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Bucknell environmental alumni are very successful in their post-graduate endeavors.
Some work in fields directly related to their majors, many have attended graduate school to develop further skills in related fields, and some work in completely independent fields.
"Starter" jobs in non-profits, as technicians or teachers, or in non-environmental fields frequently lead into permanent environmentally related positions. The Bucknell Career Development Center is especially active in helping students to find jobs outside the conventional corporate / business realms.
Most students expect to attend graduate school at some point in their career path, as advanced degrees are critical to advancement in most occupations.
Below is a random sample of recent career descriptions from some of the hundreds of alumni who have passed through this program.
Sr. Consultant — Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Assistant professor — Ohio State University
Telco Cost Analyst — Cable Wireless, Incorporated
Environmental Engineer — Parsons Corporation
Science Teacher — Campbell Hall School
Environmental Educator — Peace Corps
Prog. & Dev. Coordinator — Citizens Coal Council
Specialist — Pella Window & Door
Planner — Commonwealth of Virginia
Coordinator — Pharmaceutical Sourcing Group
Researcher/ Educator — Cornell University
Associate — Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.
President — Coughlin Concrete Corporation
Associate — Probitas Partners
Librarian & Writer — Cuyahoga County Public Library
Attorney — Reilly, Janiczek & Mcdevitt
Paralegal — Davis, Polk and Wardwell
Consulting Manager — RHS Solutions
Research Assistant — DPRA, Incorporated
General Contractor — Self Employed Contractor
Enviro Comm Spec. — Eastern Research Group, Incorporated
Musician-Bass Player — Shanti Groove
Tech. Mgmt. Ass't — EMG
Urban Planner — SRA, International
Project Analyst — Environmental Resources Management
Asst. Manager — Sun Bank
Proj Engr-Constr. — Gale Company
Director Business Development — The Nature Conservancy
Scientist — Gannett Fleming Engineers & Planners
Director Affliate Sales — The Outdoor Channel
Environmental Scientist — Geologic Services Corp.
Project Manager — The Vermont Forum on Sprawl
Environmental Designer — Jordan Jones & Goulding
Sales Analyst — TransitCenter
Hydrologist — Kennedy/Jenks Consultants
Kindergarten Teacher — Trinity Christian Academy
Assistant — Kinko's Incorporated
Salmon Policy Coordinator — Trout Unlimited
Owner/Farmer — Kline Kill Organic Gardens
Chemist — United Oil Recovery Incorporated
Attorney — Leboeuf Lamb Greene Macrae Llp
Postdoctoral Fellow — University of California
Associate Attorney — Macfarlane Law Firm
Field Teacher — University of Rhode Island
Environmental Scientist — Malcolm Pirnie, Incorporated
Assistant Professor of Geography — University of Texas-Austin
Environmental Educator — National Park Service
Scientist — Woodard & Curran
Associate — New Hampshire Public Interest Research
Gmp Compliance Spec. — Wyeth


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The Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle with Lucy Shapiro
Date: 6/15/2009; 58 minutes
Stanford Professor Lucy Shapiro is renowned for her contributions to the fields of developmental biology, molecular biology, and genetics. She examines the functions required to reproduce and maintain life in the simple bacterial cell by using a systems engineering approach that defines the control circuitry integrated in time and space. (#16423)
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Canadian singer Michael Buble has opened up about life as a first-time father, insisting becoming a parent is the "greatest thing that could ever happen."
The crooner's wife, Luisana, gave birth to son Noah on August 27, and the star admits he adores the newborn.
In his first TV interview since the baby's birth, he tells Canadian talk show The Social, "It's been what everybody says it would be. It's the greatest thing that could ever happen. You can't explain it until it happens – it's like telling somebody what water feels like before they've ever swam in it."
However, Buble confesses he didn't immediately experience an "overwhelming feeling of love" for his boy until the realization of becoming a dad fully sunk on the night after his birth.
He explains, "I'm being honest with you. I'd heard all of these stories about how this moment (birth) was life-changing, but it wasn't like that for me. I was nervous for my wife, and I was happy that he was healthy… but that day, it was like meeting a stranger. I think that next night, it really clicked. I was looking at him, and all of a sudden, I got it."
The star has been entertaining the baby with lullabies and children's favorites around the clock and reveals he has even perfected the smelliest of daddy duties.
He says, "I've become a master at changing poopy diapers. And I can swaddle. I enjoy being swaddled myself!
"I sing to him all day and all night. When he's crying with somebody else and I hold him and I sing to him, he just stops. It's really cool. The songs I'm singing are not my hits – that's for sure. My number one go-to right now is 'Down by the Bay.'"


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Sigmar Polke, (born February 13, 1941, Oels, Germany [now Oleśnica, Poland]—died June 10, 2010, Cologne), German artist whose complex and layered paintings played an important role in the resurgence of modern German art.
Polke emigrated with his family from East Germany to West Germany in 1953, settling in Düsseldorf, where he studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie from 1961 to 1967. His paintings of the 1960s, done in a style known as Capitalist Realism, both mimicked and challenged American Pop art, using recognizable imagery often derived from photography and advertising to invite a more critical social and economic analysis of American capitalism and its ramifications. Polke's use of paint to replicate the half-tone dot process of newspaper photographic reproduction gave paintings such as Bunnies (1966)—a reference to the byname of the scantily clad hostesses at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Clubs for men—a blurred and dreary quality, ironically causing the women, dressed in sexy costumes, to physically and psychologically disappear from view. Polke began to layer images one atop another, and his interest in pattern led him to use commercially prepared decorative fabrics in the construction of his canvases.
Polke taught at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg from 1977 to 1991. In the 1980s he and other German artists—including Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, A.R. Penck, and Gerhard Richter—were part of a movement known as Neo-Expressionism, which garnered great attention in the United States. While Polke's interests, including photography and experimenting with a diverse range of painting materials, led him to eschew a signature style, some works—such as Raised Chair with Geese (1987–88), with its interwoven pictorial references (a rendering of a looming guard tower, line drawings of geese, and printed fabric with a pattern of eyeglasses, folding beach chairs, and folded beach umbrellas)—offered strange and compelling juxtapositions that are both allusive and ambiguous. For his overall contribution to the art of painting, Polke received the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale prize in 2002.


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The Girls of SEMA 2011!
Our editor John is still running around SEMA, busy as can be, trying to get all the photos and scoops he can. But that doesn't mean he's too busy to keep his priorities straight.
Because John's a man who knows what's important, he's done the right thing and taken plenty of photos of some of the most finely tuned ladies of SEMA 2011!
We've got lots more SEMA photos, even some with actual cars in them! Check 'em out here!


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The free version of the super cool ninja running game is released now!
The fantastic oriental ink graphics will show you an original Japanese Ninja World!
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Hired guns: Two lobbyists contracted to work for National Rifle Association
The looming showdown over guns at the Capitol keeps producing work for lobbyists under the gold dome.
The latest hire? Chris Howes, a Republican, and the head of the Howes Group, a Denver lobbying firm. Howes was hired by the National Rifle Association on Thursday, according to records with the Colorado Secretary of State's office. He said he is sub-contracting the NRA work with Collon Kennedy, a Democrat and lobbyist with the Denver firm of Colorado Communiqué.
