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It is easy to love monkeys because their faces look familiar. This species, the noisy night monkey, the only nocturnal primate in the neotropics holds a special place in my heart. I've had several memorable encounters with night monkeys in both Ecuador and Peru. After about nine encounters with 4 different family groups in the field I achieved a remarkable image of these elusive primates. They're pictured here in their daytime roost in a dead tree, high above the water line in seasonally flooded forest on a tributary of the Amazon, Pacaya Samiria Reserve, Peru ("Aotus vociferans").
There's a lot of hate surrounding this fascinating North American native plant. It was given the unfortunate common name of skunk cabbage. But it neither smells like skunk -- it has a mild skunk-like odor when a leaf is broken open -- nor is it a cabbage. Developers dislike skunk cabbage because it's a wetland indicator species, dependent on wetlands for survival and therefore alerting us to the presence of this essential but diminishing habitat. "Symplocarpus foetidus" is one of the few thermogenic plants worldwide, and one of the few North American aroids, or members of the family Araceae, a primarily tropical family. A native aquatic mollusc has come out of the mud of the wetland where it overwintered. Southwestern Ontario.
Butterflies on Roadkill
A beautiful image; an unfortunate result of human encroachment into the cloud forest. Roads are deathtraps in more ways than one. They heat up faster than their natural surroundings. Reptiles and amphibians are attracted to the heat, then run over by passing vehicles. The butterflies are feeding on the fluids of a dead toad. After this photo was taken they too may have been run over by a vehicle. Squashed butterflies are not an uncommon sight on this gravel road. Cloud Forest, Ecuador (butterflies, family Nymphalidae, genus "Actinote").
Bay Forget-Me-Not
Don't mistake the invasive alien weed for this North American native beauty. This native plant is "Myosotis laxa" but far more common in Ontario is the European forget-me-not "Myosotis scorpiodes". If you have forget-me-nots in your garden but did not purchase and plant the native species, you've probably got the alien weed (family Boraginaceae). Read more about the importance of native plants in the "Biodiversity Garden" Gallery.
The lines are moving insects. The night I snapped this pic it was pitch black and hundreds of insects were swarming around my headlamp. So I took their picture! Inevitably I swallowed a tiny one. Another flew in my ear. The insectivore that night was me. Pacaya-Samiria Reserve, Loreto, Peru.
Giant Swallowtail Cat on Hoptree Leaf
Caterpillars themselves are not pollinators, but they grow up to be pollinators. Most cats* feed on fresh green leaves of their food plants, and many are highly specialized on native species. If you want beautiful moths and butterflies flying around your garden, you'll want to plant the food plants of the caterpillars. You'll need to plant native species. Caterpillars are fascinating animals in their own right, and a major food source for birds. Native plants attract the insects, insects attract the birds. This is what biodiversity gardening is all about. The image shows the defensive display of a papilionid. All papilionid cats have an osmeterium (forked red structure), or an everscible gland behind the head that emits a foul odor, warding off potential predators (Cat: Papilionidae: "Papilio cresphontes"; plant: Rutaceae: hop tree, "Ptelea trifoliata"). *those of us that love caterpillars refer to them as "cats" for short.
Dinosaurs Are Not Dead
The fawn-breasted brilliant hummingbird is one of the more common feathered dinosaurs in this part of the cloud forest of Ecuador. The female (pictured) is distinguished from the male by the absence of a throat patch, or the absence of a darker patch of feathers under the beak ("Heliodoxa rubinoides", family Trochilidae).
Sweat Bee on Prickly Pear Cactus
A native North American solitary bee foraging on eastern prickly pear cactus. Often called the "forgotten pollinators" native bees and other native pollinating insects receive little media and scientific attention compared to the non-native honey bee. The prickly pear cactus is an endangered species in Ontario. Make sure to purchase native plants for your garden from reliable, locally sourced native plant nurseries, and never collect plants from the wild (bee: Apoidea: Halictidae: "Agapostemon texanus"; plant: Cactaceae: "Opuntia humifusa", Species at Risk in Ontario).
Often the most beautiful thing in the forest is an insect. This is "Euchroma gigantea" one of the largest members of the family Buprestidae, or jewel beetles. The larvae feed on dead kapok, or "Ceiba" trees, ultimately helping to decompose the wood and return nutrients to the soil. Shiripuno Lodge in Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador.
When I explore the rain forest, I become a little kid in a candy store. The astonishing biodiversity found in rain forest is to me "mind candy". This tiny object (photographed with a dissecting microscope) was my mind candy one day. What could it be? Answering that question is one of my favourite pastimes. Eventually I figured it out. It's a fecal shield! Made by a tiny beetle larva to protect itself, the beetle uses its own feces to construct this object it then carries around on its back. Eventually it pupates inside the basket-like base. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador (family Chrysomelidae: genus "Spathiella").
Milkweed Seeds I
Today the vast majority of plant species are seed plants, or plants that produce seeds. I have often read or heard people talk about plants as being stationary. This is true of most mature seed plants, but untrue of the early stage of seed plants. The seed is the embryonic plant encased in protective tissue, allowing the embryo to survive desiccation. And, many seeds are adapted for travel -- they are mobile. Many seed plants can and will disperse great distances. Seeds are mainly dispersed by animals but some are dispersed by wind and others by water. The form and structure of the seed will give clues to the dispersal agent. Milkweed seeds possess a coma, which is comprised of long, white, silky strands of cellulose called floss. As the floss dries the coma opens up creating buoyancy, allowing seeds to drift on air currents. In our biodiversity garden in Ontario (plant: butterfly milkweed "Asclepias tuberosa", family Apocynaceae).
The large, spectacular flower of a species in the genus "Gustavia". Finding a Gustavia in flower is always a treat, but even more impressive is the presence of its pollinator (a native bee). Worldwide there are many species of flowering plant of which the species of pollinator is unknown. These types of seemingly simple natural history observations are essential if we're going to fully understand biodiversity. Seasonally flooded forest, on a tributary of the Amazon, Pacaya Samiria Reserve, Peru.
Amplexus in gray tree frog, "Hyla versicolor" in late June in our biodiversity garden in Ontario. The male is on top. They remained in this mating position for the better part of the morning. The night before, we photo-documented five males calling in the area. Amphibians are in decline worldwide. It is heartening to know that our native tree frog is doing well, at least in our little neck of the woods.
I love arachnids. I find them to be adorable. Try and catch one. It's not an easy task. They run away, fast. They're more afraid of you than you are of them. Amblypygids are my most favourite arachnid of all. Flat as a pancake, with antenniform legs, what's not to love? Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador ("Instant" filter used).
Cloud forest, Ecuador: A wild silk moth (bottom: "Copaxa andensis", family Saturniidae) and a leaf-mimic geometrid moth (top: genus "Oxydia") in the morning at a light trap. These moths would not normally associate in this way. A light trap the night before this photo was taken lured them to a white sheet, allowing me to study them without causing them any harm.
