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638 articles tagged "Palestinians"
debkafile: Israel taken aback by Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad's insistence that "resistance" is "legitimate" Palestinian right

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 3, 2007
The pro-US Fatah head of the Ramallah government, Salam Fayyad, stated at an Arab League Council meeting in Cairo Monday, July 30: "We are an occupied nation and resistance is the legitimate right of the Palestinian people."
debkafile notes: "Resistance" is the Palestinian euphemism for armed terror including suicide bombing.
debkafile Exclusive: 200 defiant Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades terrorists threaten fresh wave of anti-Israel violence unless they are included in amnesty
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 1, 2007
They are up in arms against the deal struck by prime minister Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas a week ago to waive Israeli military pursuit of 179 wanted al Aqsa Brigades gunmen for three months, against a pledge to renounce terrorism and surrender their side arms. The 200 mutineers have informed Palestinian Authority chairman Abbas and their commanders that as long as they are subjected to IDF pursuit and detentions, they have no reason to hold back on terrorist activity against Israeli forces and civilians on the West Bank.
debkafile: Abbas convenes PLO Council session Wednesday in ploy to obtain legitimacy for Fatah's West Bank government

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 19, 2007
The umbrella Palestinian Liberation Organization brings together most Palestinian parties and factions excluding Hamas for the next stage in the battle for legitimacy between the Fatah government in Ramallah and the Hamas administration in Gaza. The government headed by Salim Fayyad was declared transitional after he failed to obtain parliamentary endorsement last week when a Hamas boycott left the legislature without a quorum for voting. Abbas has therefore summoned heads of overseas Palestinian parties and splinter factions to circumvent the legislature and endorse his caretaker administration. The Olmert government is assisting his effort by allowing blacklisted terrorist leaders to attend.
debkafile reports: Veteran terrorist Damascus-based Naif Hawatmeh waives Israeli permit to travel to West Bank

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 19, 2007
Mahmoud Abbas requested Israeli permits for blacklisted Hawatmeh, Fatah political bureau leader Farouk Kaddoumi and three others radical PLO faction leaders to attend a Council meeting in Ramallah Wednesday to endorse his Fatah government.
In token of his support for the Fatah leader, debkafile's exclusive sources report Ehud Olmert is being flexible - even though their arrival in Ramallah would grant the Damascus-based Palestinian rejectionists their first accepted presence on the West Bank.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 16, 2007
Even in Middle East terms, the turnaround which has produced a new American master plan is amazingly swift. The Bush administration, egged on by the Saudis, believes it has set in motion a complicated process for manipulating Israel into easing its forces out of the West Bank.
This is stipulated by Hamas and Jihad Islami as their condition for halting Qassam missile attacks on Israel. Above all, it will open the way for Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah and the Islamist Hamas to negotiate an end to their feud.
The Israeli government's compliance with this plan, which would ideally also halt Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israel, is behind President George W. Bush's Middle East statement Monday, and the Olmert-Abbas Jerusalem meeting midday. The US president sees his two-state vision as feasible only if Fatah-West Bank and Hamas-Gaza can come to terms since neither can form a viable Palestinian state without the other.
It also explains the incoming president Shimon Peres' apparent lapse when he said to AP Sunday, July 15, the day of his swearing-in: "We must get rid of the territories."
Notorious Damascus-based Palestinian terror chief Nayef Hawatmeh asks Israel for permission to enter Ramallah

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 14, 2007
The ageing head of the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian claims he is no longer an active terrorist, but debkafile reports he has sent his adherents to join the pro-Syrian Fatah al-Islam battling the Lebanese army for two months in the northern Nahr al Bared camp.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 13, 2007
The bomber opened fire on soldiers manning the roadblock on Highway 57 between Shavei Shomron and Einav in the northern district of the West Bank. He was killed by return fire. Three explosive devices were found in his vehicle.
debkafile Exclusive: Secret Fatah-Hamas peace talks open in Stockholm under Iranian-Saudi aegis
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 11, 2007
The rival Palestinian factions began talking in the Swedish capital Sun. July 8, about burying the hatchet. This is revealed exclusively by debkafile's Iranian sources. They are discussing reconstituting their national unity government three weeks after Hamas's coup unseated the Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority government in the Gaza Strip.
If the Stockholm track works, Saudi Arabia and Iran come out on top as Palestinian sponsors and sideline Egypt.
Read more about this unforeseen development in debkafile's Exclusive Report below.
Twenty British lawmakers want to engage Hamas after its help in freeing BBC reporter Alan Johnston in Gaza

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 11, 2007
They include MPs from all three parties including Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Their petition said Hamas because of its pivotal role in ending the kidnap should join Palestinian reconciliation efforts. The motion was tabled by the ruling Labor's Richard Burton. Hamas is boycotted by western powers as an extremist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel by violence. The Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit whom Hamas-led raiders kidnapped a year ago is still in captivity.
The reporter, who was freed Tuesday night, described his ordeal as a hostage in solitary confinement for 114 days like being "buried alive."
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 9, 2007
debkafile's Iran sources reveal that Fatah and Hamas representatives have launched secret talks to patch up their quarrel. Their first session took place in Stockholm Sunday, July 8, under the guiding hands of the Iranian and Saudi ambassadors.
Hamas sent operations chief Imad al Alami from Damascus to face Eugine Makhloof ,the PLO ambassador in Sweden, who is acting on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah.
But before sitting down to the talks, the Hamas official first checked in with Iranian leaders in Tehran to make sure their agendas dovetailed.
With war clouds hanging over the region this summer, said the Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Palestinian unity is the order of the day, essential to the Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah bloc as a strategic asset in its coming conflict with the US and Israel.
The same advice came from UAE president Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan to visiting Mahmoud Abbas when they met Sunday. The Fatah leader was persuaded to lose no time in mending Palestinian factional fences.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 8, 2007
Last month, Ehud Olmert made a gesture of support for the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah government he installed for the West Bank in Ramallah in opposition to the Hamas government in Gaza: a pledge to release 250 terrorists of Abbas' Fatah party from Israeli jails.
But then, Saturday night, the prime minister tossed back to the Shin Bet the list of Fatah prisoners to be submitted for cabinet approval Sunday, July 8, and demanded a new list. Olmert complained most of the candidates were due for release soon anyway having served out their terms. This fact would belittle his gesture towards Abbas.
debkafile's security sources say Olmert's rejection landed on the desks of Shin Bet chiefs with a nasty thump. They accuse him of causing irreparable damage to the abducted Israeli soldiers' prospects of freedom by raising the exchange ratio to a level which is unsustainable without compromising national security.
A top commander of Fatah's al Aqsa Brigades in Jenin camp, Mohammed Abu Heija, dies in gun battle with Israeli forces

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 4, 2007
It took place during an IDF raid of the terrorist stronghold before dawn Monday, July 2, when the soldiers came under a bomb and small arms fire. The dead terrorist leader was the deputy of the notorious Jenin Fatah chief, Zakariya Zubeidi. An M-16 assault rifle with a telescopic sight was found with Abu Heija's body.
Saturday, six Palestinians killed in two Israeli air strikes in Gaza Saturday.
Palestinians fire mortar salvo at Gaza's Erez crossing Wednesday after planting large explosive device at Kerem Shalom
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 1, 2007
debkafile reports: Frequent mortar and bombing attacks on the Gaza crossings lead Israeli authorities to conclude that Hamas is trying to fabricate a humanitarian crisis for international consumption. The Karni crossing was shut down by Palestinian attacks and then Kerem Shalom. The Sufa terminal which is still functioning is under threat of bombing.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 30, 2007
Explosive devices were hurled at the Israel unit during an ongoing search for wanted terrorists. One soldier was seriously wounded and three, including an officer, suffered moderate injuries.
debkafile: Hamas was free to cause sensation with audio tape of Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit's voice - but not to release him without al Qaeda's a
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 29, 2007
Shalit's obviously dictated call on the Israeli government to free thousands of Palestinian prisoners was rejected by prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Sharm el-Sheikh conference Monday, June 25.
debkafile's counter-terror sources: The release of the Shalit, Alan Johnston and Ayman Zawihiri tapes within a few hours - the first two issued by Hamas - strongly indicates the timing was coordinated between Hamas and al Qaeda.
Fatah-Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades chiefs defy Mahmoud Abbas' ban on unauthorized persons bearing arms on West Bank

