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If the interior of a man's van can be said to reflect the interior of his head, then Matt Grady has a somewhat apocalyptic turn to his mental life. Front seat: GPS, Internet, bottles of water, protein shakes mixed in his lap as he drives. Rear: toolboxes, torches, breathing equipment, bales of wire, chimney rods, and cages, cages, cages. Big ones, little ones. Two ladders on the roof. And what's that incongruously blossomy aroma? "It's a citrus-based product that I generally use in attics," says Grady, putting the vehicle in gear. "Little strong, huh? I climbed in here this morning and thought: does my van smell like squirrel piss?"
Grady is short, deft, pithy. In his spare time, he's a kickboxer and amateur photographer, and he can handle a 20-foot ladder like a majorette handles her baton. Eight years ago, he traded a job in IT for a career in the emerging industry of "wildlife removal." The bat, the mouse, the squirrel, the skunk, the raccoon — wherever in New England these characters are intersecting too brazenly or wantonly with the lifestyles of 21st-century America, there you'll find Grady at work.
Each animal has its territory. The high-rolling gray squirrel loves the city, for example, while the raccoon is a mordant commentator on the architecture of suburban sprawl. "If you cut a brand-new road into the woods," says Grady as we drive to the first job of the day, "and put 10 houses on it, you've carved out a portion of his habitat. And the houses are all built according to the same design, so he'll be utilizing the same construction gaps to get into each one. These subdivisions, they're full of very professional people in nice homes — the second they hear an unidentified noise, they call us."
It's the first day of spring: rain's coming down, sap aspires in the leafless trees. Raccoon season. "The females are pregnant now, and they're looking for a safe place to give birth," says Grady. "So from St. Patrick's Day until the end of May, that's pretty much our focus." BatGuys Wildlife Service, his company, is not made up of exterminators — they remove or "evict" pests, and then seal off their points of access. But given that state law requires that a captured animal either be released on-site (i.e., back into the yard) or humanely euthanized, the odd raccoon is going to have his career ended by BatGuys. "We provide a humane service, which is important to our clients," explains Grady. "A lot of them are very concerned about the welfare of the animals we are removing from their houses. We euthanize animals as a last resort, and I have received harassing phone calls about it, but the animal-rights people — they're not a very rational group."
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Cranial mononeuropathy III is a problem with the function of the third cranial nerve that causes double vision and eyelid drooping.
Third cranial nerve palsy; Oculomotor palsy; Pupil-involving third cranial nerve palsy; Mononeuropathy - compression type
Cranial mononeuropathy III is a mononeuropathy, which means that only one nerve is affected. It affects the third cranial (oculomotor) nerve, one of the cranial nerves that controls eye movement. Local tumors or swelling can press on and damage the nerve.
Causes may include:
Rarely, people with migraine headaches may have a temporary problem with the oculomotor nerve. This is probably due to a spasm of the blood vessels. In some cases, no cause can be found.
Other symptoms may occur if the cause is a tumor or swelling of the brain. Decreasing alertness is a serious sign, because it could be a sign of brain damage or impending death.
An eye examination may show:
A complete medical and nervous system (neurological) examination is performed to find out if any other parts of the body are affected.
Other tests may include:
You may need to be referred to a doctor who specializes in vision problems related to the nervous system (neuro-ophthalmologist).
Some people get better without treatment. Treating the cause (if it can be found) may relieve the symptoms in many cases.
Treatment may include:
Some cranial nerve dysfunctions will respond to treatment. A few cases result in some permanent loss of vision or eye drooping.
Causes such as brain swelling due to a tumor or stroke or a brain aneurysm may be life threatening.
Call your health care provider if you have double vision and it doesn't go away in a few minutes, especially if you also have eyelid drooping.
Quickly treating disorders that could press on the nerve may reduce the risk of developing cranial mononeuropathy III.
Baloh RW. Neuro-ophthalmology. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 450.
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The "Graduated Response" Deal: What if Users Had Been At the Table?
As was widely reported last week, several major internet access providers (including, very likely, yours) struck a deal last week with big content providers to help them police online infringement, educate allegedly infringing subscribers and, if subscribers resist such education, take various steps including restricting their internet access. We've now had a chance to peruse the lengthy "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) behind this deal. Turns out, as is often observed, the devil is in the details – and they are devilish indeed.
Let's start with the people taking credit: major content owners, service providers, and some government officials, principally New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. But guess who wasn't invited to the party? The millions of subscribers who will be governed by the deal—the same subscribers who elect the politicians, buy the content owners' goods and pay subscription fees to the internet access providers (which are likely to go up as administration costs are passed on – the UK's graduated response system was estimated to cost about $40 per subscriber). Given that subscribers weren't consulted, it's probably not surprising that this deal is not in their interests.
Here's some of the biggest problems with what resulted--and some ideas on what subscribers should demand of the system they'll be paying for:
Who's in Charge? The MOU calls for the creation of a new organization, called the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), to administrate the six-strikes system. CCI will be governed by a six-person executive committee comprised of representatives from content owners and internet access providers. Throwing a bone to subscribers, a three-person advisory board will include members "from relevant subject matter and consumer interest communities," who will be given the chance to speak up whenever the executive committee asks. This possible advisory presence for subscribers is completely inadequate. Given they are the whole point of the MOU, subscribers deserve seats at the table as voting members of the executive committee.
"Mitigation" Measures and Independent Review: Internet access providers can punish accused subscribers by interfering with the subscribers' connectivity, including by slowing transmission speeds, temporarily restricting web access for "some reasonable period of time," and conditioning web access on completing a "meaningful copyright education program." These mitigation measures can be imposed solely on the basis of the content owners' assertions, without a judge ever determining that the subscriber did anything wrong.
Internet access has become an essential service in the digital age. Thus, just as we restrict the power of utilities to turn off services to their customers, we should not allow content owners to cause internet access providers to degrade or suspend their services without adequate due process.
The MOU does create a process designed to protect subscribers from unfounded accusations and punishment, but it's hardly due process. Consider some of the procedural protections that subscribers might have sought if they had been at the bargaining table:
- The burden should be on the content owners to establish infringement, not on the subscribers to disprove infringement. The Internet access providers will treat the content owners' notices of infringement as presumptively accurate--obligating subscribers to defend against the accusations, and in several places requiring subscribers to produce evidence "credibly demonstrating" their innocence. This burden-shift violates our traditional procedural due process norms and is based on the presumed reliability of infringement-detection systems that subscribers haven't vetted and to which they cannot object. (The content owners' systems will be reviewed by "impartial technical experts," but the experts' work will be confidential). Without subscribers being able to satisfy themselves that the notification systems are so reliable that they warrant a burden-shift, content owners should have to prove the merits of their complaints before internet access providers take any punitive action against subscribers.
- Subscribers should be able to assert the full range of defenses to copyright infringement. A subscriber who protests an infringement notice may assert only six pre-defined defenses, even though there are many other possible defenses available in a copyright litigation. And even the six enumerated defenses are incomplete. For example, the "public domain" defense applies only if the work was created before 1923--even though works created after 1923 can enter the public domain in a variety of ways.
- Content owners should be accountable if they submit incorrect infringement notices. A subscriber who successfully challenges an infringement notice gets a refund of the $35 review fee, but the MOU doesn't spell out any adverse consequences for the content owner that make the mistake – or even making repeated mistakes. Content owners should be on the hook if they overclaim copyright infringement.
