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The XP-50 is not just another synthesizer workstation, it's basically a JV-1080 with a built-in keyboard and a 16-track sequencer! It is a digital synthesizer using sampled ROM waveforms. Superb sound quality capable of emulating most any instrument imaginable plus totally fat analog synth type sounds and loads of percussion! It has 64 voices of polyphony and is 16-part multitimbral. The XP-50 makes a great beginner's pro-quality workstation.
It has 8MB of sounds and it also offers a lot of expandability with 4 expansion slots and 2 data card memory slots. You can get up to 42MB of sounds by adding any of the popular SR-JV80 expansion cards suited for Techno, World Instruments, Orchestral or Synthesizers. There's also plenty of multi-effects, reverbs, choruses and filters for creative flexibility, motion control and extensive MIDI implementation.
Some of the features the XP-50 brings (to the JV-1080) are a standard 61-note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. The MRC-PRO 16-track sequencer which features 60,000 note capacity and can hold 100 patterns and 1 song. Several recording features (loop, step, realtime), quantization and editing features are available too. A built-in 3.5 inch disk drive facilitates storage of your sequences and MIDI data. With a 'bang for your buck' value the XP-50 still makes a great keyboard alternative to the JV-1080. That means you get some of Roland's best sounds in a performance workstation that is as affordable as 'pro-quality' can get (beyond which come the XP-60 and XP-80 mega-synths). It has been used by The Cure.
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Your post brought back memories of when I was in high school, worrying about getting into university. Way back in 1977, which my calculator is telling me is 36 years ago, although it seems much fresher in my memory. Things ended up working out for me, as I'm sure they will for you.
Are you planning on attending a Canadian or a foreign university? I have no complaints about my alma mater (the University of Alberta here in Edmonton), but I'd have to admit that the overall best universities in Canada are probably The University of British Columbia and McGill in Montreal.
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I went to an area I hadn't been in this fall . Standing there in the powerline clearcut this cold and frosty morn I waited on the day to lighten . I hit the brass call as light as I could and made a tree call . A few minutes later I repeat . A bird began to call over on the next ridge , which isn't near as high as the one I'm on . We yelped and clucked back and forth for a while and they flew down . Silence . The next time I hear them they are on the far ridge . I pick up and make a very wide loop around both the birds and a piece of private ground that is bordered on 3 sides by public land . I didn't get in too much of a hurry ,,,just taking my time trying to be somewhat quiet in the frosted leaves . I passed the point of the low ridge they had been roosted on and climbed the ridge they were now feeding on . Occassionally I could hear them squabble among themselves . After reaching a good flat on the ridge , with good cover I just stopped to listen . It wasn't long before I could hear them raking the hillside . I made some gobbler yelps on both the brass and the Havoc calls . After about 30 minutes I can see them slowly coming toward me at about 70 yards . They were all taking turn about doing their ''STRETCH 'N'FLAP'' and finally got into a freeforall for about a minute . As this quarrel was winding down I gave them a gobble . All leaf rattling stopped momentarily and they began again to move my way .
Da'gummit they were taking their time . I didn't sit down or lean against a tree ,,,,I just kinda squatted . My right foot was asleep and aching too . My left hand was like an icecube too. But the birds are still coming . They finally get within 25 yards and up out of a low , shallow gulley and all begin stretching their necks looking at the green and brown blob . Some got up on logs to survey the area . Others just stood their ground . None made a peep nor a cluck . One bird , which was the first to begin the stretched neck senario , just stood off to my left and away from the rest of the flock . So I just decided to take him . At the shot birds went airborne and some just stood still . One went over and threatened to kill the down bird again . I stood up and those remaining on the ground took to wing . After the flopping stopped I took the bird over to a sunny spot for a photo ,and to warm myself a little . Like a durn fool I left my gun ten feet away . I was just standing there listening to the woods and looking down at the deceased when I heard something o the ground straight out in front of me . I figured it to be a returning bird . WRONG! COYOTE. He was within range of the gun ,,but I wasn't . I knew he would spot me if I tried to get to the double . He walked behind some dense brush and I dropped to a crawling position . But when he emerged he must have picked up my scent on the breeze and high tailed it .
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Now I possess mixed feelings about it all . Wanted a longbeard , and took a jake . Love roaming the November hills searching for them ,,,,now I can't . It was a good long engagement and the reward of having them come in close is quite satisfying to me .
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Former WBC Champion Adrian Diaconu heads Superkombat's move into Canada
- Written by Dave Walsh
Former WBC boxing Champion, Adrian Diaconu, has been brought on-board to assist with SuperKombat's growth in Canada.
Born in Romania and currently living in Montreal, Diaconu has amassed a 27-3 boxing record over a career spanning 11 years. He has also represented his native country during the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Canada is home to a selection of skilled stand-up fighters like Simon Marcus, Shane Campbell, Gabriel Varga, and Joe Valtellini. Diaconu will be overseeing tryouts for the next generation of kickboxers, as well as organizing future events in the region.
The move marks Superkombat's expansion into North American territory, and the beginning of the organization establishing bases in the west. Over the next two months Superkombat will hold tryouts in a variety of countries around the globe, including Germany, Great Britain, Romania, Croatia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Brazil, and Egypt.


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By Dimitra DeFotis
Coal stocks jumped Friday after credit rating agency Moody's raised its coal industry outlook to stable from negative.
