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Robert Treat wrote: > > > What _is_ interesting is that Postgres often has sequential and > > > random/disk ways of doing things, and by reducing random_page_cost when > > > using SSDs, you automatically use more random operations, so in a way > > > the Postgres code was already prepared for SSD usage. Surprisingly, we > > > had to change very little. > > > > To add to this very late reply, we basically had random methods to do > > things (in RAM), and sequential/random methods for disk. By changing > > random_page_cost, we favor doing random things on disk. > > > > The big question is whether there are random things we have never > > implemented on disk that now make sense --- off hand, I can't think of > > any. > > > > > The idea of us avoiding quicksort when we know we need to spill to disk is You mean using quicksort from an (SSD) disk vs. tape sorts --- good point. > the type of thing that I wonder if it should be investigated, if you figure > that "spill to disk" means ssd's so it's not so much of a performance > hit. This reminds me of some performance testing we did maybe a year, year > and a half ago, trying to see how best to get performance by adding some > SSD's into one of our servers. Basically speed increased as we changed > things like so: > put entire $pgdata on sata > put entire $pgdata on ssd > put xlogs on ssd, pgdata on sata > put pgdata and xlogs on sata, put arc on ssd, crank up postgres's memory > settings > > arc being zfs's adaptive replacement cache, so basically giving the server a > second, very large level of memory to work with, and then configuring > postgres to make use of it. It wasn't terribly obvious to me why this ended > up outperforming the initial idea of putting everything on ssd, but my > impression was that the more you could force postgres into making decisions > as if it was dealing with fast storage rather than slow storage, the better > off you'd be (and that random_page_cost is not so wholly inclusive enough to > do this for you). Yes, I wonder if this requires futher investigation. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
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text: The only paper I can retrieve in full is the ethics article (see attached). I haven't read the paper yet - so please forgive the Donny Doubting - but I do wonder about cultured neuron experiments in general: can we expect neurons thrown together without a developmental wiring process (which, for example, would usually lead to 3D connection maps) to produce a great amount of computational power? I am quite sure they make excellent artwork, as in Stephen Potters work with Symbiotica (at the University of Western Australia)! On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Eric Boyd <mrericboyd at yahoo.com> wrote: > > http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/06/videos-of-robot-controlled-by-rat-brain-amazing-technology-still-moving-forward/ > > Kevin Warwick has been busy! Apparently they have been culturing rat > neurons, wiring them up to robots using electrode arrays and bluetooth, > and figuring out how to train the "rat brain" to drive the robot around! > Videos show progress as being pretty good! > > The article links three academic papers they have written, but of course > the full text is behind paywalls. Anyone have access to those journals? > > Amazingly, Warwick's homepage (kevinwarwick.com) doesn't mention this > research at all, especially since there are articles from the BBC about > this from 2 years ago. > > I also found some research by Steve Potter of GATech in 2002, although > he seems to be focussed on the neural culturing and electrode > technologies, rather than the cyborg aspects. > > http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/13047/?a=f > http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/groups/potter/animat.html > > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Cyborg mailing list > Cyborg at lists.noisebridge.net > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/cyborg > -- http://www.octotod.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/cyborg/attachments/20101007/ca97c7bc/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Warwick (ethics cultured neuron robots) 2010.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 322702 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/cyborg/attachments/20101007/ca97c7bc/attachment.pdf>


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Slash's Wiki Pluginby chromatic, coauthor of O'Reilly's Running Weblogs with Slash
The latest stable version of Slash comes with several interesting plugins, and most future Slash development will probably involve creating new plugins. In this article, Slashdot's chromatic introduces the Slash Wiki plugin, which integrates nicely with Slash and has a lot of cool features. chromatic also gives a detailed explanation of how and why the Wiki plugin works, including Wiki theory, and its simple plugin architecture.
About Slash Plugins
The latest stable version of Slash comes with several interesting plugins, including extra blocks (pointers to remote RSS feeds), an internal and external messaging mechanism, and a user journal system. Other projects are also starting to appear, such as lead developer Chris Nandor's Slash::Gallery image gallery.
In theory, any Web application could be reimplemented as a Slash plugin. In practice, it's not terribly difficult to write something useful. The Slash plugin framework provides several nice features:
- A templating
Built around Andy Wardley's superlative Template Toolkit 2, Slash templates can be compiled into the Web server at startup for big performance gains. They are stored in the database and can be edited by users with appropriate clearance through a Web interface or through the filesystem.
User accounts, authentication, and
The base Slash system already provides a means by which users can create and manage their accounts. As authentication is handled by Apache and mod_perl early in the request cycle, user information is available to any plugin. Authorization will be easier and finer-grained in future versions, if the optional access controls become part of the core. (I expect this to be the case by Slash 3.0, and perhaps in 2.4.)
- Built-in
database integration:
Because Slash is so heavily tied to a database, there are several methods and functions for common database operations. If you're familiar with the common Perl DBI module, you'll be pleased to know that it's supported, though with several abstractions around
DBI::prepare(), you may never need to use a raw statement handle. Also, as support for databases besides MySQL improves, writing portable plugins may be easier. (If you must create new tables, you may have to find someone to port some SQL commands, however.)
- Fairly easy
plugin installation:
Though it may surprise anyone who's wrestled with the early versions of Slash, the installation procedure is much improved. (Some might suggest it had no place to go but up.) With a little work on your part, installing a plugin is nearly as easy as installing a pure-Perl module from the CPAN.
There may be more enhancements for the core storytelling Weblog feature, but most future Slash development will probably involve creating new plugins. I wouldn't be surprised to see the message board itself spun off into a plugin. Slash would then become a generic application framework. Of course, as the Slashcode project is sponsored by the owners of Slashdot, the software's primary duty is to run Slashdot. Slashteam's smart and talented enough to make things the rest of us can use, though.
Related Reading
Running Weblogs with Slash
What A Wiki Is
|"The nice thing about a Wiki is its simplicity."
While the story and comment format is fine for discussions, there's a whole class of collaborative work that can't be done with a standard Slash site. Occasionally, it's useful to have a brainstorming session, where getting ideas down coherently is more important than following a traditional call-and-response question format. Business people call this "synergy," but it really means something here.
Though I can't prove it at the moment, I suspect that's what lead Ward Cunningham to come up with the idea of a Wiki. It's like one of those smart whiteboards, where anyone can write anything and erase anything, but there's still a record of all revisions. The theory goes that putting simple but effective tools in the hands of smart people and staying out of the way can produce great results.