- Subscribers should have adequate time to prepare a defense. The MOU gives subscribers only 10 business days to challenge a notice or their challenge rights are waived (a subscriber might get an extra 10 business days "for substantial good cause"). This period isn't enough time for most subscribers to research and write a proper defense. Subscribers should get adequate time to defend themselves.
- There should be adequate assurances that the reviewers are neutral. The MOU requires that reviewers must be lawyers and specifies that the CCI will train the reviews in "prevailing legal principles" of copyright law – an odd standard given the complexity of, and jurisdictional differences in, copyright law. We're especially interested in the identity of these lawyers, and why they are willing to review cases for less than $35 each (assuming the CCI keeps some of the $35 review fee for itself). Perhaps there will be a ready supply of lawyer-reviewers who are truly independent. Given the low financial incentives, another possibility is that the reviewers will be lawyers tied—financially or ideologically—to the content owner community. To ensure that the reviewers remain truly neutral, reviewer resumes should be made public, and checks-and-balances should be built into the reviewer selection process to ensure that the deck isn't stacked against subscribers from day 1.
Education or Propaganda? The MOU repeatedly emphasizes subscriber education as one of its main goals. Unfortunately, this education won't offer a very balanced view of copyright, at least if the current version of the CCI website is any indication. That website currently is full of scare-mongering rhetoric decrying the ill effects of so-called "content theft" and stressing the security risks of P2P. As the site is further developed, the executive committee should reject the rhetoric and look instead to the numerous online resources that provide a balanced and nuanced view of copyright law, helping to inform subscribers about their rights as well as their responsibilities when it comes to creative works.
Transparency: The MOU contemplates ongoing evaluation of the system through a variety of reports. That seems like a good idea, but neither subscribers nor the general public get to see or comment on those reports. Similarly, the statement of "prevailing legal principles" used to instruct reviewers also should be made public so that subscribers know how reviewers are interpreting U.S. copyright law. Simply put, if subscribers are supposed to treat the system as credible, they need enough information to determine that the system actually is credible.
Conclusion: This MOU has been in development for years, and we imagine the parties will be reluctant to revisit it. But it has yet to be implemented, which means there's still time for the parties (and their friends in government) and to address the deficiencies of their proposal from perspective of the subscribers who'll be paying for it. This deal is never going to be good for subscribers (nor for the artists who won't see one more red cent as a result of it) -- but it sure could be better.
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Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve
Hampshire County Council purchased this beautiful area of coastline between 1973 and 2006 to protect its unique historical and wildlife heritage. The reserve covers nearly 200 Ha (500 acres) between the mouth of the Lymington river and the village of Keyhaven.
The adjacent mudflats and salt marshes outside the seawall are leased by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and form their Keyhaven and Pennington Marshes Reserve. Together these two reserves ensure the protection of an extensive area of coastal habitat. Both reserves lie within the New Forest National Park, recognising their importance for both wildlife and people.
You can obtain good views of the marshes and their wildlife from the Solent Way which runs the length of the reserve. There are also several attractive circular walks on local footpaths which cross the area.
The reserve is open every day of the year for quiet informal recreation on designated paths and tracks.
Download the Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve leaflet 868kb pdf
Management of the reserve
Control of water levels, salinity and grazing are crucial. During the summer cattle and ponies from the New Forest graze the reserve. Grazing animals help control scrub and invasive species such as rush. Many of the specialist plants and insects depend on wet ditches and ponds being of the right salinity. A system of sluices and tidal flaps are used to control flooding and water flow around the reserve.
How you can help
- Please ensure dogs do not foul paths or enter areas where birds may be nesting, roosting or feeding
- Please take your litter home. Leave this beautiful coast for others to enjoy
- Please stay on the footpaths and ensure all gates are closed
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By Sam Mamudi
The good people at Bespoke Investment Group have a great look at homebuilder stocks today, and make a couple of intriguing observations.
The first that while homebuilders as a group are having another good year — with a 13% gain in 2013 following 2012′s more than 80% rise — the sector is off its January highs.
Another is that for all the gains of the past year-and-a-bit — KB Home (KBH) is up 30% this year after rising 135% in 2012 — homebuilders are still way, way off their late 2005 highs:
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As the Bespoke analysts mention, the group is 263% off its lows during the financial crisis…but still has 112% to go to hit its pre-crisis highs.
Given that those levels were hit during a housing bubble, it may take a very long time to get there — but still, it's worth knowing that even after 2012 gains such as PulteGroup's (PHM) 188%, Lennar's (LEN) 95%, MDC Holdings' (MDC) 106% and DR Horton's (DHI) 55%, there could be far more to go for housing stocks.


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Day 2 staying in the same place, we had to furiously fight against the urge to just lay around and snooze all day after coffee number one and coffee number two. Debated over the idea
This is a great little island with only a few inhabitants, and the pathss connecting the homes are basically 4x4 tracks weaving in and around the hills througout the island. A mild form of mountain biking, I quite enjoyed the change - bikes with no load!
Working our way around to the South end of the island you can basically go wherever you want, just as long as you close the gates behind you so the sheep don't get in the wrong places! Coming to the end we cam over a little rise, and into view came Gylen Castle. Set
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I'm a Terminator fan. What 12" is that derek? It looks very cool.
"Call to John. I know this hurts."
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
it's a custom figure. check out www.onesixthwarriors.com in the forum area for more info, or send me a PM.
I'm a terminator fan
did you make that derek?
looks pretty cool
do you know the mcfarlane terminator figs (movie maniacs lines)? they're pretty sweet too
Until The End Of Time...
- Tupac Shakur, RIP
i didn't make it, but i'm getting one! or 2 or 3....
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Pause the youtube at 1:22 It goes by fast. Consider it my contribution to the creation/evolution thread. JD
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Pause the youtube at 1:22 It goes by fast. Consider it my contribution to the creation/evolution thread. JD
Back to the OP
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One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Looking forward to 2020 and just the clips.
I don't believe your mining engineering has much to do with climatic studies. You claim to be a mining ventilation expert. As you know, you have to BLOW HARD to ventilate 80 levels of mine works. But, I challenged you to give a knowledgeable scientific discussion from your viewpoint. All you can do is reply with an emotionally driven attack after some delay, which tells me you don't know squat and you are embarrassed to admit it.
Come on, Marv. Enlighten us with the great scope of your knowledge and the elegance of your erudition.
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I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Actually, I happen to agree that a significant amount of CO2 comes from volcanic sources -
& believe I have the science background & experience to make that case.
I have not offered any expert opinion and therefore my name and credentials are not germane to this discussion, you on the other hand have offered yourself as qualified to state an opinion and cast aspersions on the opinions and intellectual integrity of others. You have been offered an opportunity to validate your position by posting facts which do not:
"rely on very flimsy & dishonest methods to arrive at that state of ."
Failure to substantiate your claims will discredit your current claim and any other pronouncements you may make on this topic. UB has already abandoned his post are you to do likewise?
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power without lumber, raciness without weediness
A big man never looks down on others.... instead, he is someone to look up to.
Your name & credentials are germane to the discussion as I am not interested in posting to someone incapable of understanding .
When they are posted I will respond with what I have, WTW .
