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The other "wildcard" was the mood the pikers would be in. The big ones were less than cooperative, preferring to sulk somewhere else than where we were!
But as the saying goes, "you should have been here tomorrow!"
Glad we could connect and place a face and person together with the handle Eh!
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A few images from the trip...
Here's my new buddy Jean leaning into a good pike...
And here's Pete landing that very fish...
Good food, good friends, good fishing....what more could anyone want?
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Alberta pike quest
With all of the planning and anticipation leading up to my visit with Frenchcreek out in Calgary, it was a bit surreal when my flight landed and I met Pete at the airport. We made it to the camp at Gull Lake within a few hours, and were even able to get a few hours of fishing in on the first day (the sun doesn't start to set until about 9:45 up there).
The weather was the wildcard for the trip...for the first day and a half, the lake was flat out calm and seeing the pike come up for our flies was a treat. Then Saturday and Sunday were quite windy, with heavy rain as well on Sunday. This limited our fishing a bit, but we amused ourselves by watching the hockey games, swapping stories, and hitting a local tavern.
This pike fishing was different for me; I'm used to hitting pike in relatively shallow waters, but a great number that were caught on the trip were from 6, 8, and even 10 feet of water. Using floating lines for these depths wasn't a problem because the fish were oriented to strike upwards, sometimes even as the fly was being lifted from the water for the next cast. They were beautiful fish, perfectly suited for their habitat, and I felt priveleged to be there and experience it. I have some pictures to process and will post them in the near future.
Pete was a great host, giving me a neat tour of Calgary on Sunday night before I had to leave the next day. I met wonderful people, saw tons of wildlife, and visited a part of Canada that I'd never been to before. All that, and there is still the Bow River flowing right through the city.......
Thank you Pete for a wonderful time. Give a holler if you get out this way in September, and we'll continue to discuss the true meaning of "eh"......
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Weeks of battling for survival has left the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic well prepared for their key transtasman netball league clash against the Queensland Firebirds in Hamilton on Monday.
Riding eight straight wins, the latest and most impressive being a 17-goal dissection of the Adelaide Thunderbirds, the Magic have improved to such an extent they are now the form team of the competition with one round of the regular season remaining.
After four opening losses came close to derailing their season almost before it had begun, the Magic have lived on a knife edge, but a win over the defending champions would cement a spot in the finals series for the fifth successive year.
The big question is whether they can maintain the calibre of performance achieved in recent weeks.
"The pressure's there but it's not a pressure that we're fearful of because we know what this pressure's all about ... we've had it since round three," Magic coach Noeline Taurua said. "It has helped us build to where we are now and that's in a good space."
Describing the win against Thunderbirds as the Magic's most complete of the season and mindful of the work that's gone on behind the scenes, Taurua was confident the processes that have served the team so well in recent weeks would remain in place for whatever the Firebirds throw at them.
"There's always risk and some times you don't know that until you get into a game as to where the players are at and that doesn't change," she said. "There's always the possibility that someone else is going to be better than you on the day.
"We can play the Magic way which is turn and let the ball go but I feel over the weeks we've been playing that disciplined style as well. I just feel we've got enough in our back pocket that if things aren't going right we can play real tight simple netball to get ourselves through."
As has been the Magic style this year, mainly due to circumstance, there has been a cautious one-game-at-a-time approach.
The booster of a winning record in recent weeks has nonetheless been tempered by their perilous situation with the perennial semifinalists taking until round 11 to jump into the top four for the first time.
Having patiently bided their time, the mindset remained the same for the last clash of round 14, during which the semifinalists will be decided.
"We know we've got one more game and in that game we know we've got control over what we can do," Taurua said.
"We really want to finish this round robin as best can while still keeping the same philosophy that we've been tracking along with for the last three months which is about us looking to be better and working hard to show that in our performance. That philosophy won't change.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 4:03 PM GMT on January 12, 2009
The top climate story of 2008, as it was in 2007, was the extraordinary summertime sea ice retreat in the Arctic. For the second consecutive year, we experienced the opening of the fabled Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic waters. Explorers have been attempting to sail the Northwest Passage since 1497, and 2007 and 2008 are the only known years the passage has been ice-free. In addition, 2008 saw the simultaneous opening of the Northeast Passage along the coast of Russia. This meant that for the first time in recorded history, the Arctic ice cap was an island--one could completely circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean in ice-free waters. Although the summer ice extent in 2008 finished 9% higher than 2007's record minimum, it was still an extraordinary 34% below average, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Furthermore, the ice was thinner at the September 2008 minimum compared to 2007, so the total ice volume (thickness times area) was probably at its lowest point in recorded history in 2008.
Figure 1. Daily arctic sea ice extent for September 12, 2008. The date of the 2008 minimum (white) is overlaid on September 16, 2007--last year's minimum extent (dark gray). Light gray shading indicates the region where ice occurred in both 2007 and 008. Image credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The Arctic "perfect storm" of summer weather in 2007 did not repeat in 2008
The summer of 2007 saw a "perfect storm" of weather conditions favorable for ice loss. Unusually strong high pressure over the Arctic led to clear skies and plenty of sunshine. Arctic winds, which usually blow in a circular fashion around the Pole, instead blew from the south, injecting large amounts of warm air into the Arctic. How unusual were these conditions? Well, at last month's meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest scientific conference on climate change, J.E. Kay of the National Center for Atmospheric Research showed that Arctic surface pressure in the summer of 2007 was the fourth highest since 1948. Cloud cover at Barrow, Alaska was the sixth lowest. This suggests that once every 10-20 years a "perfect storm" of weather conditions highly favorable for ice loss invades the Arctic. The last two times such conditions existed was 1977 and 1987.
