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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:03 PM GMT on April 26, 2013
"There's no place on Earth that is changing faster--and no place where that change matters more--than Greenland." So said 350.org founder Bill McKibben, in a 2012 Rolling Stone magazine interview. As Earth Week 2013 draws to a close, I want to draw your attention to a unique effort to learn more about why Greenland is melting so fast--a crowd-funded research project that anyone can contribute to, which aims to answer the "burning question": How much does wildfire and industrial soot darken the ice, increasing melt? The Dark Snow Project, the first-ever Greenland expedition relying on crowd-source funding, hopes to raise $150,000 to mount a field research campaign to find out. The project is the brainchild of Dr. Jason Box, Professor at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), and one of the world's leading experts on Greenland's glaciers. He has set up a website called darksnowproject.org to help raise the funds for the field campaign, and has raised about half of the needed amount as of mid-April.
Figure 1. Over the course of several years, turbulent water overflow from a large melt lake carved this 60-foot-deep (18.3 meter-deep) canyon in Greenland's Ice Sheet (note people near left edge for scale). Image credit: Ian Joughin, University of Washington.
2012: Unprecedented melting in Greenland
Watching the weather events of 2012 over Greenland made all seasoned climate watchers a little queasy. The vast ice sheet on the island holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 7.36 meters (24.15 feet) were it all to melt, and the ice melt season of 2012 gave notice that an epic melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet may be underway. According to NOAA's 2012 Arctic Report Card, the duration of melting at the surface of the ice sheet in summer 2012 was the longest since satellite observations began in 1979, and the total amount of summer melting was nearly double the previous record, set in 2010 (satellite records of melting go back to 1979.) A rare, near-ice sheet-wide surface melt event melted 97% of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet on July 11 - 12. While a similar melt event at the summit occurred 1889, but the 1889 event has no basis in the instrumental record from coastal Greenland. It's instead likely that 2012 was Greenland's warmest summer in at least 863 years, since the medieval warm period (see http://www.meltfactor.org/blog/?p=677 and http://www.meltfactor.org/blog/?p=725). The incredibly warm temperatures have been blamed on highly unusual atmospheric circulation and jet stream changes, which were also responsible for 2012's unusually wet summer weather in England. It would not be a surprise if this sort of summer began occurring more often, since temperatures on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet have been rising six times faster than the global average during the past twenty years. A May 2013 Geophysical Research Letters paper by McGrath et al., "Recent warming at Summit, Greenland: Global context and implications", concluded that by 2025, there is a 50% chance of ice sheet-wide melt events happening annually. The ice sheet reached its darkest value on record in 2012. The darkened surface was due to below average summer snow, soot particles from pollution and forest fires, and record melting. A darker ice sheet absorbs more solar energy, in a vicious cycle that raises temperatures, melts more ice, and further darkens the ice sheet. The amount of melting that was caused by soot from forest fires is important to know, since global warming is likely to increase the amount of forest fires in coming decades. However, the amount of forest fire soot landing on the Greenland Ice Sheet is almost completely unknown, which is why Dr. Box is determined to find out, via the Dark Snow Project.
Figure 2. Smoke from a fire in Labrador, Canada wafts over the Greenland ice sheet on June 17, 2012, as seen in this cross-section view of aerosol particles taken by NASA's CALIPSO satellite. Image credit: Dr. Jason Box, Ohio State University.
Greenland causing 25% of global sea level rise
In a landmark study published in November 2012 in Science, 47 researchers from 26 laboratories reported that the amount of ice being lost from Greenland and Antarctica has tripled since the 1990s, with Greenland contributing more than twice as much to global sea level rise than Antarctica. The study, "A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance", found that the two ice sheets were responsible for 20% of the global sea level rise of 3.1 mm/year during the 20-year period 1992 - 2011. The remainder of the rise was due to expansion of the water due to heating of the oceans, melting of mountain glaciers, and unsustainable pumping of ground water. Said co-author Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "The pace of ice loss from Greenland is extraordinary, with nearly a five-fold increase since the mid-1990s." As of 2011, Greenland's contribution to global sea level rise on its own had risen to 20 - 25%, according to an international research group led by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, in an article published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters on 1 June 2012. If the current exponential ice loss trends continue for the next ten years, Greenland's contribution to sea level rise will double to 1.4 mm/yr by 2022, the researchers said. Many sea level rise researchers expect global sea level to rise by about 1 meter (3.3 feet) by 2100. During the 20th century, global sea level rise was about 0.18 meters (7 inches.)
Figure 3. Monthly smoothed (purple) and unsmoothed (blue) values of the total mass lost from the Greenland Ice Sheet (in Gigatons, Gt) from measurements by the GRACE satellites between March 2002-September 2012. An approximate equivalent global sea level rise figure is on the right axis. Note that the decline in ice mass lost from Greenland is not a straight line--it is exponential, meaning that more ice loss is lost each year than in the previous year. Image credit: 2012 Arctic Report Card.
Will Antarctica be more important than Greenland for sea level rise?
Although melting from Greenland is currently raising global sea level by about a factor of two more than Antarctica melting is, that situation may change later this century. A 2013 study by Dahl-Jensen et al. looked at a new ice core drilled from the bottom-most depths of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The core suggests that the ice in Greenland may have partially survived the warm Eemian period before the Ice Age, approximately 118,000 - 126,000 years ago, when Greenland temperatures were 5- 8°C warmer than present-day temperatures. Global sea level during the Eemian was 4 - 8 meters (13 - 26 ft) higher than the present sea level, and the scientists estimated that melting from Greenland was responsible for 2 meters (6.6 ft) of this sea level rise. This implies that Antarctica was responsible for 50 - 75% of global sea level rise during the Eemian, and thus we might expect Antarctica to take over as the dominant source of sea level rise later this century, when global temperatures may to rise to levels similar to those experienced during the Eemian.
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Greenland experiences melting over 97% of its area in mid-July (July 25, 2012)
Record warmth at the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet (July 18, 2012)
Unprecedented May heat in Greenland; update on 2011 Greenland ice melt (May, 2012)
Greenland update for 2010: record melting and a massive calving event
Dr. Jason Box's blog on Greenland and the Dark Snow Project is at http://www.meltfactor.org.
The http://www.greenlandmelting.com/ website looks like a great resource for following this year's melt progression in Greenland.
Video 1. Glaciologist Dr. Jason Box and 350.org founder Bill McKibben plug the Darksnow project in this January 2013 video by Peter Sinclair. There's some impressive footage of the record Greenland snow melt of summer 2012 sweeping away a 20-ton tractor that was attempting to repair a bridge washed out by the raging Watson River on July 11, 2012 in Kangerlussauaq, Greenland. The driver escaped unharmed.
Support the Dark Snow Project
One of Dr. Box's collaborators, photographer James Balog, who created the amazing time-lapse Greenland glacier footage in the fantastic 2012 "Chasing Ice" movie, puts it like this: "Working in Greenland these past years has left me with a profound feeling of being in the middle of a decisive historic moment--the kind of moment, at least in geologic terms, that marks the grand tidal changes of history." On that note, I encourage you all to support the Dark Snow Project. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Dark Snow Project Expedition Plan 2013
Prepare and gather science equipment including a field spectrometer, snow and ice coring device, and snow metrics kit.