Marvin S
Everyone's friend is No One's friend
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
Have a run at it, Marv. Blinders may have more credentials than you and for my part I'll gladly take a look at what you have to offer. But, it becoming obvious you are stalling and you have painted yourself into a corner you can't slip out of. Insults and acting like a Grand Poobah isn't going to grease your way out of this one. Delivering the goods or an act of humility might. You know we are waiting for you.
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
for coming to a conclusion that was personal, something you have a tendency to do - along with poorly thought
out conclusions - as far as I'm concerned, you are no longer in this conversation but your friend from Canada is &
until she comes through there will be no more from me on why I believe as I do.
In my new job, which keeps me at times to busy to post, I see a lot of interesting stuff, meet a lot of interesting people
along with those not so, kinda like this forum. About a week ago I attended a dinner for elected officials of the 23 city's
that comprise our county. After the business part of the meeting we were treated to a speech by someone from Toronto,
I believe the head of a department at U of Toronto, who talked of branding a city. His opening statement was a comment
about climate change, & very poorly done. The rest of his speech was also poorly presented but there were parts that
were gleanable. He talked of the new push to return to the city & public transport (we all know how that works during
a climate event ). After the speech I thought of the poor students that had to listen top that drivel .
His focus city was South St. Paul & the urban renewal done there over the last decade or so. He noted that the push in that
direction had started 3 mayors prior (would that have been Coleman?). I listened as I have always been a strong proponent
of parks & trails in a city for many reasons. I spent a couple of years in my early teens in Sioux Falls, SD, a city that meets
that criteria.
Marvin S
Everyone's friend is No One's friend
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
You may be thinking of St. Paul, the State capitol. And no, it was not Norm Coleman who started the effort, unless you count his push to build a publicly subsidized arena for the Minnesota Wild Hockey team in 93'.
The current urban renewal began under Randy Kelly in 02 and has continued for good or bad under Chris Coleman(no relation to Norm ). Most of it a Federally subsidized Light Rail mess that has cost Billions, displaced many jobs and Mom and Pop operations and will never pay for itself, in addition to wasting millions on bike routes for a minority of residents at the cost of better streets and maintenance of our existing parks and trails.
SSP has not been on the radar much since the slaughter houses closed 40 years ago. ( Swift, Armour, American Pork, Hormel) and major improvements to the waste water plant were made and they finally finished the new bridge over the Mississippi River. They do have one of better girls hockey programs in the State however.
Hate those pesky details.
Never trust a dog to watch your food!
Now do you have any enlightenment for us unfed mouth breathing heathens. We are starved for your wisdom and unbiased clarity.
Are you just gonna hide out behind the skirts of the lady from Canada? What will you do if she actually responds?
Put up or shut up Marv
The jury is in and Marv doesn't know squat about volcanic vs. human induced CO2 levels. He doesn't even know squat about the lecture he purports to have heard.
Marv, you over reached and can not deliver. I knew you would never have the humility to admit you are off base and the word "apology" as it applies to you is not in your lexicon. Marv, you have proven yourself to be an overblown fraud. What is even more entertaining is the fact you keep sticking your foot deeper in the skitah.
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SALTILLO – A Lee County organization will soon provide workshops for parents of young children, activities for families and training for childcare providers.
Lee County's Excel By 5 coalition held an update meeting on Monday night at Saltillo Primary School. It will hold similar meetings tonight at Verona Elementary School and Thursday at Milam Elementary School. Each will begin at 6 p.m. and last for about an hour.
Excel By 5 is a statewide program that outlines a series of steps participating communities must take to support children age 5 and younger. Those who meet the criteria are certified as being early childhood-friendly communities.
On Monday, Lee County's Excel By 5 Certification Manager Beverly Williams outlined some of the needs revealed from a recent survey of 382 parents, 30 health care provides and 19 childcare providers in the community. Those included the negative influences of other children, not knowing what age-appropriate skills to teach children and not having enough activities for youth.
In response, the organization plans to hold workshops about character education and school readiness. It will organize various activities for families to participate in and provide educational resources.
Williams said they are also trying to help Lee County join the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. That would allow children to receive a free book each month until their fifth birthday at a yearly cost to Excel By 5 of $25 per child.
Williams said the group hopes to first offer the program to children in Shannon, Plantersville and Verona, which would require raising $10,000. It would expand to other areas, if it could raise more money.
Troy Coleman of Tupelo attended Monday's meeting with her 3-year-old son.
"I am eager to change the current state of affairs of early childhood education, and if I can be part of the process, I want to be," she said.
Meanwhile, Lisa Wadley, the director of the Sylvan Learning Center, was drawn to the meeting by the opportunity to help ensure children are better prepared for kindergarten.


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Two years after winning the inaugural Taite Music Prize with his album Chant Darling, Lawrence Arabia returns with the first single from his next album.
Travelling Shoes is taken from the new album The Sparrow, which will be released on July 6. The video for was filmed during a performance of the entire album for an audience of friends and family at Whangateau Hall, north of Warkworth.
nzherald.co.nz will be streaming The Sparrow exclusively from Friday June 29.
The Sparrow album release tour:
Friday July 13, St Michaels and All Angels
Tickets: undertheradar.co.nz, Cosmic Stores, Alice in Videoland, Galaxy Records, and Scorpio Books
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MLK Day contest winners to receive prizes at Jan. 20 observance
Posted January 16, 2003; 12:09 a.m.
A record number of students from Princeton area schools submitted entries in the annual essay and poster contests sponsored by Princeton University in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day .
Prizes will be presented at a ceremony that begins at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall on the campus. The featured speaker will be Eddie Glaude Jr., an associate professor of religion and a member of the committee that oversees Princeton's Program in African-American Studies. The program will be preceded by a half-hour concert, beginning at 1 p.m., by the CASYM Steel Orchestra, a group of students from New York that has performed at two previous Martin Luther King Jr. Day programs.
The winning posters -- and others -- will be on display during and after the program, which is open to the public and free of charge.
For the essay contest, students in grades 7-12 were invited to create a script for a 30-second radio spot that could be broadcast on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to remind listeners of the meaning of the day and to encourage them to do their part to increase understanding and improve relations among people of all races. Essays were submitted by 542 students -- the highest number ever -- from 17 schools.
Students in grades 4-6 were invited to create a billboard that could be installed along a major roadway for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Posters were submitted by 570 students -- also a record number -- from 19 schools.
The complete list of students is available in a news release . The Jan. 20 event will be Webcast live.
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Sad and yet happy
I randomly got into a conversation about poetry with an elderly woman in a bookshop in Bakewell a few months ago, and promised to send her a copy of my anthology. Well, I just got an email from her daughter and son-in-law: she collapsed and died from a brain haemorrhage shortly afterwards, and they found the book on the doormat on returning from the hospital. They wanted to thank me for writing poems that have helped them through their grief. I'm not sure of the word for my feelings about this: sad and yet happy.


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Watched the first episode of Boardwalk Empire. So many characters are introduced so fast and they all dress the same. Its confusing.
Besides, you're not American lol. I need to go see Django Unchained. Need to see Promised Land as well.
I liked both movies but neither were great.
Prefer Gangster Squad over Zero Dark Thirty.
Beginning to wonder if Django Unchained is better than everything.
I wanted to see Django Unchained simply because Spike Lee said he refused to see it. I hate Spike Lee with a passion. He's probably #3 on my "people I want to punch in the face" list.
