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The Natural World
The Function of Feathers
For birds of the desert Southwest, feathers are essential
for everything from flight to finding a mate.
by Mary Syrett
What comes to mind first when thinking about birds? It might be the brilliant red of a cardinal, the bright hue of a bluebird, the mottled brown of the very spoiled female mallard who lives in my backyard, or a hawk soaring over the Southwest. You might think about birds in one way or another every day, but how often do you contemplate a bird's feathers?
To warm up after a cold desert night, a roadrunner will turn its back to the sun, fluff its back feathers, and expose skin along its back. This skin is black in order to absorb more solar energy.
The most noticeable feature of a bird is in fact its feathers, which are perfectly designed for a multitude of functions. They are light but very strong, and flexible but tough. Feathers do not grow all over a bird. Their beaks and eyes have no feathers and most birds have featherless legs and feet.
If you are a birder who has come for the first time to the American Southwest, you may be in for some surprises. The number of species that have found a desirable place to live in the region's desert basins and mountain ranges may take you aback. You may also be surprised by birds' resourcefulness in coping with an arid and often unforgiving environment.
Among the birds that make their home in the Southwest are the southwestern willow flycatcher, the Gila woodpecker, the Mexican jay, the greater roadrunner (the state bird of New Mexico), the yellow-headed blackbird, great blue herons, the pyrrhulaxia (desert cardinal), and the black-chinned sparrow. Also often seen here are vultures, ibises, quail, wrens, magpies, bald eagles and grebes.
Types of Feathers
Birds have between 1,000 and 25,000 feathers, depending on the species. Larger birds have more feathers; the swan, with its long neck, has the most. Feathers fall into five categories:
- Contour feathers are those that cover the body of a bird and provide the basic color. These overlap like roof shingles to give a bird an aerodynamic shape.
- Flight feathers on the wings are specialized contour feathers. These provide a lightweight, broad surface that pushes against air to make flight possible.
- Down feathers are the fluffy feathers that form the downy plumage of chicks, creatures born with feathers that can move about soon after hatching. Down acts as insulation, keeping birds warm.
- Tail feathers provide lift, balance, steering and braking.
- The powder-down feather is found in only a few birds. It grows continually. The tips break off, forming a water-resistant powder. The metallic sheen of a heron is caused in part by this powder down.
Every feather consists of a tapering shaft bearing a flexible vane on either side. The exposed base of the shaft is called the calamus. An opening at the bottom of the calamus allows blood to enter the young feather during its short growing period. When growth is completed, the feather seals itself off.
The phrase "light as a feather" is no accident. Even birds that seem large, with bulky feathers, don't weigh very much. Consider the common crow, whose range is coast to coast wherever trees grow, including the southwestern desert belt, which is an opportunistic feeder, consuming a great variety of plant and animal foods. It's hard to believe that a seemingly big crow, feathers and all, weighs only about one pound.
Feather Functions
Feathers play many roles in the lives of birds, including attracting a mate. In some species, the colors of the male have a direct impact on how attractive he appears to a female and, therefore, on his mating success. In some instances, the roles are reversed, with the male seeking clues to a female's value as a mate by carefully examining the coloration of her feathers.
Fast-moving feathers: Speeds vary by species, but a hummingbird beats its wings about 70 times per second in flight and over 200 times per second while diving. (Photos by Lisa D. Fryxell)
Other ways feathers are important include:
Territorial dominance — Biological research suggests that birds in excellent health produce feathers with super-bright colors. In establishing nesting territory, birds that are brightly colored may be sending a signal that they are especially fit and that it would therefore be wise for others to keep out of "their" territory.
Regulation of body temperature — Feathers help keep birds warm and dry. Penguin feathers, being small and densely packed, are particularly well suited for this purpose. The downy base of each feather traps an insulating layer of air against a penguin's skin. The feather tips overlap to form a waterproof outer shield. Even in the warm and dry Southwest, however, feathers can protect birds in the cold nights and the wet monsoons.
Keeping safe — Feathers help provide camouflage from predators. For example, the winter plumage of a ptarmigan is pure white, the color matching the snow-covered grounds of the bird's winter home. The spring molt produces mottled-brown feathers, making the female virtually invisible as she sits on a nest. In much the same way, it's no wonder the desert Southwest is home to so many brownish-feathered birds, from roadrunners to towhees to doves.
Flight — Feathers obviously play a crucial role in flight, lending an airfoil shape to wings that provides lift. The hummingbirds that zip through New Mexico skies this time of year are particularly adept at controlling their feathers and thus the shape of the wing, as they hover while feeding. A hummingbird's flight speed can average 25-30 miles an hour, and they can dive at up to 60 miles an hour.
Keeping dry — Water birds have special oil glands that make their feathers water-resistant. Exceptions are birds that dive for food; they have no oil glands because they cannot be buoyant. Such birds, including anhingas, must dry their feathers in the sun, a spectacle you have probably witnessed if you have ever visited the Everglades.
Coloration — If clothes make the person, then feathers make the bird. Feathers come in an amazing array of colors, including just about every hue imaginable. All of a bird's feathers are referred to as plumage. Even in the Southwest, where so many birds dress drably to blend into the desert, you will see the brilliant orange of a Bullock's oriole, the electric blue of a blue grosbeak or more subdued blue of an indigo bunting, and the cheery yellow of a goldfinch's feathers.
