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The Pilgrims' Trail
Follow a medieval route from the shrine of St Swithun at Winchester Cathedral, weaving across the landscape by way of Bishop's Waltham and Southwick to Portsmouth in the footsteps of the Miquelots, pilgrims who made the long journey to worship St Michael in Normandy. Today travellers have the advantage of special waymark signs - green in Hampshire, blue in France leading to the medieval sanctuary of Mont St Michel in Normandy France, 155 miles away.
The cult of Saint Michael was widespread in the British Isles from the 9th century. By the time of the reformation in the 16th century, there were more than six hundred churches in England dedicated to Saint Michael. Saint Michael's day, Michaelmas, is celebrated on 29 September.
The Norman sanctuary of Mont St Michel attracted pilgrims from Scandinavia, Italy and Germany, as well as from Britain. Most pilgrims stopped at the Mount on their way to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. They landed at Barfleur, near Cherbourg, walked to the Mount and continued to Santiago.
Venta Belgarum was a Roman town and became the fifth largest city in Britain. Over the ensuing years, Winchester saw many changes before becoming what we see today. People from Alfred the Great to those attending Mary Tudor's marriage to Philip of Spain in the Cathedral all played their part in Winchester's history.
Winchester to Twyford
Winchester Cathedral has been a place for pilgrims from Saxon times. The Pilgrims' Trail starts at the west door, continues to the south of the Cathedral and passes through the passage into the cloister. Keeping the lawn (garth) on your left, you pass the deanery and continue to the right into The Close, passing the mediaeval priory's storehouses. The building to the far left is the Pilgrims School, while directly in front is the Porters Lodge (Cheyney Court) where you leave The Close through the Priory Gate into St Swithun's Street. Turn left, passing under Kings Gate's 14th century arch. In College Street, follow the road to the left, passing the home in which Jane Austen died, then on to Winchester College. Once past the College, to your left are the ruins of Wolvesey Castle.
Turn right into College Walk, following the road left, and continue over the River Itchen. As the road bears left up Wharf Hill, turn right into Domum Road. There are several exits from Domum Road, but take the second right to the footpath, beside the Itchen Navigation, until it meets the road. At the road, cross over taking the path through the car park, follow the path to" Plague Pit", turn left up the valley to the M3 crossing, take time to go to the top of St Catherine's Hill with stunning views across the water meadows, Winchester and across towards the Hospital of St Cross. This is Britain's oldest charitable organisation and was founded by Henry de Blois, William the Conqueror's grandson. Its church dates from Norman times, and the Brothers of St Cross still worship in it daily.
Continue over the foot bridge crossing the M3 leaving St Catherine's Hill behind you. Once across, the series of parallel hollows to your left, are of mediaeval or earlier date, crossing the downs are known as the 'Dongers'. Follow the well defined track over Twyford Down, with views over open grassland, to the fairway of Hockley Golf Club. All around is the rolling landscape of the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Continue in a southwest direction towards a tree belt, over the track and down to Hazeley Road, passing Hazeley Down's gallops and a war memorial to the troops stationed on Hazeley Down during the First World War. At Hazeley Road, cross over and continue up Mare Lane to the crossroads.
Twyford to Owslebury
Cross over Hatchers Lane to Whites Hill and, after 20 metres, take the footpath on the left to Owslebury, a village, with mediaeval origins, which pilgrims passed through and is the highest village in Hampshire. The Ship Inn, with its large outdoor children's play area, is a good place to stop for a drink or meal.
The medieval church of St Andrew has examples of early English architecture (chancel and lancets), although extensively renovated during the seventeenth century. The trail continues through the church yard to stone steps leading down to Pitcot Lane to a gate, then turn left into the fields towards the tree line and follow a farm track upwards through the tress. The trail crosses open fields before going downhill to cross Lower Baybridge Lane.
Walk across Lower Baybridge Lane to the lane opposite, following the gravel track to the edge of Austin's Copse. Within the coppice, the Roman road survives as an earthwork. The trail meanders through the copse to open land and track. Turn left, then right, until you meet another track on your left, continuing along this for 900 metres. This will take you across high open farmland, before descending to a hedge.
Owslebury to Bishop's Waltham
At the hedge, turn left, continuing to the stile before descending diagonally. Follow the trail through the trees and then up a steep slope into woodland. Once through the wood, the trail follows a grass track. Continue along the track to its fork. Take the left fork until you reach Upham. At the road, turn right and continue until you urn left into Church Street, passing the church with its 13th century arch and eighteenth century brick tower.
The nearby Brushmakers Arms provides a welcome stop. Retrace your steps along Church Street, turn left and follow the road for 100 metres to Oak Close. Turn left into the close, following the trail to a stile and keeping left of the hedge to another stile. Reaching a farm track, continue along for 500 metres to a further stile. Continue straight on, keeping the woods on your left, and follow the trail to the road and down to Winchester Road. Cross over to the footpath, following the line of the ancient Roman road, passing through a wet area caused by springs rising to feed ponds, the largest of which can be seen through the trees.
The trail continues along the line of the old earth road to Wintershill Farm, crossing several stiles until you meet Winters Hill road. Cross over to the driveway marked 'Woodlea Nurseries', crossing the stile which is just inside on the right. Passing Tangier Farm, the trail follows the field's edge and under electricity lines towards Brooklands Farm. Just before it reaches the farm, the trail forks. Take the left fork to the dismantled railway line, turning left into the line until you reach the roundabout. Turn right and follow Station Road to the ruins of the Bishop's Palace which is run by English Heritage and open to the public.
Ordnance Survey Explorer maps 132 and 119 (1:25000) are useful for this section of the trail.
Continuing the route in France to Mont St Michel
You can continue the route onwards to Mont St Michel, by taking the ferry from Portsmouth to Cherbourg and following the way-marked route southwards through the pretty Normandy countryside.
A 127 page colour guide (in French) is available that details two separate routes from Cherbourg (7 stages) and Barfleur (8 stages) to Mont St Michel. Each stage varies between 25-30km and consists of on and off-road sections. The guide gives details of where you can find tourist information, including accommodation and refreshments foreach stage.


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Minimal progress on the stratified trees but some pointy haired issues came up that distracted me for a while.