The NRA's entry into the fray marks the third set of lobbyists hired in recent weeks. Last week, it was reported that that the lobbying duo of Adam Eichberg and Will Coyne had been hired to represent Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the organization founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the lobbying team of R.D. Sewald and Josh Hanfling had been hired to represent Magpul Industries Inc., the maker of high-capacity gun magazines.


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franzkekko wrote:Hi all, I'm using some preset generator for controlling my panogear with papymerlin (pandroidwiz on my phone). I saved scripts on my drive so I can use them offline. Unfortunately I lost the most interesting of these, a script to generate a time lapse preset based on 6 control points interpolated by bezier curves. I googled all evening but nothing, the page on this forum linked by google to the post is offline error 404. Also using forum research.
Is there anybody who saved the script?
Thanks in advance
franzkekko wrote:Thanks mediavets for the reply, it's not the script I was talking about.
However, chronomotion it's really Interesting. I tried to use it last month but parameters are impossible and don't understand all settings because i cant set all value i want. Also, bezier curves get crazy if you press wrong mouse key and there's no possibility to undo.
I installed all needed libraries for Java.
Any idea?
franzkekko wrote:Similar to other script, but in the option settings there was the possibility to choose the position of six fixed point (pan and tilt) and then the script create a smooth movement in a total position based on my decision
I have an XML made with it, but lost the HTML
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If recent history tells us anything about the future, next weekend's event in New York will have Bills fans shocked and potentially disappointed. Perhaps its too much Mel Kiper worship, but most fans feel if the draft gurus like the helmet-haired ESPN analyst predict a guy as a top 20 pick, the guy should be a top 20 pick. If Mel says the guys should go late in the first round and he gets picked in the top 15 people scream that the pick was a reach. A guy who gets selected a round later than the analysts say becomes a steal. A guy at a position ranked by analysts as the second best at his position shouldn't be picked ahead of the guy Mel has ranked in front of him – he becomes a bad pick.
I'm not trying to bash Mel – the guys knows players and their qualifications to transition from the college game into the NFL and its certainly a tall order to predict which player will go to which team at which position in the draft – but the guy is a TV analyst, not an NFL front office personnel guy, coach or even player scout. On Saturday morning Marv Levy and company will be staring at their draft board and Mel will be having his hair quaffed in a makeup chair – that should tell you plenty about the differences of these men and what they'll be doing all weekend.
Understandably, Mel Kiper is not shy about telling you what he thinks about certain players, where they should be drafted and to which teams they should go – that's his job as an analyst. Similarly understandable is that Marv Levy and company will NOT tell you what they think about any player, how he would fit in with the team and where he should be selected. Tipping your hand would be suicidal.
As a fan watching this weekend, you really only have one side of the story – that of the analyst. Plenty of picks, particularly very early on, will lineup with what Mel Kiper predicts. The draft moves along and the front office NFL guys and the analysts seem to be on the same page – you start thinking that Mel and his cohort really are smart guys.
When the Bills pick don't be surprised if they call out a name that causes your jaw to drop. THEY PICKED WHO? Last year the pick was Donte Whitner, a guy who was viewed as a "reach" because the analysts said he should have been available later. In 2003 Willis McGahee was the pick and you can still see the mark on my floor where my jaw hit (I still have a scar), By contrast, in 2002 the Bills selected Mike Williams just as many had predicted.
Although the analysts ridiculed Buffalo for the Whitner pick, he appears to be a solid player worthy of his selection position. The McGahee pick allowed the Bills to get rid of Travis Henry, although McGahee never became the premiere back the Bills thought they were getting. The Williams pick seemed like the right move, but it was a disaster. My point is that the value the pick the Bills make is not dependant on where the analysts think the player should be drafted, but what that player ultimately does on the field (and in some cases, off the field as well). So when Roger Goodell reads the selection card from the Bills on Saturday afternoon, make sure you're sitting down, and don't worry if Mel Kiper likes it or not.
On another note, I can confirm that hope is alive and well in Buffalo and throughout the legions of Bills fans worldwide. After a 7 year playoff drought, and constant promises of being a playoff contender next year, many fans are expecting good things. Sure, the Bills lost two starting linebackers, their #1 cornerback and primary running back without acquiring any replacements (can I remind everyone that the Bills only have 1 first round pick?) and the Bills seemingly have one of the most difficult schedules in the league, but hope spring eternal when you're a Bills fan. Perhaps people are just too caught up in the Sabres success or too used to thinking greatness is just around the corner to realize that at this point in the year the Bills are a weaker team than they were when the season ended (with a losing 7-9 record, I might add), but rose colored glasses seem to be the style. A recent unscientific poll shows a whopping 79% of polled fans feel the Bills will improve upon their win record from last year and nearly two thirds predict a winning record. A full 37% feel that the Bills are a team that will post double-digit wins.
I enjoy the team spirit and a never-say-die attitude that are so prevalent in Bills fans, but to think this is our year is absolutely crazy. Sure, anything can happen on any given Sunday, but to think there are 10 or more happy Mondays in your Fall future is on par with thinking you're a shoo-in to win Powerball because you bought $100 worth of tickets rather than the $1 pick your stupid brother-in-law bought – it just doesn't make sense to me (note to self – remember to hide this article and suck up to your brother-in-law if he hits the big one).
I'm sure I'll get hate mail and people will question my credentials as a fan for not predicting a 16-0 season, but I'm just not drinking that Kool-Aid. The Bills are a team with lots of holes and lots of young players. I think that if they have another solid draft they will be well positioned for the future, but they won't be contenders this season (and it pains me to say that – I live in New England). Yet again, this year's mantra will be "wait 'till next year".


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My Morning Jacket // Band Of The Year
Congratulations to a band that's not afraid to push the envelope. I wish I was at Madison Square Garden tonight. Stream the show live without commercials (Click Here).
Significant Shows:
Madison Square Garden
Greek Theatre – Los Angeles
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Radio City Music Hall
Glastonbury Festival
Bonnaroo Festival
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TV Appearances:
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
PBS: Austin City Limits – Austin, TX
CNN New Years Special
Evil Urges Debut #9 on The Billboard Chart.
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Prim Prim Studio-SakÀ Visual Identity
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Interview with PRIM PRIM studio : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. PRIM PRIM studio : Interior graphics telling different legends about the city of Druskininkai. Our aim was to resurrect the old with a new design. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. PRIM PRIM studio : Less direct narration, more symbols and metaphors. Less overload and boredom, more intriguing. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. PRIM PRIM studio : We hope that more and more people will spend their vacation in Sakà and learn legends about the region through our design. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. PRIM PRIM studio : Sakà is an archaic word meaning "story", "legend". We found it in synonym vocabulary. The best is that this word is not in use anymore, so people will learn it again. Educational purpose. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. PRIM PRIM studio : Fresh and up to date design for very archaic legends. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. PRIM PRIM studio : In this project architect studio "sprik" were working on the interior part. .