The 2008 melting season began in March with slightly greater ice extent than had been measured in previous years, thanks to a relatively cold winter during 2007-2008. However, since so much ice had melted during the summer of 2007, most of the March 2008 ice was thin first-year ice, which extended all the way to the North Pole. The total ice volume in the Arctic in March 2008 was lower than what the record-breaking year of 2007 had seen. This led to speculation that a new record minimum would be set in 2008, and Santa's Workshop would plunge into the ocean as ice melted at the North Pole. However, the "perfect storm" of summertime weather conditions did not materialize in 2008. From May through July, cooler temperatures and winds less favorable to ice loss occurred. When very warm temperatures moved into the Arctic in August, the ice loss rate accelerated to levels higher than in 2007. However, with sunlight waning, ice loss was not able to reach the levels seen in 2007. Arctic temperatures in the summer of 2008 were up to 4°C cooler along the Siberian coast than in 2007 (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Difference in surface temperature (°C) between the summer of 2008 and the summer of 2007. Blues and purples indicate areas where is was cooler in 2008. The biggest change was over the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia, where exceptionally sunny weather with southerly winds in 2007 caused record-breaking warmth. Image credit: NOAA/ESRL.
The future of arctic sea ice
Climate models have done a poor job predicting the recent record loss of arctic sea ice (Figure 3). None of the models used to formulate the official word on climate, the 2007 United Nations IPCC report, foresaw the shocking drop of 2007-2008. At the December 2008 AGU meeting, Wieslaw Maslowski of the Navy Postgraduate School hypothesized that the reason for this was the models' improper handling of ocean currents and how they transport heat. He blamed 60% of the melting during the past decade on heat brought in by ocean currents, and projected that summertime arctic sea ice would completely disappear by 2016. Dr. Jim Overland of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory was more conservative, projecting a 2030 demise of arctic sea ice. He thought we would be "hanging around where we are for a while", and thought it would take two more unusual summers like the "perfect storm" of 2007 to push the system to an ice-free state. He further noted that while summertime air temperatures have been near record levels the past few years in the Arctic, there has been one period of comparable warmth, in the 1930s and 1940s. The year 1941 still ranks as the warmest year in the Arctic, though 2007 was virtually tied with it. However, the warmth of the 1930s and 1940s was different than the current warming, and was caused by the Siberian High moving unusually far east over Europe, driving warm, southerly winds over Greenland. The warmth in the past decade, in contrast, is associated with a warming of the entire planet, and is not due to an unusual pressure pattern driving warm air into the region. This means that the current warming is accompanied by much warmer ocean waters, which have helped caused much of the arctic sea ice loss the past two years by melting the ice from beneath.
Figure 3. Arctic sea ice extent from observations (thick orange line) and 13 model forecasts used to formulate the 2007 IPCC report (light lines). The thick black line is the multi-model ensemble mean, with the standard deviation plotted as a dashed black line. Image has been updated to include the observed 2007 and 2008 measurements. Image credit: Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast by Stroeve et al., 2007.
The impact on the jet stream
The unprecedented melting of arctic sea ice the past two summers has undoubtedly had a significant impact on the early winter weather over the Northern Hemisphere. Several modeling studies presented at the December AGU meeting showed that sea ice melt on this scale is capable of injecting enough heat into the atmosphere to result in a major shift in the jet stream. Dr. Overland remarked that the early cold winter over North America this winter, and the exceptionally cold and snowy early winter in China last winter, were likely related to arctic sea ice loss. The sea ice loss induced a strong poleward flow of warm air over eastern Siberia, and a return flow of cold air from the Pole developed to compensate. Thus regions on either side of eastern Siberia--China and North America--have gotten unusually cold and snowy winters as a result.
The impact on sea level rise
The loss of arctic sea ice will have little impact on sea level rise over the next few decades. Since the ice is already floating in the ocean, melting it does not change sea level much--just like when ice melting in a glass of water will not change the level of liquid in the glass. In the case of sea ice, there is a slight sea level rise, since the fresh melt water is less dense than the salty ocean water it displaces. If all the world's sea ice melted, it would raise global sea level by only 4 mm. This is a tiny figure compared to the 20 feet of sea level rise that would occur from complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet--which is on land.
The impact on melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
The big concern with arctic sea ice melt is the warmer temperatures it will bring to the Arctic, which will bring about an accelerated melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet. As the sea ice melts, the resulting warmer average temperatures will increase the amount of dark, sunlight-absorbing water at the pole, leading to further increases in temperature and more melting of sea ice, in a positive feedback loop. As temperatures warm, partial melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet will raise global sea levels. While no one is expecting 20 feet of sea level rise from the total melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet for many centuries, even one meter (3.3 feet) of sea level rise due to the partial melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet can cause a lot of trouble. The official word on climate, the 2007 IPCC report, predicted only a 0.6-1.9 foot sea level rise by 2100, due to melting of the Greenland ice sheet and other factors. These estimates did not include detailed models of ice flow dynamics of glaciers, on the grounds that understanding of the relevant processes was too limited for reliable model estimates. The IPCC estimates were also made before the shocking and unexpected loss of arctic sea ice of the past two summers. In light of these factors, a large number of climate scientists now believe the IPCC estimates of sea level rise this century are much too low. The most recent major paper on sea level rise, published this month by Grinsted et al., concluded that there was a "low probability" that sea level rise would be in the range forecast by the IPCC, and predicted a 0.9 - 1.3 meter (3 - 4.3 feet) rise by 2100. Pfeffer et al. last month concluded that a "most likely" range of sea level rise by 2100 is 2.6 - 6.6 feet (0.8 - 2.0 meters). Their estimates came from a detailed analysis of the processes the IPCC said were understood too poorly to model--the ice flow dynamics of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica. The authors caution that "substantial uncertainties" exist in their estimates, and that the cost of building higher levees to protect against sea level rise is not trivial. Other recent estimates of sea level rise include 1.6 - 4.6 feet (0.5 - 1.4 meters) by Rahmstorf (2007).