Reviewed some small changes from Sam Ortiz that look pretty as far as getting SGI's discontigmem stuff to play happily in combination with removing ->virtual. It's not clear whether it will perform well as it apparently takes some doing (in terms of CPU cycles, the code is not that bad) to remap mem_map array indices to page frame number offsets. Hopefully that won't be too bad, but if it is, ->virtual is #ifdef'd and can be brought back by that method.
Tried to take a harder look at the discontigmem thing itself but there's quite a bit there to wade through. I think I'll be waiting for the separated patch so I don't need to guess at which chunk corresponds to which feature it's trying to implement. If it were smaller (which I'm not sure it can be) it'd be easier to get a full picture, but it'll only get smaller by becoming multiple patches.
Finally got a look at Pat's NUMA-Q discontigmem patch and was very impressed, the code was very clean and very readable. I'll have to take a harder look to be sure I've done due diligence with respect to it not breaking other things but it's very nice.
The hashing flamewar apparently degenerated to the name-calling level, though the name-caller does not have a particularly good reputation. I don't care. I'll continue collecting hash table metrics and their measurements from test runs. Sounds like I might be having a benchmark weekend. Again.

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With a network of terminals and 80,000 miles of oil and gas pipelines crisscrossing the U.S. and Canada, Kinder Morgan has the largest midstream energy business in North America.
And along comes an upstart research firm recommending a Sell. Today Kinder Morgan (KMI) and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) shares are up about 1% apiece.
But Kinder Morgan fell 6% Wednesday, while KMP fell 4.5% on news that an independent researcher recommends the rare Sell rating on an energy master limited partnership. Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse analysts are swinging out in defense of Kinder Morgan, though no one has seen the negative report from Hedgeye Risk Management Analyst Kevin Kaiser. It is being withheld as Hedgeye builds sales demand with a Twitter campaign.
Those parsing what's available seem to think the Hedgeye report takes aim at Kinder's accounting for maintenance spending, its acquisition strategy and its commodity hedging. Sounds much like the topics in the Hedgeye case against Linn Energy (LINE).
What we do know is this from Kaiser's Twitter feed Wednesday:
"This AM we added SHORT KMI, KMP, KMR, EPB as new Best Idea. Full report out to clients on Tues 9/10 …. I think that this report that we will put out … is a public service – I really do. We will post select free content in future."
Kinder Morgan's corporate structure is convoluted. Kinder Morgan is the general partner, which reaps distributions from underlying businesses. It pays a 4.2% yield. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, the main pipeline MLP enterprise, pays a 6.5% yield in the form of a cash distribution like most MLPs. Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) was created to pay distributions in shares given the tax-and-accounting headaches of MLPs. But KMR still offers tax deferrals. Following an acquisition, Kinder also controls El Paso Pipeline Partners (EPB), whose yield is 5.7%. Kinder's chief financial officer said that the enterprises could be combined at some point. Post from the industry's biggest conference in May here.
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Family: Carangidae, Jacks view all from this family
Description The lookdown, Selene vomer, is a game fish of the Carangidae family. The lookdown was first described in 1758 by the "father of taxonomy", Carolus Linnaeus, in the 10th edition of his book Systema Naturae.
Although the lookdown is similar to the Atlantic moonfish, it can be distinguished by its dorsal and anal fins, the second ray on each fin being many times longer than the surrounding rays. This gives the dorsal and anal fins a noticeably scythe-like shape. Also, the dorsal fin of the lookdown has 9 spines and 23 rays, while the anal fin has only 3 spines and 18 rays. The lookdown, like the Atlantic moonfish, had a deep, rhombus-shaped, laterally-compressed body. The head has the mouth set low and the eyes high. The overall profile of a lookdown's head is concave. The caudal fin of the lookdown is forked, as in the Pompanos, while the pectoral fin is similar to a scythe and reaches the middle of the second of the lookdown's dorsal fin.
Lookdown are usually described as being silvery on both sides with darker tints on top. Young lookdown have several faint, vertical bars that fade as the fish grows. The longest lookdown known was 48.3 cm long, the heaviest known lookdown weighed 2.1 kg.
Dimensions Up to 16" (41 cm).
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Ocean or bay shallows, Tidepools.
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The radiation therapy is delivered to a tumor through a catheter a physician guides into the hepatic artery, the liver's main blood vessel. Once in place, the microspheres are inserted into the catheter, where they can enter the smaller blood vessels supplying the liver tumor and block the flow of blood. Then, the microspheres emit radiation to destroy cancer cells in the tumor, while sparing healthy liver tissue.
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It's way trickier than it needs to be that's for sure!!!
It's way trickier than it needs to be that's for sure!!!
We shoot dogs with a Canon
Recall a deer spot years ago - permission was easy, the old guy was great. Got to the private spot to find 5 other trucks...lol
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I seen him last year on a small public lake that he always hunts. We where already set up and he came rolling in wanting to hunt with us and buddy up. (With the wind direction of that day we had the only really good spot on the lake)
"Nope ,kick rocks ole' boy."
The foundation to a great retriever is obedience.
Firestorms Full Throttle Chevy aka Callie-Roo 7/5/2007 - 10/25/2013 I miss you every day
Proud owner of Kona's Surfer Girl, aka Loki.
As to the landowner you speak of, I probably would bar your friend from ever hunting on my property again and tell him so. And if anybody who I gave permission to hunt brought him along, I would probably bar them too. Now if I don't know you, you are wasting your time asking. If you are a freind, I may take you with me but don't ask for permission. I will also say that I have put up posted signes but they are constantly torn down. This is just the tip of the iceberg when allowing people to hunt on your land and it is sad. As long as there are people who choose not to respect the landowner, there will be fewer owners who will allow hunting.
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To your point - why I don't feel comfortable having slips signed for more than myself and one other. At least initially. But even beyond that why risk all that effort to include a slip for Bob and Joe who never seem to have a 'spot'? Regardless of how much you like them otherwise. Mr/Mrs landowner see that as risk - and can righlty not initially trust there won't be 4-5 yahoo's trampling their place on Saturday morning.
Being a big deer state where folks forget there are property lines, has significantly soured the deal. To many farmers all hunters look the same.
Friend had a cool experience. He treated an ole guy with property for cancer for several years. Got along talked hunting, etc. Friend asked permission kindly over 3 years and the ole guy just kept resisting. He eventually passed never having said yes.
A few months after his death the buddy got a call from his widow. He'd told her before passing to go ahead and let the friend hunt.
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It's about the economy stupid.....no it is about respect!