Robber Fly Consuming a Japanese Beetle
This robber fly is one of my favourite insects in our biodiversity garden. First, it is a bumble bee mimic. Second, it is a predatory fly, and it's eating a Japanese beetle, a notorious introduced plant pest that feeds on an unusually wide variety of plants -- and always your favourite one! (robber fly: "Laphria" sp., family Asilidae; beetle: "Popillia japonica", family Scarabaeidae").
Wild Ginger
"Asarum canadense" commonly called Canadian wild ginger, is in the family Aristolochiaceae. Culinary ginger purchased in grocery stores is a member of the family Zingiberaceae. Wild ginger is a lovely native ground cover that needs moist shade. The flowers are hidden beneath the foliage and one must part the leaves and practically lie on the ground to see them, certainly to photograph them. So I picked a specimen from our garden and brought it into my studio to get this shot of the amazing flower.
The female long-tailed sylph hummingbird is every bit as beautiful as the male ("Aglaiocercus kingi, family Trochilidae). Cabañas San Isidro, Cloud Forest, Ecuador.
Mimicry abounds in the Amazon rain forest. Many species of harmless insects have evolved to look like harmful species in an attempt to ward off potential predators. This species of erebid moth (genus "Cosmosoma") resembles a stinging wasp. It is one of the more common species I've encountered at cloud forest light traps. Yanayacu Biological Station and Centre for Creative Studies, Ecuador.
a morel is the fruiting body, or spore-producing reproductive structure of an ascomycete fungus.
Parasitoid Wasp on Heliopsis
The long needle-like structure extending from the tip of the abdomen is the ovipositor, or egg-laying device on this female parasitoid wasp. I watched her thrust her ovipositor down into the centre of the daisy multiple times. This type of behaviour suggests she was laying eggs inside a host, probably a larval insect living concealed inside the disc florets. In our biodiversity garden. (plant is native oxeye sunflower: "Heliopsis helianthoides", family Asteraceae).
Remains of a Horseshoe Crab
Horshoe crabs are marine arthropods that are more closely related to spiders than they are to crustaceans (crabs, shrimps, etc.). During the breeding season they migrate to shallow coastal waters and produce thousands of eggs which are a major food source for migratory birds. Atlantic horseshoe crabs are in decline and their population is threatened, which in turn threatens the birds that depend on them for food. Major threats to horseshoe crabs include over-harvesting (for medical applications), overfishing (for bait to catch eel) and shoreline development. Delaware Seashore, Atlantic coast, USA ("Limulus polyphemus").
Gray-bellied Hawk
We became alerted to the presence of this rare bird (gray-bellied hawk, "Accipiter poliogaster") when the bird it was chasing flew into the dining area at Shiripuno Lodge. I don't often take multiple shots in rapid succession, but I'm glad I did this time. If I had waited for the bird to assume this pose, I most certainly would not have captured this image. The hawk was identified by Fernando, Director, and Randy, naturalist guide of the Lodge. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador ("Noir" filter used).
Papilio on Pagoda Dogwood
The giant swallowtail is North America's largest butterfly. Pictured in our biodiversity garden in spring, it is nectaring on the tiny flowers of native pagoda dogwood, (butterfly: "Papilio cresphontes", family Papilionidae; plant: "Cornus alternifolia", family Cornaceae).
Hoatzins are large birds that live in social groups along rivers edge, and feed on fresh green leaves, flowers and fruits of a variety of plants. Bacterial fermentation in their gut helps to digest the plant food. The fermentation and aromatic compounds found in their plant food causes the birds to have a disagreeable manure-like odor, and for this reason they are usually not eaten by people. With many Amazonian species in decline due to overconsumption by humans, one could say that the stink has saved this bird. Time will tell how it responds to climate change, however. The debate over the closest living relative of the hoatzin is ongoing; one hypothesis puts them in the Cuculiformes (cuckoos and relatives). Found only in the Amazon lowlands and the Orinoco Delta of South America. Pacaya Samiria Reserve, Peru ("Ophisthocomus hoazin").
The moth family Geometridae is astonishingly diverse with thousands of species in tropical America. This species is "Pityeja histrionaria" (subfamily Ennominae). Light trap at Yanayacu Biological Station and Centre for Creative Studies, Ecuador.


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Welcome to the 14th Game Day Fire Drill, for this, Calgary's 62nd game of the season on March 1, 2009.
Some things are unforgivable.
This is one of them.
I will never, ever forgive the National Hockey League, Gary Bettman, the War Room in Toronto, Colin Campbell or the Tampa Bay Lightning for not allowing that goal to stand. It was clearly a goal, and they didn't have the famous angle that shows the puck cross the goal line.
Inexcusable and reprehensible.
It is now nearly five years later, and to this day, I can't even have that goal brought up to me without going into an apoplectic rage. Just writing about it is making me incredibly upset. Excuse me for a moment.
Okay. I am not old enough to remember 1989 especially well. I certainly wasn't a big hockey fan at that point. And so to have this experience actually, physically stolen from me is, of course, the worst thing that anyone or anything has ever done to me.
And that's why, tonight, I would like the Flames to not only beat the Lightning, I would like them to beat them by, ohhhhh I don't know, 600. A nice 600-0 victory would make me feel a LOT better.
The Calgary Flames (37-18-6 for 80 points. Third in the West, first in the Northwest) and the Tampa Bay Lightning (20-30-12 for 52 points. Thirteenth in the East, fourth in the Southeast)
6 p.m. Mountain time and 8 p.m. Eastern time. All other time zones should try to figure this out the Pinocchio Paradox.
Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta.
Calgary is 22-7-4 at home this year, and are 1-0-1 against Southeast division opponents this year. The Lightning are 9-18-4 on the road (yikes!) and haven't won a road game since Jan. 12. They are 0-6-1 since that game, giving up an average of 3.9 goals a game and scoring just 1.7. That's unimaginably awful.
What (to hate about the Lightning):
June, 2004 — I still have not fully recovered from the emotional roller coaster I went through in that wonderful, awful, great, terrible two-week stretch. I've certainly never forgiven Martin St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier or any of the other pukes from that '04 Bolts team that stuck around. I hope Phaneuf puts one of them through the friggin' glass tonight.
Martin St. Louis — WHY IS HE SO GOOD? He's 5-foot-1 and weighs 104 pounds with his equipment on. Somehow he is an excellent hockey player. Also, he went to the University of Vermont and is therefore a jerk.
The "Saw" movies — Bolts owner Oren Koules (or is it that other guy? Who cares, I guess?) made his fortune off these steaming pieces of garbage. I now boycott ALL horror movies on general principle.
Indecision — The Lightning have used 38 skaters this year! THIRTY-EIGHT! How is that even possible?
Paul Szczechura — I don't know who he is or what he does, but this guy's name irks me. I'm sorry, "Szcz-" is not an acceptable prefix.
Vincent Lecavalier — Obvious reasons.
Because Martin Gelinas scored in Game 6. Enjoy the game and let's bitch about no-goals in the comments section.


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In just 10 years, Alber Elbaz has succeeded in waking the sleeping beauty that was the French fashion house of Lanvin, giving it a modern identity and a must-have status.
