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So the good folks at Bloguin have created a "smart phone" app for all of the blogs on their site. So if you haven't already added The Royal Half to your internet bookmarks, or subscribed to our RSS feed in your reader, or added us on Twitter... then this is the app for you... ? But honestly, you might just want to walk away from The Royal Half for a few hours each day and stop staring at Heidi Androl screengrabs. You sicko.
You can download the apps in iPhone and Android flavors here. (Or click on the giant Royal Half logo on the side bar) Sorry, Half Season Ticket Holder Buddy, no Katana II version!
In other, non-phone related, but just as lame news... the Fabulous Forum blog over at something called the Los Angeles Times (I think it's an internet news site of some sort) is having a contest where readers get to choose which Los Angeles based sports team they would want kicked out of Los Angeles. Not quite sure what the point is here... especially when cities have to deal with this issue every single day. Here is the voting as of 8:30pm Monday night.
Really, Los Angeles? 1552 votes for the Kings? And only 205 votes for the Sparks? Is it because the Sparks have more championship banners at Staples Center than the Kings do? Look, if I'm flying off the island on Lost, and I need to drop one sports team off the helicopter so we can make it to the ship... then I'm looking your way Sparks or Chivas USA! (Let's not even discuss the fact that the Angels are based in a different city.) So what do you say... readers of The Royal Half... let's head over to this site and cast a vote for a non-hockey sports franchise. I think the 13 votes will definitely swing the momentum.

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Herring gull (Larus argentatus)
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- A familiar sight in seaside towns, the herring gull is versatile and opportunistic, exploiting almost any available food source.
- Although adept at catching its own prey, the herring gull will also regularly scavenge or pirate food from other seabirds.
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Herring gull description
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Aves |
Order | Charadriiformes |
Family | Laridae |
Genus | Larus (1) |
The quintessential 'seagull', the herring gull (Larus argentatus) is perhaps the most familiar seabird in the Northern Hemisphere (3) (4). Yet, distinguishing this species from a number of other gull species is somewhat challenging. Like many other gulls, it has an all-white head and neck, with a pale grey back and grey upperwings; however, it is the only gull with pink legs and black wing-tips with white spots (known as 'mirrors') (3) (5). It may also be identified by its heavy, slightly hooked bill with bold red tip (5). Outside of the breeding season, the adult herring gull's white head and neck becomes streaked with brown, and the bill and the orange ring around the eyes fade in colour (2) (3). Juvenille herring gulls are mottled dark greyish-brown, and they undergo seven changes in plumage before adulthood (3) (4). The herring gull is a large, heavy-bodied gull with fully-webbed feet and a flattened forehead that gives it a 'mean' appearance (2) (5) (6). It is an extremely noisy bird and a number of vocalisations are produced, including the well-known raucous 'laughing' call (7).
- Synonyms
- Larus mongolicus, Larus smithsonianus, Larus vegae.
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- Goéland argenté. Top
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http://www.birdlife.org - Avian influenza
- Also known as "bird flu", a contagious disease caused by any strain of influenza virus that is carried by and primarily affects birds.
- Bycatch
- In the fishing industry, the part of the catch made up of non-target species.
- Incubation
- The act of incubating eggs, that is, keeping them warm so that development is possible.
- Molluscs
- A diverse group of invertebrates, mainly marine, that have one or all of the following; a horny, toothed ribbon in the mouth (the radula), a shell covering the upper surface of the body, and a mantle or mantle cavity with a type of gill. Includes snails, slugs, shellfish, octopuses and squid.
IUCN Red List (September, 2010)
http://www.iucnredlist.org/ - del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (2001) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 3: Hoatzin to Auks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Pierotti, R.J. and Good, T.P. (1994) Herring Gull (Larus argentatus). In: Poole, A. (Ed.) The Birds of North America Online. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca: Available at:
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology - All About Birds: Herring Gull (September, 2010)
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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (September, 2010)
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Herring Gull Larus argentatus – US Geological Survey (September, 2010)
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i0510id.html - Mullarney, K., Svensson, L., Zetterstrom, D. and Grant, P.J. (1999) Collins Bird Guide. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London.
BirdLife International (September, 2010)
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Herring gull biology
The herring gull is a supreme opportunist and scavenger exploiting almost any available food source, including fish offal, refuse, bird chicks, small mammals, eggs, worms and invertebrates (2) (8). Smaller food items are swallowed whole, but larger and harder items are dropped from a height onto rocks to break them open (4). This powerful predator often forages by walking along the shoreline to look for submerged molluscs, but also pirates food from other predatory seabirds, catches fish at sea after plunge-diving into the water, or sits on the water, paddling its legs to propel the body forward, and dips its large beak into the water to catch unsuspecting prey (2) (3) (4). While at sea, the herring gull typically forages in large, widespread flocks that quickly gather around areas of high food abundance, often around feeding whales, dolphins, predatory fish and also fishing boats (3). The herring gull regularly drinks freshwater, but when this is unavailable it will drink saltwater, with excess salt expelled from the body through specialised glands above the eyes (4).