Travel to Iqualuit, on Baffin Island, Nunavut from home locales in California, Ohio, Michigan, Vermont and rendezvous with Dash-6 "Twin Otter" ski-equipped airplane and flight crew.
Organize cold weather survival kit.
Ferry team from Iqualuit to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.
Fly to and land at sampling sites high on the inland ice sheet.
At each site collect snow samples from a snow pit and obtain snow cores to a minimum depth of the previous year's snow surface, and record snow properties.
Transport of team and snow samples to Greenland's capital Nuuk, where the team will rest after hustling at field sites.
Return to Iqualuit, then to respective home locales to start the data analysis and reporting phase of campaign.
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MADISON, Wis. - Board members got their first look at the Madison Metropolitan School District's proposed budget for next year and called it a "compromise."
Superintendent Jen Cheatham, in her first budget proposal since arriving in Madison earlier this year, recommended a 4.5 percent property tax increase. That would cost the average homeowner about $119.
The tax hike is necessary to offset declining state aid and maintain staffing and programs, Board President Ed Hughes said.
"We could increase our spending a lot if we didn't have any constraints, but we're certainly aware of the burden on the property taxpayers," Hughes said.
Board member Dean Loumos, who won a contested seat in April's election, said he wasn't "100 percent" behind the budget proposal, adding that he would support a bigger tax increase to fund more alternative programs for at-risk students.
Board member James Howard has said he would like to see an increase more in line with inflation, or about 2 percent. Howard was away on vacation Monday.
The board could raise taxes by up to 9.5 percent this year as state law allows. That's about $250 for the average homeowner.
Cheatham's increase would be the third-largest in Madison in the last decade, although that could change.
Former Superintendent Dan Nerad proposed a similar property tax hike of more than 4 percent last year, and the board ultimately approved a much smaller increase.Madison board members call proposed school budget 'compromise'
Cheatham has said she didn't support an increase by the maximum amount until her administration could study how every dollar is spent within the district.
Board member T.J. Mertz described this year's budget as a "transitional" one, before Cheatham's team can complete a full review next year.
"The team that's been here has, in some cases, only been here a few weeks," he said. "I look forward to developing (comprehensive plans), but right now, we don't have those in place, and just throwing more money out there isn't going to help anyone."
Cheatham said her "zero-balance" budget method would address personnel and non-personnel spending, and said no one could remember the last time district officials undertook such a review.
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Long time readers know that I think autorun was Microsoft's longest unpatched vulnerability. For Windows 7 Microsoft has made some serious improvements, but for older versions of Windows Microsoft has ignored the obvious vulnerability and only offered the patch as an optional download instead of making it a critical update, as every security expert in the world knows it is. I provided download links for other versions of Windows in the post here.
Technically, this doesn't fix autorun, it changes the behavior to make it far less dangerous. In this other post I provide information about actually disabling autorun in some older versions of Windows.
Recently I have received some requests about how to eliminate autorun in Windows 7. Windows 7 actually calls it autoplay and the controls for it are in the control panel under hardware and sound. You'll find Autoplay there.
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Just a small sample from the article:The Houston-area Harris County Housing Authority (HCHA) has wasted or misspent nearly $30 million of U.S. taxpayers money from 2010 to 2012, and the federal government wants its money back. The catch: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is for obvious reasons demanding that those wasted federal funds not be paid back out of other federal funds, and the HCHAs total non-federal revenues this year are expected to amount to a mere $52,000. At that rate, HCHA should have paid back HUD sometime in the middle of the 26th century, assuming it dedicates 100 percent of its non-federal funds to doing so.
A newly released audit from HUDs inspector general found $27.5 million in mismanaged spending by the Harris County Agency during the three-year period in question. The audit came in response to an excellent investigative series by the Houston Chronicle, which found, among other things, that hundreds of thousands of dollars had been paid to friends and family of agency employees not only without board approval, but without so much as a contract. Among those on the HCHA gravy train were convicted felons with no qualification for the work they were hired to do but boasting a more important asset: links to management. A longtime associate of the CEO of the organization was paid more than $135,000, while the CEOs father-in-law was put on the payroll of a subcontractor awarded millions in contracts.
The agency managed to spend millions of dollars on a veteran-themed housing development called Patriots by the Lake which, despite some $8 million being poured into the project, was never built.And, in a classic political move, former CEO Guy Rankin was bought out of his contract for $137,000 last year, but he had left the agency in such poor shape that it did not have the funds to pay him off. He has sued, and the mess is currently in court. He is under investigation by the FBI.So: Boo, Houston! Except that Houston is hardly alone in this. Cities in Massachusetts have seen similar scandals at the states HUD-backed agencies, with executives paid fat salaries and subject to little or no oversight. The Philadelphia Housing Authority saw the mass resignation of its board last year after it was revealed that the agencys executive director had dedicated $1 million in agency funds to questionable purposes, including hiring professional belly dancers and settling with plaintiffs in sexual-harassment complaints against him. In New Orleans, there was nearly $1 million in embezzlement. Phoenix, Los Angeles, and other cities have had similar troubles. The director of the HUD field office in San Juan was the subject of a 40-count indictment on fraud and theft charges.The federal housing-subsidy program is a $25 billionayear racket, a national crime wave headquartered in Washington but with franchises in every city.


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Prosecution of Barrett Brown Still Threatens Journalistic Freedom in U.S.
Last week, the federal government finally dismissed 11 controversial counts from its overzealous prosecution of journalist Barrett Brown. These counts charged Brown with identity theft for sharing a link to records documenting improper and potentially illegal activities by the U.S. intelligence contractor, Stratfor Global Intelligence.
The fact that Brown has been in jail for 18 months, based in large part on these charges, has threatened and continues to threaten press freedom in the United States.
Just two days before the government dropped its charges, Brown's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss these specific charges. We were planning to file an amicus brief in support of Brown a few days later on behalf of EFF and some of the most influential organizations protecting the rights of journalists around the world, including Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Reporters Without Borders, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and PEN American Center. We called the Assistant U.S. Attorney handling the case on Tuesday to let her know we planned to file the brief (a formality). The next day, without any warning to us or to Brown's lawyer, the government filed its motion to dismiss, which the court granted on Friday. But as we argued in the brief, the government should never have brought these charges in the first place.
Linking ≠ "Trafficking in Stolen Authentication Features"
The government charged Brown with trafficking in stolen authentication features and aggravated identity theft for sharing a link to records that included millions of emails discussing opportunities for rendition and assassination and detailing attempts to subvert journalists, political groups and even foreign leaders. They also included tens of thousands of credit card numbers and their verification codes. The records were published online after hackers broke into Stratfor's servers. While the government alleged Brown transferred the link from one IRC channel to another, it never alleged he transferred the actual files or the credit card numbers or was in any way responsible for the Stratfor hack. Brown faced a minimum of two years in prison on each charge, and a real risk of 20 years if the court decided to run each two year sentencence consecutive.
Long-settled Supreme Court precedent establishes that the publication of truthful, lawfully obtained information about a matter of public concern is protected by the First Amendment. It doesn't matter if the journalist knew someone else illegally obtained the information as long as she, herself, obtained it legally. As we argued in our brief, Brown's actions clearly merited First Amendment protection.