Color is important in mating. Birds, unlike many creatures including most mammals, can see color. Colorful male plumage is used to attract a female's attention.
Some species, including killdeer, mockingbirds, many shorebirds and most gull species, exhibit a color pattern known as countershading, which features a dark back over light underparts. When viewed from above by a predator, the dark back appears lighter in the sunlight, while the lighter lower half of the bird appears darker as a result of being in its own shadow. The effect is one of a single color, making the bird difficult to spot from a distance.
Feather Maintenance
Because feathers are critical to a bird's survival, much time is spent keeping them well maintained. In fact, a good portion of a bird's day is spent cleaning and grooming feathers by applying oil, bathing and preening.
The male oriole's bright plumage helps it attract a mate—important since orioles are monogamous.
Feathers do eventually wear out. Molting, the process of losing old feathers and growing new ones, occurs in most birds once or twice a year.
The feathers of predatory birds molt slowly because they need most of their feathers to fly with and hunt. Flight feathers of some predatory birds, including New Mexico's roadrunner, last two to three years. Other birds, including penguins, lose all of their feathers over a two-week period of time, after new ones have begun to grow in.
When you think "birds," you can't help think "feathers." Plumage is perhaps the most prominent feature of a bird's anatomy. Every bird has feathers and everything that has feathers is a bird.
Feathers, regardless of where a bird lives — in the mountains, by the seashore or in the desert — have an exquisite beauty, tenderness and functionality that has captured the imagination of people for untold centuries. These delicate works of nature have been utilized as personal adornments, ritual objects, decorative artifacts and tools by virtually every society since the dawn of time. While feathers have been used for a variety of human purposes, feathers look best on, and are most useful to birds. Let's keep it that way.
To learn more about birds in our area, contact:
Southwestern New Mexico Audubon Society, PO Box 1473, Silver City, NM 88062, (575) 534-1115 firstname.lastname@example.com, www.swnmaudubon.org
Mesilla Valley Audubon Society, Las Cruces, NM, www.mvaudubon.org
Mary Syrett is a freelance writer and long-time bird enthusiast.


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People are still talking about those mean-spirited morons (a polite way to refer to those co-workers and supervisors featured in Stanford professor Robert Sutton's new book, "The No —hole Rule").
So say Silicon Valley legends Guy Kawasaki and Reid Hoffman. Kawasaki got a constant flow of e-mails from his readers sharing their own tales of woe after he blogged about Sutton's book. Hoffman came up with some —hole avoidance strategies such as checking your prospective boss' references the way he or she checks yours. Of course, he thinks you should do that at his site, LinkedIn, which offers a free reference check tool, www.linkedin.com/rs.
Sutton offers the questions to ask references:
1. Kisses-up and kicks-down: "How does the prospective boss respond to feedback from people higher in rank and lower in rank?" "Can you provide examples from experience?"
One characteristic of certified assholes is that they tend to demean those who are less powerful while brown-nosing their superiors.
2. Can't take it: "Does the prospective boss accept criticism or blame when the going gets tough?"
Be wary of people who constantly dish out criticism but can't take a healthy dose themselves.
3. Short fuse: "In what situations have you seen the prospective boss lose his temper?"
Sometimes anger is justified or even effective when used sparingly, but someone who "shoots-the-messenger" too often can breed a climate of fear in the workplace. Are co-workers scared of getting in an elevator with this person?
4. Bad credit: "Which style best describes the prospective boss: gives out gratuitous credit, assigns credit where credit is due, or believes everyone should be their own champion?"
This question opens the door to discuss whether or not someone tends to take a lot of credit while not recognizing the work of his or her team.
5. Terrell Owens effect: "What would past collaborators say about working with the prospective boss?"
—holes usually have a history of riddling teams with nasty and dysfunctional conflict. The world seems willing to tolerate talented assholes, but that doesn't mean you have to.
6. Flamer: "What kind of email sender is the prospective boss?"
Most assholes cannot contain themselves when it comes to email: flaming people, carbon-copying the world, blind carbon copying to cover his own buttocks.
Email etiquette is a window into one's soul.
7. Downer: "What types of people find it difficult to work with the prospective boss? What type of people seem to work very well with the prospective boss?"
Pay attention to responses that suggest "strong-willed" or "self-motivated" people tend to work best with the prospective boss because —holes tend to leave people around them feeling de-energized and deflated.
8. Card shark: "Does the prospective boss share information for everyone's benefit?"
A tendency to hold cards close to one's chest-i.e., a reluctance to share information-is a sign that this person treats co-workers as competitors who must be defeated so he or she can get ahead.
9. Army of one: "Would people would pick the prospective boss for their team?"
Sometimes there is upside to having an —hole on your team, but that won't matter if the coworkers refuse to work with that person. Use this question to help determine if the benefit of having the prospective boss on your team outweighs any —hole behaviors.
10. Suggested reading: "How would the prospective boss respond if a copy of "The No —hole Rule appeared on her desk?"
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One by one, the blogosphere's hardcore housing doomers are succumbing to the lure of easy credit and buying into the Great American Ponzi scheme.