What would 3 feet of sea level rise mean?
Rising sea levels will lead to permanent and intermittent flooding in low-lying coastal areas across the world. A global sea level rise of .9 meters (3 feet) would affect 100 million people worldwide, mostly in Asia. The impact of hurricane storm surges will significantly increase as a result of sea level rise. Given a 3 foot rise in sea level, Hurricane Ike's storm surge would have overwhelmed the levees in Port Arthur, Texas, flooding the city and its important oil refineries. Galveston's sea wall would have been overtopped and possibly destroyed, allowing destruction of large portions of Galveston. Levees in New Orleans would have been overtopped, resulting in widespread flooding there, as well. I'll have a full analysis of who's at risk, and what the risks are, in a series of forthcoming blog posts this year.
What can we do?
One reasonable suggestion, presented by Trish Quinn of NOAA at the December 2008 AGU meeting, would be to limit the amount of crop residue burning that goes on in Eastern Europe and Asia each year. These fires generate large amounts of black soot that blows into the Arctic. These black particles on the white ice leads to a significant amount of warming during the summer months, when the black particles absorb sunlight.
For more information
The wunderground sea level rise page has detailed background info on sea level rise.
The wunderground Northwest Passage page is also a good reference.
realclimate.org has a nice post summarizing the recent sea level research.
I'll have a new blog post Wednesday or Thursday.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
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One of those moments that makes you proud to be a dane! Right, Jes?
Jes' attempt at installing Helix GNOME marks the end of the Grrr-free Week<tm>.
The local hamsters inform me that the organ I ponder buying has Caveat Emptor written all over it. I'm still going to check it out, though. I don't mind tinkering a bit to get it going - if the price is right, that is.
Yesterday, I went to a BBQ at Martin (of NORDU fame) Wahlen's place. Met a lot of nice people and talked about non-geeky stuff most of the day. Excellent!
Ryan, Slick and I went biking along the river today. 40 klicks. Nice, nice, nice. But I'm soo tired now. I intend to nest on my couch until I go to bed. I'm a wuss, - shoot me. *Thud*
Found a local Hammond techie on #hamtech and got some advice on price/availability in the Ottawa area. Most useful. I met a fellow dane there too (The Incredible - KAZAM - SMACK - WHOOSH - Captain Foldback!
Got a letter from somebody who read my diary entry for Thursday. He said that he understood very well why my colleages wouldn't appreciate my art. Thanks for sharing, dude. As a token of appreciation I provide you with this free of charge. Enjoy!
My DSL modem arrived yesterday and it worked out of the box. I can now move mkp.net here (When my Suns arrive, that is). Goodness. Now I just need legs for my desk, and I'll be able to hack from home. Which is good, as there is no way in hell I can fit an organ in my cube at the office (I'm not sure my colleagues would appreciate my art anyway).
Spent most of the evening/night poking a bit more at the LVM kiobuf support. Looks like we need to rethink the I/O path once again. Bugger.
I also dropped by the Hammond organ irc channel and was quite surprised to find out that a lot of the people there use Linux (silly me, joining from ottawa.linuxcare.com). I thought I was special because I'm interested in both organs and computers. Apparently not. Hence I am now declared perfectly normal (Muahaha, yeah right).
Oh. I must say that the past few days have been good hack-wise. The Grrrr-free<tm> week is really paying off. La la la la la. The danish alp is going to kill me when he gets back. I know it. Ok, I'm being evil. Let's all hope that he gets a local box to hack on soon.
So. It's been a while since I updated my diary. Shame on me! My life has been a horrid mess, however, so I'm excused.
I am now properly settled in Ottawa after the excruciatingly painful and lengthy relocation process. Got a nice apartment, and took a day off yesterday to assemble all the stuff I got from IKEA. Yes, I know it's a defeat for a dane to buy swedish furniture. Jes did it too, however, and we have proof! But wait! There's more! He also bought a french bike. He'd probably kill me for making this public knowledge, but he's currently booth babing at LWE so I'm out of reach. Hah!
Work is good. I'm still full time on the XFS project, but I spend most of the time hacking the Linux block I/O layer and LVM code. Currently teaching LVM to do kiobuf-based I/O. buffer_heads must die! They are e-v-i-l.
Oh, I need to chastise Mr. Ryan "Honeybun" Tilder, who still can't spell my name correctly after all these years. *smack*
Greetings from Eagan, Minnesota. As some of you might have heard (guessed, found out due to irc wiretapping, and whatnot), I'm currently working on Cool Stuff at SGI with Le dude.
Driving in Minnesota is - well, uh - interesting. We wanted to go to and indian place downtown and had to take route 35W North, get off at 3rd avenue, and drive east on Washington Ave. South. No wonder we got stopped by the police...