The reason Romney lost is that republicans across this country lost respect for their fellowman. You can't bash a government worker calling them waste. You can't tell low income earners that they don't matter. But most of all, you can't try to take blacks and women back in time and forget the oppression they fault so hard to overcome.
We are all in this together and God taught me long time ago to love my brother. Republicans have forgotten that.
Even if I had agreed with the economic position of the republicans I would have voted for Obama because I care about people and will never think I'm better than any person.
I need that electrician making sure I have power in my home, I need that teacher educating my child, I need that truck driver delivering me goods, I need that farmer growing me food, I need that roughneck getting gasoline to my car, I need that mailman delivering my mail, I need everybody, and they me.
I ask you to step back and not look at this politically but as a person and think about how you sound to folks. If you do this, I'm sure you want like what you see.
Hopefully the country will grow from this and be stronger and better.


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The image of librarians is that we are more about words than numbers. I guess that's true but there are two "number" sections on our website I think you will find interesting.
We've just added library use statistics to our website. Circulation of books, music, movies, and digital products are tracked by location….central and each branch….along with program attendance and computer use. There are numbers and graphs.
The value calculator is not new to our website although it hasn't been highlighted recently. It is an interesting way to appreciate the value of the library services you use.
I'd welcome your comments on either of these.
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Posted November 25, 2008; 04:10 p.m.
Former New York Times op-ed art director Jerelle Kraus will discuss her book "All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in 101 McCormick Hall.
Kraus' book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the New York Times op-ed page and the selection of op-ed art. The New York Times created the world's first op-ed page in 1970. The page's use of pictures and nonstaff bylines on articles shattered previous newspaper traditions.
Op-ed art featured in the book includes a satiric portrayal of John McCain, a classic cartoon of Barack Obama by Jules Feiffer, and a drawing of Hillary Clinton and Obama by Barry Blitt.
Kraus is an award-winning art director who worked at the New York Times for 30 years, including 13 years for the op-ed page. She also worked as an art director at Time, at Ramparts magazine and for film director Francis Ford Coppola's City magazine. The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine have published Kraus' writing, including a guest commentary for William Safire's "On Language" column.
Kraus was educated at Swarthmore College and Pomona College, and at l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received a master's degree from the University of California-Berkeley, and studied in Munich as a Fulbright scholar.
The talk is sponsored by the Council of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. For more information, contact Linda Oliveira at (609) 258-3155 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Afghan National Army Base, Farah, Afghanistan. This image was made with the Gigapan robot from the ancient Kafir Qala Citadel, aka Kak Kohzad.
Afghans say this thing is an old hotel. It's sitting atop the wall at Alexander's Citadel in Farah, Afghanistan. www.MichaelYon-Online.com www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage
This handheld panorama is merely a note for my writing. I was out looking at water projects being implemented by Central Asia Development Group and this pano is like a notebook entry. Not meant to be fine photography, or even passable. The images have not been adjusted other than to meld into a pano. This is straig...
Image made in Farah Province, western Afghanistan. (Citadel is 74 miles from Iranian border.) This Gigapan consists of 208 images. Made with Canon Mark II 5d with a 400mm using the robot. www.MichaelYon-Online.com www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage
Kak Kohzad, aka "Kafir Qala." This mysterious Citadel may have belonged to sun worshippers more than 2,000 years ago. www.MichaelYon-Online.com www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage
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It's been out there for a while, but I'd be deeply remiss if I failed to draw your attention to Dr. Alison Carter's (UW-Madison) dissertation. In the spirit of actual intellectual exchange (sometimes called 'Open Access'), she's placed her dissertation online for download.
The dissertation is called "Trade, exchange, and socio-political development in Iron Age (500 BC - AD 500) mainland Southeast Asia: An examination of stone and glass beads from Cambodia and Thailand," and it's available here for download in various formats.
Dr. Carter has been doing archaeological research in Cambodia for years, and focuses on Iron Age trade objects – specifically beads. Through the analysis of these beads, she's able to hypothesize about the geographical origins of the beads (because of the materials out of which they are made). Through understanding the geographical origins, she illuminates early trade networks – both within and beyond the boundaries of mainland Southeast Asia. Her work is deeply important to scholarship on a region, the prehistory of which is difficult to know because of a lack of preserved written texts (excepting inscriptions in stone).
Go! Read! And when you're done, check out her great blog.


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"Feb. 2, 2011 -- The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine can help stave off genital warts in boys and men, according to a new study in the Feb. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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[Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant] Intramuscular Administration
GARDASIL, Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant, is a non-infectious recombinant quadrivalent vaccine prepared from the purified virus-like particles (VLPs) of the major capsid (L1) protein of HPV Types 6, 11, 16, and 18. The L1 proteins are produced by separate fermentations in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae and self-assembled into VLPs. The fermentation process involves growth of S. cerevisiae on chemically-defined fermentation media which include vitamins, amino acids, mineral salts, and carbohydrates. The VLPs are released from the yeast cells by cell disruption and purified by a series of chemical and physical methods. The purified VLPs are adsorbed on preformed aluminum-containing adjuvant (Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxyphosphate Sulfate). The quadrivalent HPV VLP vaccine is a sterile liquid suspension that is prepared by combining the adsorbed VLPs of each HPV type and additional amounts of the aluminum-containing adjuvant and the final purification buffer.
GARDASIL is a sterile suspension for intramuscular administration. Each 0.5-mL dose contains approximately 20 mcg of HPV 6 L1 protein, 40 mcg of HPV 11 L1 protein, 40 mcg of HPV 16 L1 protein, and 20 mcg of HPV 18 L1 protein.
Each 0.5-mL dose of the vaccine contains approximately 225 mcg of aluminum (as Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxyphosphate Sulfate adjuvant), 9.56 mg of sodium chloride, 0.78 mg of L-histidine, 50 mcg of polysorbate 80, 35 mcg of sodium borate, < 7 mcg yeast protein/dose, and water for injection. The product does not contain a preservative or antibiotics. After thorough agitation, GARDASIL is a white, cloudy liquid.
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I did buy the Red Leader X-Wing and, frankly, it's a disappointment. The X-Wing is fine, I guess, but it pales in comparison to the Luke Skywalker X-Wing. I think the one thing that irks me most is that it has a hole for an R2 unit, but doesn't come with one -- not that I have a shortage of R2 units, but it would've been nice to get Red Leader's R2 to fill that hole.
