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Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe: "McNabb never made the donation he promised"
When Donnovan McNabb joined the Vikings, punter Chris Kluwe agreed to give up his No. 5 jersey, on a few conditions.
Kluwe is one of the NFL's freest spirits, so it's no surprise that a couple of those conditions were off the wall: One was that McNabb had to buy him an ice cream cone. Another was that McNabb had to mention Kluwe's band, Tripping Icarus, at five press conferences.
The third and final condition was that McNabb would make a $5,000 donation to Kick For A Cure, an organization that supports people with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Kluwe is involved with Kick For a Cure, and he thought it would be a nice gesture for McNabb to show his support.
Unfortunately, that's a gesture that McNabb hasn't followed through on: Kluwe told Scout.com this week that McNabb didn't make the donation. Today I checked in with Kluwe on Twitter to see if maybe the Scout.com article had motivated McNabb to contact him about the donation, but it didn't.
"No, but I haven't really had a chance to ask him. I was going to at the end of the season, but then he got released," Kluwe wrote on Twitter.
Kluwe, on the other hand, donates $500 to the same charity every time one of his punts lands inside the 20. He's up to 19 on the season. Chances are he'll wind up making over $10,000 in donations, and by comparison he's "only" making $1.18 mil this year. Good for him for putting McNabb on blast.
He did agree to the terms and sign off on them, all captured on film and available on the internet. Kluwe seems like too nice of a guy to do it, but I'd love to see someone slap McNabb's ass with court papers and make him pay up.
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Changing to different insulin sounds like another good option to me after you exhaust these options.
I also want to add that the glucose toxicity from the hyperglycemia is toxic to the beta cells of the pancreas and impairs their ability to function, so the sooner you get the hyperglycemia under control, the sooner the beta cells recover. It is unlikely that her diabetes will resolve if the prednisone can be stopped, but the sooner this happens, the better shot she has.
The denosyl should not be a problem.
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KAMPALA, (Xinhua): The Ugandan police late on Tuesday rescued more than 80 people who were stuck on Lake Victoria in the central part of the country after their boat developed an engine failure, said a statement issued here on Wednesday.
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After rescuing all of them alive, the marine police took them up to Lusubuka landing site in Kalangala, the police said in the statement.
Boats traveling on Ugandan lakes are often overloaded and accidents are frequent. There have been calls for life jackets to be compulsory, but the measure has not been effectively implemented.
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So yes, we are all her together, just remember also, in that the sentiment posted in this fable can be used for your beliefs, and for beliefs of those diametrically opposed to your beliefs.
The devil's advocate in all of us should come out once in a while, if only to keep us paying attention.


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Tofutti hard cheese is the most widely-available vegan cheese in the country. If you look at the label, you won't see any trans-fat count — just that the second top ingredient is partially hydrogenated soybean oil, the most popular source of man-made trans-fats the NYC law seeks to ban.
"If you create a proper vegan recipe, it won't include trans-fats," says Cliff Preefer, the chef at Sacred Chow. Not only proper according to Cliff, but lawful according to the City of New York: as of July 2008, restaurants are banned from using trans-fats in any of their foods. And unlike with their cream cheese, Tofutti doesn't offer a non-hydrogenated version. But out of the six restaurants I contacted, Foodswings is the only one using Tofutti — and the only one without a plan for change.
This is part two of SuperVegan's "No more trans-fats? But how will I go on?" series on the ban as it affects vegans in New York City. You can read part one here. After the jump, a brief run-down of some of the top vegan-cheesy restauranteurs in the city. (P.S. Get your act together, Kate's.)
Fortunately, most places aren't in for big changes — because fortunately they didn't use Tofutti cheeses in the first place. The V-Spot uses the SoyCo soy and casein-free Rice American Cheese slices, as well as Vegan Gourmet's Follow Your Heart Mozzarella, which is also the vegan cheese of choice at Slice pizza on the Upper East Side. The Cafe Viva pizzeria on the Upper West Side uses a casein-free mozzarella distributed by Natural Farms.