Oh. And there are *two* Holiday Inn Selects at the airport.
And don't get me started on Lone Oak Drive vs. Lone Oak Parkway vs. Lone Oak Road.....
Looks like I survived Another Week in Hell(tm). This was my last real work week at the university. Thank God (i.e. Emacs).
Tuesday I'm off to the US to start on a new exciting project with this hoopy frood. I sense hard work ahead. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, well. - We asked for it.
I'm cooking the last dinner (curry) for myself for a long time. Unfortunately I'm out of fresh coriander. Had to use some of this grey powder that claims to originate from a real plant. I have my doubts. To me it looks suspiciously like sawdust. Tastes like it too (I should know - I am intimately familiar with trees).
Today was the last but one session with my band. I'm going to miss these guys. *sigh* Note to self: Buy a B3 as soon as I'm in Ottawa...
After being trapped in academia for many, many years I finally managed to reach escape velovity. I'm free! -- Free to do what my new employer pleases, that is.
So now I finally get to see the Real World. Rumors have been going on about it for years, but I've never actually seen it. My neighbor tells me it starts right outside the campus area. Scary. Maybe I'll grab my bike and go out to have a brief look tomorrow. Or maybe not. Baby steps. Looking at pictures first might be less disturbing...
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No, because Bucky Brooks usually has his head up his backside.
E.J. Manuel projects to a poor man's Daunte Culpepper? that's a backhanded compliment if i ever saw one
My reservation with Austin is mostly that his stock shot up in March when there wasn't any football being played. Would be interested to see early February boards/rankings/mocks. I'm pretty sure people knew he was fast and quick; the combine wasn't some great shock. I know this timing is how it goes, but it still colors me a little skeptical when he made his leap in gym shorts. This is a year, though, where I can't really get all that bothered at 12 because we have a ton of needs and the talent at that spot seems pretty even. He's not my first choice, but it wouldn't upset me.
I think Austin will be a very good player. I don't think he's over rated in general but not worthy of the number 12 pick. I look more at game play rather than combine results. The guy is fast. No doubt about that but, he's not a great route runner and I would rather pick up a better route runner and someone that can run crisp routes and trick defenses as the third receiver . I say no to receiver at twelve but I'd take Deandre Hopkins late first or early 2nd any day. This kid run routes in GAMES better than every receiver in this years draft. He's not the fastest but he's quick enough to trick defenses and make people slip up. Not to mention he has very good hands and excellent body control.
He's overrated because the entire world fell in love with a highlight reel of a 174lb. guy.
What the hell happened to all the cordarelle patterson love? oh he got stupid quickly. on to tavon....another great college highlight reel, but if you look closer, not all that impressive aside from open field moves.
Tavon Austin is going to be a better and more explosive version of Wes Welker in the NFL. If he gets into the right system (NE, NO, SF) watch out. I love him but I would only draft him at 12 if we can get something in return for Bess. Bess is still a very good/underrated player and I wouldn't just dump him for Austin, Austin is a big improvement over Bess IMO but we have much bigger needs than slot receiver. Eifert is the way to go at 12 IMO.
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At the end of every Troop meeting our Troop circles up, joins hands, and sings Scout Vespers followed by reciting the Scout Law. This has concluded our meetings for years and has become a great tradition in our Troop.
A couple of weeks ago a young Scout asked why we sing that particular song, since we are not really at a campfire. He thought it was odd that we say "as our campfire fades away" when we are in a meeting hall.
I explained to him, and then the Troop that we always have the spirit of the campfire in us. It is Scout Spirit. There is magic in every campfire and we carry that with us every day.
The campfire within us burns bright showing the world that we are Scouts.
And that is why we say the Scout Law after we sing the song. As the campfire fades we need to add more fuel to it to keep it burning. As we send the Scouts away from the meeting each week we rekindle in them their fire. We remind them that they have a fire burning in them and that they need to live that Scout Spirit using the Oath and Law as their Guide.
So we sing and remind one another of the fire inside each and every one of us.
This is a great tradition in our Troop. I hope your Troop has similar traditions that make Scouting not only fun but meaningful.
What are some of your Troop traditions?
Let us know.
Softly falls the light of day,
As our campfire fades away.
Silently each Scout should ask
Have I done my daily task?
Have I kept my honor bright?
Can I guiltless sleep tonight?
Have I done and have I dared
Everything to be prepared?
Listen Lord, oh listen Lord,
As I whisper soft and low.
Bless my mom and Bless my dad,
These are things that they should know.
I will keep my honor Bright,
The oath and law will be my guide.
And mom and dad this you should know,
Deep in my heart I love you so.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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Mammals are a class of animals that has backbones, breathes oxygen and cares for its young. Females in this group produce milk. This is the only group of animals to have true fur. There are more than 70 species of mammals that naturally occur in Arkansas. They range in size from the tiny southeastern shrew to the huge Rocky Mountain elk. Many mammals in Arkansas are prized for their fur or meat.
Hunting and trapping fuel the Arkansas economy and have a long history in the state. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission brought back several populations of large game species that were overly hunted to dangerously low levels. This was accomplished through species reintroduction and wildlife management.
Wilson, Steven N. (1998). Arkansas Wildlife: A History. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press.
Camouflage – colors, tones, patterns, shapes or behavior an organism uses to blend with its surroundings; also concealment that alters or obscures the appearance; also protective coloration, a common animal defense
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Furbearer – wild animal whose pelt is commercially valuable, primarily in the clothing industry
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Herbivore – a plant-eating animal
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We need a single MP3 file with you saying (in target language): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 44, 56, red, green, blue, square, circle, hello, good bye. This will help us hear the quality of your voice and recording equipment. (Please only use mp3 format).