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 29, 2007
Abbas gave the order in default of a pledge he gave Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert at Sharm al-Sheikh Monday, June 25. In return for Israeli immunity from arrest, Abbas promised to collect signed statements renouncing terrorism from Fatah-al Aqsa members, have them turn in their weapons to the Palestinian Authority forces for registration and join up with Palestinian security forces.
Abbas explained he needed the Brigades fighters, many of whom are wanted for orchestrating suicide attacks against Israel in the last decade, to combat Hamas on the West Bank.
Israeli PM offers to release 250 Fatah prisoners as goodwill gesture to Mahmoud Abbas at Sharm el-Sheik conference with three Arab rulers Monday

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 28, 2007
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak who hosted the conference Monday, June 25, pledged to work for the resumption of inter-factional dialogue between Fatah and Hamas.
debkafile notes: This was not what Ehud Olmert was aiming for. His gesture to Mahmoud Abbas favoring Fatah and rejecting a prisoner deal with Hamas indicated his disapproval of a reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions.
The Army of Islam in Gaza threatens to "slaughter" the BBC journalist "like a lamb" unless UK and Jordan release three Muslim terrorists

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 26, 2007
In a statement emailed to AFP Tuesday, June 26, the Palestinian radicals demand that Jordan release the Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, who was sentenced to death over triple hotel attacks in Amman that killed 60 people in 2005; Abu Mohammed al-Maqdissi, also held in Jordan since then; and the radical Palestinian-born cleric Abu Qatada, reputed former al Qaeda spiritual leader in Europe, who is held in Britain.
debkafile Exclusive: Hamas to release files on Palestinian intelligence collaboration with the US CIA, UK's MI5 and Shin Bet
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 25, 2007
The centerpiece is evidence of the Palestinian Authority Preventive Security service's disclosure that Hamas' elite undercover Unit 102, only 25 strong, underwent lengthy training in Iran in advanced combat tactics modeled on those of the US Seals and the Israel Navy's Shayetet 13.
debkafile's military sources add: Unit 102 operated under such deep cover that even the commanders of Hamas' military wing and its Executive Force did not know it existed. Hamas is making good on its threat to use the huge archive of Palestinian Authority intelligence documents it captured in Gaza to compromise Mahmoud Abbas and members of his regime and show them up as minions of foreign powers and traitors to Palestinian national interests.
Abbas accuses Damascus-based Hamas' Khaled Meshaal of complicity in a plot to assassinate him. Hamas hurls counter-charge
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 24, 2007
In a televised speech Wednesday, Abbas referred to the planting last month of 250 kg of explosives in a tunnel under a road traveled by his convoy. He said he had sent to every Arab government video tapes of Hamas operatives filmed in the act.


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Panel OKs 18% cut in salary for legislators
News comes with battle over budget cuts at hand
SACRAMENTO – As state lawmakers regrouped and prepared to confront another massive budget deficit compounded by Tuesday's defeat of five budget-related ballot measures, a state commission yesterday brought the fiscal crisis closer to home – lawmakers' homes.
Legislators and other elected state officials will take an 18 percent pay cut, although that may not happen until late next year at the earliest.
The California Citizens Compensation Commission, which approved the salary reduction on a 5-1 vote, plans to seek legal permission to impose the pay cuts sooner. Under current law, the reductions could not take effect during incumbents' existing terms, most of which expire in December 2010.
The commission's vote will shave rank-and-file lawmakers' salaries by more than $20,000 a year, from $116,028 to $95,143. The pay of legislative leaders will drop from $133,639 to $109,584. Tax-free per-diem payments of up to $35,000 a year would not be affected.
The state's 238,000 employees already have seen their pay cut by up to 10 percent through involuntary furlough days. About 5,000 state workers received final layoff notices last week.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who set the stage for the legislators' pay cuts a few weeks ago when he appointed two of the five commission members who voted for them, applauded the move as a timely response to Tuesday's vote.
"The people of California have spoken loud and clear: They want the state to live within its means and do not want any more government waste or pay raises for California's elected officials. I completely agree," said Schwarzenegger, a multimillionaire who does not accept his $212,179 state salary.
The commission's move was an unexpected blow to lawmakers bracing for another arduous round of negotiations to close a $21.3 billion deficit. Most Californians will be affected through potentially deep cuts to schools, universities, health care and public safety.
Three weeks ago, the commission had deadlocked on a smaller, 10 percent pay cut, prompting Schwarzenegger to fill vacancies on the panel.
"We of course will respect and abide by the decision of the California Citizens Compensation Commission," Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said in a statement. "At the same time, I will always stand by the hard work and sacrifice of my legislative colleagues."
A spokeswoman said Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula, supported the pay cuts.
"The senator feels the same as other Californians," spokeswoman Melanie Reagan said in an e-mail. "Everybody is cutting back, and legislators should do the same."
The commission approved the pay cuts as legislative leaders held a series of news conferences to assess Tuesday's defeat of the budget-related measures and outline their plans to deal with the latest budget shortfall.
Propositions 1A through 1F were drafted and placed on the special election ballot as central pieces of a bipartisan compromise reached in February to bridge a $42 billion deficit. The deficit quickly reopened to more than $15 billion.
All but Proposition 1F, which prohibits legislative pay raises during deficit years, were drubbed in an election with relatively few voters – 23 percent turnout, according to some estimates. The defeats added nearly $6 billion to the state's immediate financial problem and canceled $16 billion in future tax increases.
"I felt very strongly that we shouldn't make too drastic of cuts," Schwarzenegger said yesterday. "Yes, we should make cuts. We all have to live within our means, but there's a certain point where you feel that it will be devastating to some people, and so we tried to not make those kind of cuts.
"But now we have to, we have no other choice. I think that the message was clear from the people: Go all out and make those cuts and live within your means."