Moody's report sums its view: "Business Conditions Hit Bottom." Moody's said it "does not expect industry fundamentals to deteriorate further over the next 12 to 18 months, though business conditions remain very weak." According to Moody's Senior Analyst Anna Zubets-Anderson:
"Sustained natural gas prices will prop up demand for the thermal coal used in power production through mid-2014 to early 2015, while supply rationalization should help stabilize prices for metallurgical coal, which is used in steelmaking. … The stable outlook reflects our expectation that over the next year or so coal-fired power plants will capture roughly 40% of US electricity generation, up from 37% in 2012 … Coal inventories had fallen to roughly 164 million short tons by July this year, so we expect modest improvements in thermal coal production and pricing next year."
"The company has raised $450 million in liquidity during 2013. As amendments are in place, all options remain to enhance its position, including asset sales and tapping debt capital markets. Available liquidity of $487.5 million, including $171 million in cash and cash equivalents for now as we were encouraged to see management again reduce capital spending levels to $150 million this year with a targeted minimum level of $130 million for 2014."
Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) and James River Coal (JRCC) each rose nearly 12%. The largecap U.S. coal players also rallied: Arch Coal (ACI) was up 10%, Peabody Energy (BTU) jumped nearly 9% .
Consol Energy (CNX), which also produces natural gas, was up more than 3%, as was Cloud Peak Energy (CLD).
The Moody's press release, here. Coal insiders were active earlier this year, we noted here.


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Getting started:
1) APA requires a hanging indent for its citations.
2) PLEASE BE SURE TO DOUBLE SPACE CITATIONS. (For space saving reasons, the citations below are single spaced.)
3) Entitle your reference sheet "References."
4) Alphabetize the works.
5) Notice one of the major changes in the APA 6th edition is the requirement for a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) in the citation for print and electronic sources when available. For more information see the "Electronic Information" section.
If your source does not appear on this sheet, consult the APA guide available on Reserve or at the library assistance desk in the Cook Library Learning Commons.. Also see the USM Libraries' tutorial on APA formatting. For in text citations see: http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/apaintext.html.
Typical book entry -- single author
American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Multiple authors
Festinger, L., Riecken, H., & Schachter, S. (1956). When prophecy fails. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Roeder, K., Howdeshell, J., Fulton, L., Lochhead, M., Craig, K., Peterson, R., ...Applin, M. (1967). Nerve cells and insect behavior: A manual. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Corporate authorship
Institute of Financial Education. (1982). Managing personal funds. Chicago: Midwestern.
No author identified
Experimental psychology. (1938). New York: Holt.
Citing items in an anthology/chapter in edited book
Rubenstein, J. P. (1967). The effect of television violence on small children. In B.F. Kane (Ed.), Television and juvenile psychological development (pp. 112-134). New York: American Psychological Society.
Reprinted or republished chapter
Freud, S. (1961). The ego and the id. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 19, pp. 3-66). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1923)
Chapter in a volume in a series
Maccoby, E. E., & Martin, J. (1983). Socialization in the context of the family: Parent-child interaction. In P. H. Mussen (Series Ed.) & E. M. Hetherington (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology: Vol. 4. Socialization, personality, and social development (pp. 1-101). New York: Wiley.
Citing multivolume works
Wilson, J. G., & Fraser, F. C. (Eds.). (1977-1978). Handbook of teratology (Vols. 1-4). New York: Plenum Press.
Edited collections
Grice, H. P., & Gregory, R. L. (Eds.). (1968). Early language development. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Citing specific editions of a book
Brockett, O. (1987). History of the theater (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Translated works
Freud, S. (1970) An outline of psychoanalysis (J. Strachey, Trans.). New York: Norton. (Original work published 1940)
Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (1991). A motivational approach to self: Integration in personality. In R. Dienstbier (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Vol. 38. Perspectives on Motivation (pp. 237-288). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Cynx, J., Williams, H., & Nottebohm, F. (1992). Hemispheric differences in avian song discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89, 1372-1375.
Citing articles in journals with continuous pagination
Passons, W. (1967). Predictive validates of the ACT, SAT, and high school grades for first semester GPA and freshman courses. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 27, 1143-1144.
Citing articles in journals with non-continuous pagination
Sawyer, J. (1966). Measurement and prediction, clinical and statistical. Psychological Bulletin, 66(3), 178-200.
Citing articles in monthly periodicals
Chandler-Crisp, S. (1988, May) "Aerobic writing": A writing practice model. Writing Lab Newsletter, pp. 9-11.
Citing articles in weekly periodicals
Kauffmann, S. (1993, October 18). On films: Class consciousness. The New Republic, p.30.
Newspaper articles
Monson, M. (1993, September 16). Urbana firm obstacle to office project. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, pp. A1, A8.
No author identified
Clinton puts 'human face' on health-care plan. (1993, September 16). The New York Times, p. B1.
Reprinted or republished articles
Clark, G., & Zimmerman, E. (1988). Professional roles and activities as models for art education. In S. Dobbs (Ed.), Research readings for discipline-based art education (pp. 3-18). Reston, VA: NAEA. (Reprinted from Studies in Art Education, 19 (1986), 34-39)
ERIC Documents (Report available from the Educational Resources Information Center)
Mead, J. V. (1992). Looking at old photographs: Investigating the teacher tales that novice teachers bring with them (Report No. NCRTL-RR-92-4). East Lansing, MI: National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. Retrieved from ERIC database. (ED346082)
Dissertation obtained from Proquest's Dissertations & Theses
Saunders, M. D. (1990). Eastern's pilot rebellion: Patterns of conflict rhetoric preceding the 1989 pilot walkout at Eastern Airlines. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Digital Dissertations database. (Publication No. AAT 9103113).
Dissertation abstracted in DAI:
Ross, D. F. (1990). Unconscious transference and mistaken identity: When a witness misidentifies a familiar but innocent person from a lineup. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A. Humanities and Social Sciences, 51(10), 417.
