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A good blade combines good edge retention, rust resistance and ease of re-sharpening.
First, you must decide between a fixed blade or folding blade. Fixed blades are heavy duty, easy to clean and easily accessed with a sheath. Folders are very safe; most lock open and won't accidentally open in your pack or close on your hand. They may be harder to clean and you have to be careful of keeping the folding mechanisms clean, but they are easier and more convenient to carry and conceal. Whether you decide on a fixed blade or folder, you also need to pick a blade shape and steel that best suits your needs.
Fixed Blades: A fixed-blade knife will never surprise you in use because it is a solid piece of steel.Fixed-blade knives are one solid piece of metal that can have tang or full-tang construction at the handle end. "Tang" construction has a taper that disappears into the handle (wood or other material). Full-tang construction has a solid metal frame, to which "handle slabs" are attached on either side. Full-tang knives are stronger, but a little heavier. with a handle anchored to it. If you are looking for a blade you really trust for tough jobs, such as field dressing and tough camping tasks, a fixed-blade is the best choice.
Folding Knives:
Folding Knife Locking Mechanisms
Locking folding knives have mechanisms that lock the blade in the open position, activated by opening the blade all the way. A lockback gets its name from a rocker (rocking "lock" bar) partially visible on top of the knife. Opening the blade causes the "rocker" to lock against the blade so it locks open. Pushing down on the rocker on top of the handle releases it and enables the user to close the blade. Lockbacks require two-hand closing, though some are one-hand openers.
Liner Lock
A "Liner Lock" (AKA "locking liner") is a folding knife that locks open via a tensioned metal liner inside the handle. Similar to a "Lockback," opening the blade activates the lock. Unlocking is achieved by placing the thumb on the front part of the liner and pushing to the left, which releases the blade. Liner locks are typically one-hand open, one-hand close. A blade thumb stud or hole enables one-hand opening.
Frame Lock
A frame lock functions like a liner lock, but the locking mechanism is a section of the handle "frame"-on the side of the knife. The "frame lock" is a channeled lock arm that moves inward to lock against the blade when the knife is opened. Pushing outward releases it from its "locked position" so the user can close the blade. Benefits are fewer moving parts and lighter weight. Frame locks are typically one-hand open, one-hand close.
Button Lock
A push-button is usually located near the front of the handle. The push-button acts as a lock in either the closed or open position. Pushing the button unlocks the blade and allows you to open or close it. Button locks may be one-or two-hand open, one-or two-hand close.
Strong Lock System (SLS)
This is a newer locking mechanism and may be referred to as "Strap Lock" by others in the industry. Utilized on our 830 Marksman model, the SLS uses a metal "strap" along the spine of the knife as a lock bar. Using a flipper to engage the blade, the strap lock bar snaps into the blade lock recess at which point the strap and blade are aligned linearly providing a configuration similar to a fixed blade knife. It has proven to be one of the strongest locking mechanisms available. To disengage the blade, simply lift up the strap with your thumb and use your other hand to rotate the blade closed.
With assisted-opening knives, the user initiates the blade opening, after which a mechanism completes the opening. Typically, the user presses on part of the blade, then once the blade has moved past a detent, the assisted-opening mechanism takes over and opens the blade the rest of the way. A safety lock prevents accidental blade opening-the user disengages it prior to blade opening, then re-engages after the blade is closed. Assisted-openers are typically one-hand open/ one-hand close.
Note: Knife laws may apply (not to be confused with automatic or switchblade type knives).
Pocket Knives
Pocket knives are still high on the list of favorites - great to carry in your pocket for all the times you might need a blade. The blades don't lock open, but that's not critical for their utilitarian use. When a non-locking blade is opened, generally a spring holds the blade in the open position. Typically, pocket knives are two-hand open/close and have nail notches to aid opening.
Another thing to consider when choosing a knife is the blade shape. What shape will work best for your needs? Below are the most common blade styles.
This blade is full bellied with a strong, thick point for heavier tasks. It can also be used as a general work knife. The top of the blade drops down toward the tip, which minimizes accidental puncturing while skinning. The drop point blade is strong and very versatile.
Holding many of same features as the regular tanto blade, the angled point is modified between the front edge and the bottom edge on this particular blade. Holds up to piercing, scraping, and prying with tough materials.
Very strong for heavy duty use. Holds up to piercing, scraping and prying with tough materials. Many tactical knives utilize this blade shape.
Best suited for skinning game. The tip is narrow, while the wide curved belly gives a nice skinning sweep that aids in getting through thick layers. The downward angled, more blunt point makes it harder to make an accidental slice through the hide.
This is a smaller version of the larger "spear point" blade. Pen blades are usually on pocket knives as a handy, all-purpose blade.
A narrow blade with a sharp, angular point, it is designed to be used for cutting in tight spots or curved patterns, much as you would with a coping saw, only without the teeth.
The crescent tip makes the blade thinner with a sharper point. This shape provides good control for detail work and cutting in tight places. It is also well suited for intentional punctures like new holes in your belt, etc. While the point of the blade is effective for detail work, it's not as strong as the thicker points on drop points and skinners.
Almost scalpel-like in shape, it has a mild drop point, with nearly a spear tip that is used for the delicate removal of the hide of the face of a trophy animal. The shape makes caping knives perfect choices for birds and small game. Caping knives tend to be slim and very light duty so they are not always a right choice if you only intend to carry a single knife.
Serrations give your Buck blade greater cutting power. Especially useful when cutting line and/or cables.
For great performance when field dressing game, a gut or skinning hook is an ideal tool. We've paid careful attention to the angles on the sharpened edge, shape and size of the entry opening and location of the hook on the blade, making a Buck gut hook the best.
No matter how good the blade steel, there are always trade-offs. Corrosion-resistance vs. edge-retention. Edge-retention vs. sharpening ability.
Take S30V Steel. It provides the very best in edge retention and tensile strength, but is more difficult to re-sharpen and needs proper care. 17-7PH Steel resists extreme corrosion like salt water, but can't match the edge retention of harder steels.
Commonly known as spring steel, 5160 has excellent shock absorbing properties making it resilient to shattering and extremely durable as a knife steel. We harden to 57-58 Rc to maximize its performance.
Provides great edge retention and hardness for wear resistance and strength. Also difficult to resharpen yourself, but is a great steel choice. For best performance, we harden to a standard Rc 58-60.
This is Buck's standard blade material because it approaches the wear resistance of high carbon alloys while delivering the corrosion resistance of chromium stainless steels. Add our exclusive heat-treat process and you have a very user-friendly combination of superior corrosion resistance with excellent strength for wear resistance and durability. You also have a blade that is easy to resharpen. For best performance we harden to a Rockwell hardness of Rc 58.
This advanced steel, S30V, contains carbon as well as high amounts of Chromium, Molybdenum and Vanadium. This steel combines fantastic edge retention and high ductility combined with corrosion resistance. Double-tempered - it can be hardened to a Rockwell hardness of Rc 59.5-61. However, it is difficult to resharpen yourself, but we do offer sharpening services for a nominal fee.
This steel is ideal for excellent edge retention, great corrosion resistance and for heavy cutting applications. For best performance, we harden to a standard Rc 59-61.