First it was your humble correspondent, W.C. Varones: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bubble.
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Which raises this question: if the last guys to want to buy a house have finally capitulated, where are the next marginal buyers going to come from? As far as I know, Twist of Housing Doom, Dr. Housing Bubble, and Patrick of Patrick.net still haven't bought, so that's three potential sales at some point in the future if prices ever become attractive to them. Seriously, though, how many people do you know who have the down payment and the income to purchase a house, who don't already have one?
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Bethel education board adopts spending plan
Updated 10:42 pm, Wednesday, February 13, 2013
BETHEL -- The Board of Education adopted a 2013-14 budget of $40.9 million, 3.24 percent higher than current spending and slightly above the superintendent's request.
The plan to fund 394 staff to serve 2,985 students in five schools, was amended to include a school psychologist and half the salary of a third JROTC instructor so the high school can serve the students who want to join the program.
The nine-member board unanimously adopted the budget at its meeting Tuesday night.
The increase over Superintendent Kevin Smith's request includes $75,000 for the school psychologist, plus $44,000 for half the salary of the JROTC instructor plus benefits, which is the school's obligation for supporting the instructors.
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$40.9 million, 3.24 percent higher than current spending
Includes a school psychologist, half the salary and full benefits for a third JROTC instructor, and a half-time reading teacher at high school.
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"This is a wonderful vote of confidence," Smith said Wednesday.
He said the psychologist was the top unfunded critical need he had in the district.
Smith said three psychologists now serve the district's five schools. By adding a fourth, more one-on-one services will be available to students in need.
The high school now has two JROTC instructors, but 120 eighth-graders want to join the corps next year and only 35 seniors are leaving the program, so the new instructor will be needed, Smith said.
Smith included money for a half-time reading teacher at the high school in his request.
The budget plan was delivered Wednesday to First Selectman Matt Knickerbocker.
The Board of Selectmen and the Board of Finance will hear department requests beginning Feb. 19 and create a budget plan they will vote on and send to the Board of Finance.
The Board of Finance will create a budget plan that will be presented at a town meeting for review and amendments and then sent on to a referendum for a vote by residents.
Knickerbocker agreed with the education budget and with the two additions the board made.
"What they are asking for in an increase is the contractual increase and the two new positions. I think that's reasonable," Knickerbocker said. "Given the consideration that parents and citizens want the schools to address, like security and mental health, adding the psychologist and the ROTC instructor are well justified."
The school board's spending plan includes about a 2.4 percent increase for salaries of the 394 staff members. It includes about $7.2 million for employee benefits, which is 5 percent increase over current spending, and about $6.2 million for health benefits, which is about 6 percent more than current spending.
As of July, all staff will belong to a high-deductible health plan with a health savings account, which will cost the district $345,000 more than current spending but represents a savings of more than $600,000 than if the district had stayed with the traditional health insurance.
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The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success. Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful March Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.
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Background Current liver function testing for statin monitoring is largely unnecessary and costly. Statins do not cause liver disease. Both reduction in test frequency and use of a single alanine transaminase (ALT) rather than a full seven analyte liver function test (LFT) array would reduce cost and may benefit patients.
Aim To assess LFT testing in relation to statin use and evaluate an intervention to reduce full-array LFTs ordered by GPs for statin monitoring.
Design and setting Two-year cross-sectional time series in two east London clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) with 650 000 patients. One CCG received the intervention; the other did not.
Method The intervention comprised local guidance on LFTs for statin monitoring and access to a single ALT rather than full LFT array.
Results Of the total population, 17.6% were on statins, accounting for 43.2% of total LFTs. In the population without liver disease, liver function tests were 3.6 times higher for those on statins compared with those who were not. Following intervention there was a significant reduction in the full LFT array per 1000 people on statins, from 70.3 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 66.3 to 74.6) in the pre-intervention year, to 58.1 (95% CI = 55.5 to 60.7) in the post-intervention year (P<0.001). In the final month, March 2016, the rate was 53.2, a 24.3% reduction on the pre-intervention rate.
Conclusion This simple and generalisable intervention, enabling ordering of a single ALT combined with information recommending prudent rather than periodic testing, reduced full LFT testing by 24.3% in people on statins. This is likely to have patient benefit at reduced cost.
- diagnostic tests, statins
- liver function tests
- primary health care
- quality improvement
- unnecessary procedures
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- Revision requested August 12, 2016.
- Accepted September 25, 2016.
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An Inteview With Danny Way
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Danny Way grew up surfing and skateboarding in Cardiff, in north San Diego County. He began skateboarding the Del Mar Skate Park in 1979 at 5 – when the beginning age was 6 – but his step-dad Tim O'Dea snuck him in: "I was just simply attracted to the principal of launching airs on skateboards out of pools," Way said to Dave Duncan in a Juice Magazine interview.
Twenty-six years later, Danny Way held the world record for launching airs on a mega-ramp: 79 feet in distance. 23.5 feet in height. And then on July 9th, 2005, Way succeeded where tens of thousands of nomadic invaders – and one fatal BMX rider – had failed when he jumped the Great Wall of China on a skateboard.
