for amphibians to adjust to new conditions through natural selection. But far fewer people know that we have not even identified all the amphibians on the planet; that there are more to amphibians than frogs and salamanders. Find out about a third group of amphibians, a group without legs!
As you may have guessed, due to their cryptic nature, caecillians are not easy to find or study. As a result, much remains to be learned about these animals. In fact, in India they have identified a whole phylogenetic family of caecillians that was previously unknown.
Extension Investigation
Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
- What are the three major groups of amphibians?
- What physical characteristics make it easy to mistake caecillians for earthworms (Phylum: Annelida)?
- If you were to look inside a caecillian and an earthworm how would their internal anatomies compare? What characteristics would allow you to distinguish between them?
- What do baby caecillians feed on? How does this help explain their rapid growth?
- Given that these animals spend most of their time underground, what do you think this suggests about how animals first moved on to land. Could the first animals on land really have been the first animals "in" land. Do you think it would be easier for animals to adjust from living in water to living underground or above ground? Be specific and thorough in your reasoning.
- Where do the closest relatives to the new family of caecillians from Northern India live? What is this relationship taken as evidence of?
Resources Cited
- http://www.nature.com/news/limbless-amphibian-family-discovered-in-india-1.10083
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjt2TawPrpk
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMvL4zOLSeM
- http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/annelida.html
- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/annelida/annelidalh.html
- http://www.esu.edu/~milewski/intro_biol_two/lab__12_annel_arthro/Annelida.html
- http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-caecilian.html
- http://www.edgeofexistence.org/amphibians/species_info.php?id=548
- http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/15/rspb.2012.0150.full
- http://news.discovery.com/animals/legless-amphibians-122102.html


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Key medical figures:
• 252,500 outpatient consultations
• 3,900 surgical interventions
• 22,700 births assisted
• 8,400 individual and group mental health consultations
Providing comprehensive emergency healthcare to people in remote regions of Pakistan is a priority, yet accessibility and security are a constraint for both Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) and the patients.
In addition to the general gaps in the healthcare system, people living in remote areas and those displaced or directly affected by conflict suffer from a critical lack of medical services, in particular emergency treatment and maternal and child care. MSF runs programmes to try to address these needs.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Hangu district borders three tribal agencies, North Waziristan, Orakzai and Kurram. These areas are among those most exposed to violence since military operations were launched by the government in response to an aggressive campaign by the Pakistani Taliban, which started in 2007. There are also sporadic clashes between the Sunni and Shia communities in the district. MSF teams manage the emergency and surgical services in the Hangu Tehsil Headquarters hospital. They admitted more than 25,000 patients to the emergency room and performed 1,407 surgical procedures in 2013. Within the hospital's maternity unit, MSF midwives support Ministry of Health staff, assisting with complicated deliveries, and providing training on obstetric procedures and hygiene protocols. MSF runs a 32-bed private women's hospital in Peshawar, which opened in 2011. It offers free, emergency obstetric care, including surgery. A third of the 3,717 admissions this year were displaced or refugee women. A referral network has been developed among the district's rural health centres, communities and camps for displaced people or refugees, and is expanding to the neighbouring tribal agencies. A fivebed newborn unit opened, and a further 10 beds will be added in 2014. In Lower Dir, there was a dramatic increase in patient numbers in the emergency and resuscitation rooms at Timurgara district hospital. More than 100,000 patients came to the emergency room, an increase of 33 per cent over 2012, and more than 22,000 patients were treated in the resuscitation room. MSF provides obstetric care with a focus on complicated deliveries, and assisted around 7,000 births in 2013. Teams also support the blood bank, improve sterilisation and waste management, and organise health education activities – some 56,000 health and hygiene education sessions were carried out. In addition, MSF conducted more than 5,300 mental health consultations and 26,900 mother and child sessions.
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
Conflict in Kurram Agency has led to the isolation of local communities, closure of supply routes and the near-collapse of the state-sponsored healthcare system. Measles is very common in Kurram, highlighting gaps in basic health services such as vaccination. The area is hardly accessible to international staff, and local MSF personnel provide paediatric services at hospitals in the Sunni enclave of Sadda and the Shia community of Alizai. In 2013, a military offensive launched against the Tirah Valley in the neighbouring Khyber Agency led to the displacement of thousands of families to New Durrani camp, and around Sadda. In Bajaur Agency, years of violence have left the population with limited access to basic healthcare. In March, a team of local MSF personnel began running mobile clinics to facilities in Talai, Kotkay and Derakai, providing basic healthcare and monitoring for cases of infectious illnesses such as measles and diarrhoeal diseases.