Bud Selig and Nevin Shapiro #1 & #2.
Gangster Squad looked like a pretty good movie. ******** title, though.


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by Greg Tang Illustrated by Harry Briggs
Four is very fast to do when you multiply by 2.
Here's a little good advice:
Please just always double twice!
Here's a little good advice:
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A record eight members of the 2010 Hope College men's tennis team have been named Scholar-Athletes by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
In addition to the individual recognition, the entire team has been presented the ITA All-Academic Team award. Just 37 of the more than 400 Division III men's tennis programs received the recognition.
Hope players honored include John Gardner of Granville, Ohio (Granville HS), Kevin Hagan of Okemos (Okemos HS), Alex Hughes of Hudson, Ohio (Hudson HS), Kyle Kreps of Holland (Holland HS), Jon Lautz of Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton North HS), Kyle McKey of Stevensville (Lakeshore HS), Daniel Owens of Rocky River, Ohio (Rocky River HS), and Davis Vanderveen of Clarkston (Clarkston HS).
The team honor was presented teams with a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or above while the individual recognition was afford players with a GPA of at least 3.50.
The Flying Dutchmen, coached by Steve Gorno, also received the Team GPA Award from the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) for maintaining a cumulative 3.455 grade point average during the 2009-10 academic year.


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At 0630 today, the Woonsocket Police served a search warrant at 95 Rathbun St., 2nd left. As a result Miguel Medina (22 years old) and Juan Olivio (35 years old) both of 95 Rathbun St. 2L were arrested. Medina was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of schedule I-V. Olivio was charged with possession of marijuana 1st offense.
Also in the apartment police located fourteen Pit bulls, including seven puppies. Two of the dogs were properly licensed. The mother and puppies are being held by Lincoln Animal Control, the RISPCA took control of four adult dogs, Woonsocket Animal Control is holding the other dogs. The tenants have been cited for numerous animal violations totally close to $1600 in fines.


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Note: I wrote this rant a couple of months ago and since it kind of follows the same patterns as my diary entry from yesterday, I decided to submit it.
Technology Rant One
Jeremy Nelson
October 4th, 2000
Like Jaron Lanier (both in an interview and in his One Half of a Manifesto), I hate Microsoft Word's auto- spelling and grammar correction. Unfortunately, MSWord has become the standard by which all other Word Processors are designed too. I noticed this yesterday when I was working with a demo copy of AmiPro on Linux. They borrow too much from MSWord User Interface then is necessary. (Funny sidenote, I pasted this page into MSWord 97 for spell checking since I couldn't get Window NT version of Emacs' spell check to work and noticed the following. Linux is automatically marked as a misspelled word. I bet that MSWord 2000 recognizes Linux. This is very similar to how MSWord 95 marked the words Internet and web- pages as misspellings in 1995-97.)
Neal Stephenson is right in his essay, "In the Beginning was the Command Line", modern User Interfaces prevent too much from the raw power of the machine. Having said that, the learning curve to actually use your computer at a lower level is still very steep. While installing Mandrake Linux's 7.0 installation was a lot less painful then my older copy of Red Hat's Linux installation, it still is not as easy to use as the MS's Windows 98 installer. The biggest problem for me with Mandrake 7.0's installer was that it hides too many details from me, details that later became very important. The Mandrake 7.1 installer is better, which makes me believe that Open Source software could be a desk-top competitor to MS by the time of MS's next big consumer OS release because it was less then four months between the release of the two different versions.
These experiences re-enforce my beliefs about what makes good software design: Here are a few of them, in no particular order:
- Good software design allows multiple ways for users to accomplish his or her tasks.
- A good GUI tool should provide a way to view the internal details of what it is doing for interested users. These internal details should explain what is going on as well providing the raw OS API calls.
- Good writing is critical to good software.
- Users are normally smarter then developers give them credit, just because their actions do not follow the developer's own methodology does not mean that the users' mode of rational thought is wrong.
- Conversely, user's actions are sometimes random, not following any rational path. This is the hardest case to design for in software.


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While hunting with a customer on the NY/PA border I met his neighbor that owns a cabin next door and comes down once in a while. We chatted about an old barn that was built in the early 1900's that belongs to his grandfather. He mentioned that he would really like a call made from the barn wood. Well, the barn was built out of hemlock, not a great wood for call making. I ended up making a slate over glass pot for him and his father, and a figured black walnut short box with hemlock sides. The calls sounded much better than I expected.
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:31 PM GMT on March 04, 2011
No humans were present on the morning of August 4, 2010, in a remote fjord in Northwest Greenland, when the air vibrated with a thunderous crack as one of the largest icebergs in world history calved from the Petermann Glacier, the island's second largest ocean-terminating glacier. Where the glacier meets the sea, a 43 mile-long tongue of floating ice existed at the beginning of 2010. On August 4 2010, a quarter of this 43 mile-long tongue of floating ice fractured off, spawning a 100 square mile ice island four times the size of Manhattan, with a thickness half that of the Empire State building. According to Andreas Muenchow, associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, the freshwater stored in this ice island could have kept the Delaware or Hudson rivers flowing for more than two years, or kept all U.S. public tap water flowing for 120 days. There was speculation that the ice island could find its way into the open Atlantic Ocean in two years, and potentially pose a threat to oil platforms and ships. However, as the ice island made its turn to get from the narrow Petermann Fjord to enter Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada, the mighty iceberg split into thousands of small icebergs that will not pose an unusual threat to shipping when they emerge into the Atlantic.
Figure 1. The 100 square-mile ice island that broke off the Petermann Glacier heads out of the Petermann Fjord in this image taken by NASA's Aqua satellite on August 21, 2010. Image credit: NASA. I've constructed a 7-frame satellite animation available here that shows the calving and break-up of the Petermann Glacier ice island. The animation begins on August 5, 2010, and ends on September 21, with images spaced about 8 days apart. The images were taken by NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites.
Petermann Glacier spawned smaller ice islands in 2001 (34 square miles) and in 2008 (10 square miles). In 2005, the Ayles Ice Shelf, about 60 miles to the west of Petermann Glacier, disintegrated and became a 34 square-mile ice island. The August 2010 Petermann Glacier calving event created the largest iceberg observed in the Arctic since 1962, when the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on the north coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island calved off a massive 230 square mile chunk. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf also calved off a huge 21 square mile ice island a few days after the August 2010 Petermann Glacier calving event. According to an article in livescience.com, "Driftwood and narwhal remains found along the Ellesmere coast have radiocarbon dates from roughly 3,000 to 6,800 years ago, implying that the ice has been intact since those remains were deposited." All of the these calving events are evidence that the ice sheets in the Arctic are responding as one would expect to significantly warmer temperatures.