So far, it's effective. The Design Patterns and Extreme Programming folk (and they do overlap somewhat) regularly use Wikis like the Portland Pattern Repository to communicate. The editors and developers of Perlmonks keep track of site issues and create and edit site documentation on special Wiki nodes. The Perl Kwalitee Assurance team maintains a list of untested and undertested core Perl modules.
The nice thing about a Wiki is its simplicity. There are just a few formatting rules, and it's available to anyone who can manage a few HTML forms in a Web browser. They're simple to create and maintain. Perhaps best of all, it's very easy to create and to maintain links between documents. (I like similar things about the Everything Engine, though I'm partial.)
It's very easy to write notes, definitions, or even full documents in places where you have several trusted, geographically diverse people who might use the powerful automatic linking to good effect. Several free software projects have their own Wikis to answer user and developer questions, and these often become fully fledged FAQs. If there were a Slash Wiki plugin, you could even write stories or site guides or your own site FAQ.
|What's your take on future Slash development and new plugins?
Good news. It
exists! If you have a Slash 2.2 or better site,
installation is very easy. Just unpack the tarball into the
plugins/ directory beneath your Slash site directory, run the
Makefile.PL file, then
make test, and
make install as root, and
run the
install-plugins program. You'll be on
your way to Wiki goodness. Things should just work, if only
because Jesse Hirsh found
several bugs in the beta. Thanks!
This wouldn't be much of an article on Slash, though, if it didn't go into more detail on how and why the plugin works. First, you have to know a little more about how a Wiki works.
Wiki Theory
The central component of a Wiki is the idea of a page--a single essay or a discussion on a named topic. Anyone can create or edit a page, and all of the pages on a Wiki can potentially be linked together by name. These names follow a Java-esque StudlyCaps format, and anything that looks like a page name will automatically become a link to the page of that name. This encourages extensive linking, and the ease of editing encourages people to fill in the gaps.
There are three basic types of operations that the Slash Wiki performs.
View Page
The simples and most common operation is to display a page.
Generally, the user will request something like
CreatingGoodLinks. The plugin searches for a page of
that title, formats it if necessary, and displays it along with
editing controls. If the page has not yet been created, a
default message will display. The user can choose to add
to the page or to follow a link to another page.
Edit Page
Editing pages is also common, though probably less so than viewing them. (The same assumption applies to the number of people who feel compelled to comment on a story versus those who merely read it.) This operation requires updating the database to add the current version of the page, to archive the previous version (for reference or abuse protection), and to display the new version.
The Slash Wiki handles this a little differently, actually storing the rendered version of the page along with the raw, Wiki-formatted version. It's a slight performance improvement. (If a page is edited once for every ten views, and if the raw version is stored to make editing easier, you can trade a little extra storage space to avoid the performance hit of re-rendering things for the nine other views. In retrospect, that would help some of the performance issues of modern Everything Engine releases.)
This is also a place to implement stricter access controls. For a site FAQ, it may be appropriate to restrict writing to users with the Author flag set, or a seclev of over 100. Admittedly, this runs counter to the trustful Wiki spirit, but it may work better for your purposes.


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Djokovic ends 2011 in winning style
Novak Djokovic brought the curtain down on his stunning 2011 season with a 6-2, 6-1 thrashing of Spain's David Ferrer in the final of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event here on Saturday.
Novak Djokovic brought the curtain down on his stunning 2011 season with a 6-2, 6-1 thrashing of Spain's David Ferrer in the final of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event here on Saturday.
Having already crushed Roger Federer by the same score in the semi-finals, world number one Djokovic looked on top of his game at the International Tennis Complex as he eased past world number five Ferrer to claim the $250,000 winner's prize.
The Serbian concluded the match with consecutive aces, signing off for 2011 in fitting fashion after 12 months in which he won 11 tournaments, including the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
"It's been a fantastic experience the last couple of days," said Djokovic.
"I had a great preparation here in Abu Dhabi. Everyone was very kind, and the crowd makes this tournament even better. We had a lot of fun and I hope (the spectators) did, too."
Asked if he could repeat his 2011 successes next year, Djokovic said: "I think, yes. Nothing is impossible, if you believe.
"I think the crucial couple of weeks is now, for me to prepare for Australia. We'll see. It's a long year and a difficult task, but I'm looking forward to it."
Ferrer had beaten France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a three-set quarter-final before downing compatriot Rafael Nadal in straight sets in the last four, but he had no answer to Djokovic's athleticism and poise.
"It was difficult," admitted Ferrer. "I know why Djokovic is number one in the world. He plays a really good game, and he was better than me.
"I made the semi-finals the first time I was here (in 2010) and the final this year, and maybe I can come back next year and win."
Earlier on Saturday, Nadal defeated Federer 6-1, 7-5 to claim third place.
The match was a repeat of the final of the last tournament, played in January this year, which Nadal also won in straight sets to claim his second consecutive title at the event.
"There's no better place to prepare for the season than here," said Nadal.
"A great stadium and great weather. I haven't had a lot of time to prepare for the season, so these matches are important. Next week in Doha will be another week of preparation."
Federer, 30, said he was happy with the overall standard of his play, despite his two defeats.
"I struggled throughout the weekend because I played some really good players," he said. "It was a great field."
Both Nadal and Federer will now travel to Qatar, to compete in the Doha tournament that marks the start of the 2012 ATP season.


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Google Silver Surfer Awards honour for David and Fintan
GREYSTONES man David Lowen scooped a top award at the Google Silver Surfers Awards last week while Ashford man Fintan Mulligan was highly commended for his efforts in getting people online.
The awards which were held in conjunction with Age Action recognise the talents and achievements of those aged over 50 who have learned how to use technology to enhance their daily lives.
61-year-old David was the overall winner of the Google Silver Surfer award. The Greystones grandfather is a music aficionado.
A huge fan of the Beach Boys David regularly streams music, listens to Spotify and is the owner of an extensive music collection on his computer.
Retirement from his job in banking meant that David could fully embrace the digital world and indulge his love of music. He learned how to shop online, bank online, book holidays online and uses Google Translate to talk to a family relative living in Peru. David's latest project is a digital photography course and he hopes to build an impressive photography collection.