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The word list are simple words for children. Numbers, colors, shapes, pronouns. You will have to do the basic translation from the English word list to your target language. At 2 words per minute, this project should take less than 2 hours. Success on this project can lead to larger word sets.
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Now let's meet novelist Roseanna White, author of Love Finds You in Annapolis, Maryland (Summerside Press, December 2011).
Roseanna M. White grew up in the mountains of West Virginia, the beauty of which inspired her to begin writing as soon as she learned to pair subjects with verbs. She spent her middle and high school days penning novels in class, and her love of books took her to a school renowned for them. After graduating from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, she and her husband moved back to the Maryland side of the same mountains they equate with home.
Roseanna is the author of two biblical novels, A Stray Drop of Blood and Jewel of Persia, both from WhiteFire Publishing and Love Finds You in Annapolis, Maryland from Summerside Press. She is the senior reviewer at the Christian Review of Books, which she and her husband founded, the senior editor at WhiteFire Publishing, and a member of ACFW, HisWriters, and Colonial American Christian Writers.
Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.
--I'm an absolutely terrible housekeeper—I proved I was capable after college and before kids, but these days I'm lucky to get dishes put away, let alone break out that vacuum.
--I'm addicted to email. Which might not be a secret if you've ever emailed me.
--Though the books I write tend to delve into deep issues and are never "typical" in their romances, it's rare I read a book that isn't just straight-up romance. I'm such a sucker for a good, mushy love story!
--Um . . . I'm considering getting my kids a kitten for Christmas (shhhh, don't tell!) but have a fear of trying to litter-box-train one. I've only had outside-cats, I don't know what I'm doing! LOL.
--And, last but not least, though I rarely indulge it, I have a fashionista tendency. If only I had a fashionista budget!
Yeah, those outdoor cats will spoil you. All the best with that!
And don't feel bad about the housekeeping. I defy anyone to find a mom who can use the words "kids" and "vacuum" in the same sentence without saying exactly what you said.
Please tell us a bit more about the plot of Love Finds You in Annapolis, Maryland.
Never did Lark think she'd want to escape Emerson Fielding, the man she's loved all her life. But when he betrays her, she flees to Annapolis, Maryland, the country's capital. There Lark throws herself into a new circle of friends who force her to examine all she believes.
Emerson follows, determined to reclaim his betrothed. Surprised when she refuses to return with him, he realizes that in this new country he has come to call his own, duty is no longer enough. He must learn to open his heart and soul to something greater … before he loses all he should have been fighting to hold.
What is it about Lark that will make your readers care about her?
Lark is a young lady who has always done what is expected of her . . . and who has had enough of that when it gets her only a broken heart. Growing up, she was always eclipsed by the beauty of her sister and cousin, so she has no idea that she has come into her own. Instead, she thinks her face will never compare to Violet's . . . that her spirit will never live up to her friend Sena's . . . that her courage could never equal Alice's . . . . Through the course of the book, she must discover who Lark is, and accept that without comparing herself to the other young ladies around her.
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
My hero would be the yummy John Gidding, who is as close to Emerson as I could imagine—though he'd have to grow his hair. We need shoulder-length hair, tied back at the nape, thank you very much.
Mercy. I've never seen this particular young man. We can kind of pretend he has long hair in this shot, pulled back as ordered.
I originally modeled Lark on Dakota Fanning, with her neither-brown-nor-blond hair, but the cover model overrode my description. So I'm now saying Nikki Reed is the best match, though when I picked her I didn't realize her eyes were the wrong color. She needs dark blue eyes, but otherwise she's a fair match.
Many authors—including multi-published authors—have started taking their out-of-print books and even original books straight to e-books, which they've essentially self-published. What are your thoughts about the idea? Have you done it, or are you likely to?
I won't do it personally, no—given that my hubby owns WhiteFire Publishing, if I were to do anything with out-of-print books, I'd do it through WFP. That way it would still have the backing and distribution that WhiteFire's working hard to achieve. But in general, I can respect the trend, especially for out-of-print books.
My opinion on the original books is a little more complex. I think authors have to be careful about protecting their reputation and name, and sometimes there are reasons their never-published titles have remained in their unpubbed folder. Not always, mind you—I would never say that. But it has to be a very careful, prayerful decision.
Very good point. That's the one danger I've considered as well. I think the market (or lack thereof) is going to dictate the success of many books that are released before their time!
What is the last book you read that you would recommend?
I've been reading soooooo slowlllllyyyyy lately. Right now I'm in the middle of Laurie Alice Eakes' A Necessary Deception, which thus far is fabulous, and I'm sure it will end as well as it began. But if we're talking books I've actually finished (ahem), I have to say that everyone should rush out to pre-order Love's Sacred Song by Mesu Andrews. This is a biblical novel based on the Song of Solomon, and it's just phenomenal. I can't remember the last time I read a heroine so compelling!
Good to hear! I had the pleasure of meeting Mesu this year at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference, but I haven't had the chance to read any of her writing yet (I don't get through my reading fast enough, either). I'm so glad to hear her latest is that good.
What are you working on now?
Well at the moment I'm about a third of the way through a historical romance set in 1861 Savannah, about a whimsical heroine determined to write her own love story, and a disillusioned hero not so sure anymore that he's up to the role she wants him to fill. This one is under contract but the release date hasn't been finalized yet. Next to come out, however, will be a Revolutionary War spy romance set against Loyalist New York of 1780. That one's scheduled to release in January 2013.