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Customizer-in-Residence Open Studio Series
Friday, February 22–Sunday, February 24
Sunday, February 24, 2013 - 1:00pm
Friday, 5–8 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 1–4 pm
Catch Bay Area hackers, makers, and DIYers in action as part of the we/customize Customizer-in-Residence series. Watch the process of expert customizers and participate in transforming objects with clothing mash-ups, toy hacking, music remixing, and more! Visit the open studio to customize something different every week, then see your finished work featured on Flickr and wecustomize.org!
This week's featured Customizer: Verasphere
The character Mrs. Vera is the creation of Michael Johnstone and his partner David Faulk and named after the popular designer of scarves. She wears accessories created by Faulk from recycled objects and is also the keeper of wigs and artifacts from Johnstone's lost culture. In public, Mrs. Vera (David Faulk) and Mister Tina (Michael Johnstone) act as ambassadors at events and festivals to remind people to value difference and celebrate the eccentric aspects of daily life. They often engage friends to participate in group performances under the name of Verasphere. In particular their annual march with the San Francisco LGBTQ Pride Parade.Mrs. Vera will be demonstrating how to customize shoes in the Verasphere style. Visitors will be invited to apply the same techniques to badges.—we/customize Team

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Entry Fee £17.00
Please ensure that you conform to the Check, Clean & Dry Procedure for visiting ribs, dinghies & cruisers. Random checks will be made on visiting boats.
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SwypeGear needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 20 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
We make touchscreen device accessories, most notably SwypeGloves which are compatible with most common touchscreen devices like iPhones, iPods, Blackberrys, iPads, etc.
We are looking for a distinctive glove design that would be simple, classic yet desirable. We can make gloves in both knits and leather which are compatible with most common touchscreen devices. We will take care of the technology incorporation into the glove. We need you to design the LOOK and feel of the glove of the future. Our tagline is 'Magic in your fingertips'.
This is a more complicated demand than just a simple T-Shirt logo. We are laying down the MOTHER of all design challenges. We invite all designers to this contest to exercise your ultimate creativity. These gloves should become the quintessential cold weather companion to your iPhones/HTCs/etc. No one should have to wear a non-conductive glove and we want your design to replace the daily glove without compromising on style. They should appeal to a broad range of people, not just techno-friendly folks.
We want the gloves to be understated but at the same time they should be distinctive. The technology should blend in and not stand out (meaning we do not necessarily want to emphasize the conductive glove tips, unless they look really cool). At the same time, all designs will be considered as we do not want to stifle any creative talent.
Extra credit to any designers that send us both knits and leather designs side by side, but this is not essential. The designs do not need to match, but the look should be transferable.
Leather gloves should incorporate conductive thread in a simplistic distinctive design on the fingertips (emphasizing brand values).
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As I read Tuesday's "Letters to the Editor," I was taken aback by the words used by some of the writers.
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As I read Tuesday's "Letters to the Editor," I was taken aback by the words used by some of the writers. Equating Democrats to communists – " ...is totally dedicated to communism... Democrats need to be reminded that millions of patriotic Americans have consistently voted to stop their communist schemes to destroy our country."
How about the millions of patriotic Americans who disagree with the writer, and "the majority of Americans do not want Obamacare," These statements are inflammatory and based on assumption(s). I am not taking sides on this issue, I am on the side of the American government which is suppose to function like a democratic body.
Voting for your representative and senator is expressing your opinion on the issues in this country. They, the elected officials in your district/state represent the majority opinion in their district/state due to winning the vote. So what is the reason that they can not allow a vote on this issue in the House of Representative on a bill without riders?
I can suggest and or surmise the reasons but I am not going to because all I want them to do is to follow the process laid down by the people of this land. When there is a vote, the results will determine the future of the Affordable Care Act.
Then if a group wishes to change the law, then there is a process to follow. Prohibition was overturned by the voters so what are the reasons that the elected officials cannot follow a proven path of democracy?


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Exceptional mom will take home grand prize of $100,000
On Friday's "LIVE with Kelly and Michael," co-hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan announced that Mary Lou King of Cochranville, Pa., is the winner of "LIVE's Search for Unstoppable Moms," and will take home "LIVE's" grand prize of $100,000.
"LIVE" was on the hunt for exceptional moms who go above and beyond the call of duty, are prepared for anything, and deserve to be celebrated for all that they do. After putting out the call for entries in January, producers received more than 20,000 submissions from across the U.S. and Canada, and narrowed the field to 15 semi-finalists. Four finalists were selected, and after each finalist was honored on the show this week, "LIVE's" viewers voted online, and selected King as the ultimate "Unstoppable Mom."
King was nominated by her daughter,Kelly Stoltzfus. In her submission letter, Stoltzfus wrote: "My Mom is the most amazing, selfless, inspiring, and uplifting woman in this entire world," and described a typical day in her mother's life on their Pennsylvania dairy farm. Up before dawn milking the cows, running the farm, taking care of the family, including her mentally handicapped daughter, King's day lasts late into the evening, only to have her rise the next morning and start all over again. Trained as a nurse, this hard-working and selfless woman inspired both of her daughters to attend nursing school as well.
In addition to the $100,000 grand prize presented to Mary Lou, each finalist received a surprise gift from "LIVE" - ranging from a cruise, to a $5,000 shopping spree, to a resort vacation - plus an additional $10,000 for each mom as a 'thank you' for all they do.
"LIVE with Kelly and Michael" partnered with the makers of Children's Motrin for "LIVE's Search for Unstoppable Moms."
Visit "LIVE" on the Web at www.LIVEKellyandMichael.com, on Facebook, or follow "LIVE" on Twitter, @KellyandMichael.