The herring gull may breed in huge colonies of several thousand birds on cliffs, alone, or at the edge of large colonies of other breeding seabirds (8). Typically the male selects the nest site around mid-April, whilst defending it from other birds until a female is found with which to breed (3) (8). A small territory around this nesting site is defended from other breeding birds, usually by the male, and each season established pairs return to the same nest site to breed (3). The nest is a simple depression lined with feathers and vegetation on a cliff ledge or on the ground (8). Usually one to three eggs are laid and incubated for some 28 to 30 days (2) (4). The incubation duties are shared equally between the adult birds, although during times of high food availability, the male does most of the foraging and the female largely stays at the nest (2). The chicks fledge 40 to 45 days after hatching, becoming fully independent 1 to 2 weeks later. Most herring gulls first breed at around 5 years of age and may live for up to 32 years (2).
Outside of the breeding season, the herring gull is a highly gregarious bird and gathers in huge flocks at favoured sites (8). Most adult birds remain close to the breeding site all year round, but the youngest birds tend to migrate southwards. This behaviour is most pronounced in the colder parts of the species' range, and elsewhere, populations may remain fairly sedentary (3).
TopHerring gull range
The herring gull has a circumpolar distribution at northern latitudes, with the main areas of population being north-west Europe, eastern Arctic Russia and North America. It breeds across most of Canada and Alaska, as well as north-east USA, and much of the northern European coastline, as well as inland areas of Russia, Iceland, the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia (8). It may also breed at some inland lakes in Asia (3). Before the onset of winter, some herring gull populations migrate southwards to the southern USA, Central America, south-east China and Japan (3) (8).
TopHerring gull habitat
The herring gull is an extremely versatile species capable of occupying a vast diversity of habitats. Typically, it is most abundant on large islands, and coastal or near-coastal areas, but it also forages far inland around large lakes, reservoirs, fields and rubbish dumps (3) (8). It also breeds in a range of habitats, including cliffs, beaches, rocky and grassy islands, gravel bars, salt-marshes and even on buildings (1).
TopHerring gull status
The herring gull is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (1).
TopHerring gull threats
Today, the herring gull is a hugely abundant and widespread species with a global population that likely numbers several million birds. In some areas it is even considered a pest species, particularly near areas of human habitation and airports, and in some coastal areas where it out-competes rarer seabirds for nesting sites (8). However, it has not always been so abundant, and in North America during the 18th and 19th century the herring gull was harvested for its eggs and feathers, which were used in the hat-making trade, and the species was removed from large parts of its range (3) (4). Protection from such exploitation and an increase in food availability from bycatch discards and refuse heaps allowed the species to recover from previous declines, and the population now exceeds former numbers and is spreading southwards (3). There have been similar increases in Europe, except in the UK, where the population has declined by around 50 percent over recent decades due to unknown reasons (9). The herring gull is, however, susceptible to avian influenza and could become threatened by future outbreaks, and it is also vulnerable to oil pollution, pesticide contamination, and the destruction of food sources by overfishing (3) (8).
TopHerring gull conservation
As the herring gull is a widespread and abundant species that is increasing in number, it is not the target of any known conservation measures. In places where it is considered a pest species, control measures, such as the smashing of eggs and the poisoning of eggs with oil, are frequently used to create more nesting opportunities for other seabirds. However, until such measures are applied consistently, it is likely that the herring gull will continue to increase in number and range (3).
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Credit access businesses, including payday lenders and auto-title loan businesses, have faced criticism for charging massive interest rates to customers seeking loans and no way to help pay them off. Last session, legislators passed a law that allows more oversight and tracking of these businesses, but a bill that would have addressed the so-called cycle of debt did not pass.
"They started putting a structure in place to get a handle on who these lenders are and how many loans they are making," said Ann Baddour of the Texas Appleseed, a member of the Texas Fair Lending Alliance. "The big piece that was not addressed and yet was the main reason everyone came together was the cycle of debt -- the really high fees charged for these loans and a loan structure that's not designed to be paid back."
Since 2011, four major Texas cities -- Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and, earlier this month, El Paso -- have passed municipal ordinances to crack down on the cycle of debt. Baddour said the association hopes legislators will pass a law to institute such measures statewide to eliminate confusion for customers and businesses and to protect customers in rural areas.
State Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, is working with businesses and advocates to draft legislation to help fight predatory lending practices. Steven Polunsky, the finance committee's director of business and commerce, said the legislation passed last session has increased oversight of credit access businesses but didn't go far enough.
"There are still problems and abuses out there within the industry where there are some new products being offered that are designed so they don't fall under the existing regulatory scheme," Polunsky said.
He said he expects the passage of "consensus legislation that will establish an appropriate level of regulation without strangulation."
Rob Norcroff, a spokesman for the Consumer Service Alliance of Texas, which represents more than 90 percent of short-term lending storefronts in Texas, said his organization agrees that statewide regulatory legislation is necessary. In October, the alliance released a set of "best practice" guidelines intended to eliminate the cycle of debt that all members are required to follow.