Where else can readers find you online?
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Finally, what question would you like to ask my readers?
Well, I'm in the middle of planning a Colonial Christmas party for my book launch, so I'm in the spirit, 18th century style. My question, in that theme, is this: if you could receive one handmade gift this year, what would it be? (We'll assume the giver to be talented in whatever craft the gift requires.)
Readers, if you click on the above link, you'll be taken to Roseanna's Great Annapolis Giveaway. But be sure to answer her question to enter her book giveaway here before you go!
Thank you, Roseanna, for visiting with us and telling us about your novel. Readers, Roseanna has offered to give a signed copy of her book to the winner of our drawing on Monday, December 12. To enter, leave a comment below in answer to Roseanna's question, above. "Please enter me" won't get you entered. Leave your email address, in case you win, like so: trish[at]trishperry[dot]com.
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Family: Emberizidae, New World Sparrows view all from this family
Description ADULT From most of range covered by this book is brown overall, with bold dark streaking on back. Inner flight feathers and greater coverts look reddish brown in most birds; note also two subtle pale wing bars. Tail is brownish. Darkish crown has indistinct pale central stripe; note dark line behind eye and yellowish supercilium. Pale "mustache" and throat are separated by dark malar stripe. Underparts are pale, but with reddish streaks on breast and flanks. "Ipswich Sparrow" ssp. princeps is much paler overall, with sandy buff upperparts. JUVENILE Similar to respective subspecies adult.
Dimensions Length: 4 1/2-6" (11-15 cm)
Habitat Summer visitor (mainly Apr-Sep) to open grassy habitats. Most birds winter from southern U.S. south. "Ipswich Sparrow" breeds on Sable Island, Nova Scotia and winters on Atlantic coast, favoring dunes.
Observation Tips Easy to see.
Range California, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Atlantic, Eastern Canada, Southeast, Texas, New England, Western Canada, Southwest, Alaska, Florida, Plains, Great Lakes, Northwest
Voice Song is a two-part, buzzing trill (bzzzrt-tzeee), preceded by two or three chip notes; call is a thin stip.
Discussion Well-marked sparrow. Unobtrusive, but sometimes perches in bush if flushed and then easy to see, albeit briefly. Shows geographical variation in size, color, and bill size. Given this variation, sexes are similar.


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03-10-2013, 03:55 AM #1Member Swordtails
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My quarantine process
I just bought some new corycats from Petco today and are now in my quarantine tank. I wrote about my quarantine process in blog:
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I just added a potassium permanganate treatment section to my blog for those who are interested.
That's an odd way to treat ich. I've found keeping the temperature raised at 86-87F for 2 weeks will guarantee that the ich lifecycle is sped up and prevents the ich from reproducing.
Safer way to treat hexamita than using metro
"In fish, an excessive use of metronidazole can damage kidneys and other internal organs.(Bassleer, 1983)"
1/2 cup distilled water
3/4 teaspoon epsom salt
Soak food until saturated, and feed to fish.
Article on the causes of Bloat and the myths behind it.
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The problem with Hex, is that the fish won't eat anything at all, so in many cases metro is the way to go. However, with the addition of using epsom salt feed when the fish recover, could speed up the recovery process.
I will read every article this week and discuss in Simply Discus to see what they have to say. Discus fish are prone to Hex and I don't believe there is any threads about epsom salt and Hex. This will provide some lively discussion there I'm sure!
Regarding bloat, discus fish are prone to bloat because they like to eat very quickly, even if the amounts are small. I feed my discus frozen brine shrimp every couple of days to keep their system moving along.
Thanks again for posting.
I read the non-medicated portion of treating ich, and still found that part about raising the temp than lowering to 70F quite unnecessary and cumbersome. The easier method is to maintain a constant temperature of 87F for 2 weeks. Combine it with the salt method of 2-3TBSP per 5 gallons (for salt tolerant fish), and those ich are almost guaranteed not to come back.
As for hex and non-eating fish, you can use a plastic syringe and administer 5 drops of the solution into the fish's mouth. Epsom salt is really easy to get around the world and relatively cheap when compared to metro.
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Regarding the eyedropper treatment of fish, I can't see that working on anything but a great big fish and even then, the stress might kill them (I'm thinking discus) if its done everyday. I read both articles and the one about the fishery made the most sense. I'm thinking that the epsom salt in food could be more of a preventative of the disease. My guess on how it works, is that it's a prophylactic by its laxative effect - causing the fish to defecate regularly and with muscle spasms to dislodge the parasite.
I will try and make up a gel food using Agar Flakes from the Asian food store (agar doesn't melt in warm temp's) clam juice, garlic guard, and shredded shrimp + the epsom salt and feed to fish once every two weeks. For my bottom fish, I will soak some of their more solid feeding disks with epsom salt solution. I will post my recipe here with some photos when I've made the food mix and my fish are eating them. Thanks again for bringing this to my attention.


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| From sanitizing the microwave to scrubbing the shower, this citrus fruit is a household cleaning all-star
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Forget the cleaning products under your sink. You probably have a very powerful one right in your fridge: Lemon, which adds such welcome zest to food and cocktails, is also a mild but highly effective cleaning agent.
What makes lemon such a powerful cleanser? Its high acid content, which enables the fruit to work as a powerful antibacterial sanitizer that combats common household bacteria, says Julie Edelman, author of The Accidental Housewife: How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time. Here's how to put it to work degreasing, deodorizing and more.