His particular brand of imperfect glamour — fraying lace edges, exposed zippers, grosgrain ribbon and pearl trims, sculpted bows and rosettes — has elevated the humble T-shirt to near-couture standards, turned sneakers into $540 "It" shoes and reinvigorated the categories of cocktail dresses and costume jewelry.
His aesthetic has been much-imitated, influencing designs and boosting sales at J. Crew, Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Forever 21 and other specialty stores. Lanvin's collection for H&M last November was among the cheap chic retailer's most successful collaborations.
Now that Lanvin is firmly established, it is poised for a new phase of growth. Lanvin Petite children's clothing launches in stores next month. And the first Lanvin men's store will open in New York next year, becoming the label's 38th boutique worldwide.
To coincide with his 20th women's runway collection in Paris in March 2012, Elbaz, 50, has another project, a 700-page book titled "Lanvin: Alber Elbaz" to be published by Steidl. It will depict the process of creating a single Lanvin runway collection, from fabric to knitwear mills, embroidery work to model fittings.
"When you see that 1,000 threads are going into making one rose in one machine, you see that while we may talk about fashion as a glossy industry with mega stores, models, parties and Champagne, in the end this is about a seamstress, a needle and a thread," Elbaz said recently over breakfast in Los Angeles during a rare visit from Paris to host a dinner party and fashion show for friends and clients.
Lanvin was founded in 1909 by Jeanne Lanvin, a milliner turned children's and women's dressmaker, who had 1,000 employees in the 1920s. After she died in 1946, the business was turned over to relatives, to a French holding company and eventually, in 1996 to L'Oreal.
Despite a handful of successful fragrances and licenses and a string of designers, the label failed to gain traction. That changed in August 2001, when Lanvin was taken private by an investment group headed by Taiwanese media magnate Shaw-Lan Wang. Elbaz, who had worked previously at Geoffrey Beene, Guy Laroche and Yves Saint Laurent, was hired a couple of months later. When appointed artistic director of Lanvin, he was given carte blanche to revamp everything down to the packaging.
Over the last decade, the house's exuberant silk and taffeta cocktail dresses with asymmetrical drapes and flounces, crystal and pearl statement necklaces, chain-handle "Happy" handbags and ballet flats have earned quite a following. Elbaz also makes silk pajamas, ribbon-trimmed lounge pants and Lanvin Blanche T-shirts, tuxedo dresses and tulle skirts for the bride.
"Comfort is the true definition of modernity," he likes to say.
In May 2009, Lanvin made headlines when Michelle Obama was photographed wearing a pair of $540 Lanvin satin sneakers with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink leather toe caps while volunteering at a food bank in Washington D.C. Lanvin is Robert Downey Jr.'s go-to for the red carpet. (Lucas Ossendrijver is the house's menswear designer.) Beyoncé wore a Lanvin red, one-shoulder cutaway gown to the MTV Video Music Awards in August, and Uma Thurman wore a ball skirt and blouse to the LACMA Art + Film Gala just last weekend.
Katie Holmes, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Zoe Saldana, Demi Moore, Rachel Zoe, Liz Goldwyn, Jacqui Getty, Dita Von Teese and Eva Chow were among the stylish guests who gathered Nov. 4 at the 1928 Carondelet House near downtown Los Angeles for Elbaz's informal showing of the spring 2012 collection, followed by dinner.
Lanvin dolls dressed in miniature versions of his clothes, made by a group of African women affiliated with the charity Dessine L'Espoir, made for cute party favors.
"Alber has a joy and appreciation for women that is echoed in his designs," said celebrity stylist and costume designer Arianne Phillips after the event.
"His clothes are feminine without being over-the-top girlie," said painter Rosson Crowe.
The next morning, the designer was in the dressing room at the Rodeo Drive Lanvin boutique working with customers as if they were his dolls, showing different ways to wear a knit-backed fox fur infinity scarf or suggesting the proper undergarments to go with a tight satin dress with snake-like crystal embroidery. "It's about having a relationship with women and hearing what they want," he said. "Not being stuck in a studio with 14-year-old models."
Of course, all this attention — and attention to detail — comes at a price. Lanvin's clothes are some of the most expensive in the luxury market, with prices such as $850 for an embellished T-shirt, $4,330 for a sequined cardigan, $17,050 for a feather-appliqued gown. (Accessories start at $195 for a tassel key fob to $18,950 for a crocodile bag.)
"Sometimes it takes me seven dresses to make one," Elbaz said by way of explaining the prices. "It's all about fabric development, technique, patterns and shapes."
While most fashion designers traveling to Los Angeles raid the vintage stores looking for inspiration pieces, Elbaz's ideas come from his mind. Born in Casablanca and raised in Israel, he's a daydreamer, but also a pragmatist with an affinity for reality TV. (Of the Kardashians, he said, "Underneath, I think they are really good girls.")
"I travel a lot in my head," said Elbaz, whose chic and cheerful fashion sketches often turn up on Lanvin T-shirts and accessories. And yet his biggest source of inspiration is words. Sometimes all he needs is one or two words to start drawing and dreaming.
The spring collection he showed at the Los Angeles dinner, for instance, started with the words "hell's angels" and the idea of angels living in a hellish world. At the dinner, he drew a sketch to explain how the image of angel wings turned into the season's strong-shouldered silhouette.
Part of his appeal is that he is a lovable neurotic — the opposite of the typical slick, packaged fashion designer persona. Elbaz once went to a psychiatrist for help with his weight but ended up talking about fashion instead. "Everyone accuses me of being a control freak, so why can I not control a sandwich?" said the designer, who lives in Paris' 7th arrondissement with his partner Alex Koo, Lanvin's worldwide marketing director.
During one session with his psychiatrist, he remembers the conversation turning to plastic surgery. If women can buy a perfect body, the doctor asked, what does the role of the dressmaker become?
It was a provocative question, and it got Elbaz sketching. He decided to try being a kind of plastic surgeon himself, designing an entire collection using only stretch fabric. Then he got bored and started adding yards of chiffon, butterfly-shaped jewelry and leather harnesses.
"That's when I realized fashion is not about emphasizing the body or hiding it, but about making women fly," he said. So, after so many sketches and words, the spring 2011 runway collection began with a series of billowy chiffon "flying dresses."
This free-association creative process is why Elbaz's book will begin unconventionally, with nearly 200 blank white pages.
Because, as the designer said, "That is how I start every day."


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Which shooting mode should I use?
"AUTO" mode is recommended for regular photography.
In AUTO mode, the camera automatically adjusts the settings. If you want to change settings such as white balance and ISO sensitivity, select another mode (e.g. "P").
The following shooting modes and scenes are available:
How do I insert xD-Picture Card media into the camera?
To insert xD-Picture Card media into the camera, do the following.
How do I insert a microSD or microSDHC card into the camera?
This camera can accept compatible microSD or microSDHC memory cards, which are sold separately.
When using microSD or microSDHC media, the card must be inserted into the MASD-1 xD Picture Card-to-microSD adapter packaged with the camera before it can be inserted into the camera's media slot.
To insert a microSD or microSDHC memory card into the camera, do the following:
How do I take close-up pictures of small subjects?