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Experience a favorite end-of-the-month event from 5 to 9 p.m. Feb. 23 in galleries, antique stores and shops along San Marco Avenue, between Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum and the Mission of Nombre de Dios.
Free parking is available streetside and in the Mission parking lot. The free event is sponsored by the San Marco Avenue Merchants Association.
The following is a list of participating merchants during the Feb. 23 event:
360 Boutique, 50 San Marco Ave., 342-4064: New fashions are available for the new year. A collection spring apparel is available - with hats and sandals as well. Live music will be performed by Todd Jones from 5 to 9 p.m. during Uptown Saturday Night. In addition, new decorative hair pins are on view.
Abbott Tract Artists, 31 San Marco Ave., 829-2934: Original art by owner Anita Sagarese and other First Coast artists will be featured this month, with more than 100 artworks on view on the first and second floor galleries.
Amistad, 67 A San Marco Ave., 547-2446 or 307-1913: New wines "good for the earth, body and soul" will be available. Special items include pillows featuring giclee reproductions of batik art from St. Augustine artist Wendy Tatter, South African jewelry and Haitian metal art. Amistad is a fair trade store featuring products that represent the themes of friendship and hospitality. Products include tablecloths and tableware, home decor, fine select wines, jewelry, pottery, spa products and gifts from around the world. Complimentary wine tasting will be from 5 to 9 p.m., and live music will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 23.
A Step Back in Time, 60 San Marco Ave., 810-5829, www.astepbackintimeantiques.com: Get ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day - eat, drink, and be Irish. Special guest, certified tea lecturer Barbara Huber-Spitzer, will serve green tea from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 23 during Uptown Saturday Night. Guests can sample a new green tea flavored with blueberries. Homebaked cookies also will be available. Antique teapots, tea cozies, and tea accessories will be featured. Fine antique furniture, American art pottery, sterling silver, U. S. coins, estate and contemporary jewelry, folksy kitsch, and Florida Highwaymen paintings also will be on display.
The Bead Chick, 78B San Marco Ave., 829-8829: Handmade jewelry by local artists and a wide selection of beads and jewelry-making supplies will be available.
BOOMA, 77 San Marco Ave., Suite 3, (207) 752-0719, boomagallery.com: A collection of antique furniture, lighting, accessories and fine art, with a focus on 20th century design, will be on view. This location also carries LAFCO products.
Claire's Collectibles, 78A San Marco Ave., 825-1122: Make a spring-themed card using rubber stamps during the event. Claire's offers a variety of rubber stamps and other accessories needed for creating one-of-a-kind, handmade cards.
Declaration Boutique, 77 San Marco Ave., 829-2310, www.declarationboutique.com: New chewbeads are in - necklaces for moms who have teething babies. Avaialble in many colors, these are made from 100-percent silicone beads (similar to pacifiers and nipples), soft on babies gums and emerging teeth, and are safe - no BPA, phthalates, cadmium, lead or metals. Home decor, bridal items and Scrabble items also are on view.
d. Hanks Design & Home, 56 1/2 San Marco Ave. 547-2884, www.dhankshome.com: New furnishings and accessories from the Atlanta market, as well as new additions from local artists and craftsmen, will be on view.
Etc., 81 San Marco Ave., 904-826-3997: Local artist John Beard will be featured during Uptown Saturday Night. Beard is a self-taught artist. His work has been featured in many renowned private collections, design related publications and exhibitions. Finding inspiration from daily life, he channels that energy to create on canvas what he is feeling.
Goldfinch boutique, 77 San Marco Ave., Suite A, 827-0749, www.goldfinchboutique.com: Winter apparel and accessories will be on display during Uptown Saturday Night.
Imagine Fine Art Printing, 58 B San Marco Ave., 904-874-7729, www.imaginefineartprinting.com: This location offers photo and art prints from digital files and a gallery space for local artists.
The Florida Olive Press, 35A San Marco Ave.: Flavored balsamic vinegars, pasta, fresh bulk olives, honey, olive oils and more are available in this location.
The St. Augustine Antique Emporium, 62 San Marco Ave., 829-0544: Antique collectibles, furniture, outdoor decor and vintage jewelry will be on view.
Signature Furniture, 56 San Marco Ave., 772-828-0640: Handcrafted furniture, cabinets and doors in the Arts & Crafts style with a contemporary design interpretation will be on view. This location is a custom furniture design/build business celebrating 35 years of finely crafted furniture by Bob Schmidt.
Uptown Antiques, 63 San Marco Ave., 824-9156: Antiques and jewelry will available. A large collection of Depression Glass and one-of-a-kind chandeliers also will be on view.
W.B. Tatter Studio Gallery, 76 San Marco Ave., 823-9263: This location has closed. Wendy Tatter's batik art can now be found in the Georgia Nick Gallery, 11A Aviles St.
To be listed in the Uptown Saturday Night story each month, please email@example.com about two weeks in advance of the event.


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Kevin Naranjo, Santa Clara, Black jar with sienna spots and rim plus sgraffito avanyu, wildlife, bear paw and geometric design
Pueblo: Santa Clara
Dimensions: 4 3/4 in H by 4 1/4 in Dia
Item Number: jysca9250
Price: $ 1295
Description: Black jar with sienna spots and rim plus sgraffito avanyu, wildlife, bear paw and geometric design
Condition: Excellentℑs=4
Signature: Kevin and Tricia Naranjo Santa Clara Pueblo San Ildefonso
Kevin NaranjoSanta Clara
Born in 1972 at Santa Clara Pueblo, Kevin Naranjo was given a Tewa name meaning Turquoise Mountain. He says he was inspired to learn the ancient tradition of hand coiling pottery by the time he was four, that inspiration coming from his family and his love of nature.
Kevin was born into a family of famous potters, including Luther Gutierrez (his great-grandfather), Dolores Curran (a maternal aunt) and Geri Naranjo (his mother). Geri is renowned for her miniature sgraffito (fine line incised) pottery, the traditional methods of which she taught to both Kevin and his sister, Monica Naranjo Romero.
Specializing in hand coiled black/sienna sgraffito pottery, Kevin gathers his clay from sacred grounds within Santa Clara Pueblo. He digs and prepares the clay, hand-coils and shapes his forms, then lets them dry for a few days. Then he stone polishes the surfaces and ground fires his pottery using an oxygen-reduction process to make the black canvas for his designs. After firing, he etches the pot to create wonderful scenes of wildlife that live in the area of his home on Santa Clara.
The first piece he made as a child was a dinosaur. He remembers it well: it sparked an interest in molding animal figurines. That first inspiration and practice evolved until now his pottery embodies beautiful symmetry, graceful lines and finely executed sgraffito designs like as the avanyu (water serpent), kiva steps and the feather pattern. Additional figures such as bears, eagles, bighorn sheep, deer and elk are incorporated into backgrounds of pueblo ruins and mountain views.
Since 2001, Kevin has been collaborating with Tricia Pena from San Ildefonso Pueblo. Her grandfather, the late Encarnacion Pena, was a member of the original San Ildefonso School of Painters. Together Kevin and Tricia are passing the art of pottery making on to their children.