Legal Documents
Court Decisions
Name v. Name, Volume Source Page (Court Date).
Lessard v. Schmidt, 349 F. Supp. 1078 (E.D. Wis. 1972).
Name of Act, Volume Source § section number (year).
Mental Health Systems Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9401 (1988).
Citing interviews
Burns, H. (1993, August 12). Interview by P. A. Brannock [Tape recording]. Oral History Project (F106.D32). University Archives Mississippiana Collection, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
If there is only a transcription and not a recording then cite as follows:
Burns, H. (1993, August 12). Interview with Helen Burns/Interviewer: Peggy A. Brannock. Oral History Project (Vol. 289), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
(N. Archer, personal interview, October 11, 1993)
Citing films or videotapes
Weir, P.B. (Producer), & Harrison, B.F. (Director). (1992). Levels of consciousness [Motion picture]. Boston, MA: Filmways.
Citing recordings
Writer, A. (Date of copyright). Title of song [Recorded by artist if different from writer]. On Title of album [Medium of recording: CD, record, cassette, etc.]. Location: Label. (Recording date if different than copyright)
Lang, k. d. (2008). Shadow and the frame. On Watershed [CD]. New York, NY: Nonesuch Records.
The type of medium can be, but is not limited to the following: online journals, Web sites or Web pages, newsgoups, Web- or e-mail based discussion groups or Web or e-mail based newsletters.
Electronic Book
McCarver, P.L. (2001). History of New England honey bees. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.co.uk/html/bees.asp
or (if DOI is available)
McCarver, P.L. (2001). History of New England honey bees. doi: 10.1036/0071393722
Full-Text Article with DOI assigned
Jacobson, J. W., Mulick, J. A., & Schwartz, A. A. (1995). A history of facilitated communication: Science, pseudoscience, and antiscience. American Psychologist, 50, 750-765. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.50.9.750
Full-Text Article without a DOI
Bianco, A. & Zellner, W. (2003, October 6). Is Wal-Mart too powerful? Harvard Business Review, 38, 100-104. Retrieved from http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/
Article in an Internet-only newsletter
Waufton, K.K. (1999, April). Dealing with anthrax. Telehealth News, 3(2). Retrieved from http://www.telehearlth.net/subscribe/newslettr_5b.html#1
Internet technical or research reports
University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging. (1996, November). Chronic care in America: A 21st century challenge (Report No. here if available). Retrieved from the Robert Wood Foundation website: http://www.rwjf.org/library/chrcare
Document created by private organization, no page numbers, no date
Greater Hattiesburg Civic Awareness Group, Task Force on Sheltered Programs. (n.d.). Fund-raising efforts. Retrieved from http://www.hattiesburgcag.org
Document from university program or department
McNeese, M.N. (2001). Using technology in educational settings. Retrieved from University of Southern Mississippi, Educational Leadership and Research website: http://www-dept.usm.edu/~eda/
Message posted to a newsgroup, online forum, discussion group or mailing list
Zelner, T. (2009, January 8). Re: Librarians and Information Literacy [Online forum comment]. Retrieved from http://www.yahooforums.com/comments/infolitforum/librarians#comments
Blair, J. (2008, June 5). Re: Proxy server problems [Electronic mailing list message]. Retrieved from http://tech.groups/yahoo.com/group/techmessages/580
Citing computer software
Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (Version 2) [Computer Software]. Englewood, NJ: Biostat.
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WSC Seeks 2014 Women of the Year Awards Nominations
The Women's Security Council's 2014 Women of the Year Awards program will honor top female professionals in security marketplace.
By SSI Staff · February 25, 2014
TAMPA, Fla — The Women's Security Council, a network of successful security professionals focused on promoting the advancement of women in the industry, is seeking nominations for its 2014 Women of the Year awards.
The annual awards program honors the top female professionals in the physical security industry in a variety of categories.
WSC will announce the winners during its 2014 Networking Reception in Las Vegas on April 2 — the opening day at ISC West. The presentation will be held at 6 p.m. at Dal Toro in the Palazzo.
Honorees will also be profiled in a special 2014 eWSC awards newsletter and announced in an official WSC press release to be distributed at ISC West.
Nominees will be judged based upon the leadership they have exhibited in the security industry and at their companies, and the ways they have given back to the business community by mentoring or supporting other women in the security market. The WSC Founding Committee and select WSC members will spearhead the review process.
To nominate yourself or a colleague, an online nomination form can be completed at Related Articles
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FUNDING: DOCLINE Users – Apply for EFTS Award !Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
The MidContinental Region (MCR) is offering $150 in start-up funding for the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) to each MCR library using DOCLINE but not currently participating in the EFTS program. EFTS is used by health sciences libraries, and other DOCLINE users, for processing payment of inter-library loan transactions. Benefits include reduced costs, minimizes human error, reduced paperwork and increases efficiency. More information on the program is here.
Any MCR DOCLINE library, but EFTS non-participant is eligible to apply. You must enroll in EFTS to receive the award. Deadline for submitting an application has been extended to December 31, 2013. Applications will be accepted and reviewed until funds are no longer available, or until the deadline date.
For more information about the award requirements and how to apply : http://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding/#A3
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About Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs is to the five-string banjo what Paganini was to the violin. After more than 20 years with the Foggy Mountain Boys, forming the most famous band in bluegrass history, Scruggs and Lester Flatt parted company in 1969 because of artistic differences, with Flatt pursuing more traditional sounds and Scruggs forming the Earl Scruggs Revue with his two sons. The Revue appealed more to a young and urban audience and, with Dobro player Josh Graves, played rock and other non-country music. Scruggs made many albums since his parting with Flatt (including The Storyteller and the Banjoman with Tom T. Hall in 1982) and has been seen on TV, often for reunion appearances. ~ David Vinopal, Rovi


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By M. Scott Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
BLUE SPRINGS – Bervia Hooghouse knows he's not the easiest person in the world to approach.