Warmer ocean temperatures cause significant melting of Greenland's glaciers
At a talk last December at the world's largest conference on climate change, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, glacier expert Eric Rignot of UC-Irvine implicated ocean warming as a key reason for the calving of the Petermann Glacier's ice island. The ocean waters near the glacier have warmed by 1 - 2°C over the past three years, he said, and all of the periphery of Greenland has seen ocean heat increases in recent years, with the result that 20 - 80% of all the mass lost by Greenland's glaciers in recent years could be attributed to melting of the glaciers by warmer waters attacking them from beneath. Ocean temperatures along the southwest coast of Greenland (60N to 70N, 60W to 50W) computed from the UK Hadley Center data set during 2010 were 2.9°C (5.2°F) above average--a truly remarkable anomaly, and far warmer than the previous record of 1.5°C above average set in 2003. Sea surface temperature records for Greenland began in the 1920s. A study earlier this year published in the journal Science (Spielhagen et al., 2011) found that ocean temperatures on the east side of Greenland are now at their warmest levels in at least 2,000 years. The researchers studied a sediment core containing fossil remains of planktic foraminifers, which vary as a function of water temperature. The study noted that not only have the waters flowing northward on the east side of Greenland warmed significantly, the volume of water flowing north has also increased, resulting in a large transport of heat into the Arctic. "Such an increased heat input has far-reaching consequences," they wrote.
Figure 2. Departure of sea surface temperature from average for 2010 from the NOAA Daily Optimum Interpolation SST Anomaly data set for October 2010. Areas colored red are warmer than the 1971-2000 average, areas colored blue are cooler than that average. A large region of record warm water temperatures extended along the west coast of Greenland, leading to record warm air temperatures and record melting along the western portion of Greenland in 2010. Ocean temperatures along the southwest coast of Greenland (60N to 70N, 60W to 50W) computed from the UK Hadley Center data set during 2010 were 2.9°C (5.2°F) above average--a truly remarkable anomaly, surpassing the previous record of 1.5°C set in 2003. Sea surface temperature records for Greenland began in the 1920s. Image credit: NOAA Visualization Lab.
Record warmth and melting in Greenland during 2010
Greenland's climate in 2010 was marked by record-setting high air temperatures, the greatest ice loss by melting since accurate records began in 1958, and the greatest mass loss of ocean-terminating glaciers on record. That was the conclusion of the 2010 Arctic Report Card, a collaborative effort between NOAA and European Arctic experts that comes out each year. Was 2010 the warmest year in Greenland's history? That is difficult to judge. We know it was also very warm in the late 1920s and 1930s in Greenland, but we only have two stations, Godtahab Nuuk and Angmagssalik, with weather records that go back that far (Figure 3.) Godtahab Nuuk set a record high in 2010, but temperatures at Angmagssalik in 2010 were similar to what was observed during several years in the 1920s and 1930s. Marco Tedesco of the City College of New York's Cryosphere Processes Laboratory remarked that last year's record warmth and melting in Greenland began when an unusually early spring warm spell reduced and "aged" the snow on the surface of the ice sheet, so that the snow became less reflective, allowing it to absorb more heat from the sun. This accelerated snow melt even further, exposing the bare ice, which is less reflective than snow and absorbs more heat. This feedback loop extended Greenland's record melting season well into the fall.
Figure 3. Historic temperatures in Greenland for the six stations with at least 50 years of data, as archived by NASA. Three of the six stations set record highs in 2010. However, only two of the six stations (Godtahab Nuuk and Angmagssalik) have data going back beyond the 1930s, which was a period of warmth in Greenland similar to the warmth of the current decade. Godtahab Nuuk set a record high in 2010, but 2003 still ranks as Angmagssalik's hottest year on record.
Figure 4. The 2010 summer melt season was lasted more than 40 days longer (purple colors) than the mean melt season from 1979 - 2007. Image credit: Arctic Report Card.
Why Greenland matters: sea level rise
The major concern with a warming climate in Greenland is melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which currently contributes about 25% of the observed 3 mm/year (1.2 inches per decade) global rise in sea level. Higher sea levels mean increased storm surge inundation, coastal erosion, loss of low-lying land areas, and salt water contamination of underground drinking water supplies. Greenland ice mass loss is accelerating over the long term, according to independent estimates using three different techniques (Figure 5), with more mass being lost each year than the previous year. According to Rignot et al., 2011, ice mass loss is also accelerating in Antarctica, and "the magnitude of the acceleration suggests that ice sheets will be the dominant contributors to sea level rise in forthcoming decades, and will likely exceed the IPCC projections for the contribution of ice sheets to sea level rise in the 21st century." As I discussed in a 2009 blog post, How much will global sea level rise this century?, the IPCC in 2007 estimated that global sea level would rise 0.6 - 1.9 feet by 2100, but several studies since then predict a higher range of 1.6 - 6.6 feet.
During the warm period 125,000 years ago, before the most recent ice age, roughly half of the Greenland ice sheet melted. This melting plus the melting of other smaller Arctic ice fields is thought to have caused 7.2 - 11.2 feet (2.2 - 3.4 meters) of the 13 - 20 foot (4 - 6 meter) sea level rise observed during that period. Temperatures in Greenland are predicted to rise 3°C by 2100, to levels similar to 125,000 years ago. If this level of warming occurs, we can expect sea levels to rise 13 - 20 feet several centuries from now. There's enough water locked away in the ice sheet to raise sea level to rise 23 feet (7 meters), should the entire Greenland ice sheet melt.
Figure 5. Loss of mass from Greenland's ice sheet in gigatons per year from 1992 through 2009, as computed from satellite gravity measurements from the GRACE satellites (red line) and from a mass balance method. The mass balance method computes the amount of snow on the surface, the amount of ice mass lost to wind and melt, and the amount of ice lost computed from glacier velocity and ice thickness. Adding together these terms gives the total amount of ice lost or gained over the ice sheet. The acceleration is given in gigatons per year squared. Another paper by Zwally et al. (2011) used a third method, laser satellite altimetry, to determine Greenland mass loss. Between 2003 to 2007, the ice sheet lost 171 gigatons of mass per year. Between 1992 to 2002, Greenland was only losing only 7 gigatons per year. Image credit: Rignot et al., 2011, Geophysical Research Letters.
Rignot, E., et al., 2011: Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to sea level rise, Geophysical Research Letters, in press, doi:10.1029/2011GL046583.
Spielhagen, et al., 2011, Enhanced Modern Heat Transfer to the Arctic by Warm Atlantic Water, Science 28 January 2011: Vol. 331 no. 6016 pp. 450-453 DOI: 10.1126/science.1197397
Zwally, J., et al., 2011, Greenland ice sheet mass balance: distribution of increased mass loss with climate warming; 2003 - 07 versus 19922 - 2002, Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 57, No. 201, 2011.
Wunderground's climate change section has a Greenland web page with detailed information and references.
Jeff Masters
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Policy 400.15
Performance Development Program
Originator: President
Subject: Performance Development Program (PDP)
University of Maryland University College recognizes that a core competency of the University is its ability to recognize, develop, and retain a highly effective staff. Toward that end, UMUC has instituted the following performance model to be known as the PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (PDP).
- Policy
- The PDP will be utilized by all managers at UMUC to monitor performance for all exempt and nonexempt staff. The PDP is intended to have a twofold purpose:
- Performance evaluation and improvement; and ongoing staff development.
- The PDP form serves as the primary instrument for the eligibility for annual salary increases, including steps granted to nonexempt employees on July 1 of each year.
- The PDP cycle will be the twelve-month period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31.
- If a supervisor leaves a position during the rating period, it is expected that the supervisor will complete the process prior to departure from the unit. It is the responsibility of the second level supervisor to ensure that the PDP process is continued for the balance of the rating period.
- The PDP process is ongoing. Operational objectives are subject to modification during the rating period as the needs of the unit and UMUC change.