The alliance's lawyers argue that city ordinances are unconstitutional because the authority to regulate credit businesses lies with the Legislature. The alliance has sued Dallas, Austin and San Antonio over their rules, but Norcroff said the ordinances offer a good model for the Legislature to examine when drafting a new law.
"[Legislators have] got the ordinances as one example, and our best practices are another example," Norcroff said. "And there is all sorts of middle ground."
State Rep. Joe Farias, D-San Antonio, has filed House Bill 420, which would require credit access businesses to provide literature in multiple languages, particularly Spanish, as determined by the state's Finance Commission. He said he has previously filed bills to help end predatory lending practices and would support similar bills this session.
"This matters in the community I represent," Farias said of his bill. "There is a business right by my office. I see the clientele going in and out, and we realized we need to provide an opportunity for them to get materials in Spanish."
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snowgray- I agree it is very pretty in person. I do not regret paying the extra $100 for it when I ordered her.
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Also I cannot wait to hear how your sanding the seams go. I want to do mine too eventually.
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Don your frocks, tie your bowtie, and break out the Valium--it is time once again to penetrate one of the most charmingly deceptive veneers of southern graciousness: The Dinner Party.
This curious southern ritual, while oddly entertaining, has always baffled me inasmuch as southerners seem to know quite well , at any given time, the intimate goings on of one another's personal affairs, and one is left to wonder just what remains to be discussed over the roast quail.
I have long suspected that this phenomenon began to blossom to the fullest with the advent of carpool lanes in Mountain Brook's tiny kingdom. This caravan of Mercedes, SUV's, and Range Rovers, which on the surface appears to be merely the loving transport back to the castle of well-heeled little princes and petunias, is actually a feeding frenzy at the henhouse for car-hopping clucking mothers, such as the recently overheard: "Why Minnie May! I couldn't help peering through your kitchen window last night. Your new Italian imported tile around your garbage disposal looks just loooooove-ly!!" This was immediately followed by, "Why, thank you, Lila Lou- I see your husband came home last night after midnight again. Did Bible Study run late again?" Nonetheless, the dinner party is a required activity when living in the gracious South. One's first experience at a southern feast with namecards will be a memorable endeavor, and will likely be filed away in the memory banks next to the dental procedure without anesthesia and the IRS audit. One is invariably seated next to a well-coiffed vulture, a gracious southern woman who is poised to solicit your innermost embarrassing secret by way of a fusillade of carefully crafted interrogations delivered by firing squad.
Few non-natives are attuned to the etiquette steeped in southern tradition regarding the correct order, placement and usage of the various forks on the dinner table when a southern woman is seated next to a non-native whom she has marked for slow torture. Hidden in the array of the appetizer, entrée and dessert forks is actually an "interrogation fork" that is actually plunged into the guest's jugular vein and holds him captive at the table until her questions have been satisfied, while the frantic guest sits paralyzed, wondering whether this woman has been trained by terrorists or the CIA and silently fantasizes about stuffing her mouth silent with kudzu to escape the almost silent bloodletting. She will release the fork only after discerning your address, the square footage of your home, your adjusted gross income, the fertilizer used on your lawn, your 401K balance, library fines accumulated since kindergarten, the beneficiaries of your life insurance policy, as well as the results of your most recent pap smear or colonoscopy, which she might as well perform.
"More vodka?" Yes, please. In the most nightmarish of scenarios, one will turn to one's left to escape her clutch, only to discover than one is seated next to a divorce attorney. This unfortunate seating arrangement will sadly prove quite costly, as an hour's worth of dinner conversation will conclude with the presentation of his bill for "interrogatories, request for production and discovery". Should the conversation include the resisting of his untoward advances, the bill may include a motion to compel and an appeal. In the event one does not produce a check by dessert, a hearing date will be set for the day upon which you are due to be hospitalized for an appendectomy and cannot possibly attend, and a default judgment will be entered in his favor, along with accumulated interest and fees.
At some point during the evening, assuming enough alcohol has been consumed, the entertainment can become quite lively. This may or may not include gun fire, depending upon whether football is in heat, as was the case this most recent season in Mountain Brook, where an Auburn fan open fired at his own television set during the Alabama game, missed the set, and shattered a ceramic urn containing the ashes of his mother-in-law, which were tragically blown all across the Persian rug and remained there, as inebriated guests stumbled across them until halftime, at which time they were finally scooped up (much to my horror)into an empty Gus Mayer bag.