Another highly commended nominee, Fintan Mulligan from Ashford, was nominated for the 'IT Tutor of the Year Award'. He was commended for his extensive efforts in helping older people from Wicklow town and county to get online.
With over 30 years' experience in the computer and phone technology sector, Fintan set up 'digital 121', with no financial backing ,on a voluntary basis to address the needs of the elderly, particularly in getting to grips with new smart phones. The scheme engages transition year students to teach the elderly to use digital phones under the guidance of a mentor – hence his slogan 'Junior teaches Senior'. Fintan is planning to extend the scheme to the use of all digital devices in the near future and hopes that his scheme 'digital 121' will be implemented nationally.
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In the past few months, customers have been notified of several changes to bank statements and fees through notices on their bank statements, account documents and other mailings. Here is a summary of those changes.
Combined statements
We will soon be combining your periodic deposit account statements into a single combined monthly statement. This will allow you to have a snapshot of your deposit accounts in one quick and easy location without waiting for the separate statements to arrive.
If you have multiple deposit accounts (i.e., checking, savings, certificates of deposit) at Bank of American Fork with exactly the same ownership interests (i.e., identical sole or joint owners of each deposit account), they will be converted to a combined monthly statement starting August 15, 2012. If you do not want us to combine your statements, you may opt out by doing any of the following:
— Emailing us at email@example.com. Include your name and last three digits of the account number(s) of any account(s) you do not want to appear on a combined statement
— Completing the opt-out form at https://www.bankaf.com/uploads/pdfs/Combined_Statement_Stuffer.pdf and dropping it off at any one of our 12 branch locations
— Printing and mailing the completed opt-out form to: P.O. Box 307, American Fork, Utah 84003
— Faxing the completed opt-out form to 801-642-3189
Dormancy fees for checking and savings accounts
After Sept. 1, 2012, the dormant account service charge will be $7/month as follows:
|Type of Account:
|When Dormant Account Service Charge Applies:
|Daily balance <$500 and not active for 1 year
|Daily balance < $500 and not active for 2 years
You can avoid this by maintaining a daily balance of $500 or more OR by depositing or withdrawing at least once a year (checking accounts) or once every two years (savings accounts).
CD early-withdrawal penalty
If you choose to renew your existing certificate of deposit after Oct. 1, 2012, the early-withdrawal penalty that will apply after renewal will increase. After renewal, if any of the deposit is withdrawn before the new maturity date, a penalty as shown below will be imposed:
|Term of Certificate:
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|12 months or less
|90 days' interest
|More than 12 months
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If you have questions regarding any of these changes, please contact us at 800-815-BANK.


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What inspires us to write poetry?
I would think that the commonly accepted assumption about poets is that if one is a poet, he or she has always been a poet. The obvious question which should follow this then is "Can someone be a poet without having any knowledge of poetry?" "Are we born poets?"
Let's begin with this: Most primary, intermediate, and secondary schools include some study of poetry in their curriculums, and yet for the majority of these schools, this is not the primary focus, nor is it rendered a very crucial one. I suppose my first encounter with poetry was a poem written in a photo album of my formative years by my father and mother: "I drop, you catch,/ I cry, you fetch,/I kvetch, you kvetch" (cleverly scrawled next to a picture of me, naked, crawling along the carpet). Of course, this isn't Pulitzer worthy by current literary standards, but it is actually a good poem in terms of iambic dimeter and rhyme. If I learned anything about the music and rhythm of poetry (two essential ingredients) during my first reading experiences, it was almost directly related to that three line poem I read over and over again. In addition, there were nursery rhymes and clapping-song games that we played early on in elementary school: "Miss Susie had a steamboat/the steamboat had a bell/Miss Susie went to heaven/the steamboat went to hell–/–o operator/give me number nine…" etc. The clever twist about the Miss Susie song was that the words at the end of every fourth line were words that became other words at the beginning of the subsequent line, simply by sound, and so we didn't get caught singing crass words and obscenities at that young of an age.
Moving on: In fifth grade, there was a lesson on limericks. If we read anybody's famous limerick, it must not have been very memorable, since I couldn't right now recite one or provide a poet's name to help contextualize this point. But I did learn to write a limerick myself, and incidentally won first prize for the limerick's address to dental hygiene and its advantages. It must have been a good poem, but my memory is foggy and I couldn't right now recall any of the lines, except that it was handwritten on the lines inside the shape of a very big bicuspid.
In sixth grade, as a part of "The Odyssey of the Mind" competition, my team and I rewrote and parodied the words to a William Blake poem: "William Blake ate too much cake…" etc. I turned into a wild dramatic production with me as writer/director and the four other members of my team as actors, set designers, and costumers.
I don't know the psychology behind how people train for and develop an ear for poetry, but some of these things must have been of the essence. In the eighth grade, my final project was an assignment to write a book of twenty poems. At that point, I assumed, like most adolescents do that poetry was supposed to be sad. So one of the two poems I remember from that book was a narrative about two of my friends who were very close to one another, until one of them (Betsy) was killed instantaneously when the driver of a car hit her. I thought (at the time) that it was a fantastic poem. I included details. I infused the poem with emotional tropes.
The other poem I remember from that book was partially stolen from one of my parents' inspirational book of love poems from the 1960s. "Each line in the poem began "Love is"…(with ellipsis, and followed by some simile, and then following an anaphoric structure until the end). So I ripped off the anaphoric structure, took some of the poet's similes and then wrote some of my own. I feel terrible about this. I don't remember the other poems, but they were all original poems written by me. I don't have any idea why I stole that poem. I guess because that was the first year that I was beginning to appreciate poetry as a serious craft, and the poem inspired me enough for me to want to have been the one who wrote it.
But poetry really didn't get me to see like a poet until my freshman year of high school: to read a poem and want to understand all the necessary complexities, paradoxes, and layers of meaning that prevail if that poem is well crafted. I stumbled upon Rita Mae Brown's novels that summer at the local library, and read all of them out by the swimming pool at our house. I wasn't a lesbian, but found myself oriented toward women. Part of it was an adolescent phase, and must have been since I am now happily married to a man. Anyway, Brown's characters were typically lesbians ("Rubyfruit Jungle," the most prominent) and the whole idea about a sexuality with which I was not familiar fascinated me, simply for the theory of it. After devouring all of her novels, I went to the bookstore and promptly bought a book of her poems. The poem that finally made me want to be a disciplined poet went like this:
The difference between
my little cat and I
is that I know
I am going to die.