Sacred Chow uses vegan Vegi-Kaas cheese — casein-free, unlike their non-vegan Soya-Kaas brethren. Now, Foodswings: that venerable source of vegan fast-food as greasy as the noisepiece on a Williamsburg hipster's aviator sunglasses. Granted, they, too, use Vegi-Kaas on pizzas and quesadillas (mozzarella and cheddar, respectively), but their sandwiches are loaded with Tofutti slices. When I called to ask if they were planning a switch, the woman I spoke with paused and stammered, "That's a good question."
So are Foodswings sandwiches in for a change? I'll let you know if Freedom ever calls me back.
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Cannabis does not induce schizophrenia, Dutch scientists say
You can read about this study in the journal Psychiatry.
The scientists say in the journal that after reviewing currently available data there is justifiable reason for closing down coffee shops in The Netherlands.
The scientists say the drug only seems to affect people who are genetically predisposed to getting schizophrenia (meaning they will get it anyway). As schizophrenia manifests itself during adolescence, and many people start taking cannabis during adolescence ? it is just coincidence that some people develop the mental illness soon after they start taking the drug.
The authors of the report wrote \"It is therefore advisable that youngsters with a family history of schizophrenia and patients with a schizophrenic disorder be discouraged from using cannabis.\"
Next year all coffee shops will be subjected to a smoking ban in The Netherlands. The sale of alcohol in Dutch coffee shops is being banned this year.
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Liverpool's ability to get their business done early must be commended given the recent stasis that has characterised the last two windows for the club. Where Rickie Lambert may have puzzled, the signing of Emre Can excites. At 20-years-old and coming to Meseyside for £10m, Can could yet prove to be one of the better signings of the summer.
As another young, talented central midfielder moves elsewhere, Manchester United fans must wonder when their club will sign the kind of player that they've desperately needed for several seasons. Assuming United were aware of the player's release clause as Liverpool were, it's important to ask whether the club have made a mistake by not moving for Can.
The two weakest areas of the Manchester United team are in central midfield and left-back. Emre Can is a central midfielder who can also play at left-back. The player's proficiency in the two positions in which United are weakest would suggest Can could have been at the very least a useful acquisition for the club.
But whether the player would be the right buy for the club in either position is debatable. Can was asked to moonlight at left-back for Leverkusen last season and ended up playing more there than in his preferred centre-midfield position. But Can also tended to perform better at left-back, where his inexperience was less exposed, and where his direct style complements.
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However, Can's future is seen to be in central midfield. This means the player would only really provide a short-term solution to Manchester United's problems in this position. They could conceivably convert him into a left-back, but the club already seem set on bringing in Luke Shaw.
The fact that a lot the talk about Can is in the future tense also tells you he would be unlikely to solve Manchester United's central midfield issues in the short-term. However, the player has the attributes to become the man who could.
Can can perform so well at left-back despite being trained as a central midfielder because he is such an all-round footballer. The German under-21 international is a technically gifted player, being comfortable with the ball at either feet. His ability in the air is a defensive advantage for any team, as is his reading of the game.
Perhaps Can's biggest selling point is his confidence. The new Liverpool man does not hide on the ball and isn't afraid to take opponents on. Can rarely plays the kind of short, horizontal passing that has become increasingly common part of midfield play, preferring to pass the ball further in order to stretch the play.
With these attributes, it's easy to imagine Rodgers enjoying working with the player, and improving Can as he has done with Liverpool's other youngsters. However, such luxuries of time are not open to Manchester United.
Van Gaal will be expected to immediately improve Manchester United and the easiest way to do that would be to bring in an experienced midfielder operator. Can is still raw in many ways – such as his tendency to dive into tackles and to attempt to dribble past opponents near his own penalty area – and he's unlikely to offer the significant improvement that is required in the short-term. Essentially, the club's problems in central midfield have gone on long enough, and the time has past for buying a young player and nurturing them in the position.
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okay so 70mph is between 2900-3000rpms 75mph is 3200rpms and 80 is about 3400rpms
70 mph should be 3007 rpm with the 5 speed manual and 15" tires on the s model, that works out to 42.96 rev/mph. With the 16" tires that brings the rpm at 70 mph down to 2958 or in other words 42.26 rev/mph. With the 17" wheels this would only theoretically get you down to 2934.5 rpm.