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| "Lemon rinds ground in the disposal will deodorize your sink's drain 1-2-3," says Edelman. "And bonus, unlike vinegar, which leaves no scent, lemons provide a clean, crisp aroma." Just slice a lemon into chubby quarters, slip them into the sink's disposal, turn on the hot water and flip the power switch. Run the disposal until you hear the "gurgle-gurgle-grind-grind" sound—when that noise stops, it means the lemon is chopped and swallowed up. Turn off the disposal.
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| When it comes to copper, brass and chrome, nix harsh chemical polishes and instead put some elbow grease behind half a lemon. "Lemons are highly acidic, which enables them to cut through and loosen mineral deposits, making them easier to wipe away," says Edelman. For extra oomph, before scrubbing, dip the fruit half in salt—it will help exfoliate the surface for added shine.
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| The lingering smell of popcorn, pizza and whatever you might have heated up recently can overwhelm a microwave. Edelman's advice is to cut a whole lemon into super-thin slices and put the pieces in a microwavable bowl. Fill the bowl with hot water, place in the microwave and cook on high for one minute. The citric acid's antibacterial properties will kill bacteria while the heat works like a humidifier to loosen icky, caked-on food. Afterward, wipe the oven with a damp cloth.
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The natural vegetation in which wild birds can hide from predators, build nests and raise young, glean food, and find protection from the elements is called cover. It is, perhaps, the most important ingredient for a successful backyard bird habitat. Without cover, the backyard is a biological desert that will attract little or no bird life.
A model backyard bird habitat has a bountiful selection of plant life, starting from the lowest forms, ground cover, planted closest to the house, and then graduating to small shrubs, larger shrubs, small trees, and finally large trees, as the distance from the house increases. This so-called stadium effect provides a variety of natural life zones, thus increasing the kinds of birds that will visit the habitat. If all the habitat niches are provided, then the birds in your region that require those natural niches are likely to feel comfortable in your habitat.
In other words, ground inhabiting birds like towhees, sparrows, and juncos will feel comfortable in the ground cover and small shrubbery nearest your house or patio. Buntings, finches, chickadees and mockingbirds will find the larger shrubs and small trees to their liking, slightly farther away from the windows. And in the mature larger trees with large canopies, such birds as tanagers, grosbeaks, orioles nuthatches and woodpeckers will find food and cover that suits them at the extremities of your backyard bird habitat.
Each region of the country has its own native and natural plant life that is suited to the birds of that region. When planning a backyard bird habitat, it is best to consult a nursery about the kinds of native plants, shrubs and trees that are best for the climate in your yard.
Houses: Houses for birds are also considered cover, as they are substitutes for natural cavities in trees and rocks. Houses range in size from very large to accommodate wood ducks, screech owls and kestrels, to very small for house wrens and chickadees. Bluebirds require slightly larger houses than wrens, and purple martins prefer apartment type house containing many units.
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RN turnover rate (Mother-Baby)
Nurses leave their positions for a variety of reasons, including to gain experience in other clinical service areas within the hospital or at another facility. Nursing turnover is the number of nurses who left a clinical service area within a hospital during a calendar year. We look at nursing turnover rate in four clinical areas: medical-surgical, critical care, maternal child, and behavioral health.
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This measure tracks the percentage of nurses who left the mother-baby care units. A lower number may indicate that a hospital provides a higher level of patient care.
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I am setting up a system where I need to bridge two local networks using the arduino.
The code for this is extremely simple if I could figure out how to access the second network port on the arduino, there has to be a way to setup an arduino on multiple different networks.
The issue is I am not just bridging networks, I am also acting on some of the commands. I need the arduino one to be able to close a relay as well as pass on messages. You find me a router that can close a relay then I'll be sold.
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Point seen about the drive. I've got a WM practically in my backyard, but it's lousy when it comes to toys, and I know for a fact they've got a few scalpers working there. So, to even get to a decent WM, I'm in the neighborhood of the other stores (and Targets seem to be more common in the cities than WM's around here for some reason).
Supposedly, the Wolf Hound is a completely new mold, and there are several minor details that aren't on the original, but the driver can't fit in the cab properly, and even two troopers on the back look too crowded.
I've got Beach Heads, Snow Jobs, and Fireflies out the wazoo; I'm at the point where they're becoming custom fodder. (My ROC Snow Job is already destined for an appointment with some paint to become Frostbite.) But these figures look really nice, and I'd get them if I didn't have plenty already. (I could see myself getting Firefly for that weird helmet eventually.) Snake Eyes looks like a vast improvement over most Snake Eyes; I think only the ROC Paris Pursuit Snake Eyes is really comparable. I already praised Storm Shadow (though I think of him as a separate ninja). Cobra Commander looks like the ROC mold with a new head; it looks sweet, but I didn't want to drop $10 on him (which I might regret) but will definitely get him at $7 or less, to be some weirdo background Cobra. (The ROC Cobra Commander mold is one of the best in the line's history, no joke.) Alley Viper looks like a straight-up repaint of the orange version from the Defense of Cobra Island set. Only Duke looks like a step backwards.
I've got to say one other thing right now: the Doom Cycle is sweet. The goofier features (pop-out blades) are easily concealed, and it makes an awesome Dreadnok cycle. Truth be told, if POC goes on clearance, I will army-build this, and switch the heads from Storm Rider with other figures to make a nice little gang of background 'Noks.