Linking and Crowdsourcing Are Common in Journalism
Brown, who was a prolific writer for a number of publications, including Vanity Fair, The Guardian and Huffington Post, appears to have shared the link to the Stratfor files with a team of other journalists to crowdsource the review of the voluminous records. Earlier in 2011, Brown relied on crowdsourcing to review and report on 70,000 emails from HBGary, another government contractor, after Anonymous hacked into its servers.
By sharing the link and crowdsourcing review of these documents, Brown only did what thousands of other journalists do every day. For journalists, "linking" is crucial to effectively providing readers with background and context to stories. While this may seem like an obvious point, it apparently was not to the government.
Crowdsourcing has become quite common for both independent journalists and traditional media outlets too. It allows news organizations to work with others—including outside journalists, select groups of volunteers, or even the general public—to review huge troves of records. One need only look to the Snowden NSA releases to see how important linking—even to illegally-obtained records— and crowdsourcing has been for journalism and citizens around the world.
It all started on June 5, 2013, when The Guardian reported on and linked to a top-secret order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordering Verizon to disclose telephone metadata of all of its customers. That order is still available online. As other organizations, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN, reported on this breaking news, they too linked, not only to the Guardian's article, but to the order itself on the Guardian's site. And as more revelations about the NSA programs emerged, these media organizations linked to other top-secret orders and classified intelligence materials and shared the links with the public through social media like Facebook and Twitter.
Crowdsourced review has also been crucial in the NSA reporting, given the quantity of the documents and the technical information contained in them. Journalists have teamed up across newsrooms and with security researchers to better report on the material, ensuring its broader impact on society.
As stories continued to break, the public retweeted and shared these links with friends, coworkers and family members. By sharing these links, these media organizations—and any members of the public who shared the NSA records with each other—were also disseminating classified and top-secret national security information—information protected by statute (the Espionage Act) no less than the credit card records at issue in Brown's case. But the government has yet to bring charges against anyone who shared the NSA information (except Snowden himself). In fact, a recent CRS report found that publication of national security information is likely protected under the First Amendment.
The Case Continues to Chill Speech
It is possible the government came to its senses and dropped these charges after realizing the First Amendment problems with its prosecution. Its initial determination to prosecute Brown may have been motivated by the government's claim that Brown allegedly threatened an FBI agent and his children in a video posted to YouTube. (This happened after the FBI threatened to charge Brown's mother with obstruction of justice for failing to produce Brown's laptop.) Brown still faces charges for this alleged threat in a separate criminal case, as well as charges of obstruction of justice for allegedly concealing evidence. However, these separate claims do not excuse the government for bringing specious identity theft charges against him for the simple act of sharing a link.
Ultimately, the government's prosecution of Mr. Brown continues to threaten not only journalists and the press, but the public at large. We rely on the media to report on government and corporate impropriety—even when that reporting requires a journalist to review and share illegally obtained records. However, if journalists fear they could be charged with a crime for newsgathering and reporting (even if the charges are later dropped), they may think twice about whether the publication is really worth the risk.
This case threatens the public in another way. Just like journalists, we all regularly share links with friends and family through email and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. These links may be to news and human-interest stories, medical research, gossip about movie stars, or shopping deals, but these communications are all threatened by the government's broad application of the criminal statutes at issue in Brown's case.
You can read our full amicus brief here.
* Some minor changes were made on March 20, 2014 to the original version of this blog post.
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Post Card
Mary Hopkin's Post Card is indeed a snapshot in time. It is a beautiful memento of 1968, when a virtuous Welsh teenager with a pure natural singing voice came to the attention of the most famous new record label around, which catapulted her to instant success and fame throughout the world.
Together they created this treasury of popular song: part folk, part contemporary pop, part old-time showbusiness. It is a portrait of both a fledgling media enterprise proving its commercial credentials and an ever-so-slightly awestruck singer, rather young for her 18 years, finding her musical feet.
Apple Records had been set up by The Beatles that year to nurture talent, to give artists a chance, and to offer a viable alternative to record company orthodoxy that by then was epitomised by beknighted bureaucracy and fusty convention. By February 1969, when Post Card was issued, Apple Records had already delivered on its manifesto promise: its first quartet of albums had defied expectation and, with John & Yoko's Two Virgins among the releases, it had set out its stall in a rather unconventional manner.
Post Card was Apple LP No. 5. Alongside his production of 'Those Were The Days' it was Paul McCartney's major contribution to the Apple Records catalogue, and it was his baby from start to finish. He chose the singer and the songs, the arranger and the artwork. The original back cover text was in his handwriting and the cover photo was taken by Linda Eastman, the future Mrs. McCartney.
'Those Were The Days' had been Mary Hopkin's debut Apple single, and had succeeded on a surprising scale, crashing into the charts around the world and selling millions. Paul had mused upon this epic Russian melody for several years, after seeing folk duo Gene & Francesca raise the roof with it in a London nightclub. The lyric, the nostalgia, the mood, had all stayed with him, and he'd looked for a suitable artist to help him realize the song's potential. When the model Twiggy recommended Mary Hopkin, a runaway TV talent show success, Paul finally found the voice he'd been looking for.
With its low-meets-high spirits and its rousing finale, 'Those Were The Days' was of a different hue to most of Mary's other Apple recordings, and it wasn't included on the original Post Card LP (it is added here as the opening track). Mary was first and foremost a folk singer, gentle of disposition and self-taught via the guitar-playing and singing of Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. She preferred her music unadorned. However, she was happy to follow Paul's lead, and the result is very listenable record, and one that Apple found easier to market than its first four. It paid dividends too, climbing to No. 3 in the UK.
The arrangements on 'Those Were The Days' and Post Card were by Richard Hewson, a friend of Apple's Head of A&R Peter Asher, and a jazz musician at heart. Backing on the album is by the Mike Cotton Band and it is all held together by Paul McCartney the producer, his first such solo credit. It's something of a fairytale record that captures the innocence of Mary's youth and flights of Paul's imagination. There was even a song about a prince. Says Mary today: "It was a wonderful experience working with Paul. He was a patient and sensitive producer."
Mary remembers that the show tunes and hits from yesteryear that make up half the collection were favourites of Paul's father, Jim McCartney. They call to mind the valve-warming radio days of the BBC's old Light Programme, Ringo Starr's Sentimental Journey album that Apple would soon release, and the comfy familiarity that Paul evoked in Beatles songs such as 'Honey Pie', 'When I'm Sixty Four' and 'Your Mother Should Know'. Indeed, Paul once sang 'The Honeymoon Song', track six on Post Card, on a Pop Go The Beatles Light Programme broadcast back in the days of Beatlemania.
Hits from the Fifties included 'Young Love', a No. 1 for Hollywood heart-throb Tab Hunter, and 'Inchworm' from the Danny Kaye film Hans Christian Andersen. Classics from Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, plus 'Love Is The Sweetest Thing' and 'There's No Business Like Show Business' all hailed from decades earlier.
Mary's reservation about some of these selections is no secret but when asked, it's not Paul's choice of material, nor the quality of the songs that concerns her. Rather, it's a perception of herself as a performer. "I would describe it as if I was in kindergarten," she explains. "With the whole world watching while you take your baby steps. This was Post Card: me in the studio, trying out new things. Paul was quite right to encourage me, but I don't think my vocals were suited to some of the songs, which I felt were a bit too sophisticated for me… 'Someone To Watch Over Me' … 'Lullaby Of The Leaves'…. I didn't feel up to the challenge."