Press the button repeatedly until the Macro or Super Macro icon appears.
Use the Macro mode to gain sharpness and detail in pictures at close range.Super Macro mode allows you to take pictures more closely than the Macro mode.
What types of memory cards can I use in the FE-20?
You can use xD-Picture Card™ media or microSD™ / microSDHC media (hereafter referred to as "microSD cards"). To use microSD cards, the MASD-1 adapter (packaged with the camera) is required.The following xD-Picture Card media can be used:Card Capacity: 16MB to 2GBCard Type: TypeH, TypeM, TypeM+, StandardTo see all compatible microSD cards, click here.Olympus xD-Picture Card media are the only memory cards on the market that enable the Panorama function on this Olympus digital camera. The Panorama feature does not function with microSD and non-Olympus brand xD-Picture Card media.
Will the bundled microSD™ adapter let me use any microSD or microSDHC card in my camera?
Click here to view a list of microSD and microSDHC cards that can be used with the MASD-1 card adapter. This page will be updated as additional cards are evaluated.
The PANORAMA feature in this camera does not function with microSD and microSDHC media. Also, the art editing features of the xD Pack plug-in for OLYMPUS Master 2 do not support images recorded to microSD/SDHC cards. To use these features, use Olympus brand xD-Picture Card™ media.
Will the microSD adapter allow me to use microSD and microSDHC media in other Olympus cameras?
MicroSD and microSDHC cards can be used only with cameras that are compatible with the MASD-1 microSD adapter. For a list of compatible cameras, click here.
The adapter is different from xD-Picture Card media in form. It will not fit in the card slots of other cameras that are compatible with xD-Picture Card media. Forcing the MASD-1 into an incompatible camera or other device may damage it or cause the equipment to malfunction. The data on the memory card may be destroyed.
The colors in my pictures look different from the actual colors of my subject. What can I do?
Select a White Balance (WB) setting that is more appropriate for the lighting conditions.
When WB is set to the default, AUTO, the colors in pictures may differ from the subject's actual colors under the following lighting conditions:
In cases like these, select the WB setting that is designed to capture accurate colors in the specific lighting conditions.To select WB settings, the mode dial must be set to any shooting mode except AUTO or GUIDE.
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Bill Richardson, LSU AgCenter chancellor, updated the Louisiana Cotton Producers Association on the status of budget cuts he recently presented to the LSU System.
Producers at the organization's 41st annual meeting also heard about the latest in LSU AgCenter research on the growth and yield of cotton.
"The (state) budget situation has hit us pretty hard," Richardson said. "We may have people stretched a lot thinner than they have been in the past. We are still here to work with you any way we can. We are not pulling up our tents; we are not going anywhere."
Richardson encouraged the group to remind legislators that agriculture is an important industry. "This is an agrarian state," Richardson said. "We need the land-grant universities to continue to do the research work they're doing — the Extension work they are doing — to help you maintain your viability as a farmer as best we can.
"We can't influence the price of crops, the price of diesel or the price of fertilizer, but we can make sure from a technological perspective that we are as good as we can be," he added.
"We have some outstanding people working for you.
"Our people are first-rate," the chancellor said. "Just like Les Miles, we are only as good as the players we put on the field."
B. Rogers Leonard told the producers he has been named interim Extension cotton entomology specialist for the LSU AgCenter in addition to his duties as professor of entomology.
Donald Boquet, LSU AgCenter agronomist, reminded the producers that variety selection is the best way to improve fiber quality.
Each year, scientists in the LSU AgCenter evaluate cotton varieties at four locations, Boquet said.
They use the results to publish cotton production guidelines that include recommendations on planting times and that identify varieties with the potential for superior performance.
"We cannot identify the single best variety," Boquet said. "The best approach is to select varieties based on relative performance and plant several varieties that are consistently among the top performers in variety tests."
In many comparisons of Louisiana fiber properties to international preferences, "we are right there," especially in strength and length, Boquet said.
Boquet said high-quality fiber is important because it ensures textile mills will find uses for the cotton and that market share will increase rather than decrease. This helps Louisiana compete with other countries and against synthetic fibers, increasing farmer income, he said.
"Variety is the key to quality," Boquet said.
Rep. Bubba Chaney told the group he appreciates what they do. "The whole United States should be appreciative of our farmers," he said.
Jeff Everson of Sen. Mary Landrieu's office told the producers they do "a great job of keeping us abreast of what's going on in this industry." He reminded them to use their communication channels to vocalize what their industry has and needs.


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This Day in Sports History — July 3
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on July 3 :
1905 — Marvin Hart knocked out Jack Root in 12 rounds at Reno, NV to win the heavyweight boxing title. (More info.)
1912 — New York Giants' pitcher Rube Marquard defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-1, to win his 19th consecutive decision, a major league record for a single season that still stands. (More info.)
1944 — An early, minor league version of Oriole Park burned down in Baltimore. (More info.)
1947 — The Cleveland Indians purchased Larry Doby, who will become the first black player in the American League on July 5. (More info.)
1950 — New York Yankees' manager Casey Stengel played longtime outfielder Joe DiMaggio at first base. (More info.)
1954 — Golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who was battling cancer, won her third women's U.S. Open at Salem Country Club in Massachusetts. (More info.)
1965 — Philadelphia Phillies' teammates Dick Allen and Frank Thomas fought violently during batting practice. (More info.)
1968 — Cleveland Indians' pitcher Luis Tiant struck out 19 Minnesota Twins in a 1-0 win. (More info.)
1976 — Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg beat Ilse Nastase to win the first of his five consecutive men's singles titles at Wimbledon. (More info.)
1983 — Evelyn Ashford and Calvin Smith each set world records in the 100-meters at the National Sports Festival at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. (More info.)


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Drive-thru surprise gets man arrested
WESTBORO, MA (WHDH) -- Handcuffs were about the only thing Risoldo Santos wound up wearing Sunday after police say he went cruising through Westboro, Massachusetts drive-throughs while naked.
"He ordered the coffee from clerk and she noticed he appeared to be naked. All he had was a coat over his waist area," said Westboro Police Chief Alan Gordon.
A short while later, a police officer happened to walk into the donut shop. That's when the driver came back. Witnesses say that time he was totally uncovered.
"He made a motion to the girl at the window not to say anything because he knew the police were inside and he saw the police cruiser outside and he motioned her to be quiet and he just drove off," said Chief Gordon.
Westboro police say the officer followed the naked driver who headed to a McDonald's drive through. When it turned out to be closed, the officer pulled him over. The 34-year-old Hudson man Rosildo Santos was arrested. Police say he passed a field sobriety test, but that he admitted to hitting up other drive throughs naked.
Police said the naked driver has admitted to going to the bank without clothes on.
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5 Helpful Uses for Vodka
Vodka has helped generations of people dance, talk to strangers, get in trouble and take the edge off - but let's talk about what else it can do. I bet you'll be surprised when you find out how useful it is!