That second figure would've been especially nice considering the quality of the Red Leader figure. This, friends, is some very shoddy work -- definitely a step backwards in quality for the Star Wars line. The body is just the POTJ Luke Skywalker Pilot body, right down to the hands -- they're not too weird, but posed to look like he's pushing some controls. The head, though, is inexcusable. One, the helmet is molded on, and doesn't have any visor. Two, his head is way too small -- put him next to the other pilot figures from POTJ or Saga lines and he looks ridiculous. If I had to guess, I'd say that the head is from a POTF2 Luke Skywalker pilot. Mine's currently packed away, so I can't check, but I wouldn't be surprised.
What makes him Red Leader? Well, the paint job on the helmet, I guess. I'll go back and watch ANH, but I'm pretty sure that Red Leader was not a tiny-headed, yellow-skinned gentleman.


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Is it safe to drink coffee while pregnant?
I am 22 weeks pregnant to date. I am very careful because I had miscarriage last year and I would never want to go back that traumatic experience. I am very sensitive when it comes to my eating habits. My question is, is it safe for pregnant women to drink coffee? Thanks!
29th April 2012 07:12 AM #2
There are lots of different opinions on how much coffee is safe during pregnancy. Personally, I would stay away from coffee as much as possible because it is a stimulant.
Here's an article on safe eating and drinking before and during pregnancy, and here's another thread you may want to take a look at entitled Caffeine During Pregnancy.
Let me know your thoughts on this, being that there truly are so many viewpoints on it.
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Thanks for that very informative links that you shared. I'm personally convinced that I need to stay away with coffee even just after my delivery. Thanks Kate, appreciate it!
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Yes - you'll want to stay away from it after your delivery too, especially if breastfeeding so baby doesn't get the caffeine through your milk.


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No large fixed wing tankers operate in "forward" areas. Never have & never will. Not unlike the gov requiremetns for large transports - the C-5A/B & the C-17. Winners of those bids were partially determined by their paper ability to land at "umimproved forward landing areas", yet never in reality has even one such landing taken place during any US military action. The US gov will not risk the loss of such a high valued asset in limited actions such as the middle east actions that have been seen/are being seen. Instead C-130 variants and some rotory wing tankers are used.
Point being, in such procurements, political strength determines the winner. That's why it takes 2, sometimes 3 rounds of bids to get the "right" winner. In the case of the tanker procurement, the N-G/EADS proposal was the clear dollars & perforement winner in previous rounds, so the evaluation is changed to include other considerations or at least re-weight the various considerations to get the "right" winner. This has been my personal experience in over 25 yrs of government related business working at Boeing, Lockheed & my own company. When it comes to new programs, once basic parameters of the technical spec are met, politics wins every time. Just as an aside, I'm guessing their is more than coincidence that N-G dropped out after they won the bomber competition. Not unlike Lockheed winning the JSF competition before their F-22 program was shutdown. It's the ying and the yang of gov procurement - politics at the highest corporate level in joint venture with the gov.
And one more personal aside, the USAF (that conducted the tanker procurement) is a lightweight compared to the US Army & the US Navy when it comes to the level of political influence of their new program procurements.
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EADS is moving quickly to decide whether to challenge the U.S. Air Forces decision to award its refueling tanker contract to rival Boeing Co.
Top EADS officials met Monday at the Pentagon for a 90-minute debriefing on the Air Forces decision, then returned Tuesday for a second round of discussions about the award.
The company technically has a 10-day window to file a protest with the Government Accountability Office, but look for a decision before the end of the week.
Its a tough call for EADS chairman Ralph Crosby and chief executive Sean OKeefe. The two leaders praised the Air Force for its professionalism during the competition and vowed not to protest unless they saw egregious errors as part of the selection process.


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charlie elk wrote:also heard some very robust gobbling activity, a sure sign of spring and the first gobbles of year for me.
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Funny thing was...I was sitting there at shooting light waiting for some ducks to come in and listening to them chain gobbling now and then. Then 3 ducks decoy in perfectly and just as I go to mount my gun and shoot the gobblers all fire off. Whiffed all three shots on those ducks.
dewey wrote:Relaxing? When I hear chain gobbling it gets the heart going a million miles per hour.
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I can't wait till April, I found a place to stay in Preston. It's reasonable, all included & I can cook for myself waiting to find actual location. I need to find a place to shoot my cross bow indoors, and hope my vacation time from work is still all set ! Hey Justin do you hear me ...
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Pulmonary angiography is a procedure that uses a special dye (contrast material) and x-rays to see how blood flows through the lungs.
Angiography is an imaging test that uses x-rays and a special dye to see inside the arteries. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
Pulmonary arteriography; Pulmonary angiogram; Angiogram of the lungs
This test is done in a special unit of a hospital. You will be asked to lie on an x-ray table.
After the x-rays are taken, the needle and catheter are removed.
Pressure is immediately applied to the puncture site for 20-45 minutes to stop the bleeding. After that time the area is checked and a tight bandage is applied. The leg should be kept straight for 6 hours after the procedure.
Rarely, this test can be used to deliver medications to the lungs when a blood clot has been found.
You should not eat or drink anything for 6 - 8 hours before the test.
You will be asked to wear a hospital gown and sign a consent form for the procedure. Remove jewelry from the area being imaged.
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The x-ray table is hard and cold, but you may ask for a blanket or pillow. You may feel a brief sting when the numbing medicine is given and a brief, sharp, stick as the catheter is inserted.
You may feel some pressure as the catheter moves up into the lungs. The contrast dye can cause a feeling of warmth and flushing. This is normal and usually goes away in a few seconds.
You may have some tenderness and bruising at the site of the injection after the test.
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Pulmonary angiography may also be used to help your doctor diagnose:
The x-ray will show normal structures for the age of the patient.
Abnormal results may be due to:
Sometimes, a person may develop an abnormal heart rhythm during this test. The heatlh care team will monitor your heart and can treat any abnormal rhythms that develop.
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There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored and regulated to provide the minimum amount of radiation exposure needed to produce the image. Most experts feel that the risk is low compared with the benefits.
Pregnant women and children are more sensitive to the risks of x-rays.
CT (computed tomography) angiography of the chest has largely replaced this test.
Jackson JE, Allison DJ, Meaney J. Angiography: Principles, techniques (including CTA and MRA) and complications. In: Grainger RC, Allison D, Dixon AK, eds. Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 6.