The DCT with its 6th gear is doing 2627 rpm at 70 mph with the 15" wheels or 381 rpm less than the manual with the 15" wheels. With the 16" wheels the car would be doing 2584 rpm at 70 mph or 374 rpm less than the manual car in 5th gear. The 17" and 18" wheels effectively have the same outer diameter and would result in an rpm at 70 mph of 2563 rpm. This is again a reduction in engine speed of 371.5 rpm.
This was calculated using the relationship between the road speed to the engine speed, factoring in the gear ratio, rolling radius of the tire, as well as the axle ratio, (which in the case of the dct there are actually two ratios, but since we were just focusing in on the rpm at 70 in my comparison it made the end math simpler even though I'd already gone and calculated all of the N/V ratios (engine speed divided by road speed using the following equation: 168*Ra*Rt/rr
Where 168 is a conversion factor that allowed me to use the English unit system of measurement with the rolling radius for the tire in inches, I did have a table to look these up based on the size of the oem tires used on the ford focus, and the gear ratio specifications from the ford media page.
From what I've heard this seems to fairly accurately calculate the engine speed at various road speeds if held constantly in one gear. Of course in the real world one would shift out of that gear if they felt the engine laboring too much or lugging too much.
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Brenda found a new recipe for a cake that she wanted to try out. So this weekend we made this Brown Butter Vanilla Bean Cake with White Chocolate Grand Marnier mousse filling and Orange Cream Cheese Frosting. It was soooo good, I can't wait to get home and have another slice. Check out the recipes, it was worth the effort!
It's amazing that I don't weigh 500 pounds when there is always something good cooking in our house.
Remember when you were a kid and the school assignment was to write a report of what you did on vacation? Well, here goes...
Brenda and I decided that we needed to redo the countertops that had to be trimmed to get the new stove to fit. So before Christmas we ordered the supplies to laminate new countertops.
The day after Christmas we headed to the lumber yard to get the particle board to build the countertops, and got started. Here are some before and after pictures.
After the wine bar was done we moved on to the larger counters...
Then of course there was a bit of a distraction when a guy on a bike went riding past on the lake... a little odd.
Back to work, and on to the hardest part. installing the under mount sink, and the countertop with the stove cutout.
We finished in time to celebrate the new year!
And we made some home made cavatelli.
Not a bad vacation... I need a rest though ;) Happy 2012!
I captured this image from the tuppercam yesterday. A little dusting of snow on the newly frozen lake. Maybe we will have a white Christmas
Goodbye old friend. You served us well for 13 years... even if Matthew did call you a crappy old stove.
Hello new shiny sexy friend. I hope this relationship lasts a long time.
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Time to celebrate!
Oh and we put up some Christmas decorations too.
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I was eagerly waiting for a trek to TADA falls, because many of my colleagues have been to that place and have told lot about it. Finally I got a chance to go there and I am penning down our experience during the TADA trek.
And the journey to TADA falls started finally on April 12th 2008 with a Scorpio, a Santro, two bikes (Enfield and XCD) and 17 trekkers. In this gang 3 were from SA and others excluding John were first time trekkers with the club. As per our schedule the pick-up point started from Thoraipakam. Peter, Nagendran, Vinay, Nailesh and Sheetal got into Scorpio. Chandramouli joined us in his bike. Then we drove through Madhya Kailash and picked up Vivek and Prathap in Guindy. Prem had a bike (Royal Enfield) joined in near Le Meridian and other five trekkers Kalpa,Sunitha, Yashoda, Kamal, Kunal joined us from Koyembedu in their Santro. Here comes our great photographer BIG John who joined us in Annanagar 15 minutes late. Because of some confusion with the pickup point Prathap had to take bike and pick Supriya. The last trekker to be picked was Lavanya @ Retteri.By the time we reached NH5 it was 6.45 a.m. Peter tried to compensate the 15 minutes delay by squeezing his Scorpio through the chennai traffic, We started to discuss about our experiences of our previous treks, furure trek places and how we got to know about our trek club. Also there was some discussion going on camera, and John-The photographer was answering to those questions.