Vodka has proved itself to be highly useful, even when it's not being used as a beverage. Check out how nifty vodka really is here:
1. Relieving Itching From Poison Ivy
Pouring some vodka on an area immediately after it has come in contact with poison ivy is said to remove the oil that causes poison ivy rashes to itch (urushiol oil). So next time you find yourself in a patch of poison ivy, grab a bottle of vodka and pour a little on you - and you might as well grab a drink while you're at it.
2. Taking Stickers and Price Tags Off
Have a sticker stuck somewhere you'd rather not have one? Using vodka in the same manner you would use something like Goo Gone works just as well! Although it may take a tad bit more time (approximately a minute or so) than other products, it won't leave any sort of residue behind! It's worth a shot anyway.
3. Making Homemade Vanilla Extract
If you use a lot of vanilla extract in your cooking, or just like to have it on hand, this might be your favorite use for vodka ever. By soaking vanilla beans in vodka for a few months, you can make your own! Look here for details on how to make it properly.
4. Relieving Pain From Spicy Foods
The chemical that makes peppers hot (Capsaicin) is actually vodka-soluble. Basically that means when your friends dare you to eat a crazy-hot pepper, you can take a swig of vodka as a chaser and be good as new because Capsaicin will react with the burning sensation from the pepper! Ready to tackle the ghost pepper now?
5. Making Pie Crust Flaky and Delicious
Fun fact: when you use vodka in your pie crust recipe, it doesn't permit gluten to form, which keeps the consistency perfectly flaky. If that doesn't inspire to go bake a pie right now, it might be time to re-evaluate how delicious pies with perfect crust are. It is fall after all, and that means it's pie season! Get specific direction for the recipe here.
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CARSTAR's relationship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation is a true reflection of who we are – a company who cares about the community and the world we live in. Our hope is that the funds we raise... Read More
It happens to even the best drivers. When you're in an accident, insurance companies may advise you where to go for your repairs--but you get to choose. With three great local locations, and decades of professional expertise--CARSTAR is the right choice!
Being without your vehicle these days can be a huge hassle, that's why CARSTAR prides themselves being the fastest auto repair specialists in the industry. And faster doesn't mean we don't do it right--CARSTAR'S Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) of 97% is the highest in the industry.
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Food Prices Are Soaring: 5 Questions for Economist José Cuesta
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The numbers are jarring: Global prices for key food staples such as corn and soybean were at an all-time high in July 2012, with corn rising 25 percent and soybeans 17 percent in a single month.
Globally, food prices jumped 7 percent between April and July. In some countries, people now pay more than twice as much for sorghum [1] as they did a year earlier, the latest issue of the World Bank's Food Price Watch shows.
This is expected to hit certain regions with high food imports, such as the Middle East and much of Africa, especially hard.
We're looking at a significant price shock, but does that mean we're headed for a food crisis similar to the one we experienced in 2008? World Bank economist José Cuesta, the author of the quarterly Food Price Watch report, gives his perspective on the situation.


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Gbthompsonllc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 123 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
GB Thompson and Associates, LLC
Highly experienced team with 20+ years each of multi-national banking experience who help small and midsized financial services companies (mostly banks) with strategic planning, accounting/finance and human resources projects. Our motto is "Authentic, Efficient, Effective." Focused on practical, real, immediate impact at a bargain price--not "overpriced fluff" lacking practical application.
Trust and respect are keys to success and sustainability in this business and to the client banks we serve, so these concepts are of primary importance in our logo.
Culture of the company is "professional", meaning a team of people who trust and respect each other and share a strong work ethic with the client's needs clearly in focus. "Fun-in-a-starched-shirt" type idea comes to mind when describing the team, professionalism without the robotic/arrogance that is sometimes attributed to consultants and bankers. This is really a good group of people who want to help companies be healther and serve their customers better
Target audience is CEOs and CFOs of existing small to medium sized banks. Our target audience are people who have significant responsibilities to shareholders and employees, are respected in their communities, and have significant obligations to regulatory authorities. Our target audience has to trust that we understand the complexity they face, we can be trusted, and we can help.
We need a logo that that reflects stability, trust, and seriousness about the business. We don't want a logo that reflects a silly or frivilous company. Our business cards and pitchbooks prominently display our motto of "Authentic, Efficient, Effective", so it would be preferrable if these concepts were part of the logo or concepts that come to mind when seeing the logo. Frankly, something bordering on boring may be ok, but we'd prefer to have some creativity applied that would help us to standout from other consultants or others in the banking business.
Subdued colors like brown/tan/darker blue/gray come to mind as preferrable, but open to ideas on that. Fewer colors seem to make more sense than more colors as we think about it.
Straight lines and pillars come to mind more than bubbles or circles. Images like a pen an paper (see attached sample business card) and a handshake pop up for us. Images that communicate listening, trusted advice, and professionalism are what we'd like to use.
We are financial people--accountants and strategists constantly focused on how to improve profits...that just how we are wired. Sounds boring to some, but we are the people you want to hire to make a company better for shareholders, customers, and employees. (Frankly, we think we are kinda fun.)
We need your help and ideas--Thanks! (Bus. Card sample attached.)
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Thermaltake combines the patented gorgeous LED light with cutting-edge technology to deliver a brand new experience of using PC cooling, Thermaltake Riing Plus 14 LED RGB Radiator Fan TT Premium Edition. A 140mm high-static pressure fan with a patented 16.8 million colors LED ring and 12 controllable single LEDs, the Riing Plus 14 RGB features compression blades, hydraulic bearing and a digital fan controller, and can be controlled by the patented Riing Plus RGB Software. Cool your system with high performance Thermaltake Riing Plus 14 RGB!
Featuring 12 addressable LEDs, great light coverage, and uniform color and brightness, the built-in LED ring can paint your build with 16.8 million colors.
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Monitor the fan performance, adjust the fan speeds, and customize the lighting effects for Thermaltake Plus RGB liquid cooling products with the patented Riing Plus RGB Software and an exclusively designed mobile app. Choose a function from below and scroll down to read the details.
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The controller is designed with a DIP switch on the back. Hence, you can set a number for each controller easily. You can add up to 5 fans to one fan controller and up to 16 controllers to the software. The controller and the coding guide are included in all packs.
The Nine fan blades are engineered to generate higher airflow without compromising on ultra-silent operation. With this unique blade design, the Riing Plus 14 RGB acts as a guarantee of performance.
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Froggy wrote:Beveridge wrote:I love how people on this board think Pens coaches and upper management are clueless.
They aren't stupid people, they know what they are doing.
nope. people that probably started watching hockey 4 or 5 years ago are definitely waaaay smarter than people who have spent their entire lives around elite level hockey
How do you know who has been watching hockey for how long? Is it embedded in our usernames?


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Tonight DJ Mel will be guesting on "The Let Out," our weekly jump on East Village Radio, made possible by Dewar's. The Texas boy is bringing his wildly successful Rock the Casbah party to NYC's Kush Lounge later in the evening (with our girl DJ Rekha opening, no less!) but will be dropping jewels at the station beforehand. Tune in live from 6-8pm EST or subscribe to the podcast and listen at yr leisure.