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Exploring a New Indicator to Predict Financial PerformanceHallin, Carina Antonia; Tveterås, Sigbjørn; Andersen, Torben Juul (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper explores a new judgmental forecasting indicator, the Employee Sensed Operational Capabilities (ESOC). The purpose of the ESOC is to establish a practical prediction tool that can provide early signals about changes in financial performance by gauging frontline employees' sensing of changes in the firm's operational capabilities. We present the first stage of the development of ESOC by applying a formative measurement approach to test the index in relation to financial performance and against an organizational commitment scale. We use distributed lag models to test whether the ESOC can predict financial performance. Monthly data were collected from frontline employees in three different companies during an 18-month period, and the initial results indicate that the ESOChas predictive power. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8507
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The Sensing of Frontline Employees Against Executive ExpectationsHallin, Carina Antonia; Andersen, Torben J.; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The literature suggests that important strategic initiatives can derive from employees within the organization as they respond to needs and opportunities observed in daily operations. This seems to indicate that employees have a good sense of the firm's operational capabilities observed through direct interactions with colleagues, customers and partners. Executives make their own judgments about the corporate capabilities from discussions with various managers, other executives and industry specialists. But, the information gathered by executives may be qualitatively different from the conditions sensed by the employees. So, we arranged a contest between operational capabilities assessed by employees and executives and the relationship to subsequent firm performance. Based on more than 400 individual data points collected from two medium-sized organizations over a period of eighteen months, advanced distributed lag time-series analyses show that the sensing of front-line employees (surprisingly) is a better medium-term predictor of organizational performance than executive judgments. These results have implications for the way organizations set up their management information and communication structure. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8471
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Lavender Wildflower
One person's weeds are another's wildflowers. Often found in urban settings and other disturbed ecosystems, many weed species thrive in small niches such as sidewalk cracks and spaces in brickwork.
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Weeds in North America are often exotics introduced to the continent from Europe, Asia, Africa, or South America into an ecosystem that offers little competition or predation. Some exotic plants become formidable problems, such as the invasive kudzu in the Southeastern United States, which strangles and shades native species, and causes economic damage to power lines, transformers, and telephone cables. Others, like the small herbaceous plant illustrated here, is found throughout the City of Tallahassee, Florida, but because of its low growing habit and nature of occupying disturbed edge areas near sidewalks and pathways, suffers from benign neglect.
The lavender petals of the flower illustrate the radial symmetry typical of many angiosperm species. Blue or lavender pigments are created to attract insect pollinators. Typically, a flower that is pink, blue or yellow, with a narrow opening or tube, as this flower exhibits, invites pollination by butterflies, while other flowers featuring bilateral symmetry are visited by bees. The color attributed to the petal is that perceived by the human visual system, but the same flower may appear to a honeybee, butterfly, beetle, or hummingbird as a bulls-eye pattern in various shades of ultraviolet. The shape of the flower, its aroma, the season of inflorescence, and the quality and quantity of its nectar or pollen also help ensure that the type of pollinator attracted will be most favorable to the success of the flowering plant's genes.
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BOULDER, Colo.—Police have arrested a 19-year-old University of Colorado student accused of beating a raccoon to death with a baseball bat so he could take the animal's hide.
Authorities were called to a home just east of the CU campus Wednesday evening on reports that someone was killing raccoons. Officers say they found a baseball bat covered in blood on the front porch of the house, along with a raccoon skin covered in salt.
The Daily Camera reports ( http://bit.ly/1belOMc) Jace Robert Griffiths, who lives at the home, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated animal cruelty.
Griffiths said in a statement to police the raccoon approached him and a friend, and "we could have walked away, but I decided to go up and kill it so that I could take its hide."
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Court: Sheriff Joe Can Play Christmas Music
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio – the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" in America – likes Christmas music, especially "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks, and apparently he thinks the 8,000 inmates inside his Phoenix jail should, too.
So it was with some glee that his Maricopa County office announced Thursday in a red-and-green press release that the "sixth and perhaps final lawsuit" brought by inmates to stop the sheriff from playing the holiday songs all day, every day, during the holidays had been dismissed in federal court.
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"We keep winning these lawsuits. Inmates should stop acting like the Grinch who stole Christmas and give up wasting the court's time with such frivolous assertions," it read. "But chances are they'll keep suing and we'll keep winning."
The latest lawsuit was filed by inmate William Lamb, who said that being forced to listen to the Christmas songs 12 hours a day was a violation of his civil and religious rights. But U.S. District Judge Roz Silver disagreed, dismissing the case and denying Lamb's claim for $250,000 in damages.
Sheriff Arpaio catapulted to national attention when he cracked down on the thousands of illegal immigrants who swarm daily through his county; put inmates in pink jumpsuits and underwear; worked them in chain gangs; housed them in tents in the Arizona desert and fed them bologna sandwiches.
He said that his Christmas selections were multi-ethnic and culturally diverse, from all faiths and ethnicities. He told The Washington Times earlier this year that in addition to tunes by Alvin and the Chipmunks, the music included the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Bing Crosby and Doctor Demento.
At the time, he said "all people everywhere deserve a little Christmas cheer."
Lt. Brian Lee, the sheriff's spokesman, said the court issued a summary judgment upholding the decision to "inject the holiday spirit into the lives of those incarcerated over the holiday season in the third-largest jail system in the U.S."
He said inmates have sued six times claiming the music was in violation of their religious rights or cruel and unusual punishment, but the court disagreed – finding no evidence of fact, so Sheriff Arpaio was entitled to the judgment as a matter of law.


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Kerry's path goes from Vietnam to State Department
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry, President Obama's selection to become secretary of State, has spent his 28 years in the Senate building a long record on foreign policy and has served as the president's troubleshooter on issues from Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq to nuclear arms reduction.
In May 2011, he was the first U.S. official to visit Pakistan after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. He delivered a list of further demands that Pakistan crack down on militants while attempting to smooth relations with the nuclear-armed ally. He also has served as a go-between for the Obama administration and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
MORE: Obama nominates Kerry as secretary of State
In 2010, he shepherded a nuclear-arms reduction treaty through the Senate, committing the U.S. and Russian governments to reduce their arsenals by a third.
Kerry, 69, the son of a foreign service worker, went to boarding school abroad and earned his undergraduate degree at Yale. He volunteered for the Navy and became a swift boat commander in Vietnam. He was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for his service in the Navy in Vietnam. When he came home, he became a prominent anti-war activist, earning the enmity of conservatives.
He became a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and testified in Congress in April 1971, asking the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake?"
A future in politics seemed assured for Kerry, who sought a U.S. House seat in his native Massachusetts in 1972. But what initially appeared to be an easy win for him in the only state that year that went for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern turned into a stunning defeat.
Kerry went to law school and became a prosecutor. He was elected Massachusetts lieutenant governor in 1982, and was elected to the Senate in 1984. From Day One of his Senate career, Kerry seemed intent on making his mark by shaping American foreign policy and sought a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee.
"Kerry was very clear from the get-go that foreign relations was his first, second and third choice," recalled Jim Gomes, who served as Kerry's chief of staff when he was lieutenant governor.
Christopher Hill, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq who formed a strong working relationship with Kerry during his time in Baghdad, said the senator and Vice President Biden are already "working off the same sheet of music."
He said in large part Kerry's world view is similar to Obama's. Both are hesitant about U.S. military intervention and champions of nuclear arms control.
"The issue will be how he establishes his relationship with the president and how the NSC (White House's National Security Council) and State staffs will interact," Hill said.
Kerry and his first wife divorced in the mid-1980s, and he dated stars such as Morgan Fairchild. In 1995, he married Teresa Heinz, who had inherited a fortune from her late husband, John Heinz, the ketchup magnate who was also a senator.
Kerry ran for president in 2004 and lost to incumbent Republican George W. Bush. Kerry's war service, which had been an asset, was used against him when a group of veterans accused him of inflating his combat record. His vote in the Senate to authorize the Iraq War, and subsequent reversal, was used by Republicans to brand him as a flip-flopper.
He had been considered a contender for the secretary of State post in 2008, but Obama chose Hillary Rodham Clinton instead. Kerry went on to chair the Senate foreign relations committee.
The presumed front-runner for secretary of State in Obama's second term, Susan Rice, withdrew her name from consideration last week. Republicans had criticized her for her role in explaining the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where four Americans, including ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed.


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Each week for over 30 years, the CRS has hosted Reproductive Research Updates - a forum in which CRS trainees present their research to Northwestern scientists across the Evanston and Chicago campuses as well as the Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute.
The event takes place from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. every Wednesday, and refreshments sponsored by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center are provided at the Evanston and Chicago campuses. All members of the larger Northwestern and Chicago area reproductive science communities are welcome to attend. Video conference locations are Pancoe 4-103 in Evanston, Lurie 10-123 and the CRS Collaborative Suite (645 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 630) in Chicago, and the Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute conference room D/E.