Kevin has consistently earned awards for his sgraffito and miniature pottery since starting to compete in 1994. Most recently, he received Best of Division for miniature sgraffito at the 2006 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market.
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Santa Clara Pueblo
Ruins at Puye Cliffs, Santa Clara Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo straddles the Rio Grande about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. Of all the pueblos, Santa Clara has the largest number of potters.
The ancestral roots of the Santa Clara people have been traced to the pueblos in the Mesa Verde region in southwestern Colorado. When that area began to get dry between about 1100 and 1300, some of the people migrated to the Chama River Valley and constructed Poshuouinge (about 3 miles south of what is now Abiquiu on the edge of the mesa above the Chama River). Eventually reaching two and three stories high with up to 700 rooms on the ground floor, Poshuouinge was inhabited from about 1375 to about 1475. Drought then again forced the people to move, some of them going to the area of Puye (on the eastern slopes of the Pajarito Plateau of the Jemez Mountains) and others to Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo, along the Rio Grande). Beginning around 1580, drought forced the residents of the Puye area to relocate closer to the Rio Grande and they founded what we now know as Santa Clara Pueblo on the west bank of the river, between San Juan and San Ildefonso Pueblos.
In 1598 Spanish colonists from nearby Yunque (the seat of Spanish government near San Juan Pueblo) brought the first missionaries to Santa Clara. That led to the first mission church being built around 1622. However, the Santa Clarans chafed under the weight of Spanish rule like the other pueblos did and were in the forefront of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. One pueblo resident, a mixed black and Tewa man named Domingo Naranjo, was one of the rebellion's ringleaders. When Don Diego de Vargas came back to the area in 1694, he found most of the Santa Clarans on top of nearby Black Mesa (with the people of San Ildefonso). An extended siege didn't subdue them so eventually, the two sides negotiated a treaty and the people returned to their pueblo. However, successive invasions and occupations by northern Europeans took their toll on the tribe over the next 250 years. The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 almost wiped them out.
Today, Santa Clara Pueblo is home to as many as 2,600 people and they comprise probably the largest per capita number of artists of any North American tribe (estimates of the number of potters run as high as 1-in-4 residents).
Today's pottery from Santa Clara is typically either black or red. It is usually highly polished and designs might be deeply carved or etched ("sgraffito") into the pot's surface. The water serpent, ("avanyu"), is a traditional design motif of Santa Clara pottery. Another motif comes from the legend that a bear helped the people find water during a drought. The bear paw has appeared on their pottery ever since.
One of the reasons for the distinction this pueblo has received is because of the evolving artistry the potters have brought to the craft. Not only did this pueblo produce excellent black and redware, several notable innovations helped move pottery from the realm of utilitarian vessels into the domain of art. Different styles of polychrome redware emerged in the 1920's-1930's. In the early 1960's experiments with stone inlay, incising and double firing began. Modern potters have also extended the tradition with unusual shapes, slips and designs, illustrating what one Santa Clara potter said: "At Santa Clara, being non-traditional is the tradition." (This refers strictly to artistic expression; the method of creating pottery remains traditional).
Santa Clara Pueblo is home to a number of famous pottery families: Tafoya, Baca, Gutierrez, Naranjo, Suazo, Chavarria, Garcia, Vigil, Tapia - to name a few.
Santa Clara Pueblo at Wikipedia
Pueblos of the Rio Grande, Daniel Gibson, ISBN-13:978-1-887896-26-9, Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001
Upper photo courtesy of Einar Kvaran, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
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Pottery Care & Consideration
- The most obvious tip: Yes, the pots will break if you drop them!
- Do not expose pottery to water (Inside or outside). Do not wipe with a damp cloth.
- Dust pottery only with a soft, smooth cloth (no terry cloth or textured fabric). A very soft paintbrush (sable or camel) can be used.
- Always use two hands to carry your pot: one on top and one on the bottom, or one hand on each side. Be careful with handles, they can be fragile. Do not grip or lift pots by the rim. Take care when wearing jewelry, rings can scratch the finish.
- Place a piece of felt or cloth between the pot and the shelf to protect the signature.
- Avoid exposing pottery to extreme temperature changes.
For those who live in "earthquake country" (also good for mischievous pets):
- Weigh pots down with a small zip lock bag containing sand, glass marbles, rice, etc. Do not fill the pot more than one third full as you want them bottom heavy. Remember to remove the weight before moving.
- Secure your shelves; make sure they are well attached to the walls. Shelf brackets should be of sufficient length and strength to support the weight of your pottery.
- Prevent pots from sliding. Consider attaching a small wooden molding to the front of shelves. Line shelves with non-slip material (a thin sheet of rubber foam, Styrofoam sheeting, etc.)
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You've got to admit you are slightly intrigued by the Heather Lins Home 3-D Eye Chart pillow. Or maybe you are thinking, is that really the form of human anatomy sewn on to a pillow in the Science Project Collection? Yes it is. Now meet the mastermind behind these highly creative and rather quirky Heather Lins Home pieces, Heather Lins. Enjoy!
Tell us a bit about your background. How did you get started in the design industry and how you got to where you are today.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an interior designer. In college, I got interested in graphic design because I had always enjoyed art and writing and it seemed like an area where I could blend the two. However, I kept having ideas for designs that were outside the traditional client/designer relationship. (3-D Eye Chart Pillow anyone?) In 2008, I entered a competition for up and coming designers held by the New York International Gift Fair, the A+: Young Designers Platform. To my surprise, I won one of three exhibit spaces and debuted my home textile collection at the nation's largest gift fair.
Did you have good or bad experiences at the doctor (i.e. what provoked the eye chart and anatomy pillows)?
No. My husband accuses me of being a hypochondriac so maybe I'm working out some issues.
How would you describe your design style?
A writer once called my work "very literate." I like that. I often start brainstorming by free associating words and then sketching. I strive to make my designs modern, accessible, witty and beautiful.
Love your sketches for your Numbered Edition (among your many other drawings!). Where do you do most of your doodling?
Just about anywhere and everywhere.
We have to talk about the Science Project Collection. Brings me back to elementary school when I was almost a finalist with my science fair project (think cotton swabs of dog saliva and testing antibacterial creams…aka thanks for doing my project, Dad!). What inspired you to dive into such a theme?
I have always found science diagrams very interesting and beautiful. I find I am more able to see their beauty if I take them out of their usual context (science class) and put them someplace unexpected — like on pillows! I love designs that are beautiful and quirky.
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MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - An unlicensed plastic surgeon working along the U.S.-Mexico border allegedly injected her victims with silicone instead of the typical Botox or saline treatments, and may have caused one client to nearly lose her leg, a Texas sheriff said Thursday.
Nohemi Gabriela Gonzalez, 45, was charged Thursday with practicing medicine without a license, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines.
She could also face charges of manslaughter or murder if investigators confirm that a second woman's death was related to treatments she provided, officials said.
Authorities in Hidalgo County, on the Texas-Mexico border about 60 miles west of the Gulf of Mexico, said Gonzalez solicited as many as 30 men and women seeking Botox injections and other treatments for their buttocks, legs and faces.
Many of the victims were immigrants in the country illegally, including exotic dancers who have eluded investigators, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said.