Now to know more about TADA, the original name for TADA falls is Ubbalamadugu falls, we came to know this through localates there. This place is in the border of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil nadu. Its in Nellore district. You can take NH-5 from Chennai and drive for about 85 kilometers to reach Tada. Just before you enter the town Tada, you hit the Kalahasti Road going west off NH-5.
After reaching the TADA village, we had breakfast (Dosa and Idlyz) and also packed the same for lunch. We bought two cases of water bottle and some plantains. From there we had to travel for another 20 minutes to reach Ubbalamadugu Falls check post. On the way some building construction was going on with full of marbles and from far it was looking really beautiful. We started clicking photos of that building and some poses in front of Scorpio and santro. We drove to check-post which is new to that place. Then we had to pay 50/- rupees for the entry into the falls and another 50/- for each camera.
Scorpio started from check post. Then it was turn for the people in Santro and the Bike-riders to pay for the entry and cameras. The road was either with big stones or loose and sandy. As we didn't see the Santro following us, we waited on to the side, and within a minute, we got a call from Santro people that they couldn't drive through that road. Peter had to go back and pick those five trekkers. So totally, the count reached to 13 trekkers squeezed into a single Scorpio and it resembled more like an advertisement for Scorpio.
After travelling to some distance, we tried to park our vehicles under the shade, but one of the localite said that we can take our vehicle for another 2 Km inside. We had some plantains and we drove for another 2 km to park our vehicle in the new Parking space under a dead tree. This 2 km saved around 40 minutes of walking towards the falls. Then Peter distributed 2 water bottles each and lunch packets that each need to carry. Thanks to Chandru, for he opened his tripod and clicked group photos with all of us in frame, before we started our trek.
We started our trek towards the falls with lots of photo sessions in the middle. After sometime we crossed a small water stream, where we could clearly see the stones under water. After which we had to walk in an open space under the hot sun, but it was bearable because of the breeze. On the way we saw a nice view of the hills around. Then we had to cross one more water stream, and thank God for no one fell into the water. Cameras were busy in clicking photos when we crossed. This place was very rich in diverse flora and fauna with lots of colorful butterflies and colorful insects of different size.
The next water stream was a delight to all of us. Everyone jumped into water as it was less deep and swimmers had nice time. Then we resumed our trekking, to meet with a Shiva temple on the way. It was from here that the terrain was fully rocky, boulders and had to jump from one big rock to another. Every now and then, we came across small water streams between the rocks. Then came another beautiful water stream between the boulders. There was one more big rock, which we climbed with the help of wooden log. We could see Lot of small rocks submerged in water. Then came the most challenging part of this trek. We had to climb a big and vertical rock which has some support at few places. Thanks to Peter and Prem, who were helping us to climb this vertical rock. A few were helped to climb, and the rest were pulled up the rock on its smooth and slippery surface.
After climbing the last vertical rock, we walked some distance to find a beautiful pool between the 2 vertical mountain ridges. The water was very clear and freezing too. The pool was very deep, and definitely it would be more than 20 feet. So we started tying shirts and towels together to make a rope. We tied one end of rope ( shirts + towels) to a wood plank and Chandru and Prathap swam to the middle of the pool holding the other end of the rope. Kamal held the wood plank from the bank. Some of the swimmers reached the centre of the pool using the man made rope as support. Peter accompanied every swimmer to give then support whenever needed. A few of us were able to reach the centre of the pool without any help. The rest of us including all the girls, swan on Peter's back. The last 2 were left behind for clicking photos and to safeguard our food from the monkeys.
After the photo-session was over, we all swam back to have our packed lunch .Kalpa had brought chapathis , pickles , and some deserts like mango, papaya and chikki. We had to share our lunch and deserts with a bunch of Monkeys (The only wild animal we can see in this so called forest). One monkey took "Lays" from Kalpaz bag. This reminded us of the slogan of Lays " No one can eat just one".