- All completed PDP forms will be retained for two years by the supervisor in the unit in which they originated.
- The PDP process will be reviewed on a regular basis to assess its current effectiveness and will be amended as required to carry out the intent of the policy.
- If an employee wishes to appeal his/her evaluation, the UMS grievance policy will be followed.
- Procedures
- All New UMUC Employees
- The PDP form will be sent to the unit head of the department making the appointment by the Office of Personnel Services. (Along with a letter from the President)
- PHASE I. Unit heads are responsible to see the PDP process is initiated for each new employee or transfer employee within 60 days of employment in the unit.
- PHASE II. Individual supervisors should be encouraged to have discussions regarding performance factors throughout the period.
- PHASE III. Employees who are hired after November 1 should begin the PDP process as soon as possible (but no later than 60 days from the date of employment); however, Phase III will not be completed until the second January after the date of hire.
- Current Employees
- Unit heads will receive blank PDP forms from the Office of Personnel Services on an annual basis.
- PHASE I. Units are responsible for ensuring that PDP forms are completed and an initial meeting is held by April 30.
- PHASE II. Individual supervisors should be encouraged to have discussions regarding performance factors throughout the period.
- PHASE III. It is mandatory that all PDP for UMUC staff members be completed by January 31.
- After the completion of Phase III, unit heads are required to submit a copy of page 1 of each employee's PDP to the Office of Personnel Services by February 15.
- Transfers. If an employee leaves a unit at any time following probation for a new position with UMUC, it is the responsibility of the unit head to ensure that a PDP Form is completed for that individual. If the employee transfers to the new unit after November 1, the PDP will be completed by the original supervisor. If the employee transfers before November 1, the PDP will be completed by the new supervisor.
- Separation. If an employee terminates employment with UMUC during the period, it is recommended that the supervisor complete the PDP process prior to the employee's separation.
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Description The flathead mullet, Mugil cephalus, is a mullet of the genus Mugil, found in coastal tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Its length is typically 30 to 75 centimeters (12 to 30 inches).
The Striped Mullet is a mainly diurnal coastal species that often enters estuaries and rivers. The Striped Mullet usually schools over sand or mud bottoms, feeding on zooplankton. The Adult fish normally feed on algae in fresh water. The maximum size the Striped Mullet may reach is approximately 120 cm, with a max weight of about 8,000 g. The species is euryhaline meaning that the fish can acclimate to different levels of salinity; this combined with the acclimation of juveniles to high water temperatures appears to be a selective advantage.
Dimensions Up to 18" (46 cm).
Habitat Ocean or bay shallows, Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Tidepools, Rivers & streams, Lakes & ponds.
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OTIS ORCHARDS, Wash. - One man was killed and another is in critical condition following a crash near the Washington-Idaho border.
The crash happened around 1 a.m. Wednesday at Wellesley Avenue and Irrigon Street.
Spokane County Sheriff's deputies said three men in their 20s were riding in a white Dodge truck. The driver of the truck lost control and over-corrected, hit a tree and a power pole, and rolled multiple times before coming to a stop.
All three of the men were ejected from the truck.
When a witness ran up to the scene and called 911, one of the men, later identified as 20-year-old Michael Steinbach, was standing next to the truck. He was taken by ambulance to a Spokane hospital. Police found the other two men, 24-year-old Derrick Wilcox and 18-year0old Taylor Stacy, in the field about 55 feet away from the truck.
Stacy was pronounced dead at the scene while Wilcox was flown to Kootenai Medical Center in critical condition.
"The man who was standing up near the vehicle obviously had been drinking," said Spokane County Sheriff Detective Dave Thornburg said. "We still have to figure out who the driver was."
Thornburg added both alcohol and speed appear to be factors in the crash.
"Where they started to leave marks on the road and came to a rest and several hundred feet, so we know we have speed involved," said Detective Thornburg.
Avista was on scene for awhile dealing with downed power lines. A number of residents near the collision lost power for several hours as a result of the truck's collision with the power pole.
Detectives are still investigating the crash scene and have not released the names of the men involved.


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The apartment has a twin bedroom, a double bedroom, and a double sofa bed. Huge windows flood the space with light, including the full and spacious open-plan kitchen. The massive terrace is a fantastic place to enjoy a meal or just unwind on a warm afternoon.
It takes just 15 minutes by bus to reach the old city, home to such historic sights as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Temple Mount, and the Wailing Wall. The Knesset (parliament) is a 30-minute bus ride away.
The apartment is located just off the main street of the German Colony, a lively street with lots of great shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars. Just a few steps away is the "Railway Park", a beautiful narrow green pedestrian area on an abandoned railroad line.
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The location of this flat can't be beat! Super central. Meters from trendy Emek Refaim, with loads of shops and restaurants. Easy walking distance to the city centre, Old City, lovely renovated train station and the wonderful walking path along the old train tracks. But for the hiccup in our stay (see below) this would be a sold five-star rating. As to the flat itself, the patio is divine and the overall space clean, comfortable and airy, and completely kitted out. It could, however, benefit from some real management and maintenance, e.g. missing light bulbs, dirty dishes. Not a big impediment. Also, the landlord, Paul is absentee but he is responsive via email and a good guy. His manager on the ground, Myriam is lovely. However, had to fight with his/her bozo management team for compensation for three days of no hot water. Not a huge deal in summer, but cold showers in Jerusalem in winter, not so fun. After much hassling, ended up being booked into the boutique hotel next door for the eve of our departure. Had to fight way too hard for that small gesture, but at least we had hot showers and breakfast before we departed.
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Thanks our host !! we enjoyed our staying in Jerusalim .Fist , excellent location just five min. on foot from Jaffa gate of the Old City. Second this place is very cosy and has everything for having a good time.
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This lecture has been canceled because Andrei Illarionov will be in Russia to attend Boris Yeltsin's funeral.
"Putin's Russia and Beyond: What Is the Model?" is the title of a lecture by Andrei Illarionov, a former chief economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in 219 Burr Hall.
Illarionov, one of Russia's strongest advocates of an open society and democratic capitalism, also served as Putin's personal representative to the Group of Eight industrial nations. He currently is senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.
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For the first three quarters this year, half of the top ten performing Depository Receipts (DRs), including ADRs and GDRs, were clean tech companies, data from BNY Mellon shows.
Denmark's Vestas Wind Systems led the gain, leaping 341%. South Korea's Hanwha SolarOne (HSOL) immediately followed. China's Jinko Solar (JKS), Trina Solar (TSL) and ReneSola (SOL) all gained over 200%.
Computer technology firms also did well. Both Inotera Memories and Himax Technology (HIMX) gained over 300%. China's real-time social media platform YY (YY) advanced 228%.
Britain's Thomas Cook Group is the only non-tech company that made the top ten list.
Capital raising picked up modestly in the third quarter, totaling $2 billion, up from $1.4 billion in the second quarter. Fubon Financial Holding raised $850 million in July.
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Everybody knows about the Anakin-style lightsaber from Japan, right? With the motion-sensors and whatnot? And I reckon it'll be sold in the US later on this year (as Entertainment Earth's pre-sell would lead me to believe). But have any of you guys got it now? Details on it are few and far between, I just want to know if it's as cool as it appears to be. How long the 'blade' is, if the 'blade's as thick in diameter as the regular Hasbro 'sabers, etc.


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Jamie's Recipes App subscription?