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blaine needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 79 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
We are looking for several different looking ants for a new 2d game. The ants need to be cute and cartoon looking. Not mean, nasty real life ants.
We are looking for several different looking ants for a new 2d game. The ants need to be cute and cartoon looking. Not mean, nasty real life ants. The other details are up to the designer. We just don't want to see ants that look exactly like real ants because we don't think real ants are all that fun!
The entries should include at least three different versions of ants. They don't need to be completely different. Possible variations could be an ant with a hard hat, one without, one slightly rounder, varying sizes in eyes, color differences, etc. The ants must be from the side perspective. We'll also take other perspectives but the main view we need for each ant variation is from the side so that we can make them walk on all legs.
- Cartoon looking ants
- Ants should be cute
- At least three variations
- Prefer black color but other variations could be different colors
- Side perspective so they can walk on all legs
- vector format; adobe illustrator files, inkscape
- No backgrounds so the ants can be animated in any scene
- Work well at 60x40
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Newman rejects dumping electricity rebate plan breaks promise
Premier Campbell Newman says the Queensland Government has not broken a promise by scrapping a planned power bill rebate for the state's households ahead of a 21 per cent price rise due in July.
Treasurer Tim Nicholls has pinpointed the Federal Government's carbon tax as one of the reasons for the drastic power price rise.
Mr Newman says no promises have been broken because there has not been an increase in power bills since the Liberal National Party (LNP) has been in government.
But Mr Newman says the State no longer has the money to pay for an electricity rebate ahead of the July price rise.
"We've delivered a number of things in terms of cost of living relief, but we can't continue to hand out cheques," he said.
"We've cut $7,000 tax on the family home, there hasn't been an increase on power bills while we've been in government to date."
The $100 electricity rebate for households has been scrapped, along with plans to impose a levy to raise $1 billion for flood mitigation.
Local Government Minister David Crisafulli says the State Government was left with no choice.
"There's no doubt that people think it's a genuinely good idea and they can see the long-term benefits, but at the moment cost of living is a huge pressure," he said.
The Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS) says the State Government needs to do more to reduce the impact of rising electricity costs for low income earners.
QCOSS chief executive officer Mark Henley says he is yet to receive a firm commitment of how low income earners will be supported but is still hopeful despite today's setback.
"The power increases will have a significant impact, particularly on low income people who we've been asking for a period of time now to make sure the people who are on low income, who will afford this the least, are given access to some form of concession," he said.
"We think that is vitally important."
The Queensland budget will be handed down on June 4.
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Long and loud have been the voices berating, bemoaning... begging even for some little extra bit of camera love from the iPhone. We're not even talking video here (though conflicting rumors coming out of WWDC, via TWiM, suggested Apple either thinks no one wants video, or were working on it for a future release...). We're talking about plain old, plainly old, still photography.
Nokia N95 has a Karl Zeiss 5.0 megapixel auto-focusing lens, right? Sure, it's built like a Soviet tank, but Apple could at least bump the pixel count on the measly iPhone camera, right?
At least according to an interesting new article from Ars Technica, which provocatively suggests more iPhone camera megapixels would be worse, not better.
Their arguments make the kind of sense that does, at least to a certain extent. Carving up the same sensor into more megapixels just results in less surface area per pixel, and given the fixed-focus lens necessary in a uber-thin device like the iPhone, it's possible Apple's really looked into this and come up with the best engineering compromise they could.
Or they might just be saving a 3 or 4 megapixel auto-focus bump, along with video, to get people to upgrade to the iPhone 3.5G this holiday season. @#$%^&!
Even odds, really...


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We need a Web 2.0 logo design on the new website for corporate community in the mortgage vertcle.
The site is for members in the trade so it is all about team power and force. Using wave as a form of force is good. Other company sites include complianceease.com and regulatorconnect.org as reference.
- Tagline feel the power
- Colors, need to blend with the colors on the site. Blue, gray and others will be fine
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
ABC News and the X-Files
8 comments:
- Kurt Peters said...
Kevin -
New bizarre Roswell report:
- April 24, 2012 at 7:17 PM
- cda said...
I assume that a few people did report the said object as a UFO. Maybe only a very few, but because of this the newsreader(s) decided to include the topic as part of the meteor report.
I do not understand the X-files connection any more than you. This seems totally unnecessary and pointless.
Generally, if a spectacular bright light or lights is seen and causes much excitement it will hit the TV news, and an expert in a related field will be brought in. But the UFO topic is so deeply ingrained in the public mind, particularly in the USA, that the commentators can't help referring to it.
That is my take on the matter.
- April 25, 2012 at 2:13 AM
- calliebuddy said...
Perhaps they have discovered that deploying the X-Files stock music and invoking UFOs captures more eyeballs. It was not exactly breaking news, so someone had time to think about it.
May I suggest an experiment? Someone get in touch with ABC News and point out how a witnessed meteorite fall like that could bring big money to anyone who collects the pieces. So, to suck in viewers, maybe the next event will feature footage of the Meteorite Men on the prowl, music background of "We're in the Money" and a teaser that the exact GPS coordinates will be revealed if viewers (a.k.a. suckers) will just stay tuned. Maybe we will see a shift in strategy.
Tyler Kokjohn
- April 25, 2012 at 9:15 AM
- David Rudiak said...
Kevin, this sort of gratuitous ridiculing behavior by the mainstream media goes way back. I came across an example in the NY Times from 1952 where they mockingly editorialized about what everybody elsewhere was calling a meteor fireball. This may have been prompted by the high UFO activity that was ramping up at the time (the great 1952 UFO wave) plus some reported anomalies in the fireball. But nobody at the time, other the Times, was specifically associating the fireball with a UFO report.
On May 11, 1952 at 1:26 AM, a fireball exploded over Seattle, turning the skies as bright as daylight and shaking buildings. Two Northwest airline pilots described the object as "an intensely bright white light, like a magnesium flare, trailing sparks and traveling from the south to a point due north." The object passed in front, about 1000 feet higher than the plane, which was at 7000 feet. Then it split in two, the two pieces shooting out like roman candles and burning out. "We could hear no noise in the plane and felt no shock. In all our experience we never had seen a meteor look or act like that."
Most observers agreed that the object had been traveling from SW to NE and had exploded between 2000' to 8000'. Astronomers were puzzled by the reported low explosion. Prof. Gerald Kuiper of the Yerkes Observatory said most fireballs explode 10-15 miles up. Robert Coles of the Hayden Planetarium, New York, thought that maybe the object had been much higher than estimated since an explosion at 2000' would be "very rare."
Other oddities were the apparent horizontal trajectory of the object and the absence of any damage or fragments from such a low explosion.
According to Col. T. Allen Bennett, C/O of the A.F. Defense Division, none of the radars in the Pacific Northwest network picked up the object.
What I have here is the initial front page straight reporting from the N.Y. Times and San Francisco Chronicle the next day. Then followed the very strange NY Times debunking editorial the day after that. Why was it written?
The Times savagely ridiculed the idea that the explosion was caused by anything but a meteor, sarcastically suggesting it was a flying saucer from Mars spying on our atomic tests, then blown up by Martian security when the spies decided to escape to Earth. (NY Times 5/13/1952, p. 22)
Like I said, this was always reported by all other newspapers as a meteor fireball exploding. So what got the Times editor so unhinged that the normally staid flagship newspaper of the U.S. put out such a hysterical and stupid editorial? I don't know. If this were the N.Y. Post it would have been more understandable. They trade in sensationalism.
Maybe the Times doth protesteth too much.
- April 27, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- Steve Sawyer said...
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- April 29, 2012 at 1:59 AM
- Steve Sawyer said...
Is this the ABC News segment from the 23rd you were referring to, Kevin?
- April 29, 2012 at 2:01 AM
- Michael Naisbitt said...
Similar reporting of a meteor occurred here in the UK back in March, I documented it at:
Luckily though this was the exception rather than the rule…
- April 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM
- Don and Margaret said...
Belated comment re "meteoroid, if you wish to get technical because it was still in the air" -- No, sorry, "meteor" when it's in the air. Correct sequence is "meteoroid" while in space, "meteor" when in the air and luminous (whence "meteorolgical"), and "meteorite" when on the ground.
-- Don Mills
- May 17, 2012 at 1:52 AM