Rubens MB, Dalal P. Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary Thromboembolism. In: Grainger RC, Allison D, Adam, Dixon AK, eds. Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 26.
Reichelt A, Hoeper MM, Galanski M, Keberle M. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: evaluation with 64-detector row CT versus digital substraction angiography. Eur J Radiol. 2009 Jul;71(1):49-54
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The last half year has been quite successful from a business point of view, but it has cost me in terms of time spent on writing free software.
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Besides that, I have been thinking about adding threads to gatling, to make open() asynchronous. I have seen a production web server serving lots of small images which don't fit into memory at the same time, where gatling was limited by the serialization of the read I/O. Something needs to be done about this, obviously.
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Oh my that NLCS had to be tough to swallow...guh! Still had to be a fun ride when no one gave them a chance to begin with ;).
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Katie McGann was named UCSD's Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Student Services in 2010 after serving as the department's Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance and Student Services since the 2007-08 academic year.
McGann handles all aspects of the university's compliance and student services programs, including eligibility, academics and financial aid for approximately 600 student-athletes across the department's 23 intercollegiate teams. She is the department's primary contact for rules questions and interpretations and conducts the rules education program. McGann acts as the liaison with various campus entities, such as admissions, the registrar's office and college advising, while also working closely with the NCAA Eligibility Center. She runs several components of the Champs/Life Skills program including New Student-Athlete Orientation.
McGann also serves as the sport supervisor for the men's and women's fencing and men's and women's tennis programs.
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My little collection of ornaments, Holiday Figures and Customs, and other things.
Star Wars & GI Joe Customs
HAVES: HK-50 Head, Capt Typho & GI Joe fodder available still
Wants:L8-L9 Head, YVH-1 Complete (as possible),R7-T1 Complete (as possible),R7-Z0 Complete (as possible)
Of all the ornaments to sell out, it's the Christmas Vacation Cousin Eddie RV.
I'm so mad at myself for missing it.
I bought 4 of the RV when I saw it, 3 for gifts and 1 for me...no way I was missing that!!!
I got Greedo this year from St. Nick...he's really cool. He's currently in the "Twisted Figure Theater" thread, holding up a Wise Man for his bounty.
Here's my SW mini tree (didn't put one up last year; some of the '08 ornaments hadn't even been unbagged yet). Stats for you: 55 total ornaments are on it, from 42 different sets, and I did not put up 6 other ornaments (from 5 different sets, all were already up on the tree in some other version of that ornament). From some online browsing, I have many other Hallmark ornaments I never bought (and in seeing them, now I remember why I passed on some of 'em).
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I waited too long on the Christmas Vacation RV too, as well as Anakin and Ahsoka.
The Duel with Darth Maul is a major shelf-warmer as well as (surprisingly) the Indiana Jones "Retrieving the Idol." I bought that one early on. The Landspeeder is also still available here.
To solve the issue of "who shot first?" on my tree, I simply made it a Corellian Fair Fight; Han shot TWICE!
Okay, with next year being the 30th anniversary of ESB, what needs to be a HM ornament next year? For me:
- snowtrooper
- ANY Lando (c'mon Hallmark! )
- tauntaun (could be a mini set with probot and Hoth Han and Luke rider)
- snowspeeder
- Cloud City (Lobot, Cloud Car, carbonite Han, Bespin Leia) stuff
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Thwarting Iran's nuclear ambitions has been a top priority for several recent U.S. administrations, but the issue has taken on special urgency in the last stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign as the drumbeat of war against Iran grows louder. With the Netanyahu administration's recent ratcheting up of rhetoric against a "nuclear" Iran, speculation that a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran could be this election year's "October surprise" continues to intensify.
To date, the international community's response to Iran's nuclear ambitions has primarily taken the form of economic sanctions. The EU, in particular, has enacted a number of tough measures, including an embargo of oil exports (that went into effect on July 1), which many analysts believe will place an untenable strain on the Iranian economy, given the EU's position as Iran's largest trading partner.
Similarly, President Obama has relied heavily on sanctions in his first term to pressure the Iranian regime, and his administration continues to tighten the economic screws in tandem with Congress, which recently approved new restrictions on the country's oil and shipping sectors. While Mitt Romney has also called for increased economic and diplomatic pressure, the Republican challenger has recently distinguished his position vis-à-vis Iran by drawing the line at the development of a nuclear "capability" (Atlantic), rather than a "weapon." For some analysts, this shift in terminology could be used to lower the bar for future military action, and therefore reveals an important policy schism between the two candidates.
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What's different about Firefox for Android
I've been working for the last six months on Firefox for Android (also known as "Fennec"). Here are some thoughts about the challenges in building a mobile browser, and the particular choices we've made.
Along the way, I'll try to answer some frequently-asked questions, like "Why is Firefox so huge on Android?" and "Why should I care?"
People often ask us why Android needs another web browser. These are a few things Firefox does that other Android browsers don't:
Syncs bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and form data to and from your phone. Firefox Sync and the Firefox Awesomebar help you enter URLs and passwords with less typing, and move seamlessly between your desktop and your mobile phone.
Allows extensions to customize every part of the user interface. Adblock Plus and NoScript are two mobile Firefox add-ons that take advantage of this deep extensibility. (Note: both are compatible with the last stable release of Firefox for Nokia Maemo; they'll need to be updated to support the pre-release Android versions.)
Supports web technologies like SVG, ECMAScript 5, WebM, and HTTP Strict Transport Security. Firefox for Android currently scores 217 points plus 9 bonus points on html5test.com. (Warning: Those tests can be deceptive; use them as a starting point for comparison only.)
Another difference is that Firefox is built by Mozilla, a non-profit organization with a mission to promote openness, innovation, and opportunity on the web. We want our work on the mobile web to benefit everyone, not just Firefox users - just as Firefox on the desktop helped create a new era of innovation and standards for users of all web browsers.
Competition and choice
There are many other browsers for Android, but all of them use the built-in WebKit rendering engine (except Opera Mini, which uses a proxy server for rendering). The same is true for Apple iOS, which is also based on WebKit – as are the latest versions of BlackBerry, Symbian, and Palm webOS.
There's nothing wrong with WebKit. It's a great project. But a growing number of mobile sites work only on WebKit (or even just on iOS or Android). This is dangerously similar to the web ten years ago, when Internet Explorer had an overwhelming market share and many sites used IE-specific markup. This made it very hard for other browsers to compete, which killed the incentive for the dominant browser to keep improving.