I have a few points to make and a question so I'll try not to ramble too much!
First off let me say I bought Jamie's first Twenty Minute Meals app and then the Recipes app which followed for my iPod Touch and loved them both! Loads of great recipes, brilliant videos and excellent value.
Now the Recipes app has changed from allowing purchase of recipe packs to a subscription based system. This has created a lot of negative feedback on the app store as well as a lot of misinformation. Many people are complaining they they will have to pay a subscription to use the recipes they have already paid for which is nonsense! It was made quite clear that recipes you have already purchased will always be available to you regardless of whether you subscribe or not, plus you get three months free subscription which can't be bad! I received the new Everyday Heroes pack today which looks great, thanks!
Which brings me to my question - The recipes I have purchased are mine to keep - great - but what about those I receive through subscription? Are these only available as long as I subscribe and then disappear if I cancel my subscription? How's it going to work? If I cancel my subscription and then have to reinstall the app for any reason I can redownload the apps I have purchased but again what about those received by subscription? Does the subscription purchase the recipes permanently or does it merely rent them?
Thanks for any help!
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Re: Jamie's Recipes App subscription?
Apologies I have found my answer on the itunes description, the recipes will indeed disappear if your subscription expires! Not a good deal in my opinion, �20 a year to "rent" some recipes? I can't see many people agreeing to that. Pity, I hope you reconsider how the app works.
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The film begins and ends, as does the history of America in the last half-century, with Watergate. All the details chronicled and parodied at length –which are now almost ions of American folklore—are in place: Nixon (Anthony Hopkins, who neither looks nor sounds much lik Nixon but whose bearish, cringing presence is exactly suitable) sloshing scotch in his darkened office as the fireplace and air conditioner run full blast; sinister Alexander Haig (Powers Boothe) skulking in with a tape for the president's perusal; the obscenities and yelps of self pity as Nixon reprises the fatal conferences he foolishly and vaingloriously recorded. What is missing, though, is the acrimony and black humor that invariably accompanies these images. Perhaps because he showed his limitations in that department with Natural Born Killers, Stone in Nixon foregoes satire for tragedy.
Not that he's avoiding humor altogether. From the opening scene, this Nixon evokes more the fearful comedy of Beckett's Krapp than the unabashed, unexplained evil of Nixon's namesake in Shakespeare's Richard III (soon to be released in a wacky, postmodern adaptation with Ian McKellen, which could serve as a sequel of Stone's film). As the voices spin from the reel and the camera closes in on the gears and sprockets of the tape recorder, Nixon is drawn back into the flashbacks within flashbacks of his past only to discover a weaving of words, egos, and delusion that disclose not a tragic flaw but a tragic void.
Stone, regrettably, tries his hand at psychoanalyzing. What he offers is nothing new (he might have taken a hint from Robert Coover's endearingly benighted Nixon in the Public Burning, or the shriveled soul exposed in Robert Altman's Secret Honor). Nixon had a Kennedy complex: everything he was and did failed by comparison with the leader of Camelot. Jack was rich; Dick was poor. Jack went to Harvard; Dick went to Whittier. Jack slept with countless women; Dick married Pat. Jack was loved; Dick was elected. As Nixon himself says to his predecessor's portrait by the end of the film, "When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what they are."
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Investigate how this pattern of squares continues. You could
measure lengths, areas and angles.
A man paved a square courtyard and then decided that it was too
small. He took up the tiles, bought 100 more and used them to pave
another square courtyard. How many tiles did he use altogether?
Can you work out the area of the inner square and give an
explanation of how you did it?
Charlie has been exploring squares with vertices drawn on the points of a square dotty grid.
Unfortunately, he rubbed out some of his work and only left behind one side of each square.
Can you recreate the squares he drew?
Is there more than one possibility?
Could any line joining two points be the side of a square whose vertices lie on grid points?
How can you be sure?
Alison has been drawing squares and their diagonals. Here are some of the diagonals she drew:
Can you recreate the squares she drew from her diagonals?
Is there more than one possibility?
Can you find a method to draw a square when you are just given the diagonal?
Could any line joining two points be the diagonal of a square whose vertices lie on grid points?
Can you find a way to help Alison decide whether a given line could be the diagonal of such a square?
Charlie and Alison played around with rhombuses next.
Charlie said "Whenever I join two points to make a line, I can use my line as a side of several different rhombuses".
Alison said "When I draw a rhombus, it shares its diagonal with infinitely many other rhombuses."
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Apple (AAPL) today closed down $15.83, or 3.2%, at $485.92, as the Street responded to yesterday's concerns about rumored cuts in iPhone production with a raft of mostly positive endorsements of the stock.
Today's positive notes follow a rush of such reports defending the stock yesterday morning.
I'd note there is still quite a range of estimates for both last quarter and this quarter in terms of iPhone sales:
William Power, R.W. Baird: Reiterates an Outperform rating and a $750 price target, writing that as regards a projected 20% drop in iPhone sales, quarter to quarter, this quarter, is "the front-end loaded nature of new market launches is the bigger issue than slowing demand." What he means is that the iPhone 5 showed up in countries faster this time around than with the 4S: "We would note that Apple launched the iPhone 5 in close to 100 markets this CQ4, vs. the iPhone 4S in 50+ a year ago. The 5% sequential iPhone shipment decline from CQ4 to CQ1 a year ago might have been closer to 30% if launch timelines were similar to this year. China alone was a significant driver in CQ1 last year, and will benefit CQ4 this year." He's modeling 48.5 million units last quarter, up from his prior 46.7 million-unit-estimate, and cut his March-quarter estimate to 39.5 million from 43.5 million.
Shaw Wu, Sterne Agee: Reiterates a Buy rating and an $840 price target. The company's December-quarter results were likely in line with the Street, he thinks, at $54.4 billion in revenue and $13.70 per share in profit, based on sales of 47.5 million iPhone units. The demand for the iPhone "remains robust," he argues, and "We believe there is great confusion with press reports of order cuts and weak demand." In fact, writes Wu, the reports merely point to improved manufacturing yields and Apple shifting suppliers. Wu thinks that improved yield could help gross profit surprise to the upside last quarter: "We are modeling gross margin of 38.7% vs. expectations of 38.3% and guidance of 36%." Wu sees Apple giving a stock forecast for this quarter, and he's modeling $44.4 billion in revenue and $10.99 in EPS, on sales of 38 million iPhone units. "We have to admit that this upcoming AAPL earnings call has got to be the trickiest as far as we can remember because near-term stock direction will most likely be entirely driven by investor sentiment."
Hendi Susanto, Gabelli & Co.: Reiterates a Buy rating on the stock and a $950 present value, projecting revenue last quarter of $54.1 billion and EPS of $12.32 per share, on sales of 43.7 million iPhones and 26 million iPads, including 6 million of the iPad mini, while noting that the iPhone count is consistent with "higher supply chain capacity and wider distribution channels." Susanto is projecting sales of 38.2 million iPhone units this quarter, but does not provide full financial estimates for the quarter. As far as valuation, "AAPL shares are trading at 5.5x and 11.4x our FY 2013 EBITDA and EPS estimates of $65 billion and $48.00, respectively. We calculate a FY2013 PMV of $950 per share based on our 14x forward P/E plus cash."