We started returning from the falls at around 3pm, We had to face the same challenge again, but this time it was climbing down the vertical rock. Climbing down the vertical rock was much easier than climbing up. On our way return from the falls, we reached the last water stream crossing. It was here where we relaxed for some free treatment from the Doctor fish, followed by an intro session. The intro session was the really fun. Then around 5 pm , we reached to the place where our vehicles were parked. To our surprise, no one looked tired. We had to squeeze ourselves into the Scorpio for yet another 13 member ride back to the check post. After reaching the check post, 5 trekkers got into their Santro and left to their home. On the way back to tada village, the bajaj XCD ran out of fuel and we had to go and bring petrol in water bottles. When we reached the village, we had tea, juice and snacks. We drove back towards Chennai , but as usual got stuck in the traffic jam.
This trek is much do-able for anybody; nowadays we even saw a group of granny's coming to tada. If you know swimming, I am sure that you would really enjoy the most, and for those who does not know how to swim, take help from an experts and you can also float on to their back (provided the area is less deep).
This is the beautiful place, but spoilt by some enthusiastic alcoholics who had broken their beer bottles and filled the place with lots of broken glass pieces all over. So make sure you trek this place with your eyes wide open, so that you don't step on some glass pieces.
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Motorists will have to ease off the gas pedal in school zones starting next week.
In June, following a change in provincial legislation that allowed municipalities to lower speed limits in school zones, city council approved a reduction that will see drivers slow down to 30 km/h in residential school areas.
The traffic bylaw takes effect Monday, the start of September, and will run between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. until the end of June.
Brandon Police Service Sgt. Dallas Lockhart said officers will be out in full force ensuring the public is aware of the change.
"There will be a high level of police visibility throughout the first week," Lockhart said, adding that BPS will focus primarily on educating motorists during the initial days.
"However, our officers always have the ability to exercise discretion and in cases of excessive speeds, even during that first week, they may issue tickets."
The reduced-speed school zones will apply to 20 schools in the city. There are a few exceptions — the intersection of 18th Street and Victoria Avenue near Earl Oxford Middle School, as well as Victoria Avenue East near King George School.
Signs have already been erected as the city will have to follow strict provincial law when it comes to posting the limit change. In order to abide the law, between six and eight signs will have to be placed in the zones and as many as 16 on divided roads.
Lockhart said the slowdown is just one way to keep the community safer, particularily in areas with heavy traffic congestion and young children.
One study by Safe Kids Canada shows that a child hit by a car going 50 km/h has an 80 per cent chance of being killed. However, a child hit by a car going 30 km/h has a 95 per cent chance of survival.
"There is a huge safety factor in reducing the speed," Lockhart said.
BPS also plans a blitz during the third week of school, beginning Sept. 22. The goal for that enforcement program won't be educting the public but deterring speeders with fines.
"We are going to have officers dedicated to monitoring speeds through the school zones and there will be a zero tolerance approach with speeders," Lockhart said.
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Lindsay turns 18 in one hour. I don't know at exactly which hour she was born, but it doesn't matter. As of midnight, she'll be legal, which will be a fun time in America. Hell, maybe "Mean Girls" will make its way back into theaters to commemorate the event (I doubt it. Just get it to DVD and I'll be happy).
In more important personal news, I'm back to being a Mac Genius. Obviously I can't get into all the details, but a position came open in the store, and I decided I'd be happier as a Genius than a keyholder. Plus, the title is so much cooler!
As for apartment stuff, I'm already packing, even though we haven't heard back on our application yet. I'm only packing things right now that I don't need (like my CDs and my books) and I don't see any reason our application would be denied, so I'm trying to get ready early.
If you get a chance, check out my buddy DJ's column on Page 2. He's been writing a little bit more for them lately, but still manages to put out SportsPickle on a weekly basis. If you're not a SportsPickle regular, you should be. It's a great site (and I'm the webmaster. Go now, dammit. Or go when you finish reading my site, whatever).
Oh, and Eric, if you happen to be reading this: HA-HA! Coach K's leaving Duke! I'm so happy! "Coach L.A." is gonna be a total bust. It's awesome, baby! (Sorry, I had to slip a Dookie V reference in there).