Mary was happier with three songs brought to the proceedings by Donovan. "That side of the experience was absolutely right," she enthuses. "Working with Paul; and then Donovan came along with 'Lord Of The Reedy River', 'Happiness Runs' and 'Voyage Of The Moon'. I sang these straight from his beautiful book of handwritten lyrics." Mary recalls the sessions at Abbey Road: "I thought Donovan was like a little elf, this magical person. They sat either side of me, him and Paul, playing their acoustic guitars. I was on a stool in between, sitting there like a tiny mouse, singing this beautiful music."
'Lord Of The Reedy River' is a tranquil ballad, based on the classical myth of Leda and the Swan, which Paul selected to be the first track on the original Post Card vinyl. It was a bold opener and far from obvious: a slow burner on which Mary exudes an alluring, dusky grace. 'Voyage Of The Moon' is just as accomplished, as Mary takes delicate steps over the twin guitars of McCartney and Leitch. 'Happiness Runs (Pebble And The Man)' is an uptempo pearl of wisdom, one that Apple selected for its Wall's EP, a curious promotional record issued in cahoots with the manufacturers of ice cream.
'Y Blodyn Gwyn' is in Mary's native Welsh ('The White Flower') and is another gem. "I love that song," she says. "It's a traditional tune that we did at school. I used to sing it with a friend, but I take both parts here." Also of note is 'Prince En Avignon', a mournful chanson about a would-be monarch without a castle, by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, who wrote for French singers such as Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc.
Harry Nilsson's records were on everyone's turntables at Apple, from press officer Derek Taylor to all four Beatles, and Apple would have signed him if it wasn't for his existing RCA contract. Mary refers to Harry as "my hero". Paul requested something just for Mary, and Harry sent 'The Puppy Song'. Paul double-tracked Mary's vocals and her version proved popular at Apple, and almost became her second UK single, eventually losing out to a new song of Paul's, also especially written. This was 'Goodbye', an upbeat sure-fire hit featuring Paul slapping his thighs for percussion. ('Goodbye' is included here as a bonus track.)
The most enigmatic selection on Post Card is 'The Game'. It is an evocative work, with deceptively simple words and music, both written by George Martin. He recalled the song for his book Playback but disclosed little: "I'd written a tune, and when I played it to Paul he said he liked it and wanted to use it for Mary. I then went away and concocted a lyric — which was rather rare for me — and she recorded it as 'The Game'. I played piano on the track too." Mary adds: "George arranged it as well. He is lovely, it's a beautiful song, and it was a privilege to work with him."
Post Card was released to great expectation and helped consolidate Mary's outstanding success. She had been singing in public since the age of three, making music in Wales to some local acclaim. Now, thanks to the blockbuster that was 'Those Were The Days', she'd become a sensation, not just in the media, but even within the offices of her own record label. " 'Do you know she has sold 35,000 copies every day this week?'," paraphrases Mary, citing the incredulity of Apple's staff as the single took off. "That doesn't happen now, does it?," she muses. "That was quite staggering for me. I could hardly imagine that many people."
'Those Were The Days' did indeed have massive appeal and it became a truly global hit, with a commercial reach that is genuinely astounding. With huge sales streaming in from Australia to Argentina, Israel to India, Uruguay to Yugoslavia, Mary's popularity knew no bounds. This isn't just a platitude, it is a fact. As Mary remembers…
"A doctor came up to me in Wales a few years ago. He said, 'Excuse me, I have to tell you a story. I was in the jungle on an expedition. There was a tiny tribe of people, and the chief had fallen ill. So I was taken to the chief's hut, and I walked in — and the first thing I saw was a huge poster of you in that straw hat hanging up there'."
"He was talking about the Apple poster," says Mary. "That first publicity picture for 'Those Were The Days'. This tiny tribe in the Amazonian jungle! I found that most bizarre."
The bonus tracks on this digital remaster include Mary's second UK Top 5 hit, 'Goodbye' and its B-side 'Sparrow'; plus 'Turn Turn Turn' (the B-side of 'Those Were The Days'). These two acoustic ballads showcase the musical approach that was closest to Mary's heart.
'Fields Of St. Etienne' was intended as Mary's third UK single, scheduled for September 1969. It was written, as was 'Sparrow', by Mary's friends and Apple Publishing songwriters Gallagher & Lyle. Mary later re-recorded the track with Paul McCartney in a much simpler form. The recording included here is previously unissued. The arrangement is by Richard Hewson and the production by Geoff Emerick. Although Mary loved the song, she felt at the time that this version was not in keeping with her own musical vision and she asked Apple to cancel its release.
- Producer
- Paul McCartney (Except track 20 Geoff Emerick)
- Recorded at
- Abbey Road / Trident / Morgan
- Released (UK)
- 21/02/69
- Released (US)
- 03/03/69


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Hey! K-Mart is the same price as Wal-Mart and Target on the Titaniums! That has to be a first. Funny enough, the only two they had were Optimus Primal and The Ark, so I'm set on the little guys.
I didn't even notice Sideswipe and Jazz were Alternators rather than G1 versions. Not a biggie. They look hella cool either way.
I'm passing on Cybertron Megatron. Beast Wars stuff I'll get, as long as they're released rather sparingly. At least they attempted to connect them to G1.
Here's a dumb question: Why did the Transformers change from Autobots and Decepticons to Maximals and Predacons? Was that ever explained in Beast Wars (which I'm not especially familiar with)? I know the frame narrative of the Dreamwave More Than Meets the Eye series explains that a Predacon criminal manages to gain access to Cybertron's central database (The Underbase? Primus? The memory banks of The Last Autobot?) and takes the name Megatron to try to establish a connection with the great Decepticon leader. But why does Optimus Primal have a basic design and name so similar to Optimus Prime? And where did the organic stuff come in? Did some sort of Pretender experiment go awry at some point?
And all the stuff about Primal "bringing back the organic element to Cybertron"--was the supposedly barren planetoid that Primus trapped himself in eons ago actually an inhabited world? (And would this explain that weird plot thread from the post-Unicron issues of the Marvel comic where nasty-looking robots emerge from the depths of the planet following the deaths of Primus and Unicron and start eating Transformers, all the while claiming "Oursss before yourssss thissss world"?)
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Does anybody have a tie fighter pilot (green carded) that actually stands up right . Mine always falls down . When I set it up , I have to lean him on his big gun for him to stay standing .
Does anybody have a tie fighter pilot (green carded) that actually stands up right . Mine always falls down . When I set it up , I have to lean him on his big gun for him to stay standing .
Get over here Leia , and stop making out with your brother !
I did the same thing, but eventually used stands. It's just too hard to get them standing on their own.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
There are action figure stands available. I have a few, and am in the market for more.
Yes, my figures go boom, too. Hasbro made them in awkward standing positions.
Mine stands up fine, but then again he's still on the card.
"I'm just a YES man trying to make my way in the universe." - Jango McCallum
"Good dialogue and smooth editing are no match for a good YES man by your side, kid." - George Lucas
Don't forget awkward sculptsOriginally posted by OC47150
Hasbro made them in awkward standing positions.