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Three would be 'bandits' caught in the act
Three would-be thieves got the shock of their lives yesterday morning as they
were caught 'red handed' in the act by an armed plainclothes police rank.
About 09:15hrs a middle aged female shopper parked her motorcycle in the vicinity of Bourda Street and Orange Walk and entered the adjoining market to make a purchase. The drama soon unfolded unknowing to her.
According to eyewitnesses the men pounced on the locked motorcycle as she went into the market and broke into the storage compartment below the seat.
They retrieved a purse with an undisclosed sum of money along with her passport and other documents.
Unknowing to the bandits their action was being monitored by the plainclothes policeman who was watching them all along from a vantage point mere few feet away.
As they attempted to make good their escape he challenged them and in the process discharged a warning shot. This stopped the thieves in their tracks.
They were apprehended with the help of another police rank who was also nearby in plainclothes. The thieves were made to lie on the ground until a mobile patrol arrived and whisked them off to the nearby police headquarters.
It was not until the female victim returned from her shopping that she realized all that had transpired.
The men are expected to be placed before the courts shortly.
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text: Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Theses and Dissertations http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2747 2016-05-30T20:21:34Z 2016-05-30T20:21:34Z CHANGES IN THE SEASONAL AMPLITUDE OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION: CAUSES AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS Zhao, Fang http://hdl.handle.net/1903/17257 2016-03-29T03:59:11Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z CHANGES IN THE SEASONAL AMPLITUDE OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION: CAUSES AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS Zhao, Fang The atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) observations reveal a seasonal cycle that is dominated by the growth and decay of land vegetation. Ground-based and aircraft-based observations indicate that the amplitude of this seasonal cycle has increased over the past five decades, suggesting enhanced biosphere activity. Previous studies have tried to explain the amplitude increase with stimulated vegetation growth by higher concentrations of CO2 and warming, but the understanding of all the important mechanisms and their relative contribution is still lacking. This work comprises of three individual studies that contribute to better understanding of the CO2 amplitude increase over time and space. With improved crop simulation scheme in a terrestrial carbon model, a new mechanism—the intensive farming practices of the agricultural Green Revolution—is presented as a driver of changes in the seasonal features of the global carbon cycle. Results are further compared with eight other models' simulations and a number of observation-based datasets on the seasonal characteristics of simulated carbon flux, and on the relative contribution of rising CO2, climate and land use/cover change. In addition, future projections on the amplitude change of CO2 seasonal cycle are examined using simulations from 10 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) earth system models. Results from this work demonstrate that human land-management activities are powerful enough to modify the basic seasonal characteristics of the biosphere, as reflected by atmospheric CO2. Models attribute 83±56%, −3±74% and 20±30% of global carbon flux amplitude increase to the CO2, climate and land use/cover factors, respectively. Additionally, the models' underlying mechanisms for the simulated carbon flux amplitude increase in different regions are substantially different. Strong productivity increase under higher CO2 concentration is also seen in the CMIP5 models, leading to 62±19% global mean CO2 amplitude increase in 2081-2090 compared to 1961-1970. Both groups of models suggest that models simulating larger amplitude increase tend to show a larger gain in land carbon sink (with a cross-model R2 of ~0.5 in both cases). Overall, this work presents significant insights in the change of CO2 amplitude and model representation of global carbon cycle. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Interaction Between the Aerosol Direct Effect in the Lower Troposphere and the Planetary Boundary Layer Sawyer, Virginia Ruth http://hdl.handle.net/1903/17221 2016-03-29T03:15:44Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Interaction Between the Aerosol Direct Effect in the Lower Troposphere and the Planetary Boundary Layer Sawyer, Virginia Ruth The planetary boundary layer (PBL) limits the vertical mixing of aerosol emitted to the lower troposphere. The PBL depth and its change over time affect weather, surface air quality and radiative forcing. While model simulations have suggested that the column optical properties of aerosol are associated with changes in the PBL depth in turn, there are few long-term measurements of PBL depth with which to validate the theory. Of the existing methods to detect the PBL depth from atmospheric profiles, many require supporting information from multiple instruments or cannot adapt to changing atmospheric conditions. This study combines two common methods for PBL depth detection (wavelet covariance and iterative curve-fitting) in order to produce more reliable PBL depths for micropulse lidar backscatter (MPL). The combined algorithm is also flexible enough to use with radiosonde and atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer (AERI) data. PBL depth retrievals from these three instruments collected at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site are compared to one another to show the robustness of the algorithm. The comparisons were made for different times of day, four seasons, and variable sky conditions. While considerable uncertainties exist in PBL detection using all three types of measurements, the agreement among the PBL products is promising, and the different measurements have complementary advantages. The best agreement in the seasonal cycle occurs in winter, and the best agreement in the diurnal cycle when the boundary-layer regime is mature and changes slowly. PBL depths from instruments with higher temporal resolution (MPL and AERI) are of comparable accuracy to radiosonde-derived PBL depths. The new PBL depth measurements for SGP are compared to MPL-derived PBL depths from a multiyear lidar deployment at the Hefei Radiation Observatory (HeRO), and the column aerosol optical depth (AOD) for each site is considered. A one-month period at SGP is also modeled to relate AOD to PBL depth. These comparisons show a weak inverse relationship between AOD and daytime PBL depth. This is consistent with predictions that aerosol suppresses surface convection and causes shallower PBLs. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Climate-scale chlorophyll patterns in the tropical Pacific from a 51 year statistical reconstruction Uz, Stephanie Schollaert http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16988 2016-03-29T04:14:51Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Climate-scale chlorophyll patterns in the tropical Pacific from a 51 year statistical reconstruction Uz, Stephanie Schollaert Understanding large, slow biological changes in the oceans has been hindered by a lack of spatial coverage by direct measurements and a lack of temporal coverage by satellite remote-sensing observations. Global ocean surface chlorophyll, a proxy for phytoplankton standing stock, has been derived from satellites for over a decade. With these measurements, the strong connection between ocean physics and biology has become clear and provided new insights about what drives seasonal and interannual biological processes. At longer time scales, however, there are many unanswered questions about the variability of phytoplankton in the ocean that plays a critical role in the carbon cycle as well as the marine food web. Statistical reconstructions have been used by others to extend physical climate variables in space and time. Taking advantage of the fact that physical forcing has been found to be the primary driver of biological primary production in the tropical Pacific, especially during El Niño, the most closely correlated physical variables are used as predictors in a statistical reconstruction to extend monthly chlorophyll anomalies from just over a decade to just over five decades between 1958-2008. The reconstructed chlorophyll is evaluated through leave-one-out-cross-validation, compared to several independent data sets: in situ samples, another ocean color satellite data set, model output from a dynamic, fully-coupled ocean circulation-biogeochemistry model. Highest skill in the tropical Pacific reconstruction is away from the coast and within 10o of the equator, including areas known as Niño 3/3.4/4. Over the half-century of chlorophyll anomalies, the most dominant climate pattern apparent in the reconstruction is associated with the interannual El Niño followed by the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Biological distinctions emerged between the east Pacific El Niño events and those that only extend to the central Pacific. Chlorophyll anomalies were compared between regimes to ascribe physical forcing mechanisms. While the overall patterns were consistent with what is known about the impact of ENSO on biology, with the PDO primarily serving to amplify or damp ENSO, a narrow equatorial band consistently displayed an inverse response to the rest of the equatorial cold tongue: lower values during the PDO cool phase between 1958-1976, higher values during the PDO warm phase between 1977-1995. A likely explanation for this anomaly is linked to variability in the depth of the Equatorial Undercurrent that transports iron to the high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll east Pacific. These and other ideas are explored to demonstrate the feasibility and utility of reconstructing ocean color chlorophyll to address open questions about large-scale, low frequency primary production that forms the base of the marine food web and plays an important role in Earth's climate system. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z MINIMIZING REANALYSIS JUMPS DUE TO NEW OBSERVING SYSTEMS Zhou, Yan http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16411 2016-03-29T03:02:08Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z MINIMIZING REANALYSIS JUMPS DUE TO NEW OBSERVING SYSTEMS Zhou, Yan A major problem with reanalyses has been the presence of jumps in the climatology associated with changes in the observing system. Such changes are common in reanalysis products. These jumps became especially obvious when satellites were first introduced in 1979. After 1979, however, during the "satellite era" jumps have continued to appear whenever a new observing system was introduced. To explore possible solutions to this problem, we develop and test new methodologies to minimize these reanalysis jumps in the reanalyses time series due to new observing systems. In the first part of this dissertation, we study a state-of-the-art reanalysis, NASA's Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA thereafter). Analysis increments from the MERRA and from one reanalysis without SSM/I observations (NoSSMI thereafter) are compared and their differences are defined as correction terms. The correction terms are then introduced into the tendency equation of the forecast model, i.e., GEOS-5. The debiased reanalysis without SSM/I observation shows improvements in almost all fields, even in the precipitation field, which is generally considered to be significantly uncertain on all time and space scales. However, the difference between the analysis increments of MERRA and NoSSMI is not just due to the assimilation of SSMI, but to the accumulated effect of the assimilation of previous SSMI observations. These produce a change in the model climatology and nonlinear interactions between the variables currently observed by SSM/I, and the variables that have been modified by previous assimilations of SSMI. The nonlinear interactions introduce an additional accumulated impact during the 2-year training period. In the second part of this dissertation, we test a new methodology in a simpler data assimilation system, SPEEDY-LETKF, because it would be unfeasible for our computational resources to apply this method to the complex MERRA system. The new method defines the correction terms by calculating the difference of analysis increments from the following two analyses, 1) assimilating both rawinsondes (RAOB) and AIRS observations, named RaobAirs, and 2) assimilating only RAOB but with its background coming from the RaobAirs analysis at every 6-hour analysis cycle. This new method limits the growth of nonlinear interactions between variables observed by AIRS and the variables that have been modified by previous assimilation of AIRS. The results show that the new method is significantly more effective in minimizing reanalysis "jumps" compared with the method applied to MERRA system. In the third part of this dissertation, we explore a spectral model instability problem. Imperfect SPEEDY-LETKF OSSEs are unstable when assimilating RAOB observations only. Data assimilation processes worsen this problem. We found two methods to stabilize the imperfect SPEEDY-LETKF OSSEs. Traces of the spectral waves are also clearly present in other spectral reanalyses such as the NCEP and the ERA15, but since their resolutions are higher than that of the SPEEDY model, their impact is smaller. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z