The Great Wall of China setup, enough to make even Genghis Khan tap his sword to his visor in salute: "The 65-foot-high ramp will propel Way at around 55 miles an hour and launch him over the more than 70-foot width of the wall. Once clear, he will land on a 100-foot-long ramp before soaring again off a 30-foot-tall quarterpipe."
When you understand the childhood emotional traumas Way endured, with all the physical injuries and recoveries on top of that, it's amazing that he can stand, and hold his arms out like that. He is called, by some, The Terminator, because of the way he can slam on a ramp, shatter in a million pieces, pick himself up, dust himself off, wink at the camera and get 'er done.
He has broken his neck, shattered his knee several times. He even shattered his ankle while practicing the Great Wall of China jump, but couldn't bear to see all that effort and expense go to waste, so he taped it up, shook it off and pulled it.
And if you want to be truly impressed with how tough this guy is, go online and find the highlights of X Games XIV. Unbelievable.
A Timeline of Danny Way's Good Times and Bad Times
Compiled from Wikipedia, In Harm's Way by Tim Struby, Danny Way and the Gift of Fear by Bret Anthony Johnston in Men's Journal, Stepping Aside as His Creation Soars by Matt Higgins in the New York Times, a Dave Duncan interview in Juice Magazine, the planbskateboards.com website and other sources. (Fact checked by D Way)
1974: Born on Tax Day, April 15. His father died when Danny was eight months old and he was raised by his mother, Mary.
1983: Overshot a friend's backyard ramp and shattered his wrist – his first skate injury.
1986: Won the first contest he entered, at 11 years old.
1988: First video appearance in Powell-Peralta's Public Domain: Bones Brigade Video 4.
1988: Leaves Powell-Peralta and joins H Street, appearing in Shackle Me Not and Hokus Pokus.
1988: Turned pro at 14.
1989: Won his first vert contest in Michigan.
1989: According to Tim Struby in In Harm's Way: "At 15 he shattered his left elbow; he still can't straighten his arm."
1989: From Men's Journal: "In 1989, when he was on the verge of being expelled from 10th grade for truancy and his home life was increasingly unstable, Way quit school altogether to skate full time. Powell Peralta, however, wasn't ready to offer him a professional contract, so when he was approached about riding for H-Street, a new and edgy skater-owned company, Danny accepted… With Ternasky's guidance, Danny won his first pro contest, beating veterans and newcomers alike, and he began collecting monthly royalty checks in the neighborhood of $20K. He was 15."
1990: Came very close to landing the first 900. See: the video Risk It.
1991: Follows Mike Ternasky to a new skate company, Plan B.
1991: Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year.
1993: Cover of TransWorld Skateboarding.
1994: From Men's Journal: "In 1994, on his way to the Plan B offices, Ternasky was T-boned at an intersection and died of head trauma. He was 27, and with the exception of Ternasky's wife, Danny was the last person to see him alive. The loss gutted him (the initials MT are tattooed under Danny's left arm, a tribute to his mentor)."
1994: DC Shoes founded by Danny's brother Damon, and Ken Block.
1995: Broke his neck surfing a small day, at the age of 16. Dove under a wave, crushed his neck to his chest on a sandbar and made it to the beach where he removed knocked out teeth. A week later, his body shut down: "Way… could not move from the waist up for more than a year because of swelling and bruising on his brain stem and spinal cord," Matt Higgins wrote in The New York Times. "'I was a wreck,' Way said. 'I never thought I would be able to do what I'm doing now. Skateboarding came back quickly. But learning to get over the fear of falling and taking a slam with my body – there's a fear installed inside me now that's really cautious of movement in my neck and back.'"
1995: DC Shoes has three brands, which gross $7 million.
1997: Dropped from a helicopter into a half pipe. Nailed the landing but fell and mangled his left shoulder, according to Tim Struby in In Harm's Way. Makes the cover of TransWorld Skateboarding doing just that.
1997: Also makes the cover of Thrasher pulling a Bart Simpson across the roof of an official DC Shoes beater.
1997: On a vert pipe with an eight-foot extension, Way flies to 16' 5" and breaks the height record by five feet.
1999: Did the helicopter drop again.
1999 – 2002: Seven surgeries. Five for his knees and two for his shoulder.
2002: Makes cover of TransWorld Skateboarding and featured in a Danny Way Pro Spotlight.
2002: Built the first Mega Ramp: a 65-foot 60? drop-in to a 75-foot gap and a 27-foot quarterpipe. Set records for the Longest Distance Jump = 65 feet and Biggest Air = 18' 3". "I wasn't afraid of getting hurt," he said to Tim Struby. "I just didn't want to be out for a month. I landed on the edge of the lip. I got lucky. I didn't get hurt at all."
2002: In the first Op King of Skate, Way flies 65 feet across a gap to set the distance record, and then goes to 18' 3" to set the height record.
2002: After eight years of business, DC Shoes has sales of $250 million, employs 150 people and is sold in 52 countries.
2003: Built a bigger Mega Ramp which he used to set the distance record of 75 feet and height record of 23.5 feet. This was mostly done in secrecy, then unveiled to the world in the DC video, The DC Video.