BTW, unrelated to POC, and probably far in advance, but I want a jump on things: if anyone sees the two Resolute sets on sale at Ross for less than $20 (and, mark my words, those sets will be at Ross for less than $20), and I haven't already reported finding them, I want one of each. I just don't think they're worth the online exclusive price for the few new figures.
And, doubtful but I'll ask anyway, if anyone doesn't want the Resolute Alley Viper from the Cobra set, I'll gladly take any off said person's hands. (I've got a feeling Alley Viper will be the draw of the set, though.)


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The live broadcast of the Fight Code/Oktagon event featuring Giorgio Petrosyan vs. Artur Kyshenko has just started from Italy. Part of the card will be broadcast and we'll be providing all the live results. Full fight card here.
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Derek Bok to speak on campaign reform, March 8
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Derek Bok, chairman of Common Cause and president emeritus of Harvard University, will give a lecture entitled Setting New Jerseys Campaign Reform Agenda in 2001 on Thursday, March 8 at 4:30 p.m in Dodds Auditorium.
Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that aims to ensure accountable government.
Bok's current research interests include the state of higher education and the governments response to domestic problems. A book on this topic, The Trouble with Government, will be published in March.
This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Common Cause of New Jersey. It is free and open to the public.
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An advanced illustration studio class that concentrates on producing and refining a body of work to augment the student-s portfolio. Continued focus on traditional vehicles of illustration such as editorials, posters, and collateral materials and exploration of non-traditional approaches to the illustration medium. This course is normally offered in the spring semester.


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Whoever can, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, in any way blame Tannehill for this mess, should be banned from watching football for life. They obviously don't understand the game. The kid has NO playmakers and a putrid garbage O line. Go look up Peyton Manning's rookie year and he HAD Marvin Harrison and Edgerrin James. When you surround the QB with garbage, you get garbage.
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There are a million ways to die in the market–and A Million Ways to Die in the West. The former we'll get to in a minute; the latter is a new movie from the Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane that spoofs films like Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars and any number of classic westerns. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers gives A Million Ways to Die a middling review but notes that "there are lots of ways to die laughing at this Western raunchfest," while the Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern says it's "seldom as funny as it promises to be." The New York Times Stephen Holden says you "might call the movie 'Revenge of the Übernerd.'" A Million Ways won't top the box office–that honor will go to Walt Disney's (DIS) Maleficent–but if nothing else its a reminder of just how nasty, brutish and short life was back in the good old days of the Wild West.
Just like trading in the markets. The financial markets love to punish those who think they know all the answers, and that's exactly what they've done this year. Very few people thought Treasury yields would fall this year, but that's exactly what they've done. And no one expected the complete wash out in high-flying stocks like Twitter (TWTR) and Amazon (AMZN), but that's exactly what we got.
Now everyone is simply confused. Sure, the S&P 500 gained 1.2% to 1,923.53 this week–another record high–while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7% to 16,717.17–also a record high. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 1.4% to 4,242.62. The CBOE Volatility Index, also known as the VIX, fell to 11.40. That's very low.
Strategists, however, would like to see bigger gains from the beaten-down Russell 2000, which advanced just 0.7% to 1,134.50 and continues to lag big caps. The 10-year Treasury yield fell 0.19 percentage points to 2.46% this week, the third lowest this year–causing more worry among those who think the bond market is always right.
The mixed signals were apparent even among the S&P 500′s best performing stocks, including Exelon (EXC), a utility that's nearing completion of a merger with Pepco Holdings (PHI), and Priceline (PCLN), a high-flying internet stock that rose, well, because it could. Exelon gained 7.9% to $36.83 this week, while Priceline rose 6.8% to $1,278.63.
Bespoke Investment Group sums up the market's vibe:
It was a short week for traders and investors due to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, but that didn't stop the market from continuing to amaze (or confuse) as many as possible. In a week where Q1 GDP was revised down to negative 1% on an annualized basis, which was the lowest level of growth in three years, the S&P 500 followed through from last week's peek to new highs and continued to trade at levels never before seen.
Citigroup's Robert Buckland and team aren't worried about falling bond yields:
This year's rally in US Treasuries has caught most investors by surprise. 10 year yields have fallen from 3.0% at the start of the year to 2.4% at present, despite the previous consensus expectation of yields rising towards 3.25% by the end of the year. So why has the US bond market caught so many out? Perhaps the most obvious reason is that too many investors were already positioned for a further increase in treasury yields. There has been a classic bear squeeze.
Citi fixed interest strategists stick to their bearish view on US bonds. They think that 10 year yields will rise to 3.2% by end-2014 and 3.55% by end-2015. In their view, the 30 year bull market is over. This year's unexpected rally does not change that forecast…This would make us suspicious of some of 2014's most successful trades. Instead we would prefer to revisit some of those that did well in 2013: Japan, dividend growth (not just DY), Cyclicals vs Defensives.
Credit Suisse strategist Andrew Garthwaite and team raised their target for the S&P 500:
We add to our weighting in global equities (reversing our mid-March downgrade, where we halved our overweight) and lift our year-end S&P 500 target from 1,960 to 2,020…Earnings revisions (in the US) are now positive for the first time in two years: this is without sales surprises (which we think will happen as nominal GDP growth rises from 3.4% to 4.3% by year-end). Our 2014 US earnings growth forecast is marginally above consensus for the first time in 3 years. The interest charge could also fall further to reflect the lower junk yield (with US EBITDA margins ex-tech only at just above-average levels).
Don't get too bullish though. The market will always find a way to make you pay.