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Impatiens Downy Mildew in Home Gardens
Impatiens downy mildew is a new disease for Connecticut gardens. It is caused by a fungus-like pathogen (Plasmopara obducens) and was first observed on garden impatiens (Impatiens walleriana) in the United Kingdom in 2002. Prior to that, it was identified as early as 1897 on wild impatiens (jewelweed) in Vermont. In 2011, there were outbreaks of this disease in many states including CA, IL, IN, NY, MA, MN, and WI. In January 2012, it was confirmed on plants in the landscape in Florida. During the 2012 growing season, impatiens downy mildew has been widespread in over 30 eastern states including Connecticut.
Host Plants
Susceptible hosts include standard garden impatiens, double impatiens and mini-impatiens and any hybrids of I. walleriana. Although balsam or garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina) is also susceptible, the symptoms primarily include yellow leaf spots. Fortunately, New Guinea impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri) types are not susceptible to this disease nor are other shade loving bedding plants.
Early symptoms include yellowing or yellow stippling of the leaves (resembling spider mite injury (which is not common on garden impatiens) or lack of fertilizer) and downward cupping of upper leaves giving the appearance that plants need to be watered (Figure 1). As disease progresses, flowers and leaves drop, eventually leaving bare stems with a few small leaves at the top. Finally, the stems completely collapse and the plant dies. After heavy rains, leaves may have a water-soaked appearance, resembling frost injury. Plants infected when young will be stunted.
A progression of symptoms is shown in Figure 2 below.
How it spreads
During humid or rainy weather, a white coating of spores will be produced on the lower surface of some leaves. Turn over the leaves to look for the white coating of spores; not all leaves will have this. These spores (Figures 3 and 4) are spread by wind, wind-driven rain, and splashing water. Cool night temperatures (58 to 62 ̊ F) which encourage heavy dews are ideal for disease development, even if it is hot and dry during the day. New infections occur when leaves stay moist for a few hours. Downy mildew tends to be worse in very dense plantings, where there is overhead irrigation and areas where leaves stay wet for extended periods of time. New infections develop as the short-lived spores are spread by water splash for short distances or by wind currents for longer distances. Another type of spore, a resting or survival spore (called an oospore), is produced within infected plants just before they die. For this reason, it is important to remove infected plants from garden beds as soon as you see them. Oospores are capable of surviving in the soil through the winter and can cause new infections of garden impatiens the following year. There are many different types of downy mildew and they tend to be host specific, so the downy mildew that affects garden impatiens will not spread to coleus, basil or sunflowers.
Current management recommendations are focused on disease prevention. Once plants are infected, they will not recover.
- Infected plants should be removed (including plants, leaf debris and roots), bagged and disposed of immediately. Do not compost diseased plant material! If infected plants are left in the garden or compost pile, there is a high risk that the fungal spores will overwinter in the soil and affect future plantings.
- If you have had impatiens downy mildew in your garden, use alternative non-host bedding plants for the next 1-2 seasons. Suggested alternative plants for shady beds include begonia, New Guinea impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri) varieties, Coleus, Torenia, Lobelia, and others. There are also many shade loving foliage plants and perennials that can be safely planted your garden.
J. Allen and L. Pundt
September 2012
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Devious Maids star Dania Ramirez is determined that her twins, Gaia Jissel and John Aether, grow up to be bilingual — and luckily her family is completely on board.
"My cousin Yoli is here from Mexico, and she's been helping me with the kids since the very start. She only speaks Spanish to the babies," Ramirez, 35, told PEOPLE at the L.A. Art Show Opening Night, benefitting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in downtown Los Angeles.
"We just started reading them books in Spanish as well. Just trying to tell them all the stories in English and Spanish so they can be fluent," she says.
While her 1-year-olds aren't showing off their foreign language skills quite yet, Ramirez sees her efforts paying off. "I have everyone speaking to them in Spanish [so] I think they might understand it a little better right now," she explains.