He wears an earring and puts his scruffy, gray goatee in a braid. He'll often be found astride a Triumph motorcycle.
"I know I'm not pretty," he said. "Even if I'm not wearing a bandana on my head, you can tell I'm a cyclist. It's in my DNA."
Hooghouse, a 53-year-old Blue Springs resident by way of Michigan, won't be changing his signature style anytime soon, and he doesn't have to. He hangs out with a good buddy who draws enough attention for both of them.
"Blue's been a star from the get-go," Hooghouse said. "He loves me to death, and I love him, too."
Blue is a 6-year-old blue heeler. If you've ever seen a dog riding in a sidecar in Northeast Mississippi, that's Blue.
"I've had state troopers pull me over just to get pictures with him," Hooghouse said.
The pair are used to turning heads, like the time they drove up on a school bus filled with kids.
"They were on a field trip or whatever," Hooghouse said. "I watched as the whole bus leaned to the side. The kids were out the windows, hooting and hollering. He loved it. He just loves kids."
Riding for distance
Hooghouse wasn't looking for a dog when someone brought a puppy to work and said the pooch would go to the pound if he didn't find a home.
"I didn't need another dog. I didn't want another dog, but it's the best decision I ever made," Hooghouse said. "You could say he's a rescue dog because he rescued me."
Two other dogs, Misty Blue and Betty Boo, also rode with Hooghouse, but there's something about Blue's effect on people.
"I've had many good dogs, but he's special," Hooghouse said.
When the pair hit the road, they like to ride for distance. It's not unusual for them to join with other riders and end up three or four states away from home.
"When we're traveling, we like to go," Hooghouse said.
He's learned not to visit rest stops when he'd rather be on the road because carloads of people come by for photographs. But Hooghouse is more than willing to stop when he has the time.
"I like to ride the Natchez Trace a lot," he said. "Occasionally, I'll run across special needs kids at one of the rest stops. I stay longer than I usually would so he can play with them. With special needs kids, he knows. He'll take the stick right up to them, so they don't have to do the work, he does."
That might go back to something Blue learned as a puppy. Hooghouse had surgery and was confined to a wheelchair during Blue's early days.
"I could barely move at all," Hooghouse said. "If he wanted to play – and he loves to play – he had to get the toy right up to me."
Dress the part
A dog riding in a motorcycle sidecar is an odd sight, but Hooghouse and Blue take things further.
"I had a custom leather jacket made for him. I spent more money on his jacket than on my own. He's worth it. I want him comfortable," Hooghouse said. "It was only logical. I like to ride year-round. We'll ride in the teens, not that long, but we go."
Blue's never had a problem wearing goggles. At first, they were the same kind Hooghouse wears. Now, he has a pair of Doggles, which a company manufactures especially for dogs.
Hooghouse made a helmet. The front says, "Bad to the bone," and the back says, "DOG approved."
"State troopers love that," Hooghouse said. "Regular helmets say 'DOT approved.'"
Hooghouse's wife, Donna, works as a graphic artist and created the helmet decals. She also makes shirts and sweaters for Blue, who recently wore one with the word, "Security," on back.
"He goes through the shirts," she said. "He rips them. He's kind of rough on them. He likes the barbed wire out back."
All business
Donna Hooghouse, 50, used to ride more often with her husband, but she's backed off in recent years. That's fine with Blue.
"He doesn't like for me to ride. He kind of gives me a look," she said. "Every once in a while, he gives me the business for being on there. I have to tell Bervia to make him quit."
Blue is friendly most of the time, but he changes demeanor as soon as Hooghouse cranks the motorcycle. When it's time to ride, he's focused.
He learned that lesson the hard way.
"He jumped out to chase a squirrel once," Hooghouse said. "He didn't do that again."
Blue isn't strapped in when he rides. Hooghouse said it'd be better for him to be thrown clear than to be stuck in the sidecar as it rolled.
"That's my thinking on it," Hooghouse said.
The dog is a willing participant. If Hooghouse delays a ride, Blue will whimper and bark, as if to say, "Let's go, man."
They make quite a team, and Blue doesn't like to be far from his buddy. Hooghouse supervises crews for Wheeler Roofing, and Blue's usually with him.
At first, Blue stayed in the truck, but one day, he climbed up a 40-foot ladder.
"I was getting something out of my truck, and he climbed up that ladder all by himself. It scared me," Hooghouse said. "From that day on, he's never climbed up without me. I can't make him stop."
Mark Gwin, general manager at Wheeler, said the company doesn't mind Blue hanging around work sites. Besides, the dog's been good advertising.
A crew was working at a Waffle House, and Blue went up the ladder, Gwin said.
"This boy saw him. He went inside and yelled, 'Hey, y'all, a dog's going up a ladder!'" Gwin said. "That whole place cleared out to look. It was great."
The workers use a harness system to get Blue down from roofs. That method isn't as impressive as watching a dog walk down a 40-foot ladder would be, but there's still entertainment value.
Hooghouse and Blue are bona fide celebrities. Wherever they go, people are fascinated by the sidecar-riding dog. Blue eats up the attention, and Hooghouse enjoys the reflected glory, too.
"I guess they look at it like this: If you have a dog, you can't be all bad," he said. "If your dog loves you, they can see it.
"I've had people give me looks I didn't deserve. With him, 99.9 percent of the time, he gets people to smile. It does my heart good to see people smiling rather than frowning."