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Before I begin I want to start by saying how great the people on this forum are. No disrespect at all intended, thank you all for your input and advice!
At the end of my fellowship at Yale I started to look for a new car. It would be my first real nice car. Previously I drove SAABs because of my connection with GM discounts. In retrospect SAABs were really fantastic and I was so lucky to drive such nice cars during residency.
I originally was looking at an E92 sport with manual. My girlfriend at the time, now my wife, convincent me that I should go for a 5 series because I was a big guy (6'4''). Best decision I ever made. Did a ED with the perfect E60, sport, manual, hifi, nasca leather, ventilated seats, etc. Loved that car. But....Had to turn it in after 2 years. Wish I did a 3 year on that baby!
So I did another ED, moved to the midwest and took advantage of the great deals on E93 M3 vert. Beautiful car, white with full fox red. but so impractical for me at the time. Swap a leased it after 9 months. After that ordered a 2011 F10 550x msport. WORST CAR EVER. Drove like a pig. hated it. even my wife would say, its so luxuries, but not sporty at all. The supposed comfort seats were a huge step back from the E60, so disappointed in fellow festers telling people how good the seats are on the new F10.
So, finally I got rid of that car after a year.
Took a trip to the dark side. Bought, not leased, a A7. Phantom black, Prestige, 20' Sport, Bang and Olufsen, and Technology (cruise, night vision, HUD, etc)
Wow! what a car. feels just as fast as the 550 but handles WAAAAAAAY better. No boat like feeling. Love the dynamic cruise. Best option on the car besides the Band and Olufsen which sound incredible.
Now the driving part. The Audi schools the F10 left and right, up and down. No question. It feels 90% of the E60. All of the audi setting feel great. The best part....If you like sport, the car stays in sport when you start in up. All settings remain, including seat and wheel heaters. Why can't bmw do that?
Now there is the emotional part. My wife nailed if perfectly, the car is perfect...but its not a BMW. Its underlying parts still feel weak, like its a volkswagon. I can't wait for BmW to fix its problems (steering, handling, seating) and I want to come back. Please fix this on the LCI. SEATS EXCPECIALY. we need the side bolsters back. Those that praise the crap F10 comfort seats have no idea how goood seats can be.
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posted at 11:50 am on September 20, 2010 by Diane Suffern
The event we've all eagerly awaited is nearly upon us: We get to see Mark Ballas without a shirt on. Again.
Oh, and he's dancing with Bristol Palin.
Yes, Alaska's other sweetheart will be taking the stage in the highly-anticipated 2-hour season debut of DWTS. (That's Dancing With the Stars for you noobs. Try to keep up.) According to the UK Daily Mail (the undisputed source for insightful commentary concerning all things Palin and pop-culture), the show should be…memorable:
Her mother is expected to be in the audience Monday night to cheer Bristol on when DWTS returns for its new season on ABC.
And Bristol and Ballas are rumoured to be preparing a raunchy routine, a Cha Cha Cha set to the music of Three Dog Night's 'Mama Told Me (Not to Come).'
Quite whether she gets the pointed innuendo is unclear, but it may make for an uncomfortable listen for her conservative mother. (Italics mine.)
"Whether she gets the pointed innuendo is unclear?" Really? I was a complete idiot at 19 years old, but I still recognized a dig at my mom when I made one, er, when I participated in an orchestrated performance intended as one. Drat. When someone else did it. Basically, she's no dummy, folks.
Of course the real scandal here is what DWTS muzak does to classic songs, so, we have the travesty of a mangled Three Dog Night song to look forward to. Other tunes destined to be destroyed include "We Are the Champions" which, inconceivably, will be background to a Viennese Waltz performed by Margaret Cho.
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Peggy and I are conducting research on commercial whale watching boats. Peggy has her own research vessel but with rising fuel prices and the costs involved in making the boat sea-worthy, she cannot afford to put it in the water. She had a choice; she could afford to take the boat out in the spring OR the autumn, but not both. She chose the autumn as she has collected less data for this time of year so needs to balance her research. This is the everyday reality for a conservationist; a lack of funds means difficult decisions must be taken regularly and life cannot always be as one would want. Peggy's absolute first love is to be out on the water with the animals and she would spend 90% of her time at sea if she could. But often she may only get 10% of her time at sea with the other 90% being taken up on land carrying out education work, fundraising and other organisational tasks.