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Audrey Dotson
Feb. 15, 2013
|Bucknell (13-11, 4-5 PL) vs. Lafayette Leopards (10-14, 3-6 PL) Women's Basketball
|WHERE: Lewisburg, Pa., Sojka Pavilion
|WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m.
|RADIO: WVBU 90.5 FM and SportsJuice.com
|STREAMING VIDEO: Bison Vision
|LIVE STATISTICS: GameTracker
| PROMOTIONS: Dinner on Us (Win a $25 Gift Card),
Pack the House ($500 to Winning Student Group)
Bucknell returns home to Sojka Pavilion this Saturday when it hosts Lafayette at 7 p.m. The Bison sneaked out a one-point win against the Leopards earlier in the year in Easton to get their second straight win at Lafayette.
Saturday also marks Bucknell's Dinner on Us promotion. All fans in attendance will be eligible for one of six $25 gift certificates to local restaurants.
Live coverage of Saturday's action will be all the usual places. Danny Will has the play-by-play on WVBU 90.5 FM and SportsJuice.com. Live stats on GameTracker and streaming video on Bison Vision will be at BucknellBison.com.
• Remain in the top four in the Patriot League and in the hunt for home court advantage in the PL Tournament Quarterfinals.
• Collect its 14th win for the first time since the 2008-09 squad finished the season with a 16-12 record.
• Win its third consecutive game against the Leopards.
• Improve to 8-4 at home this season.
• Snap its current four-game losing streak, its longest of the season.
• As of Feb. 10, Bucknell ranked 12th in FG% defense (.338), 29th nationally in rebounding margin (+7.3), 48th in 3FG% defense (.272) and 87th in scoring defense (57.9).
• Audrey Dotson has 199 rebounds on the season.
• Bucknell leads the Patriot League in defensive rebounds (28.2).
• On Jan. 30 American was the first Bucknell opponent to score 60+ points at Sojka Pavilion since Longwood scored 60 on Dec. 15. Foes are averaging 51.7 ppg in the last six games at Sojka.
• In the six games after registering a double-double (10 pts.-11 reb.) vs. Colgate on Jan. 16, Lindsay Horbatuck averaged 5.8 points and 10.5 rebounds.
• Shelby Romine became the 20th Bison in program history to record 1,000 career points on Feb. 9 vs. Army. Romine also scored her 900th point at Army on Jan. 12.
• Audrey Dotson was named the Anaconda Patriot League Player of the Week on Jan. 7 for the second time this season (also 12/17). Shelby Romine was also named the league's Player of the Week on Dec. 27.
• Bucknell has 13 wins this season (13-11). The Bison totaled five all of last year (5-25).
• Felicia Mgbada finished her junior year ranked seventh at Bucknell in single-season blocked shots (39). She now ranks seventh in career blocks (88).
• Aaron Roussell collected his first win as Bucknell head coach on Nov. 17 at Canisius. The Bison defeated the Golden Griffins 59-50 in Buffalo.
• Aaron Roussell was hired as Bucknell's ninth head coach in April 2012. Roussell spent eight years at the University of Chicago where he amassed a 161-50 record and led the Maroons to three Sweet Sixteens and one Elite Eight.
• Jan. 19, 2013: Bucknell 50, Lafayette 49 (Kirby Sports Center)
• Lindsay Horbatuck made both ends of a 1-and-1 to give Bucknell a four-point lead with 0:02 left in the game. That put the contest out of Lafayette's reach, giving the Bison a 50-49 win despite a buzzer-beating half-court shot from the Leopards' Maddie Peabody.
• Horbatuck finished with 11 points and was 3-for-4 from the free throw line. Audrey Dotson registered her third career double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds. She also led the team in assists (4), steals (2) and blocks (1).
• Bucknell held Lafayette to .277 (18-65) shooting. The Leopards struggled from the field throughout the day, going without a field goal for 10:35 at the end of the first half and the beginning of the second. Despite its shooting woes, Lafayette outscored Bucknell in the final frame, 30-24, to make it a close one.
• Lafayette's bench outscored Bucknell's, 28-4.
• With the win, Bucknell improved to 2-1 in the Patriot League. It was the first time the Bison had been better than .500 in the conference at any point in the season since the 2008-09 campaign.
Since facing Bucknell on Jan. 19, Lafayette won three straight in Patriot League play, including sneaking through with a 49-47 victory over American. Since then, however, the Leopards have dropped the last two, 60-52 to Navy and 70-57 at Army. Those streaks take them to 10-14 overall and 3-6 in conference play.
Lafayette's forwards have been doing much of the team's stat production on both ends of the court. The Leopards lead the league in rebounding, although at 40.7 they're just one-tenth ahead of Bucknell in the standings. They're also at the top of the rankings in blocked shots (5.8) and offensive rebounding (14.2). Individually, Danielle Fiacco continues to be a dominant defensive force, leading the Patriot League with 3.0 blocked shots per game.
• Bucknell trails in the all-time series with Lafayette, 36-34. The series could hardly be any closer. The Leopards have a +0.44 scoring margin in those 70 contests.
• Bucknell is 7-10 against Lafayette when the game is decided by five or fewer points. The series is even at 6-6 when the game is decided by three or fewer points.
• Lafayette has failed to reach 60 points in any of its last five games against Bucknell.
• Bucknell is 21-12, including 5-2 in the last seven, when playing Lafayette in Lewisburg. The Bison are also outscoring the Leopards by an average of 4.2 points on their home court.
• The last time Bucknell defeated Lafayette at Sojka Pavilion was Feb. 16, 2011, exactly two years earlier than this Saturday's game. The Leopards left town with a 46-34 loss.
• Molly Creamer holds two of Bucknell's series highs since the 2000-01 season. She tallied a Patriot League- and Bucknell-record 44 points on Feb. 21, 2003 in addition to 13 assists on Jan. 26, 2003. In her final two years with Bucknell, which included that 44-point performance, Creamer averaged 30.0 points per game against Lafayette.
• Bucknell also tied the program's single-game steals record against Lafayette, collecting 23 on Feb. 21, 1996.
• Recent Results:
Jan. 19, 2011 Bucknell, 57-49
Feb. 16, 2011 Bucknell, 46-34
Jan. 14, 2012 Lafayette, 49-45
Feb. 11, 2012 Bucknell, 65-54
Jan. 19, 2013 Bucknell, 50-49
• Feb. 13, 2013: Colgate 58, Bucknell 51 (Cotterell Court)
• Three Bison scored in double figures but the team struggled offensively in a 58-51 loss to Colgate at Cotterell Court. It was the second straight game between the Bison and the Raiders decided by single digits.
• Bucknell's first four points all came at the free throw line, one area where it did have an early advantage over Colgate. The Bison were 18-for-27 (.667) from the line for the night, including 6-for-10 in the first half. After trailing by three at halftime, Bucknell took a brief lead after play resumed thanks again to its ability to get to the free throw line. The Bison were perfect at the stripe in three straight possessions to go up 28-26. Bucknell continued to get to the line as the game wore on, shooting in the bonus at the 10-minute mark and the double bonus just three minutes later, but it couldn't sustain that early pace. After starting 6-for-6, it hit just two of its next seven attempts.
• Bucknell took 5:20 to hit its first field goal and started the game 0-for-6.
• Felicia Mgbada's 14 points were a season high, but the senior did more than just score. She also had seven rebounds and two blocked shots. Mgbada now has 88 career rejections, moving her up to seventh all-time at Bucknell. Joining Mgbada and Alyssa Dunn, who also had 14 points, in double figures was Shelby Romine with 11 points. She added seven assists to the effort, moving her up to eighth (280) on the career list.
• Dinner On Us: All fans in attendance will be eligible to win one of six $25 gift certificates to local restaurants. Be sure to pick up a raffle ticket upon entering Sojka Pavilion.
• Pack the House: One student group, club, team or organization will have the chance win $500. The winner will be the student organization that brings the most members to the game and shows the greatest enthusiasm and creativity as they cheer on the Bison.
• TV Giveaway: Students who signed up at the LC Mall will be eligible to win a 32" flatscreen TV. Winners must be present to claim their prize.
As of Feb. 14, Bucknell had moved up in the national statistical rankings. The Bison rank 12th nationally in field goal percentage defense (.338). They were also 29th in rebounding margin (+7.3), 48th in 3-point field goal percentage defense (.272) and 87th in scoring defense (57.9). Individually Lindsay Horbatuck ranked 30th nationally in rebounding (10.3), while Alyssa Dunn cracked the top 100 in free throw percentage, ranking 97th at .803.
Bucknell and Lafayette's last meeting ended in a one-point decision after the Leopards' Maddie Peabody hit a half-court shot at the buzzer. The Bison's 50-49 victory was the fourth one-point decision in series history. Fitting of a series that is separated by a scoring margin of less than one-half point, the teams are even at 6-6 in games decided by three points or fewer. Lafayette has a 10-7 edge in contests decided by five points or fewer.
• For the first time this season, Felicia Mgbada did not come off the bench. The senior earned her first starting assignment since Bucknell took on Holy Cross on Feb. 18, 2012. She now has 66 starts in 110 career games.
• Mgbada's numbers do not fluctuate much depending on her status as a reserve or a starter. The forward is averaging 4.1 points and 3.8 rebounds in 44 games coming off the bench, compared to 5.1 points and 3.5 rebounds per game as a starter. The biggest difference is that she is shooting .510 (73-143) from the field in a reserve role but .418 (143-342) as a starter.
• Bucknell has used three starting lineups this year. There have been four constants in each variation. Audrey Dotson, Alyssa Dunn, Lindsay Horbatuck and Shelby Romine have started all 24 games this season.
Bucknell suffered its first loss of the year when committing fewer turnovers than its opponent when it fell 58-51 at Colgate on Feb. 13. The Bison mishandled the ball 14 times, compared to 15 for the Raiders. The Bison also outscored Colgate 16-6 in points off turnovers.
• Bucknell's bench did not score against Colgate on Feb. 13, giving the Raiders a 28-0 advantage in reserve scoring. It was the first time this season, Bucknell's bench was held without a point.
• Bucknell's reserves were outscored by Colgate's by a combined 53-6 in their two games this year.
• Bucknell has held three opponents' benches scoreless this season - Cornell, Lehigh and Army. The Bison are 2-1 in those games.
• Bucknell's bench was outscored by Buffalo's 41-9 on Dec. 1. The Bison still won that game, however, 78-71.
• Bucknell's bench is averaging 10.6 points this season.
• With a 7-4 record at home and a 6-4 mark at Sojka Pavilion, Bucknell is off to its best start in Lewisburg in nearly a decade. The 2004-05 squad also began its home schedule with a 6-1 record but ultimately closed out their Sojka slate at 7-6 after losing five of six down the stretch.
• Bucknell's last winning record at home was in 2010-11. The Bison ended the year with five straight victories at Sojka Pavilion, making them 8-5 on their home court.
• Bucknell's last 10-win season at home was in 2006-07. Those Bison finished the year at 11-3 after winning their final seven home games. That is also the only 10-win season at Sojka Pavilion on the women's side.
• Bucknell has a +3.7 scoring margin when playing at home this season (-2.2 on the road). Audrey Dotson is averaging 12.9 points and 7.6 rebounds in those 11 home games.
• More Sojka Pavilion standards were either tied or reset when Bucknell faced Army on Feb. 9, but not all of them are records to be proud of. The Bison's 35 points tied the home team's low record, equaling the total against Drexel on Nov. 25, 2008. They also had 12 field goals and four assists against the Black Knights to set the low records in that category as well.
• Holy Cross set a pair of opponent low records at Sojka Pavilion on Jan. 26 and both came at the free throw line. The Crusaders made just three free throws on four attempts in their loss.
• Lindsay Horbatuck has moved up the Sojka Pavilion career lists to No. 2 in rebounding. The senior has 353 boards on her home floor. Felicia Mgbada is also tied for third in blocked shots (42) and Shelby Romine is fourth in assists (129) and 3-point field goals made (46) and attempted (141).
• Colgate took 79 shots on Jan. 16, tying the Sojka Pavilion record for most field goal attempts by an opponent. The mark equaled that originally set by James Madison on Nov. 13, 2007 when the Dukes shot 26-for-79 (.329) for the 73-53 win.
• Two records were tied when Bucknell hosted Cornell on Jan. 2. Lindsay Horbatuck grabbed 19 rebounds, equaling the mark set by Desire Almind against Akron on Dec. 19, 2003. The Bison also limited Cornell to 11 field goals, which ties the total for fewest by a Bucknell opponent. That "honor" originally went to Lafayette on Feb. 16, 2011.
Bucknell will remain at Sojka Pavilion for a Wednesday matchup with Lehigh. Tip off against the Mountain Hawks is set for 7 p.m. The Bison defeated Lehigh 53-37 when the teams met earlier this year in Bethlehem, but Bucknell has not won in Lewisburg since 2007.