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Tips For Taking Candid Photos of Kids
Tips For Capturing Fabulous Candid Shots For Holiday Cards
Tips For Capturing Fabulous Candid Shots For Holiday Cards
Still haven't taken that perfect shot of the kids for your holiday card? Skip the traditional group shot and go candid to create a memorable card! On-the-go shutterbug, Lauri Levenfeld teaches moms how to capture interesting images of their tots in her Zoom Mommy-Snap and Stroll workshops. "Holiday cards are all about reaching out to the people you love and sharing a little bit about where you are in your life and how you've been," she said. "Instead of writing a novel, the easiest way to tell your loved ones about your family is to create an image that is about your life," Levenfeld added. Check out her five fabulous tips.
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Keeping it smooth
Two more big days before the rest comes...only to be followed by the storm which is brewing and will carry on through December. Then rest again. Then Belgium.
The secret society of 'cross freaks got out early yesterday AM to flog each other silly. The moment I opened my eyes, still lying in bed, I said: "I think I need rest." Going out and flogging sort of made that premonition come true in that I mostly played the role of floggee versus flogger. Can't be out front every day I'm learning.
Today was more of the same flogging...although this time self inflicted up Flag for a couple-a tests up, up and up to see where I'm at (and where I've been). A FRESHLY paved Flagstaff as well. So niiiiiiiii. When I woke up today and opened my eyes, the first thoughts were: "I'm going to rail it." After that extreme effort yesterday, I nailed a personal best and a 2nd not-so-bad ascent up that beeatch. The recovery was decent I guess last night. There's nothing that some organic food made by my lady and a 1554 can't solve to aid the sore legs.
So, I'm here. 100's of early AM hours logged, 11 pounds lost since last year, weaknesses worked on. I've learned lots. Lots of balancing. Who knows what the season will bring but I put the work in. The smiles are abound.
Speaking of smiles, today after the self flogging, I jammed down the Creek path to the Research Center to hook up with the fam for some mini-jumpin' with the little Irishmen. Check it.


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Kvest needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Oswegoland Park District
Our recreation agency, the Oswegoland Park District plans community events, activities and programs for the surrounding community. We celebrate Father's Day weekend with a four day festival called PrairieFest. There is a carnival, great food, children's entertainers, a parade, a 5k race, fishing derby, and bands like Blue Oyster Cult and Sister Hazel. The entire community spends the weekend together having fun. We have an army of volunteers, teens, seniors, parents, families, and more who do everything from pick up to park the cars. Each volunteer gets a t-shirt. We want them to be the coolest shirts around for the greatest people we know!
These shirts are worn by movers and shakers of all ages, both men and women. Our youngest volunteers are 8 year olds directing runners on the race course with their mom and dad, and our oldest volunteers are retired teachers greeting festival goers at our welcome gates.
Volunteer shirts this year are bright lime green. We can incorporate 3-4 colors. We will keep design for a couple of years and switch up colors each year.
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-our PrairieFest festival logo
- the year 2011
-our volunteer tag line, We Sweat the Small Stuff
-the word "volunteer" designating them as help to the public.
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text: WebRTC: Hype or Game Changer? WebRTC promises big changes for businesses worldwide. This innovative technology has a myriad of potential applications. However, like any technology it is not a panacea. Casey King, Lifesize CTO and Simon Dudley, Video Evangelist discuss: What WebRTC is and is not, the impact WebRTC will have on global businesses,pros and cons of WebRTC technology and more! Take a test drive of WebRTC here: http://www.lifesize.com/webrtc


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Labor and the Environment in Latin America
Aviva Chomsky
Latin American labor has a well-established historiography, in dialogue with trends outside of the region. Environmental history is a newer and more exploratory field. In basic terms, environmental history explores the relationships of humans with the natural world, sometimes referred to as "nonhuman nature." This can include how humans have affected the natural world, how the natural world has affected human history, and histories of human ideas and belief systems about nature. Labor and environmental history grows from explorations of the connections between these two spheres. Humans interact with the natural world through their labor and from their class perspective. The natural world shapes the work that people do and the institutions and structures humans create to organize and control labor. Changing labor regimes change the ways that humans interact with, and think about, the natural world. Both labor and environmental histories are in some senses investigations of how humans relate to nature. This essay sets Latin American labor and environmental history in global historical context. After offering a chronological summary, it briefly examines connections between U.S. Latino and Latin American labor and environmental histories, and ends with a discussion of contemporary Latin American critical environmentalisms.
Mercury and Silver Mining in the Colonial Atlantic
Kendall Brown
From the time that Columbus arrived in the Caribbean until Spain surrendered power over its mainland American colonies in the early 19th century, Spanish and Portuguese colonial mines poured forth vast amounts of bullion, including some gold and a far greater quantity of silver, both in terms of weight and its overall value relative to gold. Fiscal records indicate that Spanish Americans officially refined gold worth approximately 374,000,000 pesos, each consisting of 272 maravedís, whereas the amount of silver produced reached a value of 3,432,000,000 pesos (to these figures need to be added contraband output, estimated to have been around 17–20 percent). In other words, the colonies refined nine times more silver than gold. While Columbus, Cortés, and other earlier explorers may have fantasized primarily about gold, it was the flood of American silver that touched off the price revolution in Europe and monetarized the emerging world economy, especially because China had a voracious appetite for silver, not gold. At the same time in the American colonies, mining distorted economic life because of the incentives the industry received from a silver-hungry monarchy. Mining also had profound consequences for indigenous society, severely exploited to provide workers for the mines and refining mills.
Colonial refiners used two methods to beneficiate their silver ores, smelting and amalgamation. Smelting was suitable for all types of American silver ores but required large amounts of fuel to heat the ovens. It remained widely used throughout Mexico during the entire colonial period. Amalgamation was a newer technology, adapted to American ores during the mid-16th century. Although it did not require large quantities of charcoal and other fuels, as smelting did, amalgamation depended on the availability of mercury. Nearly all quicksilver used in colonial Spanish American silver mining came from either Huancavelica (Peru) or Almadén (Spain), with occasional supplements from Idria (Slovenia). Whereas both smelting and amalgamation were used widely in Mexico, Andean mines relied on amalgamation.
Oil and Environment in Mexico
Myrna Santiago
Before there was Mexico, there was oil. Millennia of organic matter that collapsed and liquefied into fossil fuel rested deep underground and underwater along the half-moon territorial formation that 19th-century geographers named the Mexican Gulf. Hidden by the lush tropical rainforests, marshes, and mangroves that occupied the landscape from the Pánuco River on the border between modern day Tamaulipas and Veracruz and the Bay of Campeche on the South, the oil seeped to the surface in small ponds, sometimes blackening the waters of streams and lagoons from Tabasco to the Huasteca. The human communities who inhabited that part of the globe thousands of years later knew about and utilized nature's oozing sticky black tar.
The Olmec, who flourished in southern Veracruz from 1200 to 400
Sugar Cane and Agricultural Transformations in Cuba
Reinaldo Funes Monzote
For the greater part of the 19th and 20th centuries, Cuba, the largest island in the Antilles, figured as the principal exporter of sugar cane, a product that dominated the country's agro-industry. In this way, Cuba became illustrative of the economic, social, political, and environmental impact of basing an economy on monoculture in order to supply foreign markets. This does not mean, however, that sugar cane was the only major crop being grown in the Cuban fields, as there was no dearth of different plants destined for foreign markets, such as tobacco and coffee, or for local markets, such as yucca, plantains, corn, sweet potatoes, and rice, not to mention a long if little-known livestock tradition. However, the dominance of agro-industry almost always eclipses agricultural and economic alternatives that could become potential competitors, despite the periodic adverse circumstances that affect consumers. But, in the 1990s, the production and exportation of sugar suffered an abrupt fall, creating a vacuum that allowed diversification of land use and that prompted a search for alternative agricultural models.
Water and Environmental Change in the US–Mexico Borderlands
Sterling Evans
Aridity, a significant characteristic of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, has affected water use patterns for different groups of people in this region for thousands of years. From indigenous groups to European invaders and colonizers to 20th- and 21st-century farmers, ranchers, and policy-makers in Mexico and the United States, controlling the area's scarce water resources has been a vital concern for survival and economic success. Given that an international border divides the region, national-era relations between the United States and Mexico often have been marked by water issues and the development of water projects and policies. And on both sides of the border these projects and policies have caused environmental changes that merit attention. Much of that history revolves around agricultural development with the need to ensure steady sources of water for irrigation. But industry and urban areas have also been enormous consumers of scarce water resources in the region, issues that are discussed here.