Check, please. Time to call it an evening, and thank y'all for coming. A charming time was surely had by all, and the sun finally sets once again over the magnolia trees in the Magic City:
where the tea is sweeter, where some things simply never change… And we like it that way. Oh where is my Anonymous hero with Torreon de Paredes wine to the rescue? Until next time,
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You and I had talked about this on the game day chat. People are comparing his stats to henne and all this stuff, and while he is making mistakes sometimes they are not the same QB. Henne couldn't move like Tannehill and Henne had that 3 second clock that led to auto check downs, even though he had a cannon (though terrible Deep accuracy). What i see in Tannehill is something I would like to see from an improved QB but PLUS the things he should be doing as a rookie, running too early or checking down too much. So I look at this as easier progression than say making Henne keep his eyes downfield or take more shots. Tannehill tries to take shots downfield with limited downfield talent on common occasion and without putting the ball in danger. Tannehill will do everything in his power to keep his eyes down field and look for the receiver to make the throw and catch. The problem is that he is a pretty good athelete and he's decently fast for a QB... but doesn't use his legs enough as a weapon. Also the checkdowns are usually late, bad throws, or not even looked at some games. I think thats fair to say and I think its easily fixable, more so than getting a QB to keep his eyes down field when facing pressure. Kind of like a reverse progression thing, if anyone knows what I mean lol
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Dr. Lawanda is a motivational teacher based in Chicago, IL. She is recognized as a leading expert in Leadership, Organizational Change, Healthy Living/Healthy Lifestyles and Motivation. Dr. Lawanda will tailor her presentation to meet the needs of her…
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With a partner office in Indonesia, the consulting firm Ecovis enlarges its global presence and is now represented in 48 countries from Europe, America and Asia.
The new partner ECOVIS Idris & Sudiharto has got two offices in Indonesia. One office is situated in the Capital Jakarta that has about 10 million inhabitants. Jakarta is located on the Island of Java where more than half of the countries' population live. The second office is in Batam, the free trade zone 20 kilometres south of Singapore and Malaysia. The firm was founded in 2009 and has got about 70 employees. ECOVIS Idris & Sudiharto provides Auditing Services and consulting, Accounting and Tax Advice.
The Republic of Indonesia is the largest Island Nation of the world and by population (238 million) the fourth largest country worldwide. The Indonesian Economy is based on the principle of market economy. Various large companies are owned by the state. Currently Indonesia's economy has got a growth rate of about 6%. The GDP amounted in 2010 to 4.300 USD per capita. Nearly half of the population is employed in the agricultural sector. Many multinational companies are referring to the wealth of natural mineral resources of Indonesia and established their offices in the country. Export products are gold, copper, coal, wood and agricultural products (palm oil, rice peanuts, cocoa and coffee), textiles and minerals. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.
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Episode 11.0! On this weeks episode we talk about the multi-player gaming experience and how it has changed like you wouldn't believe. Mario Karts on fire off the shoulder of Orion. We watched R-Wings glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.


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Brockport, N.Y.-- It's a warm Wednesday afternoon and Brockport junior Christian Wright is busy taping a segment in front of The Strand movie theatre for BTV, SUNY Brockport's television station.
Wright is an English and Communications major with a focus on creative writing and media production. He doesn't know what he exactly wants to do when he graduates but he knows he needs a college degree to get where he wants.
That's why he decided to come to a State University of New York (SUNY) college. He knew it would be more affordable than a private college, but even still, Christian has had to take out student loans to attend Brockport.
"It would be extremely difficult [without the loan]," he says.
Now, a new initiative at SUNY colleges may help students like Christian better manage their debt and understand their loans.
On Wednesday, the SUNY Board of Trustees approved the "Smart Track" initiative to help the 60 percent of SUNY students who end up taking out college loans.
SUNY officials say the average student loan debt for a four-year SUNY student is $21,000 and about 7 percent of students default on their loans upon graduation.
The "Smart Track" initiative will be adopted at six SUNY campuses as a pilot program this year. Those campuses are UAlbany, SUNY Fredonia, Niagara County Community College, Purchase College, Schenectady County Community College, and SUNY Ulster. The program will be implemented at all SUNY colleges by the fall of 2013.
In a release, SUNY said the following tools and services will be implemented as a part of "Smart Track":
New SUNY Award Letter – As the first to adopt the federal Financial Aid Shopping Sheet, SUNY has developed a standard format for presenting financial aid offerings at a campus while also displaying campus-specific graduation rates, default rates, and the median student loan debt of the campus' students. The new SUNY award letter will incorporate this information and enable students and their families to easily compare colleges and make informed decisions on loan borrowing.
Student Loan Service Center Expansion – Currently used exclusively by SUNY's state-operated campuses, the SUNY Student Loan Service Center provides Perkins Loan servicing for students and their families. The Center will be expanded to serve all SUNY campuses and provide additional services to support Smart Track.
Early Engagement – SUNY has partnered with the U.S. Department of Education to develop a data-driven early-warning initiative that will use SUNY enrollment and federal student loan data to identify the root causes of loan default, enabling campuses to "flag" students who possess a high risk. Campus personnel will use the system to "flag" high risk students and engage them from the moment they take out a loan through graduation. Additional services for these students will include information on responsible borrowing and a connection with a web-based learning center with loan payment estimators and other useful tools for managing finances.
SUNY Smart Track Online Resources – SUNY's financial aid resources will be made available at a central online hub that will be a one-stop resource for borrowers. Financial aid experts will host online chats via Facebook, Twitter, and other social media to answer questions and offer advice to students and families they move through the financial aid process, and additional financial literacy tools and services will be made available.