It occurred to me after I read it that cat's are simply not conscious of their own mortality, and that the speaker (or so it is implied) must want to be like her cat, because it is easier not to be aware of things we would rather not think about or consider. It had me thinking that if humans just died, and had no precognition that it was one day going to happen, it might save us a lot of grief. So the speaker was longing for this ignorance, which makes implicit a sort of inner struggle between awareness and wanting to remain unaware–wanting to be something other than herself–wanting not to know death as well as she believes she does. There is a struggle in the forward momentum of life, the idea of further life or long life deflected by her fear of a finality and the ineluctable condition of mortality which guarantees that we are going to die. She seems to be addressing the idea of inevitability. And the frank way that the statement is made requires that we think a bit about why the speaker would deflect or ignore the frightening details and rather turn it into a philosophical question which forces us to examine our own relationship to our mortality, while at the same time considering the curious manner in which cats exist, without, according to the speaker, the precognition that they are going to die, or the memory of having been born.
So this brief four-line poem made seriously consider writing poetry. Through the years following my encounter with Rita Mae Brown's poem, I've read nearly all of the major poets (and some minor) in the cannon. I have made poetry a daily discipline: coffee in the morning, a banquet of words to choose from, and the assurance that my heart is beating for something cats don't know–to live, to love, and to always have the luxury of defining and redefining a purpose for this, with poetry as the venue to let the speaker speak, because it is no less than vital and necessary.


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The Ever Evolving Role of the United States Coast Guard
September 26
2 p.m. 3 p.m. Lectures, Films, & Book Talks
At The Highlands in the lecture room of the Holden -Frost House
The Ever-evolving Role of the United States Coast Guard
By Commander Anthony J. "Tony" Ceraolo, USCG
Maine Maritime Museum's lecture series Beyond the Breakers is sponsored by The Highlands and explores the heroic service of the United States Coast Guard in Maine and how it has evolved from its two predecessor agencies the U.S. Lighthouse Service and the U.S. Life Saving Service.
Our final presentation of this series, The Ever Evolving Role of the United States Coast Guard, will look at how the role and mission of the Coast Guard has changed over its 200 year history. From safeguarding our Nation's maritime interests in the heartland, at sea, and around the globe, to protecting the maritime economy, the environment, and defending our maritime borders, and saving those in peril. This history has forged the character and purpose of the Coast Guard as America's Maritime Guardian — Always Ready for all hazards and all threats. Today the U.S. Coast Guard, with nearly 42,000 men and women on active duty, is a unique force that carries out 11 primary missions in an array of civil and military responsibilities that touch almost every facet of the U.S. maritime environment. With the rapidly changing pace of our world today, the role of the United States Coast Guard is ever changing.
Join CDR Anthony J. Ceraolo the Coast Guard's Deputy Commander for Sector Northern New England as he discusses how the role of the Coast Guard evolves and what the future may hold. CDR Ceraolo has his finger on the pulse of these likely changes as his most recent assignment was at the White House where he served on the National Security Council as Director for Maritime Security and Director for Arctic Region Policy. During his tour he was instrumental in the development of Presidential Policy Directive-18 (an update to the nation's maritime security policy) and spearheaded the development and promulgation of the President's National Strategy for the Arctic Region. He has 20 years experience in maritime safety and security operations, with emphasis on maritime law enforcement, and search and rescue.
This lecture is FREE and will take place at The Highlands in the lecture room of the Holden -Frost House in Topsham. For reservations: Call 207-725-2650 or 1-888-760-1042 (toll free) and ask for the Welcome Center or e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com


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I assume this white plant is a weed but want to check before I get rid of it.
Have just searched on web and it is not either of these. The leaves are more spiky than the Artemisia
OK thank you
I have a lot of this plant in the garden but have no idea what it is. It grows to about 3 feet and spreads via root system, does anyone know what it is please?
We did prepare the ground and have been watering it every 3/4 days. Thought this would be enough but maybe not?
I brought this plant about 3 months ago and it was fine until recently. It now seems to be dying and the leaves dropping (see pictures). It did not flower this year. Can anyone tell me what the problem is please?
No thats right
Its now got a tall stem with flower buds at the top
Can anyone tell me what this is please?


text: hi I know that python 2.0 is very old.... Blender is open source and they are working on a new gameEngine. The new Blender 2..28 has a more recent python version. But for now you must use blender 2.25 and python 2.0 if you want to use the gameEngine. I need it now.... I'm working with blender on linux, where it wasn't a problem to compile python 2.0 on a recent gentoo linux version. For a demonstration I want to present it on my powerbook. I will try the patch from the bsd port collection and your tips. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/python.html look for python-2.0.1_2 thanks for your help.... yves >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm new on this mailing list :-) >>> >>> I work with python on mac os x. >>> For blender 2.25 (3D program, http://www.blender.org) I need python >>> 2.0 support on os x. >>> Does anybody of you have a bin python 2.0 os x package? All I found >>> is python21. The GameEngine in Blender 2.25 only works with >>> python2.0. >>> >>> The compilation from source failed: >>> libtool -o libpython2.0.dylib -dynamic libpython2.0.a -framework >>> System -lcc_dynamic -arch_only ppc -U _environ >>> ld: can't use -U flags when -twolevel_namespace is in effect >>> libtool: internal link edit command failed >>> make[1]: *** [libpython2.0.dylib] Error 1 >>> make: *** [python] Error 2 >> >> Phew, 2.0 is really old, the last time that code was compiled was >> probably under OSX 10.0, >> maybe even Public Beta... >> >> What you could try is add -flat_namespace to the linker flags. I >> don't remember >> exactly where to set it for 2.0, but if you find the spot where the >> "-U _environ" is set that would be a good place to try it. >> >> Hmm, but I'm not sure whether that is enough, I seem to remember there >> was magic for linking the main application too. >> >> A wholly different idea: could you install MacOSX 10.1 plus the >> accompanying developer tools on a spare partition? I think there's a >> reasonable chance that 10.1 will be able to build Python 2.0 out of >> the >> box. > > The right solution, of course, is to just fix blender. Is that part > of blender open source yet? I can't imagine that too much of it could > depend on that particular version of Python. > > -bob


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I know it's the day after Easter, and many of the kiddies will be home from school. Maybe you even have the day off from work?? Doesn't Monday sound like a great day for yoga outside in the beautiful sun (or clouds… at least it's supposed to be warm)?