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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Sebastian Berg <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:08 -0400, Frédéric Bastien wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > this is currently used in Theano! In fact, it is a John S. that
 > implemented it in NumPy to allow fast gradient of the advanced
 > indexing in Theano. It allow code like:
 >
 >
 > matrix1[vector1, vector2] += matrix2
 >

Yes, I had missed that and thought maybe nobody actually used it yet. I
 gave some points why I think there should be some changes in the
 original pull request [1]. Mostly I think it would make sense (also a
 lot for theano) to rewrite it with the new iterators and expose the
 subspace more directly. That would give vast speedups for mixed
 fancy/non-fancy indices.

 But if this is useful to you, I guess one can also just create a new one
 if someone finds time, leaving the old MapIter deprecated and
 unmaintained.

 [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/377

 > where there is duplicate indices in the vector
 >
 > In looking at the code, I saw it use at least those part of the
 > interface.
 >
 > PyArrayMapIterObject
 > PyArray_MapIterNext
 > PyArray_ITER_NEXT
 > PyArray_MapIterSwapAxes
 > PyArray_BroadcastToShape
 >

There is likely no reason for changing these, but improving MapIter
 would likely break binary compatibility because of struct access.

 - Sebastian

>
 > I lost the end of this discussion, but I think this is not possible in
 > NumPy as there was not an agreement to include that. But I remember a
 > few other user on this list asking for this(and they where Theano user
 > to my knowledge).
 >
 >
 > So I would prefer that you don't remove the part that we use for the
 > next 1.8 release.
 >
 > thanks
 >
 > Frédéric
 >
 >
 >
 > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Nathaniel Smith <firstname.lastname@example.com>
 > wrote:
 > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Sebastian Berg
 > <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
 > > Hey,
 > >
 > > the MapIter API has only been made public in master right?
 > So it is no
 > > problem at all to change at least the mapiter struct, right?
 > >
 > > I got annoyed at all those special cases that make things
 > difficult to
 > > get an idea where to put i.e. to fix the boolean array-like
 > stuff. So
 > > actually started rewriting it (and I already got one big
 > function that
 > > does all index preparation -- ok it is untested but its
 > basically
 > > there).
 > >
 > > I would guess it is not really a big problem even if it was
 > public for
 > > longer, since you shouldn't do those direct struct access
 > probably? But
 > > just checking.
 >
 >
 > Why don't we just make the struct opaque, i.e., just declare
 > it in the
 > public header file and move the actual definition to an
 > internal
 > header file?
 >
 > If it's too annoying I guess we could even make it non-public,
 > at
 > least in 1.8 -- IIRC it's only there so we can use it in
 > umath, and
 > IIRC the patch to use it hasn't landed yet. Or we could just
 > merge
 > umath and multiarray into a single .so, that would save a
 > *lot* of
 > annoying fiddling with the public API that doesn't actually
 > serve any
 > purpose.
 >

Does this have any overlap with https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/2821 ?

Chuck


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Margeson Theater
James and the Giant Peach
When young orphan James flees from his two conniving aunts, he launches on a journey of enormous proportions! Suddenly he finds himself in the center of a gigantic peach among human-sized insects with equally over-sized personalities. Follow James, the wise Old-Green-Grasshopper, and the pessimistic Earthworm on their wild adventure.
|March 19 - April 26, 2015
Margeson Theater