Authorities are still investigating whether one of her clients died as a result of the treatments.
Investigators learned of the underground practice when a victim traveled to Mexico to see a doctor after she had trouble breathing and complained of burning sensations in her ankles, according to a criminal complaint.
According to the complaint, the doctor told the woman, who was not identified, that she had been injected with silicone and there was nothing he could do.
The victim had the silicone removed from her legs at a South Texas hospital, where she remains a patient, Trevino said.
The woman told investigators she received what she had been told were Botox treatments at Gonzalez's house in Edinburg, Texas, and paid $120 — a discounted rate, the complaint says.
A flyer in Spanish recovered by investigators when they arrested Gonzalez on Wednesday claimed that her treatments could help patients reduce wrinkles and add volume to their hips, buttocks, legs and nose. Treatments started at $250, it said.
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Fonda has won two Academy Awards
during her legendary acting career. She is
an activist on issues such as the environment,
human rights, and the empowerment of women
and girls, with much of her work devoted
to the program she founded in 1995, the Georgia
Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.
Fonda was named Goodwill Ambassador for the
United Nations Population Fund in 994, and
currently is a member of the board of the
Women's Media Center, which she helped
found in 2004. She is the author of 23 home
exercise videos, 3 audio recordings, five
books, and a best-selling memoir, My
Life So Far.
that Rigoberta said this morning when she used
the word "product" – I was
a product. Products aren't activists.
I was a product of "be nice", I
was a product of "please", and "you
don't know what you know", and
you don't stir the pot. In fact I was
the product known as Barbarella!
it was the Vietnam War and discovering what
was going on there that turned me into an activist.
And then I began to not be a product anymore.
[women] are supposed to be supportive and malleable
and the woman behind the man. And so I think
when we step out of that product role, I think
that we are really vilified...I sometimes wonder
if it had been Paul Newman, would it have been
quite the same?
When things were really, really bad….but
what makes the difference is friends – and
they were all women. And I wasn't really
a feminist then, but I did have to notice that
it was the women who enfolded me in their wings
and with their heart, and I just sort of knew
that we would go on. Maybe not as individuals,
but as a movement.
that thing that makes women more fortunate
than men. I think men are at a tremendous disadvantage
because they have a harder time having a heartful,
networking group – they don't do
that like women do. And it's great strength
that we have.
that's what I think of what I think of
women, power and peace. I think of living our
deepest, most loving humanity. And every one
of us, no matter what we do or who we are,
we become powerful.
we can just hold that when we go home, to live
our deepest humanity, we will be a ripple to
impact other people.
importance of really being informed, and trying
to stay as credible – I mean, I've
had to work hard to regain some credibility...It's
hard when you've made the kind of mistakes
that I've made.
you can do changes. You become more patient.
Things are not so black and white – grey
is a good color.
to listen, and I mean really listen, listen
to your heart to people. People who don't
agree with you. When someone feels heard, they
are much more apt to hear you.
we are talking about a shift in consciousness,
and so we have to change people - inside we
have to change.
think one of the big problems with Congress
is that they don't have any epiphanies...They
don't have the opportunity to be exposed
to the kind of things we are exposed to.
is your one big dream in this lifetime? That
we stop global dreaming...We have to create
a tipping point where we understand that
we're sh—ting in our kennel – even
dogs don't do that! That we have to
preserve our life support system, which is
the Earth, and I think that can happen during
my life.
the other thing, which is patriarchy, that's
not going to happen during my life….but
we've got to keep at it.
worked hard in all kinds of different ways – you
only know some of them – to get over
fear of intimacy, and it's the greatest
thing. And I'm learning how to open my
guess the burning thing that I think about
a lot is – what do we do about our sons? …Doing
everything we can to keep our sons and grandsons
emotionally literate – to keep them connected
at the heart...We have to raise sons who are
capable of intimacy and love and compassion.
girls change, everything changes.
girls change, boys come along.
our understanding of why men are turned into
what they've turned into, and opening
our hearts to them.
looks like people living in the situation where
they feel seen and heard and valued and loved.
It's love, it's as simple as that,
where people aren't scared.
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As mentioned in the site, the purpose of this is to eliminate blowback, which 'deletes' the semi-auto aspect of your blowback Spyder.
From there, you need to disconnect your striker (or hammer) from your bolt, but maintain it's orientation otherwise it will not catch the sear. This is function is pretty obvious, as you need to be able to pull the bolt back to 1. Cock the marker, and 2. load the chamber, but then 3. be able to push the bolt back forwards to close the chamber without the striker.
There are a number of ways to achieve this. You can slot the striker such that there is a channel for the bolt pin to slide back and forth in, or you can permanently affix a pin coming up from the striker, and have the bolt catch it on it's way back.
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A woman accused of plotting to have her parents killed in a staged home invasion told a Toronto-area court Wednesday it was her own murder she was trying to orchestrate after plunging into a deep depression over her strained family life.
Jennifer Pan, 27, testified she fell out with her family in the summer of 2010 after they discovered she'd been lying to them for years about her studies, her work and her relationship with a man they disapproved of — her on again, off again boyfriend and co-accused, Daniel Wong.
Feeling isolated and distraught, she at first tried to take her own life, then arranged to have someone else carry out the killing for $10,000, she told a Newmarket court in her second day on the stand.
Suicide would have brought shame on her family, and her insurance policy, which listed her younger brother as a beneficiary, would be nullified if she died at her own hands, Pan said.
But she said she changed her mind that fall after enrolling at a Toronto college, a move that seemed to restore her parents' trust and pave the way for reconciliation, she said.
"My life started to look different in my eyes," she said.
She previously told the court she had abandoned any plans to have her father killed after an earlier attempt failed because the man she hired took off with her money. She has also said she didn't know the break-in was planned and never intended for her mother to die.
Pan, Wong and three others were charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder following the attack at the family home in Markham on Nov. 8, 2010.
Her mother, Bieh Ha Pan, 53, was shot dead. Her father, Hann Pan, 60, was shot in the face but survived.
The Crown alleges Pan hatched a plan to have her parents murdered so that she could be with Wong, who they had forbidden her from seeing. As the date grew closer, however, she began to doubt his affection and was desperate to lure him back, prosecutors have said.
Pan testified she hired someone she knew only as Homeboy to kill her but made him swear to tell Wong the target was her father. Prosecutors have said Homeboy is the nickname for another of the accused, Lenford Crawford.
In the weeks leading up to the killing, Pan repeatedly told Homeboy she was calling off the deal, even negotiating to pay $8,500 in cancellation fees, she said.
Phone records presented in court showed a flurry of calls and texts between Pan and Homeboy on Oct. 31, 2010, which she said were about the plan.
"I was trying to convey to him that I wanted to call it off… I wanted to live," she said.
It took more than a day to sort things out with Homeboy and Wong, but by the end of Nov. 2, "everyone was in agreement that it was over," she said.
That day, Wong texted her saying he loved his new girlfriend, according to messages shown in court. Pan told him she would "call it off" as a result, to which he replied: "U said you wanted this with or without me."
Pan told the court Wednesday they were no longer together at the time and denied that a series of texts in which she asked Wong whether he still loved her and wanted to be with her had any romantic connotations.