Also, I'm going to give my yoga basics class another go. And guess what?… It's forecasted to rain. I'm not giving up hope yet, but if we do get rained out again, I'll reschedule… again. Stay tuned.


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Cleaners were not appreciated enough for their effort
1.Holding a cleanliness competition for the classrooms.
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We are implementing a solution to help to solve this problem and try to raise awareness for and increase the appreciation for the contributions and works of the cleaners in our school. Firstly, we plan to put up profiles of some of the cleaners in the form of posters. Besides their age, we will also put in the cleaners' pay. Some other posters would be simpler, just simply encouraging all, doesn't matter whether student or staff, to smile for the cleaners. We felt that these posters would be effective especially for the students, as most of the cleaners are as old as their parents. Hence the students can picture their parents in the cleaner's place, hunched over, sweeping the floor, constantly being ignored. This will encourage students to sympathize with the cleaners, and hence appreciating their efforts and making life easier for them.


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I've found 4 major clues that the Beatles were multiples: Differing heights, eyebrows, ears, and teeth -- of each Beatle.
This first tutorial is about the Beatle's heights, and how they fluctuated during Beatlemania as to who was taller, shorter, etc.
Clue #1 - Evidence that the Beatles Were Multiples: Differing Heights Throughout Their Career
I'll begin by showing height comparisons which are specifically focused on Paul. This all by itself should provide enough evidence of fraud and deceit. How they did this is not completely known. We have words such as "simulacra", "cloning", "synthetic humans", "robotoids", and so on, but exactly what was happening here is still a bit of a mystery. What we can clearly see, though, is they are too similar each time to be explainable as human doubles (even with surgery because that doesn't account for the other nuances), yet too different to be the exact same person. Human replication of whatever form usually yields a 95-97% identical copy, and that is what we are seeing here.
Not only are the heights different, but as I'll show on subsequent pages, so are the shapes and lengths of his eyebrows, the different types of earlobes, and the size and angles of his teeth. But that will be for later. For now, let's concentrate on the height differentiations, and focus on Paul.
Depending on who is asked, people will say he was either 5'6" or 5'11" tall. I've seen evidence for both, and for a few heights in between as well.
Here is a comparison of two different heights for Paul in 1963. What can account for this?
Some say "shoe lifts", but those don't cause his arms, legs and torso to be longer, too.
Are your eyes playing tricks on you, or was it "them"?
Now compare the short height on the left once again in 1963 with the taller height in the middle and on the right in 1964. Did he have a sudden growth spurt of several inches in less than a year? If you think it's possible, wait until I show what happens later.
His heights fluctuate like a yo-yo all through Beatlemania, as they did through Wings, and as they are continuing to do in the Macca era.
Paul can't be more than about 5'6" here. The girls aren't wearing heels, but he is.
Now compare his short height in 1963 again, with how much taller he is in 1965. Taller even than in many pictures during 1964.
Here is a comparison of them on stage in 1963, 1964 and 1965. I never find the very short Paul performing on stage. He was only involved in this mess for a few months in the Spring of 1963, apparently only for photos.
This is a comparison of the short 1963 Paul, then taller in 1964, and taller yet in 1965.
Another concern is the way he flip-flopped as to whether he had body-rhythm and could dance and sway to the beat of the music during their onstage performances.
These next three videos are hosted on my new channel "Banned On The Run". It is an unlisted channel which means you need to click on a link either here or at the website in order to open the video. Searching for it on YT will not yield results.
If you have questions or comments, please reply to this thread. I will eventually be adding annotations to the video to demarcate the critical spots to take note of in his performance.
Notice how un-rhythmic he is in his body movements in this video from 1964:
Now notice how rhythmic he is in this 1965 performance of Ticket To Ride -- as well as his height proximity to the others.
And also this performance of Help! -- Notice a difference in his face?
They look much older here to me. It was either very unflattering lighting, or we were being tested. I'm from this generation, and I have to say we flunked miserably.
In 1966, he isn't as tall anymore.... most of the time. His stage presence fluctuates from rhythmic to non-rhythmic or semi-rhythmic. He begins to wear dark glass in some of the performances. Sometimes he's sitting during a performance, instead of standing. Is it to hide the fact that he's shorter than he was the year before?
Notice the regression in body rhythm in this 1966 video of Paperback Writer compare to the above 1965 takes.
Many will say it's obvious it is no longer Paul because he's smoking right-handed at the L.A. Interview:
But they apparently either don't notice or just don't mention he does the same during the Memphis Interview, and those same people usually believe this is the 'real' Paul:
Appearing in the 1967 Hello, Goodbye performance, he has reverted to being very non-rhythmic, with a stiff, uncoordinated, staccato performance style.
And why did they keep blurring his face? Could it be because we had never seen this particular Paul from the early 60s perform on television, and was he only in photo shoots before this?
Regressing even more in his performance style, back to where he was in the early 60s.
Be sure to also watch this video by Lololark from our FFD forum on the Beatles' Height Discrepancies.
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BCC estimates the market for terahertz (THz) radiation devices totaled $83.7 million in 2011. This market will grow to $127 million in 2016. The diversification of the THz market is expected to accelerate after 2016, and the total market should reach $570 million by 2021, a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35% from 2016 to 2021.
THz imaging devices (including the ALMA telescope) is the largest device segment throughout the period under review. It is expected to be nearly $76 million by 2016 and will further reach $248.3 million by the end of 2021, a CAGR of 26.8%.
Astronomy research is currently the largest single application of THz systems. It is estimated to be $70 million in 2011, but this market is expected to fall to $35 million by 2016 and will remain the same until 2021.
Over the last hundred years or so, physicists and engineers have progressively learned to exploit new areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. Starting with visible light, they have developed technologies for generating and detecting radiation at both higher and lower frequencies.