As Gwin said, "Bervia looks rough, but he's really a sweetheart."


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By Emily Wagster Pettus/The Associated Press
JACKSON — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour once again has a full-time presence in the state Capitol: His portrait now hangs on the first floor.
The painting by Meridian-based artist Greg Cartmell was unveiled Wednesday.
In recognition of Barbour's service during and after Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, it depicts him in front of a painting of the Biloxi lighthouse.
It also includes a likeness of Barbour's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Walter Leake, who was one of Mississippi's original two U.S. senators after statehood in 1817 and was governor from 1822 to 1825.
Barbour, a Yazoo City native who led the Republican National Committee in the mid-1990s, was governor from January 2004 to January 2012. He was term-limited and is working again as a lawyer and Washington lobbyist.
"It was my high honor and great pleasure to serve as your governor. Thank you for the opportunity," Barbour, 65, told hundreds of lawmakers, former staff members, political supporters and others who filled the Capitol rotunda for a brief ceremony.
He also joked about the ceremony itself: "I have noticed people saying, 'Well, I'm coming to your hanging. I've been waiting for this for a long time.'"
Spectators applauded as Barbour and Cartmell pulled a black cloth off the painting.
"Bravo! Bravo," said state Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville. "I love it."
Cartmell, who has been painting 63 years, said people often ask him how long it takes to complete a portrait. In the case of Barbour, he said, it took "120 hours and 63 years."
Barbour thanked Cartmell for including images of Mississippi.
"We southerners have a sense of place that's very important to us in our lives and the way we live our lives," Barbour said.
The former governor also paid tribute to his wife, Marsha, who sat nearby. He said the Biloxi lighthouse symbolizes the work she did in Katrina's aftermath, including making sure state agencies were aware of where supplies were needed.
"Katrina made Marsha the star in our family, not me," he said.
The Capitol's Hall of Governors now has portraits of all the former governors except Democrat Bill Allain, who served from January 1984 to January 1988. Allain has chosen not to have one painted.
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Recently Nick wrote a piece on his blog regarding politics and Scouting and how the two should never meet. I agree, after all.. there is no such thing as values and moral thinking in the political arena, no offense if there are political types that follow the blog.
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I couldn't agree more!People who have their own agenda or play 'politics' within a Group / Troop / Pack (insert your own section here) forget one thing. The Group which they or their children belong to isn't theirs, it belongs to all the members past, present and future.My job title is Group Scout Leader and not Group Scout Dictator For Life! The Group is run by its Executive Committee and I am part of that, but although I run the Group on a day to day basis, it is the Executive that is responsible for the Group's overall running. This should ensure that I cannot run the Group to my own agenda, but I must do it the the rules of the Scout Association.Of course playing politics in the current climate isn't sensible! UK politicians are not held in the highest esteem at the moment due to their abuse of expenses claims (see the BBC website for examples).The Group is run for ALL its members and not just for individuals, Leaders or young people, wanting their own way. Not to do so is not to follow the themes, principles and spirit of Scouting.


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7.1: Introduction
Why Do We Need Agent-based Modeling?
The traditional view of modeling and simulation is very often driven by the idea of imitating some system we have observed, in order to help us understand how it works. We start with the real system and attempt to define it as being either technical- or human-based. Technical-based systems describe engineering systems, like cars, trains, ships, etc. Human-based systems describe societies, like cities, organizations, etc. Once defined, we can then observe what the system does (its functionality), what goes into the system (the input(s)) and what comes out of the system (the output(s)). Thus we can determine whether it is a closed system that works independent of other systems or an open system wherein other systems affect or are affected by our system (the relations). From this first look at the system, we start deconstructing it, identifying the individual components by their sub-functionality, inputs, outputs, and relations to other components. Each component may be built from sub-components, and so forth, such that we are reducing the system more and more until we end with the smallest components that provide some support to the required functionality.
As an example of this traditional view of modeling and simulation, suppose you have the closed, technical system of a car, and you wish to analyze how changes to the components affect its safety in a head-on collision. You can start by distinguishing between the exterior parts of the car, the interior parts of the car, and the engine and drivetrain as the three main components. Next, you go into more detail, describing the lights, the hood and trunk, doors, fenders, framing, etc. to describe the exterior. You then use the seats, dashboard, safety belts, airbags, etc. to describe the interior. And finally, you describe the main parts of the engine and drivetrain: cylinders, valves, spark plugs, pistons, crankshafts, etc. By utilizing the physical descriptions of all these parts and how they work together, you are able to develop a simulation that very closely approximates this real system. There are, however, limitations to this approach; we assume that we correctly identified the system as being closed, and that there are no hidden parameters or unobservable parts.
The same idea can be applied to more abstract, future, physics-based technical systems. Instead of the real system, the plans for the future system, which is a system that does not exist now but may be built in the future, are used as a reference to define the simulation from the top down. A big advantage of such an approach is that it is possible to play with the components and specifications to find out how the new system can be optimized. We can therefore build a model that represents the future system as close as we want it to be, and then use that model to simulate applications before building a prototype. Again, this idea works very well for well-known, closed technical systems.
Not all systems are closed technical systems that follow clearly defined and well understood theoretical principles, such as the Newtonian physics and mechanics used for cars, trains, planes, etc. Examples of these kinds of systems include storm fronts, economic behavior at the stock market, social interactions in a crowd during a demonstration, and many more. Simulation can help us to better understand these systems, but we can no longer apply the top-down approach described above. We need a new approach to do this. And this new approach requires an agent-based model.