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Great Harvest pancakes made with bananas and candied pecans, topped with Biscoff and Wild Squirrel – and sprinkles of course! Matt remains the pancake master!
Have a wonderful day!
Great Harvest pancakes made with bananas and candied pecans, topped with Biscoff and Wild Squirrel – and sprinkles of course! Matt remains the pancake master!
Have a wonderful day!
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I love your festive sprinkles!! a fun way to brighten up breakfast.
Enjoy your day!
Sundays and pancakes just go together…love the festive breakfast!
Hope those pancakes warmed you up from your chill last night! Love the festivity
Merry Sunday indeed! Have a great day, Kath!
We made pancakes too! Ours were not as fancy on top, but they were cut into shapes!
Have a wonderful Sunday.
Sprinkles, jimmies, 100's and 1000's – whatever you call them, they are always so much fun!
Matt – your pancakes have wrinkles…:)
Festive pancakes for a chilly day with a warm cuppa…looks perfect! Did you get any snow? Visiting at my mom's and we woke up to a blanket of snow on the ground! It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas! Driving home today with my mom…hope we had some snowfall at home to keep the festive mood afloat! My boys will be so excited! I hope the boots still fit…have yet a need to pull them out!
I made pancakes for breakfast, too…Not quite as colorful as your, though…
Is that a Christmas tree I see in your coffee foam?? 😉
I think you're right!! I see the tree too
One day I will master the perfect pancake!
Hey Kath! I've been reading your blog for a while, but I don't think I've ever commented. Anyway, your pancakes look so adorable! I love the sprinkles :] For breakfast this morning I tried a slightly modified version of your cottage cheese oatmeal, and I can say they were the best oats I've had in a while! Thanks!
sprinkle picture=awesome!
You had your Sunday morning pancakes! Enjoy your day off!
i love everything about this meal! pancakes, Biscoff, nut butter, candied pecans, sprinkles… !!
That shot of just the sprinkles is awesome! Biscoff is the best topping (aside from sprinkles, of course).
Spinach is the perfect start to ANY day!
What on earth was I saying— I was thinking SPRINKLES are the perfect start to any day! YIKES! I need more sleep, I believe. Happy Sunday, Kath!
LOVE the sprinkles, Kath! Have a great day! 😀
Love the Biscoff action and those pancakes are PERFECT and with the sprinkles..so festive.
I have found Dutch cookie butter spread down here and it's *to die for*. It's a Dutch island and they get all these spreads and goodies from Holland; I'm in heaven. Cookie butter has been in full force for me!
Love the colors!
Must be a pancake day- we had them too!
How did you get your Biscoff so smooth? YUM!
I need sprinkles! Haha to cute
Those are the most festive pancakes ever!
Awesome photos…cool shot of the stray sprinkles!
Hi Kath:
Do you just whip up the cottage cheese and banana for Matt's breakfast? Also I wanted to ask you if you refrigerate your Biscoff. I did and when I took it out, it had white streaks thru it, they went away as it came to room temperature. I'm assuming that it's the fat content. I e mailed them to ask. My jar is dated 4/2012 so it's still good, that I know.
That is the fat. Scrape it off (or stir it up if you want the excess I guess) and you can still use it.
I'm so jealous of your sprinkles! Such a cute idea!
I hope we get at least a decent amount of snow before Christmas. It does not feel like Christmas to me without snow.
We had a dusting of snow on the ground this morning, but it has melted.
haha. sounds great. a holiday dessert pancake of sorts. 😉 Still need to try Biscoff.
These look so delicious, what a merry start to the day indeed!
what a wonderfully festive breakfast!
My Wild Squirrel order from Open Sky finally arrived late last week and I think I've incorporated peanut butter into every meal since. SO delicious! I love every flavor!
Gorgeous and so festive!
I found Biscoff today at my local grocery store!!!!! It's amazing! I will savor every spoonful!
so simple, yet so festive! and my pancake craving continues… 😉
Just bought biscoff and tried it on my oatmeal today….delicious!
Love that GH mix (i should really just get a t-shirt that reads "GH CVILLE FAN CLUB" – I feel like all I do is gush over how good your stuff is. I promise I actually really feel that way and am not just saying that! Haha.
Christmas exploded all over your pancakes- fabulous!
Christmas pancakes? Looks like a good plan to me!
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Rhonda Jo Whelan was born February 12, 1952, the daughter of Kenneth and Doris Whelan of Oxford, Mississippi. Kenneth and Doris had met six years earlier in Starkville, Miss., where Kenneth was attending Mississippi State University on the GI bill, and Doris was a waitress in a local café. When Kenneth graduated in 1948, the couple immediately married and moved to Oxford so Kenneth could take a teaching position at Oxford University High School. Once settled, Doris assumed the role of homemaker, and had three children – Bobby, in 1950; Rhonda; and Gene, in 1955.
A science and math teacher, Kenneth was strict in the classroom, and in the Eagle's letters to the editor section frequently railed against the moral deterioration of modern youth. "Is this the freedom we fought for on the beach at Normandy – the freedom to wear a bikini?" he asked, in a typical letter. Kenneth also objected strenuously to school integration, and was among the crowds who protested the admission of James Meredith to Ole Miss in 1962.
Kenneth's rigid outlook had an impact on Rhonda's upbringing. While her brothers enrolled in boy scouts, Rhonda was denied admission to the Brownies, on the pretense that finances were tight. It was true that with only one teacher's income and three growing children to raise, Doris was forced to economize with the weekly household budget. At age twelve, Rhonda was caught trying to sell the hand-made sweater she'd received for Christmas to another student at school for twenty dollars. In high school, while her brothers starred on the varsity football and basketball teams, Rhonda participated in theater productions, dated a beatnik college dropout, and was twice caught shoplifting.
In 1968, when Rhonda was a junior, her brother Bobby was killed in Vietnam. Two days after the family received the news, Rhonda ran away to California with her boyfriend. Her exact movements are unknown until 1971, when she was arrested in Mendocino County in a roundup of squatters living in a forest encampment they called the Golden Iris Commune. When she was cited for shoplifting in Reno later that year, she told police she had been hitchhiking her way back to the east coast, where she planned to live with friends.
Just east of Salt Lake City, though, Rhonda caught a ride from Jeff "JT" Pendergrass, a young truck driver – and her life's course changed. JT was heading to Chicago, and during the long trip he and Rhonda hit it off. Rather than continuing east, Rhonda accompanied JT to his home base outside Chattanooga, where the company he worked for had a terminal, and they began living together. Rhonda picked up waitressing work in local bars, and between her tips and JT's earnings the couple had a comfortable life. Sometimes, between waitressing gigs, Rhonda would go on the road with JT. They married on an overnight stop in Las Vegas in 1975.
But more often than not, Rhonda stayed home, and JT began suspecting infidelity. When Rhonda gave birth to a daughter, Jennifer, in 1977, he demanded a blood test. Since JT was gone so often, Rhonda had to give up her waitressing jobs and the extra cash they brought. In late 1978 she decided to move back to Oxford, where she could enlist her mother's help with childrearing.
Rhonda had written her mother a letter announcing her marriage, and the two had tentatively reconciled over the course of several Christmas phone calls. Doris eagerly welcomed Rhonda and the baby into the household; Kenneth, who was nearing retirement, did not forbid the arrangement. Rhonda's surviving brother had long before moved out of state, but got reacquainted with Rhonda on subsequent holidays.
Rhonda immediately found a job at the Juke Joint, with Doris taking care of Jennifer in the evenings while Rhonda worked. Like in Chattanooga, Rhonda was a popular waitress with the clientele, and also occasionally befriended young workers on the staff, usually college students, with whom she would share relationship and life advice until they graduated and moved on. Rhonda's friendship with one such student, Kevin Gilmore, came to an abrupt end when he was found dead in late 1987 – an event that shocked Rhonda and the rest of the staff. But Rhonda remained committed to her job, and when in 1988 she received an unexpected windfall inheritance, Rhonda bought the business outright, in a move that surprised her workmates.
Under her leadership the Juke Joint thrived as it never had before. Thanks to her earnings, Rhonda and JT were able to buy their own place in Oxford. But JT's jealousy had never abated, especially since the extra commute from Chattanooga to Oxford made his home visits less frequent than ever. When Rhonda had gotten pregnant again, in 1982, he had again demanded a blood test. Like before, the baby – this time a son, Brian – had been his, but JT remained suspicious. The final straw came in 1990, when JT came home to Oxford to find the kids with their grandmother and Rhonda unexpectedly gone for the weekend, allegedly with girlfriends. The next week, JT filed for divorce. The process was long and bitter, with Rhonda eventually securing her right to the house and JT winning the right to see the two children whenever he could. Despite his bitterness toward Rhonda, JT never took out his anger on them. In 1992, he took both children on a trip to Disney World with his new girlfriend.
When Rhonda's father, Kenneth, died in 1997, Doris decided to move into a smaller place, and shared the proceeds of the sale of the original family home with her children. Rhonda invested her share in a local business startup, an internet service provider that was bought out by AT&T in 2005. That windfall and the profits from the Juke Joint enabled Rhonda to move into a larger home in Oxford in 2006, with a stand-alone unit for Doris. She has never remarried.
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Children's Books: When Wind, Snow and Ice Are Oh So Nice
Wintery, blustery weather plays a key role in three new books, providing unexpected pleasures and adventures. Meghan Cox Gurdon reviews Gary Ross's "Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind," Ellen Ryan Obed's "Twelve Kinds of Ice" and Carin Berger's "A Perfect Day."
It is unusual for a children's book to come with a caveat for parents, but with "Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind" (Candlewick, 96 pages, $17.99), the wry note of caution seems wise. "Explain to your kids / that no one can fly / with only a sheet— / make sure they don't try," author Gary Ross warns before beginning this gusty epic in verse about a 10-year-old who launches himself like a kite into a great storm.
As free as the breeze, Bartholomew sails by means of a bedsheet from one remarkable place to another. He lands amid cheery pirates living it up on a beach. He stops near a grim boarding school, befriending one of its inmates—and teaching him to fly, too. Finally Bartholomew alights in a peculiar settlement of aviators, balloonists and windsurfers who, like him, had once been snatched up by the wind. Deposited at the windless base of a deep canyon, these voyagers, from Amelia Earhart to a Nepalese Sherpa, seem dolefully reconciled to their flightless confinement. "Bartholomew got it— / this place was like jail: / just ocean and cliffs— / and no way to make bail."
When our hero's pal from the boarding school flies in unexpectedly, Bartholomew decides that the two of them must escape, and so they do. Wonderful textured oil paintings by Matthew Myers give a feeling of old-fashioned drama to this rhyming story told in the modern vernacular.
"Twelve Kinds of Ice" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 64 pages, $16.99) is an exquisite little book for 6- to 10-year-olds and their parents. Snug and elegant, evocative and fun, Ellen Bryan Obed's memoir from her childhood winters in Maine skates along in an aesthetic pas de deux, as you might say, with Barbara McClintock's graceful black-and-white drawings.
Ms. Obed begins by remembering the first ice of the winter, which "came on the sheep pails in the barn—a skim of ice so thin that it broke when we touched it." Second ice is thicker, "like panes of glass." Third ice doesn't break: "We hit it with the heels of our boots. . . . But the ice stayed firm."
The thickening of the ice leads to the great seasonal joy for the Bryan children. Each year their father built an outdoor rink, carefully watering it nightly. "And when Bryan Gardens was ready, the whole neighborhood knew," we read. "The school bus passed our place going up the hill so everyone could see the ice's glassy surface shining in the sun." Figure skaters and hockey players jostled for ice time; there was the thrill of an ice show and the agony of surprise thaws. With spring came the last ice of all: dream ice, which never melts. Ms. McClintock leaves us visualizing this dreamy stuff, with girls skating arabesques along telephone wires and boys playing hockey in the clouds.
The tiny figures rejoicing in the snow in Carin Berger's snowy tale, "A Perfect Day" (Greenwillow Books, 35 pages, $16.99), seem so obviously childlike that you almost get a start when you realize that many have the beaks of little birds. Whatever they are, these creatures adore winter. "Emma got to make the first tracks in the snow," we read as a delicate figure dances in a collage across what appears to be a whitewashed background of elegant, spidery handwriting. "But then Leo whooshed by on his skis." We see other bird-children throwing snowballs and sledding until dark. "It was time to go home to warm hugs and dry clothes and steaming hot chocolate," Ms. Berger writes. "The perfect end to a perfect day." Even children who live in cold climates—for whom snow is a commonplace—are likely to get vicarious pleasure from this gentle bedtime distillation of the pleasures of winter.