Sandwiched between the optical on the short wavelength side and radio on the long wavelength extreme, the terahertz (THz) frequency range (also called the far infrared or submillimeter-wave region) has been the least explored and developed portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The potential usefulness of THz radiation, with its ability to penetrate a wide range of nonconducting materials, has been known for a long time. The first images generated using THz radiation date from as far back as the 1960s. http://www.bharatbook.com/market-research-reports/consumer-electronics-market-research-report/terahertz-radiation-systems-technologies-and-global-markets.html
However, practical applications of THz radiation have been longer in coming, due to the so-called "terahertz gap." The terahertz gap refers to the technologies needed to generate, channel and detect THz radiation subject to real-world constraints such as size, cost and operating temperatures. Recent developments in THz radiation sources, detectors and waveguides have started to close the terahertz gap, opening up a range of potential applications in transportation security, medical imaging, nondestructive testing and other fields. Industry Analysis
This report is an update of an earlier BCC Research report, published in 2008. The overall goals of this report include assessing the technological process that has been made toward bridging the terahertz gap and assessing the commercial potential of THz radiation devices over the next five to 10 years. Specific objectives include:
Identifying the THz applications that are most likely to achieve significant commercial sales by 2021.
Assessing any remaining barriers to their commercialization, and develop quantitative estimates of potential sales.
Analyzing promising THz applications in the context of user needs and competing technologies.
Developing quantitative market projections through 2021.
Identifying companies that are well positioned to profit from these trends.
This report is intended especially for marketing executives, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists and other readers with a need to know where the emerging market for THz radiation devices is headed over the next 10 years. Although the report is organized around specific technologies, it is largely nontechnical in nature and coverage. That is, it is concerned less with theory and jargon than with what works, how much of the latter the market is likely to purchase and at what price.
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Imaging devices.
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The study format includes the following major elements:
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Historical milestones in the development of THz radiation devices.
Emerging and developmental THz radiation technologies and applications that have the greatest commercial potential through 2016.
Detailed market estimates and projections for each technology and application during the period 2010 to 2016.
General assessment of expected market trends in the longer term (2016 to 2021).
Industry structure.
Patent analysis.
Projecting the market for emerging technologies, whose commercial potential has not yet been proven, is a challenging task. This is nowhere truer than the THz radiation field, which may help to explain why many analysts focus on supply-side technology assessments.
However, BCC's objective in this report is to provide not just a technology assessment but also an initial commercial assessment of the potential commercial market for THz devices. To accomplish this objective, BCC used a multiphase approach to identify the technologies with the greatest commercial potential and quantify the related markets.
In the first phase of the analysis, BCC identified a long list of THz technologies and applications, including those that are still under development. In the second phase, BCC eliminated those applications that appear to have little likelihood of making it into commercial use in the next five to 10 years, through a literature review and interviews with industry sources. The result of phase two was a short list of THz technologies with the greatest commercial potential over the time period covered by this report.
The third phase focused on quantifying the potential market for each short-listed THz technology, by application, and identifying the main prerequisites for commercial success. Phase three actually had two phases: 1) development of near- to midterm (2011 to 2016) projections and 2) development of longer-term (2016 to 2021) projections.
The development of such long-term projections is a departure from the usual BCC report format, necessitated by the long time frame for commercialization of many of the technologies analyzed in this report. Obviously, the projections for the out-years beyond 2016 are more tentative than the projections for 2011 to 2016.
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One of the approaches used by BCC deserves special mention here. Particularly in the case of THz applications that are still under development, BCC used the sales performance of non-THz application that share some of the same functions or other characteristics with the respective THz applications as a benchmark for assessing the latter's sales potential.
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Seven candidates from Mumbai suburbs found resorting to paid news
The scourge of paid news has affected the upcoming Assembly polls as well.
The scourge of paid news has affected the upcoming Assembly polls as well. The Election Commission has identified seven candidates from major political parties in the 26 constituencies in Mumbai's suburbs who have been issuing advertisements disguised as news.
The Shiv Sena, which has the unenviable distinction of fielding the most number of candidates with criminal records, also leads in the number of candidates from the suburbs who were found to be resorting to paid news. Most of the articles were found in regional newspapers and the Election Commission plans to add the cost to the campaign expenditure of the candidate.
Thirteen paid articles have been identified in the last 10 days by the special team of the commission in various regional newspapers. The BJP had two of its party members involved in paid news — Mohit Kamboj of Dindoshi constituency, who is one of the richest candidates, and Parag Alavani from Vile Parle.
From the Sena, the candidates are Vinay Jain from Malad West, Shashikant Patkar from Vile Parle and Tukaram Kate from Anushakti Nagar.
From the Congress, the sitting MLA of Dindoshi, Rajhans Singh was found to have paid for articles in three Marathi newspapers.
The MNS' Raees Lashkariya from Andheri was found to have paid for two articles.
Shekhar Channe, collector of Mumbai suburban district, said, "Our team has been monitoring newspapers and we have found 13 paid news articles. Based on the size of the article printed in the newspaper, and as per the standard advertising charges, we will include the sum in the candidate's campaign expenditure."


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By BARBARA S. ROTHSCHILD
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The borough's preservation society is looking for a few good projects. The 35-year-old Haddonfield Preservaton Society is accepting nominations for the Joan L. Aiken Historic Preservation Awards for Excellence, which will be presented on May 18 during National Historic Preservation Week.
"The awards recognize the contributions of property owners who have made improvements to their respective historic property, and encourage other property owners to improve their property in a manner which respects the the architectural integrity and historic context of the community," said Carl Nittinger, the society's current executive director.
The exact time and location of the awards ceremony will be named later.
The annual awards are named for the founder and former executive director of the society. Aiken, who lived in the borough for nearly 50 years, passed away in 2000.
Aiken also spearheaded the drive which resulted in a 1971 ordinance creating the 488-building historic district in the center of town.
The awards are presented to organizations, businesses and individuals for outstanding contributions in the following categories of community historic preservation: restoration, rehabilitation, maintenance, addition to a historic building, remodeling a commercial property, exterior paint colors, beautification to the historic district; shop-front window displays and/or treatments, garden design, landscaping/landscape features, lighting and signage.
Award certificates will be presented to as many as five recipients at the ceremony.
Nittinger said the society has its collective eye on several projects nearing completion. Among them is the house at 100 Washington Ave., where owners Thor Nilsen and Camille DiLullo have restored the front and rehabilited the rear.
"The home had become an apartment building and is now being reclaimed as a private home in historically correct colors," Nittinger said. The original porch, once removed, has been restored.
Nilsen and DiLullo bought the Victorian house, built in 1888, almost three years ago and are now renovating the interior.
"We did a lot of research to bring this as close to the original as we could," said DiLullo. She and her husband, Nilsen, were able to find an old pen-and-ink drawing to help guide them, as well as a tape recording from someone who had previously lived in the house.