The underlying idea is quite obvious: although we may not be able to identify and describe the behaviors of all the components within the system, we may be able to identify the main components, what they do, and how they are related. For example, we cannot describe the traffic in New York City as a function, but we know that cars – in particular yellow taxis – and utility trucks play a major role, as well as constraints imposed by traffic lights, traffic regulators, and lots of pedestrians. Instead of trying to come up with a complex fluid-mechanic solution, each taxi, car, truck, regulator, and potential pedestrian is modeled as an agent. And instead of describing the system, we describe the components, what they do, and how they interact with each other. Then we execute the simulation and observe how the overall system behaves. Essentially, the system itself is not defined in terms of overall behavior, as in the typical top-down approach. Rather, we define the components and their interplay and observe the system behavior that emerges from the bottom up.
It is because the bottom up, agent-based modeling approach allows us to simulate more complex, semi-open technical systems that we must more fully understand how they are developed and used. This learning unit will therefore introduce the various concepts of agent-based modeling necessary to allow the student to understand how to apply agent-based solutions and how to build an agent-based solution. The student will also be able to judge if agent-based modeling is the right choice to support a task, and what other possibilities – described in more detail in other units of this book – are applicable.
There are many agent-based modeling development kits available. Examples given in this unit will use NETLOGO. The development kit can be downloaded for free from the website http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ including examples, documentation, and other resources. As this kit was developed for teaching purposes, the use is appropriate for students even with a minimal background in computer programming. Depending on the maturity level, more advanced kits can be utilized for additional assignments. A selection of alternative development kits will be given in an appendix to this unit.
What is an Intelligent Software Agent?
The meaning of the word "agent" was originally defined as "one that produces an effect," and was derived from the Latin term agere, which translates as "to drive, to act, to do." Soon, being an agent was understood as someone that acted for someone else to produce the same effect. A travel agent is doing all the work for you to plan a vacation that you otherwise would have had to do yourself: finding the best flight connection, looking for a good hotel that provides everything you want within your budget, checking for local attractions to visit, etc. The more powerful computers became, the more this type of work could be supported by computers, leading to the evolution of software agents. However, software can usually only solve exactly the problems it was designed for. The same "simple" tasks can be conducted efficiently again and again, but when an unexpected condition occurs, the computer program normally runs into problems. As a result, researchers started to work on intelligent software agents. Figure below shows the characteristics of an intelligent system.1
Characteristics of an Intelligence-based System
These ten characteristics are neither complete nor exclusive, but they represent a good hub of agreed characteristics from experts from various domains. The characteristics can be defined as follows:
- Self-explaining: an intelligent system can explain how it came to a certain conclusion that led to the observed reaction of the system.
- Robust: Slight changes in the environment do not lead to a failure.
- Fault tolerant: Even when some parts are broken, the system can still function. This characteristic may include the concepts of self-evaluation and repair.
- Adaptive: A system can adapt to a new environment that may be significantly different from the original environment.
- Self-organizing: Intelligent systems are able to find a way to organize themselves to optimize their tasks without an internal or external authority. The structure is discovered by the systems, not programmed by their developers.
- Deductive: Based on a set of axioms or general knowledge, intelligent systems can derive new knowledge for a particular case.
- Learning: Intelligence-based systems are able to learn. They not only learn from their mistakes, they also learn from success and the communication thereof with others.
- Cooperative: Intelligent systems work together with others to solve a problem.
- Autonomous: A system is able to continue to pursue its objectives without human guidance, even in unfriendly environments.
- Agile: Intelligent systems can rapidly and efficiently adapt to changes in the environment.
Intelligent software agents possess these characteristics.
What is Agent-based Modeling
The use of intelligent software agents provides investigators with a whole new way to build a model in which, instead of describing the system in the typical top down approach, and controlling all of the parts in order to achieve the desired functionality, each component of the system is an intelligent software agent that follows the rules that guide how they act and interact. The system behavior is not the input into the system to be modeled but the result of the observation of the interaction of the intelligent software agents.
Let's look at an example from traffic. When you are standing on the Empire State Building in New York City and look down onto the streets and avenues, you see the flow of cars slowly moving through the city. Figure below is a photo that shows the view.
View from the Empire State Building
When you watch traffic, you observe that the cars are moving in waves through the cities. The speed of these waves is directed by the magnitude of traffic lights. The traditional approach is to describe the traffic as a wave that is made up of cars. The position of each car is determined by the system: I compute where the wave should be and then compute the positions of the cars to make up the same waves that I observe from the top of the world. Nothing is wrong with this approach, until an accident occurs somewhere and all the waveforms change.
Using agent-based modeling, the approach is as follows: we completely ignore how I interpret the picture that I see. Instead, we focus on building agents for the cars. Cars follow the streets to move from where they are towards where they want to be. If there is a red light, they stop. However, some drivers drive up all the way to the light before they brake, while others get slower and continue to roll towards the light. When the traffic light turns green, some cars accelerate immediately, trying to get going as soon and fast as possible. Others may be more focused on changing their CDs, drinking their coffee, or answering a text and need some extra time to get going. When driving, some cars like to keep no gap at all between themselves and the trunk of the car in front of them, while others leave enough space for a truck. Some cars panic and get slower when being tailgated, others start speeding. All these are possible behaviors that can be captured in rules that an intelligent software agent follows.
Figure below shows a screen shot of a traffic simulation using NETLOGO, which is part of the standard library of simulations that can be downloaded as an example from the already mentioned website. This example shows that using simple rules for car behavior can result in complex waves being observed for the overall system without having to tell any of the cars that they shall move through the city in waves. Such behavior is called emergent behavior.