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Awesome! I've long been a fan of the typemasking technique you included in your atlas tutorial, but this refinement makes it much more powerful. 5 stars and rep from me!
I'm sure you've seen it a hundred times, especially on maps with lots of type. Labels and linework intersecting with each other, making the type difficult to read and the lines difficult to distinguish.
Here is a technique we developed at my office for dealing with these situations. It is an extension of a technique we used previously, that opens up a new aspect to the typemask.
First, place all the lines you want to "mask" (or block out) on one layer. If you want to keep these lines on separate layers, you will need a separate typemask for each layer, but it works pretty much the same way.
Now, copy all of your type objects onto a new layer. Lock the original type down so that you don't accidentaly modify it during this process. Any type object on this new layer will punch out the linework behind it. Select all of this type, and give it a stroke. The width of the mask will be equal to half of the stroke weight, so if you want to mask linework that is within a half a point of a type object, give the type a stroke that is 1 pt in width. I will typically use a weight between 1 and 1.5 points.
Color the type and strokes black. Group all the type together. Now move the group to the linework layer that you want to mask. Select all (all lines and the type group) and open up the Transparency Palette. In the menu that opens off that palette, select "Make Opacity Mask". Now uncheck the box that says "Clip" and your linework should me masked out.
NOW. Here's the cool part. You'll notice that the lines have been completely removed from around the type. But what if you just want to screen them back a bit - what if you want them set at 50% opacity near the type? Well it's easy! Instead of coloring the type and strokes black, just color them at 50% gray. Now when you make the mask, it will block out 50% of the opacity of the lines. If you want the lines at 30% opacity near type, just set the color to 70% gray. Super easy!
Also, if you want the mask opacity to vary throughout the image, you can do that too! Just remember, the parts of the mask that are black will block out everything below them, and the parts that are white will block out nothing, and all values in between likewise. You can even use gradients in your mask, leading to all kinds of possibilities for typemasking.
I used this technique in my "Barlovia" map to screen black lines around type back to 30% opacity.
Awesome! I've long been a fan of the typemasking technique you included in your atlas tutorial, but this refinement makes it much more powerful. 5 stars and rep from me!
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
Hi HRob, I'm a bit thick so it's hard to see what the effect is without a 'before' and 'after'....any chance we could have one please? I looked at the Barlovia map and couldn't see any text outlined in black either...
I guess the key to it all is the opacity mask ... as I use Drawplus I don't know what the equivalent is, but drawplus allows you to lower the opacity of the fill or stroke of any object by using a slider...is that what an opacity mask is? Drawplus also has the usual blend modes, one is called 'erase' which effectively acts as a layer mask making anything under it on that layer transparent. Is it that one?
:: Is this the sort of thing you mean?: The orange rectangle is on the bottom layer. The spiral is on the layer above it and the text (with the fill set to erase blend mode) on top of the spiral.
:: Edit...that's odd, you should be able to see the orange of the square through the text that's over it (you can in the program) but the exported jpeg knocks out the orange as well....time to write to serif! I've done a screenshot of what the type mask looks like on screen before export.
Last edited by ravells; 07-23-2010 at 09:46 AM.
If you look at the map and find a place where the text overlaps and existing map line, you'll see that the type doesn't run into the line, the line is effectively stopped short of the text, making the text more legible.
I'll gra b a ss in a second
You see where Munsall overlaps and where The Gates overlap the line.. the masking takes over there masking out the line below.
PS thanks for this awesome tip, it's a great thing to keep in the ole toolbox.
Last edited by DevinNight; 07-23-2010 at 09:53 AM.
Ahhhh I see, thanks Devin! Wow, serif is actually ahead of Illustrator here (apart from the bug on export). In Serif all you have to do is set the blend mode of the stroke to 'erase' and then increase the stroke size to whatever you want, everything under the stroke in the same layer is knocked out. I've had to take a screenshot of it. Hopefully the folks at serif will put the export bug right soon, they're usually pretty good that way.
It never occured to me to do this to make type more legible. Thanks for the tip, HRob and Devin! What is ubercool about it is that the type and the mask remain vector and are not rasterised.
:: edit :: what is also cool is that you can adjust the opacity of the erase blend mode by using a slider and get a partial knockout as HRob mentioned.
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