When they pulled off the added aluminum siding, the couple found vestiges of the original paint, as well as the original gold gingerbread trim. They repainted the house in light yellow, with dark green trim and accents of cream. Nilsen redid the original latticework under the porch.
Another project involves a plot of land at the corner of Kings Highway and Evergreen Avenue which the borough has turned into a park area through government Green Acres funds.
"Originally, this was part of the Tatem property, but they only acquired it in the 1930s. Before that, it was thought to be part of the Gill farm," Nittinger said.
The site, adjacent to the old Tatem house at 309 Kings Highway, was coveted for office buildings and for private homes. But the borough wanted to keep it as open space. Now being transformed by a local landscaper, it is called the Edith and Joseph Tatem Memorial Garden.
"It looks very soft, not harsh ... a natural-looking landscape," Nittinger said.
He added that the society is considering the park, should it be nominated, as a possible site for the awards ceremony.
Nominations are to include a completed form, a narrative explaining why the group or individual deserves recognition, and no more than four color photos, all in booklet format. Completed forms are to be sent to the Haddonfield Preservation Society, c/o 130 Walnut St., Haddonfield 08033. The deadline is April 5.
Blank forms may be available at the public library, the Mabel Kay Hospitality House, and the Acme. They are also available from Nittinger. For more information, contact him at (856) 427-9741.


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You certainly don't want to have your smartphone up and at the ready when you're driving around town, but there are plenty of apps that don't require your active engagement to improve your driving experience.
Driving apps come in many forms, from GPS to gas mileage monitoring, with some truly unique and entertaining apps thrown in to keep things interesting. If you're looking for smartphone apps beyond the typical recommendations for companion car apps, let these steer you toward exactly what you're looking for.
Gamification – FuelGood (free)
If you've never heard of the concept of gamification, it refers to a way of making everyday activities more exciting by rewarding you for accomplishing them, similar to a video game. Fuelgood uses the phone's GPS to track your fuel mileage and efficiency.
You can pick the specific car you have, along with engine size if you aren't using the stock materials. Track all of your journeys and compare them side by side. The tips button also lets you know how to improve your driving for more fuel efficiency.
Discovering Local Flavor – Along The Way ($2.99)
For those who typically only check out towns at the end of a journey, not all of the ones in-between, Along the Way seeks to change that by looking up spots you'll pass by on your way to your final destination.
It's a $2.99 iOS app that's well worth the money, as you'll find many fascinating places and local businesses you might have otherwise passed by.
Buying a Car – Car Guru (free)
Car Guru is an online service that compiles vehicles in your area in an easy-to-use search tool. The best part is the advice the app gives you on the listed cars. It shows you a rating of the dealership.
It also tells you if the listed price is fair, good or too high. The app indicates how much above or below MSRP the asking price is so you have some comparison and leverage when you go to the dealership or visit the website.
Car Guru is a free app for Android and Apple.
Anti-Texting – DriveSafe.ly ($3.99/month or $13.95/year for a single user)
Texting and driving is a major distraction and danger, even more so than driving drunk.
An app niche exists that will keep you from texting while driving. DriveSafe.ly will read your text messages, calls, and emails out loud when you receive them. You can set an automated response if you'd like, or you can respond by voice, hands-free.
Rev Your Engines – XLR8 (free)
Not everyone is going to end up owning a sports car during their lifetime, but that doesn't mean you can't make your car sound like a sports car.
XLR8 is a free iOS app that makes you feel like you're driving a supercar, by connecting into your stereo and outputting the noise those high-powered engines make. It tracks your car's acceleration and braking, so the noises match what your car is doing. It might not be the same thing as having one of those cars, but it's certainly one way to enjoy the massive engine sounds.
Dynolicious is another great app for car enthusiasts, as it tracks quite a few interesting metrics, so you can brag about your car to all of your buddies.
This $8.99 iOS app lets you know how fast you reach 0-60 mph, your quarter mile time, the measured horsepower, and every other stat you could want from your car.
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THOMSON -- Mrs. Maxie C. Kersey, 85, of 3198 Mount Pleasant Road, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999, at McDuffie County Hospital.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Curtis Funeral Home with the Rev. Randy Dunaway officiating. Burial will be in Savannah Valley Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Kersey, a native of Emanuel County, was a homemaker and a Baptist.
Survivors include two sons, Albert Elvis Kersey, Jacksonville, Fla., and Billy Max Rhodes, Marion, S.C.; a brother, Joe Coursey, Metter; a sister, Mary Nell Norman, Columbus; and five grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Friends may call at the residence or at the funeral home.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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Making shrunken apple heads is one of my favorite Halloween traditions! I remember doing these a couple times when I was a little kid and thinking that they were so silly and so fun. A few years ago I mentioned the idea to my husband who kind of laughed—and then jumped right in when I got started. You will have a blast making them, but you do need to get started because they do need a few weeks to dry:
1st: Peel your apples. (You can leave some skin on them, we left some on to look like hair—but sometimes the skin doesn't dry as well and might cause molding so it just depends on what you want to do)
2nd: Carve your apples to resemble faces. Make sure that you cut deep. When the apple shrivels up you will lose some of the definition in your cut so make sure to cut everything a bit bigger/deeper than you think it should be.
3rd: Add some white rice for teeth (just push it into the apple and the apple will shrink around it to keep it in place.)
4th: Let them dry. Make sure you either sit them on a cookie rack, or turn them over every day(ish) so the bottoms don't get soggy…
Tip: If you want to keep your apple from turning brown you can dip them in lemon juice. I didn't dip these ones because I like them to get a brown leathery aged look to them as they dry.
Here are some more close-up pics we took right after we carved our apples:
And here are what they look like now (it has been about 2 weeks)
Pretty fun huh!?! HA HA. (These ones aren't completely dry yet so I'll have to post again in a few weeks so you can compare them)
You can then do all sorts of stuff with them. Tie them from strings and hang them on your porch, thread them onto a necklace and wear them around your neck for your halloween costume, glue them onto a wreath and hang them on your door. The ideas are endless…and FUN! =)
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Where do I find that chair with the gum on it?? I dont see anything :(
lesletr- when u go to the theater room (where every1 sits) go down the middle ile (all the way) and ur cursor will turn into the u shape click that then go back u will see a chair with gum on it click on the gum and nancy will say that ick or sumthin use the wand to pick up the gum
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EA's DRM has finished off the somewhat chequered career of Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello.