Traffic Simulation with NETLOGO
Let's summarize what we learned thus far. The traditional modeling process for systems describes the observed system behavior using equations to describe a system from the top down. The status of system attributes and components is then derived and simulated in accordance with these equations. For many systems, this is a valuable approach; approaches like system dynamics – as discussed in another chapter of this book – provided and still provide valuable insights. Intelligent software agents allow for a new viewpoint to cope with system models. Agents follow rules that guide their behavior, including collaboration with other agents. Using agents and rules to simulate components and their interactions, the system behaviors emerge from such basic descriptions from the bottom up.
In many application cases, agent-based models have been successfully applied to contribute to problem solutions that were not possible with traditional models. However, this does not prove that agent-based modeling is superior to other modeling paradigms. It just proves that certain problems are easier to solve using agent-based models.
1 Andreas Tolk, Kevin M. Adams, Charles B. Keating: "Towards Intelligence-based Systems Engineering and System of Systems Engineering," in: Andreas Tolk and Lakhmi Jain (Eds.): Intelligence-based Systems Engineering, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 10, Springer-Heidelberg, pp. 1-22, 2011
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Jean Charles Skarbowsky vs Kamel Mayouf
- Written by Dave Walsh
This fight against Kamel Mayouf is from Jean Charles Skarbowsy's time on the European circuits. He's significantly trimmer and younger here than in his famous TUF appearance as GSP's Muay Thai coach. He's also a bit raw here compared to, say, his appearances on the King's Cup tournaments in Bangkok, but his distinctive loose, powerful style is already quite apparent.
France has produced some amazing Muay Thai champions and Skarbowsky is up there in the top three from France. (The most famous French boxer would have to be Dany Bill.)
Jean Charles has beaten some very famous Thai names like Orono por Muang Ubon, Suriya Sor Ploenchit, and Lamsongkram Chuwattana. The last is a remarkable feat on size difference alone.
The video is short and the fight offers a graceful, rather atypical finish. Jean Charles is in the blue gloves and Kamel the red.
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turkeymaster wrote:Hey guys! I have just recently bought the Benelli SuperNova with the Pistol Grip. It is an amazing gun that shoots well. I recommend it to anyone. But i need a turkey choke and i dont have a lot of money left over from buying this gun. Im using the remington #4 shot and i have been looking at the gobblin thunder but that is way to much money for a choke that i can afford to buy? any suggestions?
Try this website for some good information: http://www.allaboutshooting.com I purchased an SSX for my Benelli for around $37 and change from this site.


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I was at the TRU in Woodfield last night looking for the TIE. I asked the manager who told me they did recieve them (first time I heard about them hitting the Chicago area) BUT they were all gone. She wasn't sure how many she got in. As I was leaving (it was AFTER 9:30 and I was one of the last people in the store) I look up by the service desk and lo and behold, in a cart right next to the desk is a TIE. I grab it quick like and notice a big red and white sticker HOLD FOR....
NOW.....I look around and the closest employee is about 30 feet away at a register. There's NO ONE at the desk. It would have taken me seconds to toss the HOLD sticker away, walk up to the cashier and buy the thing outright.
I didn't.
As I made my way to the door, TIE-less, I already began kicking myself for doing/not doing the right/wrong thing???
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How do kittens know how to "hunt"?
This kitten was probably adopted and separated from its mother at a young age. It never got a lesson in how to stalk and pounce on prey. So how does this kitten know how to attack the ball of yarn? Some behaviors do not need to be learned.
Innate Behavior
Many animal behaviors are ways that animals act, naturally. They don't have to learn how to behave in these ways. Cats are natural-born hunters. They don't need to learn how to hunt. Spiders spin their complex webs without learning how to do it from other spiders. Birds and wasps know how to build nests without being taught. These behaviors are called innate.
An innate behavior is any behavior that occurs naturally in all animals of a given species. An innate behavior is also called an instinct. The first time an animal performs an innate behavior, the animal does it well. The animal does not have to practice the behavior in order to get it right or become better at it. Innate behaviors are also predictable. All members of a species perform an innate behavior in the same way. From the examples described above, you can probably tell that innate behaviors usually involve important actions, like eating and caring for the young.
There are many other examples of innate behaviors. For example, did you know that honeybees dance? The honeybee pictured below has found a source of food (Figure below). When the bee returns to its hive, it will do a dance. This dance is called the waggle dance. The way the bee moves during its dance tells other bees in the hive where to find the food. Honeybees can do the waggle dance without learning it from other bees, so it is an innate behavior.
When this honeybee goes back to its hive, it will do a dance to tell the other bees in the hive where it found food.
Besides building nests, birds have other innate behaviors. One example occurs in gulls, which are pictured below (Figure below); one of the chicks is pecking at a red spot on the mother's beak. This innate behavior causes the mother to feed the chick. In many other species of birds, the chicks open their mouths wide whenever the mother returns to the nest (Figure below). This innate behavior, called gaping, causes the mother to feed them.
Left: This mother gull will feed her chick after it pecks at a red spot on her beak. Both pecking and feeding behaviors are innate. Right: When these baby birds open their mouths wide, their mother instinctively feeds them. This innate behavior is called gaping.
Another example of innate behavior in birds is egg rolling. It happens in some species of water birds, like the graylag goose (Figure below). Graylag geese make nests on the ground. If an egg rolls out of the nest, a mother goose uses her bill to push it back into the nest. Returning the egg to the nest helps ensure that the egg will hatch.
This female graylag goose is a ground-nesting water bird. Before her chicks hatch, the mother protects the eggs. She will use her bill to push eggs back into the nest if they roll out. This is an example of an innate behavior. How could this behavior increase the goose's fitness?