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Tutorial: Adding Additional Hard Drives in Linux
The Theory Behind Hard Drive Management
"How can I add one more hard disk?", "What should I do if my collegue brings a new hard disk and I have to copy my files there?", "When I was using Windows, one could see the new disk immediately and Linux is too complex!" These are some of the common questions and concerns of new Linux users, who are facing the problem of adding of a new hard drive. Some of them are so accustomed to Windows that they can not think any other way, so they come up with such statements as "I have used fdisk and format programs, but there are no such ones in Linux!"
In reality, the procedure of adding of new hard drive in Linux is not that hard and sometimes you can spend less time then you would spend to do the same thing in Windows. To illustrate this, I'll start from the very begining to explain this procedure in detail.
First of all, I need to mention that before a users tries to add any new hard disk, he should learn the basics of what "partitioning" and "file systems" are and what is the difference between Primary, Extended, and logical partitions. You should know how to add a new disk to the computer physically (which is typically covered in the hard drive's documentation). I'm going to assume you know these basics, because the focus of this article will be how to get Linux to behave with your new drive.
I'm going to start from the theory of the process.
There's not much sense in diggging into the terminology and principles of adding of a new devices in UNIX systems--there are too many different UNIX versions to try that approach. We'll just go-over Linux-specific issues.
All hard disk drives in the Linux operation system have special names, which consist of three parts, two of which are listed here:
- Two symbols "hd" or "sd" for the IDE and SCSI disk drives
- One symbol somewhere in the range from "a" to "h" for the IDE disk drives, or the range from "a" to "p" for SCSI ones.
(I have to mention that for different Linux distributions, this range could differ. For example, Red Hat Linux 7.2 uses the range "a" to "l" for the IDE disk drives, and a range from "a" to "az" (two symbol combination!) for the SCSI drives).
This second symbol defines the number of device. SCSI disk drives use sorted
numbering, which depends on the ID of device. The IDE scheme differs
a bit. Let's
look at the scheme:
- a and b - Master and Slave disks at the Primary interface of the 1st IDE controller
- c and d - Master and Slave disks at the Secondary interface of the 1st IDE controller
- e and f - Master and Slave disks at the Primary interface of the 2nd IDE controller
- g and h - Master and Slave disks at the Secondary interface of the 2nd IDE controller
...and so on.
When you're connecting a new IDE disk to the motherboard you should always be ready to remember how was it connected: which interface of what controller is being used and how was it assigned: master or slave.
When you don't have a motherboard with four IDE controllers, or your server configuration has no additional IDE controllers, you should not have to use device names starting with "hde."
The third section of the naming scheme is:
- Number of slices (partitions) - This is a number in a range from 1 to 16 for IDE hard drives and from 1 to 15 for SCSI hard drives.
All partitions are numbered next way: 1-4 - primary and extended, 5-16 (15) - logical. So, in one system we can have not more than five primary partitions and not more than 11 (10) logical partitions on one physical hard disk.
If this number is absent, this means that this name represents the entire hard drive.
To get list of disk names in a system we need to enter this command as 'root' superuser for IDE drives:
# ls /dev/hd*
# ls /dev/sd*
for SCSI drives.
If you are very new to all of this, remember that this will not generate a list of connected (attached) disks but a rather a list of disk names. With this list we wil be able to determine when and what were the last disks attached. So, don't be wondering if you get a very long list.
It's time to do some practice now. All actions should be executed with superuser 'root' priveleges. Warning: you should be very accurate so as not to damage the data on your hard drives. Backing up everything would not be a bad idea, either.
Let's take a look at some typical and usual situations.
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The Boston Marathon bombings on April 15—two explosions less than 20 seconds apart—claimed three lives and injured more than 180 people. It was the highest toll from a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
Most respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll—60 percent—say they are personally unworried about the threat of a terrorist attack. Twenty percent are not at all worried, and 40 percent are "not very worried."
This compares with a third of respondents who are somewhat worried and 8 percent who are very worried.
In the days since the Boston Marathon attack—in which brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were identified as suspects and killed or apprehended—talk has shifted to protecting Americans.
Nearly two-thirds are opposed to more limits on their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism in the U.S.
Roughly 680 readers participated in this week's poll, conducted April 22 and 23.
How worried are you personally about the threat of a terrorist attack?
Very worried: 8%
Somewhat worried: 33%
Not very worried: 40%
Not at all worried: 20%
Would you accept more limits on your personal freedom in order to reduce the threat of terrorism in the U.S.?
Yes: 36%
No: 64%
When we cede our constitutional rights in the face of fear, we slap the faces of the millions of people who have died so that we can have these rights and freedoms. Our current fears are emotional responses that are fueled by an overly morbid public curiosity that feeds on reports of tragedy as "entertainment."
—Laura Weller-Brophy, PureCap Laundry LLC
Every day many more people are killed throughout our country by regular guns and assault weapons than by terrorists. As we saw, our police system, in its widest meaning, has quickly solved the Boston terrorist attack. On the other hand, the Senate in Washington has cheerfully supported the widest spread of guns and assault weapons for private use. It should be clear that the Senate is a much greater threat to our lives than terrorists.
—Ingo H. Leubner
Your chances of being injured or killed in a terrorist attack are still infinitely smaller than common causes like car accidents or violent crime. The fearmongering that the media stir up over these events not only acts as a depressing influence on the economy and people's moods but also validates using terrorism to bring attention to issues or problems—something we should not be encouraging. Concentrate on the good in life around you. Turn off the 24-hour news cycle and consume news from vetted, written and fact-checked sources (like the RBJ, for instance). If you want to take action, take it against obesity, gun violence or some other issue that can have a direct effect on people's safety and health.
—Lee Drake, CEO, OS-Cubed Inc.
One major incident in 12 years is hardly anything to "worry" about. Is it possible? Of course. But I'm more likely, in Rochester, to be the victim of a home invasion than a terrorist attack. Put things in perspective, people; the chance of other attacks is slim.
—Scott Ireland
We cannot live in fear, or terrorists have won. Just be careful and keep your eyes open. Life must go on. Something we just do not have control of: "Sick" people are everywhere, and we do not know what they will do next.
—Harold H. Ley, Appliance Associates of Buffalo
Dramatic events can make us really bad at rational risk assessment and rational response. We should be more afraid of driving to work than of a terrorist attack, but we're not.
—Lisa Schaertl, Tech Savvy Marketing
I refuse to live my life afraid of terrorists or any other disaster event, for that matter. Private citizens cannot do very much, if anything, to prevent these happenings. If our government would simply resort back to common sense when deciding how to keep our borders safe, I think we will be fine. Domestic terrorism unfortunately most likely cannot be stopped.
—Rick DiPasquale
I don't feel very threatened living in Rochester; I would be if I lived in a major city like NYC or Boston. I believe everyone, everywhere should always be observant of the possibility of a terrorist attack; we are all in this together, America!
—Stanley Hilt
I am not blind to the very real threat of terrorism, but I am not going to let my every waking moment be dictated by the lunatic fringe. Also, the less I see of TV, the less I worry about terrorism.