2003: Makes cover of TransWorld getting huge air in the quarterpipe of the Mega Ramp.
2003 – 2004: Won TransWorld Skateboarding's Best Vert Skater.
2004: The X Games unleashes the Big Air competition, with Way winning a Gold Model with a jump of 79 feet.
2004: Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year.
2004: Mega Ramp section of The DC Video wins Best Video Part at the 2004 TransWorld Skateboarding Awards.
2004: Quicksilver buys DC Shoes for $84 million.
2005: Jumped the Ju Yu Gong Gate on the Great Wall of China.
2005: Three weeks after jumping the Great Wall, still limping on a fractured ankle, Way won the Big Air Gold Medal at X Games XI.
2005: From Men's Journal: "Danny's high-profile stunts eventually gave him enough cachet and cash to resurrect Plan B Skateboards in 2005. He called back most of the original team members and scooped up prodigies like Paul "P-Rod" Rodriguez and Ryan Sheckler."
2006: Won Big Air Gold Medal at X Games XII
2006: Landed the first backflip and backflip Rocket Air on a Mexico City Megaramp.
2006: Breaks the world record for Biggest Drop Onto a Ramp when he jumps 82' 3" into a quarter pipe at the Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas.
2008: A month before X Games XIV, "he crashed on a botched warm-up air," Bret Anthony Johnston wrote in Men's Journal. "knocked himself unconscious, and had to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance."
2008: Competing in the Big Air competition for X Games XIV, Danny Way slammed hard a couple of times in practice, then slams hard on his second run. Hard? He loses it just above the coping after getting air, does a flip, lands hard on his back then ragdolls to the bottom of the ramp. "Game over, man! Game over!" But no, he limps off under his own power, brushes it off, ignores the medics, takes his fourth and fifth runs and finishes second to Bob Burnquist. This is considered one of the 10 Greatest Moments in X Games History and you have to see it to believe it. He is The Terminator.
2008: In September of 2008, "at a MegaRamp contest in Brazil, he came up short on a jump and fractured two vertebrae," according the Men's Journal article. "taking himself out of the competition."
2008: TransWorld Skateboarding runs a photo of Danny Way halfway across the gap on the Megaramp, with the blurb: WHAT IS VERT? Danny and Bob Defy and Define the Lost Art.
2009: Attempted a land speed record towed by a car on an airstrip in the Mojave desert. He ate it at 70 MPH, brushed it off and set a world record of 74.5 MPH: "My goal is 100 MPH," Way said in a TV show on the feat.
2009: At X Games XV in Los Angeles, won the first Big Air Rail Jam – on a sprained ankle.
2009: The Skateboard Mag publishes a Danny Way Timeline to detail his influence on skateboarding going back to 1989. Plan B also puts up a special DW20 website to do the same.
2010: Now 36 years old, Way has two sons, Ryden and Tavin, and many plans – public and secret – for an environmentally-correct skate facility in Kauai, bigger ramps, bigger moves.
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The past 27 days have been a blur – seriously, what happened to March?! Fortunately it was full of the good stuff, including plenty of time with family and friends.
Following our trip to Chicago, I had the chance to travel to San Diego for a work conference. But we all know that there is a lot more to San Diego than work…
Having the chance to see Cara, Jim and the nieces pieces (Dublin included) was so awesome. Kelly and Caroline showed me their new superhero outfits – I especially appreciated Superniece's polka dot hat and Batniece's pink tutu. They've got impeccable style.
We spent the morning of our day o' fun at the botanic gardens, where Caroline fed her inner artist and Kelly created an entire storyline for a family of dinosaurs.
The girls also had fun climbing around inside a giant tree house, but I'm going to go out on a "limb" and say that the stream was by far their favorite activity. Perfect for splashing!
We followed up our botanic excursion with a great lunch and trip to the library, where the girls needed to take some time to do their "homework" on the computers – yep, they are almost three but going on 13 these days.
We ended the evening with a bit of baking – and cookie cutting!
Between learning a few new songs in Spanish (the girls are taking classes) and playing countless games of Ring Around the Rosy (lento y rápido), this aunt had a blast.
Can't wait to hang out with you all again soon! The work conference – a social intranet summit – was also enjoyable. Several of the speakers were interesting, and it was a great opportunity to catch up with my colleagues, who flew in from Chicago.
The weekend after I returned home was packed with excitement. On Saturday morning, I woke up bright and early to meet my friend and neighbor, Milene, to run the Kiss Me I'm Irish 8K!
Milene and I have been running together on weekends, and when she mentioned she was interested in taking on her first race, the Irish run seemed like the perfect opportunity. We ended up crossing the finish line in 0:48:28, which was worthy of a celebration and green beer for all!
I also had the opportunity to try my first red velvet bite of Nothing Bundt Cake. I would now like to try every single flavor they have, please. It was ridiculously rich and fantastic.
After the race, I met up with Bobby, our college friend Atanas and Atanas' girlfriend, Della, who were visiting us for the weekend from Boston. They both were up for as many hikes as possible over the next few days, and we started them out with a doozy: the summit trail at Piestewa Peak!
As you may have gathered from the photo, this trail is rocky. Really rocky. The climb is well worth it, though, because the view from 2,700 feet up is amazing.