What about the 1st obi Wan figure from 1995, boy he cant even stand at all!
''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
The figures are getting better at standing without the aid of action stands but some are still bad. The Bespin escape Leia won't without a stand.
I have no problem with my Bespin Escape Leia, however my DSE Han has decided that he is tired of standing up on his own, so now I have to use an action stand with him. I didn't when I first got him.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
The most difficult figure to stand by itself in all the line would be Emperor palpatine flashback...Now that is impossible, you need the stands, the tie fighter pilot is difficult also, Figrin D'aan and Zucckus are hard too. I had no trouble with Bespin Escape Leia from POTJ though. (There are more, but i cant remember them now)
As always...........L
Maybe my BE Leia is just special!
I forgot!! The Trade Federation Security Battle droid is also a very difficult figure to stand up right.
As always...........L


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Under 16 Pleasanton Rage 'friendly' with London Team
Original post made by rtsuno, Pleasanton Valley, on Jul 13, 2013
In a exhibition (friendly) game on Saturday July 13th in San Ramon the Pleasanton Rage U16 girls team played the 'Crystal Palace Ladies Under 16s' who are visiting the USA (specifically Santa Clara University and San Ramon). The game was organized by the Pandolfo family who connected with the London girls team several years ago. The Pleasanton Rage team is fresh from its May Northern California Gold Championship and is starting the season with several new players and a new coach, Jose Torres.


text: Known for its grid road system, Milton Keynes isn't quite the concrete jungle it is thought to be. Visitors can try all manner of watersports at Willen Lake, and on colder days, head to the Xscape entertainment complex for some dry skiing, swimming, or climbing. Music fans can visit The National Bowl, a premier open-air venue where Take That, Bruce Springsteen, and Metallica have played.


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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Is Online Piracy About Theft-- or Inertia?
The obvious reason that Statham's new movie would play into my blog topic is because he is, once again, cast as the lead in an action flick. I don't object to that; I think Statham is a great action star. But according to Hollywood (I use the town as a generic term to refer to the mainstream entertainment industry) that's mostly all Statham is. They've put him in a box that he may never get out of-- though I'd gladly take the paycheck that comes with that particular box.
However, I shouldn't single out Statham. Hollywood is littered with actors that are known for playing a specific type, be it Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise or Will Smith. Sometimes you'll see attempts to break out against type in what I think of as Oscar bait films with varying levels of success but mostly the industry keeps everyone in their safe little boxes and that's that.
So what's the point of all this musing?
I may be stretching here but I think the staleness of the entertainment industry has created an environment that is preventing it from adapting to a new era-- hence the rise of SOPA and PIPA.
If you've been paying any attention you've heard a lot about the bills that have been put forward, and rejected, regarding the pirating of content on the web. This has been a HUGE topic and I think you'd have to live under a rock to not be aware of it. It's a favorite topic on sites like this because it impacts writers as heavily as movie makers and musicians-- maybe more so since authors are not known to bring in the big bucks unless they've reached a pretty significant level of success. I'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty as far as the legislation behind SOPA or PIPA goes other than to say that I am against what I view as extremely broad-based regulation that is guaranteed to lead to abuse and censorship.
What interests me about this topic is the reactions I've seen to it across the net. I follow a lot of authors on sites like Twitter and Facebook and have yet to see anyone that supports either bill. But I have read articles online that indicate there is still widespread support for PIPA and SOPA in Hollywood-- at least among the various guilds.
And I get it-- to a point. I understand the desire to protect intellectual property rights. There is a lot of hard work that goes into making a product like a book, a movie or a song. We all know that it isn't just a matter of coming up with an idea and voilà-- instant success. This holds true for any industry. But the question I have is whether the driving force behind the now-shelved (but sure to be resurrected) bills is really about intellectual property?
I'm not, nor have I ever been, a Hollywood insider. But I did work as an associate producer on a television show, a long time ago, and it did give me glimpse into how Hollywood thinks-- and I'm pretty sure that protecting the creative rights of the artist has very little to do with the recent crackdowns of online file-sharing. The television industry is, like any business, all about generating money. Nothing wrong with that. But what does that really mean?
The show I worked on was one of the early reality-television shows (the same kind of show I now abhor) and our show was based on taking real-life video, what you see YouTube nowadays, and we'd do interviews with the people in the video and patch it all together into segments. My job was to interview people for the segments-- a job I loved-- and I became very protective of the people I interviewed. Often these people would be filmed in very tragic circumstances and I felt a duty to protect them from overexposure-- you'd be amazed at the things people will reveal to complete strangers in an interview. I learned early on to never, ever put information into the files that could be too embarrassing or revealing because it almost always ended up on air. I also learned that "tweaking" the story to create an elevated sense of excitement was not off limits: the lawyers were always nearby to advise producers on the legality of using certain content and no small amount of mental gymnastics was regularly involved in the process. I also had some first hand experience with a producer who went on to work on "Big Brother" and her "coaching" techniques for contestants on that show-- but that's another story.
The reason I tell you these anecdotes (and they barely scratch the surface) is to demonstrate the callousness I saw toward the people who provided the raw content for our show. They were essentially a product to be exploited. And, from my point of view, that's an attitude that permeates the industry on all levels. The "talent" we used on the show, the host and reporters, weren't really treated any better than the people I interviewed. They were paid well, but seen as disposable. Heck, that was true of all of us. So when I come across the intellectual rights argument all I see is a semi-factual discussion that is really designed to keep the money flowing to the top.
As I look back on that time I can't help but apply what I experienced then to all of the industries affected by the anti-piracy bills and why we ended up here. First, and foremost, I don't think it can be overstated how much impact changing technology has had. When I worked in Hollywood no one could have envisioned the role the internet now has in the entertainment industry-- and it's clear that the big-money machinery already in place is very slow to adapt. Whether it's web-streaming (legal and otherwise) of popular shows and movies or original content offered as online-only content, there's a lot of competition for market share. Add to that an audience that has seen their paychecks shrink at an alarming rate and the ability to create a pretty awesome home-theater experience and you've got a real uphill battle to get people to the theater.
And what's Hollywood's answer?
As far as I can tell the only thing they've come up with is to fight progress every step of the way. Whether it's stale content in the form of endless sequels and remakes or the attempt to stifle forward the forward progress of streaming providers like Netflix, Hollywood seems determined to keep things exactly the same. Same studios, same actors, same salaries, same scripts etc. etc... Of course I'm simplifying things but I think the premise is basically sound.
What's amazing to me is that Hollywood doesn't seem to understand that the audience is responding to multiple factors when they decide how they're going to consume a certain product. I know that cost is a biggie-- is it worth $25 or more to buy a blu-ray of any modern film? And how often do you take the whole family to the theater these days? If you're like me you probably don't mind waiting three months and spending $1 on a Redbox rental. All I know is that when I see a $20-million-a-film celebrity telling me that I should be worrying about intellectual property rights, I can't help but think that their salary has helped make my movie-going experience really expensive. And if I do decide to spend the money I'm back to questioning whether it's worth it to see another sequel or remake.