—Carlos Mercado
It is very disturbing that post-9/11, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's name could be misspelled when he went to Chechnya so that activity did not arouse any suspicions (despite Russia already warning the U.S. about him). Why aren't there automated processes in place linking passport scans and FBI watch systems? However, I do not want any limits on my personal freedom. I agree with Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither."
—Karen Zilora, Creative Scanning Solutions Inc.
You can't legislate against evil or hate. Nor can you live in fear. I live each day to the fullest and hope for the best. I pray for the countless blessings bestowed upon me and for those less fortunate.
—Rich Mileo
More limits, yes. Let's start with background checks.
—Pete Bonenfant
No need to worry; the government will protect us! After all, we have lots of tough-talking politicians, plus we have the state and local police and sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, TSA, BATFE, DEA, Homeland Security, Border Patrol (did I miss any?). Oh, wait a minute, we had all that before the Boston bombings? Well, if all that fails, we still have (for now anyway) the right to bear arms!
—George Thomas, Ogden
Homeland Security has yet to fully integrate their various agencies. Information already known is shared after the fact. Further, we don't enforce the laws we have on the books, but we seek to further limit personal freedoms? We are the laughingstock of the globe and the easy targets for terrorists. If we wanted open borders, we couldn't do better than we have now. But we target lawful citizens to limit the 2nd Amendment rights. Perhaps we should also register pressure cookers and pitchforks.
—Dennis Kiriazides, retired
The personal freedom train has already left the station: social media, cameras on cellphones, security cameras on every corner and on every building, "cookies" left on our Internet searches, even the Shoppers Club card that most of us have—ever think about what is known about us through that green card? So, let's not get all noble about personal anonymity; there is very little of it left to be noble about. When the people who are supposed to keep us safe start looking for bombers by taking advantage of the information which is already out there and stop looking for bombs by patting down 70-year-old women from Caledonia at the airport, I will begin to feel much safer.
—Jay Birnbaum
Unfortunately, this is not a yes/no situation. There has to be some very serious work performed to determine how much of a threat it really is, and is there anything that can be done about it. Silly to limit personal freedom when there is no way to prohibit it! In the Boston episode, if we can believe what we read, why (wasn't) the Russian advice to the FBI more seriously followed? Limiting my personal freedom in this case is irresponsible.
—JA DePaolis, Penfield
I cannot believe this question even has to be asked. Have we forgotten the lessons of history?
—Matthew D. Wilson
Statistically speaking, I have a greater chance of being bludgeoned to death by a psychotic person wielding a hammer. So I'm not sweating the terrorists. Why should I give up more freedom to our politicians? Put a rifle in my hands, teach me how to use it and I'll take care of the terrorists myself. I will be using profiling techniques as developed by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, but I digress. First, we need to send a clear message to the terrorists. Somebody Google the Red Brigade or the Bader-Meinhoff gang and you will realize this is an old wine in a new bottle. They will be dealt with and tossed in the trashbin of scum-sucking pigs. Now, tell me why the inappropriately named justice department doesn't feel they can prosecute this piece of trash in a military court, but thinks they can take him out with a drone. Did I miss the memo? Oh yeah, Nancy-pants Pelosi says we have to pass the rules and then she'll tell us what they are. Two people are raised by idiots to hate and kill and we should change our way of Life? That is when they win. How about we tell their mommy that she did not raise an angel. Her sons are burning in Hades and are not coming back.
—Bill Lanigan
I'm all in favor of waterboarding and the death penalty. It's time to start using a get-tough attitude in this country.
—Daniel Mossien, architect
I'm more worried about gun violence. Just look at the stats: Over a couple of decades, roughly 3,400 deaths from terrorist attacks versus 900,000 deaths from gun violence. Mass murder by assault weapons with high capacity clips—that's what I'm worried about. And Republicans in Congress won't even debate the issue!
—Art Maurer, Penfield
We have a president who has tried to scrub the word terrorist from our lexicon. He cannot seem to be able to say radical Islamism. If you can't say the name of the enemy, how are you supposed to monitor their activities?
—Bob Worden, Penn Yan
More smoke and mirrors! More gun laws for taxpaying law-abiding citizens will stop mass shootings—B.S. Punish criminals with meaningful punishment! Taxes must be raised to fix the deficit/balance the budget/help the poor, B.S. Curtail spending! Obamacare is the answer to the health care equation, B.S. Socialist anything is bad and shouldn't be imposed on free men! We must give amnesty to illegal immigrants because they are part of our society, B.S. There are here illegally and must be deported along with their whole brood of illegals. Limiting my freedom, invading my privacy, creating rules for me to live by, will make me safer, B.S. Punish the terrorists with punishment equal to their deeds! To succumb to the goal of the terrorist is to live in fear. I refuse. Stop providing media glorification and coverage for the scum and just announce when his execution has taken place. It would be nice if every day on the news, there was a different credible leader of the Muslim faith denouncing terrorism and the people doing it. Isn't being silent endorsing it? Why isn't that on the news every day? Wouldn't it be nice if the media would be opposed to jihad enough to loudly and publicly oppose that faction of the Muslim religion every day? Wouldn't it be wonderful if Obama went on the news and declared that Islamic extremists are not welcome and would be purged from the U.S.? That would reduce the fear of terrorism—get rid of the terrorists.
—Lou Romano
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." —Benjamin Franklin
—Al Carey, Carestream Health
With Obama in office, I worry more since his administration always thinks if they are "nice" and appear understanding that our enemies will respond in kind. Chamberlain tried that tactic in 1939, it is called appeasement. While Chamberlain foolishly thought he could avoid conflict by being "nice" and understanding, Hitler readied his armies for the war to follow.
—Michael F. Kloppel, Chairman Ontario County Conservative Party, Canandaigua
I think there should be a greater presence of trained dogs in public areas and I think all gunpowder should be tagged to identify its origin.
—Donald A. Dinero, TWI Learning Partnership
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
—Nathan Kauffman, Hearst Media
Simply stated, I am more worried about Washington and its attack on our Constitution, capitalism, health care and the economy. The law enforcement team did an outstanding job on this terrible event last week, but again Washington and the White House make decisions against the better good of the country to aid in our security/intelligence. I am sure the law enforcement team took this less than human trash alive to be able to attain more information to protect the country from further attacks and yet we read him his rights—seriously! A $1.50 hollow point would have done the trick. I am disgusted. We need a real president.
—David T. Wrea
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A federal judge in Kansas says he will rule by the end of July on whether to revoke probation for a professional Tennessee hunter accused of violating his plea deal.
William "Spook" Spann was sentenced in February to three years' probation for transporting antlers from an illegally taken deer in Kansas to his home in 2007. As part of his sentence, Spann was ordered not to hunt in the U.S. for six months or break wildlife laws.
Prosecutors want the 50-year-old to spend three months in jail for violating those terms after Tennessee wildlife agents claimed he hunted and illegally spread bait on his property.
Spann says he didn't carry a gun or shoot anything when accompanying other hunters on his land, so he doesn't consider that hunting.


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Feb 17, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Flu and public health experts meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO) on issues surrounding two controversial H5N1 transmission studies today agreed on a plan to extend a voluntary research moratorium but publish the full results at a later date.