Upcoming platforms like MeeGo and Windows Phone may give WebKit some real mobile competition - but many users still won't be able to choose new browser technology without buying new hardware (and often new service contracts). We think people should have a meaningful choice of browsers on their existing phones, just like they do on their computers.
Reusing vs. extending
Part of the point of Firefox is to provide an alternative to the built-in browser engine. Firefox for Android is built on the same Gecko engine as Firefox 4 for desktop. That's how it can add new capabilities like Sync, SVG, and ES5.
Many mobile platforms do not allow browsers to include low-level components like JIT compilers. On platforms like BlackBerry that support only "managed" languages like Java, this is true for technical reasons. On others like iOS, it is forbidden purely as a policy decision. Fortunately there are still platforms like Android, webOS, and Maemo that let apps bundle any libraries they want.
Although Android allows us to distribute our own rendering engine and JavaScript compiler, it really is not built with applications like Firefox in mind. Many Android phones were built with around 64 MB to 512 MB for apps. Users who think nothing of a 12 MB download to install Firefox or Chrome on a laptop will certainly think twice before installing it on one of these phones! Fortunately storage space is much larger on most new phones, but this is still an issue on existing hardware.
Android NDK packaging: Problems and solutions
Android's WebKit libraries are installed on the system partition, and are not part of any app. Firefox doesn't have that luxury; its must include the Gecko libraries in its APK file.
Due to a quirk of the Android NDK, apps' native libraries are saved in two places - compressed inside the APK, and extracted to a folder for loading. For apps like Firefox that are mostly native code, this more than doubles the installation size. Current pre-release versions of Firefox use 30 to 40 MB of storage. Other NDK apps like Google Earth pay the same double storage penalty.
To solve this problem, Mozilla's Michael Wu is writing a custom dynamic linker, so Firefox can load libraries directly from the APK without installing them to a folder. This cuts the installed size in half, but increases the startup time slightly. For newer phones with 1 GB or more of internal storage, we might choose to let Firefox take more space but start faster. On phones with less storage, we can use the custom linker to save space. We're also working on other ways to make startup faster.
System components have another advantage: They can be optimized for specific hardware. In contrast, apps usually come in a single flavor for all devices. Firefox for Android can use ARMv7 features like Thumb-2 and NEON to run as fast as possible on high-end Android phones - but when it's built with these optimizations it can't run at all on low-end hardware. To run optimally on all current hardware, we'd need different builds for different devices. For now, we are focusing on the current high-end phones, which will likely be next year's mainstream hardware.
Try it out
To check if your phone is compatible and download a test build, see the Firefox for Android web page. Our pre-beta nightly builds are already much faster than the alpha release from a few weeks ago. This is still pre-release software, and we aren't done stabilizing and optimizing it - but we are working hard. Let us know what you think!
If you don't want to mess with nightly builds, look for our first beta release very soon now. Beta 1 will include our first batch of speed and stability improvements. And beta 2 will include even more exciting changes like the new Android skin, reduced installation size, and OpenGL-accelerated compositing.
If Fennec doesn't work on your phone, you can also test it on other platforms. And we hope increased choice will encourage all browsers to innovate and learn from each other, so your mobile experience will improve no matter which browser you use.


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I want to try digi scrapping and dont know where to start.Any books you would suggest?I bought Ro's secret book about Photoshop.Thanks.
Digi Question
Started by stetler , Nov 03 2005 08:57 PM
7 replies to this topic
#1 stetler
Posted 03 November 2005 - 08:57 PM
Posted 03 November 2005 - 10:05 PM
Go to the ScrapGirls University from our Home Page! That is how I got started...There are some free tutorials in movie form that will help to get you on your way!
"Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
#3 ditzyscrap
Posted 04 November 2005 - 12:42 AM
I haven't used any of the tutorials here before...I self-taught myself how to use Photoshop. But, there are 2 books that have JUST been released that you could check out. There's Digital Designs for Scrapbooking by Renee Pearson (put out by Simple Scrapbooks) which is supposed to be a how-to book more than an idea book.
The other is the new Autumn Leaves book called Designing With Digital. It's more of an idea book, but comes with a CD full of tutorials and stuff.
The other is the new Autumn Leaves book called Designing With Digital. It's more of an idea book, but comes with a CD full of tutorials and stuff.
#4 Merry
Posted 04 November 2005 - 07:42 AM
I self-taught myself a few things in PSE, just spent a bunch of time playing around with it and trying to figure out what it would do, but I have a long way to go!
#5 roxanna
Posted 04 November 2005 - 11:28 AM
I just used a few of the tutorials in SG University and it helped 100%... you should click on it and watch... it is a great resource!
#6 stetler
Posted 05 November 2005 - 10:38 PM
Thanks I'll ook into the SG movies and the books,I do love books.
#7 Cropnpix
Posted 13 March 2006 - 12:42 PM
I know the tutorials on this site are way more digi-srap specific than just general books on Photoshop. They'll tell you how to do a particular technique for something you may see on someone's layout that you want to replicate. Good luck - just keep moving forward!
#8 BonnyJean
Posted 13 March 2006 - 12:44 PM
yup, the tutorials here!! I self taught myself, but now as I'm looking at these here, I'm kicking myself!!
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Showrunner Steven Moffat, in an interview with SFX magazine, that their will be more online episodes like Pond Life, and Night of the Doctor. Moffat admitted he was not particularly a fan of the direct to internet and the BBC iPlayer content, but has since come to see the value of the short. Explaining, he said, "they'd give me some money to do an online thing and I'd say right, what crew do we already have, what actors do we already have, what set do we already have? So we'd spend no money on it at all, whack it … Continue reading


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Internship/Job Search for Students with Disabilities
The best time to prepare for your job search is now. It is never to late to practice interviewing skills, build your resume, or research potential employers. First and foremost, you must be comfortable with you and your disability. Having this comfort will allow you to be more at ease during the process and also help put others at ease that may not have a true understanding of your strengths and abilities. The following information will assist you in preparing and partaking in the job search itself.
Writing Your Resume
Reasonable Accommodation
Disclosing Your Disability
Handling Inappropriate Questions
Additional Resources
Writing Your Resume
A resume is a necessity in the job search. When it comes to writing your resume, you do not have to include that you have a disability. However, you may participate in a club or activity that indicates that you are disabled. In this case, you have the option of adding or not adding this experience to your resume. Ultimately, it becomes a personal decision of what is or is not included on your resume. For resources on how to write a resume, visit the Writing Your Resume section of our website at http://www.binghamton.edu/ccpd/students/undergraduate/resumes-cover-letters-interviews/writing-your-resume.html.
Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable accommodation (link http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/accommodation.html#general) are modifications or adjustments made to the job or working environment that allow a person with disabilities to perform the job duties, without causing undue hardship on the employer. It is your responsibility to determine your needs in regards to reasonable accommodation and to work with the employer in ensuring these needs are met. You can request reasonable accommodation at any time during the interview process or while you are employed.
The ADA requires reasonable accommodation:
- To ensure equal opportunity in the application process
- To enable an employee to perform an essential function of a job
- To allow an employee to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment
If you need reasonable accommodation during the interview, it is your responsibility to address this with the employer. How do you determine if you will need accommodation on the job? The best way is to review the job description and the duties that will be required. Can you fulfill the duties with or without accommodation? Once you have an understanding of the job and the accommodations needed, you may or may not want to disclose your disability to the employer.
Some examples of reasonable accommodation on the job are:
- Allowing modified work equipment
- Allowing modified work schedules
- Job restructuring
- Appropriate adjustment of examinations or training materials
Disclosing Your Disability
The interview process is nerve wracking enough but add in the worry over whether or not to disclose your disability can add undue pressure. The following information may assist you on deciding whether or not to disclose your disability.
- Know Your Rights. It is important you understand your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (link to ADA site). Under ADA, it is illegal for employers to ask you if you have a disability. If you know you will need accommodation on the job, it becomes your responsibility to address these needs with the employer.
- On Your Resume/Application. You are not required to disclose your disability on a resume. If you are asked about disabilities on the application, being that it is illegal to ask this question, you can leave it blank.
- Before the interview. If you have a disability that will require special accommodation during the interview, do not assume that the employer will have prepared for this. If you are able, scope out the location of the interview beforehand – you will be able to determine if the location is wheelchair accessible, if the lighting is bright enough, and answer other questions you may have. However, it may not be possible for you to check things out. In this case, it is important to address your concerns with the employer before the interview takes place. For example, you might ask, "Is the site wheelchair accessible?" or state "You will notice me by my guide dog". It is your responsibility to ensure that the employer is aware of your needs in order to best accommodate you.
- During the Interview. If you have a visible disability, it may be best to address this in a positive manner with the employer. The employer may not ask a question, because of the illegality of certain types of questions, but nonetheless, they may still have questions. By taking it upon yourself to address the issue, this will allow you to educate the employer regarding your disability and how you will be able to perform the job duties. If you have a hidden disability that will require accommodation, it may be best to disclose this information once a job offer has been made.
- Choosing Not to Disclose. If you have a hidden disability that does not require accommodation, you can choose not to disclose it.
Handling Inappropriate Interview Questions
You may encounter an illegal interview questions, regarding your disability. However, the way that you answer this question is important. If you encounter an illegal question, here are some tips on how to respond.
- Don't answer the question. You have the option of simply stating, under the ADA, I do not have to answer that question.
- Answer the question. You can answer the question honestly. If you decide to answer the question, focus on your strengths and abilities to perform the job. If you are comfortable with yourself, that will help put the employer at ease.
Additional Resources
Job Search Issues for Diverse Students
Getting Hired - Careers and Community for People with Disabilities
Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities
Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities - Video on students finding work
Disability Info
Equal Opportunity Publications
The Riley Guide - Employment Resources for the Disabled
Hire Disabilities Solutions
DisabledPerson.com - Provides an online, targeted recruiting site
HireDeaf.com - Specifically for hearing-impaired job seekers
Insurance Jobs
Disability Info – Links to job search sites and information
Disability Job Site
Force Recruitment Program
Job Accommodation Network
Vocational and Educational Resources for Individuals with Disabilities
Free online text reader for visually impaired job seekers
Federal Workforce Recruitment Program for Summer Internships:
Emerging Leaders:
Workers with Disabilities Program
Northeast Career Planning
National Organization on Disability
Visually Impaired Employment
NYS Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped
United States Department of Labor: Office of Disability Employment Policy
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4.3: Natural Selection
How is this deer mouse well adapted for life in the forest?
Notice how its dark coloring would allow the deer mouse to easily hide from predators on the darkened forest floor. On the other hand, deer mice that live in the nearby Sand Hills are a lighter, sand-like color. What caused the deer mice to be so well adapted to their unique environments? Natural selection.
Natural Selection
The theory of evolution by natural selection means that the inherited traits of a population change over time. Inherited traits are features that are passed from one generation to the next. For example, your eye color is an inherited trait. You inherited your eye color from your parents. Inherited traits are different from acquired traits, or traits that organisms develop over a lifetime, such as strong muscles from working out (Figure below).
Human earlobes may be attached or free. You inherited the particular shape of your earlobes from your parents. Inherited traits are influenced by genes, which are passed on to offspring and future generations. Things not influenced by genes are not passed on to your offspring. Natural selection only operates on traits like earlobe shape that have a genetic basis, not on traits that are acquired, like a summer tan.
Natural selection explains how organisms in a population develop traits that allow them to survive and reproduce. Natural selection means that traits that offer an advantage will most likely be passed on to offspring. Evolution occurs by natural selection. Take the giant tortoises on the Galápagos Islands as an example. If a short-necked tortoise lives on an island with fruit located at a high level, will the short-necked tortoise survive? No, it will not, because it will not be able to reach the food it needs to survive. If all of the short necked tortoises die, and the long-necked tortoises survive, then, over time, only the long-necked trait will be passed down to offspring. All of the tortoises with long-necks will be "naturally selected" to survive.
Every plant and animal depends on its traits to survive. Survival may include getting food, building homes, and attracting mates. Traits that allow a plant, animal, or other organism to survive and reproduce in its environment are called adaptations.
Natural selection occurs when:
- There is some variation in the inherited traits of organisms within a species.
- Some of these traits will give individuals an advantage over others in surviving and reproducing.
- These individuals will be likely to have more offspring.
Imagine how in the Arctic, dark fur makes a rabbit easy for foxes to spot and catch in the snow. Therefore, white fur is a beneficial trait that improves the chance that a rabbit will survive, reproduce, and pass the trait of white fur on to its offspring (Figure below). Through this process of natural selection, dark fur rabbits will become uncommon over time. Rabbits will adapt to have white fur.