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2012? That is so last year! As we ring in the dawn of 2013, let's raise a virtual glass to all the tech that is yet to come in the new year. We're hoping for waterproof gadgets, bendable cellphones, a closer look at Google's mysterious Nexus Q and, God willing, a new way to watch television that involves just one remote.
Here's our list of the technology we can't wait to obsess over, write about and try out in 2013.
1. iEverything: We already know Apple will come out with new versions of all of its mobile devices, as it always does, but that doesn't make the announcements any less exciting. Some rumors have said the next iPhone will come in many colors, the iPad will be skinnier and the iPad mini will get Apple's high-resolution Retina display.
2. Cars and phones that won't let you text and drive: We need apps and phones that prevent us from texting behind the wheel. There are some good anti-texting apps for Android phones, but we need this technology to be more universal -- perhaps built into our phones and cars.
3. iWatch: A recent report out of China said Apple is working with Intel to make a 1.5-inch Bluetooth smart watch running iOS, the operating system used for the iPhone and iPad. This is just a rumor for now, but a smart watch would make sense for the tech giant.


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Finding the right pair of rock shoes takes some time and effort. And buying those that best work for a particular intended purpose isn't always easy. So it makes sense that when you do get the shoes that work for that particular use or project, you protect your investment.
There really aren't a lot of preventative measures to taking care of rock shoes, but there are a few. One is simply keeping an eye on normal wear and tear, and – when they need it – getting them to a good cobbler for a resole before too much wear makes that not a possibility. Another is pretty simple: Don't leave your rock shoes in a hot car (or expose to any type of heat), or even – when possible to avoid it – in direct sunlight.


text: > From: vwarwar at unlinfo.unl.edu (vitor warwar) > Subject: OXYGEN MEASUREMENT, Help! > Date: 28 Jun 1994 04:45:17 GMT > I'm trying to measure the consuption of oxygen in a enzymatic > reaction. I'm using a Clarke-type electrode. The problem is > that this stuff is very unstable. It only works well every blue > mon, making impossible to do any serious kinetics work. > Any advise? Is there any other way to measure free O2 in > solution? > Vitor Maybe you need to KNOW the kinetics (to be able to slow them down) in order to FIND the kinetics. ;-) But what is the real problem: "working well every blue moon" suggests not simply instability, but uncontrolled instability. How fast is it, anyway, and what is it, and maybe I know how to find as many blue moons as you need. Rob rapr at med.pitt.edu


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When voters go to the polls on Nov. 5, they'll face large ballots printed in tiny six-point type. One reason: a requirement that ballots be printed in six languages, including Bengali.
This is multicultural madness. Queens residents speak and read more than 80 languages, must
our ballots include all of them? What's next? Icelandic, Irdu, Farsi, Pashtun and Swahili? Let's end this nonsense. We need just one language for voting: English.
Only U.S. citizens are permitted to vote, according to the Constitution. Most natural-born citizens learn
English as soon as they start talking. They absorb it from family, friends and later in school. Immigrants must display English language proficiency to become naturalized citizens. People who don't speak or read English are most likely not U.S. citizens.
Multiculturalism is a euphemism for "I refuse to learn English." If you feel that way, you forfeit your right to vote.
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When USC opened training camp Monday, one question was who would be the Trojans' No. 3 wide receiver. But as the week winds down, the wide receiver situation seems more muddled than ever.
Nelson Agholor is guaranteed a starting spot although he was inconsistent last season. Sophomore Darreus Rogers is expected to be the other starter.
But that's not definite today. Freshman Juju Smith's been impressive throughout and there is little doubt he can play right away.
"He's on path to be able to help us a lot," wide receivers coach Tee Martin said. "He knows what to do. It's a matter of how consistent he can be. I can't tell you how good he will be, but he has the talent."
Another freshman, Adoree Jackson, might be in the top three if not for the fact he might start at cornerback and is playing offense and defense.
"He has an unbelievable amount of talent," Martin said. "He can handle the installation on offense and defense and it's seamless. The one thing that stands out is how smart and productive he is."
And then there is junior George Farmer. So far, he looks like a legitimate contender to play, but everyone remembers his string of injuries during his career.
"George is running great," Martin said. "He's having a productive camp."
Perhaps the one player trying to catch up is freshman Steven Mitchell, who is coming back from torn knee ligaments. Mitchell said he is 100 percent, but USC coach Steve Sarkisian limited him Friday during the first full-pads practice.
"This is really the first time he's been around me because of the injury," Martin said. "I'm learning a lot about him."
Jackson's role in the rotation could be determined over the weekend when Sarkisian meets with his staff to discuss the roles of players. It is highly unlikely the defensive staff wants Jackson to leave his first position of cornerback.
Woods hurts elbow
Starting nose tackle Antwaun Woods injured his left elbow during practice and will miss seven to 10 days, Sarkisian said. X-rays were negative and there was no structural damaged detected with the elbow.
Without Woods, USC's depth becomes a concern because the Trojans are also without reserve Kenny Bigelow, who tore knee ligaments in June.
Wide receiver commits
USC received a commitment from wide receiver Tristan Payton of Jacksonville, Fla. Payton is rated the 54th-best player in Florida and received scholarship offers from only a few big schools like Florida and Ohio State. He apparently impressed USC coaches during a summer camp in June.
Payton is the Trojans' 15th commitment for the Class of 2015, which is currently ranked No. 10 in the nation by Rivals.com.
Williams back to tackling
Defensive tackle Leonard Williams tackled in full pads for the first time Friday since last season. Williams missed spring practice as he recovered from a shoulder injury. He said he is still not 100 percent.
"It felt good to finally have a tackle drill," Williams said.
Sarkisian said he couldn't tell Williams is not 100 percent.
"I wouldn't know," Sarkisian said. "He's been pretty hard to deal with one-on-one. I keep telling (offensive line coach) Tim Drevno, at least you won't have to deal with him every Saturday."
Day off
Sarkisian is giving the Trojans the day off from practicing and they do not have any team activities until Saturday night meetings. He gave his Washington teams up to three days off during training camp and will give the Trojans four.
"It seems that's the trend we're headed (with the NCAA limiting practice time)," he said. "And I can't be naïve to the fact our (scholarship) numbers are down."
USC practices twice Sunday.