But Hollywood is only one industry experiencing growing pains-- as we all know. The publishing industry is fighting their own battle with online piracy and yet they are also excruciatingly slow in addressing complaints over the cost of digital books, citing the costs of editing and promotion as the reason digital copies aren't cheaper. The interesting thing about this is that it has really spurred on the self-publishing industry and after the success I've seen on that front (I personally know one self-published author who made a healthy six-figure paycheck last year) I don't know that the big publishing houses can compete indefinitely. If I can find good quality books at $2.99 or less (and I can) why would I pay $9.99 for a new release?
Another thing the entertainment industry, of all forms, needs to take into account is the audience's ability to rationalize. Most people I know have a healthy code of ethics that prevents them from downloading, but it's obvious from the success of file sharing sites, there are a lot of people who don't feel too bad about taking whatever they can get. Does this mean they're all bad people? Well, maybe. Or maybe they find it really easy to look at the way the various industries are doing business, and who is making the money, and decide that a little larceny isn't a big deal. After all-- it's not our fault that the industry insists on staying in the dark ages...
I know I'm getting long winded here-- and I do apologize. But I think there needs to be a broad-based conversation about online piracy before we even think about passing anything like SOPA or PIPA. A lot of people in the creative community are quick to grasp the possible consequences of such bills-- especially since they're generally not the biggest beneficiaries of the profits anyway. We've already seen incredible innovation on the net and I think we've only begun to explore its potential. We've also seen that there are tons of people out there who will do outrageous things for free on camera for their fifteen minutes of fame-- and before long we're going to see a lot of genuine talent break out on the net and continue to eat into the profits Hollywood is already losing. Self-published authors are already reaping the benefits of distributing their own product and I don't see that trend slowing down anytime soon. Hollywood may think they're playing it safe by trying to protect what they already have-- but I think they're being incredibly short-sighted when it comes to realizing what they could have by investing in innovation instead of wasting their energy on shutting down websites. Fighting progress is nothing but a losing proposition-- I just hope we don't up the biggest losers of all.
5 comments:
- Charles Gramlich said...
The safe playing of hollywood is often a topic of convo at my house, and it really has turned both Lana and I off on movies in general. I had read some stuff from writers who've dealt with Hollywood that also shows that callousness toward the creators that you mentioned, and maybe that's part of the reason the whole film industry is so sterile.
- SQT said...
Charles-- The biggest gripe I have about the media is that they feel no responsibility for the influence they have. There are only a few major studios who put out most the content and they determine the direction entertainment flows. I'm sure they hate the internet because it's such a threat to the way they've been doing things. I LOVE the net because it's opens up the flow of information and innovation. 10 years from now things are going to be waaaay different.
- Elfy said...
Yeah, God forbid someone in Hollywood actually think outside the box and take a chance on something new or different.
- Linds said...
I think for a lot of people it boils down to easy access or rather the lack of it--television and entertainment should use the internet to reach more people. I agree that it's stagnant. I think they should take advantage of the internet's possibilities and offer something better. I'm happy to watching something on hulu or on their own websites but when it's not offered, or the streaming is of poor quality--it's no wonder people look elsewhere.
Libraries of course, have offered free and legal access to books, music, and movies for ages and the industries have survived. The internet, you could argue just does that on a larger scale. But it also introduces the media to a wider audience. http://bit.ly/yLSNTG
Personally, I'm curious to see how direct sales to the public will eventually affect movies. I've started to see some movies available to purchase at the time of release to view online (for cheaper than trekking to the theater for two people). Mostly indie or documentaries, but I'd love the chance to actually see them since they don't reach the multiplex.
I also think I'd be awesome for tv channels to offer direct streaming so if you really just wanted to pay for one cable channel, you could.
- animewookie said...
I agree, the ones that are complaining the most are the ones that are worried that they're not going to be profiting more than everyone else...after all...it's what they're used to...lol Great discussion :D


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Multi focal plane macro panorama. I paused the GigaPan after the first frame, then used the forward button to move the camera, and manual focus/manual shutter release (with 2 second delay) to take between one and five focal planes per frame. I then used Helicon Focus to combine the focal planes to get greater depth of field, then stitched the final frames with AutoPano Pro - using pre-rendering color and exposure correction. The field of view is about 25 cm wide x 15 cm high x 25 cm deep. Camera = Olympus E-510 DSLR with 110-400 mm zoom plus extension tube for close focus. After combining the multi focal plane frames, the macropanorama is 6 rows x 7 columns.


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Brightest Lights
Winners of the "Brightest Lights" GigaPan Photo Competition are:
1st Place: Jason Buchheim - The Green Flash at the last moment of the setting sun
2nd Place: Issam Kanafani - Kaaba
3rd Place: Jim Trotter - City garden with parts
Thank you to everyone who participated. View all the submissions below!
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- Entry Name: Yes, Virginia --- has some Christmas lights by T. E. Smith-Lamothe
This residence near Burgess, Virginia on State highway #200 is famous in the region for its colourful and bright light display. The lights are a collection of every Yuletide theme imaginable and seems to grow larger every passing year.
This church in Clayton Missouri has a very active ministry to prisoners to bring them the peace of Christ.
- Entry Name: A View of Dubai Marina by Ricardo Liberato
The marina seen from the Marina
- Entry Name: Weymouth Bay at Night by Rob Quincey
This was our first attempt at shooting a night time panorama. The new Weymouth Bay Lasers were also active that night, although because of this we were forced to bring the stitched image into Photoshop and fix a number of breaks caused by the lasers moving. We were quite impressed with the resulting GigaPan. Thanks to ...
- Entry Name: Fayetteville AR Square 2012 by mkuss15
- Entry Name: Harbour Bridge by Phil Hotten
A night time shot of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This is the second attempt, the previous one the tripod was too unstable> This picture is appearing in this book millenniumhouse.com.au/title-earth-plat.html The day time version is here gigapan.org/gigapans/80555/ The Sydney Series gigap ...
- Entry Name: San Antonio Alamo Plaza at Christmas Time by Kevin G Saunders
The Alamo Plaza is bustling with energy and the Alamo, the Emily Morgan Hotel and the Christmas Tree are lit up for the holidays. This shot was taken with a Rolleiflex Hy6 camera, and a Leaf Aptus II 12R 80 megapixel back. See more Kevin G Saunders Fine Art on gigapan and at kevingsaunders.com
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San Francisco Cliff House, Seal Rock and Sutro Bath under the moon and stars.
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Binghamton University Jointly Awarded Prestigious International Institute Recognition
Binghamton University, a major participant in the State University of New York's dual-diploma program model with Turkey, has been jointly awarded the prestigious Andrew Heiskell Award for International Exchange Partnerships this week from the Institute of International Education.
The dual-diploma program, offered at several SUNY colleges and universities, won the award for International Exchange Partnerships, which recognizes institutions for developing innovative and effective collaborative programs with counterparts abroad. The International Exchange Partnerships award is new for 2006-07 and SUNY is the inaugural winner.
Binghamton University has played a central role in the dual-diploma program's success, enrolling more Turkish students and offering more areas of study to them than any of the other six participating SUNY campuses. Approximately 380 students are currently enrolled in the dual-program at Binghamton University, pursuing studies in information systems, global and international affairs, and management.
"I am very pleased that the Institute of International Education has recognized SUNY and Binghamton for our efforts," said Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur. "The dual-diploma program brings tremendous value to our campus particularly because of our students' interest in global affairs. Binghamton has a long history of faculty and student relationships with Turkish universities. We have built on these interactions to have the largest dual diploma program in SUNY."