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Sock garters used to be as common as socks and shoes, but with the invention of socks that stay up on their own, garters went out of style. These days, if you need something to keep your socks up, they can be hard to find or boring. We had such a hard time finding any that we started making our own! We didn't invent them, we just reinvented them.


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NBA suspends Knicks' Carmelo Anthony one game
NEW YORK (AP) — Carmelo Anthony has been suspended one game by the NBA for confronting Kevin Garnett after the New York Knicks' loss to Boston on Monday.
Anthony, who was angry about Garnett's choice of words during a fourth-quarter altercation, went toward the Celtics' locker room after the game and later waited for Garnett outside Boston's team bus.
Anthony didn't believe he would be suspended because he was just looking to talk to Garnett, not have an altercation. But NBA executive vice president of operations Stu Jackson said Wednesday there were "no circumstances in which it is acceptable for a player to confront an opponent after a game."
Anthony will miss the Knicks' nationally televised game at Indiana on Thursday and lose about $176,700 of his $19.4 million salary.
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Model 68950 Digital Light Intensity Control Box (right) with Arc Lamp Power Supply.
The 68950 is a light intensity controller and digital timer in one. The light intensity controller maintains a constant light output from your arc, deuterium and quartz tungsten halogen lamps, and the digital timer allows timed exposures and dose control. RS-232 communications allow computer controlled operation.The control box of the 68950 houses the light intensity controller and the digital timer. The large LED readout displays timer and light intensity controller (LIC) information.
Our power supplies are highly regulated; they operate lamps at constant current or power, even if the line voltage changes over a wide range. Even with lamp current constant, the light output of many lamps varies with age, filament or electrode erosion, gas adsorption or desorption, and, particularly for mercury lamps, ambient temperature. Both the total output and the distribution of power between the spectral lines from a mercury lamp change with temperature. These effects cause output variations with time, with different and sometimes pronounced frequency dependence. Even the relatively simple quartz tungsten halogen lamps exhibit output variations: evaporation and halogen cycle redeposition of tungsten constantly change the microstructure of the filament.The 68950 corrects for these lamp output changes, maintaining a constant, long term output, from the lamp. Fig. 1 shows the marked improvement in output stability when a 68950 is used.
The 68950 is made up of a light sensing head and a controller. The silicon based light sensor monitors part of the light source output; the controller constantly compares the recorded signal to the set level and changes the power supply output to keep the measured signal at the set level. Automatic detector gain setting allows the unit to work with the large variety of Oriel Light Sources offered by Newport.
The sensor is temperature stabilized to maintain complete independence from temperature variations; this means you don't have to worry about variations in the ambient temperature affecting the reading.
As the lamp ages or as other conditions cause a change in the light output, the controller signals the lamp power supply to increase or decrease power to the lamp, in order to maintain the light output constant. (Not all Oriel® Power Supplies work with the 68950 ).
The Digital Timer controls any of our electronic shutters for timed exposure applications. Accurate, repeatable timed exposures down to 2 ms are possible. We also offer a stand alone Digital Timer, for those not requiring a light intensity controller or dose control. Neither the Stand Alone Digital Timer, model 68945 , nor the Light Intensity and Digital Timer System, model 68950 , drive the shutter. They provide TTL output for the driver, which is a part of the shutter system. We also offer Electronic Safety Shutters.
We recommend that you rod mount the light sensor as shown in Fig. 3, using a 5° Wedge, (such as our 44645 BK7 Glass or 44899 Fused Silica Wedge) to split off part of the beam. The normal surface reflection off the substrate is enough to pick-off a portion of the beam for monitoring by the 68950 sensor. You can also use a beamsplitter at 45°, but you may need to attenuate the light hitting the sensor with an aperture, diffuser or filter, depending upon the reflectance of the beamsplitter. The 7123 Mount holds a 1 inch (25.4 mm) diameter optic at the input of the light sensor.Another method of monitoring the light output, if you have plenty of light to spare, is to use an integrating sphere at the output of the source, and mount the light sensor on one of the spheres ports.Both of the methods described above maximize the performance from the 68950 , as you are monitoring the output of the source rather than just the lamp. Therefore, arc wander and lamp differences are taken into account. However, if these optical set-ups are not practical, you can monitor the lamps output by mounting the sensor directly to an Oriel Lamp Housing, using the kits listed in the Ordering Information Table.
For convenience, you can mount the sensor directly to the lamp housing. The 68952 Adapter Kit mounts the sensor off our Research Housings, looking transversely at the lamp. The 68952 includes a filter holder with a beam attenuator. The 68954 Adapter Kit mounts the sensor on an unused port of the Series Q Housing. It also includes a filter holder and beam attenuator.
You can remotely control the 68950 or 68945 via a push button switch, model 68955 .


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Weston Students Earn Boston College High School Honors
John C. Harrity 2013 of Weston achieved High Honors for the First Quarter at Boston College High School.
For High Honors a student must have at least a 3.8 quality point average and all grades C+ or higher.
Thomas D. Russo 2014 achieved Honors, earning at least a 3.2 QPA and all grades C- or higher.