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Josh.ettinger needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
The Magellan Institute
I've worked in health care for several years and I'm passionate about improving the way care is delivered and received for patients. There is great opportunity to make a difference and I'm excited to be a part of this effort...and even more thrilled to launch this new venture. I think it will help me realize my commitment to improving the health of our communities. I'm always looking for creative people, ideas, and inspiration to challenge the status quo.
The aim is to spark the creative energy and the dreamer in every executive, leader, and physician who wants something better for their hospital.
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Despite the dramatic warnings and blaring weather sirens Wednesday afternoon, there's not good evidence that the east Denver metro area had a tornado.
The Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University had a chase team in the area that couldn't find evidence of a rotating vortex on the ground. Instead, the dramatic funnel was a big, dark mesocyclone — in other words, a spinning thunderstorm, said state climatologist Nolan Doesken.
At least six and as many as eight tornadoes were reported in Aurora and on to the east Wednesday by eyewitnesses and local media, but no significant damage was reported on the ground.
Nonetheless, tornado warnings that popped up on smartphones in the metro area told urbanites to take cover immediately.
The severe thunderstorms briefly closed Denver International Airport, and parts of the eastern metro region were blanketed in hailstones.
A similar system produced rocky weather in the metro area Tuesday. Both storms were driven by the way warm air flows into the metro area from the south and east because of typography of the surrounding region, Then the warm air rises through colder air and starts to spin and push up moisture that produces hailstorms.
"Yesterday and the day before, they were classic Denver cyclone convergencies," Doesken said.
He said the weather system was typical for this time of year, when winter turns to spring. Just nine days before Wednesday's tornado scare, much of Denver was blanketed in snow.
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I found lots of delicious recipes this week – can't wait to see what you found. Bloggers continually amaze me with their creativity and beautiful photos. Happy drooling!
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Raspberry Cream Puffs - No convincing needed here, I already know Frog Prince will love these! These look amazing. I love that the puff pastry is made from scratch too.
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Stove Top Broccoli Lasagna - White beans, broccoli, whole wheat pasta, tomatoes all made on the stove top! Love this idea from Lindsey.
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Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower - We love cauliflower at our house and this looks like a fun new way to enjoy it.
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Norma,That is entirely up to you. However, it might make for a reasonable test of whether 0.50% IDY is a good value to use. Peter
The chef is fairly big. I think he is cute. I wonder what I should name him. Any ideas?
Norma,I would perhaps name him Gus, after Gus Guerra (photo below), who started the whole Detroit style pizza phenomenon at Buddy's. That name could serve as an intro into what the Detroit style pizza is should anyone ask about the name or if you work it into the discussion.Peter
The Buddys clone dough is getting easier to mix. I only had to mix on speed one and two again and there was a 15 minutes rest period like last week. The dough feels strong after the second mix and it isnt sticky anymore after the mix. The first picture of the dough was after the first mix, before the rest period. It can be seen on the other picture how the doughs looks after the second mix and how it isnt as sticky. I think the rest period helps that Peter told me to try.
Thanks for the picture of Gus Guerra. I never saw a picture of Gus Guerra before.
Norma,It does indeed look like the rest period helped the hydration of the dough. Maybe we hit upon what "double kneading" really means. If that is what Buddy's uses, then it's possible that Buddy's is using a hydration value that is greater than what you have been using. If so, that might allow even relatively unskilled workers make the dough. Maybe sometime you can try testing a higher hydration value, along with a rest period, of course, and assess the results at that higher hydration value. Maybe something like 75% would be a good test value.Peter
Norma,You might have forgotten but you showed a somewhat different photo of Gus (also with his daughter Marie) at Reply 62 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,21559.msg220390.html#msg220390. Peter
Do you know if Gus is still living? Maybe I need memory pills.
Norma,It looks like I may need some of the memory pills too. According to the caption to the photo I referenced earlier, which was not easily read, the photo is of Gus's son Jack and his sister Marie. I corrected the post in which I provided the photo.For a little bit of background, according to the Buddy's website, at http://www.buddyspizza.com/history.html, in 1936 Gus was the owner of Buddy's, although I think the official name at the time was Buddy's Rendezvous. The year 1936 was 77 years ago. So, if he was an adult at the time he owned the original Buddy's, and he is still living, then he would be almost as old as you are .As you may recall, Gus left Buddy's in 1953 and purchased the Cloverleaf Bar. That establishment is now called the Cloverleaf Bar & Restaurant and is owned by Gus's children Jack and Marie. I believe the photo shown in the text material at the Cloverleaf Bar & Restaurant website at http://www.cloverleafrestaurant.com/history.htm is Gus Guerra later in life. I think one of the photos at the right of the text material shows Gus with his wife Anna. To continue the story, Cloverleaf Bar & Restaurant also had two delco pizzerias called Cloverleaf that were run by Shawn Randazzo. Those units were sold to Shawn's mother, Linda Michael, and, after hiring a business coach, they renamed the two units and made them part of what is now called the Detroit Style Pizza Co. You can see examples of the Guerra Cloverleaf Detroit style pizzas at http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2012/05/detroit-the-guerra-legacy-lives-on-at-cloverleaf.html. You can see a 2012 photo of Jack and Marie at http://www.macombdaily.com/article/20120216/FINANCE01/302169927/cloverleaf-marks-65th-anniversary-of-pizza-with-community-event. They are the two people on the right. Peter
I also gave them instructions something like Buddys pizza gave me for the reheat.
Norma,As it often happens, a single pizzeria spawns many others. Gus Guerra was at the top of the heap. He started Buddy's in the 1930s but sold the business to Jimmy Bonacorse and Jimmy Valenti in 1953, and they in turn sold the business sixteen years later, in 1970, to Billy and Shirlee Jacobs, the parents of Robert Jacobs, the present owner of Buddy's. Gus went on to purchase the Cloverleaf Bar, which, as previously mentioned, is now owned and run by his son Jack and his daughter Marie. Shawn Randazzo spun himself off to form the Detroit Style Pizza Co after his mother, Linda Michaels, purchased the delco business from Cloverleaf. You might also recall Louis Tourtois. As discussed previously, Louis, who came from France, worked at Buddy's for seventeen years, and later at Shield's for seven years, whereupon he started Loui's Pizza, in 1977. Loui's Pizza is now run by his son, also named Loui. Legend has it that Tourtois changed the spelling of his name from Louis to Loui because it sounded more French.As for Shield's, it started out as a bar (Shield's Bar) in 1936 and only later started to serve pizzas. Shield's was purchased in early 1997 by two brothers, Paul and Peter Andoni. The Andoni's changed the name to Shield's Franchise Restaurants, LLC and, according to the Shield's website, at http://www.shieldspizza.com/our_story.html, plan on expanding to new locations and offering franchises throughout Southeast Michigan and beyond.There are many younger family members in the above businesses, so the businesses that their forbears established may be around for some time to come, using a dough recipe or some version thereof that had its origins at Buddy's.As Paul Harvey would say, now you have the rest of the story. So, when your customers ask about "Gus", you can take the story in several different directions and speak with authority. Interesting stories with history and nostalgia help sell pizza. Hopefully, that will help you sell more Detroit style pizzas. Peter
Norma, not sure what Buddy's suggests, but I have found that if I preheat the toaster oven and pan to ~450F and then put the slice straight from the fridge and right on the hot pan (it'll sizzle nicely as the oil releases), a five-minute re-heat is enough to make it almost indistinguishable from fresh.