Peter Misek, Jefferies & Co.: Reiterates a Buy rating on the stock and an $800 price target. Misek is modeling 53 million iPhones sold last quarter, and revenue of $59.6 billion and EPS of $15.50. He thinks this quarter's outlook from the company may end up being "slightly above consensus" despite Apple's legendary conservatism in forecasting. That might mean an implicit forecast for 40 million or more iPhones this quarter. Misek actually cut his March-quarter estimate from 48 million units to 44 million units, in part because rumors about another iPhone refresh this year could stall some sales. But he thinks the discussion of production cuts missed the mark: "As word of the earlier production schedule starts to spread, we believe we could see a slight slowing of demand CQ1 in anticipation of the new product launch and Apple will likely start curtailing channel inventory. Therefore we tweak down our CQ1 iPhone shipment estimate from 48M to 44M, which is still well above widespread fears of shipments in the mid-30Ms. These fears are based on large CQ1 component order declines, but we believe the primary drivers are: 1) an assembly bottleneck caused component inventories to rise in CQ4; 2) new iPhone builds starting in March; 3) demand being in line to slightly below optimistic expectations. Our checks indicate that CQ1 iPhone builds are ~50M."


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I am SO EXCITED about these pictures.
I think it's no secret around here how positively OBSESSED I am with the ladies of Simply Bloom. But here's some proof. Here, too.
And here's a more recent post featuring one of their yummiest engagement sessions EVUH. If you decide to click on it, you'll see that I included a teaser in anticipation of this exact shoot that I am so freakin' excited to share with you now. I am, like, bursting at the seams right now over this shoot!!!
The biggest thing I take away from these photos – aside from their outRAGEOUS beauty and color – is the impact that just a few thoughtfully chosen details can have on your very own e-session. If you're looking to ramp up the cute factor of your upcoming shoot, I suggest taking some pointers from Vania and Christine's direction with this shoot (they're the dynamic duo behind Simply Bloom). This means a trip to the antique store is a MUST. You never know what you'll find and that makes it SOOOOO FUUUUN. In this shoot, the ladies employed a brilliantly colored french cookbook, a tea set, a honey bear, eggs, an apron, mini paper lanterns, some desserts… ok they went crazy with props. And I love them all the more for it – just look at the results!!! BUT you don't need ALL of this to make your e-session stand out, I promise. Even just one or two props, if carefully chosen, can a perfectly pretty e-session make. No antique stores nearby? I'd advise checking out your local Anthropologie. A bit more pricey, but hey, it's your engagement… which means it's worth it, OBVIOUSLY. Plus, they almost always have a nice gathering of odds and ends in their sale section. For example, last time I went they had this huge wicker basket of totally random and totally rad door knobs. An inspiration shoot stylist's dream.
Final thought on the matter: it certainly doesn't hurt to have the ladies of Simply Bloom taking your pictures. ;)
Want to see the rest? That's a stupid question. Click here to go straight to the Simply Bloom blog for more!
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01-28-2013, 06:51 PM #1Member Platy
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Help for Mixed Tank
I just realized my 3 little clown loaches have ick----someone told me tetra dissolving tablets for ick were safe with all fix..I have plecos, a raphael, algae eater, and dojo loach in there---can I treat the whole tank? I know the drops that I have color the water and are not for scaleless fish...Thanks for your help! Also, my oscar has had about 3 white spots on his left front (transparent) fin for a week or so----never changes---could that be ick? I thought it usually spread pretty quickly. He did scrape his side on an ornament a while back and at first I thought it was from the scrape? Thanks again if you can help Shirley
ich will likely have infested your entire tank by the time you notice spots on your fish. treating the entire tank is the most practical way
if you don't have plants or invertebrates, which can be sensitive against medications. since you have loaches which are pretty much scaleless
I would recommend starting half dose and in case no fish shows stress, slowly going up to full dose.
just a question, what is your tank size? you have a species of fish(clown loach) that will eventually need a tank in the range of a couple of hundred gallons
and likely several others(oscar, plecos depending on species) that will eventually need tanks at least 75 gallons in size.
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Ich can easily be treated by upping the temperature to around 30C. This be be stressful towards fish, however, is a more natural way to treat white-spot. Medication can sometimes be harmful to scale-less fish like dojo loaches. If you are to use the heat method slowly increase the temp over several days to reduce stress to fish
Hope your fish recover soon
another tried and true method to treat ich is heat + salt. As said above increase your heat to 86F over a couple of days. Slowly add 1 tsp aquarium salt (I'd go light on the salt because of your loaches) per 5 gallons of water over a couple of days. (dissolve the salt in tank water then pour it in small increments over a day or so. Leave the tank for several days at that temp. once you see the last spot on your fish, then leave the temp at 86F for 5 - 7 more days. You can do W/C during this time just take care to maintain your 86F water temp. ONce your 5 - 7 day spot free period is passed, slowly lower the temp over 2 - 3 days. Do several small water changes to remove the salt and you should be good to go. I know this works because I just completed this treatment on my 90 gallon tank.
Good luck!
Oh and the reason most suggest the heat method is because it's less invasive than medications but the choice is ultimately yours
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did you recently add new fish into the mix?
also, what size tank and filtration are you running?
ich doesn't come out of nowhere, it comes from newly added fish, or a stressed tank.
Heat and salt is more effective than just heat. Heat will speed up the life-cycle, but salt will kill the ich. Here is a pretty good article about ich, http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/ichthyophthiriusWhen I go fishing I just throw sharp rocks in the water and wait for the dead fish to float to the top... Kingfisher
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I think my fish is adjusting well to the four gallon, He's laying on his side attempting to go to sleep on the bottom of the gravel.
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My experience with Ich has been strange but promising. I have had an Ich outbreak in my tank twice, but it never got very far. In both instnaces, only the Black Neon Tetras had it, and there were only 5-6 spots per fish. I never lost any fish to Ich.
As mentioned above, raising the temperature of the tank only speeds up the Ich life cycle, and Ich has 4 life cycles. the white spots on the fish are one, and it is not vulnerable duing this stage. Then the white spots drop off the fish (2nd cycle) I think they are mildly vulnerable during this time. The ich then attaches itself to the substrate or an object in the tank (3rd cycle) and not vulnerable during this stage...and then the big outbreak, the 4th cycle is when the Ich spot spews forth 20-30 new parasitic ich spots which travel around the tank looking for a host. This is when its at its most vulnerable.
But Vulnerable to what? SALT!
So when you first see Ich, up the temp. I the recommending temp is 82, I have gone as far as 84. Someone above said 86, but that is pretty risky temp, espcially if you have cooler water temp fish in your tank like some plecos. This temp raise should make the full lifecycle of the Ich complete in less than a week, but results my vary. The same time that you raise the temp in your tank, you need to add the salt. I use the regualr aquarium salt they sell at the LFS, its pretty cheap stuff. API Aquarium Salt comes in at 1 Quart for about $4. It calls for 1 Tablespoon for every 5 gallons. I think thats a lot, so I did about 60% of that. For a 20 gallon tank I would do 3 Tablespoons. I found it easier to get out a large glass, scoop tank water out and pre-dissolve the salt in the glass and then pour it back in the tank.
I wait a week after all white spots have disapperared and then lower the temp back down and do a big water change.
Both times this is cured Ich and no lost fish.....hope it helps!55 Gallon Freshwater Tank (semi-planted) 48"x21"x13"
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