Innate Behavior in Human Beings
All animals have innate behaviors, even human beings. Can you think of human behaviors that do not have to be learned? Chances are, you will have a hard time thinking of any. The only truly innate behaviors in humans are called reflex behaviors. They occur mainly in babies. Like innate behaviors in other animals, reflex behaviors in human babies may help them survive.
An example of a reflex behavior in babies is the sucking reflex. Newborns instinctively suck on a nipple that is placed in their mouth. It is easy to see how this behavior evolved. It increases the chances of a baby feeding and surviving. Another example of a reflex behavior in babies is the grasp reflex (Figure below). Babies instinctively grasp an object placed in the palm of their hand. Their grip may be surprisingly strong. How do you think this behavior might increase a baby's chances of surviving?
One of the few innate behaviors in human beings is the grasp reflex. It occurs only in babies.
- Innate behavior, or instinct, is any behavior that occurs naturally in all animals of a given species.
- Examples of innate behavior include honeybees doing the waggle dance or spiders spinning a web.
Explore More
Use the resources below to answer the questions that follow.
Explore More I
- Molluscs: Moon Snail Preys On Cockles at http://vimeo.com/37449634 (2:05)
- What sort of behavior is the moon snail exhibiting? Do you think the moon snail this is learned or innate behavior? Explain and defend your answer.
- What sort of behavior is the cockle exhibiting? Do you think this is learned or innate behavior? Explain and defend your answer.
Explore More II
- Spider Crabs vs. Stingray at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwWLOIk1oA (2:37)
- How many different types of behavior can you see in the crabs in this video? Which behaviors of the crabs do you think are innate and which are learned?
- How many different types of behavior can you see in the stingray? Which behaviors of the stingray do you feel are innate and which are learned?
- What is an innate behavior?
- What are two examples of reflex behaviors in humans?
- What are two examples of innate behavior in animals?
- Is an instinct an innate behavior? Explain your answer.


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Family: Ambystomidae, Mole Salamanders view all from this family
Description 4-6 5/8" (10-17 cm). Slender, with long toes. Black above, with with series of yellow to orange markings on back. Belly sooty. Tubercles on feet. Costal grooves, 12-13.
Endangered Status The Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander, a subspecies of the Long-toed Salamander, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in California. This salamander was discovered in 1954, and its populations were probably already low at that time. It breeds in only a few small ponds in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, and residential and agricultural development have adversely affected its habitat. Currently the Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander lives in protected lands set aside as the Ellicot Slough National Wildlife Refuge, and is closely monitored by biologists.
Breeding January to March, in temporary ponds as they are filled with water. Eggs laid singly on spike rushes or other plants near surface of water. Hatching larvae are 1/2" (11 mm) long; transform June to August or following summer, at 2-4" (48-98 mm).
Habitat Chaparral and pine-oak woodlands; breeds in ephemeral pools.
Range Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California.
Discussion Adults live mainly underground in woodlands, moving to rain-fed breeding ponds during winter rains.


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Parallel imaging
por Denis Hoa
Objetivos de aprendizaje
After reading this chapter, you should be able:
- To present the particularities of coils and the radiofrequency system for parallel imaging
- Explain the increased signal-to-noise ratio using phased array coils
- Describe the principles of acceleration in parallel acquisition
- Compare the 2 main groups of reconstruction algorithms
- List the advantages and drawbacks of parallel acquisition and its clinical applications
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- Parallel imaging exploits the multiple elements of a phased array coil. Each element is associated with a dedicated radiofrequency channel whose signals can be processed and combined together.
- This improves the signal-to-noise ratio compared to a standard single-element coil covering the same explored volume.
- The spatial data yielded by the array of coil elements can be used for partial phase encoding only, to speed up acquisition. The acceleration factors routinely employed at 1.5 T range from 2 to 3. At higher fields, these can be higher.
- Reconstruction algorithms for the intermediary, undersampled phase images are divided into 2 groups:
- Those which reconstruct the global image before Fourier transformation: these operate in the frequency domain (SMASH, GRAPPA)
- Those which reconstruct the image after Fourier transformation, in the image domain (SENSE, mSENSE)
- These algorithms require calibration data for the volume explored by each coil element and the signal produced. Calibration is carried out before or during the imaging sequence (self-calibration).
- The objective is either to recreate the missing k-space lines (SMASH, GRAPPA), or to "unfold" the image due to aliasing (SENSE).
- The advantages of these techniques are numerous: reduced acquisition time (fast imaging, breath-hold, temporal resolution, perfusion and functional imaging etc.) reduced TE of sequences with echo train, reduction of certain artifacts …
- Their main drawback is a decrease in signal to noise ratio compared to a non-accelerated sequence (fewer measurements, g factor etc.)
- Glockner, Hu. Parallel MR imaging: a user's guide. Radiographics. 2005 Sep-Oct;25(5):1279-97.
- Bammer and Schoenberg. Current concepts and advances in clinical parallel magnetic resonance imaging. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2004 Jun;15(3):129-58.
- Blaimer, Breuer. SMASH, SENSE, PILS, GRAPPA: how to choose the optimal method. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2004 Aug;15(4):223-36.
- Pruessmann. Parallel imaging at high field strength: synergies and joint potential. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2004 Aug;15(4):237-44.
- Katscher, Bornert. Transmit SENSE. Magn Reson Med. 2003 Jan;49(1):144-50.
- Katscher and Bornert. Parallel RF transmission in MRI. NMR in biomedicine. 2006 May;19(3):393-400.
- Zhang, Yip. Reduction of transmitter B(1) inhomogeneity with transmit SENSE slice-select pulses. Magn Reson Med. 2007 May;57(5):842-7.


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