And if those views don't do it for you, the next day we took a road trip to Sedona-hhhh.
We began with lunch at ChocolaTree, which I remembered from a past trip to Sedona with Jill. I started out with a hot chocolate, which was made with Ecuadorian cacao, almond milk and maple syrup. It definitely didn't taste like it came from a packet – very unique and delicious.
Bobby and I also shared an order of banana bread, which came with almond butter spread.
And for lunch, I had the Viva Burrito, which also hit the spot.
Once we were adequately fueled, we explored the red rocks via Broken Arrow trail.
It's impossible to hold back oohs and ahhs when beauty like this surrounds you on all sides.
When we reached the turnaround point, we asked a fellow hiker whether we were close to the Chapel of the Holy Cross, one of the most iconic sites in the area. Turns out, we were only about a mile away, so we decided to venture a bit farther and see it for ourselves. It was gorgeous!
We drove back to Phoenix thoroughly happy with – and exhausted by – our adventures. Thanks for an active weekend, Atanas and Della!
A few days later, I donned a temporary tattoo in honor of the Divergent movie premiere!
Sarah, Crystal, Nicole, Emily, Sheena and I – as well as a few husbands – finally had a chance to see the film we've been going crazy over for months…and it was incredible! The actors were perfect for their roles, the movie did the book justice (for the most part) and it was SO COOL to see dystopian Chicago. I kept nudging Bobby when I'd spot something familiar – including our old apartment! One of the major scenes in the movie was filmed two blocks away, just a few months after we moved. I have a tendency to lament this fact every time I talk about the movie. My chance to be an extra (or more likely, get removed from the set by security) was so close, yet so far. 😉
But I digress. Bottom line: the movie was everything we hoped it'd be. Can't wait to see it again!
Our March madness continued into the weekend. On Friday and Saturday we had the chance to hang out and play golf with Annie and Jono. And on Sunday, we spent time with our high school friend, Nick, and his girlfriend, Kerry, who were in town for a wedding.
The hike of choice this time: Echo Canyon Summit Trail at Camelback Mountain.
I honestly had no idea what we were getting into with this one. Our biggest takeaway was that it's about time we invested in proper hiking shoes because otherwise, it's not easy to climb up and over these rocks – and I mean that quite literally. I may or may not have been hanging on to the railing for dear life on the way down after I slipped on a particularly smooth surface.
But we still made it, and have the picture to prove it. Another 2,700 feet conquered!
I think it's safe to say we're accomplishing our goal of seeing more of Arizona in 2014. Big thanks to the visitors who are helping us make that happen! It's been so nice to hang out with all of you.
This week we're welcoming visitors of another variety – and this family is a real hoot.
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A number of years ago (in September 2006), I started a discussion thread on Aeclectic's TarotForum with regards a peculiarity of the Sun card on the Waite-Smith deck. At that stage, the discussion did not go very far, yet it remains a detail that has yet to be explained.
images from the 1909 and 1910 publications
As I mentioned at the time, Frank Jensen, in his book Story of the Waite-Smith deck, shows two early images (page 121) from different publications of the Sun card in outline (no colour), depicting, I suggested, different levels of accuracy of Pamela Colman Smith's actual picture.
I still consider that the most likely explanation for the 'squiggly' line adjacent the numeral is that Pamela used the additive form of the Roman numeral (XVIIII) – as seems apparent from the earliest publication – and that this was later changed to its subtractive form (XIX). The original (XVIIII), if I am correct, would likely have been misread as an 'error' by the publisher (who may not even have been aware of the additive convention), and was thus quickly 'fixed' by scratching off the fourth 'I', rendering it the whole as 'XVIII' as well as adding a meaningless 'squiggly' line adjacent the number. This line was to be subsequently retained in (most) card imprints and somehow considered part of the original drawing – even after the numeral form was changed to 'XIX'.
image from 1909 in Occult Review
Such error, incidentally, is not unique: a similar error of numeration occurs in a reproduction of the Hermit and of Temperance in de Gebelin – thereby rendering both Justice and the Hermit as 'VIII'; and both Death and Temperance as 'XIII' (interestingly, de Gebelin uses the subtractive 'XIX' for the Sun).
images from de Gebelin
As can be seen above in the first set of images (of the Waite-Smith at the beginning of this article), the earliest publication (in Occult Review from 1909) clearly had intended the additive form (unless, of course, this is to be read as an 'error' by Pamela, which I personally doubt). By the time of Waite's 1910-1911 Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the additive had already been altered.
images from the Pam-A, Pam-C and Pam-D decks
It would be wonderful to find copies of the original plates or drawings made by Pamela – this remains, however, highly unlikely. As a consequence, it seems that later imprints of the deck (even the earliest ones, except for the Pam-B imprint – as shown below), have retained that un-natural and pictorially inconsistent addition of the squiggly line.