Pakistan's largest province is remote and rural, and hosts many Afghan refugees. Healthcare indicators are among the country's worst, as delays in obtaining medical help are common and are accounted for by geography, insecurity in the region and a low density of medical services. In Quetta, the paediatric inpatient medical care provided by government and private hospitals is insufficient to meet the population's needs and many people cannot afford the fees charged. MSF offers medicalcare in Quetta paediatric hospital, and treats malnourished children in ambulatory and inpatient feeding programmes. Neonatology services, and family and individual counselling sessions are also available. An MSF team runs a mother and child health centre in nearby Kuchlak, offering outpatient treatment, including nutritional support, for children under five. There is a birthing unit, and a system to refer complicated emergency obstetric cases to Quetta. Other services include psychosocial support and counselling, and screening and treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis. Comprehensive emergency obstetric, neonatal and emergency care is provided at the Chaman District Headquarters hospital, where 17 per cent of patients treated in the emergency room in 2013 were victims of conflict. More than 2,500 measles vaccinations were given, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health. In the eastern districts of Jaffarabad and Nasirabad, MSF continued to focus on maternal and child health in programmes in Dera Murad Jamali hospital and four health centres. Conflict-related displacement has exacerbated malnutrition, and vaccination coverage is low. The team conducted a measles vaccination campaign with the Ministry of Health and reached 7,500 children. More than 9,600 children were treated in the therapeutic feeding programme at the Dera Murad Jamali hospital, and 6,000 antenatal consultations were carried out.
Healthcare in Karachi
On the outskirts of Karachi, the Machar Colony slum is home to many undocumented migrants who cannot access medical care. MSF runs a basic healthcare clinic with SINA Health Education and Welfare Trust, providing free basic, emergency and obstetric services around the clock. Mental health support is also available. More than 35,000 basic healthcare consultations were conducted in 2013, 7,600 children were screened for malnutrition and over 80,000 people participated in health education sessions.
Emergency responses
Together with Ministry of Health staff, MSF treated 110 people for bomb blast injuries resulting from election-related violence in Khyber Pahktunkhwa and FATA over four days in May. Non-combatants were the primary victims of the violence. Between August and November, teams responded to outbreaks of both dengue fever and acute watery diarrhoea in Timurgara and Swat, a measles outbreak in Upper Dir in June and July, and an earthquake in the Mashkel district of Balochistan in April. MSF was ready to provide assistance following the Awaran earthquake in September, in the same province, but the Pakistani government did not think it necessary for MSF to intervene.
Faiz Bibi
Kirani village, west of Quetta My one-month-old baby boy has been sick with pneumonia. He had a high fever for two days and was wheezing and then became lethargic. My house is far away and when the baby was unwell during the night, in the morning I told my husband I would take the child somewhere – anywhere – for medical treatment. I asked a tuk-tuk [small taxi] driver and he said that at the MSF Quetta hospital, I could have the best treatment for my baby.


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- Start game
- Gather & Build
- Combat
- Heal & Research
- Repeats steps 2 thru 4.
For my game, I want to have at least 2 tiers of resources (eventually) - core and (later) strategic resources:
Core resources:
These include Lumber (structures) and Food (population), these are crucial resources for all players.
Strategic resources:
These include Stone, Iron, Gold, Mana and Fame. How important these are to you depends on your strategy and they are only available once a base economy is running smoothly.
Stone is important for improving your defense. Source = Stone Mines.
Iron is important for making a good military offence. Source = Iron Mines.
Gold is important for trade and improved resources gathering. Source = Gold Mines.
Mana is important for research (upgrades). Source = Mana Wells.
Fame is important for attracting allies and making the enemy less inclined to attack you. Source = balancing the above (e.g. Making 1 Stone Mine and 1 Iron Mine gives more Fame than making 2 Stone Mines or 2 Iron Mines (diminished returns, essentially)).