Boston College High School is a Jesuit, Catholic, college-preparatory school for young men founded in 1863. The school enrolls approximately 1600 students from more than 100 communities in eastern Massachusetts.


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Drug Take Back Day Number Increase
By: Gretchen Bolander
Updated: January 24, 2013
The two sites average 56 pounds of unwanted drugs collected per month.The project keeps prescription medication out of the hands of those who would use them for recreational use. It also ensures drugs are disposed of properly.
"That's 700 pounds of medication that probably would have ended up in our water system at some point, we feel that's really been a very good thing, especially for our community that we're able to keep our water a little bit cleaner," says Lt. Matt Stewart, Joplin Police Department. Of course, Joplin isn't alone.
Several area police agencies have sponsored Drug Take Back Days, meaning the regional total is even higher than the 700 pounds in Joplin.


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Beginning in February in Haralson County, more than a dozen concerts and singings will help celebrate the music indigenous to the west Georgia area. "New Harmonies" is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and state humanities councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the U. S. Congress.
The actual exhibit will be on display at the Warren P. Sewell Library in Bremen Feb. 9 through March 23.
The highlight and focus of the exhibit will be on Georgia's unique musical traditions and how roots music has touched and shaped many Georgia communities. According to Dr. Keith Hebert, a University of West Georgia history professor, co-director of the university's Center of Public History, and coordinator the Bremen leg of the tour, roots music is "the baseline for the development of American music. All music that has developed in America originated from the roots music examined in (the New Harmonies) exhibit."
The different types of music that are part of the exhibit are numerous and varied: Native American, sacred, string bands, bluegrass, country, Southern rock, traveling shows, the blues, folk, work and protest, and the "new traditions" music introduced by Georgia's immigrant population.
"New Harmonies" strives to preserve and explore these roots, and Ann McCleary plays a big role in their effort. McCleary is the state scholar for the program, a UWG history professor and co-director of the university's Center of Public History.
"Every state is required to engage a scholar to help generate the regional humanities content for the exhibit," McCleary said. "Through the Center for Public History, we have helped work with all of the communities to develop program and exhibit ideas and to assist with marketing. We researched and wrote the 'Georgia Harmonies' catalog, a 24-page publication about Georgia roots music. And we created much of the content for the website. Over the past year, graduate research assistant Sarah Foreman and I have been traveling to all of the communities across the state to provide additional guidance and support."
From the research and work done by scholars like McCleary and Hebert, as well as staff from the Smithsonian and the Georgia Humanities Council, the "New Harmonies" exhibit was created. Of the 30 Georgia communities who applied to host the exhibit, only 12 were chosen through a competitive selection process. The city of Bremen was among those 12.
The city plans to be an accommodating host, as multiple concerts and music events will be hosted at Mill Town Music Hall, schools, and surrounding churches in the area from Feb. 1 through March 24 – many with free admission.
Bremen itself has a unique musical history and tradition that made it an ideal stop for the "New Harmonies" tour. Notably, Bremen is the home of Hugh McGraw, an influential figure in the world of sacred harp music. Each year, the region hosts several Sacred Harp singings, including one every November at the Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen.
"We are delighted to welcome the world, so to speak, to Bremen," said Bremen Mayor Sharon Sewell. "This is a tremendous opportunity to showcase our music heritage in partnership with the great Smithsonian. It is also a great opportunity for our people to reconnect with our history and reclaim it, as well as exhibit the current music abilities that are core to the west Georgia area. As we display our music, we also have the opportunity to share our town with hundreds of visitors to the west Georgia area. We are most honored to have been chosen to be the site for this event."
"New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music" has been made possible in the west Georgia area by the Georgia Humanities Council in partnership with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia, and the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
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Do phantoms come with the red mainspring for HPA use?
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A. do cci phantoms come with the red spirng to use HPA
B. which one should i get
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fore stock class phantom
and they do not come with a red spring
i own bout and like phantoms way better.
and you should try some ones pump brfore buying one
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red spring does not come with phantoms... I personally think phantoms are a more adaptable choice for a first pump gun, they can handle stock class pretty well, some would argue top notch if you know what you are doing, and they can also handle open class, maybe not as well as an AKP out of the box or for similar/same prices, but to me a phantom is a more diverse choice because it gives you options, unless you know your whole time owning the gun you are going to play open class, In my opinion (which is merely an opinion) the phantom would be a good choice
akp's are good too, very nice starters for open class
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Philips has been making headphones for decades, but the company hasn't been a prominent presence in the market for a long time. Now that headphones have gotten hot, the brand's re-emerging with all-new models.
Today we take a look at some more fallout from the personal listening explosion, with an assist from the vinyl revival and the continuing rise of electronic music. Visit a headphone retailer these days, you'll find a lot of models meant, supposedly, for the professional DJ — or at least meant to make the casual listener look like they might be the sort of person who spends a lot of time at the decks.
NOTHING in consumer electronics is more popular right now than headphones. Pick a price and you'll find no fewer than a billion different offerings (source: Wikipedia). Recent surveys indicate that many consumers look for celebrity endorsements to decide what to buy. Because celebrities and corporations have one thing in common — desire for money — all the A-, B-, and C-list celebs have already paired up with major 'phone manufacturers.