image from the Pam-B decks


text: By Lisa Cisneros on January 28, 2005 Faculty and staff are invited to attend a kick-off session on the program planning process for medical center clinical facilities to be developed at UCSF Mission Bay. The planning session will be held from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 2 in Cole Hall in the Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus Ave. Last September, UCSF completed a comprehensive four-year planning process to arrive at a long-range plan to build state-of-the-art technologically advanced patient care facilities at three major sites, including Mission Bay. If approved by the UC Board of Regents, the plan would be implemented in phases over the next 15 years. Key elements of the plan are to developing integrated specialty hospitals including a UCSF Children's Hospital, a UCSF Women's Hospital and the first phase of a UCSF Cancer Hospital on the Mission Bay campus by 2013, together with outpatient facilities and a new translational research center to speed the transfer of new medical knowledge to clinical practice. The number of beds in the first phase is expected to total about 210, with a possibility of expansion in later phases. The recommendations were developed through an extensive planning process overseen by the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) Amendment. That committee presented the recommendations to UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop, who approved the plan for conveyance to the Regents in 2005. Questions or comments may be directed to Bruce Komiske, executive director for Clinical Facilities Development, at 415/353-3620 or email. Source: Lisa Cisneros Related Links UCSF Officials Define Vision for Future Growth


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Hello yummy Blackberry! Fluffy Chocolate Cupcakes with a hint of sweet – sour Blackberry flavor and some very delicious Chocolate Blackberry Cream Cheese Frosting.
Makes approximately 15 pieces
Ingredients for the Blackberry Chocolate Cupcakes:
♥ 1 cup flour
♥ 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
♥ 3/4 tsp. Baking Soda
♥ pinch of salt
♥ 1/3 cup butter, softened
♥ 3/4 cup brown sugar
♥ 1/4 cup sugar
♥ 2 eggs, room temperature
♥ 3/4 cup whole milk
♥ 1 tbsp bourbon vanilla extract
♥ 2 tbsp chocolate chips, mini
♥ 2 cup blackberries, fresh or frozen
Ingredients for the Cream Cheese Frosting:
♥ 1/2 cup butter, softened
♥ 1/2 cup cream cheese
♥ 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
♥ 2 cup powdered sugar
♥ 1 cup blackberries and some for decoration
♥ 1 tbsp sugar
Preheat the oven to 325 F
- In a small bowl mix flour with cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and set aside
- Beat butter until creamy, add the sugars add and stir for 2 minutes, add one egg at a time and mix well
- Mix the vanilla extract and the milk and stir in alternately with the dry ingredients (flour-cocoa mixture)
- Add chocolate chips and blackberries fold in carefully ( if you are using frozen berries, let them thaw before adding to the mixture)
- Fill the Cupcake tins about 2/3 and bake for about 16-18 minutes, then let cool completely
- For the blackberry Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting bring the blackberries with the sugar to boil, blend and sift the blackberry mass (we don't want the kernels to plug the pipping bag)
- Mix the butter and the cream cheese until creamy and add the blackberry puree
- Add sifted powdered sugar and cocoa powder in three portions
- Allow the Frosting to chill in the fridge for one hour, then transfer to a piping bag fitted with a 2d Wilton tip and pipe on the cupcakes


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Event honors women battling cancer
Oct. 10, 2012 at 5:10 a.m.
To honor women battling cancer, First Victoria and Touch of Class Limousine are co-hosting Tickled Pink on Fun Day Friday.
Ten cancer survivors and those battling cancer, nominated by the community and chosen by a committee, will spend the day in luxury, said Lisa Kristynik, a branch manager for First Victoria.
Kristynik said they had about 15 nominations, so it was difficult for the committee to chose the winning 10.
"It was real hard - there was no science to it," Kristynik said. "It was just reading them and seeing what they have been through and where they are now. And we just picked the top 10 who we felt touched us, but they are all deserving."
The women will be picked up by a limousine at 8 a.m. Friday and taken to Hair Dimensions for a free hair and makeup. Next, they will head to DeLeon Plaza for the ceremony and to sign the Pink Firetruck of the Guardians of the Ribbon.
After the ceremony, the women will go, via limo, to Sky Restaurant for lunch and then to The Nail Spa for free manicures and pedicures.
At their last event, Clay Crockett and the Shot Gun Riders get Tickled Pink. Kristynik said they raised about $4,000 for the Guardians of the Ribbon.
She said she is impressed by the support by the community, with more than 50 businesses participating in Tickled Pink.
A raffle will also be available at the Friday's ceremony, with all raffle proceeds benefit the Guardians of the Ribbon, an organization that keeps all money local for those battling cancer in the Crossroads.


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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: > > At which point along the axis ranging from simple parser to behemoth browser > does something count as an implementation? # implementation # a user agent which: # 1. implements the feature. # 2. is available (i.e. publicly downloadable or available through # some other public point of sale mechanism). This is the "show # me" requirement. # 3. is shipping (i.e. development, private or unofficial versions # are insufficient). # 4. is not experimental (i.e. is intended for a wide audience and # could be used on a daily basis.) -- http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/#status However, that is not all that is required. While I imagine that CSS::SAC would count as an implementation, it would need custom tests, and would therefore require another implementation able to pass the same tests in order to confirm interoperability. See the page quoted above for the full requirements of our CR exit criteria. Incidentally, @namespace isn't to be found in the CSS3 Selectors module. The @namespace rule itself will be in the Syntax module, which we have not yet had the opportunity to make much progress on. The Selectors module only contains the selectors part of the proposal. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Monday, 17 February 2003 07:48:01 UTC
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The Yankees had countless chances to score against James Shields and the Royals. However, after going 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position, the Yankees were unable to overcome a 2-1 deficit, losing to the Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
Hiroki Kuroda did everything the Yankees had asked for, going seven innings while giving up two runs on four hits and striking out three. Adam Warren pitched a scoreless eighth inning. This was a perfectly winnable start, but the Yankees only scored one run in the sixth inning on an Ichiro Suzuki groundout.