"I just wanted him as a friend," she said.
She also dismissed the Crown's allegations that text messages from Homeboy the morning of the attack — in which he referred to that night as "game time" — had anything to do with a plan to kill her parents.
Those messages were attempts to schedule a time where he could pick up the money she owed for the cancelled suicide plot, she said.
Pan is set to resume her testimony Thursday.
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The Battle of Arnhem : 17th – 26th September 1944
The Battle of Crete : 20th May – 1st June 1941
This is hill107.net, a site designed to present material relating to the Battle of Arnhem, the Battle of Crete and, eventually, some of the other major Airborne Operations of the Second World War.
Hill 107 is the hill overlooking Maleme airfield in Crete, the site of the initial attacks during the German airborne invasion of the island in May 1941 – codenamed 'Unternehmen Merkur' ('Operation Mercury'), the first ever major airborne invasion in history. This hill is now the site of a German War Cemetery.
In spite of the site title the content at present focuses mainly on the Battle of Arnhem and contains all material previously included on my website nntk.net, which itself has undergone a major restyle and upgrade.
The site includes a summary of the Operation Market Garden plan, historical documents relating to the Battle of Arnhem, contemporary newspaper reporting and archive images of the Battle of Arnhem, some war poetry inspired by the battles and modern day photographs of some sites relating to the Battle of Crete – including Hill 107 itself. There is also content about General Sir John Hackett and about the commemoration of the battles. Use the drop down menus from the navigation bar at the top of the page to explore further!
Images link to relevant site areas
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Clobber Australia is a manufacturer of Australian Made sheepskin footwear and associated products. The company has been in operation for over 30 years. In the last 5 years our products have become increasingly popular in the Northern Hemisphere hence we are wanting to establish a fresh new logo that will help develop and grow our branding in this part of the world. Besides the functional aspects of sheepskin footwear (ugg boots) they have also become a hot fashion item, particularly in Europe and North America, and Asia. We focus on the more quality end of the market using only the finest quality sheepskins and other materials. We would want to appeal more so to the younger age-bracket (12-35). The key points to consider in designing the logo would be fun, fashionable, cool, premium quality product, Australian, simple yet effective. An example of the leading company within our industry is "UGG AUSTRALIA" - http://www.uggaustralia.com. We will aim to position ourselves at a similar level.
We are targeting a younger age group (12-35) in both Australia as well as Europe, North America & Asia.
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Coral reef conservation
Coral reef facts
- Corals are tiny, soft-bodied animals that belong to the same group as jellyfish and anemones.
- Coral reefs are sometimes nicknamed the 'rainforests of the oceans' because of the number of different species that live there.
- Coral reefs are under severe threat from climate change, pollution, overfishing and sedimentation.
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- What is a coral?
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- How do corals get their food?
- Where are coral reefs found?
- Why are coral reefs important for biodiversity?
- Why are coral reefs under threat?
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What is a coral?
Corals are actually tiny, soft-bodied animals that belong to the same group as jellyfish and sea anemones, the Cnidarians. An individual coral animal is called a polyp. Coral polyps can live alone, but typically polyps live in colonies that may consist of hundreds to hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Corals are split into two main groups: soft corals and hard corals. Hard corals, also known as reef building corals, are the best-known type of coral, forming the large, colourful reefs found in clear, tropical seas. There are over 800 known species of reef-building coral.
How do coral reefs form?
The polyps of reef-building corals have a hard, protective calcium carbonate (limestone) skeleton, which attaches to a rock on the sea floor. Coral polyps can divide, or bud, into thousands of clones which are genetically identical to each other. Reefs begin to form as the hard skeletons of the living and dead polyps in a coral colony cement together.
As the coral colony grows over hundreds and thousands of years, it joins with other colonies and become a reef. Tropical reefs can grow at rates of 1 to 100 centimetres per year and can form huge structures over incredibly long periods of time, making them the largest and oldest living systems on Earth. Some of the coral reefs that exist today began growing over 50 million years ago.
How do corals get their food?
The polyps of reef-building corals have a special symbiotic relationship with single-celled algae, called zooxanthellae, which benefits both the algae and the coral. The zooxanthellae live inside the tissues of the coral and capture energy from the sun through photosynthesis, providing the coral with food. Up to 90% of a coral's nutrients are obtained from the algae. In return, the coral provides the algae with protection, access to sunlight, and nutrients from plankton that is captured by the polyp.
Like jellyfish and sea anemones, coral polyps also have stinging tentacles that can they use to catch food. Corals mainly feed at night, extending the tentacles into the water current to catch plankton, small food particles and sometimes even small fish.
Where are coral reefs found?
Corals need salt water to survive and are found throughout the oceans, from deep, cold waters to shallow, tropical seas.
The most familiar and well-known corals, the reef-building corals, come from tropical regions. They grow best in warm, clear, shallow waters where lots of sunlight is able to filter through the water column to reach the symbiotic algae that live within their tissues.
Why are coral reefs important for biodiversity?
Coral reefs are among the most valuable ecosystems on Earth, forming massive, complex habitats for thousands of other species. Although coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, the numbers of species living in, on and around coral reefs rivals even the most diverse tropical forests, including the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Home to an estimated 2 million species, coral reefs are sometimes nicknamed the 'rainforests of the oceans' because of their staggeringly rich biodiversity.
As well as supporting an enormous variety of species, tropical coral reef ecosystems are also important to human health and well-being. Coral reefs are vital to the world's fisheries, forming nurseries for about a quarter of the ocean's fish and providing a source of income for local communities, as well as national and international fishing companies.
In coastal areas, coral reefs provide an important natural barrier against waves, hurricanes, typhoons and even tsunamis, helping to prevent coastal erosion and flooding. The beauty and diversity of coral reefs make them important tourist attractions which help to generate income and create jobs for local communities. Coral reefs are also becoming increasingly important in medicine, and coral reef organisms are already being used in treatments for diseases like cancer and HIV.
Why are coral reefs under threat?
Coral reefs are becoming increasingly threatened, and scientists estimate that the threats to these delicate ecosystems, which include climate change, pollution, overfishing and sedimentation, could result in the loss of a third of the world's remaining coral reefs within the next 30 years.
Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest global threats to coral reefs. Rising sea temperatures mean that a process called coral bleaching, where the corals lose their symbiotic zooxanthellae because of the stress of being exposed to extreme temperatures, is becoming much more frequent. Coral bleaching events cause many corals to die as they can no longer obtain enough nutrients and begin to starve. Coral reefs that suffer bleaching can take years or even decades to recover. Climate change also causes something called ocean acidification, as more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is absorbed into the ocean, altering the water chemistry. As the oceans become more acidic, it reduces the ability of corals to build their limestone skeletons.
Coral conservation
Coral reef ecosystems are threatened around the world. As a result, many marine conservation programmes have been developed by conservation organisations which aim to study and conserve coral reefs. Some of these conservation organisations work locally, while other organisations have developed global initiatives such as Reef Check and the International Coral Reef Initiative, allowing scientists to share and compare the data they collect.