These trends have not escaped the keen eyes of Dr. Loof Lirpa. After making trillions from the incredible Liberty Freedom 1776 A-FY tower speakers covered last year and proudly not paying taxes on any of it, Lirpa has turned his gaze on a whole new market.
We haven't made any secret of our general disdain for headphones endorsed by hip-hop artists. Not that we have anything against hip-hop artists, nor is there any good reason why hip-hop 'phones should sound bad. It's just that many of them do.
In last year's celebrity headphone test, we didn't dig the Soul by Ludacris SL300WB at all, and had a mixed reaction to the Beats Pro and Skullcandy Roc Nation Aviator. But our not-unpleasant experience with the Sync by 50 SMS-WS got us thinking that maybe someone in the hip-hop world was starting to understand that while crazy, bass-heavy tonal balances may be initially impressive, they're not something most of us want to live with on a day-to-day basis.
Next up in the battle of the rapperphones is the $275 WeSC Chambers by RZA.
Ask any group of audiophiles what kind of speakers they have, and I guarantee you at least one and probably several will answer "Magnepan." Why do audiophiles so love this relatively obscure brand? No, not (just) because it's obscure. They love Magnepans because of the incredible detail, soundstaging, and natural timbre of their planar magnetic drivers. For the same reason, headphone enthusiasts are embracing planar magnetic headphones.
When I first encountered the Exodus from House of Marley, during our test last fall of celebrity-branded headphones, I didn't expect much. I assumed the company had put all its effort into the Exodus' stunning styling, and little into sound quality.
EVERYWHERE YOU GO, it's so easy to listen to music, thanks to smartphones, tablets, and MP3 players. But it's kind of a bummer that millions of people now hear most of their music through earbuds with drivers smaller than a dime.
BEING THE ONLY CLOSED-BACK headphone pair in this bunch gave the Sony MDR-Z1000 a potential advantage and disadvantage. The advantage, we assumed, would be that the MDR-Z1000 would have more robust bass than the open-back models. The disadvantage, we assumed, would be that it wouldn't sound as, well, open — i.e., spacious — as the open-back models.
WHEN I FIRST SAW the Sennheiser HD598's beige-and-brown color scheme, woodgrain accents, and air-cushioned headband, images of all sorts of 1970s products fl ooded through my head: Kustom guitar amps with "tuck and roll" covering, lacquered driftwood furniture, waterbeds, Roger Dean posters.
IT MAY BE ONLY 4 YEARS OLD, but the HiFiMan brand has had a major impact on the growing world of portable audiophilia. The new HE-300, which uses conventional dynamic drivers, is the company's most affordable over-ear headphone yet. With its solid, mostly metal construction and audiophile-grade detachable cables, it sure doesn't look like it costs $249. You even get an elegant hardshell case in the deal.
ANY AUDIOPHILE CAN RECOGNIZE a pair of Grado headphones from 50 feet away. The distinctive, old-school leather band and earpieces mounted on sliding rods give them a World War II vibe. But audiophiles love them for their sound, not their looks.
THE ONLY MAJOR MANUFACTURER I know of that makes the same headphone in different impedances, Beyerdynamic offers the DT-990 in a 32-ohm version for use with portable devices, a 250-ohm version for average home gear, and a 600-ohm version for high-end headphone amps. We requested the 32-ohm version because the other headphones tested here run in that range and because we figured most S+V readers would at least occasionally want to plug straight into a smartphone or a computer.


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Yeah, Google Earth is not working, it onced worked in Ubuntu (but it stopped working in Ubuntu also). It never worked in Sabayon (I suspect XGL is the culprit). Also I got Wine-Doors to work once (I used it flawlessly in Ubuntu) it was able to create the all important Wine Drive and the submenu in the SUSE Styled KDE menu. But I tried running Wine-Doors in a terminal and it gave me a blank window for 2 milisecs and a bunch of errors in the terminal (I will post them later when I get home). And 2 games won't work (I forgot which ones but I will tell bout them when I get home to my Sabayon computer).
I am running a Dell Inspiron 1505 with 1 GB of RAM, a ATI Radeon x1400 Mobility with XGL and the fglrx driver ( I believe)
With Google Earth it just gives me the Startup Splash and freezes (not the whole comp).
Also Compiz-Fusion is not working (got it to work pretty good under Ubuntu), it gave me errors when running it in the terminal (I will post those and try to run Google Earth in the terminal and post those errors). Beryl works fine though (how do I install the unsupported Beryl plugins?)
And finally I can;t get Mettise working that good, (only works in GNOME) sometimes I can see the panels and most of the time I can't when I open 1 window the panels stop working (I can play around with the window just fine).