Students typically spend freshman and junior years at their home campus and their sophomore and senior years abroad. The program exposes the students to two cultures and two educational systems.
"SUNY's dual-diploma program greatly enhances the nature and quality of the education we are able to offer and the diversity of the student body on our campuses," SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan said. "SUNY's dual diploma program with Turkey has become a model for how we wish to work with other countries in our effort to globalize our campuses."
Students enrolled in the dual-diploma program must fulfill the academic requirements of their SUNY and Turkish institutions and as a result receive a diploma from each school.
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This is getting to be a disconcerting pattern. As they did much of last week, stocks began the day relatively unchanged, but by the end of trading had managed to wend their way lower.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lost 0.5% to 15,010, while the Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) dropped 0.6% to 1,646.06 and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) finished off 0.4% at 3,589.09.
And like last week, the ostensible reason for declines–small as they may be–are rising Treasury yields. The Wall Street Journal attributes the loss to investors not wanting "the bunch bowl taken away," while Bloomberg leads with the market awaiting "signals this week on the Federal Reserve's stimulus plans."
Higher yields don't have to mean the end for stocks, however. In a report released in May, Birinyi Associates looked at how the market has performed when the 10-year yield was rising. Its finding: Since 1962, the S&P 500 rose 7.5% during the six month following the start of a period of rising rates. "The beginning of those cycles does not necessarily signal a peak in stocks," Kevin Pleines and Jeffrey Yale Rubin wrote at the time.
Which isn't to downplay the concern investors feel about the end of the Fed's bond buying. As Pleines said in an interview today, "This instant is different because of the Fed," he says. "It's unprecedented." Still, he feels that stocks are "drifting around" in the late-August doldrums. With little in the way of market-moving news and earnings season coming to an end, it's easy to get lost in ruminations about what the Fed will or won't do.
And the speculation keeps getting more interesting. While the market appears to be pricing in a September start to tapering, some investors considering what it might take to postpone the end of quantitative easing. Cumberland Advisors' Bob Eisenbeis, for instance, ponders the high turnover expected at the Fed. He writes:


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"You can buy people's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm…you cannot buy loyalty…you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds and souls. You must earn these."
In leadership and Character the leader must motivate those he leads by providing purpose and direction. In the business world that motivation may come in the form of dollars, but more often than not, employees that are satisfied with their leaders will work for less. Like the quote states.. "you cannot buy" those things that shape character. Loyalty, Devotion (also known as Duty), and enthusiasm- translate that to motivation.
The leader must recognize that people, even though some might disagree, cannot and will not be bought.
Money will never buy character, in fact, those that look for character on the shelves of a store will never find it. They will never earn it, and they will never be seen as one with it.
Those that let themselves be bought also will not find true character. It is in the act of being purchased that one looses his character via the virtues of loyalty and duty.
I have said it before, and I am sure I will say it again…over and over again…
Character is something that you earn and keep. Once you give it away, you can not get it back. Once you give up your character earning it back is virtually impossible as you will have given up the core of your values. Once those values are known to be gone, those that associate with you will not be so quick to reconstitute your character status.
You cannot be purchased, and you cannot purchase that which makes you a man. Character.
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Warning: Do not read if on diet. Well, you could barely consider this a waste of time, because of its length. Read White Day if you want to learn a bit bout the actual festival and about a greedy yet pretty girl. The only reason I gave this a rating above 1 is because it actually had a bit of useful information. In short, it's pretty much just a 5 page manga that just made me hungry. D:See full review
Warning: This review may contain spoilers. Read at your own risk. After I finished reading Akuma ni Itsukushimi no Te wo, I was surprised at how nobody else on this site had marked it as "read" yet. The story's plot wasn't exactly remarkable, but it was interesting, to say the least. The plot is mainly about this demon named Rin who seeks exquisite body parts from various humans to assemble his own, "beautiful" body. He finds himself adoring the impeccable, flawless hands of Miwako-san, a great pianist. Rin offers to grant one wish to her in exchange for her lovely hands. However... See full review


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Panel examines Princeton's civic values, Nov. 9
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A student panel discussion on the University's civic values is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in 1 Robertson Hall.
Seven undergraduates formed the Student Task Force on Civic Values last year to examine the ways in which Princeton prepares its students for "active citizenship" and to offer recommendations on ways to strengthen the University's commitment to civic values. A report on the group's yearlong study is available online in PDF format.
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I've been sooooo busy working lately (6 days a week) that but I did have some time to put out a new version of Project Diary. In this release I added some real documentation, removed warnings when it was run with Perl 5.6 and fixed a bug where someones diary entry would be displayed twice if they were listed twice on the project page. Direct download is here
I would really love it if someone would give me a little constructive critisism. I can write perl programs but I'm not not at the point of writing them well. So please email me if you have an comments and especially if you actually found it worth using!
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My 2 yo is a lean 80 lb's. I think he'll be more comfortable sitting around in the blind if he puts on a little weight going into the winter months. Any feeding tips - supplements to the 30:20 stuff he eats recomended out there?
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My 2 yo is a lean 80 lb's. I think he'll be more comfortable sitting around in the blind if he puts on a little weight going into the winter months. Any feeding tips - supplements to the 30:20 stuff he eats recomended out there?
I wouldn't worry about putting weight on the dog. Just worry about acclimating the dog to cold weather, and making sure they're in good physical condition for long days of retrieving. Just my opinion.
Thanks - ya I've been getting him in the water a lot as we are gradually cooling down, sleeping outside. All in an effort to acclimate to the coming winter and some extreme cold weather hunting. Pretty much did the same thing last year - he still froze his butt off. Not sure if it is even possible to put weight on the dog just something that I read about elsewhere.
If he's principally a house dog, any prolonged exposure to very cold conditions is going to challenge him, so I agree with simcoemtn. Young dogs burn off energy like buggery, and so it's a hard job to keep flesh on them, especially in winter.
Just putting extra weight on him might not be appropriate or do him any favours; there are downsides to a dog carrying excess weight, particularly a young chap like yours. If a dog shivers a lot, it isn't necessarily a bad sign; they use the mechanism of shivering to put extra warmth into their systems. What I do, in common with many others, is make sure he has access to a really great meal at days end that will give him a big boost physically and mentally.
When we get back to the vehicle, before moving off, it's a 2/3 ration of his normal grub, plus a can of hot soup (held in a Thermos) dumped on top; for some doggy reason my lot relish Heinz minestrone! :confused: Back at the ranch I give them a pound of tripe (like what the mushers do) with a 1/3 ration. After a day on the marsh or in the coverts, they don't want much rocking, it's lights out and Goodnight Nurse!
I like to look at a dog at rest and see a couple of ribs showing; more than that and he's losing condition, less and he's overburdened.
Hope this helps,
If you choose to add weight to your dog here are some easy supplements to use that will work.