The temporary moratorium applies to new lab-modified H5N1 viruses, though the group agreed the research on naturally occurring H5N1 viruses must continue to protect public health.
The 2-day meeting of 22 technical experts included the two researchers who led the studies, Ron Fouchier, PhD, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, PhD, and representatives from the US government institute that funded the studies, along with a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).
The NSABB in December recommended that key details of the studies be redacted. Editors from Science and Nature, the two journals slated to publish the studies, also participated in the meeting, along with several international flu experts.
At a press briefing at the end of the meeting today, Keiji Fukuda, MD, the WHO's assistant director-general of health security and environment, said the meeting is only the first step in addressing the issues and was designed to consider the two most urgent topics.
Fukuda said one of the main rationales behind the pauses in publication and research is to allow research groups and organizations to explain the nature and importance of the work to the public. He said the time-out will also allow experts to address safety and biosecurity concerns about the research.
Fukuda added that the lab-modified strains will stay at the two labs, one at Erasmus University in the Netherlands and the other at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Safety standards at the two labs are high, but reexamining safety issues is a prudent step to take, Fukuda said.
Fukuda said that although the 2 days of discussions were intense and wide ranging, the group reached consensus on all of the major points except for the decision to publish in full, which was not supported by NSABB chair Paul Keim, PhD, and Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
He said the issues that have been raised reinforce the importance of H5N1 risks. "On the basis of that, they agreed strongly that research needs to continue. New knowledge is critical for filling in some of the important gaps in knowledge."
During discussions about the possibility of redacting the studies, a measure proposed by the NSABB, experts identified a large number of complex issues and unanimously agreed that putting such a process in place quickly was not possible, Fukuda said, adding that the group felt that full disclosure was preferable.
Postponing the publications, "shows how strongly concerned many individuals are about safety," he said.
Fukuda said in the wake of the NSABB recommendations, experts have had several weeks to consider what it would take to redact the papers, which he said would be very difficult. "These discussions here are very much of the thoughts of the NSABB. These are important issues, and we ought to move along carefully," he said.
Fukuda said the next steps are for the WHO and other organizations to increase public awareness about the work and for scientific groups to examine the biosecurity issues in more detail. He said the group didn't set any specific time periods for pauses in research and publication. "Hopefully, this all can be done in a matter of months," Fukuda said.
Fukuda reiterated that the meeting was just the first step in addressing the issues and that the discussion raised many broad issues about balancing the concerns and benefits of dual-use research, not only for viruses, but also for other health threats. The discussions also identified the need to address the complex ethical dimensions of dual-use research, he said.
During a press conference today, Bruce Alberts, PhD, editor of Science, said his interpretation of the WHO group's consensus is that Science and Nature should wait for further information from the WHO and other authorities about when the full manuscripts can be published. Originally, the papers had been on track for publication in the middle of March, he said.
Alberts was speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver.
Though he said the request to delay publication is unusual, Alberts said he understood the need to address public perceptions. "I can certainly understand the reason for doing so from a public perception [standpoint] because there's been a great scare among the public whipped up in the last few months, and that needs to be dealt with."
In the meantime, he encouraged officials to establish a mechanism for sharing details of sensitive research going forward. "I hope they can work out a mechanism for future use. It's very important that the next time this kind of thing happens we have a mechanism already established."
Peter Sandman, PhD, a New Jersey-based risk communications consultant, told CIDRAP News that two factors would seem to weight the group toward opposing restrictions on research: the heavy involvement of scientists and the WHO's interest in protecting its fragile virus-sharing agreement.
He said the publication recommendation also appears to be a compromise, "apparently in the hope that complete publication might be feasible after the public's concerns are addressed."
The developments raise the question of how the groups intend to address the public's concerns, Sandman said. "Even a respectful dialogue will help, but not ensure, a consensus that favors unredacted publication and unfettered research on a virus that could launch a catastrophic pandemic," he added. "Still, it could lead at to a compromise, and to a shared understanding of what's at stake."
Sandman said he fears that the group will try to "educate" the public out of their concerns, a strategy risk communicators call "decide, announce, defend."
"It [the strategy] is thoroughly discredited, because it doesn't work," he said. "It certainly doesn't work when serious risks are involved. 'How safe is safe enough?' is a values question for society, not a science question for experts who have a horse in the race."
In watching the debate unfold, Sandman said both sides seem to be marshalling ammunition rather than assessing evidence. He said he believes that scientists representing the public's concerns as "perceptions" or "fears" are casting those concerns as unjustified, which he said could backfire and provoke stricter regulation of science.
The discussions of the lab-modified H5N1 strains have neglected consideration of what the new findings tell the world about the risk of a naturally occurring H5N1 pandemic, Sandman said.
"Maybe, just maybe, the Fouchier and Kawaoka papers offered a teachable moment, a chance to overcome accumulated skepticism and alert people—or re-alert people—to the risk of an H5N1 pandemic.
"But that teachable moment got hijacked in large measure by a sideshow discussion of the pros and cons of unfettered research and publication," he said.
Editorial director Jim Wappes contributed to this article.
See also:
Feb 17 WHO press release
Feb 17 WHO press briefing audiocast


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Businesswomen worldwide work very hard at their jobs and their lives, but one Canadian credit union official discovered that few women work harder than those in Ghana
Loree Gray, senior vice president of operations at $7.1 billion First West Credit Union in Langley, B.C., recently traveled to the West African nation as part of the Canadian Cooperative Association's credit union coaching program. Gray, who spent three weeks visiting credit unions throughout Ghana with CCA officials, saw firsthand how credit unions provide vital services to their members and how hard those members, particularly small scale women entrepreneurs, work to survive.
"The one thing that stood out to me was how hard women there work, both physically and mentally," said Gray. "They mind their children, often carrying them on their backs while working in a small space on the side of the road selling their goods, handling not only the sales, but negotiations and distribution. They do it all, and usually all at the same time."
As in many other developing countries, women in Ghana tend to be the ones who run the family businesses while the men travel looking for work to help support their families. In many cases, it was the women who held memberships in the credit unions took out the loans for their enterprises and were responsible for paying the loans back. Most of these women, Gray discovered, were reliable credit union members in good standing.
One woman entrepreneur was on her fourth loan, Gray said, with each loan having been paid in full and the proceeds used to continue building her business. With the first loan she bought a truck to transport her goods to market, and the second loan bought her a second truck, which she rented out to establish an additional revenue stream. The third and fourth loans were used to improve her store in the marketplace.
"She's already talking about her next borrowing to build a home," Gray said of the woman entrepreneur, who also won a credit union award for being 2013's "highest saver." "What a great success story and a truly remarkable way to show how one woman is inspiring change in her community."
First West has supported CCA for over a decade, contributing more than $305,000 to international development efforts. Complementing this financial support is First West's commitment to other CCA initiatives, including its Women's Mentorship Program, and its credit union coaching program. In past years, First West leaders have travelled to Ghana, Malawi, Uganda, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Botswana to participate in the credit union coaching program and women's leadership forum, sharing information and learning from cooperatives overseas.
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