What's Next?
— The Yankees are slated to play against the Royals in the series finale before the Yankees make their way Seattle to play the Mariners. Vidal Nuno will take the mound with hopes the Yankees can split this series while Jason Vargas will take the mound for the Royals. First pitch is at 8:07 p.m. and the game will air on the YES Network.


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From the New Yorker, "Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation," by Malcolm Gladwell:
The difference between Bach and his forgotten peers isn't necessarily that he had a better ratio of hits to misses. The difference is that the mediocre might have a dozen ideas, while Bach, in his lifetime, created more than a thousand full-fledged musical compositions. A genius is a genius, Simonton maintains, because he can put together such a staggering number of insights, ideas, theories, random observations, and unexpected connections that he almost inevitably ends up with something great. "Quality," Simonton writes, is "a probabilistic function of quantity."
Simonton's point is that there is nothing neat and efficient about creativity. "The more successes there are," he says, "the more failures there are as well"—meaning that the person who had far more ideas than the rest of us will have far more bad ideas than the rest of us, too. This is why managing the creative process is so difficult.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post4309045704426528464..comments2013-05-31T12:51:36.589+01:00Comments on G4ILO's Blog: Winlink using Robust PacketJulian Mosshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-67485742344938667552013-04-25T16:15:25.110+01:002013-04-25T16:15:25.110+01:00Winlink is a lot more than email ... the catalogs ...Winlink is a lot more than email ... the catalogs make a fantastic array of weather reports and grib files available. The system is extremely popular with long distance sailors. That smart phone stops fairly quickly offshore. The winmor software allows you to access the same system with a sound card based modem... then there are position reports via aprs in the system as well ... only problem is new comers with 150 watts of digi not listening before they tx although this is getting much better. m0dki / kf6uiyishbel07https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-18252635937674280292013-04-24T15:37:47.135+01:002013-04-24T15:37:47.135+01:00Yes, that could be an advantage, though here the S...Yes, that could be an advantage, though here the SCS Tracker is always connected to my K2 for HF APRS use and I don't have a soundcard connection to that radio.

73 Julian, G4ILOJulian Mosshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-50297080482096239722013-04-24T15:30:45.526+01:002013-04-24T15:30:45.526+01:00I did some succesful tests one day with PSKMail. I...I did some succesful tests one day with PSKMail.
It uses PSK125 and PSK500 with the FlDigi software.
The advantage is that you can use your normal digimode setup with the soundcard modem, instead of the SCS Tracker.

http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/

73 Patrick ON4CDJPatrickhttps://email@example.com


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Ingredients:- 2 cucumbers- 125g crème fraîche (or smooth natural yogourt)- 1 bunch of tarragon- 1 teaspoon sherry vinegar (or lemon juice)- 2 tablespoons olive oil- rock salt, pepper1. Peel the cucumbers, cut them in four lengthways, remove the central part that contains the seeds and cut the skin into small cubes. Pour into a strainer, cover with coarse salt and leave for 15 minutes (this makes the cucumber easier to digest).2. Rinse the cucumber cubes under fresh water, drain and dry them in kitchen paper. Place them in a large salad bowl.3. In a bowl, whip the crème fraîche with the vinegar, olive oil and pepper. Wash the tarragon, dry it in kitchen paper and cut it finely over the bowl.4. Pour the tarragon cream over the cucumber cubes, mixing slowly, and take out of the fridge just before serving. VariationThe Indian version of this recipe involves mixing yogourt, crushed garlic and freshly cut mint, then adding curry powder at the end.
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In my research yesterday, I found a really spiffy map of ancient Alexandria — spiffy, that is, except for being wildly inaccurate about the all-important Great Harbor. This isn't the mapmaker's fault. Alexandria's coastline is radically different now as a result of seismic activity, erosion, and human manipulation. Antirrhodos, for example, the private royal island where Cleopatra's palace was built, is now underwater. So until recently we could only guess at the ancient topography.
Fortunately, the past decade has seen a wealth of new data about the harbor area in particular, largely due to the underwater archaeological work of Franck Goddio. We now have a much better idea about what things looked like in Cleopatra's time.
So I did some doctorin' of the old map I found: transposing the Posidium/Timonium Peninsula with Antirrhodos, greatly altering the Lochian Peninsula, moving the current and former coastlines, changing the location of the Great Lighthouse of Pharos, and a host of other little things here and there. It's a big file, but those interested in this revised map can find it here:
Even this map still isn't perfect for my purposes — if I were making it from scratch I'd open up a bigger area for the Paneum in the center of town, erase the post-Ptolemaic references, and better represent the structures in the city — but it'll do until I finish the book.