PROZYME digestive aid - better digestion will keep your dog in proper wieght. http://www.prozymeproducts.com
Animal Naturals K9 Show Stopper - Multi purpose supplement in one. http://www.k9power.com/k9-show-stopper.html
Animal Naturals K9 Healthy Gainer - http://www.k9power.com/k9-healthy-gainer.html
Your goal for feeding you dog should be to feed him enough quality food to maintain a lean healthy body weight. Highly active dogs need more calories than sedentary dogs. Dogs that are expected to make cold water retrieves and stay wet for hours on end DO need to be acclimated AND/OR their hunts kept short. Some things you can do are put an insulated vest on the dog to help trap heat, make sure the dog is NOT in the water any more than needed, not having to work too hard for retrieves, make sure he is fed before the hunt and you feed him protein and carbohydrates throughout the day as needed.
I'm embarrassed to tell this story on myself but it might be beneficial:
I can tell you from experience it's a BAD thing to let a dog burn too much energy on a cold day....the crash isn't pretty. I almost lost my previous dog to low blood sugar during a hunt. The temp was in the mid 30's and was the first day above 20 in about a week. We were hunting a hole that ducks had kept open in a frozen flooded cornfield and the birds were flying pretty good. The water was about 18 inches deep and my dog had been in and out of the water off and on for about 2 hours. The ice was so thick we were able to sit on it in the corn and I had an insulated pad down for him to lie on, he was also wearing a vest and receiving peanut butter and crackers all morning. It wasn't enough. Shooting was good and some of the ducks were falling in the water while others were falling on the ice to the sides of the water and across the water which was about 40 yards. He was in and out of the water, climbing up on the ice and jumping back in repeatedly and what I didn't account for was how MUCH extra energy he was burning between that activity and his shivering which as someone above mentioned is normal. Anyway....one buddy and I doubled up on mallard drakes and he easily marked one but not the other. I lined him up for the one he didn't mark and sent him for it which he completed no problem. Then I released him for the second which was directly across the water hole on the ice. He got halfway there and just stopped in the water....then SUNK. I jumped up and got over to him and pulled him up...he was breathing and just looking at me with the saddest look I'd ever seen. I dragged/carried him to the edge of the ice, my buddy and I wrapped him in a coat and carried him to solid ground in the sun. I ran a mile and a half in my waders...got my truck and drove to him. We loaded him into the back seat and headed for town. He was having siezures that shook the truck. We called the vet on the way and they were ready for us....the drew some blood...almost zero blood sugar...an IV and a warming lamp and he was his old self in no time but what a scare. I learned a tough lesson that day.....I'm embarrassed about it and as I said before I'm only telling on myself here so you all might not have to experience the same thing.
Vest and a stand?!!!! Make sure your pup is out of water most of the time. Also read some of the lessons other folks have shared with us on these forums. They tell there stories out of great humility, but its for a damn good reason.
One thing that I stumbled upon last year .I ordered a new vest and it was a little tighter than I've ordered for previous pooches.I was concerned it would be a bad thing ,but it ended up being positive ,due to the fact that it fit snug enough that on normal retrieves it would not let water under the vest .We could hunt all day and once we got back to the truck I would take her vest off and she would be bone dry under it which I think greatly aided in keeping her core temp up.
Also I keep a Shamwow (as seen on TV and sold at Walgreens) in my gear and would wipe her down in between retrieves on really cold days.
I cook pork or beef livers well done and give them to her for snacks through out the day.
She does not heavy a heavy coat but has never seemed to have any cold weather issues.
All four of my dogs are inside all year around (except when exercised, trained or hunted). We hunt the Mississippi River and a local goose area until things freeze tight. Breaking ice in December is fairly common.
My take on the issue of hunting cold and a dog's energy levels is based on several facts and experience.
Here's a list.
1. My dogs are not "fat" and I agree with with "Eug" on being able to slightly see a couple ribs.
2. No dog hunts two days in a row.
3. When it gets really cold the "dog of the day" always wear a snug, good fitting neoprene vest.
4. When hunting they do not sit in water and are protected from the wind.
5. I hunt alone which means on a good day it still is only a "max" six times in the water (unless we loose one - neither of which happens very often).
5a. When I guided in the uplands, the dogs usually ran for three-four hours (often in bitter cold with no vest) and still were fed as per point number six.
6. I feed once a day (in the evening) and they don't get any "snacks" while hunting.
The last point is where I disagree with most of the posts. First of all, if there is food in a dog's stomach (whether fed that morning or given snacks), it takes energy and blood flow which the stomach will "demand". This comes at the expense of less blood flow to muscles and less efficient distribution of any available energy. In addition, food in the stomach that moves to the intestine is still not totally digested and the intestines will continue to "demand" energy and blood flow to do their job. We are talking about several hours before energy is available.
A dog's digestive system is designed to work when it is resting. Once empty and coverted to stored energy, it is available for hunting and a dog moves with more comfort. Energy is not unlimited which means too much cold water, retrieving and/or extended time in the field will eventually require of the handler to call it a day....mostly because a good dog won't.
By feeding at the proper time (which means allowing the digestive system to do it's job first) and using common sense when in the field, it is possible to maximize a dog's safety, effectiveness and comfort in the field.
On an end note, it is possible to give a dog a quick "glucose boost".......but there is an expense paid soon after (sugar crash) if it is designed to extend the day much longer.
I feed to body condition and not weight, but I will feed to put a little more "finish" on when the weather gets bitter and ice forms readily on water. Fat is a natural insulator. Stored fat has 2.25 times more energy than equal proportions of protein or carbs. Fat metabolism is a relevant mechanism to prevent hypoglycemia (low blood sugar.) Heat is a by-product of the metabolic breakdown of food and helps maintain core body temp in frigid temps. Research from Purina shows that the energy level of a dog is at it's highest about 17 hours after feeding.


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Well, under the advice of Tycho and my own consideration, I decided to start this thread based off of the side tracked conversation occuring in the Queensryche thread. I really don't know how to start this thread off, but I suppose it can be opened up with the discussion of the new Ramones tribute cd. Metallica's got a cover on there of 53rd and 3rd. I heard the song back in November, and I thought it was done very well, even if the sound quality of the file sucked.
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An excellent example of a Victorian Silver Propelling Pencil. It has an octagonal, fluted body. Each concave face of the body is decorated with two different but complementary alternating styles.
The tip is marked with "VS" which indicates the type of original leads required.This is not a Sampson Mordan example, but he published the protocol for lead sizing: In his " Directions For Use", which was adopted by many other makers: It says; "The V.S (very soft) is largest.........Very black for deep shading". (See my previous Collectors Weekly Post's for details of Mordan's History, his lead specification and his Patent) The Lead has been measured and is 1.49mm which correlates to the accepted 1.5mm (nominal modern equivalent) size for this type of lead.
The pencil is 90mm long when closed, 118mm when open. It weighs 11.3 grams.
There are no hallmarks but that is not unusual with pencils of this period. The pencil has tested as silver. As is the norm; this does not extend to the internal mechanism that always had to be made from harder wearing metals. There is some slight deformation from use and its age, along the slide slot in the body. This also is often present in these antique and used pencils, and does not detract from it.
The "Seal" finial, sometimes called the "capstone", is the real "jewel in the crown" with this pencil: It unscrews for lead storage and is set with a perfect, facet cut, sky blue Topaz of 8mm diameter. The Topaz reflects and refracts the light beautifully. Because of the cut of this gemstone, it is unlikely it was actually meant to carry an engraved seal monogram, it is purely decorative, and it certainly stands out in my collection, as one of the best.


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