When I get home I will post the outputs from the terminal and post my xorg.conf


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Does Evolutionary Psychology Explain Why We Believe in God? Part 1
When we look across times and cultures and find very similar beliefs concerning the nature of physical, biological, and psychological reality, those similarities cry out for some explanation. Since these different individuals have a very diverse range of experience, something other than common experience alone just might account for the similarities of belief. In some cases we can fairly conclude that there is a common nature – some fundamental similarity in how human cognition works – that underlies broadly shared beliefs.
Evolution Basics: Darwin's Early Observations on Biogeography
For Darwin, both of these observations (that oceanic islands lacked terrestrial mammals, and that endemic species on islands were most similar to a species on the closest mainland) had the same explanation: his hypothesis that endemic, oceanic species were the modified descendants of a colonizing species from the nearest continent.
Evolution and Christian Faith Grantees Announced
Congratulations to the 37 winners of the Evolution & Christian Faith (ECF) grants competition! ECF is a new BioLogos program designed to support projects and network-building among scholars, church leaders, and parachurch organizations.
Where are the Transitional Fossils?
A common argument leveled against the theory of evolution is that scientists have not been able to produce transitional fossils that show the change of one species into another. In this podcast, we address a common misconception about what transitional fossils actually are.
Series: Shaping the Human Soul
In Washington DC, Church of the Advent teamed up with The Trinity Forum to offer a series of lectures exploring the synergy between modern science and Christian Faith. This presentation by psychiatrist Curt Thompson and philosopher James K.A. Smith addressed the process of Christian discipleship and spiritual formation through the lens of neuroscience.
Series: Decoding ENCODE
The BioLogos Foundation explains to the findings of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project and responds to the claims that its discoveries challenge the theory of evolution, especially regarding so-called "junk DNA".
Denisovans, Humans and the Chromosome 2 Fusion
The Denisovans, an extinct hominid group that interbred with modern humans, made the news again lately with the publication of a more detailed study of their genome. One of the many interesting findings was that the Denisovans share the same chromosome 2 fusion that modern humans have.
Dispatches From the Physicalist Frontier, Part 1
I'm a physicalist when it comes to human persons. I believe, in other words, that we are wholly physical objects. I don't believe there are non-physical souls in the natural world. So I don't believe that we are or have such non-physical souls as parts. I believe we are through-and-through physical.
Rediscovering Human Beings, Part 1
That we are animals is something we hardly needed Darwin to tell us. It is obvious from the fact that, like other animals, we have stomachs and skin, eyeballs and ears, limbs and teeth, muscles, brains, and other organs. Yet it doesn't follow that we are mere animals.
Body and Soul, Mind and Brain: Pressing Questions
"Bit by experimental bit," writes philosopher P. Churchland, "neuroscience is morphing our conception of what we are." For many, this includes dispensing with the "soul" in favor of biologically anchored processes.
David Lack and Darwin's Finches
Considering the immense popularity of "Darwin's finches", it is quite surprising to learn that Charles Darwin himself had very little to say about them. In fact, it was actually David Lack, one century later, who conducted the critical research that immortalized the finches in biology textbooks and popular lore.
Series: The Human Fossil Record
In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
The Fossil Record
There are two opposite errors which need to be countered about the fossil record: 1) that it is so incomplete as to be of no value in interpreting patterns and trends in the history of life, and 2) that it is so good that we should expect a relatively complete record of the details of evolutionary transitions within all or most lineages.
Southern Baptist Voices: A Response to John Hammett, Part 1
The Scriptures teach that we human beings have been created in God's image. What does that mean? I am in substantial agreement with Dr. Hammett on this question.
Theory, Prediction and Converging Lines of Evidence, Part 2
We have already discussed hind limb and hair loss in whales, and now we turn to one of the remaining questions: tooth loss in the lineage leading to modern toothless whales.
Is There "Junk" in Your Genome? Part 4
Now that we have covered significant ground with respect to what various classes of pseudogenes are and how they arise, we are now able to properly evaluate antievolutionary arguments put forward in an attempt to discredit these lines of evidence for evolution.
Series: He Who Has Ears
Scholar and musician Jeff Warren addresses the questions of how music is meaningful, and where that meaning resides, by looking at the popular ideas that musical meaning is entirely subjective to the listener and that the meaning of music can be universal. He also explores the recent trend of attempting to explain music via neuroscience. Finally, he looks into the reasons why music continues to play such a critical role in the worshiping life of the Church.
Where is the Genetic Evidence for Evolution?
The discovery of DNA has revolutionized our understanding of common descent, particularly in the past few decades. Mutated genes spread through populations over generations, leading to evolutionary change. In this podcast, we look at several examples of genetic evidence for evolution.
Series: Evidences for Evolution
This technical series, co-written by Darrel Falk and David Kerk, looks into the evidence for evolution in order to dispel doubts that people may have about this well-supported theory. They look at three things specifically: the separate methods which reveal of the age of the earth, the unfolding history of whale evolution, and finally the common trends of heart development in vertebrates.
Misconceptions About Evolution, Part 2
Evolutionary theory is not in crisis; scientists accept evolution as the best explanation for life's diversity because of the multiple lines of evidence supporting it, its broad power to explain biological phenomena, and its ability to make accurate predictions in a wide variety of situations.
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