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Purpose of Lesson:
The purpose of this lesson is to let students apply the concept of natural selection to a limited situation. As we move through this unit, students broaden their focus until they are analyzing several adaptations in a real population.
Major Strategies to Watch for:
1. Video lesson - I use a short video that showcases me, teaching this lesson. By showing a video to the students, I free myself to walk around and interact with students.
2. Computer simulation lab - Students use a computer simulation to ask questions, take and analyze data and make conclusions.
Learning Goal: Discover the ideas of Natural Selection at work in a computer simulation.
Opening Question: What does the word "advantage" mean in natural selection?
Today, I'm interested in hearing from the students what traits they think might be advantageous to survival. I let the students answer out loud to the whole class and build off of each other's answers. At the end of the class I go back to this question and connect it with the simulation asking them what trait was the most advantageous in the simulation.
Students record their opening question on their learning goal sheet and are ready to start class 3 min after the bell has rung. I reward students who get started early with ROCK STAR SCIENTIST tickets.
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For the hook today, I want students to have a preview of the simulation we are going to use. I show this self-made video to introduce them to the parts of the simulation. Using a video like this, instead of teaching it myself, gives me the freedom to walk around the room and help struggling students. If the whole class needs to catch up, I can stop the video, check for understanding and then go on. Sometimes, having short taped lessons can free you to help individual students and keep the class going at pace.
At the end of the video, students have used their own computers to get to the site and now understand the basic premise of the lesson. I ask all students to stop and shut their computers for the next part of the lesson.
I start each unit with a pre-assessment to open up the student thinking and help uncover misconceptions. This allows be to modify my teaching, compact curriculum, form appropriate groups, and measure growth. By far the best formative probes I've found are by Page Keeley. She's written several books such as Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Volume 1, 2, 3 and 4. In this probe, Habitat Change, students learn about an small animal living on an island. The habitat goes through a drastic change and the students have to decide what will happen to the animal. This gets directly at the misconception that many students have that organisms can adapt at will.
The student work shows that the student does have a strong idea that the animal will probably die. However, he also states that the animal could change behaviors to survive. This shows that they didn't connect to the other aspects of the habitat change, the lost of leaves and ants. This student is ready to learn this unit where we will focus on adaptations and survival.
I love having my students use computer simulations to do "real" lab reports. I believe this helps students to also understand computers as tools instead of only as gaming devices. In this lab, the students are going to use the simulation to predict how the organism will change over time.
Students can work individually or in partners for this lab. I think it is best practice for students to work with one other person so that they can have critical thinking discussions.
This evolution simulation involves creatures with head grabbers eating flies. In the Natural Selection Lab, students are only going to take data every five rounds. This reduces some of the tedium of data recording and speeds up the lab. Students are asked to graph the data in the way they think it is best displayed. It is always interesting to see which students simply copy one of the graphs from the simulation and which choose to create their own method. Either way is fine because I am more interested in the discussion of WHY they chose to represent the data in that way.
Once students are done with the labs and graphs, students should answer the conclusion using the sentence starters. I've put the sentence starters on the lab, but at some point you should start taking the sentence starters away for the students. I have found that unless students have to do their OWN thinking on exactly what to write, how, and why, they never truly become proficient conclusion writers.
In this video a student discusses using the simulation and what they learned about natural selection from the simulation.
The purpose of this section is to process the lab as a whole class.
There are many important points in the simulation that need a check for understanding. I am most concerned with whether students understood how the organisms changed and why they died. Some of the questions I ask the class are:
Closing Statement: Today we studied an evolution simulation on the computer.
Closing Question: What trait was advantageous in the simulation? How is this like real life? How is this NOT like real life?
Closure depends greatly on timing and is not as easy to plan in advance as opening. You can find more information about how I manage closure here.


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UH Termite Project presents public information seminars in June and JulyUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — The Termite Project of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources presents a series of upcoming public information seminars:
· Wednesday, June 22 — 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Moanalua High School
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Registration is required for those interested in attending, and can be done by contacting the Community School for Adults at 384-6824 for Moanalua High School seminars, and the Community School for Adults at 622-1634 for the Mililani High School seminar.
Homeowners who register to attend will find out interesting facts about these wood-eating insects including termite identification and biology, and gain tips on how to prevent and control them from UH termite expert Dr. Julian Yates. Participants will also be able to ask and get answers to questions regarding termites and their homes.
The UH Termite Project: Educate to Eradicate addresses research, extension and instruction, and brings UH scientists together with the community in an effort to control termite damage to residences and public buildings. Termites are a serious problem throughout Hawaiʻi with costs to Hawaiʻi residents estimated to exceed $100 million annually to control and repair termite damage.
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Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810-1830
Overlook Press, 2000 - History - 561 pages
In this "informative and inspiring volume" (Chicago Tribune), Robert Harvey reconstructs in vivid detail the gripping story of Latin America's independence and those who made it possible. Treated with contempt by their Spanish overlords, given to dissipation and grandiose proclamations, these fearless men nonetheless achieved military feats unsurpassed elsewhere in history. The aristocratic Simón Bolívar led his guerilla armies through swamp, jungle, and Andean ice to surprise his enemies and liberate most of northern South America. The inarticulate San Martín joined Bernardo O'Higgins, illegitimate son of a Spanish viceroy, to do the same in the south. These and five others waged the war for freedom against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, the American Revolution, the collapse of the Spanish Empire, and the revolutionary ferment of the nineteenth century. Despite the success of their revolutions, all seven liberators died in poverty, disgrace, or oblivion.
This fascinating and dramatic story takes in a vast range of martial experience, from butchery in the torrid Orinoco basin to a cavalry fought with lances 13,000 feet up in the mountains of Peru. It is one of the greatest and least-known epics of history, told here in unprecedented detail.
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The lymphatic system has been much neglected in most
Western scientific traditions. Contrasted with the heart,
for example, the lymph is relatively unexplored. Perhaps,
because lymph and lymph vessels are generally translucent
they drew little attention in early anatomical study
compared to organs, blood vessels, muscles and bones.
Hippocrates and Aristotle referred to "white blood"
and "colorless fluid" but in the Middle Ages medical
knowledge declined and the lymph was temporarily forgotten.
In 1627 Asellius, in Milan, recovered the knowledge of the
lymph.(38) The structure and action of the lymph system was
still undefined by 1900(39) and the both the immunological
function of the lymph and the actual lymphogenic process are
not clearly understood even today.
In general, the lymphatic system is a network of
organs, tissues,vessels, nodes and flow potentials. It
collects interstitial fluid, infused with the by products of
cellular activity, and transports it centrally where it
rejoins the blood system. In this role it regulates
endogenous metabolites and waste products.(40)
In addition, the lymphatic system is a primary
component of the immune system helping to protect the body
from a broad range of pathogenic factors.(40) It carries
fluids infused with bacteria, virus, fungus into
immuno-active lymph nodes where lymphocytes, reticular cells
and macrophages kill or neutralize toxic or enemy cells,
substances and organisms. In this role it regulates
exogenous disease inducing agents.(40)
The lympatic system also has a nutritional function
wherein it assists in bringing nutritional factors into
proximity with the tissues. This was noted by Asselius in
his original discovery of the chyle filled vessels of a
recently fed dog.(38) In the 1970's the broad based
nutritional (or trophic) function of the lymph system began
to get deeper exploration.(41)
Like the early medical explorers in Europe, the
founders of Oriental medicine also did not specifically note
the lymph, except non-specifically as a component of the
body fluids.(28,29) However, there is an important
difference between the empirical science of Asia which did
not clearly delineate the lymph and the deductive science of
the West that gave the lymph little note.
In Western science, until recently the nearly
invisible lymph, recieved little of the focus it deserves
and few if any health generating strategies or modalities
were based on its function. In the orient, where science is
based on trial and error and the invisible "Qi" is honored,
the results of healthy and unhealthy lymphatic function were
noted in healthy individuals and contrasted in unhealthy
individuals. Even though the lymphatic function itself was
unknown and unnamed, its effects were generally ascribed to
the proper action of Qi or Prana (energy) and fluids. In
Asia an elaborate system for generating and circulating
lymph was developed through the self care practices of
Qigong and Yoga/Pranayama.