I'd like to get some constructive criticism on the system and how it can be improved, in your opinion. Should some of these resources be renamed for accuracy, removed for redundancy or maybe there should be something in the game that I didn't think of (e.g. an additional resource and/or strategic focus).
Thanks for any input. Discuss.
(I'm getting inspiration and borrowing heavily from games like Travian, The Settlers, Cossacks, Warcraft and even Minecraft, Terraria and more.)
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24th Annual Banff Festival of Mountain Films
Posted March 13, 2000; 11:53 a.m.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival brings short films and documentaries on mountain adventure and mountain culture to the Princeton campus on Tuesday, March 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. in McCosh 10. Tickets are $8 for students, faculty and staff in advance. At the door, tickets are $8 for students and $12 for faculty and staff. Tickets are available at the Outdoor Action Office, 330 Alexander Road; and Blue Ridge Mountain Sports in the Princeton Shopping Center. Proceeds provide summer camper scholarships for local youth at the Princeton-Blairstown Center summer camp program. The festival is sponsored by Outdoor Action, the Princeton-Blairstown Center and Blue Ridge Mountain Sports. --
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Use your leftover holiday turkey to make from-scratch soup packed with barley and vegetables.
Turn this into Homemade Turkey-Vegetable Soup by adding up to 3 cups raw or cooked vegetables, such as whole kernel corn, green peas, diced potatoes, sliced zucchini, sliced mushrooms or any combination, along with the carrots, onion and celery.
An easy way to add layers of flavor is to use poultry seasoning. A blend of sage, thyme, marjoram, rosemary, black pepper and nutmeg, this seasoning lends a subtle savory note to chicken and turkey dishes.
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I took a 1 3/4" piece pvc about 7" long, cut a 1" wide strip out the long way. Then about 3/4 of the way down made a knotch wide enought that the reel foot fits and goes around to be underneath the top long cut. Drilled a couple of holes and zip tied it to the bracket of my pontoon boat. To put the rod in lay the rod in with the reel facing up. Rotate it into the knotch so the reel is "locked" in. Smooth out the edges with a file and you are done. I copied it from one I saw at a Fly show.
I was surfing the net and came across someone's great idea for an anchor. It was suggested to get a basketball net and bind the bottom end, run a rope through the larger loops, and fill the net up with large rocks. Like a bag-anchor! I bought a basketball net on Ebay for 99 cents. Can't wait to try it soon.
|I've been looking around for a rod holder for my float tube and the Caddis one looks pretty good, but at $25 plus shipping (can't get it locally anywhere that I know) it's a bit pricey for me. Sooooooooo, my next homemade item will be a rod holder. Any ideas or thoughts are appreciated!
I'm a very simple fisherman and don't like a lot of gadgets, and growing up I always used a rope with a rock tied in the end as an anchor in canoes so that's what I did when I started float tubing. I haven't been tubing long but I quickly learned that wind can be one of the float tuber's biggest enemies, and doing what I describe here can turn the wind into your friend.
I run the anchor line up through one of the D rings behind me on my left hand side of the tube, then along the pocket through a D ring near the front of the pocket and then use the velcro rod holder to hold the line by simply putting it under the velcro twice so I can adjust it easily. (If you're a left-handed caster, rig it on the opposite side.)
The small rock isn't usually enough to hold me still except in a light wind, but by keeping it dragging on the bottom, it keeps you pointed downwind with the wind coming slightly over your left shoulder. You won't have to paddle to keep yourself pointed where you want, and the dragging rock will keep you moving slowly downwind so you can work the water fully. Your backcast will be kept away from the back of your head naturally by the wind.
If you used an anchor with this technique I doubt very much it'll allow you to drift, but I use a rock that weighs only a couple of pounds.
Homemade Cooler
Here's one that I can share, that has been very useful. I took a foam camping (sleeping) mat that I got for $5 on sale and traced on it from a cardboard pattern that I formed around the inside back storage pocket on my float tube. Cut it out and hot-glue-gunned it together. Then I cut an "H" shape slit in the top for an opening. When I go out for an all day float, I put my food and beverages in the cooler and top with ice. In 90 degree weather, the 'soda' stays cold for at least 4-5 hours.
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Homemade Tubing Gear???
Anyone have any good ideas out there for homemade gear, devices, that has made float tubing more convienent or packable? I love to build my own stuff to trick out my tube. Would love to hear your ideas!
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