However, a mere lack of funds and dedicated research boat will not stop us getting out there and doing the research. Luckily, Peggy has an excellent relationship with most of the whale watch operators in and around Monterey, so we are able to go out on their boats several times a week. We may only get a few hours at sea rather than a whole day and cannot get as close to the animals, but we can still collect a wealth of data and photographs for the photo ID catalogue (used to identify individuals).
Now I have to tell you about the encounter we had this Wednesday but firstly I must give a mention to Monday. Monday was my birthday and we were welcomed on board Monterey Whale Watch's boat 'Princess Monterey' owned by Benji Shake and captained by Leon Oliver. My birthday presents that day included seeing a pod of Risso's dolphins and two groups of Humpbacks, with some spectacular breaching (where the animal propels itself out of the water) and fluking (where the animal dives and shows it's tail, or flukes, as it does so), followed by flowers and dinner from Benji, and cake from Peggy. A lovely day all round.
But now, onwards to Wednesday. We were invited to join Naturalist Kate Cummings and Captain Jim Davis on Blue Ocean Whale Watch's boat 'High Spirits'.
We were hoping for Killer Whales, or Orca's as they are often known, as these are the main focus of Peggy's research, and Peggy had made a wish that morning to come across a group close to the boat. The transient Orca's (transient meaning they are not resident here but roam over large areas of ocean), can enter the bay throughout the year but spring is a particularly good time to find them. At this time they are in the bay to hunt female Gray Whales and their calves. The Gray Whales are migrating through the area from Baja California in Mexico, where the mothers have given birth to their young, to their feeding grounds in the North.
This would be my first ever encounter with them, if we were lucky enough to find them, and they were a species which I had a secret wish to see close up. Well, we found them and had what turned out to be one of those rare encounters that happen once in a deep blue moon.
I'll give you a running commentary version of events:
We are about 40 minutes out of port when Kate spots what she thinks are going to be Humpback Whales up ahead. Ten minutes later as we draw close it becomes apparent that these are not Humpbacks but Killer Whales. Suddenly there are Orca's seemingly on all sides. They are spotted in front, then to one side, then further off to the other side. How many? Hard to tell at this point. They are moving purposefully in different directions, porpoising through the water, (leaping the waves to create less friction and travel faster). They are on the hunt, although hunting what exactly we cannot tell. Are they chasing multiple prey? Have they already corralled one victim away from a group or its mother to play with it before the kill? We keep watching, not fully aware as yet of the significance of the unfolding drama.
We have counted at least seven Orca's by now with males, females and calves, but there are probably more as they have split off in different, disorientating directions. Up in front the action becomes more lively, with one or more Orca's going into attack mode, leaping out of the water and crashing back down, possibly lunging on their prey, although the prey is still not visible to us. The breaches out of the water where the Orca's entire body flies through mid-air for a flash of a moment are spectacular and draw stunned gasps from everyone on the boat. Then there is a split second moment where one adult Orca leaps and while in mid-air I glimpse something just ahead of its mouth; it has to be the prey. In that moment, Peggy and Kate are snapping away on their cameras with no idea of what image they may capture. Is this the actual moment of the kill, or was the victim already dead? Is it a Harbor Seal or Sea Lion fated to be their feast this day? We do not know, but I am aware of opposing feelings of thrill at having witnessed such a spectacle, gladness that the Orca's have food to eat and empathy for the doomed victim.
After this climactic moment their behaviour changes. The pace slows, there is some general milling about with Orca's popping up on different sides of the boat. Are they relaxing after their frenetic activity? Who is eating the kill? We do not see the prey being eaten so will never know if the calves are the ones to feast on this day. We do however have the privilege of seeing an adult Orca spyhop twice right in front of the boat (sticking its head directly up out of the water to take a peek at whatever is around; in this case us). In this moment their character appears different to us; from sleek, fast, determined, professional hunter to playful, inquisitive, multi-focussed and aware creature. (Although our human interpretations may be meaningless to these beautiful animals whose intelligence and consciousness are so different from ours.)