Coral conservation is complex; integrating many different conservation management approaches which consider all aspects of coral ecosystems, as well as the needs of the people and communities that rely on their resources. Education, outreach and community engagement are often a key component of conservation programmes and can help to reduce a number of threats, such as over-fishing and land-based pollution.
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are one of the most effective ways to protect and restore coral reef ecosystems, especially when they are used in combination with additional conservation and management strategies.
Research and monitoring of coral reefs is also vitally important in ensuring that the world's reefs remain healthy. Initiatives such as the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) use satellite data on sea surface temperature to alert scientists, conservation managers and decision-makers around the work to the risk of coral bleaching, and are even using new technologies to predict future coral bleaching events before they occur.
Find out more
Find out more about coral reef conservation:
- Coral Cay Conservation
- Earthwatch - Research Focus, Coral Reefs
- International Coral Reef Initiative
- NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Programme
- Reefbase
- Reef Check
- WWF - Coral Reefs
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Explore the real Science behind Team WILD's aquatic mission to survey coral reef health: Chagos case study.
Why do Root and Flora, our Team WILD science superheroes, need help surveying coral reefs in the Chagos Archipelago? Why do scientists survey coral reefs and how do they do it?
Coral reef conservation – Chagos case study
The Chagos Marine Reserve is the world's largest marine reserve, home to some of the healthiest reef ecosystems and cleanest waters in the world. The spectacularly vibrant coral reefs of Chagos are home to an astounding variety of marine life.
Chagos is one of the few marine ecosystems where human activities haven't yet had a big impact, making it important for global scientific research that aims to help our understanding of climate change, tropical marine ecosystems and the impacts of commercial fisheries.
Where is Chagos?
Chagos is an archipelago of 55 tiny islands in the central Indian Ocean and spans thousands of miles of remote tropical ocean. The Chagos Islands and the waters that surround them are a UK Overseas Territory, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
Why is Chagos important?
The Chagos Archipelago is an exceptionally diverse ecosystem, supporting an exceptional diversity of species and a vast number of different habitats. Chagos has been desgnated as the world's largest no-take Marine Protected Area (which means that no commercial fishing is allowed), providing a safe haven for the region's rich marine life.
Marine Protected Areas, such as the Chagos Marine Reserve, provide species with vital protection from human exploitation and help to restore marine ecosystems and the species they support. In Chagos, this includes many threatened species such as green turtles, hawksbill turtles and a range of shark species, along with globally important populations of seabirds.
Coral conservation in Chagos
The coral reefs in Chagos are some of the healthiest and most resilient reef systems in the world. Chagos is one of the few marine reserves where humans haven't yet had a very big impact on the environment, and because the coral reefs there are in such good condition they are an important benchmark for coral conservation.
The waters around Chagos support over 220 coral species and account for almost half of the recorded species of the entire Indian Ocean, ranging from shallow water brain corals, such as the endemic brain coral, to staghorn corals and a variety of other species that flourish in the deepwater habitats.
Scientists working in Chagos can study the complex, diverse and relatively pristine reef ecosystems and compare the effects that major threats to coral reefs, such as climate change and the impacts of commercial fisheries, are having on the reefs in Chagos compared with the effects that the same threats are having on less healthy or less well protected reefs in other parts of the world.
How and why do scientists survey corals reefs?
There are many different ways for scientists to survey coral reefs and the different types of species that are found there. There are also many different reasons why scientists need to survey coral reefs, from simply collecting data on the different kinds of species that live on the reef, to monitoring the health or recovery of the reef and the effects that climate change, fishing and other factors are having on the whole coral reef ecosystem.
Scientists have many different ways of carrying out these surveys, but most coral reef surveys involve undertaking transects (surveys along a straight line) at various depths across the reef in order to gather detailed information from different habitats. Divers will swim along transects in a given direction and will survey the reef at different points, marking each point using a GPS so that the transect can be repeated to gather data over time.
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... err, probably next year, lol.
Its this time of the year where prices of outbound tour packages drop bottom, commend it to lean time, working class begin all preparations for the new calendar year during this month, thus traveling isn't an option but what's worst - travel agencies will come luring us with 70% discount travel coupons, ahh, seriously, this maddens me.
Anyway, if you've been clever and have planned your travels well, probably by now you're already en route to 'The City Beautiful' Orlando, yeah; just venting my setbacks here as it's been a long standing plan to visit Florida but here I am can't even get out of domestic and academic carousel.
It'll take me around 21 hours by plane from Davao City to reach this castle in Florida.
Nonetheless, if you have plans to travel to Orlando in Florida, US of A and anxious about expensive accommodation, try checking these Orlando Hotels as they offer affordable accommodation while touring around Legoland and Disneyland and if you need guide or resources on what other things to do, check out 'Things to do in Orlando' on Facebook.
Ahhh, seriously, I really have to move my butt now or I'll end up touring virtually again. Tata, I need to see my agent.


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Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Surgery at UCSF, Surgical Director of the Pediatric Renal Transplantation Program and Surgical Director of the Pancreas Transplant Program. He was trained at the University of Minnesota, completing a surgical residency before coming to UCSF for a transplant fellowship. He joined the UCSF faculty in 1992.
Recently, a clincial investigation on which Dr. Stock served as principal investigator led the passage of the Hope Act lifting the ban on research for transplanting organs between HIV-positive donors and recipients.
Highly respected by his peers, Dr. Stock was named to the list of U.S. News "Top Doctors," which denotes the top 10% of physicians within a region practicing a given specialty. He is a frequent presenter on issues related to transplantation and immunosuppression, and holds membership in numerous professional and honorary societies. Dr. Stock specializes in liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation.
Pancreatic Islet Transplantation
The translational research in the field of pancreatic islets revolves around clinical trials of the safety and efficacy of islet transplantation in patients with Type I diabetes. The clinical trials are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). These clinical trials focus on novel immunosuppressive strategies that utilize co-stimulatory blockade to prevent the immune response against pancreatic islets with a regimen that is not toxic to kidneys or beta cells.
Related research involves improving the techniques required for isolating pancreatic islets from the pancreas, which is being conducted in a fully compliant GMP laboratory facility. The study of the alloimmune and autoimmune response following islet transplantation will be conducted to determine the efficacy of the immunosuppressive strategies. Further translational studies will include methods of expanding the source of beta cells, using direct proliferation, as well as manipulation of precursor cells localized in the adult pancreas. We are currently funded (PI) for a translational grant from California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to bring embryonic stem cell-derived beta cells to a clinical trial.
Solid Organ Transplantation in People with HIV
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Win32::Codepage - get Win32 codepage information
Copyright 2005 Clotho Advanced Media, Inc., <firstname.lastname@example.com>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
use Win32::Codepage;
print "Current language: " . Win32::Codepage::get_codepage() . "\n"; # e.g. "en-us"
print "Install language: " . Win32::Codepage::get_install_codepage() . "\n";
use Encode qw(encode);
my $w32encoding = Win32::Codepage::get_encoding(); # e.g. "cp1252"
my $encoding = $w32encoding ? Encode::resolve_alias($w32encoding) : '';
print $encoding ? encode($string, $encoding) : $string;
This module is intended as a companion to Win32::Locale. That module offers information about user prefs for language and locale. However, Windows has a separate setting for how files and filenames are encoded by default, which is specified by the "codepage" (a legacy term from DOS days). It is possible to be on a computer whose language, date, currency, etc are set to English, but the file contents and filesystem names default to SHIFT-JIS (Japanese) encoding.