The white fur of the Artic hares may make it more difficult for fox and other predators to locate hares against the white snow.
Why So Many Species?
Scientists estimate that there are between 5 million and 30 million species on the planet. But why are there so many? As environments change over time, organisms must constantly adapt to those environments. Diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms adapt and survive any major changes in the environment. For example, if a natural disaster kills all of the large organisms on the planet, then the small organisms will continue to survive.
- acquired trait: Trait that organisms develops over a lifetime.
- adaptation: Trait that enhances an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.
- inherited trait: Feature passed from one generation to the next.
- natural selection: Process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers, allowing these favorable traits to be passed on to the next generations.
- Evolution occurs by natural selection, the process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers.
- Natural selection occurs when there is some variation in the inherited traits, some of these traits will give individuals an advantage over others, and the individuals with certain traits will be more likely to have more offspring.
Use the resource below to answer the questions that follow.
- Sources of Variation at http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/variation/sources/
- Are all members of your family exactly alike? Are all members of a species exactly alike?
- What is an important base of variation in species? Are all forms of a gene the same?
- What are common mutations in DNA? How common are these mutations?
- Do most mutations that are passed on to future generations come from the environment? What is the relationship between mutations and the environment?
- How does recombination in sexually reproducing organisms ensure that every generation will have mutations or changes in the inherited DNA?
- At what frequency (not at all, low, medium, or high) does recombination of DNA occur in asexually reproducing populations?
- What's the difference between an acquired and inherited trait?
- What is required for natural selection to take place?
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This comb made of walrus ivory is among the works from the Princeton University Art Museum's collection on display as part of the "Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait" exhibition. The show, which opens Saturday, Oct. 3, and runs through Sunday, Jan. 10, features 200 of the finest works of walrus ivory carving drawn from the museum's own holdings along with loans from more than 20 public and private collections around the globe.
Photos: Bruce M. White
Art museum, community partners host cultural event
The Princeton University Art Museum will team with community partners to host a cultural event from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, at Hinds Plaza next to the Princeton Public Library to mark the opening of the museum's new exhibition on native hunters of the Bering Strait.
"Family Day: A Celebration of Alaskan Native Culture" will feature more than 25 artists, athletes, storytellers and performers demonstrating traditional crafts, games, music and dance, as well as hands-on art projects. The museum organized the event with the public library, the Arts Council of Princeton and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation.
The celebration coincides with the opening of the museum's exhibition "Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait."
The museum and the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies will host a symposium related to the exhibition titled "Ancient Lifeways, Current Concerns" -- featuring experts on cultural property policy and ethics -- at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in McCosh 50. William Fitzhugh, director of the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center and guest curator of "Gifts From the Ancestors," will present a talk about the exhibition at 5 p.m. Oct. 3 in McCosh 50.
A companion exhibition of works by contemporary Alaskan Native artists, "Dry Ice: Alaska Native Artists and the Landscape," will be on view from Thursday, Oct. 1, through Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Arts Council of Princeton.
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Exhibition explores art of the Arctic's ancient hunters
Posted October 1, 2009; 01:42 p.m.
"Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait," a major exhibition that brings to light the artistry and life practices of the hunters who worked across two millennia in what are now the American and Russian sides of the Bering Strait, opens Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Princeton University Art Museum.
This carving of a human head is believed to come from the Punuk or Thule culture.
The exhibition features nearly 200 of the finest works of walrus ivory carving drawn from the museum's own holdings along with loans from more than 20 public and private collections around the globe, including rare examples from recent Russian excavations at Ekven, Chukotka, which will be exhibited for the first time in North America. In addition, works by award-winning contemporary artist and St. Lawrence Islander Susie Silook and master carvers Sergei Tegryl'kut and Mikhail Leyviteu from Chukotka will be presented to bridge past and present and reveal how today's ivory artists continue to be inspired by ancient forms and motifs and the millennia-old relationships among people, animals and the environment.
"The extraordinary works of art on view in this exhibition are unlike the work of any other of the world's cultures," said Museum Director James Steward. "They demand our close attention in their gentle, detailed beauty. Even as our focus here is primarily aesthetic and sociological, these survivals from the ancient past have a shocking timeliness as we increasingly think about how such indigenous artistic practices can survive the onslaught of climate change."
The appearance of small, exquisitely carved ivories in the Bering Strait region marks an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s and 1940s of superb carvings of animals, mythical beasts, shape-shifting creatures, masks and human figurines astounded scholars and excited collectors. Nevertheless, the remarkable objects that belong to this world of hunting-related art remain largely unknown.
This harpoon socket piece, carved as a predator, is believed to be from St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, just south of the Bering Strait.
"Bering Sea Eskimo sculpture and engraved arts, like the art of Late Paleolithic peoples, illustrate the capacity for Arctic hunting cultures to produce works of art as rich in spiritual content as they are in technological complexity and aesthetic beauty," said William Fitzhugh, curator of North American archaeology and director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution, who is serving as guest co-curator of the exhibition. "Through these ornamented harpoons and hunting implements, we begin to understand the connections between art, technology and spiritual beliefs that have been central to the lives of hunting peoples for thousands of years."
Archaeologists have spent nearly a century examining artifacts excavated from frozen sites and cemeteries along the shores of the Chukchi and Bering Seas, where inhabitants of shared Eurasian and North American heritage have resided for more than 2,000 years. The artifacts include hunting implements, tools, ornaments, ritual objects and figures in human and animal form.
Below: These human figures range in height from 1.5 to 2.2 inches.
The exhibition, related catalog and website explore the historical, cultural and archaeological significance of the ivories as well as the more recent social issues surrounding these objects from myriad perspectives, including those of indigenous communities.
The exhibition is on view through Sunday, Jan. 10. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday; and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.


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Fair Trade Successes in Rural India: From Cycles of Drought to Cycles of Reuse
Posted by Alex Cole-Weiss in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Store Updates on 1st October, 2012 | 4 Comments
The traditional block-print fabric bags the artisans in Barmer began to produce for Handmade Expressions quickly became one of their best-selling items. However, hand block-printing requires an immense volume of water to dye and print the fabric. This issue of resource management in the face of environmental and economic adversity is one that many underprivileged communities face—use water to support an income generating project at the expense of other survival needs, or suffer economic hardship?
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