Their behaviour shifts again as they set off travelling in one clear direction, moving sometimes at the surface and then diving for a few minutes before resurfacing again further ahead. We hear that another boat about three miles ahead of us has also been with a group of Killer Whales. Have the two groups been communicating? Is our group now travelling to meet the other group further out in the bay? We follow the pod as they maintain their direct line of travel, by now we know there at least 11 individuals, but maybe more, with at least two males in the group, (mature males have much taller striking dorsal fins than females and immature males). Somewhere along the way, the group splits with some heading off southwards and the others west; whether any of them meet the group further out in the bay remains unknown to us as it is now time for our boat to start heading back to port.
All in all, we spend over an hour with this pod of Killer Whales and everyone is exuberantly happy, if a little exhausted, from the excitement of the experience. And I would say that none are more happy than Kate and Peggy who know better than anyone how rare and fortunate an encounter this has been
That night, Peggy sat in front of the computer going through over 500 photos from the trip. It was only now that we discovered in amazement that she had a picture of the actual kill. Now we could see that the prey was not a Seal or Sea Lion at all but was in fact a Harbor Porpoise.
… Or so we thought. The following morning, when looking with less tired eyes and comparing with Kate's photos, we were able to determine that it was not a Harbor Porpoise but a dolphin of some kind.
…Species as yet unknown.
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On our next Make A Scene page we'll have Radio On, a garage-rock outfit that's making its public debut on Saturday at O'Malley's Irish Pub. The band may be new, but it includes some familiar faces: singer-guitarists John Carey and Stu Miller (the latter of Coloffs and Gold Teeth fame), drummer John Ledington (Blanco Bronco, Pioneers West) and bassist Andy Childs (Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel, Legend of Bigfoot, Dandy.)
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northern Arizona University's (NAU's) College of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Sciences a four-year, $2.5 million grant to create the Southwest Experimental Garden Array (SEGA).
SEGA will be a system of 10 experimental gardens across northern Arizona thatincludes habitat types from desert to alpine forests. The gardens will be used to examine how climate change will affect the ecology and evolution of individual plant species, plant communities, and ecosystems.
"This facility holds the potential to create breakthroughs in our understanding of the genetic consequences of climate change on plants," said NAU Regents' Biology Professor Tom Whitham, executive director of NAU's Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research and the project's principal investigator. "It will serve as model for the future and the start of an international effort for similar experimental arrays."
Raising the same plant genotypes (plants with the same genetic makeup) at different elevations, with different temperatures and moisture levels, will allow scientists to examine how different genotypes perform under different climatic conditions. This should help identify those genotypes that are most likely to survive and reproduce in a rapidly changing climate and improve the success of efforts to restore ecosystems damaged by extreme disturbances such as severe drought and fire.
The 10 gardens in the array will be established in partnership with the Arboretum at Flagstaff, National Forest Service, National Park Service, Babbitt Ranches, the Nature Conservancy, and Walnut Creek Center for Education and Research.
Coprincipal investigators on the NSF grant are NAU professors Paul Flikkema, electrical and computer engineering; professor George Koch, biological sciences; assistant research professor Amy Whipple, biological sciences; and Brian Geils, USDA Forest Service.
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Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart officially retired on Wednesday, saying he needed closure nearly seven years after playing his final NFL down. The 39-year-old planned to sign a one-day contract with Pittsburgh before walking away to give his football career a sense of finality. Stewart played for the Steelers in eight of his 11 seasons, becoming a sensation in the late-1990s when his versatility as a quarterback, running back, wide receiver and kick returner earned him the nickname ''Slash.'' He helped Pittsburgh to the 1996 Super Bowl and made the Pro Bowl as a quarterback in 2001 after leading Pittsburgh to a 13-3 record. The former Colorado star split time between Chicago and Baltimore over his final three seasons, last playing as a backup with the Ravens in 2005.
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