This module offers information about that codepage, which allows your Perl code to know what encoding to expect for file names and file contents.
On Windows XP, you can change the current codepage from the default via Control Panel > Regional and Language Settings > Advanced tab. If you change it to, say, Japanese and then reboot, the default codepage will be cp932, which is Microsoft's version of SHIFT-JIS. This will allow non-Unicode Windows applications (like ActiveState Perl) to read filenames that contain Japanese characters. If you have files named with Japanese characters but your codepage is set to cp1252 (Microsoft's version of ISO-latin-1), then the foreign characters in the filename appear as
? to Perl.
If there's a better way around this than messing with codepages, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I hate that I ever had to write this module...
I tried to contact the author of that module to get him to extend his distribution to include the codepage functionality, but I received no response for seven months. So, I created this module. See the RT ticket: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11739
- get_codepage
Returns the language name for the current codepage language. For example
ja. Returns false if the codepage language cannot be identified.
If this function is passed an argument (not recommended), then it returns the language name for the specified language ID instead of the system language ID.
- get_install_codepage
Returns the language name for the installed codepage language. This is the same as get_codepage(), but refers to the codepage that was the default when Windows was first installed.
- get_encoding
Returns an encoding name usable with Encode.pm based on the current codepage. For example,
cp1252for iso-8859-1 (latin-1) or
cp932for Shift-JIS Japanese. Returns false if an encoding cannot be identified.
Note: this only returns encoding names that start with
- get_ms_codepage
Returns the numeric language ID for the current codepage language. For example
0x0409for en-us or
0x0411for ja. Returns false if the codepage cannot be identified.
- get_ms_install_codepage
Returns the numeric language ID for the installed codepage language. This is the same as get_ms_codepage(), but refers to the codepage that was the default when Windows was first installed.
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Bruce Mayhill brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 88 Designs von 29 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Looking to re-vamp my business image and I need a great logo that can tie everything together. I want it to have a bit of style but it should also hint at fun. (I want people to be laughing while they write me a humongous check!)
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Desired Color Scheme:
Accepted File Formats:
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I am looking to market to the high-end client that isn't afraid to spend money on photography. I do not want any camera related graphics and the color scheme is open as it is currently non-existent. On the artsy side is fine but it can't go overboard as a lot of my ideal clients are very literal and won't get it if you do too good of a job. I want to sell a sense of style and I want them to be fully caught up in the experience.
To summarize...artsy, sophisticated, and a touch of fun thrown in.
Hopefully, this helps.
Also, here is a link to my website and blog to give you an idea of wht is going on. Website is being updated as we speak.
I will try to comment on each submission so please do not delete and please remember, if you are not selected, you are still doing a hell-of-a-lot better job than i could ever dream of doing.
Thank you all for your time. Have fun and good luck.
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So it occurred to me that I know there are at least a few Texas folk on this board who I'd love to get to say hi to in real life. I was wondering if anyone (be you native Texan or traveling in) is planning to attend Comicpalooza in Houston in May? :3 Twinflame and I will be running a booth on Saturday (selling his books! woooo) and we'd love to get a chance to meet people if possible!
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A while back I was talking with an A&P mechanic about human factors, working environments and the pressure they often feel in pushing their personal limits. He said to me, "I can't wait for the day that I report an error to my manager and am rewarded with a bonus or a trip to Hawaii because I have potentially saved lives." It took me a while to digest what he had said, but he was way ahead of me in understanding one thing.
During the Rotor & Wing Safety & Training Summit in June, one of our expert panel members, Jerry Allen of Baines Simmons Americas, an airworthiness and aviation safety consulting and training firm, mentioned the term "just culture" during his presentation on human factors. After the presentation, someone asked him to elaborate on what just culture is. It got me thinking that there are some folks who might never have heard of this philosophical movement in the safety and human factors area.
James Reason, who appears to be the first to coin or use the term, is the author of "Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents," and describes a just culture as an atmosphere of trust in which people are encouraged (even rewarded) for providing essential safety-related information, but in which they are also clear about where the line must be drawn between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
Just culture is being embraced in the medical community and in some aviation communities, as a safety system that facilitates open communication within an organization, accountability, and making safe behavioral choices among workers. Having a just culture in your working environment encourages workers in any field to come forward and report mistakes that have been made.
People seem to have strong feelings about this philosophy. Some say it allows people to go ahead and make mistakes, just as long as they report them. Others think it is the wave of the future and are prophesying that it is the only way we will make progress in safety. Contrary to the nay-sayers, just culture is not a "blame-free" approach to safety. Obviously a blame-free approach that would allow someone to willfully and recklessly make unsafe choices can't work in aviation.
But if you have worked in an environment where fear drives the decisions being made by workers, then you understand how safety can suffer. That kind of culture is known as a punitive culture. Negative outcomes are met with disciplinary action or with someone losing their job. This has the opposite effect of the one intended—safety. It simply encourages people to be less than honest for fear of embarrassment, retribution or worse, losing their livelihood.
Some of the main ideas that are established in a just culture include the benefits of having a learning culture versus a blaming culture and establishing where the border between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" behavior should be. Having a learning culture includes taking the reports of mistakes and analyzing them to see why they happened. Was the procedure wrong or easily misunderstood? Was the person on duty too long? Was the manual incorrect?
This is the idea behind NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS). Most of you know this program but if you want to learn more, I wrote about it in the January issue this year. But one major flaw is that the information gathered doesn't always get disseminated to the right people. I flew with a 30-year captain just before his retirement. He told me that over the course of his 30 years of flying, he had submitted numerous reports (more than 100). Most were for simple things like an altitude bust. But he had never seen any data based on those reports (although it is accessible online). He also said that he had never gotten a follow-up phone call about any of the reports.
This conversation was prompted by me telling him that after filing an ASRS report, I had quickly gotten a follow-up phone call requesting more info. To me the missing part of the ASRS is that follow-up and it is key to just culture. Open communication and discussion about why things went wrong are crucial.
According to David Marx, founder of the Just Culture Community (www.justculture.org), open communication about system errors, risks and mistakes is key. In his new book entitled, "Whack-a-Mole," Marx says, "We all take risks in life. We all make choices weighing one risk against another." We do these types of analyses every day. But it is when we do the analysis and see the risk as "substantial or unjustifiable" but still choose to take the risk to put ourselves or others in harm's way, that it becomes a problem.
Marx also emphasizes that a well-established system of accountability is needed to ensure the success of such a culture. Marx wrote in the inaugural issue of their newsletter: "It is an organization that recognizes that we as humans are fallible; however, it recognizes that in most circumstances, we do have control of our behavioral choices—whether we are an executive, a manager, or a staff member. It is an organization that understands shared accountability—that both good system design and good behavioral choices of staff together produce good results. It has to be both." I encourage you to learn more about just culture and make your own judgment.


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