Riccitiello's obsession with DRM appears to have killed off the launch of the flagship SimCity game which was supposed to make a huge killing for the outfit.
Despite the realisation that the DRM was not working, Riccitiello insisted that EA stick to its guns and in the process managed to stuff up the launch completely.
It was not the first time that Riccitiello had managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. He has been in the driving seat of the company during a fairly hairy six year period and EA's results have been suffering.
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I think the better term is that Funchess is a "Hot". By only keeping 6 guys in to block, Michigan requires someone to be a hot receiver (though in this case, the defense didn't bring enough guys to require it necessarily). It's hard to say if Funchess broke off his route or if that was the hot was pre-installed, but Gardner did shorten his drop (3-step, when for the triangle to develop he probably needs a 5-step). Borges ran some triangles and liked triangles, but it is probably more of the base concept for Nuss than it was for Borges.
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3 russet potatoes
1 cup grated Parmigiano
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You will also need:
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What to do:
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Thinly slice the potatoes with a Mandoline.
Brush an 8-inch nonstick oven-safe saute pan with olive oil.
Take the potato slices and place them one at a time into the pan. Starting from the center of the pan make circles with the potatoes slices. Layer them as you go.
Don't forget that the bottom will be the top when everything is done, so make sure that this looks nice and pretty.
As you're making the circle layers, brush each layer with olive oil.
Sprinkle the cheese in between every other layer.
After the last layer is placed, and the olive oil has been brushed on sprinkle with more of these cheese. Press the cake down to compact everything.
Over medium heat, cook the potato cake for about 5 minutes so that the potatoes on the bottom can brown. After 5 minutes the potatoes should be sizzling.
Place the pan into the oven and bake for 20.
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"Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses..."
-- Herodotus, 485-425 B.C.
It may sound like the motto for the U.S. Postal Service, but it aptly applied to those who contributed to the Audubon Society's 103rd annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) -- the longest continuously running wildlife survey in the world. More than 55,000 volunteers took part in the event in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, South and Central America and a few Pacific islands.
Participants in the central peninsula's count met at Kaladi Brothers Coffee Company early on the morning of Dec. 21 for instructions and to coordinate counting parties. Most of the volunteers have been the same few people in recent years, so there was a lot of story swapping and reminiscing over the coffee and maps.
Soldotna Christmas Bird Count Results
Species 2002 2001 2000
Mallard 93 95 117
Common goldeneye 44 2 103
Barrow's goldeneye 21 0 0
Common merganser 50 2 21
merganser 22 0 58
Bald eagles 143 229 164
gull 721 35 463
Glaucous gull 1 1 8
Mew gull 0 11 2
Herring gull 0 0 3
Spruce grouse 0 cw 2
Rock dove 7 46 19
Great horned owl 2 1 1
Northern hawk owl 0 0 cw
Downy woodpecker 2 2 1
Hairy woodpecker 2 6 1
Northern three-toed
woodpecker 3 6 0
Gray jay 8 27 3
Black-billed magpie 43 78 36
Common raven 328 270 224
Northwestern crow 45 0 0
chickadee 48 217 21
Boreal chickadee 14 44 4
nuthatch 6 27 1
Brown creeper 2 2 1
American dipper 0 1 1
Dark-eyed (slate-
colored) junco 1 3 0
Pine grosbeak 19 32 5
crossbill 41 6 16
Common redpoll 39 325 61
Hoary redpoll 0 cw 0
Pine siskin 200 76 0
Bohemian waxwing 13 0 0
Northern shrike 1 0 2
Northern harrier 1 0 0
Sharp-shinned hawk 1 0 0
kinglet 0 4 0
Song sparrow 0 0 1
sparrow 0 0 2
Total species
(on count day) 30 26 28
Total individuals 1,920 1,548 1,341
The group rendezvoused there again in the afternoon to further share what they had seen after the day's work had been completed, and to warm up from the the below freezing counting weather.
"It was great to see a northern three-toed woodpecker," said volunteer Ken Marlow. "It's fairly rare and people will come from all over to try and see one."
Ken and his wife Judy Marlow have participated in the CBC since 1999. Ken first developed his interest in birds as a boy growing up in northern Minnesota. Birding developed into a life long hobby for him which he has shared with his wife and their two children.
"We like birding because of the antics of the birds, their intelligence and their beauty," Ken said. "It's a very inexpensive activity and can be done anywhere in the world. No matter where you travel you can still enjoy birding."
The Marlows know from first-hand experience about traveling to see birds. Through their business, Marlow's On The Kenai, they offer bird and wildlife viewing trips to those just getting started as well as truly expert birders who are very serious about adding to their life list of birds.
"We usually see a lot of birds, but not a lot of diversity," said organizer Jack Sinclair of the annual Christmas count. He took over the Soldotna count in 1999, but he's been involved with the Seward count for even longer.
"The weather has been great so we had some unique things like open water," Sinclair said referring to many bodies of water typically frozen at this time, but weren't due to the late season warm temperatures. "I was hoping to get a dipper down at Soldotna Creek. I waited awhile, but none showed up."
The absence of the dipper didn't dampen his optimism though. There were many new species observed this year and high numbers seen for previously reported species.
"This was a booming year for crossbills," Sinclair said. "It's been 10-12 years since I've seen this many, so their population has definitely bounded back."
Sinclair also had to submit rare bird documentation forms for a northern harrier, sharp-shinned hawk, and northwestern crows.
"The crows amazed everyone. Five years ago you would have to go to Ninilchik to see them," he said.
Not all species were seen in high numbers. The bald eagle population was lower than in recent years. The borough landfill south of Soldotna usually contains dense numbers of eagles, gulls, and ravens. This year only 143 eagles were seen, down from 229 last year.
"The eagles were stressed by all the high water," said David Wartinbee, a count volunteer and a university ecologist professor with more than 20 years experience. He believes the recent floods throughout the peninsula affected their normal hunting schedule. Rivers were running too high and too fast for them to effectively feed on spawning salmon.
"On the upper Killey they were feeding on late season silvers just last week," he said.
The Soldotna count encompasses a circle 15 miles in diameter with the center being the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The results of the count will be added to others from around the world.
"Where is what they're looking at now," Sinclair said. "Why will follow later."
His statement referred to the way monitoring bird populations is used by conservation biologists.
In the 1980s CBC data were used to document the decline of wintering populations of American black duck, after which measures were taken to reduce hunting pressure in order to conserve the species.
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